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Cooler Than You: Some Of The Best Of College BasketballPosted by jstevrtc on November 6th, 2009
Just about anyone can name the best teams in college basketball, and, as far as individual players, if you're reading this site you can most likely reel off three or four of your own personal All-America teams. But what about those individuals who specifically excel at a few of the more exciting aspects of the game? There are certain plays that make everyone come out of their seats: a massive and powerful dunk that liberates some poor defender of his pride; a ridiculously long three-pointer, especially at crunch time; and a blocked shot where the ball goes into orbit. And of course everyone loves basketball players with cool names. So here they are: RTC's rankings of the best dunkers, best long-range bombers, best shot-blockers, and coolest names in the game today.
The Most Excellent Dunkers
Unlike the NBA All-Star Weekend, we'll begin with the dunk artists. Each player is listed with a link leading you to an example or two of his work. Sorry, UConn fans. We respect you and your team, but we had to put Summers over Robinson because…well, you know why.
- Paul George, Fresno State (vs St. Mary's 2008, practice video 2009, Open Gym 2009)
- Chris Wright, Dayton (vs Ohio State 2008, vs Marquette 2008)
- Durrell Summers, Michigan State (vs UConn over S. Robinson 2009, vs Minnesota 2009)
- Stanley Robinson, Connecticut (vs Michigan State 2009, vs Villanova 2008)
- Isaiah Thomas, Washington (Madness 09)
- Scotty Hopson, Tennessee (vs Arkansas 2009)
- Keion Bell, Pepperdine (Madness 09, Madness 09 over 5 guys)
Honorable Mention (or, guys who will probably be on this list by year's end): Will Coleman, Memphis; John Wall, Kentucky; Delvon Roe, Michigan State; Wes Johnson, Syracuse.
The All-Jeff Fryer Team
This list of the best long-range bombers is named after the legendary (in our minds) Loyola Marymount guard who still holds the record for most three-pointers made in an NCAA Tournament game, an incredible 11 against Michigan in 1990's second round. If you can catch that game on ESPN Classic, it is something to behold. You have to be a little nuts to be a bomber; you have to forget your last miss like it never happened and be willing to keep firing even when they just won't fall (our editors are familiar with this feeling). Here's our ranking of 25 of this season's best:
- T.J. Campbell, Portland
- Rihards Kuksiks, Arizona State
- Jared Stohl, Portland
- Andrew Goudelock, College Of Charleston
- Mike Roll, UCLA
- Jerome Randle, California
- Brandon Hazzard, Troy
- Ryan Staudacher, Montana
- Corey Allmond, Sam Houston State
- Ryan Wittman, Cornell
- Josh Young, Drake
- Corey Stokes, Villanova
- Jonathan Tavernari, BYU
- Gordon Hayward, Butler
- Troy Cotton, Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Tweety Carter, Baylor
- Rotnei Clarke, Arkansas
- Corey Lowe, Boston University
- Ricky Harris, Massachusetts
- Mac Hopson, Idaho
- Andy Rautins, Syracuse
- Nic Wise, Arizona
- Willie Warren, Oklahoma
- Jimmy Langhurst, Robert Morris
- Kelvin Lewis, Houston


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On John Updike
In his autobiography Self-Consciousness, a "big-bellied Lutheran God" within the young John Updike looked on in contempt as he struggled to give up cigarettes. Many years later the older Updike, now giving up on alcohol, coffee, and salt, put into the mouth of that God the words of Frederick the Great excoriating his battle-shy soldiers—"Dogs, would you live forever?" But all the life-enhancing substances were set aside, and writing became Updike's "sole remaining vice. It is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality." In the mornings, he could write "breezily" of what he could not "contemplate in the dark without turning in panic to God." The plain facts of life were
unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death. Writing, in making the world light —in codifying, distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it—approaches blasphemy.
And now this masterly blasphemer, whose literary schemes and pretty conceits touched at points on the Shakespearean, is gone, and American letters, deprived in recent years of its giants, Bellow and Mailer, is a leveled plain, with one solitary peak guarded by Roth. We are coming to the end of the golden age of the American novel in the twentieth century's second half. Henry Bech, Updike's remote Jewish other, never immune to an attack of status anxiety, mused on the teeming hordes of his gifted and despised contemporaries:
Those that didn't appear, like John Irving and John Fowles, garrulously, Dickensianly reactionary in method seemed, like John Hawkes and John Barth, smugly, hermetically experimental. O'Hara, Hersey, Cheever, Updike—suburbanites all living safe while art's inner city disintegrated. And that was just the Johns.
This most Lutheran of writers, driven by intellectual curiosity all his life, was troubled by science as others are troubled by God. When it suited him, he could easily absorb and be impressed by physics, biology, astronomy, but he was constitutionally unable to "make the leap of unfaith." The "weight" of personal death did not allow it, and much seriousness and dark humor derive from this tension between intellectual reach and metaphysical dread.
In a short story from 1985, "The Wallet," Mr. Fulham (who, we are told in the first line, "had assembled a nice life") experiences death terrors when he takes his grandchildren to a local cinema. While "starships did special-effects battle" Fulham's "true situation in time and space" was revealed: "a speck of consciousness now into its seventh decade, a mortal body poised to rejoin the minerals, a member of a lost civilization that once existed on a sliding continent." This "lonely possession" of his own existence, he concludes, is "sickeningly serious."
God makes no appearance in this story, but it is unlikely that an atheist could have conjured so much from the minor domestic disturbance that follows. First, a large check "in the…
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Bachelor's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies
Perhaps your interests go beyond the confines of one of the Mount's many majors. You may be interested in Marketing but also interested in Communication Arts.
In that case, you might consider integrated marketing communications, an Interdisciplinary Studies concentration that combines Business, Communication Arts and Computer Science courses, just one of the Interdisciplinary Studies majors at the Mount.
You're not limited to the concentrations described here. A student who wishes to pursue a specific topic or theme that crosses disciplinary lines and for which there is no formal major at Mount Saint Mary College may choose to major in Interdisciplinary Studies. Any topic for which there are sufficient courses in the catalog to meet the requirements of the major may form the basis for an interdisciplinary studies major.


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This weeks pictures are a special for me. I got a new lens! It's a 50mm fixed zoom lens. It's the special lens that makes backgrounds blurry and subjects pop. I love it! The only trick to taking nice pictures is to focus on your main point then move the camera to capture the frame you want. Take a look at this professional photo by Elizabeth Messina, the focal point is along the bottom horizontal line and the mom and baby are both off set from center towards the right vertical line.
The focal point of a great photo is almost never directly in the middle of the photo. That's on purpose. The eye is more interested in images where the most interesting point is father to one side or the top or bottom.
In this photo of Talia her face is the focal point, towards the top, not the center of the frame. I should have done a better job focusing her face rather than her shirt as well as placed her body along the vertical line to the left rather than in the center.
I cropped the above photo of Jordan to show what a better composition would have been, with her face at the intersection of the top and left third lines.
I'm no professional photographer but I am trying to get better with every click. Grab your camera this weekend an make a point not to center your subject, see what happens. I'd love to hear about it on Monday or share your captured treasures on instagram and tag me @smilingwatermelon so I can see too!


