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Rock Band, from Harmonix Music Systems, deserves special mention for being the only game to show up on the lists of all four editors. It's just that awesome. Other games with multiple nods include Retro Studios' Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Valve's The Orange Box (consisting of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortres 2, and Portal, as well as Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One), and Irrational Games' BioShock.
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Chris Remo:
Retro Studios
As much as I expected out of this game, it still utterly blew me away. The controls are dead on, the visuals are great, it has Super Metroid-esque stackable weapons, you can aim freely while locked on... With all that, as well as what appears to be an atmospheric return to top Prime form, just stick it in my veins. (Preview)
Rock Band (PS3, X360), Harmonix Music Systems
Does anybody doubt this is going to be amazing at this point? All of Who's Next by The Who seals the deal for me, as if it weren't already sealed. (Preview)
Mass Effect (X360), BioWare
This gets better every time I see it. Old-school science fiction with progressive game design. Win. (Preview)
BioShock (PC, X360), Irrational Games
I revisited BioShock at E3 to check it out on PC after having played the first several hours on Xbox 360. It's still amazing! (Preview 1, 2)
The Orange Box (PC, PS3, X360), Valve
My most anticipated purchase of 2007, this only misses the top slot because I'd played so much already. (Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, Portal)
Sabotage (PC, X360), Replay Studios (Shown at E.I.E.I.O.; Honorary Best of E3)
It's World War II, but it's not a shooter--and it wraps up several clever gameplay concepts into what seems to be a cohesive whole. (Preview)
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Houglass (NDS), Nintendo
This year's theme among the N's flagship trio--Mario, Metroid, Zelda--seems to be unusual but impeccable control. And you can draw on Link's map! (Preview)
Chris Faylor:
Insomniac debuts one of the first of the PS3's second-generation games, which just so happens to be the long-awaited, gorgeous fifth entry in its beloved Ratchet & Clank series. Not only does it bring back the duo's knack for innovative weaponry and enjoyable platforming action, it also features dancing goldfish and penguins. (Preview)
Rock Band (PS3, X360) & Guitar Hero III (PS2, PS3, X360, Wii)
Harmonix Music Systems & Neversoft
While one is more full-featured than the other, they're both great musical fun and feature rockin' soundtracks. (Guitar Hero III, Rock Band)
Unreal Tournament 3 (PC, PS3, X360), Epic Games
Explosions, pretty graphics, and tons of customization. You can even take mods from PC to PS3. Done deal. (Preview)
Halo Wars (X360), Ensemble Studios
The Halo universe translates surprisingly well to real-time strategy gameplay in Ensemble's latest. (Preview)
God of War: Chains of Olympus (PSP), Ready at Dawn Studios
It's God of War exactly as you would imagine it on PSP, which is one hell of an endorsement. (Preview)
Scene It? (X360), Screenlife & WXP
I'm startled by the fun factor inherent to this virtual version of the movie trivia DVD board game. (Preview)
Nick Breckon:
Blizzard Entertainment
Just talking about another StarCraft game is enough to get my Overlords quivering. Even in video form and a year away from release, I'm confident. Blizzard is doing everything right by taking it slow and responding to feedback. The very fact that the studio might radically change the dynamic of the single-player campaign has me playing the original game over in anticipation. Can't wait to play at BlizzCon. (Interview)
Rock Band (PS3, X360), Harmonix Music Systems
Holy shit. (Preview)
Metroid Prime 3 (Wii), Retro Studios
If the pacing is consistent with the first game, it's a no-brainer. (Preview)
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii), Nintendo
Sunshine didn't do much for me, but this looks like a return to form. (Preview)
The Orange Box (PC, PS3, X360), Valve
Probably the best package deal in video game history--even without counting HL2 and Episode One. (Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, Portal)
BioShock (PC, X360), Irrational Games
I first played this before E3, which has only made it harder to wait. (Preview 1, 2)
Carlos Bergfeld:
You really can't play Media Molecule's beautiful sidescroller without smiling. Easy controls, a wide range of raw in-game materials, and intuitive creation tools give the game a universal appeal. (Preview)
Rock Band (PS3, X360), Harmonix Media Systems
Each song gives you four ways to rock, and the promised availability of whole albums guarantee I'll lose my job when this comes out. (Preview)
Metroid Prime 3 (Wii), Retro Studios
Finally, a Wii shooter done right, and it's Metroid. Hell yes. (Preview)
Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, X360), Bethesda Game Studios
Bethesda is taking its time reinventing the classic post-apocalyptic RPG series--it'll be worth the wait. (Preview)
Assassin's Creed (PC, PS3, X360), Ubisoft Montreal
Ubisoft Montreal succeeds by making exploration fluid and fun. Also, white clothes look cool. (Preview)
Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (PS2, PSP), High Voltage Software
Hilarious Birdmanness with Capcom characters as a bonus. (Preview)
Everyday Shooter (PS3), Queasy Games
Musical integration with old school gameplay guarantees a good time with this indie title scooped up by Sony for the PlayStation Network. (Preview)
Crysis (PC), Crytek
The Shacknews staff is only human, and as such we have made the grievous mistake of failing to include Crytek's remarkable Crysis on any individual list--and so, it is appended here. Truly a visual masterpiece, Crysis looks to expand on Far Cry's wide-open gameplay by infusing it with entertaining superpower-like abilities.
Well, E3, it's been fun. See you next year.


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Then tell me where Rex's D ranks over the same period.
You want to sign up for another Season of the bumbling Sanchez Turnover Extravaganza, fine. Count me out.
Seeing fans still defend Sanchez is like living in Bizzaroworld. It's as plain as day the guy is a horrible QB. Yet some still think it's the Defenses fault that Sanchez can;t complete a pass, can't not turn it over twice or more a game, and leads more 3 and outs and no-score drives than anyone else in the legaue over his tenure.
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The Jets were ranked #30 out of 32 in Total Offense.
The Jets were ranked #8 out of 32 in Total Defense.
Ray Charles could see what the problems are on this team and it's not the defense. Even with no Revis the Jets were #2 overall in Pass Defense.
The fact is that we gave other teams very good field position, we gave up turnovers and couldn't convert first downs on offense this year. Tanny lost his job because we've spent 2 years going backwards on offense by not improving the Oline, never successfully replacing Tony Richardson at FB or Damien Woody on the Oline, trying to replace Braylon Ewards with Plaxico and then a rookie, taking a backup RB in Shonn Greene (to Thomas Jones in '09 and LT in '10) and making him the starter. We've gotten worse, not better, each year since the playoff win in New England.
Now people want to blame our defense? Sure, it's not fantastic and our LBs are old and slow, but our offense lost games for us...flat out lost them. And, even when the offense TRIED to lose a game against Arizona the defense won it 7-6.
Don't get your hopes up about Cowher btw. He's not coming back to the NFL IMO. Most former-champ Coaches who go to the networks realize how great a gig they have. All of the money, all of the fame and recognition, none of the pressure or work hours or bull****.
...and our fakest SOJF fans lap up his spew like Divine ate dog doo.
Best part of Francesco's anti-Rex meltdown today: According to Pasta-Brain, Rex Ryan is now to blame for the Tim Tebow trade. Not the GM. Not the owner. It was all Rex.
Nevermind the fact that Rex did everything he could to avoid using Tebow this season.
Rex is teh worstest coach EVAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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New Orleans (Aug. 21, 2013) – Today the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) in cooperation with the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas released a rehabilitated Kemp's ridley Sea Turtle back into the Gulf of Mexico.
A concerned boater reported the injured turtle to LDWF on July 2, 2012 and LDWF biologist Paul Cook rescued the turtle that same day. The turtle had severe head injuries, including damage to the right eye and the upper and lower mandible, or jaw.
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It's been three years since an earthquake leveled Port au Prince and shook all of us indirectly in South Florida, home to the nation's largest population of Haitian-Americans.
