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As well as the advantages you already enjoy as an Iberia Plus Gold card holder, you can access the Platinum level valid for two years if, between 1 April in any given year and 31 March the following year, you build up at least 6,250 Elite Points (EP) , having taken at least 1 flight with an IB code (operated by Iberia or by another Programme partner airline, i.e., Iberia Plus), Vueling* or British Airways.You will receive exclusive attention and advantages on all the Programme's services.
*From 24 November 2012, flights with VY code, purchased on basic fare, do not build up Avios nor Elite Points, and do not reckon to level up your Iberia Plus Card.
Fast Track VIP Access
Exclusive services which make pre-boarding procedures easier for our VIP customers and enables them to board the aircraft more quickly.
As an Iberia Plus Platinum Card holder, we are offering this exclusive service, for both you and your companion every time you take flights operated by the Iberia Group and / or marketed by Iberia, at all available airports. On the Fast Track service from Madrid or Barcelona, you can access with any airline. In this case, your companion will fly on the same flight.
Also, when your flight is operated by the Iberia Group, you can be accompanied by a companion under 18 years old.
Extended access to Fast Track for Platinum customers at select airports and terminals. More information.
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We offer you the possibility of requesting two free upgrades which you may use on any direct Iberia flight during the validity period of your card.
- Booking payment for certain economy tariffs (Y, B, H) for flight operated by Iberia.
- The ticket has to be issued prior to the upgrade being requested. In Spain, contact the Platinum Customer Service Centre (From abroad, contact your Iberia Plus Service Centre).
- On the day of your flight, you should go to the Business Class desk.
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With the Iberia Plus programme, every time you fly with us, we want you to do so with every convenience. Register your preferences and, whenever possible, we will assign you a seat to suit your taste when you travel on an eligible ticket
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Whenever you try and make a booking for a full fare ticket and you identify yourself as an Iberia Plus Platinum cardholder, Iberia will endeavour to confirm you a seat in Full Tourist class up to 24 hours prior to the flight. If for any reason we cannot make this seat reservation, Iberia will offer you priority on the Business Class waiting list or the alternative which is best suited to your requirements.
* Only for collecting Avios and Elite Points on flights with the code IB operated by the Iberia Group and Iberia Express.
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During the period your Platinum card is valid, Iberia Plus will give you 100% extra Avios, calculated on the basis of real miles flown. When the distance flown is less than 500 miles, the percentage will be applied on 500 miles. It shall be applied on flights that qualify for Elite Avios in the Iberia Group, Vueling and British Airways in all classes except Economy Discount. This bonus only applies in Discount Economy on Iberia, British Airways or American Airlines flights between the European Union, Switzerland and Norway with the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
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Your Iberia Plus Platinum card automatically credits you with up to 22,500 Avios, which you can enjoy on any Programme service whenever you want and without having to worry about the status of your personal account.
The maximum negative balance your personal account can reach is -22,500 Avios.
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Your Iberia Plus card enables you to check in your luggage at any Business Class desk, regardless of the class you are booked in.
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Simply by presenting your Iberia Plus Platinum card, you will have free access along with a guest, to all VIP lounges owned by Iberia regardless of the airline with which you are flying with. In that case, your guests must fly on the same flight.
In addition, your Iberia Plus Platinum card gives you and a guest access to any Iberia VIP lounge worldwide when travelling on flights operated by the Iberia Group and / or marketed by Iberia.
In that case, your guests flight must meet the same conditions and / or they must have a boarding pass for a flight with oneworld for travel on the same day.
Also, when your flight is operated by the Iberia Group, you can be accompanied by a companion under 18 years old.
When travelling on a oneworld flight, you and your guest will be provided with nearly 550 airport lounges worldwide. For more information and conditions see here . .
As an Iberia Plus Platinum customer, you also have access to the VIP Arrival Lounges at London Heathrow when travelling with British Airways and within the U.S, Mexico and Puerto Rico when travelling with American Airlines.
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Your Iberia Plus Platinum card gives you access to Preferential Attention points, thus avoiding queues and speeding up all the procedures you need to carry out with Iberia: ticket purchase, flight connections or baggage information.
These desks are located in the Iberia Sales Offices in cities and airports, both in Spain and outside Spain. These are also situated in the arrivals hall in Madrid and Barcelona airports.
Maximum baggage allowance
Your Iberia Plus Platinum (Emerald oneworld) card offers you an additional piece of baggage of up to 23 kgs when travelling on flights operated by any of the companies belonging to the oneworld alliance, regardless of what class you are travelling in. .
