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See this elaborate granite memorial on the plantation of former Georgia Governor George M. Troup. George Troup served as a state representative, U.S. congressman, U.S. senator, and Georgia governor during the course of a lifelong political career. His two terms as Georgia's 30th governor (1823-27) were marked by his successful efforts to ensure the removal of the Creek Indians from the state.
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EXTON, Pa., Nov. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Morphotek® Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., announced today that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to its investigational cancer drug, amatuximab (MORAb-009) for the treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma, the most common form of mesothelioma, which accounts for around 2,500 cases a year in the United States. This disease affects the pleura, which is the thin balloon shaped lining of the lungs.1
The Orphan Drug Act (ODA) allows FDA to grant orphan status to a drug which has the potential for the safe and effective treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of a rare disease/disorder that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States.2 Under the ODA, orphan designation qualifies the sponsor of the product for certain incentives, such as tax credits, prescription drug user fee waivers for the development product, and a seven year period of marketing exclusivity from the date of approval.
"We are very pleased to receive orphan drug designation for amatuximab for the potential treatment of malignant pleural mesothelioma," said Julia Maltzman, M.D., Senior Director of Clinical Development at Morphotek. "We believe that addressing unmet medical needs, no matter the size of the patient population, is essential to the achievement of our human health care mission, which is to give first thought to patients and their families and to helping increase the benefits that health care provides. Ultimately, this antibody has the potential to provide an additional treatment option for patients suffering from an extremely serious disease."
Amatuximab (MORAb-009) is an investigational chimeric IgG1 antibody that targets a cell surface glycoprotein, mesothelin, which is over-expressed in a number of cancers. Mesothelin is thought to be involved in cell adhesion. Its presence is associated with a range of cancers, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, mesothelioma, epithelial ovarian cancer, and lung adenocarcinoma. Researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Johns Hopkins University have independently validated mesothelin as a potential target of immuno-based therapies.
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Morphotek® Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Inc., is a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of protein and antibody products through the use of a novel and proprietary gene evolution technology. The technology has been successfully applied to a broad variety of cell lines and organisms to yield genetically diverse offspring that are suitable for pharmaceutical product development in the areas of antibody therapeutics, protein therapeutics, product manufacturing, drug target discovery, and improved output traits for commercial applications. The company is currently focusing its platform on the development and manufacturing of therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and infectious disease. For more information, please visit www.morphotek.com.
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Eisai Inc. was established in 1995 and began marketing its first product in the United States in 1997. Since that time, Eisai has rapidly grown to become a fully integrated pharmaceutical business. Eisai's key areas of commercial focus are neurology and oncology. The company serves as the U.S. pharmaceutical operation of Eisai Co., Ltd., a research-based human health care (hhc) company that discovers, develops and markets products throughout the world.
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1Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation What is Mesothelioma. Available at
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2U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Designating an Orphan Product: Drugs and Biologics. Available at
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Photo by Pat Coleman, D3sports.com
McMINNVILLE, Ore. -- So this weekend's trip to Linfield
led me to the conclusion that having D3football.com publisher Pat
Coleman and I in the house is the Division III equivalent of
bringing ESPN's Game Day crew to town.
It works on a couple levels, because we're low-budget (no set, no actual show) like Division III is, and yet our presence generated an almost uneasy level of excitement. We got our names on a store's sign in downtown McMinnville, were welcomed on the scoreboard (something I only remember happening once before, at UW-Whitewater), got offers to be taken to dinner, breakfast and more dinner when we got back to the D.C. area, were invited to the tailgate, received a plate of brownies literally with our names on it, had our picture taken with the Linfield cheerleaders (a D3football.com first), were given small gifts and even stayed one night with a host "family." -- Wildcat11 of Northwest Conference Post Patterns fame, his wife (a former Linfield basketball player and coach) and their two dogs.
From the moment we touched down in Oregon to Sunday's return flight, nearly everything about our visit was second-to-none. The hospitality and the game-day atmosphere was top notch, and those who followed Linfield to Hardin-Simmons last season made sure we knew Abilene, Texas, was the same way.
The whole thing, however, was a bit much. Not that I don't love the attention, or the respect people show the D3sports.com sites whenever we travel. It's something deep-rooted that all journalists struggle with. You never play favorites, you never take gifts, you pay for your own food and accommodations. You are there for the story and nothing but the story.
And yet there's something so human about the Division III football experience. Regardless of socio-economic, racial or religious boundaries, or the cultural differences geography creates, I keep finding that we all have something in common. A love of sport for sport's sake. A genuine friendliness. Something so storybookish one wouldn't expect it to exist in 2007, but there it is on display, every Saturday. That is the story.
Besides, there's no rule of journalism that says you can't have a soul.But Pat and I still feel like we're there to see the show, not be the show. There was plenty of show in then-No. 15 Linfield's 52-42, 1,191-yard shootout with then-No. 19 Hardin-Simmons on Saturday. And it would have gone on whether or not we were there to witness it.
That's why I can never shake the feeling that no matter what Game of the Week I'm at, there are a hundred-and-some I'm missing. To players, coaches, parents, alumni and fans, their game is the Game of the Week. A matchup of ranked teams on a beautiful Oregon day is nice, but do you think anyone at Anderson was checking the score while they watched their team lose a 26-23 overtime nailbiter to Earlham? Mount Ida and SUNY-Maritime weren't sweating us while they had their own shootout going on, a 44-38 Mustangs win in overtime.
Just as 'big game' is in the eye of the beholder, so is 'big time.' We Division III types might be the ones who help you up after a tackle or hold hands in prayer at midfield after a game, but we're still football players. We thrive on competition and live for Saturdays. I've seen some nice guys do some mean things to each other in between the white lines. We might not genuinely hate the other side (as Darrell Aune, a longtime Oregon State broadcaster now working for Linfield pointed out), but we need that other side, if only to push us to give our best.
They're all big-time big games to someone. So it's often hard to focus on just one. Next Saturday, when you catch a glimpse of the joy, or anguish, on the faces of players and fans as they experience football's ups and downs, try to imagine that taking place simultaneously from coast to coast. Each final score is a joy or a disappointment that will be burned into the minds of players/coaches/parents for years to come.
Also, I realize that we travel vicariously for the vast majority of Division III fans out there, who either have their own teams to worry about most Saturdays or have lives where Saturdays require lawns mowed and gutters cleaned instead of games attended. I fully realize my descriptions and photos are all many of you will have when it comes to touring Division III's football stadiums on game day (see Feedback below for more on stadiums).
Linfield is unique and yet still seems to represent everywhere-Division III-USA. Maxwell Field is a great mix of old and new, featuring an expansive concrete-and-wood covered grandstand as well as intros on the video board and FieldTurf on the football field and baseball infield.
Besides the game, the highlight of our visit was probably stopping by Saturday's tailgate. We met all the Post Patterns fans and fanatics -- too many to shout out individually. Those who called each other by old football nicknames, or wore T-shirts from when Linfield was NAIA, brought home how much Wildcat camaraderie is very much everyone's camaraderie. Almost as much as the game, the memories and the relationships are the Division III football experience.
And yet, it's not all hunky-dory.
A couple of Linfield die-hards from the tailgate, guys who wouldn't look out of place in a biker bar, spent much of the game on the Hardin-Simmons sideline giving the Cowboys hell. Hey, Division III football just seems storybookish sometimes. I witnessed that, and a Cowboys player vocally letting a Linfield end know how he'd just been dominated -- on a routine point-after block!
The coaches -- Hardin-Simmons' Jimmie Keeling and Linfield's Joe Smith -- repeated to me how much the other was a class act.
After the game, Smith also talked about the Linfield family -- as literal family and friends milled about in the background on the game field. It seemed anyone and everyone came down from the stands to bask in glory of victory. Not many places show this much love.
What stood out, however, were two fairly surreal examples of what a small world it can become with Division III football, as well as D3football.com, keeping us all linked.
Chris Wyly, a middle-aged man in a green cap and leather vest, introduced himself as a Linfield graduate from way back (1974) who now spends his days in Mongolia. Before last season, he said it had been 20 years since he'd been back to campus. And if it wasn't for him snapping digital photos of everything that moved, you'd have thought he hangs out with Linfield's tailgaters every home game. "Mongolia, huh? Alright. Good stuff!" Linfield quarterback Trevor Scharer said when introduced to Wyly after the game.
