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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:47 pm
Post subject: Team BaconRoll's Reconstruction Tag Team Mock
I have to give a lot of props to
. We both put a lot of time into putting this together. I hope you all enjoy it.
Front Office Changes
President of Football Administration and Player Finance:
Russ Ball
Hired from the
Green Bay Packers
where he worked as the
Vice President of Football Administration and Player Finance
. He has been in the NFL for 24 years. He is the new cap specialist for the Eagles. With Green Bay, he currently negotiates player contracts and is in charge of managing the salary cap. Coming to Philadelphia allows him to move up on the NFL corporate ladder.
General Manager and Director of Player Personnel:
Nick Casserio
Hired from the
New England Patriots
where he worked as the
Director of Player Personnel
. He has had that job since 2008. Belichick has been grooming Casserio for years and together, they have assembled one of the most competitive teams in the NFL. They consistently have great drafts and find quality players to fit what they want to do specific to their schemes. Casserio takes the job for his first role as a GM.
Coaching Staff Changes
Head Coach:
Chip Kelly
Hired from the
University of Oregon
where he was the
head coach
. It has been rumored for the last two years that Chip Kelly was looking to make a move to the NFL. He meets in the offseason with Belichick to talk about football and schemes. After Casserio takes over as GM, he uses his connection with Belichick to lure Chip Kelly to Philadelphia.
No one knows what Chip Kelly will do in terms of an offensive scheme. What we do know is that he is a very smart man who works extremely hard. I think it would be foolish to assume that he would run the same offensive scheme in Philadelphia that he ran in Oregon.
Offensive Coordinator and Wide Receivers Coach:
Scott Frost
Hired from the
University of Oregon
where he was the
Wide Receivers coach
. He had the job since 2009. Frost and Kelly are reportedly very close. So close that they ran with the bulls together in Pamplona this past summer. With Chip Kelly calling the offensive plays, Frost's inexperience as an offensive coordinator has a minimal impact.
Casserio is onboard with someone as young as Frost being hired as offensive coordinator since when he was with the Patriots, they had two of the youngest coordinators in the league.
Running Backs Coach:
Brian Westbrook
Chip Kelly is unable to convince his RB coach from Oregon to come with him. That RB coach has been at Oregon for more than 20 years. He looks to a former Philadelphia running back who had a lot of success. Brian Westbrook did for the Eagles what Kelly would like McCoy to do. Run the ball well but also catch the ball out of the backfield.
Offensive Line Coach:
Jeff Stoutland
Hired from the
University of Alabama
where he was the
Offensive Line coach
. He has had the same position for two seasons. Alabama has had arguably the best offensive line in football the past two seasons. Stoutland gets the most of his players and decides to move on to the NFL when a good offer comes his way.
Defensive Coordinator and DB Coach:
Kirby Smart
Hired from the
University of Alabama
where he was the
Defensive Coordinator
. He has had the same position since 2007. Kirby is one of the brightest young defensive minds. He is a very high energy guy. He can often be seen celebrating on the field with his players.
He has coached defensive units at Alabama which are among the greatest defensive units of all time. He comes to Philadelphia over the Auburn head coaching position because the Auburn head coaching position is a job he doesn't really want. Kirby wants the Georgia head coaching job and is willing to wait until that job opens up one day. Chip Kelly talks Kirby into joining him in Philadelphia.
He worked with the defensive backs under Saban while Saban coached at LSU. He coached safeties for the Miami Dolphins while Saban coached the Dolphins. He now works with linebackers in practice at Alabama. Kirby will help fix many of the positions of need on this defense.
Defensive Line Coach:
Bo Davis
Hired from the
University of Texas
where he was the
Defensive Tackles
coach for one season. Prior to that, he worked as the Defensive Line coach at Alabama under Kirby Smart. He has long ties with Nick Saban. Davis knows what Kirby Smart expects out of his defensive line since they have worked together in the past. Takes the job since it is an obvious promotion and an opportunity to work with an old colleague.
Linebackers Coach:
Sal Sunseri
Hired from the
University of Tennessee
where he was the
Defensive Coordinator
for one season. As a defensive coordinator, Sunseri was a disaster. Prior to that job, he was an assistant head coach and linebackers coach at Alabama. He is a great positional coach and has worked with Kirby Smart in the past. He is currently unemployed since Tennessee fired their coaches and welcomes an opportunity to work with Kirby Smart in the NFL.
Personnel Changes
Salary Cap Situation:
-13.695 million
Players Cut/Not Re-Signed
Michael Vick (
Demetress Bell (
Dallas Reynolds (
Jason Avant (
Cullen Jenkins (
Kurt Coleman (
Mike Patterson (
Dion Lewis (
Matt Tennant (
Mike Gibson (
Jason Williams (
David Sims (
Brandon Hughes (0)
Derek Landri (0)
Darryl Tapp (0)
Players Re-Signed / Contracts Re-Structured
Salary Cap Situation:
+30.34185 million
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie:
5 years/$40 million (
Colt Anderson:
2 years/$1.5 million (
Jon Dorenbos:
2 years/$1.2 million (
King Dunlap:
2 years/$2.3 million (
Akeem Jordan:
2 years/$1.6 million (
Nnmadi Asomugha:
Contract restructured to take a pay cut (
Nnmadi is on track to make 15.3 million dollars. His play has dropped off with age. The front office approaches him and tells him that they will offer him 8 million for next season at the most or else he will be cut. Not wanting to move and wanting to be a veteran leader for this defense and for Chip Kelly, Nnmadi agrees.
Jason Peters:
Contract restructured to take a pay cut (
Jason Peters is on track to make 10.75 million dollars. Due to the injury concerns, he understands why he must take a pay cut to 6.25 million dollars per year.
Free Agency/Trades
Salary Cap Situation:
+30.84185 million
Andre Smith:
5 years/$30 million (
Offensive line is a big issue for the Eagles. There are huge holes that need to be filled. The Andy Reid era was so successful initially since the team made a strong commitment to the offensive line. Chip Kelly knows that to have sustained success, you need a solid offensive line. The Eagles sign Andre Smith to come in and start at right tackle. He has redeemed himself after a slow start to his NFL career and would help stabilize this offensive line going forward since he is only 25 years old.
Jairus Byrd:
5 years/$30 million (
Jarius Byrd comes to Philadelphia to play for Chip Kelly. They both spent time at Oregon together. While Chip was the offensive coordinator, Byrd was on the team. Byrd is only 26 years old. He is an asset in pass coverage as a safety. One of the better young safeties in the league would help sure up the back end of Kirby Smart's defense.
Alan Branch:
3 years/$12 million (
Versatile big body that has experience playing as a 4-3 DT, 3-4 NT, and 3-4 DE. Alan Branch would be a great player to add for any team transitioning from a 4-3 to a 3-4. Kirby Smart will use him at multiple positions along the defensive line. Branch will serve as a big body that will help stuff the run. Kirby Smart's defenses at Alabama have always had one mountain of a man on the defensive line (Cody, Williams). He is also relatively young as he is only 27 years old.
Rolando McClain:
1 year/$2 million (
Many people expect the Raiders to cut him after the season ends. He was just too immature in Oakland. However, when this guy was with Kirby Smart and Nick Saban in Alabama, he was one of the best college linebackers. He has the physical tools and has shown that he can succeed in Kirby's defense. Maybe the change of scenery and getting out of Oakland will be a kick in the rear that McClain needs.
Danario Alexander:
2 years/$3 million (
Alexander is having a solid season in San Diego. In 6 games he has 467 yards and 3 touchdowns. With Avant on his way out, the Eagles need to add a new receiver. Danario is only 24 years old and 6'5", 217 pounds. He is a big target that will be a great weapon going forward for this team.
Delanie Walker:
3 years/$6 million (
A very versatile player for the 49ers. Delanie Walker lined up at FB, TE, WR, RB, and RT for the 49ers last season. He can do it all. He is a great blocker who can also make plays in the passing game. His numbers aren't extremely impressive because he has been in Vernon Davis' shadow. However, Walker could come to Philadelphia and be a very valuable tool in Chip Kelly's offense. He is 28 years old.
The Philadelphia Eagles trade
Jeremy Maclin
and a
2014 4th round pick
to the Seattle Seahawks for
Matt Flynn
. (
) (
There will be a QB battle in Philadelphia. With Jeremy Maclin on his way out anyways, the Eagles acquire a solid QB to compete with Foles. Flynn has looked impressive at times and has never truly been given an opportunity to start in the NFL.
