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Following up on today's earlier post on Terrence Cody's rising stock, here's a look at the top nose tackles in this year's class.
1. Dan Williams, Tennessee
At 6'2″, 327 pounds there's no question that Williams has the size to play nose tackle. What makes him the top prospect at the position, though, is his athleticism. Most nose tackles earn their living just by eating up space, but a select few have the ability to get into the backfield and make plays. Shaun Rogers may be the best example among active nose tackles, and Williams could certainly have a similar impact at the next level.
2. Terrence Cody, Alabama
Cody's stock is on the rise and the more weight he loses the higher his stock will climb. He isn't the type that will make plays in the backfield with consistency, but he can take on two or three blockers at a time. He lacks the athleticism to be a truly elite nose tackle but he can make an instant impact anchoring a defensive line.
3. Cam Thomas, North Carolina
Thomas was overshadowed by Marvin Austin at North Carolina, but he's starting to get the attention he deserves. At 6'4″, 331 pounds he has the size to fit right at nose tackle in the NFL. He struggled to make an impact at times in UNC's traditional 4-3 defense due to his lack of athleticism, but he should flourish in a 3-4 scheme at the next level.
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There's a significant dropoff in talent after Thomas. Joseph has the size (6'5″, 328 pounds) and strength but he wasn't always productive even against lesser competition at East Carolina. He's an intriguing mid-round prospect but he isn't a sure thing.
5. Jeff Owens, Georgia
Not all teams will view Owens as a nose tackle due to his relative lack of size (6'1″, 304) but he is a short, stout and extremely strong interior lineman. If he added some weight Owens could easily handle the duties of a nose tackle.
6. Aleric Mullins, North Carolina
Mullins was never a full-time starter at North Carolina, stuck behind Cam Thomas and Marvin Austin. He's an intriguing prospect who has the size and strength to play nose tackle and potentially the athleticism to play defensive end in the 3-4 defense as well. He could be one of those player's who just needs to land in the right system to reach his full potential.
7. Brandon Deaderick, Alabama
Deaderick was overshadowed by Cody at Alabama, but he too was a key member of Tide's defense. His production was nothing impressive, but his size and strength are intriguing. He's a developmental prospect who could be a late-round pick.
8. Travis Ivey, Maryland
Ivey battled injuries throughout his career and wasn't a full-time starter until his senior year. His tape isn't impressive but there's only so many guys out there who are 6'4″, 341 pounds. He'll draw interest in the late rounds or as a free agent.


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Sean is a physicist and military theorist who is using data, maths and visualizations to help us understand the nature of modern war. He asks," What are some of the lessons from war we can apply to other human endeavors?"
This conversation will open at 2:00PM EDT, June 17th, 2011
Greg Burton
Jun 17 2011: There's more to it than just guerrilla warfare. Insurgency has changed a lot, and we see emergent group behaviors where classic military theory wouldn't have expected them. We can actually apply that to disaster relief efforts and situations, because the same kinds of behavioral groups emerge to deal with catastrophes.
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Jun 17 2011: yes, interesting to think about the self organizing structure of human groups. How do we make connections, how do groups of unorganized individuals make decisions.
How could we study this from places like post tsunami Japan? What would the right data be?
Jun 17 2011: the easy data is in the reach of the event - social media grouping around particular charity efforts, news and curation distribution, as well as blocks and limits found on the ground. I started looking at it from this perspective after Katrina. Things have changed substantially since then, but the self-organizing efforts and communication nets off of it are fruitful in considering any high-stress situation where good information is critical.
Kate Divett
Jun 17 2011: I live in Christchurch, New Zealand (a city Sean is familiar with), which has become an area of active seismic activity since a magnitude 7.4 earthquake in Sept 2010. Over 7300 earthquakes and counting (including a pretty decent aftershock as I'm writing this).
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I believe we can learn from the success of insurgent groups to our situation in Christchurch.
The government response to assessing homes and giving residents of the city a sense of certainty regarding the future has been slow and cumbersome - 'conventional'? In many ways it is the classic red-taped bureaucracy... too restricted by its own rules and regulations to adapt to the constantly changing/increasing needs of the community. There is an increasing sense of hopelessness and desperation here, and the lack of communication from government regarding the future of the city is rapidly creating anger.
Compare this to the spontaneous creation of a group called the "Student Army". Thousands of students were called together and organised through social media. They were distributed each day with spades and wheelbarrows, to respond to areas of the city that were most in need. They were adaptable, effective, and are now a key part of the city's emergency response when we are hit again by larger aftershocks. The key organisers of the Student Army were sent to Japan post-tsunami, in order to provide advice and support to mobilise the student population there.
Short chains-of-command, simple systems, adaptability, and autonomy within smaller groups - with a targetted focus and clearly defined outcomes - seem to be the hallmarks of a successful 'insurgent' response to disaster relief... it seems to be true here in Christchurch, anyway.Jun 17 2011: Don't unorganized individuals who are successful actually create order out of chaos? Looking into what decisions were made and comparing what worked to what didn't might be a good jumping off point. The data might be hard to find though.
Jun 17 2011: What's interesting is that you can't tie it to individual decisions too closely. What works, spreads- what spreads, works. The key seems to be that people on the ground will emerge by doing something, very rapidly, almost no matter what it is.Jun 17 2011: It seems that perhaps it is easier to defeat a focused regime operating under one banner by making it mean the loss of the power base of those in charge to continue the fight, or by taking the will out of the individuals who support the regime and bringing it down from within. With a smaller less organized force, their power is in their continued struggle. They can hide, move on and attack again later. The power they have continues as long as they keep fighting and there is no power structure to undermine.
Jun 17 2011: Sean, what can we learn from Douglas' comment? This seems to be prevalent issue in many conflicts.Jun 17 2011: Yes, Douglas has captured something important here. It is very useful to consider these war zones as self contained ecosystems. There exists a sort of predator prey type interaction network. The insurgents only have power when there is something to fight.
It would be interesting to think about what is the 'keystone' species within an insurgent ecosystem. If you could find this and remove it - would it cause the network to collapse?
Maybe we can take our destruction of the earths ecosystems and apply this same thinking to war zones :)
Jun 17 2011: Isn't there always 'something to fight' though? I think this could be extremely subjective.
So doesn't this mean that success of the weaker group must be dependent largely on other criterias (ex. rhetoric, timing, specific triggers etc)?Jun 17 2011: Lots of analogies to explore here:
Treat insurgancy like a bacterial infection. Take antibiotics until all harmful bacteria are eliminated...
Are we trying to drive insurgents to extinction? We have hunted species to extinction, so that could work for insurgency.
Or maybe it is more like a virus that mutates to quickly, so many treatments are not effective over the long term? Perhaps as in HIV or some innovative cancer treatments, groups of different treatments administered together might bring about change?
Do we direct them to a new path, rendering them "harmless", by giving them other things to worry about besides direct military intervention? Thus building a societal immune response or overall tolerance to the problems that create insurgency.
