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Sunday, 27 March 2016
The Islamic State going DIY, R-40 air-to-air missiles used as SAMs?
By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
Starting in June 2014, Coalition airstrikes conducted on positions, vehicles and high-ranking members of the Islamic State have taken a heavy toll on the group. These airstrikes combined with increased bombardements conducted by the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) and the Russian Air Force (RuAF) have made a significant difference during several battles already, most notably in Kobanî. The Islamic State has so far been unable to come up with an answer against the many air forces now threatening them in both Syria and Iraq. Although it has tried to better camouflage its forces in order to prevent them from being spotted and hit, it has so far failed to directly hit any of the aircraft conducting these strikes.
Although the Islamic State has no lack of surface-to-air missiles nor associated launchers, it lacks the expertise to turn these often derelict systems into operational systems capable of hitting any foe in the air. Indeed, the limited amount of MANPADS in the hands of the Islamic State (even including North Korean examples) have so far only managed to damage or down Iraqi Air Force helicopters. The capture of a fully operational S-125 battery in between Hama and Aleppo did not help the Islamic State in any way, as it was not only incapable of operating these sophisticated systems, but unable to transport these systems to Raqqa in the first place. Using the S-75 missiles captured back in 2014 was complicated by the fact that none of the systems captured were operational or in a state that could easily be made operational, not to mention the fact that they lack the expertise to use them. The usage of one 2P25 launch system, part of the 2K12 Kub SAM complex, captured in Deir ez-Zor was foiled by the lack of any missiles and significant damage on the launcher itself. The capture of a 2K12 Kub battery in Deir ez-Zor in January 2016 did provide the Islamic State with an operational SURN 1S19 radar system and intact launchers, but in such a sorry state that bringing these systems back to operational condition would have been nigh impossible, not to mention the bad condition of the associated missiles. Although not confirmed through video footage, the whole site was said to have been bombed by the RuAF shortly after its capture.
The capture of Tabqa airbase on the 24th of August 2014 did provide the Islamic State with at least ten R-3S and four R-13M air-to-air missiles originally intended to be used on the resident 12th squadron and another unknown squadron flying MiG-21bis and MiG-21MFs. The Islamic State subsequently moved these missiles to Raqqa, where it tried to convert them to the surface-to-air role. This progress was filmed by one of the project leaders, which was subsequently arrested at a rebel checkpoint. The footage was then given to SkyNews, which first reported on the conversion of R-13Ms to the surface-to-air role in the 6th of January 2016.
Tadmur, captured on the 20th of May 2015 and the third airbase to fall in the hands of the Islamic State in Syria, also provided the Islamic State with large numbers of air-to-air missiles and even anti-radiation missiles. Tadmur was previously home to a squadron flying the MiG-25PD(S) interceptor and the MiG-25PU two-seat trainer, but as these aircraft were gradually withdrawn from service, the three remaining MiG-25PD(S) and one MiG-25PU left for T4 in late 2013. Their associated missiles remained stored in two of Tadmur's sixteen Hardened Aircraft Shelters however. When the fighters of the Islamic State overran the airbase, it not only encountered dozens of R-40 air-to-air missiles but also large numbers of Kh-28 anti-radiation missiles, likely intended to be used on Su-22s and Su-24s stationed at T4 but never transported to this airbase.
While it was extremely unlikely that the Islamic State could turn the Kh-28s and its 140kg heavy warhead, intended to be launched against radar systems of SAM sites, into anything useful other than an IED or DIY surface-to-surface rocket, it did find a role for the R-40 missiles also found at the airbase. Two variants of the R-40 were captured: The semi-active radar homing guided R-40RD and the infrared-guided R-40TD. As the R-40RD requires an onboard radar to lock on to the targeted aircraft, it was useless for the Islamic State in its intended role. The R-40TD on the other hand is guided by its infrared warhead, and does not require guidance by an onboard radar. Several similar surface-to-air modifications of the of the R-3S, the R-13M, the R-60 and the R-73 were seen in Yugoslavia in an attempt to counter the Coalition airpower here. All were mounted on trucks, none ever scored a hit. The SyAAF took it one step further and experimented with launching R-40TDs at ground targets several years back, unsurprisingly to no avail.
When regime forces entered one of the recently captured Hardened Aircraft Shelters at Tadmur, they encountered a dump truck armed with no less than an R-40TD! The missile, installed on a newly raised platform, can be aimed by using the dump truck's tipper mechanism. As the R-40 was designed to hit large and fast flying targets, it comes with a 70kg heavy warhead, enabling the missile to destroy most targets by only exploding in the vicinity of the targeted aircraft. The heavy warhead also makes using the R-40 as a DIY surface-to-surface rocket an attractive option. Although such a conversion will be in no way accurate, neither are the hundreds of much lighter DIY rockets still assembled and used by the fighters of the Islamic State each day. While the R-40TD looks to be mounted the wrong way around, the attachment points that connects the missile with the MiG-25's pylons are located on the top of the missile, creating the false impression that the missile sits inverted.
As no aircraft or helicopters were reported to have been shot down over Tadmur, and no one witnessed the impact of an R-40, it will probably always remain unknown what the intended role of this contraption was, or if it was ever used in the first place. It does however once again prove that whatever falls in the hands of the Islamic State, you're always sure they come up with an inventive way to put it to use.
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How would they know it was locking onto something to even hit the launch button?ReplyDelete
If they could pull some of the missile control systems from the abandoned MIG-25's and get them working, then they would have an audio channel to the seeker head.ReplyDelete
When the seeker head locks on to a heat signature, the tone changes and the missile can be launched.
The difficulty is that ground based systems mount the missile on a laucher that can both rotate and elevate at high speed to give the seeker head enough time to lock on to a passing aircraft.
For the dump truck to work, it would have to be perfectly in line with the aircraft's path, as the aircraft leaves, and the tilt mechanism would not move fast enough to compensate for the aircraft's climb rate.
i wish they would work quicklyReplyDeleteReplies
What? Why would you want the bad guys to be able to shoot down airplanes? That's crazytalk.Delete


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Junior Boys | 30/01/09
Begone Dull Care, the remarkable new album from the duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Matthew Didemus, known as Junior Boys, is set for a UK release on 11th May 2009. The album will be preceded by a single, Hazel, on 20th April.
