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Syrian rebels and regime forces clashed Saturday near a village where U.N. peacekeepers are being held hostage, an activist said, complicating efforts to free them.
U.N. officials have said arrangements are in place for the release of the Filipino peacekeepers, but a rescue mission on Friday was aborted because of regime shelling in the area.
A U.N. team was en route to the village Saturday afternoon to retrieve the hostages but stopped several miles away because of the fighting, said a rebel spokesman.
Instead, rebels began escorting the captives to the nearby Syrian-Jordanian border, the spokesman said via Skype, insisting on anonymity for fear of reprisals.
Jordanian security officials said they were not aware of peacekeepers heading to the border but were checking further. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.
The U.N. force has been monitoring an Israeli-Syrian cease-fire for four decades without incident, and the abduction of the 21 men added another destabilizing twist to Syria's civil war.
The Filipino peacekeepers, taken captive on Wednesday, were being held in the basements of several houses in the village of Jamlah, near the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, U.N. officials said.
The peacekeepers were taken by the Martyrs of the Yarmouk Brigades, a rebel group. In the days leading up to the abduction, rebel fighters had overrun several Syrian military checkpoints in the area, and regime forces responded with shelling attacks.
Rebels initially said they would only release the hostages if Syrian forces withdraw from the area, but appear to have dropped the demand.
On Saturday, a spokesman for the group said a U.N. team was heading toward the area where the peacekeepers are being held.
He said a convoy of 12 vehicles — 10 from the U.N. and two from the International Committee of the Red Cross — reached the village of Ein Thakar, a few miles away, and was waiting for a lull in fighting to move ahead.
He said rebel commanders eventually decided that because of security concerns, it was easier to move the peacekeepers to the nearby Jordanian border. By mid-afternoon Saturday, the peaeckeepers had not yet been handed to Jordanian authorities, he said.
The report could not immediately be confirmed.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group, said earlier Saturday that a gunfight had erupted about two miles south of Jamlah, as rebels tried to seize an army checkpoint.
At the United Nations, peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous, on Friday urged regime forces to refrain from retaliation against the village if the U.N. troops are freed.
"As of now, there is perhaps a hope — but I have to be extremely cautious because it is not done yet — but there is the possibility that a cease-fire of a few hours can intervene which would allow for our people to be released," he said after briefing the U.N. Security Council.
The rebels have posted several videos showing the hostages, apparently to show they are being treated well.
A video posted Friday and distributed by the U.S. SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors militant forums, showed three U.N. peacekeepers wearing trademark blue U.N. vests over their camouflage uniforms as they sat on a low sofa. In the video, a bearded man with a two-way radio sits down between two of them, puts his arms around their shoulders and flashes a victory sign.
The Syria conflict began two years ago, starting with largely peaceful protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad. A harsh regime crackdown triggered an armed insurgency that has turned into a full-scale civil war.
The U.N. estimates that the conflict has claimed more than 70,000 lives and forced nearly 4 million people from their homes. The fighting has devastated large areas of the country.
Associated Press writers Diaa Hadid in Jerusalem and Ben Hubbard in Beirut contributed to this report.


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The Importance of Childhood Education
A helpful infographic for soon-to-be parents. The Importance of Childhood Education infographic from SchoolTutoring Academy takes information about kids with early childhood education and attention and compares them to kids who did not. But it isn't all bad news for moms, the infographic gives a few tips on how to survive being a stay-at-home mom as well as some positive job information. Then see how the United States matches up with other countries on early childhood education.
While there can be no denying the heavy importance of early education for a child, this education infographic delves much deeper by looking at how future success in life can often be predetermined by the quality of early eduction.
It also explores the often overlooked importance the role the parent plays, especially the Mother. How important is it for Moms to stay at home with their children during early learning? What steps can working Moms take to secure the best educational foundation for their child? All these topics are researched presented in the infographic. The last segment compares the different education paths taken by countries from around the world. From birth to age 7, we look at the different educational institutions that counties from Canada to Germany to Italy to the United States use to start their children's educations.
If you have any comments or thoughts on the information included in this infographic or education in general, please use our comment section below. You can also see our previous infographic discussing the cost of rising education.
Although the information included in the design is great, this infographic has a lot of text. Too much text. That much text in a design will turn away potential readers even before they start.
Thanks to Shell for sending in the link!

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Tea & Biscuit Dunking Guide
The Tea and Biscuit infographic fromGreen Hat Design in the UK shows avid dunkers of biscuits the proper timing to keep their favorite snacks in the tea or coffee to conquer floppage and avoid the disappointment of contamination! Also available as a high-resolution PDF.
This biscuit infographic is based on 8 of our favourite UK brands which helps us (and others) to get the best out of his (or her) biccy when dunking it in hot tea or coffee, while at the same time assisting the user to avoid… floppage. That unfortunate moment that the biscuit suddenly gives way and contaminates your beverage. Nasty. We feel many could actually benefit from such details. I know it has changed my life.
This one is a fun topic. Apparently the biscuits in the UK are so hard you have to dunk them to eat them… :)
The radial design works well to show three values for each biscuit, and is easy for the reader to compare them. The illustrations work well, even though readers in the U.S. (myself included) won't recognize any of the biscuits.
A couple things are missing from a Marketing Infographic design perspective. It needs a title! I made up the "Tea & Biscuit Dunking Guide" because it didn't have a good title of its own. There should be some type of license statement, and in this case I would suggest Creative Commons.
The PDF file is hosted on the Green Hat Design site, but the infographic isn't displayed anywhere. t'sI hard to share a PDF compared to how easy it is to share an image file online. It REALLY needs it's own official landing page on the Green Hat Design site to display the infographic, and be the one place you want everyone else (like this blog) to link to. They had uploaded it to visual.ly, and I linked to it there, but that shouldn't be the primary landing page if they want to drive traffic to their site and awareness to their brand.
Thanks to Steve for sending in the infographic!