James Newton
Jun 17 2011: And we know it just isn't possible to totally eliminate an infection. The antibiotic leaves the toughest bugs behind but reduces the total load to the point that the bodies own system can control it. In the same way, an invader can wipe out /most/ of the insurgents, but some will survive. If the culture (being the body) doesn't contain those last few, or if the culture actually promotes the activities of those few, then the insurgent infection simply returns, stronger than ever. As long as the invader remains, and does not win the "hearts and minds" of the culture as a whole, there will never be peace.Jun 17 2011: An insurgent is not a species or an organism, but a description of what someone does: mobilise against a governing regime in order to affect social change. As we can learn from insurgency theorists like Marighella or Mao, certain types of counterinsurgency action can become one of the most potent weapons of the insurgent. There are no bacteria which, if treated with antibiotics, spontaneously convert surrounding cells into new bacteria, but that is exactly what kinetic COIN can do.
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Nor should we take a solely grievance-based approach to understanding why men [and women] rebel. Insurgency isn't created by problems, but by persuasive political messages. The presence of serious social problems certainly contributes to circumstances conducive to such messages, but the literature coming out of social psychology and political science suggests that the intergroup environment and the available avenues for political participation have an overarching impact.Jun 17 2011: Do you have any thoughts on what that 'keystone species' might be, Sean? Would it be economics, ideology, language, social/cultural expressions clashing, religion? Which paradigms seem to be the drivers, and how do they interact? What do you think?
Sean Gourley
Jun 17 2011: That's a difficult question - perhaps best left to Chris Rock to explain
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuX-nFmL0IIJun 17 2011: it's interesting to think about pulling these second order leavers. Don't try to remove guns - just increase the price of bullets.
The truth though is that our understanding of ecosystems (war, environment, business, stock markets) is actually pretty shallow. We are only just getting our heads around the mathematics of massively multidimensional networks and feedback loops.
But one of the things that is clear is that it is expensive to run an insurgency. You need to have ways to make money. That is why there are very few insurgencies that are fought without a key resource being available. Cocaine in Colombia, diamonds in Sierra Leone, Opium in Afghanistan. Human trafficking etc.
The insurgency needs to make money - take this away and you take away the blood of an insurgency.Jun 17 2011: I can think of a vast number of insurgencies - and not only during the Cold War - where insurgents had state patrons or global diasporas to provide sufficient funding to continue the fight, and thus were able to wage war even without a key resource.Jun 17 2011: Modern American warfare can enlighten us to the reality of how malleable the American state of mind is. We are a country obsessed with the ideas of things like honor and pride. You then attach these slogans to something as unforgivable and disgraceful as killing other humans on their own soil, and many of us jump right on the band wagon. We need to separate ourselves from the propaganda that is constantly being shoved down our throats and think about these issues with independent thought. Peace is the natural social evolution of humanity and we need to get back on track.
Jun 17 2011: We tell ourselves that we fight for emotional reasons - and yet underlying these conflicts is a cold set of mathematical equations. Hard to imagine that people would go off to fight to be another data point in a seemingly predictable formula.Jun 17 2011: Honour and pride in a tribal society can be well understood as deterrence. And there are many parallels between the international state system and tribal society. There are also many parallels between the particular political and social consciousness that nationalism generates and the bonds of kinship group - the primary unit of social organisation in a tribal society. There is rational calculation behind terrorist or insurgent strategy, as much as there is behind the military strategies of states.
But we clearly fight for 'emotional' reasons. The fighters of the Taliban hurl themselves at well-defended ISAF bases while suicide bombers blow themselves up in acts of 'isthishad'. What can we conclude from this?
We can conclude that these people are engaging in rational calculation but do so according to different cost-benefit calculations than what we might use.
Matt Barrick
Jun 17 2011: "In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
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If the "team" realizes that the mission or goal is baseless, the unit will quickly begin to rot from the inside. ~Sgt Barrick OIF II
Jun 17 2011: Nice quotes Matt - the power of a narrative is hard to overstate. Yet in many ways the actual content of the narrative is somewhat irrelevant. We look at different wars, all fought for different ideological reasons and yet despite these differences in religion, politics, geography - we see the same patterns emerge.
It is as though we tell ourselves that we fight war for one reason - yet we could tell ourselves any reason and the mathematical signature of the war would look no different.
If war is truly governed by these mathematical equations - and it starts to become somewhat predictable - will people want to continue to fight?
Jun 17 2011: Regarding your original question: It has nothing to do with math. It's all about tenacity. If you've ever studied the Honey Badger and observed it eating a Cobra, you'll see what I mean.Jun 17 2011: Have patterns emerged in any other study of wars, i.e. economic or sociological analysis, that have revealed similar or diverging patterns?Jun 17 2011: War follows recognisable patterns because strategy is ultimately a rational enterprise. Actors with reasonably good intelligence, sufficient supplies and forces, and sufficient will to fight will likely choose similar methods. The patterns of war will change when the conflict environment changes or when technological innovations allow for radically different tactics (eg mass media > hostage taking; mass communications > 'netwar';). People will fight because they believe that fighting will be the best way for them to achieve their objectives, and that choice depends on a combination of social/cultural norms and permissive political environments.Jun 17 2011: The insurgents would also operate without all the bureaucracy required in a more established army. As a result, decisions are streamlined and not politicized or subject to endless review and compromise. Decisions are made quickly, and with less fear of consequences. It's a perfect example of my motto, real change rises up, it's not imposed from above.
Jun 17 2011: There's a paper describing how the larger an organisation is, the slower it is to respond and change. It's called "Bureaucracy, meet Catastrophe", I think. I remember a sociology lecturer calling this 'structural inertia', and it applies to any organisation, wether terrorist cell or small start-up.
Jun 17 2011: I often say you can measure the entropy of an organization by the weight of its manual. ;)Jun 17 2011: After being so fully penetrated by British security forces during the 1980s, the IRA was virtually paralised despite its networked organisational structure. Conversely Fatah and its affiliated terrorist groups have won major successes for the Palestinians despite being an example of centralised and tightly controlled political decisionmaking. Organisational flexibility is of course important, but size and structure are not the only factors in determining how well an organisation can adapt, build momentum, and execute an effective strategy.Jun 17 2011: Assuming the insurgent group has a higher level of passion and personal commitment to their cause than the members of the established army, it would seem finding how to generate that level of passion and commitment in other segments of culture that beg for change is key.Jun 17 2011: Every breakthrough of technology has happened prior to a perceived new "generation of warfare". The technology will first be invented, but used by established institutions with old concepts that do not exploit its full potential. The ideas and processes of using this new technology will come later - causing a disruptive breakthrough.
An example that comes to mind is the invention of tanks. The British and French applied old concepts and ideas to using these tanks prior to WWII - using them mostly for infantry support. The tanks only revolutionize warfare when the Germans applied new Blitzkrieg concepts to their use.
Which brings us to today's perceived "asymmetry" between a "weak" group of insurgents and a "stronger" conventional army. Perhaps we need to rethink our mental models about who is "weak" and "strong", and whether the asymmetry exists at all. The effects of globalization and prevalence of networking technology has provided the new window of opportunity to revolutionize warfare. However, again, established militaries may be applying old concepts to these new technologies, whereas the "weaker" insurgents have perhaps exploit it better, to become more decentralized, network, adaptive and strategic - creating an advantage beyond conventional military might.