Miami Herald reporter Jacqueline Charles remembers January 12, 2010, well.
That day, Charles was in the process of writing a story about Haiti's latest mess, a controversy over the government taking a loan from Venezuela to help the country rebuild an airport.
She was also still reporting on Haiti's ongoing recovery after four deadly storms in 2008. The tropical systems left nearly 800 dead, tens of thousands more either injured, homeless or both, and also destroyed 70 percent of the nation's cash crops.
But at 4:53 p. m., the capital city and its surrounds shook for 30 to 40 seconds, and those problems would be seem minor.
An earthquake -- which registered a magnitude of 7.0 -- leveled the most populated part of the country, leaving an estimated 316,000 dead, 300,000 more injured and at least a million people homeless.
Charles says the country is still struggling to dig out today. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless living in tent cities. Billions of dollars in international aid were pledged to help recovery efforts, but only about half of that has been delivered. Of the money that has arrived, only a small portion has actually been spent.
Three years later, according to Charles, many promises have been broken and South Florida's large Haitian Diaspora has "checked out," acting only as "bystanders and observers" as their nation's problems worsen.
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Divisions With Funny Names
With Nebraska's addition the next question is how to split the Big Ten into equitable divisions. Most people are interpreting Delany's ordered list of priorities…
"First priority's competitive fairness to me," Delany said last week. "Second priority is maintenance of rivalries, some of them are very important. They're part of who we are and they're not treated lightly. And then I think the third is what factor, if any, does geography play?"
…that mentions geography only to explicitly dismiss it, as evidence that the Big Ten will run an end-around on the ugly geographical reality that would see Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State in the same division. Doc Sat's interpretation of the Big Ten's priorities, for instance:
1. Splitting up Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan, the three programs responsible for eight straight conference championships/automatic BCS berths and four of seven at-large BCS bids since 2002; and
2. Preserving the prominence of the Ohio State-Michigan game in the regular-season finale.
IE: Old-school-NHL-style division names or a complicated twelve-team pod system that I'm surprised I didn't dream up or divisions based on various alphabetical orderings. Cutting the conference along an axis is apparently not an option.
Most take a look at the rivalries and arrive at the conclusion that the Michigan-Michigan State-Ohio State triplet has to stay together and that the Nebraska addition to the Iowa-Wisconsin-Minnesota triumvirate of hate is natural. Then you throw Indiana and Purdue in with the west, and all you're left with is a decision about where to put Penn State and, if you dump them in the "east" which Illinois school to lift. It doesn't really matter for football. For basketball, you've got OSU, MSU, IU, and Purdue in the same division… so take Northwestern in a (futile) effort to balance things out. End result with 20 and 10 year records added in for color:
|Historical Record
|Historical Record
|20 year
|10 year
|20 year
|10 year
|Ohio State
|Michigan State
|Penn State
This is just about equitable according to the numbers, but the Woody division is undeniably top-heavy. Four of the top six schools in the conference are in the Bo division; Woody is Michigan, OSU, and a bunch of teams that think "Alamo Bowl? Awesome!"
Weirdly, The Only Colors stares down the Michigan-OSU-PSU division and says "sign me up." They average the Sagarin ratings for the last decade in an effort to show that shoving Penn State out of the west doesn't do much to help balance the divisions. I think the focus on average rating is the wrong approach when we're talking about picking two teams for a championship game. Since we don't have any idea how divisions would actually play out we'll use the Sagarin Ratings TOC assembled as proxies and pick the best team in each division for a hypothetical championship game:
|Competitive Balance
|Team 1
|Team 2
|Team 1
|Team 2
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
|Penn State
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
|Penn State
|Penn State
|Ohio State
|Penn State
|Ohio State
|Ohio State
Most of the time the change wouldn't have had an impact, but three times in the last decade having Penn State in a division opposite from Ohio State would have made for a better championship game. TOC argues that past results do not guarantee future performance, but since the cost of the switch is a very slightly increased travel I think it's worth it from the perspective of the league. Since Penn State suffered its post-Paterno swoon in the middle of the decade, the competitive balance effect on (on the championship game only) is more likely to be understated than overstated by the last decade.
If you want to go straight geography for non-revenue sports, fine by me, but in football I think the Big Ten will align things in a a way likely to avoid the Big 12 problem, and putting Michigan/Ohio State opposite Nebraska/Wisconsin/Iowa/Penn State is the most likely way to get sexy championship games.
Tangent! Maize 'n' Brew demolishes the idea of a 16-team conference, which I co-sign. Cease imperial designs presently.
Maybe you are taking things a leeeetle to seriously.
I think the voting was going to take care of that response.
Don't need divisions, as they play more than 11 games a season. They can just play everybody.
I've kind of assumed that these divisions would only apply to football.
The MAC and SEC basketball models don't work well come conference tourney time, especially when compared to the ACC and Big East.
The SEC setup was particularly bad this year, where the top four teams were all in the same division so inferior W-1 and W-2 teams got byes over E-3 and E-4.
The men's hoops scheduling is pretty sensible though. That's how the Big 12 did it: home and home against opponents from your "division", only one game against teams from the other "division", but no official impact of the divisions on conf. tournament seeding.
Not every sport has that luxury. Baseball, for instance, only plays 8 weekend series. They'd also need divisions. So would things like women's soccer where you only play round robin with 11 teams already. You're adding an extra week to the conference season probably.
Volleyball would also require an extra shuffle. Currently, you play 2 games each weekend, and you play and home with each team. That's an extra 2 games you're adding to each teams' schedule. Volleyball doesn't have a long OOC season. SEC uses divisions, I think Big 12 used to as well.
So yeah, the divisions are important.
4 out of the 6 top programs, AND the sleeping giant that is Illinois, AND the Gophers?
Nice work at competitive balance.
Give us Indiana for Minnesota, and you have a legitimate starting point for discussion. It also should, in the long run, help for hoops balance.
i love that you think there's enormous imbalance between the divisions but that swapping indiana with minnesota should pretty much take care of it.
i was trying to avoid flaming, but since others above have said it, wisconsin for indiana is the trade.
my point was that brian's initial suggestion wasn't even a starting point and is the product of some pretty heavy maize and blue glasses
Great idea. Minnesota would love being in a different division than Iowa and Wisconsin.
Division A
Michigan State
Ohio State
Division B
Penn State
Then sit back and watch and enjoy Paterno's bitching about all the travel. But it'll serve him right for opening his big mouth about expansion.
this is my preference, too.
as for penn state, i really think that people are exaggerating the geographic impact. let's say you have an eight-game schedule with the five in your division and three from the opposite division. that means you'll play 2-3 road games within your division and 1-2 road games outside of it. assuming these divisions hold only for football, that's an average of one game per season that requires a little more travel.
plus, as a consolation prize, i'd offer penn state and nebraska a yearly rivalry game to end the season. the big ten could essentially own that saturday by showcasing its four historic football powers (michigan vs. OSU; PSU vs. nebraska) in games that almost always would be consequential.
of a traditional PSU vs Nebraska on the same day at UM-OSU to close out the season!
It would make up for the clunkiness of non-geography based divisions.
But how is a quick flight into O'Hare a longer trip than Illinois? And though not right now, it'd traditionally be a tougher game. Might as well make his head explode.
The problem isn't flying to O'Hare, it's busing them in all of the other sports, trucking their gear, etc. Contrary to most people's assumption, flying is not usually the
cost effective preferred method of travel.
