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Web Roundup Week 8 (Part 1):
Links to some of the web's finest Peel purveyors.
Every day? A new post every day. Who bleedin' well told you that? Actually having the news about Martyn's Peel Tapes book on top for two days is no bad thing at all. He's since told me that he will indeed be keeping us posted with his progress. Looking forward to it.
The Perfumed Garden has, among it's usual steady flow of Peel Sessions, The Fall's gig from Sheffield's Hallam University back in 1993, part of which was broadcast to mark BBC Radio 1's Sound City initiative.
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Sound of The Suburbs is another site I've featured before that regualrly posts Peel Sessions. A John Cooper Clarke session, in particular, caught my eye. Recent posts also feature Pete Wylie, Therapy, Pulp & Period Pains' 'Spice Girls (Who Do You Think You Are).
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Peter writes to inform me that his site has links to a John Peel session from Medicine Head session – 26th april 1970. He would also like to hear from anyone who has the previous session one i that was "..done before the first lp (new bottles, old medicine) which was recorded in a birmingham studio and was of most of the songs on that lp" I hope I've got I've all the details correct there.
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Koogy's comprehensive music tracklistings for the SlashMusic podcasts have garnered attention from Mr Tom Ravenscroft himself stating, "I have to admit, it's a very good site indeed,and I kind of wish we'd done it.."
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Finally and certainly by no means least, I extend my thanks and appreciation to Richard for supplying me with the recent Guardian Guide which featured many of yours & my favourite websites including this one. The fact that they reproduced my ever so humble graphc design (not withstanding credit for the photographer of said pic used) without consultation infers I may do the same with their content. Unless of course they think Bloggers don't warrant the same courtesy not to mention potential legal considerations? Huh, then Jamie went and topped it by being mentioned in Q Magazine, although a little investigative journalism (and a penchant for graphic design) on my part revealed the awful truth Media Whores & Pictures At An Exibition.


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Stephen Sauer hadn't pitched in nine days, but showed no evidence of rust Monday night. The right-handed White Sox prospect allowed five hits over a season-high eight innings as Winston-Salem blanked visiting Potomac, 4-0, in the opening game of the best-of-5 Mills Cup Finals. He struck out six and did not walk a batter.
… Sauer got 14 groundball outs and four flyouts in the game, throwing just 82 pitches — 62 of them for strikes. He allowed one Potomac runner past second base.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Virginia faithful resigned to Selection Sunday disappointment may find some comfort in tournament committee chairman Mike Bobinski's most recent public remarks.
"Key criteria for the committee is what is has been for some time," Bobinski said during a Wednesday conference call with reporters. "What quality teams were they able to beat? Were they able to beat on the road quality opponents? Were they at full health and strength when they played? How they played against other teams in the field?"
The Cavaliers (21-11) may well be NIT-bound after their dismal performance in Friday's 75-56 ACC tournament loss to North Carolina State. But overall, they fare well by Bobinski's metrics.
Virginia defeated certain NCAA selections in Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State and Wisconsin, the latter on the road. The Cavaliers are a sterling 8-4 against teams among the top 100 on the Rating Percentage Index, but also lost to seven teams below 100th, more than any other tournament contender.
"As I sit here, this is just me as a single committee member with no more voting weight than anybody else, I would tell you that the ability to beat good teams is … probably a clear indication of your deservedness to be in the tournament," Bobinski said. "If you can beat teams that are generally accepted and evaluated to be among the best in the country, that says something about who you are.
"Losing to good teams or bad teams is part of it. But I think for me, one of the real hallmarks is, have you shown that you can play, play successfully, at a very high level? That to me weighs a little bit heavier than the loss side of it."
Virginia's non-conference strength-of-schedule, No. 303 among 347 Division I teams, is another potential deal-breaker.
"We as a committee have been on record now for some time encouraging people to play stronger non-conference strength of schedules," said Bobinski, the athletic director at Xavier and soon-to-be AD at Georgia Tech. "The reality of that is, if you don't, it doesn't eliminate you from the field. It doesn't prevent you from getting in the tournament.
"(But) it shrinks your margin for error. If you don't challenge yourself significantly in the non-conference portion of the schedule, what you have to do is show us during the January and February period of the year you are clearly a team that deserves selection to the field or deserves to be seeded in a favorable spot. You've given us less evidence, less opportunities to evaluate you."
For the third consecutive year, the NCAA field includes 31 automatic qualifiers and 37 at-large selections. At least three teams from Virginia will make the bracket: Colonial Athletic Association champion James Madison, Big South champ Liberty and VCU of the Atlantic 10.
Miami, Duke, North Carolina and North Carolina State are sure ACC selections. Future ACC members Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville also will make the field, comprising half of the Big East's expected eight bids.
Miami, Duke, Louisville, Georgetown, Indiana, Kansas and Gonzaga are among the teams vying for the four No. 1 regional seeds. At least one ACC team has been a top regional seed 14 of the last 15 years, the exception 2003.
Duke dropped its ACC tournament opener, to Maryland, but is 18-1 with Ryan Kelly in the lineup and have played the nation's toughest schedule.
As usual, most of the 37 at-large selections are apparent. But teams such as Virginia, Boise State, LaSalle, Middle Tennessee State, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Saint Mary's anxiously await their fates.
"At the end of the at¿large field, it always gets sticky," Bobinski said. "There is always a next team or a few next teams that are going to go to get a lot of consideration and conversation."
Might the rash of hideous new uniforms damage some teams' chances?
"If you're asking me," Bobinski said with a laugh, "the answer is yes."
More than 5,000 games have been contested, and less than 10 remain before the NCAA tournament selection committee reveals its 68-team bracket Sunday night. Here's one semi-learned projection of the field.
This has long been an annual exercise, and only once, in 2002, did I correctly forecast every at-large selection. But in each of the last three seasons, I've missed just one. Last year's surprise was Iona instead of Seton Hall.
Virginia was the hardest case, but the Cavaliers' close was too tepid for inclusion. But I wouldn't be shocked to see the committee disagree.
The field, by seeds:
1: Louisville, Kansas, Indiana, Duke.
2: Gonzaga, Georgetown, Miami, Michigan State.
3: Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio State.
4: Marquette, Kansas State, Syracuse, UCLA.
5: Wisconsin, Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma State.
6: Arizona, VCU, UNLV, Butler.
7: North Carolina, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, Creighton.
8: Missouri, Memphis, Oregon, Colorado State.
9: Minnesota, San Diego State, Illinois, Oklahoma.
10: Cincinnati, Colorado, Iowa State, Temple.
11: Wichita State, Saint Mary's, California, Boise State.
12: Belmont, Bucknell, LaSalle-Mississippi play-in winner, Villanova-Middle Tennessee play-in winner.
13: Davidson, Valparaiso, Northwestern State, Akron.
14: Harvard, Florida Gulf Coast, South Dakota State, New Mexico State.
15: Iona, Albany, Montana, Pacific.
16: North Carolina A&T-Liberty play-in winner, Long Island-Southern play-in winner, James Madison, Western Kentucky.
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Dawn of the Electronic Age (Jan, 1952)
Odd article written by Lee deForest the inventor of the Audion, a vacuum tube amplifier that ushered in the radio and electronics age. He discusses the origins and growth of electronics and what the future may bring, including dissing the transistor and living room walls that keep one warm by microwaves. He also has some firm opinions regarding the uses to which his invention has been put:
The microphone-amplifier-loudspeaker combination is having an enormous effect on our civilization. Not all of it is good! Consider to what heights of impudence and tyranny, and to what depths of moral depravity, has radio broadcasting and the loudspeaker attained in that recent monstrosity, Transit Radio, Inc. Almost incredible is the loathsome fact that already in 21 cities bus riders must listen to never-ending, blatant advertising and unwelcome jitterbug and bop music, "viciously repugnant to the spiritual and intellectual assumptions of American life," as Prof. Charles Black of Columbia University wrote. This outrage is unquestionably the all-time low to which radio broadcasting can sink.
Dawn of the Electronic Age
By Lee deForest ("Father of Radio")
WHEN VOCAL SOUND first became articulate the ancestor of man leaped suddenly from the dumb shackles of the brute. The first crude sign writing, whereby thoughts might be recorded, helped to bring scattered men and tribes into social units and establish contact with future generations through the permanency of the written word. For ages, ecclesiastics maintained a monopoly of reading and writing. Then came movable type and the printing press of Gutenberg. Reading and writing became common heritage. The postal service followed, fostering a moderate exchange of thought between people. Ancient Greeks developed a crude method of heliograph for military signaling. Then flags by day and fires by night conveyed information over wide distances. Later, the system of signaling by semaphore devised by Claude Choppe during the French Revolution blazed the path leading to the electric telegraph of Morse. Scarcely more than a century ago came the first telegraph, an instantaneous means for communicating over great land distances, followed by the submarine cable for spanning the oceans. Bell, experimenting with a new form of telegraphy, came upon the telephone, and as a result business and social life were; immeasurably increased in tempo. Late in the 19th century, wireless telegraphy entered the communications field, first as a means of spinning threads between ships and shores, and robbing the sea of its sinister silence; later as a practical means of transoceanic communication. Inspired by the classical formulas of Maxwell in England, Hertz in Germany in the 1880s discovered electromagnetic waves, proving them akin to light waves but of vastly longer wavelengths and lower frequencies.
Although signaling by means of these hertzian waves, generated first by a condenser discharge across the crude spark gaps of Hertz, Marconi, Lodge and others, and controlled by the telegrapher's key into dots and dashes of the Morse code, preceded by 10 years the advent of the radio tube, those historic crudities could scarcely be considered as properly belonging to the electronic age.
