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02 Apr, 2019
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A local walk to Minehead
10 Mar, 2019
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Posts, sticks and huts
04 Jan, 2019
2018 Round Up
A year of more tourism awards and Maverick on the radio
16 Sep, 2018
Watchet, an Ancient Port
The historic town of Watchet
17 Jul, 2018
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Hurlstone Point and an unexpected trip to the beach
16 May, 2018
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A day exploring Somerset on the West Somerset Heritage Railway
07 Apr, 2018
Selworthy, mud and a rope
At last a trip to Exmoor and the pretty village of Selworthy
12 Dec, 2017
A Collie Round Up
Well what a year it has been at Salad Days my Canine Chums. So many of you have visited and awards aplenty.
12 Oct, 2017
Fossils & Smugglers
Today, I'm taking you on a walk back in time. To a land that time forgot, of retorts, fossils, Monks and smugglers.
19 Sep, 2017
Castles and Ghosts
A visit to the castle on the hill overlooking Dunster
05 Sep, 2017
Goats and Rocks
Across Exmoor to Lynmouth, Lynton and the Valley of the Rocks
14 Aug, 2017
Fairy Dust and Aliens
Glastonbury, full of fairy dust, crystals, aliens and stunning views.
03 Aug, 2017
Rabbits, Top Hats & Tea
A walk to Conygar Tower and lunch at Chapel House Tea Room
19 Jul, 2017
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03 Jul, 2017
Blue Skies & Spaniels
A trip to the highest point in Exmoor and the RNLI at Minehead harbour.
19 Jun, 2017
Dunster's Secret Garden
Secret Garden, Sheds, Gin & Cider
20 May, 2017
Porlock Weir and Flowers
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Author Notes: Frequently on Tuesdays, Kristen shows up to our photo shoot bearing an armload of goodies from Bluebird Coffee Shop. All of the baked treats from this tiny gem of a place in the East Village of Manhattan are delicious, but our little cadre has pinpointed a couple of particular favorites: the doughnuts (more on those later this week from Amanda), and the cheese biscuits -- impossibly tender and almost melting within, the subtle bite of cheddar woven throughout. The other week, Amanda and I went to visit Adam Baumgart in his pastry kitchen in the basement of Bluebird, and he taught us how to make both of our top picks, sharing his tips and tricks along the way. This is Adam's recipe for his heavenly biscuits. —Merrill Stubbs
Makes: 10 to 12 large biscuits
3 1/2
cups minus 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour, plus more for shaping
tablespoons baking powder
2 1/2
teaspoons kosher salt
tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon cold unsalted butter (use a good brand, like Plugra, with a high butterfat content)
cups grated sharp cheddar cheese
1 3/4
cups buttermilk
large egg
- Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and put it in the fridge for 20 to 30 minutes. In the meantime, cut the butter into chunks and leave out at room temperature (you want it malleable, but not soft).
- Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat it to 400 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Combine the chilled dry ingredients, the cheese and the butter in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Mix on low speed for a few minutes, until the chunks of butter are no bigger than a large pea – or a small bean. (In the oven, the water in the chunks of butter creates steam, which in turn will creates lovely pockets of air within the biscuits.)
- Add the buttermilk to the bowl and mix on low just until the dough comes together. Turn the dough out onto a floured board, dust your fingers with flour and gently knead it a few times. Quickly and carefully pat the dough into a large rectangle about 1/2 an inch thick.
- Dip a 3-inch round cutter with sharp edges in flour and then cut the biscuits using an even downward motion, without twisting the cutter. Transfer the rounds of dough to the baking sheets, leaving an inch or two of space between them. When you've cut the first batch of biscuits, gently pat the dough into another rectangle and cut a few more -- discard the dough or add the funky leftover shapes to the baking sheets after the second batch is cut (if you shape the dough a third time, the biscuits will be tough).
- Beat the egg with a splash of water (if you're feeling fancy, you can then pass it through a fine mesh sieve to get rid of any clumps of egg white that might burn). Brush the tops of the biscuits lightly with egg wash and bake for about 20 minutes, rotating halfway through, until the biscuits are a deep golden brown. Cool for a few minutes on the baking sheets but serve them while still warm!
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FDA to limit antibiotics in meat
The Food and Drug Administration issued two major proposals Wednesday morning in an effort to cut back on antibiotics used on farms that can spur drug-resistant superbugs, making a final push to limit drugs fed to animals before they're turned into steaks and pork chops.
The move — just the latest by the agency to tighten regulation of the American food supply — puts drug companies on notice and starts the clock on the Obama administration's three-year strategy to rein in the use of antibiotics. It comes on the heels of a recent effort to ban trans fats and a handful of other sweeping new food safety regulations.
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Antibiotics have become essential to meat producers as they help fatten chickens, pigs and cattle more quickly and keep diseases from spreading among thousands of animals in close quarters. Health advocates, however, have for decades sought stricter limits, arguing that science shows this practice contributes to the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections — which now kill 23,000 Americans and rack up millions in added health care costs each year.
( Also on POLITICO: Full agriculture policy coverage)
Scientists also blame antibiotics' overuse in human medicine, but — since agriculture consumes the vast majority of antibiotics sold in the U.S. — animal drug use is increasingly under fire. In 2011, nearly 30 million pounds of these drugs were sold for animals, compared to just under 8 million pounds for humans.
As first reported by POLITICO on Wednesday morning, after years of deliberating and revealing drafts in early 2012, the FDA has released two key finalized documents aimed at tackling what the agency calls "injudicious" use of certain antibiotics on farms.
"We see this as a very big step forward in the effort to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance," Michael Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine at FDA, who oversees the food side of the agency, told POLITICO. "We all realize the time has come to take this step and move beyond these growth promotion uses."
The first part of Wednesday's announcement was the release of the long-awaited final guidance, which essentially asks veterinary drug companies to remove growth-promotion claims from antibiotics that are important for human medicine. The agency is giving all drug companies 90 days to notify FDA if they will voluntarily agree to do so. After a lot of private sector engagement, FDA officials say they are optimistic most will and the companies that don't could face regulatory action.
The second part of the plan enacted Wednesday was the release of a proposed rule to require antibiotics currently sold over the counter in large quantities that can be added to feed and water to — for the first time — require prescriptions from veterinarians.
Farmers and ranchers will still be able to use medically important antibiotics for what FDA considers judicious uses — to prevent, treat or control diseases — but the goal is to curb the practice of administering the drugs at low dose levels to entire flocks or herds.
FDA's announcement started clocks ticking on both fronts. Drug companies now will have three months to notify the agency if they intend to go along with their strategy. FDA, meanwhile, will have three years to implement its plan and evaluate if it's working.
Taylor told POLITICO the agency intends to publicly release an update, after the 90-day period, on what percentage of companies have agreed to go forward with removing their growth-promotion claims from a wide variety of pharmaceutical feed additives.
"That will be an important benchmark of success," said Taylor.
The veterinary drug and animal agriculture industries are largely supportive of FDA's approach. Groups like the Animal Health Institute, which represents drug companies, and the American Veterinary Medical Association, which represents the veterinarians who work on livestock farms, have been complimentary of the agency's cooperation with industry and say they support promoting more veterinary oversight of widely-used antibiotics.
Clinton Lewis, Jr., executive vice president and president of U.S operations for Zoetis, the country's largest animal pharmaceutical company with $4.3 billion in revenue last year, told POLITICO the company is "very appreciative of [FDA's] open and collaborative approach." Zoetis is a spinoff of Pfizer's animal health division.


