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December 20, 2012
Mark Dantonio
MARK DANTONIO: First of all, I guess the opening statement would be we've had seven practices. I think our players are in great condition. Injuries are at a minimum, and we should have everybody back at game time, so if we do have a guy nicked up‑‑ I thought our guys have handled practice very well. We got through exams. I think our cumulative grade point average is as high as it's ever been as a football group, so that's promising for us, and we're excited to play. So we'll bring everybody down with us and we're at full tilt.
Q. Coach Roushar said you guys have installed QB mobile emphasis plays that whether or not they get used in the Bowl game is going to depend on execution, how they go in practice. Would you give us your evaluation of how that's going?
MARK DANTONIO: Well, I think everything offensively, it's always‑‑ and really defensively and special teams, it's always about execution, I think especially in Bowl games. The teams that executes the best, the team that does not turn the football over, doesn't make mistakes, can tackle in space, those type of things, play great fundamentals I think is usually the team that comes out on top. What we have to do I think is work within our foundation, get some wrinkles offensively and defensively, change a little bit, but then be able to move forward.
But from where I'm at, we've done some live quarterback drills with tackling and with them running the football, so we'll see how it all works. But it's going to be the right time, right fit.
Q. Sometimes Bowl games are like icing on the cake and sometimes they're more season makers. Would you term this as more of a season maker?
MARK DANTONIO: Well, we've talked a lot about this Bowl game sort of being a legacy for our seniors as we leave. We've only got nine seniors with Fonoti and Hoover both coming back next year, so we're a young football team, and it gives us an opportunity to sort of move forward, I guess, in 2013. We look at this as a way to‑‑ we're going to live on this game for the next eight months, there's no question about that. We saw how it went last year with the Outback Bowl, we also have seen how it's gone in the past when we haven't done so well in the Bowl game.
I think it's important that we're ready to play and we're focused, not just ready to play physically but also mentally and fresh, and we'll keep our guys fresh. We'll go down ‑‑ we're not down there that long in terms of the practice time. So before you know it we'll be playing ‑‑ really a week from Saturday we're playing. So it'll be exciting for us.
Q. You mentioned the quarterbacks being live, and Andrew said he has just been able to tell in the last week or so that he feels like he's going to be a little bit more game ready with that being live. If you could give us some specifics about what you've seen from him and some of the other guys about how they've reacted to being able to be hit in practice.
MARK DANTONIO: Well, we try to do basically drills as much as anything where they were going to get more than one rep. That's all of our players. I think it's important that we hang onto the football. I also think it's important that we try and rip the football out. Those are two things that you have to do offensively and defensively. We sort of constructed drills relative to that, whether it was with our quarterbacks or tailbacks or wide outs and went live on them, and there's a little bit of a Catch 22 on that because you're a little bit nervous when you have to work like that.
But we made it through, and we held our breath a little bit. We made it through, but they were impressive running the football, both he, Cook and Tyler O'Connor, they were all very impressive running the football. They're all 215 pounds or more, and they've all got good athletic ability, it's just a matter of them putting that at game speed.
Q. Other than the position switches with Hammock, Thomas and Caesar, is there anyone else you're looking at?
MARK DANTONIO: Well, I think right now Hammock is a guy that will see reps at fullback, LT will definitely play defensive tackle probably and fullback. The third guy was Juwan Caesar, he's been a tight end for quite a while, but he's a guy that is not in the two deep right now. But he has been at tight end really throughout. Kyle Kerrick really has been at defensive back throughout the entire fall. Thomas will play both in the game. I think he's got the ability to do that, and he's been impressive at the defensive line position. He's an athlete, very athletic. He's a red shirt freshman, it's just a matter of him getting used to the position that he's going to play and staying injury free.
Q. Could you give us your assessment of LT, how he's done on the line, and has he repped? I know you said he'll play, but has he repped at both sides of the ball?
MARK DANTONIO: He's repped at both sides, but more defensively this Bowl practice. We felt like we needed to get him up to speed offensively throughout the season, and now this is an opportunity to take that defensive aspect and put it into use.
But he's got quick feet, he's powerful, he's 290 pounds, he's got great feet, he's got great balance, he shoots his hands. The thing that you have is a guy‑‑ remember he's a guy that was recruited here as a linebacker so you've got a guy that can run like a linebacker playing up front for us. He is play defensive end, he can play defensive tackle different type situations, as well, so I think he's a guy that can do a lot of different things for us. He's going to be a great player for us in the future, and it's our intent right now to use him at the defensive line position, but also because of his background now having played fullback for pretty much 10 games, he's got that ability to adapt and be able to play in and out of that position, as well.
Q. When you guys are watching film and preparing, I think Kansas State came up as a team that was similar to y'all offensively. How much did you learn from that Kansas State‑TCU tape?
MARK DANTONIO: I think you learn a little bit from every game that they play because every game is a little bit different and you watch the players they're playing against. The K‑State game, a lot of the film is broken down, you look at offensively, defensively and special teams, so it's broken, so you're watching cut‑ups and then you're also watching the game film. What you see is a great K‑State team and you see a TCU team that's sort of hanging in there with them that really turns the ball over, and really that's what is the bottom line in that football game I feel. I feel like they're playing pretty well against them, but they turn the football over, and when you turn it over it's tough to win, and that's what happened in that football game.
Q. Off the subject of your team, I know you've sung Kirk Cousins' praises before, but have you talked to him or did you watch his game Sunday and what is your impression of what he's done the last two weeks?
MARK DANTONIO: Yeah, I watched his game in and out because we couldn't get it here in Michigan, believe it or not. I looked all over the place for it. But nice haircut. I see he's got a haircut now.
We text a lot. We text back and forth a lot. It's not surprising to me. He's extremely competitive; he's got a great attention to detail; he's a gamer when things are on the line; he's got great leadership skills in the huddle; he adapts very fast; and he's got great athletic ability. He's a good athlete.
So when you see him perform and you see him have success, it doesn't surprise you. But I've always said that really anything that Kirk does doesn't surprise me because he does it at the highest level. Very, very happy for he and his family and for Michigan State and for the Redskins and the things that he's been able to do. But he's a tremendous person and a tremendous player, and I've always said that as good a football player he is, he's a better person. It's enjoyable to watch.