After a well-earned break after nearly two solid years of activity around the band's last album, the group spent most of 2008 focused on the completion of a new album, with Greenspan working in the band's new studio/HQ/bar complex in Hamilton, Ontario and the recently-married Didemus telecommuting from his new home of Berlin, Germany. The only distractions from the task at hand were a DJ mix for Get Physical, an indirect Grammy nomination with Carl Craig for his incredible remix of "Like A Child" and Greenspan's many vocal contributions to the latest Morgan Geist album, Double Night Time.
Begone Dull Care is the band's third album, following the critical and commercial successes of Last Exit (2004) and So This Is Goodbye (2006). On Begone Dull Care, there isn't a single sound emitted that feels out of place or like an afterthought. There is a measured restraint that's rarely employed in modern pop music and it's the precision and restraint in the arrangements that only serve to magnify what is there. And what is there is exceptional... from the post-industrial stomp of opener Parallel Lines to the soothing romanticism of What It's For, which brings the album to an achingly soft close. Lead single, Hazel could well be described as Sign O The Times re-imagined as an effervescent song of romantic yearning instead of the predecessor's dark reflection of Reagan's America.
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I am lucky enough to live right next to a very beautiful part of the Lee Valley park so when I had a hankering to go blackberry picking this weekend I didn't have to go very far. In terms of food miles, the blackberries used in this recipe did less than one!
I should point out that I wasn't alone in this venture and was more than ably assisted by the CCBF (Caked Crusader's Boyfriend). All the outdoors photos used in this post were taken by him (when he should've been picking fruit – anything to get out of hard labour!!! But I'll let him off as he peeled and sliced all the apples used in the cake....I'll turn him into my commis chef yet!)
The bushes directly in the sun were abundant with big, juicy blackberries and we far exceeded the amount we needed to make two of these cakes. It was apparent that no one had been there before us – I remember when you had to time it right to ensure that the bushes had anything left to pick; now it seems like no one can be bothered, which is a shame.
Our haul of luscious berries:
Here are the two cakes ready for the oven:
For reasons I can't quite explain, this cake tasted French to me. It's not a spongy cake and it's not as batter-y as, say, a Clafoutis but somewhere between the two. One thing I can say with clarity – it's utterly delicious! There's actually more fruit than cake and each bite is packed with flavour and texture. Very simple to make and extremely lovely to eat.
The colours of the blackberries and the apples start to merge giving a very pretty hue:
Grab a Tupperware, put on some thick trousers (those prickles snag) and get picking – with very little effort you could be enjoying this:
175g unsalted butter, at room temperature
284ml whipping cream
225g golden caster sugar, plus 2 tablespoons for sprinkling on top
3 eggs
300g plain flour
4 bramley apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunky slices
300g blackberries
To serve: ice cream or thick cream
How to make:
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/400°F/Gas mark 6.
- Grease a 30cm x 20cm deep roasting tin with butter.
- Tip the butter and cream into a saucepan and bring slowly up to the boil. Remove from the heat and set to one side.
- Whisk the sugar and eggs together until thick and fluffy. This takes a good few minutes and you'll know when you're there as the colour will turn pale.
- Whisk the cooled cream and butter into the egg mix.
- Sieve in the flour and fold until combined.
- Peel, core and cut the apples into wedges. Cut each quarter into three chunky slices.
- Pour the batter into the prepared tin and scatter over ¾ of the blackberries.
- Arrange the apple slices – you'll need to place them compactly to get them all in.
- Scatter the remaining blackberries over the top.
- Sprinkle over two tablespoons of golden caster sugar.
- Bake for 50 minutes – 1 hour until the batter is starting to pull away from the sides of the tin.
- Leave to cool then serve with either ice cream or cream.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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Steve Mapstone of Lock Haven, Penn. and Mary Mapstone of Fort Myers Beach announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Maria DeFazio, to Nicholas DiNicola, son of the late Nicholas and Janice DiNicola of Grand Blanc, Mich.
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SAN JOSE — Maybe it's just coincidence, but Joe Pavelski has five goals in the five games since he learned officially that he would be going to the Sochi Olympics as a member of Team USA.
Two of those goals came Thursday night, helping the Sharks to a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings — and there was almost a third for the first hat trick of his career. Pavelski's wrist shot from the left faceoff circle with 23 seconds left went wide of the net.
"It'll happen, I bet. Hopefully," said a smiling Pavelski, who now has had 22 two-goal games. "We'll see, we'll keep trying."
San Jose got its other goals from Andrew Desjardins and Dan Boyle to improve to 11-2-1 over its longtime rivals over the last 14 games. Goalie Antti Niemi gave up a first-period goal to Detroit forward Tomas Tatar but stopped 24 other shots for the win.
The injury-depleted Sharks also welcomed Tommy Wingels and Tyler Kennedy back to the lineup. And while neither figured in the scoring, their presence benefited a team still missing five injured forwards, including Logan Couture.
"We're not in the perfect place, but it certainly helped," coach Todd McLellan said of Kennedy's return from a bout with the flu and Wingels' recovery from an upper-body injury. "What it really did was put guys more in position than anything. I thought the lines we put together were effective. Got minutes from everybody."
Not that the Red Wings weren't dealing with injuries of their own, with star forward Pavel Datsyuk at the top of their list, out with a groin problem.
The Sharks opened the scoring at 4:59 of the opening period on Pavelski's first goal of the night after Joe Thornton again showed how he has come to lead the NHL with 45 assists.
The Sharks captain held onto the puck in the offensive zone just long enough for Pavelski to slip away from Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg, then zipped the puck to Pavelski for a one-timer that beat Detroit goalie Jimmy Howard.
"Yeah, we were on each other probably all the way from the neutral zone," Pavelski said of his shift against Zetterberg. "As we were battling, I was able to see that Jumbo had the puck and had some time and was able to pop off."
