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Thrilling Rivalry Week sparks BCS title debate; more Overtime
- THAMEL: Iron Bowl ends on play for ages
- ELLIS: AU stuns 'Bama; midday Snaps
- VIDEO: Auburn wins with miracle finish
- RICKMAN: Mizzou downs A&M; late Snaps
- MANDEL: OSU tops Michigan in shootout
- RICKMAN: Ohio St. survives; early Snaps
- VIDEO: Michigan and OSU players brawl
- STAPLES: FSU beats Florida in Swamp
- ELLIS: LSU's late drive downs Arkansas
- ELLIS: Iowa defeats Neb.; Friday Snaps
Most college football seasons tend to have one game, or one day of games, that trumps all the rest. It is permanently stamped as a defining moment in our memories. For me, 2005 will forever be synonymous with the USC-Notre Dame Bush Push game. In '07, No. 1 Missouri and No. 2 West Virginia both went down on the final night of the regular season. And in '10, Black Friday brought both Cam Newton's Iron Bowl comeback and Nevada's overtime upset of Boise State.
As for 2013, we'll be talking about the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend for a long, long time.
While I always say the biggest rivalry in the country is the one a fan's favorite school plays in, the two most exalted nationally are Ohio State-Michigan and Alabama-Auburn. On Saturday, the Buckeyes and Wolverines played a heart-stopping, record-setting offensive thriller in which Ohio State preserved its national title hopes by thwarting Michigan's do-or-die two-point conversion attempt with 32 seconds left. The Buckeyes' 42-41 victory was the best regular-season game I've covered in quite some time.
Roughly four hours later, Auburn managed to make that dramatic finish seem completely ordinary.
Saturday's astonishing Iron Bowl had something no college football fan had ever previously witnessed. No team had ever won a game by a returning a missed field goal for a touchdown on the final play before the Tigers' Chris Davis did just that to beat the Crimson Tide 34-28. It's a moment that is sure to join the pantheon of all-time great finishes, which includes The Play (Cal's game-winning kickoff return through the Stanford band in 1982), Doug Flutie's Hail Mary to beat Miami in '84 and Boise State's Statue of Liberty that stunned Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
THAMEL: Auburn delivers indelible BCS moment in stunning Alabama
"When I looked back [during the run], I said I couldn't believe this," Davis said afterward. "When I was running I said 'God is good.'"
Still, it's not just Davis' play that reminded everyone why there's no other sport like college football. For one thing, there was the mind-boggling improbability that Auburn could win a game in unprecedented fashion just two weeks after Tigers receiver Ricardo Louis had made a miraculous touchdown catch in a last-minute victory over Georgia. The football gods seem to have a particular fondness for Auburn at Jordan-Hare Stadium this fall. Perhaps they feel as if they had been overly harsh in their handling of the Tigers' 3-9 (0-8 SEC) nightmare in 2012.
"The way we won the last two weeks is really unbelievable," said Auburn first-year coach Gus Malzahn.
Then there were the stakes. Davis' kick return would have been a play for the ages even if both teams had been 4-7. But they weren't. With one implausible dash, he not only sent his team to the SEC Championship Game, but he also abruptly ended Alabama's run toward a third straight national title. AJ McCarron, C.J. Mosley and the rest of the star-studded Crimson Tide could only watch helplessly from the sideline as their season went up in smoke.
Meanwhile, 'Bama coach Nick Saban, the sport's most renowned tactician, lost the game with a full-on strategic backfire, attempting a 57-yard-field goal with an untested redshirt freshman kicker, and apparently failing to account for the possibility that a bunch of 350-pound linemen might have to chase down a speedy defensive back. (Though adept lip-readers on the Internet did notice the defeated coach appearing to say, "I told you," to someone on his headset just before tossing it in disgust.) Saban's ill-fated decision to go for it on fourth-and-1 from the Auburn 13-yard line rather than attempt a 30-yard-field goal (albeit with a kicker, Cade Foster, who had missed his previous three attempts in the game) to go up by 10 points with five minutes and change remaining allowed the Tigers to tie the game on quarterback Nick Marshall's 39-yard touchdown pass to Sammie Coates with 32 seconds left.
It was apparent just how much this loss hurt Saban from his candid and sometimes defensive postgame comments. The coach who rarely talks about championships spoke with noticeable regret that his purportedly special team might now end the season playing Clemson in the Orange Bowl. "I still think we have one of the best teams in the country," Saban said. "I do not think we played our best game today. Everyone knew what was at stake and we did not make the plays when we needed to make them."
Alabama will not get the chance to extend its national title streak this season; the question now is whether any SEC team will get the opportunity to win it all. Ohio State, which has been on the outside looking in for nearly full two years, barely had a chance to celebrate the Crimson Tide's defeat on Saturday night before the debate that's sure to engulf the sport over the next week had already begun.
"An SEC team can't get left out of the [BCS championship game] with one loss," Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs told USA Today moments after the Tigers' victory. "We just beat the No. 1 team in the nation, and a team ahead of us [Ohio State] struggled today ... it would be a disservice to the nation if [a one-loss SEC champion] got left out."
MANDEL: Ohio State outlasts Michigan in surprise rivalry shootout
The Buckeyes did struggle defensively against the Wolverines, allowing Michigan's previously woeful offense to gain 603 total yards. The thought of Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston playing against Ohio State's pass defense should send shudders through every member of Buckeye Nation. Ohio State's defense, however, still ranks 46 spots higher (30th nationally) than the Tigers' (76th), and Buckeyes quarterback Braxton Miller and tailback Carlos Hyde power a tremendous rushing attack that averages more yards per game (321.3) than Auburn (318.3).
The Tigers have unquestionably played a tougher schedule than the two contenders ranked above them (the 26th toughest in the FBS, according to Sagarin, compared with 61st for Ohio State and 66th for the Seminoles), but no one-loss team has ever reached the BCS title game at the expense of an undefeated power-conference team. Based on Sunday's BCS standings, in which the Buckeyes remained ahead of the Tigers in all three components, that's not likely to change this season.
Keep in mind, this is a thoroughly presumptuous discussion. Two weeks ago, four unbeaten teams sat atop the polls. Today there are two.
The Buckeyes (against 11-1 Michigan State) and Auburn (against 11-1 Missouri) both face top-10 foes in their respective conference championship games on Saturday. After such staggeringly implausible finishes these past few weeks, only one thing is certain: Something unpredictable will happen. At this rate, Duke will upset Florida State on a last-second safety.
Missouri clinches SEC East, shows how far program has come
Nobody is likely to touch Malzahn for SEC and/or national coach of the year honors, but Missouri's Gary Pinkel deserves a nod of respect -- not only for his team's accomplishments in 2013, but also for the caliber of program he has built.
Pinkel remains a largely anonymous figure nationally despite spending 13 seasons at Mizzou. The Tigers briefly held the No. 1 ranking in the polls in 2007 and reached the Big 12 title game in both '07 and '08. But Pinkel achieved his greatest milestone to date on Saturday, when Missouri defeated Texas A&M 28-21 to complete an 11-1 regular season and earn a trip to the SEC Championship Game in its second year in the vaunted conference.
Few could have possibly seen this day coming so soon. Just think, if not for a blown 17-point fourth-quarter lead against South Carolina on Oct. 26, the Tigers would be 12-0 and almost certainly playing for a spot in the BCS title game.
"This tells everybody in the whole United States that Mizzou's the real deal," said sophomore wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, the former No. 1 national recruit whose commitment to the Tigers in 2012 was perhaps the first sign of their elevated profile.