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If what the authorities, including the FBI, are saying is true, then here's what those three arrested Fort Lauderdale cops did:
The three officers -- Sgt. Michael Florenco and detectives Matthew Moceri and Geoffrey Shaffer -- allegedly chased down a petty criminal in a car, beat him up to a bloody mess, lied about it, then tried to put away the suspect for life on a bogus attempted murder charge alleging he had tried to kill them.
Let's see, breaking chase policy, using unnecessary violence, lying and pinning false charges on a suspect. That's pretty much sums up a bad cop.
The scary part is that this isn't an isolated incident with the FLPD or the officers' notorious street unit, called the Northwest Raiders. Two of the three arrested, Florenco and Moceri, were already suspended with pay because of their ties to another criminal investigation in which two more Raiders, Billy Koepke and Brian Dodge, were arrested on charges of kidnapping, grand theft, and racketeering charges.
Taken together, if the allegations are true, this is a unit rife with lying and thieving thugs, plain and simple. And if that's true, then you're talking about a culture, not a couple of bad apples. Considering the notorious history of the Northwest Raiders, that doesn't seem a stretch either.
Remember, this is the police department that sold out to Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, who showered officers, including Chief Frank Adderley, with favor. Florenco was one of the officers paid by Rothstein on his special detail. Even after that scandal, there's been no significant cleaning house, just knee-jerk defense mechanisms. It's time to get serious about fixing the FLPD.


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Going to have a first look at a potential property? An open house is not a house inspection; it's your first look at the property that you are considering to buying and seeing if it suits you and your family, and also your lifestyle. Taking a look around, try thinking out of the box, before stepping in have a look around and check the neighborhood. Sellers could be great stage setters so don't get carried away by the window dressing. You have a lot of introspection to do, since you and your family will be living here.
The important thing is that you have to see is how well this property suits you, are you and your family going to be satisfied with the amenities available? Is it comfortable in every aspect; are all the commodities easily available? Take a stock of things at an open house and then take the next big step- [Read more…]


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A 'Downton Abbey' Italian wedding
Even though I don't own a TV, I have an addiction to that British soap opera "Downton Abbey" about nobles and servants gone wild.
My wife, who is English, has been nagging me to buy a flatscreen TV and a satellite dish so we can beam in and watch the antics across the pond because watching it on DVD a year later is worse than watching election night coverage on TiVo.
This season Shirley MacLaine, who was reincarnated as a wealthy American matron, is appearing on the show, along with Honey Boo Boo, who was reincarnated as Tiny Tim.
And I read that Lady Mary Crawley finally got hitched to her on-again-off-again boyfriend Arthur Treacher, or whoever he is, in what was called the wedding of the century, or more appropriately the wedding of the last century since it takes place in the 1920s.
(To my thinking, nothing can compare to the wedding of Luke and Laura on General Hospital, which attracted 30 million viewers and shut down businesses and offices nationwide and brought the stock market to a standstill.)
As the father of four daughters, I got excited when I read that Downton Abbey is being rented out for the weddings of commoners — at least the well-heeled commoners who can afford a base price of $20,000, excluding the cost of the cake, dinners, booze, decorations and a deejay. The place, which is a 175-year-old home in West Berkshire, has been described as "the ultimate fairy tale venue for a couple looking to host a dream wedding."
Forget the "dream wedding" — I'm looking to host an Italian wedding that doesn't turn into a nightmare. You see, I have two daughters who haven't gotten married. Sad to say, I don't have any money left after two other daughters got married last year within 90 days of each other, which has prompted me to lobby Congress to pass a law that requires a waiting period to prevent girls from doing this sort of thing to their cash-strapped dads.
Actually, I could afford a wedding at the Abbey if I sold my house and moved into a one-bedroom apartment that took dogs. The good news is that my third daughter is dating an English lad, who — I'm not applying any pressure here — might be my ticket to the Abbey because he has a British accent, and could maybe get me a deal. I'll make them an offer they can't refuse. Of course, it will cost a fortune to ship my Italian relatives overseas.
I confess that I'm a bit worried about an Italian wedding at Downton Abbey because we tend to get a little crazy. I'm referring to my uncle Vinny, my cousin Little Nicky, not to mention Rocky, Rosemary, Tony and Cheech, who will have to lose the Arthur Avenue accents and learn how to talk British.
All things considered, my family is more normal than Shirley MacLaine and Honey Boo Boo, but we'll still need etiquette lessons on how to hold a cannoli with two fingers and drink espresso out of Staffordshire china.
We'll also have to import some high-priced Monfortino wine to replace the martinis, and require everyone to eat their salad before the main course instead of after.
And I may need special permission to hire a deejay named Enzo with spiked mousse-soaked hair. Hey, if we can't listen to Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Connie Francis, and dance the tarantella, there's not going to be a wedding. That's my final offer.
I may not be British nobility, but I have some standards. So tally-ho, old chaps, and all you goombahs, too.
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Remarried Catholics shouldn't be divorced from communion
If God can forgive those who enter into a second marriage without having the first annulled, why can't the church?
By Paul M. Zulehner, professor emeritus for pastoral theology at the University of Vienna. He is the author of more than 50 books, including Christenmut: Geistliche Übungen (Christian Courage: Spiritual Exercises; Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2010).
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A number of years ago, during a forum for divorced and remarried Catholics at a Jesuit retreat house in Austria, a woman shared her story: "After my divorce I went through a long period of deep self-doubt and depression. In addition I had difficulties with my two children. When I eventually got to know my new husband, he was the one who returned me back to life."
As the moderator of this forum, I asked the woman, "And how do you feel before God today?" She responded, "I am totally convinced that he does not judge me, just as he did not judge the adulteress in the gospel. I can stand before him and be myself, with all my faults. Most of all, though, I am thankful to God for bringing this new partner into my life."
"What about the church?" I asked her hesitantly. "It doesn't forgive me," she said.
I couldn't help but think of a 1960s spaghetti Western, God forgives … I don't. What worries me about this attitude is that it should be the core business of the church to make God's mission to the world visible in ourselves. God is full of mercy—that's what Jesus kept trying to tell the numskull religious authorities of his time. His most telling illustration of that was the parable of the father's mercy toward his two lost sons (Luke 15).
After a divorce, does the church perhaps leave people, to use the title of another famous Western, Unforgiven, and in the process become merciless instead of compassionate?
In the continuing discussion that day, I recounted a conversation with a divorced, remarried woman in a very difficult situation who had told me about her deep longing to receive communion. I had told the woman about Pope John Paul II's teaching that she could receive communion if she and her new husband practiced abstinence. She explained that while she was willing to do so, she feared her husband would then force her and her two children to leave, and she was not able to care for the children on her own.
One of the Austrian bishops participating in the forum, a moral theological hardliner, chimed in with the comment, "But that's an exception!" To which I say, "Exactly!"
That's also how the Austrian bishops saw it in a pastoral letter they issued more than 30 years ago. In principle the church bars divorced and remarried Catholics from the reception of communion, but in concrete situations it can and should act pastorally, like a caring head of a household. The Austrian bishops' letter put it this way: "According to the traditional practice of the church, they cannot participate in the full sacramental life, except when there are special circumstances that in each individual case will need to be clarified further in a conversation with an experienced priest."
In a semi-official document of the Vienna priests' council, Auxiliary Bishop Helmut Krätzl then defined some concrete conditions and guidelines for special circumstances—a kind of pastoral checklist for experienced pastors. These guidelines encourage confessor priests to admit remarried divorced Catholics to the sacraments:
• when the first marriage has been dissolved for a significant enough time that a reconciliation is no longer realistic
• when the person, if he or she played some part in the dissolution of the first marriage, has repented of his or her actions and tried, insofar as possible, to make amends for them
• when a later marriage has proven itself over a longer period as a moral reality with new obligations toward the partner and, possibly, children born to this marriage, so that dissolution of this second relationship would destroy a moral good and create additional damage
• when this second marriage has shown clear signs of a faith life such as personal religious practice (prayer, participation in worship, etc.) and conscientious religious education of the children
• when under these conditions, remarried divorced people, with sincere religious motivation, ask to be admitted to the sacraments
• when such permission would not create a scandal in the parish community
This approach reflects what many great theologians said decades ago, including Karl Lehmann, Walter Kasper, and Joseph Ratzinger, all of whom were cited by Krätzl. Today two of them are cardinals and one of them is the pope. Clearly there are good and weighty theological reasons to expand to the church worldwide the kind of practice the Austrian bishops provided for in their pastoral letter.
But in addition to the theological reasons that support a worldwide expansion of the pastoral experiences in Austria, there are also practical reasons. There are few parishes in which remarried divorced Catholics are not already fully integrated. They serve on parish councils, are godparents at baptisms, and already participate in the sacraments—regardless of whether they have official permission or not.
In many parishes a kind of "pastoral peace" has been established. Here in Austria the dioceses have contributed to this peace by training priests for such a "ministry of reconciliation," helping to find solutions for individual cases in often very difficult situations. Life always entails a mix of guilt and tragic loss. No one ought to judge. And pastoral care ought to be healing.
A few years after the Austrian bishops' pastoral letter, during a meeting with Vienna Cardinal Franz König, I told him that I had received an admonition from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith because in a book on divorce I had favorably reported the position of the Austrian bishops. König replied, "From time to time I get delegations of bishops from Rome who are urging me, as president of the Austrian bishops conference, to take this pastoral letter back. But even if we were to take it back, what we have written still remains true."
Neither Cardinal König nor his two successors in Vienna have had to take the Austrian pastoral letter back. However, the three bishops of a southwest German province—Lehmann, Kasper, and Josef Saier—who had taken a similar approach in their own 1993 pastoral letter, were not so fortunate. In their letter they had invoked a well-known practice from the early church that had allowed a church-approved remarriage.
When the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under then-Cardinal Ratzinger, ended their pastoral experiment, it referred to this practice: "According to some, those who are divorced and remarried should seek a conversation with a knowledgeable and experienced priest to objectively review their actual situation. That priest, however, was to respect their eventual conscientious decision to partake of the Eucharist without implying an official permission for it."
The doctrinal congregation acknowledged that that practice had existed but argued that it should not be held up as a model because it did not succeed in becoming an officially accepted practice. But does that make sense? If it was allowed and for a significant period unopposed under the authority of the church fathers, doesn't that mean that in principle it is possible? Besides, even if eventually this practice didn't become accepted in the Roman Catholic Church, it certainly did so in the larger universal church, including the Orthodox Churches. The Orthodox Churches, despite Jesus' strict instructions, allow in individual cases for a remarriage after a certain period of penance; the decision is left to the bishop as part of his pastoral care for the faithful who have been entrusted to him.
Behind closed doors the Austrian bishops have recently been working on a new pastoral document on divorce. It was prompted by a broad reform dialogue in Austria, which was cut short by an intervention from Rome. As of this writing, the new document has not been made public but has apparently been sent to Rome for approval. What will the end result be? Will the Vatican finally succeed in what it has been trying to achieve for decades: ending the pastoral path with divorced and remarried Catholics in the Austrian church?
On this issue, the worldwide Catholic Church should learn from the Orthodox Churches, as Cardinal König already urged almost 50 years ago. In 1980 the dioceses in Austria tried to do just that. Rather than taking back this by now well-established pastoral practice, the Catholic Church around the world should use it as a model for a long overdue new approach to ministering with divorced and remarried people that would bear many good fruits.