The Red Wings tied the game at 16:48 of the first period on Tatar's goal, but a second period that has been the Sharks' downfall much of the season was where San Jose won the game with three unanswered goals.
Desjardins scored only his second of the season when he fired a shot from along the left boards that found its way through the opening Howard left on the short side at 9:44.
Pavelski's second goal of the game and 21st of the season came less than three minutes later when he took a rebound of a shot by Brad Stuart, kicked it to his stick and flipped the puck into the Detroit net to make it 3-1. And San Jose's fourth goal of the night came on its third power-play opportunity, when Boyle pinched deep into the right faceoff circle and beat Howard at 16:28.
When the third period began, Howard was on the bench in favor of backup Petr Mrazek. And while there was no scoring, the game turned chippy in the late stages with both of the newly returned Sharks in the middle of things.
First Kennedy came out on the short end of a fight with Detroit defenseman Kyle Quincey. Shortly after that, Wingels and Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi went off for roughing, Bertuzzi capping the exchange by throwing his helmet at the Sharks forward.
And with 1:53 remaining, Scott Hannan decided to go after Detroit veteran Dan Cleary, drawing an instigator penalty and 10-minute misconduct in addition to the five for fighting.
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Film Review: Les MisérablesBritish director Tom Hooper ('The King's Speech') could be heading back to the Oscars, along with his stars Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, with this remarkably affecting and resourceful screen adaptation of the popular pop opera.
It is fitting that Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper's ardent, epic movie musical Les Misérables, based on Cameron Mackintosh's long-running stage production, arrives on Christmas Day. It celebrates Victor Hugo's deeply compassionate 1862 novel of politically tumultuous 19th-century France, the renewal of the contemporary screen musical, and the redeeming pleasure of musical storytelling itself.
Hooper gambled on "doing it live," filming the actors singing on-set, rather than the traditional method of synching their voices in post-production, and it's paid off. There's an immediacy and dramatic urgency to these performances seldom matched in traditional film musicals. And in Hugh Jackman, Hooper has found a Jean Valjean who sings and acts with equal brilliance. His impassioned performance, along with Anne Hathaway's heartbreaking Fantine, stand out in this well-cast ensemble, which also features a somber (and singing!) Russell Crowe as Valjean's nemesis, Police Inspector Javert; Amanda Seyfried and Eddie Redmayne as young lovers; and the darkly comic team of Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter as bottom-feeders Monsieur and Madame Thénardier.
The characters speak solely (and soulfully) through song, including a new one written for the movie, and Claude-Michel Schönberg's lush score, with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, has never sounded better. The sung-through approach conveys the characters' emotions more directly than spoken language, and lends a stylistic consistency to the work. It is also likely to appeal to that stubborn minority who balk at characters suddenly breaking into song (there's no dance here).
Hooper and his ace director of photography, Danny Cohen (The King's Speech), use cinema to its full advantage, often creating intimacy by filling the entire screen with an actor's singing face. Whereas in the theatre a spotlight directs the audience's attention to a solo, here we're practically inside the character's head. It's strange, but effective. At other times, as in the movie's opening sequence, they go the panoramic route, swooping in on a vast crew of convicts hauling a ship into port while the waves roll in. There we meet prisoner 24601, Valjean, who by 1815 has served 19 years of hard labor for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, and is about to be released on parole by his relentless pursuer, Javert. Valjean is soon making his way through the gloriously scenic mountains of southern France, and an emaciated but rugged Jackman (he lost 30 pounds for these scenes) is singing a stirring rendition of "Freedom Is Mine," a real feat in this altitude.
Valjean soon discovers that his freedom is a fraud, as his parole status prevents him from gaining employment or human sympathy, until he meets a kindly bishop (Colm Wilkinson, the original Valjean in London and on Broadway) whose belief in him engenders a spiritual rebirth. The film picks up emotional intensity as it jumps to 1823 and the fate of Fantine, who after losing her job in the factory owned by Valjean (known now as Mayor Madeleine), turns to the street to support her sickly daughter, Cosette (the adorable Isabelle Allen as a child, Seyfried as an adult). As anyone who has seen the coming attractions knows, Hathaway kills "I Dreamed a Dream"; her voice and fearless performance haunt the film until she returns as a loving spirit towards the end.
Hooper deftly shifts between naturalism and a heightened theatricality throughout, presenting the major characters as complex individuals while painting the prostitutes, johns and denizens of the Thénardier house as characters straight out of Sweeney Todd, pancake makeup and all. His inventively gross staging of "Master of the House," magnificently performed by Baron Cohen and Bonham Carter, is of a piece with his sincere depiction of Hugo's progressive political and moral concerns. It's impossible to leave this movie untroubled by the contemporary parallels.
As in the stage production, Les Misérables slackens a bit three-quarters in, but sails to an emotionally powerful finale. Hooper shows a sure hand navigating this impressively massive ship to port.


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On Nov. 6-7, some of the nation's top junior golfers will compete at St. James Plantation in a 36-hole International Junior Golf Tour event. Tournament play will begin Nov. 6 at The Founders Club with the final round to be played the following day at The Players Club.
Any current Carolinas Golf Association junior members, ages 9-19, will receive a complimentary seasonal membership to the IJGT, a $225 value. This membership will last until June 30, 2011, and includes access to any of the 60 nationally ranked events contested during the 2010-2011 season.
The Piperettes played their annual member-member tournament Saturday and Sunday. Diane Rauch, Liz Fox and Ann Leahy were the tournament chairwomen. The field of 20 pairs of members was divided into four flights by handicap. The format Saturday was two-man better ball using full handicap. On Sunday each team had the opportunity to better its score on each hole.
The Beachcombers played at Woodland Valley. Low gross: Randy Cogdill 82, Charlie Shore 84, Paul Michal 88 and Jim Ritter 89. Low nets: Ritter 64, Cogdill 67, Dennis Keane, Bob Smith, Bob Brownley 69s. Team two low nets each hole: Cogdill, Smith, Brownley and Hal Riebesehl were 25-under par. Golfer of the week was Cogdill.