RICKMAN: Missouri secures SEC championship berth; late Snaps
Pinkel's program first made its mark from 2007-08 with the explosive tandem of quarterback Chase Daniel and wideout Jeremy Maclin. Lately, however, the Tigers have become more synonymous with standout defenders such as Aldon Smith, Sheldon Richardson and current All-America candidate Michael Sam. On Saturday, Mizzou's defense did a marvelous job against a banged-up Johnny Manziel, holding him to 195 passing yards on 35 attempts and just 21 rushing yards on 11 carries.
"Our defensive line wanted him so bad," Pinkel said of defending Manziel. "They wanted a piece of him every chance they got."
Now, the Tigers turn their attention to another dangerous dual-threat quarterback, Nick Marshall, and a talented Auburn defensive line. That unit will try to contain Mizzou's Henry Josey, whose 57-yard fourth-quarter touchdown scamper proved the game-winner against the Aggies.
Win or lose in Atlanta, Pinkel's program has already made history. Mizzou is still struggling to fit in the SEC culturally, as it lacks natural rivals. A St. Louis Post-Dispatch article last week noted that the Tigers garnered higher local TV ratings during their 2007 Big 12 run than they have this season, a signal some fans aren't accustomed to seeing games against Georgia and Tennessee rather than versus Kansas and Kansas State. But on Saturday, thousands of Mizzou fans in tiger-print attire will descend on the Georgia Dome for the SEC's seminal tradition. If they don't feel at home now, they will be by game's end.
Nebraska stands by Bo Pelini after disappointing season
It was surreal to watch. At times during his team's 38-17 loss to Iowa last Friday, embattled Nebraska coach Bo Pelini seemed like he was actively trying to get fired. He got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct for arguing a pass interference penalty too closely to an official. He attempted a disastrous fake punt from his own 32-yard line with the score 17-10 midway through the third quarter.
Then, of course, there was this: "If they want to fire me, go ahead," Pelini said during a postgame press conference in which he also called the pass-interference flag "chickens---" and accused Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz of having worse sideline behavior than his own.
The blowout capped a disappointing, injury-riddled 8-4 regular season for the Cornhuskers, who have now lost exactly four games in each of Pelini's six seasons at the helm. But to considerable surprise, Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst did something far different than fire Pelini on Saturday. He issued a statement of support to quash "unfounded conjecture and speculation" about the coach's status.
"We very much look forward to our upcoming bowl game and coach Pelini continuing to lead our program in the future," said Eichorst.
ELLIS: Nebraska AD Shawn Eichorst backs Bo Pelini in statement
While Eichorst prefaced his statement by noting he normally "[does] not comment publicly about our coaches until their full seasons are complete," this did not read like an empty vote of confidence. In fact, if Eichorst were even semi-considering pulling the plug, it would be foolish to wait another month until after Nebraska's bowl game. For one thing, the Huskers' performance in the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl (their likely landing spot) should hold little bearing on a greater job evaluation. But more notably, it puts the program behind in a potential replacement search and subsequent transition.
Either Eichorst is not ready to make a decision, or he is truly confident that Pelini is still the man for the job. Or, as some have speculated, he has already put out some early feelers and found there's no surefire replacement. The Nebraska job is not what it was in 1997. Most coaches don't view it as a place to win national championships.
For his part, Pelini released a statement later on Saturday thanking Eichorst for his support and apologizing for "reacting emotionally yesterday." It's at least the third time in his tenure that the combustible coach has issued a public apology, including earlier this season after a 2011 audiotape of a private, expletive-laced rant about Huskers fans was leaked. Which makes it all the more amazing that Eichorst may be bringing him back. While it's no guarantee a new coach would post a better record than Pelini's 57-24 mark, the school could certainly find someone who wouldn't repeatedly embarrass himself in the process.
Current BCS forecast
Each week, I'll update my projected BCS lineup (as necessary) based on the latest week's games. Here's my current edition:
Title game: Florida State vs. Ohio State
Rose: Stanford vs. Michigan State
Fiesta: Oklahoma State vs. Northern Illinois
Sugar: Auburn vs. UCF
Orange: Clemson vs. Alabama
MANDEL: Complete bowl projections: Season's end brings clarity to postseason picture
The margin between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Auburn in the latest BCS standings is thin (.027 points), so I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the Tigers passing the Buckeyes if both win their respective conference title games. However, it does seem that if voters in the Coaches' and Harris polls were going to make that move, they would have done so this week in the immediate aftermath of Auburn's victory over Alabama and Ohio State's close call against 7-4 Michigan. Both the Buckeyes and Tigers will face top-10 opponents on Championship Saturday, so style points really shouldn't enter the equation. Missouri, should it beat Auburn, stands a significantly lesser chance of climbing to No. 2 without a Florida State or Ohio State loss primarily because it's not the team that knocked off the defending champion Crimson Tide.
As for the other BCS matchups, yeesh. There was some buzz late Saturday night about the possibility of the Orange Bowl pitting Alabama against Oregon, a matchup many have been hoping to see for the better part of two years. Don't bet on it. If the Seminoles move up to the title game, the Orange Bowl -- an ACC partner that recently entered into a contractual agreement for the next 12 years -- would be highly unlikely to turn away an eligible ACC team (Clemson) and incur the wrath of commissioner John Swofford (whose league would lose $6 million as a result).
Finally, in the event that Northern Illinois loses to Bowling Green in the MAC title game, a spot would open up in the Sugar Bowl, most likely for Baylor if it goes 11-1 but does not get the Big 12's automatic berth. Oregon would be a possibility there, too.
One other note: Michigan State may be heading to Pasadena regardless of its performance on Saturday, unless Ohio State falls to No. 3 or the Spartans fall out of the top 14 (not likely).
If this were 2014 ...
Each week for the rest of the season I'll show what the new big-six bowl lineup (including playoff matchups) would hypothetically look like if the new postseason format were already in place. For this exercise, I'll use the current BCS standings in place of the forthcoming selection committee's rankings.
Sugar: No. 1 Florida State (ACC champ) vs. No. 4 Alabama (at-large)
Rose: No. 2 Ohio State (Big Ten champ) vs. No. 3 Auburn (SEC champ)
Orange: No. 13 Clemson (ACC replacement) vs. No. 5 Missouri (SEC/Big Ten/Notre Dame)
Cotton: No. 6 Oklahoma State (displaced Big 12 champ) vs. No. 10 Michigan State (at-large)
Fiesta: No. 7 Stanford (displaced Pac-12 champ) vs. No. 9 Baylor (at-large)
Chick-fil-A: No. 8 South Carolina (at-large) vs. No. 14 Northern Illinois (Group of Five)
This would have been an interesting predicament for the selection committee: If Missouri defeats Auburn on Saturday, thereby handing Auburn its second loss, Mizzou would unquestionably become the highest-seeded SEC team. But would Alabama -- which received a playoff spot in this simulation -- move back above the Auburn team to which it just lost? Head-to-head results are one of the factors the committee is supposed to consider, but it's not the only one. The Crimson Tide crushed the same LSU team that defeated Auburn 35-21 on Sept. 21 and had a better nonconference victory over Virginia Tech.
Another interesting case to consider is that of a team that's currently not in this lineup: Arizona State. Should the Sun Devils beat Stanford in the Pac-12 title game this weekend to improve to 11-2, they would be the champions of one of the nation's two toughest conferences. They would also hold an eight-game winning streak and boast a strong nonconference schedule, beating 9-3 Wisconsin (32-30 on Sept. 14) and losing to 8-4 Notre Dame (37-34 on Oct. 5). All metrics say Arizona State has played one of the toughest schedules in the country. Here's guessing the committee would view them much more favorably than this season's pollsters.
