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1st round: Alec Ogletree, LB, Georgia.
Remember that weird rumor last year about the Seahawks wanting Mark Barron so they could move Kam Chancellor to outside linebacker? That was interesting. Then it got more interesting when John Schneider said himself after the draft that Barron was among Kuechly and Irvin at the top of Seattle's draft board (admitting that they would have taken Barron took some balls, btw). If Seattle drafts Barron, Chancellor is getting moved either to LB or to big nickle safety. Obviously. You have to admit, there is some logic to the move- it would have upgraded our speed at TWO positions with one pick. Chancellor has always been like a great linebacker playing safety.
The last few weeks have rightfully quieted the masses calling for an overhaul at WR. The truth is that our WR group is actually pretty solid and deep too. But is someone like Robert Woods a big enough upgrade over Doug Baldwin or Golden Tate to justify a 1st round pick? The answer to that question is murky enough to suggest that Seattle might look away from passing offense in round one and simply look for the best player available at an area of relative need.
Kam Chancellor is 6'3", 232 pounds. Alec Ogletree is 6'3", 236 pounds. Watch him on youtube and tell me he's not a Pete Carroll type player. He is deceptive fast, smart, physical, and can even rush the passer a bit. He is very much like that Kam Chancellor at WLB experiment we never got to see. My only complaint with Ogletree is that he is a little too conservative attacking the running game. The same was true of Bobby Wagner and Luke Kuechly in college, and as we know Schneider was a big fan of both those LBs. Hesitancy can easily be coached up in a short period of time and even if that doesn't work, he'd play weakside for us and wouldn't factor against the run as much as Wright or Wagner would.
Drafting Ogletree would give Seattle a premium talent at it's final area for improvement on defense. He may not even reach our pick, but if he does, I expect him to be seriously considered.
2nd round: Tavon Austin, WR, WVU
Seattle has an interesting situation at WR. All three of their starters are average or better. They have quality depth too. Sure, they could use an AJ Green or a Megatron. But you won't find one of those in this draft. There is a glut of late 1st / early 2nd round players that really aren't much better or different than Tate or Baldwin. It's even harder to reach for a WR around the middle of round 1 when you might not start him as a rookie anyway.
This glut of 2nd tier WRs will likely cause a few quality options to slide- just like Reuben Randle and Mohammed Sanu slid last year in 2012's deep WR class. My guess is that Austin will be one of those guys who slips a bit. Unlike the other top WRs, he has size concerns and isn't even the leading WR on his own team. That said, the Seahawks have been a great "moneyball" franchise in the draft for evaluating players with tons of talent that slip in the draft for some peripheral factor. McCoy fell because he smoked weed. Chancellor fell because of his tweener label. Guy fell because of his awful forty that he ran while he was hurt. Irvin was called a reach because of every reason imaginable other than his pass rush. Russell Wilson, need I say more? The Seahawks are always looking for the outcast with talent to burn.
There is one other reason I have my suspicions that Austin could be a Seahawks target- he's one of the very few WRs in the whole draft that gives Seattle something they don't have already. Marquess Wilson would be redundant with Sidney Rice. Robert Woods would be redundant with Doug Baldwin. Austin will probably run his forty in the 4.3s, and even if he doesn't, it's clear from watching him that he has elite field speed. Austin is a terrific kick returner too, and gives Seattle an option to consider when they eventually move on from Leon Washington.
Austin is more than a fast player with moves. He runs smooth routes and has reliable hands. He's been very productive not just as a return man but as a WR too. I'd go so far as to say that he's a top 10 talent in a mid round body. He's a similar kind of player to Desean Jackson, who himself was a 2nd round pick. Even if Austin can't beat out Baldwin / Tate for a starting job, he'd still provide a lot of value as a return man. I don't think he'd end up sitting though. Seattle needs an explosive playmaker, and Austin is a bit like the CJ Spiller of WRs.
Whether Seattle drafts Austin or not, I suspect they will wait to round 2 to get one. This is a fairly deep WR class and the selection of available options should be almost as good in round 2 as it will be in round 1.
3rd round: Barkevious Mingo, DE, LSU
Mingo has just one sack in seven games this season, and he's only a junior, so there is a very good chance that Mingo won't be in the 2013 draft at all. But on the chance he is, I don't expect him to go earlier than the 3rd round.
Mingo is going to be a bit of a project. Remember during the preseason when Bruce Irvin had a love affair with the bull rush and it made him completely irrelevant? I see a lot of that same issue with Mingo. Mingo is 6'5" 240, but on the field he looks more like 6'2" 235. He's actually a lot like Bruce Irvin: Mingo has a high motor and has terrific speed and ridiculous short area quickness. And like Irvin at WVU, it does not appear that Mingo is being coached worth a damn at rushing the passer.
Pete Carroll worships speed at pass rusher and Mingo has plenty of it. Seattle needs to start developing a successor for Chris Clemons, or add depth in case of injury. If Mingo can put it all together he's going to be another Bruce Irvin- a disruptive situational player that can be especially dangerous for mobile QBs that likes to hold the ball.
4th round: Matt Scott, QB, Arizona
As things stand now, there are two clear 1st round QBs: Geno Smith and Matt Barkley. It's possible that both could be top 5 picks, which could inflate the market at QB and create the same kind of vacuum effect that made Ryan Tannehill, Jake Locker, and Christian Ponder high picks the last two years. The beneficiaries? Probably EJ Manuel. Possibly Tyler Wilson. Possibly Logan Thomas on the off chance that he declares. Maybe even Landry Jones could be this year's Brandon Weeden.
After that, you still have the excellent but short Aaron Murray and the 5th year senior 1st year starter Matt Scott.
Now in a typical draft, there are only about six or seven QBs drafted, and by the time you get to the 5th or 6th guy, you are usually in the late rounds. This should remain true in 2012 considering that very few teams are looking for help at QB compared to years in the recent past. As much as I like Matt Scott's NFL potential, there are a lot of mid tier QBs this year without a ton of demand from teams, so it's completely feasible that he could last into the mid rounds or later.
Through trade, free agency, and the draft, Seattle has added five QBs over 3 seasons so far (Whitehurst, Tjack, Portis, Flynn, and Wilson), and that's not counting obvious roster fodder players like JP Losman. Schneider has talked publicly about his roots in Green Bay and how he believes in adding QBs every year. This is a very good and very deep QB class, with moderately low demand, which means this year is a great year to grab a QB almost anywhere and feel good about the value you are getting.
There are lot of reasons to like Matt Scott. He's been productive. He can progress through reads. He's accurate. He's highly mobile in the Aaron Rodgers sense. He makes smart decisions and has good leadership. He has a good arm with good throwing mechanics (ball gets out fast and high). His footwork isn't perfect, but it's no worse than Geno Smith's. That Matt Scott shows this much talent and development already despite riding the bench for four years is impressive.
Scott would need some time to add weight, maybe two offseasons. He's currently at 196 pounds.
There are many times when I watch Matt Scott that I swear I'm watching Aaron Rodgers again. Last year I thought Russell Wilson was the bargain of a good QB class. This year I think that player is Matt Scott. If given some time to acclimate to the NFL, I think he could be a good NFL starter, and a great low cost insurance policy on Russell Wilson.


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Can you forgive someone who tried to kill you? How far do the bonds of family bend until they break?