By common consent today, that era was born with the discovery that electrons traveling across an evacuated space could readily be controlled by a simple grid electrode interposed between the electron emitter, a heated cathode, and a cold plate connected to the positive terminal of a battery, preferably of low voltage, its negative electrode being connected to one end of the filamentary cathode. In that so-called "B," or secondary, circuit was inserted a signal-indicating device, usually some form of telephone receiver; later a loudspeaker was used.
The date of my discovery of this small acorn from which has sprung the gigantic oak that is today world-embracing, was the latter months of 1906. But it was not until 1912 in Palo Alto, Calif., that the Audion was used as an amplifier, first of radio signals, then for long-distance telephone communication. This rediscovery was made just in time to render possible the fulfillment of A.T.&T.'s contract with the Panama Pacific World's Exposition to establish transcontinental telephone service between New York and San Francisco before January 1915. Later that year the Western Electric Company, now further licensed under the Audion-amplifier patents, succeeded in transmitting by radiotelephone the human voice from Arlington, Va., to the Paris Eiffel Tower, and also to Honolulu, more than 6000 miles distant.
This gigantic step in radio speech was made possible by the discovery, also in Palo Alto in 1912, that the Audion amplifier, when properly connected in a "feed back" circuit, became an oscillator or generator of alternating currents of practically any frequency, numerically dependent upon the dimensions of the circuit elements that were involved.
That invention of the oscillating tube and circuits began forthwith to force into disuse the spark-gap, open, rotary, or quench types, and also high-frequency alternators. Today the use of the tube oscillator is universal, found in every radio and television station for the generation of long, short, or "ultra short" waves around the world.
No greater influence has been at work in molding our civilization than the telephone. Today we have some 50,000,000 telephones installed throughout the world, connected by some 100,000,000 miles of wire and unnumbered miles of "etheric" linkage. And in all telephone lines today longer than 50 or 75 miles you will find electron "booster" tubes so that one can speak from Los Angeles to Paris with the same voice volume as used in local calls.
The actual poetry of this engineering triumph was first brought stunningly upon me in 1915 when I sat in an audience in San Francisco and heard the breaking of the surf upon the far Atlantic shore. There our modern sophisticated generation was able to appreciate for the first time the deep significance of that historic phrase, first signaled over Morse's wire: "What hath God wrought?"
During its early years there was every indication that radio would be employed mainly for military purposes. The Navy and then the Signal Corps were for years its chief proponents. Then the widespread clan of radio hams, or amateurs, tiring of dot-dash conversation reached eagerly for the new implement, the Audion, and soon global conversations began. It was such hosts of young pioneers in the short-wave ocean of space, after the long waves were officially denied them, that demonstrated the unexpected ability of such high frequencies to span the globe and to reach out into empty space. Thus instructed, every effort was hastened by the radio engineer to speed up transoceanic service. Soon we had fast facsimile, followed by unbelievably accurate transfer of photographs.
Today photographs, drawings, fingerprints, printed matter, handwritten and typed messages, business and legal documents are flashed across the sea in facsimile form and accepted at their face value. Thus a new business day opens when a person in New York can sign his name to a document, in Japan or Berlin within the hour.
The microphone-amplifier-loudspeaker combination is having an enormous effect on our civilization. Not all of it is good! Consider to what heights of impudence and tyranny, and to what depths of moral depravity, has radio broadcasting and the loudspeaker attained in that recent monstrosity, Transit Radio, Inc. Almost incredible is the loathsome fact that already in 21 cities bus riders must listen to never-ending, blatant advertising and unwelcome jitterbug and bop music, "viciously repugnant to the spiritual and intellectual assumptions of American life," as Prof. Charles Black of Columbia University wrote. This outrage is unquestionably the all-time low to which radio broadcasting can sink.
Such crimes notwithstanding, it is questionable whether science has contributed in one single instance more to present I and future civilization than it has in the gift of broadcasting. In 1907 I began to build radiotelephone transmitters for the United States Navy. In testing these devices I placed their output "on the air" and played phonograph records by the hour. The tests attracted widespread attention and gave me the idea of mass communication or "broadcasting." Three years later Caruso's voice was broadcast from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. Other stars followed. I continued my broadcasts until 1917, then resumed after the war, first in New York, later in San Francisco. Then broadcasting struck the public fancy. It spread swiftly. First came the programs on the air, then the public urgently seeking equipment to listen in. There began the growth of the multi-billion-dollar radio industry as we know it today, with some 2000 transmitters and 50,000,000 receivers in day-and-night operation. Business soon saw here a wonderful medium for the commercial "good will" message (too frequently, crass commercial advertising breeding anything but good will) and so generously sponsored the programs that today sales of AM-station franchises are frequently reported in the millions of dollars.
A melancholy view of our national mental level is obtained from a survey of the moronic quality of the majority of today's radio programs. So few of the owners of radio stations or the sponsors of their programs realize their unequaled opportunities for uplifting the cultural level of our public. Neither the church nor the public school has so powerful an influence over the mass mind of America. There are many outstanding exceptions to the average mediocrity, like the programs of the "music stations," and educational programs. The same may be said regarding the television stations now operating. The engineers and scientists have done a most outstanding, almost miraculous, job in giving us the marvelous electronic-television system of which all Americans may well be proud.
But many who are given to use this splendid instrument are so clumsy, so stupid, so shamefully dull-witted.
As though the present refinements of black-and-white TV were not sufficiently marvelous, television engineers have now in readiness for public approval two systems of color. One by CBS has had the too-hurried approval of the F.C.C, an approval upheld recently by the Supreme Court. It is mechanical, uses a whirling tri-color disk, is limited in size to a 10 or 12-inch picture, is incompatible, so that even in black and white not one of the existing 15,-000,000 receivers can reproduce the picture without an adapter gadget. By contrast RCA has an all-electric system, not limited in picture size and wholly compatible. Every existing receiver can reproduce that picture in black and white. It is clear which of these two systems will be more patronized by the advertising sponsors! The choice made here by F.C.C, is therefore one of today's outstanding marvels of bureaucratic bungling. National welfare demanded no such haste!
In four years World War II gave to electronics a stimulant and boost which 15 years of peaceful development might not have produced. The foremost development was radar; then came sonar, loran, the proximity fuse, the guided missile, the blind-landing systems for aviation, ground altimeters, ground-speed indicators, automatic pilots, as well as a hundred less-spectacular electronic devices within the inner working of today's airplane. Today's surging preparation of more complicated weapons for defense and offense is finding hourly new uses for, and new forms of, that Promethean device, the grid tube—evacuated or hydrogen filled.
At one time in 1906 I held in my coat pocket the entire world's supply of three-electrode tubes, two in number. Last March the month's output of small receiving and amplifying tubes reached the astronomical figure of 42,400,000. All in one man's lifetime! Such is the progress of science and technology in free America in this mid-20th century.
The old, long-waged, unsuccessful battle of wireless telegraphers for static suppression led Edwin Armstrong to his frequency-modulation system, an old idea long discarded as impractical. Since that accomplishment we have had a new growth in broadcasting transmitters in friendly competition with the old AM stations. Both systems have their special merits.
In the vacuum-tube amplifier, in whose operation the grid (by controlling the B current) is itself the key, reside most of the present and future possibilities of electronics. Space permits only the briefest mention of some tubes and their uses. A compact maze of diode elements may constitute an electron-multiplier tube having an amplification factor of several thousand, in a tube the size of your finger. Such tubes are indispensable in the image-orthicon TV camera that "photographs" electronically your favorite television program.
I can merely mention today's employment of "counter" tubes, the basis of all computing machines, solving in seconds complex equations which would require months of tedious mathematical analysis, but basically employing the old Eccles-Jordan "tick tack" circuit, useful in the instantaneous advance computation of the course of projectiles.
The oscillating tube has a hundred uses beside those of radio transmission, as in diathermy (physical therapy), plastic molding, metal fusing, welding, tin plating and plywood manufacture. The cyclotron, synchrotron and bevatron, atom-smashers, generating up to a billion volts, depend on high frequencies generated by the oscillating vacuum tube. Thus has this tube ushered in the atomic age. Now we have the protective radar barrage triggered with megawatts of pulse energy generated by a grid-controlled hydrogen-filled tube to protect us from a future Pearl Harbor! What more important achievements can one ask for the grid to perform?
With grids working half-time only we have the thyrotron, ignitron, using mercury vapor and argon, hydrogen or helium gas, carrying thousands of amperes in some sizes. Electronic devices control high-speed wrapping of packages, fill bottles to the proper level, remove slate from coal at the mines, level elevators, open doors, detect smoke and fumes, measure vibrations and thickness, cement, select and count, saving man from limitless hours of tedious toil. The traveling wave amplifier of ultrashort waves and the transistor will more and more supplement, but never supplant, the Audion.
As a growing competitor to the tube amplifier comes now the Bell Laboratories' thermistor, a three-electrode germanium crystal of amazing amplification power, of wheat-grain size and low cost. Yet its frequency limitations, a few hundred kilocycles, and its strict power limitations will never permit its general replacement of the Audion amplifier.
In optical engineering the combination of a phototube and the electron amplifier tube is omnipresent, indispensable. It makes possible the talking motion picture as well as television, measures the energy of stars infinitely distant from our telescopes. The electron microscope, with magnification of 25,000 diameters, makes visible the infinitesimal universe.