According to the (questionable, admittedly) numbers on Mapquest, Happy Valley to Champaign is 12 hours 25 minutes / 761.32 miles. Happy Valley to Evanston is 11 hours 49 minutes / 712.85 miles. So not only is it more accessible, it's closer. I suppose the crappy little airport by Champaign is a bit closer to the city it's by, and you'd probably be chartering...but by bus it has to be at least a bit longer trip. And God forbid you have any problems, mechanical or otherwise in the middle of nowhere.
who has more equipment per person than football?
who has more people per team than football?
what sport pays for all the others? ahh football.
incidentally the track team goes to invitationals on the west coast all the time. We were able to watch my niece race every year she was in school because she was competing in non-conference invitationals.
Of course for track you're just moving shoes and underwear around, not 100 sets of shoulder pads and helmets plus all the backup equipment.
On the Road With Michigan Football
I like.
In addition to "Bo" and "Woody" What other division names could there be? Crisler? Yost?
Couch-burners/Boat Burners?
Cats/Other Mascots?
I'm sure many people on here are more creative than I am...
Yost and Stagg
Yost and Schmidt would be my vote
Why do basketball and other minor sports need division splits? I could understand if they go to 14 or 16 because of sheer numbers, but with only 12, is it possible to just have a basketball season (and all other sports seasons) like right now and set up the tournament with another first round game in the Big Ten Tournament (or however all the other sports tournaments are currently set up)? Am I missing something obvious?
If PSU, OSU, Michigan and MSU were put in the same division, MSU would never, EVER even sniff a B10 title game. OK, not that this would be much of a change, but this would lock them further into their little brotherness, which I am for 100%.
I think you have the divisions aligned perfectly for football and basketball. Michigan, MSU, and OSU must be in the same division. All of the traditional rivalries(Mich- OSU, Mich-MSU, Purdue-Indiana, Wisc-Minnesota) will not be disturbed. The Woody division in football would be more top heavy, but the BO division would be solid from top to bottom. Therefore, competitive balance would be perfect. Penn State already has to travel to all of the teams in the BO division (except Nebraska) anyway, so there travel plans would not really change.
For basketball, the top Big 10 programs over the last ten years have been MSU, Illinois, Wisconsin, and OSU. Those teams will be split up equally. The divisions don't matter as much in basketball due to the amount of games. All of the teams will play each other anyway and the tourney still exists.
I hope the Big 10 gets it right, the leadership makes me nervous.
With only 5 games to play in a teams division, why is it neccesary to keep major rivals together? Couldn't the schedules be set up such that each team has 1 protected rivalry game with a team in the other division, thus allowing teams like MIchigan and OSU to be split up and make balancing somewhat easier.
i'm not a fan of protected inter-divisional rivalry games for two reasons:
(1) if school A's protected rival is indiana and school B's protected rival is ohio state, school A has a major competitive advantage in an 8-game schedule.
(2) let's assume that you play all five teams in your division and three of the six in the other division. without protected rivalries, you play every school in the other division once every two years. within a four-year period (for players, students, etc.), every team visits your stadium at least once and you visit every other stadium at least once. this isn't true with protected rivalries.
Despite internecine hatred and petty whining second to no conference, I don't recall schedule imbalance because of fixed rivalries ever being cited as an issue in the SEC. Maybe it's because two of the rivalries in particular, Auburn-Georgia and Alabama-Tennessee, are revered as more important than competitive balance. Maybe it's because the other two rotating games provide so much schedule variance that it doesn't matter. Maybe it's because of fairly stable conference standings: LSU and Florida are always pretty good; State, Kentucky, Ole Miss [usually], and Vanderbilt are almost always pretty bad. No one complains when the rivalries are fairly evenly matched.
(1) Unless, of course, you use that imbalance to counter other imbalances. Schedules are typically unbalanced in favor of better teams, because the best team in the conference never has to play against the best team in the conference.* In my alignment proposal, I put Indiana with Michigan State, yet MSU ends up with only the 7th hardest schedule overall, by nature of being one of the lower teams in their division. Iowa, in contrast, drew Nebraska, and has, on average, an easier schedule than MSU.
(2) I agree that it is important to make sure teams see each other often. Otherwise recruits may play an entire 4-year career at, say, Penn State, and never step foot inside the Big House. If that's going to happen, what's the point of being in a conference together?
No matter the alignment, I think there needs to be a 9th conference game added. The schedule has gone in the last decade from 10 regular season games and maybe a bowl, to 12 regular season games, a possible championship game, and most likely a bowl. The BTN makes this more palatable, since what you lose in a few home games is made up in ad revenue for a better BTN broadcast. And the Big Ten revenue-sharing agreement helps too, since Northwestern and Michigan have exactly as much to gain from Michigan scheduling Delaware State. Plus, with 12 teams, you need a 9th game simply to make sure the teams are seeing each other.
And finally, rivalry games are awesome. We should try to have as many as we possibly can on the schedule. They should start working right now on a trophy for Iowa and Nebraska (the golden corn or something, I dunno), and create some sort of amalgymation of the 1997 AP and Coaches trophies that gets passed between Michigan and Nebraska, and a Wizard Hat for Michigan-Purdue. Rivalries make the games more important. They should come up with a cool name for Penn State/Ohio State and then kill Prince Paterno's bride Buttercup and blame Iowa for it.
I'm not down with silly Gov Cup or Land-Grant Trophy crap. Rivalries have to come from somewhere. My main point, jokes aside, is that it's important to play them, and make sure those we have continue to be special.
* Not counting spring games or metaphors for performance.
i disagree, though, that the benefit that a school gets from not having to play itself ought to be accounted for in balancing schedules. it's an advantage that's entirely endogenous to one's own program quality. we don't fault roger federer for not having to face roger federer; that's one of the legitimate benefits of his greatness.
i completely agree about the awesomeness of rivalries and would be up for a 9-game conference schedule. the money folks won't like that, though. plus, i'm not not sure that too much is lost in rivalries by not protecting the inter-divisional ones. let's say you use brian's divisional split. (personally, i'd swap illinois and northwestern, but i like his, too.) granted, a few rivalries -- e.g., michigan-minnesota and illinois-northwestern -- cut across divisions, but almost all of the most important ones are intra-divisional. plus, in the off years, schools could schedule those rivalry games as non-conference games if they'd like. an every-other-year illinois-northwestern game at soldier field would be a cool thing even if it didn't count as a conference game.
i disagree, though, that the benefit that a school gets from not having to play itself ought to be accounted for in balancing schedules. it's an advantage that's entirely endogenous to one's own program quality. we don't fault roger federer for not having to face roger federer; that's one of the legitimate benefits of his greatness.
That was my fault for not clarifying. I'm not punishing teams at all for being better. What I was referring to is the effect this would have on a small divisional alignment. Ultimately, the schedules do end up favoring the better schools all around. But in a small sample, you end up giving a top seed too great of an advantage if your goal is to have everyone really be part of one larger environment.
It is not difficult to achieve competitive balance, while having U-M and OSU in the same division. Since that's the most straightforward solution, I suspect that's what they'll do.
If U-M and OSU are in separate divisions, then either The Game would need to be moved earlier in the season, or you have the possibility of playing the Buckeyes two weeks in a row (the rivalry game, followed by the championship game). Inevitably, The Game would lose some of its "all the marbles" appeal if it's just a dress rehearsal for a do-over the following week.
I also agree with the other poster that protected rivalries across divisions are undesirable. It means: either you add a ninth conference game, or some teams don't see each other for a long, long time.
I'm not that worried about not playing for someone for 2 years. We've already had that system in place for the last forever. There's always two teams rotated off the schedule for 2 years at a time. If you protect a rivalry in a 8 game conference season, teams in the other division who aren't your rival on, off for a year, on, off for two years, and then it repeats.
When compared to on for 8 years, off for two, that doesn't seem so bad. If you don't protect a rivalry, those games are every other year instead. So it becomes are any of the cross-division rivalries big enough that they warrant not alternating on and off the schedule?