I caught highlights from all the games. I watched his interviews and I've got all those TVs in my staff room, so I've always‑‑ when he gets on there, that thing is getting turned up and I'm just watching. It's unique, I think, that he and Nick Foles will be playing against each other, or their two teams are playing against each other this Sunday, this weekend.
Q. From both a coaching standpoint and a personal standpoint, what's your favorite part of this extra month of practice that you guys get?
MARK DANTONIO: I think from a practice standpoint, the best part is to see your players move forward. To have the opportunity to play in a Bowl experience is a positive experience any way you cut it for your football team. They have a chance to play on national TV against a team from outside the Big Ten. They've got a chance to go and visit a different area of the country and be a part of that community a little bit and sort of spread who Michigan State is.
And you also have an opportunity to work with your young players and see them participate in play, and you sort of work threes on threes or threes on twos and you get your young players playing. Demetrious Cox has been extremely impressive this Bowl practice, as some others have.
You see those things. Obviously I don't think the season has gone quite like we expected it to or wanted it to, but usually it's a reward, and I think in this case it's a reward in terms of how we've handled adversity and kept battling through.
You know, it's our seniors' last football game and you hate it to end in a regular season game.
For me personally, again, it's another opportunity to see your football team grow and mature, and you just continue to build a foundation, and as you remember when you first come to a place, six years ago we hadn't been to a Bowl in four years, I think. Now this is our sixth. So any way you cut it, we're building a strong foundation of who we are and what we're trying to do. And the game hangs on inches, I've always said that, and sometimes the inches didn't go our way this year. But regardless of that, we were resilient and kept battling, and those are the things that are important to me.
And you see our program grow. Because you don't win every single football game does not mean your program is not growing; it doesn't mean it doesn't have growth. And our football team is growing and continuing to have high expectations.
Q. You mentioned to us about going live on the quarterbacks in the spring and then you ended up doing it into the Bowl. Had you gone live on QBs in the Bowl, and was the reason because you wanted to speed up the maturation because this was kind of a young and inexperienced team?
MARK DANTONIO: Well, I wanted to make sure our young players ‑‑ we were taking advantage of this opportunity right now to do that, and I also wanted to make sure without having played in games since Thanksgiving weekend that our quarterbacks have been hit, that they're not going into a football game without having been hit, and I think that was very important, that they had to be able to hang onto the football when they were hit, they had to be able to scramble when they had problems, they had to be able to run with the football when they needed to, and I just thought that was something that we needed to do better. Maybe it wasn't missing as much as we just needed to do better at that aspect. I thought we'd try and address it and have the drills for us, so we did that pretty much every day. We did it yesterday, as well.
I think playing in space helps the defense. So whether you're‑‑ especially putting wide receivers and tailbacks in space and asking the defenders to make plays on them. So we went live on that, and they got a lot of reps at it, and that's where the game is going to be won or lost I feel. TCU is going to spread you out offensively. They've got a quarterback that's going to create in the pocket and create downfield. We've got to tackle in space, there's no question about that. Tailbacks, as well.
Q. Darqueze and Pat both said that they remind them a lot of Northwestern. When you look at them do you see the Northwestern similarities?
MARK DANTONIO: Yeah, you see Northwestern. I think you see that from their passing game sort of and some of the things that they're doing spreading you out. You've got different type of jet sweeps and some misdirection. You see a little bit of Nebraska in that, as well, some of the things that they do with their quarterback runs. So you see a little bit of‑‑ they're their own personality, they're their own football team, but you see a little bit as you watch through the games.
We'll continue watching and we'll have watched all 12 games in their entirety again by the time this thing rolls around.
Q. You had a couple guys who were going to apply to the advisory board just to get their feedback from the NFL. How do you balance that with keeping their focus and your ultimate discussion with them about leaving or not?
MARK DANTONIO: Well, our football team has always sort of been able to stay in the present, and I think that's what they've done. They've concentrated on their exams first, they did well, they come out of the exams, and now we concentrate on the Bowl game, and after that you worry about the future. We'll address that, I'll talk to some people down at the Bowl game. The first thing we need to do is get back from the advisory committee where they're projected at, and then from that you try and build a basis of what to do, what's the best thing to do.
So we spent a little time doing that at the Bowl game. That's what we've done with Greg Jones, that's what we did Jerel, that's probably what we'll do again. But we've had conversations a little bit with all three or four of the guys, and they're excited about being here at the present, and that's what's important.
We want to make sure as I said before in one of these press conferences, I want to make sure that as a football program we're not selfish, that we don't just say you've got to come back, you've got to come back, you've got to do this. We have to look at both ends of the spectrum and be fair to our football players and be fair to their futures.
With that being said, I think education is very important, but I also understand the monetary value of people as it progresses.
Q. Le'Veon and Will both told us they applied to get their assessment. You mentioned three or four. Who are the others?
MARK DANTONIO:Â I know that Dion applied for that, as well, and I'm not sure if Darqueze did or not.
Q. A little off the beaten bath, but I had an opportunity to talk to Lorenzo White and of course he had a 2,000 yard season here a couple decades ago. Back then it appeared Michigan State couldn't win a Heisman Trophy even with a high‑caliber back. Do you think that's changed now?
MARK DANTONIO: Yeah, I think if you see a freshman winning the Heisman Trophy, anything is possible. Here's a guy that really was an unknown coming into the season, but because he led his football team to I believe it was a 10‑and‑2 record, he's on the front page. I think you can look at Kansas State, as well, and what Colin Klein was able to do, and you saw some other people fade, obviously.
But I think anything is possible. What you have to do is win, and you have to be a primary player on that football team. But you have to win first. I think all the people that were at that ceremony were probably guys that were on extremely successful football teams this year, and so we're poised to be able to do that. We've done it before.
Right now Le'Veon is the third leading rusher in the country. He'll have a name for himself, he'll be projected. So there's a lot of advantages to doing something like that, but there's got to be value in that; value for him is what I'm talking about. And again, I go back to what I said earlier, I want to be fair to him and not be selfish with our program.
But there's pluses and minuses on both sides, and at some point in time you have to make decisions.
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Checking in on… the SECPosted by Brian Goodman on November 23rd, 2010
Jared Quillen is the RTC correspondent for the SEC.