Salary Cap Situation:
+7.04485 million
NFL Draft
3rd overall pick
is traded to the New York Jets for the
10th overall pick
, a
2nd round pick
, a
4th round pick
, and a
2014 2nd round pick
10th overall pick
is traded to the Chicago Bears for the
22nd overall pick
, a
2nd round pick
, and a
5th round pick
Round 1, Pick 22**:
Jonathan Cooper
The draft's second best guard only after Chane Warmack but not by much. Cooper can play. He is a finalist for the Outland Trophy. He is a very athletic guard that is only 22 years old. This guy is so much better than Danny Watkins and will be a key fixture on the offensive line for many years to come. This pick continues fixing up the offensive line for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Round 2, Pick 3:
Chase Thomas
DE/OLB, Stanford
Just look at those arms. They go on for days. Aren't they dreamy?
Besides that, Thomas is a big time playmaker. A physical player who will help change the culture of this defense back to what it used to be. He is the leader of a great defense at Stanford that has slowed down Oregon. They also contained UCLA twice. He is a good player against the run but he can also rush the passer. A perfect fit for Kirby Smart's defense.
Round 2, Pick 10*:
Da'Rick Rogers
WR, Tennessee Tech
6'3", 206 pounds. In his second year with Tennessee, he had 67 receptions for 1040 yards, and 9 TD. If not for getting kicked off the team and playing for Tennessee Tech, Rodgers would go much earlier in the draft. This is a steal. Rodgers will be an amazing weapon for this offense.
Round 2, Pick 22**:
Jesse Williams
NT, Alabama
This guy is a mountain of a human. Hard to push around. Perfect for Kirby Smart's defense in Alabama and he will be perfect for Kirby Smart's defense in the NFL. A huge run stuffer that just eats up space. He doesn't put up the flashy numbers but the guys gets the job done along the defensive line. Great value late in the 2nd round.
Round 3, Pick 3:
Robert Lester
S, Alabama
He is good in coverage and is solid in stopping the run. The safety positions in Kirby Smart's defense are so important. We would maximize Lester's potential by drafting him to play in the same system that he played in college. With the pick the Eagles finish addressing the need at both safety positions.
Round 4, Pick 3:
Michael Buchanan
DE, Illinois
Those arms. He would best be a 3-4 outside linebacker who can be used on pass rushing downs. This guy is a good speed rusher. Kirby Smart's defense at Alabama is so good mostly because of depth and because Alabama's defense has so many players that are great at what they do in specific situations. With Buchanan, Smart gets a situational player that can rush the passer.
Round 4, Pick 10*:
Nico Johnson
ILB, Alabama
A good run stopping linebacker but not the best against the pass. Like the previous draft pick, Johnson is a rotational player. He would most likely only come in on obvious run situations. He will be a great special teams player for this team. Kirby Smart knows Nico. He knows how to use him and what his strengths are. Like the other Alabama defenders drafted, he will be able to hit the ground running in a system that he is familiar with.
Round 5, Pick 3:
Tyrann Mathieu
Good special teams play is built late in the draft. Late draft picks aren't meant to come in and start instantly on offense or defense. But they are expected to come in and contribute on special teams. Mathieu is a gamechanging punt returner. He could also continue on punt, kickoff, and kick returns.
On top of that, he could potentially one day contribute on defense as a safety or cornerback. One thing about Mathieu is that the ball seems to find its way to him. He can be beat in coverage but the biggest concern with Mathieu is whether or not he will be able to pass enough drug tests to make his career last in the NFL. Worth the risk with an early 5th round pick.
Round 5, Pick 22**:
Braxston Cave
C, Notre Dame
Solid player along Notre Dame's offensive line. With Kelce coming back from a major injury, there is a need to add a capable center. Although he struggles at times, Cave shows flashes of greatness.
Round 6, Pick 3:
Quinton Patton
WR, Louisiana Tech
You wouldn't believe the numbers this guy has put up this season.
Against Texas A&M, he had 21 receptions for 233 yards and 4 touchdowns.
He is 6'2", 195 pounds. He produces and that is what you want from a wide receiver. If this guy played in a big time conference, he would be a lock for a 1st round pick.
Depth Chart (53)
Offense (26)
Matt Flynn
/ Nick Foles / Trent Edwards
- LeSean McCoy / Bryce Brown / Chris Polk
- Stanley Havili
Da'Rick Rogers
/ Riley Cooper
- DeSean Jackson /
Danario Alexander
- Damaris Johnson /
Quinton Patton
- Brent Celek /
Delanie Walker
/ Clay Harbor
- Jason Peters / King Dunlap
- Todd Herremans / Danny Watkins
- Jason Kelce /
Braxston Cave
- Evan Mathis /
Jonathan Cooper
Andre Smith
/ Dennis Kelly
Offensive Outlook:
We don't exactly know what Chip Kelly wants to do with his offense. One can hope that Chip Kelly will continue to run once he gets to the NFL. Over the past few weeks, we have seen what true offensive balance can do. Give the ball to McCoy and Brown frequently. With a healthy starting offensive line as well as capable backups, the running game should continue to be a strength.
The passing game should also improve from last season due to the solidified offensive line situation. Adding Delanie Walker gives Chip Kelly a toy to a big and strong toy to play with. We also added a few dynamic receivers in Rogers, Alexander, and Patton. Production from these players as well as a solid running game should allow us to use DeSean Jackson the way he was meant to be used.
With big bodies and a new tight end weapon, scoring in the red zone shouldn't be a problem going forward.
Defense (3-4) (24)
Alan Branch
/ Vinny Curry
Jesse Williams
/ Cedric Thornton
- Fletcher Cox /
Michael Buchanon
- Brandon Graham / Mychal Kendricks
Rolando McClain
Nico Johnson
/ Jamar Chaney
- DeMeco Ryans / Casey Matthews
Chase Thomas
/ Trent Cole
- Nnamdi Asomugha / Curtis Marsh
Jairus Byrd
/ Nate Allen
Robert Lester
/ Colt Anderson
- Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie /
Tyrann Mathieu
Nickel CB
- Brandon Boykin
Defense (4-3) (24)
- Trent Cole / Vinny Curry
Alan Branch
Jesse Williams
- Fletcher Cox / Cedric Thornton
- Brandon Graham /
Michael Buchanon
Rolando McClain
Chase Thomas
/ Jamar Chaney
- DeMeco Ryans /
Nico Johnson
- Mychal Kendricks / Casey Matthews
- Nnamdi Asomugha / Curtis Marsh
Jairus Byrd
/ Nate Allen
Robert Lester
/ Colt Anderson
- Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie /
Tyrann Mathieu
Nickel CB
- Brandon Boykin
Defensive Outlook:
Kirby Smart's defense has the potential to be great. There will be growing pains. That is why Kirby will use a mix of 4-3 and 3-4 until guys are ready. The addition of two new capable safeties means that this defense is already infinitely better. The hope is that adding better safeties will make our two starting corners look so much better.
Good riddance Wide-9. Hello normal defensive line play. We have a few huge run stuffers. We also have situational pass rushers. This defense should stay fresh throughout ball games since we have so many situational players. Just the way that Kirby Smart likes it.
Special Teams (3)
- Jon Dorenbos
- Alex Henery
- Mat McBriar
KR - Brandon Boykin /
Tyrann Mathieu
Tyrann Mathieu
/ Damaris Johsnon
Special Teams Outlook:
Not much change here except the addition of Mathieu. He is a gamechanger as a returner so the impact is potentially large. This is big because we most likely will never have to put DeSean Jackson back to return punts anymore.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:52 pm
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If this were to happen, i'd be happy. Why not draft the entire Bama defense?! But this is a decent draft imo.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:04 pm
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Quinton Patton will be taken well before the 6th, or make everyone who passes on him regret it for the next decade.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:14 pm
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Not a fan of this at all. I like the Chip Kelly hiring and Jairus Byrd signing but that's really it. The coaching staff is virtually all guys with zero NFL experience and guys who have no reason to just pick up and leave their current gigs. Andre Smith has extremely well documented work ethic and weight problems, how would he react on a bad team once he got paid a big contract like that? And I hate those trades, I think you got horrible value for those picks and I think you need to get impact players, not a Ben Grubbs clone at guard (which is good but not the dominating talent we need). I also think you're waaaaaaaaay too low on Patton and Williams. Williams in particular appears to be on his way to being a top 15 pick. I also really dislike getting rid of Avant and Maclin.
