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To say the honeymoon between Urban Meyer and Ohio State fans is over would not be totally accurate. But the newlyweds are slowly coming to the realization that life isn't one big party.
If you listened closely enough to the 105,019 packed into Ohio Stadium last Saturday afternoon for the final game of a rather nondescript nonconference schedule, you could make a smattering of boos from the scarlet and gray faithful. And the patrons who weren't voicing their displeasure mostly just shuffled in their seats, uneasy at the disjointed product the Buckeyes have displayed so far this season.
Fans began eagerly looking forward to the 2012 season late last November when Meyer was announced as head coach of the Buckeyes. They looked at a guy who produced winners at Bowling Green and Utah as well as a couple of national titles at Florida, added the tradition of Ohio State, and somewhat naturally extrapolated copious amounts of easy victories and a multitude of scarlet and gray championships.
Of course, fans are a fickle lot. Yesterday's hero is today's scapegoat, and if you listen to what passes for sports talk radio in Columbus, you will hear enough headache-inducing comments to make you want to crash your car into the nearest telephone pole.
One caller wanted to know what happened to the wide-open spread offense he had been promised. Another said the duties of being defensive coordinator were far beyond Luke Fickell's capabilities. One misguided soul even offered the opinion that the team would be better served with Kenny Guiton as the starting quarterback.
Perhaps it would be worth noting (again) that Meyer inherited a team that went 6-7 last season, is fighting through a spate of injuries and is counting on regular contributions from more than a dozen first- and second-year players.
Perhaps it would also be worth noting that while Meyer is viewed as somewhat of a miracle worker, his super powers are not limitless. Only once before in his previous 10 seasons as a head coach has he produced an undefeated team. (That was Utah in 2004.) Moreover, while his first seasons at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida represented improvements over the previous year, the bar for excellence wasn't set very high.
The year before Meyer's arrival, BG was 2-9, Utah was 5-6 and Florida was 7-5. The coach obviously turned each of those programs around, but he lost at least two games during his first season at all three schools.
Still, after you get used to winning – and winning a lot – you have a tendency to take all of that winning for granted. It happened to Ohio State fans toward the end of the Jim Tressel era and perhaps it happened to Meyer as he assumed his self-described dream job.
Tradition, national championship banners, Big Ten trophies and a stadium listed on the National Register of Historic Places – those are effective recruiting tools for both prospective players and coaches. When you come to Ohio State, you are expected to continue that tradition and win football games. Unfortunately, that expectation sometimes morphs into victory as a foregone conclusion. And if last year's 6-7 finish wasn't enough of a shock to the system, perhaps the string of mediocre performances to start this season is serve as a needed dose of stark reality.
No one except for the most myopic of Buckeye fans is thrilled about this team's 4-0 start. Yes, Ohio State is one of only 26 remaining undefeated teams at the Football Bowl Subdivision level, but that record has been achieved against nonconference opponents now showing a combined record of 5-9.
Meyer's power spread offense has been a work in progress from day one with certain pieces of the attack functioning well at times and not so well at others. Ohio State has rushed for 917 yards in four games and thrown for 791, but much of that production has been generated by just one player – Braxton Miller, who has run for 441 yards and thrown for 754. You need only look at what has happened to a certain team up north to realize what happens when you rest your entire team's fortunes on the shoulders of just one player.
And then there is the defense. What was supposed to be a team strength is quickly becoming a liability. There are no records kept for missed tackles, but Ohio State would probably be near the top of the nation in that category. In the first quarter against UAB, I counted at least six missed tackles by the Buckeyes that accounted for an extra 29 yards worth of gain for the Blazers. I counted four more early in the second quarter for 30 yards before giving up.
Through four games, the Ohio State defense is giving up an average of 394.8 yards per game. That number hasn't been that bad since week five of the 1988 season when after Indiana finished administering a 41-7 spanking of the Buckeyes, the defense was giving up an average of 396.6 yards per game. By the time that season had ended, the average had dipped slightly to 300.0, but John Cooper's first team still wound up with a 4-6-1 record.
And what makes anyone believe things will get better this year? The Buckeyes' next four opponents – Michigan State, Nebraska, Indiana and Purdue – each average better than 400 yards of total offense per game. The Cornhuskers and Hoosiers are currently averaging north of 500.
Then, of course, there are the special teams. Ohio State got a punt blocked against UAB that the Blazers returned for a touchdown. To put that into some kind of context, UAB had not returned a blocked punt for a touchdown since 2003. And then to pour salt into the wound, the Blazers caught the Buckeyes napping and recovered an onside kick to start the second half.
After the UAB game, when Meyer was asked which areas of his team concerned him the most, the coach indicated an all-of-the-above answer.
"Defense, offense and kicking game," he replied. "We have to be better in all three phases. … This is not a finely-tuned machine. It hasn't been for awhile, especially on both sides of the ball."
Exceedingly more candid than his predecessor, Meyer admitted, "It's not as easy as …" before thinking better of finishing his thought aloud. Woody Hayes is the one who said, "Nothing worth a damn is easy," and Meyer obviously realizes the old coach knew what he was talking about.
But when a coach deems his offense's explosiveness as "obviously nonexistent for much of the game," his defense as "painful to watch," special teams breakdowns as "nonsense," and his overall team mentality as "passive," you know the kettle is about to boil.
** This will be the 41st meeting between Ohio State and Michigan State. The Buckeyes hold a 27-13 advantage in the overall series. The Spartans broke a seven-game losing streak in the series with last year's 10-7 win in Ohio Stadium, but the Buckeyes have still won 12 of the last 15 meetings. OSU is 15-5 against MSU in East Lansing, including a 45-7 romp the last time the Buckeyes visited Spartan Stadium. Ohio State hasn't lost in East Lansing since a 23-7 decision in 1999.
** Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer gets his first shot at the Spartans. The last five OSU head coaches have experienced mixed results in their first game against Michigan State. Earle Bruce and Jim Tressel each beat the Spartans in their initial meeting, while Woody Hayes, John Cooper and Luke Fickell all lost.
** Michigan State head coach Mark Dantonio is 1-4 lifetime against the Buckeyes. Last year's victory broke a streak that included losses in 2004 and 2006 while at Cincinnati in addition to defeats as in 2007 and 2008 with the Spartans. Dantonio, of course, was defensive coordinator on Tressel's OSU staff from 2001-03 and won the Frank Broyles Award in 2002 as college football's top assistant coach.
** Dantonio is 47-23 in his five-plus seasons with the Spartans, including a 31-7 mark at home. Michigan State's 20-3 loss to Notre Dame on Sept. 15 snapped a 15-game home winning streak, the fifth-longest in school history.
** Meyer has his team off to a 4-0 start for the eighth time in 11 seasons as a head coach. Four of his teams – Bowling Green (2002), Utah (2004) and Florida (2006 and '09) – started with five straight wins.
** With his 4-0 start, Meyer is tied for the third-best start to a career by an Ohio State head coach. Carroll Widdoes won his first 12 games in 1944 and '45, while Earle Bruce won his first 11 in a row in 1979. Others to start 4-0 were Perry Hale (1902), E.R. Sweetland (1904) and Howard Jones (1910).
** Ohio State is entering its 100th season as a Big Ten member and the Buckeyes sport a 71-24-4 record in conference openers. OSU has won 10 of its last 12 league openers.