Spreading the field
• Duke did it. Ross Martin's go-ahead 27-yard field goal and DeVon Edwards' interception in the final seconds sealed the Blue Devils' 27-25 win over North Carolina (6-6, 4-4 ACC) to give Duke (10-2, 6-2) its first trip to the ACC championship game and first 10-win season in school history. All this for a program that lost at least 10 games six times since 2000. Kudos to sixth-year coach David Cutcliffe for one of the most remarkable turnarounds in recent history.
"[Cutcliffe] said, 'I'm going to change this program around,' and people were laughing at him," said fourth-year junior quarterback Anthony Boone. "It all goes back to him. He's the foundation of this team. He is the rock of what you see on Saturdays now."
• The Blue Devils are already a four-touchdown underdog for Saturday's clash with Florida State. Seminoles quarterback Jameis Winston went 19-of-31 for 327 yards with three touchdowns and a pick in an easy 37-7 win at dilapidated rival Florida (4-8). With one game left before Heisman Trophy votes are due, Winston's pass efficiency rating stands at 192.6. The FBS record is 191.8 (Russell Wilson, 2011). Baylor's Robert Griffin III finished at 189.5 in his Heisman-winning season.
STAPLES: Florida State downs Florida as programs head in opposite directions
• After completing a 35-14 win over rival USC, UCLA coach Jim Mora gathered his team in the Coliseum tunnel (which both teams use) and bellowed: "We own this town!" That may seem over the top, but it's hard to argue after the Bruins' (9-3, 6-3 Pac-12) second straight win in the series and first in the Trojans' stadium since 1997. The blowout loss likely dampens interim coach Ed Orgeron's chances of landing the permanent job at USC (9-4, 6-3) despite posting a 6-2 record since taking over for Lane Kiffin.
• Bret Bielema's debut season at Arkansas went downhill beginning the moment his wife, Jen, tweeted "#karma" following Wisconsin's controversial Sept. 14 defeat at Arizona State. The Razorbacks, 3-0 at the time, never won another game, but Friday's 31-27 loss to LSU (9-3, 5-3) had to be the most painful. Tigers freshman quarterback Anthony Jennings, subbing for an injured Zach Mettenberger (knee), led LSU on a game-winning 99-yard drive. Mettenberger is expected back for the Tigers' bowl game.
• Bielema's former school suffered its own painful loss on Saturday. The Badgers' (9-3, 6-2 Big Ten) BCS hopes went down the drain after a baffling 31-24 home loss to Penn State (7-5, 4-4). It marked the second straight season coach Bill O'Brien's team ended its sanction-shortened campaign with a win over Wisconsin. Freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg's 339-yard, four-touchdown passing performance should give Nittany Lions fans reason for optimism heading into 2014.
• Michigan State (11-1, 8-0) completed its first undefeated conference season since 1966 with a stifling 14-3 win over Minnesota (8-4, 4-4). The Spartans can capture their first outright Big Ten title since '87 if their top-ranked defense can slow Ohio State in Indianapolis. "This is an important game for who we are right now," coach Mark Dantonio said on Sunday. "... The things we've done so far have been relatively impressive, but we're not there yet."
• South Carolina's domination of in-state rival Clemson continues. The Gamecocks (10-2) held Tigers quarterback Tajh Boyd to no touchdowns and two interceptions and sacked him five times in a 31-17 victory, a school-record fifth straight in the series for South Carolina (10-2). "They're a good team that continues not playing very well against us," said Steve Spurrier in a very Spurrier-esque barb.
• Georgia has had no shortage of dramatic endings this season -- some good, more bad -- and its regular-season finale fit the script. With quarterback Hutson Mason making his first start in place of injured star Aaron Murray, the Dawgs (8-4) dug themselves into an early 20-0 deficit against Georgia Tech (7-5). Coach Mark Richt's team rallied to win 41-34 in double overtime. Richt improved to 12-1 in his tenure against the Yellow Jackets.
• TCU coach Gary Patterson went off on Baylor coach Art Briles for his handling of safety Ahmad Dixon's targeting ejection during the Bears' 41-38 victory over the Horned Frogs on Saturday. "The head coach comes across the field to me, OK?" said Patterson. "There's a guy laughing in front of the cameras on the sidelines. That's not what I call class." He also invited Briles to visit his home "if he's got a problem with me." Perhaps Patterson has a legitimate beef, but the bigger problem is likely that he just finished the worst season (4-8) of his 13-year tenure.
• Arizona State (10-2, 8-1) will host Saturday's Pac-12 championship game against Stanford (10-2, 7-2) after trouncing rival Arizona 58-21. The Sun Devils scored 50-plus points for the fourth time during their seven-game winning streak. Meanwhile, the Cardinal beat Notre Dame 27-20 behind running back Tyler Gaffney (33 carries, 189 yards) and cornerback Wayne Lyons, who had two fourth-quarter interceptions. "Losing is unacceptable," said Fighting Irish coach Brian Kelly. "Eight and four is not where we want to be."
RICKMAN: Arizona State climbs to No. 11 in newly released AP Poll
• The bar is set so high at Oregon these days that a 9-3 campaign would have been regarded as a full-on disaster for first-year coach Mark Helfrich. It was a very real possibility in Friday's back-and-forth shootout with rival Oregon State (6-6, 4-5 Pac-12). However, Ducks star Marcus Mariota shook off two early interceptions and led his team on a game-winning drive. He threw a 12-yard touchdown to Josh Huff (nine catches, 186 yards, three scores) to cap a 36-35 win with 29 seconds left.
• Washington running back Bishop Sankey broke Corey Dillon's school single-season rushing record on Saturday against Washington State. Sankey's total is now up to 1,775 thanks to a 34-carry, 200-yard performance in the Huskies' 27-17 Apple Cup victory over the Cougars (6-6, 4-5). While still a far cry from Don James' heyday, Steve Sarkisian's program finally hit the eight-win mark for the first time since 2001. "I'm just tired of answering questions about it, quite honestly," Sarkisian said of breaking the seven-win barrier.
• Boston College tailback Andre Williams' Heisman chances suffered a blow when an aggravated sprained right shoulder limited him to nine carries for 29 yards -- 26 of them coming on one first-quarter touchdown run -- in the Eagles' (7-5, 4-4 ACC) 34-31 loss to Syracuse (6-6, 4-4). Williams will still finish the year with a national-best 2,102 rushing yards, but he missed an opportunity to make a big final impression.
• Syracuse's win gives the ACC 11 bowl-eligible teams. Even if the league gets two BCS berths, two teams will need to find at-large spots.
• Mississippi State's (6-6) dramatic 17-10 overtime victory over Ole Miss (7-5) in the Egg Bowl assured the Bulldogs a fourth straight bowl trip for the first time in school history.
• Rutgers (5-6) suffered its fifth loss in six games, falling to 2-5 in the American Athletic Conference, with an embarrassing 28-17 defeat to Connecticut (2-9). Athletic director Julie Hermann soon has to decide whether Kyle Flood is the right coach to lead the Scarlet Knights into the Big Ten.
• West Virginia (4-8) blew a 31-7 lead and eventually lost to Iowa State 52-44 in triple overtime. AD Oliver Luck will soon determine whether Dana Holgorsen is the right coach to lead the Mountaineers, period.
• Marshall (9-3) will visit Rice (9-3) in this week's Conference USA championship game. The Thundering Herd's last league title came in the MAC in 2002. The Owls' last title was a shared SWC prize in 1994. (Rice's last outright crown came in '57).