Another Brunswick County Golf Course has applied for certification as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Course. Carolina National and St. James Plantation have that certification. Lockwood Folly is in the process now.
That's good news for our golfing community and for Brunswick County in general. Anything we can do to protect the environment, to provide a safe haven for animals and to keep our groundwater pure is certainly welcome.
The Play for Pink Golf Tournament at Magnolia Greens will be Oct 19. The fee per golfer for is $85, which also includes dinner. Registration begins at 10:30 a.m. and the shotgun start for the flighted scramble is noon. The rain date is Oct. 20.
On Oct. 2, Kaitlyn Johnston married Chris Jarman, in a beautiful ceremony at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Wilmington. Parents and grandparents were decked in their finest; the bridal party looked like something right out of Bride Magazine.
The board of directors of The First Tee of Brunswick County was there, with spouses in tow.
The Brierwood Men's Golf Association played its two-day Ryder Cup Tournament, based on the format of the Ryder Cup. The players were divided into two 12-man teams, the Herons and the Gators. Dan Perry was the Heron captain and Bob Nobes was the Gator captain. The remaining players were randomly drawn by the captains. The first day of play, the first nine holes were four ball (best ball of the twosome); the second nine was alternate shot. The final day was singles matches. At the end of the first day, the Herons led 2.5-2: after the final day single matches, Heron won 8.5-8.
The Beachcombers played at Carolina Shores. Low gross: Charlie Shore, 88; Stu Cleveland, 89. Low nets: Ed Kinney, 65; Bill Cameron, 66; Jim Ritter, 70.
Team modified Stableford: Ed Hennessey, Jim Quigley and Shore, 9.5 points. Kinney had the most points, 8. Kinney was golfer of the week.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Department stores and fashion boutiques will be selling special pink clothing and jewelry. M&M candies will come in shades of pink and white. NFL players are wearing pink shoes, pink gloves and pink caps. During this time, numerous ladies golf associations in Brunswick County will host a Rally for Cure Golf Tournament.
The Brunswick Plantation Golf Club played its fourth annual club championship Sept. 20-23, with the women playing on Monday and Wednesday and the men on Tuesday and Thursday.
Alcina Davis was first in the women's championship flight. Moe MacDonald was second and Mae Drezek third. Dave Mambro was first in the men's championship flight, George Tuccinardo was second and Tony Ingorgio third after a card playoff.
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Distribution Watch Review: SuSE Linux 7.1 Personal/Professional
Pack It Up and Go Home: SuSE's Created a Windows-Killer
Okay, that's it, we can all go home now.
SuSE Linux 7.1, which was released a bit late in the United States, has finally hit the shelves and if there was ever a distribution Linux users could point to and say "this is the one that can replace Windows," then this is the one.
Bold words? Hardly. I mean, let's face it, any Linux user has always known that the penguin can run rings around most anything that comes out of Redmond. But getting this across to the hypnotized Window users of the world has been difficult, to say the least. SuSE's latest offering is a platform you could install out of the box, plunk a Windows user in front of it, and they could work with it. Not tweak it, not play with it, work with it. This is the distribution Corel Linux wanted to be: easy to use for newbies, with all of the power of Linux.
Opening the Box
The interesting thing here that there has not been a huge dramatic change since the SuSE's 7.0 release. You won't be looking at this and wondering why SuSE changed everything, because in truth, they hardly changed anything.
Oh sure, all of the packages have been updated to their latest versions, and by now SUSE's up to KDE 2.0.1, KDevelop 1.3, and kernel 2.4 out of the box. But here and there, little updates have been made that really tightened up this distribution.
The version I tested for this review was the Professional version, which still has a whopping 7 CDs or a DVD as the installation medium. The price is the same as Professional 7.0, too: $69.95. That gets you over 2000 apps and several pretty complete documents, including a 615-page handbook.
The Personal edition comes with about half the applications on just 3 CDs, but much of the same documentation is included. Price-watchers should take note: the Personal edition has been tagged at $29.95--$10 lower than Personal 7.0.
The installation support for both versions much the same from 7.0: 60 days for Personal and Upgrade and 90 days for the Professional edition. Other support includes a pretty large support database on the SuSE Web site and decent online help documents.
For this review, I performed two installations: upgrading my current SuSE 7.0 partition to 7.1, and then doing a clean install. The test machine was an AMD K6 300 MHz Linux box, with a previously ext2-partitioned section of the primary IDE drive.
Getting a Running Start
If you like to skip to the end of stories, then I'll just tell you now that the upgrade installation completed its task and leave it at that.
For those of you who like the meat of the story, let me give you a piece of advice: copy your data somewhere else and do a clean install. This is about the only part of using SuSE 7.1 that I really think needs the most work. The upgrade installation took forever. I am not kidding here. Now, admittedly a lot of this was my fault. I chose the option to update everything I had, and I had forgotten that my previous installation was the "everything but the kitchen sink" option. So, I made SuSE install over some 1100-plus packages.
But even with the sheer numbers, upgrading a package seems to be a much slower practice than just installing them straight. Which was why it took 10 hours to perform the upgrade. Keep in mind that if you need to upgrade a smaller amount of packages, then the upgrade procedure might not be so bad. Still, bring a book.
It was during the upgrade that I did run into a real problem. YaST2 seemed to get confused about which screen to go to during the manual selection of packages phase. I ended up running through this action twice and I am still not sure why.
Once it was finally finished, I was left with a near duplicate of my old setup, only with a few more toys to play with.
The clean installation went a lot faster, package for package. I chose the Default with Office package group, with the 2.4 kernel and a ReiserFS root partition. Everything went flawlessly, with network and graphics cards detected perfectly. I had a little hiccup with my monitor, but its the same hiccup I always have, so I don't think it's a SuSE issue.
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RIPLEY - Red Devil running back Rhys Jelich served as a human battering ram and ran for 204 yards and two touchdowns as coach Mick Price's Ravenswood football team dismissed Ripley, 43-13 on Friday night at Memorial Stadium.
Not only did the Red Devils snatch the coveted "Hatchet" that serves as a keepsake for the winner of the cross county rivalry game, but the stamped their ticket to the Class AA playoffs with the victory over Class AAA Ripley.