This season, Debra has been struggling with killing LaGuerta, wishing she had killed Dexter instead. Vogel brings her back to the site of the incident to help her get through it. Part of her recuperation is watching an old session of Vogel with Harry as he tried to work through living with Dexter.
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Angie who? The female officer who has always been in the background this season. The show just hasn't told us any of her backstory. Or current story. Which tends to make me think she's a killer. On this show, I give it a fifty-fifty chance.
But she's not the only one. We also met Jamie's friend, Cassie and Masuka's alleged daughter, Vickie, although I'm not sure I believe her even though they share a creepy laugh. At least one of them is a killer. Maybe even both.
Quinn lost favor with Angel when he nearly started a bar fight while defending Deb's honor. We love the "white knight" act, but its tearing apart his relationship with Jamie. But she has her own way of getting back at him in the bedroom. That's what I call girl power.
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From loving him, to being in love with him, to attempted murder, Deb has put Dexter through everything. Sometimes you have to know when to walk away. But maybe it's too late for that.
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Cards nip Brewers in series opener
Milwaukee, WI – Allen Craig and Pete Kozma drove in two runs apiece to lead the St. Louis Cardinals past the Milwaukee Brewers, 6-5, in the opener of a four-game set at Miller Park.
Yadier Molina and David Freese both added two hits and an RBI for the Cardinals, winners in seven of their last 10 games.
Jake Westbrook (2-1) yielded just one run on six hits while striking out four over six innings. Edward Mujica allowed one run, but stranded a runner in the ninth to pick up his seventh save of the season.
"It was exciting to watch the guys celebrate with him," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny said of Westbrook, who picked up with 100th career win.
Ryan Braun and Carlos Gomez both had two hits and drove in a run, while Jean Segura, Martin Maldonado and Alex Gonzalez added one RBI apiece for the Brewers, losers in five of their last eight.
Wily Peralta (2-2) was saddled with the loss after giving up six runs on 11 hits over 4 1/3 innings.
St. Louis scored all six of their runs with two outs in the third inning.
With the bases loaded, Craig ripped a base hit to left field to score Westbrook and Matt Carpenter. Molina and Freese followed with back-to-back RBI base hits, and Kozma capped the inning with a two-run single to left.
"You see some weird things, and it is not always fair. They got a few broken bat hits, but also hit the ball hard and had a few ground balls that just got through," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "Peralta made some decent pitches in that third inning, but they got some hits."
Maldonado got the Brewers on the board with an RBI single in the fourth.
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Braun's RBI single in the eighth made it 6-4, and Gonzalez pushed a run across with a two-out base hit in the ninth inning, but Mujica was able to get pinch- hitter Jonathan Lucroy to strike out to end the game.
Game Notes
St. Louis went 5-for-8 with runners in scoring position ... Westbrook hasn't allowed a home run over 33 2/3 innings this season ... Milwaukee lost for just the fifth time this season when scoring at least four runs ... Gomez, who went 2-for-4, extended his hitting streak to nine games ... After the game the Brewers announced third baseman Aramis Ramirez will be reinstated from the 15- day disabled list on Friday. To make room for Ramirez on the active roster, Milwaukee optioned outfielder Josh Prince to Triple-A Nashville.


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July 2, 2013
Procter & Gamble could fill most of a corner drug store with its products. Whether they're under your arms (Old Spice, Secret), in your mouth (Crest, Scope) or hair (Head & Shoulders, Pantene), on your face (CoverGirl, Gillette), in your alarm clock (Duracell), under the kitchen sink (Bounty, Dawn) or filling your dog's dish (Iams, Eukanuba), P&G brands probably cover you and your home. So what did an already ubiquitous consumer goods giant have to gain from inviting a group of DePauw students to its Cincinnati headquarters?
Last January, F.D. Wilder, P&G's vice president of global market and strategy planning and a 1982 DePauw graduate, reached out to his alma mater for help. Hoping to tap into youthful insight from outside the company, he asked senior seminar students in the Management Fellows Program for suggestions about how to improve the online presence of three P&G brands: CoverGirl, Olay and DDF, a line of dermatologist-recommended skincare products P&G acquired in 2007.
Gary D. Lemon, professor of economics and management and director of the Management Fellows Program, worked with Wilder on how he could engage students in a project that would benefit not only them, but also P&G. "The project was a real coup for us," Lemon says. "There are a lot of other schools P&G could have reached out to do this, or we could have done some theoretical thing in class, but they really wanted to hear what our students had to offer."
Knowing that an understanding of P&G's corporate culture, its brand strategies and target markets would be crucial to the students' success, Wilder (left, at a Management Fellows meeting) provided the three project teams with mentors from the company – Xavier L. Pokorzynski '00, Elizabeth Q. Ratchford '11 and David C. Warner '00 – all DePauw alumni.
"The mentors were the only way we had to discover the business side of P&G's operations and to see the work currently being done on the brands," says Paige W. Gooch '14, a member of Team CoverGirl. "We needed that insider viewpoint to understand how we should present our findings."
During the spring semester, the students audited P&G's brand websites and social media accounts, and ordered their products from Amazon, taking note of everything from the sample images to how the items were packaged. The three teams also conducted surveys online, at a campus sorority and, as Team DDF did, outside a cosmetics store at an Indianapolis shopping mall. Many of their findings were similar: Certain kinds of social media messages gained traction, earning Facebook shares and Twitter retweets, while others fell flat. And only a small portion of the people they surveyed had ever purchased beauty and skincare products via the Internet. By engaging with consumers digitally, offering expert guides and exclusive product promotions, the students believed P&G would not only grow the online presence of the three brands, but also make headway in the surprisingly unexploited realm of online sales.
As their May trip to Cincinnati approached, the teams polished their presentations, tailoring more specific recommendations to each brand. Team CoverGirl saw an opportunity to better align the makeup line's social media messaging with its easy, breezy marketing pedigree, while Team Olay pushed for a more streamlined, VIP online shopping experience. Team DDF – half of whom were computer science majors – built their presentation into a custom-designed website, using interactive web technologies to leverage the brand's dermatologist backing.
When P&G's Wilder and three mentors made a final visit to DePauw in mid-April to meet with the project teams, most of the students' work had already been completed. The conversations instead turned to what to expect during their visit to P&G. Who else would be there? Would they be open to critique?
The anxiety was understandable. Presenting at an international corporate headquarters would keep an industry veteran up at night, let alone a group of mostly college juniors. But three weeks later, in meeting rooms filled with some of P&G's top-level managers, their nerves were overshadowed by three months of careful research and planning.
"At the end of our presentation, CoverGirl's brand manager told us we hit the nail on the head with our research and to wait a few months to see what CoverGirl is rolling out in its new marketing campaign," Gooch says. "It was so rewarding to hear those comments, and it's exciting to see how CoverGirl changes because of this project."
Gooch's sentiment was echoed by the other students. "They seemed blown away by our recommendations and intent on making the necessary changes to implement them," Team Olay's Bartholomew "Bart" W. Freibert '14 agreed. "I don't think any of us expected our work to be so well received."
Even the Old Spice brand, though not represented by a project team, borrowed from the Team DDF presentation, creating an interactive banner ad to promote a new shaving gel.
A week later, Wilder wrote to Lemon to reflect on the experience. "As [the students] were presenting, I felt like I was with a team of P&G colleagues," he said, adding that he'd just returned from a trip to Palo Alto, Calif., where representatives from Apple, Google, Facebook and Yahoo had told him many of the same things the DePauw students did.