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In June of 1946, Charles Sinz married Margret Chrysler Saraw, and began a life together that would affect untold others.
Although neither will be remembered in history books or movies; although both were just "ordinary people", their story deserves to be told.
Within these pages you will find links to their genealogy, a photo album including many of their foster children, some of their favorite songs, Charles in his own words describing fond memories, and their biography.
On the STORY page you will find the story of their life together as well as MANY pictures. (Just click on the links to be taken to each photo)
Even if you were never acquainted with them, I believe you will enjoy their story.
This "little blue bus" was given to Charles as a Christmas gift in 1927. Since 1946, it has rested beneath the Christmas tree first in the Sinz household and now in the Woodby home every year.
It is my hope that it will continue to hold its place of honor for many years, following its journey through the homes of my children and grandchildren. Although just one small item, it is a tangible connection for all of them to their ancestors.
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Online learning is the natural evolution of this second great shift in educational technology. As modern Americans have grown networked and connected across various digital devices, so too has our busy society become accustomed to learning where and when we want. As a consequence, millions of people pursue higher education and earn college degrees every year without ever stepping foot on the grassy quad of a physical campus.
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First, decide what you want to study, then explore schools offering the degree programs you find interesting, and finally, research the degree schedule and cost of your ideal school. While you are gathering information, make sure to read testimonials, talk to admissions officers, and ask your network of friends and family about their experience at the school of your choice. Since you can study at dozens of schools from the comfort of your own home, you have a huge variety of programs and degrees available to you.
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Online learning is a lot like traditional learning, only instead of commuting to the classroom, you'll join class discussions and seminars electronically. While online, you will read class material, take and compile notes, and form study groups with your classmates to prepare for exams. Thanks to video and chat technology, you may enjoy face-to-face interactions, live forums, team projects, and homework assignments all delivered via your computer.
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Fully-coupled with fluid dynamics, the sediment scour model in FLOW-3D simulates all the sediment transport processes of non-cohesive soil including bedload transport, suspended load transport, entrainment and deposition (Wei et al. 2014). It allows multiple sediment species with different properties such as grain size, mass density and critical shear stress. For example, medium sand, coarse sand and fine gravel can be categorize into three different species in a simulation. The model works for both 3D flows and 2D shallow water flows.
In the model, the packed bed of sediments is defined by one geometry component that can be composed of multiple subcomponents with different combination of sediment species. The packed bed is described by the FAVORTM technique using the area and volume fractions. In the mesh cells containing the bed interface, location, orientation and area of the interface are calculated and utilized to determine the bed shear stress, the critical Shields parameter, the erosion rate and the bedload transport rate. Bed shear stress in 3D turbulent flows is evaluated using the standard wall function with consideration of bed surface roughness that is proportional to the media grain sized50. For 2D shallow water flows, bed shear stress calculation follows the quadratic law where the drag coefficient is either user-defined or locally calculated using the water depth and the bed surface roughness.
The model calculates bedload transport in each mesh cell containing the bed interface using the equation of Meyer-Peter and Muller (1948). A submesh method is employed to determine the amount of grains moving from the mesh cell into each mesh cell in its neighbor. Suspended sediment concentrations are obtained by solving the sediment transport equations. Computation of erosion considers sediment entrainment and deposition simultaneously. The lifting velocity of grains in entrainment is calculated using the equation of Winterwerp et al. (1992). The settling velocity in deposition is equal to the drift velocity of sediments for 3D flows but is calculated using an existing equation (Soulsby, 1997) for shallow water flows. A drift flux theory (Brethour and Hirt, 2009) is used to compute the drift velocity of grains.
The example on this page is a simulation of clear water scour around a row of three cylindrical piers. The piers are 1.5 m in diameter and spaced by a 2 m distance next to each other. The oncoming flow is aligned with the cylinders and has a 2 m/s velocity. The bed material is composed of three sediment species which are sands (5 mm in diameter), gravel (10 mm) and coarse gravel (20 mm). Fig.1, 2 and 3 show flow, scour holes and scour depth distribution around the cylinders at 8 min.
Brethour, J. M., Hirt, C. W., 2009, Drift Model for Two-Component Flows, Technical note FSI-14-TN-83, Flow Science.
Meyer-Peter, E. and Müller, R., 1948, Formulas for bed-load transport, Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the International Association for Hydraulic Structures Research. pp. 39–64.
Soulsby, R., Dynamics of Marine Sands, Thomas Telford Publications, London, 1997.
Wei, G., Brethour, J. M., Gruenzner M., and Burnham, J., 2014, The Sediment Scour Model in FLOW-3D, Technical Note FSI-14-TN-99, Flow Science.
Winterwerp, J. C., Bakker, W. T., Mastbergen, D. R. and Van Rossum, H., 1992, Hyperconcentrated sand-water mixture flows over erodible bed, J. Hydraul. Eng., 118, pp. 1508–1525.


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Memphis, TN — As the media scrum around him broke up and the assorted journalists headed out into a bright Memphis afternoon, Grizzlies coach Dave Joerger tried to be supportive. "Enjoy the rest of your day," he urged, while allowing with a laugh, "I don't know what day of the week it is."
Joerger should be forgiven for being a little out of sorts. What the Memphis Grizzlies have been through the last few weeks would make any coach's head spin.
It wasn't supposed to be this way for the Grizzlies. This Grizz team entered the season with a nice mix of older and younger players, and made a trade to add veterans Mario Chalmers and Chris Andersen. After signing a new long-term contract last summer, Marc Gasol lasted 52 games before breaking his foot. A few days after Gasol's injury, Mike Conley went down as well, and then Chalmers just weeks later.
The list of Grizzlies players currently unavailable due to injury is impressive — All-Stars like Conley and Gasol, rotation players like Chalmers and Brandan Wright, as well as a bunch of role players and prospects, from Jarrell Martin to Jordan Adams. All told, they've used an NBA-record 28 players this season, and could probably stand to add a few more if their roster wasn't locked for the duration of the playoffs. According to Joerger, the personnel fluctuation has led to some challenging circumstances.
"Difficult from the standpoint of a lot of moving parts, a lot of re-teaching," he said. "Frustrating from the level as coach, when you see — especially San Antonio, they're at the doctoral level as far as some of the things they run. We had to go backwards — and backwards not being a negative word, just making it more simple as all kinds of new guys have come in. That's a fairly easy adjustment for an experienced group that's been together. It's just difficult when you have new guys, new faces. Defense is built on trust and being able to know where your help is. It would be fun to be able to have this group together for a little bit longer, and I've seen a great deal of improvement from our guys. They come in every day, they're playing hard."
While a good job and good effort is always appreciated, the NBA only recognizes wins and losses. And the Grizzlies went 3-14 over the last four weeks of the regular season, and have yet to notch a win in the playoffs against the mighty Spurs. Moral victories are great and all, but Joerger is still hopeful for a tangible result from his rag-tag roster.
"I want those guys to have some success," he said. "They deserve to get some results. The battles that we've had since the All-Star break, to get a couple of wins — certainly the Cleveland game was terrific, and the Clippers win, New Orleans, some of those things are memorable. But to see guys out there — Matt Barnes, banging away at LaMarcus Aldridge. Or [Andersen] getting on the floor, Vince [Carter] giving everything he's got left. I'd like to see them be rewarded for that. They deserve it."