1) Potential champion game match-ups are a key consideration, but so is overall competitive balance. As an MSU fan, I'm certainly OK with your divisions, since we'd only face 2 of the 6 historical upper-division foes on an annual basis, while, say, Minnesota would have to play 4 such teams every year. But I don't think that's the fairest approach for the league overall.
2) See the comment to my post (which your link actually goes to) on past attempts to manufacture top-notch conference championship game match-ups (Miami-FSU, anyone?) . While there's more stability in college football program performance than in other major U.S. sports, there's still quite a bit of fluctuation in where teams fall in the standings. You've seen that with every program in the league besides OSU just in the last decade.
I propose divisions Jim and No Question
Or "Tremendous" and "Real Special."
My only questions would be about competitive balance -- both with OSU and PSU in the same pod and with Michigan and Illinois playing both teams as permanent opponents. But I like the general approach.
Best Schedule Proposal I've seen
Championship game? There are several benefits of not having divisions and placing the overall #1 versus #2 in the championship game:
It ensures that the 2 teams with the best record particpate in the championship game, something divisions sometimes fail to do.
Assuming protected rivalries, it allows for a better mix of games. I.e., Michigan would not be playing the same 5 teams every year, and the 6 teams in the opposite division only half the time. Thus more balanced scheduling.
With the more balanced scheduling, more Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Nebraska, and less Indiana, Purdue and Penn State (assuming the most common division splits out there). I think that's a net plus.
So yeah, if it doesn't preclude a conference championship game, I would prefer no divisions, just 1 vs 2.
I think a straight east-west split would be better balanced than your proposed swap of Penn State for Northwestern. I used total wins from 2000 to 2009 as a crude measure of strength, which I think is misleading for Penn State (awful from 00 to 04 but strong since 05) and maybe Illinois (probably closer to NW and Minn going forward than to Indiana) but pretty accurate for everyone else.
East: OSU 102, Mich 81, PSU 77, Pur 67, MSU 60, Ind 39 = 426
West: Wisc 86, Neb 84, Iowa 80, Minn 62, NW 61, Ill 45 = 418
That's basically even. Switching PSU and NW puts 4 of the typical top 6 teams in the same division. If you want to argue that OSU, UM, and PSU are likely to be the top 3 (or at least 3 of the top 4) programs going forward based on money and visibility and that as such PSU must be moved, it would be better to swap them for Wisconsin as Doc Sat suggested.
Whoever first picks the eventual divisions gets extra special bragging rights.
On another thread it was determined that there are only 462 ways to do two 6 team divisions so my guess is that at least one person around here will be right sooner or later.
No one is a bigger fanatic of UofM than I am, but the Bo/Woody names do not work. First of all, how could you ever put Michigan in the Woody division or OSU in the Bo division? I am not saying it is just confusing. I am saying that anyone who knows anything about Michigan and Ohio State knows that this is not just a bad idea but it is a "no fucking way in hell" idea.
Second, and again I bleed maize and blue, but one of the most iconic coaches n college football history is currently coaching in the B10 and his name is Joe Paterno. JoePa is PSU football. He has been a coach at PSU for 680 of their 1,202 games, having been hired as an assistant in 1950 (yes, take that in for a moment). Hell, given what he has done for the university (including donating a large portion of his salary each year to the PSU library), you could make a very good argument he is PSU itself. It would be wrong and an absolute slap in the face to name the divisions after Schembechler and Hayes and simply ignore Paterno. I guarantee you that if Bo and Woody were alive, they never would let this happen.
Additionally, we now have another college football coaching legend in the fold. His name is Tom Osborne [pause to let the boos and cat calls subside]. Like it or not, the guy was good. Osborne coached NE for 25 years and won three national championships [insert more boos here]. In his final five seasons, he went 60-3 [pause for dead silence]. For the same reason you cannot dis Paterno, you cannot dis Osborne.
My solution is simple and, in fact, would reinforce the image of the B10 as the "king" in terms of tradition. Name one of the divisions the Bo-Woody division (yes, this would be the division with UofM and OSU) and the other the Paterno-Osborne division. It is informative. It is fair. It is a major nod to history and tradition. "East-West" and "North-South" are unlikely to be accurate if you want balanced divisions anyway, so unless someone has a better idea (like there actually could be one) I seriously propose these as the names. Oh, and this has one incidental side benefit. If ND ever does finally join the B10, the names already will have been established and it will be too late for ND to insist on naming one of the divisions after Rockne. This will absolutely drive them crazy until the end of time.
The other 8 member schools might have a problem with that.
(I think the names were just a tool by Brian...not a suggestion).
There are other schools?
I hope they announce them soon, it's going to be really interesting to see what they end up doing. I just hope they protect some rivalries and put Michigan and Ohio State in the same division.
I just hope they protect some rivalries and put Michigan and Ohio State in the same division.
I, personally, hope all of the rivalries get tossed out the window.
I'm for 16 for this reason: 4 divisions of 4, leading to a two week playoff among the divsion champions where the winner gets the automatic BCS bid.
It would allow for an easier seperation of powers, and it would also allow for rivalries to exist still (you could still schedule Michigan/Ohio State at the end, for example). I'm tossing geography out. I would prefer to see the Big Ten head for the Big East (those teams in parentheses). I don't like Notre Dame, but they make sense for the conference.
My proposed divisions:
Div. 1
Ohio State, Minnesota, Purdue, and (Rutgers)
Div. 2
Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, and (West Virginia)
Div. 3
(Notre Dame), Wisconsin, (Pitt), and Iowa
Div. 4
Penn State, Nebraska, Illinois, and Northwestern
Granted, it's not a perfect model, but it allows for some protection of Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State while incorporating some other name schools.
I would propose a 9 game schedule: One time through your division (3 games), one other division completely, and then 1 team from another division (who is not a rival) and 1 rivalry game. The rivalry game is static and unchanging from year to year and is the last game of the year. It is also a cross division foe. Proposed rivalries:
Michigan/Ohio State, Penn State/Pitt, Indiana/Purdue, Wisconsin/Nebraska, Notre Dame/Michigan State, Illinois/Northwestern, Minnesota/Iowa, and Rutgers/West Virginia.
The remainder of the schedule (3-4 games) would be non-conference filler that would no impact on the Big Ten.
Seeding for playoffs would be based on overall conference record followed by head to head. Other tie breakers that make sense (common opponent and what not) could be added later. Top seeds get the home games.
A perfect model? No. However, I think if the Big Ten wants the big money in college football, a two week playoff among division leaders at the end would make a killing. I don't mind teams not playing each other every year because I'm used to the NFL where the NFC and AFC don't play everyone in the conference every year. Does that mean that some years a team may catch an easier schedule? Yeah, but the balance is that they'd still have to get through the playoff to be rewarded for that (unlike a team in the current system that some how avoids Ohio State and Michigan and coasts to a good conference record).
The NCAA limits schools to 12 games, 13 if you are in a 12 or more team conference and make it to the championship game (or if you fly to Hawaii). That means, to have a 4 team (2 round) playoff, every team in the B10 could only play 11 regular season games. Either that, or the 8 teams that did not qualify for the playoff each year would have to quickly schedule and play semi-meaningless consolation games against each other after the playoff teams were determined. Not only would the consolation games be strange and confusing, but their TV ratings and ticket sales likely would be poor.
Do people realize that when the Big12 was formed the divisions were heavily weighted to the North Side? Texas was slumbering, OK wasn't doing that much, and Kansas St, Nebraska, and Colorado were kicking ass.
I don't think anyone anticipated Nebraska having the Callahan issue. Hell, look at Michigan under RichRod so far. The point is you can't just force competitive fairness, look at the ACC and B12 for examples. Heck, the SEC west was pretty weak relative to the UGA/UF/UT juggernaut for years. East won 7 of first 9, it's East 4 wins - West 5 wins since then.
I'd still keep OSU and MICH together, probably with MSU. Add Purdue, Indiana, and Minnesota and that's probably decent.