** Michigan State is entering its 60th season of Big Ten competition with a 32-23-4 record in league openers. The Spartans are 7-3 in conference openers since 2002.
** The Buckeyes are 4-1 in Big Ten openers vs. Michigan State, including 1-0 at Spartan Stadium. That victory was a 21-0 decision in 1975. Tailback Archie Griffin rushed for 108 yards in that game, fullback Pete Johnson scored two touchdowns and defensive halfback Craig Cassady tied the school's single-game record by nabbing three interceptions.
** Over the last four seasons, Ohio State and Michigan State have each won 24 conference games, more than any other team.
** Since 1913, OSU head coaches are 6-5-1 in their Big Ten debuts, including 2-2-1 on the road. John W. Wilce's team lost a 7-6 decision to Indiana in 1913, the Buckeyes' inaugural season as Western Conference members. Sam Willaman won his conference debut with a 7-6 win over Iowa in 1929, and Francis Schmidt's team gave him a 33-0 victory over Indiana in the 1934 season opener. Paul Brown took over in 1941 and his team eked out a 16-14 win over Purdue in the league opener, and three years later, the 1944 team gave Carroll Widdoes a 34-0 win over Iowa in his Big Ten debut. Three straight coaches then failed to win their first conference game – Paul Bixler, 20-7 at Wisconsin in 1946; Wes Fesler, 24-20 at Purdue in 1947; and Woody Hayes, whose team fought Wisconsin to a 6-6 tie in Madison in 1951. Earle Bruce broke that string with a 21-17 win at Minnesota in 1979 before John Cooper lost his conference debut in 1988, a 31-12 defeat to Illinois. Jim Tressel won his Big Ten debut at Indiana, a 27-14 victory in 2001, and Fickell lost last season to Michigan State.
** This week marks the first time this season that Ohio State has faced a ranked opponent. Michigan is No. 18 in this week's USA Today coaches' poll and No. 20 in the Associated Press writers' poll.
** When Ohio State is the higher ranked team, it has a 22-6 record against Michigan State. When the Spartans enter the game as the higher ranked team, they are 5-0. When neither team is ranked, OSU had a 5-2 edge.
** The Buckeyes are currently on a red-zone roll, having scored on each of their last 12 trips inside the opponents' 20-yard line. That includes 12 touchdowns and only one field goal. Michigan State's four opponents have combined for only one touchdown and three field goals in just six trips to the red zone against the Spartans.
** Michigan ranks sixth nationally in total defense, giving up an average of only 233.5 yards per game, and the Spartans are also No. 11 in scoring defense, surrendering only 11.8 yards per game on average. MSU, however, is a lowly 102nd in scoring offense, averaging only 21.0 points per game. That is 11th in the Big Ten, better only than Iowa (20.5 points per game).
** Ohio State will be playing its first game this season on natural grass. The Buckeyes were 0-3 on grass fields last season – at Miami (Fla.), Purdue and the Gator Bowl – and they haven't won on a natural surface since a 26-17 win over Oregon in the 2010 Rose Bowl.
** The Ohio State defense would do well to keep Michigan State under 24 points in the game. Since 1990, the Spartans are 125-33-1 when scoring 24 or more. When they are held to fewer than 24 points, their record is 21-89-1.
** When the Buckeyes failed to break the 30-point barrier last week against UAB, they fell short of becoming only the eighth team in program history to score 30 or more points in each of their first four games. The Buckeyes topped the 30-point mark in each of their first four games in 1904, 1917, 1919, 1926, 1969, 1998 and 2010. The 1969 team holds the school record by scoring 30 or more points in each of its first eight games that season.
** OSU senior tailback Jordan Hall enjoyed the first-ever 100-yard game of his career last weekend, rushing for 105 yards on 17 carries vs. UAB. It marked the first time an Ohio State tailback had cracked the century mark since Dan "Boom" Herron rushed for 141 yards during a 34-20 win over Indiana in week nine of last season.
** The Spartans have 28 Ohio players on their roster while Ohio State has only two players from Michigan – defensive lineman Johnathan Hankins and offensive tackle Reid Fragel.
** Dantonio's coaching staff features plenty of assistants who have ties to Ohio State. Running backs coach and recruiting coordinator Brad Salem's older brother, Tim, was quarterbacks coach at OSU from 1997-2000. Linebackers and special teams coach Mike Tressel is the son of former Ohio State running backs coach Dick Tressel and nephew of former head coach Jim Tressel. Offensive line coach Mark Staten was a graduate assistant at OSU in 2002 and '03. Michigan State strength coach Ken Mannie was a graduate assistant on Earle Bruce's OSU staff in 1984, MSU director of personnel/player development and relations Dino Folino began his coaching career as a GA for Woody Hayes in 1974 and '75, and the Spartans' head trainer Jeff Monroe spent four years as a student trainer for the Buckeyes from 1969-72.
** Michigan State tailback Le'Veon Bell is currently the nation's third-leading rusher, and he enters the game averaging 152.5 yards per outing. He will be trying to become the first MSU player to crack the century mark against Ohio State since 1988. That year, Hyland Hickson rushed for 187 yards and Blake Ezor added 147 as Michigan State piled 372 yards on the ground during a 20-10 victory over the Buckeyes in Spartan Stadium. Bell ran for 50 yards on 14 carries during last year's 10-7 victory for the Spartans in Columbus.
** Bell currently occupies 15th place on Michigan State's all-time rushing list with 2,163 yards. He needs 233 more to pass Jahuu Caulcrick (2,395, 2004-07) and break into the school's top 10. Lorenzo White (1984-87) is the Spartans' all-time leading rusher with 4,887 yards.
** Bell is already in the MSU career top 10 in rushing touchdowns, tied with Tico Duckett (1989-92) with 26. White holds the school record with 43.
** Kickoff this week is set for approximately 3:36 p.m. Eastern. ABC will telecast the game to a nationwide audience featuring our old friend Brent Musberger with the play-by-play, former Ohio State quarterback Kirk Herbstreit with color analysis and Heather Cox filing sideline reports.
** ESPN College Gameday will also be at the game, marking the 30th time the Buckeyes have been one of the featured teams at a Gameday site. OSU in 19-10 when the Gameday crew is in attendance – 10-3 at home, 6-5 on the road and 3-2 at neutral sites – but only 9-9 in its last 18 appearances. Michigan State is 2-3 when Gameday visits East Lansing.
** The game will also be broadcast on Sirius satellite radio channel 137 and XM channel 85. Dial Global Sports (formerly Westwood One) will also broadcast the game.
** Next week, Ohio State returns home to host Nebraska in the annual homecoming game. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. Eastern with ABC handling the telecast via its reverse mirror effect. That means if the game is not on your local ABC station, it will be on ESPN2 and vice versa.
** On Sept. 28, 1968, Oregon State running back Bill "Earthquake" Enyart established school records by rushing 50 times for 299 yards during his team's 24-21 win over Utah in Salt Lake City.
** On Sept. 28, 2002, No. 19 Iowa State rolled to a 36-14 win over No. 20 Nebraska in Ames. It marked the largest victory for the Cyclones over the Cornhuskers since 1899. ISU quarterback Seneca Wallace threw for 220 yards and a touchdown and added 50 yards and two more scores rushing. The loss knocked Nebraska out of the Association Press top 25 for the first time in 21 years, ending a streak of 348 consecutive weeks in the rankings.