To get what they deserve, the Grizzlies have to go through the San Antonio Spurs, who have not only won all three games in the series, they've won 10 of the 12 quarters the teams have played. To have a chance at winning Game 4, the Grizzlies have to attack relentlessly, particularly on the glass.
Said Joerger: "There's a big, big difference in going out there and not trying to get embarrassed or being like, 'Let's just try to keep it close,' or, 'They're the Spurs…' No. That group in there comes with the attitude, and I would expect they come with the attitude that we're trying to win tomorrow and we're going to win. I'm not saying that we are, but I'm hoping we come with that attitude."
If there was ever a city perfect for supporting a team that seems to have the deck stacked against them, it's Memphis. The entire downtown area is wallpapered with Grizzlies logos and banners, with citizens wearing enough Grizz gear to make it look like an NBA Store commercial shoot. Following Game 3, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich noted the "pride" the Grizzlies played with, and that pride seemed to be mirrored by the crowd. As the game ended, the fans in attendance gave the remaining Grizzlies a standing ovation despite the loss, acknowledging the work they put in, even if they didn't get the W.
With a noon local tipoff tomorrow, meaning only about 36 hours recuperation time, the schedule-makers didn't do the Grizz many favors. But while the circumstances aren't in the Grizzlies' favor, Joerger expects them to grit and grind tomorrow, even if it is for the final time during a season that started strong and has limped toward the finish line.
"We feel like we're right there," he said. "We made a couple of mistakes in transition, where we ran at some balls and ran up on guys and reached a little bit. I thought our defense flew around for the most part, and we helped each other. So we have to take that attitude into the game, and you just never know what can happen. You have to give yourself that chance that something can happen."


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The South Australian Aboriginal Cultural and Sport Festival, was held at Moonta over the Labour Day holiday weekend 28th to the 30th September 2007. The new look Festival attracted funding from the Social Inclusion Unit as an initiative under The Breaking the Cycle program and also from the Australian Government Department DCITA. The festival attracted around 6,000 people over the two and half days.
THE NEW LOOK ABORIGINAL CULTURAL AND SPORT FESTIVAL The South Australian Aboriginal Cultural and Sport Festival, was held at Moonta over the Labour Day holiday weekend 28th to the 30th September 2007. The new look Festival attracted funding from the Social Inclusion Unit as an initiative under The Breaking the Cycle program and also from the Australian Government Department DCITA. The festival attracted around 6,000 people over the two and half days. The Festival kicked off at Moonta Football Oval on the Friday, where Ms Kerry Colbung, Chairperson of the Social Inclusion Board officially opened the weekend's events. MC for the night was Mr Klynton Wanganeen with other speakers including the District Council of the Copper Coast Mayor Paul Thomas and Director of ADAC Mr. Scott Wilson. This was followed by the national launch of the new AZUMA Internationals Starlightť, Indigenous designed football boot, endorsed by ex-AFL star, Troy Bond. The Opening ceremony included dance, gospel singers and a range of Aboriginal bands including Kineman Karma, The Merge and Carroll Karpanys band Nukanya. The original plan was to have the opening culminating in a Fireworks display but due to the cold and windy night, to the delight of the crowd it began at 8.30pm. Over the next 2 days Football teams playing in 17 football matches from as far away as Yalata and the far North competed for the Winnie Branson Cup with Best on Ground at the Grand Final being awarded the inaugural Gavin Wanganeen Medal and presented by the SANFL. Not to be outdone the women were competing over the weekend for the Josie Agius Netball Cup with 16 teams playing in some 67 netball games. For the first time in the 30 year history of the SA Aboriginal Carnival one community has won both the Football and Netball grand finals with the Point Pearce Football team and the A grade Netballers triumphing at the South Australian Aboriginal Cultural and Sports Festival. The Cooper Pedy womens team won the B grade Netball Grand final. This year the event took on a different approach to Carnivals in the past and attempted to make this and future events family orientated. There was a range of youth activities over the weekend including face painting, temporary tattooing, there were rides as well as a baby animal nursery. This was further enhanced with TRI Skills setting up on the Sunday with their trampolines and a range of other activities targeted at young people. The Elders were treated to a special lunch with Carroll Karpany and band playing a range of favourites and Elders being left to continue with the help of a Karaoke machine. The event was further enhanced with over 80 young Indigenous youth participating in an AUSKICK clinic with ex AFL stars such as Che Cockatoo-Collins and both Troy and Shane Bond. Throughout the event there was health related stalls and we are hoping over the course of the Festival to have this become a bigger focus so that Indigenous youth and adults can access the information needed in bringing about life changes. Of great disappointment was the cancellation of the Big Night Out" Presentation Dinner at the Wallaroo Town Hall. This would have been a nice way to cap off a great weekend. Up until then, all we had heard over the weekend was positive comments on how this Festival was the best. 400 tickets had been sold for the evenings event with national recording and ARIA winner Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter set to appear followed by Adelaide dance band Planet Square. At about 6.30pm we were informed via the Police that Security for the event would not be attending and therefore the event would have to be cancelled. This caused a range of turmoil as people frantically tried to arrange alternates within the hour. Unfortunately this was an impossible task and the ADAC Office Manager Helen and the Director of ADAC went to Wallaroo Town Hall to let people know that the Presentation dinner was cancelled and refunds were offered. Most people were extremely disappointed missing out on Archie but more importantly in receiving Team Best and fairest Trophies along with the naming of the State Football and Netball sides to compete in the National Carnival. So even though you can have Risk Assessment meetings with all stakeholders for months leading up to the event something such as no Security can leave well laid plans in tatters. The matter unfortunately has now gone legal and we hope that lessons learnt hosting this Festival can be translated into ensuring that the 2008 SA Aboriginal Cultural and Sports Festival to be held in Adelaide will be a better event. If you require further information please do not hesitate to contact ADAC.


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Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts Launches National Study of Liberal Arts Education• February 7, 2005 Share:
Crawfordsville, IN — The Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College seeks institutions for participation in the National Study of Liberal Arts Education, a large-scale, longitudinal study to investigate critical factors that affect the outcomes of liberal arts education. The Center's research will help faculty, staff, and administrators more effectively align educational programs and experiences to student learning and institutional missions. This is one of the most comprehensive national studies of the effects of American higher education on student learning and development ever conducted.
The study will explore not only whether and how much students develop because of their collegiate experiences, but also why and how this development takes place. This combination of purposes is distinctive. Few studies have focused simultaneously on how student learning changes over several years and on the key educational experiences that affect student learning and development.
"Despite a 2,000-year history, liberal arts education has rarely been the subject of serious research," says Charles Blaich, director of inquiries at the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts.
Starting in fall 2005, researchers will work with selected institutions across the country—research universities, regional universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges—in preparation to launch the National Study with the entering class of 2006.
"We hope to follow approximately 7,000 students through their undergraduate and early post-college years," says Blaich. "We will collect student and institutional data at multiple points over the course of the study. Some of the questions we hope to answer are: 'What experiences help students become liberally educated?' 'What institutional structures and programs foster liberal arts education?' 'When, and how, does liberal arts education promote student development?'"
The study focuses on the development of seven key outcomes of liberal arts education and the educational conditions and experiences that foster these outcomes. The selected outcomes include:
• Effective reasoning and problem solving
• Inclination to inquire and lifelong learning
• Integration of learning
• Intercultural effectiveness
• Leadership
• Moral character
• Well-being
All student participants will complete a series of surveys that gather information about their college experiences and measure the seven liberal arts outcomes. In addition, researchers will conduct interviews with a subset of students for in-depth reflection on their college experiences. The study will also include focus groups and interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators to collect data on institutional practices and conditions that support the development of our seven outcomes. This combination of data, gathered over time, will provide a comprehensive examination of liberal arts education at participating institutions.
