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Dear Schmuck
[For the benefit of everyone involved — the reader, the subject, the blog, and of course yours truly — I decided to wait a few days to write this blog post in order to allow cooler heads, specifically mine, to prevail. As many of you know, I can be mercilessly unkind when annoyed or provoked, and with the glorious burden of being able to use the English language like a Ginsu knife, I learned long ago not to shoot from the hip, so to speak, in order to keep any incensed writing from including body counts. However, to set the stage here, a person who visited the CrunchBang booth at Linux Fest Northwest over the weekend — clearly new to attending shows and new to the Free/Open Source Software paradigm — could stand to use an attitude adjustment. Whether or not the person in question reads this is not as important as getting this out there.]
Dear Schmuck:
First, let me welcome you to Linux Fest Northwest — the second best show on the U.S. West Coast (next to the Southern California Linux Expo) — and also let me welcome you to the wider Free/Open Source Software paradigm. It's clear that you're new in these parts and chances are this is your first show.
I also see that you're inspired by FOSS, and that's outstanding. I'm truly glad for you. From your enthusiasm and the gleam in your eye, I can tell that you're on a mission; it's the same mission in which everyone in the room is involved to varying degrees; otherwise, we would be spending our weekend elsewhere. Clearly I've walked a mile in your proverbial moccasins — and I sheepishly admit that when I started on the FOSS path I acted from time to time like the quintessential douchebag at which you excel at this very moment (more on this later) — so let me point out a few things that could help you going forward.
Bear in mind that what I'm suggesting are things that just might make your life in FOSS circles a little more pleasant and, more importantly, just might make you a little more bearable to the people around you, both inside FOSS circles and in the wider realm of life. It may not seem like it, but I'm trying to help you here, so listen.
First, this is how conversations work: You say something, then you stop talking and listen to the other person as he or she offers a response. Let me repeat that: "You stop talking and listen to the other person as he or she offers a response." You're truly allowed to stop talking. Honest. Streams of consciousness are nice, but in a conversation — again, when one person says something to another and the first person allows the second to respond — you allow the person you're talking to (not talking at) to respond to what you have said.
Got that? Good, because there's more to this: A significant part of the conversational process involves allowing the person with which you're conversing to, at the very least, complete a sentence. You didn't notice this, obviously, but in our entire exchange, I was unable to complete a sentence thanks to your constant interruptions. You truly need to work on that.
Second, I understand your desire to promote your FOSS product and I also understand that you are immeasurably proud of it. Good for you, Sparky. However, rather than putting down comparable products with faulty arguments, you might want to listen to people who have used the product you're blasting to a.) learn more about the products you're criticizing, and b.) maybe learn something, period. "People who have used the product," in this case, would be me, and I've used the products in question for years. If you were to listen, I could provide you with some insight into the other products; products again with which I have first-hand experience. But rather than do the smart, logical thing, you choose to remain a bloviating advertard parroting marketing jargon. I could have told you how full of shit you were, but I didn't because I thought it would sail past you like a puck past a helpless goalie after a Sidney Crosby slapshot. Just like everything else I had said between all your interruptions up to that point.
As an aside, I told you I was familiar with your product after going to your website several months ago. I haven't been since, and what I didn't tell you was that your website, well, blows goats. You might want to use — what do you call it? — correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. Why focus on this triviality? Because if you can't be thorough and precise with your web presence, how can I trust you to be thorough and precise with the quality of your product?
So here's a quick recap:
— Shut the hell up and listen to the person/people you're conversing with, and
— Your product isn't perfect, other products have features yours doesn't, and as hard as it might be to admit to yourself, you don't know everything. In fact, you know less than you think, which makes listening to others that much more important.
Again, I've walked a mile — hundreds of miles at this point — in the proverbial shoes you're now donning for your travels along the FOSS path. I, too, started out "filled with the Holy Spirit," the divine inspiration that Catholics and other Christian denominations refer to when enraptured by the missionary zeal of spreading "the word;" in our case, the Free/Open Source Software paradigm. And I would have saved myself a lot of profuse apologies, needless backpedaling and multiple hurt feelings had I been told all this by someone else when I had started out back in 2006 when I "knew everything" about FOSS.