Olinemom, a frequent poster from the Old Dominion Athletic Conference boards and supporter of Bridgewater (Va.), roughly a mere 2,500 miles away, was there visiting, and calling out updates from the Eagles' game with Ferrum.
"21-0!" she'd yell to whoever was paying attention. "41-3" she said later, tailgating with Linfield's finest while keeping home (and the Eagles' famous Stone Station) close to her heart.
All I could think is "what the heck is she doing here?"
Her presence, and ours, was probably a symbol of an overriding theme. Wherever there's a Division III game on Saturday is home. Linfield is wonderfully unique and overwhelmingly hospitable. And yet, it's fair to say Pat and I would have received similar treatment a lot of places.
Photo by Ryan Carlson for D3sports.com
The more I travel, the more I find there's a tie that binds the Division III fans of the world. There's a pull, some kind of togtherness, a shared feeling that's bigger than Pat and Keith, bigger than D3football.com. Actually, it's hard to put into words.
After Saturday's defeat at Linfield, coupled with their
season-opening 47-21 home loss to UW-La Crosse, it's fair to
ask: Did Hardin-Simmons schedule itself out of the playoffs?
There's very little doubt in my mind that the team I saw Saturday, defensive warts and all, is better than probably 10 teams who will make the 32-team playoff field at the end of the season. They would probably kick the snot out of several teams who are going to win their conferences.
Yet, after their opening games, the only road to the postseason for Hardin-Simmons involves running the table in the American Southwest.
Normally, that's not an impossible proposition. But conference foe Mary Hardin-Baylor is deep and experienced, and off to a start that justifies their No. 2 ranking and leads many to believe beating them will be a tough task, even though the Cowboys host Oct. 6.
So I asked Cowboys coach Jimmie Keeling what he felt he got out of scheduling La Crosse and Linfield.
"We like to play good people and we have," Hardin-Simmons' 17th-year head coach said. "We faced a second opponent that played well. We're doing some things well, but not enough right now."
It's more than just the traditional 'schedule tough to prepare for the conference slate' philosophy.
"When you play somebody pretty good, they show you things that you have to work on," Keeling said. "We'll be all right."
Although Linfield coach Joe Smith said "we pretty much have to schedule whoever will schedule us," he did acknowledge how much "fun" it was to play a program of Hardin-Simmons' caliber.
"That was one of the better games I've been involved in," Smith said.
And isn't that what it's all about? Fun. Great games for the fans. Great challenges for the players?
It brings me back to a philosophy Christopher Newport coach Matt Kelchner often shares with D3football.com. Players want to play in big games. They want to be challenged. They aren't going to get the TV exposure or the extensive media coverage, but they still enjoy a dim spotlight.
So why not schedule the best, especially when an automatic bid is available in conference play?
Kelchner is a man of his word. His first three opponents, Rowan, Mary Hardin-Baylor and Salisbury are all ranked in this week's top 25. Kelchner's Captains, 1-2, are not.
When the MAC melted to eight teams from 11 this offseason, the conference ditched its nine-game round-robin that occasionally left a team with all 10 other MAC teams on its schedule but only nine conference games that count, because of the odd number.
Instead, Wilkes, Delaware Valley and Widener were freed to schedule with the best of the NJAC, in Rowan and Montclair State, and ACFC top dog Wesley. USAC preseason favorite N.C. Wesleyan also joined the open-schedule mix, and mid-Atlantic clashes like Albright-Kean, William Paterson-Wilkes and Montclair State-Springfield have already influenced the top 25.
Aren't we as fans all benefiting from aggressive scheduling? Would you prefer we go back to the days when powerhouses like Rowan and Lycoming sat a short bus ride apart and played nine games instead of figuring out how to schedule each other?
The automatic qualifier has been great for Division III football in that way.
So if Hardin-Simmons misses the postseason, they'll only be able to blame something that happened on the field. With so few absolutes in life, let alone other divisions of college football, the fact that each team can trace its playoff bid or lack of one to something they did or didn't do is nothing short of wonderful. Even Cortland State and Franklin, each left out at 9-1 last season, know they were each a touchdown short of their automatic bid.
When teams have a clear path to the playoffs, and therefore the championship, it takes the guesswork and subjectivity out of assembling the field. Which leaves the top 25 polls to simply try to determine who the 25 best teams in the nation are, and nothing more.
Speaking of the top 25 poll, that's exactly what
it's meant to do.
Here's where I share thoughts of a D3football.com voter and a list of schools on the brink of the top 25.
I don't have much to nitpick with regarding this week's top 25 and thought I might again have little to say. Twenty-two of the 25 teams on my ballot show up in the poll's top 25. (More typical at this point in the season is about 18-20). I moved Capital, the fourth OAC team, back into my top 25 after a convincing 40-0 blowout of Wilmington, and more importantly a second consecutive shutout.
Then, along came the implication that D3football.com voters aren't trying very hard or using their heads while voting, because 0-2 Hardin-Simmons is ranked 20th this week. Anyone who expects to be able to judge the strength of teams solely off won-loss records is missing the point big-time.
The fact the Cowboys are ranked is a source of pride for our poll, not embarrassment. In fact, the very reason D3football.com even established its own poll is because we couldn't trust any other poll or ranking to provide a reasonably accurate read on the strength of the teams. (For more on this topic, see this post on the Daily Dose, our blog.)
I have a 2½ year old who can organize 25 teams by who has the most wins. D3football.com readers aren't stupid, they don't need us for that. Our voters' expertise is important because we are either coaching in, working or attending games most Saturdays. We are paying attention to the subplots, not just the final scores. I personally take at least 30 minutes to craft and re-craft my ballot each week, because of the depth of understanding necessary to process Saturday's outcomes.
Ranking Hardin-Simmons is not a case of a team living off name recognition. It has nothing to do with the expectations of success against higher-ranked teams. In the end, sometimes you have to ask yourself, do I really think Team X would beat Team Y at a neutral site?
Clearly, Hardin-Simmons has issues with tackling and covering people. Ninety-nine points allowed is bad. But there are 200-some-odd teams who would have similar or worse issues against No. 5 La Crosse and No. 13 Linfield. Who's got the Eagles losing more than one game the rest of the way? Who's got the Wildcats losing again at all? Flukes aside, not me. Now that they've settled on Justin Fester at quarterback, do you dare pencil the Cowboys in for fewer than seven wins?
Wins most definitely count for something. But we're measuring strength here, as in the 25 best, not necessarily the 25 most successful. So who you play matters. It has to.
I learned more about Hardin-Simmons' strength when it rallied from down 26-7 to take two third-quarter leads against Linfield than I would by watching it or some other top 25 team keep its record blemish-free by pummeling some overmatched opponent.
The fact that our voters go beneath the surface to come up with the most accurate ranking possible is why D3football.com's poll remains the most respected and significant, and I'm proud to be associated with it.
Personally, on this week's ballot I slotted La Crosse seventh, Linfield 12th and Hardin-Simmons 17th.
The top teams outside my top 25 but on the brink of getting in with continued strong play are UW-Oshkosh, St. Olaf and Springfield.
I voted for Rowan and not Christopher Newport, and probably shouldn't have based on the head-to-head result, even though the Profs just beat Wilkes and the Captains are 0-2 since that win. Maybe I should be voting for neither.
I may have also erred by throwing Guilford a bone at No. 25 and letting Springfield drop from the top 10 out entirely after losing to Montclair State. That's too strong a penalty for a 33-30 defeat.
Wabash, Hobart, John Carroll, Mississippi College, Redlands and Mt. St. Joseph are among those on the radar now. Widener and N.C. Wesleyan are among those who will have a chance to play their way back into the poll down the line. Muhlenberg and Albright have become intriguing, while Ithaca, Cortland State, Christopher Newport and Carnegie Mellon fell off my ballot with their losses.
Quick reactions to results through Week 3 and expected Week 4
1. With Montclair State and Wesley each undefeated so far despite two of the mid-Atlantic's most difficult opening schedules, one is going to use the other to propel itself to a great regular season when they clash on Saturday.
2. Let's welcome our academically elite friends to the party as NESCAC play gets underway Saturday. Unfortunately, none of this week's games look too appealing, although you never can tell year-to-year in that conference. Williams will put its win streak (see Streak Watch, below) on the line next week at Trinity (Conn.) in possibly the biggest NESCAC game of the year, archrivalries excluded.
3. Toss out St. Thomas' 0-3 start, and the MIAC is 16-4 with four unbeatens. St. John's and St. Olaf are to be expected, but Gustavus Adolphus (32 points per game in wins vs. Willamette and St. Thomas) and Carleton (outscored Minnesota-Morris and Macalester 83-10) are off to unblemished starts as well.