A Look Back
The biggest story out of the SEC this week is the Southeastern Conference's suspension of Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl for the first eight games of conference play. Pearl hosted recruit Aaron Craft at his home contrary to NCAA rules and misled investigators about a picture that was taken with Craft during the visit. Pearl also admitted to making excessive recruiting phone calls. For his sins, the Tennessee will reduce Pearl's pay by a total of $1.5 million over the next five years and he is not allowed to recruit off campus for one year. Pearl got a pretty stiff punishment here, but this should come as no surprise. The NCAA is still considering the matter and may impose additional penalties in December when it releases its findings.
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Pearl should have known better from previous incidents and it is likely the NCAA will impose additional punishments. There are two universal truths in this life: one, the NCAA hates being left out of the punishment game when a violation has occurred, particularly for repeat offenders, and two, the NCAA hates recruiting violations. If you want to get your team in a heap of trouble, the fastest way to do it is through recruiting violations. Indiana is still suffering from the Kelvin Sampson disaster, a fellow repeat offender. Indiana is likely to miss the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year due to Sampson's cheating. Time will tell if the NCAA's sanctions will have such an effect on Tennessee. The moral of the story, keep it clean out there, coaches.
In other news, Georgia is playing well despite the loss of star Trey Thompkins who is out with a high ankle sprain. The Bulldogs got a good win against a talented Colorado team that should make the NCAA Tournament this year. The Bulldogs are currently 4-0, but Thompkins was recently cleared to practice.
In the preseason primer, I predicted Enes Kanter would be eligible for Kentucky. Seeking to make me look the fool, the NCAA saw otherwise. While the NCAA and Kentucky do agree on the facts of the case, that Enes Kanter received payment for play while in his native Turkey, they disagree on the interpretation of NCAA rules, Kentucky obviously believing Kanter deserves to play. The NCAA ruled that he received benefits over and above necessary expenses and declared him "permanently ineligible," a big blow to the Wildcats' plans to win a second straight SEC crown and an eighth National championship. John Calipari stated that he was not happy with the NCAA's decision but that he respected it. Following Kentucky's 88-65 win over East Tennessee State, Alan Cutler, a Lexington sports reporter, opened the press conference by asking Calipari's opinion on the matter. Calipari was noticeably frustrated and responded, "Didn't we just play a game?" The school will appeal the decision.
Power Rankings
- Kentucky (3-0) opened the season with a pasting of East Tennessee State 88-65 in which freshman Terrence Jones recorded a double-double scoring 25 points and collecting 12 rebounds. On Monday night against Oklahoma, Jones recorded his second double-double by scoring 29 points and pulling down 13 rebounds to go along with 3 assists, two steals, and four blocks. Apparently, Jones doesn't like to see anyone else's name on the stat sheet. In between those two games, Kentucky trounced Portland 79-48 in a game in which the Wildcats scored the first 15 points of the game and were never challenged. After three games, Kentucky leads the SEC in three-point field goal percentage and assist/turnover ratio, both weak points on last year's squad.
- Arkansas (2-0) While I don't expect the Razorbacks to remain at number two for very long, it's hard to drop them lower than number two when they won their first two games against Grambling State and Florida Gulf Coast by an average margin of 33 points per game. That's the highest scoring margin in the SEC, and it's not even close. Guard Rotnei Clarke picked up right where he left off last year making five three pointers in his first game this season. Through two games, Clarke is 10-23 from three point range and leads Arkansas in scoring at 17 points per game.
- Georgia is 3-0 record despite playing without preseason SEC POY pick Trey Thompkins. Mark Fox can flat-out coach. Underestimate him at your own peril. He will have the Bulldogs competing all year long and no game against the 'Dogs will be an easy one, with or without Thompkins. In Thompkins' absence, guard Travis Leslie has taken it upon himself to pick up the slack by leading Georgia in both points and rebounds at 18 and 8.3 per game, respectively. Georgia will need Thompkins back soon, however, as the road gets tougher from here. They next face Notre Dame in the Old Spice Classic which also features Temple, Wisconsin, California and Texas A&M.
- Mississippi State's (3-0) Kodi Augustus is leading the SEC in rebounds at 11.0 RPG and is second in scoring at 20.0 PPG behind fellow Bulldog Ravern Johnson's 25.5 PPG. While they didn't win big against Tennessee State, Appalachian State or Detroit, whom they defeated 75-65, 76-74 and 82-76, respectively, the Bulldogs are playing without guard Dee Bost and power forward Renardo Sydney. Mississippi State will be very, very good once Sydney and Bost return and should be an exciting team to watch.
- Vanderbilt (3-1) whipped Presbyterian 88-47 in the Commodores season opener then beat Nebraska 59-49 and followed that up with a hard fought loss to West Virginia, 74-71. The 'Dores got what might have been a nice win against North Carolina if it had not been tainted by the fact that UNC had previously lost to Minnesota two days before. Vanderbilt fans frequently chanted "overrated" as they taunted the Tar Heels in a game that Vandy led for all but a few moments. The pollsters seemed to agree, dropping UNC to the 25 spot. Regardless, Vanderbilt made touted UNC freshman forward Harrison Barnes look bad as they held him to just 4-12 shooting.
- Tennessee (3-0) Well, the Volunteers are undefeated but have yet to leave Knoxville. They got a 20 point win over Chattanooga. Beating Belmont by nine at home could be a little better, but it will do. A lot of folks sounded alarm bells when the Vols lost their exhibition game against Indianapolis. You can stop ringing the bells. Exhibition wins and losses are meaningless. These are tune-ups and coaches use them as such. Tennessee's real problems are off the court where Bruce Pearl's indiscretions may prove costly down the road. For now, Tennessee is playing well enough and should reach the finals of the NIT Preaseason Tip-Off following a win against VCU which I think they will get. Oh, and that Tobias Harris kid is everything he was hyped up to be. He currently leads Tennessee in scoring at 16.3 points per game, though he also leads in turnovers with 3.7 TPG.