On flights operated by the Iberia Group, you can also benefit an over weight allowance of up to 32 kg per bag.
A limousine available
Your Iberia Plus Platinum card lets you enjoy a special and exclusive limousine service for your transfer between the airport and the cities of: Barcelona, Madrid, Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, so long as you are travelling with a full-fare Business Class ticket on intercontinental flights operated by Iberia** (including travelling on Avios)
In Spain, this service can be requested from your Platinum Service Centre (tickets for obtaining and using Avios). Outside Spain, for tickets that involve using Avios, call your Iberia Plus Service Centre. For full-fare tickets see your Iberia office or travel agency. (Requests for this service should be made at least 72 hours before flight departure or arrival).
Free VIP Parking
As an Iberia Plus Platinum card holder, when you fly with Iberia or Iberia Regional/Air Nostrum, we offer you a free parking service at Madrid and Barcelona airports.*
Travel assistance insurance
As an Iberia Plus Platinum cardholder you have Travel assistance insurance for dealing with unexpected events which may happen on any of your trips outside Spain. Europ Assistance guarantees you assistance and provision of the services you require with just one call to the Assistance Centre.


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Graduates of the Post B.S. Doctor of Pharmacy Program, a unique post graduate offering in St. John's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences that provided hundreds of practicing pharmacists with an exceptional opportunity to earn their Pharm.D., gathered to celebrate the success of this special program.
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With the official start of summer just a few days away, recent graduates of St. John's University gathered at the Galway Hooker Pub in Midtown Manhattan for Summer Kick-Off.
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The excitement of the recently completed World Cup Soccer Championship was in the air as our recent graduates gathered at Poco Restaurant and Lounge in trendy lower Manhattan for the latest event in St. John's popular Young Alumni Happy Hour series.
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Young Alumni Toast to Fall
Recent graduates kicked back and shot some pool during our October installment of the Young Alumni Happy Hour Series, held at Unique Lounge & Billiards in Staten Island.
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Recent graduates gathered for Happy Hour at Manhattan's trendy 40/40 Club as part of the Young Alumni Happy Hour Series, an event held once a month at various locations around the greater New York area.
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Thursday Games:
Class 1A Division I:
Stamford Bulldogs defeats the Mart Panthers 35 – 28
with a 9 yrd run with only 32 seconds
left on the clock on Thursday, December 20, 2012.
Class 1A Division II:
Munday Moguls defeats the Tenaha Tigers 42-14
after being tied 14 – 14 at half time in Thursday's
second game of the day.
Class 2A Division II:
East Bernard Brahmas defeats the Mildred Corsicana Eagles 56 – 14
in the Thursday late game. East Bernard jumped out to to 35-0
lead and never looked back.
Friday Games:
Class 2A Division 1:
Cameron Yoe Yoeman defeats the Dangerfield Tigers 38 – 20
as Cameron Yoe took advantage of turnovers to gain a
28-0 lead and it was never close on Friday noon game.
Class 3A Division II:
Navasota Rattlers defeats the Gilmer Buckeyes 39 – 3
on Friday, dominating the game from the get-go, playing without
their 1000 yard rusher #8 Xavier Creeks, who broke his leg in a automobile
accident on the day before the game. Navasota played like a team on a mission
as they have all season long.
Class 4A Division II:
Cedar Park Timberwovles defeats the Lancaster Tigers 17 – 7
on Friday night in a game that was very tight contest, that saw a
touchdown that gave the Timberwolves a little breathing room
with just minutes left in the game to ensure a victory.
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In the bush environmentally-friendly recycling and disposal of waste water is quite a challenge. Normal waste water treatment plants are highly specified constructions and have power requirements which are difficult to provide in the bush. A small exclusive camp such as Mara Bushtops does not produce sufficient waste water to justify such large treatment facilities.
Many remote camps and lodges in Kenya use a soakage pit method, however this is not regarded as an optimal solution, as waste water can eventually seep into the soil, with its potentially detrimental impact on the environment.
One alternative solution is called a constructed wetland system (CWS). This method has been developed inthe USA,where it was observed that natural swamps have the capacity to purify waste water.Based on these observations, the technology of constructed wetland systems has developed in both the USA and Europe, encouraged by an increased environmental awareness. It is only recently that CWS projects have been started in Kenya. One such large project was constructed in cooperation with the GEF SGP (GlobalEnvironmental Fund Small Grants Program) to purify waste water from Egerton University in Nakuru (see www.undp.org/kenya/GEF-SGP/ ).