I don't think this team is any better than the one we're currently fielding other than Byrd.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:21 pm
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Nice effort you guys. I'm ok with a few things, but not ok with a few others.
First off, I do not endorse the switch to a 3-4 with our current personnel. Ryans is rendered useless there, as evidenced by his play in HOU when they switched to that style. Ced Thornton at 3-4 NT and Curry at 3-4 DE are bad ideas. I would much rather go with the 4-3 look you proposed on the later depth chart.
No pay cut for Nnamdi?
Only 3 Alabama players drafted here?
Matt Flynn? No thanks.
Mathieu is worth a risk in the 5th. Rogers is getting some love around here, so taking him with a high 2nd seems cool.
Byrd seems like a hot FA pick up around here. I'm cool with that.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:24 pm
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The Green Tide.
You have to be careful with hodge-podge coaching staffs.
That's how Reid got into trouble.
Smart's next job begins with an "H."
OK with cuts and re-signings.
Too many FA's as usual, but not insane.
The Flynn trade blows.
I generally like the players in the draft, except Mathieu.
Quinton Patton is a 2nd rounder. Swap out Jamal Miles. He'll be there in the 6th.
The 3/4, 4/3 hybrid defense is nuts.
You should just bring back Washburn and Buddy Ryan and run the wide-3-4-4-3-4-6-9.
Pick a D.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:34 pm
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The mock is a good idea in principal, but it is not at all realistic.
With all the free agent signings and the trade for Flynn you have the Eagles bursting through the cap.
Plus, that kind of offseason haul is largely unrealistic for a rebuilding team and is poor management - didn't we just go through a series of big money signings that basically blew up in our face.
This is a two year rebuild - you guys are trying to fix every problem in one offseason and it shows. It's not even feasible.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:37 pm
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PhiCelek87 wrote:
The mock is a good idea in principal, but it is not at all realistic.
With all the free agent signings and the trade for Flynn you have the Eagles bursting through the cap.
Plus, that kind of offseason haul is largely unrealistic for a rebuilding team and is poor management - didn't we just go through a series of big money signings that basically blew up in our face.
This is a two year rebuild
- you guys are trying to fix every problem in one offseason and it shows. It's not even feasible.
Also I gave it a "3" because I didn't know if "1" or "5" was the best.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:19 pm
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I'm blown away by this, a lot of good work!
When I have time I will read through it more carefully, but from skimming over it, this is certainly taking a big bite out of the cookie.
Whether this team would be able to chew it is uncertain, but that would be the case in any given situation.
I like Chip Kelly. I think he could be a solid coach at the pro level. That said, I also think he will need a solid staff who have ties to Kelly but have pro level experience.
I'm not sure how the DC from a college team would fare stepping into that role at the pro level.
Just my personal opinion, really good stuff here.
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Not Bad. Theres some stuff I like and some that I dislike but all and all you guys did a pretty good. Looks like you put some serious effort into it.
Good Work Fellas
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I like it. I honestly say we risk drafting the Honey Badger in Round 3 or 4. Is he a risk? Sure but our Safeties SUCKKKKK! This guy could be what Janoris Jenkins has been for STL. Character issues but a beast of a player. With vetrans surrounded around him he can be a Beast player for us.
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Sal Sunseri sucks so much, smart will be either the next coach at Bama or Georgia and has no reason to leave. Like some of the choices though.
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I don't like it because you have a former college coach with zero NFL ties, a bunch of free agents that are career losers that don't change the culture of the team, and a couple draft picks with drug problems. You hire a college head coach to try to teach a team full of losers and drug addicts how to win in the NFL? Not gone happen.
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I would pee in my pants if this happens
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I Like bacon, i Like rolls of bacon.
The mock draft seems a little too FA heavy.
Not A huge fan of predicting Trade downs, solid draft
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text: Last week prosecutors in Texas decided there was not enough evidence to go to trial in the felony assault case involving Camille Grammer and her former boyfriend Dimitri Charalambopoulos. Camille had accused Dimitri of a horrific assault in their hotel room in Houston. She claimed he beat her and pulled out her hair. She also claimed he slammed her head into the headboard and choked her to the point she almost passed out. They were in the hotel in Houston because Camille was recovering from surgery. At the time of the assault Dimitri denied the charges despite all the photos that Camille produced showing the extent of her bruising and the clumps of hair she claimed he pulled out. Most domestic violence cases are a he said/she said situation and prosecutors are used to that so there must have been something that was very wrong with Camille's story that didn't jibe with what she was claiming. Dimitri is suing her now which was expected. I mean they were some very serious allegations she made and most people think of him now as a beater of women. Not only a beater of women but a beater of a woman who was recovering from surgery. Not exactly endearing to people. I really don't know what to make of it but Camille was fairly silent when the prosecutors said they were dismissing the charges. Her lawyer says they welcome the lawsuit filed by Dimitri and were filing their own to ask that he pay for the damages that he caused. If the cases are not settled quickly, there will be depositions and those depositions will leak and we will probably get a better idea of what transpired and I'm really curious because I think most of us probably thought it was going to be a slam dunk verdict. Obviously something happened. Hopefully we will find out what did.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Today is the final day of a conference that has allowed for both the presentation of scientific papers and promotion of the potential for oil and gas discoveries in Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore.
Since Wednesday, approximately 300 attendees from 15 countries have been gathered at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre in St. John's for the Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference.
The conference was started in 2008, beginning in Halifax, then moved through Lisbon and Ireland as host locations.
Nalcor Energy, with the provincial government and the province's oil and gas industry association — Noia, sought the event's fourth go-around for St. John's.
It is different from the annual Noia gathering, given its ability to draw more representatives from companies active in far-flung regions, not normally looking at the details of oil and gas exploration off Canada's East Coast, according to Nalcor Oil and Gas lead Jim Keating.
Attendees are looking for the latest studies relevant to margins (in the geoscience world, the transitions from oceanic and continental lithosphere). Over 600 giant oilfields have been located in passive margins, or about 30 per cent of the world's biggest oilfields, Keating said.
Nalcor believed it had a good pitch for getting the event held here, given the conference's goal of providing detailed, technical presentations on offshore margin study.
"I thought we had a good position to gain the conference simply because last year we discovered these basins off Labrador — and that was a good thing, because what we did is we showed what we thought we understood about how these margins behaved, how these plates separate, (where) sediment is supposed to thin, that we have a case right before us in Labrador where, in fact, it didn't thin," Keating said, explaining the conference was a chance to showcase offshore study by the Crown corporation.
More than 90 presentations will have been made at the conference, including one from Nalcor's manager for oil and gas exploration, Richard Wright, who presented a paper on the first day in collaboration with colleagues Kim Welford, Deric Cameron and James Carter.
Wright then took to the podium solo, for a keynote speech titled: "Emerging Plays in Newfoundland and Labrador's Slope and Deepwater Basins."
"He was able to get in his good, technical piece that shows the substance of what we do ... but at the same time, he had a perfect opportunity to market and present what Newfoundland and Labrador had on offer," Keating said.
Attendees at the event represent about 30 different oil companies.
"I would say that's the largest gathering of oil and gas companies that we've ever had in St. John's."
In a statement issued earlier this week, Natural Resources Minister Derrick Dalley said the province is pleased to host the conference.
"Through the geoscience work that is being carried out by the province and Nalcor, there is a heightened interest in Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore from global oil and gas companies. It is a great time to host a conference of this magnitude in the province," he said.
"The Atlantic margins are increasingly yielding major new hydrocarbon discoveries and are becoming an important area of focus for oil and gas new venture teams," said Ian Atkinson, Nalcor's chief geophysicist and a conference co-chair, in the same statement.
"To attract exploration and to maximize benefits from oil and gas production, further exploration off our shores must be undertaken. This is very much dependent on collaboration between scientists and industry," added Noia president and CEO Robert Cadigan.
Conference presentations have quite often focused on the North Atlantic, with multiple submissions tied to offshore regions recognizable to the local industry, including frontier areas of exploration like the Carson Basin and Orphan Basin.


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Note: This is a part two of a three-part series on the critical Product Owner's role within the agile software enterprise. In Part I, Agile Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach , I described why enterprises need to adopt a dual approach to this role; one which empowers both agile Product Managers AND agile Product Owners to drive the enterprise to its objectives. In this part I'll provide some specific guidance for the responsibilities and activities of the Product Owner in this larger and much more challenging, enterprise context. In an upcoming Part III, Seeding the Product Owner Role in the Agile Enterprise , I'll provide some case study "vignettes", which illustrate how some real, agile enterprises found the people necessary to fill this role, along with some of the unique challenges they faced and the solutions they applied.