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The Breast Blog: Fundraising Idea
Feel like being a do-gooder? Here's an idea for you to try on.
Breast cancer survivor unites Beaches community in one-day event to find a cure
TORONTO, May 11 /CNW/ - Something ordinary can be forever linked with a life altering experience. It is for Rachael Smith. Smith, 44, learned she had breast cancer in the midst of managing a busy household that included a basement full of things her family no longer needed but didn't have time to get rid of.
Now, just a year later, Smith's personal battle with the disease has inspired the mother of two daughters to give back to the organizations that helped her during nine months of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment. And the idea came from that growing pile of stuff in her basement.
Smith, her family, friends, neighbours and volunteers are asking residents of the Greater Beaches community to come together on their front lawns on Saturday, May 28, 2005 for Yard Sale for the Cure. This massive one-day event encourages people to sell the things they no longer need to raise money for breast cancer research and treatment.
"As a breast cancer survivor, I know how much hospitals and research organizations depend on donations... money that's given goes towards caring for people who are sick and research to find a cure," says Smith. "Yard Sale for a Cure is a unique and simple way for people to get rid of the stuff they no longer need and support a good cause at the same time. The ultimate goal is that hopefully, one day, other women won't have to endure the same thing I did."
Participants are asked to donate a portion or all of their yard sale proceeds to Yard Sale for the Cure. 100% of funds donated will go to the following charities: the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - Ontario Chapter, The Campbell Family Institute for Breast Cancer Research at Princess Margaret Hospital and Toronto East General Hospital - Oncology Unit.
"We're hoping that all of our beach neighbours will get involved by holding a yard sale or making a donation to this important cause," says Smith, "And just as important to our fundraiser, we encourage all Greater Toronto Area residents to come and shop on Saturday, May 28th at the first annual Yard Sale for the Cure."
If someone outside of the Greater Beaches area wants to host a Yard Sale for the Cure sale, they are welcome to register on the site. In the first year of the event, the organization is not able to distribute kits outside of the Greater Beaches area, but posters can be downloaded online and people are welcome to come to the Beaches to pick up a kit.
Pre-register online at www.yardsaleforthecure.com for a Yard Sale for the Cure kit which includes a t-shirt, pink ribbon and official yard sale sign. Kits can then be picked up at the local RE/MAX Hallmark Realty office at 2237 Queen St East.
The first 500 registrants will be entered into a draw for a grand prize of a Famous Players Big Card - a year of free movies for them and a guest. An additional 25 pairs of Famous Players movie passes will be given away.
Approximately one in nine Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. This is an increase from one in 20 during the 1970s. An estimated 5,200 women died from breast cancer last year alone (source: National Cancer Institute of Canada, Canadian Cancer Statistics, 2004).
Yard Sale for the Cure was created in 2005 by a group of local Beach residents who were inspired by breast cancer survivor Rachael Smith. In its first year, the organization will raise money for breast cancer research and treatment by encouraging residents in the Beaches area of Toronto to host a yard sale and donate a portion of the proceeds to the cause. For more information, please visit Yard Sale For The Cure.


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The vision of the Beloit Historical Society is to make history a focal point of community pride and to serve as a constant reminder to the community of its great and diverse heritage.
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The heart of the Beloit Historical Society and home to over 30,000 individual pieces of Beloit's rich past, here one can take a step back into the early day's of the city's history.
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The unique homestead built in 1857 by James Hanchett and restored to its original glory in every way, is a perfect chance to truly experience life in 19th century Beloit.
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We love when members post photos in their Gwynnie Bee garb! Each week, we pull some of our recent favorites to share with the entire community. You can view more Gwynnie Bee member photos here. Such an awesome variety of styles on a wide range of women! Want to share your photos? See the end of this post for information.


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Most lenders can pre-qualify you for a mortgage over the phone. Based on general questions about your income, debt, assets, and credit history, lenders can estimate how much mortgage you qualify for. However, being pre-qualified and pre-approved are different things. Pre-approval means that you have applied for a mortgage; you have filled out the mortgage application, received your credit report, and verified your employment, assets, etc. When you are pre-approved, you know exactly what the maximum loan amount will be.
A pre-qualified letter is not verified and in essence, does not count for much if you are competing with other buyers who are pre-approved. When you are pre-approved, you and the seller know exactly how much house you can afford. It gives you credibility as an interested buyer and lets the seller know immediately that you will qualify for a loan to buy their property.
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The Lyon Cares Foundation announced today that Joshua's House is the recipient of a $5,000 grant. Their mission is to improve communication around end-of-life issues and to reduce health disparities among underserved populations, including the homeless.
Operated by Lyon Real Estate, the Lyon Cares Foundation offers time, talent, and treasure to local nonprofits that make their communities a better place. Funds are raised through escrow and payroll contributions by Lyon agents and staff in addition to Lyon's annual Golf Tournament.
"Lyon's generous donation will go towards bedding, towels, wash clothes, personal hygiene items, clothing, and supplies for the 20 residents of Joshua's House, the first hospice house for the terminally ill homeless on the West Coast and the seventh in the nation," said Marlene Fitzwater, Founder/Director of Joshua's House. "This donation will touch so many and improve the lives of those experiencing homelessness at the end of life."
"It gives us great pride to give this grant to Joshua's House," said Lyon Real Estate president Pat Shea. "They are doing very important work."
In 2018, each of Lyon's 14 offices, in addition to their headquarters office will be giving two $5,000 grants to organizations of their choice, totaling $150,000. Lyon's Land Park office chose Joshua's House to be the recipient of their grant.
About Lyon Cares Foundation
The Lyon Cares Foundation provides time, talent, and treasure to local nonprofits that make their communities a better place. Our partner in giving is the Sacramento Region Community Foundation. In 2017, Lyon Cares gave grants totaling $160,000 to 32 organizations in the Greater Sacramento Area and will be giving grants totaling $150,000 in 2018.
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Welcome to the Jedi Order!
Ok 'youngling', I know you're just a kid and you're a bit upset because we took your mommy away and stuff. But look on the bright side, you're going to be a Jedi!