Smaller constructed wetland systems have also been installed in camps and lodges. To date, the Olonana Camp is the only other camp in the greater Masai Mara area that has a constructed wetland system.
In keeping with Mara Bushtops' high environmental standards, a constructed wetland system was chosen as the preferred method to purify our waste water.
The CWS consists of three main elements: a septic tank, a gravel bed (also called gravel bed hydroponics, GBH) and surface ponds (also called surface cells). Initially, all waste water from the camp is collected in a septic tank. However, waste water from the kitchen is first iltered through a grease trap which removes fats, as these are difficult to break down within the CWS.
The septic tank consist sof three linked chambers, each with a volume of 12m3. Solids settle within this tank initiating an anaerobic process, which slowly digests any nutrients contained within the waste water. The last chamber of the septic tank has a pipe that flows directly into an adjacent gravel bed.
The gravel bed covers an area of approximately 200 m2 into which serpentine-shaped channels have been dug, reducing the flow of the water and allowing friendly bacteria enough time to do their work. A 60 cm thick bed is graded with coarser gravel at the bottom to a finer grade at the top. Overlying the gravel is a layer of coarse sand grading to fine sand. It is in this upper layer that swamp plants with a high nutrient tolerance are planted. Indigenous sedge, reed and other aquatic plant species keep the biodiversity as natural as possible. Sedges and other swamp plants have the ability to oxygenate the soil. This allows the surface aerobic bacteria to continue the process initiated by the an aerobic bacteria below, enhancing the purification process. The plants in the gravel have been shown to absorb at least 10% of available nutrients.
Once the gravel bed is filled, water overflows via a pipe into the first surface pond. Additional serpentine channels containing stones and plants, reduce the water flow and enhance the aeration process. Indigenous algae, bacteria, invertebrates and plants further consume the remaining nutrients purifying the water. Over time more and more flora and fauna develop around these ponds further increasing the local biodiversity.
Mara Bushtops is fortunate to be located adjacent to a natural wetland. After passing through a number of surface ponds, the water enters this natural system, where a final purification takes place, after which this clean water enters the Siana and Talek catchment area.
The system is designed to use ground water as its source, which is subsequentially returned as purified waste water, allowing the hydrology of the area to be kept in balance.
Select the desired Camp: Mara Bushtops or Serengeti Bushtops


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Place the frozen breadsticks on a parchment-lined baking sheet and thaw at room temperature for about 30 minutes. Preheat an oven to 375°F. Transfer the baking sheet to the oven and bake until the breadsticks are golden brown, about 18 minutes. Let cool for about 5 minutes before serving.
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David Jason Heath, 38, of 466 Eden Valley Road, grabbed the 89-year-old victim by the arm and would not let her leave the residence Friday afternoon.
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Michael McGriff was born and raised in Coos Bay, Oregon. He is the author of Dismantling the Hills (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Choke (Traprock Books, 2006). His poetry and translations have appeared in Slate, The Believer, Poetry, Crazyhorse, Field, and AGNI, among other publications. He is a former recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from The Poetry Foundation, a Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. He is a 2008-2010 Jones Lecturer at Stanford University. Photo by Mary Ann McGriff |


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Dear OncoLink "Ask the Experts,"
My father had a gastrectomy for his gastric cancer 3 weeks ago. He is currently undergoing chemotherapy. The main problem for him now is discomfort after eating even small amounts of food. We feel he is not getting enough nutrition.
I would like to know what type of diet my father should be on? And which nutritional supplements should he have? Your quick response would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for help in advance.
Katrina Claghorn, R.D., Oncology Dietitian for The University of Pennsylvania Health System, responds:
Dear R.W.,
Small, frequent meals consisting of bland, low fiber foods are best tolerated following gastric surgery. Often, milk products can cause bloating, abdominal pain and diarrhea. When these symptoms are present low lactose milk products (such as Lactaid) maybe substituted.
Nutritional supplements such as Ensure, Sustacal, Boost and even Carnation Instant Breakfast are also helpful since they provide an easy way to consume additional calories and protein. Ensure and Sustacal are low lactose and Carnation Instant Breakfast can be made with Lactaid milk.
For a person such as your father, who has had stomach surgery, which has reduced his stomach capacity and who is now experiencing decreased food intake due to chemotherapy, a mostly liquid diet may be best tolerated. Soups, puddings and bland foods will be easiest for him to eat. Provide small meals and offer nutritional supplements between meals. Three cans of highcalorie/high protein supplements will provide about half of your father's nutritional needs.