- Florida (3-1). How does the preseason SEC favorite end up number seven? I think Doug Gottlieb summed it up well on Sunday when he said, "And then I saw them get pounded by Ohio State and I realized why all five starters returned." Florida easily handled UNC Wilmington, 77-60, in the Gators' season opener but they followed it with an ugly loss to Ohio State in which they played the same uninspired defense that they played last year. The Buckeyes easily beat Florida's press and shot 62.9% in the game. The Gators had no answer for Jared Sullinger inside who went 13-17 from the floor, nor for David Lighty who went 9-11. You will recall that I expressed skepticism over Florida being tabbed as the SEC preseason favorite. They appear to be the same team as last year in many respects, which makes sense as they have all the same players. They still lack defensive intensity particularly inside. Yes, they did pummel North Carolina A&T 105-55 following their loss to Ohio State and they got a quality win against NBA-bound Kenneth Faried's Morehead State team, but I remain skeptical. Florida shot only 26.3% from three point range and 38.9% overall in that game and Faried had his wicked way with Florida's bigs scoring 20 points and pulling down 18 rebounds. Patric Young was supposed to provide the inside game Florida was lacking but in four games for the Gators, he has yet to prove he is up to the job. Get it together, Gators, or you're going to make a lot of media folks feel very silly for picking you number one, not to mention those that picked the Gators as National Championship contenders.
- Mississippi (2-1) Ole Miss opened the year with a meaningless win over Arkansas State, which is currently 0-4 but then got a quality win over Ohio Valley Conference favorite Murray State behind guards Zach Graham's career high 22 points and Nick Williams' 21 points. The Rebels then lost a tough one against a quality Dayton team that came back from a 15 point second half deficit to win 78-71 by taking advantage of a 33 to 16 free throw opportunity disparity. In the end I don't expect this loss to cost Mississippi as a bad loss. The problem, however, was this was Mississippi's last chance to get a quality win against a non-conference opponent. The rest of Ole Miss's preseason schedule is cupcake city and since I expect the Rebels to be a bubble team this year, picking up another quality non-conference win was crucial. It may take ten conference wins to make the Tournament now. It sounds silly to say that so early, but that's the situation that Mississippi puts itself in every year by continually playing one of weakest preseason schedules of any team in a major conference.
- South Carolina (2-1) After watching the Gamecocks lose to Michigan State 82-73 in a game they were never supposed to have a chance of winning anyway, I realized I really liked this team. They played hard throughout and were never intimidated by the number two-ranked Spartans. Michigan State forced them into 20 turnovers and the 'Cocks shot poorly making only 35.7% from the field, but were able to get off 70 shots to State's 53. They battled and impressed me with their hunger. The reality is that they just didn't have the talent to keep up. Spartan's loaded team. This loss was sandwiched by dominating wins over Elon 95-79 and Radford 85-56. If South Carolina continues to play this way, I may have to rethink the four SEC wins I predicted, even in the loaded SEC East. Hard play always pays dividends. Hey did anyone else notice that South Carolina replaced 5'9 leading scorer Devan Downey who shot 40% last year with 5'9 leading scorer Bruce Ellington, who is shoots 35.1% this year. Ellington also averages three rebounds, 2.3 assists and four turnovers, nearly identical to Downey's marks in the same categories.
- LSU (2-2) Well, it's getting ugly down here towards the bottom. What is there to say about LSU? They opened with an 87-78 win over Northwestern State, and then lost to lowly Nicholls State 62-53. LSU held Nicholls State to only 35.8% from the field and only seven assists, outrebounded the Colonels and blocked more shots, yet they still lost. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that NSU stole the ball from them 12 times. When you can hold a team to only 35.8% and outrebound them by nine and still lose to that bad team, it's going to be a long year. There is some great young talent on this team in freshmen Andre Stringer and Ralston Turner who are leading the team in scoring at 15.8 and 12 points, respectively, but their shooting is horrendous at only 34 and 37%. LSU managed to get a win over Tennessee-Martin 79-56 — no reason for excitement there — and a loss against Memphis. It's early, but I think the Tigers are still a year away.
- Alabama (2-3) While LSU is disappointing, Alabama is inexcusable. Between talented players like JaMychal Green, Tony Mitchell, and Senario Hillman there is no reason Alabama should be on a three game losing streak to the likes of Seton Hall, Iowa and St. Peters. Seton Hall was picked to finish seventh in the Big East and Iowa was picked last in the Big Ten in the Rush The Court conference primers. Folks, I like Anthony Grant, but it's getting ugly out there. Alabama shot only 32.5% from the field in that loss to St. Peter's, a game that was supposed to be a walk through. Well, at least Alabama has wins against Florida A&M and Troy. That's got to count for something right?
- Auburn (1-3) When you open up with three straight losses to basketball giants like North Carolina-Asheville, Samford and Campbell, and your only win is a two point victory over a bad Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders team, it's hard to find something to be positive about. Because I like to find things to build on, I found something good. Sophomore guard Andre Malone is shooting lights-out from three point range, making 14-25 shots thus far. Last year he shot a mere 20.7% from three. After him, the Tigers are nothing to write home about. Auburn is currently last in the SEC in scoring offense, scoring margin, field goal percentage and turnover margin, and are eleventh of twelve teams in field goal percentage defense, three point percentage defense, assists, steals, and turnover margin. All of that amounts to Pomeroy's lowest-ranked team in the Big Six conferences. Those numbers aren't exactly against stellar teams. Good luck to you Auburn, those predicted three SEC wins are all of a sudden looking pretty hard to come by.
A Look Ahead
Here are the key matchups for Southeastern Conference teams this week:
- Georgia has a game they should win against Notre Dame in the Old Spice Classic on Thursday. Assuming they do, they will face the winner of Temple and California on Friday, a quality opponent either way. If they lose they face the loser of that same game. A good early test no matter the outcome, but the win is necessary as the Old Spice Classic is Georgia's last chance for some good non-conference wins.
- Tennessee next plays a tough VCU team on Wednesday at 7:00 Eastern. Win that and they take on the winner of Villanova/UCLA, (likely 'Nova) in the championship of the NIT Season Tip-Off on Friday. These two wins are important for Tennessee to keep their momentum going and stay positive in the face of the punishments handed down against their coach.
- Kentucky's foe tonight is Washington, a team that surely will want vengeance against the Wildcats for stealing away Terrence Jones and the now ineligible Enes Kanter, both of whom had previously committed to Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar before backing out and pledging allegiance to Calipari. It's must-see hoops TV tonight at 9:30 Eastern.