As to the future of the electronic age we can foresee a multiplication and extension of every discovery and development which these first 45 years have revealed. In detail: I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication; vastly important developments in microwave technique, whereby present clumsy connecting leads between wall or floor sockets and electric devices like toasters and vacuum sweepers may become unnecessary; gigantic magnetrons and klystrons, or their successors, will generate megawatts in microwaves; living rooms and their occupants will be heated by high-frequency waves from walls or ceilings; short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously, with far better results than in the past; insect pests will be eliminated by like means; bacteriological and biological research will be enormously advanced by short and microwaves of selective frequencies; plant growth amazingly hastened and improved by similar means.
Automobile collisions will be rendered impossible, or unlikely, by radar-controlled brakes and warning signals. By means of the radio space-analyzer, or "telescope," astronomers' knowledge of our universe will be vastly widened. (I do not foresee "spaceships" to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!)
In yet more remote decades electron physiologists will solve the mysteries of biologic "wave emanations," akin to but very different from hertzian waves of any form or frequency, so that radiated "thought or brain waves" may be picked up at some distance, transformed into electrical phenomena, analyzed, measured in units, eventually to make a definite science of the transference of brain and body radiations and emotional disturbances; so that joy and grief can be measured in definite, quantitative units! Eventually, a professor may be able to implant knowledge into the reluctant brains of his 22nd-cen-tury pupils. What terrifying political possibilities may be lurking there! Let us be thankful that such things are only for posterity, not for us.
As is eloquently engraved in stone on the National Archives Building in Washington: "What's Past Is Prologue."


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Thirukadaiyur is a very famous temple in Nagapattinam district. The presiding Deity is Amrthakadeswarar His consort is Abhirami. This temple is associated with the stories of Markandeya and Abhirami Bhattar.
This holy place is believed to be the place where Lord Shiva saved Markendeya from Yama (the God of death). This is one of the Ashta Veeratta sthalams. The eight temples are as follows
1. Thirukadaiyur
3. Thirukkovilur
4. Thiruvadhigai
5. Thirupparaiyur
6. Thiruvirkudi
7. Vazhuvur
8. Thirukkurakkai
Mrigandu Maharishi, a staunch devotee of Shiva led a simple life of worship and penance. He and his wife Marudhamathi had no children. The couple prayed to Lord Shiva to bless them with a child. Pleased with their prayers Shiva appeared before them and granted them their wish but asked the couple to make a difficult choice. Shiva asked them to choose between a hundred children who would not be virtuous but would live a long life & one son who would be the epitome of virtuousness and have the divine blessing, but would live only till the age of sixteen. The couple chose the latter and thus Markandeya was born to them.
Markandeya was very pleasing in his manners and behaviour, and was liked by one and all. He was intelligent too. At that young age the boy mastered all the scriptures. His parents were proud of his achievements. However, they suddenly remembered that this boy will live only until the age of sixteen. This realization worried them. When Markandeya inquired them of the reason, his mother could not hide the truth any longer and informed him of the conditional boon which Shiva had granted. Markandeya was very confident that Shiva would protect him.
He made a Lingam out of the wet sand on the banks of Cauvery and started his penance. He was determined to continue until Lord Shiva appeared before him granted him the boon of immortality. As Markandeya entered his sixteenth year, Yama came to take back his life. But Markandeya refused to go along with Yama. Yama threw the noose around Markandeya and since he was hugging the Shivalingam, the noose fell around the Shivalingam also. An angry Shiva killed Yama. Markandeya then implored Lord Shiva to bring back Yama to life. Shiva pleased with Markandeya's selflessness blessed him to be immortal.
The Shiva Lingam is swayambhu (Self manifested). The mark made by Yama's noose is seen on this Lingam. Some believe that this Lingam is part of the pot of nectar that came out of the Paarkadal or Celestial Ocean. Devas had not invoked Vinayaka before the churning of the Ocean. An angry Vinayaka wanted to teach them a lesson and stole the pot of nectar from the Devas. Vinayakar is called KallaPillayar here, as he had stolen the pot of Nectar from the Devas.
As death was conquered at this holy temple at Thirukadaiyur, Sasthiabdhipoorthi (Completion of sixty years), Bheemaratha Shanthi (Completion of 70 years) and Sadhabishegam (Completion of 80 years) are celebrated here.
This is the place where Brahma got Gnaanopadesam from Lord Shiva. Shiva had given Brahma few Vilva seeds and told him that wherever the seeds germinate, He (Shiva) would do the Gnanopadesham. After failing at various places, it was finally at Thirukadaiyur that the seeds germinated. Hence the place is also known as Vilvaaranyam or Vilva forest.
Abhirami Bhattar was a staunch devotee of the Goddess. Once King Sarboji visited the temple and saw Abhirami Bhattar who was immersed in his thoughts of Goddess Abhirami. The king inquired with the Bhattar what Thithi it was and Bhattar absent-mindedly replied that it was Pournami or full moon day, while it was actually a New moon day. The furious King ordered Abhirami Bhattar to be burnt to death. When he came back to his senses, a shocked Bhattar pleaded to the Goddess to save him. Bhattar was made to stand on a wooden platform that was being slowly lowered into the fire below. He started singing a hundred verses in praise of the Goddess. As soon as Abhirami Bhattar recited the 79th verse, the Goddess threw one of her earrings in the sky which shone as bright as the Full Moon on a Full Moon day. Ashamed of himself, the King apologised to Abirami Bhattar. The hundred verses that Abhirami Bhattar sang that night is the famous Abhirami Andhadhi. Andhadhi means that a particular verse starts with the ending of the previous verse. In fact, Abhirami Andhadhi can be said to have no beginning or ending. The first verse starts with "uthikkindra senkathir uchchi thilakam…." and the 100th verse ends with " …… eppothum uthikindrave".
The main festival in this temple is the 18 day long Kaalasamhara thiruvizha in the month of Chithirai (April-may) when the entire episode of kalasamharam is enacted.
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Thirukkadaiyur is siruated in Nagapattinam district between Mayiladuthurai and Porayar. It is 22 Kms from Mayiladuthurai and 8 Kms from Porayar. This is well-connected with Kumbakonam and Mayiladuthurai.
Boarding & Lodging:
There are a few options available here for an overnight stay. Hotel Sadhabishegam is a famous hotel here that offers both boarding & lodging.
Other Temples Nearby:
Keezhaperumpallam – Kethu Sthalam
Sri Lakshmipureeswarar Temple – Thiruninriyur
Ananthamangalam Anjaneyar Temple
Thirukadaiyur Mayanam which is behind this temple and 2 kms from here is the original temple on the sea-shore. The Brahmapureeswarar temple has an incomplete gopuram. It is said that this is the original temple at Thirukadaiyur.
Temple Timings: 6 AM to 1 PM and 4Pm to 9PM
Temple Address:
Arulmigu Amirthakadeswarar Devasthanam
Phone: 04364-287429
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Five years and five innovation challenges into our LAUNCH innovation experiment, and we've finally gone international. The LAUNCH Nordic innovation cycle kicked off February 2014 in Copenhagen with a Big Think, followed by a Summit this month.
We've been working on a LAUNCH Affiliate concept for the last two years. The Nike LAUNCH team led the effort to move this concept forward in the international context. Awesome!
LAUNCH Nordic seeks to unite Nordic industry leaders and regional innovators to identify and scale sustainable innovations in materials. We're SO thrilled to see the LAUNCH model applied to other regions around the world. The Nordic region is only the first. We hope to see other cities, countries, and/or regions to step forward to apply this model.
The Nordic Challenge is now open through June 1, 2014. The challenge is focusing on innovations within the following areas:
- Closed Loop Solutions and Design for Disassembly,
- Cleaner Manufacturing and Green Chemistry,
- Sustainability Investments and Procurement, and
- End-user Engagement.
You can apply for the challenge here.
This is our first time to have two challenges open in a concurrent process. Right now, the US LAUNCH team is in the process of moving forward the Green Chemistry Challenge. We held the Green Challenge Big Think in DC during the same week of the LAUNCH Nordic Summit.
As we move forward, I see a future where we have multiple LAUNCH Affiliate cycles around the world at the same time. Imagine what a difference we can make? You can apply to organize your own LAUNCH, or offer your time and talents to the LAUNCH Collective Genius to support the innovators selected through LAUNCH. Join us!


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If you want to one (or more) of Taylor Swift's "reputation" Stadium Tour dates last year, or you watched her Netflix special, then you already know ... it was all kinds of incredible. And during the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards, Swift was honored for her record-breaking tour as she accepted the award for Tour of the Year.
Taylor was presented Tour of the Year by Maren Morris, who was a surprise guest during the "reputation" tour stop in Arlington, Texas (Maren's hometown), where they performed "The Middle." Rocking a gorgeous sparkly romper and beautiful butterfly heels and a pink ponytail, Taylor accepted the award, thanking her fans for making the tour such a success. She said:
"I think one of the most wonderful things about the way that this whole tour turned out is that for the entire six months leading up to the first show of this tour, every headline that I read about the tour was 'this is going to be a massive failure, this is going to be a flop tour' and, you know, it really did wonders for my self-esteem, it was really great to hear people saying that I was gonna be playing to nearly empty stadiums. I've learned a lot, and one of the things I've learned is that life is really unpredictable, and people can make forecasts and make predictions, but those predictions and forecasts may not come true if there's an unforeseeable factor involved. And that unforeseeable factor in this case was my fans. I honestly owe everything, everything in my life to you, and I wanna thank you if you came out and saw the show in perfect weather, or if you came to one of our many rain shows that we had, and also, I wanna say thank you if you just watched the show on Netflix on your couch. You guys are the reason this tour, and the only reason why this tour, wasn't a massive failure and ended up being the highest-selling tour in US history."