"Not only will we be gathering useful information on the liberal arts, but there are also numerous benefits for participating institutions," adds Cherry Danielson, research fellow at the Center of Inquiry. "Institutions will collaborate with the National Study research team to use the study findings to improve student learning on their campuses, and enhance the educational impact of their programs."
College presidents, academic deans, and assessment officers interested in having their schools considered for participation should visit the Center of Inquiry website for additional information about the National Study and application forms: http://liberalarts.wabash.edu/nationalstudy
Review of applications will begin on May 1, 2005.
Founded at Wabash College in 2000 through a $20.8 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts works to explore, test, and promote liberal arts education. The Center seeks to ensure that the nature and value of liberal arts education is widely understood and to reestablish the central place of the liberal arts in higher education.
For more information on the National Study or the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, please contact:
Cherry Danielson, Research Fellow
Phone: 765-361-6170
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State Representative LaTanya Garrett is currently in her second term in the Michigan House of Representatives. She serves Michigan's 7th District, which encompasses a portion of northwest Detroit and the city of Highland Park. During her first term, she sat on the Energy and Commerce and Trade Commitees.
Rep. Garrett is the continuation of a long family legacy that is committed to public service. In her experience before coming to the Legislature, she worked diligently as a community activist and was a top assistant on several political campaigns. Rep. Garrett has passionately aided metro Detroit as a licensed first responder, and is also a small business owner.
Seeing firsthand the problems caused by state cuts to public safety, Rep. Garrett was motivated to be a voice for better policies in Lansing. In her first term, she placed priority on obtaining adequate funding for public safety, stimulating economic empowerment, establishing equal pay for equal work, protecting the rights of seniors and consumers, and improving public education.
Rep. Garrett was educated in Detroit area schools. She is a graduate of Henry Ford High School, Life Support Training Institute, and Wayne County Community College. She is currently finalizing her bachelor's degree in medical case management from Davenport University. She values the importance of quality education to keep our workforce competitive in a global economy.
She lives in Detroit with her supportive husband, two talented children, and their newborn baby girl.


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Use Cases
OpenNebula is used to implement different types of cloud deployments, from clouds tuned to address the demands of a niche market to clouds optimized to manage the virtualized resources in the data center. Here we try to illustrate the most common types of cloud deployments with OpenNebula, and how OpenNebula offers unique features that allow organizations to accelerate their transition to these types of cloud and so to adopt a more efficient, agile service delivery model.
Datacenter Orchestration
Datacenter Orchestration
Many leading organizations use OpenNebula as an infrastructure management tool for building enterprise private clouds to simplify and optimize internal data center operations. These organizations see private cloud as the next logical step after server virtualization and consolidation. Enterprise-class clouds provide access to a security-rich, flexible environment for production workloads to help reduce costs, shorten cycle times for faster time to market and improve quality.
The most widely used hypervisor in enterprise environments is VMware. OpenNebula is a good choice to manage ESX servers, and comes with many other goodies. For instance, you will be using a flexible platform that fits into your environment, and an open solution (so avoiding vendor lock-in), based on standards and interoperable with other hypervisors.
What Are Our Unique Functionalities to Build Enterprise Private Clouds?
Compared with other open-source cloud management platforms, OpenNebula comes with all the ingredients needed to build and manage Enterprise Clouds and support production workloads.
OpenNebula is production-ready software
Single Install and Upgrade Process: OpenNebula comprises all key functionalities for enterprise cloud computing, storage and networking in a single install, and ensures its long term stability and performance through a single integrated patching and upgrade process.
Stable and Proven: OpenNebula is rigorously tested through an internal quality assurance process and by a large community with scalability, reliability and performance tested on many massive scalable production deployments.
Support: You can receive best-effort community and SLA-based production support directly from the developers.
OpenNebula easily integrates with third-party tools
Integration with Data Center Services: OpenNebula is fully platform independent with broad support for commodity and enterprise-grade hypervisor, monitoring, storage, networking and user management services.
Highly Customizable: Because no two enterprise data centers are the same, OpenNebula can be easily adapted to fit into your data center and leverage existing IT investments.
OpenNebula is a unique software for the management of enterprise clouds
Virtual Infrastructure Management Adjusted to Enterprise Data Centers: The entities that OpenNebula work with, as abstractions of the physical and virtual resources, are a reflection of the typical resources found in enterprise Data Centers. These data models, a complete life-cycle management, an advanced monitoring and accounting system, and fine-grained multi-tenancy enable advanced techniques for capacity and performance management.
High Availability and Business Continuity: OpenNebula brings support for high availability architectures, a persistent database backend with support for high availability configurations, and configurable behavior in the event of host, VM, or OpenNebula instance failure to provide easy to use and cost-effective failover solutions.
Unique Features for Private Clouds: OpenNebula brings the most advanced and innovative enterprise-class functionality for the management of virtualized enterprise data centers and clouds, such as on-demand provision of virtual data centers, federation of multiple zones, external cloud connectors for hybrid cloud computing, self-service portal and catalog, service management, scheduling, clustering, multiple datastores…
Hosting and Cloud Service Providers
Hosting and Cloud Service Providers
OpenNebula is widely used as an infrastructure provisioning tool to build hosting and public cloud services. OpenNebula enables elastic, flexible, multi-tenant cloud environments customized to offer infrastructure as a service or to engine software and platform as a service clouds. There are features in OpenNebula that makes it the ideal candidate to offer a cloud service while, at the same time, cutting costs as well as offering a strong and robust management.
What Are Our Unique Functionalities to Build Cloud Services?
On-demand Provisioning of Virtual Private Clouds: In this new cloud offering scenario, the cloud provider provides customers with a fully-configurable and isolated Virtual Data Center where they have full control and capacity to administer its users and resources. This combines a public cloud with the protection and control usually seen in a personal private cloud system. Users can themselves create and configure servers via the SunStone portal or any of the supported cloud APIs. The total amount of physical resources allocated to the virtual private cloud can also be adjusted dynamically.
Accounting and Metering: The level of detail and easy integration of the OpenNebula accounting and monitoring systems makes this cloud management platform a smooth companion for a broad number of billing platforms.
Multiple User Interfaces: The ability to offer the same infrastructure in many different ways is very appealing for hosting and cloud consumers. OpenNebula offers a virtual computing environment accessible through two different remote cloud interfaces, OCCI and EC2, and through two simple web interfaces, OpenNebula Sunstone and OpenNebula SelfService. These mechanisms access the same infrastructure, i.e. resources created by any of the mentioned methods will be instantly available on the others.
Scalability: This is a must for the hosting and cloud world, and OpenNebula comes in with a very robust and scalable core and a scalable architecture based on Zones and clusters, with many benefits in the area of distributed storage.
Isolation: The ability to enforce a complete separation in all the virtualization resources that it manages (images, virtual machines, virtual networks, templates) through permissions or even fine-grained Access Control Lists, coupled with the ability to handle almost near isolated clusters gives OpenNebula the ability to securely operate multi tenancy environments. The multiple-zone support extends this functionality to easily manage fully isolated zones that can be located at different data center sites under different security policies and practices.