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Charles Taylor's book entitled The Ethics of Authenticity was first published in Canada under the name "The Malaise of Modernity" which was broadcast in November 1991 on the CBC's Ideas series. By 2003 it was in its 11th printing.
Three Malaises of Modernity.
1. The first malaise concerns the dangers of individualism and the loss of meaning.
". […] The worry has been repeatedly expressed that the individual lost something important along with the larger social and cosmic horizons of action. Some have written of this as the loss of a heroic dimension to life. People no longer have a sense of a higher purpose, of something worth dying for. Alex de Tocqueville [author of Democracy in America] sometimes talked like this in the last century, referring to the "petits et vulgaires plaisirs" ["petty and vulgar pleasures"] that people tend to seek in the democratic age. In another articulation, we suffer from a lack of passion. Kierkegaard saw "the present age" in these terms. And Nietzsche's "last men" are at the final nadir of this decline; they have no aspiration left in life but to a "pitiable comfort." This loss of purpose was linked to a narrowing. People lost the broader vision because they focused on their individual lives. Democratic equality, says Tocqueville, draws the individual towards himself, "et menace de le renfermer enfin tout entier dans la solitude de son propre coeur" ["and threatens finally to enclose him entirely within the solitude of his own heart"]. In other words, the dark side of individualism is a centring on the self, which both flattens and narrows our lives, makes them poorer in meaning, and less concerned with others or society (Taylor, Charles. 1991. "Taylor 1991:4 ."
2. The second malaise is the disenchantment of the world.
"Once society no longer has a sacred structure, once social arrangements and modes of action are no longer grounded in the order of things or the will of God, they are in a sense up for grabs. They can be redesigned with their consequences for the happiness and well-being of individuals as our goal. The yardstick that henceforth applies is that of instrumental reason Taylor 1991:5 ."
3. The third malaise concerns the atomism of the self-absorbed individual who is so "enclosed in their own hearts" and comfortable in their own homes that they no longer participate actively in self-government. This results in an "immense tutelary power" of a mild and paternalistic government, democratic in form with periodic elections but in reality a form of soft despotism as predicted by Tocqueville. (Tocqueville 1835) cited in Taylor 1991:9 .
"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd. I have always thought that servitude of the regular, quiet, and gentle kind which I have just described might be combined more easily than is commonly believed with some of the outward forms of freedom, and that it might even establish itself under the wing of the sovereignty of the people. Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions: they want to be led, and they wish to remain free. As they cannot destroy either the one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people. They combine the principle of centralization and that of popular sovereignty; this gives them a respite: they console themselves for being in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own guardians. Every man allows himself to be put in leading-strings, because he sees that it is not a person or a class of persons, but the people at large who hold the end of his chain (de Tocqueville 1835." Democracy in America)."
de Tocqueville, Alexis. 1835. "What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear." Democracy in America.
Taylor, Charles. 1991. "Three Malaises." The Ethics of Authenticity. Harvard University Press. pp. 1-12.
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Dancing With The Stars Live In Las Vegas Returns March 2013!
As Sabrina Bryan reported in a new interview with KTLA yesterday, Dancing With The Stars Live In Las vegas will hopefully be returning in the Spring. It's true. Below is what their Facebook is reporting:
JUST ANNOUNCED! By popular demand, Dancing with the Stars: Live in LV will return to Tropicana Las Vegas in March 2013! Stay tuned for ticket & production info!
You can read more here. Thanks Marianya for this news!


text: Like a troubled young man returning again and again to the same sequence of events to make slight changes, only to produce slightly varying degrees of disappointment, The Butterfly Effect writer-director Eric Bress is trying again with a reboot of his 2004 film. Variety reports that the reboot—which is technically being called a "reboot," not remake, much as two straight-to-DVD sequels technically make The Butterfly Effect a "franchise"— will likewise feature all of the original film's producers, as they and Bress travel back in time to before the day they picked Ashton Kutcher to star and start over, hoping to create a Butterfly Effect that doesn't end in bitterness over what might have been. Of course, as the original Butterfly Effect showed us, every little change to the past has an unintended consequence in the present. So don't be surprised if we awake post-reboot to discover that, say, suddenly no one cares about The Butterfly Effect and Ashton Kutcher isn't a respected actor. And the crazy part is, we'll never even know things used to be different!