Let me tell you about Jedi.
The Jedi are an ascetic order. You're expected to give up everything - possessions, love, money - and contemplate the mysteries of the force.
You'll only be allowed - a personal droid, a flying car, a suite in the giant, polished marble palace on the Capitol, a spaceship, a handful of corusca gems and precious metals for tarting up your lightsabre, food, clothing, access to the fleet of Jedi Starships and their crew, free intergalactic cellphone, some spare cash, a bunch of Jedi gadgets and a giant library full of data.
I know, it's not much, but you get used to it.
Also, since we've acquired an army of genetically engineered clone soldiers as a sort of cross between cannon fodder, slaves and meat shields, feel free to go have them suicide rush some robots. I know you have absolutely no military experience, training or understanding so we're only making you a General.
Also it's kind of bad manners to show up and tell the Galactic senate what to do, but we'll overlook it if you don't do it too often. Master Yoda doesn't like having to clear out his voicemail when the Senators start leaving him whiny messages.
Now don't forget, if you're out on a mission and you have a suspect there's rules. We have a very strict code about how we deal with people - You're only allowed to start cutting their arms and legs off if they don't look like they respect you enough.
Using your powers to alter their thoughts and force them to do stuff is completely above board and there's no moral questionableness there at all.
Don't forget, you're a Jedi, it's OK to randomly kill people and then walk away without leaving a note for the police. It's not your job to deal with that stuff.
Finally we're here to keep the peace, not take sides. So feel free to only involve yourself with rich planets with good hotels and completely ignore places like Tatooine where there's a huge slave trade. You're only allowed to meddle in other people's affairs and cultures when it suits us. I mean come on, a little perk here, huh?


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The LORD is righteous in all His ways And kind in all His deeds. The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him; He will also hear their cry and will save them.


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Who else is watching Herederos del Monte? (Telemundo, M-F, 9 pm EST) … I have to say, this is my favorite telenovela ever.
The first episode, especially for the first 10 minutes, I wasn't so sure it would be good. It was like, "I'm going to go get my brother" {horse racing across field in slow motion}… "Hello brother, let's get our other brother" {two horses racing across field in slow motion…} – Rinse and repeat until you've got all 5 brothers and thus 5 horses racing across a field.
The scene after that was Juan's engagement party to his girlfriend. Again I was laughing because the brothers kept doing these gritos which weren't very convincing. They sounded like frat boys at a kegger instead of rancheros… Then Paula showed up and things got interesting!
I'm having fun watching this because I'm at a point where my Spanish is good enough to understand 99% of what is said. I only asked Carlos once what something meant and it was because a character used a chess analogy which totally went over my head. Of course, even if I were a chess master, there's a good possibility I'd have been otherwise distracted as two of the hermanos del Monte were shirtless and wearing very low slung jeans.
My youngest son came into the room during such a scene and said, "Woah! You can almost see his pepito!" … My response was something like, "Yes, well, he's a farmer guy and he's working hard so he has his shirt off because he's hot…now get back in bed!"
I haven't picked a favorite brother just yet. I initially thought Juan was the cutest but his voice is too deep and he keeps kissing Paula when he's already engaged. Then I liked José but I don't like how he reacted to his girlfriend when she revealed that the baby is his. Qué poca madre! …Lucas is the youngest and very sweet so far, but not for me. Pedro seems very boring – all he does is pine away for his brother's girlfriend. Then there's Gaspar, pero es muy presumido.
My prediction so far is that Lupe, the novia of Gaspar, will turn out to have sangre del Monte. I also think Paula (me cae mal esa mujer!) will turn out not to have sangre del Monte as she claims since her mother seems to be rather promiscuous. (This would mean that Lupe is actually the only true heir.) … Vamos a ver!
Videos, photos and information en español about the show – Los Herederos Del Monte (Telemundo)
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The battle to win back the hearts, minds, and wallets of Red Sox Nation is underway.
It's a cold February night. The lobby of Two International Place is filled with lawyers, investment bankers, and assorted politicos who are there at the invitation of developer Don Chiofaro. They chomp on Fenway Franks as they await the night's big draw: "A Conversation with Red Sox Management."
It features Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, general Ben Cherington, and John Farrell, the new Sox manager who flew back from Florida to participate.
With a replica of Fenway's famous scoreboard behind them, Sox radio announcer Dave O'Brien leads the trio through a series of basic questions: Can pitcher John Lackey deliver for the Sox after Tommy John surgery? (They're hopeful.) How excited are they about the return of Pedro Martinez as a team adviser? (Very.)
But the specifics of this Q-and-A aren't the point; the presence of Lucchino and his colleagues is what matters. They are selling the Sox in a way it was hard to envision as necessary after two championship wins. As Lucchino explains afterwards, "There is a grass-roots campaign to restore faith in the team and in the team's commitment to winning."
Message to Terry Francona: The Sox ownership he maligns as unserious about baseball in the book he wrote with Globe sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy is very serious about it now. The ball club endured two depressing seasons of bad play and too much dugout drama.
There was too much "Sweet Caroline" and not enough sweet victory. The Sox brand is hurting, and the owners know it. Fixing it means fielding a likeable, competitive team and selling it to fans.
According to a recent Globe report, season-ticket renewals are down 10 percent from this time last year. Although those tickets will eventually go to fans on the waiting list, the renewal lapse is a warning to a team that's used to sell-outs.
Sox management has done roadshows before, but there's a new urgency to exciting longtime fans. A similar event hosted by Mayor Tom Menino at the Parkman House preceded this one. The group has also been to Providence and more road trips are planned throughout New England.
Community outreach has always been part of the Sox strategy. Now it's taking on new twists. Jackie Robinson's son, David, joined the Sox in visiting Boston middle schools to celebrate his father's legacy during Black History Month. A radio ad features an announcer with a Boston accent who talks about what it takes to turn things around — hard work that involves taking lots of practice ground balls. It's a clear acknowledgment that the Sox can't live on "pink hat" fans alone. Just like any political candidate, they need their base.