"It was a perfect chance to show how a liberal arts education can be used to think outside the box, and a real world example of how creative people who can communicate their ideas effectively can be extremely successful in the business world," Lemon says of the project. "This is what we try to sell about DePauw when we talk to prospective students. Very few undergraduates get the opportunity to do what these students accomplished."Back


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...and I'm celebrating on a small island where the major export is fruity run drinks.
Time flies, doesn't it? I remember starting this blog one summer. I just wanted a place to talk about genealogy. Five years later, I'm still talking about genealogy.
I've made many friends and found new cousins thanks to this blog. I am grateful to each and every one of my readers.
This blog has always been written as a conversation with myself at the table. Eventually people started sitting at that table. I can't believe you do, but I'm glad you're there.
I really am out of the country right now, so I'm not able to respond to comments in a timely manner. I blame this hotel view for my lack of online interaction:
I'll be back soon, I promise. Until then, it's time for some blogiversary conch fritters:
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Re: What do you think about Casey Cooper (COOP3RDRUMM3R)
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I think the guy is a fair player. I don't dislike him particularly on any level but I think there are some glaring weaknesses there that perhaps he isn't aware of.
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I can't place why... but he annoys me. Shows off too much, like when Taylor Swift "got down" while playing her song at the Grammys, I'm just like... "oh... You're cool... NAHT!".
Meytal Cohen is one of the only youtube cover people I watch on a regular basis.
Christopher Walken would be pleased.
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This whole thread is weird to me. Most of the time when someone uses trickery to promote themselves, we run them out on a rail and lock the thread.
The drumming and production is far from remarkable but as was said earlier, it's not the worst thing on the internet. I don't think it's worth this many responses, but maybe that's why I'm adding mine to the pile.
This kid could be doing far worse things than posting mediocre videos on youtube, so in that regard I guess I'll give it a score of "meh..."
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I got through about 30 seconds, and in that time he executed everything well. Unfortunately, most bands/artists don't want all that syncopated snare stuff, they want 2 & 4. They really, really do. Some songs sound great with the offbeat snare, but the song in this video isn't one of them.
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that's church?! I need to turn in my atheist card and start going...nah. holy crap ( sorry lord) but a stage and lights and stuff, that's not the image I get when I think of my church.
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Le sigh.
That is all.
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I watched the last video linked for nearly two minutes and didn't hear two bars he played alike.
Good luck finding steady session work, buddy.
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"Jus suum cuique"
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Wow. Just checked out some of the vids. Never heard of this guy, but it's pretty amazing that he's got millions of views on his channel. Just goes to show how far savvy promotion and stick flips will get you.
Now, HERE'S how to do a cover, IMO. Troy Wright is one of my favorite "youtube drummers", mainly because you know for a fact that this guy can cut it on pretty much any stage once you hear him play. Absolutely killer .
Just my $.02!
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Not a huge fan and not sure why he gets so many views but at the end of the day he's doing something he loves and what makes him happy just like all of us... Drums! Although saying that I which he would stop doing stick tricks and just play the drums haha! :)
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Or maybe I'm the one who's been doing this all wrong, getting paid to play with other musicians in front of live audiences... what a chump I am. :(
j/k of course, but I wouldn't trade all the fame on YouTube for whatever it is I've achieved in real life.
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Still fair play to him, guess I just wish I had all those cymbals and practical use for them instead of sitting pretty on a rack!
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Endorsements are not (necessarily) about drummers that deserve or have somehow earned a helping hand. It's a mutual agreement intended to benefit the manufacturer through the artist's exposure to potential customers.
Also, nobody except he and the companies know what he gets "on a platter". There are very few endorsements that are completely comped, and many discounts aren't as hefty as you'd think. The consideration to the artist is based on - and here's that word again - exposure.
Cooper's got exposure, but I wonder if he'll ever get a gig?
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The best thing that this drummer could do is read all of Bermuda's posts and take them to heart to improve.
Getting instant feedback from great players when you are young is a key to becoming a good player and getting better.
It's funny... I was just watching a Taylor Hawkins interview last night where he was talking about how when he was a teen he thought he was the best f$)(@&: drummer in the world...
... and then he started working and went into the studio and of course was humbled..
This kid, I think, probably has that same (typical young) attitude.
He'll learn.
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Hey everyone!
My name is Casey Cooper, but on YouTube my username is "COOP3RDRUMM3R"
I was directed to this forum post by someone on Twitter and after reading it I just wanted to take a little bit to clear up a few things for all of you, as well as offer some insight into a few things. This will be a long response, because I am always long winded and also because there is a ton to respond to.
Firstly, although practically every response on this page was highly critical and an attempt to point out everything each person could find that was annoying, or bad, or wrong, or a mistake in what I do, I would like to thank everyone for checking out the videos. It's obvious they are not for you, but to know you took the time to check them out (whether it was just to bash them or not) is appreciated. I would request that if you truly feel you need to be a judge of what I do and my drumming that instead of judging "gangnam style" (a video in which I dance and goof off and wear a suit and sunglasses and basically just fool around) or some of my older stuff, you take a minute to check out something new. Everyone has a journey musically and we are all improving. I leave up the old stuff because I like to show my viewers that exact point, we all were once a lesser version of ourselves now. We must practice and play and gain experience to improve and no one should be frustrated or discouraged because their level now doesn't match up to someone else's current level. They were where you are now at one point in their life.
I'd like to next point out that many of your statements are very true and I in no way disagree. There are many points in my videos (more predominantly in my older videos, but not absent from more recent ones) where there are timing issues, dirt and definitely apparent immaturity in my playing (where parts that shouldn't be played are played). I could have used multiple takes, or camera cuts, or done it multiple times until the timing and everything was absolutely perfect, but that's not what I want to show my viewers. None of them are perfect, so why on earth should I make it seem like I am? I'm supposed to tell them its ok to make a mistake, we all do, but to be encouraging them to practice and get better.
I think the thing that gets me the most about threads like these about myself is everyone always instantly feels the need to say that I'm some cocky dude who thinks he's all that and I need to be humbled and taught that I'm not that great, like the quote from the last post here:
Now, another important thing that is driving me crazy, is reading you all bashing on the YouTube thing. You're asking yourselves "what is it all worth?" "what has he actually gotten out of it?" and saying things like it doesn't matter and live playing in a paid gig is all that matters. We're in the age of technology. I reach more people in ONE DAY than almost any drummer in the world reaches through live shows in a month. And that's not me being a cocky dude and bragging, it's just the truth. My YouTube isn't about what I get out of it. (Although I admit, I started it thinking all about me me me and what it could do for me) but my YouTube is about what I can do for OTHERS. I have quite a few people EVERY DAY that tell me that they watched my videos and then they went and learned to play drums, or they got the encouragement to go jump back on a kit they hadn't played in forever, or they joined their school band, or a church band, or a rock band because after watching my videos they saw how much fun I was having, or they heard me tell them that with hard work and practice they can accomplish anything and so they put in the hard work to make it happen. My channel is about the drum community and positively influencing it. Creating more drummers and inspiring people to go out and have fun. And yes, a counter argument could be that it would be better for someone more technically talented or knowledgable or experienced than myself to do that, and if that is you, PLEASE DO IT. I want everyone to help out the drum community.