** On Sept. 29, 1984, Western Michigan kicker Mike Prindle was a busy man during his team's 42-7 win over Marshall. Prindle became the first player in NCAA history to attempt nine field goals in a single game, and he connected for a record seven of those three-pointers. He added three PATs to give him 24 points, another NCAA single-game record for a kicker.
** On Sept. 29, 2001, No. 18 Northwestern took a wild 27-26 victory over No. 24 Michigan State in Evanston. MSU wide receiver Charles Rogers gave his team a 20-17 lead on a 64-yard punt return with 4:42 to play before Northwestern QB Zac Kustok rallied the Wildcats with a 10-yard touchdown pass to Kunle Patrick to make it 24-20 with 29 seconds remaining. However, Herb Haygood returned the ensuing kickoff 84 yards for a touchdown to retake the lead for the Spartans at 26-24. NU blocked the extra point and then with 18 seconds left, Kustok completed a 54-yard pass to get his team within field-goal range and kicker David Wasielewski did the rest. His 47-yarder as time expired gave the Wildcats the victory.
** Also on Sept. 29, 2001, New Mexico State posted a rare shutout, going on the road to tally a 31-0 victory over Louisiana-Monroe. How rare was the shutout? It was the first for the Aggies in 27 seasons, a span of 283 games which established an NCAA record for most consecutive games without a shutout.
** On Sept. 30, 1939, Fordham and Waynesburg College in Pennsylvania played in the first televised college football game, a contest seen by an estimated 500 viewers in the New York City area. Bill Stern called the play-by-play for W2XBS (now WNBC-TV) while a young Mel Allen did pregame interviews. Few television sets could receive the signal, so many of the viewers saw the telecast at the nearby New York World's Fair.
** On Sept. 30, 1944, North Carolina State set an NCAA record for the fewest yards ever gained by a winning team. During their 13-0 win over Virginia, the Wolfpack totaled only 10 yards of offense and had no first downs.
** On Oct. 1, 1955, the sideline star power was plentiful as sixth-ranked Army rolled to a 35-6 win over No. 18 Penn State at West Point. The Black Knights were coached by Earl "Red" Blaik while the Nittany Lions were led by head coach Charles "Rip" Engle and assistant Joe Paterno. All three are in the College Football Hall of Fame, as is Army quarterback Don Holleder who led his team to the victory. Nearly 12 years to the day later, Holleder was an infantry major in the Army serving in Vietnam when he attempted to rescue a group of his fellow soldiers who had been ambushed. Holleder battled sniper fire to land his helicopter in a clearing, and while he was leading the evacuation he was struck by enemy fire and killed. He received the Combat Infantryman's Badge posthumously and was later laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
** On Oct. 2, 1943, Purdue committed 11 turnovers in a game – and still won. Somehow, the Boilermakers lost nine fumbles and pitched two interceptions and still managed a 40-21 victory over Illinois. The performance set an NCAA record for most turnovers by a winning team.
** On Oct 2, 1993, Alabama matched its own school and Southeastern Conference records for consecutive victories when the Crimson Tide scored a 17-6 victory at South Carolina to mark their 28th win in a row. The mark tied the previous school and conference marks set between 1978 and 1980 when the legendary Paul "Bear" Bryant was patrolling the 'Bama sideline.
** On Oct. 3, 1992, third-ranked Florida State lost a 19-16 decision to No. 2 Miami (Fla.) when a last-minute field goal drifted wide right. Hurricanes QB Gino Torretta hit receiver Lamar Thomas to put Miami ahead, 17-16, with 6:50 to play. After a safety on special teams pushed it to a three-point game, the Seminoles drove deep into Miami territory before FSU kicker Dan Mowery pushed his 39-yard field goal attempt wide of the right upright on the final play.
** On Oct. 3, 1936, John Heisman, the legendary college coach and namesake of the Heisman Trophy, died at the age of 66. Born Oct. 23, 1869, in Cleveland, John William Heisman is credited with several innovations including invention of the center snap, dividing the game into quarters rather than halves, and leading the movement to legalize the forward pass. Heisman played at Brown (1887-89) and Penn (1890-91), and began his coaching career at Oberlin in 1892. He also coached at Akron, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Penn, Washington & Jefferson and Rice, and compiled a career record of 185-70-17. Heisman was preparing to write a history of college football when he died in New York City. Three days later he was taken by train to his wife's hometown of Rhinelander, Wis., where he was buried at the city-owned Forest Home Cemetery. Two months later, the Downtown Athletic Club in New York renamed its college football best player trophy in Heisman's honor.
** On Oct. 4, 1969, Boston University scored a 13-10 upset at Harvard, ending the Crimson's 10-game win streak and marking BU's first-ever victory over Harvard since the matchup began in 1921.
** Four more undefeated teams bit the dust last week, and Stanford went down to Washington last night, leaving only 26 Football Bowl Subdivision teams with unblemished records: Alabama, Baylor, Cincinnati, Florida, Florida State, Georgia, Iowa State, Kansas State, Louisiana Tech, Louisville, LSU, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Ohio, Ohio State, Oregon, Oregon State, Rutgers, South Carolina, TCU, Texas, Texas Tech, UTSA and West Virginia.
** TCU pushed the nation's longest winning streak to 11 games with last week's 27-7 victory against Virginia. Meanwhile, Tulane dropped a 39-0 decision to Ole Miss last Saturday, increasing the nation's longest losing streak to 13. The Green Wave is 0-3 so far this season and has already been outscored by a 108-22 margin.
** Congratulations to Frank Solich and his Ohio Bobcats. They feasted upon Norfolk State from the Football Championship Subdivision last week, beating the Spartans by a 44-10 final, and pushed their record for the season to 4-0. The Bobcats haven't started a season with four consecutive wins since 1976. Ohio hasn't won its first five games in a season since the 1968 team won all 10 of its regular-season contests before losing a 49-42 heartbreaker to Richmond in the Tangerine Bowl.
** Congratulations to Bill Snyder and his Kansas State Wildcats. K-State went to Oklahoma last Saturday night and dashed the Sooners' hopes for a national championship run by forcing three turnovers during a 24-19 win. Sixth-ranked Oklahoma was the highest-ranking opponent the Wildcats have ever beaten on the road, and the victory propelled Kansas State into the top 10 in the polls for the first time since 2003.
** Congratulations to Jon Embee and his Colorado Buffaloes. The Buffs, 3-10 last year and 0-3 to start this season, suddenly find themselves tied atop the Pac-12 South following last weekend's 35-34 stunner at Washington State. One week after absorbing a 69-14 pummeling from Fresno State, Colorado erased a 31-14 deficit with 14:47 remaining for the one-point victory. Junior QB Jordan Webb, who threw for 345 yards and two TDs, ran 4 yards for a touchdown with nine seconds left after which sophomore PK Will Oliver delivered the game-winning PAT.
** Finally, congratulations to Brian Kelly and his Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The Irish are a top-10 team for the first time since 2006, they're 4-0 for the first time since 2002, they have given up the fewest amount of points in their first four games since 1975, and they held consecutive ranked opponents (Michigan State and Michigan) to six points or fewer for the first time since 1943. Also, when Notre Dame held both the Spartans and Wolverines without a touchdown, it marked the first time the Irish had done that to their Michigan foes in the same season since 1909.