• Utah State (8-4) earned a Mountain West title game date at Fresno State (10-1) with a 35-7 win over Wyoming (5-7). On Sunday, the Cowboys fired fifth-year coach Dave Christensen.
• Congrats to Buffalo star linebacker Khalil Mack, who tied the FBS record for career tackles for loss (75) with 2.5 in a 24-7 loss to Bowling Green.
• Congrats also to UTSA coach Larry Coker, whose team finished just its second FBS season (and third year of existence) with a 7-5 record. It is not eligible for a bowl.
• Finally, congrats to Southern Miss (1-11), which ended its 23-game losing streak with a 62-27 rout of UAB (2-10) on Saturday. The Golden Eagles avoided consecutive winless seasons.
Smaller story, but I'm sure you're following it
The numbers were fantastical, even by today's video-game standards. On Friday, Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr and San Jose State counterpart David Fales each threw six touchdowns ... in the first half. The Spartans led 42-41 at the break. Defenses clamped down a bit in the third and fourth quarters, but ultimately Fales' 547 passing yards outpaced Carr's 519 in a 62-52 San Jose State victory that ended the Bulldogs' (10-1) remaining BCS hopes.
"It's hard," Carr said afterward. "Guys are torn up, as well they should be."
Fresno State had been the highest-ranked non-AQ conference team since early in the season, and it seemed in position to secure a long-coveted BCS bowl berth. However, fellow undefeated Northern Illinois suddenly leaped the Bulldogs in last week's BCS standings. The Huskies (12-0) topped Western Michigan 33-14 last Tuesday to keep their dreams alive, but it remained unclear whether they'd stay ahead of Fresno State. That concern is moot after the Bulldogs' loss to the 5-6 Spartans on Black Friday in San Jose.
Quarterback Jordan Lynch and NIU are one win away from making back-to-back BCS bowl appearances. Furthermore, Lynch appears to be gaining steam as a legitimate candidate to garner at least an invite to New York as a Heisman finalist. Against Western Michigan, Lynch set a new FBS quarterback record with a 321-yard rushing performance, breaking a mark previously held by ... Lynch, for his 316-yard day against Central Michigan on Oct. 16. Yes, he's racking up these numbers against bad competition. But then again, if it's so easy to rush for 300 yards against Western Michigan, why hasn't another player done it?
Lynch now has 1,755 rushing yards on the season, better than all but three players nationally (Boston College's Williams, Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey and Washington's Sankey), to go with 2,457 passing yards. In total, he's accounted for 4,212 yards with 42 touchdowns and just five interceptions.
"Jordan Lynch is the best player in college football and that's no disrespect to anyone else," said Western Michigan coach P.J. Fleck, a former NIU receiver and assistant. "The reason is he makes every single guy around him better. ... And with all the pressure, he continues to perform."
Northern Illinois heads into Friday night's MAC championship against Bowling Green (9-3) having won 24 consecutive regular-season games. The Huskies' lone setback along the way was a 31-10 defeat to Florida State in last year's Orange Bowl. In fact, that seemingly lopsided loss is a major reason why many fans around the country will root against NIU in hopes of avoiding another BCS blowout.
But perhaps that's not giving coach Rod Carey's team enough credit. The Huskies trailed that Jan. 1 game against the Seminoles 17-10 at the end of three quarters. No other Florida State opponent has stayed that close to the 'Noles at that point in the game during this calendar year.
'Auburn has won the Iron Bowl!'
Auburn radio announcer Rod Bramblett gets to make a once-in-a-lifetime call for the second time in three weeks.
'Auburn is going to win the Iron Bowl'
Alabama announcer Eli Gold had to relay the news, too.
Looking ahead
Mini-previews for three of this week's big games:
• Auburn vs. Missouri, Saturday (4 p.m. ET): The Gus Bus will drive about 100 miles north on I-85 to the Georgia Dome. Will it be able to bring all that magic from Jordan-Hare Stadium? Missouri has the talent on defense to slow Auburn's offense, but quarterback James Franklin and company will need to produce some big plays.
• Florida State vs. Duke, Saturday (8 p.m. ET): Three years ago, Duke coach David Cutcliffe told a national reporter he "100 percent guarantee[d]" the Blue Devils would win an ACC title within five to six years. He's now only one step away, but that goal still seems so far when his opponent is as talented as Florida State.
• Ohio State vs. Michigan State, Saturday (8:17 p.m. ET): The Spartans boast the nation's top-ranked rushing defense (64.8 yards per game). The Buckeyes field the second-ranked rushing offense (321.3 yards per game). Michigan State has a ton of athletic defenders, but they will go against the best offensive line they've faced by far.


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Cybersecurity insurance transfers some of the financial risk of a security breach to the insurer. But it doesn't do a good job of covering the reputation damage and business downturn that can be triggered by a security breach.
Cybersecurity insurance does mitigate some financial damage should you suffer an attack, but it's not a complete solution. Here are five things CIOs need to know.
1. It's a risk-management strategy. Cybersecurity insurance transfers some of the financial risk of a security breach to the insurer. First-party insurance typically covers damage to digital assets, business interruptions and, sometimes, reputational harm.
Third-party insurance covers liability and the costs of forensic investigations, customer notification, credit monitoring, public relations, legal defense, compensation and regulatory fines. Cyberthreats are so broad that the cost of protecting against them all would be prohibitive. The best approach is to identify and secure the company's digital crown jewels, then quantify and insure the remaining risk, says Daljitt Barn, director of cybersecurity at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
2. American and European markets differ. The cybersecurity insurance market is more mature in the U.S. than in the E.U., primarily because of U.S. states' mandatory data-breach-notification laws. Third-party insurance is more common in the U.S., and first-party is more popular in Europe, but that may change if the E.U. starts requiring breach notifications, Barn says.
The U.S. market is growing about 30 percent per year, says Richard Betterley, president of Betterley Risk Consultants. Some surveys estimate that 30 percent of large U.S. companies have cybersecurity insurance, but among companies of all sizes, Betterley says, the number is probably under 10 percent.
3. Clear wording is essential. Before you buy, investigate what risks are covered by existing insurance packages, because there may be overlaps with a cyber insurance policy. "Make sure the cyber policy wording covers your true cyber exposure," Barn says. "Challenge your corporate insurance broker to find a policy that provides a multifaceted response, including legal, PR, notification, forensics and cyber incident response."
4. Coverage is inadequate in some areas. Cybersecurity insurance doesn't do a good job of covering intellectual property theft or the reputational damage and business downturn that can be caused by a security breach, Betterley says. Meanwhile, the industry is debating whether state-sponsored cyberattacks, to the extent they can be identified as such, are covered by cybersecurity insurance policies.
5. There's room for improvement. Ideally cybersecurity insurance should encourage companies to improve security so they can negotiate lower premiums. However, insurers don't have enough actuarial data to adjust premiums based on what security controls and products are most effective, says Andrew Braunberg, research director at NSS Labs.
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Nicholas ComfortCommerzbank AG, the German bank forced into an 18.2 billion-euro ($24 billion) state bailout, surged the most in almost three months in Frankfurt trading after second-quarter earnings fell less than analysts estimated.
Commerzbank jumped as much as 11 percent, the biggest increase since May 15, and climbed 9.9 percent to 7.28 euros at 10:19 a.m., valuing the company at 8.3 billion euros. The stock has slumped 33 percent this year, the biggest decline on the benchmark Stoxx 600 Banks Index after Spain's Bankia SA.