So you're welcome.
Despite our minuscule differences and preferences in software and hardware, in the FOSS realm there is really no "us and them." There's just "us" to varying degrees of participation. Understand that and you're more than halfway there.
Hope you enjoy the fest.
Larry the Free Software Guy
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy, Larry the CrunchBang Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)


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The study, conducted by economists in the school's Division of Research (DOR), found that local, high-impact firms accounted for only 2.7 percent of private-sector firms in South Carolina, but contributed 66.8 percent of all net employment gains. The study also found that small firms, those with fewer than 20 employees, account for 26 percent of all firms in South Carolina, but 51 percent of all net job generation.
"For years, it has been widely believed that small businesses create nearly all the jobs in the United States. However, recent research suggests something different," said Dr. Douglas Woodward, economics professor and director of the DOR. "New data indicate that it's actually a small number of fast-growing, locally-based small and medium companies that are responsible for the majority of U.S. employment gains."
Woodward, along with fellow Moore School economist Dr. Paulo Guimaraes and research analyst Veronica Watson, examined the growth and activity of all South Carolina private-sector firms and the contributions made by firms deemed as "high-impact" from 2004 – 2008. Their work is the first analysis of this data, which is compiled from a State of South Carolina survey of businesses.
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• South Carolina high-impact firms in the professional/technical services and construction-related industries experienced high employment growth.
• A select group of high-impact firms with more than 250 employees have been especially successful in net employment generation.
• Thirty percent of high-impact firm employment are located in traded clusters or regions with concentrations of products and services that are sold. Firms in these clusters tend to pay higher wages and are more innovative. This share in traded clusters is higher than the overall South Carolina and national average share of employment in traded clusters, which is about 27 percent.
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Woodward said understanding the success of, and potential for, these locally-based, high-impact firms is important given the continued erosion of the job base since the recession in 2007 – 2008.
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"High-impact firms merit our continued attention," Woodward said. "We must broaden employment prospects for South Carolinians. The state needs local firms that start up, grow and develop into regional and national champions."
The Moore School partnered with the S.C. Department of Commerce, New Carolina, and CTC Public Benefit Corporation on the study, which was funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the South Carolina Research Authority and AdvanceSC.
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I want to suggest to be able to view visitor's time of visit, browser, origin and referrer respectively (with emphasis on "respectively"). In other words, to be able to see which browsers correspond to which time, which country, and to which referrer.
Maybe there is already a way for me to view this that I don't know about, or maybe there is a privacy issue with doing this, so I'm not sure if my suggestion is valuable.
Actually that option is not available, and I don't thing that I will go in that direction for different reasons:
-privacy, in that case it's not any more statistics but individual tracking
-why did you need to know that?
Just for curiosity Jean Denis,
Why create a system that blocks and document attacks from hackers if you do not want to provide as much details of the attackers as possible? I think that crawlprotect is not a statistical product as it offers to proactively block some types of requests made to a site via the .htaccess file. This changes it from statistical to functional protection.
Also some circumstances may require a more granular understanding of such functionality. This product is no longer simply a product within the French law as it is used across the globe... I for one am located in Canada and do not have the "Visitor's IP Privacy Restrictions" you seem to imply about in French Law in other posts...
Besides when attackers visit my sites, I want to know everything about them and then some! I think the site owners rights have prevalence over the privacy concerns of those basement operators hacking us.
I would very much like a more detailed help file documenting the functionality of crawlprotect and of the .htaccess and the possible changes or adaptation that it can make to it, and why instead of just pushing the .htaccess to users without any explanations...
I think most webmasters would be happy to have an integrated refresher on what can actually be done with .htaccess
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Is it time we expected something different from the FPS genre?
Yeah imo. Except for maybe Battlefield. But if BF 4 plays more like a BF 3.5, then forget it.