Summary of Part I - On Agile Product Managers and Product Owners: A Scalable, Nuanced Approach In Part I, I described why, in the enterprise, the responsibilities of the agile Product Owner, (as primarily defined by Scrum), is really a set of responsibilities that are shared between a significant number of agile Product Owners and a smaller number of agile Product Managers.
|Agile Product Manager
|Product/technology facing
|Market/customer facing
|Product/technology facing
|Collocated amp; reports into marketing/business
|Collocated amp; reports into development/technology
|Focuses on market segments, portfolio, ROI
|Focuses on product and implementation technology
|Owns the Vision
|Owns the Implementation
|Drives the Release
|Drives the Iteration
Table 1 - Responsibilities of the Agile Product Manager and Agile Product Owner in the Enterprise
This conclusion isn't particularly startling when you look at some basic enterprise facts:
1) It can take a substantial number of agile teams (5-10 or more) to deliver significant end user value, for even a single new feature in a large application.
2) It can take an even larger number of teams (20-100 or more) to deliver a release to the market.
So with respect to Owning the Vision (Feature Backlog) , you obviously can't have 5-10 Product Owners each trying to deliver their individual view of the vision of the feature to the market. Therefore the overall vision for the feature must rest in the hands of someone who has the skills, knowledge and capacity to work with customers to define and validate the feature vision. In most software vendors, this typically rests in the hands of the Product Manager. (In the IT shop, this role is often fulfilled by a Business Owner or project manager).
With respect to Owning the Release , the problem is compounded because it takes the collaborative efforts of 20-100 agile project teams to deliver a release. Each Product Owner contributes their feature; sub-feature or component, but the release itself must be under the vision and governance of a larger authority, i.e. the Product Managers/Business owners working, in turn, with those who have responsibility for the portfolio.
Skills and Attributes of the Enterprise Product Owner
However, none of this aggregated and beneficial user value can be delivered without the day to day cooperation of dozens of agile Product Owners, so the transitioning enterprise will need to find people to fill this role. In so doing, the enterprise should look for people with the following skills and attributes:
Ability to communicate - the Product Owner is the "glue chip "that binds the Product Management function to the development team. Doing so requires good communication skills as the Product Owner translates user and business objectives into the level of detail suitable for implementation. Moreover, the Product Owner will almost certainly be involved in customer demos, sales


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Blackmagic Design released a new software update for its desktop video products that adds full support for the new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. This Desktop Video 8.2 software update includes support for Apple's new Core Video and Core Audio processing pipelines for professional grade video and audio functionality across a wide variety of applications.
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London-based creative production studio and VFX specialist Saddington Baynes has released a batch of inspirational 3D animation videos made by its research and development team, SBLabs.
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BOSTON, MA -- Boris FX, the leading developer of visual effects plug-ins for film and post-production, will showcase the newest versions of flagship products Mocha VR, Continuum and Sapphire at SIGGRAPH, August 1–3, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in booth 1011.
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One of the many reasons I love this great color grading tool (as I've already written about) is that the creator, Oleg, is very good at listening to requests and creating or adding new features, while fixing minor bugs along the way in a much more responsive manner than what I've seen from the big companies. I'm happy to see the new 1.42 update released today.
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HPA's second Tech Retreat, held in rural Oxford (UK). achieved its goals of bringing together the features and broadcast communities and exchanging knowledge between them, with spectacular style.
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Learning After Effects is a daunting challenge – it's not quite a Non-Linear Editor, but also not quite Photoshop. In trying to explain or teach After Effects I look back at my own history of learning the program.
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YouTube is ditching its Video Editor tool because hardly anyone uses it. The video-streaming giant said the tool will "go away" on September 20, so if you're one of those rare few who does still crank it up, you'll need to make sure your project is done and dusted by that date.
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As a Media Composer editor, one of the more annoying aspects of titling is that every time we want to make a change to a title in our timelines, we have to wait for the Title Tool to launch, before we can make our changes. This can be an especially annoying task if you need to adjust 20 titles in a credit sequence. BCC's Title Studio has a great "hidden" feature where, working in conjunction with the FX Browser, you can adjust titles faster than you ever had before!
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Savannah animals transported to Atlanta Humane Society
Twenty-five dogs and 11 cats and kittens were transferred today from the Savannah-Chatham Animal Control Shelter to the Atlanta Humane Society to facilitate adoptions.
The Atlanta organization also picked up four cats and nine dogs from the Hilton Head Humane Society.
The Atlanta organization had learned that the census at the Savannah facility was nearing capacity and launched the humanitarian effort to help avoid euthanizing the animals and find homes for them in the Atlanta area.
The transfers eliminated about half of the dogs in the shelter, making room for more animals. Here, animal control officer Christina Sutherin carries a pup to the transport vehicle for a new lease on life!


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Ex-Alice Cooper Guitarist Hospitalized, Develops Infection After Surgery
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Alice Cooper's former guitarist is recovering from surgery. Classic Rock magazine says Dick Wagner remains hospitalized after undergoing an operation to open up an artery. The procedure resulted in a 30% improvement in the blood flow to his heart, but he's developed what his son Robert is calling "a deep lung infection."
Robert adds in his Facebook message that he's hoping the lung treatment works, and "prayers are welcome right about now."
Wagner played on several Alice Cooper's albums including 1975's Welcome To My Nightmare and 1976's Goes To Hell. The 71-year-old rocker has also worked with many other stars over the course of his career, including KISS, Lou Reed, Hall & Oates, and Meat Loaf.
In 2007 Wagner was laid up for several months after suffering a near-fatal heart attack and stroke, and was then misdiagnosed with dementia. Wagner finally resumed his career last year, after learning he actually had a treatable neurological condition.
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Auburn, Ala. - Help Auburn Parks and Recreation send summer out in style at the 4th Annual Farewell Summer Block Party, sponsored by Chick-fil-A on Magnolia Avenue, on Friday, Aug. 2 at 6 p.m. at Town Creek Park. Enjoy music from Martha's Trouble, purchase food on-site from Chick-fil-A, enter for a
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see an owl release from the Southeastern Raptor Center, and sit back and watch the
1998 remake of The Parent Trap on our large, inflatable outdoor movie screen.
The first 200 individuals or families in attendance will receive coupons and specials from Auburn merchants, just in time for the sales tax holiday weekend! Limit, one bag per family. Attendees will also have a chance to enter to win door prizes, courtesy of local businesses.
In the event of rain, the Block Party will not be rescheduled. Should the Block Party be cancelled, goody bags may be picked up at the Harris Center, 425 Perry Street, on Friday, Aug. 2 from 4 - 7 p.m. Any leftover bags may be picked up while supplies last on Saturday, Aug. 3 from 8 a.m. - noon at the Harris Center. Follow the City of Auburn on Facebook at www.facebook.com/CityofAuburnAL to stay up-to-date on weather cancellations.
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Gordon Hayward's two-ish years in the NBA have been marked with spells of brilliance, periods of vanishing acts and an unresolved debate over whether the former No. 9 overall pick will become a first-choice scorer, or a reserve equally capable of big nights as forgettable ones.
However, the 22-year-old's oeuvre is not limited to his time with the Jazz. He is known as a big-shot small-school star, a relatable hero who only ever missed one shot.
Nowhere is that more true than Indianapolis, the metropolitan area of which includes his hometown Brownsburg, his alma mater and the Final Four to which he guided Butler in 2010.
Hayward returns to Indiana for the time with the Jazz, who play the Pacers at 5 p.m. Mountain at Bankers Life Fieldhouse third. Hayward has won and lost in games at Indiana, which for Hayward are always just a parade away from jamboree status.
"Any chance to play in front of friends and family like that is pretty cool," Hayward said before scoring 7 points in the Jazz's 92-90 win in Brooklyn. "A lot of people had that date marked and were telling me about that in the summer. It should be good."
Two years ago, Hayward said, there were of Hayward's jerseys in the stands than those of the Pacers.
"I'm from eight miles from Indianapolis," he said, "and the fact they got to see someone they knew play in the NBA was cool for them and, obviously, pretty cool for me."
Games back at home haven't exactly been slump-busters for Hayward, who in previous trips has made visits to Butler to observe practice, spoken at the campus and been hosted at gatherings. In 2011, Hayward's rookie year, the Jazz earned their first win without Jerry Sloan, two days after trading Deron Williams, but Hayward scored only 2 points in 14 minutes.