The Sox are also victims of their own success. For 86 years, fans lived and died with a team that always broke their hearts. With World Series wins in 2004 and 2007, a new generation of fans came to expect triumph, not heartache. And the owners came to expect adulation. Over the past 18 months, they learned just how tough a town Boston can be for losers.
As they map out their turnaround strategy, the stakes are high. There is no joy in Mudville, even in front of a friendly downtown crowd. Cherington is the most serious; Farrell is more relaxed. Lucchino is the most candid about acknowledging past problems. He tells the crowd he can't wait to paint a different picture of the Sox and finds the World Series trophies, which were brought to the event, "a little dated."
They can repackage the team, but can they repackage the magic?
Dustin Pedroia and David Ortiz are still crowd-pleasers. Can they stay injury-free? Will Middlebrooks is everybody's favorite newcomer right now. Can he handle the pressure? Is the starting pitching good enough? Will Jon Lester get back to his old form? Will Clay Buchholz stay healthy? Can Mike Napoli replicate the huge season he had in 2011, or will his hip injury keep his batting average down?
Winning is the best revenge and the ultimate marketing tool.
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After moving into an apartment based in Houston for the first time, a tenant would need to make some serious considerations around getting it furnished. This is absolutely true and in spite of the fact that one would want to relax and rest on their oars, this is the time to start doing some hard thinking. Whatever are the accessories you need to get would depend on what your priorities and budget are. If you have a limited budget then you would have to be very pragmatic and realistic when buying the items for your apartment for the first time.
You have to bear in mind that the process of furnishing an apartment for the first time can be both a time consuming and physically exhausting process. This is apart from the fact that you could find yourself actually over spending your budget. This is natural because even while operating with a budget, there would always be that one extra item which would need to be included on your list.
Whatever might be your situation at the initial stage, here are some items which must be considered for your list:
Just like extension cords, these wireless routers are not normally on most tenants' priority lists. However, they should be there. You never would realize how dependent we all are on the internet until we are forced to spend a couple of days without it.
A lot of internet and cable packages comprise a router rental, so get your own that would be movable with you to other apartments in the future or get an appointment set up with your provider for internet service quickly.
Except if you plan on leaving all your things in a dresser which you actually have to buy, ensure that a few packs of hangers are also bought. You can never really settle down when you boxed up all your clothes.
Unless you plan on keeping everything in a dresser (in which case, you'll need to buy one), make sure you pick up a few packs of hangers.
This is actually supposed to be your most important and first priority otherwise you might just consider spending your sleeping moments on the floor. A bed is essential due to the fact that a lot of your waking and resting moments would be spent on it. This is true especially whenever you return home from work. And apart from the bed, there is the mattress which is the vital part of a bed. This means that you need to get the bed and the mattress together. Any mattress which is good for your body should be bought so that your sleeping periods would not be those of discomfort and pain.
In addition, it would get to last for a while before you consider changing it. For the frame of the bed, even though you would want to go for a basic design, getting one with some bright and colorful decorations would not be a bad idea. This design could actually lighten the mood in your room and distinguish it from others in an appealing way.


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Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2007 National Resources Inventory story of our nation's farm and ranch land loss in numbers. The 2007 National Resource Inventory is the most comprehensive natural resource database in the United States—tracking conditions and trends on non-federal land from 1982 to 2007.
The analysis behind these graphics was conducted by our Farmland Information Center (FIC) and first appeared in our Winter 2010 issue of American Farmland magazine. Stay tuned as we release more information on farmland loss across the nation.
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I don't see the point of a laptop so thin that you might break it by looking at it the wrong way!
There's some nice PC laptops like the new toshiba satellite pro's which have core2duo, 3Gb ram, dvd writer, loads of extras.
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EC approves plans for broadband aid in Wales
'Fibrespeed' still awaits final go-ahead
The European Commission (EC) has given the go-ahead for plans by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA) to wire up 14 Welsh business parks in North Wales with broadband.
Due to their remote locations, these business parks are without broadband. But thanks to a scheme called "FibreSpeed Wales", the WDA is looking to hire a wholesale operator to construct an open, carrier-neutral, fibre-optic network linking all 14 business parks.
The network would remain in public ownership but would be available to telecoms operators to provide broadband to business users.
The EC has given the plans its thumbs up saying that the project, backed by public money, "was not likely to distort competition within the EU significantly".
Giving its blessing, competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said the FibreSpeed Wales was "fully in line with the commission's policy to promote broadband in rural and remote areas".
Although the EC has agreed that such a project would not breech state aid rules, however, a final decision on whether the project can proceed is still to be made.
A spokesman for the Welsh Assembly Government told El Reg: "Today's decision by the European Commission to approve the FibreSpeed project as compatible state aid is good news. A final decision on the project's implementation will be later this year." ®
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Won't lie, this image/box got me excited. Apparently on display for a "Summer" showcase innnnnn.... (*drumroll*) Disneyland!
Yeah, the Triforce pieces ruined the game and made me not want to finish.
Everyone that complains about the triforce pieces makes me feel like some kind of freak. I am, quite literally, the only person I know who didn't mind that part of the game at all.


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According to National Geographic's spectacular feature Empire of Rock:
It was a sleepy village two decades ago, when foreign climbers and cavers began frequenting nearby formations. Today domestic tourists vastly outnumber foreign visitors.
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James Cameron's got nothing on Dr. James Delgado. Although the multimillionaire and filmmaker made a historic dive Monday to a depth of 35,576 feet, it's Delgado who headed up the historic excavation of the R.M.S. Titanic – the inspiration for that other guy's most famous film.
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking in April 1912, new images were released in the April 2012 edition of National Geographic that depict the entire wreckage for the first time in a single frame.
For the first time ever, the boat's full expanse is photographed at its resting place more than 2 miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
Although the images look as though they were shot from a distance, the ocean depths are far too dark to light the wreck powerfully enough – and doing so would be dangerous to the ship's remains. Instead, the images were assembled mosaic-style by experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and took months to complete.