I think I'm most disappointed in the moderator "bermuda"'s response to what I do. Sarcastically putting it down and wondering "if I'll ever get a gig?"
What if I never did? Is that such a terrible thing? Even if I didn't get a gig, but some of the kids I inspired to play drums and to work their tails off to be the best they can be, do, then I feel I have won. He's a moderator on a great drum forum, I think it would be way cooler to have a much more positive approach to the drum community than sarcastically putting something down just because it's not what you do, or like.
And lastly (because this is SUPER SUPER LONG). Even though your opinions don't bother me to the point I feel I need "back myself up" or spit a resume or anything, I would like to point out a few things that might change your mind a bit about what I do.
Just because I do something in a video doesn't mean that's what i feel is best in a different scenario. I overplay almost everything in all of my videos. Why? Because that's what my viewers want to see. I can't remember the last time someone came on a video and said "I came to YouTube to watch the most simple rendition of a song you can possibly do, so I would appreciate it if you could just play time for 4 minutes and I'll watch"
I don't think any of you can argue that I know what I'm doing in terms of reaching an audience and having people enjoy what I do in video format. In a live setting, there are times where I tone down the overplaying quite a bit. There are still times where I keep it there because people love it, but for you to make a statement that I don't understand that if I were to play for a big name artist they'd want me to play more time and less fills, that's crazy. Of course I understand this, but I also understand that the same principle doesn't translate to a visual medium like YouTube. I know what I'm doing can't be that out of line, because I have been recognized by people who are actually somebody in the music industry. Zakk Wylde shared my cover of his track Stillborn just the other day (which is a cover that's not perfect), Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park tweeted out my cover of their new song and was impressed. Chad Szeliga and I are friends and he shares my videos. And my favorite drummer on the entire planet, Chad Smith was blown away by what I do when I met him. (Not technically impressed of course lol, but excited about what I do for the drum community).
As far as gigs go, no, I don't play for Bruno Mars, but do you? I in no way intend to bash anyone commenting on this thread, but I feel most of you probably play similar gigs to what I do. I get paid (and I'm on scholarships) to play for Georgia State's marching band and basketball band, I get paid to play and fill in at various churches, I get paid to appear and play at various events, and although I don't do it as much anymore due to time constraints because of YouTube/GSU, I used to get paid to play with quite a few bands in the Atlanta area and still get asked to fill in all the time. Not to mention, I'm 22 years old and still in school. I'm working my way towards the bigger gigs, I'm not 80 and past my chances. lol
And as far as exposure/endorsements/all that jazz goes. I wish everyone could have endorsements and you are very correct that it all boils down to exposure. No, Pearl and Zildjian don't think I'm the best drummer out there, but they both think I have enough ability to positively represent the company and they both are a fan of what I do for the drum community. No, I'm not most deserving technically speaking, but I will say you'd be hard pressed to find someone who has worked harder on his career/exposure/network etc than myself. That is one of the biggest things I try to teach the people who watch me. I don't do a lot of technical/technique based lessons, because I feel I am not the one to be speaking about that, but I do lessons discussing hard work, encouragement, going after your dreams and having the most fun you can while playing. That is what I promote.
If there is one thing I can ask of you, let it be that you positively influence the drum community and use your powers for good. You don't have to like my playing or anything, and heck you don't even have to like me if you don't, but don't go around judging people that you don't really know. Someone could be reading your responses, and be discouraged because they still have a way to go, themselves.
I appreciate you reading this, if you did.
Have a great one, work hard, jam hard, and have fun!
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Good on you, Casey, for responding to the comments on this thread.
You're well on your way to becoming an awesome player and as you said, you have lots of time to improve. At 22, you have had a great start!
I don't see most of the comments on here as critical in a bad way... When I was a teen, my older brothers were both already established professional musicians. When I started gigging with them when I was 17 when we'd rehearse they'd be giving me suggestions very similar to the spirit of what guys like Bermuda said on here... mainly just emphasizing the beauty in knowing how to and when to play simple and really dig into the groove.
For what it's worth, when I was 17 I thought I was the best F($&@@(; drummer in the world (just like what Taylor Hawkins said, which I thought was how every guy felt at that age)!
By the time I was 22 (like you) I saw my playing as a work in progress....Over 10 years later one of the favourite parts of my day is sitting down at the drums and playing music.
Don't let any criticism or comments get you down, Casey, but also use the legit and helpful ones to help you get better.
All the best.
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I'm sorry but there should be a word limit on posts, whether offensive or defensive ones.
Your drum channel obviously garners plenty of attention though.
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Hi Casey,
Thanks for joining in, it's always best to get info from the horse's mouth and I'm glad to learn you're not just a YouTube Drummer. I will stand corrected on my gig comments.
You need to understand that the term "YouTube Drummer" doesn't necessarily carry a lot of credibility, thanks to some unfortunate exploitation by certain well-known folks. Also, the original post in this thread really set you up as something extra special, which is a lot for any drummer to live up to.
I won't backpeddle on my comments however, you do need to work on locking-in with tracks. But at 22, you've got a lot of musical growth ahead. In fact, the learning process never really ends, there are certainly things I could stand to improve (perhaps not just musically!)
Also, my being a moderator doesn't mean that my opinions necessarily reflect those of the other moderators or the majority of the membership. I watch what I say for other reasons, but not because I'm a mod.
Anyway, welcome, and please feel free to contribute on a regular basis. I think you'll find everyone is pretty nice, when they're not jumping down your throat! :)
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Casey, you're a huge inspiration to me and others. The first cover I watched was your remix "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark" and it blew me away. I prefer to listen to your Get Lucky remix compared to the original song because it sounds way better. I think its cool that you stood up to to these guys bashing on your videos. You said so yourself that you didn't take lessons. You see a bunch of guys on YouTube playing on References that their parents bought with the A Customs they bought them. You play on Exports with cymbals you earned and sound wayyyyy better than them and have more exposure than them.
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Hey Bermuda...
It's funny, right after I hopped in the car tonight after re-reading your post that Casey had referred to guess what was on the radio?
Weird Al!
I chuckled right away, of course!
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In Casey's post, he asked if anyone here plays with Bruno Mars...
Probably not, but Bermuda, correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Bruno on Weird Al's recent album, Apocolypse?
("Check out this rad Boba Fett, he's playing clarinet!")
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A very eloquent answer I thought Mr Cooper.
Set a few things straight, but best of all agreed that you, like the rest of us, are always open to legit criticism in order to get better.
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I thought you handled this very well. It's tough not to get over defensive and bite back. You kept it professional I thought. As a drummer in his 30s who is getting back into it, I envy your age and skill level, even if there is room for improvement as some have mentioned. There is good advice here that was given so make the best of it. Keep it up.
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there are videos on youtube of guys falling off of bicycles that have thousands of views, doesn't mean much. this is a drum forum, if your drumming isn't as good as its claimed to be, your going to hear it.
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I watched your most recent one, your drumming is really good, looks very rehearsed. I probably look a bit anti-social when I make a video but I would rather that than your plastic smile, but hey they probably encourage you to do that stuff. Are you over-rated? Yes, but I'm sure that kind of criticism will motivate you to want to live up to your hype.