Last season, the Jazz lost 104-99; Hayward scored 11.
There won't be much time for distractions, however. The Jazz are in Indianapolis for fewer than 24 hours. They arrived early Wednesday morning after flying in from Newark, and will immediately head to Miami post-Pacers.
Hayward averages 12.9 points per game since being moved out of the starting lineup 10 games into the season. However, he was 0-for-5 in Friday's loss at Phoenix, and the next night struggled through a 3-for-8 night on Saturday against Memphis.
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Ole Miss lacrosse coaches Alicia Meredith and Patrick Aiello, as well as players and others, will be checking in frequently with blogs about the growth of the team and lacrosse in Mississippi. Below is the third in a series that will run through the rest of the summer and eventually include blogs from players as they arrive back on campus for fallball.
By Lauren Holsen
It's always tough to be the first-year team, playing teams that have had programs for years and trying to make everyone take you seriously.
In my opinion there are certain ways for this to happen. First, play as a team and win games. Second, just be serious. In November of last year our team was invited to play in the annual SWLL Round Robin Tournament hosted by Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, GA. Thanks to a parent donor we were able to stay at a home about 20 minutes away from Kennesaw State's amazing club facility where the games were played. Each team that chose to come played four games.
During the tournament there was a meeting hosted by the SWLL president, and other officers. Each team coach, if available and team presidents and other officers were asked to come. At this meeting questions and concerns were brought up from other teams about league rules, traveling, fees etc. We knew as a team this was our chance to become full members of the SWLL. Usually as a first-year team it is recommended to join as an associate member, where a team is only required to play 4 games, verse join as a full members, which is required to play 7 games. Well, for us that was not good enough. We knew we could handle any task given to us. We knew not only would we have to prove ourselves at this meeting, but also on the field. This was our first chance to show these teams who we were. What we had been hoping for as we tried endlessly to start a team for almost three years. This was our
chance to surprise everyone.
I remember the first game we had against University of Tennessee. It was freezing outside, the turf was frozen on the field, and I knew everyone was just as nervous as I was. Not only was this our first game of the pre season, but one of our best midfielders, Chesney Hellmuth was sick and not able to play. We all knew we had to really step it up and play our hearts out the whole tournament.
Our first game vs. Tennessee was a victory, 10-5, and we pulled off a great win. The next two games were against Samford and Kennesaw State which we pulled of two more wins. Our next game we believed was going to be our toughest yet against Georgia Tech. Still playing in the freezing cold and the support from our fans, and coach, Alicia Meredith we pulled off another win ending the tournament 4-0. Every player on our team was a part of each win we had on the field. Parents and coaches from other teams were coming up to some of the parents of players on our team making comments about how amazing our goalie, Sarah Wheat played. In some games she is what kept us in it, making phenomenal saves.
Although, we played great winning all our games we still had to prove ourselves at the meeting. I wanted this to go over well and make this weekend an overall success. Especially for our coach, who had worked so hard to get us to that point. If anyone believes in us it is her, and I was not leaving that meeting until we got what we came for.
During the meeting we were drilled with questions, we were able to state our case and talk about our team and the success we had had in the past. There were probably 100 or so people, all eyes on us, which was extremely nerve racking. After talking, we were asked to leave the room and we would be voted in as full members or potential members. As we entered back into the room we were told that we were voted in as full members of the SWLL. What an amazing feeling this was, knowing that just a few years ago I started with absolutely nothing, posting flyers around campus looking for girls interested in this sport. Now we were able to go back to our team, and back to Ole Miss with this great news and all four wins. It is honestly amazing how far this team has come and I know that there are only greater things to be seen from us.
By Matt Raines
I took over as team president the beginning the end of last school year and so far it has been a rewarding experience. I have worked diligently with our vice president, Mac Ford, and with a helping parent, Mark Rocco, to improve our team in all aspects. The three of us, along with the club sports administration staff, have laid out a plan for future success for our lacrosse program. The cool thing about being a club sport is that the students on the team are in charge for running the ins and outs of the team. Without the efforts and desire of the individual players, having a club team cannot happen.
Our first move was to hire a head coach. We found our coach in Pat Aiello, who has experience coaching at the DII level at Adelphi. Pat was so enthusiastic about the opportunity to come down and check out Oxford to see if this was what he wanted to do. He met a few guys on the team and checked out the campus along with the town of Oxford, and he was blown away. It did not take him long to make a final decision to accept our offer to become head coach. Pat has been relentless in fundraising ideas, meeting up with future recruits, networking with alumni, and trying to sell the sport of lacrosse to the athletic department as well as the entire town of Oxford.
The next step was reconstructing our team website. We wanted to make it more appealing to interested players and also fill it with some solid information. After the makeover of our website, tons of recruits had submitted recruiting forms and I was stunned to see how many kids actually want to come down south and play club lacrosse. We have 24 incoming players right now who have contacted myself or Coach Aiello saying they are definitely playing in the fall. This list includes transfers from DIII schools, guys from lacrosse hotbeds such as Maryland, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Virginia. But majority of the incoming players are from areas where lacrosse is just starting to be a prominent sport. We have players from Illinois, Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Minnesota, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Georgia.
It really is awesome to see kids from all over the country that are excited to play lacrosse for Ole Miss.
Thanks to IL posting Coach Aiello's blog, a former starter at LSM from the University of North Carolina, Billy Staines took notice. Lucky for us, Billy has lived in Oxford for a few years and was ecstatic to see that Ole Miss has a legitimate lacrosse team. He contacted Coach Aiello and asked if he could help out and we quickly hired him as our assistant coach/defensive coordinator.
We are a very fortunate club program to have two coaches of this caliber leading us. Not too many club teams in the south have the availability of such high IQ lacrosse coaches at their disposal. With our new coaching staff, support from the school and alumni, and the excitement and dedication of our incoming and returning players, the sky is the limit for our team's future this upcoming season.


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Digital LA - Startup Showcase: Silicon Beach Best of 2012
Digital LA
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
We're looking for volunteers with nice smiles to help with check-in tonite 7-8p to attend for free. Email firstname.lastname@example.com with BEST as the subject. Thanks!
We printed the guest list as of 4:30p. If u rsvp after 4:30, please bring your paper confirmation. Admission at door is $20 cash.
2012 was a big year for LA with the arrival of new accelerators, coworking spaces, VCs, and capital. We want to celebrate by bringing some of the top companies, startups, and tech leaders of 2012 together to tell us about their big stories of the year, and give us their predictions for their companies and the community in 2013.
David Carter
Amplify LA
Co-Founder and Strategy Advisor. David is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor who has invested in more than a dozen companies including At The Pool, Invested.In, and more. @amplifyla
Dan Gould
Co-Founder. Filmmakers, comedians & musicians can distribute premium videos directly to their fans on Chill Direct.
@dgould @chilllive
Wade Eyerly
Surf Air
Co-Founder. Surf Air lets you take unlimited flights on its network of planes, from Santa Monica airport to Santa Barbara and Bay Area airports for a monthly subscription rate. (MuckerLab alum). @isurftheskies
Allison Beal
Founder. StyleSaint lets girls create lookbooks of their fave fashions, on which a new clothing line will be developed. @stylesaint
Jason Crilly,
Page Woo
Co-Founder / Engineer
PageWoo is a self-service mobile ad platform that lets large advertisers and agencies demo- and geo-target phone users. (StartEngine alum).
Josh Payne
Founder & CEO
StackSocial lets tech publishers generate additional revenues by incorporating sales on apps, gadgets, and digital resources. (Amplify alum).
@jnpayne @StackSocial
Gabe Gottlieb
YieldMetrics lets advertisers optimize their ad campaigns via information about services, location, inventory, and data collection. (Launchpad alum).
@GabeGottlieb @YieldMetrics.
Kevin Winston
Digital LA
@DigitalLA @kevinwinston
We'll discuss:
- Who will be the biggest investors in 2013?
- Who will be the first big exit out of Silicon Beach?
- Who's most likely to get acquired?
- What are the accelerators looking for in 2013?
- Where can you find a celebrity investor / spokesperson?
- How can I get involved with the Silicon Beach Startup Video?
- 7-8p Check-in and Networking
- 8-9:30p Panel with Q&A
- 9:30-10p. Even More Networking
#DigitalLA #Best2012
PARKING: Get lucky with street parking, or park in the Santa Monica Library parking lot ($1 per hour, $5 max, garage closes at 11p). Enter parking lot via 7th St. betwee Arizona and Santa Monica. We don't validate parking.