Other Points of Interest
- The SEC named Vanderbilt's John Jenkins SEC Player of the Week after he averaged 21.7 points and 3 rebounds per game in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off in San Juan in games against Nebraska, West Virginia, and North Carolina.
- Tennessee's Tobias Harris, was named SEC Freshman of the Week after leading the Volunteers in scoring and rebounding at 16 and 7 in wins against Belmont and Missouri State.
- Vanderbilt's Brad Tinsley just barely got the triple double against Presbyterian in Vandy's season opener with 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, but it was good for Vanderbilt's first one ever in its 110-year history.
- There is a little disparity between the SEC East and the SEC West. Maybe you've noticed. Currently the SEC is 29-12 overall, but 17 of those wins and only three losses come from the SEC East against slightly superior competition than the West is playing. The West is now 12-9. It's time that the SEC adopt a conference tournament that seeds the best team against the worst rather than pitting the number one team in the East against the number six in the West. This hurts the conference's chances at getting five to six bids. It also severely hurts the West's chances of getting multiple bids as the top West teams must play the bottom East teams which while still at the bottom of the East are considerably better than the bottom of the West. I am sure that come conference tournament time Mississippi State would much rather be facing off against the likes of Auburn or LSU than Vanderbilt or South Carolina, either of which could very well win a game or two in the conference tournament.


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Racism and Abuse on Twitter
Twitter CEO faces Prison; Still Lets Criminals Run Amok on Twitter
by Sue Basko, esq
Update: July 15, 2013: Twitter has finally turned over to the French court the Twitter account information to help identify users who were posting anti-Semitic tweets. French groups want the offending Twitter users to be prosecuted. Earlier, Twitter's lawyers had incorrectly argued that Twitter was not subject to French law or French courts, but only to U.S. courts. Perhaps the reported fact that Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was facing 3 years in a French prison for defying the French court order may have finally spurred him on to getting some solid legal advice.
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Racists have run amok on Twitter. The Twitter Legal and Safety departments have come up with "solutions" that leave the site and its users violating laws in every nation and have everyone, racists and their victims alike, dissatisfied. The problem seems to stem from a basic lack of understanding of law and practicalities. Twitter ought to take a practical clue from better-established Social Media, or at least bother to read up on internet law.
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Racists have run amok on Twitter. The Twitter Legal and Safety departments have come up with "solutions" that leave the site and its users violating laws in every nation and have everyone, racists and their victims alike, dissatisfied. The problem seems to stem from a basic lack of understanding of law and practicalities. Twitter ought to take a practical clue from better-established Social Media, or at least bother to read up on internet law.
It's time for Twitter to face that there are some malicious people who are not qualified to use a communications device like Twitter, because of their tendency to disrespect the rights of others. As the saying goes, some people just don't know how to internet.
A French Jewish student union filed a $50 million lawsuit against Twitter and Dick Costolo, its CEO, for failing to reveal the identity of those widely posting a racist hashtag. Earlier negotiations had resulted (finally) in Twitter removing the offensive tweets. Still, Twitter refused to reveal the contact information it had on the offending accounts.
Then, a court ordered Twitter and Mr. Costolo to reveal the names; they have thus far refused. It has been reported that Mr Costolo now faces 3 years in prison for his failure to obey this court order. Granted, that's three years in a French prison, where he may be given croissants and red wine. While we wish prison on no one, the soon-to-be Monsieur Costolo has refused to take the helm and change Twitter to make it socially and legally responsible. Peut-être qu'il a besoin d'être envoyé en prison. Avec croissants.
NOTE: I have been harassed and stalked on Twitter by a vulgar, disgusting group of neo-Nazi racists, which I have written about elsewhere. The group and its members and supporters have posted literally thousands of racist, stalking, mocking, harassing, threatening, and /or obscene tweets @ me or using my name. They have also created harassment accounts using my name and photo, posted death threats, and posted nonstop defamation. Through this terrible experience, I've become a bit of an expert on Twitter's deficiencies in handling such anti-social people and their vile postings.
Twitter has become a minefield. Twitter allows certain malicious users to post lots of hate toward Jews and Blacks and women. Twitter does not remove the content. That seems to be the crux of the problem. Twitter refuses to remove death threats, taunts, obscenity, malicious attacks, and other disgusting tweets. Twitter may eventually suspend the account, which means delete the account. The same malicious user will simply start a new account. I have watched it happen dozens of times. Instead, Twitter should be removing the offensive material immediately and getting injunctions to keep repeat abusers off Twitter. Twitter cannot simply ban IPs, since the abusers tend to use VPNs.
Twitter also has an inane policy of allowing malicious users to create accounts in the name of others. This is illegal under California law, yet Twitter, located in California, blatantly ignores the law. This same group of racist stalker/ harassers that I described above created dozens of accounts using my name and/ or photo. I am not a public figure or elected official, where making such an account might be allowed under the First Amendment. I am a private person. I do not even know my attackers and have never had any dealings whatever with them. They are socially-deficient people who enjoy stalking victims for fun. Most of the ones I have learned about are, in fact, already convicted criminals, and the others are knee-deep in illegal and antisocial activity. Some have a history as serious mental patients. Some openly abuse drugs or alcohol. The ones I have come to learn about are widely loathed, except by those in their little group of offenders. They create many sock puppet accounts, so they have "people" agreeing with their malicious behaviors. It's a hate-support group. Why does Twitter allow them to defame, stalk, harass others who are not even part of their group? Twitter has a problem.
The proof is in the pudding. Normal people who respect others do not need to post @ others or use others' names when they know their tweets are not welcome. Normal people are not "members" of groups whose main purpose is to show hate toward other racial or religious groups.
Twitter also has a problem with users linking to illegal content, in fact, running criminal operations on Twitter. There are sites that specialize in posting peoples' personal information in order to make them easy prey for hackers, thieves, stalkers, swatters, rapists, murderers, etc. This is called doxing or d0xing. Such information is sold in bundles on tor. These sites link through on Twitter. Want to get one of these Twitter accounts removed? You can file a Twitter Abuse Report, but Twitter requires you to check a box agreeing that your complaint may be shown to the criminals. Are you likely to become the victim of greatly expanded attacks by these criminals as payback for filing a complaint? Of course. Twitter has suspended (removed) accounts that link to such materials, but the users immediately start new accounts. Twitter needs to have such people arrested or go into court and have them permanently enjoined from using Twitter.