She continued, "I also just wanted to say before I go that I love your passion, I love your attention to detail, I love how much you care, I love seeing all the things that you're posting online and I just wanted to let you know that when there's new music, you will be the first to know, I love you so much."
The "reputation" Stadium Tour supported Swift's sixth studio album, reputation, and the global trek broke the singer's own record for highest-grossing tour by a woman with over 2 million tickets sold in the U.S. alone and grossing $266 million (it's the highest selling U.S. tour in history by any artist).
If you went to any of Taylor's "reputation" Tour dates or saw the Netflix special, then you already know all about her impressive stage setup and special effects — she had a giant inflatable snake named Karyn. Swift also sang out of eight microphones across three separate stages (the main stage being 110 feet tall), floated on a platform the air, made about eight wardrobe changes throughout the show, and got around backstage via a super fast rocket sled.
Taylor's "reputation" Stadium Tour set list not only included songs from reputation, but also featured ten fan favorites from many of her previous albums. She also met many of her fans backstage in her "Rep Room," and opening the show was Camila Cabello and Charli XCX.
Photos: Ashley Osborn for iHeartRadio


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The holidays are coming, and you'd like to bring in a little more income. So how about taking a second job?
Experts say the extra money is not the only factor you should consider.
Prioritize your day job
"You cannot make two things your No. 1 priority," said business strategist Carol Roth, author of "The Entrepreneur Equation". "The day job comes first. The last thing you want is to fall out of favor or get demoted because you can't stay late or work on an extra project."
And experts say you should avoid choosing a second job that is too similar to your primary profession.
"You want to be sure not to get a job with a competitor," said Meade Kelley, the Chicago branch manager for staffing firm Robert Half International. "The employer you are currently with might be worried the other company could steal you. You don't want to raise concerns."
Roth said full disclosure with your primary employer is always best.
"You may find that your current employer offers to give you more projects or hours to bump up your income so you don't have to go somewhere else because they don't want to risk losing you," Roth said.
"It could be an opportunity to have a dialogue about other opportunities within your current job," Kelley said.
Factor in the added costs
That includes child care, gas, parking and a uniform. "People see a wage and think that's all going in their pocket, but they don't take into account the hidden expenses that go along with it," Roth said. "Make sure they pay off so you get enough incremental money into your pocket."
Take care of yourself
"The holidays are busy as it is," Kelley said. "If you have a full time job and want to take on an additional job, you need to be sure you're not overextending yourself."
Fatigue is not the only thing to consider. "You have to remember that your quality will sometimes decline with the quantity that you take on," Roth said. "You need to set parameters because it's not worth sacrificing your reputation or well being for pocket cash."
Remember the tax implications
"Many people don't realize that if you bring in more money, it just might bump you into a higher tax bracket," Roth said. Consult with your accountant first.
Cast a wide net
While retail jobs seem like a no-brainer, Kelley said there are other options to consider.
"This time of year we see a peak in requests for year-end accounting help," he said. Other needs: receptionists, office assistants and file clerks. "Near the end of the year, corporations are looking to get organized and have all their paperwork and accounting in order."
Consider your family
They need to be on board with your plans. "More time at work means less time for personal life, family and overall socializing," Roth said. "You may be doing this so you can get them an extra gift, but they may say, 'Forget the gift, I'd rather spend more time with you.' "
Twitter: @jenweigel
The holidays are coming, and you'd like to bring in a little more income. So how about taking a second job?


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Apple Sensation
Difficulty: Medium
Servings: 1-2
Preparation Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins
|For the pastry:
|For the filling:
|For the topping:
1. To make the pastry, combine flour, caster sugar, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
2. Using fingertips, rub butter until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Make a well in the centre, add egg and ice water (2 teaspoons) to mix to a soft dough.
3. Bring together with fingertips and shape into a disc. Cover the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4. To make the filling, peel and core apples. Cut into small squares. Mix apples with the apple filling ingredients using the Bosch kitchen machine.
5. To make the topping, combine brown sugar and flour in a bowl. Mix with butter until mixture incorporates together.
6. Roll out pastry and line the buttered muffin pan.
7. Gently fill the crusts with apple mixture.
8. Cover the apple mixture as desired with left over dough and topping.
9. Bake at 145 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes.
Product Used
Kitchen Machine Styline MUM52110
A powerful kitchen machine that boasts an award-winning design and exceptional Bosch quality, the MUM5 is a true all-rounder.


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Carson Cistulli devises the SCOUT system to get around, as much as he can, the small sample sizes issues of the AFL stats:
Herein lies at least one of the problems with winter-league stats. Because the AFL leaders in plate appearances rarely top even the 125-PA threshold, we're forced to regress them over two-thirds of the way back to league average. That creates little in the way of meaningful separation. An alternative, however, is to look at those categories that (a) become reliable more quickly, but also (b) tell us the sorts of things we like to know about a prospect — namely, the quality of his tools. In this case, we can probably say at least something about contact- and power-hitting — via strikeout and home-run rate, respectively. …
… With all that as preface, allow me to introduce what I'll call SCOUT. To devise it, what I've done is to find the regressed strikeout and home-run rates (xK% and xHR%) for all the qualified batters in the AFL. Then, for each player, I've found the z-score (that is, standard deviations from the mean) in xK% and xHR%, and averaged them (i.e. the z-scores) together. SCOUT is the result of that.
Here's today's SCOUT leaderboard (earlier versions):
Hmmm, a .373 BABIP. I'm not excited.
Speaking of Eduardo Escobar this is from Bryan Smith's 'Must watch White Sox prospects' post today:
The question is how much he's going to hit. His walk rate is downright Viciedo-esque, and it did not improve between 2009 and 2010. His contact rates are about average, maybe a touch better. Overall, Escobar is a much better hitter from the right side with these batting lines in his three leagues this year: .326/.343/.495 in CAR, .321/.333/.491 in SOU, and .542/.577/1.208 in AFL. It should be said that his patience is non-existent from that side, but he swings a big stick. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised he tripled off the best southpaw prospect in Arizona. It's clear that Escobar has grown since his initial listed weight of 5-10, 150, so there's slight optimism for 10 home run power potential. Strength is where the similarities with Jose Vizcaino (one of those lazy comps you'll hear people use) end, and where you can see his ceiling is that much higher.


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I used the stamps the dies to create the frames, tags, folded banner, and label. To make the colorful background, I painted watercolor paper with a mix of Gelatos, watercolor pencils, watercolor crayons, and watercolor paint, then I punched circles from the colorful swatches. For a little sparkle, I added glitter to some of the circles.
I couldn't let the leftover watercolor and glitter circles go to waste, so I used them on a card. I used the picture frame and "hello" stamps from the Picture Perfect stamp set, and the banner die from the Folded Banner die set.
Thank you, Technique Tuesday, for letting me play with your adorable stamps and dies!


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Brass jungle: Trumpets, saxes, tuba = loud!
Oregon Hill Funk All-Stars and Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Starr Hill Music Hall
Wednesday, March 3
...the front of the room turned into a jungle of brass and woodwinds. Four trombones, two trumpets, four saxes, a tuba, a guitarist, and a drummer all crammed onto the stage...
I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Let's back up for a minute. If you like jazzy funky stuff, then you should have shuffled your feet over to Starr Hill this past Wednesday for the return of central Virginia's finest full-blown funk ensemble, Oregon Hill Funk All Stars, who opened the stage for The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Just in case you've been sleeping for the last quarter-century, The Dirty Dozen has been touring the country in some incarnation for the last 25 years. They are one of the most revered groups on the New Orleans music scene and have been influential in shaping (and redefining) the role of big brass in contemporary music.
Things started off on a good foot when Oregon Hill took the stage. They bring that high-energy funk that scares away the prudes and gets freaky people in the mood. You may remember the band leader as the sax player with long dreadlocks from The Jazz Poets.
This time around, he has a new brand of funk that includes a wicked horn section and an in-the-pocket percussionist whose mother probably quieted him with a bongo-shaped binky as a child. Yeah, these guys were born to play the funky stuff. The longer they played, the more the crowd ate it up.
Dirty Dozen got up next. The band looked expressionless as they stepped to their instruments. I couldn't help but think that by now, playing shows like these is just work for them.
Decked out in custom baseball and basketball jerseys, urban indie gear, with cell phones attached to their belts, they started their set as if they were doing a sound check. I don't think I was the only one confused. Because The Dirty "Dozen" brought only seven of their members to the show, they seem to missing some key ingredients.
But midway through their third or fourth song, things began to pick up. Maybe the soundman corrected something. Whatever it was, somebody did something right. The energy of the performance escalated and everyone could feel what good ol' New Orleans funk can do. (I've decided that the Sousaphone is the best bass tone in a live arena.)
For the finale, The Dirty Dozen invited the horn section of Oregon Hill to join them. With both bands together, the front of the room turned into a jungle of brass and woodwinds. Four trombones, two trumpets, four saxes, a tuba, a guitarist, and a drummer all crammed onto the stage. The wall of sound jammed out for at least a half-hour. The crowd was grateful. We all left with smiles on our faces.


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So yesterday was my birthday! And it was a really really special day! Most of my friends remembered and sent really awesome messages, which was so nice. Luke was really fantastic, doing everything from going for ice-cream, to going geocaching, and driving everywhere. Thanks Luke, you is rox!!!
Duncan and Tom and Luke and I went off to dinner to an Indian place that I really love, and dinner was fabulou as usual. We went from there to a place in Greenside, where Luke found a fly in his drink (really!). It was so nice to not have to sit home alone on my birthday, so thanks guys! It was the best birthday present ever!