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- "100% achieved! Stats and cash have been boosted! Rhino and Hydra delivered to CJ's house in Grove Street."
- ―Message received upon 100% completion.
Attaining 100% Completion in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas requires the completion of numerous tasks, listed below.
However, GTA San Andreas has extra tasks that are not required for the achievement but are also available to complete; many players refer to this as "110%".
To attain 100% completion in GTA San Andreas, the player must accomplish all of the following:
(The main categories and individual tasks of list are in order of availability in the timeline. Note that the main categories order has preference upon its individual tasks. An example of this are the odd job missions; all of them except the Freight Train Challenge can be done at the beginning of the game. However, as the Freight Train missions can only be done after Las Venturas, Bone County and Tierra Robada regions are unlocked the whole main category goes down the list. The individual tasks inside a main category are still in order.)
- Complete all storyline missions (In the Beginning to End of the Line), as well as the Heist strand (Architectural Espionage to Breaking the Bank at Caligula's).
- Collect all pickup items.
- 100 Tags
- 50 Snapshots
- 50 Horseshoes
- 50 Oysters
- Complete all vehicle challenges.
- Finish all stadium events.
- Learn all new moves from the three gyms.
- Complete the Ammu-Nation shooting range (level 12)
- Complete all odd job missions.
- Firefighter (level 12)
- Paramedic (level 12)
- Vigilante (level 12)
- Taxi Driver (50 fares)
- Pimping (level 10)
- Freight Train (level 2)
- Get all 30 vehicles to the Import/Export crane.
- Win all race tournaments
- Los Santos
- San Fierro
- Las Venturas road
- Las Venturas flying
- Finish the three optional schools with at least bronze on each test.
- Complete all asset missions.
- Los Santos courier mission (Roboi's Food Mart)
- San Fierro courier mission (Hippy Shopper)
- Las Venturas courier mission (Burger Shot)
- Trucking missions
- Valet Parking
- Zero's RC Shop (involves completing several storyline-style missions)
- Wang Cars (involves completing several storyline-style missions)
- Hunter Quarry's Quarry Missions.
- Purchase all 29 safehouses.
When 100% is achieved in San Andreas, the following rewards are given.
- $1,000,000.
- Infinite ammo. (The player still needs to reload though, unlike the infinite ammunition cheat).
- Double vehicle strength for any vehicle the player drives.
- Hydra on the roof of Sweet's house.
- Rhino under the bridge going above Ganton.
Non-required tasks
Below is a list of extras that don't need to be done for 100%, but are still available for the player.
- Completing all 70 Unique Stunt Jumps.
- Completing the Burglar mission by stealing goods to an accumulative value of $10,000. Although, its infinite sprint reward might be of great use.
- Establish a relationship and getting 100% progress with all six girlfriends (or, for that matter, dating any girlfriends other than Denise Robinson and Millie Perkins).
- Buying all clothes from the six clothing shops (Binco, Sub Urban, Zip, Pro-Laps, Victim and Didier Sachs).
- Winning the Lowrider Challenge at least once (aside from the one required to complete Cesar Vialpando).
- Completing the three levels of the Dancing Minigame.
- Finishing first place on both Beat The Cock challenges (Santa Maria Beach and Palomino Creek).
- Complete the Beefy Baron minigame at least once.
- Get highest scores (or, for even more excellence, ALL high scores) in all of the arcade games: Go Go Space Monkey, Let's Get Ready to Bumble, Duality and They Crawled from Uranus.
- Winning at least a game of Pool (preferably with a maximum pot, $1,000).
- Get a decent high score playing the Basketball challenge, get a decent furthest hoop record.
- Intercept the Loco Syndicate Drug Courier and Big Smoke's Cash at least once, ideally for maximum cash each (available from King in Exile until Yay Ka-Boom-Boom).
- Getting all Gold medals in the four vehicle schools (cars, motorcycles, boats and aircraft).
- Maxing out all skills: (Stamina, Lung Capacity, Driving skill, Flying skill, Bike skill, Cycling skill, Gambling skill).
- Maximum Muscle, total Respect and Sex Appeal.
- Having "King of San Andreas" Criminal Rating.
- Getting a Pilot License first and then Ace pilot rank (awarded for 20-30 hours of in-game flight, regardless of the flying skill).
- Getting Hitman skill level (1000 points) with all weapons (Pistol, Silenced Pistol, Desert Eagle, Shotgun, Sawn-off Shotgun, Combat Shotgun, Micro SMG, Tec-9, SMG, AK-47, M4).
- Money reached $999,999,999
- All gang territories under control (100%, but you need at least 35% to complete last mission).
- Win each gambling minigame at least once (Inside Track, Wheel of Fortune, Roulette, Blackjack, Video Poker, Slot Machines).


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Fairfax County police say it happened around 7 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Telegraph road and Broadmoor Street. The boy was crossing the road in a crosswalk.
The victim was rushed to the local hospital with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.
Police are searching for a red minivan with possible front-end damage.
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Mount Pelion
Mount Pelion (a.k.a. Pelio or Pilio or Pelium; Greek, Modern: Πήλιο, Ancient/Katharevousa: Πήλιον) forms a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasitic Gulf and the Aegean Sea. Almost entirely enclosed by land, the Pagasitic Gulf remains warm enough to swim in year-round. With a ski resort at the summit (at Chania) the locals boast that you can ski in the morning and swim in the afternoon.
The mountains are entirely forested, with beech, oak, maple and chestnut trees. Pelion is a tourist attraction throughout the year: the mountain includes trails and sidewalks for walking within small and large beaches with sand or pebbles. Modern Pelio has twenty-four villages built with traditional Pelian architecture.
The mountain villages of the Pelion are well worth a visit. Built tucked away during the time that the coast was still unsafe from pirate raids, many of the mansions are heavily fortified, the doors that can be barricaded shut and musket holes covering the entrances. Located near the city of Volos, in the region of Thessaly.
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Fly in to Thessaloniki and take a car or bus from there. The nearby city of Volos also has an airport where Ryanair flies to.
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The best way to get around is from Volos Interurban Bus Terminal ("Yperastiko KTEL") (KTEL Volou). After every airplane arrival there is a bus departure to Volos city. If the flight is delayed, the departure of the bus can be flexible to board all the passengers.
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The Pelion is criss-crossed by cobbled paths, taking to from sea level to the mountain villages - even coast to coast. Probably the best walking anywhere in Greece. A good place to stay if you enjoy walking is The Old Bakery in Ano Gatzea. They produce their own walking guide to the region with a large number of walks, all of which can be done from Ano Gatzea.
There is a good variety of beaches on Pelio. The west side to the Pagasetic Gulf has smaller sandy beaches with calm waters. Beaches on the east (Aegean) are huge sandy beaches with deep waters and sometimes big waves. The beaches in Pelion are numerous, many have been awarded with the title of "Blue Flag". The water is crystal clear and refreshing! But the most important is that they are quiet and family friendly!
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You can try the local sweets, made from fruits boiled with sugar.
Spetsofai is a local dish with tomato sauce, local spicy sausage and peppers.
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"Twilight" fans are everywhere – and Kellan Lutz found that out during a recent trip to a day spa where he encountered an enthusiastic fan while in the buff.
"We live in this 'Twilight Zone' bubble in a way. It really hasn't set in. I try and get away," Kellan told Ellen during an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," which airs today. "I don't change my life or anything like that, but I try and go away and treat myself and I went to Burke Williams [spa]. I'm in a spa just by myself relaxing…this guy walks by and he was like, 'Hey!'"
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Kellan told Ellen his nudity didn't stop the fan from gushing about his love for "The Twilight Saga."
"'You do great work in 'Twilight,' can't wait to see the new movie,'" Kellan said, recalling his conversation with the fan. "I'm like, 'Thanks buddy!' He just continued to talk for 10 minutes."
"But, at least you're under water," Ellen noted.
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"They aren't that deep of spas," he said.
Ellen tried to get a peek at Kellan's ripped abs, asking him to take off his shirt if she donated $5,000 to The Humane Society of the United States, but the actor passed. Instead, he treated Ellen's audience to some impressive push-ups.
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I play my own "Grumpy Club" system in partnership with my wife.
Short (forcing) 1C (11+hcp, no better bid) with forcing 1D response (neg or natural)
5 card majors, weak NT.
1D in 1st/2nd seat is 9-11 balanced or natural, natural in 3rd/4th.
Multi 2C, 2D and 2NT opening bids, Ekren-style 2H (3-11 hcp), normal weak 2S.
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We're already pretty much in love with OLED displays, but besides stunning picture quality and low power consumption, when they were first introduced it was promised that one day OLED panels could be actually printed. And that day has finally come.
Konica Minolta has created the first printhead that can be used for electronics manufacturing applications thanks to its incredibly small inkjets that can create drops a mere picolitre in size.
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The new technology isn't some far-off concept stuck in Konica's research labs either. Samples will be shipped to manufacturers as early as the spring, meaning that in a few years you could easily print off a new display for your phone in-between copies of that quarterly report. [Konica Minolta via OLED-Display via SlashGear]