Watch a purdie shuffle here!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPmH1wrSiQ
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"I appreciate you reading this, if you did. "
I did. I read the entire thread, as well. Personally, I think the OP set you up. The original vid set you up. Then I watched three or four of the vids on your channel, maybe 60 seconds each. Then I read more of the thread and saw the link for the live clip. Watched a minute or so of that. Finally got to here.
Someone, I think it was Bermuda, mentioned Travis Barker. That was my initial thought. Not a style that moves me very much, nor the music it's associated with. So, that makes me biased, I guess.
You do have a lot of energy. In the vids I watched I didn't hear any timing issues, per se. If you are going to play in a busy style like that, physically, it's to be expected you'll probably push or drag things now and then.
I, too, as others, was surprised at your presence on yt, or rather the response, all things considered. YT is a phenomenon of our age. It has started careers, finished careers, and continues to draw millions of people daily to be entertained, instructed, enlightened, and taken down every conceivable path of the information highway. Kudos to you for carving out a place at your age. God has blessed you with talent and a good attitude. I wish you well.
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You look at me and my "success" as "cutting the queue," when it's the exact opposite of that. I don't believe you give me anywhere near the credit for what I have accomplished and the work I've put in. If a new recruit came into your job, took a similar job to you for WAY less money (if you divided my ad revenue from YouTube by the amount of hours I've worked to build my channel, I would be making about 10 cents an hour), and proceeded to work 16 hours a day almost everyday for a couple of years, would you say he is undeserving of the fruits of his labor just because he is younger or new?
Now I understand you probably have no idea what goes into creating a YouTube channel like mine, but in less than 3 years I have created over 500 videos, almost exclusively by myself (recording, mixing, editing, uploading, responding, etc etc etc) all while over the spring/summer/fall working 80+ hours a week at Turner Field to earn the money to pay for the gear I use in my videos and going to school and performing with Georgia State's marching band and basketball band. That has translated to way too many days where I get to sleep at 5 or 6am and wake back up at 8 or 9am to get started again. I'm not saying I'm, the only person who works their tail end off, but I am saying that if you think I haven't worked for what I've achieved and that I've cheated the system, you're off on that. Getting lucky is the only way to cheat the system. There's no substitute for hard work.
And the whole "plastic smile" is completely missing the point, too. You must not have watched much of my playing because 99.99% of the time I look constipated rather than smiling, but the times I do happen to smile, it's because I genuinely have the time of my life when I play drums and that's what I want others to have too.
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Casey, if you are a believer (assuming the church video is based on conviction not a gig offer), back away from defending yourself, live your life, and give glory to God.
If you are not a disciple of Christ, spending time defending yourself on every negative point made still doesn't place you in the best light, know what I mean?
Just sayin.'
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I'll just try to keep it short.
First off, it's good to hear things straight from the person himself.
I think the lad's been misjudged as having everything handed to him on a sliver platter from the start. And after seeing a lot of his older and newer vids, I think he's improved a lot, which is pretty good.
Keep up the good work, Mr. Cooper.All I could say is best of luck to you in your future endavours.
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No, not the best drummer in the world (he admits this) but no one can deny the time and effort he's put into his videos and building his channel (if nothing else, the sheer quantity is staggering IMO).
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Interestingly enough, a non-drummer non-musician friend of mine linked me to one of Casey's videos. When you grab the attention of someone who isn't a musician of any sort that says to me they must be doing something right.
Not really my cup of tea, but I respect the passion and love for the drums definitely. Good on you Casey.
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RE: cutting the queue; Consider that Virgil Donati has 6,000 youtube subscribers. Travis Barker has 84,000. You have 330,000. Where do you think you stand next to Virgil Donati as a drummer? You are a cool drummer but a bigger part of your fan base was earned with pop song choices, stick tricks, lots of cameras, loads of spamming, knowing what appeals to teenage drummers and non-drummers and whatever else, and there's a term for all of that. Congratulations on that but if some ugly guy with one camera in a dimly lit room plays better drums than you, I (and the guys on this site) would rather watch him, hence some of these comments.
I understand your frustration and I'm not trying to be a jerk in saying any of this, though I probably look like one now. I just think it's an interesting topic, and in my opinion commercialism changes music and musicianship, and not for the better.
And I'll say it one more time - you are a good drummer.
Watch a purdie shuffle here!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPmH1wrSiQ
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I read every word of it and to put it simply...you're awesome. You even respond well to criticism. I'm a big advocate of hard work, and I can tell, through many different observations, that you are a very hard worker. That value of hard work not only shows through your videos and YT channel, but also through your forum post.
Keep on jamming. You are an awesome drummer and you truly inspire me to become the best drummer that I can be.
Thanks for taking the time to stop by the thread!
My Youtube channel features drum tutorials, reviews, and info.
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What that means is, people have different levels of success doing different things. Casey does well at the YouTube level, where I probably would not (if I decided to promote my playing that way.) But I also have a long career, built in the traditional way, and also a 35-year head start on Casey. Only time will tell if he will do the same, given his start with YouTube on his resumè.
Actually, I started a thread a while back about what (if anything) becomes of YouTube Drummers, and how they regard any success with getting views. Again, time will tell.
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NBN Co awards $879m in network rollout deals
Transfield and Lend Lease rocking Victoria and WA
Lend Lease and Transfield Services have secured coveted NBN Co fibre rollout contracts for Victoria and Western Australia worth collectively up to $AU879 million.
Lend Lease's Syntheo JV with Service Stream has been awarded the WA portion of NBN Co's rollout of passive fibre network over an initial two year period worth $AU174 million.
There is an option of a further two years with a potential total value of $AU484 million.
The contract involves the design and construction of the fibre access network across WA.
Lend Lease Group CEO and MD Steve McCann said "this project adds to our growing strength in Western Australia and positions the Group for future work in the telecommunications sector, both with NBN and other providers."
Meanwhile in Victoria, Transfield Services has snared a two year, $AU133 million contract to design and construct NBN Co's fibre optic network in Victoria over the next two years. The contract also has an optional two year extension taking the potential value up to $395 million. Work will commence in October 2011, subject to satisfaction of several conditions precedent.
In June 2011, Transfield Services completed the construction of the fibre optic network at one of the first release sites located in the southern New South Wales coastal communities of Minnamurra and Kiama Downs.
Transfield Services has also had recent luck with broadband infrastructure projects in New Zealand, securing NZ$462 million in contracts for its national Ultra Fast Broadband network. ®
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BMW 435i Convertible Details:
- TwinPower 3.0-liter inline-six N55 engine | Wider, longer and lower
- Hardtop folds in 20sec at up to 11mph | Air Curtains and Air Breathers aerodynamics
- Standard manual transmission | Eight-speed auto available
- Starts at $54900 | M Sport trim and options available
Electronics: LED High Beam Assistant | BMW ConnectedDrive | Auto stop/start and coasting function | Standard Servotronic speed-sensitive steering
+ Pros: Hardtop benefits with convertible fun | Three-stage neck warmers | Excellent interior quality | Comfortable cruiser
- Cons: Lacks driver involvement | Almost 500 lb heavier than Coupe
The most extreme BMW enthusiasts are a persnickety strain of gearheads with a predilection for nitpicking the tiniest discrepancies in driver feedback, from steering feel to transient response. As such, the new 435i Convertible is disadvantaged from the get-go because of its lid. But unlike ragtop competitors, the 4's folding metal roof is a three-piece origami extravaganza that not only nods to BMW's design vernacular (note the articulated Hofmeister kink at the trailing edge of the C-pillar), but also enables 20sec erection at speeds up to 11mph while providing extra rigidity when in place.