Ravenswood Defensive Coordinator Jason Jackson's defense held Ripley's ground game to just 125 total yards as the Red Devils outgained the Vikings in yardage, 394 to 264.
Ravenswood led 19-7 at the half. Ripley's only second half score was a 95 yard kickoff return for a score by Kade Harrison in the fourth period.


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I attended the Earth Charter's 10th anniversary event at the Peace Palace, the Hague from June 27th to 29th, 2010. The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century. It seeks to inspire in all people a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility for the well-being of the whole human family, the greater community of life, and future generations. It is a vision of hope and a call to action.
The event brought together people from all sectors and parts of the world to engage in dialogue, to collaborate and reflect on 10 years of the Earth Charter and the future steps towards a sustainable future.
Over 200 participants attended this event, including EC Commissioners, Affiliates, members of the International Council, youth leaders and many partners. The event had the honour of having the participation of Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and Prime Minister Balkenende. In his address, the Prime Minister said that "the art can change your life and that he would never forget the music he heard here today", and he compared the EC movement with a tree that has been growing, although not as much (and fast) as it should, but he hopes it will continue to grow until its leaves cover the whole world.
This was a wonderful occasion for participants to learn from each other and get extra portion of inspiration. A special feature was to have Minister of Culture and Youth of Costa Rica, Manuel Obregon, play parts of his concert "Symbiosis" and also to have a "Concert of the plants" led by Macaco Tamerice. The event was convened by Ruud Lubbers and was organized by NCDO in cooperation with the ECI Secretariat.
I was invited to speak at the Earth Charter Session on UN, Global Governance and Climate Change with speaker like Yolanda Kababadse, former IUCN chair and WWF president.
It was an inspiring event for me and I got home with a backpack full of knowledge and inspiration to engage for a peaceful and sustainable future in Nigeria.
Through the Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition (NYCC), I am currently planing to hold a Youth Dialogue on Climate change tagged: 'Our Year, Our Voice' to prepare for COP16 and to celebrate the International Year of Youth, which runs August 2010-2011.
Esther Agbarakwe
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Metro 2033 is an action-oriented video game with a combination of
survival horror and first-person shooter elements. The game is based on
the novel Metro 2033 by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky. It was
developed by 4A Games in the Ukraine. The game is played from the perspective of a character named Artyom. The story takes place in post-apocalyptic Moscow,
mostly inside the metro station where the player's character was
raised (he was born before the war, in an unharmed city), but
occasionally the player has to go above ground on certain missions and
scavenge for valuables.
This is another extremely demanding game. Settings were left at High quality with AA and AF at lowest values- AAA and AF 4x, respectively, for each DirectX 9, 10 & 11 APIs. Advanced DirectX 11 settings were left at default. The section of Metro 2033 tested was the Prologue with fraps polling from when you are climbing up the ladder until opening the door to exit the metro station. This section includes many features found throughout the game including four creatures which attack you before you exit the building, dense particles, ammo in cabinets, a few computer controlled sections and, of course, Miller, your first companion.
Benchmark Results: This benchmark showed that the ASUS ENGTX560 Ti DCII Top was 2-3 FPS faster than the reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti video card once again!
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Chris Froome has been named as the winner of the prestigious Velo d'Or 2013 award that is awarded annually to the best rider of the last 12 months.
Froome, 28, has enjoyed a spectacular year, winning the Tour de France, Criterium du Dauphine and Tour de Romandie.
With the award, the Kenyan-born Brit has fully emulated his compatriot Sir Bradley Wiggins, who won both the Velo d'Or and the Tour de France last year.
Columbian Nairo Quintana, who was the runner-up at the Tour and also took the White and Polka Dot jerseys, has been voted as best young prospect.
The Velo'Or Francais, naming the best French rider, has been won by Christophe Riblon.
The winners are voted for by cycling journalists and is awarded by the French magazine 'Velo'.
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Bowel movement.
I've been diagnosed with IBS-C and I'm having a flare up right now. Twice now when I go to use the washroom during a bowel movement I'll get dizzy. It stops right away after I'm done.
I don't think I'm straining particularly hard, just pushing like I normally do, but I get dizzy anyway. I told my NS that I have IBS and he said that the straining shouldn't be a problem. I had a successful surgery 3 and a half years ago with no major draw backs since.
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With nearly half of the world's employed population unhappy in their jobs one can't help but wonder: What ever happened to job satisfaction?
According to staffing agency Kelly Services' annual survey covering 120,000 respondents globally, a staggering 48 percent of employees are unhappy in their current jobs, up from 47 percent the previous year.
A combination of factors is dampening sentiment, including headcount reductions, smaller bonuses and fewer benefits as companies cut back on spending.
(Read more: Employment gap between rich and poor highest on record)
"The macroeconomic environment has manifested in the policies of companies. The decrease in headcount means, in some cases, one person has to do the work of two. That's caused some dissatisfaction," said Mark Hall, Vice President and Country Manager, Kelly Services Singapore.


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It looks like MsMittens' post above mine also has the same bug, but she encapsulates the url in a quote (?) Don't know what's up with that. Maybe it's the string http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers...rability_test/ that gets broken off because it's to long?
I disabled the "Automatically parse URLs" option in this post.
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They are 69 Catholic priests searching their souls for a touch of God or preparing to meet Him face to face. They are in a quiet seaside retreat on America's East Coast. They are mostly old, white haired or bald, some with rheumy, tired eyes rimmed with discolored pouches. They carry canes to keep from falling or hunch over walkers for balance. Sagging midriffs are obvious signals that something urgently pastoral over the years has sabotaged their youthful resolution for exercise and firm "cores." Some have semihumps on their shoulders almost symbolizing the years of carrying other people's crosses and burdens.
A few carry small oxygen tanks as they reach for that precious "piece" of air. Several try to deny the ravage of time, fib a little, and say they are "just the same as always." They hobble with their stiff legs and try to thumb their noses at the dreaded inevitability of aging. So, they painfully genuflect before the Majesty of God so that one can almost hear the muted "ouch" as they manfully fulfill the expected rubric.
