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Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton's main campus covers 600 acres, and its more than 135 buildings exemplify a wealth of architectural styles, ranging from colonial buildings to collegiate Gothic dormitories to modern structures by eminent architects.
Coeducational since 1969 (women comprise about 45% of an average freshman class), Princeton enrolls 6,400 students (4,600 undergraduates and 1,800 graduate students). Coming from all 50 states and from more than 70 foreign countries, Princeton students are an unusually talented and diverse group that represents many economic, ethnic, social, cultural and religious backgrounds. Minority students usually make up 25-30% of freshman classes.
Students are apt to choose Princeton for the strength of its academic program, its relatively small size combined with the resources of a major research university and the personal attention its undergraduates enjoy. Men and women who seek a quality education in the liberal arts, architecture, engineering or public and international affairs will discover that Princeton has much to offer.
Princeton offers an abundance of extraordinary resources, including a library system that holds almost five million books and almost 35,000 current journals and periodicals-nearly all on accessible open-stack shelving; an art museum that exhibits works from its own and other outstanding collections, complementing courses in art and archaeology; a natural history museum; a computing center and clusters of microcomputers throughout the campus; and outstanding recreational and athletic facilities.
Beyond the University's historic campus is the town of Princeton, a community of 30,000 people and the home of the Institute for Advanced Study (where Albert Einstein spent the last 22 years of his life), Princeton Theological Seminary and Westminster Choir College.
Princeton sits approximately halfway between New York and Philadelphia (approximately 50 miles from each) and is easily accessible by car, bus or train.
Princeton offers two undergraduate degrees: the bachelor of arts (A.B.) degree and the bachelor of science in engineering (B.S.E.) degree. Within these degree programs, students can choose from among 1,300 courses offered by 34 departments and numerous certificate programs. Students may participate in one or more interdisciplinary programs in addition to concentrating in a department. Students may also apply for an independent concentration outside existing programs. Undergraduates are admitted to the University and not to a particular department or interdepartmental program and have until the second term of their sophomore year to choose a departmental major.
A.B. Departments
Art and Archaeology
Astrophysical Sciences
Comparative Literature
Computer Science
East Asian Studies
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Germanic Languages and Literatures
Molecular Biology
Near Eastern Studies
Romance Languages and Literatures
Slavic Languages and Literatures
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
B.S.E. Departments
Chemical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
Certificate Programs
African Studies
African-American Studies
American Studies
Applications of Computing
Applied and Computational
Architecture and Engineering
East Asian Studies
Engineering and Management Systems
Engineering Biology
Engineering Physics
Environmental Studies
European Cultural Studies
Geological Engineering
Hellenic Studies
Jewish Studies
Language and Culture
Latin American Studies
Materials Science and Engineering
Medieval Studies
Musical Performance
Near Eastern Studies
Robotics and Intelligent Systems
Russian Studies
Teacher Preparation
Theater and Dance
Visual Arts
Study of Women and Gender
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Students may also take courses offered by the following programs that do not grant certificates: creative writing, humanistic studies, and the writing program.
Bachelor of Arts
Undergraduates in the A.B. program must successfully complete one or two courses, as indicated, in the following seven distribution areas: epistemology and cognition (1), ethical thought and moral values (1), historical analysis (1), literature and the arts (2), quantitative reasoning (1), social analysis (2), and science and technology-with laboratory (2). They also meet a one-term writing requirement and demonstrate proficiency in a foreign language.
Freshmen, sophomores, and juniors usually enroll in four courses during each of the two terms of the academic year; seniors usually carry three courses each term. With the exception of students who receive advanced standing, all A.B. students must successfully complete a minimum of 30 courses in eight terms of study. Departmental requirements combine upper-level courses with independent work in both the junior and senior years. A senior thesis is required of all A.B. candidates.
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
B.S.E. students enroll in four courses for the first term of the freshman year and four or five courses each succeeding term, following a sequence appropriate to their individual programs. The school requirement for the B.S.E. degree is at least 36 courses in the four years of study.
B.S.E. students must complete a minimum of seven courses in the humanities and social sciences. B.S.E. students are required to take one course in four of the following six areas: epistemology and cognition, ethical thought and moral values, foreign language, historical analysis, literature and the arts, and social analysis. The remaining three required courses and additional courses may be taken in any fields in the social sciences and humanities. The ability to write English clearly and precisely is a University requirement that must be satisfied by completing a one-semester course that fulfills the writing requirement.
The Honor Code
Examinations at Princeton are not proctored by faculty members. At the end of each exam, students sign a pledge indicating that they have abided by the principles of the honor code, which was first adopted by undergraduates at Princeton in 1893.
Independent Work
Independent work is an essential part of a Princeton education; it is required for all students in the A.B. program and for many in the B.S.E. program. Juniors, in consultation with faculty advisers, research and write one or more long papers; seniors undertake thesis projects that may be research papers or something more innovative, such as a musical composition, a collection of poems, a scientific experiment, a group of paintings or the production of a play.
Campus and Residential Life
Princeton undergraduates live on campus, and campus housing is guaranteed for the full four years. All freshmen and sophomores at Princeton live and dine in five residential colleges: Butler, Forbes, Mathey, Rockefeller and Wilson. Each college consists of a cluster of dormitories (housing between 450 and 500 students) and has its own dining rooms, lounges, seminar and study rooms, computing facilities, game and television rooms and, in some cases, theaters and other spaces for the creative and performing arts. The colleges sponsor programs and special events, including intramural athletics, trips, dances, lectures and films.
A senior faculty member serves as master of each college. Each also has a staff that includes a director of studies responsible for academic advising, a college administrator, two assistant masters, a resident faculty member, faculty fellows, about a dozen juniors and seniors who serve as resident advisers and three juniors and seniors who serve as minority affairs advisers.
Approximately 75% of juniors and seniors take their meals at one of 12 historic, coeducational eating clubs, which also offer social, athletic and recreational programs. Other juniors and seniors cook their own meals in dormitory kitchens or off-campus apartments, dine in the residential colleges or join Stevenson Hall, a dining and social facility that, like the residential colleges, has a staff and faculty fellows and plans social and cultural activities.
Computing and Information Technology
Princeton students are given access to a varied and powerful computing environment supported by the Office of Computing and Information Technology (CIT). The cornerstone of student computing is Dormnet, a fiber-optic-based network that brings a high-speed data connection into every undergraduate dorm room on campus. In the last academic year, 95% of first-year students took advantage of this subscription-based connection to campus and Internet resources, with computers purchased through Princeton or brought from home.
In addition to accessing computing resources from their rooms, students can use any of more than 300 workstations and numerous high-quality printers in the two dozen CIT-supported computing clusters around campus. The campus clusters contain a mix of Windows-based Intel computers, Unix workstations, and Apple Macintoshes. Software on cluster computers includes basic productivity tools such as word processors, information access tools used to explore the World Wide Web and the Internet, special software needed for the many classes in which computing is integral to learning, and sophisticated programs for use in research.
Each student is given a NetID, an identifier that enables the use of e-mail as well as allowing access to powerful Unix computer servers (currently four Sun Ultra 2 servers and three Silicon Graphics Origin 200 systems) and to the large-scale IBM mainframe computer on campus (an IBM 9672-RC 4 system running VM/CMS and MVS). Students also have access to specialized resources and online library systems. All of these resources are available over the campus network. Princeton is fully connected to the Internet with multiple high-speed services allowing students to take full advantage of the wide range of resources, such as the World Wide Web, made available through this global network.
Additional CIT services include computer-based training and support in the use of selected software packages, maintenance of the University language resource center and video library, and support for instructional technologies in classrooms and over the campus network. Beginning in 1999 a set of specialized clusters around campus provides students with access to very high bandwidth resources for use in language and other courses.
CIT provides a number of information access servers, including World Wide Web and Usenet News servers. Students can have their own Web pages delivered to the Internet via high-speed CIT-supported servers. A CGI server allows students to write programs that can be accessed and executed over the World Wide Web.
Foreign language and educational programming and selected cable TV channels are broadcast over the campus network to dorm rooms on a subscription basis, public viewing rooms, classrooms, and the language lab.
Seniors' Plans
Each spring the Office of Career Services asks the senior class about their plans. According to that survey, roughly 46% of the Class of 1998 planned to go to work right away-almost 31% had accepted job offers; 5% were expecting offers; and 5% were considering offers. Nearly 31% of the class planned to continue their education immediately after graduation: 22% had accepted admission offers to graduate or professional schools; 9% were still choosing a school or seeking admission. Of those planning to continue their education, 11% had decided to pursue studies in the arts and sciences; 8% in medicine; 5% in law; 4% in engineering; and 2% in divinity, business, architecture, or other professions.
As of August 1999, there were more than 73,000 living Princeton alumni (54,000 undergraduates and 19,000 Graduate School, including approximately 13,000 women). Princeton graduates live in all 50 states and more than 115 foreign countries. In a typical year some 6,000 to 8,000 volunteers work for Princeton in class and regional association activities, fund raising, programs in the local schools, a job placement network and internship program and community service-many in advisory and leadership roles, some as members of Princeton's Board of Trustees. Today there are 130 Princeton alumni clubs and organizations throughout the world. The Alumni Association, to which all alumni belong, was established in 1826. It meets twice each year: Alumni Day in February and Reunions in June.