Germany's second-biggest bank, which increased capital for the fifth time in four years in May to repay state aid, is firing staff to help boost profitability as it tackles souring shipping and commercial real estate loans. Standard & Poor's cut the firm's debt rating to A-, four levels above junk, two months ago saying poor economic conditions mean it will struggle to boost earnings sustainably.
"We are on the right track and we intend to press ahead systematically with the strategic measures that have been decided on," Chief Executive Officer Martin Blessing said in a letter to shareholders on the bank's website. "The early signs indicate that we are in fact on the right path."
Net income slid 84 percent to 43 million euros from 270 million euros in the second quarter of last year, the company said in an e-mailed statement. That beat the 4.6 million-euro average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
Loan Losses
Loan-loss provisions rose 33 percent to 537 million euros in the second quarter from a year ago, driven by U.K. commercial real estate loans, Commerzbank said. The bank took a one-time charge of 630 million euros in the first six months from the cost of its business overhaul, which included the sale of U.K. loans, it said.
The loan losses weren't so bad if you stripped out charges for U.K. loans, Neil Smith, an analyst with Bankhaus Lampe in Dusseldorf, Germany who recommends investors buy the shares, said by telephone today.
Germany's second-largest bank sold 5 billion euros of U.K. property loans to Wells Fargo & Co. and Lone Star Funds last month at a 3.5 percent discount to book value.
Commerzbank raised its core Tier 1 capital ratio, a key measure of financial strength that measures capital against risk-weighted assets, to 8.4 percent in June from 7.5 percent three months earlier after selling 2.5 billion euros of shares in May, according to the statement. The bank reiterated a goal of increasing the ratio to 9 percent by the end of next year.
"Investors are also concerned about capital," he said. "It is comforting that they're sticking with their target."
Staff Cuts
Blessing, appointed in May 2008, is also eliminating 5,200 jobs by 2016 to boost the bank's financial strength. Yesterday, he announced plans to reduce top-level management, including two board positions and about 20 percent of 55 "first-level" managers. The changes were needed because the structure became too complex, he said.
Angry shareholders criticized Blessing at an annual general meeting in Frankfurt in April, saying bad decisions at the bank meant that their investments had all but evaporated. Several called on the management to resign.


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Wall St. Earnings Expectations: The average analyst estimate is for profit of 76 cents per share, a rise of 28.8% from the company's actual earnings for the year-ago quarter. During the past three months, the average estimate has moved down from 81 cents. Between one and three months ago, the average estimate moved down. It also has dropped from 78 cents during the last month. For the year, analysts are projecting net income of $2.78 per share, a rise of 17.3% from last year.
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CHICAGO (AP) - The Texas Rangers won the Ryan Dempster sweepstakes. Now, they'll try to capture the ultimate prize.
The AL West leaders fortified their rotation for the stretch run, acquiring the Cubs ace before Tuesday's trade deadline for two minor leaguers. In exchange, they sent infielder Christian Villanueva and pitcher Kyle Hendricks to Chicago.
Dempster, who had power to block deals, refused to approve a trade to Atlanta last week. The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees also tried to land the 35-year-old righty.
"It's a great opportunity over there," said Dempster, who has spent all of his nearly 15 seasons in the National League. "It's not going to be easy. There are a lot of teams out there that are really good. I think they have as good a chance as anybody."
Dempster was 5-5 with a 2.25 ERA in 16 games for the Cubs and can become a free agent after the season. He was one of several players Chicago traded in a 24-hour span, with pitcher Paul Maholm and outfielder Reed Johnson going to Atlanta and catcher Geovany Soto to Texas.
Teams had until 4 p.m. EDT to complete trades without waivers. From now until the end of the season, clubs have a chance to claim players before they are dealt.
With a strong season that included a 33-inning scoreless streak, Dempster was one of the most attractive pitchers on the market. The Rangers were looking for pitching help even though they began the day leading with a 59-42 record and a 3½-game lead over Oakland in the AL West.
The Dempster trade came less than a week after the division rival Los Angeles Angels got former Cy Young winner Zack Greinke in a swap with Milwaukee. Many fans expected Texas to counter with a big move, and the Rangers pulled it off.
The two-time AL champion Rangers needed help with their rotation.
Right-hander Colby Lewis underwent surgery Friday to repair a torn flexor tendon in his elbow and will miss the remainder of the season. Roy Oswalt has struggled, too, since signing as a free agent in midseason and is being moved to the bullpen.
"He might be a guy like Colby (Lewis)," Rangers outfielder David Murphy said. "I loved seeing a guy like that pounding the strike zone and working late into games. (Dempster) might have an advantage off the bat because not many guys in this league have seen him much at all."
The Cubs had agreed to deal Dempster to Atlanta last week, but he did not give his approval.
"I just never said no," he said, adding he needed time to think about it. "The last few days, I had to give it a lot more thought to the teams I might possibly be traded to."
Did he make the right decision?
"We'll see," Dempster said. "There's no right or wrong decision. There's just journeys in life that we end up taking. We try to make the most out of those. They've got a great ballclub down there. They've got some really good baseball players."
Another question: How will he fare against the American League?
"It doesn't make any difference what league you're in," Dempster said. "If you put the ball where you want to put it, you'll do all right."
His preference was to play for the Dodgers, and although the teams remained in contact right until the end, general manager Jed Hoyer said they were never really close.
Dempster spent the last few hours before the deadline in the Cubs' offices, and when it became clear a deal with the Dodgers was unlikely, he allowed other teams to get in the running.
Hoyer insisted there was no lingering animosity over the Braves deal falling apart, although they did have to hash out some things.
"There were a lot of conversations," Hoyer said. "It's hard. He felt like he had a place he wanted to go. ... He wasn't unprepared to make a decision, but I think when the decision actually came and there was the finality of it, he wanted to wait a little longer and explore his options."
"So there were a lot of conversations. I think he indicated the communication with the front office has been good. ... We wouldn't be doing our job and we wouldn't have been fair to Atlanta if we weren't constantly in communication with Ryan," he said.
With a contract set to expire after the season ends, Dempster simply wasn't part of the plan with the Cubs in a rebuilding mode. They hired president of baseball operations Theo Epstein and Hoyer, hoping they could put together the first championship since 1908 after they helped build two title winners in Boston, ending a long drought there.
Had the Rangers deal not gone through, Hoyer said Dempster probably would have remained a Cub. He was scheduled to start Tuesday against Pittsburgh, but Casey Coleman took his spot after being recalled from Triple-A Iowa along with infielder Adrian Cardenas and catcher Welington Castillo.
Hoyer said teams had also shown interest in outfielder Alfonso Soriano and pitcher Matt Garza, but they remained with the Cubs. The fact that Garza has been sidelined lately by a slight fluid buildup in his right triceps area didn't help his value. The Cubs hope he'll be ready to pitch Tuesday at San Diego.
"The timing didn't allow teams to feel like they could see him out on the mound and I understand that," Hoyer said. "Teams are making trades this time of year to try to win the World Series."
A Garza deal would have left the Cubs without their top three starters.
The Dempster trade is just the latest in a series of moves for a franchise that dealt the troubled Carlos Zambrano to Miami in the offseason and hired manager Dale Sveum to replace Mike Quade. They're trying to stock up on prospects, particularly pitchers, and that meant saying goodbye to a popular team leader who was active in the community.
Dempster was coming off Tommy John surgery and had been released by the Reds when he signed with the Cubs before the 2004 season. He spent several years as the closer after replacing LaTroy Hawkins before being moved back to the rotation in 2008. He responded with a career-high 17 wins and a 2.96 ERA for their most recent division winner, and he's been mostly steady ever since, rebounding from a difficult season last year.
