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"We like our women fat and our men geeky, we like the extremely tall and the shockingly small. No one is too abstract for our books! We are Ugly. And we are the leaders in character modeling." Sound like something you might be interested in? Then maybe you should hightail it to London, which is the home of Ugly Models, the world's leading character modeling agency. In operation since 1969, Ugly Models boasts over a thousand clients, ranging from 18-100 years old, (UK) sizes 6-30, tattooed, pierced, extremely tall, extremely short, etc.
"I think the number one trait an ugly model's got to have is what I repeat over and over again -– to be comfortable in their own skin," says the agency's current head Marc French. "I think you could say that I am looking for at the auditions -– every kind of character you could think of -– from fat to fit, large to small, and I never know what I'm actually looking for until they come through the door. Our models have worked for everyone from Calvin Klein to Italian Vogue and there is a massive demand for them. We have open auditions and the queues go on for miles with people wanting to get on the books. It's amazing; you have little old ladies standing in line next to Hell's Angels all wanting to give it a go."
Paging through the Ugly portfolios, it seems like a lot of their models are less ugly and more just unconventional, though even that is starting to change. Several of the women represented wouldn't seem out of place on Suicide Girls or in an American Apparel advertisement (meaning they're conventionally pretty, but also happen to be covered in tattoos) and, in some cases, "character" equals out to not being sample sized and having bigger boobs than what you're used to seeing on a runway.
There are a fair share of extra unique individuals, however. Model Sultan Kosen, at 8'1'', is, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest man in the world. Prince Albert, who got his first piercing at 75, has now been pierced a total of 241 times and Elaine Davidson has over 2,520 piercings.
Ugly models have been cast in everything from Skittles ads to Marks and Spencer campaigns to James Bond movies. Looks like there's a place for everyone, my friends.
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Author Challenges Christians to 'Vote the Bible,' Not Political Parties
Attorney David Kennedy enjoys attending church and worshiping God, but one thing he dreaded was whenever someone brought up politics at church. Too many times Kennedy felt like the other person's opinion of a candidate or issue did not match up with how he read and interpreted God's word. In his book, You Voted for Who? And You Call Yourself a Christian, Kennedy examines what Scripture has to say about many of the hot-button issues facing our country.
A trial lawyer by profession, Kennedy has practiced law for the past 28 years. He served as an elder in a local Baptist Church but left after he didn't like what the Christian Coalition was doing when they printed voter ballots in the mid-1990s. He then helped plant a non-denominational church that he felt espoused biblical principles over political or church-related politics.
Fiscally conservative and socially liberal, Kennedy describes himself as a Democrat as far as party allegiance goes, yet believes abortion and same-sex marriage are wrong according to Scripture. However, he lays plenty of blame at the feet of the GOP for their rigid positions on immigration and not doing enough to help the poor and downtrodden.
"Both major parties are run by the extremist," Kennedy told The Christian Post. "It seems their objectives are either to scare people into believing the other party is the devil incarnate or that one party is the second coming of Christ. The only time either party references Scripture is when it meets their own needs, and then it's usually used out of context."
Kennedy fully embraces what is known as "The Great Commission," where Jesus lays out his instructions for his followers to "make disciples of all the nations."
"I am a firm believer that your vote is often an act of your discipleship," Kennedy writes in his book. "Regardless of what is worn on your sleeve, God knows what is worn on your heart. He knows your motivation for the vote. And something as mundane as casting a vote will tell Him an awful lot on whether you are on mission in discipleship as He directed you."
Kennedy also points out that a Christian's greatest commandment, also known as the "Great Commandment," is to love your neighbor as you would yourself. "Personally, I think if both parties would embrace the Great Commandment, we could solve a lot of our social ills."
Below are some of the topics Kennedy discusses in his book:
"We're gotten nowhere in the abortion debate in the last 40 years," said Kennedy. "The 'all or nothing' approach Republicans take has certainly not worked. Although I'm personally opposed to abortion, I believe both society and the government should do more to help women avoid circumstances that may lead to an unwanted pregnancy. The Democrats are reluctant to address the issue because they feel too strongly about trampling on a woman's right to choose."
Kennedy argues politicians should do more than just give lip service to the abortion issue. "If Christians are going to champion 'right to life,' then let's put our money where our mouths are. Instead of spending untold fortunes of time and money attempting to elect politicians and political judges who will decide in our favor on when a life is a life, why not redirect those fortunes toward that group where there is no doubt that rewards await us for helping – the expectant mothers and their families. Why not follow the 'Great Commandment'"?
Another problem the author argues is that any abortion law with exceptions such as rape, incest and the mother's health exception is unenforceable. "Unlike other legal issues such as tort reform or even the death penalty, pregnancies have a time limit and it's a lot less than nine months.
Same-Sex Marriage
The controversial hot-button issue of same-sex marriages is another area where Kennedy differs from the majority of Democrats. "God has recognized the institution of marriage as being between a man and woman only. Nowhere in Scripture can it be interpreted as recognizing any other type of union. It cannot be remotely argued otherwise."
"Additionally, God makes clear his disdain for homosexuality," Kennedy writes. "The fact that a same-sex marriage may have a foundation of love between two consenting adults does not remove the act as sin in God's eyes. God did not in any manner qualify His position."
God in Schools
Kennedy questions the issue of whether God was ever taken out of our schools. "Whoever said God isn't in our schools?" asked Kennedy. "God certainly never said 'I'm outta here,' so why is this such a big issue?"
The real implication surrounding prayer in schools, specifically public schools, began when liberal groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others challenged prayer during school hours or before school sponsored athletic events.
"I am all for Jesus being in public schools," said Kennedy. "In fact, hope and pray that everyone is praying in the name of Jesus because he is our one and only Savior. It irritates me when I hear a prayer that is so politically correct that it does not invoke the name of Jesus Christ."
However, Kennedy believes we need to teach our children to honor God by teaching them how to pray in their own hearts rather than just listening to a recited prayer over an intercom system.
"God wants that personal relationship with us," explained Kennedy. "Rather than years of battle over a pharisaic practice of grandstanding prayer from the grandstands, why not bow your head and pray, 'Thou alone dost know the hearts of the sons of men?' He wants us covering with prayer our sporting events and participants. He would not want hypocrisy that is offered for elevating man."
Having spent some time on the local school board, Kennedy says the biggest disagreements he witnessed over prayer were between the Baptist, Catholics and the Mormons. "The Catholics and the Mormons were always ticked off at the Baptist over the prayer before the football game. As for those who are opposed to prayer in all forms, I think we should worry less about the process and pray harder for their souls."
Prejudice and Bigotry
"Prejudice and bigotry is an acquired taste," Kennedy writes. "We are not born with those impairments, but permit them to be a part of who we are by being exposed to the influence of family, friends, media and many other outside forces."
"Prejudice and bigotry are against biblical teachings. In some respects, especially as it concerns the immigration policies and answers, there is not much being offered by either party that would cause me, as a Christian, to support that party. Immigration is an issue of massive proportions, and does not lend itself to an easy solution. The citizens are entitled to have their borders secure, and neither party has a good history of welcoming those in need."
Kennedy feels the political rhetoric will only get worse as the budget battles in Congress continue and with the 2012 elections on the horizon.
"I just encourage Christians to read their Bible and pray about the candidates they choose to vote for. We need to vote the Bible, not a party platform," Kennedy said.
Kennedy's book, You Voted for Who? And You Call Yourself a Christian, is available through Kindle or can be found in local bookstores.