4. Speaking of Morris, the Cougars' 77-13 win Saturday could be the week's 'wow' result, but it actually represented progress for Principia. The Panthers, ranked 238 of 238 this preseason in Kickoff '07, had come off two losses in which it was outscored 108-3. One of the losses was 46-3 to No. 237 Crown, and the other came against No. 222 Macalester.
5. Hartwick's 32-30 win against Ithaca was perhaps the program's biggest since an 8-2 season in 2002, but it made even less sense given the Hawks were whomped 48-21 in Week 1 at Western New England. Unless you're ready to say a NEFC team can hang with the top half of the Empire 8, these results pretty much kill the usefulness of comparing scores. Either that or Ithaca isn't very good. Stay tuned.
6. Smothering defenses: Muhlenberg (has pitched shutouts against The College of New Jersey and Union), Occidental (has done the same at Lewis & Clark and Menlo) and Capital (has also done it, at Wittenberg and Wilmington).
7. Struggling offenses: Bluffton (9 points in home games vs. Centre and Adrian), MacMurray (8 points against Augustana and Rockford) and LaVerne (7 points vs. Puget Sound and Whitworth). But at least every team has scored so far this year.
8. Wilkes (0-3) might be the season's early disappointment, but don't write the Colonels off yet. Their losses include two 1-point games and a defeat by a touchdown. With perhaps the toughest MAC opposition, Delaware Valley and Widener, at the end of the schedule, the Colonels could build up enough confidence to win the conference despite the slow start. Of course, the first-round matchup for a three-loss playoff team is much less favorable than it is for a 10-0 team.
9. Everyone in the IBFC has a losing record except 1-1 Greenville. Everyone in the ODAC is off to a winning start except for 1-1 Emory & Henry.
10. If you believe teams can help themselves in losses, Luther might have done that in one-score road defeats against top 25s St. Olaf and Central. Wartburg looms next.
When Around the Nation really gets around the nation, I'll
report back with random things about our trip that didn't fit
Oregon initially appeared to be a lot of the things we'd stereotyped it to be. Light rail runs to the airport. There seemed to be a disproportion of "fresh" restaurants, "natural" stores and recycle bins. And, lest you think the state is overpopulated with earth-loving hippies (not that that's the worst thing in the world), one of my first images from arriving at the airport was a Hummer with Oregon State Beavers flags in three of the windows and an Oregon flag on the passenger side front seat. Guess Mom couldn't convince Dad and the kids to be Ducks. Or ride in a Prius.
Photo by Pat Coleman, D3sports.com
There's usually a D3 Geek moment on our trips, and this
weekend was no exception. With the plane landing on schedule Friday
night and with the drive from Portland to McMinnville, home of
Linfield, appearing to be under an hour, Pat and I, on a whim once
we saw the highway sign, figured it might be harmless to pull off
and visit Lewis & Clark.
We pulled on to campus and up to the football stadium, fully illuminated though we weren't sure who, if anyone, had played there that night. The Pioneers have the old-school turf and a covered grandstand set in a half-bowl. All we saw on the field were a couple guys tossing a Frisbee. Pat and I briefly thought about challenging them to some 2-on-2 Ultimate Frisbee action, but this being literally their turf, and assuming what we assume about the Lewis & Clark culture, we figured we were running into a buzz saw and thought better of it.
We toured the game field, and the adjacent gym building, home to much of Lewis & Clark's athletic history. So much that we learned the school used to be called Albany College. (Who knew?) We wandered into the gym (Pat's a D3hoops guy too, remember) and I tried a few ball-fakes and Olajuwon fade away post moves on the Pioneers' court (such a geek!). And then we went on our merry way, without running into a single person in the building or ever being accosted by security.
Oh, Knox kids wish the Monmouth campus were so open during Bronze Turkey week.
Wildcat11's directions to his hometown of Lafayette, Ore., the last town along 99W before McMinnville, included a note describing how small his town was. In 45 seconds, he said, you could drive through it.
I made Pat count. We got to 46-one-thousand before we made our turn, one of the last in town.
Lafayette also featured an actual meat market. Apparently that's not just a phrase.
I'm assuming the place we observed off of I-5 on the way to McMinnville is a classy establishment. A place named "Jiggles," I mean, how could it not be?
They could be up for a truth-in-advertising award though.
The red barn that housed Calamity Jane's along 99W looked like it featured a much different type of nightly entertainment. All I'm saying is don't ask the DJ to play Funky Cold Medina.
Yes, there are some more football-related observations in this week's column. One of the more interesting moments during Saturday's second half came when Linfield's PA announcer told of a penalty on Hardin-Baylor. Oops.
How's that for game-day updates, one Linfield supporter joked.
Sorry, didn't have much time or space for game rehash in the column, but just had to mention that Trevor Scharer passed for 511 yards and six touchdowns. Good lawdy Lord. There's probably more of that to come this year too. The Wildcats don't have much of a running game, but boy can they wing it.
Read more of Keith's in-depth observations about Oregon on Around the Nation's Post Patterns thread.
Gordon Mann's take on Week 4's contests of national
With conference play beginning in some places, it's time to dust off a well-worn cliché -- "You can't look beyond this week." Truthfully, though, that's exactly what the contenders need to do -- look beyond Saturday to their remaining challenges and realize they can't afford to take a loss in Week 4. No team wants to be in the position of needing to run the table and get help to win the conference with seven weeks left. But some recent playoff participants will be in that position by Saturday night.
No. 6 St. John Fisher (3-0, 0-0) at Ithaca (2-1, 0-1): The Empire 8 race will be very competitive with four teams who have received Top 25 votes this year -- St. John Fisher, Ithaca, Springfield and Alfred. The Cardinals can effectively turn this into a three-team race with a win here. After Ithaca's tough loss to Hartwick, this is a "must win" for the Bombers, lest they fall two games back in conference. To get a win, they will have to contain Cardinals running back Ryan Hanson. Hanson has rushed for 128.7 yards per game, 6.8 yards per carry and six touchdowns. Alfred and Springfield also meet this week. It's also our D3Cast video East Region game of the week.
RPI (2-0, 0-0) at Hobart (1-1, 0-0): Staying in Upstate New York, this is a tale of two approaches to non-conference scheduling. Hobart faced 2006 playoff participants Dickinson and Carnegie Mellon in dramatic games and emerged with a split. RPI, uh, well, not so much. The Engineers beat Endicott (cumulative score 103-24 since 2004) and Utica (3-7 in 2006). You could argue that Hobart's approach leaves the Statesmen battle-tested for the Liberty League season. But if quarterback Jimmy Robertson (576 yards, six touchdowns) and RPI win in Geneva, that shoots a big hole in that argument. Other contenders are struggling with their offense (Union) or defense (Rochester), so this game has even bigger title implications.
UW-Eau Claire (3-0, 0-0) at No. 3 UW-Whitewater (1-1, 0-0): It's tough to make sense of games against non-Division III opponents. Should we be worried that the Warhawks lost to Division II St. Cloud State? Should we be impressed that the Blugolds beat Southwest Minnesota State and NAIA Black Hills State? Fortunately we'll have answers soon enough when these two open the WIAC season against each other. We'll also get a better read on how quarterback Danny Jones (183.5 yards per game, two touchdowns, one interception) is settling into the Whitewater offense. At least UW-Eau Claire has momentum entering a stretch where they'll play at Whitewater, at UW-Oshkosh (3-0) and vs. No. 5 UW-La Crosse.
Muhlenberg (2-0, 0-0) at Gettysburg (2-1, 1-0): If you believe in the predictive powers of math, then Muhlenberg will shut out Gettysburg. Gettysburg scored 49 points the first week and just seven the next, followed by 41 points last week. Muhlenberg has two shutouts. Put the trends together and Muhlenberg doesn't allow a point this week! On a more serious note, this pits a very good Muhlenberg run defense against a very good Gettysburg run offense. Muhlenberg held its first two opponents to minus-17 yards rushing, but the Bullets' Tom Sturges averages 147.3 rushing yards per game.
No. 24 Montclair State (2-0) at No. 7 Wesley (3-0): The last pick isn't a conference game, though it might as well be for Wesley. Since the Wolverines cannot win an automatic qualifying bid, every regional game is crucial to their playoff hopes. Montclair State, who broke into the Top 25 by beating triple-option Springfield, will see a more balanced attack in Wesley. The Red Hawks started off 2007 with two big wins so a good showing here should solidify their national standing entering NJAC play next week.