Jen and Megs got me an Espresso maker, and coffee grounds as well as a whole bunch of cool little things for my trip. I made myself WAY too much coffee this morning and am almost twitching! My mom got me really cute little Espresso cups, so I got to use one! Luke gave me a first aid kit (which is far more necessary than I'd like to admit...).
On top of all of that, all the well-wishes and fun that I had, it was the K-I-D-Ses that really made my day special! One of the secons year students sent me a message the night before asking to arrange a meeting because some of them were confused about an assignment that was due yesterday afternoon. I panicked a bit becasue I didn't really remember that section very well, and dashed into my lab, reading over everything quickly before they arrived.
Then the door opened and about half the second-year class trooped in. I though "Oh boy, it must be a really big problem!") when all of a sudden they presented me with coffee, choc-chip cookies and a whole bunch of coffee and choc-chip muffins (I like coffee, in case nobody noticed). There was no problem, they just wanted to give me a surprise! It was so totally unexpected, I was stunned! Then in the lab in the afternoon Luke gave me a cupcake and I wandered around while random groups of students sang happy birthday to me and behaved really really well (for a lab).
Its day like that that make all the marking and drudgery and explaining and re-explaining worth it! So I guess I love my friends AND my students and everyone else!
Birthdays rock!
The only negative (unless you count the fly in Luke's drink) is that I got an email from teh faculty saying that they won't fund my trip overseas to do lab work. Not sure what I'm going to do... Plus I got an email saying that the equipment we just sent off for a service (a week ago) has not yet arrived in the states, which means that I won't be able to begin fieldwork on schedule. So if I have to postpone fieldwork ANd lab work to next year, it'll make my life very difficult. I'm going off now to try and make a plan!


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I am sure that following David Coleman's speech at the annual NACAC conference yet another round of articles will penned decrying the burden of the malevolent SAT vocabulary. For years, students have been alone in their lamentation of the SAT's propensity for underscoring the deficiencies in their respective vocabularies. Now these students have an ally in the new College Board president, who's taken to joining the cacophony surrounding the SAT and its "arcane" vocabulary. In each of his public comments about the impending changes to the SAT, he's been taking swipes at the words tested on his own exam. His comments have carried the implication that these tested words are no longer relevant, popular, and by extension not useful to learn. He has given tacit endorsement (whether intentional or not) to the idea that there is such a thing as an "SAT word" (a word that one learns for the SAT and will never use again). This rhetoric from the architect of Common Core State Standards and the de facto baby daddy of the Forthcoming New SAT (let's call it: FNSAT), may be exciting for students, should be concerning to all of us logophiles.
David Coleman, president of the College Board, wants to get rid of obscure words that are . . . just SAT words…
Mr. Coleman's comments on the "arcane" words that are on the SAT, not only laying the groundwork for the elimination of Sentence Completions from the test, but also and more disconcertingly sending the wrong message to students, parents, and educators. He is sending a message that devalues language, a message that diminishes scholarship, a message that restricts rather than broadens the original intent behind testing vocabulary, a message that does more harm than good. His message, while it excites me for the future of the SAT, ultimately saddens me as it may negatively impact students and certainly any appreciation of the English language. It also makes me wonder by what measure Mr. Coleman is determining "arcane" and "unused."
I've spent 20 years intensely studying the SAT and the words that are on the test, which are by and large still very much alive and well. In fact, I'd lay a substantial wager that every word on the SAT in the past 5 years has also appeared in print in a magazine or newspaper in the past 5 years. If that's not an indicator of a living word than what is? Given that the folks at College Board should be psychometricians and educators let's apply a little objective analysis to the words on the SAT. I took the answer choices from the question 5 in Section 2 of the May 2013 SAT and entered them into Google Ngram to see how the usage of these words have varied in the last 100 or so years in literature, here's the result:
As you can see these words are generally as popular or more popular than they were 100 years ago. So by what measure is Mr. Coleman claiming that these words are outdated and unused beyond the SAT? While clearly some words on the test are less common than they once were, it seems that the amount of derision being heaped upon the vocabulary on the test is uncalled for.
I hope with the impending changes to the SAT that the College Board finds a way to continue to encourage students to develop their vocabulary. The number of students I encounter who cannot define the "SAT words" I find in the real world is shocking. I often give my students real world vocabulary quizzes that look like this and am stunned by how many of the words they don't know:
- Movies
- Minion
- Despicable
- Insidious
- Scuttle
- Jetsam
- X-men
- Gambit
- Rogue
- Havok
- Jubilee
- Juggernaut
- Cars
- Intrepid
- Accord
- Gallant
- Acclaim
- Envoy
- Music
- Notorious
- Nirvana
- Ludicrous
- Credence
- Daft
- Magazines
- Allure
- Cosmopolitan
- Maxim
- Vogue
- Essence
Check out this list of answer choices from the May 2013 SAT (section 2 questions 1 – 5). The hyperlinked words will take you to a google search for the words appearance in the newspaper in the last year. You can be your own judge as to how esoteric the words tested are.
- threatened
- neglected
- invaded
- established
- strengthened
- contending
- exempting
- collaborating
- describing
- fraternizing
- predicting
- circumventing
- depicting
- ousting
- imitating
- guarded
- hypersensitive
- vigilant
- embittered
- solicitous
- querulous
- reticent
- taciturn
- garrulous
- irrepressible
- ingratiation
- hyperbole
- polemic
- predilection
- evocation
- assiduousness
- bellicosity
- obduracy
- fulsomeness
- diffidence
Let's hope Mr. Coleman sees the value of toning down the rhetoric and bolstering the love of language that will do nothing but help students in high school, college, and life.


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South Carolina has the fourth largest amount of state highways — 41,500 miles — and it is unsustainable.
"We need to rid ourselves of the non-functional state highways," said J. Craig Forrest. "If it doesn't perform a state function, it needs to be removed from the inventory."
Forrest is a Sun City resident who moved to South Carolina in July 2006 to retire to a nice life, "complete with beach chair, a book and a cooler watching the waves come in." He was elected Jan. 19 as vice chairman of the seven-member South Carolina Transportation Commission. He has been on the commission for a year and a half of a four-year term.
He worked in transportation planning for more than 27 years in the Maryland Department of Transportation and then for Baltimore County. After 44 years in Maryland, the Forrests sold their snowblower and moved south.
"Somehow life got turned around," he said. "I've been in transportation my whole life. It's something I enjoy. I was asked to participate with the Lowcountry Regional Transportation Authority, the organization the operates the Palmetto Breeze, and I became chair. I still had my hand in transportation."
Then a friend read a notice in a newspaper about openings on the commission and suggested Forrest apply.
"I resisted for quite a while," he said. "I finally said yes and then the application arrived. It was almost a PhD dissertation and it nearly ended right there."
About the commission
The commission is elected by the state senators and representatives who make up the 2nd Congressional District. It is the policy-making arm of the SCDOT.
"The biggest thing the commission does is we actually adopt the SCDOT budget. We're responsible to the secretary of transportation for the overall direction of maintenance and repairs," Forrest said. "We're responsible for developing long-range state transportation requirements and getting federal grants."
The current transportation budget is $1.2 billion and, Forrest said, an additional $1.5 billion is needed to maintain all the roads that fall under the state highway umbrella.
"There is tremendous need in the state as to maintenance and system preservation," he said. "We're not going to tell the governor to raise taxes. Our job is to give a realistic approach as to what the needs are and provide a list of revenue streams that we feel are a menu of opportunities. The governor and the legislators can decide what and if they want to do something with the list."
Working with the LRTA
As a board member, vice chair and chair of the Lowcountry Regional Transportation Authority (LRTA), Forrest was involved in many aspects of the organization. Among those with whom he worked closely was Rochelle Ferguson, executive director of the Palmetto Breeze.
"I would say he has a vast knowledge of transit and transportation planning. His work experience concerned a lot of highway involvement. He strikes me as person who has always worked hard all his life and that doesn't change once you retire," Ferguson said.
Forrest was very involved as a board member and brought a lot of new ideas to the agency, working to be involved in the community and tried to bring about various changes in the organization, she said.
"One area was the strategic planning efforts of the LRTA — setting the goals and objectives of the organization both short and long-term. I think that's truly something that every organization needs," said Ferguson, "and the South Carolina Department of Transportation certainly follows that type of organizational style with goals and objectives.
"It was a pleasure to work with him. He is wonderful, he continues to make a concerted effort to stay in touch with us and provide us with information about what is going on across the state of South Carolina."
About the roads
State roads fall into several levels of hierarchy: Primary, secondary, collectors and local roads.
Primary roads carry large volumes of traffic. Secondary roads are used to support neighborhoods and carry traffic between primary arteries. Collectors take traffic from neighborhoods and feed them into the secondaries. Finally, there are the local roads — the ones that take residents from their homes and driveways to the collectors and out into the world.
Then there are the roads that are labeled as state roads but don't seem to match the criteria, such as the Simmonsville (SSR 474), Buck Island (SSR 29), Palmetto Bluff (SSR 35) and the Purrysburg-Levy roads (SSR 34). The disparity is great in the levels of service provided by South Carolina's state roads.
Weeding out the wheat from the chaff and making recommendations for the future is what Forrest and his colleagues will do as they continue to examine the state's current highway responsibilities.
"The needs are dire and the opportunity to address them is now," Forrest said.
Born: April 6, 1943, in Baltimore, Md.
Education: Towson University, BS in geography; MS in environmental planning
Occupation: Transportation planning with the Maryland Department of Transportation and Baltimore County.