To create an accurate image of the full wreckage, researchers layered optical data on top of sonar images gathered from an exhibition in 2010 that is widely regarded as the most extensive research and recovery trip to date. During that trip to the wreck site, the eighth since its discovery, three robots circled the boat using side-scan and multibeam sonar to capture hundreds of images per second.
Delgado, the chief scientist for the excavation and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Director of Maritime Heritage, told the National Geographic the reconstructed images were "a game-changer."
"In the past, trying to understand Titanic was like trying to understand Manhattan at midnight in a rainstorm – with a flashlight."
Delgado will be at HMNS on April 12 to discuss expeditions to the wreck site and the technology that has made such imaging possible.
In addition to discussing his own historic visit to the ocean floor, Delgado will outline options for the Titanic's future preservation.
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Sally Ride was a member of the 1978 astronaut class, the first selected for Space Shuttle flights. On mission STS-7 (18-24 June 1983), she became the first American woman in space. Ride flew one more Shuttle mission - STS-41G (5-13 October 1984) - and served on the Rogers Commission investigating the 28 January 1986 Shuttle Challenger accident before James Fletcher, in his second stint as NASA Administrator, made her his Special Assistant for Strategic Planning on 18 August 1986. Fletcher charged Ride with drafting a new blueprint for NASA's future. She had help from a small staff, a 12-member advisory panel led by Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins, and a six-member space mission design team with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in Schaumburg, Illinois. The result of her 11-month study was a slim report called Leadership and America's Future in Space.
On 22 July 1987, Ride testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space Science and Applications about her report. She told the Subcommittee that the "civilian space program faces a dilemma, aspiring toward the visions of the National Commission on Space, but faced with the realities of the Rogers Commission Report." The National Commission on Space (NCOS), mandated by Congress and launched by President Ronald Reagan on 29 March 1985, had been meant to blueprint NASA's future until about 2005. Headed by Thomas Paine, NASA Administrator from 1968 to 1970, it had produced instead a wide-ranging 50-year master plan for "free societies on new worlds" that would have been dismissed as unrealistic even had it not been unveiled in the chaotic aftermath of Challenger.
Whereas the NCOS report urged immediate adoption of its expansive (and expensive) "vision," Ride outlined four much more limited "Leadership Initiatives" "as a basis for discussion." In a partial break from the space station-moon-Mars progression that had ruled advanced planning since the 1950s, none of Ride's proposals necessarily followed from the others, though by Fletcher's order all would rely to some degree on NASA's low-Earth orbit (LEO) Space Station. Her piloted Mars program, for example, could proceed without her permanent piloted lunar outpost, her robotic program to study Earth from space ("Mission to Planet Earth"), or her robotic Solar System exploration program ("Mission from Planet Earth").
SAIC began to design the Ride Report's piloted Mars program in January 1987. The company presented its final report to the NASA Headquarters Office of Exploration (nicknamed "Code Z" for its mail code) in November of that year. Fletcher had created Code Z in June 1987 and placed Ride in charge as his Acting Assistant Administrator for Exploration. By that time, Ride had announced that she would leave NASA in August. John Aaron, who replaced her as Code Z chief, made SAIC's report the basis for Code Z's piloted Mars and Phobos mission "Case Studies" in Fiscal Year 1988.
SAIC employed a split/sprint Mars mission design. The company credited a 1985 University of Texas/Texas A & M student design project with originating the split/sprint concept. The split/sprint mission would use a pair of spacecraft: an automated one-way cargo spacecraft launched first followed by a piloted spacecraft. Both would burn chemical propellants and rely on aerobraking.
The cargo spacecraft would follow a propellant-saving low-energy path to Mars. It would transport to Mars orbit propellants for the piloted spacecraft's return to Earth. The piloted sprint spacecraft would leave LEO only after the cargo spacecraft was confirmed to have arrived safely in Mars orbit.
In order that its crew should be exposed to weightlessness, radiation, and isolation for as little time as possible, the piloted spacecraft would follow a roughly six-month path to Mars, would remain at the planet for only one month, and then would return to Earth in about six months. This would yield a piloted Mars mission duration of between 12 and 14 months.
In common with most other post-Challenger piloted Mars plans, the SAIC team abandoned the Space Shuttle as its primary means of launching spacecraft components and propellants to LEO. In the Shuttle's place, it proposed a heavy-lift rocket based in part on Shuttle hardware. The new rocket would debut in 1996 with a launch capability of 36 metric tons to LEO, then would evolve by 2002 to carry 91 metric tons to LEO.
Though it featured a piloted mission of short duration - which in most cases would imply expenditure of large quantities of propellants - the split/sprint mission design offered substantial propellant savings by refueling the crew spacecraft in Mars orbit. This would in turn slash the number of costly heavy-lift rockets required to launch Mars spacecraft components and propellants to the Space Station for assembly. A sprint-type mission using a single combined round-trip crew/cargo spacecraft would, SAIC calculated, need 25 heavy-lifters, while the split/sprint design would need only 15. In addition, because the cargo and crew spacecraft would depart Earth more than a year apart, the heavy-lift launches could be spread over a longer period.
By the time the heavy-lifter attained its maximum capability, Phase I of SAIC's three-phase Mars program would be ended and Phase II would have just begun. Phase I, spanning from 1992 through 2002, would include a series of robotic precursor missions. Mars Observer, in 1987 already an approved NASA mission, would map Mars from orbit beginning in 1993; then, in 1995, Mars Observer 2 would establish and act as radio relay for a planet-wide network of hard-landed penetrator sensor stations. Orbital mapping and the seismic/meteorological net would help scientists and engineers select landing sites for automated Mars Sample Return (MSR) and piloted Mars missions.