** Notre Dame's new agreement with the Atlantic Coast Conference has already claimed its first victim. The Fighting Irish has exercised the opt-out clause in its scheduling contract with Michigan, meaning the last scheduled game between college football winningest programs will take place in 2014. The Irish and Wolverines, who have played every season since 2002, were contracted to continue their series at least through 2017. The series dates back to an 8-0 Michigan victory in 1887, and the Wolverines have a 23-16-1 advantage all-time.
** Stanford failed to score an offensive touchdown last night in its 17-13 loss to Washington. The last time the Cardinal offense failed to cross the goal line was during a 23-6 loss at Oregon State on Oct. 27, 2007. How big was the Huskies' upset? It was their first win over a top-10 team since 2009 and avenged last year's 65-21 drubbing in Palo Alto.
** For the second week in a row, the Big Ten has no teams among the top 15 of the USA Today coaches' poll. Last week marked the first time since September 2001 the conference had no team in the top 15 of the coaches' poll. (Ohio State is 14th in the writers' poll, but ineligible for the coaches poll because of NCAA sanctions.)
** How bad is the Big Ten? Nine of the 12 teams are ranked 52nd or lower in total offense while eight are 50th or lower in scoring offense.
** Arkansas got a 419-yard passing performance from QB Tyler Wilson and a record-setting receiving day from WR Cobi Hamilton, but the Razorbacks still lost at home, 35-26 to Rutgers. Hamilton had 10 catches in the game for an SEC-record 303 yards and three touchdowns. The Razorbacks are working on their first three-game losing streak since 2008, and they haven't been 1-3 to start a season since 2005. Arkansas hasn't lost four of its first five since 1992, its first year in the SEC.
** South Carolina QB Connor Shaw misfired on his first pass attempt last week against Missouri and then completed his last 20 in a row. Shaw finished the game 20 of 21 for 249 yards and two TDs in the Gamecocks' 31-10 victory. The 20 consecutive completions tied for the second-longest streak in SEC history. Tennessee QB Tee Martin completed 23 in a row – ironically against South Carolina – during the Volunteers' 1998 national championship season.
** If West Virginia continues to win, it will be difficult to take the Heisman Trophy away from quarterback Geno Smith. The senior is ranked No. 2 in the nation in pass efficiency with 96 completions in 118 attempts (81.4 percent), good for 1,072 yards, 12 TDs and no picks. Of course, the Mountaineers are about to find out how good they really are. After kicking off its inaugural Big 12 season this week at home with Baylor, West Virginia plays Texas, Texas Tech, Kansas State, TCU, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma in succession.
** The Mid-American Conference accomplished something last week it hadn't done since 2003 – beat opponents from three BCS conferences on the same day. Northern Illinois took out Big 12 member Kansas, 30-20, while Central Michigan scored nine points in the final 45 seconds to beat Big Ten member Iowa, 32-31. The MAC also went 2 for 2 against the Big East – Western Michigan scored a 30-24 win over Connecticut, Ball State rallied from a late four-quarter deficit to hand South Florida a 31-27 defeat.
** Old Dominion is leading all FCS teams in scoring with a ridiculous average of 59.0 points per game after four weeks. During last week's wild 64-61 win over New Hampshire, sophomore QB Taylor Heinicke established a new Division I single-game record when he threw for 730 yards. That performance came one week after he had thrown for seven touchdowns during a 70-14 win over Campbell. In 13 career games for the Monarchs, Heinicke has already thrown for 4,306 yards and 44 TDs.
Something has definitely gone haywire here at World Forecast Headquarters. After riding high for a couple of years, the crystal ball has suddenly formed a couple of cracks. Last week, the straight-up picks were an acceptable 8-2, but we whiffed on our Upset Special thanks to a boatload of Michigan turnovers, and we didn't foresee Oklahoma's home loss to Kansas State.
Against the spread, we were just breakeven with five games up and five games down.
That means while we're at 33-7 SU, we're still under water ATS at 19-21.
Undaunted, we offer another slate of picks with the hope of turning this thing around.
No. 25 Baylor at No. 9 West Virginia: The Mountaineers make their Big 12 debut against a team they have never played. Baylor is without Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, of course, but the Bears still have some offensive firepower with senior QB Nick Florence, who has thrown for more than 300 yards and at least three touchdowns in every game so far this season. Baylor is currently on a nine-game winning streak – one more would equal the school record set in 1936-37 – but the Bears are extremely iffy on defense. And with early Heisman frontrunner Geno Smith (1,072 yards, 12 TDs) at the controls of a high-powered West Virginia attack, Baylor's streak is in serious jeopardy … West Virginia 34, Baylor 24. (12 noon ET, FX, DirectTV 248)
No. 4 Florida State at South Florida: The Seminoles are rolling along thanks to a potent offense that is averaging 56.3 points per game. But the FSU defense is no slouch despite giving up a lot of points in last Saturday night's 49-37 shootout win over Clemson. Even with that performance, the Seminoles still rank No. 2 nationally in total defense (184.0 yards per game) and No. 6 in scoring (10.0 points). The Bulls don't appear to match up very to that kind of production on either side of the ball, and it doesn't seem possible for a team that lost last week at Ball State could hang with Florida State … Florida State 41, South Florida 17. (6 p.m. ET, ESPN, DirectTV 206)
No. 6 South Carolina at Kentucky: Gamecocks QB Connor Shaw completed his final 20 pass attempts last week against Missouri, and this week he faces a team against which he threw for a career-best 311 yards and four TDs last year during a 54-3 rout. Shaw isn't South Carolina's only offensive threat, of course, as RB Marcus Lattimore (320 yards, six TDs) continues to rebound from last year's knee injury. USC's defense isn't bad, either – giving up a scant 9.8 points per game ranks No. 5 in the nation in scoring defense. To cut to the chase, the Gamecocks simply have too much firepower for the Wildcats, who average 23.0 points per game on offense but give up 29.0 points and 400.3 yards on defense … South Carolina 34, Kentucky 10. (7 p.m. ET, ESPN2, DirectTV 209)
No. 15 TCU at SMU: You might forgive the Horned Frogs for looking past their Dallas neighbors to next week's Big 12 game against currently unbeaten Iowa State. Then again, TCU probably believes it has something to prove to the Mustangs. SMU bused over to Fort Worth last year and stunned the Frogs, 40-33 in overtime to end TCU's 22-game home winning streak. If that doesn't get the attention of the Frogs, nothing will. SMU currently ranks dead last in the nation in both pass defense and total defense, something TCU plans to exploit with QB Casey Pachall (841 yards, eight TDs). Pachall leads the nation in pass efficiency … TCU 37, SMU 6. (7 p.m. ET, Fox Sports Houston)
No. 12 Texas at OklahomaState: After a couple of lean years, the Longhorns believe they are ready to contend for another Big 12 title this season. Whether they are or not will begin to be determined in Stillwater as they take on the defending conference champion, who have won eight in a row at Boone Pickens Stadium. The truth is we just don't know about either of these two teams. UT is averaging 49.3 points per game, but has beat up on the likes of Wyoming, New Mexico and Ole Miss. Meanwhile, the Cowboys started the season with an 84-0 punishing of Savannah State, but then ran into a buzz saw at Arizona while being handed a 59-38 trouncing. Yes, that is the same Arizona team that got crushed 49-0 at Oregon last week. You would have to believe the Pokes will play better at home, but do they have enough defense to keep Texas QB David Ash, who is third in the nation in pass efficiency, and his talented stable of running backs in check? Conversely, can the Longhorns rope an Oklahoma State offense that leads the county with a 62.3-point scoring offense? At the very least, this ought to be fairly entertaining and we'll go with Upset Special No. 1 … Oklahoma State 42, Texas 38 (7:50 p.m. ET, FOX)