You should also keep a food diary of all the foods he eats with the amount and the time it was eaten. This will provide his doctors with an objective assessment of your father's food intake and nutritional status and help them determine if more aggressive intervention is needed.
You may also want to see a registered dietitian who can develop an individualized meal plan for your father, as well as provide you with ways to control the side affect to the therapy and ensure that your father's nutrition needs are being met.
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For more than 75 years, long before it became fashionable, Alvita was championing the profound health-giving properties of herbal teas. We travel to the far reaches of the globe for the finest herbs, the best growers, the most precious sources.
Small wonder that so many consumers trust the Alvita name. Today, it stands for more than 100 different teas, including classic single herb varieties, and our unique Alvita blends. The package you hold in your hand combines ancient herbal wisdom with modern science, and brings to you all the richness and benefits of herbal teas. This philosophy is the very reason why you will find sensible, English pillow style tea bags that are oxygen bleached, not chlorine treated. And why you won't find any strings, tags or staples.
We thank you for choosing our product, but more importantly, we thank you for the trust you've put in the herbal values that we all share.
Known for their tangy, refreshing taste, Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) were supposedly part of the first Thanksgiving in 1621, but did not become a national tradition until after the Civil War. A small evergreen shrub, which grows in mountain forests and damp bogs from Alaska to Tennessee, the Cranberry bush produces pink or purple flowers in spring and bright red berries in the fall. Cranberries make flavorful jams and preserves and are used in a variety of beverages. It was 19th-century German chemists who researched and defined many of Cranberry's valuable health benefits.
The best way to make a good cup of tea is by the infusion method. Place one tea bag in a cup and add nor more than 6 oz of boiling water. Let steep for 3 minutes and remove the bag. Press the bag before removing to enhance the flavor.
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All-Time Wins and Percentage.
During the ND game on Saturday, ESPN used a graphic that showed ND had slipped to #3 in all-time wins, behind U-M and Texas. I had not realized this happened at the end of last season.
Here are the current (up-to-date following 2009 Week 2) rankings for wins and winning percentage. Comments/observations below.
2. Texas - 834
3. Notre Dame - 832
4. Nebraska - 819
5. Ohio State - 809
6. Penn State - 802
7. Alabama - 801
8. Oklahoma - 792
9. Tennessee - 777
10. Southern Cal - 768
2. Notre Dame - .736 (832-285-42, 1159 GP)
3. Texas - .718 (834-317-33, 1184 GP)
4. Oklahoma - .716 (792-298-53, 1143 GP)
5. Ohio State - .715 (809-307-53, 1169 GP)
6. Alabama - .709 (801-316-43, 1160 GP)
7. Southern Cal - .707 (768-303-54, 1125 GP)
8. Nebraska - .702 (819-337-40, 1196 GP)
9. Tennessee - .694 (777-328-53, 1158 GP)
10. Penn State - .690 (802-349-42, 1193 GP)
1. In terms of wins, MICHIGAN's got a huge lead over Texas and Notre Dame, followed by another drop-off to schools that have pretty recently cracked 800 wins.
2. In terms of percentage, MICHIGAN and Notre Dame have a tremendous lead.
3. Around the 1200 GP point, a win raises MICHIGAN's percentage by about .0002 (1/5 of a point). A loss drops MICHIGAN's percentage by about .0006 (just over 1/2 of a point); so 2008 was pretty tough on the all-time stats.
4. MICHIGAN's substantial leads in each category I think can be attributed to MICHIGAN's two highly dominant eras as far as number of wins: Yost and Bo. The other schools on those lists have had dominant stretches here and there, but generally only one truly dominant era each.
5. Also, since 1970, MICHIGAN has generally avoided (thus far, fingers crossed) a multi-season dead era of a bad coach or a few bad coaching searches in a row, such as has occurred with every other team on those lists, save for Penn State (though one could argue the late 1990s and early 2000s had the same effect there). 4-5 lousy seasons in a row, or a full decade of mediocrity, really takes a toll on winning percentage.
6. The top ten on each list are the same teams, in slightly different order. So number of wins is generally analogous to winning percentage. Duh. BUT:
7. Just outside of the top ten in percentage, a few precocious upstarts pop up. Florida State sits at #11 with .670 and only 460 wins. Miami (Fla.) is #14 with .634 and only 546 wins. Other than those two notables, the list roughly holds true: more all-time wins roughly equals greater winning percentage. Since the top ten traditional power schools racked up most of their wins and drove their percentages higher in an era with nowhere near the parity we have today or in the past 30 years, I think what Florida State and Miami did in the 1980s and 1990s was pretty darned impressive.