The Town of Princeton
Beyond Princeton University are the communities of Princeton Borough and Princeton Township, with a combined population of 30,000 people. Princeton's earliest inhabitants were Quakers, encouraged by William Penn to settle the area he had purchased in 1693.
A short walk around Princeton reveals streets named for these first families- FitzRandolph, Olden, Stockton. The Historical Society of Princeton, located in the colonial Bainbridge House, two blocks from the University's main gate, offers information on the town's early years. Princeton conscientiously preserves many of its historically and architecturally important buildings, making the town an unofficial museum of American architecture from colonial times to the present.
Within this historic setting, institutions and individuals, including many writers, artists, scientists and business executives, create an intellectual and cultural climate of unusual diversity. In addition to the University, Princeton is the home of the Institute for Advanced Study (where Albert Einstein spent the last 22 years of his life), Princeton Theological Seminary, Westminster Choir College and Educational Testing Service. Cultural activities approach the variety ordinarily found only in large cities; the community supports a resident repertory theater, several orchestras, a ballet troupe, several choral groups and an opera festival.
Although the Princeton community is small and semirural, it is far from isolated. Both New York City and Philadelphia are about 50 miles away and are readily accessible by either bus or train. Princeton also frequently plays host to traveling art shows, dance and musical groups and solo performers by virtue of its convenient location along the Boston/Washington, D.C., corridor.
The history of Princeton University and the town of Princeton is reflected in the University's buildings and grounds.


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Hey all,
In this thread Sergeant Chipmunk posted an amazing MOC. BTW, the great presentation deserves a post in its own right in the publishing forum, but I'll let him do that if he wishes. I want to focus on Flickr banner photos.
SC decided to make this his Flickr banner image, and I agree that this is a great idea. Unfortunately, due to the shape of the Flickr banner, difficulties with editing it, and most importantly all of the text that gets plastered across it, it comes out looking like this:
Still very cool, but it loses a lot of the impact of the full photo. How can we fix this? And more to the point, how can you do the same for your banner photos? Okay, here's what I did. All of this is in Gimp, though you can use Photoshop or other programs. See this tutorial on downloading and using Gimp if you need to understand about using layers in Gimp.
Okay, first I took a screencap of his banner and pasted it into Gimp (above). I made this the top layer, with a white layer underneath. I was sure to add a transparency mask to the top layer, and I cut out all of the "image space", to give something like this (the white space is all a cutout from the top layer). I'll call this the "frame".
Then, since his image is a silhouette against a gray background, I made this quick mock-up background. This isn't really necessary, it will just help to see how the final image will turn out. In this image the "frame" is hidden.
Here's what it looks with the "frame" turned visible.
Okay, next I took Sgt Chipmunk's original image, and pasted it into this Gimp file, in a layer over the mock-up background, but below the "frame" layer. I used the 'scale layer' option and moved the original image around to best highlight it, coming up with the following:
Turning off the "frame" layer, we can see the image that would give rise to this banner. I suppose it would be possible to just go with this roughly edited version, and I'm sure more careful Photoshoppery (I know, Gimpery to be more accurate in my case) you could come up with a good image. OTOH, If Sgt Chipmunk wanted to do this, he could just rebuild the MOC and re-take the photo. In this particular case this would be pretty easy, since it would just be adding black to extend the ground on either side of the action, and re-take the photo, zooming out appropriately.
However, let's say we're not quite satisfied. This just clumps the action in the middle, and wastes sections of the "frame". What if we rebuilt the MOC specifically to fit the "frame"? If you go back and look at the "frame" you'll see that it's irregularly shaped - narrower at the edges, and fatter in the middle-right portion.
So, here's what I did. In Gimp I took Sgt. Chipmunk's original image and broke it into three pieces - the two figs on the left, moon in the middle, and the fig and the tree on the right. I made these into three separate layers, and moved each of them relative to the "frame" and background to come up with the following:
Here's what it looks like if the "frame" is removed. Now, if Sgt Chipmunk wanted to, he could rebuild the MOC to look like this and re-take the photo. Again, in this particular case, the fact that it is all silhouette makes rebuilding reasonable, as all this would do is take sections of the original apart and add in a big black wall of bricks, with some plates in the middle to give some sloping between the sections. BTW, if something like the image below were used, the result with the "frame" included automatically by Flickr would look better than the image directly above this paragraph, because I've got gray behind the text, but in Flickr the text would be sitting against that black part of this image.
Now, I show this not to suggest that Sgt Chipmunk needs to change his banner. I'm only picking on him because his image is so cool, and also the silhouette nature makes it a little easier to do all of this manipulation. Rather I want to suggest that people think about their banner images. If you think about the different elements you want in your image, you can play around with them in Gimp or Photoshop to see how you can optimize your image, and then go build accordingly. Think about putting the key parts of your image in the unobstructed part of the banner space, and conversely put relatively neutral parts of your image behind your name and other text.
I should note that there are certainly other options for banner images. A single MOC against a white or otherwise plain background can work well, particularly if the MOC stretches horizontally rather than vertically. Some sort of fairly random pattern, such as a pile of bricks, can also be very effective. Whatever you choose, though, the technique I suggested above of clipping out a "frame" and using that as a top layer in Gimp or Photoshop will help you crop and size your image to get the best overall result given the odd shape of the banner space and the placement of the text.
Anyway, I hope this helps. Sgt. Chipmunk, thanks for being the example here.

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Bye Bye Birdie a Hit
By Melissa McCutchan
CIU Student Writer
Columbia International University students took a trip back to the year 1958 as the CIU Players presented the lighthearted 1960 Broadway musical "Bye Bye Birdie."
"Bye Bye Birdie" tells the story of struggling music agent Albert Peterson (Chris Kyles). When the United States Army drafts his prominent client, rock-and-roll singer and teenage heartthrob Conrad Birdie (William Bitterman), Peterson becomes desperate for a last publicity stunt to save his career.
His sweetheart and secretary, Rosie Alvarez (Emily Calder), comes up with the master plan that will save Birdie's career - and, she hopes, will convince Peterson to leave the music business. Birdie and his two agents travel to Sweet Apple, Ohio, where he will perform his new song, "One Last Kiss," and give his last kiss to one lucky fangirl—15-year-old Kim MacAfee (Courtney Reasoner).
However, as romantic interests become entangled, the publicity stunt turns into a disaster that threatens to turn Sweet Apple upside down.
While the plot of "Bye Bye Birdie" is amusingly chaotic, the CIU Players also faced some chaos as they prepared for the show. They had only six weeks to build sets, find costumes, and learn lines and music.
"The cast put in 10-12 hours per week of singing, acting and dancing," director and senior Patti Donovan said. "I couldn't have asked for a more committed cast."
It's safe to say that the cast enjoyed their time on stage. From overprotective father Harry MacAfee (Jeremy Reasoner) to glamorous showgirl Gloria Rasputin (Christine Benz), the CIU Players embraced their roles in a way that was both humorous and convincing.
"I enjoyed playing Rosie because she is strong, confident, and determined," Calder said. "It was fun to play her because she went through so many different emotions: anxiety, anger, happiness, love."
The audience was laughing with every complicated love interest and awkward interaction.
"They did a really good job," sophomore Katie Baum said. "It was funny because it was like a lot of middle school and high school drama."
The fun of the musical lives on as students can still be heard around campus humming the show's catchy tunes such as "Put on a Happy Face."
"The show was so much fun," Calder said. "I hope CIU enjoyed seeing it as much as we enjoyed putting it on!"


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After beating the hell out of this for a full 24 hours, I have two complaints:
* Phone audio quality absolutely SUCKS. When using the handset (not bluetooth), there is something coming out of the speakers while you speak. It's overwhelmingly obnoxious. It's hard to say what it is exactly, but it's this weird tinny/electronic thing.
* When answering a call via a bluetooth headset, the volume is immediately set to the absolute minimum. I've checked every single setting for the phone app and bluetooth, nothing suggests why this is happening.
Does anyone know if the leaked .161 addresses either of these issues?


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Sales of previously owned homes, one of the housing industry's more stable and generally stronger recent metrics, eased slightly in September, coming in at an estimated annual rate of 4.75 million homes. That projected sales pace was right in line with consensus figures, and just narrowly below the estimated annualized total of 4.83 million units sold in August. (Note that initally the August estimate had been reported at 4.82 million homes.)
The main reason given for the slight month-to-month dip, according to the National Association of Realtors, a leading trade group, was the thin supply of available properties. It should be noted that sales were still a formidable 11% above the prior-year estimated annual total of homes sold.
The slight setback notwithstanding, the trade group's chief economist, Lawrence Yun indicated that 2012 would end up as the best year for resales in five years. He further intoned that "the housing market is recovering." Given the recent stellar numbers issued on housing starts and building permits for September, and the further pickup in builders' confidence reported earlier this week, there is little reason to argue with that upbeat assessment.
Additionally supporting the case for this sector's continuing overall recovery is the fact that the median price of a home sold last month was $183,900. That was 11.3% higher than the year-earlier median price of $165,300. It was also the biggest annual gain in percentage terms since November of 2005, when we were near the peak of the unsustainable housing up cycle.
Meanwhile, the current inventory of unsold homes stands at 2.32 million units, or just a 5.9-month supply at the current sales pace. This is the first time since early 2006 that the supply of unsold homes had fallen below six months--a level, which is considered by housing veterans to be a healthy supply of such properties.
