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10 Home Décor Experts We're Loving
- Next1 of 11Courtesy of Nicole Nassib
- Previous Next2 of 11Courtesy of Grant K. Gibson
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By Amy Elisa Keith
From modest homes to sprawling nightclubs, handcrafted furniture to cultured blog posts, they have transformed the art of interior design in astounding ways. Here are Glo's picks of the hottest designers to watch. Not only do we covet their impeccable taste, we're eager to be inspired by their style sense. Read on to be dazzled.
Grant K. Gibson2 of 11
City: San Francisco, CA Website: www.grantkgibson.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A pair of Swedish Gustavian chairs that I recovered in a caramel leather. It's a perfect place to sit for a cup of tea."
Biggest inspiration: "Recent trips to Stockholm, Paris and Sicily have really inspired me."
Splurge or Save: "I would prefer to spend more on the piece of furniture then save money with the fabric."
Tracie Butler3 of 11
City: Los Angeles, CA Website: www.TracieButlerDesign.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A 17th century chandelier from Spain that hangs beautifully in my kitchen."
Biggest inspiration: "Fashion, music and culture all play large rolls in my designs."
Splurge or Save: "I splurge on fine fabrics and rugs. The way I cut corners is to look for the best prices."
Nicole Gibbons4 of 11
City: New York City Website: www.SoHauteStyle.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A pair of reverse glass Chinese Emperor and Empress paintings that I inherited from my grandmother."
Biggest inspiration: "So many things from architecture, nature, books and magazines to the work of interior design legends of the past."
Splurge or Save: "I would splurge on a great sofa with good bones [that] can always be recovered."
Max Geiser5 of 11
City: El Cerrito, CA Website: www.wallter.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A collection of wooden 3D puzzles properly displayed on the mantel. I like to work on them because it clears my mind."
Biggest inspiration: "I am inspired by other companies that are able to design products that are truly timeless."
Splurge or Save: "I splurge on bathroom hardware, good paint, and I tend to be frugal with kids furniture as a parent of two young boys."
Jeanine Hays6 of 11
City: San Francisco, CA Website: www.aphrochicshop.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "Right now my dining room table. It's made from rosewood, and it's perfect for hosting big dinner parties."
Biggest inspiration: "I am inspired by cultures. The colors, textures or patterns but it can also be the music that expresses a culture, the flavor of a popular dish, the feel of a city or even its history."
Karen Carsello7 of 11
City: Los Angeles, CA Website: www.karencarsello.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A painting by a dear friend and one of the most fascinating people I've ever known, Bertrand Castelli."
Biggest inspiration: "I've always been inspired by [Australian designer] David Hicks. Chic, chic, chic!"
Splurge or Save: "Splurge on high quality sheets and towels, as sleeping and bathing demand the best."
Nicole Nassib8 of 11
City: Beverly Hills, CA Website: www.nicolenassib.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A large painting I completed just over a year ago, Untitled Lilac – along with my purple Hermès mohair blanket."
Biggest inspiration: "As a child my father would bring me on his antique shopping trips to Paris, his taste for superb quality and craftsmanship is imbedded in me."
Victoria Smith9 of 11
City: San Francisco, CA Website: www.sfgirlbybay.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "I really love my dining nook, off the kitchen. I painted it Chalkboard Black which makes the white Victorian molding stand out."
Biggest inspiration: "I love Scandinavian design. I love the eclectic and a mix of vintage and new."
Splurge or Save: "I tend to splurge on an excellent vintage find."
John McDonald10 of 11
City: Los Angeles, CA Website: www.ahandmadehome.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A mirror above the sofa that I made from a slab of fallen lumber.
Biggest inspiration: "Most of my inspiration comes from magazines, listening to what a client truly needs, as opposed to wants."
Splurge or Save: "Chairs I'll spend money on. I'm frugal when it comes to groceries."
Julie Khuu11 of 11
City: Santa Ana, CA Website: www.hautekhuuture.blogspot.com
Favorite Item In Your Home: "A vintage Chinese console that I rescued from Salvation Army for $99!"
Biggest inspiration: "Fashion. I love that personal style can be interpreted in the way you dress and live."
Splurge or Save: "I splurge on anything that I can't live without. I am more frugal with throw pillows and drapery."
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Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings
EDVR Now Includes Audio!
Users of the Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings can now listen to recordings from more than 10,000 takes listed in the discography. Anywhere you see this icon audio is available for streaming. Searches of titles and discs in the discography can be restricted to recordings for which audio is available.
The EDVR project is a partner of the Library of Congress National Jukebox website. The discography provides most of cataloging data that enable users of the Jukebox to search titles, artists, composers, authors, and other information about the recordings included in the Jukebox. Presently, the Jukebox includes acoustically recorded Victor recordings made between 1900 and 1925. For many masters, the Jukebox includes two or more takes of the same work by the same artist, providing users with the opportunity to compare performances and trace the evolution of acoustical recording technology as it was refined by the Victor Talking Machine Company.