Also keep an eye on: John Carroll at No. 12 Ohio Northern; No. 18 Springfield at Alfred; Widener at No. 21 Rowan; Huntingdon at Adrian; UW-Platteville at Augustana; Chapman at Pacific Lutheran.
Check Friday morning's Daily Dose for Pat, Keith and Gordon's primer on Week 4 games.
Taking a look at those unfamiliar names on schedules, and
following Division III teams in interdivisional play:
Division III did not have a good week overall in out-of-division games, but UW-La Crosse did defeat NAIA traditional power Azusa Pacific in overtime and second-ranked UW-Whitewater held up in a 10-point loss to St. Cloud State, a team from the North Central, a Division II power conference.
The most interesting matchup this week is Menlo hosting Division II Humboldt State, an independent off to an 0-3 start, including 59-0 and 44-0 defeats. Saturday might be time for the Lumberjacks to take out their frustrations on the Oaks (pun only slightly intended). Humboldt's got a listed enrollment of 7,550. Menlo's is 700. More than anything, that might speak to how hard it is for Northern California colleges to schedule games, even though the schools are more than 300 miles apart.
No ranked opponents at any level are in action in this week's interdivision games.
vs. Division I, FCS (0-2 in Week 3, 1-6 in 2007)
The College of New Jersey at La Salle (Fri.)
Iona at Western Connecticut
vs. Division II (0-2 in Week 3, 3-9 in 2007)
Humboldt State at Menlo
vs. NAIA (3-2 in Week 3, 14-3 in 2007)
Waldorf at UW-Stevens Point
Howard Payne at Texas College
Southern Oregon at Willamette
For a running list of the season's interdivisional scores and accompanying discussion, visit our Post Patterns threads D3 vs. D-IAA, D2 and D3 vs. NAIA.
Mount Union keeps its ball rolling while Williams gets underway
this week.
The longest current winning streaks in Division III:
Mount Union (25 consecutive wins, last loss vs. Ohio Northern, 21-14, Oct. 22, 2005; 1-0 in 2007)
Williams (14 consecutive wins, last loss at Trinity, Conn., 34-6, Oct. 1, 2005)
The five teams riding the nation's longest losing streaks extended them last weekend with defeats.
Longest current losing streaks:
Lewis and Clark (20 consecutive losses, last win vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, 27-11, Oct. 9, 2004; 0-1 in 2007)
Becker (20 consecutive losses, no wins in program history; 0-2 in 2007)
Eureka (19 consecutive losses, last win vs. Concordia, Ill., 32-13, Sept. 24, 2005; 0-1 in 2007)
Hiram (19 consecutive losses, last win vs. Earlham, 7-2, Oct. 1, 2005; 0-10 in 2006)
LaGrange (13 consecutive losses, no wins in program history; 0-2 in 2007)
UW-Whitewater's regular-season win streak is halted at 21 with the loss to Division II St. Cloud State, and I'm not ready to start keeping a Division III-only regular-season win streak list. Carnegie Mellon's failed two-point conversion against Hobart also stopped the Tartans' streak at 12.
Longest current regular-season winning streaks:
Occidental (28 consecutive wins, last loss at Chapman, 31-28, Sept. 11, 2004; 2-0 in 2007)
Curry (22 consecutive wins, including two NEFC title games, last loss at Maine Maritime, 28-21, Sept. 17, 2005; 3-0 in 2007)
Central (20 consecutive wins, last loss vs. Coe, 17-14, Sept. 17, 2005; 3-0 in 2007)
St. Norbert (20 consecutive wins, last loss vs. Monmouth, 28-20, Sept. 17, 2005; 3-0 in 2007)
Mount Union (15 consecutive wins, last loss vs. Ohio Northern, 21-14, Oct. 22, 2005; 2-0 in 2007)
Wesley (15 consecutive wins, last loss at Brockport State, 47-0, Oct. 22, 2005; 3-0 in 2007)
Williams (14 consecutive wins, last loss at Trinity, Conn., 34-6, Oct. 1, 2005)
UW-Whitewater's lost once, Concordia (Wis.) twice and Wilkes three times, but all have double-digit conference winning streaks which are intact.
Longest current conference winning streaks:
Occidental (21 consecutive SCIAC wins, last loss vs. Redlands, 18-14, Oct. 11, 2003)
Curry (18 consecutive NEFC Boyd wins, not including Bogan Division or title games, last loss at Mass-Dartmouth, 18-13, Sept. 25, 2004)
St. Norbert (17 consecutive MWC wins, last loss vs. Monmouth, 28-20, Sept. 17, 2005)
Wilkes (16 consecutive MAC wins, last loss at Delaware Valley, 17-14, Sept. 17, 2005)
Central (16 consecutive IIAC wins, last loss vs. Coe, 17-14, Sept. 17, 2005)
UW-Whitewater (14 consecutive WIAC wins, last loss vs. UW-La Crosse, 35-10, Nov. 13, 2004)
Williams (14 consecutive NESCAC wins, last loss at Trinity, Conn., 34-6, Oct. 1, 2005)
Mary Hardin-Baylor (14 consecutive ASC wins, last loss at Howard Payne, 24-20, Oct. 8, 2005)
Mount St. Joseph (13 consecutive HCAC wins, last loss vs. Hanover, 40-34, Oct.1, 2005, 1-0 HCAC in 2007)
Mount Union (13 consecutive OAC wins, last loss vs. Ohio Northern, 21-14, Oct. 22, 2005)
Concordia, Wis. (10 consecutive IBFC wins, last loss vs. Lakeland, 17-14, Oct. 15, 2005)
Heidelberg, Hiram and Cornell picked up conference losses, while North Park beat Eureka in a non-conference clash of teams on this list.
Longest current conference losing streaks:
North Park (47 consecutive CCIW losses, last win vs. Elmhurst, 31-21, Oct. 7, 2000)
Heidelberg (34 consecutive OAC losses, last win vs. Marietta, 21-13, Oct. 4, 2003)
Lewis and Clark (15 consecutive NWC losses, last win vs. Puget Sound, 25-23, Sept. 27, 2003)
Hiram (14 consecutive NCAC losses, last win vs. Earlham, 7-2, Oct. 1, 2005)
Wisconsin Lutheran (13 consecutive MIAA losses, last win vs. Tri-State, 37-14, Oct. 1, 2005)
Eureka (13 consecutive IBFC losses, last win vs. Concordia, Ill., 32-13, Sept. 24, 2005)
Cornell (13 consecutive IIAC losses, last win vs. Dubuque, 25-21, Oct. 15, 2005)
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Way back at the start of the season
Aaron Rogers made his intentions clear.
He strode into the Chamber of Commerce luncheon back in August
In Stetson hat and cowboy gear.
He was confident and cocky!
No way that he'd back down.
On February 6th he knew where he'd be.
Yes, he knew that he was Dallas bound.
Around the NFL some scoffed and others chortled.
This kind of bravado from a young cowpoke was not allowed.
They chuckled that he would be so bold.
But hey, who's laughing now?
Come this Sunday, Aaron will ditch his bolo tie and spurs
In Green and Gold he'll be festooned.
But it couldn't be more of an old fashioned Texas gun fight,
If they held it at High Noon.
At his side our trusty gunslinger,
Will have his faithful pals.
Joined by Driver, Jennings, Jones and Nelson
For the Shootout at Jerry Jones' Corral.
He'll face off against another gunfighter.
The one they call Big Ben.
Who's only here because they dropped the charges,
Or he'd be locked up in the hoosegow doing 'bout 8 to 10.
And following the kick off,
The gunfire will be live.
As Aaron uses the rifle he has for an arm
And fires off a shot to number 85.
And the passes will rain down like bullets.
Aaron's aim is most always true.
While his opponents' gunfire will be neutralized.
Thanks to the likes of numbers 21 and 52.
And when the smoke clears at the end,
With Pittsburgh's dreams of number seven killed.
You can bury all their Terrible Towels
'neath a tombstone up there upon ole' Boot Hill.
And the folks down there in Dallas,
Will have seen a true gunslinger of some renown.
And let the word spread far and wide.
There's a new sheriff in this town!
Friday, February 4, 2011
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|World No.1 amateur Lydia Ko collects her third win on a major women's professional golf tour at the 2013 ISPS Handa NZ Women's Open in Christchurch, aged 15 years, nine months and 17 days.