"He knows how to make adjustments," Soto said. "He's known how to reinvent himself. Whatever he's been doing has been working."
The 22-year-old Hendricks was 5-8 with a 2.82 ERA at Class A Myrtle Beach. The right-hander was a Carolina League All-Star, and has struck out 112 and walked just 15 batters in 130 2-3 innings.
The 21-year-old Villanueva is hitting .285 with 10 home runs and 59 RBIs with Myrtle Beach.
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Yavapai County Man Cuts Off Girlfriend's Finger With Sword So She Could "Earn His Trust," According to Police
Most trust-building exercises entail things like telling someone a secret or having someone fall backwards as the other person catches him or her. It seems 48-year-old Ronald Gene Olivier is unfamiliar with these approaches, because in attempt to "trust" his girlfriend, he chopped her finger off with a sword.
The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office says, on December 12, Olivier spent the majority of the day drinking beer and getting upset.
After getting good and hammered -- as well as nice and pissed off -- Olivier locked both his girlfriend and his mother in a room for no apparent reason and went and got his sword.
After threatening to kill both women, and hitting the girlfriend with the sword, Olivier seemed to develop said trust issues with his lady friend, telling her that in order to gain back his trust, he wanted to chop off her pinky finger.
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After being threatened with death, the woman reluctantly put her finger on a table, and Olivier hacked it off with his sword.
When the girlfriend -- now sans one finger -- tried to track down her missing appendage, Olivier refused to let her look for it, so she escaped from the room where she was being held and ran to a neighbor's house.
When police got to the scene, Olivier had run away, according to his mommy, but returned home a few hours later, where police were waiting to slap the cuffs on him.
Olivier was booked on two counts of kidnapping per domestic violence, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of preventing use of a telephone per domestic violence, criminal damage, and resisting arrest.
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Actors' Playhouse Tells the Frozen History of Havana Bourgeois
Havana Bourgeois is an import from Los Angeles, with a mixed cast of local actors and gifted carpetbaggers (including the hunky Danny Pino, from television's Cold Case). But spiritually and emotionally, this is a Miami show. Some of the most extreme audience reactions I've ever witnessed in a theater were during this show, when I watched a row full of Cuban exiles gasp and clutch their chests and cry. The older ones, especially — those were the ones who jumped in their seats when they heard the sounds of televised gunshots, as the performers gathered around an onstage TV set to watch Fidel Castro's first wave of public executions.
This is the kind of big-league ugliness dealt with in Havana Bourgeois, yet the play begins with light and sweetness. David Arisco's directorial fingerprints are all over the first couple of scenes, in which the actors laugh and schmooze with all the outsized fakety-fakeness of the big-number musicals that compose Arisco's fave fare. Havana Bourgeois is set in an advertising agency owned by Luis Calvo (Oscar Cheda), and playwright Carlos Lacamara devotes the early scenes to office politics — to the exploration of the lives his employees enjoy before Castro shows up and blows them all to shit. The ordinary intrigues of a workplace — who's banging who, who wants whose job, who's a brilliant worker, etc. — are subtle things in life, but not here. Here the laughter is too loud, the banter too pronounced, the emotions too intense. Even famous Danny Pino, whom I assume is being paid a ton of money to appear, delivers his opening lines with approximately the same amount of nuance and naturalism I brought to my eighth-grade turn as Magical Mister Mistoffelees.
It gets better, though. Lots. Arisco obviously has a dark side, because as he guides Calvo's ad agency out of the halcyon days of Fulgencio Batista — and what's up with that, anyway; isn't that kind of like Michael Moore sticking those images of happy little Iraqi kids playing on their swing sets at the beginning of Fahrenheit 9/11? — Havana Bourgeois becomes a horror show.
Havana Bourgeois
Havana Bourgeois: By Carlos Lacamara. Directed by David Arisco. With Danny Pino, Oscar Cheda, Jennifer De Castroverde, Jossie Harris-Thacker, Francisco (Pancho) Padura, David Perez Ribada, Joshua David Robinson, and James Puig. Through June 7. Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables; 305-444-9293; actorsplayhouse.org
It's strange to begin to enjoy a play only as its characters slip beneath the yawning shadow of totalitarianism, but that's how it happens. The first we hear about a possible revolution comes from Pino's Alberto Varela, the agency's resident commercial artist, whose naturally empathetic character makes him susceptible to the rebels' populist spiel. He is sharing the news with a young, black messenger boy, Manuel Sierra (Joshua David Robinson), to give the boy hope that some day soon he might rise above his station.
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Manuel does indeed rise above his station. Suddenly given reason to feel proud of his lowly farm boy origins (Castro's much-touted "Agrarian Reform"), he becomes a passionate revolutionary and, despite being nearly illiterate, an important figure in his neighborhood revolutionary brigade. Lickety-split, he mobilizes the office to oust Mr. Calvo from his own company, and in minutes turns the ad agency into an allegory for Cuba itself.
The employees' responses are varied. Panchito Morales (James Puig), an aging wag, sees it as just another thing to make fun of. He's been through revolutions before and knows precisely how seriously one should take a utopian political program. Juan Mendoza (David Perez Ribada), a shrewd self-promoter, sees the revolution as a professional opportunity. Margo Mateo (Jossie Harris-Thacker, another L.A. import) sees it as a way to end her subjugation at the hands of moneyed white men and to get revenge on the specific moneyed white men who've jilted her. And Pino's Alberto Varela, who so welcomed the revolution on first blush, sees it as an ever-mounting threat to his middle-class aspirations.
It's worth noting that all of these people seemed perfectly normal and happy before Castro came to power. They were ordinary beings, unaccustomed to making mortal, or even ideological, decisions. And so it is jolting to see green-shirted thugs popping into existence where only mild-mannered office workers were before, and heroism where there was only neighborliness. It's a credit to the actors that these transitions — despite occurring with shocking speed — never feel forced. They appear as the sudden fulfillment of long-subsumed desire, which is probably what they are.
This is especially evident in the performance of Joshua David Robinson, whose Manuel Sierra is the moral fulcrum of the show. He is slinking and shy when we first encounter him, but watch how he suddenly stands tall in his green fatigues. Watch how happy he is to be able to speak intelligently about something — even if he is only regurgitating and recombining bits of El Jefe's official party line, and mispronouncing words such as ideological — when before he could barely read. And pay close attention to the way he responds to his co-worker, Panchito. Panchito shows his bemusement with Castro through a series of cartoons that he creates during his downtime (which, in the post-revolution economic collapse, he has a lot of). Castro in a dress; Castro with a pineapple up his ass. Manuel ordinarily demonstrates an arrogant magnanimity — he wants to give people a chance to talk, even if he knows already that what they say will not change him at all — but confronted with these drawings, he loses his shit. Panchito laughs; he is providing the revolution with "satirical nuance," he says. Manuel says, "I don't know what that means." His voice is full of contempt so pure that I don't know any words for it. For him, the farm boy, and for all the farm boys like him, the revolution is the promise they'll never again be outsmarted or looked down upon. In Havana Bourgeois, the first casualty of the revolution is irony.
When it is gone, what is left is an almost-empty office inhabited by two figures in green fatigues, looking so exhausted it's as if the 50 years of boredom and fear separating them from the audience have already elapsed. It's though history has already closed in all around them, or stopped altogether. With Panchito long gone, they can no longer even find the words to describe what went wrong.