They come to Mass each day, the very center of their lives, in sacred vestments and reverently praise their God with croaking, almost grotesque voices, most amateurishly — which even to the most jaded unbeliever with a tad of insight — is incredibly beautiful. One is in the presence of that priceless factor — True Faith. This is a case of Our Lady's Juggler (Our Lady's Juggler, by Anatole France). What appears externally to be "not much" is, in fact, glorious God.
They sit for hours before the Blessed Sacrament, with eyes fixed upon their God, oblivious to the often meaningless swirl going on in the streets outside. All have been activists in their lives but have apparently learned that sheer activism without this deep anchor of personal union with the Master is superficial and possibly ephemeral.
As I watch them I get the palpable impression that I am watching another dimension. While I know that the spiritual Masters of the ages all counsel and warn about the chimera of comparison and its often evil consequence, I find it exceedingly difficult not to wish some kind of "getting like those guys."
I am a priest for what seems like an eon but I seem so far from their powerful love of Jesus, the Master, that I struggle with a kind of spiritual discouragement. Yet one can learn or sense the way — even by standing by them as they might talk mundanely and banally about the weather or sports or Obamacare. I have had the joy of standing by and speaking with the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta — and it is the same feeling. It is truly another dimension.
For these few days, they are focused on the meaning of their lives as priests without the necessary superficialities of their daily grind, that demanding role of the Catholic priesthood in a world almost totally seduced by hedonism and baubles, a world which generally has no idea what priesthood means to these sons of Melchizedek.
Misunderstood or not these priests have a serenity about them which is so hard to define that only metaphor can come close — it is a real instance of Nescio quid! Have they been touched by God in this brief encounter?
What is happening? Why is everyone so pleasant and even courtly? What is this swift friendliness which allows me almost immediately to disclose my background and my cultural statistics? What is this beautiful quickness to open heavy doors for faltering, hesitant, near dendrite dead oldsters? I have a sense that it is somehow the mysterious ontological "Other" that makes up the priesthood.l This is one life experience which is exclusive.
Here there is no need to tap dance to explain why there are no women, no lay theologians, no teenagers, no financial advisors, no ecumenical representatives. There are only priests. And this kind of priest gathering has an inherent and profound kind of quiet joy and peace available nowhere else.
In a retreat for clergy, the accent on awareness that a priest is truly different is hard to miss. I am not called to be the regular guy at the bar or bowling alley who tells "blue" jokes, gets bombed occasionally and is a "me-first" personality. In these few days the priesthood of Christ speaks out to each other, priests we have never seen before and possibly will never see again. But we are brothers in this great gift we share — which in fact no one else carries.
We are specially chosen by the Father for His reasons and when we become aware of that reality, our affective lives soar! Generational differences seem not to matter as I watch the few younger priests relate, almost tenderly, to their older priest brothers — or is it more of grandsons and grandfathers?
Nevertheless, there is something deeply shared by these men which smacks of the eternal, the transcendent. The young priests are bright and shiny and confident. They are filled with the energy and bright hope and easy gait. They think of activity and achievement — and rightfully so. This is part of the charm of the young.
The old priest is battered and slowed and shaky but filled with a specific gratitude only possible after years of living "in persona Christi." When the two, old and young, interface, it is a beautiful thing to see. In such a spiritual, psychological, profound climate, there is a kind of relaxation to be fully oneself, to be with others like oneself, beyond nationality, skin color, accent, education, rank, achievement. There is no need to impress. Only a need to be fully alive as to what one is!
Is it that years in the priesthood bring a kind of Carlo Carretto mood? (Carlo Carretto, 20th century Italian spiritual writer.) Does a slowed down old priest see the disappointments and the hurts and the failures in a different way as set against the great backdrop of eternity?
In the midst of such ruminations about complexity, the thought surfaces: How associate this truly superior group of men with what has been called the "scandals of the priesthood"? The thought correlates with cognitive dissonance or huge oxymoronism!
Gut reactions or mature intuition could probably arrive at a conclusion as accurate as professional psychological studies. With a seasoned background of both the theological-anthropological insights of Original sin and the psychological experiences of research, Church and secular studies on the question have reasonably testified that such un-priestly behavior is statistically rare and unlikely among those who follow the sensible recommendations of the Church.
While it is sad and tragic that the comparatively unfaithful few did great harm to Christ's Church, it is also sad and tragic that the beauty of priests' lives like those on this retreat are so blithely hidden and rarely mentioned. These priests described above, as human, gifted with the priesthood of Christ, have stumbled some time or other in their lives. But they, as priests, sought God's mercy and were reconciled. Rather than detract from the "Power and the Glory" they were given, they, like Peter and Magdalen and Augustine and millions of others, became closer to Christ than ever.
I, the writer, was also on this retreat, and at 92 years of age, ordained for 65 years, was probably the oldest retreatant in the group. But old as I am, I am still capable of being inspired by the sheer goodness I saw among these men of God. No one is loopy enough to speak of "perfection" in this life but growth is real and possible. I stood beside real priests and breathed in the refreshing air of what can be!
1 When one speaks of "priesthood" one clearly speaks also of the office of Deacon which is an ordained state in a which a man shares the priesthood of Jesus. The bishop, the priest, the deacon all share in the Lord's priesthood in different dimensions. This is further elucidated in Lumen Gentium wherein it is taught that the priesthood of Orders (bishop, priest, and deacon) and that of baptism of the faithful are different not only in degree but in kind.
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Then find formulas giving all the solutions to
7x + 11y = 100
where x and y are integers.
Prove that if the integer n is divisible by 4 then it can be written as the difference of two squares.