A pair of MSR spacecraft would depart Earth in 1996 to collect Mars surface samples and return them to high-Earth orbit (HEO) in 1999. A reusable Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle (OMV) based at the Space Station would retrieve the samples from HEO and deliver them for quarantine and initial study to an "isolation half-module" added to the Space Station in 1998. The samples would enable scientists to identify any hazards in Mars's surface materials and would aid engineers in the design of spacecraft, rovers, habitats, space suits, and tools.
Phase I would also include biomedical research on board the Space Station, which would reach Permanent Manned Configuration (PMC) in 1994. Almost immediately after it achieved PMC, NASA would add a Life Science Module. A six-person crew would then conduct a Mars mission simulation on board the Station that would last for the planned piloted sprint mission duration.
If the astronauts remained healthy after the simulation, then in 1996 NASA would begin development of a Mars sprint spacecraft lacking any provision for artificial gravity (that is, no part of it would rotate to create acceleration which the crew would feel as gravity). A module for housing Mars spacecraft assembly crews would join the Station in 2002, kicking off Phase II of SAIC's Mars program. The cargo spacecraft for the first split/sprint mission would depart LEO during the 2003 low-energy Earth-Mars transfer opportunity.
If, on the other hand, biomedical researchers determined that the simulation crew had suffered harm, then NASA would add a "variable-gravity module" to the Station in 2001. Crews would conduct simulations in the spinning module to determine the minimum level of artificial gravity required to safeguard astronaut health. Development of an artificial-gravity sprint spacecraft would not commence until after the simulations ended in 2004. If the artificial-gravity sprint spacecraft needed as much development time as its no-gravity counterpart, then the first piloted Mars mission might not leave Earth until 2013. SAIC largely ignored this possibility.
Launching parts and propellants from Earth's surface for the 238.5-metric-ton cargo spacecraft and its single 349.6-metric-ton reusable Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) would require seven heavy-lift rocket launches. The cargo spacecraft would carry at the center of its 28-meter-diameter bowl-shaped Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) aerobrake heat shield the mission's two-stage, 60-metric-ton Mars Lander. Spherical tanks surrounding the Lander would hold the 82.5 tons of cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants the piloted sprint spacecraft would need for return to Earth. The cargo spacecraft would also carry 4.2 metric tons of propellants for correcting its course during flight from Earth to Mars and 16.4 metric tons of propellants for circularizing its orbit after it aerobraked in Mars's atmosphere. A 9.1-metric-ton cooling system would prevent the propellants from boiling and escaping.
On 9 June 2003, the 30.5-meter-long cargo spacecraft/OTV stack would move away from the Space Station. The OTV would then ignite its engines to push the cargo spacecraft out of LEO. After sending the cargo spacecraft on its way, the OTV would separate, fire its engines to slow itself, aerobrake in Earth's upper atmosphere, and return to the Station for refurbishment, refueling, and reuse.
The cargo spacecraft would intersect Mars on 29 December 2003. It would aerobrake in Mars's upper atmosphere to slow itself so that the planet's gravity could capture it. The cargo spacecraft would rise to its apoapsis (orbit high point), then fire its rocket engines to raise its periapsis (orbit low point) out of the atmosphere and circularize its orbit. Flight controllers would then begin careful checkout and monitoring of the cargo spacecraft and its cargo, paying special attention to the propellants the piloted sprint spacecraft would need for return to Earth.
SAIC offered a piloted spacecraft design with Station-derived pressurized crew modules connected in "race track" formation; that is, in a square with each module linked by short tunnels to the modules on either side of it. A pair of 4.4-meter-diameter, 12.2-meter-long habitat modules, each with a mass of 15.5 metric tons, would form two sides of the square; a 4.4-meter-diameter, 12.2-meter-long, 10.8-metric-ton logistics module would form the third side; and an 8.5-metric ton command module and a 3.2-metric-ton airlock module would together make up the fourth.
A pressurized "bridge" tunnel would cross the inside of the square, linking directly the two habitat modules. Another tunnel would pierce the center of the bridge vertically. Its forward end would link with the top of the drum-shaped, 11.9-metric-ton Earth Recovery Vehicle (ERV), while its aft end would carry a docking unit. The ERV, situated deep within the spacecraft's structure, would double as the crew's solar flare "storm" shelter. Four spherical tanks holding a total of 91.9 metric tons of cryogenic liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen propellants and two rocket engines with a combined mass of 4.6 metric tons would be mounted atop the crew modules.
The ERV/storm shelter would be mounted at the center of an 11.4-meter-diameter, one-metric-ton flattened conical aerobrake heat shield. ERV, ERV aerobrake, crew modules, tunnels, propellant tanks, and engines would nestle within a bowl-shaped, 25-meter-diameter, 16.1-metric-ton MOI aerobrake. Except during propulsive maneuvers and aerobraking, four solar arrays capable of generating a total of 35 kilowatts of electricity at the piloted spacecraft's maximum distance from the Sun (that is, in Mars orbit) would extend beyond the edge of the MOI aerobrake. During maneuvers and aerobraking, the arrays would be folded out of harm's way atop the crew modules, Fully assembled and loaded with propellants, the piloted spacecraft's mass would total 193.7 metric tons.
The assembly crew based at the Space Station would link a newly assembled smaller (197.4-metric-ton) OTV to the piloted spacecraft, then would attach the larger OTV used to launch the cargo spacecraft to the new OTV. This would create a 48-meter-long, 738.7-metric-ton stack.
The stack would move away from the Space Station on 21 November 2004. Shortly thereafter, the first OTV would ignite its engines to start the second OTV and the piloted sprint spacecraft on their way. Its work completed, it would then separate, aerobrake in Earth's atmosphere, and return to the Station for reuse. The second OTV would repeat this performance, then the piloted sprint spacecraft would burn nearly all of its propellants to place itself on course for Mars.
The piloted spacecraft would aerobrake in Mars's atmosphere and fire its engines to circularize its orbit on 3 June 2005. Almost immediately after MOI, the crew would rendezvous with the waiting cargo spacecraft. Three crewmembers would board the Mars Lander, deorbit, and land at the preselected landing site. They would explore the site for from 10 to 20 days. The other three astronauts, meanwhile, would transfer the Earth-return propellants stored on board the cargo spacecraft to the piloted spacecraft's empty tanks. They would also discard the piloted spacecraft's MOI aerobrake.