Integrating with Your Existing Infrastructure: OpenNebula allows for the use of cost effective open source hypervisors, as well as aid in the transition from proprietary virtualization solutions.
Audit Trails and Reporting: OpenNebula generates detailed log files for the different components that maintain a record of significant changes makes life easier at the time of locating errors and keeping a log of what's going on in the infrastructure.
Limitation of Resource Consumption: OpenNebula brings resource quota management to allocate, track and limit resource utilization.
Ensure Application Availability and Business Continuity: OpenNebula allows configurable behavior in the event of host or VM failure to provide an easy to use and cost-effective failover solution.
Differentiate your Service: Hosting and cloud providers need to differentiate themselves from their competitors. OpenNebula GUIs and interfaces can be easily adapted to address the needs of your customers, and the architecture of your cloud can be designed to serve different type of customers and workloads based on different SLAs, from low-cost to premium solutions.
Clouds for HPC and Science
Clouds for HPC and Science
OpenNebula is the most widely used cloud management platform to build high performance computing and science clouds for hosting virtualized computing and data processing environments and for providing users with new innovative "HPC as a service" resource provisioning models. These HPC optimized clouds provide access to flexible and elastic scientific and technical computing to solve complex problems and drive innovation in Science, Engineering, Manufacturing and Analytics.
What Are the Benefits of Building a HPC Cloud?
Cloud computing enables the execution of flexible and elastic cluster and high performance computing services on demand while reducing the associated cost of building the datacenter infrastructure. Transforming your computing cluster into a private cloud brings many benefits without requiring end users to change their applications:
Support for heterogeneous execution environments with multiple, even conflicting, software requirements on the same shared cluster
Faster delivery and scalability of computing services to meet dynamic demands of different computing clusters with automatic provision of computing worker nodes
Faster respond to infrastructure needs for computing services with dynamic resizing of the physical infrastructure by adding new hosts, and dynamic cluster partitioning to meet capacity requirements of services
Higher utilization of existing resources with the creation of a single larger infrastructure combining heterogeneous computing clusters, or infrastructure sharing between different departments managing their own production clusters, so removing application silos
Operational saving with server consolidation to a reduced number of physical systems, so reducing space, administration effort, power and cooling requirements
Lower infrastructure expenses by allowing "cloudbursting" with the combination of local computing resources withexternal commercial Cloud resources, so eliminating the over-purchase of systems to meet peaks demands
What Are Our Unique Functionalities to Build HPC Clouds?
Here we try to summarize the main requirements that we have received from organizations building clouds for HPC environments, and the functionalities that make OpenNebula unique to fulfill these requirements:
Support for Automatic and Elastic Management of the Computing Service. The powerful CLI and APIs exposed by OpenNebula enable its easy integration with any of the most common job management systems (Torque, Open Grid Engine, Platform LSF…) to automatically provision computing worker nodes to meet dynamic demands. The advanced contextualization mechanisms enable the automatic configuration of the worker nodes.
Combination of Physical and Virtual Resources. You can use OpenNebula for the management of the virtual worker nodes in your computer cluster and keep physical resources for HPC performance-sensitive applications that require high-bandwidth, low-latency interconnection networks.
Management of Several Physical Clusters with Different Configurations. The multiple-zone functionality enables the management of multiple physical clusters with specific architecture and software/hardware execution environments to fulfill the needs from different workload profiles.
Support for Several VOs. The new functionality to on-demand provision of Virtual Data Centers can be used to provide different VOs with isolated compartments of the cloud infrastructure.
Support for Heterogeneous Execution Environments. The new repositories for VM appliances and templates can be used to provide users with pre-defined application environments. The fined-grain access control supports the creation and easy maintenance of the appliance repositories, that could be even private for different Virtual Data Centers (VOs).
Full Isolation of Execution for Performance-sensitive Applications: The functionality for automatic placement of VMs and the configurable monitoring system enable the ability to define isolation levels for the computing services. The new multiple-zone support extends this functionality to easily manage fully isolated physical clusters.
Execution of Complete Computing Clusters: You can deploy multi-tier services consisting of groups of inter-connected VMs and define their auto-configuration at boot time.
Cloudbursting to Meet Peak Demands: The hybrid cloud functionality enables the deployment of architectures for cloudbursting to address peak or fluctuating demands of HTC (High Throughput Computing) workloads.
Management of Persistent Scientific Data: You can make disks persistent, save changes for subsequent new executions, and share the new disks with other users in your Virtual Data Center (VO).
Placement of VMs Near the Input Data: OpenNebula's scheduler provides automatic VM placement for the definition of workload and resource-aware allocation policies such as packing, striping, load-aware, or affinity-aware.
Ensure that each Tenant Gets a Fair Share of Resources: OpenNebula's resource quota management helps allocate, track and limit resource utilization.
Open Alternative for vCloud for your VMware Infrastructure
Open Alternative for vCloud
Many companies are using OpenNebula as an open replacement for VMware vCloud. They usually report that:
- vCloud is not an easy to use solution
- vCloud is mostly suited for vSphere and public clouds running VMware
- vCloud can no be adapted to their needs
- Last, but not least, VMware announced in september 2013 that vCloud Director was approaching end of life for enterprises with its functionality being split into vCenter and vCloud Automation Center
If you have a server farm based on any of the ESX versions, then you can make use of OpenNebula to better manage your physical (and virtual) resources in order to build a private cloud and provide virtualized environments. OpenNebula is the most powerful open-source alternative to VMware datacenter and cloud suite, delivering enterprise-class functionality, stability and scalability with broader platform support and integration capabilities.
Because it is completely hypervisor agnostic, fully supports VMware, and is easy to install, maintain and use within existing VMware environments, OpenNebula is widely used as an open alternative to VMware vCloud at significantly lower costs. Some of our users also see OpenNebula as a migration tool that allows them to perform a smooth transition from VMware to more open hypervisor alternatives like KVM. In other words OpenNebula leverages existing VMware infrastructure, protecting IT investments, and at the same time avoids future vendor lock-in, strengthening the negotiating position of the enterprise.
Companies usually evaluate other alternatives, like some of the OpenStack-based products, Red Hat's mainly. In these cases, we suggest the company to:
- Compare features and see which product is closer to vCloud in terms of enterprise cloud features
- Ask the other providers if they offer enterprise support for both VMware and KVM (or any other open-source hypervisor)
- Check if the other products are really open-source or a proprietary extension of a open-source software
Finally, companies need to develop a hybrid cloud strategy. We understand private cloud as a complement to public cloud, and this is why we provide unique features to build hybrid cloud deployments. OpenNebula offers a single management interface for internal and remote cloud resources.
So before starting the migration from vCloud to vCAC, why do not you give a try to OpenNebula to manage your cloud platform?.


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Thank you for your help I have someone coming out soon. ThanksHi Rob, what you've described could be a number of things. We already know the valves have water because you can turn them on manually at the valve so nobody has turned the water off.
It could very well be that old controller you have but not necessarily.
It could be a broken ground wire. That ground wire attaches to all the valves.
It's hard to tell from here. You'll need to be able to test the controller and wiring at the valves.
Also the two valves that only operate manually by taking out the pin probaby have bad diaphragms or plugged ports. Could be stuck plungers.
You'll probably need to hire someone. This wont be an easy fix for someone new to sprinkler repair.
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If you ask me, Supergiant Games' Bastion was one of the best games to come out in the last few years. So, a new game from that indie dev studio is great news.