All of this good news aside, we are still a long ways from being out of the woods on this front, as sales of existing homes and new properties, along with housing starts, building permits, and the price of a new and older home are all well below where they were five and six years ago. We have made excellent progress over the past year, to be sure, but there is plenty of room to improve. Hopefully, we will see that progress evolve over the coming several years.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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My v3 and v4 are both at child stage. They have only one bar filled in at their training and that's because I praised them when they where crying as a baby!They're never mischievious so how should the training bar fill up? Also, can I potty train them and if yes, how?
please help me!
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Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's 91
1sockchuck writes "Apple may build a huge new data center next door to the Facebook server farm in rural Prineville, Oregon. Slashdot has previously noted the potential that Prineville could become a data center mecca due to its climate, which is ideal for using fresh air to cool servers. The scenario could mirror the trend in rural North Carolina, where both Apple and Facebook have built data centers. It's always been likely that Apple will need at least one other large data center complex to provide backup capabilities for the facility in North Carolina."


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custom gauges
Posted 03 October 2008 - 01:47 AM
Posted 03 October 2008 - 05:17 AM
it's something I'm looking at doing in my next round of mods
EDIT: a quick google image search for "custom gauge cluster" brought up these.....
the hard thing, of course, will be the speedometer.....especially if you have a swapped car that needs the VSS signal
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Posted 03 October 2008 - 03:37 PM
well im not trying to do different gauges im using the stock gauges and just giving them a face lift.......i don't really like the look to much of all the autometer gauges all crammed together like that, plus i was thinking of having it done for around 30 bux at most....\
I like the full custom gauges idea. but i like this setup with carbon fiber gauges too.
I understand the budget dilema, im a paycheck to paycheck kinda guy. So are you going to dress up the digi dash or analog?
if budget wasnt a problem id like to use one of these:http://www.horsepowerfreaks.com/viewimageresize.asp?w=252&p=AIMSport&f=Data_Loggers
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ROHNERT PARK, Calif. - A huge comeback win over Western Washington highlighted the UC San Diego women's volleyball team's opening day of play at the Seawolf Spike, hosted by Sonoma State. The Tritons couldn't keep the momentum going as they fell later in the day to Central Washington.
UCSD 3, Western Washington 2
Freshman Danielle Dahle went off for 26 kills to lead the No. 25 UC San Diego women's volleyball team to a five-set, come-from-behind upset over No. 18 Western Washington Friday morning to kick off the Seawolf Spike tournament hosted by Sonoma State.
After dropping the first two sets by scores of 25-21 and 25-15, UCSD completely turned things around to take the next three frames, 25-20, 25-21 and 15-13.
"It was a great comeback for us and it's something we can take into the rest of the season, knowing that we can recover from not playing well early in a match," said UCSD head coach Ricci Luyties.
Dahle registered the third double-double of her season, adding 10 digs to go along with her match- and career-high kill total. The outside hitter also had three service aces and four blocks while hitting .361 with just four errors in 61 attacks.
Sara McCutchan also had a stellar match for the Tritons, putting away a career-high 19 kills while hitting .531 (19-2-32). The sophomore middle also collected seven blocks, another career-best.
"Sara was amazing, she was unstoppable," said Luyties.
For the second straight match, redshirt freshman outside Rachel Gam posted a double-digit kill total with 13.
Junior Brittany Lombardi and freshman Katy Woodward each had 14 digs. Sophomore setter Amber Hawthorne led UCSD to a .274 (70-21-179) attack with a career-high 58 assists.
Three Vikings had 10 or more kills including Marlayna Geary (21), Kayla Erickson (18) and Jennica McPherson (14). Two of those recorded double-doubles as McPherson added 11 digs and Geary had 10. Samantha Hutchinson led all players with 30 digs.
Western Washington posted a .308 (72-19-172) attack to out-hit UC San Diego. The Vikings also held a 12-7 advantage in blocks.
Down 18-17 in the third set, the Tritons scored seven straight points to turn the momentum of the match in their favor. Dahle and McCutchan each had two kills in the run. McCutchan also had a pair of blocks.
UCSD struck late in the fourth set as well. Tied 19-19, the Tritons scored six of the final eight points for the win. McCutchan again figured in as she had a kill and a block in the final two plays.
Tied 13-13 in the fifth and deciding set, Dahle gave UCSD match point with a service ace. A bad set by the Vikings ended the contest.
UCSD hit at least .364 in each of the final three sets, including .400 (11-1-25) in the fifth.
It was the first loss of the season for WWU as the Vikings dropped to 1-4. UCSD improved to 3-2.
Central Washington 3, UCSD 1
Central Washington out-blocked UCSD 20-13 and the Tritons hit just .100 (47-32-150) in a four-set loss Friday afternoon at the Seawolf Spike.
Scores went 23-25, 25-14, 25-23 and 25-22 for the Wildcats, who improved to 5-1 on the season. UCSD fell to 3-3.
Dahle and McCutchan again posted over 10 kills as McCutchan had a team-high 11 and Dahle finished with 10. McCutchan also had six blocks. Hawthorne racked up a double-double with 34 assists and 14 digs while adding six blocks.
For the Wildcats, Rachel Hanses led all players with 12 kills and Erin Smith was just behind with 11. Kaely Kight had a match-best 23 digs while Catie Fry and Kaitlin Quirk each posted nine blocks.
CWU didn't fare much better on the attack, hitting just .156 with 49 kills and 25 errors in 154 attempts. However, the Wildcats dropped in 11 service aces to the Tritons' five.
"We had our chances to win the third set and didn't make the plays we needed to," said Luyties. "We're still learning and getting to know eachother on the court."
UC San Diego wraps up play at the Seawolf Spike Saturday with matches against Seattle Pacific (11:15 a.m.) and Dominican (3:45 p.m.). Both contests will be covered by live stats.
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Mark Jacobs moved back to Iowa with the intent to make the public education system in his home state one of the best in the country again.
Tuesday, he spoke to the Rotary Club of Newton about his non-partisan and non-profit organization Reaching Higher Iowa.
"I'm a little concerned. I think one of the challenges we have in the education system is too much direction from the state and federal government telling people how to do the job," Jacobs said. "I get a little bit concerned when that translates into the state ought to mandate a certain way, to manage a pre-school type of program. One of things I believe is we have all different types of districts in this state and what works here in Newton may not work in Marshalltown or some of our more rural districts."
Jacobs, a product of the Des Moines public school system, said he believes Iowa's position of national leadership for kindergarten through 12th grade has deteriorated significantly over the last 20 years. He said it will take years of transformative changes to restore that leadership position.
Rotarian Jeff Maki asked, "What are other top states doing that we are not?"
"One of the great success stories is Florida," Jacobs replied. "They went from bottom floor tile to now a little bit above average ... They put a lot of emphasis on kindergarten through third grade learning. That is a real critical element. You learn to read from K through three, from fourth grade on you read to learn. So if you don't have a good level of proficiency by the time you exit the third grade one of things Florida did is it doesn't allow you to pass on to the fourth grade until you pass a reading comprehension test."
The mission of Reaching Higher Iowa is to advocate for a more effective Iowa public education system to provide opportunities for every child and foster long-term economic growth in the state.
Jacobs believes this can happen by raising awareness of the need for improvement in Iowa public education and by advocating legislative and regulatory change.
"I'm a product of public education," Jacobs said. "I come from a family of educators, dating back to my grandfather who was a superintendent for 18 years in the western Chicago suburbs. I've got a sister who was a classroom teacher and two nieces that are currently classroom teachers. For a lot of reasons I am incredibly passionate about it (public education)."
"I have been incredibly blessed in my life and have had some amazing opportunities and I trace it all back to the public education that I received in this state," Jacobs continued. "When I graduated from high school in the 1980s, Iowa had the best public education system in the country. When I moved back I was saddened to see how far we had slipped."
Jacobs recently retired as the CEO of Reliant Energy in Texas and decided to move back home to Iowa. While in Houston he served on the board for KIPP Houston, a charter high school network that had 9,500 students.
He believes his company has the right ideas to get Iowa public schools back to the top.
"Like any complex problem, we've got to take this one step at a time," Jacobs said. "The first thing we need to do is to change the way we measure student achievement. By that I mean we need to have an assessment test that aligns with what we expect children to learn the Iowa assessment test we have today does not do that ... A big problem I see is our lack of awareness amongst the population. That's the big reason we have been speaking out across the state."
Jacobs believes it will take a long time to solve the things he perceives as issues but, that it can be done.
"I have seen very successful education reform," Jacobs said. "I think one of the things candidly that we are struggling with here in Iowa is we were so good for so long and my view is that we rested on our laurels and became complacent. And all the while we have seen a lot of other states pass us by in a fairly significant fashion."
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Better question:
"When will FOX air it on TV?"
The entire crew should be made up of nerds and geeks. They can do 17 months without sex standing on their heads.
The future of space travel just lost so many geek points.
Interestingly, I read about a bunch of tiny worms on their way back from space. They've been up there long enough to produce 25 generations and scientists are going to examine their DNA to see if it's changed along the way due to aforementioned radiation.
Links at Google News [google.co.uk].
They should have made it a diet center instead of using the space for condos, then.