SAIC noted that the ideal trajectory for a one-year piloted Mars mission launched as soon as possible after the arrival at Mars of the cargo spacecraft on 29 December 2003, would have the piloted spacecraft depart Earth on 8 January 2005, reach Mars on 2 August 2005, depart Mars on 1 September 2005, and return to Earth on 8 January 2006. SAIC's Earth-departure date, a little more than a month ahead of the ideal date, would increase the piloted mission's duration by almost two months.
Launching the piloted sprint spacecraft early would, however, add an abort option to the mission. If, for example, the cargo spacecraft's propellant cooling system failed and allowed the Earth-return propellants to escape while the astronauts were en route to Mars, then they could use the propellants that they would have used to circularize their orbit about Mars after aerobraking to ensure that their spacecraft would skim through Mars's uppermost atmosphere on 3 July 2005. The aeromaneuver, properly executed, would nudge the piloted spacecraft's course enough that it would intersect Earth on 15 January 2006.
SAIC explained that one goal of Phase II of the Mars program would be to seek out a site for a permanent Mars base. The company envisioned that NASA would launch a series of three split/sprint missions by the end of the first decade of the 21st century. In fact, while the first crew explored Mars's surface and worked in orbit to prepare their spacecraft for the trip home, the cargo spacecraft for the second Mars crew would depart LEO boosted by the same large aerobraking OTV the first mission's cargo and piloted spacecraft had used. The second crew would leave Earth orbit in early 2007 and return from Mars in early 2008. The final crew in the series would depart for Mars in early 2009 and return home in early 2010. After that, establishment of the Mars base - Phase III of SAIC's program - could begin. The company provided few details of Phase III.
With their surface mission completed, the first Mars explorers would lift off in their Mars Lander's ascent stage. SAIC explained that the ascent stage would make up about half the mass of the Lander. The piloted spacecraft would rendezvous and dock with the ascent stage in Mars orbit to collect the surface crew and their Mars samples. On 2 August 2006, shortly after casting off the spent ascent stage, the astronauts would fire the piloted spacecraft's twin engines to begin a five-month return to Earth.
Nearing Earth, the astronauts would enter the ERV capsule with their samples and separate from the crew spacecraft. The ERV, which would resemble one of the early designs for NASA's planned Space Station lifeboat, would slide out of a radiation shield housing that would remain behind on the crew spacecraft. The abandoned sprint spacecraft would then fire its engines a final time to miss Earth and enter orbit about the Sun.
The ERV would aerobrake in Earth's atmosphere, then an automated OMV from the Space Station would retrieve it. After physical examinations and a period of quarantine on board the Station, the first Mars crew would return to Earth on board a Space Shuttle.
SAIC wrote that its piloted split/sprint Mars mission could open the door to international space cooperation. Other countries, both allies and rivals, could contribute crewmembers, precursor missions, services such as propellant delivery, funds, spacecraft components, or even entire spacecraft. For all the countries involved, piloted Mars missions would "provide an effective catalyst for significant advances in automation, robotics, life sciences[,] and space technologies. . .[and], through direct experience, address and answer key questions about long-duration human space flight and the role of human beings in space exploration."
NASA did not much care for the Ride Report; in fact, the agency at first refused to publish it. Perhaps this was because Ride acknowledged that NASA could not hope to lead in all areas of space endeavor. In addition, Ride proposed a manned Mars program after Space Station with no intervening manned moon program, placed robotic programs on a par with their piloted counterparts, and implied that NASA might not need a new piloted space initiative after it finished building its Space Station.
In addition, her report's matter-of-fact tone probably annoyed some within NASA. Ride, who by the time she completed her report was nearing the end of her nine-year NASA career, felt free to express herself. She was quick to point out when NASA's actions apparently belied its enthusiasm for piloted missions beyond LEO; for example, she noted the uncomfortable fact that Fletcher had committed only 0.03% of NASA's budget to the new Office of Exploration. This, Ride wrote, gave the appearance that Code Z had been established merely to quell critics who had complained that NASA had no long-term goals.
"Piloted Sprint Missions to Mars," AAS 87-202, J. Niehoff and S. Hoffman, The Case for Mars III: Strategies for Exploration - General Interest and Overview, Carol Stoker, editor, 1989, pp. 309-324; paper presented at the Case for Mars III conference in Boulder, Colorado, 18-22 July 1987.
Leadership and America's Future in Space, Sally K. Ride, NASA, August 1987.
Piloted Sprint Missions to Mars, Report No. SAIC-87/1908, Study No. 1-120-449-M26, Science Applications International Corporation, November 1987.
Humans to Mars: Fifty Years of Mission Planning, 1950-2000, David S. F. Portree, Monographs in Aerospace History #21, NASA SP-2001-4521, NASA History Division, February 2001.
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Unix or UNIX is a general-purpose multi-user operating system developed mostly by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie during 1969 at Bell Labs. About one year later during the early 1970s UNIX was unveiled to the general public. The original goal as it is today was to create a stable, secure, and powerful operating system that is portable to many different hardware platforms.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Senior infielder Jessica Ziegler was named First Team All-Big West it was announced by the conference on Tuesday afternoon. Ziegler was joined on the all-conference lists by teammates Jessica Beristianos, Krista Cobb and Brooke Putich, who all earned Honorable Mention accolades.
Ziegler led UCSB offensively with her .341 batting average - a career best - 59 hits, 25 runs and 21 stolen bases. She ranked seventh among conference players for batting, third for hits and second for stolen bases. She also posted a team-best 17 multiple hit games and was held hitless in just five Big West contests. She ended the season amidst a four-game hit streak.