8. Until the late 1990s, MICHIGAN and Notre Dame had each hung around the .745 mark for quite a while, then Notre Dame slipped off, and Michigan followed in 2005-2008.
When will MICHIGAN get to 900 wins?
When will MICHIGAN get back to .745?
If we don't hit 900 in 2011, I'm almost starting to think it could be something of a disappointment. That's 26 (25 if this doesn't include ND) Hopefully another 7 this year. That leaves 19 for the following 2 years each.
While this does indicate 10 win seasons (basically), if we hit 9-3 this year (hopeful, after the ND game) this should be realistic, not homerish.
However, 9 wins this season MAY be homerish....
Wasting away in Ohio, a Wolverine in a sea of red and grey
Your question of when we get to 900 wins depends on your optimism for the season.
Right now we're at 874. Thus, we need 26 more wins to get to 900. Many people are saying that we're going to get 8 wins this year. So let's say that we get 6 more wins to get us up to 8. That means we'll have 20 more wins to go.
Next year, if we have 8 wins this year we should be looking at 10+ wins since we'll be returning most of the team (the biggest losses will be the Brandons Graham and Minor I think). Based on that, I'd say that we're looking for win 900 somewhere in the 2011 season (especially since we'll be playing 13 games a season again with the bowl games).
Getting more specific at this point, while fun, is fairly futile.
Assuming 8 wins this season and at least 10 wins the following two seasons, we'll hit 900 wins near the end of the 2011 season. Something tantalizing, it's conceivable that the 900th win could be the 2011 OSU game.
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It's also conceivable that the first collegiate football program to achieve 1000 all-time wins will come from a Michigan victory over OSU in 2020.
Just in case, I will begin buying picture frames and scented candles tomorrow for the commemorative shrine that would suddenly appear where my living room used to be.
Also worth noting: BigTen didn't send more than one team to bowls for the longest time, therefore providing less attempts against the best teams. So while Michigan teams played better teams slightly more often during the regular season back in the day, teams like Texas were finishing the year against an extra opponent that they could have lost to.
I'm not sure how much this affects how you look at the W's or W-L %. It probably only affects 20-30 or so bowl games, which is a small sample size out of 1180+.
Correct, but ND (our main competition in the win percentage race) declined all bowl invitations for a long time as well - they didn't go to one for like 40 years in the middle of last century. I believe we've actually played more bowl games than they have.
Also, we've never had the luxury of playing a bowl in our home state, as Texas has done many times (Cotton Bowl).
IIRC, we were still at .745 going into last season. 2005-07 didn't really affect our win percentage; we were 27-11 (.710), which wasn't a significant enough downtown to do much damage. Last year alone was the killer.
BTW, OSU hasn't really had a down decade, either. They were a little worse than they are now in the 1980s and early '90s, but still a bowl team every year (except 1988).
As for win 900, that should occur either late in 2011 or early 2012.
Ah yes, how quickly I've forgotten 11-2 in 2006, bookended as it was with such clunkers.
Yeah, I was thinking about OSU when I made that statement about stretches of bad seasons. They haven't had anything as bad as what Oklahoma or Nebraska or USC or Notre Dame have gone through, but the Earl Bruce years were fairly mediocre with some bright spots, and Cooper put up a couple of bad seasons far below percentage. Aside from 1984 and 2008, Michigan hasn't had any other seasons significantly below winning percentage since the Bumper.
Actually, Earl Bruce was the model of consistency at OSU. His first season, OSU went 11-1. After the first season, he went 9-3 almost every year. His final season, his worst, OSU was 6-4-1. His overall winning % in 9 years was 75.46%, higher than OSU's overall winning % of 71.5, and just a shade below Hayes at 76.08%.
St. Tress actually has a higher winning % than Hayes, of course he has only coached for 8 years at this point and I get the feeling his time of Big 10 dominance is on the wane.
We ARE Michigan....COME GET SOME!!!
was offset by ND's 3-9 in 2007.
Combining 2007 and 2008: M went 12-13, ND went 10-15.
In the seasons where we went through "the Horror", a blowout at home to Oregon and "the Year of Infinite Sadness: redux", we were 2 games better than Notre Frickin' Dame.
Taking it one week at a time
CMU is the second best in the state by win percentage!
Isn't that a result of them being a lower division "power" for quite a while? I seem to recall there name popping up as DII champs once upon a time.