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text: Hi Mark, other Beowulfers, and the Warewulfers, Mark, I'll answer your questions inline. Disclaimer, I am one of the Warewulf developers/users. Greg Kurtzer is the originator and lead developer of Warewulf. On 8/30/05, Mark Hahn <hahn at physics.mcmaster.ca> wrote: > > This VNFS resides on the master/boot server, and is used to construct > > the root filesystem for each node in your cluster. You can make changes > > to this template directly using chroot, or indirectly with other scripts/tools > > for example: rpm --root /vnfs/default ..., or yum > > --installroot=/vnfs/default ... > > heh, that's exactly what I do, but never thought to give it a name. > or rather, I thought "nfsroot" pretty well covered it (and rejoiced > that rpm/yum have those switches.) In Warewulf's case, we thought that we needed a name that was more specific than "chroot", so I think it was Geoff Galitz, another WW developer, came up with the name VNFS. > so in what sense is it a virtual node FS? how is it different from > the fairly common practice of an NFS-mounted root filesystem? When you chroot into the VNFS on the master, your commandline is now acting as if it's on a virtual node. Any sysadmin config changes you do, such as with ntsysv, chkconfig, or edits to files in /etc will, eventually*, show up on the actual nodes in your cluster. So, rather than logging into a node to make sysadmin changes, you chroot into the "virtual node" file system to make them... I guess it is very much like what you do now for NFS-root. *eventually: With an NFS-root, such as done in onesis, changes would appear immediately (once NFS noticed) on the nodes. With warewulf, your changes don't show up on the nodes until you activate them with a (short) sequence of commands. The NFS-root approach has the advantage of immediate feedback... but has the disadvantage of taking down your entire cluster with a bad typo... With Warewulf, you can test your changes on a single real node before rebooting all the nodes with the new/changed VNFS. There are other differences as well. The VNFS is a template for the node's file system. It's not exactly what the node will see. The warewulf scripts will fill in and update a few critical config files before they are sent to the nodes. And, a customisable list of files/directories can be included from the master's FS, and also a customizable list of files/directories can be excluded from the VNFS. Also the node's kernel and it's modules are not kept in the VNFS by default, since in most cases, the nodes would be running the same kernel as the master, so the kernel and modules are taken from the master's filesystem. We have been fiddling with this last bit some, so don't take it as Warewulf "gospel"... And, due to the chain of events when a warewulf node boots, the kernel and modules are given to the node prior to it having access to the VNFS (at least in Warewulf 2.4 and later). I could explain Warewulf's boot sequence in detail in another e-mail if desired. Oh, so you may wonder what config files are twiddled with before the node sees them, so here is a list I just extracted from the source: /etc/hosts /root/.rhosts /etc/sysconfig/wulfd /etc/syslog.conf /etc/fstab And, a few files are updated by the node itself when it boots, or after it boots. Specifically, the "wwnodes --sync" command is executed after the nodes are up, but before they are available for general use. (This is how you update the list of allowed users, the list of nodes, etc.) The default files included from the master (if they exist) are: /etc/motd various Myrinet files various infiniband files two files for FNN support Sure those files could be put into the VNFS, but they tend to also be needed on the master, so why update things in two places. Again, as is common throughout much of Warewulf, if your specific setup needs to work differently, this list of included files is configurable. > > recent versions, we introduced a hybrid NFS/ramdisk scheme that reduces > > the permanent RAM footprint dramatically by using a readonly NFS mount > > of the VNFS for non-critical files. Thus, you can have your full blown text > > presumably just most bits of /var, no? are there less obvious bits that > you feel need to be in the ramdisk? Actually, no, we still keep significantly more than just /var in the tmpfs root. I guess we are coming at it from the other side of the equation, removing selected files and directories from the tmpfs root. So, we by default exclude things like the RPM database, man pages, and much more if you select the hybrid mode. We don't want to waste RAM on the nodes, but we lean towards scalability first, so that our boot/master can handle more nodes. > incidentally, do you use a ramdisk, > or do you use initrd's cpio format, or do you simply populate a tmpfs > during the boot process? I do the latter - it seemed simplest, once the > initrd is under way, and has the NFS root mounted, to just mount tmpfs > here and there and untar (the tar is in the NFS too...) Yeah, sometime in the Warewulf 2.x versions, we switched to populating a tmpfs rather than runing the system from the initrd. In the 2.4.x versions, we have a variety of ways of obtaining the VNFS tarfile which populates the node's real root fs, including wget, dolly, rsync, and torrent. With some tweaking of the wwinitrc script in Warewulf 2.4 it is also possible to have the node's root fs reside on a local disk rather than in a tmpfs mount. I have not tried this myself... I don't have disks in most of my nodes. > > editor, compiler, and X installed in the VNFS, yet still have only a 15 to > > 30 MB ramdisk on the nodes. Which files reside on the ramdisk vs. which > > hmm, 15M seems fairly elaborate, or do you not pivot/umount away your > boot code? Yes we do pivot and unmount the boot code. The bulk of the ram footprint comes from /lib (dynamic libraries) and the rest is mostly in /usr, /sbin, and /bin > > created. Thus, you can get much of the small-RAM-footprint benefit of > > the NFS-root scheme, yet have dramatically lower NFS traffic to the server > > during normal cluster use. > > I'd heard people say that was a problem, but haven't found it so. what files > are inadequately cached by NFS and wind up causing noticable traffic? I've not done a scientific study of this, but I did use "lsof" to find various files that were actively causing NFS traffic when I used to do NFS-root. Not large data traffic, but more status/attribute traffic. The bulk data would get cached, but NFS would keep checking if a file/directory had changed status. At least that was what I remember from several years ago. Maybe NFS-root has become less chatty since 2001 or so. How many nodes can you safely handle with NFS-root? I use a single Warewulf master on 192 nodes (KLAT2 + KASY0), and I know there are bigger installations. The design goal is to scale to a thousand+ nodes from a single boot/master machine. My NFS-root experience stopped at 64 nodes, the original configuration of KLAT2, and it worked fine as far as the load on the boot/master at that time, but it seemed to be close to the fraility limits of circa 2001 NFS. > it seems like starting a new job would read little more than the user's > shell, some shared libraries, /etc/passwd and friends. I haven't tried to > collect traces, but they seem quite NFS-caching-friendly... Yes, the data side of those files is NFS-caching-friendly. But because NFS has no true coherency protocol, each node must periodically check on the attributes of each open NFS file looking for possible changes (even for readonly files). And, with all the important shared libraries already on the ramdisk, job startup in Warewulf can be very fast. If you find there is some rarely used, but large, shared library installed in your VNFS, you can add it to the excludes file, and it would be obtained over NFS rather then from the ramdisk (when in hybrid mode). To recap, in Warewulf through the magic of symlinks, we have the flexibility on a per file and per directory basis to choose if a file comes from a ramdisk or from a readonly NFS mount of the VNFS. So we can tradeoff the RAM footprint with scalability and speed as we see fit. Our defaults in Warewulf are more for speed and don't care as much about the RAM footprint. I periodically try to update our default excludes file to trim out any "fat", but as RAM prices continue to fall, I worry less and less about finding files to exclude. > regards, mark hahn. Thanks Mark for your comments and questions. If we can learn from the best practices of NFS-root users/developers, we can make Warewulf that much better. -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net/


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Major information security event Black Hat has announced that General Keith Alexander -- Commander, U.S. Cyber Command/Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) -- will present the Day One keynote address at Black Hat USA 2013 in Las Vegas this July.
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In 2010, the U.S. Senate confirmed GEN Alexander to head U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), as a four-star general. The establishment of USCYBERCOM both unified and strengthened the American Defense Department's work to protect vital networks and ensure integration of cyber operations.
A highly regarded advocate of battlefield visualization and 'data fusion' for more useful intelligence, Gen. Alexander has also led NSA/CSS since 2005. NSA/CSS gives the nation a decisive edge to make information and information technology an asset for the United States and a liability for its adversaries. It applies tools and tradecraft with creativity and agility -- maintaining capabilities that exceed what others think is possible. The aim is to discover, make sense of, and securely share information at Net speed. What's more, NSA/CSS measurably improves the security of critical information systems and other operations.
On the whole, General Alexander emphasizes, success is measured by how well the government collaborates with partners and customers. "As our dependence on information networks increases, it will take a team to eliminate vulnerabilities and counter the ever-growing threats to the network. We can succeed in securing it by building strong partnerships between and within the private and public sectors, encouraging information sharing and collaboration, and creating and leveraging the technology that affords us the opportunity to secure cyberspace," Gen. Alexander said. "Black Hat provides a great venue to have that productive dialogue by bringing together world-class researchers, technical experts, government officials, executives, and students for critical collaboration and education."
Gen. Alexander concluded, "It is my hope that in sharing some of my insights and perspectives with the information security community at Black Hat, we will continue to cultivate the information sharing and collaborative relationships needed to address the cyber threats facing global society."
Black Hat USA will welcome Gen. Alexander to the stage on July 31st, 2013. His keynote will give attendees an insider's look into the U.S. Cyber Command and the interworkings of offensive cyber strategy. More information about Black Hat USA 2013, which has a rapidly growing set of Briefings talks, as well as a comprehensive set of 2 and 4-day trainings, is available now -- early, reduced-rated registration is open until May 31st.