All i'm even remotely interested in (FPS genre-wise) is Destiny (if it's not just a Halo clone) and MGO 3.
And what the heck ever happened to Rainbow Six's new game? It just dropped off the radar.
I disagree. Sure there are too many of them and it's hard to stand out in the crowd, but I still like the look of a fps every single year.
Not every action game, rpg or adventure game is amazing either. I really need to play Bioshock and Far Cry 3, but Dishonoured should do nice for now.
I was excited for R6... What a shame :(
DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY play both Far Cry 3 and Bioshock Infinite.
If there are any two single-player shooters that are worth your time right now, those are it!
I'm a big Bioshock 1 fan. Money is tight so I'm waiting for a price drop and I would rather buy Ni No Kuni because it will keep its price longer than Bioshock. Far Cry can be purchased at a good price now, though.
I will definitely play them!
I agree with you. tbh in my opnion, I am bored of the COD and BF types of shooters, and I think I will give Killzone and Bioshock and Far Cry a try though, they seem like a good type of FPS
I'd have to disagree with Donnieboi. I love getting my hands on a new FPS every year, no matter if it's a rehash or just improvement of an older model. It's still refreshing to play something newer.
Yes and no. I think I am just bored of this gen. I think a new console will freshen things up.
Not if the games don't improve. If they stay the same, what good is better graphics? I wan't fresh idea's for my games. Maybe I just ask for too much.
Been playing planetside 2, it's a nice change from the usual FPS games. Somewhat similar but enough different.
YES they are! The consoles are saturated with boring Generic corridor and or linear FPS.
I still play FPS on my PC but the majority of them are Open World FPS/RPG or FPS/RTS hybrids thus adding a lot of thinking, exploration, and tactics to the game play versus the mindless and repetitive nature of generic FPS.
I have to say Bioshock Infinite was a Great FPS but then again the series started out as a PC game anyway getting it's roots from many of the Devs who made System Shock 2 and Tribes:Vengeance so the quality was already there.
Arma 3
Planetside 2
Natural Selection 2
Nuclear Dawn
Red Orchestra 2
STALKER Series.
are a few of the FPS I play but many of them are FPS/RTS or FPS/RPG games in huge open worlds with NO linear or Corridor gameplay.
"Nuclear Dawn"
RTS+FPS Love this game! Too bad it's one of a kind, correct me if not.
BF4 is the same old story.
Some are stagnating, but some are getting better too.
It's the linear, scripted, arcadey shooter that has had it's time.
"I loved the first Modern Warfare, and the sequels have both been technically brilliant as well"
Wait.. What ?!
You can't argue that they don't play well from a mechanical perspective. I just found it was boring because they were very similar to the previous games.
well to me... if you played shooters after shooters for weeks or even months, sure you will get bored, same goes for other genres....
thats why i played games with lots of variety and different genres
platforming heaven with sackboy this week and serious rpg with persona 4 the golden next week, or some fighting games like doa5 plus or wipeout for a quick burst ^_^
Agreed, same with me. Off topic Persona 4 Golden is by far the best game I ever played. EVER. And while I usually sell or delete my games once I'm done with them, this one, this one I'm keeping forever.
Agree, I personally have been playing a lot of indies lately, and having a blast.
Military FPSs ar3 getting stale but there is a ton of potential with first person titles like portal, bioshock, slenderman, and unfinished swan.
I wouldn't say boring, just very exhausting. I am so tired of the typical military shooter plaguing the industry. It's done nothing but hold it back. Now, if publishers start allowing innovation and creativity in shooters, like the first Borderlands and Portal when they came out, then I will start restoring my faith in FPS's, but I won't get my hopes up.
Yes, but the sheep buy the likes of COD so they won;t go anywhere.
I don't think the genre entirely is getting boring, just the stories being told. I mean look at the FPS releases..... military this, military that, and it normally comes down to similar storylines. Either we get invaded, or someone wants to rule the world etc... then you lose a soldier and have to go get him. Follow it up with Hollywood scenerios and bam you have 9 out of 10 FPS titles.