The roof offers an impressive bit of electro-hydraulic ballet, with a handy loading system (similar to the Mercedes-Benz SL) to expand trunk capacity. The downside is that it adds almost 500 lb due to the complex mechanism and body reinforcement. The result is an inevitable sacrifice in the car's handling and acceleration.
Swing open the big doors, climb inside and the familiar BMW visuals emerge, particularly the black-panel instrumentation and centrally located, landscape-oriented nav screen.
There's an air of casual elegance to this convertible that aims at an entirely different zip code; think baby 6 Series rather than senior 2 Series, especially evidenced by its longer, wider, lower proportions compared to its E93 predecessor.
Top-up, the 435i Convertible managed the wide-open roads north of Las Vegas with the composure of a luxurious tourer. Coupled with the eight-speed auto, the 3.0L turbo hardly ever felt breathless, especially with its 300 lb-ft starting at a mere 1300rpm and not tapering off until 5000rpm.
That generous powerband makes for brisk takeoffs and satisfying passing maneuvers. Compared to its Coupe counterpart, the Convertible loses 0.5sec sprinting to 60mph - but the al fresco 435i can still make the run in 5.4sec, which is an entirely respectable measure considering its more mature skillset. Commensurate with the recalibrated priorities is handling that feels secure rather than athletic; steering feedback is adequately, though not overly communicative, and this four-seater certainly feels better suited to grocery runs and urban errands than pylon-dodging on autocross courses.
There's still BMW's near perfect weight distribution (48:52), and generous front-end bracing to heighten the feeling you're connected to the road. But even with the right pedal pinned, the 435i's acceleration feels silky, rather than explosive, with power transfer seamlessly mitigated by the transmission.
By offering a traditional three-pedal, six-speed manual, that's bookended by a more aggressively shifting eight-speed Sports automatic (in addition to the standard eight-speed auto), BMW has set its sights on a broad range of buyers, from the most stubborn gear-rowers to the laziest commuters.
Hanging on to the manual may be a grand gesture of counter-trending, but it helps old school BMW clientele feel in the loop, even though the worrying trend du jour is to ditch the third pedal...
As such, the BMW 435i Convertible makes outward gestures intended to satisfy its most traditional fan base (via manual gearbox, etc) but is ultimately aimed more directly at buyers who crave neck warmers and near-silent, top-up motoring.
Those hungry for spine-tingling handling might wait for the inevitable 2 Series ragtop, which - if the Coupe version is any indication - should deliver on BMW's promise of driver interactivity and seat-of-the-pants satisfaction. Until then, the 435i Convertible offers a more mature and civilized way to soak up the sun. It may not be a visceral triumph, but its thoughtfully engineered design details suggest this BMW has simply been recalibrated for a more sophisticated group of sun worshippers.
Tech Spec
2014 BMW 435i Convertible
front-engine, RWD
2979cc inline six-cylinder 24v with variable-geometry turbo, direct injection
six-speed manual or eight-speed automatic transmission with available Sport function
four-piston floating calipers, 13.4" rotors f, two-piston, 13" r
aluminum double-joint MacPherson strut f, five-link axle r
Wheels & Tires
17x7.5" wheels, 225/50 R17 tires
Max power
300hp at 5800rpm
Max torque
300 lb-ft at 1200-5000rpm
Top Speed
155mph (limited)
4095 lb


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Local boy Chris Evans attended the 73rd Golden Globe Awards Sunday to present Spotlight as a contender for Best Picture–Drama. It was fitting, as the movie–based on The Boston Globe's unearthing of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal–was filmed and set in Evans's hometown.
And he said so in his speech: "[The Spotlight Team's] year-long Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation rocked my hometown of Boston to its core."


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By Andria Cheng
At its investor day on Thursday, Coach's management team candidly admitted that the company has a lot of problems. While rivals have expanded aggressively, Coach /quotes/zigman/263421/delayed /quotes/nls/coh COH has been resting on its laurels, leading it to underinvest in marketing and other aspects of the business.
The Twittersphere and Wall Street voiced skepticism about the company's prospects, and offered advice to Coach, which is the biggest U.S. handbag company and the worst S&P 500 performer this year, having lost almost two-fifths of its value.
The company promised to reinvent itself at Thursday's event with strategies such as giving employees a budget to court clients. Its head of architecture — yes, it has such a thing — spoke about redesigning stores. To help promote an upscale image, the company is cutting promotional events and third-party sales and shuttering underperforming stores. But these changes come at a cost: its new full-year sales outlook missed Wall Street expectations. Coach shares fell another 2% on Friday after dropping 9% on Thursday.
While the company is laying the groundwork for change, its competitors, from Michael Kors /quotes/zigman/7705184/delayed /quotes/nls/kors KORS to Kate Spade /quotes/zigman/29417586/delayed /quotes/nls/kate KATE , are continuing to eat into Coach's market share.
Analysts' research notes have also been relentless in their criticism of the company:
"Our outperform rating had been predicated on the belief that new product leadership would reinvigorate the brand and bring consumers back in FY2015," said BMO analyst John Morris, who cut his rating to market perform. "We now see the turnaround taking longer than expected. While we see investments as necessary to reinvigorate the brand and achieve sustainable long-term growth, it involves a degree of execution risk to make such a significant investment based on largely untested strategies. The longer it takes for the turnaround, the greater the degree of competition."
"Coach presented bold steps," said William Blair analyst Amy Noblin, who also cut her rating to market perform. "Still, the strategy encompasses more moving pieces than even we had anticipated, making it more difficult to have visibility on when these initiatives will affect the top line."
"Coach's plan embraces the urgency of the situation," said UBS analyst Michael Binetti, who kept his neutral rating but cut his profit estimates. There's "a lot of risk left to the story. Execution will be tough and the competition isn't letting up." He added the company's attempts to reduce coupons may backfire, like it did for J.C. Penney /quotes/zigman/237947/delayed /quotes/nls/jcp JCP . "Value shoppers are quick to veto a shift to full price."
"While we think (Coach) is taking steps to stabilize brand damage, we estimate heavy turnaround costs and (headquarters) investments burn FY15 cash," said Morgan Stanley analyst Kimberly Greenberger, who kept her underweight rating on the stock but slashed her price target to $29 from $36. She estimated the company may burn its cash by more than $600 million in fiscal year 2015 to fund its various initiatives.
The "analyst day was thoughtful, organized, and informative," said ISI analyst Omar Saad, adding he continues to be impressed with the company's new Chief Executive Victor Luis and Creative Director Stuart Vevers. They "have inherited an extremely complex situation fraught with peril at almost every turn. We applaud the new team for owning up to the long overdue reset of sales, margin, and earnings expectations to more realistic levels, the first cleansing step necessary to create some breathing room for substantial brand investments. And we loved management's frank admission of past mistakes."
Still, Saad said he's staying on the sideline for now partly because the company is introducing many new initiatives at the same time, including a 20% increase in marketing spending, which the analyst said could raise its risk profile.
However, while the number of buy ratings for the company has reached its lowest percentage of analysts' rankings since at least 2009, there are some on Wall Street who remain fans of the stock.