Great work pointing that out, I'll be sure to show all my state friends this.
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Central Michigan is the #20 winningest program of ALL TIMES!!! (in terms of winning percentage).
That ought to make the Sparties feel a lil better.
That being said, it is what it is.
We should be talking about how fast the TEAM will get to a 1000 wins........
... will still be the coach for that. That would mean 10+ wins per year for the next 12+ years. I would be happy with that, and definetly would secure RichRod as a Michigan legend.
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OK, it was too fun to resist. I've got us taking our first shot at win #900 at home vs. Illinois on Nov. 12th, 2011. This assumes an 8 win season this year. 10 wins next year. We win one of the two bowl games (for 2009 or 2010). And only one loss in 2011 prior to the Illinois game.
If we go one win ahead of my schedule, we would be going for number 900 in our next meeting with Minnesota on Nov. 6, 2011. There could be a good story line there since they were 1 of our 3 wins in '08 and the Little Brown Jug, etc.
If we lose 2 more than I expect, we would be on a collision course with OSU, in the BIG HOUSE (for the first time after completed construction) on Nov. 26, 2011.
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And only one loss in 2011 prior to the Illinois game.
I am already angry over that loss. We were (will be?) robbed!
I am finally done laughing my a$$ off. Seriously, I was trying to be open-minded since only the Big(11)Ten schedule was listed and you never know who might show up. Could be ND, 2 directionals, and....say....Hawaii State(just making that up). So then no losses. Could be USC(home), USC(away), USC(away), USC(home). So only one loss, but that 2nd road game was a nail-biter.
...that I can see Richrod not being the coach for that. As for Central, there status at #20 is due to the fact that they were a lower division power. My uncle played there back in the "Ray Bentley era." Bentley was actually his roommate.
Hail to the Victors!
For teams like Michigan and Notre Dame, a 9-3 regular season is just average. Counting the bowl game, 10-3 is above average, while 10-4 or worse is below average.
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Even counting the bowl game, Michigan will never go 10-4 unless rules change.
OSU went 14-0 in 2002. Have teams be forbidden to play 13 regular season games now? Genuine question, not sarcasm.
We ARE Michigan....COME GET SOME!!!
2002 was a 12-games-allowed regular season (occasionally this occurred when the calendar lined up to put an extra Saturday before Thanksgiving; now, 12 games are allowed regardless).
Also, 2002 was before the few "pre-season bowls" were banned, such as the Pigskin Classic and Kickoff Classic. Teams in these games were allowed an extra regular season game. Ohio State beat Texas Tech in the Pigskin Classic on August 24.
Pigskin Classic + 12 regseason games + bowl = 14
I took a look at the UM record under Fielding Yost. Between 1901 and 1904, Michigan did not lose a single game, and tied once. The record was 43-0-1. In other words, almost 5% of all Michigan wins occurred in the first four seasons under Yost.
At the end of his 25-year coaching career at Michigan, (1901-23, 1925-26) he accumulated a record of 165-29. Those wins account for nearly 19% of all wins over the 129 years of UM Football. Take away Yost's contribution to wins and losses, and UM's winning percentage would be 0.727. Still good enough for second place, but his achievement cannot be under estimated.
Of PSU's 802 wins and 1193 games played, Joe Pa coached 385 wins (48.0% of all wins) and in 515 games (43.2% of all games played). Also, his winning % is 0.74951, which is absurd.
FSU has 460 wins, per the OP, and Bobby Bowden owns 310 of them, for a whopping 67.4%. He's averaging over 9 wins per season. Prior to his arrival, FSU averaged 5 wins/seasons. Just, wow...
On topic, possible to hit 900 by end of 2011, although it would require a better-than-expected 2009 and probably 10-win seasons in 2010/2011. Eminently possible.
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You get half a win in terms of percentage for a tie? That's what the numbers seem to indicate. What is this, hockey?
874 wins over 1169 (wins and losses) is 0.748
874 wins over 1205 (total games played) is 0.725
874 wins plus 18 (half of our 36 ties) over 1205 (total games played) is .740


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Boyle was all set to go to Boston College of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and made a verbal commitment to BC back in June. But the Eagles made a coaching change four months later, firing Frank Spaziani and hiring Steve Addazio, who led Cheshire High to multiple state championships before moving on to collegiate football.
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Addazio was reportedly at the Xavier vs. West Haven game at Palmer Field this fall and met with Boyle after the game to discuss the changes he intended to make.
It's no secret that Boston College is Boyle's first love. Continued...