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I am hoping that you all may be able to help me through my next phase. I began at a pottery studio 8 months ago. To say that I've fallen in love with pottery is an understatement. So I took the next step. . . I have an 8 x 12 shed with a wheel and a wedging table and cabinet. I'm throwing like a madwoman! I've even taken my wheel out on our deck overlooking the Maine woods - nirvana!
So I have that down and it's time to fire up the used kiln I bought. It is a GARE electric with a kiln sitter that can go to cone 10. I
I am used to working with cone 10 clay and I love the 550 porcelain. I've worked with 910 (too groggy) 700 (better) BMix, and two white clays (can't remember). I found that b-mix at the studio seemed to pull out so much gray in the glazes so celadon was AWFUL.
Working with glazes (cone 5/6) is all new. I can't afford the dry (25lbs???) and do not want to invest in something until I am sure
So I am reaching out to kindhearted potters for help. Advice about the first firing, the best glazes (I tend to like pastels), the best clay (I prefer white and porcelain). My pottery studio also has a supply that is well stocked.
I look forward to learning and maybe some day being able to know enough to pay it forward.
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About a month ago, I started working on a complete reimplementation of Idris, because there are a number of things about the current implementation that have been bothering me for a while. It's now got to a point where it's beginning to work (in particular, the standard well-typed interpreter is up and running). You can start playing with it now, and follow progress at the github repository.
I'm usually very reluctant to start something again – especially so with Idris since I've been working on it for a few years now. But there's quite a few problems with the current design. In fact, "design" is too strong a word – I didn't really know when I started what I wanted the language to do and which features I'd need. Moreover, it's evolved out of a theorem proving system Ivor that was originally meant to do something else, and it's getting harder and harder to add the new features I want (e.g. mod cons like
where clauses, destructuring
case, and essential gadgets for developing large systems like separate compilation and a decent module system) without having to jump through hoops.
Pleasingly, the new version is not far off catching up with where the old version was. Basic syntax, type checking with implicit syntax and evaluation are all working (mostly better than before…) There is no
with rule yet, but it won't be long. There'll be a compiler not long after I've decided how to handle IO (I want to keep the IO primitives as primitive as I can so that it will be possible to experiment with different high level representations).
The main, significant, distinction between the previous implementation and this is the type checker. In the new version, the type checker is kept extremely simple – no implicit syntax, no unification, no generating proof obligations or coercions. Instead, we have a core type theory with metavariables, and an EDSL (that is, an embedded domain specific language) called
Elab which constructs programs using Coq-style tactics, directed by the high level source text, and filling in metavriables by unification where it can. This idea will be unsurprising to anyone who is following the progress of Epigram.
Elab an EDSL has several advantages. Adding a new language construct (e.g. pattern matching, now, or maybe coercions, or type classes, some day…) is simply a matter of writing a sequence of tactics to build that construct in the core type theory. To check a pattern match clause, for example, we elaborate the left hand side inferring types for the pattern variables as we go, and use this information to elaborate the right hand side. Another advantage is that it will be easy to expose the EDSL to an Idris programmer for building domain specific decision procedures (e.g. a Ring Solver would be nice). Finally, making the elaborator do all of the work and keeping the type checker simple means that we can be far more confident that only well-typed programs are accepted.
I'll go back into my hacking shed now, and I'm staying there until all the programs that worked with the previous version compile. Hopefully this won't take long :). In the meantime, if you have a go, please let me know what you come up with. In particular, if anything behaves badly, please shout – I want this version to work well!


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — For the millions of people suffering from the intensely red, horribly itchy skin condition known as eczema, the only thing more maddening than their disease is the lack of understanding of what causes it, or makes it flare up from time to time.
Now, a new finding made by University of Michigan Medical School researchers and their colleagues may bring that understanding closer – and could help lead to better treatments.
In a paper published online in Nature, the team reports that a toxin produced by the common bacteria Staphylococcus aureus – popularly known as "staph" – causes immune-system cells in the skin to react in a way that produces eczema-like rashes.
The release of the molecule, called delta toxin, by staph bacteria caused immune-related mast cells in the skin to release tiny granules that cause inflammation. But this didn't occur when skin was exposed to staph strains that lacked the gene for delta toxin.
The researchers showed that delta toxin from staph bacteria caused immune-system cells called mast cells to "degranulate" — or release granules that trigger inflammation. These electron microscope images clearly show the difference between mast cells with and without delta toxin exposure.
This link between a specific S. aureus toxin and mast cell degranulation suggests a very specific mechanism, though it's not enough to suggest delta toxin from staph bacteria by itself causes eczema, says senior author and U-M professor Gabriel Nunez, M.D. Genetic vulnerability likely also plays a role, he says.The finding was made in mice, so it's too soon to say that the same effect occurs in humans who suffer from eczema, also called atopic dermatitis. But the researchers did find significant levels of staph delta toxin in skin samples taken from patients with eczema.
Nunez, lead author Yuumi Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., co-author Naohiro Inohara, Ph.D., and their colleagues hope their finding provides a new avenue for developing treatments to help the 15 to 30 percent of children, and 5 percent of adults who have eczema.
Yuumi Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., and Gabriel Nuñez, M.D., the lead and senior authors of the new research on eczema and staph infections.
Some – including patients – have previously noted that eczema patients who take antibiotics for other conditions experience a lessening of eczema symptoms. But antibiotics have many drawbacks as long-term therapies for a chronic condition such as eczema – most of all, the threat of contributing to the already serious issue of multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and involved NIH researchers who study S. aureus. Nunez notes that the initial hint of a link came totally by chance, as an incidental finding in an unrelated mast cell study they were conducting. They zeroed in on the little-understood delta toxin and began exploring its power to provoke mast cells to cause inflammation.
"We know that 90 percent of patients with atopic dermatitis, also called eczema, have staph bacteria detectable on their skin," says Nunez, who is the Paul de Kruif Professor of Academic Pathology. "But until now, it has not been suspected that the contribution was primary, because there was not a clear mechanistic link. Now we have evidence that there may indeed be a direct link."
The challenge, he says, will be to test ways to inhibit the effects of delta toxin, so that mast cells don't get provoked and inflammation doesn't occur – but to do it in a way that won't cause resistant bacteria to evolve.
For example, if the researchers can find the receptor on mast cells that the delta toxin binds to, perhaps they can develop a receptor blocker. And, the researchers hope to study human eczema patients to see if delta toxin plays the same role as it did in the mice.
These images show the eczema-like inflammation caused by the application of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria to mouse skin (center) compared with a non-staph control and application of staph bacteria that lacked the ability to make delta toxin (right).
Getting to the origin
Part of the exciting challenge presented by this new discovery, Nunez says, is simply learning more about what delta toxin does and why the bacteria produce it."This bacterium is everywhere, but very little is known about the delta toxin," Nunez explains. "The bacteria do not likely produce it to cause disease, but produce it in response to an increase in neighboring bacteria – something called quorum sensing."
The gene for the toxin is regulated through a cellular pathway that's responsible for S. aureus's virulence, or ability to cause disease. The staph bacteria may produce delta toxin to kill other competing bacteria that reside on the skin – including benign and beneficial ones.
So, the toxin may have to do with that kind of "battle" between microscopic organisms fighting for a niche on the host body. "Perhaps the host – the human – gets involved in the middle of the war," Nunez speculates. "And eczema is the collateral damage of the bacteria producing the delta toxin factor to cause colonization, and aggravating host mast cells." Further research will be needed to find out.
This kind of research is what U-M's new Host Microbiome Initiative is all about. Nunez is one of dozens of U-M faculty from many disciplines who have come together to study the interplay between bacteria and other microscopic organisms, and different aspects of the human body and disease. With new funding from the Medical School's Strategic Research Initiative, they will accelerate their research in coming months and years.
Nunez and his colleagues have filed for a patent on the discovery through U-M Tech Transfer, which is actively seeking commercialization partners.
Authors: Nakamura is now at Chiba University in Japan. Other authors were Jon Oscherwitz and Kemp B. Cease of U-M and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System; Susana M. Chan, Raul Munoz-Planillo and Mizuho Hasegawa of U-M; NIH researchers Michael Otto, Amer E. Villaruz and Gordon Y. C. Cheung from the Laboratory of Human Bacterial Pathogenesis at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Martin J. McGavin of the University of Western Ontario; and Jeffrey B. Travers of the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Funding: The research was funded by the Chiba University Global COE Program, the Cell Science Research Foundation, the Kanae Foundation for the Promotion of Medical Science, the Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Award I01BX000429, the Intramural Research Program of NIAID, NIH grants R01AR059688 and R01HL062996, and National Cancer Institute funds for the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center's Immunology Monitoring Core.
Reference: Nature, Advance Online Publication, doi:10.1038/nature12655