The lessons that can be port over is - the last decade has seen networking technology permeate every aspect of life. However, are we still using old ideas and concepts to these new technology? The exploration of ideas and processes to harness these technologies is as important as the invention of the technologies themselves. I believe if we can rethink our concepts and processes, we can harness the full potential of new technologies to impact more areas of human activity.
As always, the new ideas will come after the new inventions, and only together can they revolutionize human activity.
Tony Stohne
Jun 17 2011: A smaller group of insurgents has the advantage of small scale logistics in addition to quicker decisions and a greater ability to improvise, I think. They are not as hampered by red tape as conventional military forces are.
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Jun 17 2011: yes, they are much more fluid in nature. We found that there were on the order of 120 different groups in a place like Iraq. And each group had a half life in the range of months - not years. This structure was incredibly fluid, and allowed advances in strategies and technologies to be transferred across different groups.
The US forces by comparison were much more structured - though the ground level troops on the US side were also very adaptable. http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/06/iraqs-invisible-war/all/1
Jun 17 2011: So I see the evolution analogy here clearly. They try and fail, or succeed and pass on succesful strategies to new generations.
Jun 17 2011: Sounds like the bike sharing/car sharing business model that has been working due the sharing of the business plan.Jun 17 2011: what is interesting with the evolutionary model here is that there is also an interesting force acting against the strongest groups here. The strongest groups become targets for the conventional forces. And when these groups are attacked they fragment and splinter -- like breaking a sheet of glass.
All the learning and innovation is then scattered back throughout the system. This prevents lock-in and makes for a very effective distribution of knowledge.Jun 17 2011: Powerful, Sean! Have you drawn any conclusions or new thoughts based on the current conflicts in Libya and Egypt?
Jun 17 2011: yes, we are looking at those conflicts now. Trying to find new ways to analyze the data as it is coming in. Because the conflicts like Egypt are relatively casualty light compared with Iraq/Afghanistan the attack signatures are not the best metrics to use. We are doing more analysis of the tweets, FB updates and news reports - semantic analysis to see if we can see a change in the way language is used. This might be a predictor of escalating violence.
Jun 17 2011: Vietnam brought us war on TV... now it is war viewed through the web. Fascinating.Jun 17 2011: Is it possible that access to information with such differents tools give insurgents more power, compared to army where information probably comes always from official sources? I believe in many human areas, information is power.
Sean Gourley
Jun 17 2011: I think it was best put like this
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"information is not power, information asymmetry is power"Jun 17 2011: what is also interesting about the conflicts in the middle east is the role that new technology had to play in the organizational of the uprisings (and crack down by the existing regimes). We saw the term 'twitter/facebook revolution' start to emerge.
When we have the next revolution - will it be a 'foursquare revolution'. Will people use geolocation data, or gamefication techniques to co-ordinate millions of people in opposition? Will there be a "revolution" badge?
Burton Lo
Jun 17 2011: My biggest question is: considering the fact that an "enemy" is in front of my, absolutely willing to lay his life down in service of his agenda, why is it _me_ that they're insisting on fighting? From there, I get to honestly consider my agenda, have I been irresponsible or self-serving? Have I been judgmentally righteous, forgoing mutual respect?
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Jun 17 2011: This is the kind of thinking that leaders need to engage in. This is a path to a more peaceful earth. And it does not have to be employed only when someone is willing to lay their life on the line, it should be the go to philosophy when any type of conflict rises.Jun 17 2011: and could maths help me determine if I am self serving in nature, or judgementally righteous?Jun 17 2011: Sean, I think the mathematics of war (based on Sun Tzu, not but related to your other work) would be an amazing research project then layperson's book. After you get your first one done. : )Jun 17 2011: It seems an easy analogy is that of the evolution of the mammalian immune system. Mammals evolved a particularly adaptive immune system that may have helped them thrive after the last major extinction event (the Yucatan asteroid impact). If you look at the fall of the Iraqi government as an "extinction event", i.e. a sudden change in the environment that opens niches for lower organisms to fill, then it is easy to think of the subsequent events as exerting selective pressure on the organisms in the system, driving them toward new equilibrium. For instance, mammals have evolved special cell types that flexibly recognize and attack non-self molecules to protect the organism. The US military has adapted it's equipment and tactics in radical ways to account for unconventional opponents, although within the structure that previously existed. Perhaps looking at the evolutionary response of organisms immediately after major extinctions would provide some more insight into the dynamics of predator:prey relationships in Army:insurgent warfare.Jun 17 2011: While common people are dying in wars, big entrepreneurs and politicians are getting richer. War is always, and I think it always be a huge opportunity to make profit. Guns and ammunition have to be bought to make a war, and this is a very interesting market. Do you want to stop a war, ou avoid someone to began one, just don't allow him to have access to gun.
Let's find out who is selling guns and war artefacts to the nations who are in war and stop them to make these genocide business. This one way, practical way, to minimize these conflicts who are responsible for thousands of deaths around the world while at same time the "lords of wars", I am meaning the death traders become richer.
Jun 17 2011: This can be related to how everything in the US is being privatized. Since the Jails have become private entities more people have become incarcerated. They want to do it social security and medicare. How can we employ the insurgent strategy to benefit the lower and middle class in the US.
Jun 17 2011: Or to frame it another way - to what extent was the organizational structure behind Obama's victory in the 2008 election like an insurgency?
Will this become the model for how all political movements are formed?
Jun 17 2011: um, it's kinda been the model of the "right" for years. Obama was just playing catchup.Jun 17 2011: It got him elected, but he has "Spitzered" us by not delivering the change he sold us. He has done a lot of good, but not what was promised.
We need the model for election plus the model for actual effective change for the lower and middle class.Jun 17 2011: I wouldn't say that an insurgency necessarily has a particular organisational profile, not in its essential form. Are you talking about a Maoist-style insurgency, where political activism on the industrial and grassroots level builds the momentum for social change? You're surely not talking about Focoist or Marighellan variations on this. Social movement theorists like Tilly tend to view insurgents as engaging in contentious politics, where methods of activism transgress on established norms of activism and engage a regime or ruling class. Does this describe Obama's campaign? I say not.
Are you only talking about networked organisations and virtual activism? These are not the same as insurgency.Jun 17 2011: the AK-47 is one of the single biggest killers in war. It is the true WMD. It has an expected lifetime of about 80 years and will keep shooting even if it has been buried and dug up. These guns are so simple, and yet so capable that they make killing literally childs play.
Figure out a way to get these guns out of the system and you could potentially have a massive impact on violent deaths in conflict.
You can start by buying one yourself in Africa for just about $50 :)
Jun 17 2011: Start an altruistic organization to buy them up and melt them down and sell metal to recoup as much of what was spent as you can.