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Leslie McLain 10/24/2012 6:30:34 PM
Beautiful capture and fall colors, Terry. I've enjoyed your entire fall series. #1494295Carol L. Fowler 10/24/2012 6:35:30 PM
What a year for the gorge! Spectacular POV, colors, composition and PLACE!! #10382794Anthony G. Comella 10/24/2012 7:02:59 PM
Terry this is so very Beautiful, your work draws the viewer in. Superb!! #10382816Katherine Kuhn 10/24/2012 7:55:31 PM
Beautiful light & color, Terry! What a wonderful fall-color trip you got this fall!Barbara Waldoch 10/24/2012 8:32:20 PM
What a view! #10382907Robert Goodman 10/24/2012 8:44:02 PM
Hi Terry,beautiful capture my friend.Those colors are amazing.Very slow here in the desert!!!! #10382925Kathy Salerni 10/24/2012 10:31:43 PM
Excellent vantage point and wonderful framing, Terry! If I were the judges, I would not know which ones of your MT captures will go on! They are all spectacular! #10382985Stefania Barbier 10/25/2012 12:37:36 AM
Amazing colors and lighting gorgeous capture! #10383045Renee Doyle 10/25/2012 1:27:57 AM
Beautifully framed and captured Terry!! Wonderful colours!! #10383065Tiia Vissak 10/25/2012 2:13:46 AM
a beautiful image! #10383120Randy D. Dinkins 10/25/2012 2:39:02 AM
Wow, great morning shot, wonderful color. #10383155Douglas Pignet 10/25/2012 2:52:00 AM
lovely capture of this beautiful place...we too loved this gorge...nicely done #10383171Jack Gaskin 10/25/2012 4:03:36 AM
STUNNING HUGE COLOR What a GREAT CAPTUREJack #10383233
frank w. degenhardt 10/25/2012 6:34:28 AM
Your composing and pov gives us such a beautiful look at this gorgeous place. I enjoy that you left the branches across the top, love the look. The colors are just so pretty my friend. #10383474Lindley Johnson 10/25/2012 8:08:28 AM
A spectacular view of breathtaking scenery, Terry! #10383639Ellen Hodges 10/25/2012 8:32:31 AM
Another spectacular shot in a spectacular series, Terry!!! Huge WOW!!! #10383673Amalia Sylvia Arriaga Salinas 10/25/2012 8:57:00 AM
Fantastic perspective, colors and lighting Terry!,Dayna Cain 10/25/2012 11:16:41 AM
Beautiful! #10383811John Connolly 10/25/2012 2:22:59 PM
Excellent light and tones in this well framed image Terry! Nice work! #10384068Avril Young 10/25/2012 6:08:25 PM
SIMPLY STUNNING, what a view and colour...beautiful scenery! #10384275Tammy Espino 10/25/2012 7:04:26 PM
Gorgeous caputre! :) Love all the fall colros. Miss those out here in the desert~ #10384340Mary Dimitriw 10/25/2012 8:26:45 PM
Okay, picking up my jaw now, this is breathtaking! I haven't even thought of hitting this area. Outstanding lady!Heading to you guessed it? Saturday shopping and more wings at Duff's. #10384434
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Fabulous autumn capture, Terry! What a grand POV and I love your framing. Exquisite light, wonderful rich colors, and great detail, as always. #10384532Julianne Bradford 10/26/2012 9:15:10 AM
Boy..you need to put together a book of fall colors Terry..all these great captures are so-o beautiful! #10385248Teresa Moore 10/26/2012 6:02:06 PM
Truly stunning capture Terry!Nancy L. Green 10/27/2012 8:40:41 AM
This is SO GORGEOUS Terry, it reminds me of where I grew up on the Mississippi river with the BEAUTIFUL fall colors, WTG!! <>< #10386474Linda S. Smith 10/28/2012 5:09:02 PM
Spectacular view and gorgeous colors on this wonderful capture Terry! #10388555Amanda J. Tanner 10/28/2012 5:57:05 PM
A beautiful breath taking view Terry! #10388600Canon EF24-105mmL, HDR, F20, ISO400
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- "Look Up and Live!" – Use caution and keep balloons, kites and toys (such as high powered water guns or remote control aircraft) away from overhead electric lines.
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- Never go near a damaged power line that dangles in the air or has fallen to the ground. Always assume downed electric lines are energized and extremely dangerous. Stay away, keep others away and contact 911 and PG&E immediately.
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- Celebrate with metallic balloons indoors, do not bundle them together and never release them outside.
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- Replace damaged electric cords and appliances.
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text: Sonic Fabric Neckties Are Actually PlayableSean Fallon11/02/09 7:40pmFiled to: ClothingSonic tiessonic fabriccassettesTiesnecktie13EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkThe music may be horrible, but if you rub a tape head over these ties you can actually hear jumbled sound collages recorded from the NYC metro system. This is possible because the ties are 50% audio cassette tape. If you have $90 to spend on one of the ties, and you are willing to sacrifice an old Walkman for the project, you can make this a fixture of your formal wardrobe. Of course, walking around with a broken Walkman asking every one to rub you with it is not recommended. [Supermarket via Gadget Lab]Reply13 repliesLeave a reply


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New AmSafe Seatbelt Airbag – Lighter, sleeker with wireless on-board diagnostics
The AmSafe Seatbelt Airbag is the first and only airbag system certified for use on commercial aircraft. It was developed as a cost-effective method of 16g compliance for difficult-to-certify seat placements. AmSafe has improved on this state-of-the-art technology and developed a version of the airbag system that is sleeker in design, substantially lighter in weight, contains built-in diagnostics and is optimized to support fleet-wide retrofits.
Just like the original design, the Seatbelt Airbag looks and operates like a standard AmSafe restraint. In the unlikely event of a survivable accident, an inflatable bag stored in the lap belt portion of the seatbelt protects passengers of all sizes from traumatic head and neck injury.
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What's new in Cordova iOS 2.4.0
1. Removal of JSONKit, replaced with NSJSONSerialization
Since we dropped support for iOS 4.x, this is now possible. See the Plugin Upgrade Guide.
2. Support for ArrayBuffer arguments over the exec bridge
Only for top level arguments (nothing nested). It converts the ArrayBuffer to a NSData object, and vice-versa. See CB-2189 and CB-2215.
3. The start page can be specified in config.xml
Through the content tag.
4. FileTransfer "trustAllHosts" parameter
This is now supported. Set to true to trust hosts with self-signed certificates, for example.
5. InAppBrowser enhancements, and fix
Enhancements are specified here. Basically these are the same settings as in the Project Settings, also presentation and transition styles are added. The fix for InAppBrowser is specified here. Basically, on iOS 6, when you load PDFs in the InAppBrowser, it resets the User-Agent for all UIWebViews which we rely on for our exec bridge — our fix helps work around that, with caveats.
6. Custom url-scheme handler 'handleOpenURL' not called on startup
It was not being called on first app launch, but has now been fixed. Resume from backgrounding has always worked.
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Fixed. An alternative is to use xhr.
8. require.js lazy loading of cordova.js
This should work now.
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See the wiki.
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Shouldn't affect you much.
11. There was an ARC issue in Contacts
See this issue.
12. Support Reading Slices of Text Files.
From Simon McDonald's blog post regarding Cordova Android 2.4.0:
The File object now has a slice method. Suppose the file we're reading contains the text:
"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."
- f.slice(4, 8) would result in "that"
- f.slice(9) would be "is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."
- f.slice(-5, -1) would be "lost"
[NOTE] I want to also draw attention to cordova-cli being released with 2.4.0. More on Raymond Camden's blog. In a nutshell, this is an abstraction for the command-line utilities that are included for the different platforms all in one easier to use interface, plus the ability to add and remove plugins.