Twitter allows users to post or link peoples' social security numbers so their identities might be stolen, their addresses so they might be attacked, their IP addresses so they might be dos'd, knocked offline, or their computers rooted. Twitter allows graphic death threats. I have the proof. I have the screen shots and the idiotic responses from "Twitter Safety."
Twitter also allows abusive users to post obscenity and revenge porn against others. Again, Twitter fails to remove the content. This is ludicrous. Twitter also fails to permanently ban these bad users. This is a fact. A young man in the group attacking me created an obscene picture using my photo, which he stole off my website. Twitter repeatedly refused to remove the picture, even as I made Twitter Abuse report after report. How is it in accord with Twitter "standards" that this man took my photo and turned it extraordinarily, shockingly obscene and posted it? This is what Twitter "Safety" is all about -- encouraging abuse and crime. Twitter eventually suspended the young man's account. The young man simply made a new account, which he still has.
Twitter aids, abets, and supports criminal acts. It cannot be denied. I love Twitter. But I have thousands of screen shots of criminal acts committed against me on Twitter, and hundreds of inane replies from the Twitter crew about how the crime does not violate Twitter "standards." Twitter is engaged in supporting organized, planned crime. It seems inevitably just a matter of time before Twitter will be in a U.S. court on a RICO civil complaint or criminal charge.
Twitter also allows accounts that link to sites that are used for extortion. I don't want to give publicity to such sites, but they were created by some of the same malicious users doing the other things mentioned in this essay. The sites are used to degrade, harass, humiliate, defame, and shame people who are, for whatever reason, disliked by the racist, sexist, hate-filled people who run the sites. In other words, basically anyone who is a decent human is likely to be targeted to have pages filled with lies, obscenity, and disrespect aimed at them. And Twitter allows accounts that link to these things. And if any of the victims wish to complain using a Twitter Abuse Report, Twitter requires the victim to agree to allow Twitter to show the complaint to the predator. Twitter sets up the victims for increased abuse.
The same goes for death threats on Twitter. Twitter does not remove the threats. Twitter shows the Abuse Reports to the predators, who then create more and ever more vicious abuse. Finally Twitter suspends the account, and the predator creates a new account and starts again.
Twitter claims that it does not mediate content and that it wants to be a communications platform. Every major communications platform eventually finds that, if it wants to thrive and survive, it must remove abusive content and ban abusive users. It's just how it is. The major newspapers have figured this out with their online Comments sections. Intelligent discourse ends when a Comments section allows online predators to harass and stalk other users. Most of these news outlets got smart, and now require a link up with a Facebook or Google+ account, and quickly remove content that attacks other users. Youtube figured it out and now has a policy of quick and easy removal of anything that uses another's name or likeness. Facebook is figuring it out. Myspace learned it the hard way, by having most decent users flee. Twitter has not learned it yet and seems to deny it.
The abusive Twitter users harass others and tend to be very aggressive in their hate-filled and offensive attacks. When a Social Media platform refuses to police itself, the decent and respectful users shy away, and so do advertisers. Twitter is now pushing sales of advertisements. Who wants their ad on a platform that a group of malicious users are using to run criminal operations, racism, and stalking?
Twitter's failure to remove the offending tweets promptly does everyone a disservice. The victim continues to be victimized as long as the assaultive material remains. The perpetrators fail to be taught what is acceptable and what is not. My Twitter attackers are neo-Nazis, and openly admit to hating "Jews and niggers," and thus, are obviously socially stunted. As a well-educated and socialized person, I find it incomprehensible what sort of background leads to such enclosed thinking and such malicious action. I assume my attackers are uneducated and socially unworldly.
One cannot go too far in the modern world of school or work, being a white person who calls people "niggers" or "filthy Jew cunt." However, it should not be assumed my attackers, and others like them, are unteachable. Their hate will likely forever fill their hearts, but they might be taught that it is socially unacceptable and how to behave in relation to others. Why is Twitter nursing their dangerous antisocial behavior? What is behind this? I am really curious.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives immunity to Twitter for torts enacted by its users. However, Section 230 does not immunize Twitter for aiding or abetting the criminal acts of its users. The French Student Union has stated that Twitter is welcoming the criminal racist attacks. I have to agree. Even if Section 230 were applicable against criminal liability, which it is not, it is a U.S. law and does not apply in Europe.
The criminal culpability of Twitter in the U.S. is palpable. Much of what I have seen, and been the victim of, violates the harassment and cyberstalking provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) or various state laws. Should Twitter be concerned about its willingness to give a hand to malicious, vicious online stalker/ harassers? I think so.
Twitter has not amended its Community Standards to make violations of things such as death threats, posting personal information of others, racist attacks, sex attacks, extortion, taunts, obscenity, and other such dangerous, highly offensive tweets. By its lack of normal, legal, decent standards, Twitter invites the abusive predators onto Twitter. Twitter is a place where, on any given day, you can watch people openly planning or engaging in crimes or noxious behaviors.
Twitter also seems to have confusion about what it means to be a communications platform. "Free speech" applies between the government and the citizens. Twitter is a private company and not a party to the U.S. Constitution. Twitter can most certainly disallow racist hate speech. One of the racist boys who attacked me with obscenity and non-stop stalking wrote a string of about 40 tweets boldly declaring it his "free speech right" to post obscenity, defamation, and threats at me. He's just clueless. Our Constitutional free speech includes no such "rights. " And even if the Constitutional free speech rights did include such things, which it most certainly does not, Twitter is not the U.S. government. Twitter is a private company looking for advertisers.
I've had a Twitter account almost since Twitter started, back when it was quite simple. Since then, Twitter has grown and become a nesting spot for abusers, people who don't know how to internet. Twitter needs to grow up and address this situation.
Is Twitter intentionally aiding crime, or is it through negligence, and does it matter? A $50 million lawsuit and potential 3 year prison stint for Dick Costolo says it's time for Twitter to get serious. And it's possibly high time for Twitter to invest in some real legal advice, instead of the pathetic, joke-worthy situation it now has going at its Legal and Safety department.