That aside, IMHA Biosphere II used the wrong approach - too many things at once (several different ecosystems, lots of species, etc). A better approach could be to find the minimum number of species that is necessary (which means that there'll be a lot of algae and fungi, and not all that many vertebrates and insects), and determine what type of inputs and outputs are necessary (even on the most barren planet, there'll be some local resources to use).
On a different take, in the book Rocheworld [amazon.com], Robert Forward imagines the first spaceship to another start with barely better than now technology. Meaning it's a one-way trip. The important thing is that the life-support system is meant to keep running longer than the natural extension of their life, so it's not strictly a suicide mission. Also in Red Mars, the 2nd team is sent 'until the next mission'...
Motivated people throughout history have endured considerably more privation than being confined to 92 m2/person for 17 months. We know that from a psychological standpoint, people can and will make a trip of this nature. The key word here is motivation.
But if the participants know that the whole thing is a simulation, it robs the experiment of any useful insight into many aspects of psychological stress because this motivational factor is missing; the difference between a simulated airlock and a real one will not be lost on participants. The project would thus seem to be a way to validate the astronaut selection process itself, and not just a study on long-term isolation - in other words, "we know people can handle it, but we still don't have a reliable way of knowing which ones". The recent diapers-and-knives episode amply illustrates that astronaut selection is something of an inexact science.
Of course, this still leaves lots of room for interesting experiments on group dynamics, but we already know quite a lot on this subject: for example, years of experimentation with Skylab, Mir etc. suggested that if there was some tension in the group, ground control would usually create an obviously impossible schedule of work for the team, creating a them-versus-us mentality which tended to bring the team closer; tensions within the group were eased by colluding to grumble about ground control.
This sort of thing has been studied exhaustively by many military and civilian organisations for a long time, so what are the objectives here?
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I posted looking for a reduction gear for a 3AT FWD trans. It occured to me that since the gear is in the diff housing that the 3AT 4WD might use the same part. If anybody has a parts guide could you check to see if PN#31450AA130 is listed for 89-94 3AT 4WD? Thanks, Brad
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Posted 15 September 2003 - 06:28 PM
Brad,if you ever need a part number,etc. call Dan Perkins Subaru in Milford and talk to John in Parts.
He is THE man.If he doesn't know it by memory he'll look it up for you in seconds.
He is THE man.If he doesn't know it by memory he'll look it up for you in seconds.
Posted 15 September 2003 - 06:44 PM
Thanks for that info Paul. I usually get taken care of at the local dealer but today there was a kid at the counter who didn't strike me as the intrepid parts swapping type. He failed to instantly recognize the destroyed gear and shaft I set on his counter, even though it's the most common failure in Sube history after timing belts, cam seals and CVs. He did offer to knock the price down a bit but $400 for the gears , 1 seal and the 10 cent ball bearing I dropped on the shop floor still made my heart skip a beat
Posted 15 September 2003 - 09:13 PM
I can look things up if you want as well- anyone can shoot me a PM or an email to firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll be happy to find where things are within Subaru of America, what they fit, and/or how much .
Posted 16 September 2003 - 03:28 PM
and they were made for the 89,90 MY
and they were made for the 89,90 MY
Posted 16 September 2003 - 10:00 PM
I found a tranny locally today from a wrecked 93 w 111K. Governor gear and reduction shaft gear are in perfect condition, fluids clean and nothing but a little fine gray film on the diff magnetic drain plug(no chunks). I got it cleaned up and did the "best parts go here" gig. I'm going to keep the diff section from the first tranny I bought and put it together with the rebuilt tranny section that was originally on the car, assuming I find the reduction gear. There may be hope for that since the car I just bought slips starting out and goes fine at highway speed. I'm hoping it has a good reduc and gov in it. The leftovers go back to the salvage yard for refund. In any case thanks for the good answers.
SVXPERT, was that interchange only for the 89-90 or does it go all the way up to 94?
Thanks, Brad
SVXPERT, was that interchange only for the 89-90 or does it go all the way up to 94?
Thanks, Brad
Posted 16 September 2003 - 10:21 PM
It was only 89 and 90, so speaketh the Subaru parts catalog CDs I use at work .
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The Anderson County Commission's Operations Committee met earlier this week and, following a little less than two hours of public discussion on the ongoing "In God We Trust" issue, voted to recommend that the county pay for the creation and installation of four signs carrying "the national motto" above the four exterior doors of the Courthouse.
The Anderson County Commission's Operations Committee met earlier this week and, following a little less than two hours of public discussion on the ongoing "In God We Trust" issue, voted to recommend that the county pay for the creation and installation of four signs carrying "the national motto" above the four exterior doors of the Courthouse.
If approved by the full County Commission next week, the county will pay approximately $500 to have four black metal signs with white lettering stating "In God We Trust" made and then have them placed above the front and back doors of the Courthouse. And though county commissioners serving on the Operations Committee may have followed legal advice to refrain from making the issue a "religious" one in order to protect the county from liability, the majority of citizens who filled the meeting room apparently did not feel similarly restrained about bringing God into the discussion.
Most of those who spoke to the Committee spoke in favor of placing "In God We Trust" on the Courthouse, though a few did oppose the County Commission's February vote and others said they thought the Commission's action last month to add the motto to the Courthouse was taken too swiftly and without hearing from more county residents.
The request to put "In God We Trust" on the local Courthouse's walls was reportedly first brought to the attention of Anderson County Mayor Terry Frank, who was sworn in to office in September to replace Interim County Mayor Myron Iwanski. Spearheaded by Oak Ridge businessman Lynn Byrge, the "In God We Trust" initiative is supported by at least 46 Anderson County churches.
Initially, Byrge said the churches would pay for the inscription on all sides of the Courthouse and Commissioners Zach Bates and Tim Isbel, both of Lake City, said they'd donate the labor.
The issue was added to the County Commission's agenda prior to the Feb. 19 meeting deadline, and Commission subsequently approved the action by a 12-4 vote Feb. 19 — following another two hours of public discussion.
The issue of the action's legality and the specifics of getting the work performed was referred to the Operations Committee, which met this Monday night. And by a 5-3 vote, the committee of commissioners voted to recommend the county pay for the creation and installation of the controversial signage.
Voting in favor of the "In God We Trust" initiative Monday night were Anderson County Commissioners Robert Mc-Kamey, Steve Emert, Tracy Wandell, Rick Meredith and Bates; while voting against were Commissioners Robin Biloski, Jerry Creasey and Harry "Whitey" Hitchcock — all of Oak Ridge.
"I can't guarantee you we're not going to be sued," County Law Director Jay Yeager stated. The lawyer gave commissioners a lengthy "privileged" memo on the legal issues behind placing "In God We Trust" on the Courthouse.
And although he asked the commissioners not to read his opinions to the public, he did allow them to talk about his recommendations that the religious aspects of the issue not be discussed by county officials, that it be a secular one of putting the nation's motto on the Courthouse, and that the county pay for the signs and installation rather than allowing churches to pay for it and commissioners donating their services.
The county's counsel said placing the motto on the Courthouse was legal as long as it doesn't violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
Responding to The Oak Ridger's question, Yeager said he was considering what is called the "Lemon Test" after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Lemon vs. Kutzman case. Basically, the government's action must have a secular legislative purpose; the action must not advance or inhibit religion; and the action must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion.
If any of these rules are violated, Yeager said, the action would be unconstitutional.
Saying he hoped the Anderson County Commission follows through with the placement of the motto on the Courthouse, Yeager said the county could pay for it or set up a fund that people or organizations could donate to that would be used for a variety of memorial-type implementations — and not just the "In God We Trust" signage.
Hopefully, Yeager said, if the county was sued then he could get the matter dismissed quickly. If not, then the county law director said he's prepared to take the issue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if the Commission wishes.
"I am a member of that Bar and can take it all the way," said Yeager, adding he has been in contact with several constitutional lawyers who are prepared to aid the county.
For her part, Commissioner Biloski said that "I am terribly nervous over this liability issue. … It scares me.
"If we are inundated by lawsuits … this was very religiously motivated," said Biloski, adding that if the decision comes back to "haunt" the Commission, then "we will have to pay the price."
Commissioner Hitchcock, along with Commissioner Creasey and a couple of residents, advocated that several mottos be put above different exterior doors of the Courthouse — mottoes such as "E Pluribus Unum" and "With Liberty and Justice for All." As he discussed the matter, several people in the audience — in normal-volume voices — said, "No," and this caused Hitchcock to remark on the "rudeness" and comment: "There is a problem when you mix religion and government."
Commissioner Dusty Irwin, who isn't on the Operations Committee, said he noticed the Veterans War Memorial as he walked into the Courthouse that night and it caused him to ponder how people would react if someone made an attempt to remove it or its inscription. He said he thinks people are tired of the "perpetual clawing away of our rights and beliefs."
The meeting room was full, although not as crowded as the previous month's standing-room-only crowd. The majority who spoke publicly did speak in favor of the signs, although several more people than last month spoke out against the Commission's vote in February, saying proper notice wasn't given.
"We fail to recognize the different types of discrimination," Oak Ridge resident Leroy Gilliam said.
Oak Ridge resident Ruth Young echoed her statement of last month in saying she still opposed the action. But, like fellow Oak Ridger Marion Burger, who also spoke Monday night, Young said she thought the Commission took action too swiftly. Saying she only reads The Oak Ridger, Young noted the newspaper publicized the issue as timely as possible but the story was published only a few days before the initial Feb. 19 County Commission vote was taken.