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Well, surprise! I announced on Friday that I would be launching my new blog today, but little did I know I would also have a new baby by today! I wrote that blog post around 2pm on Friday, got a call at 4pm from my OB that I needed to be induced, and by 7:15 I was in the hospital watching Pitocin drip down an IV and into my arm. Our son was born about 4.5 hours later, healthy and hearty and crying oh so lustily!
Anyway, there is obviously so much more to say, but from now on I'm excited to announce that I'll be saying it on my new blog: BeccaGarber.com. I have lots of photos, the promised giveaway, and more details about our baby's birth and name to share later this week.
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Post Week 8 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings
Give These Hot Seat Coaches Hell Johnny Cash!
Thanks Mr. Cash!
1. Butch Jones, Tennessee – The overall record for Butch Jones at Tennessee is bad enough…
33 – 25
….in his FIFTH year on the job but it's Jones record in SEC Conference play that is the reason he's headed for the chopping block…
14 – 22
…with these games still left to be played in 2017:
At Kentucky
Southern Miss
At Missouri
Yep…even if Butch Jones and his Vols won their last 4 SEC Conference games his record in SEC play would still just be…
18 – 22
….and there's No Chance In Hell that fans of Tennessee Football should tolerate Butch Jones' SEC record and thus that's why the Vols will have a new head football coach come 2018!
Our guess…Tennessee finishes with a 4 – 8 record in 2017 and a Total Damn Mess on its hands as the folks in Knoxville try to figure out where to go next….here's a tip for Tennessee AD John Currie when considering who to hire as the next head football coach at Tennessee:
Imagine in your mind's eye Nick Saban's reaction to hearing the name of the person who Tennessee hired to be its next head football coach. Is Nick smiling, does he have no reaction, does he grunt and think that maybe the Vols will be a tough win now. Don't hire the coach that makes Nick Saban smile Currie!
2. Bret Bielema, Arkansas – With the loss to Auburn on Saturday Bret Bielema's record in SEC play in his FIFTH year on the job is now at…
10 – 26
….which is a winning percentage of…
…and the previous two head coaches at Arkansas Houston Nutt and Bobby Petrino posted a combined winning percentage in SEC Conference play of…
Considering the above there is a very good argument that could be made that Bret Bielema is the…
…in the SEC Conference since the end of World War II which would mean Arkansas AD Jeff Long has hired as the head coach of the Razorbacks:
Bobby Petrino – Wouldn't hire to wash our cars!
John L. Smith – Only an insane person would hire John L. Smith!
Bret Bielema – The WORST hire in SEC since end of World War II!
Now at 2 – 5 on the season Arkansas still has to play this season games against…
At Ole Miss
Coastal Carolina
At LSU
Mississippi State
…and there is a very real chance that the Hogs finish with just THREE wins in Bret Bielema's FIFTH year on the job in Fayetteville!
Got fire the whole Damn Arkansas athletic department?
You do if you don't want Arkansas Football Totally Destroyed!
3. David Beaty, Kansas – It was just Stupid at Kansas but after the Jayhawks 43 – 0 loss to TCU the week after losing to Iowa State 45 – 0 it's just…
Who gives a Damn about Kansas Football?
…and the answer to that question would be…NO ONE AT ALL!
David Beaty is in his THIRD season at Kansas and his records are…
Overall: 3 – 28
Big 12: 1 – 21
…and if Beaty isn't fired before December 1 then why in the Hell is Kansas even bothering to play football?
Same goes for Kansas AD Sheahon Zenger who hired Charlie Weis and David Beaty and if Zenger worked in the Real World and not on a college campus his ass would have been…
Fired Long Ago!
4. Mike Riley, Nebraska – Mike Riley had a good week in the bye week because the Huskers didn't get their ass whipped and now the 3 – 4 Huskers travel to play a decent Purdue team that somehow just lost to Rutgers and if Nebraska loses this game it will be because the Husker players have…
Flat-Out Quit
….but there are many here at Coaches Hot Seat that believe a lot of Husker football players Flat-Out Quit against Ohio State!
3 – 4 Nebraska has left in 2017….
At Purdue
At Minnesota
At Penn State
….which looks to us like a losing season for the Huskers but Mike Riley had 5 losing seasons in 14 seasons coaching at Oregon State…including the season before he was hired at Nebraska…which makes one wonder…
Why in the Hell was Mike Riley hired at Nebraska?
Because former Nebraska Athletic Director Shawn Eichorst doesn't know his ass from the side of a barn…that's why!
5. Lovie Smith, Illinois – With the Illini's loss to Minnesota on Saturday Lovie Smith's records at Illinois now stand at…
Overall: 5 – 14
Big Ten: 2 – 11
…and those 5 wins were over:
Murray State
Michigan State
Ball State
Western Kentucky
Please….can someone….anyone…tell us why Lovie Smith is the head football coach at Illinois?
Didn't think so!
6. Jim Harbaugh, Michigan – A few Coaches Hot Seat members were there on the day that Jim Harbaugh was introduced as the new head football coach at Stanford in December 2006 and we were there when Stanford beat USC in Jimmy's first season in early October 2006 at the LA Coliseum and we were there for ALL of Jimmy's FOUR seasons on The Farm and thus we believe we know Jimmy Harbaugh very well!
With the above in mind it's obvious to us that something is…
Terribly Wrong at Michigan
….and it goes beyond Jimmy's record in his last 11 games which is by the way…
6 – 5
…and we are not going to pretend we know what is going but there's something….
Terribly Wrong at Michigan
…in our humble opinion of course!
Most surprising of all to us here at Coaches Hot Seat who watched Jim Harbaugh recruit Andrew Luck and several other solid quarterbacks to Stanford when the 2017 season kicked-off Michigan didn't have a FBS-level QB on its roster which begs the question?
What the Hell is going on Jimmy?
Well let's see here….watching replays of Michigan's games against Michigan State and Penn State we have come to the following conclusions about the Wolverines offense = Jim Harbaugh's offense:
1. Michigan doesn't have a FBS-level QB on its roster. Hell, Michigan doesn't have a college-level QB on its roster. Hell, Michigan doesn't have a high school level QB on its roster! Yes…that's a Helluva problem Jimmy!
2. The Michigan Offensive line could be easily whipped in a fist fight by 3…maybe even 2…members of Coaches Hot Seat and as a group there is not a bigger group of Candy Asses in America…save the Candy Ass Tech Boys in Silicon Valley…than the Michigan Offensive Line. Yes…that's a Helluva problem Jimmy!
3. The Michigan Running Backs and Wide Receivers are hardly coached at all and if they are coached the coaches that are coaching them should be fired…like this afternoon! SOFT and LAZY are the words that come to mind when we think of the Michigan Running Backs and Wide Receivers and…Yes, that's a Helluva problem Jimmy!
4. The Michigan offensive play-calling in one word is…SHIT! Make that TOTAL SHIT..and Yes, that's a Helluva problem Jimmy!
Besides all of the above you have a pretty decent offense at Michigan this season Jimmy!
Michigan is now 5 – 2 in 2017 and still has the below games left on their schedule:
At Maryland
At Wisconsin
Ohio State
Hell….Michigan might only win 2…maybe 3…more games in 2017 which is Jim Harbaugh's THIRD year on the job and we only have the following to say to Jimmy Harbaugh:
Get your Damn ass together Son or your head coaching career is going to be over in a flash!
7. Kalani Sitake, BYU – The calls from our Mormon friends in Utah started about four weeks ago after Utah State beat BYU by the score of…
40 – 24
…and if you have Mormon friends then you know….
These folks don't complain about ANYTHING
…and yet their calls keep coming and they are saying things like….
"You just cannot believe what is going on behind the scenes of BYU football."
"BYU football is just the biggest mess you can possible imagine."
"I am shocked about what I am being told is going on in Provo."
At first we didn't know what to think but after BYU lost to East Carolina..one of the worst teams in FBS football…on Saturday by the score of…
33 – 17
…we are now convinced after doing some checking of our own that BYU Football is in a Meltdown for the Ages in the history of college football in America and that the Cougars might not win another game this season even with some very weak teams left on their schedule:
San Jose State
At Fresno State
At UNLV
At Hawaii
Because the information we have gathered is second-hand we are not going to write our opinion on what is going on with BYU Football but we will say this…if the current trend continues….BYU may very well have a new head football coach come December and the Kalani Sitake era at BYU will be over before it really even got started.
8. Kliff Kingsbury, Texas Tech – If there was one thing that Kliff Kingsbury could not have let happened in Year FIVE as the head coach at Texas Tech was let Iowa State come into Lubbock and whip his Red Raiders on Homecoming weekend which leaves Kingsbury's records now at…
Overall: 28 – 29
Big 12: 14 – 26
…and Texas Tech now at 4 – 3 on the season still having to play these teams:
At Oklahoma
Kansas State
At Texas
Damn….it's going to be mighty hard for Texas Tech to get to 6 wins on the season and less than 6 wins in 2017 and Kingsbury will have posted…
3 Losing Seasons in 5 Years on the Job
….which even at Texas Tech will get your ass fired…right?
Since it seems obvious that now member of TCU coaching staff Sonny Dykes would be a natural fit as the head coach at Texas Tech we would recommend that Kingsbury find a way to get to at least SEVEN wins in 2017 or more than likely the folks in Lubbock will be hiring them a new head football coach December.
9. Larry Fedora, North Carolina – After North Carolina's 59 – 7 loss to Virginia Tech on Saturday one has to wonder if the Tar Heels have totally quit on head coach Larry Fedora or maybe this is just God's way of getting justice against the North Carolina Athletic Department which somehow was able to get away with…
Totally Not Monitoring the Academic Activities of its Athletes
…for decades but whatever the reason for the current slide of UNC Football there is one thing we know for sure….
North Carolina is getting its ass-whipped on a regular basis in 2017 and either Larry Fedora will fix this mess in Chapel Hill or his ass should and will get run right out of town!
North Carolina is now 1 – 7 on the season and has left to play…
At Pitt
Western Carolina
At NC State
Got 2 – 10 Larry?
You are about to have it Son!
10. Jim McElwain, Florida – It seems that Jim McElwain's luck is finally running out which began long before he got the head coaching job at Florida and actually began when Nick Saban plucked Jimmy from Fresno State to be the offensive coordinator at Alabama where…
Any Damn Moron can get the Alabama offense to score 30+ points a game
…which then led to Jimmy getting the Colorado State job where he did some decent work and then the Florida job where Jimmy was fortunate enough to arrive in Gainesville when the SEC East was the weakest it has been since the SEC went to two divisions BUT Oh those days are over and on Saturday the 3 – 3 Gators get to play a Georgia Football team that is actually a…
Georgia Football Team
…and by late Saturday night the Gators will no doubt be 3 – 4 with these games still left on the schedule:
At Missouri
At South Carolina
Florida State
Hell…Florida will be lucky to win 6 games in 2017 and thus it looks like Jim McElwain will be on the Hot Seat for the foreseeable future.
Oh and here's something else Jimmy..not only could Any Damn Moron get the Alabama offense to score 30+ points a game…
Any Damn Moron can win 8 games a year at Florida!
Personally we like Jim McElwain and ran into him a couple of times when he was with the Oakland Raiders in 2006 and in the Flathead Valley of Montana where we are almost every Summer for a fishing trip BUT Jimmy if you are presented with a good head coaching job offer at another Power 5 school in the coming weeks…you might want to consider it Jimmy because things are about to get really HOT in Gainesville not withstanding whatever Yahoos have been sending you and your players death threats which should be turned over to the police immediately!
Coach 'Em Up Jimmy!