Amid a drama-filled final half hour, 15-year-old Lydia Ko has created history to win the ISPS Handa NZ Women's Open in Christchurch.
Ko made a clutch three foot putt on the final hole to become the first Kiwi to win the New Zealand Women's Open and the youngest player to ever win a Ladies European Tour event.
As the nerves left, tears of joy streamed down Ko's face as she came to terms with her third professional win from only 12 events.
"I didn't cry at the Canadian Open so I don't know why I cried here," Ko explained afterwards with her trademark giggle.
"I guess it meant more. It is our national open so to win means a lot. I am not the person who shows expression of feeling but I guess the tears showed it."
Ko rated her NZ Open win as the finest win of her already so successful career.
"[This win] is at the top. It is the national open and I came so close in the last three years. This topped it off. The New South Wales Open and the Canadian Open were obviously great wins as well."
She became the first New Zealand winner of the event since it began in 2009 and usurped the record set by South Korean Amy Yang, who was aged 16 years, 6 months, 8 days, when she won the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia as an amateur in 2006. Ko is aged 15 years, nine months and 17 days.
The Gulf Harbour member became only the third amateur to win on the Ladies European Tour after Gillian Stewart (at the 1984 IBM European Open at the Belfry) and Amy Yang (at the 2006 ANZ Ladies Masters).
"It means a lot and makes it more special to be the first New Zealander to win the Women's Open. It is always special to make history. I guess I broke history again."
It wasn't always likely. The joint overnight leader was caught and overtaken during the final round by Australian Stacey Keating and then American Amelia Lewis who worked her way to seven-under for the day and 10-under for the tournament.
Ko had missed a number of chances throughout the day but hung in one shot behind the American who had managed six birdies, an eagle and one bogey in an explosive first 13 holes.
The New Zealand rep admitted to leaderboard watching; she literally couldn't help it.
"Where ever I was putting I saw the leaderboard. On the back nine every time I looked up I saw it and I thought please don't have the leaderboard on this side."
Ko nailed a vital fifth birdie of the day on the 15th hole to draw level with Lewis, before Keating's chances slipped away when she three-putted the final hole to drop out of contention.
Lewis, safely on the final green in two, then three-putted also as the young New Zealander watched on from the right-hand rough.
She manoeuvred her approach to within 25 feet from the hole, left her first putt an agonising three feet past but calmly slotted the put amid roars from the massive gallery that encircled the final green.
"I didn't know what happened on the final hole. My caddy said you have two putts to win and I thought, oh god. I hit on in two with two shots over 300m but having a 10m putt I was more nervous."
The World No 38 has continued her quite remarkable rise in world golf. In her 12th start in professional tournaments, she has now won three times and been runner-up twice with her global ranking likely to move close to the top-20.
She is the most exciting young player in world golf. She paid tribute to her parents, her coach Guy Wilson, New Zealand Golf and a familiar rival who set the standard and helped her grow up fast.
"I want to thank Cecilia Cho. I played a lot of amateur golf against her and with her as a teammate. I lost to her many, many times and that stage kind of brought me up."
Ko has no time to rest. She leaves for the ISPS Australian Open tomorrow at 6am tomorrow and will be among the tournament favourites after making history in Christchurch.
"I am pretty excited to go to the Australian Open. It's another LPGA tournament and that will be pretty exciting. But I just have to calm myself a bit and start the week fresh."
The Pinehurst School Student said she would leave Christchurch with fond memories.
"I have always liked coming to Christchurch but I will love it now. This week has been very special for me."
ISPS Handa NZ Women's Open – Final Scores
Scores after the final round of the ISPS Handa NZ Women's Open at Clearwater Golf Club, Christchurch, par 72 (AM denotes Amateur):
206 Lydia Ko (Am, New Zealand) 70 68 68
207 Amelia Lewis (USA) 73 68 66
208 Stacey Keating (Australia) 73 68 67
209 Seon Woo Bae (South Korea) 74 64 71
210 Elizabeth Bennett (England) 74 71 65, Sarah Jane Smith (Australia) 71 71 68, Nikki Campbell (Australia) 69 71 70
211 Giulia Sergas (Italy) 71 68 72
212 Alison Walshe (USA) 70 75 67, Pernilla Lindberg (Sweden) 76 69 67, Beatriz Recari (Spain) 73 71 68, Su Hyun Oh (Am, Australia) 74 69 69, Emily Taylor (England) 74 69 69
213 Jing Yan (Am, China) 74 73 66, Joanna Klatten (France) 75 71 67, Connie Chen (South Africa) 73 70 70, Sarah Kemp (Australia) 73 69 71, Min Sun Kim (South Korea) 73 68 72
214 Christina Kim (USA) 76 70 68, Caroline Masson (Germany) 73 73 68, Marion Ricordeau (France) 72 73 69, Lydia Hall (Wales) 74 70 70, Dori Carter (USA) 73 70 71, Rebecca Artis (Australia) 74 68 72
215 Ariya Jutanugarn (Thailand) 72 75 68, Tamie Durdin (Australia) 77 70 68, Cheyenne Woods (USA) 74 72 69, Dewi Claire Schreefel (Netherlands) 73 72 70, Sarah Oh (Australia) 69 76 70, Julia Boland (Australia) 73 71 71, Maria Hjorth (Sweden) 77 67 71, Daniela Holmqvist (Sweden) 75 68 72, Belen Mozo (Spain) 72 69 74
216 Kristie Smith (Australia) 75 72 69, Becky Morgan (Wales) 73 74 69, Gwladys Nocera (France) 73 73 70, Sarah King (Australia) 78 68 70, Kris Tamulis (USA) 74 71 71, Yeah Lin Cho (South Korea) 75 70 71, Julieta Granada (Paraguay) 71 72 73
217 Jennie Lee (USA) 72 74 71, Maria Hernandez (Spain) 74 72 71, Anne-Lise Caudal (France) 75 68 74, Nontaya Srisawang (Thailand) 70 72 75
218 Cassandra Kirkland (France) 72 75 71, Christel Boeljon (Netherlands) 76 71 71, Parmela Pretswell (Scotland) 78 67 73, Holly Aitchison (England) 72 71 75, Jee Young Lee (South Korea) 72 70 76
219 Lee-Anne Pace (South Africa) 73 72 74
220 Laura Davies (United Kingdom) 74 72 74, Felicity Johnson (England) 71 75 74
221 Beth Allen (USA) 75 72 74
223 Jane Schaeffer (France) 74 73 76
224 Carlota Ciganda (Spain) 74 70 80


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After guiding the British and Irish Lions to their first series victory in 16 years, Gatland returns to the helm of the Welsh side and while he is looking for a big campaign from Wales, he is fully aware of the task ahead.
"It's going to be a tough autumn," said Gatland.
"We start with South Africa first up, obviously they had a huge win over Argentina at the weekend and then we face Argentina who we know will get better as the Rugby Championship goes on. We play Tonga on a Friday night and finish up with Australia again, so we know it's going to be tough.
"We have always thrived on testing ourselves against the best. We will be doing that again in November and it will be ideal preparation going into the Six Nations early next year.
"We should be really proud of what our Welsh players have achieved and we need to make sure that those players who have done well with Wales and the Lions recently kick on from that.
"We need to have a good autumn series."
Sixteen Welsh players played their part in the series success Down Under this summer and that confidence will feed back into the Welsh set-up according to Gatland.
"I think those players involved would have gained a huge amount of confidence from the tour," he added.
"They all came away with a lot of credit. They were in great shape physically and a lot of those players were key components in the test side.
"It's always a challenge post Lions, the players will be excited and motivated but we must make sure we keep them fresh.
"With Wales the last three times we played Australia it's gone right down to the wire. We have led into the last couple of minutes, only to have the heartbreak at the end but I'm a great believer in learning from those scenarios.
"The players who went through those experiences have learnt and developed from it and a prime example was the performance in the last game of the Six Nations against England where they played so well.
"It will be great for the team to be back at the Millennium Stadium in the autumn, back in front of their home fans and to return to the scene of where they clinched the RBS 6 Nations title earlier this year."
The autumn campaign will prepare Gatland and his squad for next year's title defence but it is also an opportunity to give vital international experience to younger members of the squad with the World Cup in mind.
"I'm also conscious of giving our youngsters an opportunity to perform," said Gatland.
"Keeping in mind the World Cup is just two years away we need to make sure we keep working with the younger guys and developing them as we look to increase our squad depth.