No. 19 Louisville at Southern Miss: This should be a no-brainer. The undefeated Cardinals are off to their best start since 2006 while the winless Golden Eagles are experienced their worst start since 1976 when they lost their first nine. The defending Conference USA champions have crated this year, ranking 113th nationally in both scoring offense and scoring defense. Meanwhile, UL has exciting sophomore quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, who has already thrown for 1,049 yards and seven TDs. The Cardinals have won five straight in the series, and they should make it six relatively easily … Louisville 35, Southern Miss 17. (8 p.m. ET, CBS Sports Network, DirectTV 613)
Wisconsin at No. 22 Nebraska: When the season began, this showdown had a little more buzz. But since the Badgers have struggled mightily on offense and the Cornhuskers were exposed three weeks ago in a 36-30 upset at UCLA. Wisconsin ranks a totally uncharacteristic 10th in the Big Ten in scoring offense and 12th in offensive yardage. The Badgers have offensive line problems and star tailback Monteé Ball has been a shadow of his normal self. Ball fumbled for the first time in his career and missed all of the second half in last week's sloppy 37-26 win over UTEP. The senior tailback has been cleared for this week's game, but you have to wonder how effective Ball will be after a second concussion in the last couple of months. If he's not 100 percent, that means the Badgers will be even more offensively challenged against a team that is bent on revenge for last year's 48-17 rout in Madison … Nebraska 34, Wisconsin 20 (8 p.m. ET, ABC)
Ole Miss at No. 1 Alabama: The Crimson Tide have barely broken a sweat in four games so far, and they don't figure to get much of a challenge from the Rebels. Ole Miss has put some points on the board this year, but against the likes of Central Arkansas, UTEP and Tulane. The Rebs also tallied 31 against Texas, but gave up 66 in the process. Alabama simply doesn't let opponents breathe. The Tide has outscored its four opponents by a 168-21 margin, including 127-7 over the past three weeks. They rank in the top 10 in every defensive category as well as No. 2 in both pass defense and pass efficiency and No. 3 in turnover margin. At this point, the only team that seems capable of beating Alabama would be Alabama itself … Alabama 49, Ole Miss 10. (9:15 p.m. ET, ESPN, DirectTV 206)
No. 2 Oregon vs. Washington State: You would normally expect a lot of fireworks when a couple of offensive gurus – Chip Kelly of Oregon and Mike Leach of Washington State – faced off for the first time ever. Unfortunately for Leach, he doesn't have the kind of defense that can match up against the Ducks. The Quack Attack is coming off a game in which they were facing another supposed high-octane offense, but they flattened Arizona and pitched a 49-0 shutout – their first whitewash of a Pac-12 opponent since 2003. What home-field advantage the Cougars might have enjoyed gets negated by the fact this game will be played at CenturyLink Field, home of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and site of the Monday Night Football debacle that hastened the return of the league's regular officials. Leach might eventually turn Wazuu into the offensive juggernaut he had at Texas Tech, but he's not there yet … Oregon 49, Washington State 14. (10:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2, DirectTV 209)
No. 14 Ohio State at No. 20 Michigan State: The Buckeyes get their sternest test – by far – this season against the No. 1 defense in the Big Ten. Sparty has yet to surrender more than 20 points in a game this season, and averages allowing only 233.5 yards per contest. Conversely, MSU has a fairly anemic offense outside of RB Le'Veon Bell. The junior tailback is the third-leading rusher in the country with an average of 152.5 yards per game, but that is more than one-third of the Michigan State offense. In simple terms, shut down Bell – as Notre Dame did for the most part during its 20-3 win over the Spartans – and you can beat Michigan State. The Buckeyes' defensive shortcomings have been well-documented, but if there is one thing OSU can still do and do well, it is defend a no-frills, straight-ahead offensive attack. For that reason, and Braxton Miller's playmaking ability, you get this week's Upset Special No. 2 … Ohio State 24, Michigan State 20. (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC)
Here are the spreads for the above games: Baylor (+12) at West Virginia; Florida State (-14) at South Florida; South Carolina (-20½) at Kentucky; TCU (-16) at SMU; Texas at Oklahoma State (+2½); Louisville (-9½) at Southern Miss; Wisconsin at Nebraska (-11½); Ole Miss at Alabama (-29); Oregon (-28) vs. Washington State; Ohio State (+2½) at Michigan State.
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Michel Gondry is one of the last true analog illusionists. Whether he's conjuring Lego versions of The White Stripes, multiple Kylie Minogues, or the crumbling memory-scape of Jim Carrey, the director's genius rests in elaborate montage, trick shots, and a healthy sense of the absurd. When Gondry turns to realism, however, the results can be exasperatingly dry. Dave Chappelle's Block Party got by on the energy of its emcee, but Gondry's portrait of his aunt, The Thorn In The Heart, is the kind of listless affair that defines "family only," while The We And The I (released earlier this year) suggests the filmmaker's gifts as a director do not extend to orchestrated improv.
So it's a small relief that the interview-doc Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy?—subtitled "an animated conversation with Noam Chomsky"—smuggles in a fair share of the fantastic, smartly illustrating the MIT professor's ideas with rapid-fire hand-drawn cartoons, mixed-media collage, and occasional Bolex footage of the man himself. There's an almost trippy sensation as Chomsky's deliberate cadence is overlaid with imagery that shows, say, the degree to which humans identify a tree by its placement rather than its genetic makeup. The contrast in tempos produces the feeling of arriving to class overcaffeinated—or alternatively, watching the graduate-seminar equivalent of Schoolhouse Rock.
Content-wise, the movie is a solid primer not only on such staples as Chomksy's theories of generative grammar, but also on the academic's background and way of thinking. No assumptions go unquestioned. (Anyone who argues for "irreducible complexity," Chomsky notes in an oblique jab at the intelligent-design camp, hasn't properly understood the problem under consideration.) The topics vary in interest, but there are fascinating interludes on the way children comprehend more than is generally recognized; the Ship Of Theseus paradox and the notion that perception doesn't rely on physical characteristics (a dog transformed into a camel in a fairy tale is still, in readers' minds, a dog); and the origin of language, which Chomsky explains occurred over a remarkably brief blip on the evolutionary timeline. Perhaps most notable is that the film limits its subject's activism to an afterthought—a striking emphasis given the linguist's ubiquity as a talking head in politi-docs (The Corporation, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold). Basically, Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? amounts to two men having a mellow discussion about the nature of ideas; it's formally limited, yet wide-ranging in its material and ambitions. Call it a case of cognitive dissonance.