Jun 17 2011: yes - anyone else think this might be feasible?Jun 17 2011: Switch to the FAL?Jun 17 2011: Some of the key ideas here revolve around the concept of asymmetry. Understanding how and why a much smaller group can take on and many times defeat a stronger opposition. We see this in war, we also see in out here in Silicon valley. We see it in the start of new political movements in Egypt, and we can also see shades of it in the way that cancer forms within a body.Jun 17 2011: Sean, I'm curious if technological advantages actually show a strong difference in the statistics of "success" in war... more so than the "home plate" advantage of the insurgents or standard measures like training and experience. And then after a war, (assuming the current wars will ever actually end) does the new technology developed for the war really provide an advantage to the society?
Jun 17 2011: This is like the NASA space argument - we go into space and see look at all these cool spin off technologies we get in return (like a space pen*).
There are of course obvious technological gains that are made with all the military spending that is done. von Braun leveraged both the Nazi and the US military might to pursue his dreams of human space flight. As a result of Iraq and Afghanistan we have improved critical medical care and built very effective translation devices.
War today though has perhaps contributed the most to the rise of two things. Robots and prosthetic limbs. The prosthetic limbs coming as a direct result of the increases in critical medical care on the battlefield. More soldiers that lose limbs are now surviving - so we generate new technologies to help them to walk again.
Whilst technologies are developed as a result of war - it is pretty hard to make the case that all the money spent on war couldn't have been spent on developing these technologies without the need to kill people along the way.
*note space pen not actually developed by NASA but makes for a nice story point :)
Jun 17 2011: That confirms my thinking. We would be better off without war in just about every way, including technology. But you didn't answer my question about how technology actually helps in the war zone compared to other advantages like training, home field, etc... Any data or thoughts on that?Jun 17 2011: Interesting too to note that technologies not developed for war are now being used within wars - think twitter example in Egypt. What will be the next consumer technology to be re-purposed for use within the war/peace arena?Jun 17 2011: Sean, I think a lot of the answers to that initial question have to do with social networks and scale-free distributed network theory
Jun 17 2011: That would be an interesting research subject with regards to business!
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Jun 17 2011: It is :) It's interesting in all kinds of ways involving effective group behaviorsJun 17 2011: The Guerilla fighter doesn't adhere to rules per se, they do whatever it takes to get the job done.
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Jun 17 2011: this is the general way that we tend to think about COIN operations - the irrational guerrilla fighter. Unpredictable, chaotic and noisy. Yet when we look at the data across different war zones we see that there are very predictable mathematical patterns. Rules are being followed - in doing 'whatever it takes to get the job done' the insurgent groups are coalescing around the same set of behaviors.
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Jun 17 2011: An interesting way to think about the behavior is analogous to the difference between actual random distributions and what people think are random distributions - if you ask someone to draw a random assortment of dots on a page they're usually distributed pretty evenly around the page, whereas an actual randomly generated assortment of dots usually would have bunched up areas.
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If a group of insurgents think they're behaving "randomly" or unpredictably, it makes sense that ongoing insurgencies would have similar patterns much in the way people who think they're generating random dots on a page would have similar patterns.Jun 17 2011: may still be chaotic - or at least seemingly chaotic, with power laws arising from interactions? wouldnt be the first time. So, "rules are being followed" may not be the proper idea, rather "similar motives" at least, through the military/operational lense. This may even be more or less constant across cultures and continents - my first, though not 100% correct comparison would be with global studies on altruistic behavior that, given a certain modeling framework, found quite similar patterns around the world. These regularities may even be reflected in the organizational structure / size distribution of differerent gurilla groups around the globeJun 17 2011: Crysallis - I don't mean to be contrary, but I don't believe Sun Tzu would necessarily agree with that assertion. The Art of War among many other things outlines rules and driving principals for managing conflict; especially in the context of being outnumbered. Kindly.


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Russ Meyer, the "King of Nudies", director, producer, screenwriter and photographer would have turned 90 today. He is known for writing and directing a series of successful low-budget sexploitation films that featured campy humor, sly satire and large-breasted women. A true auteur he wrote, directed, edited, photographed and distributed all his own films. Meyer started as a photographer for Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine in its early years. He might be regarded as a true sexist by many but also not few believe he did a lot for women's liberation. His women are always strong, amazonian characters usually leading whereas his male roles are either retarded or horny. As film historian Jimmy McDonough puts it "despite portraying women as sex objects, Meyer nonetheless depicts them as more powerful than men and is therefore an inadvertent feminist filmmaker."
5 of his films were shown at Documenta 5 in Kassel, 1972. In 1977 Malcolm McLaren hired Meyer to do a film on the Sex Pistols. Film critic Rogert Ebert wrote a screenplay entitled Who killed Bambi? but filming ended after a day and a half because Mclaren ran out of money.
The list of his film titles reads like the line up to any good festival: Mudhoney, Motor Psycho, Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, Up!, Vixen, Supervixens, Beyond the valley of dolls (scripted by film critic Roger Ebert), Black Snake, Beneath the valley of Ultravixes.
His cult classic Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill! has fans and followers all over the world.
Meyer died in September 2004, 82 years old. Enough for the words now. Knowing that not few of you might also have a big breast fixation here are some photos and clips:
photograph taken for Playboy Magazine, 1955.
with actress Uschi Digard.
the brutal killing scene in Supervixens.
"square-jaw" Charles Napier in Supervixens.
Tura Satana in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Lori Williams in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
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Recently the U.S. moved to deregulate several varieties of GMO crops, despite major associated ecological and social issues. The use of GMO crops destroys essential crop diversity, homogenizes food, and eradicates local knowledge and culture. GMO crops are resulting in skyrocketing herbicide use, an epidemic of resistant super-weeds, polluted waterways, public health threats, pollinators dying en masse, genetic pollution, and unparalleled corporate consolidation in the agrochemical and seed industries. After contaminating farmer's seeds and crops, Monsanto sues farmers for stealing their genes. Seed monopolies push farmers into debt, and have caused 250,000 suicides in India. Health consequences from eating GMO food are still largely unstudied and unknown. No long-term toxicological testing of GMO food is required by any regulatory agency in the world.
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The global food emergency created by patents on seeds and lack of GMO food labeling is spurring a global collective response. An Indian campaign for Seed Freedom will be celebrating Ghandi's birthday on October 2nd by declaring "No Patents On Seeds" (see below for more information). The Seed Freedom movement seeks to stop the corporate hijack of seed, noting seed freedom is the birth right of every farmer, and seeds are the embodiment of bio-cultural diversity. California is poised to be the first state with mandatory GMO labeling laws through a ballot initiative on November 6th. Polls show over 80% support mandatory labeling. A Global Week of Action Against Monsanto plans protests and direct action at Monsanto facilities starting on September 17th. Let Monsanto know below that we are reclaiming our faith in non-NGO, natural seeds.
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DDB has created three new 60-second spots creating back-stories to memorable film moments: Hannibal Lector's 'sucking motion' in Silence of the Lambs, Robert De Niro's famous "Are you talking to me?" scene from Taxi Driver, and the line "We're gonna need a bigger boat" from Jaws.
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Hi I'm wanting to install SDK on my PC so I can use Screencast to see and use my Android phone. PC/Mobile specs in sig. I've tried installing SDK but can't seem to get Screencast to work nor get SDK to launch. I've had SDK on a netbook before so I know what it is suppose to look like. I don't seem to be able to do this on Win8.