Young said the comments made by the public this week "verifies my suspicions that this is a religious issue, related to Christianity." She advocated the Commission schedule another vote on the matter. (Both she and Burger's letters on the issue have appeared in The Oak Ridger in recent weeks.)
Ron Burris took his three minutes to speak as a citizen to lead the meeting crowd in prayer. And Oak Ridger Anthony Allen recalled religious history and noted that though the Commission might be trying to avoid religious talk or talk of a specific God, others were not.
"People flock here (to America) when they're being persecuted," he said. "We're not talking about a generic God ... He is the God of the Christians. It may be OK for commissioners to softshoe this," he said, but the God being referred to has a son named Jesus.
Commission meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 18, in Room 312 of the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton.
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- Formula One to change rules on in-season testing and tire changes
- Teams to run tire tests at Silverstone on July 17-19
- FIA president Jean Todt says driver safety must be the priority
- Six tire blow-outs at the British Grand Prix have inflated safety concerns
Formula One's governing body is taking the unusual step of rewriting its own rulebook in the middle of the season in an attempt to end the tire crisis threatening to undermine the sport.
The FIA has acted quickly by deciding to amend two rules which ban race drivers testing and prevent tires being changed during the season.
The drivers and teams had called for urgent action after a series of dramatic tire blow-outs compromised driver safety at the British Grand Prix Sunday.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, who lost the race lead when his left-rear tire unravelled on lap eight, the Ferraris of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso, Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne, McLaren's Sergio Perez and Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez were all affected by tires failures.
In response to the chaotic scenes at Silverstone, the FIA has proposed that race drivers take part in a tire development test at the British circuit on July 17-19.
The test had originally been set aside for the teams to trial their young drivers, who are now set to miss out on a rare opportunity to drive an F1 car.
"Our priority is to ensure safety for all in Formula One and we believe the incidents at Silverstone represent a genuine safety concern for the drivers," said FIA President Jean Todt.
"We have thus taken the decision to alter the Young Driver Test in a bid to solve the problems we saw at the British Grand Prix. I believe it is fitting to carry out this work at the circuit upon which the issues were manifested."
The FIA's World Motorsport Council now has to give the green light to the rule changes, but that is expected to be a formality.
F1's sole tire supplier Pirelli is due to announce its response to the chaos at the British GP later on Tuesday.
The Italian manufacturer said at Silverstone it had been looking forward to focusing on the racing after being reprimanded at an FIA hearing for organizing a three-day tire test with Mercedes in May -- but instead Pirelli has found itself once again the center of unwanted attention.
Mercedes -- who were also reprimanded by the FIA for using race drivers Hamilton and Nico Rosberg and a 2013 car at the controversial Barcelona tire test -- have decided to sit out the Silverstone test for the sake of harmony within the sport.
The German team's "secret" test still riles their rivals -- especially as they have since won races in Monaco and Britain -- but the shocking tire explosions at the British GP have underlined the need for Pirelli to find a legitimate solution to the tire failures.
Pirelli had wanted to introduce a new tire construction at the Canadian Grand Prix in June but failed to get all the teams to agree to the plan at a meeting in Monaco.
A spate of worryingly delaminations -- where the tire layers separate -- earlier in the season had led to concerns the tires were not safe.
When Pirelli took over from Bridgestone as F1's official tire supplier in 2011, the rubber was deliberately designed to be less durable so that teams would do more pit stops and the racing would be more unpredictable.
But subsequent changes to the construction of the 2013 tire, based on the same principles, have now provoked not just unpredictability but chaos on the track.


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Accidental tourist The Movie
After the written Accidental tourist came the video version, where I've tried to capture a year of all my comings and goings on film. (soon coming to a store near you)
This followed one year of my travels, which started off in Hawaii. It covers the spring sessions on Maui and then moves over to Oahu (Diamond Head) for the Naish photo shoot. It's there I blow my posterior cruciate in my knee and followed my girl friend (Anne Marie) to Holland for a jaded look at the freestyle, and then down to the south of France where she has to participate in The Roxy Jam, which is basically a massive corporate exercise with lot's of girls jumping around in bikini's.
We kept moving south down to Portugal and Guincho for the production board world titles, and then down to the Canaries for the world cup and some 50 knot action.
I was then able to sail again, and went home to the deserts of Western Australia where myself and Pat Redman score one of the best (Long/Hollow) waves for windsurfing on the planet.
It then moves on to the circus of the world cup in Germany (Sylt) and then the Natural Beauty of everything - which is Ireland. (Port Tack side off, side on. Starboard Tack side shore)
It's then back to Hawaii for the Aloha classic, which it really was, with all the guys and gals of the world tour going off in Mast High at Hookipa.
And finally I get to go home, where I share the treasures of the west Australian coastline. These range from super fun rippable beach breaks, to mast high thumping beach breaks and reeling reef points. These are sailed by the hardcore underground windsurfing scene of Western Australia, whom all sail as good as any one on the world cup. If not better.
Truly a global odyssey.
And now comes the Accidental Web pages, where I'll be keeping the experiences, thoughts and images flowing through the fingers to the web to share some of the experiences of the road.
The Here and now
So where am I right now.
In the Kingdom of Thailand. I'm on my way home from Europe for the first time since February. I'm doing some work with the team here at Starboard for the development of the 2003 waveboards.
Pretty tasty spot really for being in Bangkok. Their offices are situated on a cable ski park, so when ever the shaping or whatever gets a little much, you can walk out the front, carve a few laps, and then get back into it.
Then tomorrow I finally get to go home and catch up with everyone and what's been going on. Who's gotten married, who's gotten pregnant, what's changed, and more often than not, what hasn't.
Basically I've got to go home and sort out all that has gone wrong while I've been on the road, get a new drivers license, credit card, fix my teeth, hug my mum and dad, go back to the desert for some medicinal waves, distribute my video and then get back to Europe within two weeks for the next events to finish off the year. Hopefully with a healthy body.
(Will show you what is scored.)
It's been a pretty sketchy year for me so far, due to the breakdown of various bodily parts. First off it was my knee in January where I tore my medial collateral testing boards for Starboard.(Not the posterior cruciate I tore in Hawaii in May) Then towards the end of summer I started to get a little niggle in my back, which didn't seem to go away. I flew to Maui with it, where it continued to get worse, where on one bottom turn it just went. Crippling pain.
The next weeks were spent going to various sources of relief, (Chio/Physio/massage/accpunture). It would get better and then I'd go sail or surf and would come straight back. A bulging disc was pinching a nerve in my lower back.
I sailed tentatively for the Starboards Photo shoot, but then realized I shouldn't sail anymore. So I came in. But then late in the day the new Naish sails hit the beach with Dan saying, come on man, this might be our only shot. So stupidly I went out and sure enough got flung in the over powered conditions with a searing fire bolt rushing down my leg.
The next day I couldn't even bend down to get on the toilet, and it was only a couple of weeks till the contest in Vargus.
Faaaaarrrrrck !!!!!
Ummed and agghed about whether to go or not, where I finally said stuff it and went. Really couldn't imagine not going. So flew there rather uncomfortably and went for my first sail. Wave riding was ok, but jumping felt very sketchy indeed.
Didn't really make a jump before the contest, and wasn't very comfortable, but it was getting slightly better each day. Come the first heat I had this Italian guy who sailed pretty well. Waves went really well and then also made my jumps which really surprised me. Confidence was back a little and felt like I could get through the day. Got through the heat and then came up against Grubby. Greg Alloway.
Went out on a 4.3 but then the wind came up so I went out on a 4.0 The wind also swung and it became really gusty. Overpowered or underpowered, there was no in between and my confidence was shot. Everything that could have gone wrong, it did and that was the contest done for me.
They only just finished the 1st round in conditions that were right up the alley for a lad from Perth (Small waves and light side shore winds from the left), meaning there was an extremely disappointed young lad leaving the Canaries.
But hey, we were on our way to Samoa for a photo trip which isn't all that bad, but it was pretty hard to shake the disappointment. Expectations quashed. Must learn to seek detachment from the outcome. But I'm no Buddah yet.
Also was troubled because I didn't know if I could surf as that's what stuffed it up the most back in Hawaii. And Being in Samoa not being able to surf would be like a little kid made to stare at his presents on Christmas day and not be able to open them up.
Discovered an Island paradise on this trip and was actually allowed to surf from my back, although in three weeks we sailed for half an hour on the last day.(Long story covered in the mags.)
So back to Hawaii it was with the Video editing to get through. A gnarly procedure that took a couple of weeks, drove a young man to the brink and the drink. So much has gone into the video by this stage it's a joke, but by the end of it I was pretty proud of what came out.
So with it finally done it was down to the Canaries to warm up for the contest. We got down there pretty early, as did Polokow, Baker, Goya and Kevin Pritchard. The goal was to get down there early so as to become comfortable with 3.3 and 3.7
All the time I was keeping it kinda low key and not going to high, and I was staying away from forward loops. Every time I did those- my knee brace would pop open and I didn't feel too comfortable with them basically.
So come contest time - felt pretty ready. New sails just before the comp felt really sweet, so I was pretty keen, especially with the forecast of some good waves. 1st round went OK getting through the first two heats, but then Bjorn in the third.