I mean they could be more creative. Spec Ops didn't veer too far off, but still made it interesting. MGS while not a shooter took the "modern day" and put a massive spin on it with a deep story. Portal took guns and made them have "perks" to it. etc.... We don't need standard military stories all the time....
I think it depends on what you like, I am bored of the generic first person shooters on the market, the ones that are like the band Dream Theater, technically proficient, but lack soul.
I don't know if boring, but definitely tiring. The totally over saturated the market with them this generation. They need to make other genres.
I think that the fps genre is fine....it just needs better elevated story's. I'm rdy for a new epic story that is gripping and makes me care.
I still think that a new mirrors edge with tweaks seen over the last few years could be that game.
Some exploration without open spaces just do you can throw in tanks and jeeps would help the genre.
Ever notice that bf3 or any fps of recent memory has environments that are servicing but not full of lore and wonder. Take the detail of shadow of the colossus (for its day it spaces are full of wonder without force feeding you) and marry it with fps quality if halo.
Should clarify that I want open spaces. But with the detail of a linear game. But the real issue is story. Make me care. Military fps are getting stale.
Here's a few examples that I'd like to see devs explore in a fps -
-extreme revenge story with female lead. Think kratos but with cunning and guile. And make you come to hate the protagonist and then redeem her in a massive story arc no one sees coming.
-what if an alien landed on earth...And needs to survive in today's society for say several years before pick up. Obviously the alien must be important. But not a military soldier. Say a linguist? Stealth and subterfuge. And makes us see how ugly humanity is and when the aliens come they will want to destroy us from you the players gathered intel. In a twist.....let them! Make the sequel about the only human child turn adult that tried to help the alien (you) from the previous game the new hero. And make him make the hard choices that he knows is wrong - but must be done to save humanity. Submit as salves. Only in the third game do you have both the alien & human team up and figure out a joined alliegiance....but make it a tear jerker.
I'm nutz sorry.
I would say military shooters are getting boring.
(snikers) I love these kinds of articles. They make my day. Heres hoping the next-gen is not a wonderland of shooter-fest happy cults. Salud!
Yes, the military ones are. CoD, BF and MoH. Sadly, they are the ones selling a lot while the fun and creative ones are left in the dust. People have no taste.
Totally depends on the game itself not the genre... I play a good mix of games, but fps are probably what I do most online.
A good game is a good game don't just wash over something because of the genre.
When i play First Person Shooters, the only difference i see is the graphics
Like someone said, not boring but "Tiring". It shows that developers no longer have passion to create something new and innovative that they are playing "safe" because they know FPS is one of the Top selling GENRE of any videogame. Making money is all that matters to them
Military shooters? Hell yes. The genre is as bland as ever. The rest of the FPS genre, no. We have Bioshock: Infinite in 2013. I am satisfied knowing there always will be another studio that won't be afraid to push the limits...
theyve been getting boring fir years,theres only so much you can do with a limited fps,only once in a while do we get something along the lines of a far cry or bioshock that actually feels different.
There hasn't been a shooter that plays around with gameplay mechanics, the only one that comes close to mind recently is Bioshock Infinite, and even then, the story was that game's biggest strength.
The biggest problem is that NO ONE is willing to take risks, Battlefield 4 looks BORING as hell, they really seem to be banking on the graphics, but After this game, and especially after Crysis 3, how else do you expect to wow us?
It's time for a new Genre of video games to be the dominant one, because I'm not impressed with this year's offerings.
I'd contend the Metro series shows a team willing to take risks.
I personally have found military shooters to be generic and boring for years now, while shooters like Bioshock & The Darkness are some of my favorite games this gen.
So I can't really classify the entire genre as boring but I would definitely classify your cookie cutter military FPS as very boring.
I also really like & enjoy FPS/RPG games like the Fallout series & Deus Ex.