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Monday, November 28, 2011
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Over the past however-many months, I have become a devoted fan of radio shows you listen to on your computer or some other such device that is not actually a radio, also known as "podcasts." They're quite the thing these days, and cover a huge variety of topics, through various tones and at varying levels of professionalism. As one would assume, this being the internet, movie-based podcasts are everywhere, and me liking movies the way I do you'd think I'd be all up on those. But actually no: the majority of my podcast-listening habits are devoted to the comedy ones, of which there are also many. My experience with movie podcasts so far has led me to believe that they're all either too smug, too negative, too geeky, or too empty -- you know, the whole "this movie was good but not great" thing. Now, I do enjoy a couple of what have become known as "bad movie podcasts", but the ones I enjoy are, while too taken with their own ironic interest in Nicolas Cage, tend to be mostly free of malice, and actually funny. But at this point we're dealing with comedy more than we are with movies.
The big exception so far, and the reason for this post, is The Kubrick Series, itself a miniseries within the ongoing Movie Geeks United podcast. So far I only know the Kubrick episodes, but they're pretty glorious. They come out only very occasionally, and once you've heard an episode you can see what takes so long. The most recent episode, Episode 5: Redrum, about, of course, The Shining, is two hours and forty minutes long. Longer than The Shining, in fact, and it plays, the podcast does, like a series of audio documentaries. Smoothly hosted by Jamey Duvall, each one is structured around a series of interviews, with Kubrick associates like Tony Ferwin and Leon Vitalli, film critics like Glenn Kenny and Keith Uhlich, Kubrick biographer Vincent LoBrutto, and on and on. These interviews are then sliced up and stitched together as you would in a documentary film, with voices weighing in on different aspects of a given film as the podcast episode shifts from theme to theme. And it's all terribly fascinating.
You pretty much get everything. In The Shining discussion, you have people talking about how the ghosts in the film must be in Jack Torrance's head, a beloved and totally infuriating critical theory, that you can hear happily dispelled when the next guy pops up and says "Well, Wendy sees them too, so…" Also, at the beginning of the A Clockwork Orange episode, which I haven't heard in its entirety, during the "On this episode…" montage, you hear Tony Ferwin saying that he finds the whole idea, put forth by a depressingly large number of critics, of Alex being almost admirable because in his evil he is at least "alive", very troubling. I have not often heard this fairly, let's say gross, critical reading refuted, so I can't wait to sit down with that episode as well, or any of the rest. They're well worth your time.
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- Greg F. said...
you have people talking about how the ghosts in the film must be in Jack Torrance's head, a beloved and totally infuriating critical theory, that you can hear happily dispelled when the next guy pops up and says "Well, Wendy sees them too, so…"
And the freezer door unlocks so he can escape. Pretty hard to make your imagination do that.
- November 29, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- bill r. said...
It's an attempt to wrench the film out of the horror genre, and I hate it.
- November 29, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Greg F. said...
And isn't the whole idea of shining pretty well established as real? And the hotel shines, i.e., is haunted - that's pretty well established too. Danny sees the murders from the past, firsthand. And Dick Hallorann knows they're in trouble via direct psychic messaging from Danny.
I mean, I understand the enticement of making a movie showing a person going crazy and, as a result, showing paranormal things that are only in his head, like Jacob's Ladder for instance. But this movie is clearly a horror movie, outright. Trying to rework it into a psychological drama is about as useful as claiming the shark in Jaws is all in Brody's mind. Not only does it fly in the face of common sense, but seriously lessens the story as a result.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Greg F. said...
Sorry, in Jacob's Ladder he's not going crazy, per se, but dying while his brain imagines a whole other life.
- November 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- bill r. said...
Not only does it fly in the face of common sense, but seriously lessens the story as a result.
I completely agree. The rationale, if I had to guess, must be that the film is improved by making it more "character-based", as if that phrase meant anything at all. Interestingly, critics who try to remove the ghosts (while keeping the shining, as Ebert did very specifically when he wrote about the film again a few years ago) from THE SHINING are as blinkered as those who want to diminish King's novel by claiming all of Jack's personal demons are from Kubrick. The drinking and child abuse and all that was in King's novel first. And then of course King's reaction to the film...
The reactions to THE SHINING, as the podcast makes clear, can be pretty bizarre.
- November 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Jamey DuVall said...
I really appreciate you posting something on our Kubrick Series, and I'm glad that you've enjoyed it thus far.
As far as the various conspiracy theories go (which constitute 40 minutes of a 160 minute show), it wasn't my intention to endorse any of them. I only wanted to explore what I thought was fascinating about the ambiguity of Kubrick's work and this film in particular, and how people bring their own views and life experience to play when they interpret its meaning.
The beauty of The Shining, of course, is that it works as a film of the horror genre as well. But it is approached in Kubrick's typically ambiguous fashion. As one guest said, he keeps many of the incidents from the book, but severs a narrative thread from them, so their meaning is up for grabs. This is intentional, as any viewer of Kubrick's previous films can attest.
Personally, I think there are kernels of truth among a few of the theories (the American Indian, the Holocaust).
Anyway, thanks again for all of your support and kind words. The next episode on Full Metal Jacket will air sometime in March after this award season winds down.
- January 19, 2012 at 12:42 AM


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For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.—2 Corinthians 5:10
No church is any better or worse than the individual Christians who compose it….
One consequence of our failure to see clearly the true nature of revival is that we wait for years for some supernatural manifestation that never comes, overlooking completely our own individual place in the desired awakening. Whatever God may do for a church must be done in the single unit, the one certain man or woman. Some things can happen only to the isolated, single person; they cannot be experienced en masse. Statistics show, for instance, that 100 babies are born in a certain city on a given day. Yet the birth of each baby is for the baby a unique experience, an isolated, personal thing. Fifty people die in a plane crash; while they die together they die separately, one at a time, each one undergoing the act of death in a loneliness of soul as utter as if he alone had died. Both birth and death are experienced by the individual in a loneness as complete as if only that one person had even known them.
Three thousand persons were converted at Pentecost, but each one met his sin and his Savior alone. The spiritual birth, like the natural one, is for each one a unique, separate experience shared in by no one. And so with that uprush of resurgent life we call revival. It can come to the individual only. The Size of the Soul, 14-15.
"Lord, make me sensitive this morning to my 'own individual place in the desired awakening.' Whatever work needs to be done to this 'isolated, single person'—do it today, I pray. Amen."
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Because I knew even before I created the earth that you would accept My love for you, and that you would seek to know Me thus…
In the beginning I created the heavens and the earth. Then at the right time and in the right place I created you. I created your inner most being, I created every part of you, I knit you together in your mother's womb. You were carefully and wonderfully made; my works are wonderful, and you My precious child are my work. My eyes saw your unformed body. All the days planned for you were written in my book before one of them came to be. How precious are my thoughts for you, How great is the number of them! If you were to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.
Listen to me, My precious child; I created you and have cared for you since before you were born. I will be your God throughout your lifetime, until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you. I will carry you in my arms, holding you close to my heart. For I know the plans that I have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
My precious child there are some times of suffering in your life. But the temporary suffering of this life does not compare to the glory that shall be revealed in you. Know this that I am with you and I will help you. Your help comes from me, I am the God who created the heavens and the earth, and the one who created you. I will never leave you, I will never reject you. When your parents fail you I will pick you up, hold you close, and adopt you. Nothing can ever separate you from my love for you. When you are in trouble and distress my love is with you. When you are persecuted my love is with you. When you are hungry and cold and naked my love is with you, I am always with you. When you are in danger and threatened with death my love is with you, I will be with you forever.