Solid heat and was feeling on, but Bjorn was more on saying he had the best heat of the first round, so I wasn't too bummed. He jumps pretty high, and when he pulls off his backside auto rotators, pretty much unstoppable at Pozo.
Anyway, losers round came around and I didn't have the easiest of Draws with Vidar far ealier than I would have liked. It wouldn't have mattered though. My first one was against young Julien Tboulet from France. I wasn't too worried, but he had taken some guys down, and Polokow and Photographer Cater both came up saying to do table forwards as that was what was getting him through heats.
Had a super High and dry back loop, same with a push loop, a fairly tweaked table and some solid waves. I was pretty sure that I had him done, so I thought, alright, just finish him off with a table forward. It was 3.3 weather and I was kinda powered up, but I went for it, got sort of end over end and came down WRONG.
My knee which was in a knee brace went the same direction as Hawaii and I knew I had done something shit. Sail into the beach spewing, but then got scared as to what had happened. Taking off the knee brace I was stoked to see that there weren't any abnormalities. I was next to Scott Sanches (MPG) who had a look at it and a feel and he said that it wasn't too bad as it wasn't hot.
So entertained the idea of continuing for a little while as they announced that I had made it through the heat, but as the minutes progressed I knew that I wasn't going to be able to continue. So Antoine Albeu got an easy heat with no one to sail against, while I watched the swell build to best I've ever seen it. But it didn't just build, it hung around for three days allowing a second double to be completed (First time ever) and me just spewing.
Loving contests this year,
So since then it's just been work on the video, and a lesson that I will never live in anywhere near London, and that Europe is just too damn crowded. (Traffic Jams everyday of the week)
So from here it's to the future to potential successes, future pains. Good waves, and the up and down roller coaster which is Life.
Come on Aussie
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We live in a world that encourages us to spend very little time in the present moment. We are usually focusing on the next thing - and so we often miss what is in front of our eyes, blazingly obvious and simple.
Laurence Freeman will explore the future in the light of the further shore of human existence - our destiny which is always present. During his talks in Canada this Fall he will approach these pressing questions of spiritual knowledge and hope from different perspectives. He will be describing how we need a new, a recharged spiritual consciousness to solve our manmade problems and how we need to see hope as a way of embracing the present not avoiding it.
For this there is no simpler and more immediate aid than meditation. What does the Christian tradition of meditation, then, have to offer us as both a way of daily spirituality and global peace?
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Shane officially a Wolverine! He must be a happy guy.
Signing Day Open Thread
maurice hurst and channing stribling as well
... so that I can update towards the top of the page. Here is our current list of LOIs, per MGoBlue:
|Hometown (High School)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Kyle Bosch
|Wheaton, Ill. (St. Francis)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Jake Butt
|Pickerington, Ohio (Pickerington North)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Taco Charlton
|Pickerington, Ohio (Central)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Ross Douglas
|Avon, Ohio (Avon)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Dymonte Thomas
|Alliance, Ohio (Marlington)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Logan Tuley-Tillman
|Peoria, Ill. (Manual)
|7:07 a.m.
|Shane Morris
|Warren, Mich. (De La Salle)
|7:16 a.m.
|Channing Stribling
|Matthews, N.C. (Butler)
|7:21 a.m.
|Maurice Hurst Jr.
|Westwood, Mass. (Xaverian Brothers)
|7:33 a.m.
|De'Veon Smith
|Warren, Ohio (Howland)
|7:39 a.m.
|Wyatt Shallman
|Novi, Mich. (Detroit Catholic Central)
|7:47 a.m.
|Patrick Kugler
|Wexford, Pa. (North Allegheny)
|7:53 a.m.
|Da'Mario Jones
|Westland, Mich. (John Glenn)
|7:54 a.m.
|David Dawson
|Detroit, Mich. (Cass Technical)
|8:02 a.m.
|Derrick Green
|Richmond, Va. (Hermitage)
|8:10 a.m.
|Delano Hill
|Detroit, Mich. (Cass Technical)
|8:25 a.m.
|Scott Sypniewski
|Ottawa, Ill. (Marquette)
|8:26 a.m.
|Csont'e York
|Harper Woods, Mich. (Chandler Park Academy)
|8:35 a.m.
|Ben Gedeon
|Hudson, Ohio (Hudson)
|8:37 a.m.
|Jourdan Lewis
|Detroit, Mich. (Cass Technical)
|8:45 a.m.
|Khalid Hill
|Detroit, Mich. (Crockett)
|9:30 a.m.
|Jaron Dukes
|Columbus, Ohio (Marion Franklin)
|10:03 a.m.
|Chris Fox
|Parker, Colo. (Ponderosa)
|10:06 a.m.
|Dan Samuelson
|Plymouth, Ind. (Plymouth)
The only ones missing are Poggi, McCray, and Reon Dawson.
So Shane wasn't first then. Close though.
Thanks for being the asshole who replies to this post so he can't update it for us again.
And all the guys above him are the early enrollees.
He was the first. The early enrolees where just listed first.
The ones before him are all players that enrolled early, so they didn't have to send anything in. Their NLI's were likely already on file. Shane's was the first NLI received thru fax
All Letters are in
Was there any doubt??
I'm anxiously awaiting Poggi's.
All expected LOI are in, now waiting for the signing day surprise :-)
who the [email protected]$? is texting me this early? Then I was like, [email protected]$! yeah!
Channing Stribling's LOI in next.
would it be possible to get the phone number for alabama's fax machine so i can send nick my NLI?
Need the number.
is in.
Where are you guys getting this stuff? Anyone got a link?
Getting it from MGoBlog of course.
Text UMSIGN to 548-15 to receive the updates.
To 54815
Dang, David Dawson just said he knew Derrick Green was coming in November.
Believe he said that like 15 minutes after Green announced
I must have missed that.
Based on what he said this morning, he "knew" Green was Blue in November.
I thought Dawson also just said that taking visits helped take his mind off of some of the personal pain he was going through. There are some "Michigan fans" that owe him an apology.
Hurst is in!
Maurice Hurst Jr's LOI is in per Ira on WTKA.
refresh that for LOI's as they come in
text SIGN to 54815 for text alerts from athletic department too
Is anyone else not getting any sound for that feature on mgoblue? Weird.
EDIT: Nevermind. Getting sound now.
Thanks for the link. Currently showing 11 LOIs submitted.
Smith is in too
And theres DeVeon Smith
wyatt shallman officially in
Hey OP, can you update the OP as they come in or intermittently? I know that ties you to the post a bit during the day, but that would be some fine chaos mitigation.
Sorry, walking into work now; won't be able to keep up all day. I fail at OP duties.
patrick kugler is in
But I still don't see any markers on the MGoBlue.com map on the entire South American Continent...
Headed to Bolivian?
|Kyle Bosch
|Wheaton, Ill. (St. Francis)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Jake Butt
|Pickerington, Ohio (Pickerington North)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Taco Charlton
|Pickerington, Ohio (Central)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Ross Douglas
|Avon, Ohio (Avon)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Dymonte Thomas
|Alliance, Ohio (Marlington)
|7:00 a.m.*
|Logan Tuley-Tillman
|Peoria, Ill. (Manual)
|7:07 a.m.
|Shane Morris
|Warren, Mich. (De La Salle)
|7:16 a.m.
|Channing Stribling
|Matthews, N.C. (Butler)
|7:21 a.m.
|Maurice Hurst Jr.
|Westwood, Mass. (Xaverian Brothers)
|7:33 a.m.
|De'Veon Smith
|Warren, Ohio (Howland)
|7:39 a.m.
|Wyatt Shallman
|Novi, Mich. (Detroit Catholic Central)
|7:47 a.m.
|Patrick Kugler
|Wexford, Pa. (North Allegheny)
da'mario jones is in
david dawson is in
.. Better than Christmas (or any other winter holiday)
I think he'll be a beast, glad he came back
derrick green is in!!!!!
I'm now just here for the posbang
Beautiful f*****g tits man.
Tell me about the fucking golf shoes.
delano hill is in
Oh god. You didn't hear the story?
I believe it has something to do with his actual name...like Pedro, without the 'r'.
Stefon Diggs is in!
Wow, big news coming.
No idea who yet.
who can we poach from usc?
Doesn't really count as a "poach" technically, but of prior USC commits I'd sure like to pick up DE Eddie Vanderdoes.
Wilton Speight Commits!!!!
Wilton Speight
So soft spoken, reminds me of Spielman....then he drops a "I like to give people shots to the face." and there goes coffee all over the monitor.
I love this kid already. This class is just outstanding.
Derrick Greens is in.
WTKA is talking to all of the recruits till 10 am, then 4-7 pm tonight. 1050 on the dial, www.wtka.com, and iheartradio app (they have their own app too, but I hear it doesn't work so well).
Probably can listen to the podcasts of the interviews if you can't listen now or missed any.
The podcasts of the interviews are starting to be posted:
It looks like the official board has 27 slots that they are filling up, so it doesn't look like there will be surprise commits here...unless Sypniewski isn't a scholly player
They just put him on the board..... It was on the live feed with Dave Brandon, they have a board with names on it. Added York too.
Long Smapper Scott Sypniewski is in
I think I prefer smapper. Let's go with it.
me some smapper
While extremely rare, is much better than Red Smapper. Good eatin'!