It's not the view point that makes the game boring, it's the story or setting.I got bored and tired of always seeing modern military or zombie games (especially zombie games). First person or not, the gameplay and setting is what makes me bored of a game. After playing a slew of zombie games, the last major zombie game I played through was probably Dead island. I found that game ridiculously boring, stupid, and tedious (soloed the game). Left4dead, Dead rising, Zombi-u, and zombie mode in almost every game made me...dislike zombies. It just seemed like it was always the same story (Survive the zombie apocalypse). It was worse when all the zombies were just....your typical zombie. Dead Space isn't annoying to me because those "zombies" are weird monsters. Same goes for the upcoming The Last of Us. They added more than just your typical zombies and added more CREATIVITY to their plot.
i love all these stupid fools crying about Battlefield, when it run circles around anything CoD has done since BC2.. and then to fool these nerds with some marketing fluff talk, then have you thinking this "Ghosts" is not a modern shooter because its "set in the future, but use modern weapons".. thats just a clever way to make ANOTHER modern shooter.. change the name (make nerds think its something different) and wait on IGN to hype the hell of out and get over on sheeple for one more year..
We need more FPS games, just without the shooter part.
FPS games like portal, HL and mirror's edge are welcome,
but not BATTLEFIELD,Still best FPS franchise EVER!but if more become fun instead of real it could get better.like FARCRY3 Blood Dragon is super fun but i found the most fun game EVER in 3rd person...UNCHARTED 3 online!this game is siiiiiick.tje PLUNDER mode i havent stopped playin in months.UC3...F T W
Twitch shooters yes, but I would like a good story like Bioshock Inf. There are other things to do that just KILLLLLLL!
It's not so much the genre itself that is getting boring, but some of the individual games and series themselves.
definitely bored with singleplayer FPS games right now. Never the mutliplayer, though.
If a game is in a first person perspective, how else are you going to make a game besides making it a shooter, a RPG like the Elder Scrolls? Heck, even most modern Third person adventure games are shooters like Uncharted, Tomb Raider, and even GTA to a certain extend.
When people play a game, they want action and the only way to perform that task in a 3D environment is either with a gun, sword or a fist and guns offer the most opportunity for action interaction so most developers are keen to continue to use that formula when developing a game. As long as the story is good like Bioshock Infinite, and/or the MP aspect is great like the Halo series, then that is what matters.
For me yes it is boring right now except Tribes Ascend .
I feel like almost every single genre is getting boring. This whole instant gratification thing is ruining gaming.
Well, it depends on what kind of first person shooters we're talking about. We have to make a divide in first person shooting between first person shooters and modern military shooters. The difference between FPS and MMS comes down to what the content is.
Normally, certain first person shooters contain a difference compared to other shooters. Whether the uniqueness comes in the form of story or gameplay, the first person shooter that functions well with those elements and show creativity leave a good impact.
Modern military shooters, on the other hand, don't really leave much to the imagination. We have three series (one of which is shelved now) that practically embodied the mundane and typical of what gamers get. The more you see of them, the less impressive they are and more alike they get. So, modern military shooters are getting boring. True first person shooters are great when they are done well.
"Whether or not it works is almost irrelevant, it would be encouraging to simply see some desire to innovate."
That I just flat out disagree with. A game needs to function regardless of whether they have "some desire to innovate". The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct had a couple of cool ideas, but it's a buggy, poorly designed mess. If gameplay and graphics hinder innovation, then the game suffers no matter what.


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Even in childhood songs:
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Catch a n*gger by the toe.
But over time they changed it to, what? Right MONKEY.
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Fox News ran a prepackaged segment that took an immigration expert's comments out of context to stoke fears about the Senate immigration bill and the Obama administration's prosecutorial discretion policy.
In the segment, which appeared three times on Fox News on one day, correspondent William La Jeunesse discussed the cases of two undocumented immigrants who are accused of drunken driving accidents which resulted in the deaths of two police officers. La Jeunesse used these cases to baselessly claim that the Senate immigration bill would allow some immigrants who are criminals and felons to stay if they have family connections in the U.S. The segment included quotes from a pre-recorded interview with immigration expert Crystal Williams, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA):
Fox makes it appear as if Williams is tacitly agreeing with the premise of the segment, noting that "drunk driving needs to be treated as the crime that it is ... not something related to immigration." However, in a statement to Media Matters, AILA explained that Williams was never asked about those specific cases and never got the opportunity to explain that these two suspects would not have been eligible for legal status under the Senate immigration bill:
During the actual interview with Crystal Williams from which clips were taken, the two cases addressed in this spot were never raised, and she was never asked to address them. Instead, she was asked general questions about the Senate immigration bill.