"I'm really excited about the next couple of years.
"We left New Zealand (RWC 2011) feeling unfulfilled even after what we achieved and with this Welsh squad we could do really well at the next World Cup.
"There are two or three players in their early thirties but everyone else is early and mid-twenties and they have not one but a couple of World Cups ahead of them and that's really exciting."
Tickets to see Wales in action at the Millennium Stadium in the 2013 Dove Men Series - against South Africa, Argentina, Tonga and Australia - on consecutive weekends from 9thNovember are available now online at www.wru.co.uk/tickets, prices from £25, £10 concession.
Wales Dove Men Series 2013 fixtures:
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Wales v Argentina - Saturday, 16 November, Kick-Off 2.30pm - £40 / £30 / £10 concession (U16) /£70 Family ticket 2 adults + 2 concession
Wales v Tonga - Friday, 22 November, Kick-Off 7.30pm - £25 / £10 concession/ £60 Family ticket 2 adult + 2 concession/ Minis/Juniors/Schools offer, with every 8 concessions purchased 2 adult tickets free
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Updated: 3:40 p.m.
Bengals tight end Jermaine Gresham hasn't said much since his three drops in last season's Wild Card loss in Houston, but before Thursday's practice he said plenty:
» He still remembers the play call of the three drops and still feels like he let down his teammates and fans.
» He said he was happy when the Bengals picked Notre Dame tight end
Gresham, heading into the fourth year of a five-year deal, says he's not expecting a new deal.
"I haven't earned an extension. More so Geno, those guys earned that. They definitely earned what they got," Gresham said. "They deserved it. I'm not going to lie to you. I don't deserve it. Not right now. I've got a lot to prove. I haven't done a lot. I've got a lot of making up to do to people around the city and for the organization, so I don't think I deserve it."
Leave it to Gresham. He rarely talks, but when he does it's always a soul-searing event and Thursday was no exception. The Houston game was at the forefront. He's having his best preseason and is clearly fueled by the disappointment. But he says that last game wasn't career-altering.
"I wouldn't say career but it was definitely something that I learned from. Something that I will get better from," Gresham said. "It was a rough game and it cost my team a chance to win the game. I let a lot of people down, the organization, fans, the people that still doubt me I gave them a reason to keep doubting me. It was tough. I've got no one to blame but myself. It was definitely eye-opening."
Gresham, a first-round pick from Oklahoma who grew up near the Texas line in Ardmore, says there's a reason he won't duck the mistakes, but he also says that game is a reason he's looked sharp.
"I wasn't bred like that. Where I'm from, I ain't going to run from a situation," he said. "I made those mistakes. I did that. Every bit of that, I did. My team, they were there for me. They didn't feel like I let them down but I want to be held to a higher standard. I don't want to be a guy who lets his teammates down. I thought I played the same this preseason, but I can say I'm definitely more in-tune with what is going on around me and knowing what's expected of me."
When Gresham is reminded he's been to two Pro Bowls, he replies that he went as an alternate. When he's reminded no Bengals tight end but him has had three straight seasons of 50 catches, he's also thinking about three.
"Everything you said, the only thing I can hear right now is I had three drops in the playoff game, to be honest with you," Gresham said.
Gresham isn't sure how the new diet of two tight ends is going to help his game. But he liked the Eifert pick, even though some wrongly concluded the Bengals were trying to get rid of him. He admired for so long the tandem of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez in New England and he can see what this duo might be able to do.
"That's somebody else they can bring to my room and somebody else I can talk to because it was getting kind of boring in there," Gresham said. "It was getting so old in there, so when he came it was somebody I could relate to and talk to. It's been a party since then. I enjoy being around him. He makes plays, he's helping me make plays. It's fun.
"At the end of the day we're just playmakers. Put us on the field, put the ball in the air and let us go make a play. I think with us two on the field we'll have that and definitely within the end of the season we'll have the aspect of being able to stretch the field and pounding it and just being diverse and being able to do a little more."
Last year at this time Gresham flogged himself for not putting up the numbers of those 2010 tight ends in the draft. He says he's trying to get away from that, but there always seems to be a Jimmy Graham around the corner.
"I think I need to do a better job for my team and being able to complete our team more than worrying about those guys. But those guys have had excellent careers so far," Gresham said. "I'm a competitor, but I need to do what I need to do for my team and not worry so much about other guys. That's the main thing I need to do."
Hernandez is in jail. Dennis Pitta is out for the year. Gronkowski is dinged up badly enough he didn't practice all preseason. But Gresham doesn't look at it like he's closing the gap on that '10 class. In fact, when the Bengals play the Pats at Paul Brown Stadium on Oct. 6, Gresham is hoping Gronkowski is there.
"I wish Gronk the speediest recovery in the world. It doesn't matter who you are, you enjoy watching the dude play. He's a bleeping beast," Gresham said. "He is what he is. Call it what you want. I enjoy watching him so I hope he has a speedy recovery and comes back and keeps doing what he's doing for tight ends. I just want to do what I can for our team to get us better."
Gresham has never met Gronkowski, but he says, "But I'm a fan."
The way Gresham has been playing, he'll get some more of those, too.
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Head coach Marvin Lewis likes his players to at least practice twice the week of a game, so that would take out Whitworth. Affter not participaing Wednesday, he warmed up in the Thursday team stretch without a jersey. Also not working were the two guys out Wednesday, cornerback
» With rookie Bears head coach Marc Trestman next on the agenda, Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis is 3-2 on Opening Day against first-year head coaches with that team with wins over Romeo Crennel (2005), Herm Edwards (2006), Pat Shurmur (2011) and losses to John Harbaugh (2008) and Josh McDaniels (2009).


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George and Marco Sound It Out - Nothing can stop George from listening to his favorite band, Lobos de Plata, a Latin band that plays in Endless Park. So when the bandstand is taken down, George goes on a mission with his friend and band-member, 8 year-old Marco, to find a perfect place for the band to play. After a day of checking the acoustics at Pisghetti's, the zoo, and George's lobby, their last hope is the museum. Will it have a room that is quiet, won't produce echoes, and is large enough for an entire band? A Monkey's Duckling - George is so anxious for Dumpling Duck's eggs to hatch that he takes over as chief egg-sitter when Dumpling takes a break. When the first duckling emerges and sees George, he thinks the monkey is his mama! As George shows his doting protege the differences between a monkey and a duck, can he convince the duckling that birds of a feather should flock together?
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Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn: With much interest by the Linux community, yesterday Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was released onto the Internet. While the final release of Ubuntu 7.04 hasn't changed much since the testing releases that we had covered quite extensively, we have posted some additional screenshots from this extremely popular Linux desktop distribution. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu were also released yesterday but Ubuntu Studio is currently missing in action.
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Zero Compression on #3 (ej22 1999)
Posted 03 June 2011 - 05:40 PM
I did a search of some threads with compression in the title. Some were where the cylinder was low or a whole side was zero but none where only one cylinder was zero. btw- I mean ZERO! nothing, needle didn't even think about moving.
Cylinder #1- 165 psi
Cylinder #2- 170 psi
Cylinder #3- O psi
Cylinder #4- 172 psi
Plugs #1, #2 and #4 looked great. Plug #3 looked oily wet and sooty.
When running is sounds like there is an exhaust or intake leak but there is not. The exhaust pipe felt like putting my hand over the pipe of an old two cylinder John Deere. With zero compression my guess is when the piston goes down on intake it creates a vacuum and then when the exhaust valves open it is sucking in exhaust to equalize the pressure. But just a guess.
Before this it started easy, ran fine, used some oil but didn't miss. I was getting about 25 mpg down from my LONG term average of 27 mpg. Any thoughts?
Posted 03 June 2011 - 05:57 PM
Posted 03 June 2011 - 10:43 PM
About $50 in parts to fix it and it runs fine... for now.
Posted 03 June 2011 - 10:50 PM
From running smooth to this? No water in the oil no oil in the water all fluid levels OK. But even if the headgasket was completely shot I should still be able to get 15psi after cranking it 10+ times with wide open throttle don't you think?
Time to take the cylinder head off, send it for rebuilding and put down a new headgasket. Sorry.
It won't get a head gasket from me nor will I pull the head off. It will go in the front yard with a FOR SALE sign in the window. It still runs and drives and doesn't look too bad.
fairtax4me, thats probably what something in my #3 looks like. You had absolutely NO compression?