Let a(n) be the number of ways of expressing the integer n as an
ordered sum of 1's and 2's. Let b(n) be the number of ways of
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New York Power Authority (Staten Island)
Legislative Hearing
APPLICANT: New York Power Authority (NYPA), 123 Main Street, White Plains, New York 10601
APPLICATION No. 2-6402-00295/00003
PROJECT LOCATION: Pouch Terminal, Lynhurst Ave. and Edgewater, Staten Island, NY
FACILITY: NYPA operates a gas turbine facility producing 44 megawatts of power at the above location. The facility consists of a General Electric LM6000 gas turbine which utilizes a selective catalytic reduction unit to minimize emissions of oxides of nitrogen. The gas turbine operates as a simple cycle unit, employing a spray inter-cooling system to optimize power output. Other on-site equipment includes gas and air compressors, a cooling tower lube oil cooling system, water treatment and storage system, ammonia storage and injection system, raw water storage, and auxiliary electrical systems. There is a facility stack approximately 107 feet tall.
REGULATORY HISTORY: In February 2001 the Department issued NYPA a State Facility air pollution control permit allowing the construction and initial operation of the subject facility. The Department subsequently issued NYPA a permit pursuant to Title IV (Acid Rain) of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAA). Pursuant to Sections 201-6.1(a)(4) and 201-6.3(a)(2) of Title 6 of the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (6 NYCRR), NYPA is required to apply to DEC for a federal operating permit under Title V of the CAA within one year of commencing commercial operation of the facility, which began in August 2001. This notice announces issuance of the draft Title V permit for public comment.
PERMITS: In accordance with 6 NYCRR Section 201-6.1(b)(1), NYPA filed an application for a Title V operating permit for this facility on July 17, 2002. As required by a January 22, 2003 consent order between the Department and NYPA, NYPA amended its Title V application on March 3, 2003 to request the addition of new emissions limits applicable during start-up and shut-down of the units. The Department has reviewed the amended application and has determined that the application is technically complete and meets all air pollution control requirements of Environmental Conservation Law (ECL) Article 19 and 6 NYCRR Part 201, and has prepared a draft permit for public review and comment. The draft permit seeks to assure the facility's conformance with requirements of 6 NYCRR Parts 201, 225, 227, 231, and 257, and all other applicable State air pollution regulations and all Federal requirements for enforceable permit conditions. It is the position of the DEC Staff that the draft permit imposes the strictest possible emissions limits on the facility's operations in start-up and shut-down modes. The requirements are consistent with those being imposed on similar facilities across the State. In accordance with 6NYCRR Parts 621.5(d)(9) and 201-6.4(c), the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has the authority to bar issuance of any Title V Facility Permit if it is determined not to be in compliance with applicable requirements of the Clean Air Act or 6NYCRR Part 201.
SEQRA: Pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA; ECL Article 8 and 6 NYCRR Part 617), NYPA as lead agency has prepared a final environmental impact statement that addresses the facility. As lead agency, NYPA has determined that no further environmental reviews are required under SEQRA for the Title V permit application and issuance of the Title V operating permit.
PUBLIC HEARING: A legislative hearing for receipt of public comments on the application will be held at 7:00PM on September 16, 2003 at PUBLIC SCHOOL 13, 191 VERMONT AVENUE, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK 10305 [Tel: (718) 447-1462]. All persons, organizations, corporations, or government agencies who may be affected by issuance of the permit are invited to attend the hearing and to submit oral or written comments on the application. It is not necessary to file in advance to speak at the hearing. Lengthy comments should be submitted in writing. Equal weight will be given to both oral and written statements. The Administrative Law Judge may limit the time for oral comments to ensure that all have an opportunity to be heard. The hearing location is reasonably accessible to the mobility impaired.
DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Persons wishing to inspect the application, draft permit and relevant documents should contact the representative listed below for review during regular business hours. An appointment may be necessary and is recommended to assure file documents are available. The documents may be reviewed at the following locations:
1. Community Board #1, One Edgewater Plaza (Room 217), Staten Island, New York 10305. ATT'N: Joe Caroll, District Manager, Tel: (718) 981-6900.
2. Office of the Staten Island Borough President, 120 Borough Hall, Staten Island, New York 10301. Tel: (718) 816-2030.
3. NYSDEC Division of Environmental Permits, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233-7235. ATT'N: John J. Ferguson, Tel: (518) 402-9177.
WRITTEN COMMENTS: Written comments must be sent to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation representative, John J. Ferguson, and must be received no later than September 26, 2003.
STATUTORY and REGULATORY PROVISIONS: The air permit application is being reviewed pursuant to ECL Articles 19 (Air Pollution Control) and 70 (Uniform Procedures); and 6NYCRR Parts 201 (General Provisions - Air Pollution Control), 617 (SEQRA) and 621 (Uniform Procedures).


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Saturday, the weather was cool and rainy and I wanted to draw so my only option was to find a museum. The Rodin Museum is in a large house near Les Invalides not far from the Eiffel Tower. The 'hotel' is a splendid example of 18th century neo-classicism – which to my eye is more delicate than its baroque predecessor – though this example errs decoratively with carved heads for keystones. 2 pavilions flank the back which overlook large grounds containing highlights of Rodin's work – including a casting of 'The Gates of Hell'. Inside are other landmark works such as The Kiss and The Thinker as well as numerous busts and a room devoted to the work of his protegee and lover Camille Claudel. I made my way through each floor sketching and trying to stay out of the way of other visitors. I felt an immediate connection to his work and enjoyed searching for ways to translate his rough expressive style to pencil and paper. An exhibit of his own sketches and watercolors were interesting as they were radically different from my sketches – looser, freer, not at all the 2 dimensional reductions of his carvings I had made.
I crossed the Seine and the grand Belle Epoque Alexandre III Bridge, past the Grand and Petit Palais, and then up the Champs Elysee through crowds of holiday shoppers getting hot mulled wine, crepes, and saucisson from innumerable christmas stands on the sidewalk. At the round-about of FDR I was meeting some classmates at a large art gallery – Artcurail – devoted to 20th century work. The house is a late 19th century confection that would look at home on 5th ave in New York. Inside 3 floors are contained mostly European artists with work to be auctioned later in the week. Many of the greats were represented though the Picasso, Braque and DeChirico were small and minor works. I was taken with a pencil sketch by George Grosz done after he had moved to New York. He had taught at the Art Student's League there after he escaped the Nazi's and one of my teachers, Lester Polakov, had been a protege of his. In the sketch, 2 quintessential New Yorkers, one short and fat, the other tall and lean, cranky and lugubrious, and a ragged nest of graphite perfectly expressed their distinct personalities. A delight of the gallery is their cafe designed in 'high-french' with black and white creepy-forest wallpaper.