In fact, if she were asked about these cases, she would have been able to point out that the discretion reserved in the bill for those convicted of misdemeanors would not have applied. The piece indicated that the first individual had already had two convictions for DUI and burglary. It was not clear whether that meant that there were two DUI convictions or one for DUI and one for burglary. But he would not be eligible for the discretion discussed in either event, as there is no discretion in the bill for felonies (which burglary would be) or aggravated felonies (the bill would make three DUIs an aggravated felony). The facts of the second case were not laid out, but would have been subject to the same rules.
The piece also inaccurately depicted the Administration's prosecutorial discretion policy, claiming that instead of removal, criminal aliens get a day in court. Yes, they get a day in court, but that's what our justice system does--it has nothing to do with the Administration's policy. In fact, the prosecutorial discretion policy emphasizes removal of those with criminal backgrounds--requiring that ICE put its resources behind finding and prosecuting criminals before going after people just living their lives peacefully. Indeed, had ICE officers actually embraced this policy, they might well have found these men before they killed. It was clear Mr. Kobach was asked about this particular policy. It is a shame that Ms. Williams, who is very familiar with the policy, was not.
As the AILA statement notes, the Senate immigration bill would not have applied to either of the two defendants discussed in La Jeunesse's segment due to their previous convictions and due to one of the defendant's prior deportation.
Immigration and Custom Enforcment's prosecutorial discretion policy also has nothing to do with an immigrant's criminal trial. All undocumented immigrants who are suspected of committing a crime receive a criminal trial separate from their deportation process. Immigration removal proceedings are civil, not criminal, proceedings.
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Taylorsville • A bottleneck on US-40 east of Heber City made worse by a constant parade of oil tankers stopping there to check brakes could be improved by a project approved Friday by the Utah Transportation Commission.
It approved moving $1 million from other projects to allow extending a westbound climbing lane over Daniel's Summit, between Heber City and Strawberry Reservoir.
The current climbing lane there ends before the summit. The Utah Department of Transportation says that forces traffic to merge into one lane while still going uphill.
Worse, that is where trucks especially huge oil tankers traveling between North Salt Lake refineries and Uinta Basin oil fields stop to check brakes or put on chains before heading down Daniel's Canyon.
The project will extend the passing lane beyond the summit and widen the shoulder to allow more space for trucks to pull off the roadway.
The commission approved that, coincidentally, after hearing a report presented to the Legislature earlier this month about how Uinta Basin could see huge growth in oil and natural gas production akin to the current boom in North Dakota except for one problem: the remote area lacks adequate transportation to handle it.
Unless that problem is solved, $30 billion worth of oil and gas may go undeveloped there over the next 30 years. It could cost Utah's economy $10 billion, and prevent creation of nearly 27,000 jobs, according to a study by UDOT and local governments in the basin.
Sen. Kevin Van Tassell, R-Vernal, has asked the Legislature to fund $3 million to start another study to look at possible solutions to the transportation problems which he has said could range from turning US-40 into a "super highway" to adding a rail line or pipelines.


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The Killers taking 'Breather' after MTV EMAs
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The Killers' drummer Ronnie Vannucci says the band's upcoming performance at the MTV Europe Music Awards may be their last for a while.
He tells "The Hollywood Reporter" probably "take a breather" after the ceremony in Amsterdam on Sunday.
Vannucci says he and his bandmates are looking forward to "putting their feet up for a little while and having some normalcy." But he also assures fans that it probably won't take an "unnaturally long" amount of time before they get back to work again.