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Ninety-eight years ago, one of the bloodiest actions of British rule was the calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocent Indians at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar (Punjab). The firing was ordered by an officer of the British colonial power, General Dyer. While the official figure for lives lost was 1,526 the actual figure was reportedly much higher.
On April 13 ─ the day of Baisakhi festival ─ a meeting was called in the afternoon at the Jallianwala Bagh, a ground enclosed on all sides. Thousands of people, many of whom had come from surrounding villages to the fairs in Amritsar and were unaware of the ban order, gathered in the meeting.
Suddenly Dyer appeared there with troops and without any warning to the people, ordered firing on the completely peaceful and defenceless crowd. The fusillade continued till Dyer's ammunition ran out.
Rabindra Nath Tagore in his letter renouncing his knighthood after this massacre wrote:
… The disproportionate severity of the punishments inflicted upon the unfortunate people and the methods of carrying them out, we are convinced, are without parallel in the history of civilised governments, barring some conspicuous exceptions, recent and remote. Considering that such treatment has been meted out to a population, disarmed and resourceless, by a power which has the most terribly efficient organisation for destruction of human lives, we must strongly assert that it can claim no political expediency, far less moral justification. …
Today, we have indulged ourselves into so much of day-to-day crap and modern problems of life that we have simply forgotten the sacrifices of our brave freedom-fighters because of whom we are able to enjoy our freedom. It's sad that we haven't yet learned from our mistakes and we wait for someone to sacrifice his life, his family, his comforts, his future for the people of our country to come together.
They did not die so that we can remember them twice a year. They died so that they could scar our hearts and make us strong and show us what must be done. They died to give us the courage to do what everyone was scared of. They showed us that death is not the end. It's the future we must fight to protect and even die for, if it demands.
Unfortunately, we still did not learn from our mistakes. We still wait for someone to suffer or die in protest against the injustice. This makes me wonder is this the freedom, and is this the independence they died for? Our ancestors were way more brave, patriotic and focussed than we can ever be.
It's still not too late to wake up, remember their sacrifices and work for the freedom they dreamt of and handed down to us. We must treasure it and not abuse it.
Well, this is my thought for all of us, but what is important is what we think about it and what we do about it.


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Michael Bolton Reflects on 50 Years, His Biggest Milestones & More
By Taylor Fields
February 8, 2019
Michael Bolton is celebrating 50 years of being in the entertainment industry. Being first signed at just 16 years old, becoming lead singer of rock band Blackjack, and then going on to release over 20 full-length albums while also heading out on tour countless times, Bolton is an international superstar.
To celebrate all of his success, and five decades of his illustrious career, Bolton has released his newest album A Symphony of Hits. The record includes new arrangements of many of his biggest hits including "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You," "How Can We Be Lovers," "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay," and many more. A Symphony of Hits was recorded at All Saints College Performing Arts Centre in Perth, Australia with the West Australian Full Harmonic Orchestra.
In a statement, Bolton explained of his newest release, "Over the years I have had the honor to collaborate with so many of my musical heroes and I've had the pleasure of delving into diverse musical genres. To celebrate my 50th year in entertainment, I've selected a collection of songs that really marked the chapters in my career and it has been my dream to bring them to life with a symphony orchestra. As a little blue collar boy from Connecticut, I can honestly say, that if you put your gift to work and commit fully, that's when dreams come true!"
We recently caught up with Michael, and to help celebrate his 50th anniversary we presented the star with "The Box," which contains memories from throughout his incredible career. Find out what he had to say about each one and read on below.
Time, Love & Tenderness
"This is one of my favorites because this is finally having a very, very big album [and] old about $14 million copies worldwide. There are so many memories connected to this time. I wrote with Bob Dylan; fifth single on the album. That was a time when you could have five hit singles on an album. A duet with Patti LaBelle. [It was] a very, very powerful, powerful time in my life."
His Cameo in Rodney Dangerfield's Meet Wally Sparks
"I once memorized so much material from Rodney Dangerfield's album that when the equipment ... when we had a problem with touring, and we had to delay the audience, I would go into 15 Rodney Dangerfield jokes. 'My wife's a terrible cook, you know. In my house, we pray after we eat.'"
Being Presented with a Grammy Award by Paula Abdul and Patrick Swayze
"Patrick was a friend and super talented guy with enormous heart. Paula choreographed one of my first videos and we used to babysit her. My friend was a musician in my band and was going out with her sister, and couldn't leave Paul alone, she was too young. When I called her to choreograph my video, she said, 'This is not Michael Bolton.' [I said], 'Who else would call you a little brat?' And she said, 'Oh my God, it is you.'"
"How Am I Supposed To Live Without You"
"When you're signed when you're 16 and you don't have a hit until you're 34, when you finally have a breakthrough and major hit, the industry you've been chasing your entire life starts to chase you. It becomes very surreal. And very real at the same time."
"(Sittin' On) The Doc Of The Bay"
"This is a big moment for me, '(Sittin' On the Dock of the Bay' is one of my great heroes' mega hits. Otis Redding wrote this with Steve Cropper, and I have loved it since I can remember. And I used to perform it in clubs with some of the best studio musicians in New York City. Everybody loved it. So people started asking me to record it. [I said], 'Nah, you just love it because you love the song.' But then I considered it. I'm so glad I did because I released it and it was being played all over the radio and I performed it at Showtime at the Apollo. And Otis Redding's widow, Zelma Redding, gave us this amazing review of her take on the song and she was a big fan."
The Rock Years: Blackjack
"My rock years. A guy who business managed Led Zepplin and Bad Company heard a demo tape that I had done and wanted to sign me, but as a rock band. All of his success came from Zepplin and [Bad] Company and he knew how to market and really work a record label. And obviously, who am I? Some broke kid from Connecticut. Let's give it a try. And the next thing I knew, we formed Blackjack. Bruce Kulik became the lead guitarist of KISS and he introduced me to Paul Stanley, which led to me writing 'Forever' which I did for KISS."


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(Nov. 9, 2006) - Head baseball coach Tony Skole announced Thursday afternoon that Derek Trent and Bo Burton, both out of Dobyns-Bennett High School, have signed national letters of intent to play collegiate baseball at ETSU.
Trent, a left-handed hitting catcher, was first-team All-State performer a year ago, and was the only junior in the nation named to the Louisville Slugger All-America Team. In his junior season he hit .427 with 11 home runs, 14 doubles, 46 runs scored and 39 RBI en route to being named to the Big 9 All-Conference Team, as well as District 1-AAA Most Valuable Player.
""We are very excited and honored that Derek Trent is coming to ETSU," said Skole. "Derek is the best high school hitter I have ever recruited. He is considered by many publications to be one of the best players in the entire country. What he has accomplished thus far in his high school career is quite remarkable. Derek is a great student and a great young man. He will immediately have a positive impact in our program. Our fans are going to love watching Derek Trent swing the bat."
Burton, who also served as the Indians starting quarterback during football season, has not lost a decision in the past two seasons for the Indians, amassing an 11-0 mark with 92 strikeouts against just 18 walks while compiling a 1.50 ERA. An offensive threat as well,
"Bo Burton is one of the top high school athletes in the state of
Skole hopes to fill out this season's recruiting class with signings over the next week.


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And it shows in the extraordinary enthusiasm with which the pulsating heart of the Future Food District was opened on 1st May, inside Expo Milano 2015. There's more than 2,500 sq.m. of experimental space capable of generating new interactions between consumers, products and producers with technological innovation that makes life better, taking people right to the centre of the food supply chain, with an awareness of their purchasing choices.
This project, the only one of its kind in the world, came about from a collaboration between architect Carlo Ratti's MIT Senseable City Lab and Coop Italia who chose Arneg, via INRES (The National Consortium of Design and Engineering Consultancy), to support development of their groundbreaking idea. This was another exciting challenge faced by the world's leading commercial refrigeration company, and partner in top ranking projects of major mass retailers, which drew on its best reserves of expertise, fifty plus years of retail experience and the considerable drive for innovation which has always been its hallmark trait.
Today it is making its mark on the Supermarket of the Future, with slanted refrigerated islands, vertical units, rear service cabinets, totems and other made-to-measure cutting edge store fitting solutions for a brand-new purchasing experience where new food culture hinges on promotion of the product and its story, traceability, environmental sustainability and transparency. It's a culture that Arneg wholly believes in, supporting its development for a new generation of intelligent consumers.