The glimpses of gameplay make it seem like Transistor shares some of Bastion's DNA, but the visuals are more Akira/Blade Runner than SNES retro-toon RPG. It looks cool and sounds great. Here's what Supergiant is saying about the game:
In Transistor, players assume the role of a young woman who gains control of a powerful weapon after a mysterious group of assailants nearly kills her with it. Now she must fight from street to street against forces that will stop at nothing to recover the weapon. During the course of the adventure, players will piece together the Transistor's mysteries as they pursue its former owners.
We expect Transistor to be released in early 2014. We have not yet decided on which platform or platforms the game will be available for.
Transistor will be playable at PAX East. Can't wait to learn more.


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For the Vanilla Cream:
Pour the milk and heavy cream into a heavy bottomed saucepot and scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into the pot (or add vanilla extract). *Cook's Note: If using a vanilla bean, put the vanilla pod in the pot as well. Add half the sugar and bring to a simmer. In a small bowl whisk together the egg yolks and the rest of the sugar. Temper it by adding a small amount of the heated milk mixture to the bowl, whisking constantly. Pour the egg mixture into the pot of milk, stirring constantly. Do not boil or cook the egg mixture, otherwise you will have scrambled eggs! The mixture should begin to thicken so that coats the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Remove vanilla pod and discard, and refrigerate until chilled.
For the Sponge Cake:
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease and lay parchment paper over the bottom of a jelly roll size baking pan (17 1/2 inches by 11 1/2 inches by 1-inch deep). With an electric beater, beat together the egg yolks, just 1/4 cup of the sugar (reserving the rest), and vanilla until the mixture becomes a pale yellow and thickens. Sift cake flour over the egg yolk mixture and set aside briefly. Wash and dry the beaters.
In a separate metal bowl, beat the egg whites and cream of tartar together and gradually beat in the balance of the sugar until stiff peaks form. To the egg yolk/flour bowl, fold in 1/3 of the beaten egg whites until just barely combined. Repeat two more times with each of the remaining 2/3 of the beaten egg whites.
Spread into jelly roll pan and bake in oven for about 15 minutes or until the surface is golden brown and springs back when touched. Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes and loosen the edges with a spatula or butter knife. Then, invert cake onto a similarly sized baking sheet without edges, by holding against the top edges of the jelly roll pan and flipping it over. Peel off parchment paper and let cool completely. Wash the jelly roll pan, to have ready for soaking the cake.
For the Strawberries and Whipped Topping:
Reserve 18 whole (but cleaned) berries. To begin the maceration process, slice the rest of the berries into a bowl, mix in the sugar, and refrigerate.
Whip the heavy cream with an electric beater until stiff peaks form.
Cook's Note: Each individual serving will have two layers of cake. You can adjust the serving size based on the way you slice the cake. If serving in martini glasses (as was done on the episode), cut the cake into rectangles which are approximately 3 inches square (a count of 4 across the width of the sheet cake and 6 along the length of the cake). This will yield 24 rectangles for 12 servings. You can also make slightly larger servings if using a flat serving plate by cutting into 12 rectangles which are about 4 inches square. Return the cake squares to the jelly roll pan and pour the cold tea over them allowing to soak.
To assemble:
Use a spatula to transfer a slice of cake to each of the serving glasses or plates. Spoon some of the macerated strawberries on top of each cake round and top with vanilla cream. Cover with the second layer of sponge cake, then more strawberries, then more vanilla cream, and top with a dollop of whipped cream around which you will arrange 3 whole strawberries and a sprig of fresh mint.


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Crisp, clear, bluebird dawn. Cold breath vaporizing out of sleeping bags into arid, warm, low desert air. Clear vistas to mountains distant and near. Moist soil, good friends, laden bikes, empty trail.
Time to ride.
Shortcut to the goods.
The bikes feel awkward at first--more than the added load of overnight gear can account for. Coming from a deep-frozen and snow-covered world, it just feels odd to ride with so little effort. Almost as odd as nekkid skin caressed by morning sun.
In January? Pinch me.
In January? Pinch me.
Actually, wait. Not yet.
Skippy was mentally overwhelmed at the outset of his virgin overnight bike mission, but soon settled into a groove. Just like ridin' a bike, kid.
Desert sentinels loomed, friendly, or maybe just indifferent. Perhaps on a blue sky day like this everything seems friendly.
The trail was an intermediate paradise. Neither technical nor boring, it required a bit of attention but left plenty of moments for attention to wander.
My attention kept getting pulled above and to the right. "Scott! I wanna go over there!"
"All part of the plan!" came his reply.
Like the rest of us, Skippy allowed his attention to drift away from the trail tread. Unlike the rest of us, Skippy hadn't filled his tires with desert-proof goop. Thus we had ample opportunity to relax, eat, and snicker in his direction while he paid the price once, twice, thrice.
Scott led us up and to the right, where the views, scenery, and light all seemed to be pulling our winter-weary carcasses.
This here view made it all worthwhile.
Vast desert, little us.
And on we climbed.
Greg is visible at right-center, for perspective.
No one was sure what this saguaro was trying to tell Scott. We decided to act as though we hadn't noticed. Meanwhile, That Guy fixed yet another flat.
Drooping shadows matched my fading legs.
Scott sings Skippy up the hill.
Please continue to refrain from pinching me.
And still we climbed as views increased, here looking south toward Mount Lemmon.
Greg and Scott seemed to have boundless energy, while Skippy looked as rough as I felt.
And still we climbed.
Sunset loomed, the trail remained eminently rideable, my legs were hollowed out husks, and still we couldn't see the top.
Not that I was in any hurry to be elsewhere. Wrapping around a fin and into this inner gorge was a surreal, stop-and-take-note moment. Am I really here?
Is Scott really there?
Greg? Izzat you, here, now?
I've always maintained that living in the Arizona desert must make one weak--no snow to shovel, nor bracing mornings to head out into, no dead car batteries to force a readjustment of one's day, mood, priorities.
And I stick to that. But I'm also glad that the Arizona desert is where and how it is, giving those of us with some semblance of real winter a relatively easy and worthwhile escape.
And I stick to that. But I'm also glad that the Arizona desert is where and how it is, giving those of us with some semblance of real winter a relatively easy and worthwhile escape.
Eventually the climbing ceased, or at least we reached a flat place with room enough for four sleeping bags. And there we stopped, dropped, ate, and crashed, not necessarily in that order.
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Voice of Experience: Jon Dell'Antonia, OshKosh B'GoshBy Kim S. Nash | Posted 2002-04-15 Print
The clothing maker's VP of MIS discusses the ins and outs of business intelligence software and how his company settled on a set of tools.
Jon Dell'Antonia
VP, Management Information Systems
Oshkosh B'gosh
Oshkosh, Wis.
Manager's Profile: Dell'Antonia has put in 37 years in information technology and business management, 12 of them at OshKosh B'Gosh, which sells men's and children's clothing. He manages a staff of 50. For the past two years, Dell'Antonia, 60, has also been mayor of Oshkosh. He holds a B.S. from Pittsburg State University, Kansas.
What He's Analyzing: Sales and inventory data for both wholesale customers such as J.C. Penney Co. and from the company's stand-alone stores.
What's Improved: OshKosh B'Gosh wanted to analyze returns to ferret out manufacturing or supply chain problems. Was the product from a particular plant? Was OshKosh B'Gosh late on delivery? They used to spend three or four days a week working on this. "Now, it's down to running a report," he says.