"I love BC for all the right reasons," he said. "The campus is beautiful, my family is from Massachusetts and it's close by. The question is with the changes, am I going to be happy? It's really hard to change my mind. I love the coaches and I love BC. But I don't know where I stand now. I'm trying to do my best to figure it out."
Boyle was part of Xavier's three straight Class LL state titles from 2010-12.
In his senior year, he completed 143 of 240 passes for 2,488 yards and 24 touchdowns. He was named Connecticut's player of the year by the Connecticut High School Coaches Association.
He split the quarterbacking duties with Pat D'Amato in 2011 when the Falcons went 13-0.
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Whether Fisher can prepare his Thunder teammates for what they're about to face is another matter.
While the Miami Heat are returning to the finals for the second straight season, it'll be an eye-opening, first-time experience for most of Oklahoma City's youthful players. Only Fisher, starting center Kendrick Perkins and backup Nazr Mohammed have ever made it this far — all winning titles with other teams.
But for all the leadership Fisher has provided since joining the Thunder in late March, he doesn't plan any lectures for the team's younger set that includes three-time scoring champion Kevin Durant and All-Star point guard Russell Westbrook.
"With my experience, I've found it better to on some level allow guys to experience things for themselves in its natural state," Fisher said. "You can't always tell someone what they should feel or what they should be thinking as they get ready to go into what may be the biggest moment of their life or their career.
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The finals are sure to disrupt some parts of the Thunder's routine. Their practices will be uprooted from their brand new training facility on the north side of town and instead held downtown at Chesapeake Energy Arena, where the Heat will also work out. They'll be surrounded by hundreds of additional media members, and it's not uncommon for old friends and family to come out of the woodwork at what might not be the most opportune time.
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I think that religion didn't cause anything good but only start wars, create gilt , hold science back , repressing women's rights, repress sexual subjects , promotes violence racism sectrianism backwardness discrimination ignorance , violates human rights , opression of homosexuals , bigotry , hatred , extremism , terrorism . But sometimes it helps people cope with their problems. I want to hear your opinions and arguments. Plus excuse my English since it's a second language.
PS : I meant abolish not by forcing but using logic and reason.
I don't care enough about whether people do illogical things in their own brains to care about abolishing religion whether it's with logic and reason or not. (Isn't this like "should we turn everyone Christian, by showing our love and compassion?")
It's a danger (and particular pitfall of atheism) to believe that oneself is a particular messenger of logic and reason. I've often seen logic and reason and rationality used to promote a person's opinion, which at best is an opinion, no more or less logical than any other. It's sort of the atheist equivalent to "God is on my side."
An earlier poster mentioned things that become quasi religions, in the sense that they are belief systems that are strictly adhered to. He mentioned things like communism, although I would put libertarianism into the same category. These and other belief systems take away the grey areas, and unlike religion, they make people feel like intellectuals when really they're usually just regurgitating propoganda!
People will still do shitty things to each other, behave irrationally, and even come up with quasi-religions if there is no religion. I'm not sure it's possible to abolish religion with logic and reason.
I think any belief in an imagined deity causes only ill. However, repressing it only increases its influence. Look at what happened in Stalinist Russia. When religion was no longer banned, attendance at Orthodox churches went crazy.
If you do away with religion -superstition will grow like weeds. Its why religion was invented. It was a way for those with more cognitive abilities to usurp less cognitive one. This was the great loop hole. People aren't religious they are inheranty or subliminally superstitious. The Irish believed in fairies before Roman Catholicism and still do. Especially after a few pints......
Yes, on principal, religion should be abolished as it is factually incorrect and therefore constitutes a tremendous waste of time and effort for those pursue these frivolous things. Imagine if chemical reactions were looked upon with the same awe and reverence as the spells in those damned silly books.
On practicality, the religous masses are rather volatile. Increased effort to directly affect religion on our part may lead to our persecution. They are the majority, whether that fact happens to be pleasent or not.
I think that one day religion will solve itself with out any active effort on our part meaning it could go out of style. There seems to be a strong correlation between poverty ignorance and religion. And the worlds living standards are constantly improving so i wouldn't say that it's far off.
As a goal, I think it would be great to abolish religion. However, in order for that to even be feasible, we need to first fix the causes of religion. We need to abolish poverty, educate everyone, and foster a society which favors logic and reason over appeals to emotion. These are not only goals worth going after in their own right, but the fall of religion will be the natural result of attaining these goals. Religion feeds off of human suffering and ignorance. Eliminate the food source and religion will quietly starve to death.