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This is IT for me, you know? Contemplating the nature of the mind and reality makes it all bearable. No. Not right. Much more than bearable; it makes life a total celebratory event.
You see, we all think (or feel) that we have our own personal single mind that is so very real because it experiences and recognizes things. Yet, how often (if ever) do we stop and examine those experiences that the mind thinks are so real? Break them apart, open them up, see what's there at the core–do people do that?
Trauma or crisis can help us contemplate this type of thing (or not)–happiness too; any intense experience. Many times doing that drives us to addictive distraction instead of some level of enlightenment and joy. But if we really examine the experiences that the mind is having and we do so carefully, and we really contemplate this experience that this mind has and we look for that mind that has this crisis or happy experience, we cannot find a single thing! Not one single thing but a blend of many components that we call "consciousness'. It's NOT YOU!
Here's what I mean–there is no solid mind or self at the core of the experience or no real experience-ER. I know, it sounds crazy if you've never thought about it but give me a chance to explain.
Consciousness has many various components–parts! You know like a car, a vehicle has many components, parts–engine, tires, frame, door and so forth. Is not our mind and our consciousness the same? Consciousness has awareness of visual objects (forms, shapes, colors) and then there is awareness of sound, touch (tactile consciousness), taste consciousness and all these are separate parts or functions of the mind. It's like the car analogy–separate parts, gas tank, gas pedal, speedometer, steering wheel and so forth.
Consider the experience of anything for a moment–it doesn't have to be crisis or trauma. Anything. Happy experience let's say. If we consider that each type of consciousness recognizes a particular field of experience (sound awareness or consciousness recognizes sound and visual consciousness is aware of shapes and colors of forms)… if we consider this as part of any experience we see that each of the types of consciousnesses function in an independent way from the others.
So the mind is a blend of consciousnesses and not one single unit or not one single, unitary thing. Rather it is a compound object just like the car, the vehicle.
There are said to be six consciousnesses and in some books I've read there are eight. And one of those eight include the consciousness which clings to the notion of EGO or "I". And another consciousness that is part of what we think of as "me" is called ground consciousness — and I wrote about this a week or so ago.
The ground consciousness stores information from all other levels of consciousness and accumulated past lives. You can see how this level of mind would easily support the idea of an individual identity called "me". It would seem so 'real' but it is a grouping of consciousness; a grouping of experiences.
To explain further, it is fairly easy to grasp that the visual consciousness perceives objects–that's the potential of the visual consciousness. If you look at a red cloth, you see red. If you look at snow on a mountain, you see white. We are able also, quite obviously, to see things in succession–first seeing one thing and then the next with one thing disappearing and the next thing appearing in consciousness. So visual consciousness is multiple and successive and has the potential to see many things at once and so is not single or solitary or one thing. Nor is it one single solitary unit of time.
Even if we could isolate a single solitary unit of time, it would only occur within the framework of ongoing consciousness because awareness is never static–its fluid. So every moment has to relate to a previous moment and a future moment—meaning, it is not any more singular than we ourselves are. The future moment is the present being the past in relation to it. Yeah, I know that last sentence is pretty deep; but the point is that time is not solid, solitary and static and neither is consciousness and neither are we!
There is no single unit of identifiable reality in either the external world of appearances or in the subjective mind. Even space does not have a fundamentally real, inherent existence. Space is not a compound, and does consist of various parts like the car or like our mind. Space is not a thing–it seems to exist but it is the negation of a particular appears of anything else. Even the space in a room only exists because of the walls–take away the walls and the space that you thought existed in the room is not there and only depended upon the walls around it to appear as if it existed.
So the whole point in this blog post brings me to the point of liberation–even if I can't fully understand it all in a way to describe it in words; in an experiential way I've known this truth from meditation… it's all true.
For example, in a contemplative meditation last evening, I tried to find… well, I asked, "Where is Joy? Where am I located?" It took less than a nano-second to realize I'm not my body and once you get past that basic truth, look for the location and you will find it's everywhere! And now here! and nowhere!
And this, my friend, helps me to chill-ax (chill out and relax) and to see the humor in it all…. appearances are empty forms! And again, quoting the Beatles once more, in the Strawberry Fields song, "Nothing is real; and it's nothing to get hung about."
DEDICATION: May this post help another in a way that is in divine order when they come upon this post–for this is my true intent in writing it today!


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RBA works with top private school, uses Direct Instruction method to make private-quality education public
Leland—"The Roger Bacon Academy program is one of few that truly understands what education is—and one of even fewer who know how to do it well," said Martin Cothran, Director of the Classical Latin School Association and author of five classical textbooks.
Cothran's review comes after two days of observations at Charter Day School in Leland and Douglass Academy in Wilmington, two public charter schools using the classical education program of The Roger Bacon Academy, Inc. (RBA). Cothran's visit is the most recent in a series of visits between curriculum specialists from RBA and staff from the prestigious Highlands Latin School, which last year saw 44 percent of its graduating class named National Merit Scholars—the odds of which are 1 in 300 million.
RBA is an educational management company that provides classical curriculum to four free and public charter schools in southeastern NC. These schools employ similar rigorous English, Latin, and History curricula to that used at Highlands Latin School.
How is it possible for a public school to implement a program with private-school rigor? To close achievement gaps that can be created by a public school's higher volume of students and diverse student populations, RBA's program for its client public charter schools has embedded within the curricula heavy usage of the field-proven Direct Instruction teaching method
A credit to these classical programs— in addition to Highlands' astronomical percentage of National Merit Scholars and Ivy League alumni— the two mature schools managed by RBA are consistently each the highest scoring schools in their respective districts by margins of nearly 20 percentage points.
Of note, Highlands Latin School is a private school serving approximately 600 students in grades K-12. The aforementioned top-scoring RBA schools, Charter Day School and Columbus Charter School, are tuition-free, open enrollment public charter schools serving approximately 900 students each in grades K-8.
In October, RBA Curriculum Author and Latin Coordinator, Jessica Lopez, traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to observe a week of instruction and meet with staff at Highlands Latin School. The objective was to share best practices and learn ways to enhance RBA's classical education program. Lopez reported on her return that, "We share the same high expectations for all of our students. We share the same rigorous curriculum in History, Latin and English. While, as a public school, we serve a larger and more diverse student population, we are able to provide a similarly rigorous curriculum by combining it with the Direct Instruction teaching method. Direct Instruction provides a highly structured classroom environment and sees that our students are engaged in learning 100% of the time."
As Latin Coordinator for RBA's client schools, Lopez described the benefits of Latin classes for all students. "Our Latin curriculum begins in fourth grade and provides students at our client schools with an increase in vocabulary, a better understanding of English grammar and the everlasting gift of logic to advance their high-order thinking skills," she explained.
In early November, staff from Highlands Latin School traveled to Charter Day School to observe RBA's classical program at work. In particular, they observed the classical curriculum's implementation in tuition-free public charter schools—which means serving substantially larger and more diverse student bodies, all while charging no tuition and receiving only limited public funding.
As a result, most often, classical education is only practicable in a private school setting due to the rigor of the program. Also, traditional public schools must use a curriculum determined by the state, which in North Carolina is Common Core. Public charter schools, however, have the freedom to select their own curricula in exchange for receiving limited public funding.
RBA Founder, Baker Mitchell, states, "Highlands Latin School is the pinnacle of what seemingly-impossible achievements are unlocked by classical education. Before graduating high school, the students at their private school are fluent in both Latin and Greek, as well as trained in the disciplines of logic and philosophy. Highlands' graduates frequently achieve our country's highest academic designations and university privileges. At RBA, we have brought access to similar K-8 classical education to the public, for free, via public charter schools."
The four public charter schools that use RBA's classical education model are Charter Day School in Leland, Columbus Charter School in Whiteville, Douglass Academy in downtown Wilmington, and South Brunswick Charter School in Southport.
"Our partnership with Highlands allows us to work closely with the best in the industry as we work to continually add value for our students. Highlands' partnership with us allows them to learn about scaling their product for public implementation. RBA continually works to make top education accessible to the public, and free," Mitchell continued.
The four classical public charter schools managed by RBA will begin enrolling for the 2016-2017 school year on January 1, 2016. For more information, please visit www.rogerbacon.net.


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The War in Cambridge WWII
As written by my grandmother Connie Toller ( nee Broom ), March - April 2005
Mrs C B Toller.
When war was declaired in 1939, my husband was in the Terratorials. He joined the R.A.M.C. by choice. I had one daughter, one year and ten months old [ Valerie Toller ] and was expecting my second child in April 1940. When the first siren went I grabbed my little girl and sat in a cuboard. We heard a plane overhead and didnt know what to expect. We wondered if we were safe at night. Later on we were given a table shelter for the dining room which was very strong.
When my second daughter [Joan Toller] was born in April my brother and his new wife came to live with me as they had just got married. If the sirens sounded I had 2 children to keep look after and it was frightening each time.
My mother lived across the road [Oxford Road, Cambridge] and she had a big dug out shelter in the garden and we used to go over there sometimes while Mr. Legge across the road yelled " Hurry up". We sat in this dug out watching the ear-wigs walking about until the "All Clear" sounded.
My husband didnt see his second daughter for at least three months, when he had a short leave. It was dreadful to wave to him when he went back. I felt devastated each time.
One night a plane came over our house making a loud noise and it crashed behind our house onto the recreation ground [Richmond Road] knocking down some small cottages. Some people were killed.
My four brothers were all away. My eldest brother [George Cruden] was in the Air Force, another in the Fire Service [Bill Broom] and 2 others [Russ Broom and Arthur Cruden] away working in special work, one in Peterbourgh and one in another town.
Food was scarce of course and we spent the coupons in our ration books, then we kept our eyes open on shops to see if anybody came out with some bananas or sweets, then we would try our luck.
My eldest brother who was in the Air Force working with some Americans was coming to mothers on leave so an American gave him a bottle of vintage port (or sherry) to give to his mother. My brother got a lift on a lorry to the station. When he sat down he relized he had left his precious bottle on the lorry. He rang the police station to see if the man decided to hand it in. He had kindly done so and the police put the bottle on a train to Cambridge and informed my brother of the time he could meet the train. All worked out well and my brother made for home with the gift for mum. She opened the door just in time to see the bottle fall from my brothers hands and smashed on the doorstep running away under his feet. I didnt ask him if he smelt it or dipped his finger in for a taste.
My husband was in France and worked in the General Hospital and was a Staff Sergeant. I went to Belfast when he was there for a time. My mother looked after my 2 daughters. I stayed with 2 lovely people and watched my husband on the route marches etc. taking charge and I was proud of him.
I had a lovely baby boy in 1945, my husband sent me a telegram to say "Nice work darling".
When my husband was on the boat [Dunkirk] crossing for home the bombs were dropping and sometimes very close. He said he kept praying "Please God let me get home to my wife and children". We were all very thankful.
He was an excellent soldier, devoted to duty and did well as he also did in everything at home and at work. Sadley he died in his sixties from Cancer. When he was dying he thought of us all and hoped I would be alright. I faced the future and am now 89 years old.
When he came home on leave one day he was carrying a big blue teddy bear for the children. He saved any chocolate and brought it home. He wrote to me nearly every day he was away during the war and we had made a sort of hidden code so I would always know where he was. I would start my letters in different words and ways, as he did, so I always knew where he was.
He told me about the time a few of the men were hidding as a plane was dropping bombs, it kept coming down low and they was on a corn field or similar. A man with real red ginger hair kept bobbing up to see where the plane was and on of the soldiers said " Get your so and so head down, they can see you."
One day someone bought a cat in the hospital as it had been hit on the road. My husband stitched its wounds after a whiff of something. It got on well and was the units pet.
When my husband came home it was wonderful. We decorated the house and put banners up etc. I had another daughter later. I've got a wonderful family and over 30 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
My husband lost a nephew and his best friend in the Air Force.
It was a welcome sight when Woolworths had sweets on the counter again. I remember buying a load of sweets which looked like different fruits and coloured. They were lovely.
After the war a dance was planned to take place in a hall nearby for all the local soldiers. They were presented with valuable fountain pens and anyone could go. So we made my dear mum look nice and I curled her hair and put a glittering chiffon on her. We hadn't been in the hall long when an elderly gentleman took my mother on the dance floor, I've never forgotton it.
Your Sincerely
Constance Toller
P.S. My husband recived several medals.
P.S. My children went to the street party in Richmond Road, We have a photo somewhere in the family.
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Word has it the Olsen twins are expanding their fashion line, The Row, to include a range for the guys. Find out more after the jump.
Women's Wear Daily reported yesterday that Ashley has started conceptualizing a men's collection that could be in stores as soon as next fall. Considering how frequently their own fashion decisions have been called into question, would you guys let the Olsen twins dress your man?