Nebraska, PSU, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Northwestern....ok that's not fair.
OSU - MICH - MSU - Northwestern - Illinois - Minnesota
Nebraska - PSU - Iowa - Wisconsin - Indiana - Purdue
Those make sense to me for divisions.
I believe 1996 was the first year of the big 12. Nebraska was back to back national champion. Colorado was a perenial Top 15-20 program and KState was on the rise under Bill Snyder.
In the south, Oklahoma was in the middle of a long post Switzer draught which lasted until Stoops came along. Texas was decent but no where near where they have been the last 7-8 yrs. In fact, that Texas A&M was the top team in the south when the Big 12 was formed.
Like you said, since then just about every team mentioned did a 180: Texas and OU became perenial Top 10 teams, Nebraska fell off, Colorado imploded and KState pretty much imploded too.
If there's one thing that we should have learned over the last 20-30 yrs of college football is that no program is immune to having losing seasons and down periods. So what may seem like balanced divisions today could very well be unbalanced 5, 10 years down the road.


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By Peter Becker
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HAWLEY- Easily taking the record for the longest-run business in the Wayne/Pike county, Pa. area, operated by the same family, is the interesting combination of Teeters' Funeral Chapel and Teeters' Furniture. Owned in succession by four generations of men named Richard Teeter (and an uncle named George), the Hawley business has been on the same corner since it started in 1849.
Now, a fifth generation Teeter is rising up, with Dick Teeter's daughter Julie Teeter-Seiler presently studying at Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science, pursuing a license as a funeral director. She has worked for her father for over 20 years.
Providing funerals and furniture is not all that strange a combination.
There were two combination undertaking and furniture businesses in Honesdale a hundred years ago, and there still is one in Narrowsburg. The historic link, Teeter said, was the need in the old days to manufacture caskets. These were sold along with the tables and chairs of the living, when household necessities had to be made as well as acquired locally.
Richard Adam Teeter was cabinetmaker as well as undertaker, serving the Hawley community from the corner of 18th and 16th streets. That's Main Avenue and Church Street for those more familiar with the town's street names of the past (20th) and present (21st) century.
Hawley was known as Falls Port in 1849; the Hawley name was established two years later. The village was growing quickly, with the arrival of the Pennsylvania Coal Company Gravity Railroad in 1850.
Originally known as Paupack Eddy, the village started to come together in the 1790's in the Eddy section by the falls. Whether there was a funeral business here before Teeter, has not been discovered.
Before a town had an undertaker, unless there was a local church, families, with the aid of friends, took care of their own.
The Baptists organized the first church here in the 1830's. There was already a graveyard, the Eddy Cemetery on what we know as Hudson Street (Rt. 590) around the bend, which has graves of Hawley's early pioneers.
We do know Teeter's business had competition in Hawley through the decades.
The 1872 street directory lists only Richard Teeter as undertaker. The 1912 directory lists both Richard A. Teeter with his brother George S. Teeter at "Main Ave. near Church" and another
undertaker, William B. Ammerman at "Church near Penn Ave." Ammerman and his wife Gertrude lived on Erie Avenue (Welwood).
A directory for 1925 lists two Hawley undertakers, "R. Teeter" at 327 Main Avenue and Michael J. Bohan, 325 Hudson Street. Dick Teeter recalled that Bohan's funeral home was in operation in the early 1960's and did most of the Catholic funerals in town. Teeters at that time served mainly Protestant families.
The same two funeral businesses operated in 1935.
There were three undertakers in Hawley in 1953. The directory lists, in addition to Richard A. Teeter and Michael J. Bohan, the funeral business of Franklin J. Myers at 620 Church Street. Franklin and his wife Marie lived at the same address. Within a few years, however, Myers had moved his family and business to North Main Street in Honesdale.
Dick Teeter stated that since 1963, Teeters has been the only funeral business in town, apparently as it was for his great grandfather.
Born in 1827 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, the founding father of the business, Richard Adam Teeter, moved to Wisconsin and Missouri in his early teens. At that age he learned undertaking in St. Louis during plagues of black diphtheria, black small pox and cholera. At age 20 he returned east, and at 22 settled in Hawley. Here, he set up shop making cabinets and caskets, and did undertaking. His father, Adam Dieter Teeter, had plied the same two trades in Northampton County.
Richard Adam Teeter had a son, also named Richard but with no middle name. Born in 1865, Richard #2 (as we will refer to him) worked as an Erie Railroad telegrapher in Hawley. His father died in 1896. In 1904, Richard #2 received his license as an undertaker and continued this trade as well as selling furniture. He was an excellent amateur photographer.
Paper Box Company
He also ran the Hawley Paper Box Company on the third floor, making all sorts of boxes.
This business lasted till about 1920. One of their biggest customers was the Blooming Grove Hunting & Fishing Club, which ordered boxes coated with paraffin. The boxes were loaded with dry ice and used to ship fish on the Hawley train to New York.
Dick said Teeters' kept receiving sample boxes into the 1950's, and as a kid enjoyed playing in the great stacks of boxes.
Richard Teeter #2, who was married to Maud, died in 1917. He had been in business with his brother George Teeter, who was also a funeral director, furniture merchant and a railroad engineer as well. He raised chicken and fighting cocks- on the second floor of the store.
George, who died in 1942, was known as a renowned hunter and fisherman. He and his wife Elizabeth lived in the Teeter homestead at 509 Church Street.
Richard A. Teeter (initial only) was born in 1903. The "third" Richard and father of Dick Teeter, entered the family business in 1924 and was owner from 1941 to his death in 1970. He was known as the "whistling undertaker." He bought the business from Uncle George in 1941, and worked in both the undertaking and furniture sides, as well as delivering Parcel Post.
Moved a graveyard
In 1924, George Teeter and his nephew Richard A. moved a cemetery. They were contracted by Pennsylvania Realty & Investment Company for PP&L, to relocate the Pudrytown Cemetery. The graveyard was about to be flooded by Lake Wallenpaupack. Contracted to move 20 bodies and grave markers at $20 a grave, there were actually 54. They were moved a short distance to higher ground, in Paupack Township. Wallenpaupack Historical Society was granted ownership and care of the cemetery in 2010, and receives help from Sandy Shore residents.
Richard #3 loved to fish and travel, and was an early Hawley Rotary member.
He and his wife Helen were the parents of Richard Alvin Teeter, who we refer here as Dick Teeter, born in 1940.
Building history
The store built by Richard Adam Teeter in 1849-1850 was expanded over the years with three sections. The original building was a cabinet shop set back from the street; second came the store on the corner, with rental storefronts on the ground floor, and third was an addition, with three stories. Over the years, among the rental businesses, there were F.H. Phillips' jewelry store, Spall clothing store, confectionary, dry goods store, a law office, tailor, a pool hall and parcel post business. The Hawley Post Office was located here between 1897 and 1905.
The store was converted to completely furniture sales in the mid-1940's.
Until 1928, the funerals were conducted in private residences (if not in churches), with arrangements by Teeters'. In 1928, the brick funeral chapel was built on Church Street, between the corner store and the Teeter residence. This was the first building constructed in Northeast Pennsylvania exclusively for funerals, Dick stated. The building was designed with a church motif, with Gothic-style windows.
Dick and Mary Anne Teeter lived at the Teeter homestead until 1977, when it became an extension of the chapel, and is known as the "East Chapel." Teeters' also acquired the Pulici Plumbing & Heating store on the other side of the former family home, as an additional furniture showroom.
In September 1986, disaster struck, when fire wrecked the furniture store on Main Avenue, as well as the original 1849 workshop which was attached in back. The "First Chapel" and "East Chapel" survived. The furniture store was completely rebuilt, and opened nine months after the blaze.