My precious child know that nothing can separate you from my love, no matter how high you go, no matter how deep you sink, nothing in life and not even death can separate you from Me, and My love for you. No demon or any other power in hell can separate you from my love. My love for you is revealed through Christ Jesus your Lord. In all things and every situation you will have victory, you will conquer, because the victory of Christ Jesus is your victory.
But now, My precious child, I the LORD, who created you and formed you, says: Do not be afraid, for I have purchased you. I have called you by name; you are mine. When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, they will not over flow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned. I command you to be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid; do not be dismayed, for I, the LORD your God will be with you everywhere you go.
My precious child, know that everything will work together for your good, because you love me. You have been called according to my purpose. For I knew you before you were born and I predestined you to be conformed to the likeness of my Son, Jesus Christ. This is your destiny, and this is your purpose, that you become one with my Son Jesus, and thus one with me. I created you in my image so that you and I can express love to each other. The most intimate relationship you can have is with me because you and I are becoming one. You and your brothers and sisters that believe in me are becoming one with Jesus, and thus one with me. You in me, and me in you, together, unified by my love for you. You were designed for this purpose, nothing else will ever satisfy your deepest needs, your deepest desires, only I can. Because you seek to know me I satisfy your heart with love, joy, and peace that only I can give you.
My precious child if you should forget me, and enter into sin, and not turn back to Me on your own then I will punish you. Because your sin will separate you from feeling My presence, and My influence, and I want you to return to your first love, the One who loves you. I the Lord discipline those I love, and I punish everyone who I accept as my child. Just as a good Father disciplines His children to turn them away from a dangerous path, so I shall discipline you for your good, that you may share in My holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
My precious child, When you confess your sins, I am faithful and just and will forgive you of your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. In repentance and resting in Me is your salvation, in quietness and trusting Me is your strength. I will create in you a clean heart and renew a right spirit within you. I will not send you away from My presence, and I will not take My Holy Spirit from you. I will restore again the joy of your salvation, and make you willing to obey Me. Then you will teach My ways to sinners, and they will return to Me also. Humble yourself, therefore, under My mighty hand, that I may lift you up at the right time.
My precious child do not forget all my benefits, I forgive all your sins and heal all your diseases, I rescue your life from the pit of destruction and crown you with love and compassion. I satisfy your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. I The LORD work righteousness and justice for all the oppressed; I The LORD am compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. I will not always accuse, nor will I harbor my anger forever; I do not treat you as your sins deserve or repay you according to your iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is My love for you because you fear Me; as far as the east is from the west, so far have I removed your transgressions from you.
My precious child, call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Always pray to Me about your every concern, pray from your mouth and pray from your heart, I hear every thought that you think. Everything that you care about, I care about also because it concerns you. Cast all your cares and anxiety on Me because I love you. Trust in Me, the LORD YOUR GOD, with all your heart, do not depend on your own understanding; In everything acknowledge Me, And I will direct your paths. Do not worry about anything, but in everything big or small, by prayer, with thanksgiving, present your requests to Me, the Most High God. And I will give you My peace in your heart, peace that is beyond all human understanding, and it will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus. Always be joyful. Keep on praying always. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is My will for you because you belong to Me.
My precious child, Study My Book of law and truth, the Holy Bible, do not let My words depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. My words are Spirit and they are Life. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you will, and it will be given you. For the word of God is living and powerful. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. The most important thing you will ever own is your Bible because it gives you knowledge of Me, The Most High God. It makes the poor rich, it gives hope to the hopeless, faith to the fearful, food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, love to the despised, comfort to the lonely, freedom to the prisoner, health to the sick, light in the darkness, and life to the dying.
My precious child I have set up circumstances and situations in your life to cause you to seek Me and find Me. I desire that you know Me. I am The Lord your God, full of compassion, and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But My precious child glory in this, That you understand and know Me, That I am the LORD, exercising compassion, lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight and take pleasure.
All things are created for My pleasure and My pleasure is to show forth loving compassion. I have compassion on the poor and needy, and I am a Father to the fatherless, I help them, and I defend them. Far below Me are the heavens and the earth, I stoop to look down, and I lift the poor from the dirt and the needy from the garbage dump and I set them among princes. My precious child I want you to do these things also, have compassion on the poor and needy and help them, this is what it means to know Me. For I am Love, and when you live in love, you live in Me, and I live in you. Loving compassion is good, and this is what I require from you, to do what is right, to love compassion, and to walk humbly with your God.
As a father has compassion on his children, so I your LORD have compassion on you because you fear Me; for I know how you were formed, I remember that you are dust. Forever and ever My love is with you because you fear Me, and My righteousness with your children's children; with those who keep My covenant and remember to obey My laws. My law is to love. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments all of My laws are based. When you walk in love you are obeying all My laws. When you walk in Love you are walking in My Holy Spirit for I AM LOVE!
My precious child come and live in My shelter, in the protection of the Most High God, you will find rest in the presence of the Almighty. You will say, "This I declare of the LORD: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I am trusting him." My precious child I will rescue you from every trap and protect you from the fatal plague. I will shield you with My wings. I will shelter you with My feathers. My faithful promises are your armor and protection. Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor fear the dangers of the day, nor dread the plague that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you. But you will see it with your eyes; you will see how the wicked are punished.
Because you My precious child make the LORD your refuge, because you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your dwelling. For I order My angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone. You will trample down lions and poisonous snakes; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!
My precious child, My servant, and My friend, whom I have chosen, I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will hold you up with my righteous right hand. All who come against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear; I will help you. Do not be afraid, for I myself will help you declares the LORD, your Redeemer. You will rejoice in the LORD and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
My precious child, when you asked Me to forgive your sins and come into your heart I sent My Holy Spirit into you to comfort you, to give you power, and as proof to you that I have adopted you as My child. The Holy Spirit shall lead you into all truth because He shall testify of Jesus, and He will give you power to testify of Jesus. I will speak to you through My Holy Spirit that is in you, He will tell you what is right and wrong, what is love and hate. My Holy Spirit is a gentle whisper inside your heart telling you the path to walk in. If you walk in My Spirit you will walk in love, you will not sin. And you will see great and mighty things happen before you, they will not be accomplished by strength, nor by outside force, but by My Spirit says the LORD ALMIGHTY. Through My Holy Spirit I shall give you supernatural gifts that you may be blessed, and that you shall bless others through demonstrating My love for them. My Holy Spirit will be with you through out your whole life, and after I will receive you into My glory.
I your LORD say to you I will rescue you because you love me. I will protect you because you trust in my name. When you call on me, I will answer; I will be with you in trouble. I will rescue you and honor you. I will satisfy you with a long life and give you my salvation. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. It is your destiny.
Jun 25, 2008
Sep 9, 2008
thanks uni
Nov 12, 2007
Sep 9, 2008
I read it all Univac. It was so beautiful. I know it is a book in the Bible, but I don't know where. Is it Eph? It must have been a different translation too.