After I reached home I checked some auction sites for Grosz drawings and found a pen and ink from his prime period – Wiemar-era Germany. And, in the way of all internet browsing, I also found some old master paintings at the same auction house. A small portrait of a Dutch woman was valued at $2000 to $3000. This seemed very low for a 17th century painting – regardless of size or attribution. This painting was supposedly painting by Gerard Ter Borch. After some research I learned that Ter Borch was a prominent Dutch painter of the time – where Vermeer was perhaps the greatest. I e-mailed the auction house to learn about the provenance and the condition of the painting.
Two days later, today, they sent more photos and pictures of the back which had labels from previous galleries. The condition of the painting seemed almost too good; it must be either a copy or extensively re-painted. After class, I decided to head to the Louvre to sketch again. While there, I wandered to the galleries devoted to northern European paintings of the era and found several by Ter Borch, even some of a similar size and subject matter, though none exactly the same. I took some photos and looked carefully at the brushstrokes and the crackling of the surface. I don't know what I thought I was doing – pretending I was in a movie or mystery novel I suppose.
Once home again, I glanced thought the websites of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam. the Met had a few Ter Borches – more than the Louvre, interestingly. The Rijkmuseum, unsurprisingly, had dozens, including one – though larger and more carefully painted – similar in subject and dress. I copied both the image from the Rijksmuseum and the largest version I had from the auction house onto my computer and layered them in Photoshop. I had to flip one and scale it to the same size ( as well as compensate for the perspective of the photo.) The paintings were astonishingly similar. The Dutch one was of a younger woman and painted on canvas – the other chubbier and painted on board – which could explain its smoother surface. The brushstrokes on the 'one for sale' were looser but it was a smaller painting and I knew artists sometimes varied their brushstroke scale. The hands struck me as well – hands are very difficult to paint and his are particular graceful – a bit plump, but delicate and lovely. A few other Ter Borchs from the Rijksmuseum had eyelids and highlights painted in the same limpid manner as the auction house painting. The weakest area to me is the white blouse which is crisp and honest in the Museum's painting and seems stylized and pedestrian in the other.
Finally, I noticed that a label on the back of the painting was a gallery in New York. I tried to find their website but found something more interesting instead. The Gallery was closed by police several years ago and the owner thrown in prison for fraud and larceny – he is still at Riker's island. Apparently, he was involved with schemes to buy and resell paintings for financiers and celebrities and played loose with the profits. Although many paintings were unaccounted for, there were no charges of forgery. I sent the auction house a provocative e-mail asking if this painting might be stolen property. The story ends here for now.


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Hunt Werewolves This Halloween
Do you ever have the urge to hunt a werewolf? If so, you are in luck. The event agency Chillisauce is now offering an overnight werewolf hunting experience.
This potentially life-changing night requires a minimum group size of 8 people, arriving for 8pm and then continuing until dawn. Hunters will be prepared with safety training, kitted out with werewolf repellent clothing, undergo a crash course in basic military training and receive a briefing on weapons training. Before the hunters begin, they will set up preventative trip wires and explosive booby traps around the camp to protect against the imminent attack.
The event starts at about $250 a person. Oh, and it takes place in Birmingham, England, so you have to really want put a silver bullet in a werewolf to also absorb the expense of flying across the Atlantic Ocean to do so.
But, then again, the pretty boy shape-shifters of 'Twilight' may well engender that kind of anti-werewolf rage in some.


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After a hectic trip to the Sugar Bowl three years ago, things are a bit calmer for the Florida Gators this time around. NEW ORLEANS — Just three seasons ago, the Florida Gators were in a similar position to where they currently sit: preparing for the Sugar Bowl.
However, circumstances are much different this time around.
A whirlwind of questions and far less answers circled the Gators as they prepared for Cincinnati in the 2010 Sugar Bowl. It was the last game for senior quarterback Tim Tebow, but that was far from the only story.
On Dec. 26, 2009, Urban Meyer announced his resignation effective following the Sugar Bowl. But the next day, Meyer danced around the issue and created a level of confusion by saying he was instead taking an extended leave of absence and would return in the spring.
Charlie Strong, the defensive coordinator at the time, was not simply taking a leave of absence. Strong was hired by Louisville and was set to begin duties with the Cardinals following the game, possibly taking with him a number of coaches on the Florida staff.
There was little certainty other than the fact there would be key departures happening quickly for the Gators. Still, Florida cruised in the game. Tebow capped his stellar career with an equally impressive performance as the Gators rolled past Cincinnati 51-24.
Things aren't so hectic this time around, something pleasing for the Gators.
"There was a lot going on my freshman year with rumors that coach Meyer was leaving and Tebow was leaving," senior tailback Mike Gillislee said. "This year, we've been a lot more focused. This game will be emotional, but we just want out senior season to end the right way."
Gillislee and fellow senior James Wilson are two of about a dozen holdovers from Florida's last trip to the Sugar Bowl. Wilson, in agreement with Gillislee, said this trip has been easier to prepare for without as many distractions hovering around the team.
"There's less hype," Wilson said. "People are here to watch the Gators, not just here to watch one player."
That philosophy has fueled the Gators this entire season. Unlike past seasons that ended with trips to BCS bowls, this team has talented across the board but lacks any one player who truly steals the spotlight.
Replacing Florida's previous Sugar Bowl star, Tebow, is sophomore quarterback Jeff Driskel. Then a junior in high school, Driskel remembers watching the game closely to see how his future school would do.
Though things are more relaxed now, Driskel hopes it is simply a calm before the storm.
"That [2010 Sugar Bowl] was a big time game," Driskel said. "The whole offense was really clicking. Hopefully we can repeat that performance. Tebow had a huge game, and he went out with a bang for sure so hopefully, like I said, we can put on a show like that."


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