Coach "is adding newness and moving upmarket in a smaller footprint – this is mostly what we wanted to hear (we also wanted closed outlet stores), and a .667 batting average for a company with this few believers is a positive," said Stifel analyst David Schick, who's keeping his buy rating. "We think Coach delivered on the important themes."
"Victor Luis and his team laid out a comprehensive, strategic and bold plan aimed at returning the company to sustainable growth by FY17," said Nomura analyst Robert Drbul, who also maintained his buy rating. Closing 70 underperforming full-priced North American stores "is a major step forward toward the company regaining a healthier position in the key North American handbag and accessories market. We believe resetting these top-line expectations is an effort by new CEO Victor Luis to establish credibility in the investment community with realistic and attainable results."
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I do not plan to post the recipe here; see LaBau's book The Sweet Book of Candy Making, Quarry Press, 2012, p.116-117 for more information.
Elizabeth LaBau's Peppermint Swirl Marshmallows are a no-frills basic marshmallow recipe with the addition of a marbling effect on the top done with red food coloring and a toothpick.
I had gel food coloring but it was not the type you could "drizzle over the top of the marshmallow in a random pattern." But I did the best I could. My one regret was I did not block off any time this weekend to temper chocolate and dip these marshmallows — while I was cutting the marshmallows I was thinking, GEE I REALLY WISH I HAD TIME TO DIP THESE IN CHOCOLATE — THEY'D BE AWESOME!! But they're pretty darned good without any coating. I'll soon test them in a cup of steaming hot cocoa.
I guess I'll have to make another batch of marshmallows for dipping in the near future . . .


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The illustrations of Katherine Roy could soon be the images to go alongside the early reading experiences of many young children.
Roy, a graduate of Monta Vista High's Class of 2000, is seeing her work come alive in the form of a new children's adventure series and soon the debut of her shark-themed solo work in fall 2014.
Roy's first illustrated book, The Expeditioners and the Treasure of Drowned Man's Canyon by S.S. Taylor, was released in late 2012, and a sequel is on the way.
The Expeditioners is set to become a full series and even got a mention on "The Today Show" earlier this month.
The children's novel focuses on a world where computers have failed, electricity is no more and the desire to explore new, uncharted lands has returned. The first book tells of young adventurers who come upon a mysterious piece of a map that adults in the government want to get their hands on.
Roy was given immense freedom to draw and visualize the world in the book.
"We did all of that with no direction from the publisher. He didn't give anything with exception of bare minimum detail for drawings," she said.
Two more books outside the series are coming soon. Buried Beneath Us, which is slated for November this year, is about the ancient cities that existed before the major North American cities we know today.
Shark: The Great Whites of the Farallon Islands focuses on San Francisco's great white sharks and how they hunt their favorite prey every fall. The book will be available in fall 2014.
Shark will be Roy's solo debut, as she is both the writer and the artist. The shark book could be a major break for Roy, who made illustrating her full-time job just last year.
While at Monta Vista, Roy took art classes all four years and remains in contact with art teacher Brian Chow. Roy even visited his class last fall to speak with students.
Roy attended the Rhode Island School of Design and studied in Rome in the latter part of her college career. In the Northeast, she enrolled at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont and earned a master's of fine art in cartooning in 2010.
Roy's experience in other jobs and through traveling has contributed to her craft. She has worked as a tour guide, a food server, a teacher, in retail, at a gym and as a teacher in Boston, commuting a few times a week all the way from New York City.
"I did lots of traveling, and I think it kicked off my ability and my confidence in being able to travel and go to new places and figure it out if I ran into problems," she said. "Many great experiences and lots of drawings in the sketchbook."
Roy takes a researcher's approach to her work. She asks questions and answers them in the form of illustrations.
She is drawn to stories about how things live, the beauty of the natural world and the relationship between big and small, she said.
Roy researched Shark by spending time alongside shark tracking experts.
"I love doing research and learning about a new place. I love getting to go and meeting the people being involved," she said. "They were inviting me into a world that very few people get to see. I think it would be incredibly lame to write a book about great white sharks and never actually seeing one."
Seeing sharks up close and in their natural habitat helped improve the book greatly.
"It reframed the book," she said. "The richness of the color is there now, and the scientists themselves that do the tagging are no longer generic cartoons. Much more in-depth answers and ideas came from it."
In addition to future Expeditioner sequels, Roy is on the hunt for new topics and books.
"I often ask now, 'How can a book lead me onto a new adventure?'"
For more information about Katherine Roy, visit katherineroy.com.


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The American Antinuclear Movement
Paul Rubinson
Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the combined effort of millions of people to challenge the superpowers' reliance on nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Encompassing an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, this movement succeeded in constraining the arms race and helping to make the use of nuclear weapons politically unacceptable. Antinuclear activists were critical to the establishment of arms control treaties, although they failed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, as anticommunists, national security officials, and proponents of nuclear deterrence within the United States and Soviet Union actively opposed the movement. Opposition to nuclear weapons evolved in tandem with the Cold War and the arms race, leading to a rapid decline in antinuclear activism after the Cold War ended.
Energy in American History
Aaron Sachs
Energy systems have played a significant role in U.S. history; some scholars claim that they have determined a number of other developments. From the colonial period to the present, Americans have shifted from depending largely on wood and their own bodies, as well as the labor of draft animals; to harnessing water power; to building steam engines; to extracting fossil fuels—first coal and then oil; to distributing electrical power through a grid. Each shift has been accompanied by a number of other striking changes, especially in the modern period associated with fossil fuels. By the late 19th century, in part thanks to new energy systems, Americans were embracing industrialization, urbanization, consumerism, and, in a common contemporary phrase, "the annihilation of space and time." Today, in the era of climate change, the focus tends to be on the production or supply side of energy systems, but a historical perspective reminds us to consider the consumption or demand side as well. Just as important as the striking of oil in Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, was the development of new assumptions about how much energy people needed to sustain their lives and how much work they could be expected to do. Clearly, Americans are still grappling with the question of whether their society's heavy investment in coal- and petroleum-based energy systems has been worthwhile.
The Environment in the Atomic Age
Rachel Rothschild
The development of nuclear technology had a profound influence on the global environment following the Second World War, with ramifications for scientific research, the modern environmental movement, and conceptualizations of pollution more broadly. Government sponsorship of studies on nuclear fallout and waste dramatically reconfigured the field of ecology, leading to the widespread adoption of the ecosystem concept and new understandings of food webs as well as biogeochemical cycles. These scientific endeavors of the atomic age came to play a key role in the formation of environmental research to address a variety of pollution problems in industrialized countries. Concern about invisible radiation served as a foundation for new ways of thinking about chemical risks for activists like Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner as well as many scientists, government officials, and the broader public. Their reservations were not unwarranted, as nuclear weapons and waste resulted in radioactive contamination of the environment around nuclear-testing sites and especially fuel-production facilities. Scholars date the start of the "Anthropocene" period, during which human activity began to have substantial effects on the environment, variously from the beginning of human farming roughly 8,000 years ago to the emergence of industrialism in the 19th century. But all agree that the advent of nuclear weapons and power has dramatically changed the potential for environmental alterations. Our ongoing attempts to harness the benefits of the atomic age while lessening its negative impacts will need to confront the substantial environmental and public-health issues that have plagued nuclear technology since its inception.