Any help would be great. I've seen the video on online and can't hardly see it and the Indian accent doesn't help. He goes through it like people can actually see what he is doing and instructs like he really doesn't care about what he is doing. So if anyone could help it'd be great.


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I have never really paid attention to the RAM it uses. Does it use a lot? This is what Activity Monitor tells me.
I am using and recommending Sophos, was just wondering about others. Now i know there are more out there i might try them all and look at RAM usage


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Merc's fresh-faced mid-range sportsters debut. And they're getting four cylinders...
Posted: 04 Jan 2013
Welcome to the new, facelifted Mercedes E-Class coupe and cabriolet; a sort of living design jam with a Ferrari 360, Kia Pro Cee'd, and a greyhound at full throttle. Oh, and new interior options, some futuristic safety tech, direct-injection four-pot petrol engines, and a brace of diesels.
But first, that design. Its revised snout is the headline news here, with a new single light cluster with anti-dazzle LEDs, new front bumpers that get an accentuated V-shape and those big, snorty air intakes.
The rear's also kept the old car's wing, a set of new tail lamps have been fitted and there are swollen bumpers with chrome-effect trim to, as Mercedes puts it, "discreetly underline the athletic appearance of these model series."
Inside, you can chose between wood and aluminum look dashboards. That three-tube instrument cluster's new, too, with dials backed in white and a trapezoid-shaped high-gloss frame around the infotainment screen. The centre console's also been re-sculpted, and Mercedes has done away with the mid-mounted gear stick.
The rag-top gets whisper quietness with the top down, too. Using the same Aircap technology as the old one (an unsightly peak that sticks out of the top of the windscreen that's curiously undeployed in the pictures MB sent us) that positions itself automatically above 25mph, wind noise is reduced to the lowest in its class. You can also get an optional neck heater for chillier top-down days.
Safety wise, there's the usual bevy of Mercedes futureland assistance systems. By gathering up a 3D view of the road ahead, and using radar sensors, it can detect oncoming or crossing traffic, and pedestrians to stop you crashing into them. It can even read road signs. On the new models, you'll get collision Prevention Assist (it beefs up brake pedal pressure during emergency stops) and Attention Assist (the coffee cup light that pops up if you've been driving for too long) as standard.
Optional extras include Distronic Plus with steering assistance (it keeps you at a set distance behind the car in front at variable speeds, and pulls you back into the right lane if you stray out of line), Pre-Safe Braking (it detects pedestrians and can initiate autonomous braking at up to 31mph), and Adaptive Highbeam (you can leave main beam on all the time without dazzling traffic with a clever cone that blocks light from other cars).
Engine choices range from mild to, umm, slightly less mild, and they all get a stop/start tech. We don't know any performance figures yet, but you'll be able to buy one of two petrol engines (the E200 or E250) or one of three diesels (the E220 CDI, E250 CDI, or E350) to begin with, and a range of direct injection turbocharged four-cylinder petrols later in the year. The latter use the same spray-guided direct injection technology you'll find in the current generation of MB's six and eight-cylinder engines. They'll be mated to two transmissions - a six-speed manual, or seven-speed flappy-paddle auto.
There's also the usual selective damping and electromechanical direct-steer system carried over from the saloon and estate.
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Boutique Hotel, easy to find and accessible (20 m. from N1 road). located 20 minutes from Tangier airport, 10 minutes from the medina (walking along the promenade), In front of Asilah beach (100 m.) Street with videocamera 24h.
Designed to feel at home, provides a common area (wifi) consisting of a large living room (TV), a hammam (traditional Moroccan), a restaurant with a varied and evolved arabic menu, a bussines room with computer and tourist information and a garden with terrace. It has 10 exterior rooms.
In the Hotel Al Alba we have created an intimate space dedicated to your care. In three rooms (relaxation, mild and warn) we recreate the traditional process of the baths of the Moroccan hammam.
Comfortable, discreet and cozy ideal to be left to go for an endless number of placid sensations.
Moroccan food is based on tradition, born of the need to ensure sanitary conditions in a hostile climate, well prepared and cooked in the day with fresh products. Hours of slow cooking are needed to cook the most popular dishes. An unequivocal sign of identity is that is a really difficult to eat a real dish of Morocco " outside the family environment.
Un espacio pensado y creado para disfrutar de la tranquilidad que transmite su decoración árabe mientras se saborea un delicioso te marroquí acompañado de la afamada repostería del país.
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|Edith L. Carsten, age 68 of Cambridge, went home to be with Jesus on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at her residence. She was born on March 21, 1945 in Guernsey County, a daughter of the late C. Hollis George and Della M. (Rankin) George Simpson.
Mrs. Carsten was a 1963 Graduate of Madison High School. A retired PCA at Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, she enjoyed NASCAR, puzzles, line dancing and riding her trike. She was a member of the V.F.W. post 2901 Ladies Aux., the Eagles Lodge in Caldwell and Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center. She attended the Full Gospel Church.
Edith is preceded in death by: her parents; husband Donald C. Carsten in 1999; two brothers, Ellis and Donald E. George and a sister Beulah Love.
Surviving are: her children, Tonya Tetirick, Stephanie (Bruce) Jeffery, Glenna (Gary) Rominger, and Hollie (Kris) Stage and son Abraham (Jenny) Tetirick all of Cambridge; sister Vera (Robert) DeSelms of Boliver; three brothers, Khale George of Cambridge, Harold (Elaine) George of Barnesville, and Delmar (Barb) George of Cambridge; ten grandchildren, eight great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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A smaller version of the original Silverlake Flap, featuring the collection's original soft and textured leather.
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- Exterior: Naked Grain Leather
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- Burnt Orange, Blueberry and Bordeaux feature silver tone hardware. All other colors feature antiqued brass tone hardware.
- 11in L x 3in W x 9.5in H Drop up to 23in , Handle drop 9in
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I love this purse. I have been looking for a perfect bag and I actually sold a Coach wallet, wristlet, and purse to buy this (I have so many that I do not use). Great quality, great look, perfect fit, hidden pocket which is as large as the BAG! I just love this purse.
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So if you or your family are getting bored of eating fishfinger sandwiches, then you might want to take a look at the Epicurious Recipes and Shopping List app which will ensure that your meal ideas are in ready supply.
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This app has been produced by the award-winning food site Epicurious.com and includes over 28,000, professionally tested recipes. Suitable for either the iPhone or the iPad, and Android, it should prove dab handy for those of you who want to eat a little healthier or become a bit more adventurous with your nosh.
Features include the ability to browse a list of "most popular" recipes, which are categorised for different occasions and you can also filter your search by swiping through icons, enabling you to find recipes which are healthy, in season or simply what's in your fridge.
There's also the ability to take a look at what other Epicurious members are plating up, so if you like surprises then it'll certainly give you the chance to experiment, whilst a personal favourites list means you can keep track of successful meals.