Family: Married 50 years to Peggy; two sons, Michael and Steven.
Sports: Roots for Notre Dame and Ohio State University; Ravens; big Baltimore Orioles fan ("even though they haven't been very good for about 14 years.")
Unusual fact: Loves to travel and cruise, has been all over the world but has never been to New York City or even to New York State.
Primary: Interstate 95, U.S. 278, U.S. 17
Arterial: S.C. 170, S.C. 315
Collectors: Sun City Boulevard, Bluffton Parkway
Local: Crestwood Avenue in Alljoy, Third Avenue in Bluffton Park and Hyde Park in Woodbridge


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Last week I returned to New York for the first time in a month – my longest stint away since I moved there in 2002. If you've read any of these entries over the past year or so, you know that my part-time residence in Cedarburg, Wisconsin is a bit quainter than my neighborhood in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Any quaintness Greenpoint offers is mitigated by the realization that it's sitting on 30 million gallons of spilled oil, that comes out in occasional farts that engulf the neighborhood. It's not a sharp scent, but one that hovers, a dull top note that occasionally drops in to interrupt one's enjoyment of a hot dog or cup of coffee. It's so subtle that you almost forget that it's there. But a few weeks away from New York is the equivalent of eating a handful of oyster crackers before tasting a new wine. And my return offered a fresh sip.
In addition to the aerosol of volatile organics, I happened to be downwind from the Andreas Gursky-esque water treatment plant on Greenpoint Avenue, which added a tangy middle note to the urban perfume that gently spritzed the wrist of my day.
The bottom note of the multilayered fragrance came in the form of some especially earthy marijuana smoke seeping through my building's ventilation system, which eventually melded with the others into a unique mélange that only Brooklyn could produce.
* Other sub-notes such as diesel fuel, boiling cabbage and wet garbage also contribute to this one-of-kind fragrance.
Ironically, I planned to meet a friend later that day to see, or rather, smell, a show called "The Art of Scent" at the Museum of Arts and Design dedicated to "olfactory art."
It turned out to be a great change of pace from my traditional art safari. The content scents in the show emanate from a couple-dozen concavities in the wall, shooting fragrance when they detect the motion of a curious head. "Olfactory art†translates here to created scents, so there's no "bacon†or "cotton candy,†just perfumes and colognes. That was a little disappointing, but I figured I could go breath the exhaust from a halal cart if I needed something more grounded than Jicky.
I went through the show three or four times, until the nerves in my nose surrendered. And until they did, it was a thoroughly orgiastic experience. Even the repulsive Drakkar Noir transported my back to a locker room in 1988. Given the vacuity of much of what's passing for visual stimulation around the art world, one could do worse than to engage in an orgy of the nose. The only downside was that dinner afterwards, which I'm sure was loaded with flavor, tasted as bland as a handful of oyster crackers.
I left for the airport on Sunday morning, picked up by a car service whose dashboard was graced by a Lady of Guadalupe candle. Its smell blended curiously with Armor-All and residual cigarette smoke.
Northside No. 5.
I met my father-in-law at arrivals and we drove back to Cedarburg. When I got out at the homestead, I pulled in a long, deep drag of Wisconsin's best air. And my sinuses froze immediately. It smelled like cold. Which smells like nothing. But, still, so inert and fresh.
I thought about all the air spritzers I'd purchased that claim to smell like water or cotton that actually smell like a Palmolive factory exploded. Not water, nor cotton. Not fresh. Olfactory metaphors. Is 'freshness' a scent, or lack of it? Pure Concept?
And, is a little sanitized nothing better or worse than a lot of pungent something? Or are scents part of a yin/yang cocktail of potent wine and oyster crackers, living symbiotically?
I walked inside the house where a pile of bratwursts awaited my arrival. Hot and glistening. Timed perfectly for my arrival.
They smelled, simply, delicious.
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Briarcliffe College (Patchogue, NY - Bethpage)
Men's Head Coach. Available: Immediately. Deadline: July 20, 2013.
Bachelor's degree preferred. Collegiate coaching and recruiting experience preferred.
• Responsible for recruitment of quality student-athletes, retention, fund raising, pre and post season conditioning programs, and the organizing and planning of practices and game strategies.
• Must be familiar with the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) and with the day-to-day responsibilities of running a competitive program, including lacrosse coaching skills, planning, organization, recruiting, fundraising, strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Must be flexible; practice is in the afternoons.
• Valid driver's license and clear driving record.
This is a 12-month position. Please send a resume. Salary: Based on experience. Appointment: Full-Time, 12 months.
Contact for information: Gina D'Amaro, Director of Athletics, 1055 Stewart ave, Bethpage, NY 11714. Phone: (516) 918-3726 Fax: (516) 918-3780 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Team/school/org. site: http://www.bcl.edu
Listing Posted: 2013-06-18
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I think our generation is trying to find our way back. We are trying to peel back the layers with 50 years of changes and sort through what were good decisions and not so good decisions by our countries, government, and family. I think people born in the 30s and 40s hold the key to opening many doors for us we just need to make them feel treasured enough to share it. Finding out from an older generation – how did you manage in the kitchen without plastic or non stick to help you? How do you butcher, chop, freeze and prepare a carcass of meat? How do you preserve and can seasonal fruit and veggies? How to you batch cook and freeze so you have meals planned for the week rather than worrying about dinner each day? Don't you want to know the answers? I do, and I'm pretty sure the grandparent crowd knows the answers and somewhere – the knowledge transfer didn't happen. I think the 2nd generation of women trying to have it all, working full-time, having kids, and trying to find that balance plays into things. I think this generation is more kindred to our grandparents with not wanting it all and yearning to just have one constant thing to concentrate on and feel truly blessed if they are able to stay home to raise children full-time or have enough support to also work.
The problem I see is the knowledge transfer. Our generation is dealing with things unheard of in the world to date. We are having to battle for a clean food supply. This is something no other generation can relate to. Other generations had to battle for food, with wars and food shortages, which must have been horrifying, but we are dealing with a truly unique problem with our food because of genetically modified manufacturing. If you haven't heard about GMO food and the health problems we are having because of chemically tainted food, you need to start listening. The rates of every disease is sky rocketing and the time periods of man-made chemicals from 50 years ago and the more recent introduction of GMOs 20-30 years ago seemed to have kicked every disease into overdrive: cancer, allergies, diabetes, autism, Parkinsons, heart, kidney, thyroid disease, infertility, asthma, and more.
I watched a documentary tonight called Genetic Roulette and it's really well done. It is scary but you should be more scared to ignore the issue of GMO and our food source. The only thing that washes away feelings of being scared, bullied, or feeling like you have no voice is to empower yourself with knowledge. The biggest message I took away from this movie is if I can inspire one person with talking about GMOs I am helping to solve this problem. You might remember the farmer in Food. Inc. that looks into the camera and tells us "you the consumer dictate what farmers will grow – tell us to do it a different way and we will!" This documentary has the same hopeful message; rather than waiting for government or the FDA to regulate the problem of GMOs, stop participating in it's growth. Purchase organic or from a local farmer you trust. Be relentless at the grocery store and ask questions. Tell your grocer or any food source (school cafeteria, any source of food for children) that if products or food was labelled GMO free, you would be appreciative of that information. You want the right to know what is in your food. Because once the 3 huge food companies that own all the GMO brands see a dip in the American market, they will consider changing American food since they already have to do it for Europe. We have the ability to inspire the change we want to see with our food.
So call upon the generation that knows how to get around the GMO trap by harkening back 50 years ago. Just explain to them that a company called Monsanto has hired the same lawyers the tobacco industry did to convince everyone that smoking isn't harmful and we need to get back to basics with real food. Wouldn't it be great to navigate the perimeter of the grocery store so that you are buying very little packaged food? For the next little while we're going to have to research our food or just purchase organic to avoid bio-engineered food, but after Prop 37 is approved and California forces labeling of GMO food, we can look at eliminating what has become a wide-spread genetically engineered problem. Use your consumer dollars and case a vote for the world you want to have – a world where food is not a science experiment with ripple effects of sickness. We need to get back to having a basic necessity of food for our children so that we stop the cycle of disease and research. The Genetic Roulette documentary was free when I watched it – I hope you still have access when you find this article. If not, it's worth ordering with a bunch of friends or family – you will feel empowered and feel like you have some changes to make. Sometimes a visual is best – here is a great quote by Anna Lappe and how consumers can change the world. Close your eyes and visualize the world you want your grandchildren to have – then go make it happen!
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A 2003 pulmonary biopsy of James Zadroga, the New York City police detective whose death in 2006 has been held up as an example of the illnesses suffered by 9/11 rescue workers and others sickened by toxic dust at ground zero, found only minor abnormalities and no signs of the foreign materials found in his lungs after he died, according to a new report.
The findings of the biopsy, reported in an article to be published in the Sept. 15 issue of The New Yorker, raise doubts about whether Detective Zadroga's death was caused by his work at ground zero. The case has important policy implications because the death has been cited by advocates seeking federal compensation for the thousands of rescue workers who responded in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
Although unions, members of Congress and other advocates have repeatedly described Detective Zadroga, 34, as the first emergency responder to die of a 9/11-related illness, New York City's chief medical examiner, Dr. Charles S. Hirsch, concluded last year that the foreign material in his lungs was not dust from the trade center but ground-up prescription pills he had injected into his veins.
Michael A. Barasch, a lawyer for the Zadroga family, said in a telephone interview that the article was a "well-written summary" but that it contained "no new revelations." He maintained that the detective would be alive today if not for the events of 9/11.