Poverty is going up, middle income is declining, education levels are dropping, and most appeals in this country are based on emotion. I think we (speaking for the USA) are headed in the wrong direction - based on your goals anyway.
Much of what you just said is simply not true. It just seems that way because sensational news sells and spreads. We are currently living in the most peaceful time in human history. In fact, every year we experience the most peaceful year that humans have ever experienced... and that includes all the wars we're currently waging. Things are getting better, not worse, in that regard. At the same time, our minds, accustomed to peace, are becoming more sensitive to violence. That is, our baseline has shifted from the previous generation. What the previous generation might have shrugged off as a necessary, we might see as a necessary evil while the next generation might see as a preventable evil. Collectively, we are moving towards peace, and that includes the very religious among us. Sure there are exceptions, but the whole of humanity is moving towards peace while a few extremists are becoming increasingly violent which is basically the death throws of their dogma. They are on the decline, so they must become increasingly extreme which pushes them further to the fringe where they will slowly die out.
Now, as far as income inequality goes, that is getting worse in the US. It's pretty much a problem worldwide. However, overall health, wealth and well being worldwide is going up. Even in specific areas like the US. Yes, there is a widening gap between the rich and the poor, but the poor still are getting great educations and incomes by comparison to some of the rest of the world's poor and by comparison to the poor of the past. At the very least, the internet has been a big boon in this sense. We have access to so much information, and yes, the theists are using it too, but the facts are on our side and at this point it's a battle of attrition. We will win this one.
There are constant attacks on education, but these are not new. We have made huge strides in getting religious garbage out of our educational system. Science education is not where we want it to be, but it is still much better than it has been. The mere fact that we're hearing about threats to science education in the news is evidence that we are winning. Fifty years ago, this would not have been news, it would have simply gone in favor of the theist and that would be that.
Basically, what I'm saying is that no, we're not heading in the wrong direction. But we should still stay vigilant against those who would have us move backwards.
Nathaniel - you say the whole of humanity is moving toward peace. I wish I were more positive on the prospects of peace in the world. While it is true that there is peace in Europe, the Middle East is a tinder box, and extremism is spreading across Africa. Pakistan is in an unstable state, and they already have nuclear weapons. Egypt's future and it's relationship with Israel is precarious. China is flexing it's muscles, and Japan feels threatened. Can you imagine a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. North Korea is not much of a direct military threat (right now) but is shipping technology to other regimes. One dirty bomb in a US city will be a catastrophe. We may look back on these days as the "good old days". It has little to do with religion really, and more about economic power. As we pull back, others will seek to fill the leadership void. I truly hope cooler heads prevail, however I think we are in for a very rough patch ahead.
Nathaniel, I agree; the world is more peaceful.
My reason for agreeing? For the first time in all of human history, the few who profit from war will be destroyed in a nuclear exchange.
Emotion (in this case fear of death, fear of nothingness, etc) compels humans to use reason.
The "move backwards" is also a result of fear. The ideologues who would take us backwards appear to be moved by their fear of uncertainty. Their ideology gives them a certainty that doesn't exist.
You cannot outlaw religion and have freedom. Each human being regardless of their beliefs or lack thereof should have the right to be treated as an end in and of themselves and not as a means to an end or a cog is some utopian scheme.
Religion is nonsense. With mass media, social networks and more and better methods of comunication the ideas encapsulated in the various religions will lose in a market place of ideas. Not you me or anyone else has any right to force a person to think or believe or not beleive anything.
We should however hold fast to the right to ridicule, disrespect and criticse religion. It is after all just an idea and ideas deserve no respect other than that they gain through critical analysis..
I like this approach.
"I don't respect your religion and I don't care if that offends you, but you as as person I respect as you deserve that respect by virtue of being human"
If we here agree that religion is a fraud, how difficult are:
1) respect for the victim, and
2) disrespect for the fraud?
Okay, I like prose minimalism.
Agree with the "dumbing down" of politics. Exhibit A: George W. Bush. Being a moron (or a C student, as Dubya himself put it) doesn't disqualify you from being President.
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This is probably the last pin up Ill do before the new year. I treated it as a "con-sketch" in total it took 3 1/2 hours to draw, ink, and color.Unfortunately my "365" did not turn out as planned I stopped numbering my art once I realized the goal was unattainable but cap' rounds out at #100. So 100 finished pieces in one year not all my best but a feat none the least. So with no further due here's probably one of my least favorite characters, not lookin' too shabby.
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"The Bat"