It has to be said that for us, cooking and iPads/iPhones/Android handsets don't strike us as the most natural of bed fellows, so you might want to invest in some kind of protective case especially if you are one of those sloppy/messy cooks. However if you're a clean cook then you should be fine.
iPad owners get a few extras like a full screen cookbook view, and a snazzy interface, but both seem like very decent propositions and more importantly are free.
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Hot rodders have been searching for stickier street tires since Louis Chevrolet squeezed a blown LS9 his Type C Classic Six in 1913. From day one, engine technology has outpaced tire technology and the game has always been to get a starting line advantage over the guy in the next lane.
Cheater slicks were the way to go in the '50s, while in the '60s, horsepower-addicted muscle car owners swapped on Atlas Bucrons to aid traction. Pretty soon, savvy tire manufacturers were in the business of building dedicated street/strip tires. One of the first (and to this day most successful) was the Mickey Thompson ET Street. Essentially, it was a slick with a couple of grooves carved into the face. The ET Streetworks great on the strip, but as a true street tire it leaves something to be desired if you like to carve corners or drive in the rain.
Then about 20 years ago, BFGoodrich shook things up when it introduced the drag radial. This was a DOT tire that you could actually use on a daily basis, then drive to your favorite drag strip, run low e.t.'s, and motor on home without the hassle of a tire change. It wasn't long before other companies jumped into the drag radial arena, with Nitto Tire and Mickey Thompson being two of the most active. It's been a huge battle ever since, with drag radial-specific classes being created by every sanctioning body that caters to real street machines.
Mickey Thompson offers both its ET Street Radial (with sizes between 235/60R15 and 275/40R17) and its ET Street Radial II, which the company describes as being "optimized for the modern sports cars and sport compacts." It offers this puppy in a wide range of fitments, from P205/50R14 to 305/45R18s.
Nitto's Extreme NT555R has been the company's offering in this category since mid-'90s and that's a long time in this business. It's still an excellent tire for the weekend drag racer, but for serious competition the company decided a new tire was necessary.
Enter the NT05R. It's got a far more aggressive tread pattern, a specialized race compound and large contact patch. It is DOT-approved, but is designed for the serious drag racer. Nitto has aimed the NT05R squarely at the modern muscle car market, including late-model Camaros and Corvettes. It ranges in size from 275/40R17 all they was up to 31535R20, with five other sizes in between.
We were able to procure an early production set of Nitto's NT05R in the size of 275/40R17 and went in search of a suitable car to test them on. The guys at sister publication GM High-Tech Performance recommended Tommy Herrschaft and his hard-charging '99 Camaro SS and he eagerly volunteered. For street tires, he uses MT ET Street Radial IIs, size 315/35R17, and was interested to see if his track times could be improved by switching brands. Suddenly, we had a tire shootout on our hands. We booked the mega-sticky Gainesville Raceway strip in Florida for some gear-jamming fun.
You'd never know by its show-quality appearance inside and out, but this fourth-gen runs like a madman. It has an LS3-based 416 ci engine for motivation and runs high-10s and low 11s au naturale and 9.80s at over 140 on nitrous. Best of all, it's got a T56 manual trans, which we thought would be better for testing the hard-launching capabilities of the tires. With Mickey Thompson 28x10 slicks, Tommy's SS has run a best of 10.78 at 128 on motor.
For our track day, we baselined the car with Tommy's street tires, the ET Street Radial IIs, before switching over to the Nittos. Our first concern was that the size differential between the Mickeys and the Nittos, which on paper gave the former a measurable width advantage. Also, the Nittos were brand new so we figured they'd need a little break-in at the strip before performing at an optimal level. Helping in our efforts on this day was Justin Nelson of J&J Performance in Cape Corral, Florida, who did the tune on the Camaro.


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Thirteen-year-old Nebraska girl Luli has been dealt a rough hand. Certain she's destined for a more glamorous life, Luli packs her things --including her new birthday gift, a Smith & Wesson .45 --and hitches a ride to Vegas. Dressed like a girl twice her age, she's immediately picked up by a wannabe cowboy but the two fail to hit it off and Luli is ejected from the car. Luckily, she soon meets Glenda, a grifter who acts as Luli's big sister, albeit one who offers her drugs and uses her as an accessory to a robbery. Luli's life on the road takes more than few calamitous detours, but her flippant attitude and feisty demeanor prevent the dark moments from veering into gratuitously grim territory.
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Filner left City Council in dark; move leaves San Diego without professional advocates in D.C., Sacramento
Mayor Bob Filner has quietly fired San Diego's lobbyists in Sacramento and Washington, threatening to further strain an already tense relationship between his office and the City Council.
The abrupt dismissals leave the city without an important voice in both capitals right when the first round of budgets and legislative priorities are being crafted.
Filner sent brief termination notifications to the firms Jan. 2, but didn't tell at least some members of the council, if any.
The mayor's office kept the dismissals secret even during a finance committee hearing attended by Filner's City Council liaison Francisco Estrada Jan. 9 — a week after the firms lost their jobs.
During the lengthy discussion of the city's legislative priorities, Estrada said the mayor was evaluating the lobbying firms' performance "quite carefully."
"We're unsure what sort of bang we get for that buck," Estrada said.
It is unclear whether Estrada was aware of the week-old termination notices at the time. Filner's office declined to respond to questions, requiring U-T San Diego to submit a Public Records Act request that can drag out answers for weeks or longer.
Both of the lobbying firms leaned Republican, so it's not so unusual that the new Democratic mayor would want his own team. Also, Democrats have big majorities in the Assembly and state Senate and control the U.S. Senate.
Some council members, though unaware of the firing, had been questioning whether the firms were effective.
Republican Mayor Jerry Sanders had extended the contracts for the two lobbying firms from June 2012 to June 2013.
The amount for Sacramento-based Sloat Higgins Jensen & Associates was not to exceed $168,000. The federal lobbying firm of Patton Boggs was to receive up to $180,000.
Jeff Marston, a prominent San Diego political consultant and former Republican assemblyman, also received a termination notice. He was under a subcontract with the Sloat firm.
The lobbying firms declined to comment.
Council members contacted by U-T San Diego said they were unaware of the dismissals until just recently.
"It's clear that the notification of the council was not handled properly," said Council President Todd Gloria, adding that the mayor's office has extended assurances it won't happen again. "I suspect that that's owing to the period of adjustment that I think the mayor and his staff are currently dealing with. I certainly appreciate the acknowledgment of the error."
Among the city's priorities in the interim are the dissolution of redevelopment agencies and federal negotiations that involve the threat of new rounds of base closures, Gloria said.
"I am concerned about us having no one there on our behalf," Gloria said.
Councilman Kevin Faulconer, a Republican, said the mayor should have extended the council a courtesy notice.
"We need to have accurate and timely information," Faulconer said. "It needs to be transparent, which didn't happen in this case."
Faulconer said the delay in having representation could come back to haunt the city, because so much of what happens in the capitals has a direct impact.
"We could have been using this time to work together on a plan. We need to get going," he said.