The Digital LA - Startup Showcase is a monthly series featuring top Silicon Beach startups with a different theme each month. One startup will be selected each month to present at the Silicon Beach Fest - Startup Showcase Finals panel in June 2013.
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'I've been really excited about this trip for a while now. From a personal standpoint, I get to see a lot of my family. But for me the biggest thing is that there are a lot of Sabres fans in Austria, especially in the last six years that I've been playing in here – and a lot of them don't get to come over to Buffalo. There's going to be a lot of people in Berlin cheering us on and I can't wait to skate out on the ice Saturday night.'
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A man who shot and killed another man during an argument in a Salt Lake City park last year is claiming he fired the fatal shots in self defense.
Francisco Alverez, 56, faces a charge of first-degree felony murder in connection with the May 2011 death of 29-year-old Jorge Veracruz. Monday, on the first day of Alverez's trial in 3rd District Court, a defense attorney said Alverez was protecting himself from a perceived threat.
"Frank was fearful he was going to be robbed," attorney Adam Alba told jurors. "In his inebriated state, he did what he thought was necessary to defend himself."
Alverez and Veracruz were part of a group who were hanging out and drinking in Riverside Park, 700 N. 1400 West, on the evening of May 5, 2011.
The two men began arguing with each other and soon there was talk of fighting, said prosecutor Bradford Cooley. Alverez made mention of the .22-caliber semiautomatic gun he was carrying and Veracruz walked away.
But as the man walked down a path along the Jordan River, the prosecutor said, Alverez fired at least three shots.
One shot struck Veracruz in the back of the right arm. A second went into the right side of his back. A third shot hit the left side of Veracruz's back, piercing his spleen, stomach and aorta before stopping in his lung.
"That was the bullet that killed Mr. Veracruz," Cooley said.
Alverez's defense attorney said the man believed Veracruz was going to rob him and fired only when he saw the man reaching for something in a bag.
"Frank didn't know Jorge. He could have been reaching for anything. … Frank was afraid for his life. He was afraid for his safety," Alba said. "He acted only to protect himself, and he was justified."
At the time of the shooting, it was "picture day" for a local Little League, and the park was filled with hundreds of people. Brandon Schroeder was coaching his Rose Park Lions when he heard a series of "pops." One bullet struck a nearby soccer goal post, the man testified.
"That's when it got scary," he said.
Schroeder jumped a fence and ran toward Alverez, who was fleeing on a bicycle. Officials said Alverez tried to throw his gun into the river, but crashed in the process. Schroeder tackled the man and held him until two off-duty police officers who were in the park for baseball games came to help.
Alverez told the detective that Veracruz had "tried to rob [him]" but, according to testimony, blamed the shooting on another man in the park.
The trial is scheduled to run through Friday.
Alverez was convicted of homicide in 1980 for running over 59-year-old David Bingham with a truck in Ogden the previous year. Alverez was paroled in 1985 but has spent time in state and federal prison since then for various crimes.
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Sustainability in research, practice
By Steven Powell, firstname.lastname@example.com, 803-777-1923
The vocabulary used in Andrew Greytak's research group includes phrases like quantum dots and semiconductor nanowires. That's not unexpected for a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry who explores materials chemistry at its most fundamental levels.
Another word is fairly common, too: sustainability. And it applies both to his research and teaching.
In the most general sense, Greytak is interested in materials that absorb and emit light and are also conductive. Those materials are the basic building blocks for all sorts of energy generation, conversion and storage devices. So a broad goal of his work is to develop better, more sustainable methods of dealing with civilization's need for energy.
He carries that same idea into his every day teaching at USC, trying to find ways for students to relate to the chemistry curriculum.
"Most of my students in general chemistry are not going to become chemists, so it's a challenge to maintain their interest," he said. "But I've found that sustainability is something that a lot of them are already interested in, and they appreciate learning the concepts as they relate to chemistry."
Greytak has set out to help bridge the gap between researchers working in sustainability and groups interested in applying their work in practice at the university. Late last spring he organized the Sustainable Energy Research and Practice Showcase at USC's Green Quad.
Half a dozen research groups sent representatives to present their work in developing sustainable energy alternatives. Topics ranged from Thomas Vogt's work on phosphorescent materials for solid-state lighting to Krishna Mandal's research on thin-film photovoltaics.
Groups involved in putting sustainable ideas into practice around campus included the Built Environment Team of Sustainable Carolina, Net Impact and Gamecock Biodiesel.
"We had about 50 participants with lots of good conversation," Greytak said. "We had members of the Sierra Club talking with researchers who are working to develop new ways to burn coal more efficiently and cleanly."
Greytak also participated in a faculty workshop early in the summer break, "Sustainability in the Curriculum." The goal was to help faculty develop the kind of teaching that Greytak has successfully integrated into his undergraduate teaching and bring new ideas to the attention of the broader group.
For Greytak, thinking about how to bridge the gap between research and the real world started in earnest when he was completing a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT.
"My mentor, Daniel Nocera, really set an example in coupling a fundamental scientific interest to an interest for society," Greytak said. "There are millions of people who need greater access to the things we enjoy. People who don't have an electric grid, people who don't have a lot of infrastructure."
Sending students out into the workplace who have a better understanding of some of the sustainability issues confronting the culture is one way to make a difference, according to Greytak.
"When you look at the increasing demands for energy, for water, for other natural resources that are imposed by the increasing world population, you realize that these are problems that our society is going to have to grapple with," he said. "And students with this kind of information in hand will be better prepared to make wise career decisions, business decisions and consumer decisions going forward."
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Israel urges tougher action against Assad (REUTERS) By Douglas Hamilton TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 05/30/12 5:53pm EDT)
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(Reuters) - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday for tougher world action against Bashar al-Assad, saying he doubted the Syrian president "lost an hour´s sleep" over the expulsion of his envoys from several capitals after the Houla massacre.
"These events in Syria compel the world to take action, not just talk, but action. These are crimes against humanity and the international community must not stand on the sidelines," Barak said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
An army commander said separately that the Israeli military was making preparations along its border with Syria in case Assad´s government collapsed, an event which he said could provide Islamist militants with a "warehouse of weapons" and a new operating base.
"Syria is in civil war, which will lead to a failed state, and terrorism will blossom in it," Major-General Yair Golan told a conference at Bar Ilan University. "Syria has a big arsenal."
Although Israel and Syria are technically at war, Israeli leaders have rarely censured the Assad government for its domestic crackdowns and initially said little about the uprising that erupted last year against Assad.
The Syrian leader is widely viewed in Israel as emulating his late father, Hafez al-Assad, in seeking to maintain decades of calm along a ceasefire line on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, captured from Syria in a 1967 war.
Barak welcomed the expulsion on Tuesday of Syrian diplomats from at least seven Western capitals, describing it as a "very important step in the right direction" after the killing of more than 100 civilians in the Syrian town of Houla.
But he said: "I don´t think that Assad lost an hour´s sleep last night because of those people leaving.. and more concrete action is required."
Barak did not specify what additional steps he wanted the West to take.
Major-General Golan, commander of Israeli forces on the border with Lebanon and the frontline with Syria in the Golan Heights, told an audience at the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies that the situation in Syria put Israel at risk.
It was difficult to forecast how Syria would break up, Golan said. It could be effectively "cantonised" by the conflict.
The Israeli army was "deeply engaged in getting ready, with plans and physical means" along the borderlines, he said, without offering details.
Syria´s stock of mainly Russian-made weapons includes surface-to-air missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and marine missiles. It also possesses chemical weapons which Syria never used in its wars against Israel but which could be attractive weapons for terrorists, the general said.
Golan said Assad´s ally Iran was trying hard to help him stay in power and Iran´s Lebanese ally Hezbollah is in turn a very determined enemy of Israel which has "no intention of letting us off easily".
Hezbollah is the most potent hostile military force directly on one of Israel´s borders but it has done nothing evident in the past 14 months to exploit the Syrian crisis or start trouble with Israel to divert attention from Assad´s crackdown. (Editing by Angus MacSwan) (© Thomson Reuters 2012. 05/30/12)
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The superannuation guarantee will increase by 0.25 percentage points on July 1 and again on July 1, 2014, and will continue climbing incrementally by 0.5 percentage points a year until it hits 12 per cent in 2019-20. The government's aim is to boost private and national savings to achieve greater adequacy and greater equity for retirees in a bid to stave off a retirement savings disaster.