Posted 03 June 2011 - 11:50 PM
It's not that hard to just replace the valve. At 220k miles it's probably not worth putting much more into it than that. I'd say from start to finish it took me about 8 hours with a lot of screwing around. If you have or at least have access to a spring compressor you can do the job yourself in a day and have it back in good running shape for not much $$.
Posted 03 June 2011 - 11:58 PM
Posted 04 June 2011 - 12:22 AM
I removed the head, removed the valve, then had to grind off a small piece of melted valve that had splattered itself to the valve seat. That took some time with a pick tool, then I used the old valve to grind the seat until it was smooth. After that I ground in the new valve, (brand new from Subaru) put the head back together and put it back on the engine. I did use a Subaru head gasket, because they had it in stock when I needed it and all the parts stores had to order it.
It fired up and ran on all four on the first crank. The lifters ticked like there was no tomorrow for about a half hour then quieted down.
I've got about 1,500 miles on it like that. Still waiting to see what goes wrong.
Posted 04 June 2011 - 12:29 AM
Posted 04 June 2011 - 08:18 AM
i wouldn't worry too much about just replacing one valve and calling it good. the others didn't reach their critical levels so likely to get plenty more miles out of them if they're properly adjusted this time.
Posted 04 June 2011 - 12:39 PM
A leak-down check will show immediately where the loss of compression is going. Put the cylinder at TDC on the comp. stroke and run compressed air into the cylinder - if it's all escaping from the exhaust then you know where your problem lies..... or just pull the head since it really doesn't matter what is wrong - it has to come apart anyway.
Posted 04 June 2011 - 02:09 PM
to preform a leak down test you remove the spark plug. put an adpater into the spark plug thread. and hook up air to the adapter. make sure the valves are all closed on that cylinder. then where ever the air escapes from while airing up the cylinder. is where the problem is at.
Posted 04 June 2011 - 03:19 PM
a leak down test could show where the compression is going to.
to preform a leak down test you remove the spark plug. put an adpater into the spark plug thread. and hook up air to the adapter. make sure the valves are all closed on that cylinder. then where ever the air escapes from while airing up the cylinder. is where the problem is at.
Echo? I just said that
Posted 13 June 2011 - 07:57 AM
Last Sunday I had to leave for work for the majority of the week. Before I left I thought, "what the heck" and poured some of my home brewed penetrating oil (50% acetone/50% ATF) in the cylinder and left it sit.
When I got back i left the spark plug out and turned it over to clear the fluid (didn't want hydro lock). I put the spark plug back in and fired it up. SMOKE, holy COW did it SMOKE! Like Seafoam cubed smoke. I left it run until the smoke cleared. Now it seems like I have some compression on the cylinder. I haven't run a compression test but there is more power.
Sounds like I have a broken ring.... or two. Still going to sell it. At 220K miles it isn't worth putting any money into it. Nice CLEAN AZ car? sure, maybe worth a rebuild but a SW Mich car in the heart of lake effect snow country with all of that salt? nope.
Posted 13 June 2011 - 04:53 PM
Sometimes on those old 4 cyl flat airplane engines, when the compression is low,. we would "stake" the valves on that cyl.
Basically, the get a wooded stake, place it on top of the rocker above the valve and give it a few whacks with a heavy hammer. It actuates the valve and sometimes loosens the foreign object- compression come back up.
Posted 13 June 2011 - 10:33 PM
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Yet, there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy...
Good point.
Like sorrow itself, we seem a little uncomfortable with it, unwilling to broach the subject,' writes Bell. 'We often fall back on the cultural catch all of the "ghost" while the reality is, in many ways, more profound.' "
I think you may be inadvertently particlaly correct. I believe there are both more and less things here on Earth than we think. Less ghosts and spirits, more real things like elbowed squid and shrimp that breathe methane and live in 500 C thermal vents.
Truthfully though, I think the reason people are uncomfortable to research it is who wants to tell the 70 year old woman that the conversation she had last night with her dead husband that has now brought her some peace was a hallucination/dream?
Besides, the researchers may well find themselves on the other end of that hallucination.
Besides, the researchers may well find themselves on the other end of that hallucination.
I totally hate when the people I'm studying start hallucinating me.
This happened to me when my best friend died. I was 18 and I had been good friends with him since I was 5. At the time I understood the situation in several ways. First I knew very well what lucid dreaming was and how profoundly real dreams can seem (it's a matter of attaining awareness/consciousness while you are dreaming). Second I had understood this situation to be a potential root for the near ubiquitous belief in zombies/ghosts/vampires, due to an armchair study of demonology. None of this information
My Paternal grandfather had died, and my grandmother was still kicking around 5 or 6 years later. I was dreaming one night that I was hanging out in the woods behind their house, when my grandfather came walking out of the woods and said to me, "It's time to call your grandmother."
Normal dream fare, but for some reason it woke me up and I stored that I should call her. So, the next day, I woke up, went about my day, and called my grandmother and had a nice conversattion with her, which was fortunate because she died that night.
I still have that walking stick in my office.
Being certain that such things are impossible is just as stupid as believing in them, imho. We are just a bunch of monkeys. There's far stuff more going on that we don't understand than there is stuff we've scratched the surface of.
You can smile and nod at me and think I'm a looney toon for thinking that the deceased may linger. I would be just as much in the right to smile and nod at you for thinking otherwise.
Neither of us knows.
I had a similar experience. One detail that you mentioned grabbed my attention: it woke you up.
I had a dream in which my grandmother (by then confined to a wheelchair) came for a visit, was walking with braces and my aunts on either side, then stepped away from the braces, their arms, and walked into our house.
My dream woke me up; wide awake, clear, not at all groggy, and much earlier than usual. I knew she had passed. It was a peaceful sensation, somehow allowing me to skip the initial, painful stages of g
The human brain seems to be very good at making shortcuts to speed up processing.
So when I'm around my wife, my human brain assumes that the person I see is my wife (shoot, it even assumes the warmth next to me in bed is my wife, and that the person I'm talking to is my wife), and interprets it that way for me.
So in bereavement, suddenly you're deprived of the actual stimulus. But that doesn't mean that the brain is going to let those circuits sit idle. No... the moment any unknown stimulus comes in, it's going to try to match it to the "wife" circuit. And if the "wife" circuit triggers better than anything else, then that's what I'm going to see.
In other words, we don't see things as they are; we see them as we interpret them.
So I suspect that this is just a case of the bereaved person mistaking a cat streaking around the house for their spouse. Or a bird in the air, etc.
Which doesn't mean that I don't believe in the human soul, and heaven and hell. But I don't think this is it. There's a better, simpler explaination at hand, and one that matches my occasional experience even nowadays, when I'm not bereaved.
"Laura, is that you out there?"
I've noticed a similar effect learning foreign languages... when I came back from Japan, every conversation I half-heard in the background sounded like Japanese until I got close enough to make out what was being said. When I got back from Argentina, everything sounded Spanish.
The human brain seems to be very good at making shortcuts to speed up processing.
So when I'm around my wife, my human brain assumes that the person I see is my wife (shoot, it even assumes the warmth next to me in bed is my wife, and that the person I'm talking to is my wife), and interprets it that way for me.
If your brain was REALLY good at making shortcuts, it'd skip all that and use the only shortcut a married man needs: "Yes dear"
Sometimes delusion masquerades as imagination.
Seriously, this statement:
'We often fall back on the cultural catch all of the "ghost" while the reality is, in many ways, more profound.' "
What could be more profound than the spirit of the deceased lingering?
It seems pretty mundane to suppose that after going through the most fundamental transformation a person can possibly experience, they have nothing better to do than hang around their old family some more.
Of course it's happening in your head, but why on earth should that mean it's not real?
who you gonna call?
Ooohh! Oohh! I know this one!
Batman! It's Batman, right? It's gotta be.
(I, for one, welcome our dead, elderly, overlords)
You voted for McCain, right?
The dead only live on in people's memories.
One thing that the death of someone I loved has proved to me is that there are no ghosts, and certainly no afterlife.
How exactly did someone's death prove there is no afterlife? I can understand not believing in an afterlife, but how did someone you love's dying prove it?
One thing that the death of someone I loved has proved to me is that there are no ghosts, and certainly no afterlife.
How exactly did someone's death prove there is no afterlife? I can understand not believing in an afterlife, but how did someone you love's dying prove it?
Seems like a very subjective opinion, and no "proof" as such.
I can only assume he was referring to the fact that his grief caused him to feel that the person was still there (i.e. hallucinating), and this experience was resembling the "ghost" phenomenon to such an extent that he can see why people would think there are ghosts.