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In the heart of one of the most beautiful valleys in Wales, these stone cottages stand alongside the ruins of 12th century Talley Abbey, and are set in 30 acres of unspoilt pastureland. This is a haven for wildlife – red kites, buzzards and other rare bird species are often seen, and an otters' hide belonging to the RSPB is tucked away in the grounds. Two lakes, stocked with roach and pike, one of which can be fished by arrangement, add to the beauty of this lovely corner of Wales. Each cottage is beamed throughout and all retain a host of original features. Wood burning stoves, open fireplaces and some antique furnishings are complimented by modern day facilities, all combining perfectly to provide spacious, well equipped and comfortable accommodation. Abbey Cottages are ideally situated for exploring the many delights of the area – the Dolaucothi goldmines, Dan-Yr-Ogof caves, the National Botanic Gardens of Wales, and Gwili Steam Railway Park are all within easy reach. Llandeilo offers a choice of shops, restaurants and inns, 7 miles. Pub at Llansawel, 3 miles.
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Wi-Fi is available in the Oak Ridge Hall.
The 243.3 acres of this park range from 23 acres of restored freshwater marsh accessible by a 1,000-foot boardwalk to the 102.2-acre Pine Island Ridge, an archaeological site that includes equestrian and nature trails and, at 29 feet above sea level, is the highest natural elevation in Broward County. Behind the main office assembly complex, there is a sculpture dedicated to the Seminole leader Sam Jones (Abiaka). The park is also listed on the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail.
Equestrian Trails: The park is known for its extensive network of horse trails, which were developed in cooperation with the South Florida Trail Riders Association. There are more than seven miles of designated trails, including some in the Pine Island Ridge Natural Area. Riders may bring in their own horses or use horses provided by AA-D Horse Adventures (see below).
Equestrian Activities: Guided trail rides and pony rides are provided through the park's partnership with AA-D Horse Adventures (954-830-7800), a private concessionaire. AA-D operates on Saturdays, Sundays, and most holidays from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; the last one-hour trail ride leaves at 2 p.m., the last half-hour ride leaves at 3:30 p.m., and the last pony ride is at 4 p.m. Guided trail rides are $35/hour or $25/half-hour. Pony rides are $1.50 for once around the circle or $5 for four times around the circle. Weekday rides are available by appointment only. All horse and pony riders (as well as pony walkers) must wear closed-toe shoes, and long pants are strongly recommended. Only vehicles with horse trailers are allowed in the equestrian area; all other vehicles must park in a designated parking lot. An equestrian trail map of the park is available on the park's map page.
Oak Ridge Hall: A 3,440-square-foot multipurpose natural-wood building set within an oak hammock. Reservations and security deposit required. Capacity 180. Meeting rooms, outdoor pavilion, and catering kitchen available.
Groups/GatheringsLarge group gatherings of 250 or more persons require prior Park approval and issuance of a Park Permit to address such items as reserving space for the group, traffic control, trash removal/cleanup deposit, etc.
Picnic Shelters: Two large (61-90 capacity) and three medium (41-60), all with water, electricity, picnic tables, and grills. Reservations and security deposit required. There are also two tents available, one large and one medium.
Picnic Tables and Grills: Located throughout the park on a first-come, first-served basis. One or more picnic tables assigned to each grill.
Playgrounds: Three, located in picnic areas.
Campfire Ring: Available for group use only. Staff charges apply.
Nature Trails: Three trails. The Live Oak Trail is a 4,843-foot, wood-chipped trail. The Seminole Trail is a 2,100-foot, wood-chipped trail that includes an interpretive exhibit on the Seminole Indians. The Pine Island Ridge Trail includes a 4,381-foot paved path and a 1,250-foot trail with a 28-foot-high observation tower, Tree Tops Tower, at the entrance to the Live Oak Trail.
Marsh Observation Area: Boardwalks over water in 23 acres of restored freshwater marsh. Fishing is prohibited in this area.
Lake/Waterways: Fifteen acres for boating and fishing. Swimming not permitted.
Marina: Paddleboat rentals are available on Saturdays, Sundays, and most holidays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. No private boats permitted. $10 plus tax for one hour, $15 plus tax for two hours, or $25 plus tax for four hours. Payment of rental fees can be made by cash or credit card; rental deposits are cash only ($10/boat, along with a picture I.D.). Life jackets are provided and must be worn at all times.
Fishing: Permitted from shore, pier, and boats. License required for ages 16 and up. Catch-and-release encouraged.
Gopher Tortoise Preserve: Various areas throughout the park are home to burrowing tortoises.
Butterfly Garden: A nature trail that offers a peaceful walk through a garden planted with vegetation and flowers that attract many species of butterflies.
Safety Town: A program of Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital featuring an early-childhood education course that is designed especially for kindergartners and first graders with the goal of reducing accidental injuries and deaths. The child-size town features working traffic signals, street signs, crosswalks, miniature houses, and small tricycles, along with a variety of interactive stations. Safety Town is open year round by appointment only during the week for public and private schools, charter schools, and children's groups of 15 to 60 students. For more information or to schedule a free field trip, call Memorial Healthcare System's Community Relations Department at 954-257-6068 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Baton and Dance ClassesThis class is taught by Wendy Russell's Super Stars. In addition to classes, the Florida Super Stars perform regularly at halftime shows for the Miami Heat, the University of Miami Hurricanes, Disney World shows, and many local community events. Classes are Thursdays from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.floridasuperstars.com. You can also email Miss Wendy for personal attention.
Like many of our parks, Tree Tops sits on land once slated for development, until it was declared open space in the mid-1970s through Broward County's Land Use Plan. In this case, the land was owned by golfer Sam Snead and three partners, who had planned a golf course and high-rise apartments for the property. Instead, it was acquired by the county in February 1980, at a cost of $4.4 million - $2.3 million from the 1978 bond issue, which approved 15 park acquisition and development projects, and $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of the Interior via the Florida Department of Natural Resources' Land and Water Conservation Fund, the program's largest grant at that time. The Snead Tract, as it was then known, was renamed Tree Tops. The suggestion came from County Commissioner Anne Kolb, in reference to elevated nature trails that were planned for the park, which was developed at a cost of another $2.9 million and opened to the public on December 11, 1983. The adjacent Pine Island Ridge Natural Area opened in February 1990 and is connected to the park by a paved path that leads to an interpretive shelter.


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Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman will propose a public hearing to adopt a condominium ordinance, and both a new land-use chart and form-based codes will see their second public hearings at a meeting of the Starkville Board of Aldermen 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
Wiseman said there is currently no process in city code which speaks to the division of property in an individual, residential condominium building rather than the land divisions of a typical subdivision. He said the proposed ordinance and the amendments to city code will recognize condominiums as a separate type of residential property and speak to specific processes.
"What we're seeing is increased demand for condominium development," Wiseman said. "We think, by virtue of the fact that this is a college town, that there is potential for that market to grow in the future. We're seeking to develop a process for condominium development that is as easy to navigate and as organized as possible."
The city held the first public hearings for both the form-based codes and the new land-use chart Dec. 20, and one commenter, Guyton Properties partner Mark Guyton, raised questions about the form-based codes essentially acting as a re-zoning of several properties at once. Ward 5 Alderman Jeremiah Dumas also made several revisions to the form-based codes, leading City Attorney Chris Latimer to recommend an extra public hearing be held on the matter to allow the board and the public to fully assess the amended document.