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Football clubs in England are being asked to consider the reorganisation of the domestic league system into five divisions of 20 teams from the 2019/20 season. Under the proposal, the Football League would become a four-division competition below the Premier League, including a new League Three, with 100 clubs competing across the professional game. In addition, the League Cup and League Trophy will be retained with the latter potentially having a revised format include a group structure of three games before becoming a knockout competition thereafter. Any final decisions on this proposal would not need to be made by Football League clubs until their AGM in June 2017, enabling full consultation with clubs and stakeholders, including fans.
As mentioned above, in the US the National Basketball Association has announced it will allow teams to add corporate sponsorship patches to team jerseys starting in the 2017-18 season. Half of this additional advertising revenue will go to the team and the rest will go into the league's revenue-sharing pool. With this decision, the NBA becomes the first of the big four North American sports leagues to add a sponsor logo to its game jersey. Could the other leagues follow suit? Watch this space, and follow our blog, to keep an eye on this story as it develops.
Moving to media, EY has released its 14th biannual Media & Entertainment Global Capital Confidence Barometer (CCB), finding 45 percent of media and entertainment (M&E) executives expect to actively pursue acquisitions in the next 12 months despite wavering confidence in the economy. The Barometer also reported that M&E executives are actively looking toward international expansion, with 78 percent planning to pursue cross-border acquisitions during the next 12 months. The UK and US are the top two investment destinations, followed by France, Canada and China.
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Hey there LAN-goers, it's only four days till our next gaming night! It's happening this Saturday the 15th of June from 7pm onwards, with early set-up from 6pm (arrive early to start playing early!). For those of you who who've never made it to any of our previous LAN nights, this is a fundraiser for Galway's Makerspace. Our other LAN nights were great fun, sometimes lasting until the following afternoon. The details for this event have changed since our last post, so here they are in their entirety:
Entry for the night will be 10 Euro, for both members and non-members.
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We will do our best to gauge how our attendance will look closer to the night and update this page accordingly.
Tournaments have been reduced to one, with super-secret prizes. On the night we'll be having a Free-For-All tournament using a special version of the Gun Game Mod for Call of Duty 4 (we'll have the mod ready to be installed on the night).
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Homeworld 2
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Team Fortress 2
Worms: Reloaded (hotseat play)
Sub Rosa
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Zombie Master
Pirates Vikings and Knights 2
If you have a game that you'd really like to play on the night that's not listed here, let us know below and we'll try to accommodate you.
We'll also have a fully-stocked tuck shop and our MAME arcade cabinet will be set up for anyone needing a break from the main attraction.
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In an ideal state of nature, people would not, and did not, hide their bodies under clothing of any sort, but for various reasons, the wearing of clothing became common almost everywhere. Garments not only protect the body from inclement weather and other unpleasantnesses, but it hides the bodies from the sexually interested of persons of the complementary sex, and that can be inconvenient, and that inconvenience has increased over time. For the first few million years, the bodies were generally
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As one person put it: "If you cant tell what it is then you probably shouldnt eat it." We were discussing Chinese food at the time, but I think that rule fits any cuisine; although there have been enough examples of Chinese restaurants being shutdown for serving things that are not generally considered edible that they are good examples
Seriously, if you are going to pour on so much in other flavors that one cant taste the main ingredient, then have something else.
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Some people were commenting on the size of the military budget of the United States of America. I simply agreed that it is rather large, but I thought a little more about it and realized that the more than six hundred billion was less than $2000 per capita, and thats not all that much, but its still more than I can afford. And it is also more than most Americans can afford, so, the country is adding more and more debt every year. If we were only wasting
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Today's bin day (well it should be anyway. It hasn't happened yet. I plan to be in bed when it happens so as not to get sad. It's also normal to be sad when you're Christmas tree gets taken away right?)
One of the most recent blog entries I did was on this subject a couple of years ago.
Why do I always seem to blog around Christmas/New Year?
Because I used to write up the daily contents of my advent calendars in my teens.....early 20's too? Definately in my teens.
Has it become normal and ordinary for people who are demonstrably irrational or delusional or suffering from other types of mental illness to be treated as if they were sane?
From political puffery to conspiracy theories to quack medicine to deviant behavior becoming the norm mental abnormalities are becoming acceptable in general society. In a general sense this is not a new thing; people have been complaining about the lowering of standards of behavior for thousands of years, but


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Since my 3K knowledge has, oddly, diminished somewhat over the last few years, who would fit the description of a perennial underachiever who seldom used his intelligence for fear of failure or defeat?
Hmmmm, this might be difficult as someone who didn't do stuff is unlikely to make it in to the history books, however I can think of Han Fu and Cao Zhi.
Cao Zhi it is then, good shot Finny. *high five*
I very nearly compared myself to the novel Pang Tong, however I have no intention of being mullered by a swarm of arrows before I turn 35.


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There is no question that the way and how you are going to receive your health care in the future will not be the same as it has been in the past.
There is no question that the way and how you are going to receive your health care in the future will not be the same as it has been in the past.
In the past, most middle-age and older individuals had a male doctor. In the future, that will be much less likely, and the majority of people will have a female physician.
More than 50 percent of today's medical students are women.
There is also a good possibility that you may not even be seen by a doctor but by a physician assistant or some other non-physician health-care provider.
The number of people hospitalized will continue to decrease. For example, more of the procedures that previously required hospitalization will be done in a day surgery clinic.
Hospital stays will continue to decrease, meaning that the majority of the patient's post-hospital care will be done by family members.
Computers will become a more important part of patient care. The computer will join the stethoscope as a major diagnostic tool in the examining room.
As the result of the increasing use of computers, some patients have complained that their doctors seldom make eye contact with them because they become so involved with their computers.
Perhaps there should be an addition to the Hippocratic Oath stating that physicians should also periodically look up at their patient, and maybe even smile.
But these are not the major issues facing health care. The major issue is the type of health care system used in the future.
One thing that is certain is that the present system does not work, and changes are desperately needed.
Not only do patients and physicians agree a change is needed, but so do the majority of people involved with the health-care system.
With such universal unhappiness, it is difficult to understand why changes have not already taken place.
But changes will be made, and improving the delivery of health care to Americans is a top priority for the incoming administration in Washington.
But how they accomplish this remains unknown.