Project Particulars: About 90 end-users create detailed reports drawn from a 200 gigabyte data warehouse built on IBM's DB2, running on an AS/400 server. OshKosh B'Gosh spends more than $20,000 annually in maintenance for analytic and reporting tools from Cognos and ShowCase, a division of SPSS Inc.
What Didn't Work: Some of OshKosh B'Gosh's staff found Cognos' reporting tools tough to use. Dell'Antonia then brought in ShowCase, a more graphical and intuitive tool. "It's just click, click, click to create," he says.
What He Learned: Clean data is a must. Create a data dictionary, Dell'Antonia says. "If you're going to have something out there called 'sales,' everyone needs to understand what that means," he says. "Is 'sales' gross? Net? Less returns? Less credits? Both wholesale and retail?"
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Falcons Sign Former Giants' DE Osi Umenyiora
The Atlanta Falcons have found a replacement for John Abraham by reaching an agreement with free-agent defensive end Osi Umenyiora on a two-year contract.
The Falcons released the 34-year-old Abraham, who led the team with 10 sacks in 2012, on March 1.
With the 31-year-old Umenyiora, the Falcons have a slightly younger replacement at defensive end. Umenyiora had only six sacks for the Giants in 2012. He had a career-high 14 1/2 sacks in 2005, but has reached double figures in only one of the last four years -- 11 1/2 in 2010.
Umenyiora, a two-time Pro Bowl selection, was a second-round pick by New York in 2003.
Terms of the deal weren't released. Umenyiora's agent, Tom Condon, couldn't be immediately reached for comment.
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Rebel Offense Shatters School Records in Hugh Freeze's Fourth Season
By Adam Kuffner, Ole Miss Athletics Media Relations
When Hugh Freeze was hired as the 37th head coach in Ole Miss football history Dec. 5, 2011, then-Chancellor Dan Jones along with coaching search committee co-chairs Archie Manning and Mike Glenn knew they were getting one of the best offensive minds in football. Just four years into the Freeze era in Oxford, the Rebels have built a new normal of expectations for Ole Miss Football.
Last year, it was the Landshark defense that led the Rebels to an inaugural New Year's Six Bowl with the nation's best scoring defense. Fast forward to 2015, it's the offense that has reached record-breaking heights to pace the Rebels through another nine-win season (back-to-back 9+ regular-season wins for the first time since 1961-62).
Ole Miss started off 2015 on a torrid pace, becoming the first SEC team to score 73 or more points in back-to-back games. The 76-3 win over UT Martin in the season opener was the most points in a game since 1935. With that hot start to the season, it was evident that the 12 year-old school scoring record (442 in 2003) was going to be broken. That vision came to fruition in the 11th game of the season as the Rebels dominated rival LSU, 38-17, in the Magnolia Bowl. One week later, Ole Miss scored 38 points in Starkville for the first time in 34 years to win the Egg Bowl and enter the postseason scoring a school-record 483 points.
Ole Miss is averaging 40.3 points per game, which leads the SEC and ranks 13th in the nation. The Rebels eclipsed the 50-point plateau four times this season; in the previous 122 years of Ole Miss Football prior to 2015, just five times the Rebels managed to score 50+ points more than once throughout a season.
To score points, you need to find the end zone. The Rebels did that plenty of times throughout the 2015 campaign, scoring a program-record 62 touchdowns. In order to get to the end zone, you need to accumulate yards and drive down the field. How does 6,177 total yards sound? That's how many Ole Miss racked up through 12 games this season, the most in the SEC and 11th-most nationally. Again, the Rebels have themselves another school record.
Freeze likes to spread the ball out, and the passing game has become the Rebels' bread and butter since his arrival. Senior quarterback Bo Wallace was the starting signal caller for Freeze's first three years at Ole Miss. In 2014, Wallace, along with multiple offensive weapons around him, helped Ole Miss earn a bid to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. This year, junior Chad Kelly took the reins of Freeze's playbook and added his name to the list of great quarterbacks at Ole Miss.
After a position battle throughout fall camp, Freeze decided to give Kelly the start in the first two games, although Ryan Buchanan and DeVante Kincade saw playing time as well. It was in that second contest that Kelly emerged as the clear starter due to his strong, accurate arm accompanied with moving the offense down the field like a well-oiled machine. The Buffalo, New York, native continued to do that the following week, leading the Rebels to another victory over No. 2 Alabama in the first road test of his Ole Miss career. Beating Alabama in back-to-back seasons for the first time in school history, Ole Miss made noise throughout the country, once again becoming relevant.
Kelly continued to impress throughout the rest of the season, putting up better numbers than any other quarterback in Ole Miss history, including Archie and Eli Manning. He's tallied 3,740 yards through the air and is responsible for 37 touchdowns, both school records that were once held by the two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli. Kelly's seven 300-yard passing games is also the most by a Rebel quarterback. Speaking of Manning, Kelly was named a finalist for the Manning Award, which is presented annually to the nation's best quarterback. His statistics that lead all SEC quarterbacks and rank among the nation's elite have earned Kelly that recognition.
Along with his school-record passing mark, Kelly has also rushed for 427 yards on the ground. His program-best 4,167 total yards of offense is the sixth-most for an individual's season in SEC history. It's all impressive for someone who is a first-year Rebel.
Of course, Kelly's individual records and the team's offensive records would not have been reached without a plethora of talent around the quarterback. Let's start with Laquon Treadwell, who bounced back from his devastating injury last season. This year, he's been better than ever as a Biletnikoff Award finalist. Treadwell has caught 76 passes for 1,082 yards and eight touchdowns, including six 100-yard receiving games which is another school record. The Crete, Illinois, native went through a stretch where he was nearly impossible to stop, catching a touchdown pass in six straight games and going over 100 yards receiving in five of them; both achievements had never been accomplished before at Ole Miss.
Alongside Treadwell, Kelly distributes the ball at an incredible rate. Ole Miss is one of four teams in the nation with seven or more players who have caught at least 20 passes this season. Quincy Adeboyejo and Damore'ea Stringfellow have combined for 12 touchdown receptions, while Cody Core has added 553 receiving yards in his final season as a Rebel. Kelly is one of the leading rushers on the team, but the running back trio of Jaylen Walton, Akeem Judd and Jordan Wilkins has produced 1,433 yards and 11 touchdowns.
Of course, the skill players wouldn't have success without the help of the offensive line. Providing protection for Kelly has been a veteran group led by Preseason All-America left tackle Laremy Tunsil and Kent Hull Trophy winner Fahn Cooper. Seniors Justin Bell, Aaron Morris and Ben Still are the elder lettermen that are spending their final year at Ole Miss as part of the most prolific offense in school history. Even freshmen Jordan Sims, Javon Patterson and Sean Rawlings have provided plenty of playing time, including starts, to assist in the effort.
Football is certainly a team game. The defense and special teams unit need to play well; however, as Ole Miss awaits its bowl fate, the high-powered offense paved the way for a possible berth to the Sugar Bowl. If the season ended today, New Orleans would be the Rebels' bowl destination. Ole Miss hasn't played in the Sugar Bowl since 1970, spanning almost half a century. But with Alabama in position to make the College Football Playoff, the Rebels would earn the bid as the second-highest ranked SEC team.
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Did CNN's Candy Crowley collude with the Obama campaign before last night's debate in Hempstead?
I think so, and I think I can prove it.