The San Diego, Calif. native was also a solid defensive presence as well, recording a .990 fielding percentage, the highest among regular starters, and a team-leading 359 putouts in 385 chances. She also led the conference with 19 double plays, helping the team set a new school record and rank ninth nationally with their 23 double plays this season.
Ziegler ends her career as one of the best offensive players in program history ranking fourth all-time for career stolen bases (50), tied sixth for career batting average (.304), sixth for runs scored (100), eighth for hits (166) and tied eighth for triples (5).
The Big West nod was the third of her career; she earned Honorable Mention honors in each of the previous two seasons.
Junior Jessica Beristianos earned her first career Big West nod with her placement on the Honorable Mention list. The third baseman was third on the team with her .245 batting average, but led the squad and was tied fifth in the conference with 11 doubles. She also posted a team-leading 21 RBI, 25 walks and three sacrifice flies. She was tied for second on the team with eight multiple-hit games.
During the conference season, she was second on the team batting .276 and tallied a team-high13 RBI. Her 11 walks in conference play ranked fifth among Big West players. Just this past weekend, she led the Gauchos to a series win over league-winner UC Davis and was named Big West Co-Player of the Week.
Beristianos already ranks ninth all-time in the Gaucho record book for career RBI (76) and fifth with 33 doubles.
Sophomore Krista Cobb, who was the Big West's 2009 Co-Freshman Pitcher of the Year and a First Team selection, earned her second conference award with Honorable Mention accolades. The West Hills, Calif. native pitched her way to a 6-6 record in Big West games and posted a 3.08 ERA during the conference season.
Cobb led UCSB to a series sweep of Long Beach State (May 1-2), pitching all 24 innings against the 49ers. She concluded the series with a 10-inning shutout of the 49ers to secure the Gauchos first ever sweep over Long Beach. The sophomore concluded the season by posting a 2-1 record over UC Davis last weekend. She is seventh all-time in the UCSB record books for career shutouts (11) and tied 10th with 26 career wins.
Sophomore Brooke Putich's Honorable Mention nod marks her first career Big West honor. The designated player and outfielder finished the season second among the Gauchos with her .294 average, 37 hits, 17 runs and eight stolen bases. She was tied second on the team with her eight multi-hit games and put together the longest Gaucho hit streak of the season when she posted eight consecutive games with a hit (April 3-May 1).


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Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability
The goal of CSEP is to develop a virtual, distributed laboratory-a collaboratory-that can support a wide range of scientific prediction experiments in multiple regional or global natural laboratories. This earthquake system science approach seeks to provide answers to the questions: (1) How should scientific prediction experiments be conducted and evaluated? and (2) What is the intrinsic predictability of the earthquake rupture process?
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A Prospect doctor who called 911 to report an alleged burglary landed himself in jail when police found cocaine and other drugs in his home and he admitted to firing a 9mm handgun inside.
Alan B. "Barry" Klein, 57, of Prospect, erroneously reported a burglary at his Hillcrest residence about 5:40 p.m. March 7 in the 12800 block of Deer Cross Drive.
Klein told police there were four people burglarizing his home.
Police found Klein sitting in his neighbors' front yard. He acted "erratic and paranoid" when speaking with police.
He had a firearm in each of his front jacket pockets and a noticeably runny nose, according to police.
Police searched the home for intruders and found no evidence of a burglary.
But officers found a dinner plate shoved under Klein's bed with two credit cards, white residue that appeared to be cocaine and a ripped plastic bag on it.
Officers also found a straw in his bedroom with white residue and a toilet paper holder on the toilet with the white residue on it.
In Klein's living room, police found the white residue on a gun case.
A 9mm handgun confiscated by police had a shell casing jammed in the slide. Klein told police he fired a round through the floor of his home while in a panic that intruders had entered his home.
According to police, "no one was found to be in the residence and there was no evidence supporting that anyone ever was in the home illegally."
Klein operates a medical practice in the 4900 block of U.S. 42 near the Gene Snyder Freeway.
When questioned about other drugs in his home, Klein told police they'd find hydrocodone pills in his kitchen that had been prescribed to another person.
After transporting Klein to the Oldham County Jail, officers found hydrocodone pills in the floorboard and seat of the police cruiser that matched pills found in Klein's kitchen.
Klein is charged with public intoxication (excludes alcohol), possession of cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, wanton endangerment, tampering with physical evidence and possession of a controlled substance.
He is scheduled to appear in Oldham district court for arraignment at 9 a.m. March 20.
Klein also has charges pending in Jefferson County. He is scheduled to appear in Jefferson district court April 10 to change his plea on DUI and reckless driving charges from 2012.
Two days later, Klein is scheduled to appear in Jefferson district court for a pretrial conference on other charges from 2012.
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Shipping Matt Schaub out of town on Friday accomplished two tasks for the Houston Texans.
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First, the team opened up considerable cap room by passing the aging quarterback's weighty $11 million salary to the free-wheeling Oakland Raiders. Second, a vacancy was created to bring a new signal-caller to town, presumably a rookie.
Plugged-in beat writer John McClain of the Houston Chronicle wrote late Friday that the Texans under Bill O'Brien "have given another indication" that they plan to draft a quarterback with the first-overall pick in May's draft.
McClain went on to say that "we'd be naïve" to believe that Ryan Fitzpatrick is viewed as a season-long answer under center after being paid like a backup with a two-year deal worth just $7.5 million.
NFL Media's Daniel Jeremiah sees the same, saying Friday: "That's a backup quarterback making backup money. You're still in the market for a starter. I think with that first-overall pick, Blake Bortles is very much in play."
Jeremiah would rather see the Texans take Jadeveon Clowney and grab a passer in the second round, but he acknowledged that "all signs increasingly point to them picking a quarterback with that first-overall pick."
Who would have thought two months ago that Matt Schaub could send such shockwaves through the league? The Raiders have fallen in love with his aging arm and, at that price tag, Oakland appears out of the running for a passer in Round One.
The Texans, though, are in position to pair O'Brien -- a renowned quarterback tutor -- with the young signal-caller of his picking.
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