Practically every year, the public gets to enjoy a treasured artifact of the Teeter legacy, when their horse-drawn hearse is included in a town parade. Built in about 1870, the hearse was refurbished in 1977 for the Hawley Sesquicentennial Parade.
Ambulance service
Some remember another hearse they had. Richard A. Teeter, Dick's father, operated one that doubled as an ambulance. Dick said that it was not uncommon in rural communities to have private ambulance service that was the same vehicle used by the undertaker. In this case the undertaker just "switched hats" so to speak. No medical training came with it; the patient was just picked up and given a ride.
This was before the Hawley Fire Department had an ambulance service in the 1960's, and the present Hawley Ambulance & Rescue Company was formed in 1977.
Long-time employees in the furniture business today include Louise Hillreigel, Office Manager (25 years) and John Reid (20 years). Daughter Julie started with the business 24 years ago. Mark James serves as Funeral Associate with Dick Teeter.
Dick Teeter began working for his father in 1963 and bought the business two years later. His father passed away in 1970.
Dick Teeter's brother J. Kimble Teeter was actively in both the funeral and furniture businesses from 1964 until his retirement in 2008.
In addition to Julie Teeter-Seiler, Dick and Mary Anne Teeter have two more daughters. Mary Helen is wed to Randy Schmalzle. They have two sons. Jen is married to State Rep. Mike Peifer; they have a daughter and two sons. Julie is wed to Dick Seiler, and they have a daughter and a son.
Today, the furniture and funeral services are under separate corporations, but still under the same ownership. Dick Teeter is president of the funeral business, and daughter Julie is president of the furniture side. No, they don't make the caskets anymore, but the ambitions of their forefather Richard Alvin Teeter continues to this day, a stellar example of small town family entrepreneurship.


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Love Film screening in ArtBox container on Queens Wharf
Press Release – Patrick Rose
As part of the transformation of Queens Wharf into a more pedestrian friendly public space, Installation Artist Burnett-Rose is screening a cutting-edge 1 hour film in the custom built ArtBox now on the Waterfront. The film explores the yawning gulf between Hollywood representations of love and the less romantic reality of modern marriage. It's one of the latest works by internationally known film & video artist Burnett-Rose, who recently relocated to Auckland.
"I'm fascinated by the possibility of accidental 'drop ins' to the pop up art space," said Burnett-Rose. "The installation is designed so that anyone can walk in at anytime and find coherence within the filmic chapters or the musical meditations that are interspersed in the film."
The Artbox is the latest incarnation of a 40ft shipping container that was built for an installation on the Wellington Waterfront during the Rugby World Cup in 2011. It has been transformed into a versatile gallery space with multiple monitors, floor to ceiling light boxes and even a cinema experience complete with comfy sofas and a 5m screen.
With "Love&Dreaming", Burnett-Rose expands on her existing body of work that examines the role of media and mythology in contemporary culture. Her work 'Witness: AnAesthetic' has won critical acclaim for it's unflinching look at the perverse consumption of fictional violence in our 'entertainment' industry. By contrasting the glorified hollywood explosions and shoot-outs with the gruesome reality of human carnage in war zones, her work invited viewers to question their passive acceptance of a dehumanizing system.
In her latest work, she turns her focus on our conceptions of love and the happily ever-after.
"With a 'global psyche' increasingly created via the media now, what is the meaning and purpose of love?" she asks. "How does romantic love clash with other forms of love, such as the love of humanity and the love of God even?"
No stone is left unturned as the film journey covers all forms of love from spiritual to marital, sex, pornography, and the psychological and physiological underpinnings of this universal human phenomenon.
According to Burnett-Rose, our society struggles with a fundamental inherited tension between the security of 1950's conservatism and the 1960's libertarianism.
"We're struggling with a toxic dose of love poisoning, coming as we do from a culture that glorifies and undermines love in the very same cinematic breath," said Burnett-Rose.
The film will be screened at the Queen's Wharf on the Waterfront, Monday through Saturday from 10:30-5:00. 'Love&Dreaming' will be on display until the end of February.
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HiToms president Greg Suire promised fans an up close and personal experience with the best amateur baseball players in the country over the weekend.
THOMASVILLE | HiToms president Greg Suire promised fans an up close and personal experience with the best amateur baseball players in the country over the weekend.
Team USA delivered.
Led by home-state heroes Carlos Rodon, Skye Bolt and Trea Turner, the USA National Collegiate Baseball Team played a two-game set against the HiToms at Finch Field. Team USA won both games — a 5-2 decision Saturday and a rain-soaked 3-2 nailbiter Sunday — but the games themselves took a backseat to the real featured attraction. The players, many of whom will be selected early in next year's Major League draft, granted every autograph and picture request presented to them by the throngs of fans who came out for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The biggest crowds, of course, formed around Rodon, Turner and Bolt. Fans in recent weeks watched Rodon and Turner lead N.C. State to the College World Series, where they were eliminated by Bolt and North Carolina. And the trio was more than gracious, interacting with young fans for as long as necessary before and after each game.
Turner said the hometown hero treatment got the threesome a little bit of ribbing from teammates, who included Vanderbilt ace Tyler Beede and Indiana catcher Tyler Schwarber. "Yeah, a lot of the guys on the team are giving us a little crap for it," Turner said with a smile. "But it's nice to have all the fans come out and support us.
"It's great every time I come up to bat, I get a decent cheer; I know the people have my back. I'm glad it's that way, and I've had a chance to play in front of some of my fans. It's been fun."
The big question on every fan's mind throughout the weekend seemed to be whether they would get to see Rodon pitch. Considered the top pick in next year's draft, the rising junior became a dominant left-handed starter for the Wolfpack the last two seasons. Rodon wowed the fans who arrived extremely early Saturday with a bullpen session, but he didn't make his Team USA debut until Monday in Hickory. UCLA closer David Berg didn't arrive with the team until Sunday; his teammates joked Saturday he was "still celebrating" the Bruins' national championship.
And, although he certainly has the talent to back it up, there was one name that seemed to stand out above the others throughout the weekend: Skye Bolt. A Tar Heel, a top-notch player, and a name worthy of a rock star, Bolt had hundreds of eyes on him everywhere he went all weekend.
Like Turner, he enjoyed the week-long swing through the Tar Heel state with Team USA; they played games in Wilson and Wilmington before the series in Thomasville.
Bolt said representing his country was a huge honor. "It's definitely a great opportunity to be playing with 24 of the best guys in the country," he said. "You come into an opportunity like this looking to make an impact and contribute, and just soak up all the talent around you and all the experiences you're about to see.
"This has been a great honor, and it's a dream come true to represent your country. You've just got to leave it all out there, and realize this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Like Turner, he seemed to enjoy the star treatment. "One thing my parents always taught me, and I've begun to realize is that all 24 of us were in their position once," he said. "You've just got to take a step back and drink it all in. You never know if you're gonna get this opportunity again."
Local fans probably won't have another opportunity like this again any time soon. Suire compared the visit to the Major League teams in the 1960s that would barnstorm. But the young fans on hand this weekend certainly had never had a chance to watch some of their favorite players in such an intimate setting. For two days this weekend, they had the chance, and they took full advantage.
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In our after school program curriculum, one of the crafts was to buy light switch covers and paint them with glow-in-the-dark paint. So when I saw this craft kit, I thought, "oh, how convenient!" In my excitement, I probably failed to read or recognize that really the switch covers are just pieces or pre-cut paper. I assume that you just tape or glue it onto your existing light switch cover. However, the kids still enjoyed it (k-5th grades). Those that used a lot of paint ended up with curled projects, so i would encourage kids to use the paint sparingly. I also bought an extra glow-in-the-dark paint set to supplement it in case I didn't have enough paint. I did have to use it, and we only have 15 kids. I'm not sure how you regulate those little bottles of paint for 24 kids =/ Oh, and the only paint that glows in the dark is the "glow-in-the-dark" paint. The other colors have to be painted over if you want it to glow. In summary... PROS: - the kids had fun - the pre-cut switch covers are a cheaper alternative to buying actual switch covers. - plenty of pain brushes (24) CONS: - the switch-covers are made of card-stock, so lots of paint makes it curl. - not a lot of paint for 24 individual projects - only one color glows in the dark - the table-covering was small - it would have been nice if there was a pattern to help cut covers for the flat light switches. I had to go buy one to cut it out.