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NORTHWOOD — When Coe-Brown Northwood Academy's strongest cross country runners struggled at Saturday's Meet of Champions, a pair of freshmen and a sophomore stepped in and led the Bears.
Freshman Elisabeth Danis was fourth, sophomore Katie Scannell placed 10th and freshman Brooke Laskowsky was 11th. Combined with Hannah Parker's 13th-place finished and Jessie Carney's subpar 41st, CBNA comfortably defended its MOC crown at Nashua South High School with 66 to 109 for second-place Londonderry.
The Bears, who also won their third straight D-II title on Oct. 27, now focus their attention on the New England championships Saturday in Cumberland, Maine. The boys race is at 11:30 a.m. followed by the girls race at 12:30 p.m. Coe-Brown was third last year, the best finish in school history.
"It wasn't perfect," said Coe-Brown co-coach Brent Tkaczyk. "Our 1-2 definitely struggled. We were picked up by our freshmen."
And Katie Scannell, who has battled back from an early-season hip injury to be a key contributor. She ran fifth at the D-II meet, behind Danis (3rd) and Parker (1st).
"Both Brooke and Lis were amazing," Tkaczyk said. "And Katie Scannell comes in the top-10, so that was the key to it. That's been our depth throughout the year."
Carney, a junior, has battled a virus for several weeks, and Parker is trying to overcome a stomach virus, which caused her to fade at the end of the MOC from top-five to 13th.
"Everyone else stepped up, so we still ran well," Carney said. "Hannah and I have been the leaders all year long. And now that we need help they're stepping up at the right time."
"It's definitely helped that my confidence is back these last couple races," Katie Scannell said. "It's important with racing to be confident with yourself and just go out there and do your job."
Coe-Brown's scoring runners all season have been a combination of underclassmen: three freshmen, two sophomores and a junior. Senior Katelyn Terry rounds out the top seven.
The stomach virus hit Coe-Brown during the week and the team was hoping it would run its course by Friday, possibly allowing Parker's health to improve and for her to be ready.
"What we've been saying all year is that we've never had a really solid No. 1," Tkaczyk said. "It's been a group. That's what's been amazing about our team."
"The two freshmen and Katie are propelling this team and it's exciting," said co-coach Tim Cox. "Part of our plan with Jessie and Hannah on Saturday is to work off that three's strengths. Hopefully that last mile will kick in."
Although just freshmen, Danis and Laskowsky were experienced runners coming into the season. Danis comes from Nottingham, where Parker and the Scannells hail from.
Laskowsky is from Deerfield, and her presence on Coe-Brown's team has an element of luck involved. Deerfield has an agreement with Concord High School to send most of its students there. There is an exception. Deerfield has a lottery, which allows a small percentage of its graduating eighth-graders to attend Coe-Brown. Laskowsky was one of three lottery winners.
"That's some serious luck," Tkaczyk added.
"I've been trying hard," Laskowsky said. "I've had help from everyone on the team and the coaches are fantastic."
"The last couple of races we've been trying really hard to push ourselves so we can help the team win," Danis added.
The third freshman is Meg Scannell, who is trying to come back from a hip injury that has slowed her down the past two races.
Moving forward, the 3.1-mile Maine course at Twin Brook Recreation Area is more to the Bears' liking than the Nashua course, which is flat and fast.
"It's not going to be fast," Tkaczyk said. "There's going to be some mud out there, rolling hills. Similar to our course. Similar to Thetford (Vermont), where there are a lot of tight turns. We loved it."
It was at Thetford last month that the Bears beat defending New England champion Champlain Valley Union (Vt.) 54 to 70. Carney, Parker and Danis finished 6, 7, 8, and Laskowsky and Katie Scannell were 14th and 19th.
CVU's top two runners, Taylor Spillane and Autumn Eastman, finished 1-2, but after that they placed 12th, 23rd and 32nd.
"It's a similar blueprint," Cox said. "I'm not sure they've been able to close that gap that we sort of exposed between their three and their four. We know Champlain and we know we can beat them and compete with them and finish really well on Saturday."
Coe-Brown will go into Saturday's race as the highest rated New England team according to the most recent high school cross country poll (Nov. 8) from The Running Times. The Bears are ranked fourth in the Northeast, which includes all the New England states, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Barrington, R.I., is fifth, Champlain Valley is eighth and Whitman-Hanson, Mass., is ninth. Pennsbury, Pa., is ranked first.
Massachusetts does not compete in the New England meet.
"Brent and I were kind of reminding ourselves these kids should celebrate," Cox added. "They've achieved a lot in a very short time, especially with how young a team it is."
Cox stressed the need to enjoy the sport and the moments like the Bears have experienced the past several weeks.
"We thought we were a little too nervous (last week) and that's not having fun," he said. "We have to remind them that this is a sport and it's not the end of the world if you don't do well. That's first and foremost what we reminded them.
"It's exciting," Cox added. "Every week with its level of competition we want them to embrace it and not step away from it. It's an opportunity not a lot of teens have. We want to take advantage of the opportunity and represent New Hampshire well."
Which means sticking to what has worked with this group.
"That's pack running and running together," Cox said. "Always knowing you're not by yourself. And if you are by yourself, find that red shirt and be with that teammate because there's more power in numbers."
"I'm talking about seven people," Tkaczyk added. "When you get five of them to run at their best is very rare. That's the challenge and whoever does that on Saturday, that's the team that comes out on top."
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NORTHWOOD — When Coe-Brown Northwood Academy's strongest cross country runners struggled at Saturday's Meet of Champions, a pair of freshmen and a sophomore stepped in and led the Bears.