Let's restate the obvious:
For this Town Hall format debate, alleged undecided voters submitted questions to the candidates. As moderator, Crowley selected which questions would be asked. Her selections were curious to say the least; they appeared designed to highlight issues helpful to the incumbent and embarrass the challenger. For instance, one audience member asked a question about "equal pay" for women. The premise of the question is bogus, but pointing out its deficiencies can only hurt the side inclined to tell the truth. Crowley repeated the tired assertion that women receive 72% pay for "the same work" as men.
Where to begin? Hasn't the percentage of the disparity changed since the feminists first made this claim? Crowley repeated a number dating back to the 70's. It was bogus then, and bogus now. If the premise is true, then it must also be true that employers are paying men nearly 40% more than necessary for the same work. Most businesses operate on much tigther profit margins than this, so any employer with a grain of common sense would hire employees willing to work for 72% of what their costly male counterparts demand. Mitt opted not to challenge the premise of the question. I went to the kitchen to make a sandwich rather than find out which candidate gave the better vapid answer.
I loved the most obviously slanted "question." Paraphrasing for brevity, the "questioner" prefaced with an editorial: while he was disappointed with the last four years, he blamed George W. Bush for most of our problems. "So please tell us Governor Romney, how your policies would differ from those of George Bush?" Classic heads-we-win/tails-you-lose trick question for the challenger forcing him to choose between defending Bush (so Obama could run against Bush again) or discrediting the 44th President. I think Romney should have challenged the premise of the question and turned it on Obama, e.g., "The President always talks of failed Bush policies of the previous eight years, but doesn't specify which ones? Does he mean the failed $1.83 per gallon gasoline prices or the 4.7% unemployment we had before the Democrats took over Congress and caused Fannie and Freddy to trigger the 2007 financial crisis?
Throughout the evening, Crowly kept challenging Romney on his answers, and thanking Obama for his.
Obama was much better prepared this time, kept his talking points straight with no signifcant flubs. In fact, he seemed a little too prepared, uncharacteristically so without his teleprompter in my opinion. I began to smell a rat.
Actually, I began to smell a rat before the debate started when it was announced that the questions were not disclosed to either campaign. I was reminded of how I cringe when I hear an inexperienced magician say "I have here a perfectly normal deck of cards." Normal people don't go around making disclaimers before they are challenged. Try this experiment: next time you play cards for money, announce to the table "I have here a perfectly normal deck of cards" as you introduce a new deck when it's your turn to deal. Media moderators give disclaimers for the same reasons magicians say they're using a perfectly ordinary deck of cards. Usually the magicians who say this are lying.
Midway through the debate, I saw the proof.
Toward the end of the debate, finally we heard a good question about the Benghazi attack that left four Americans dead, including US Ambassador Chris Stevens. The questioner asked about reports that the State Department denied Embassy requests for additional security. He wanted to know if that was true and if so, why? Obama dodged the question and Romney, who's much quicker on his feet than the President, didn't call him on it. Not because he missed the point, but because why flick a jab when you can go for the knockout. And to everyone watching, Obama had left his glass jaw wide open by making the ludicrous claim that he correctly called the attack on the embassy an act of terrorism the very next day.
An incredulous Romney challenged him, but Obama stuck to his preposterous claim. When Romney asked him to repeat what he just said, Obama turned to Crowley, who confirmed that Obama was right. Suddenly the knockout punch missed wildly and Obama scored a telling counterpunch.
Except he didn't. The counterpunch was a cheapshot, delivered not by the limp-wristed flyweight, but by the super-heavyweight referee. Before an audience of 70 million, Crowley said to Romney, "He's right. That's what he said." Except, in the immortal words of Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra, Obama never actually said what Crowley insisted he said. Afterwards, before an slightly smaller audience (400K vs. 70 million), Yogi Crowley admitted she'd "made a wrong mistake."
The whole thing was a set-up, and one that Obama could not have pulled off without collusion on the part of Crowley. Obama's unmemorable comments the day after the Ambassador's murder included a throwaway line that "acts of terror will not go unpunished." He never said the embassy attack was a terrorist act. Indeed, it defies logic and common sense to claim he would have done so one day after the incident, and then spend several weeks, blaming the attack on a silly internet movie trailer. (This from an administration that three years later still won't concede that the Camp Hood massacre was a terrorist act even though Maj. Hasan shouted "Allah Akhbar" as the shooting began.)
When Crowley affirmed Obama's deception, some members of the audience applauded—in violation of the house no applause rule. Who broke the rules? Michelle Obama and members of the media.
Think about this. Crowley just happened to have the transcript of a perfunctory Obama speech that was about as memorable as a typical Soviet apparatchik's glowing paen to the architects of the latest five-year plan. In the Soviet Union, such speeches were worth saving—to line birdcages. Yet somehow Crowley just happened to bring a copy of the same speech Obama misleadingly quoted in response to a question he wasn't given in advance. And Crowley already had highlighted the selective quote, as if it was somehow important.
The setup was interesting. While Romney looked as stunned as everyone else who's been following the story and challenged the statement, Obama, looking like the proverbial cat who ate the canary, calmly replied, "Proceed Governor." Understandably, the exchange left Romney speechless. For Obama to claim that he correctly called the attack a terrorist act from day one wasn't a mistake or "spin," it was a shockingly brazen reality-denying Orwellian Big Lie. To anyone who followed the news, it was utterly preposterous to suggest he told the truth when his entire Administration spent weeks knowingly and falsely blaming the attack on a silly video—including Obama himself in a speech to the United Nations—when the Aministration already knew the video story was a lie.
And then like an amateur magician reaching into his top hat, Obama asked Crowley to pull the transcript. Huh? By a remarkable "coincidence" Crowley just happened to have the transcript of Obama's September 12 Rose Garden speech right in front of her, with the relevant quote highlighted. And she said that Obama was right.
How could Obama KNOW that Crowley would have the transcript ready to refute Romney when he pounced on what was an obvious lie?
Equally curious, how did Crowley immediately produced the precise sentence in question when Obama asked for the transcript? Have you ever heard a talk show host ask a producer for a tape and the producer has trouble locating it? It happens all the time … even though radio shows prepare these things in advance. Yet last night, Obama referenced one of his hundreds of unmemorable speeches, and the moderator not only had the transcript with her, she had the line Obama cited already queued up to make Romney look bad.
If that isn't evidence of collusion, what more proof do we need?
And like the amateur he is, Obama made Candy repeat herself "a little louder this time." ("You never saw me go near the deck of cards right?") And the intrepid journalist obediently wagged her tail and stood up on her hind legs on command. I was disappointed Obama did not give her a puppy treat; she definitely earned one.
On a related note, a friend asked: Is CNN's Candy Crowley related to Satanist Aleister Crowley?
We report. You decide.


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Merrill Kelly Named ASU Male Athlete of the Week
March 24, 2010
Baseball player Merrill Kelly has been named ASU's Male Athlete of the Week for the week ending March 27th. Kelly continued to shine in his debut season for the Sun Devils, as he recorded his fifth win in as many starts. His performance helped the Sun Devils continue their toward stretch as they are now 20-0 and 1 game off of the 1961 team who started 21-0. The Sun Devils now begin Pac-10 season as they host the California Golden Bears on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium.
Merrill Kelly was light's out for the Sun Devils in his start against the Houston Cougars on Saturday, allowing only two hits while striking out a career high 8 batters. He did not allow a run in his seven innings of work as he picked up his fifth victory of the season. The Cougars hit only .091 against the junior righty and on the season opponents are hitting only .228.
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