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On a beautiful clear cold day, six members of the Juneau Gun Club participated in the second Saturday of the month registered trap shoot event. This month's event was a Pacific International Trap Association event with Amateur Trap Association cross over scores permitted. The temperatures ranged between 25 and 29 degrees with a bright sunny sky. That bright sunny sky continued through the shoot, but as the sun settled in, the shadows that were cast from our club's surrounding spruce-hemlock forest played havoc with the shooters seeing the target birds. The scores so reflected.
EVENT 1; 16 YARD SINGLES, SIX ENTRIES: A Class, Mal Menzies, 97; B Class, Bud Burnett, 96; C Class, Greg Jerue, 91, class winner; Lynn Bennett, 83; Fred Bergander, 76 and Hanna Davis, 74.
EVENT 2; HANDICAP; FIVE ENTRIES: Short Yardage, 18 to 21 yards; Bud Burnett, 87 (winner); Greg Jerue, Hanna Davis, 64 and Fred Bergander, 39/50. Mid Yardage, 22 to 24 yards; Mal Menzies, 85.
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College professor wins DFL primary for House seat
- Associated Press
- January 30, 2013 - 6:39 AM
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Democrats in St. Peter, North Mankato and surrounding communities have chosen a college professor as their candidate for an open state House seat.
Minnesota State University professor Clark Johnson won the special primary election Tuesday night. The election was held so voters could choose a Democrat to run for the seat left open by the retirement of DFL Rep. Terry Morrow of St. Peter.
The other candidates were North Mankato farmer Karl Johnson, North Mankato teacher and union activist Robin Courrier, and St. Peter Mayor Tim Strand. But they'd suspended their campaigns after Clark Johnson received the DFL endorsement and urged Democrats to support him.
The special election will be held Feb. 12. The Republican candidate is former state Rep. Allen Quist, and the Independence Party's candidate is Tim Gieseke.
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The First Presidency has taught that your purpose as a teacher of youth is to help them become converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The path to conversion is a personal one. Conversion does not happen in a meeting, class, or activity alone. Ultimately, youth are converted by diligently living the gospel each day—praying, studying the scriptures, keeping the commandments, fulfilling priesthood and other duties, attending the temple, serving their families and others, and sharing the gospel. As they do these things, their desires, attitudes, and actions begin to align with Heavenly Father's will. They become happy and confident, and they delight "to act … and not to be acted upon" (2 Nephi 2:26). They strive to obey the promptings of the Holy Ghost, resist temptation, and "do many [good] things of their own free will" (D&C 58:27). They become "saint[s] through the atonement of Christ" (Mosiah 3:19).
All of us are converted as we learn to walk the gospel path for ourselves. In your role, the way you befriend, encourage, and support youth in their personal spiritual devotion, and the way you teach and learn with them in both formal and informal settings, will help them stay on the path and progress toward personal, lifelong conversion.


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U.K.: Uganda Clams Up In Money Laundering Case
Uganda's High Commissioner to the U.K., Joan Rwabyomere, denied that Museveni's government is trying to hide anything.
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U.K, prosecutors say Uganda officials aren't cooperating in the case against an aide to President Yoweri Museveni. At the same time a judge here in London has rejected the defense team's motion to dismiss the case, rebuked the Museveni aide, and set a trial date of September 22.
Ananias Tumukunde appeared Friday before a London court, Southwark Crown Court, to answer alleged money laundering charges. The advisor on science and technology to president Museveni, who was carrying a diplomatic passport when he travelled to London, was arrested and charged with attempting to launder almost $200,000.
The authorities contend that checks, including those made out to a Uganda military officer, ended up in Tumukunde's account. The officer was identified by the authorities here as a lieutenant colonel Tagaswire Rusoke; the Lt. Col. was once an aide to Uganda's former Vice President Kazibwe.
There was drama in the court house when Judge Gledhill ordered Tumukunde to declare which of two law firms was representing him. Tumukunde had initially tried to switch legal representation and was admonished by the judge.
In a signed letter, Tumukunde had instructed the court that the firm of Saunders Solicitor LLP would continue representing him; yet earlier, the Museveni presidential aide had informed the court that the firm of Middle-Montréal was to represent him. "What's going on?" the Judge asked, incredulously. "This nonsense has to stop. I can't have this to continue."
Added Judge Gledhill: "Do you understand the nature of the charges against you. Now can you tell us who is your representative?"
A lawyer with Middle-Montréal told the judge that the firm was earlier "instructed by Mr. Tumukunde to transfer legal representation as a result of a request by Mr. Tumukunde and the Uganda High Commission."
"Your honor, I had decided to change, but now I want Saunders Solicitor to be my representatives," Tumukunde said.
In the court house, prosecutors also alleged that after his arrest, Tumukunde never disclosed that he was an advisor to the Ugandan president. Prosecutors told the judge that a set of questions to clarify Tumukunde's status had been sent to Uganda's High Commission in London, which is the equivalence of an embassy, and that there had been no response.
"We forwarded the questions; we agreed the time frame when they would respond to our questions but all this was in vain," Prosecutor David Whitaker told the court. "Up to-date of application no response has been received," Whitaker said, noting that the deadline was June 27.
Uganda's High Commissioner to the U.K., Joan Rwabyomere, denied that Museveni's government is trying to hide anything.
"I forwarded the questionnaire to the Attorney General in Kampala but we haven't received the response," Rwabyomere said, when contacted by The Black Star News. "We had to follow the right procedures; but not because we didn't want to cooperate."
Tumukunde was arrested after Ugandans living in the UK tipped off Scotland Yard; the U.K. special unit has been working to curb widespread international criminal acts of money laundering because some past suspects have been accused of having links with International Terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda.
The Ugandan faces five counts, including conspiracy to money launder; acquiring criminal property; and other related charges. Each count carries a maximum of 14 years jail sentence if convicted.
There was a recent uproar in the Commons, where U.K. lawmakers now want tighter scrutiny over Uganda diplomatic passports.
Earlier this year, Rose Rosalind Birungi, who doubles as minister of Information for Toro, the traditional Kingdom in Uganda, and also serves as an aide to General Salim Saleh, brother of President Museveni and the country's minister of micro-finance, was sentenced to a 12 year prison term here in the U.K.
While travelling on diplomatic passport she was arrested May 20, 2007, at London's Heathrow airport with cocaine valued at more than $80,000, according to the authorities.
Another Uganda diplomatic passport carrier, Rhona Mugoya, is also serving a 10 year prison term based on a drug conviction.
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- Sundance Film Festival released its list of out-of-competition premieres for the festival. Many of these films have one or two names you may recognize, but most of the movies you'll never see or hear of again. One that's already getting some buzz is Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried as the abused porn star Linda Lovelace. It'll either be the next Boogie Nights, or be like every other movie ever made about the porn industry. Big Sur, an adaptation of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical novel, shows Kerouac in a brand new light: as a drunk. Also, Ashton Kutcher, the artistic visionary behind the iconic performances in The Butterfly Effect and What Happens in Vegas, plays the late Steve Jobs in the annoyingly capitalized jOBS, though it'll be in vain -- Aaron Sorkin is adapting the Walter Isaacson biography for another film, which will certainly make more money and win more awards than this one.