Dumas' amendments include:
- Revisions to the codes' zoning map.
- New language saying the graphics shown in the code are meant to provide overall design guidance, not specific architectural form guidance.
- A new section requiring amendments of the transect district classifications to be advertised and noticed, like the city's regular zoning amendments.
- A new section requiring exceptions to the codes to be advertised, like conditional land uses.
Typically, the Starkville Planning and Zoning Commission sets rules for how property can be used in certain areas, including commercial, industrial and residential use. Form-based codes set more focused architectural guidelines in certain areas to encourage certain types of land use, allowing developers to build better projects with fewer administrative steps.
The new land-use chart is intended to streamline the city's chart of conditional and permitted land uses. The commission began this streamlining process when Placemakers prepared the first draft of their form-based codes without consulting the city's current land-use chart. Inconsistencies between the code draft and the chart resulted, and both the city and Placemakers have worked to resolve those inconsistencies in the months since.
Placemakers has been working on drafts for the form-based codes since May, and the zoning commission has been reviewing drafts of the codes and the land-use chart since October. Placemakers has revised the codes over the past few months to address concerns members of the commission have raised. The commission has also made numerous revisions to the streamlined land-use chart.


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First Look: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100
Great lens, 11fps shooting mode, Full HD video capture with stereo audio
A bit cluttered with buttons and controls
The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 is what would have been referred to as a bridge camera, before the waters between compacts and DSLRs were muddied with the Micro Four Thirds system and other hybrids. All the same, the FZ100 occupies a very good niche for someone looking to make the step up from a more basic digital camera.
It's certainly not small. There are better, more expensive models out there which are far more pocketable. What it does give you is a healthy chunk of power. Were it a car, it would be one of those old VW beetles kitted out as a drag racing hot rod.
First up is the lens, manufactured by Leica as is the way with the better end of the Lumix range. Panasonic has stretched out the spec of the old FZ35 glassware so that you can pull between 25mm wide to 600mm telephoto equivalent. That's 24x magnification in modern money. The good news is that the tight end of this is actually usable and easy enough to get sharp focus shots even indoors.
This is down to the addition of Motion Deblur technology which is an orchestrated combination of Intelligent ISO control, Intelligent Exposure control and Power OIS all of which both stabilise the effects of your shaky hands and do their level best to select the quickest shutter speed possible without underexposing your shots. Fortunately for the user, all you need to do is switch the camera into iA mode and let the FZ100 do the work. The only time the system really fell down was at maximum zoom in candlelit low lighting, where we weren't expecting much in the way of results.
The mechanical shutter itself is also a huge credit to this camera. It rattles off a very impressive 11fps at full 14.1-megapixel resolution. You might think that's enough to catch any motion without blur. It's not. So for faster movements you can go for 60fps while settling for 3.5-megapixel sensing. Sadly, that still wasn't enough which leaves the final option of rattling off shots at QVGA size (very small indeed) at 220fps.
What's nice about the way Panasonic has set this up is that there's a burst button on the top right of the of camera chassis so that you can switch between modes without having to go deep into the menus and miss the action. You get a burst of 15 shots at 11fps which was just about enough to get what we wanted. It did take a bit of getting used to at the higher burst frame rates. You couldn't hear the shutter going, which did leave you in some doubt as to when your imaging had started or finished or even if it was happening at all. On the plus side, when in playback mode, the software is designed well enough to group all the larger bursts into sub sections to save you having to navigate through 60-odd shots each time you want to get passed.
To complete the consumer package, the FZ100 can also capture video and at full 1080p/60i resolution as well. What's good about the way this has been implemented here is that they've also backed up the headline stats with some very basic editing software, allowing you to top and tail footage in-camera as well as the fact that you can record in the highly compatible AVCHD. On top of that, there's even a stereo microphone so that the sound is up to scratch as well. From the short time we tried the video capture, it seemed smooth enough and the fact that the stills iA mode worked for motion settings as well was a real bonus.
As for the handling of the FZ100, well, it is quite big but yet still manages to give you a bit of thumb cramp after an hour's use. It's obviously much smaller than a DSLR but probably features just as many buttons on the back, if not more, only in a smaller space. The likes of an AF/AE lock switch and the burst shooting selector are very welcome, but it does start taking up real estate that might be nice to spread your hand over instead.
Panasonic is obviously proud of the new jog wheel it has fitted to the body. However, we never really bothered using it in testing because it seemed a bit superfluous positioned right next the five button navigator array, which essentially does the same job anyway. By the same token, the Quick Menu was never really our first port of call as it made for yet another branch of an already fairly complicated UI to get used to.
Manual mode, the focus mode switch on the barrel of the lens and the aspect ratio selector also all felt like the gilding of the lily. At the end of the day, this is an advanced compact rather than something for the serious enthusiast. It's already packed with a million different intelligent modes and functions. It's not that likely that any of the users are looking for that level of manual control placed right at their very fingertips.
Finally it's great to see both a viewfinder - if only electronic - as well as a very worthy 3-inch swivel LCD to use. Good, comfortable shooting was had from both with the 460,000-dot screen providing a decent image even in bright daylight.
A good way to look at the Panasonic Lumix FZ100 is like the GH1, only with a little more advanced technology and without the ability to change lenses. You really feel that the company has thrown every little trick and feature up its sleeve at this one - you might argue a few too many. All the same though, it's hard to see that anyone buying the FZ100 would be anything less than thrilled with their choice provided that, when the price comes out, it's far enough away from the Lumix Micro Four Thirds range.
There's bags of support and flexibility for basic camera users looking to beef up their compact power without any of the additional complications. It's something anyone could use and use to good effect even if all the control of a DSLR is your normal choice. For that reason, it'll make an excellent general family camera or the kind of thing you'd want to take on safari with all it's high zoom prowess.
The only place you're going to lose out is when you want to start pushing the ISO beyond 800 or so. There is a flash to help you out there or indeed a hot shoe if you'd like to go down that route. However, if you're really looking to accessorise, there's probably more advanced imaging avenues you should be exploring. All in all though, a definite thumbs up.


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The Tempest is distinguished by intelligent features that help skiers and boarders optimize their time on the mountain. The DropHood™ is helmet compatible, and offers full coverage and weather protection with exceptional freedom of vision. Pit zips provide quick ventilation and have low bulk WaterTight™ zippers, the cuff design easily fits over or under gloves. Standard WaterTight™ front zipper delivers a secure seal without snow accumulation, while the integrated powder skirt blocks driven snow. The internal mesh pocket stows goggles or gloves.
Arc'teryx designers design with an eye towards creating clothing layers and equipment that work together to maximize function and performance. Patterning and features align to deliver optimal freedom of motion, breathability and protection. The Tempest Jacket's Slide'n Loc™ attachments link to compatible Arc'teryx pants to create a unified piece that more effectively seals out wind and snow.
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Just depneds on yourself. They are both stylish and comfortable, and both perform well. Kobes' are lighter, but, available in primarily lows. I get a little uncomfortable with playing in a low top. LeBrons' would have to be the choice.
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