About 75 per cent of retirees, or 2.265 million Australians, currently receive a full or partial age pension and a tsunami of baby boomers are about to retire. The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that 20 per cent of the population will be over the age of 65 by 2016. The 2010 Intergenerational Report estimates that 8.1 million Australians, or almost one in four, will be over the age of 65 by 2050, representing just one working Australian per 2.7 retirees.
David Knox, a senior partner at Mercer, says raising the super guarantee to 12 per cent will increase the amount of money people retire on by roughly 40 per cent, helping more Australians achieve a self-funded retirement and easing the burden on the public purse.
"Changes to the SG will actually improve adequacy by more than it appears because right now insurance premiums and administration fees come out of the 9 per cent, but just because the SG rises to 12 per cent doesn't mean the cost of insurance and administration will also go up," he says.
But before people begin saving and investing, their mindset must change, Knox says. They must see superannuation as an income stream product, not a lump sum.
Currently, superannuation benefits can be taken as either a lump sum or a pension, but Australia's largest accounting body, CPA Australia, is lobbying the government to overhaul the lump sum payment system because an increasing number of baby boomers are resorting to the age pension, having largely spent their lump sum at, or shortly after, retirement to pay off debt.
CPA Australia says many people approaching retirement are incurring greater debts and spending more because they see superannuation as a "windfall" to extinguish debts and fund consumption. A self-funded retirement is merely a "pipedream" for many.
Doing away with the lump sum mentality, particularly for super balances of $150,000 and more, is important because it's reasonable to expect part of super to be taken as an income stream, Knox says.
To generate an income stream, retirees can buy term and lifetime annuities and account-based pensions. However, Australia's immature annuities market doesn't offer much choice.
In the United Kingdom and the United States, where annuity sales are high, there's a broad, deep range of products including deferred and variable annuities. The UK also has annuities that account for a person's health, which can make it cheaper for someone in poor health to buy an income stream.
Locally, deferred annuities don't make sense for tax reasons, although in Knox's perfect world an account-based pension would last until age 80 to 85, after which time a deferred annuity would provide a steady income in those later years when retirees are generally less active.
But under the means test rules, a deferred annuity is treated as an asset at retirement age even though it would only deliver an income in the deferred period, for example from 85 to 100.
Knox says the rules must change to encourage retirees to buy deferred annuities and protect against longevity risk, otherwise the government will end up being the longevity insurer through the age pension.
He says an account-based pension coupled with a deferred annuity, and where appropriate complemented by the age pension, would allow retirees to plan better and live better.
"Right now too many retirees are living frugally off a small amount of money, afraid of living too long and running out of money, but a deferred annuity would allow them to spend more in their 70s because they know it would kick in at age 80 to 85," he says. The way to ensure adequacy for all, according to former prime minister Paul Keating, is a compulsory system that garners 15 per cent of wages with 12 per cent managed privately and 3 per cent collected under a modified arrangement, managed within a government longevity insurance fund and set aside for healthcare, maintenance, income support and aged care.
Speaking at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's annual conference in November, Keating described a model where retirement consisted of two phases: phase one, from age 60 to 80, would be funded by private superannuation savings, and phase two, from age 80 to 100, funded by the government in the form of the aged pension with assistance from the longevity insurance fund.
"We built something that took people from 55 to 75 but because people are living longer – if you get to age 60, you have a reasonable likelihood of getting to 85," he said.
"The policy promise of superannuation is understood by people as about having a good retirement but adequacy with longevity means that promise cannot be fulfilled."
According to Keating's calculations, middle Australians on one-to-two times the average weekly ordinary time earnings with a super guarantee of 12 per cent and more generous salary sacrifice limits should be able to secure a replacement rate in retirement income of around 70 per cent over a 35-year working life.
However, he's concerned about the high level of exposure retirees and pre-retirees have to Australian equities through their superannuation funds, which could easily derail their chances of a comfortable retirement, if it hasn't already.
Keating says the asset allocation of Australian super funds should more closely reflect the holdings of other OECD countries.
In OECD countries, the average superannuation weighting to equities is around 18 per cent, with roughly 55 per cent in fixed income, 11 per cent cash and term deposits and the remainder in assets such as property. By contrast, total Australian superannuation assets were weighted 50 per cent in equities, 18 per cent in fixed interest, 24 per cent in cash and term deposits and the remainder in assets such as property, as at December 2011.
Australia's disproportionate weighting to equities, the most volatile and unstable asset class, is dangerous given that 60 per cent of superannuation assets are held by investors over the age of 50.
According to Andrew Boal, managing director of Towers Watson, a large proportion of assets should move to less volatile areas during retirement because retirees are five times more risk averse than those in accumulation stage.
He challenges the rationale of the past whereby retirees were told to remain in growth assets to keep in line with inflation, with little regard for their risk tolerance.
Boal says protection strategies around investing in retirement are critical, especially because the 20-year period 10 years either side of retirement is when people have the most money at risk. Although there is a large investment base for retirees to draw an income from, if their investments perform badly they don't have the time or capacity to make up the losses, which leaves them in a bad position.
In the absence of deferred annuities, and with volatility persisting, a number of institutions have launched new capital-protected solutions targeted at retirees and pre-retirees. These products are designed to allow investors to stay invested in equities and able to benefit from any potential growth knowing that if equity markets fall, their original capital is safe.
Capital-protected products are not new but in their latest incarnation there's greater flexibility and choice. Axa launched its North platform in October 2007, capturing $934 million in the first two years, primarily in capital-protected options. By the end of 2010, North had accumulated more than $1.4 billion.
The National Australia Bank's wealth management arm, MLC, wants to capitalise on that trend.
It officially rolled out its new suite of capital-protected retirement solutions in December, MLC MasterKey Investment Protection, which offers two forms of protection: protected capital and protected income.
Similarly, Westpac's BT Financial Group launched Wrap Capital Protection in November.
According to research by Lonergan, cited by BT, 53 per cent of Australian pre-retirees aged 50 to 64 are holding cash to protect against the loss of capital and 47 per cent are only holding cash as a temporary strategy until markets recover.
Holding that much cash leaves retirees in a precarious position because they can expect to spend 25 years in retirement and need exposure to growth assets to protect against inflation, says Andrew Barnett, general manager of retirement solutions at MLC.
If they're sitting on the sidelines when markets recover, they'll miss out on the upside, he says.
MLC MasterKey Investment Protection aims to fill a gap in the market for outcome-oriented products that properly balance the four core needs of pre-retirees and retirees – access to growth assets, capital preservation, liquidity and longevity.
Unfortunately, while equities are the ideal growth vehicle, they're risky, and lifetime annuities address longevity but without liquidity, leaving cash, which is liquid but doesn't provide growth.
Outcome-oriented funds are designed to meet all four needs, but capital protection isn't cheap.
Protection costs on MLC MasterKey Investment Protection range from 0.40 per cent to 2 per cent, and once investment management, administration and financial planning fees are factored in, the price can soar to about 3 per cent. North's most popular capital guarantee is a 10-year term, which costs 1.8 per cent for protection only, with the new BT Wrap Capital Protection charging 1.2 per cent in addition to other costs.
According to Neil Kendall, financial planner at Queensland-based Tupicoffs, the guarantee rarely compensates for the fees charged.
"Funds managers don't offer products that will lose them money," he says. "Some clients may benefit from the guarantee but that will be offset by higher fees and there are other clients who will not benefit despite paying the high fees."
Kendall is also mindful that inflation will eat away at the dollar value of the original capital outlay, which decreases in real terms each passing year.
"The costs of capital protection far outweigh the benefits over the time in the product because the investor will only benefit if a market crash occurs towards the end of the term," he says.
In this case, the investor is compensated by the fees paid along the life of the product, and all the other investors in the pool, who will probably not see the value of their long-term guarantee fees being paid. Kendall's view is that the ultimate winner is the product manufacturer.
Barnett admits there is no single "silver bullet" product which will solve the retirement income and adequacy issues of all, citing the dismal performance of target date funds during the global financial crisis.
Target-date funds, which have been promoted as a panacea for retirees, generally invest in a diversified basket of assets, increasing their allocation to defensive assets such as fixed income and cash as investors get older or when markets fall. However, these funds fell an average of 21 per cent during the GFC.
Barnett uses target-date funds as an example of how diversification as a risk mitigation technique can no longer be accepted blindly.
"In the accumulation phase people rely on diversification to mitigate risks, which of course has proven to be ineffective during periods of market turbulence when the correlation of different asset classes converge," he says, adding that financial planning is critical when transitioning to retirement.