-- Fleetwood Mac Tour
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-- 20th anniversary of the text message
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-- Cher's first new album in 12 years, Woman's World, is coming out in march
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|2010-08-25, 04:53
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|2010-08-25, 05:24
|Link #24
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Well it should not come to a shock for the SH since they still got the news but when see OP again i expect just 2 or 3 chapters showing us what happen to the OP world
|2010-08-25, 05:31
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|2010-08-25, 06:30
|Link #26
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Location: Belgium, Antwerp
Age: 34
2 years seems excessive for a crew who hasn't been together for even a year and grew so much during it. Though kind of was prepared for it if the tattoo theory was right. All in all I'm still glad that the timeskip that Oda ended up doing is still quite the small one. I'll look forward to seeing the small alterations to the designs of the strawhats but am happy that with a 2 year skip the designs that I grew so fondly of will not have drastic changes. Maybe a Sanji with long hair or some facial hair? Will Usopp really drastically buff up? And like James pointed out, how big will Nami her boobs turn out? Or will Luffy have grown a bit taller?
A 2 year timeskip will make things interesting to. Things will have calmed down back a bit and then the so infamous strawhats that everybody is wondering of where they are will suddenly come out of nothing again causing a storm again giving a "they're back" feeling. And guess we'll have to wait for the bounty increase till then and till the whole crew takes out a new heavyweight at Fishman Island?
To bad he didn't wait 2 chapters still, cause 600 would've made a nice number to start part 2 though guess he can still use that number to have the reunion. 598, end of Luffy's training which I expect to finish a few months before the 2 year mark which will give him some time to relax at Amazon Lily and have a proper farewell. Then 2-3 other strawhats and 599 the rest and 600 could have the reunion. Well I do hope he spoils us with 598 and make it a 50+ page chapter like every starting series gets but that'll probably just end up in wishfull thinking.
|2010-08-25, 06:39
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I can't wait to see what the revamped SH crew will look like. Nami with longer hair'd be nice. Or Usopp with dreadlocks !
Meh, I shouldn't worry, Oda's great with character design anyway.
I was disappointed with Zoro's request, but under Mihawk man is he gonna become a freakin' monster when he comes back. I'm happy though; this way the power balance between Luffy and him will be the same as before.
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|2010-08-25, 06:53
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I'\m sure there are plenty of people out there with badass sword skills in the New World. The vice-admirals seem to be highly proficient in their swordskills, plenty of other pirates too. Shiryu is no doubt gonna be a future oppenent for Zoro, and after him the world's greatest is waiting for him.
Jeez. 2 years seems like a long time for a time skip. A year woulda been sufficient training time.
I dunno about this idea of Rayleigh & hawkeyes trainin Zoro & Luffy. It doesn't seem right.
Love the cover picture of Roger & Whitebeard, that is just awesome. Also, shows Roger was pretty huge in size as well.
|2010-08-25, 07:07
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|2010-08-25, 07:30
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But the cover page was cool, I really like the fierce grin Roger always is shown with.
|2010-08-25, 07:47
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i don't know y we are complaining about a 2year long time skip, we need to stop thinking small scale and look at the big picture, how lame would it seem if everyone gotten stronger over night, quiet frankly 1 year isn't enough training time......
also i would like to point out the fact that maybe there is more character to be introduce into one piece more improtant key characters that a large enough time skip can introduce them all at once without any confusion, also i don't think i want to c how my boy BB raise to become the new Yonkou (which he will) i am just satisfy with knowing he attain that title and Aokiji promotion to fleet admiral, come on do we really need to read through all that.........
and also may i remind u that the world government is after Luffy especially Akainu who we all saw him considered luffy 2 dangerous for the future and tried to KILL him, yea they need alot of time to let the world atleast think the strawhat pirates r no more.......
as to the whole month with no update yes i know it sucks but i can understand with a month break we the reader would also feel the duration of the time skip,but hey thats just my opinion...........!!!!!!!!!!!!
|2010-08-25, 08:34
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2 years... In this whole month of absence, think about how many things are going to change in the vast world.
-Luffy and the Strawhat crew: new look, new skills, stronger...
-The World Government: What kind of decissions will they take? Who will be the next Fleet Admiral, and who'll be his replacement? Will Smoker be transferred to The New World?
-The Shichibukai: Who'll fill the gap? And what'll be of the rest?
-The Supernovas: How many will survive, how many will die? What will happen with Bonney? What's gonna happen in Shabondy?
-The Revolutionaries: Will they unleash a havock?
-Around the world: Will Jimbei be able to guard his island now Whitebeard is dead? What will be of Blackbeard and his crew, will they do something big?
-The Yonkou: Shanks, Kaidou, Big Mom... What will be their next move?
And so many more things I'm not gonna write, otherwirse I would never finish...
|2010-08-25, 08:41
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I don't mind training arcs but I don't find time chambers, 2 weeks or 2 months a reasonable time to learn new earth smashing techs, especially when it ends up turning out the new super power is the characters "new special trump card power"
There is one thing I'm very much looking forward to is how the SH and many other characters will look like after 2 years
And yea one of the ones that top that list is my Nami-swan!
|2010-08-25, 08:44
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This was one part where I feel that Oda did mess up a little bit. 2 years is a pretty long time, considering the crew has been together for less than half of that. I personally had hoped long ago that the entire 1st half of Grand Line journey should had been a travel that took place over the course of decent 1+ years or 2 in the first place. After all, Zeff who traveled in Grand Line for a year considered his time there to be extremely short, too short to come close to finding All Blue.
Roger was standing on a small ladder for that pose shot with White Beard.
|2010-08-25, 08:45
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Join Date: Dec 2004
I mourn the death of zorro's ambition. As noted by Mihawk, he has just chosen to mere fodder/ supporting cast and put his ambition under luffy's. For a man with ability, talent and such great initial goals, that's quite sad (I don't see how the ambition of helping another person to be a king can be compared to the ambition of being the best.
It also means he has effectively given up the promise to his dead (might have been) girlfriend.
Btw for those who were complaining about how the last few chapters have just been short panels of disparate scenes showing what each member was doing, it's likely the next few chapters at least after the break will be the same. In fact it's likely to be more otherwise he won't be able to show how much has happened within the 2 year break. personally I don't mind, but just to get people mentally prepared; or to start worrying
Well, unless he somehow adds in a short summary page full of words.
|2010-08-25, 08:50
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Join Date: Oct 2009
So true. Anyone can notice that, after witnessing how Luffy's unbreakable will and strenght were mercilessly crushed at Shabondy, Impel Down and Marineford. Hell, when I read some comments saying a month would be enough for the crew to survive The New World it makes me vomit.
Whoever says 1 year or less would be enough for Luffy and co to overcome any obstacle is delusional and lacks reading comprension, that's all.
As much as some of you complain, Oda did very good establyshing a 2 year timeskip.
And, o yeah, Nami, I'm looking forward to see your "change"
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|2010-08-25, 08:58
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^ agreed, but I'll say 1 year might be reasonable to just learn the basics then meet and grow together again.
Mastering the new skills of course is another issue. But hey, at least it's not the 16 years I was suggesting. That would have been realistic for them to master the skills and still be at the age where their powers are at the peak =D
|2010-08-25, 09:02
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None in the crew will master something instantly after the timeskip, not in a work with such excellent writing. However, it will be the necessary to survive the first half of The New World.
|2010-08-25, 09:11
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Location: 9th Temple
Age: 39
Well thank god the Mantra/Haki relation was at last established, I remember about a year ago how we were debating if Mantras was or not Haki, an if the Gorgon sister were using the same thing against Luffy, it seems that is true.
Marvelb, I was doing some research, and I think you were the first one to say about it in the forum.
Either way, now that we have that out of the way, I have an interesting question, do you think after the 2 year timeskip happens, Luffy is going to be reintroduced Married to Boa and with a newborn child? Not that Im making any cross-reference to any other Manga Series
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