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[…] "trustAllHosts" parameter, in addition to other features and fixes. See "What's new in Cordova iOS 2.4.0" for a complete list of […]
why when create a project with cordova 2.4 create a project with cordova 2.3???
Not sure what you mean here. Make sure you create from the right folder that you downloaded.
Sorry for my english, but i download cordova from https://www.apache.org/dist/cordova/, extract cordova-ios and run creation process. The result is cordova-2.3.js in www directory and the version of the program in Xcode is 2.3. The same thing is from phonegap download. I think than i wasn't wrong. But maybe yes.
I did exactly as you described. It's 2.4.0 every-time – nothing wrong with the downloads. There's something wrong in how you are creating the project, possibly.
I don't know how but now work also for me. Thanks
I upgraded from Cordova 2.2 to 2.4 and have an issue where the ChildBrowser stops working. I've been able to determine that it breaks when I go to a secondary page which has links. It will either work in the first page or the second page but not both. And once broken it won't work in either page. I tried commenting out the usage of ChildBrowser and substituting the InAppBrowser but having the same effect. The console posts: Failed to load webpage with error: The URL can't be shown. I upgraded to try to fix an issue with the Calendar Plugin but now wishing I could back out of it.
Not sure. It's best to file an issue at http://issues.cordova.io with all the details, the right developer can comment on this, and evaluate, and you can be notified.
Dear Shazron, thx for Cordova/Phonegap for iOS. I updated to v2.4 and it is working well on iOS 5.0/5.1 on simulator and devices, but using iOS 6.0/6.1 on simulator and devices it seems the 'onSuccess' of a fileTransfer never gets called for me. I get the "-[CDVFileTransferDelegate connectionDidFinishLoading:] [Line 473] File Transfer Download success", but nothing happens, the source code I'm using in my 'onSuccess' isn't called on those versions of iOS >= 6.
Not sure. It's best to file an issue at http://issues.cordova.io with all the details, the right developer can comment on this, and evaluate, and you can be notified.
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Friday, May 31, 2013
The Scientific Process IS the Revelation Process
This week I got to hear a Pharmacist speak about how great science is, and how it's always wrong. Sometimes it's completely wrong, and sometimes it just needs to be tweaked. It moves us in the right direction. But usually we find out that we knew a little - and assumed a lot.
We make theories, we test them, we analyze results, we make new theories. Every once in a while a breakthrough is made. We find something out that we'd never thought of before.
For example - We went from seeing the atom as a random mixture of particles, to realizing it was a condensed mass of positively charged particles in the middle, surrounded by negatively charged particles circling around it. Later we found particles with no charge were also in the middle.
Then we found that electrons can be transferred. We found that neutrons can be added to change the weight of elements. We found that the number of protons determined what element an atom was.
We discovered the element Helium not by finding it, but deducing it from the Sun.
We found a way of releasing energy through nuclear reactions.
These particles only scratched the surface.
Will cold fusion ever work? How about string theory? What do we know about quarks?
What about gravity? We still don't know what CAUSES gravity. We know large objects attract smaller objects. But it isn't by mechanical force, or magnetic force, or electrical force. It's by some gravitational pull that we all see and recognize and can describe, yet we have no idea what it really is.
Religion, Revelation, Prophets, Faith - it all works the same way.
The Scientific Process is much the same as the Revelation Process.
I believe all God has revealed, all that he now reveals, and I believe he is yet to reveal many things.
People seem to have this belief that God just gave us knowledge. *poof* It just descended upon the people and prophets like dew in the morning, and after 4000 years of progressively teaching and revealing, It all stopped.
God said, "No more. Good Luck. Do with what you have. Oh, and pray all you like, there is nothing new to discover."
How does that make sense?
How did Moses get the 10 Commandments? Did he just sit on his throne next to his adopted brother Ramesses until God dropped the stone tablets at his feet? No! God first gave him a wake-up call. Then Moses worked for them. He worked to gain knowledge. He practiced using God's power. He practiced talking to God. He practiced getting revelation. He prayed, he worked, he thought, he taught. Eventually when he received stone tablets with laws and revelations that would help a people ready for them - the people weren't. So Moses broke those tablets and asked God for something the people could handle. They were the 10 commandments. They were a great "discovery." They would advance mankind and be a guiding map for centuries to come. They are still recited, read, and used today.
Were they the end all, beat all, immutable law? No. They were a step. They were the simpler law, the one the people were ready for then. God had something better in store, but it would have been like giving electricity to cavemen - they'd have no idea what to do with hit. So then Christ came and explained - There is much more. There is more to being morally clean than just "not having sex with a married person." There is more to brotherly love than just "not killing other people."
The scientific process is usually not about seeking better answers, but asking better questions.
Joseph Smith never planned on starting a new religion. He didn't pray to ask how he could change the Methodist church or reform the Presbyterians. He asked God which church was right. He asked a new question, a better question. God then told him -None of them are right. They all come close, but none are correct. - Over the next 15 years Joseph kept praying, kept studying, learning, reading. He worked on projects to learn how to receive revelation. He translated an ancient book of scripture into English. He read the Bible over and over again. He pondered about passages that didn't seem to make sense.
1. Why does 1st Corinthians 15:29 talk about baptisms for the dead?
2. Why does 2nd Corinthians 12:1-4 talk about a third heaven? How many heavens are there?
3. Why does Jeremiah 1:4–5 talk about God knowing us before we were born? Did we exist before birth?
4. Why does 1st Peter 4:6 talk about preaching the Gospel to those who are dead? Can we still learn and progress and be converted after death?
To find better answers, we have to ask better questions. Joseph Smith was not the first nor the last to ask better questions. We can all ask them. There are so many things we don't understand.
Look at the world around us. Could you explain to someone who lived just 100 years ago how cell-phones work? How about the internet, microwaves, atomic energy, space travel?
The key to spiritual knowledge and revelation is much the same as the key to physical and scientific knowledge.
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- Capricornus Constellatus said...
I love this! I think Mormons very often shy away from asking questions as it's sometimes seen as the first step down the road to apostasy just by questioning, but I think it's so critical to testimony in additional to gaining further light and knowledge. Like you mention, it was Joseph's question that started it all!
Thanks for the insightful post. - June 4, 2013 at 10:23 PM
- Capricornus Constellatus said...
*in addition... bah, sorry for the typos!
- June 4, 2013 at 10:24 PM
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Sync up with your original Black or White, then you'll be able to find his pokemon.
His Zorua however does not need you to game sync, as you get it in Driftveil from Rood. House right above the gym.


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What does this mean? It means that if a company has a venerable 50-year old mark, and sells the "trademark" without the goodwill, the buyer is getting present rights to the name and a promise the seller will stop using it, but can take no legal advantage of the half century of history, advertising and use. The buyer is starting over, and is no better off than someone who just takes a name, starts from scratch and runs with it. Legally, that is. To consumers, the name is the name is the name. But if someone – anyone – had used the same or a similar name even one day before the buyer acquired rights in that 50 year-old mark, they can stop you. Goodwill is the magic bullet that ties the mark to its history.
AIG was too big to fail, and TARP saw to that. It's also likely too big to fail now, even if it decides to act contrary to political and public pressure. They seem to have been able to thrive, in fact. Investors and institutions still did business with AIG even when they were seemingly not being very prudential about monitoring their financial arrangements. But just in case, a good old-fashioned name change may not be a bad back-up plan, just as insurance.