I guarantee you'll never find it at Long Johm Silvers
with a long smapper.
ben gedeon is in
I literally laughed out loud at that gif
Women love Sherry's Berries.
Freebeer should cover signing day. That would be fun to hear.
Csonte York is in
I swear Sam's been going on about these berries for 5 minutes.
Dude, those berries are insane!
jourden lewis is in
Morning wood all day baby!
.. That his is the only one that I'm remotely worried about.
They're great, because as each one comes in I'm reminded of how great our class is.
Although when they replied back to confirm I was signed up, the text said "Your signed up..."
You're better than that mgoblue
Just noticed that...I wonder who's working the system that replies and sends them out. I'm sure its automated, but wow...
YOUR support is greatly appreciated. You're Signed up!
khalid hill is in
I'm getting the text messages as they come in (which is VERY cool BTW) and there is really only one name I'm waiting to see roll across.
Am I the only one a bit nervous (his pajama selection notwithstanding) about him until he makes it officially official?
As an FYI, I believe that Poggi is going to sign at a ceremony in his school around 11AM today.
Geez only 7 guys left at 8:45. Thanks for the excitement Brady. /s
only NSD surprise. The rest are just rolling in ...
So as of 9:10, the LOIs we are waiting on are Poggi, Fox, Dukes, McCray, R. Dawson, and Samuelson.
Latonya Logan Tuley-Tillman
jaron dukes is in
and I absolutely love the fact that he's from Columbus.
So...there isn't going to be any signing day surprises for the 2013 class? I am completely neglecting work and i want some fireworks!
I don't want fireworks!
Jaron Dukes signed.
I meant new commit fireworks like Henry, and Northfleet last year.
North? I think the fireworks this year were an East fleet. Green and Speight out of Richmond Virginia.
How are they pulling such highly rated players? They are a bottom feeder is their conference....i guess the pub of SEC is winning out
During his announcement Tunsil said he didn't expect much when visiting Ole Miss, but "saw some things..." Yea.
And tradition of course. Gotta be the only reasons am I right? Its so obvious to everyone.
So...changing gears a little bit. Ole Miss is definetely doing something very shady. You don't have a joke of a program and then reel in 3 of the top 10 players in the country. Something is not right with this situation.
Is something so anomolous as this enough to warrant a closer look by the NCAA, or at least by some sort of Miss equivalent of the freep? I understand as of now, there is only wild speculation based on the fact that there is seemingly no way they could be landing these guys legitimately.
But come on, there is no way they could be landing these guys legitimately
Maybe I'm just a traditionalist but I like my cheating to at least be somewhat of a secret
Via twitter: Samuelson on the way to the fax machine with a #goblue
Unfortunately, I can't watch ESPNU @ work.
if after you opened all of your presents you had to wait until spring to play with them. I can't wait to see these kids develop and to watch them start playing some football, even if it is just springball.
Is there a stream out there for those without access to ESPNU? I would love to see how the Worldwide Leader is analyzing our kick-ass class.
They are probably analyzing it by gushing over Alabama, Florida, LSU, and Ole Miss.
and Ole Miss is a f-ing chimney right now.
Does anyone in the NCAA even see patterns like Ole Miss? Or do they stay oblivious because they know they have no power to truly get to the root of the problem?
Saban will narc on them. Plus the other established powers of the SEC will likely be happy to see Ole Miss thrown under the bus.
That said if you're Ole Miss, it is likely worth it. You'll get 4 or 5 years in the sun and maybe even a national title before the NCAA catches to you. The NCAA will of course nuke you and you'll suck, but hey you sucked before so what did you really lose? Plus if you can build some excitement during your run, you'll get donations and the like to at least improve your facilities.
Sparty will set a lot of things on fire Tuesday
SI has a pretty cool signing day page up with current news and LOI updates. Just keep refreshing.
ohio... damnit!
Chris Fox is in.
Vonn Bell to Ohio
Guess that explains the ____ ____ committed to TN picture on Twitter
How does Arizona's class look?
Dan Samuelson just sent his letter in.
Does anyone else think this kid is going to be a beast?
Yes, again.
Only 3 left....
Not sure which 3 right off hand, think its Reon Dawson, Poggi and Chris Fox
fox is in
Dawson, Poggi, and McCray, I'd imagine McCray and Dawson have some sort of ceremony at their school. I know Poggi does in about an hour.
Mike McCray is among the unsubmitted.
Ok, still 3, I forogt about McCray II
There actually showing them as signed.
use that instead of espn
Thanks I was watching the stream but didnt realize they had a list.
Gotta love the fact that 4 of 6 of our early enrollees are from the state of Ohio.... I guess they wanted to get out of that state as soon as possible !!!! Thats fantastic. Anyway, enjoy signing day. Go Blue.
Ohio up to #1 class on rivals now. How in the hell can they afford to have 26 committs?? A lot of good those scholarship reductions are doing, well done on the punishment NCAA!
I presume that when their new recruits are added to Scout, they will pass us there, too. (Unless Elliott decommits...). Seriously, what a heavy hammer the NCAA has wielded against Ohio.
They can only have 82 total scholarship players. Think after today we will be at the 85 limit with out any of the normal players transferring during the summer. So basically 3 scholarships doesnt mean much at all.
It's adorable that you think they actually got punished. The lack of a bowl game last year was really the only punishment they had. This is exactly why schools cheat, the rewards are greater than the punishment.
Far greater. Bowl bans are the only real punishment.
I obviously realize that they in fact were hardly punished at all for such major violations, that's been a known fact everywhere except Columbus for some time. But what's wrong with a little rant about it on the board on a day where the lack of punishment couldn't be more obvious?
Also, "adorable"? Odd choice of word
Wow, what a riveting interview with Jordan Cunningham.
"So, I'm supposed to say where I'm going now?"
I know these are kids and they're out of their element but come on, at least be prepared.
Seems like a good kid. Mostly talked about education instead of football.
It sounds like Fox may be in.
EDIT: Chris Fox is in per Tom VH!
I cannot wait for the spectacular implosion that will be the Urban Meyer era at OSU.
Just what is it about a coach who has been a great success at every head coaching job he's had that is telling you he's going to "implode" at an already very successful program with in-state access to a large pool of football talent? Especially given the fact that the university he now works for has made it abundantly clear that they have no compunction about cheating, and know the NCAA is a pathetically toothless organization?
What time is Hoke's signing day press conference?
Am I reading this right? Stanford has only 12 commits this year?
Oh wow I didn't realize that. It seems like their name was out there for some top level players but apparently they couldn't close. Or maybe that's just how their scholly numbers worked out.
Poggi, Dawson, and McCray.
Bell is updated to ohio on scout and they are still behind us.
They probably haven't recalculated the points yet. Trieu said on the radio that Bell would put them ahead of us.
Dosent he realize that he has hundreds of Mgobloggers holding their breath?
I believe his school is having an event for him at either 11 or noon, so expect his LOI around then.
I love our recruiting class, we have a bunch of blue collar 'get-after-it' players. Even tho Ohio got its #1 or close to #1 class we will have all the pieces in place to throw down with them. We will beat Ohio. So, Ohio enjoy Von Bell, and OIe Miss can enjoy Treadwell, Tunsil, ECT. We will enjoy making ya'll bloody.
Not that it matters, but scout still has us #1.
Edit: Nvm. They've added Bell to OSU's list, but haven't put it into the formula yet.
Ezekiel Elliot has his press conference scheduled for the same time as Pinkel's. OSU guys on twitter are not confident.
If it makes you feel better on the 247composite, OSU is still #2 even with Bell and UM is still at #4.
So apparently Ole Miss has a pretty good class coming in?
That is all
I wouldn't have minded Finley and Reschke. Terry has a shot to be a player, the rest of their class is actually pretty laughably bad. Where's the threat?
Terry is already being hailed as their savior.
No. 2 safety Antonio Conner.
Well played.
They are killing it today ....Boosters must have deep pockets :/
Trying to be subjective and looking at the classes, Ohio State's OL recruiting the past two years has been atrocious. This makes me smile.
OSU has a great class and they closed well. But they're higher in the rankings because their 4 stars are in the top 100, and ours are in the 100-250 range. How meaningful of a distinction is that? Well, we'll find out. But I tend to think that our consecutive top-5ish classes are close enough that coaching will be the determining factor.
Cite? I don't see it on MGoBlue
I want to hear it from the Wolverine's mouth.
One person on twitter said it was in and it seems that it was premature.
Seriously? You just set yourself up.
Poggi just said it'll be in within the hour per Wolverine Nation.
LOI will be within the next hour
can breathe.
Wow could it be any more obvious at Ole Miss? They now have 4 5-stars.
Ole Miss is going to make a great ESPN 30 for 30 some day.
I can hear it now... "But the runnin' rebels couldn't run from the accusations forever."
Wright Thompson?
There is already. It is about how the whites at Ole Miss hate blacks all the time except during football season. But aside from that, what black athlete wouldn't want to go play for them?
But green.
Al Golden complaining about NCAA investigation on ESPN. Everyone knows they are dirty whether the NCAA proves it or not. They are also now in the middle of a steroid scandal as well. Sseeing how they signed 33 guys last year I have no sympathy what so ever.
I have no problem with them signing 33 guys if they had the room for them.