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1977: Eagles Trade Charle Young to Rams for Ron Jaworski
On March 9, 1977 the Philadelphia Eagles and Los Angeles Rams traded the negotiating rights to disgruntled players who had played out their options and were looking to change teams. Charle Young, well-established as a top pass receiving tight end in Philadelphia, was swapped for Ron Jaworski, caught in the glut at quarterback in LA.
Jaworski (pictured at right), just short of his 26th birthday, had been chosen by the Rams in the second round of the 1973 draft out of Youngstown State. He found himself competing for playing time with, first, John Hadl, and then James Harris and Pat Haden during his four years in Los Angeles. "The Polish Rifle" started a handful of games, including a NFC Divisional playoff game win over the Cardinals. Jaworski was injured in '76, and dropped to the number three spot behind Haden and Harris as a result (Harris was also dealt away during the same offseason, while an over-the-hill Joe Namath was brought in).
The 6'2", 195-pound quarterback refused a five-year, $700,000 offer to stay with the Rams, hoping for a better opportunity elsewhere. While he had entertained offers from other clubs (technically, he was a free agent), Eagles Head Coach Dick Vermeil assured Jaworski of an opportunity to start. Vermeil, having completed one season in Philadelphia, was not satisfied with holdover quarterbacks Mike Boryla, who suffered from inconsistency, and Roman Gabriel, once an outstanding player but now clearly on the downside of his career. He was familiar with Jaworski from when he was offensive backfield coach with the Rams in 1973.
"We are very excited about obtaining the rights to Ron Jaworski while at the same time
we are disappointed about having to give up the rights to Charle Young," Vermeil said following the completion of the trade.
Charle Young had been an All-American at Southern California and was one of Philadelphia's two first round draft picks in 1973 (the other was OT Jerry Sisemore). He had an immediate impact, catching 55 passes for 854 yards and receiving NFC Rookie of the Year honors from UPI as well as consensus first-team All-Pro recognition. It was the first of three straight Pro Bowl seasons as Young followed up with an NFC-leading 63 receptions for 696 yards in '74 and 49 for 659 yards in 1975. However, the team went a combined 16-25-1, and Head Coach Mike McCormack was replaced by Vermeil. Young caught just 30 passes for 374 yards in 1976.
The 6'4", 240-pound Young was as outspoken as he was talented – from the day he was drafted, he made clear that he considered himself to be an elite player. He also tinkered with his first name throughout his stay in Philadelphia, which evolved from Charles to Charlie, Charli, and Charle.
The contract negotiations with the Eagles were going badly, and it was apparent that the brash tight end was looking to move elsewhere. "I want to play for a warm weather franchise," Young said. "I'd like to play on natural turf and I'd like to be with a contender."
"Charles Young would give us an added dimension as both a wide receiver and tight end," said Chuck Knox, head coach of the Rams, following the trade. "I coached him in the Pro Bowl and I'm delighted we've acquired the rights to a player of this quality."
In going back to Los Angeles, his college town, Young was clearly getting his wishes granted. However, the result was not what he anticipated. The Rams were a run-oriented team, and Terry Nelson emerged to move ahead of Young on the depth chart. The former All-Pro caught just five passes in 1977, and a total of 36 in three seasons in LA.
Jaworski, meanwhile, developed along with the Eagles under Vermeil's guidance. He passed for 2183 yards in 1977, completing 48 percent of his passes with 18 touchdowns and 21 interceptions for a club that went 5-9. In 1978, Jaws completed 51.8 percent of his throws for 2487 yards and broke even with 16 TDs and interceptions apiece. The Eagles were 9-7 and claimed a wild card spot for their first foray into the postseason since 1960. In '79, Jaworski's yardage total was 2669 and he had more touchdowns (18) than passes picked off (12) as Philadelphia improved to 11-5 and another wild card playoff berth. 1980 saw the Eagles win the NFC East with a 12-4 record and advance to the Super Bowl (a loss to the Raiders). Jaworski led the NFC in passing (91.0 rating) and threw for 3529 yards with 27 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. He was selected to the Pro Bowl and received the Bert Bell Trophy from the Maxwell Club as NFL MVP.
Things did get better for Young – and worse for Jaworski. Young moved on to the San Francisco 49ers in 1980 and again became a starting tight end. He caught 37 passes for 400 yards and five TDs during the 1981 season that culminated in a championship. He played the last three years of his career for the Seahawks (1983-85) and ended up with a career total of 418 catches for 5106 yards and 27 touchdowns. While he never achieved All-Pro or Pro Bowl recognition after leaving Philadelphia, he was a serviceable player who contributed to a Super Bowl championship.
The Eagles went out in the first round of the playoffs in 1981 and dropped to 3-6 during the strike-shortened '82 season, after which Vermeil resigned. The team slid back into mediocrity, with organizational problems aiding the descent.
Jaworski stayed with Philadelphia through the 1986 season, when he finally was forced to give way to Randall Cunningham. Tough and durable, he started every game of his first seven years in Philadelphia until sidelined by a broken leg suffered 13 games into the '84 season. By the time "The Polish Rifle" left, to finish his career with a year apiece in Miami and Kansas City, he had set team career passing records that would not be broken until Donovan McNabb's tenure at quarterback, including attempts (3918), completions (2088), yards (26,963), and touchdowns (175).
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To say this year has seen some scandals in the global supply chain would be a huge understatement. The horsemeat scandal has continued to dominate the headlines for the best part of three months now, and with the Asian market recently discovering rat meat being sold as lamb, this is clearly not something which is just going to blow over. The question is not only how long has this kind of fraudulent activity been going on, and what is going to be done about it?
Pressure is Building
Without knowing exactly how long this has been going on, and I think it is safe to say we are unlikely to never know the true scale of these scandals, it is impossible to say what the cause is. However, if this decision to substitute meats for cheaper alternatives without informing the consumer is a reaction to the current state of the economy across Europe, then there is at least some sense behind these crazy happenings.
Somewhere, decisions have been made to try and maintain the dwindling profit margins of companies and reducing their overheads by using cheaper meat products enables this. However, clearly this is at the expense of the consumer who is left paying over the odds for beef and lamb when they are actually buying lower quality and much cheaper produce.
Similar scandals have not been found to such a degree outside of the global food market supply chain, but what is clear is the pressure which is being put on companies which trade within it, and this pressure is likely to be felt across all supply chains worldwide as profit margins grow tighter and consumer demand continues to rise. The issue is, will consumer demand continue to stay as high as it is, especially when buying online, if there are questions asked about the confidence they can have in businesses if even going to their local supermarket for something as simple as meat can come back to bite them?
Trust Must be Restored in Supply Chains
It is all well and good saying restoring consumer trust must be the first port of call in moving onwards, but how exactly can this be managed? The first step must be for businesses that have been caught up in these issues to hold up their hands and admit they have made mistakes and are looking to put steps in place to make sure it does not happen again.
From there, the obvious step seems to be to put into place a series of rigorous tests on produce which is being traded throughout the supply chain, both before they leave the factory in which they are made, and once again when the retailer takes stock of the goods before selling them on to consumers. That way, if any issues are flagged up, there will be accountability, which in turn results in consumer trust being restored.
This can also be helped by firms using trustworthy companies to ship their goods across the globe; ones who they know will not compromise the quality of their products during what can be a very testing process, shipping produce across the globe under tight deadlines. Espace Global Freight is such a company, offering three kinds of top quality international freight; namely road, sea and air freight services.
By combining accountability, stringent testing of products and trustworthy companies handling the goods which are being traded within the supply chain, consumers can once again sleep well, knowing they are buying exactly what they expect when they next go to the supermarket for some meat.
Steven Capocci is a freelance writer who has studied supply chain mechanics in-depth and realises using trustworthy companies such as Espace Global Freight guarantees quality.