The article in The New Yorker largely sides with Dr. Hirsch's findings, suggesting that Detective Zadroga had misused prescription drugs because of an abiding despair about what he had seen at ground zero.
Detective Zadroga, who joined the Police Department in 1992, helped with the rescue and recovery effort at ground zero for about three weeks after the trade center attack. His family has said that he began experiencing health problems, including flulike symptoms and difficulty breathing, shortly after.
In January 2003, according to The New Yorker, Detective Zadroga's father, Joseph, persuaded the Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, N.J., to take a biopsy of the detective's lungs, a procedure that involved the removal of three inchlong chunks of tissue. The New Yorker said that the hospital declined to disclose the biopsy results, citing patient confidentiality, but that the Zadroga family's lawyer provided a copy of the eight-page report.
Detective Zadroga retired with a disability pension in July 2004, after a police medical review board found that he had pulmonary disease related to his 9/11 service. The September 11 Victim Compensation Fund concluded the same year that he had been harmed by the dust, and gave his family money.
Detective Zadroga died on Jan. 5, 2006, at his parents' home in New Jersey. That April, a report on an autopsy conducted by the Ocean County medical examiner's office concluded that the death "was directly related" to 9/11. It was the first official report by a medical expert to attribute a rescue worker's death to the hazardous air at ground zero.
But the pathologist who conducted the autopsy did not compare the foreign particles, which became embedded in scar tissue known as granulomas, found in Detective Zadroga's lungs with dust from the trade center. Nor did he consult with other doctors who had treated 9/11 rescue workers.
In October 2007, Dr. Hirsch, who had been asked by the detective's family to review his case in an effort to have him listed officially as a victim of the 9/11 attacks, concluded "with certainty beyond doubt" that the foreign material in Detective Zadroga's lungs "did not get there as the result of inhaling dust at the World Trade Center or elsewhere."
Mr. Barasch, the lawyer for the Zadrogas, said in a statement that he believed, based on the opinions of other doctors, that the detective had developed a lung disease from his exposure at ground zero, and that even if misuse of prescription drugs was the immediate cause, the "underlying cause of death" was still the 9/11 dust.
Dr. Hirsch's findings prompted rare criticism, with some asserting that his office was trying to help the city avoid liability for failing to protect rescue workers by supplying them with masks. Dr. Hirsch has denied the accusations.
Several experts, including Dr. Michael M. Baden, a predecessor of Dr. Hirsch as the city's chief medical examiner, have disagreed with his findings in the case. The New Yorker article, by Jennifer Kahn, not only chronicles the stalemate that has developed around the case, but also questions widely reported accounts of the death of Detective Zadroga's wife, Ronda, in 2004. The couple had moved to Florida with their daughter, believing that the climate would be better for Detective Zadroga's lungs.
Mrs. Zadroga's death has been variously attributed to brain cancer, a heart ailment and the stress induced by her husband's health problems, but The New Yorker, citing a family friend, reports that she died from blood poisoning brought about by intravenous drug use. (A report by the local medical examiner could not definitively state that drug use was the cause, but noted that track marks and needle punctures were found on the body.)
Mr. Barasch, the lawyer, said the Zadrogas had no plans to file a lawsuit against the city. They merely wanted recognition that Detective Zadroga was a victim of 9/11, he said, and were satisfied when the mayor and the police commissioner added his name to the Wall of Heroes at 1 Police Plaza, recognizing him as a victim of the trade center attacks. "The Zadrogas want nothing more except to allow their son to now rest in peace," Mr. Barasch said.


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Cook the Book: Linguine with Gorgonzola and Fresh Spinach
On Top of Spaghetti is the second cookbook by Johanne Killeen and George Germon, the owners of Al Forno in Providence, Rhode Island. I've eaten at Al Forno many times over the years, and the pastas, grilled pizza, and desserts (most are made to order, which means you have to order them before the end of the meal) are the must-haves on the menu.
So I for one eagerly awaited the publication of On Top of Spaghetti. In what is not an uncommon story in cookbook publishing, the editor who bought the book, Susan Friedland, left Morrow right before it came out. On Top of Spaghetti was left without a champion, a surefire death knell for any titleand that might be why you've never heard of it.
Today's recipe (adapted from the book) is shockingly easy to make and profoundly delicious. I made it for my wife this weekend and received major brownie points as a result. I didn't bother with the optional basil (the basil at my supermarket looked really raggedy), and the dish didn't suffer in the least.
Linguine with Gorgonzola and Fresh Spinach
- 4 ounces Gorgonzola cheese, at room temperature
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 8 cups firmly packed and trimmed young, fresh spinach
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons sea salt
- 1 pound dried linguine or spaghetti (I used linguine)
- 10 to 12 large fresh basil leaves (optional)
Bring a large pot of water to a boil for the pasta.
Wash the spinach in plenty of cold water. Drain in a colander, leaving the water clinging to the leaves.
Heat the olive oil in a large straight-sided skillet over moderately high heat. Add the spinach and 1 tablespoon of the salt. Toss the spinach with tongs until it has wilted. Taste it, and add more salt if necessary. Turn off heat, but keep spinach warm on side of stove.
Generously salt the pasta water, and drop in the linguine. Cook at a rolling boil, stirring often, according to the package instructions. Drain pasta, reserving about 1 cup of cooking water. Transfer linguine to skillet, and toss with spinach. Add the Gorgonzola-butter mixture, and toss to coat each strand of the linguine. If pasta seems dry, add a bit of cooking water and toss again. Add as much of the cooking water as you need to make a creamy consistency. If you have fresh basil, tear the leaves and toss into the mixture. Serve immediately.
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Hello there!
This is not the first time I have been on sky-map.org, but my first post in the forum.
I found a small but significant error in one of your pages. On
After the first two sentences there is an image of the main website with explanations how to use the controls.
Instead of "Grid ON/OFF" the button is labeled "Greed ON/OFF".
Sounds extremely funny to me (whatever Sigmund Freud would have said to that?) - and I don't expect it to be deliberate.
Unlike in wikipedia I cannot correct this so I hope someone reads this who can (and does!).
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UTEP Hires Sean Kugler As Next Head Football Coach
UTEP has just confirmed that former UTEP player and assistant and current Pittsburg Steelers Offensive Line Coach Sean Kugler is going to be the next head football coach of the UTEP Miners.
Kugler is 46 years old and will replace 66 year old Mike Price who retired a couple of weeks ago.
The Miners have also hired Washington State Linebacker coach, Jeff Choate as the defensive coordinator.
Kugler played at UTEP from 1984-88. He played one season in the World League of American Football (WLAF) with the Sacramento Surge in 1989. Kugler earned his degree in education at the University of South Florida in 1991 while coaching three years of high school football in Tampa, Fla. from 1990-92. He coached for eight seasons at UTEP, assisting the defensive line as a graduate assistant in 1993 before coaching tight ends (1994) and the offensive line (1995-00).
Here is the press release from UTEP:
December 10, 2012
Contact: Jeff Darby
Sean Kugler Returns to El Paso to Head Up UTEP Football Program
EL PASO, TEXAS – Former UTEP player and coach Sean Kugler was named the 25th head coach of the Miners on Monday.
Kugler, 46, returns to the Sun City following three seasons as the offensive line coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He has 11 years of NFL experience, also working with the Detroit Lions (2001-05) and the Buffalo Bills (2007-09).
Kugler was on the UTEP staff from 1993-2000, and was assistant head coach at Boise State in 2006, when the Broncos finished 13-0 and beat Oklahoma 43-42 in the Fiesta Bowl, unanimously viewed as one of the greatest postseason games in college football history.
Compensation is being negotiated and will require approval by the UT System Board of Regents.
He was a four-year letterman at UTEP (1985-88), playing under head coach and current UTEP Director of Athletics Bob Stull for three seasons. In 1988, Kugler led the Miners to the only 10-win season in school history and a berth in the Independence Bowl. His position coach at UTEP was current Philadelphia Eagles head coach Andy Reid.
He signed with the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 1989. Kugler started at guard for the Sacramento Surge in the World League of American Football in 1991.
He began his coaching career at Tampa Bay Vo-Tech High School in 1990, helping the school to its most successful season with a 10-2 record. He was the offensive line and strength & conditioning coach at Gaither High School in Tampa in 1992 before making his way back to El Paso.
During eight seasons with the Miners, Kugler served in various capacities and coached four All-Western Athletic Conference offensive linemen (Carey Clayton, Alan Gray, Jeff Seeton, Anwar White). In his final season, UTEP finished 8-4, won the second conference title in school history and faced Boise State in the Crucial.com Humanitarian Bowl.
In 2001, Kugler began his long-running association with the National Football League. He spent five seasons with the Detroit Lions, working with the tight ends and the offensive line, before returning to college coaching at Boise State in 2006.
He was a part of a magical campaign with the Broncos, doubling as the team's assistant head coach and offensive line coach. The explosive Bronco offense produced 222.8 yards rushing per game to rate sixth nationally. Leading the ground game was sophomore Ian Johnson, who ranked first in the country in rushing touchdowns (25) and second in rushing yards (1,755). Kugler coached a pair of All-WAC offensive linemen at Boise State, including current Denver Broncos Pro Bowler Ryan Clady.
Kugler rejoined the NFL at Buffalo in 2007. In three seasons with the Bills, he mentored two-time Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters. In 2007, Kugler's offensive line surrendered just 26 sacks to set a team record. The Bills also had a 1,000-yard rusher in every season with Kugler on the sideline.