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Predicting the individual NBA awards
When it comes to the NBA's individual awards, sometimes it's not how you start but how you finish.
Just ask Indiana Pacers guard Lance Stephenson, whose league-leading fifth triple-double in a huge win Sunday vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder came just in time to win a few more votes for the league's Most Improved Player trophy. Or his teammate Roy Hibbert, the Pacers big man who once looked like a lock for Defensive Player of the Year but now finds himself in a close race with the likes of Joakim Noah (Chicago Bulls) Andre Iguodala (Golden State Warriors) and others after struggling in recent months.
After assessing this complicated landscape – considering each player's body of work, any relevant context, and the reality that playoff contenders typically win the day on this front – USA TODAY Sports' Sam Amick and Jeff Zillgitt came to the following conclusions.
Rookie of the year
Zillgitt's pick: Michael Carter-Williams, Philadelphia 76ers
The 76ers point guard, the No. 11 pick in the 2013 draft, might pay for playing on the league's worst team that lost 26 consecutive games.
But Carter-Williams had 22 points, 12 assists, nine steals and seven rebounds in his first game and played through any rookie wall he hit and worked on improving amidst a tough season right up to the end. As recently as last week, he had a game with 23 points, eight assists and seven steals.
Carter-Williams is the only rookie to have more than one triple-double, and he is on pace to become the third player to lead all rookies in scoring, rebounding and assists, joining Oscar Robertson (1960-61) and Alvan Adams (1975-76). He is also set to become the sixth rookie to average at least 16 points, six assists and five rebounds – along with Robertson, Magic Johnson, Penny Hardaway, Steve Francis and Chris Paul.
Amick's pick: Carter-Williams
Defensive Player of the Year
Amick's pick: Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls
There was a time when this was a one-horse race, but Indiana Pacers' Hibbert stumbled so mightily that Noah wins the prize. And with good reason.
He's the rare combination of feared rim defender, agile perimeter presence and vocal captain of a Bulls defense that – while second to the Pacers overall – was the best in the league when it mattered most. Since Jan. 7, when Chicago traded one of its best two-way players, small forward Luol Deng, to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Noah's Bulls have allowed a league-low 97.7 points per 100 possessions.
On the individual front, Noah's ability to hit the glass (11.2 rebounds per game), defend the rim (opponents shot 46.7% against him) and lead a group that was already undermanned before the Deng trade (no Derrick Rose, again) was nothing short of special. And unlike Hibbert, he was an elite impact defender from beginning to end.
There was an undeniable correlation between Hibbert's late-season struggles and Indiana's collective collapse. Since a March 2 win that gave them a league-best 46-13 record and maintained their status as the top defense (94.4 points allowed per 100 possessions at that time, way ahead of the then-second-place Bulls at 97.8), the Pacers have gone just 9-13 while having the 10th best defense in that stretch (103.5 points allowed per 100 possessions).
A vital subplot here was their inability to control the glass: they plummeted from second in the league in rebounding percentage pre-March 3 (52.5) to 13th from that point on (50.5). Hibbert was the worst culprit of them all ,as he averaged a deplorable 4.1 rebounds per game during that stretch (he averaged 7.5 rebounds per game up until that point). Statistics provided by NBA.com/stats.
Zillgitt's pick: Andre Iguodala, Golden State Warriors
Most Improved Player
Zillgitt's pick: Blake Griffin, Los Angeles Clippers
This is the most difficult award to figure out because there are so many factors to consider beyond the basics of "are his statistics better than they were last season?" Maybe increased playing time led to better stats or a Player A switched teams and now Player B has more opportunities and who's to stay Player B wouldn't have performed the same last season.
There are several strong candidates this season – the Phoenix Suns have three – but Clippers forward Blake Griffin fits the parameters: a player whose production has increased without a significant increase in minutes or opportunities. Griffin is averaging just 3.4 minutes more per game this season than last year is averaging 6.1 more points this season.
Griffin's free throw percentage, rebounding per 36 minutes and player efficiency rating also increased compared to last season, and though his shooting percentage is slightly down this season, he has improved his shooting percentage from mid-range, according to NBA.com/stats.
Amick's pick: Lance Stephenson, Indiana Pacers
Sixth Man of the Year
Amick's pick: Jamal Crawford, Los Angeles Clippers
It's one thing to put up big offensive numbers that come without a purpose (see the Los Angeles Lakers' Nick Young). It's quite another to do what Jamal Crawford did this season in a Western Conference that was as loaded as ever.
After coming in second place to the New York Knicks' J.R. Smith last season, the Clippers' super sixth man upped his scoring (16.5 points per game to 18.5) and playmaking (2.5 assists per game to 3.2) while becoming one of the league's most dangerous fourth-quarter threats. Crawford is third in the league in fourth-quarter scoring, with his 6.8 points per trailing only MVP-frontrunner Kevin Durant of the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Houston Rockets' James Harden. The company behind him in that category is equally impressive, as the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and reigning MVP LeBron James of the Miami Heat are fourth and fifth, respectively.
Crawford not only got better late in the games when the pressure was on, but he got more efficient. His fourth-quarter shooting percentage (49.2) is much better than his overall mark (41.8) while his fourth-quarter three-point percentage (45.6) is also significantly improved (36.5 for the season).
Crawford and the much-improved Blake Griffin managed to help the Clippers do something this season that most would have thought impossible not too long ago: survive without Chris Paul. When their All-Star point guard was out from Jan. 4 to Feb. 8 with a shoulder injury, the Clippers went 12-6. Crawford (who started five of those 18 games and 23 in all this season) trailed only Griffin in scoring (22 points per game) while also averaging five assists and just two turnovers.
Zillgitt's pick: Taj Gibson, Chicago Bulls