Infrastructure: Water and Sewers
Joel A. Tarr
Urban water supply and sewage disposal facilities are critical parts of the urban infrastructure. They have enabled cities and their metropolitan areas to function as centers of commerce, industry, entertainment, and human habitation. The evolution of water supply and sewage disposal systems in American cities from 1800 to 2015 is examined, with a focus on major turning points especially in regard to technological decisions, public policy, and environmental and public health issues.
Technology and the Environment
Timothy James LeCain
Technology and environmental history are both relatively young disciplines among Americanists, and during their early years they developed as distinctly different and even antithetical fields, at least in topical terms. Historians of technology initially focused on human-made and presumably "unnatural" technologies, whereas environmental historians focused on nonhuman and presumably "natural" environments. However, in more recent decades, both disciplines have moved beyond this oppositional framing. Historians of technology increasingly came to view anthropogenic artifacts such as cities, domesticated animals, and machines as extensions of the natural world rather than its antithesis. Even the British and American Industrial Revolutions constituted not a distancing of humans from nature, as some scholars have suggested, but rather a deepening entanglement with the material environment. At the same time, many environmental historians were moving beyond the field's initial emphasis on the ideal of an American and often Western "wilderness" to embrace a concept of the environment as including humans and productive work. Nonetheless, many environmental historians continued to emphasize the independent agency of the nonhuman environment of organisms and things. This insistence that not everything could be reduced to human culture remained the field's most distinctive feature.
Since the turn of millennium, the two fields have increasingly come together in a variety of synthetic approaches, including Actor Network Theory, envirotechnical analysis, and neomaterialist theory. As the influence of the cultural turn has waned, the environmental historians' emphasis on the independent agency of the nonhuman has come to the fore, gaining wider influence as it is applied to the dynamic "nature" or "wildness" that some scholars argue exists within both the technological and natural environment. The foundational distinctions between the history of technology and environmental history may now be giving way to more materially rooted attempts to understand how a dynamic hybrid environment helps to create human history in all of its dimensions—cultural, social, and biological.


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While PLS may have some nuggets of useful info, for the most part, the book is inflammatory and the author has some serious issues. Law school, at least in my experience, is nothing like Atticus Falcon says it is.I am also of the opinion that spending your entire summer before law school prepping with supplements and things is, for the most part, a waste of time. It's one thing to flip through some E&Es or outlines to get an idea of the general course of a class. It's another to work through the supplements, going over material that your professor may not even cover. With the exception of LEEWS, your summer is likely well spent sitting by the pool.
1. No matter what anyone says (including your prof), it's all about the black-letter law. DO NOT worry about whatever bull you talk about in class. Your torts exam will make no mention of Calabresi's "The Cost of Accidents," and you will not get any points for applying law and economics principles to the case at bar. What you need to do on the exam is (a) Correctly state the issue(s), (b) Correctly state the law (the elements for a battery are 1,2,3,etc.) and (c) 'Apply' the law to the facts, which simply means picking out a fact or two from the question, and saying "here, [element x] is met because [fact y]," and finally (d) state your conclusion That is what is meant by "IRAC." The 'A' part is supposedly the most important. IMO both the 'R' (Rule) and the 'A' (Analysis) are equally important. If you don't know the rule, you won't get the issue. You must state the rule completely and accurately. Then, you just have to pick out a fact or two and say because of the stupid fact, the element/rule is met. That's it.They key is to write as if both you and your ausience were morons. State obvious issues and rules. Even if it's clear that, say, defendant comitted a battery, state the issue (the issue is whether D committed a battery), the rule (the elements for battery are...), the analysis (element 1 is met because D...; element 2 is met because D...), and then your conclusion (because D met all the stupid elements, he has committed a battery).Again, state the obvious. This is counter-intuitive, b/c normal humans only think of things as "issues" when there is a colorable argument that the claim could be in dispute. For example, say I punch you in the face for no reason. That's a battery. To a normal human, there's no issue about whether or not I have committed a battery; it's completely freaking obvious to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the law that I have. There's no way I could say I haven't. But law school is not for normal humans. It is for morons. So, even though both you and your prof and everyone else already knows the answer, you must write as if the person you are speaking to has no knowledge whatsoever of the law (and is incredibly daft to boot). In the above example, you would lose points for not discussing why I have committed a battery, stupid as that may sound.2. In light of #1, use study aids. Your prof will NOT teach you the black-letter law. Instead, he will prefer to BS about policy, government, fairness, his politics, his female dog wife, whatever. He doesn't care. He's clueless. That was how he was taught, and he's not an educator, anyway. He's a scholar. Scholars don't care about law, they all are policy wonks who want work in think-tanks (only problem is they're not prestigious enough for the prof's giant egos).3. Learn how to write a law school exam (even though I have already told you). DO PRACTICE EXAMS. Maybe get LEEWS, whatever. But def look at old exams, and whenever possible, best student answers. This is extremely important.4. Given 1 and 2, don't worry that much about class and the bs that spews out of your profs mouth. If he says the rule is 'X' then you say the rule is 'X' even if the study aid says the rule is 'Y.' Chances are he won't ever tell you the rule, given what I said in 2. But in the rare case that he does, make sure that you know exactly what he said the rule was. Write an email after class in you're not sure. But, for the most part, he won't tell you the rules (that's the 'beauty' of the Socratic method - you're supposed to figure them out for yourself!). So get and use study aids from day 1.
TITCR... If you get his professors.
Quote from: Gwiz on June 28, 2007, 08:13:24 AMTITCR... If you get his professors.No. That's the fundamental fallacy that confuses law students and kills their grades. What I have prescribed is the recipe for success in all American law schools, b/c they all use the same crappy pedagogical method (socratic lectures followed by a giant issue-spotter exam which accounts for 100% of your grade). A torts exam at harvard looks the same as a torts exam at podunk u; it will be a giant fact-pattern, and you will need to apply black-letter rules to the facts. Maybe, and this is just a maybe, the harvard exam will have a teeny-tiny policy question that's worth 15% of the grade or so (they're usually only 30 minute Qs on a 3-hour final; so 1/6). So, if one of these Qs shows up (and chances are it won't), that means that 95% of what you learned in class accounts for only 15% of your grade. Again, chances are you won't even get a policy Q on the exam, and if you do, knowing the black-letter law cold will prepare you for that stupid question anyway.People like to say "you're not learning torts...you're learning professor X's torts." That's extremely misleading. All this means is that (1) your prof will not cover every conceivable topic in the law of torts, and (2) if and when your prof thinks the rule is different from what the study aid says (not often, but sometimes) then use his rule. What it certainly does NOT mean is that what your professor bs's about in class is wht you will see on the final. Bottom line - the law of torts is the law of torts is the law of torts. there's a godd**mned restatement which spells it out, and that's why it can be tested on a multi-state bar exam. that's the *&^% you need to know cold, regardless of how much class time you spend on 'loss spreading' or 'efficiency vs. fairness.'


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Obstetricians (also called OBs) are medical doctors who specialize in the care of pregnant women, from the time of conception through delivery and the period following delivery (postpartum). Most obstetricians are also gynecologists who diagnose and treat diseases of the female reproductive system and provide care for women when they are not pregnant.
An obstetrician can further specialize in perinatology (maternal-fetal medicine), which focuses on high-risk pregnancies, testing, and fetal development, or an obstetrician may specialize in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (care of women who have hormonal or fertility problems).
It's natural to have questions about childbirth. Here is a list of frequently asked questions about delivering at Providence.