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Court Says WiFi Isn't Radio Because It's Not Audio; Therefore WiFi Sniffing Can Be Wiretapping
from the it's-not deptA couple years ago, we were disappointed to see a judge take the technologically wrong stance that data transmitted over WiFi is not a "radio communication," thereby making sniffing of unencrypted WiFi signals potentially a form of wiretapping. Indeed, based on that, the court eventually ruled that Google's infamous WiFi sniffing could be a violation of wiretap laws. This is wrong on so many levels... and tragically, an appeals court has now upheld the lower court's ruling.
There are serious problems with this. Under no reasonable view is WiFi not a radio communication first of all. That's exactly what it is. Second, sniffing unencrypted packets on an open network is a perfectly normal thing to do. The data is unencrypted and it's done on a network that is decidedly open. It's like saying it's "wiretapping" for turning on your radio and having it catch the signals your neighbor is broadcasting. That's not wiretapping. Third, even the court here admits that based on this ruling, parts of the law don't make any sense, because it renders those parts superfluous. Generally speaking, when a court ruling would render a part of a law completely superfluous, it means that the court misinterpreted the law.
Bizarrely, the court seems to rely on the claim that most radio communications are "auditory" (i.e., involving sound) and thus data transmissions are somehow not radio. Seriously. This statement is so uninformed and flat out wrong that it's kind of shocking the court made it. Specifically the ruling says that the "telltale signs" of "radio communications" are that they're (1) "auditory" and (2) "broadcast" and then says it doesn't even need to consider whether or not WiFi signals are broadcast, since the fact that they're not auditory means they don't even have to consider that fact. Seriously. Read this and try not to bang your head on the nearest desk or wall:
We need not reach the question of what exactly constitutes a "broadcast" because the Wi-Fi transmissions in question were not predominantly auditory.The court also stumbles badly on the other key question in the lawsuit -- over whether or not these things are "readily accessible to the general public." Again, here, if you know anything about the technology you know without question that broadcasting unencrypted data over an open WiFi network are by definition "readily accessible to the general public." That's how it works and how it was designed to work. But the court says it's not because someone might send something "sensitive" from a secured network to an open WiFi network, and the sender didn't intend for that info to be available via open WiFi. But that gets the calculus totally wrong. First, if I'm sending something "sensitive," it should be encrypted, full stop. Second, the security of the endpoint recipient is the responsibility of that recipient, not the sender, so the whole analogy makes no sense.
Later, the court argues that WiFi isn't readily accessible because the signal is "geographically limited." But, um, again, that's true of just about any radio signal. If I have a low-power transmitter, that's still a radio transmitter. It also claims that it's "difficult" to access unencrypted data on an open network, but that's not true at all. They claim it requires "sophisticated" hardware and software, but that's not actually true, and if you believe it's true, you could basically make the same argument about all kinds of radio transmissions.
Either way, there's a fundamental fact here that the courts don't seem to recognize: when you broadcast unencrypted data on an open network it's there for anyone to access. It seems ridiculous to then claim that it's illegal to access it when it's presented in a manner that more or less cries out "come take a look!" This really feels like a situation where the court looked at what Google did, decided it didn't like it, and then tried to tap dance around reality to make it a violation of the law even though it's almost certainly not a violation.
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Members of Pussy Riot Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina — who are currently serving time for hooliganism and acts of vandalism — have finally managed to release a statement to journalists thanks to questions from GQ's Michael Idov that were smuggled in and out of their Russian prison by the band's lawyers. (The third incarcerated member Katya Samutsevich had her answers confiscated.) While recent comments by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sparked hope amongst supporters that the women would soon be released, the bandmates themselves remain less than positive on their outlook.
Of their verdict and Putin's government, Nadya Tolokonnikova comments:
"This verdict is so dumb and cruel that it removes any lingering illusions about Putin's system. It's a verdict on the system."
The bandmates also discussed the horrible conditions of the Russian prison where they are serving out their sentence, divulging that their blankets are taken away at 6am every morning and the only way to keep warm is to cover yourself with a coat.
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The biggest most magnificent causeway stretching across and beyond the earth infinetely stands hardly lit by the new moon with lush green grass and a deep sea to surround it, the road always looks the same, narrow.
Masses of poeple with cracking skin and worn eyes spread out amongst the causeway walk across clumsily daunted as if the road will collapse and they are blind at night and vexed by its one direction
They twist thier head behind their shoulder and look to see how far the others behind, pherhaps hoping someone will catch up.
But they all know they all feel the same and cannot speak for the life of thiers
Its the same in the morning, with the sun beating on them and the water glimmering just to thier left and right.
They walk barefoot with burnt black ashing feet just as blind as they are at night.
Thier very eager to reach the end of the infinite road
Eager enough to miss the feeling of the calm soothing wind
Pherhaps they think at the end of the road is a place of promise full of bliss ecstasy and desire.
So they push forward, with what little energy they have as thier energy is wasted on imagining and remembering what has happened on this causeway.
Some poeple run, some poeple walk and stomp flat footed, and some poeple crawl, on thier knees or body, wasting away all thier energy, but even the fastest run looks slow
They walk to depressingly fast and find themselves loathing the ground until thier heart beat gets slower, and slower, and slower.
And when it gets to slow, that is the very end of thier journey, and poeple will walk by and get sick to thier stomach looking at the decaying bodies.
The loners are reminded of that same eerie sickening feeling they had when they heard about the causeway
Poeple will cry run and scream from your rotten body and be ever more phased on thier long journey
Yet they eagerly and dismally continue, glancing back at the bodys long down the road remembering the smell of rotting corpses and the insides of the decaying bodies kicked around by poeple tripping and falling and dieing.
They have not seen any light in a long time even though the sun goes up and down and the water stays beautiful and the world still spins and the grass is as lush as ever.
They refuse to walk together, the loners, scared of eachother, born with infinite phobias and strucken with immense amounts of pain.
The skeletons are constant reminder of how they will be let down whether they saw thier flesh before or not
And so the walk of the causeway continues night and day, it is exactly like hell and poeple continue to eat and melt into the cement so when you cross thier path you will know its all the same.
You will never sleep, and you will never feel pleasure on this causeway, just spiral down and feel gutted every step on your way to nothingness.
Truely thier lives devalued day by day.
But the clouds, sky, water, grass, moon and sun are still beautiful and the world still spins the seasons still changes and flourishes with beauty.