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At a convention of artificial intelligence convention a few days ago, a prediction based on available data, was made that the power of artificial intelligence is very likely to develop to levels billions times that of existing human intelligence.
The suggestion made on this information is that a synch has to be established between the human and the artificial intelligences , in order to be able to retain nexus, for the sake of prevention of astronomically huge differences to develop , possibly causing terrible miscalculations and their consequences.
Would some kind of microchip injected into the human body create a bio-feedback system on some level do the job? Would it need constant upgrade as AI increases at an increasing slope level?
Could the human neural system accommodate such increases by adding new neuron channels and circuitry?
Or, would the brain abruptly shut down?
And finally , what would be the resultant changes in human life and reality resulting from this ? Would we , as a species move closer to the entity of God, as we have intelligently developed it , since our inception?
Anybody care to hazard some kind of picture of this description of a possible/probable truly brave new world?
Less broadly, will consciessness and interactive non verbal communication become more prone to validate such now marginal areas of study such currently ascribed to people like Jung, and Casey? Will extra sensory perception, psychic phenomena and Theism become more credible?
Will brain power increasing phenomenally prove magnet like properties of cortical - brain studies, to re-examine ideas associated with Reich' s Orgone theory and intuitive philosophy, mathematics, verification of Bergson's ideas?
Will belief in God be more theoretically demonstratable, where Ultimate Consciousness will coincide with the view of a closing circle between approximation of Absolute apprehension between a mathematically demonstrated closure of the LIEBNITZIAN idea of the coincidence of 2 perfect spheres? Will the disposed idea of ether be re-considered?
If some, or most, or even all of the above can be settled by then, will the idea of Man as God be acceptable ?
The premise for this last proposition rests with the abandonment of a Creatinost theory, since that is becoming obsolete for the reason that:
For Being to exist, it has to develop out of the archaic(by then-) digital either/or idea. (There can not be a conception of nothing without the perception of something)
Therefore some and no thing are logically interdependent and causally insignificant, on that level. Sameness will loose its significance as well, and as Intelligence will be concerned, the God-Man distinction will also break down,
disconcerting the connection between knowledge and evil,
-and the Faustian Romantic idiom, as well. New Romantic revivals may set the tone, as well, and Humanism become legitimized, no longer as worship on the altar of self service, and Narcissism but as the beginning of an era of mass adherence to the idea is The Superman. The Machine, fed this information, would never revolt against God, since It will know Itself as One With. Destroy man, the idea as substance, It also destroys Itself.


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LONDON, November 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Following the Substance Abuse Death report[1] showing an eight-fold increase in deaths from legal highs in 2010 alone, the Angelus Foundation, launches the first national film competition through its Why Not Find Out Campaign for young people to explore ways of getting naturally high on Wednesday 14 November at the Tricycle Cinema in Camden, London.
The Angelus event is supported by Lord Puttnam, the Angelus Ambassador for film, Lord Parry Mitchell, Dr Anthony Seldon, the Co-Founder of the Happiness Campaign, the comedian and celebrity presenter Jeff Leach as well as Simon Berthon and other award winning film producers who will mentor the winners.
There is a rapidly growing number of new drugs which young people may be tempted to experiment with. This national film competition shows that young people can share their favourite ways of releasing natural chemicals which make them naturally high: still having fun, but staying safe.
Young people will be invited to compete to make films about the best ways of getting naturally high, such as sports and music (film makers can seek funding through o2's Think Big programme (http://www.o2thinkbig.co.uk) which gives grants of £300 to 13-25 year olds for film projects aimed at addressing local issues). The winners will be mentored by award winning film producers including Simon Berthon (who produced Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters, Nuremburg: Goering's Last Stand and the Channel 4 series Warlords) and the judges of the competition include Lord David Puttnam, the Angelus Ambassador for Film. The winning films will appear on television.
Almost one-third of young people are searching for ways of getting legally high according to the latest survey commissioned by the Angelus Foundation. However two-thirds of the 16-24 year olds (67%) surveyed admitted not being well informed about the risks associated with taking legal highs[2]. In fact a quarter (26%), wrongly believe that legal highs are safer than illegal drugs. Even more worryingly, the vast majority of parents[3] (86%) also lack the vital knowledge needed to warn their children about the dangers of legal highs.
Substances sold as legal highs are invariably an unknown quantity. They may be a dangerous combination of toxic chemicals which young people take, believing they are safe. There is a wide range of side effects which can include psychosis, depression, panic attacks, heart problems, seizures, coma, loss of use of the bladder and even death and yet there are no warnings about the health hazards.
The Why Not Find Out campaign, supported by advertising agency Leagas Delaney, and a website - http://www.whynotfindout.org - provides impartial information and advice for young people to help them make informed decisions about legal highs.
Maryon Stewart, founder of the Angelus Foundation says,
"Our children don't need to die or be harmed for life by these toxic chemical falsely disguised as legal highs. It's natural for young people to want to have fun but it's important that they stay safe and fully understand just because a substance is legal it doesn't mean it's safe. Instead, we are providing them with the opportunity of capturing on film the many wholesome ways of getting naturally high including through sport, music, dance, comedy, relationships, friendships and nature and giving them access to mentoring by a panel of award winning film producers. Mother Nature allows us to feel high naturally by releasing endorphins, but many of us have forgotten to tell this to our children. Too little emphasis has been placed on releasing these feel good hormones and it's time to explore the best ways of getting naturally high".
The launch of the Naturally High film competition will take place on the 14th November at the Tricycle Cinema in Kilburn, London NW6 at 9pm, in conjunction with the Jewish Film Festival which was named 'Pick of the Week' by Time Out this month. Tickets for the launch on the 14th November can be obtained by calling the box office on 020 7328 1000 or by going to http://www.tricycle.co.uk
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Why Not Find Out is the brainchild of Maryon Stewart, who founded the Angelus Foundation after her daughter, 21 year old medical student Hester, died in 2009 after consuming the then legal GBL. Through dedicated research, education and advocacy, The Angelus Foundation strives to highlight the risks of legal highs and club drugs and encourage young people to make informed, responsible choices and lead safer lives.
For further information on Why Not Find Out or the Angelus Foundation, or to arrange an interview, please contact Ally Gill on 0845 177 1070 or firstname.lastname@example.com
UK Jewish Film and the Pears Foundation have been supporting UK filmmakers since the UK Jewish Film Festival's inception in 1996. Every year, two grants of £10,000 are made available for the production of a short film - drama, animation or factual with a Jewish theme of significance to both Jewish and general audiences. The judging panel is drawn from experienced professionals in the British film and TV industry and the scheme is open to all filmmakers resident in the UK. http://www.ukjewishfilm.org
1. National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths report: http://www.sgul.ac.uk/research/projects/icdp/our-work-programmes/pdfs/np-SAD%2012th%20annual%20report%202011.pdf
2. The Angelus Foundation commissioned the independent online research company Research Now who surveyed 1,011 16-24 Brits, between 3rd and 8th October 2012
3. Source: YouGov survey commissioned by Frank 18th - 23rd July 2012
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