The highlight of Kugler's stint with the Steelers was a trip to the 2011 Super Bowl. The 2010 season may have marked Kugler's crowning achievement as a coach, as he took a patchwork offensive line decimated by the loss of both tackles to season-ending injuries and groomed it into a championship-caliber unit. Under Kugler's tutelage rookie center Maurkice Pouncey made the first of consecutive Pro Bowl appearances. A year later, the Steelers posted their highest yards per carry average in 10 years (4.4) and Ben Roethlisberger threw for 4,077 yards, the second-best figure in franchise history. Despite again facing multiple injuries to key O-Line personnel, the Steelers have lowered their sacks allowed count from 42 in 2011 to 27 this season.
Kugler and his wife, Patsy, have three children – sons Robert (19) and Patrick (17), and daughter Kali. Robert and Patrick played on high school teams that won back-to-back state titles in New York (2009) and Pennsylvania (2010). Robert was named the Class AAAA co-Player of the Year by the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association and currently is a starting freshman offensive guard at Purdue University. Patrick, an offensive tackle, is a senior at North Allegheny High School in Wexford, Pa. He is committed to play for the University of Michigan and was selected to participate in the 2013 Under Armour All-American Bowl.
The Kugler File
Born: 8/9/66 (Age 46)
Hometown: Lockport, N.Y.
Alma Mater: UTEP, 1989 (B.S. from South Florida, 1991)
Wife: Patsy
Children: Robert (19), Patrick (17), Kali (11)
Playing Career
Desales Catholic High School 1981-84
Pittsburgh Steelers 1989
Sacramento Surge (World League) 1991
Coaching History
1990-91 Tampa Bay Vo-Tech HS Offensive Line/Defensive Line Coach
1992 Gaither High School Offensive Line/Strength & Conditioning Coach
1993 UTEP Graduate Assistant/Defensive Line Coach
1994 UTEP Tight Ends/Asst. Strength & Conditioning Coach
1995-2000 UTEP Offensive Line Coach
2001-03 Detroit Lions Tight Ends Coach
2004-05 Detroit Lions Offensive Line/Tight Ends Coach
2006 Boise State Assistant Head Coach/Offensive Line Coach
2007 Buffalo Bills Assistant Offensive Line Coach
2008-09 Buffalo Bills Offensive Line Coach
2010-12 Pittsburgh Steelers Offensive Line Coach
2013- UTEP Head Coach
Playing Accomplishments
Four-year letterman at UTEP … helped the Miners to 21 wins his last three seasons as a starting guard – including 10 his senior year, with an Independence Bowl berth … second team All-WAC in 1988 … named to the all-time UTEP team by Athlon magazine … selected to the National Strength and Conditioning Association first team All-American Strength Team in 1987 and 1988 … signed with the Pittsburgh Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 1989 … started at guard for the Sacramento Surge in the World League of American Football in 1991.
Coaching Accomplishments
Part of a Tampa Bay Vo-Tech High School coaching staff that led the team to the winningest season in school history (10-2) in 1990 … coached four All-WAC players at UTEP (Carey Clayton, Alan Gray, Jeff Seeton, Anwar White) … was the offensive line coach for the Miners when they had 1,000-yard rushers in 1995 (Toraino Singleton) and 1999 (Paul Smith) … the Miners had 15 games with 400+ yards of offense his last two seasons (1999-2000) and averaged 32.3 points in 2000, the year they finished 8-4 and won the WAC title … UTEP ranked 22nd nationally in scoring offense and 27th in passing offense (248.2 ypg) in 2000 en route to playing in theCrucial.com Humanitarian Bowl ... spend three seasons as tight ends coach for the Detroit Lions (2001-03) before adding the offensive line to his list of responsibilities in 2004 … returned to the college ranks in 2006 as assistant head coach and offensive line coach at Boise State … the Broncos were the only unbeaten team in Division I-A that year, fashioning a 13-0 mark with a thrilling 43-42 victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl … Boise State ended the campaign rated sixth nationally in rushing offense (222.8 ypg) … Bronco running back Ian Johnson rushed for 1,755 yards and 25 touchdowns in '06, totals that ranked second and first nationally … among Kugler's protégés at Boise State was offensive tackle Ryan Clady, a future Pro Bowler with the Denver Broncos, an All-WAC honoree Jeff Cavender … joined the Buffalo Bills' staff for the 2007 season, working primarily with the offensive tackles, and was elevated to offensive line coach in January, 2008 … tutored left tackle Jason Peters to consecutive Pro Bowl appearances in 2007 and 2008 … Kugler's 2007 O-Line allowed just 26 sacks to establish a team record … the Bills' offensive line paved the way for three consecutive 1,000-yard rushers (Marshawn Lynch 2007 & 2008, Fred Jackson 2009) … hired on January 14, 2010 as the Pittsburgh Steelers' offensive line coach … the Steelers outrushed 17 of 19 opponents in 2010 and averaged 120.3 yards per game despite losing both starting offensive tackles to season-ending injuries … coached first-year center Maurkice Pouncey, who responded by becoming the first Steelers rookie offensive lineman to make the Pro Bowl since 1956 … coached in the 2011 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers … Pittsburgh posted its highest yards per carry average in 10 years (4.4) in 2011 … with the offensive line setting the table, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger threw for the second-most yards in franchise history (4,077) with the second-most completions (324) … in the last 10 games of the season, the Steelers converted on 36-of-42 red zone opportunities with 23 touchdowns and 13 field goals … Pouncey was selected to the Pro Bowl for the second straight year and was voted first team All-Pro … Kugler was instrumental in Steeler linemen earning the Joe Greene Great Performance Award in back-to-back years (Pouncey in 2010, Marcus Gilbert in 2011) … the Steelers' offensive line has come on late this season after enduring a myriad of injuries … Pittsburgh has yielded 27 sacks, down from 42 in 2011, despite playing the bulk of the season without Gilbert (ankle) and first-round pick David DeCastro (torn MCL).
"Sean played at UTEP and he loves the university. That's number one. He brings a lot of intensity to the program. The players are going to love him. He's hard-nosed and he expects the most from them. He's well respected by the players, and that goes a long way. I'm really proud of Sean and I'm excited. Everybody in El Paso needs to get behind him, because he's going to do a great job. I'm expecting big things at UTEP with Sean in charge."
- Charlie Bailey, former UTEP head coach (1993-99)
"Coach Kugler was a great offensive line coach who really helped me develop as a young player at Boise State. I loved how he related to his players. He was honest and always kept it real, but at the same time, he was very down to earth. He had a tremendous impact on me and our team at Boise, and I wish him all the best at UTEP."
- Ryan Clady, two-time Pro Bowler, Offensive Tackle, Denver Broncos
"We basically started that whole thing off together, since I was a freshman during his second year as offensive line coach [at UTEP]. I was fortunate to have him as my coach the whole time I was there. We learned to be accountable for everything that we did. That was one of the biggest things that I pulled from him. When you're out on the field, be accountable, because people are relying on you to do your job. He always kept you grounded, whether it was a tough day or a great day. He kept you leveled out. We adapted his mentality. We played tough. We weren't the best looking guys on paper, and 75 percent of the time we should've gotten beat. But we took it upon ourselves to bring a tough attitude and make things happen. We were throwback players."
- Carey Clayton, UTEP All-WAC offensive lineman (1997-2000)
"Sean was an outstanding player at UTEP when we had the great run in the mid to late 80's. There is always something special about someone who goes back to his alma mater and knows what it was like when they were winning big there. Bob Stull made a great choice in Sean -- someone who will represent the university well and knows what UTEP is all about. He is well respected in the coaching profession, and that will aid him in the recruiting battles. He will put together a fine staff. He cares about the players and the university. What more could you ask for at UTEP?"
- Dirk Koetter, Offensive Coordinator, Atlanta Falcons
"I had the privilege of working alongside several excellent football coaches in my career. Sean Kugler is certainly one of them. His knowledge of both the running game and the passing game separates him from other offensive coaches. He will no doubt build a tough, hard-nosed football team at UTEP and a program that they can be very proud of for a long time."
- Steve Mariucci, Former NFL Head Coach
"Sean is a bright, creative, talented and tough coach who will be outstanding at UTEP."
- Marty Mornhinweg, Offensive Coordinator, Philadelphia Eagles
"Sean is one of the best football coaches that I have ever worked with, and probably an even better person. He is extremely smart and a lot of fun to be around. I know he will keep the game interesting and the guys who play for him will have a really good time."
- Chris Petersen, Head Coach, Boise State
"I think is it is awesome, and a great opportunity for him. He has done a lot for us and helped us along this path in the NFL, especially me. For him to get that opportunity is great. I love that guy and hope the best for him. He is a players' coach. He loves you but at the same time he knows how to put things in perspective for you and knows how to go out and get on you when needed. Anybody who gets that guy as a head coach is going to have a great team and a great opportunity to be successful."
- Maurkice Pouncey, two-time Pro Bowler, Center, Pittsburgh Steelers
"I think UTEP has gotten a tremendous football coach, and one with high standards, a phenomenal personality and a great football mind. He also has a vested interest in the university, having gone to school there and having played for Bob Stull. There's a great connection. I know he's going to do a great job for UTEP."
- Andy Reid, Head Coach, Philadelphia Eagles
"I would like to congratulate Sean on his new position at UTEP. The Miners are getting a tremendous coach and even though we are sad to see him leave the Steelers, we are excited for him to return to his alma mater and lead their program. We are grateful for his contributions in Pittsburgh, and we wish Sean and his family nothing but the greatest success at UTEP."
- Mike Tomlin, Head Coach, Pittsburgh Steelers
Jeff Darby
Senior Associate Athletic Director/Communications and University Relations
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