The fact that they were able to sign 33 guys last year and a highly rated class at that would seem to indicate that the investigation isn't the main reason there recruting sucks this year. If anything they are under less of a cloud this year then they were last year as far as future NCAA sanctions. I think Golden is using it as an excuse for his poor recruiting class.
Ole Miss will be the New USC.
Or the new SMU
Go fuck yourself.
(said in as nicely a way as possible, FWIW)
How do the Buckeyes have room for this big of a class within the scholarship limits? I know 82 isn't that much less than 85, but still, it seems like they are going to have to shove people out the door (which, of course Meyes would, but I'm just wondering).
Assuming Elliot signs with them, I believe they will be at 85. So either they know of people who are leaving, or they don't have room.
The last time there was a sudden surprising haul of 5*'s was Auburn (when Cam got paid, sorry, when Cam's dad got paid). And we all know how that turned out... wait...
No, Clemson had one a couple of years ago. IIRC, they had two 5*s commit on NLI day and had 4 overall.
What a reversal of recruiting fortures by these 2 in the last 30 days or so.
Football blue blood takes a nosedive while 3rd tier program rockets into the top group. Sanctioned powerhouse crippled while soon-to-be sanctioned school flies.
Crazy stuff.
It would be one thing if these 5-stars were from Mississippi, but pulling the #1 receiver to Ole Miss from Illinois?
No, no you got it all wrong. Michigan just wasn't showing the "love" towards LT that was needed to make him feel special inside.
Anyone have a good current website that shows who is going where? I tried the Rivals page but it doesn't appear to be updating very quickly.
Twitter will give you the most recent info. mgoblue.com has a page dedicated to this and I consider that the official word.
Let's just see how good they will be. Tressel was pretty darn good, albeit dirty as hell, but good. Meyer hasn't won a thing yet.
Except 12 out of 12 games.
No conference title, no bowl victory. In this sport, that's all that matters.
He won the division.
So like I said, he didn't win anything.
So like I said, he didn't win anything.
Then we haven't won anything in a decade
We haven't won a bowl game in a decade?
Didn't read your post close enough. But point still stands. I'm hoping Ohio falls flat as well, but you can't argue that Meyer hasn't had a fantastic start and set-up Ohio for success in the future. Throwing arbitrary bowl games as the true measure of success doesn't make much sense either.
False. Sugar Bowl.
Why the SEC dominates...
Rivals Rankings:
Three of the top five teams are SEC schools
Five of the top ten teams are SEC schools
Eight of the top fiften teams are SEC schools
Thirteen of the top thirty teams are SEC schools
Only Missouri is on the outside looking in.
By comparison the Big Ten has:
One team in the top five
Two teams in the top ten
Three teams in the top thirty.
Add Juco's, medical redshirts, and oversigning and you get SEC dominance.
or are there any last second recruits we take like Norfleet?
Mgoblue has a chart with three empty cells, and we have three players we're waiting on for LOI's, so that should be it. (Also, it doesn't seem we'd have room for any more kids.)
Misunderstood the post.
So the two NCs he won at Florida are a mirage?
I thought it was pretty obvious that I was referring to his time at OSU.
He did win 12 games last year. It's fairer to say he hasn't lost anything yet...
The point is that comparion Meyer to Tressel right now is ridiculous. Tressel won the Big Ten just about every year, and was in the title game 3 times. Meyer has one division title in a year that PSU wasn't even eligible. I'm not going to slobber all over him until I see him win something that actually matters.
And PSU wouldn't have won it anyway. I don't like them anymore than you do, but geez, Meyer couldn't have gotten off to a better start.
I'm not arguing that the start has been bad.
I get what you're saying but I think the writing on the wall is clear - Ohio is going to be very formitable under Meyer. I was hoping the end of Tressel would cause Ohio to rebuild but they haven't skipped a beat.
Poggi's is in. The Alabama fretting can finally cease.
McCray's is in too.
Off topic, but more bad publicity for ND. Hockey player arrested for assaulting a women.
If Brady Hoke had Urban Meyer's on-field resumé, everybody here at MGoBlog would be slobbering all over him and you'd be one of them.
Your very obvious dislike of Meyer might be well-founded on personal terms, but your dismissal of his proven coaching abilities througout his career is whistling past the graveyard. There is nothing in his record that indicates he won't be a success at OSU, with the single exception of the circumstances surrounding his departure from Florida.
What is it specifically about Meyer that leads you to think he's going to "implode?"
If Brady Hoke had Urban's off-the-field resume, I'd become an MSU fan.
Well, that wasn't my point, was it? That's why I specifically said you had well-founded reasons to dislike Meyer for personal reasons. And we both know that Meyer's going to have to get caught banging Gene Smith's wife in order to be fired for off-the-field reasons, because the entire OSU administration from Gee on down couldn't care less how much the head football coach cheats.
You still haven't given a reason why you think Meyer is going to implode. Will it be for personal reasons, or will it be for lack of success on the field? And if it's the latter, why do you think he won't be successful? Is it because his coaching competition in the conference is better now than what Tressel had to face?
I think Urban will have a few years of success at OSU. I see it being a very short tenure ending badly. First, you have absurd expectations that are higher than anywhere else in the country, a coach who clearly has enormous problems handling stress, a coach whose former players testified that he ran the locker room so poorly there were players who refused to participate in conditioning, players faking injuries at the request of coaches, and at one point a star player physically assaulting another coach ( "The program...was out of control"). You cannot sustain success with that going on, which is probably why he's never been at one place for very long. I've just seen this story play out too many times. Big name, huge ego, tons of hype, tons of talk, but never meeting expectations.
I predict that OSU will lose two games this year mainly due to a weak front seven, and three the following year with what is shaping up to be a craptastic O-line. That's when shit will start to hit the fan.
Believe me, I hope you're right. Losing to OSU is always painful, but it's doubly worse when their coach is a cheating, sanctimonious liar.
It is a bit odd that with their great class, tOSU has very little in the way of O-linemen. Two recruits, both three stars. Given that this was an area of present weakness, I'm surprised that Urban did go all in after this position. Or is he just obsessed with skill players?
Hmm.. Big name coach, spread system, little attention to OLine. What could possibly go wrong?
One more and that will be it. No losses is huge. This is a great day.
Dawson is in. The gang's all here.
Do I leave my text alerts on in case of Norfleet 2.0?
Unless we snake oil someone or offer someone else it looks like that is it. Hooray for Hoke and staff. Let the pressed begin.
I think were done!
Continuing further:
As of right now, according to Rivals, the Big Ten has four 5-star players and 51 4-star players.
The SEC has 13 5-star players and 112 4-star players.
35 of the 55 Big Ten recruits who are ranked as either 4 or 5-star players are committed to Michigan or Ohio State.
BTW, considering that our only real recruiting rival in the Big Ten is Ohio State, with the occasional threat from Penn State, its somewhat sad we haven't won a Big Ten title since 2004.
No Kate Upton in this thread yet? I am disgusted with all of you!
yet you provide no Kate Upton, I am more disgusted with that.
Now this thread is complete! Heh.
Great class, great day. No drama. And a QB for the 2014 class to boot.
Hoke uber alles.
Ohio now number 1 class on rivals and scout. Out-recruited again. Hope our coaching puts us on top on the field. With Borges, I am a little concerned.
Urban Meyer is a great recruiter and Ohio had an undefeated season. It would be weirder if they didn't pull in a great class. Ohio will always recruit well and as long as Michigan does the same, what's the problem?
That said I will agree that seeing better offensive gameplans next year will be important.
And we're number 2 on Scout. And number 4 on 247composite (Ohio number 2). The difference is so small coaching will be the deciding factor. Unfortunately I agree with you on Borges. But we do have Mattison. Oh, and Ohio's status as current number 1 depends on Elliott.
So some recruit's mother STOLE the official signing papers from her son and fled the area. No one has been able to find her or contact her. Weird.
Alex Collins is the recruit. I can't help but wonder if his mother is related to Landon Collins' mother.
Link? Source?
It's all over ESPN and ESPNU. It's one of Bielema's recruits.
ed: Alex Collins is the recruit in question. Nothing has been confirmed, but the story is blowing up.
Wasn't he the one that went to Alabama with his girlfriend and his mom wanted LSU?
...I know this kid's mom wants him to go to Miami (YTM) and he wants to go play for Arkansas.
I wanna know what's going on down at Ole Miss
TWOS put up an amusing take on Nebraska's Signing Day... I guess it helps to know that Taylor Martinez' little brother is joining the team.
Is from columbus. Do i see a Trey Burke type situation here. Lets make them pay!!!
Anyone want to give a recap?
...or is it basically "Michigan signed all of their players committed, Ole Miss is cheating but we don't care because it's hurting the other SEC teams, Ohio passed us on Scout.com...we're cancelling our membership"?
Hey guys, Ohio is no longer number 1 recruiting class; Bama passed them. We can now all take this as emperical evidence that they will suck for the coming years.
"Best/worst experience, why did you/didn't you sign with X" article is at the Detroit News.
I'm half way around the world and just checking in on NSD. Ohio just fucking killed it. We're fucked!
Sad face.gif
...is coming up on BTN (3:45p)
Just throwing this out there but Maryland would be ranked fourth in the big ten team recruit rankings, not really going to be a drag of quality people make it out to be


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