In the meantime, the Killers' first best of compilation, Direct Hits, is due out on Monday.
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One thing I can tell your for sure about bringing in Gus Malzahn to run the Auburn football program is that there is not a single coach at the other Southeastern Conference programs that wanted to see that happen.
I believe Auburn can recruit offensive players who are as good as Oregon's or any other school in the country that is running the type of offense that Gus has had success with on the college level. He has a great reputation for being an innovative offensive coach and I think the Tigers are in good shape on that side of the ball.
Gus Malzahn
His first hire was Ellis Johnson as defensive coordinator and that is a move I?really like. I believe Ellis is going to be a key to the program's success and he is a very important part of this deal. Because of Coach Johnson's experience I am sure that Gus is going to turn over the defense to him and Ellis will get the job done.
From a recruiting standpoint and reputation, nobody in this part of the country has got a better reputation in the coaching business than Ellis Johnson has got. He's been in the SEC and understands the league. He knows the recruiting paths and he's got the kind of personality that people like.
Being at Auburn for 30 years, and knowing the program and the people like I do, I understand there was a lot of support for other candidates to win the coaching job. I was not involved in the decision to hire the coach in any form or fashion, but I had my opinion like most other Auburn folks did and I don't mind saying my choice would have been Kirby Smart. However, having said that my opinion was only based on where he has been and what he has done because I don't know if he would have done a good job at Auburn or not.
What I do know is that the committee that stepped in to help with the search featuring former players Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan and Mac Crawford was qualified to know and understand what is needed at Auburn. Because their choice was Gus, my choice is Gus.
I went by to see Coach Malzahn after he accepted the job and told him I am totally on board and I hope for nothing but the best for him and his program.
I know there was a lot of support and lobbying for different candidates and I know that some people were disappointed that their favorite didn't get the job. I understand that, but I believe the big thing now is for everybody to get off the negative and get on the positive side and let's move forward.
If I could give a message to our people, and the new coaches coming in and Coach Malzahn, don't worry about what's going on around us. The only thing that we can do anything about is us. Let's make sure we take care of ourselves and concentrate on making Auburn the best we can be.
I am excited about where this program is headed. Gus Malzahn is a great guy. He is a man of character, a man of vision and is the type of man we want representing Auburn University.
(If you have a question or a subject you would like me to write about in future columns, you can email it to firstname.lastname@example.com.)
Editor's Note: This is part of a series of columns that College Football Hall of Fame member Pat Dye is writing for AUTigers.com about the game he played and coached. An All-American player at Georgia and one of the top head coaches in SEC history at Auburn, he also served as a head coach at East Carolina and Wyoming. Dye writes three columns for AUTigers.com--The Dye-Log, the Dye-Gest and Pat's Picks.
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Cocky's Reading Express to be featured on national TV
A student-founded literacy outreach program at the University of South Carolina will be featured on the ESPN program "SEC Weekly."
The segment on Cocky's Reading Express will be part of the show's academic special program debuting at 9 p.m. Wednesday, June, 8, on ESPNU.
USC students, along with their world-famous mascot Cocky, travel to schools in underserved areas of South Carolina to read to schoolchildren and teach them the importance of reading. Cocky gives each child a book as part of the program.
Student Government at the University of South Carolina started Cocky's Reading Express in 2005. Since then, the group has visited more than 30 counties and distributed more than 30,000 books.
"Right now we are working with several grant providers, and it's great to be able to show them the impact that we are having statewide," said Kim Jeffcoat, the program's coordinator. "We also like to show the folks of South Carolina what we do and allow them to take part in the program." Cocky's Reading Express receives dozens of school visit requests each semester. The ESPN crew taped the USC students in April when they visited Carver Lyon Elementary in Columbia's Waverly community.
This national exposure could help with plans to expand the program.
"Cocky's Reading Express is focusing on a holistic literacy approach. We are developing new programs to address financial literacy, nutritional literacy and healthcare literacy," Jeffcoat said.
Cocky's Reading Express is a collaboration of the University of South Carolina Student Government and the university's School of Library and Information Science.