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by Rick Bretz
Once in a while, an entertaining surprise appears in front of you. In this case, a trip to the local library's book fair was the catalyst where a book rested at the top of a pile and I picked it up. The book was a biography about General George C. Marshall, written and research by Leonard Mosley and published in 1982. I picked it up and bought for a few dollars, along with five others, and felt good about supporting my local library. I did not know at the time that this book would soon become one of my favorite books about military generals.
Having read books about General George S. Patton, General Ulysses S. Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Marine General Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller, Air Force General Chuck Yeager, General George Washington, General Douglas MacArthur, Napoleon, Alexander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, Roman Legion commanders and many more, I don't know why I hadn't read anything about Marshall until now. This was a huge oversight, considering the man's greatness and legacy.
After reading the book, I have become an admirer of General Marshall and how he conducted himself during his service to the country as a military officer and for his efforts serving under the Truman Administration as Secretary of State. I am late to the group of Marshall Scholars since it has been 33 years since the book's release by Hearst Books and several more years since Marshall's passing on October 16, 1959 at Walter Reed Hospital.
Mosely's other books cover historical figures and topics ranging from Charles Lindbergh, Emperor Hirohito, and Haile Selassie to the Battle of Britain and the DuPont's of Delaware.
Mosley's book spans the decades of George Catlett Marshall's birth on December 31, 1880 in Uniontown, Pa., to his final days at Walter Reed Hospital. The first few pages surprise when we learn that growing up in Uniontown Marshall was a slow learner and not the favorite of his father. His family didn't expect much from him as the first chapter's title suggests, "A Disgrace to the Family?" Never expecting to see the word "Disgrace" in a book about General Marshall, I was hooked.
What we learn soon after a few more pages is that something lit a fire in the young George Marshall—and that "someone" was sibling rivalry. His brother, Stuart, graduated from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) but didn't enter the military. When his brother found out that George wanted to attend VMI, he tried to persuade his parents into preventing George from getting an education there because he thought the slow-learning George would fail.
We learn that sixteen year old George Marshall did attend VMI and excelled and succeeded well beyond everyone's expectations while also meeting his future wife there who lived near the institution. We find out in later chapters that he was a disciple of General Black Jack Pershing and that he was more than brilliant during all of his assignments after getting his Army officer's appointment.
The author gives us an idea of what made Marshall tick, how he dealt with people and how he honed his leadership skills. He was a no-nonsense leader and didn't like dealing with politicians or being political. It seems from the book that George Marshall had a way with dealing with subordinates and superiors that impressed everyone. This trait brought him promotions, although slow due to the small Army budget and size before World War I and after, and important assignments. He had few enemies if any but one important one seemed to have it out for him—General Douglas MacArthur.
The book does something after the final chapter that I don't see often in research notations at the end of books. He takes the time to compare his sources and write a couple of paragraphs about where he got his material for each chapter and why certain sources were used over others. An interesting part of the book. His material comes from more than 40 hours of tapes Marshall recorded near the end of his life and from books written by his official biographer Forrest C, Pogue, documents from the George C. Marshall Research Foundation, the Military History Institute and other resources from the author's work on other books.
This book is certainly well worth the read. It lets us in on how he found all of those talented generals that served him so well during World War II as well as criticizing Marshall where he sent out ambiguous orders or failed to see the political and cultural implications in China and the Far East after World War II.
Marshall had many successes too such as his World War II leadership, The Marshall Plan, The Berlin Airlift, and in many other areas that will surprise us, especially during the Great Depression years.
You just never know what literary gems you will find at your local library book fair.
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Volusia council cuts out beach driving at Andy Romano Park
DELAND -- Vehicles won't be allowed on the beach in front of Ormond Beach's new Andy Romano Beachfront Park, the Volusia County Council narrowly decided Thursday morning.
In a split 4-3 vote, the council approved the city's request to make about 600 feet of beach in front of the $8 million family park a no-driving zone -- over concerns about what the decision means for other sections of beach.
"We've lost children on our beach because of our cars, and I can't think of anything we could do that would be more important to that generation than removing cars from this 600 feet of beach -- just to protect our children and to allow them the opportunity to frolic and play," said Councilwoman Pat Northey. "If we don't do this, we're driving cars through a playground. Who does that?"
Northey joined council members Doug Daniels, Pat Patterson and Joyce Cusack in voting to approve the request. Opposed were Jason Davis, Josh Wagner and Deb Denys, who drew applause from several beach-driving advocates who criticized the proposal.
"Most of the people that live in this area, in the whole county, like to drive the beach," said Don Kane of Daytona Beach. "And this appears to me to be the perception that Ormond Beach is trying to privatize the beach for their own use."
"This is one of the worst situations that we have to fight -- the infringements on the rights of the public on the beach," said Richard Kane (no relation to Don Kane), president of the local beach advocacy group Sons of Beaches.
"I don't think you're hearing or appreciating the value of this beach or the number of people who are concerned about keeping beach driving," he told the council -- calling the practice "a 100-year, God-given amenity."
For many longtime Volusians, their strong passions about beach driving have increased along with the opposition's concerns about safety and Mother Nature. Volusia saw two toddlers killed by vehicles on the beach in 2010 (along with some other nonfatal accidents), sparking a series of new ordinances and shifts in policy.
The sharp difference in perspectives was apparent on the council, too.
"Nature's going to take our beach," Davis said, arguing to keep the cars on. "She's all-powerful. So why don't we enjoy it while we have it?"
"Let's give the beach to everybody, not just the cars," Patterson said.
"I don't want this to be the council that took cars off the beach," Denys said. "I can't do it."
"For me, it's almost a no-brainer," Cusack said. "Why would we put a park that kids are going to be running to and from, and have folk be able to drive past it? ... Once one of them are hit or killed, it's too late to say, 'Oh, I'm so sorry.'"
The Andy Romano zone will become the sixth traffic-free zone in Volusia. Of the 50 miles of coastline in Volusia, driving is allowed on about 17. Another 14 are controlled by the state or federal government.
The last significant closure of a stretch of beach was in 2000, when a mile-long area around the Ocean Walk and Main Street Pier in Daytona Beach became traffic-free.
Wagner, who tried but failed to attach a policy that would add new beach-driving zones when old ones are removed, predicted more requests will be coming. Daytona Beach Shores is working on a public beachfront parking lot.
"We're putting ourselves in a very tough position to say no in the future," Wagner said.
"I'm not so concerned about slippery slopes, myself," said Daniels, who made the motion to approve the change. "I think when you start thinking, 'I've approved this, I've got to do that,' what you're doing is abdicating your responsibility. We have a responsibility here to exercise judgment."
The council essentially approved the no-driving zone as a permanent special event permit -- something the council can revoke in the future.
County Manager Jim Dinneen said that the county will install some temporary barriers now and work with the city over the next 4 to 6 weeks on permanent barriers and signage. The city is paying some of those costs.


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Life as a Patroller During World Cup
Thousands of ski fans flocked to Deer Valley Resort at the start of this month for the 2012 FIS World Cup. From Thursday, Feb. 2, through Saturday, Feb. 4, top skiers from around the world –including stars Hannah Kearney, Heather McPhie, Mikael Kingsbury and Dylan Ferguson – competed in freestyle moguls and aerials events. They launched themselves off bumps and jumps in a display of speed, agility, athleticism and daring that left virtually every viewer – from patrollers standing course-side to fans watching on TV at home – slack-jawed in amazement.
The World Cup represents a showcase for the resort's Race Department, which along with the Snow Grooming, Snow Making, and Lift Operations departments, spent the week before the event constructing the courses and spectator areas. The crew was assisted by a legion of local volunteers who shaped each mogul and jump by hand. The result was stunning. In a few short days, they transformed the Champion and White Owl trails into challenging elite runs.
Champion, site of the 2002 Olympic freestyle mogul's event and White Owl, home of the 2002 Olympic freestyle aerials proved a great venue once again. Both are located on Bald Eagle Mountain.
(Patrol manager Steve Graff, right, reviews the plan for World Cup before the start of the first session Thursday evening, as patroller Mark Chytka looks on.)
Patrol assisted with setup, hanging rope lines and baffle-fences along the sides of the course. Then, when warm-ups started Wednesday, and competition commenced Thursday, a team of patrollers took to the race hill to provide first aid for the athletes, coaches, and spectators, if needed.
Seventeen patrollers worked the event: 10 on-course, five in the spectator area, and two supervisors – one in the Bald Eagle patrol shack, the other roaming where needed.
"It's a nice change of pace," patroller Kate Atha said. "You're not doing openers or 10-50s [radio-code for a skier wreck]. It's a midseason refresher."
Still, the World Cup days are long and cold. Patrollers working course-side typically stand outside for more than three hours at a time before rotating back to the patrol shack to warm up, eat, and rest. Once it was all over Saturday night, patrollers stayed past midnight, helping the race department, snow groomers, volunteers and others dismantle the course.
"It's a good lesson in how to dress warm," Atha said. "You're not always moving, it's not always sunny on Champion – or you're working at night. So you're wearing eight layers and mittens and heat packs, and you're constantly eating." Night events ran from about 7 or 8 p.m., depending on the day, to about 9:15 p.m., and temperatures dipped to 3 degrees Fahrenheit.
(Maitland Wiren and Kate Atha relax at the end of a long day Friday.)
The reward? The best seat in the house.
(The aerials course, lit-up for the finals Friday night.)
"You get to be right in the thick of the action," patroller Hylton Early said. "When you're right there working course-side and you see the athletes warming up and talking to their coaches, you get a much better understanding of the commitment and time the athletes put into it. You also get a much better sense of the size of the moguls, the speed the guys are going, how high they go off the jumps."
The 10 patrollers who worked course-side were divided into pairs, which rotated roughly every 45 minutes through various stations on the courses. On Champion, the stations were located at the start gate, the first kicker, the second kicker, the finish, and the Bald Eagle patrol shack. On White Owl, patrollers stood watch at the jumps and below the landing area.
In addition to dealing with the cold, the work presented different challenges from a regular ski day, particularly on Champion: the runs proved especially slick, the moguls were enormous, and thousands of spectators were watching – not to mention the TV cameras.
"You got to be 100-percent solid with running sleds in bumps," Atha said. "The course is hard enough for athletes to ski it. We're responding to wrecks and skiing with sleds in those same bumps."
(Patroller TJ Somers and Mark Chytka stand at the bottom of Champion during warmups on Wednesday.)
The three days of World Cup – four, if you include Wednesday's practice session – provided an additional bonding experience for the patrollers working the event.
"You're all putting in the sacrifice of the long hours and cold temperatures," Early said. "It's almost like pledging."
Asked whether they plan to sign-up for World Cup next year, Early and Atha were unequivocal. "100 percent," they said.
(The moguls and aerials courses Saturday night, as seen from overhead.)
The moguls and aerials events were broadcast on NBC on Saturday, Feb. 11. The dual moguls portion of the event were broadcast Saturday, Feb. 18, at 2:30 p.m. EST on NBC. For the results, as published on the official FIS website, click here.