"Turning an asset into a sustainable income stream requires careful planning and sound strategic advice which factors in an investor's goals, risk tolerance and entire asset base, not just superannuation," he says.
Tony Lally, chief executive of the $20 billion Queensland-based industry fund Sunsuper, says everyone should seek advice before retiring and preferably years beforehand.
The biggest challenge for Sunsuper and its members is that it is difficult to know exactly when someone will retire. "People can retire at any time and it's very difficult to see people entering retirement without advice, which is why we're building up our capacity to offer advice to our members," he says.
Lally, who is also the chairman of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia, wants to see the government undertake further reforms, particularly tightening of the means and asset test limits for the age pension.
The asset test limits, which exclude the family home, for the full pension is currently $273,000 for a couple who are homeowners and $412,500 for a couple who are non-homeowners. For a part pension, the limits are $1.05 million for a couple who are homeowners and $1.189 million for non-homeowners.
Couples must earn less than $6968 a year, or $268 a fortnight, under the income test rules, which generally includes money from employment, investments, pensions and annuities.
Lally says these generous limits are burdensome on the government and that they contribute to the government feeling the need to constantly tinker with superannuation legislation in the budget.
Tightening the rules would both help prevent a blowout in future pension costs and curb the government's tendency to continuously change superannuation law.
"We're not saying the rules have to stay the same forever but we need to debate how we structure superannuation to make it sustainable for the long term," Lally says.
"There are too few self-funded retirees and other countries enjoy a much more stable system."
According to Towers Watson's Boal, Australians should be more concerned about the potential blowout in cost of healthcare, maintenance and income support for the elderly.
He says the government has flagged that increases to the cost of funding the age pension are essentially affordable. Aged care currently represents 4.8 per cent of gross domestic product, which will almost double by 2050. The aged pension represents 3.7 per cent of GDP but will only rise to 4.9 per cent by 2050.
Towers Watson and Mercer advise institutions and super funds on retirement income strategies and how best to assist members transition from accumulation to retirement and post- retirement.
Each superannuation fund is different, with different demographics and requiring a different strategy, Knox says.
There is no one solution.
Boal says the uncertainty of not knowing exactly how long you'll live makes it difficult to plan and invest for retirement. In order to plan effectively, the issue of longevity must be addressed first, he says.
Currently, most people only have the age pension to fall back on if they live too long, but Boal also points to deferred annuities as a solution the government must consider.
He says retirees should divide their portfolio into different parts, where each part serves a different purpose and is therefore invested differently.
Under his ideal strategy, money should be set aside for the 20 years in passive retirement from age 85 onwards and invested in a deferred annuity, while the money for the 20 active years of retirement from age 65 to 85 could be split in half with one part invested in more defensive assets that will produce the minimum level of acceptable income for 20 years.
The other half can then be invested in growth assets to provide for discretionary wants such as holidays, car upgrades and home renovations.


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Jess Dow Field has been the site of NCAA soccer playoffs, Connecticut high school football championships, and annually hosts the New Haven County Special Olympic Games.
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The fieldhouse is utilized for all major indoor events and can accommodate multiple practice sessions simultaneously. Drop curtains and netting allow the main arena to accommodate a complete baseball or softball infield for practice or camps, as well as traditional indoor programs. Moore Fieldhouse also has weight-training facilities, locker rooms, an equipment room and a full athletic training room.
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Make Hummus Not War is a humorous film journey though the hummus bars and kitchens of Beirut, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and New York. Along the way the filmmaker encounters Palestinian and Israeli hummus cooks, chickpea farmers, political leaders, activists, Jewish settlers, and others for whom hummus is a near religious obsession.
The film will be introduced by Dr. Curt Ryan, who will also lead discussion on peace and cultural commonalities in the Middle East following the film. Dr. Ryan is associate professor of political science at Appalachian State, a scholar of Middle Eastern politics, and author of the books Inter-Arab Alliances: Regime Security and Jordanian Foreign Policy and Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah.
The event is presented by ASU Library in conjunction with the ASU Humanities Council with grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities- NEH Bridging Cultures, Muslim Journeys grant and the Bivens Fund for Library Excellence. This is the third in a series of programs that compose the 2013 Muslim Journeys Program.
More description of the film: Could a regional love of hummus be the recipe for peace in the Middle East? This was the question on director Trevor Graham's mind when he set out to film Make Hummus Not War, a documentary about the Middle Eastern conflict you don't see on the nightly news.
One of the oldest-known prepared foods in human history, hummus is claimed by multiple Middle Eastern nationalities. So when Trevor Graham, a self-described hummus tragic, learned of a 2008 Lebanese plan to sue Israel for acting as if it had proprietary rights over the dish, he was intrigued and hungry for more. With Israel, Lebanon and Palestine fighting once again - over who 'owns' the hummus heritage - he set off on a personal journey into a colorful culinary history.
"Hummus and chickpeas are a symbol of our common humanity. I want this movie to say 'We have more in common than divides us.'" Trevor Graham [filmmaker]
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REDLANDS - In a warehouse tucked away on West Kansas Street, Jack Ghostine zips in and out of a room retrofitted to look like an old fashioned corner grocery store with spices, snacks and oils filling the shelves.
Ghostine, the owner of Washington Produce, opened the store's doors at noon for locals to pick up their fresh fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs and more. But the large warehouse has been abuzz since at least 4 a.m.
"It doesn't end," Ghostine said of Washington Produce's mission to bring the freshest ingredients to both local families and wholesale buyers as far away as West Covina. "Tony (the store's co-owner and Jack's brother) is on the phone at 1 a.m. working with suppliers in L.A.," Ghostine said. "At 4 a.m. the trucks come in with the fresh produce for the day and the staff comes in to prepare orders."
The local business purchases large produce orders from growers in Los Angeles and smaller orders from local Redlands-area farmers. On the wholesale side of the business, these fresh foods arrive at Washington Produce just in time to be packaged, prepared and sent to wholesale buyers ranging from retirement homes to San Manuel Casino in Highland.
On the retail side, locals can place a custom order online at WashingtonProduce.Com and choose a time between noon and 6 p.m. Monday through Friday to come by and pick up their freshly packaged groceries.
"I don't know that we will ever be a supermarket," Ghostine said. "At a supermarket all the stuff is out all day, tons of people are touching it and by the end of the day the produce is no good. We don't want it to be like that."
The Ghostine brothers have tried that model before when their business was a little fruit and vegetable stand on Washington Street in Colton, started in 1990. Tony Ghostine was running the operation back then while Jack was a computer programmer in Orange County.
"Everything was done with paper and pencil back then, all the orders, so I told Tony `I am going to write a system for your business,"' Ghostine said of his entrance into the business in 1994.
A self-taught computer programer whose formal education consists of some classes at the University of California, Riverside, Ghostine designed every aspect of the current Washington Produce online order and delivery system.
"It's nice that he did that, so if anything goes wrong we can fix it right away," said business assistant Shelby Smart.
In the past two years, the online side of the business has expanded to offer more custom ordering options for everything from meat to smoothie kits to party platters. Retail customers place their order the day before they expect to pick it up, noting if they would like onions excluded from their salad mix, for example, or if they would like to add peppers to their stir fry kit.
"We are always checking the online system, the voice mail, the fax and reviewing all the orders," Ghostine said.
On stainless steel tables in the back, staff begin at 4 a.m. to package the food that was shipped in that morning. With cutting boards, vacuum sealers and airtight containers the food is prepared and packaged exactly the way it was ordered. While it waits, the food is placed in a cardboard box and stored in an expansive walk in refrigerator or in the back room for pick up later that same day.
"We keep track of who comes in and who doesn't," Ghostine said. "Because there currently isn't an option for online pre-payment (orders must be paid for at time of pick up) we remain in great contact with our customers and really try to get to know them by name. We are surprised at how well this honor system has worked so far."
The future for Washington Produce might hold expanded hours, according to Ghostine, but he adds that the freshness of the food is their first priority.
Also on the horizon for the family owned local business are text message reminders and an option for online pre-payment. Washington Produce is also piloting a food order delivery program for groups of retail customers who share an office complex who have a hard time coming in to pick up their food during the store's limited hours.
"We realize that we have a long way to go," Ghostine said. "We realize that for some customers our hours are not convenient for them. Our next big challenge is understanding how do we make this service more available to people who can't make it in."
"I've had experiences in the past where the owner is in it for the money," Smart said. "But these people are really here for the customer."
Washington Produce is open Monday through Friday from noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It's at 450 Kansas St. in Redlands.