There was one thing that I learned as a Mormon that is contained in this scripture: "
Listen to me, My precious child; I created you and have cared for you since before you were born."
I believed this even before I became a Mormon. My mom taught this to me. She said babies came from Heaven, that's why they are so innocent, and when they look around and laugh or smile at something, it's the angels they used to play with. And she wasn't Mormon, but some of her beliefs came from a Christian Science upbringing. Do you think this is true? That we were Spirit Children and lived in Heaven before we were born? I don't mean like the Mormon's believe, that they carry it further and say we must have lots of children to release these Spirit Babies, just that maybe we did come from Heaven. ??
Jun 25, 2008
Sep 10, 2008
I understand what you are saying
and its a nice idea
that we were Spirit before we became spirit and flesh...and as we started getting older flesh took over
cause babies are totally innocent until they get to a certain age, than flesh starts to take over... I'm not saying its true but its a nice idea
Sep 4, 2008
Sep 10, 2008
Sweet Surrender, each and every line of this love letter is comprised from a scripture throughout the entire Bible.:bible:
I have a copy buried in one of my study books, that noted which chapter, book and verse, each line of scripture was taken from.:fish:
Jun 25, 2008
Sep 10, 2008
If you browse that site of the link I gave you they will show you what each verse means etc...
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- 2 Bellpeppers/Capsicum (colour of your choice)
- 1 jar Taco Sauce (medium or hot)
- 1-2 Yellow (brown) Onions
- 2-4 Tomatoes
- 2-3 dl (200-300ml) Vegan Sour Cream (I use sour supreme)
- 4-6 tbs Vegan Mayo
- 2-4 pinches Black Pepper
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- 4 tsp Bakingpowder
- 100g Dairy Free Margarine (room temperatured)
- 1 tsp Salt
- 3 dl (300ml cooking milk/cream)
- Fry the vegan mince with the taco spice mix (according to directions on packet)
- Cut the capsicum/bellpeppers och onion into smaller chunks.
- Slice the tomatoes.
- In a bowl mix sour supreme, mayo, salt & pepper. Taste!
- In a large bowl mix all the dry ingredients for the dough, then add the margarine and cooking cream using your hands or a kneader with dough hooks.
- Spread/roll the dough evenly in a large oven tray.
- Top with the mince, then onion, bellpeppers/capsicum and the slices tomatoes.
- Drizzle the top with both taco sauce and the mayo mix.
- Bake in the oven at 225C / 440F for 25-30min until golden.
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China's Vice President Xi Jinping finally relented after a day of talks with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, agreeing to allow Hollywood to send more films than ever to the most populace nation on Earth.
For 20 years, China's government has only allowed 20 non-Chinese films to be released annually, with distributors reaping a measly 13 percent. But under a new agreement, China will permit an additional 14 films--they must be in 3D or IMAX--and distributors will take home 25 percent. The average for foreign distribution in other nation's around the globe is 30 percent.
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"This is a very big deal," said Chris Dodd, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America, in an interview with The Wrap. "The industry has been living with the numbers in terms of percentages and quotas for 20 years... It begged for a conclusion."
The changes come a year after the World Trade Organization told China they needed to loosen their restrictions on foreign film. These new rules will be up for review in five years.
This is great news for Hollywood studios. There were $2.1 billion in movie tickets sold last year in China, with that number expected to jump to $5 billion by 2015, according to The New York Times. Hollywood's access to the giant pool of cash has now jumped 70 percent, and their take has jumped of each dollar has jumped 92 percent.
The downside--there is always a downside--is that this new deal will further encourage Hollywood to make films in 3D or IMAX just because they'll make more money, not because they necessarily benefit the film.
IMAX and 3D are great advancements that when down properly make for a far richer and more immersive film experience, but they can also seriously detract from a film. We're very much looking forward to Ben Affelck's Iran Hostage Crisis thriller, "Argo," but the idea that there would be any incentive to convert it to 3D makes is a downer.
The Independent Film & Television Alliance seems to think that indies will benefit greatly from this new deal, as well.
"For Independents, this agreement is momentous," http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/white-house-china-films-joe-biden-xi-jinping-mpaa-292500www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/white-house-china-films-joe-biden-xi-jinping-mpaa-292500. "Our sector has been unable to benefit fully from the existing revenue-sharing importation quotas and has had limited avenues through which to distribute. For the first time, through this Agreement, there is a promise of creating a commercial foundation that will allow independent producers to participate more fully in the Chinese marketplace."
It's unclear how exactly this will benefits indies, but if Prewitt's happy, we're happy.


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Adoption Process Completed
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Reent Activities and Next Steps
City staff and partners continue to work on implementation of the vision and priorities of this Plan. First phase projects are being incorporated into proposed funding plans. Over $30 million has been designated for this corridor in the fiscally constrained Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments (PPACG) regional Long Range Transportation Plan which was adopted in early 2012. An additional $20 million in capital projects within the corridor are also included in a list of City projects that are part of the reauthorization of the capital portion of the Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority (PPRTA) sales tax. To encourage this private development and also to recommend ways to best integrate projects with the Plan's long term vision, staff continues to work with developers and property owners on individual projects in the corridor. Within the past two years, several projects have moved forward through the planning and/or construction phases. These include the late 2011 opening of the Lowe's store at Citadel Crossing, two WalMart community markets, and new Sonic restaurant and a Taco Bell near Hancock Expressway and Academy, along with a variety of building and facade improvements. Lessons learned and insights from the Academy Boulevard process are being applied to wider analysis of infill and core area redevelopment issues throughout the City.
Academy Boulevard/ Hancock Expressway PEL
Funding has been set aside for a major collaborative redesign process for the intersection at Hancock Expressway and Academy. A consultant should be on board to undertake this Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) study by early 2014. The expectations for this study include an agreed-upon design for a modern new intersection, a determination as to whether the overhead electric transmission lines can be buried, and plans sufficient to allow a future design-build process when funds are secured for this project. Immediately impacted property owners will be substantially involved.
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"Sucker Punch'' is about a young woman, played by Emily Browning, who gets locked up in an insane asylum by her evil stepfather after the deaths of her mother and sister. Baby Doll, her nick name in the asylum, enters alternate realities to cope with her situation. She envisions a plan for escape, and fights her way to freedom in a dream world, with the help of the other asylum inmates.
It's worth mentioning that the insane-asylum in which Browning finds herself is full of 18 to 26 year old sexy mental patients. And their doctor also is an incredibly attractive woman. It is by far the best looking ward I have ever seen. (When did the mental patient fetish become okay)?
Director Zack Snyder is known for his special effects and visually stunning movies. Snyder is a big reason why I was excited to see this film, but my expectations weren't met. The movie is underwhelming and the special effects aren't that impressive. Some of the dream sequences even appear to be lifted straight out of other movies.
Another disappointment was the soundtrack. Emily Browning's breathy voice added nothing to the covers of "Sweet Dreams" and "Where is My Mind," two great songs that don't need reworking.
"Sucker Punch's" plot was shaky at best, hard to follow, and hard to care about. I want to call it "Inception syndrome." If you set a movie within a dream (within a dream) it doesn't have to make any sense. I won't put my stamp of approval on this movie, there are a lot of better things you can spend your money on.


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