Seems like a very subjective opinion, and no "proof" as such.
Subjectivism, on my Slashdot? It's more likely than you think.
Because belief in an afterlife didn't make him feel any better. Since that was in fact its major selling point, as an all purpose disaster recovery solution, he wisely decided not to renew the license after the incident.
People really need to understand that while religious solution providers have great marketing departments, by objective measures their systems leave a lot to be desired and often don't justify the TCO, or the inevitable lock in to the providers total solution suite.
How exactly did someone's death prove there is no afterlife? I can understand not believing in an afterlife, but how did someone you love's dying prove it?/
He postulated his epistemology a priori then pronounced it a posteriori posthumously.
Who is to say that living on in your memories is not a form of ghostliness? Its an unorthodox view, but I believe this is what the summary is getting at.
One thing that my death has proved to me is that certainly there is afterlife.
Yes, misfiring braincells are way more profound than the possibility of a life after death and all that it entails.
Yes, plus, your perceptions are also highly influence by your expectations, both conscious and unconscious. I think that applies here too: if you've come to expect someone being around, your brain will "fill in the missing gaps" (similar in concept to a running-average algorithm).
In another context, that's why you can't tickle yourself: because your brain "expects" the feeling of your fingers, since you're also the one generating that touch. In order to successfully tickle yourself, you have to introduce a time lag: set up some device such that when you operate it, a few seconds later it your motions get transformed into a tickling motion against your skin.
Mourning seems to be a time when hallucinations are particularly common
Yes, this is very common, and is usually attributed to the caffeine withdrawal symptoms prior to morning coffee.
"mourning coffee"
There, fixed it for you!
For several weeks after a beloved cat of mine died, I swear I saw him out of the corner of my eye a few times! Most of the "hallucinations" were brief glimpses, but one I particularly remember I turned a corner and swear I saw him sitting there. I even said involuntarily "Hi, Prince..." then realized after a few seconds that nothing was there. Pretty creepy, huh? After about a month or so I stopped "seeing" him around. So long, my friend.
That's quite clearly just a simple glitch in the Matrix.
I turned a corner and swear I saw him sitting there. I even said involuntarily "Hi, Prince..."
Stories like this make me wonder whether we actually hallucinate the presence of cats, maybe even people, all the time, and it's only when it happens after the cat has passed away that we think twice about such events and realise that they must have been hallucinations...
The mind is a wierd thing to live in. I've "seen a ghost" twice in my life. Both were wierd. Neither was explicable.
The first time my oldest was an infant and my youngest wasn't born. We lived in a funny shaped house by a railroad track (we were dirt poor). The (now ex) wife and I had just gone to bed, and both of us saw a thin, very pale woman with long black hair and wearing what looked like a "dressing gown"' from ages past walking past the bedroom door! We thought there was an intruder. We both jumped up, I looking for the intruder and she checking to make sure the baby was alright.
It was extremely strange that we would both have the same hallucination at the same time. We finally decided that we'd seen the ghost of a woman who'd been struck by a train.
The second time I saw a ghost I came to the conclusion that seeing ghosts isn't a hallucination or sight of a disembodied spirit but a wrinkle in the spacetime continuum. The girls were visiting the wife's family in Missouri and I had the house to myself. I was sitting on the toilet, and since I was alone I didn't bother shutting the bathroom door.
I looked up just as a woman wearing contemporary-looking clothing walked up to the door, startled out of her wits as if she'd seen a ghost, as was I, -- and then she vanished.
There is a lot about the physical world that we not only have never investigated, but never expected or suspected.
same hallucination at the same time.
I am reminded of cases where people's story for court testimony can be changed by reinforcement of those around them.
Either that or an Arwen-Liv-Tyler-Ninja really did walk past your room.
I was sitting on the toilet, and since I was alone I didn't bother shutting the bathroom door.
I looked up just as a woman wearing contemporary-looking clothing walked up to the door, startled out of her wits as if she'd seen a ghost, as was I
So, in other words, it scared the shit out of you...
In the same way a human brain seems wired to see recognizable patterns in random material, I think a part of us is also hard-wired to seek familiarity and anticipate familiar sights by "seeing" them before they actually appear. That's why it's so shocking (or even traumatizing) when you see the same sight your whole life, only to have it disappear or radically change one day. I remember one story from a New Yorker after 9-11 who said he occasionally still spotted the towers out of the corner of his eye because he was so used to them being there.
Most humans find comfort in the familiar. And when it's not there, it can be very hard for us to accept--and take even more time for the brain to adjust to that absence.
I really don't agree with this all being just a hallucination. I have had a close connection to several pets. Some that lived with me and some that no longer did. The first time I experienced this phenomenon, I was on vacation with the furry family kenneled and I had a dream that had a lot of dogs in it. It was a pleasant dream, not bad at all, but when I awoke, I had this overwhelming need to call the kennel and check on my pack. It turns out my elder dog had passed away that morning and they had just gott
But that's because the only time I ever lost a friend (you expect to lose grandparents) all the young folk she knew went and dropped acid. It's what she would have wanted...
I'm not trying to start a flamewar (seriously), but I wonder if this is what happened when Jesus' disciples reportedly met with him after his death.
Although that would require multiple people to have similar hallucinations at the same time, since some of the accounts describe Jesus meeting with groups of disciples after his death.
Just because it happens frequently doesn't mean it is *not* supernatural in nature.
That's why I pray every day to our great Flying Spaghetti Monster so I can see his terrific, supernatural tentacles grabbing down everything where others just see "gravity".
That in 80% of cases some remnant, some energy of that person was left behind? Just because it happens frequently doesn't mean it is *not* supernatural in nature.
Absolutely. Why, in 46% of documented cases, energy inductance drain has been detected in the vicinity of dead bodies, decaying exponentially with time and oscillating about a void karma mean. And in 67.2% of such cases, inductance eddies were suggested by gathered data as having occurred before the obituarial event. Couple this evidence with well
You've been living with someone for years, you develop a model of their behavior in your brain. With them there, this helps to predict where they are likely to be, what they said in that indistinct murmur from the other room, how they are likely to react when you say that you're late for the third time this week.
So this model is going to be still running even after they have gone. You "know" that your spouse will be in the living room watching "Strictly Come Dancing" because it's 7pm. So your mental model will fill them in, and as you walk into the room it will take a little time for the model to adjust. Is this the "corner of the eye" effect at work?
OK, so I'm not a clinical psychologist, not even close. But it seems a very plausible model to me.
I've said this for years. You leave a you-shaped hole in the people around you when you die; and they in the people around them. Added up, it's a kind of immortality. After all "I" am not a collection of cells, I think of myself more as a collection of habits, behaviors, ideas and beliefs.
Exactly. My dad passed away a little over three weeks ago and my mom swears up and down she has seen him. My dad had dialysis in a chair right across from their bed, so my mom naturally started seeing him in or around that chair. Though, to be fair, she's under a lot of stress and her potassium levels were pretty low for 2 weeks.
Sounds to me like the social equivalent of phantom limb pain [wikipedia.org]: "My other half is gone, but I still feel his/her presence."
I'm also reminded of sensory deprivation [wikipedia.org] -- when deprived of normal sensory input, the mind generates hallucinatory sensations.
I've had one hallucination, without any grief or drugs. I think stress is enough.
I was kayaking nears rocks, surfing very high waves, lost my kayak, and spent 15 minutes in the surf, hitting rocks multiple times. I got out, retrieved my kayak, launched, and paddled to a place where I could relax... then I had a pretty long and elaborate hallucination.
It involved three-four deities (Tangra, Athena, Poseidon and the Lady) and the appropriate sacrifices I should perform for my pretty damn miraculous survival. I'm an atheist, and I cannot help but think that this is how religions get started.
It involved three-four deities (Tangra, Athena, Poseidon and the Lady) and the appropriate sacrifices I should perform for my pretty damn miraculous survival.
Ok, don't leave us hanging. What were the sacrifices, and did you perform them?
I observed this phenomenon with grief over a girlfriend. We broke up after four years together. Afterward, I kept seeing her out of the corner of my eye, and my heart would skip a beat. It was always someone else, though.
Another unusual visual phenomenon: when the grief was particularly overwhelming, I started seeing in black-and-white, or at least with muted perception of color.
Since then I have avoided this problem by always breaking up with a girl as soon as things start getting serious. Hey, it works.
Or, they're ghosts.
No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.