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As an emerging video acquisition format, AVCHD holds the promise of offering stunning full HD images at the same data rate as DV. But thus far, all manufacturers of AVCHD cameras are using reduced bitrate settings to offer more recording time on flash media recorders.
Will 2008 finally change all this?
When AVCHD was introduced, the specification looked very impressive. The goal was to use advanced MPEG-4 encoding and compressed audio to provide much better HD imagery than we were getting with HDV. AVCHD would also have a variable data rate which would enable users to choose between image quality and record time for each recording. This variable recording rate is what made SanDisk's "Video" media with specific recording times listed on the label such an oxymoron.
Meanwhile, HDV uses the same data rate and tapes as DV, allowing production houses to buy one camcorder but use it in two completely different modes—SD and HD. That means great bang for the buck, and fewer production workflow changes for DV shooters making the transition to HDV as their HD-resolution medium of choice.
AVCHD was limited to consumer camcorders in 2007—tiny handhelds that were far from professional because they lacked immediate access to almost all the features we associate with professional production because there was simply no room for buttons or professional audio jacks on the bodies of these diminutive camcorders.
When you need to turn down the audio during a wedding because something suddenly became far louder than you expected, you don't have time to use a single joystick or scroll wheel to navigate through numerous menus to get to the audio, go to the level adjust, adjust the level down … It's much better to flip a switch, and bam, it's padded. Plus you avoid the visible camera shake that happens when you click and scroll through all the menus.
Panasonic is due to change this with the release of their AG-HMC70, which I had my hands on at Government Video Expo in Washington, D.C. in December and profiled with an in-depth "walk around" video on my blog.
The HMC70 takes the HSC1U (which is Panasonic's consumer HDC-SD1 with few alterations) and allows users to put the camcorder on their shoulders. The HMC70 takes a larger battery pack for all-day use; it has plenty of space to attach accessories, two big XLR jacks, a viewfinder, and an LCD, as well as plenty of buttons and knobs to easily access the features we need the most.
What Panasonic didn't do, aside from adding a second SD slot, was to increase the data rate from the HSC1U's artificially limited data rate of just 13Mbps. It also records at 9 and 6Mbps. But since numerous reviewers have agreed that 13 and 15Mbps AVCHD footage isn't quite up to the standard of HDV, 9 and 6Mbps are clearly too low for professional use.
AVCHD may be touted as twice as efficient as HDV. Thus far, even those camcorders that can record at 13 and 15Mbps (more than half of the HDV data rate), do not look better than HDV camcorders recording with the less efficient MPEG-2 at 25Mbps.
At CES 2008, both Sony and Canon unveiled AVCHD camcorders that break through 2007's glass ceiling of 15Mbps. The Sony HDR-SR12 and the Canon HF10 record at 16 and 17Mbps, respectively. While these camcorders don't yet approach AVCHD's limit of 24Mbps, they do indicate that manufacturers aren't entirely stuck in the low-bitrate quagmire. They are inching slowly up to where professional camcorder bitrates should be.
Beyond bitrates and controls, the two most important additions would be better chips and better glass. These features will certainly mean higher price tags, but there are plenty of videographers who would welcome an AVCHD camcorder with nice glass, better chips, easier control, and better ergonomics in the $3,000–$5,000 range.
If AVCHD is given its full data rate of 24Mbps, it will clearly outperform HDV, visually. HDV, however, has 4-channel audio capability, something that Canon has long offered on the XL H1 and Sony has just integrated into its shoulder mount HVR-S270.
AVCHD, like HDV, uses a LongGOP compression scheme, so it will take the same sort of processing horsepower to edit AVCHD video efficiently without a lot of computer pauses for rendering. Both HDV and AVCHD are now available on flash-based camcorders, but the price premium for the pro camcorder that offers flash recording of HDV may not be worth it if another manufacturer comes out with a 24Mbps AVCHD camcorder.
Panasonic has taken a good first step by offering AVCHD in the larger form factor of the HMC70. But it is Canon that offers both internal and removable flash media (currently 2 x 16GB), higher bitrate (17Mbps versus 13), as well as full 1920×1080 recording. Another very useful feature for corporate video is 30p acquisition, which removes any interlacing issues when making 15p video for the web. But Canon has not yet integrated these AVCHD features into a bigger, more full-featured, easier-to-manipulate camcorder like the XH A1. If Panasonic pushes it hard enough, the other manufacturers may respond in kind.
Here's looking to better pictures in 2008.
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Sunny Monday after weekend
After a stormy Saturday, with more than an inch of rainfall in Daytona Beach, more of the same is expected Sunday before rain chances are expected to diminish Monday, with only a 20 percent chance of rain for most of the week.
Although the National Weather Service station at Daytona Beach International Airport has recorded only nine days with no precipitation in August, the total rainfall for the month, roughly 4.7 inches, is still slightly below normal. Normal rainfall for the entire month of August is 6.4 inches, the weather service said.
Elsewhere in the region, the weather service reports 5.37 inches of rain in DeLand as of Saturday morning, and the Flagler Emergency Operations Center reported 4.61 inches of rain through Friday.
Weather service radar rainfall estimates in other parts of western Volusia and Flagler indicate up to 7 or 8 inches of rain may have fallen since Aug. 1.
The total rainfall for the year, so far, in Daytona Beach is 32.65 as of Saturday morning, 1.3 inches above normal.
Daytime temperatures have been running very near normal and are expected to climb into the low 90s early in the week, which would be slightly above normal.
However, overnight lows have been ranging anywhere from 3 to 6 degrees above normal. Overnight low temperatures set record warms three times in the past several days, including a warm low of 79 degrees on Wednesday.
While lows are expected to return to the mid 70s, daytime high temperatures are forecast to range in the low to mid 90s.


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UA Football Notebook: Giveaways Problematic
1. Turnover Danger
Mississippi State was successful in forcing Alabama into a season-high four turnovers last Saturday in Starkville, Miss. But Arkansas offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said the Bulldogs' success hasn't really created any extra concern for the Razorbacks.
Turning the ball over has been one of their biggest issues throughout the season.
"It's been our Achilles' heel all season," Chaney said Tuesday. "So, you know, regardless of what took place at the Alabama game this past week for Mississippi State, it's been our issue all year long. So we preached it hard all last week. We did again today. We'll continue to do so throughout the week."
Arkansas has turned the ball over 18 times, which is tied with Florida and Texas A&M for 11th among Southeastern Conference teams. The sloppy play — combined with the Razorbacks' struggles to force turnovers — has Arkansas ranked 106th in the nation in turnover margin (minus-8).
Arkansas' turnover total includes quarterback Brandon Allen's eight interceptions in nine starts. The sophomore threw a costly one in the fourth quarter at Ole Miss, throwing a pass that was intercepted in the end zone.
The Razorbacks trailed 34-17 at the time and had driven to the Ole Miss 35.
"Obviously, we've got to be great with ball security," Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said Monday. "I don't think we can just let the ball go out of our hands. That play on the wheel route with Alex in the corner of the end zone the other day, that was a big play. I know he wishes he could have that one back."
Chaney said he has seen improvement from Allen in practice this week.
"I feel like (Tuesday) there was a couple opportunities where Brandon could've thrown it up and he didn't," Chaney said. "He threw it away and he checked the ball down a couple times good. So I saw some things today that gave me some hope maybe we're getting a little more conscious of that ball security.
"We've still got to go do it on Saturday and we're looking forward to the opportunity."
2. Williams Most Improved?
Arkansas believes there has been plenty of growth from its young players this season. But Bielema said running back Jonathan Williams may be the program's most improved since the start of the season.
"He has taken an understanding of what we expect on certain plays," Bielema said. "His practice habits. His composure. His ability … that him and Alex (Collins) have a relationship, I think is a big, big deal. He's made some incredible football plays."
Williams ranks second on the team in rushing with 783 yards and four touchdowns. He also has caught six passes for 72 yards and two more scores. Williams has even thrown three passes, completing one for a 21-yard touchdown at Rutgers.
But the sophomore said last week he's not done improving as a durable ball carrier.
"You can always do better," Williams said. "I set a high standard for myself and no matter how well I do during the season I always feel I could do better."
3. Love For Little Rock
Bielema raised some eyebrows when he said Arkansas needed to treat its games in Little Rock like road trips because of the lengthy bus ride earlier this season. But Bielema made it clear Monday he doesn't have any issues with bringing his team to Central Arkansas after the first experience in September.
"I don't have issues," Bielema said when asked about his issues with the trip. "Now … you're putting words in my mouth. I bet you, I've never … You can't get a recording of me saying I have issues with Little Rock."
Bielema went on to say he was blown away by the crowd for the Samford game.
"We went to an early morning workout, or an early morning walk-through, and I was informed they started rolling in about 5:30 a.m.," Bielema said. "That was very impressive. Anybody that can get their groove on at that time deserves some kudos.
"We'll have an 11 a.m. kickoff (Saturday), so it'll be interesting to see how it changes … I don't think it'll change that much. They're very passionate about their Hogs and I'm excited for us to get over there and play in an SEC environment. Hopefully they treat Mississippi State as good as anybody."
4. 'Heavy' Unit
Chaney has used plenty of interesting terms and phrases to answer questions throughout the season. He pulled out another one when asked for his thoughts on Mississippi State's defense Tuesday night: Heavy.
"Very heavy up front," Chaney said. "The kids up front play hard. They knock people around. The secondary is very sound. I think they're a very good defense. I think they don't make mistakes. The linebackers have good length and make a lot of plays. The secondary is always where they need to be.
"They're good tacklers. I think they're a formidable foe. They're going to create some challenges for us. Sometimes you know where they're at, but they're still hard to block. They're heavy."
— Robbie Neiswanger • Arkansas News Bureau