About EDVR
The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings (EDVR), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is an index to master recordings (matrixes) and published discs made by the Victor Talking Machine Company beginning in 1900.
The database is edited by a team of researchers based at the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries. It includes master recordings made by Victor in the United States and Central and South America, releases derived from masters recorded in Europe by the Gramophone Company, and trial recordings of new artists and sessions from which no discs were issued.
Approximately 1,000 new master recordings are added to the database monthly and the database will eventually extend to the end of the 78rpm era in the early 1950s.
What We're Working On
We add content to the EDVR every other week. Domestic masters for more than 25 years of Victor activities, including all acoustical sessions, are online. All of Victor's Latin American field trips of the late 'teens and early 1920s are also described online. Presently, we're working on editing recording sessions of the late-1920s.
Recently added to our listings of released recordings are hundreds of discs issued by the Gramophone Company that were pressed from masters recorded by Victor. Many more are in the process of beng added to our database. These entries were generously provided to the EDVR by discographer John Bolig. Mr. Bolig is the author of the authoritative Victor Discography Series published by Mainspring Press.
News and Updates
Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings is very fortunate to have been recently awarded a third grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The EDVR, and the National Jukebox to which the discography provides cataloging information, would not be possible without the generous support of the Endowment.Posted by on May 18th, 2011
What's Online
This website currently has the following available for searching, browsing, and commenting:
79,847 Matrix records, 34,034 Names, 59,187 Discs
Domestic Victor matrix editing completed through June 30th, 1930
Editors' Comments
Matrix: B-18567 (I'll wed the girl I left behind / M. J. O'Connell)
"Josef Pasternack became Musical Director the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1916. His father and grandfather had been bandmasters in Poland, and he began the study of the violin at age four, under his father's tutelage. At age ten he entered the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, where he initially studied piano and composition. He also took up the study of a new instrument each month, so that by the time he left the Conservatory he could play every instrument in the orchestra except the harp. (Sources: Victor ledgers; Wikipedia)"
Matrix: C-17603 (Hannah Jane / William Sterling Battis)
"Nasby, Petroleum V., pseud. of David Ross Locke,1833–88, American journalist and satirist, b. Vestal, N.Y. Locke was editor of the Findlay, Ohio, Jeffersonian when he first became prominent by publishing in it (in 1861) the Nasby letters. The writer, Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby, was ostensibly an ignorant, violently prejudiced, proslavery sympathizer, and the letters, which caught the fancy of readers from Lincoln down, were of aid to the Union cause in the Civil War. (Source: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed.)"
Matrix: [Trial 1913-06-26-01] ([Indian songs] / Louis Shotridge)
"Louis Shotridge was born about 1882 into a noble Tlingit family. Serving first as a field agent and later as a full-time employee of the University of Pennsylvania's University Museum, he acquired many historically significant Tlingit artifacts on behalf of the museum, a practice that was controversial even at the time. He also produced meticulous exhibition notes and collected oral histories from tribal elders. (Sources: Wikipedia; M. Enge, Collecting the Past)"

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Venice: A Travelogue
Color Therapy
My brother just got back from a trip to Venice, with terrific photos to share. I haven't been there in years, so let's call this a travelogue by proxy.
Looking at these pictures, it all came flooding back to me like an old memory: the seawater smells, the colors and textures, the tiny streets and dark alleys — it was all so old and mysterious I didn't know what crime to commit first.
When I write about color in southern Europe, it's about color that's vivid and sensual, but still Old World and slightly muted. Those Riviera pastels aren't Barbie Doll pink, they're more like washed out browns and red ochres, with hints of sorbet.
The colors of Venice are much the same as the French and Italian Rivera, but with the influences of a Roman palette and Moorish architecture. And I'll say this one more time — I would absolutely prefer my walls to look like these, ancient and crumbling with layers of accretion, than the Park Avenue porcelain look that says look but don't touch.
(Images: Scott Chamberlain)
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Lovely - thanks for sharing!
As one who is smitten by Venice but will never (most likely) have the opportunity to visit, I am charmed by these images -- and by the lessons in color they provide. (AT purists, this travelogue is entirely appropriate here!)
I love these colors, but they are tricky to transplant to New England. I painted a bathroom a sort of washed terracotta color after falling in love with Venice. For like 5 minutes I loved it, then I came to my senses. What was I thinking? It did not work.
I'm sure someone skilled could make it work, but the colors need some tweaking to work in the different colored light of New England. Also, there's something about the way everything is constantly dappled with light reflected off the canals that is extraordinarily beautiful and difficult to replicate.
I am so sorry, that is all too beautiful, but Venezia is a place that is completely destroyed in social, economic and ecologic terms, there is no more real life there, the scenery is completely 'staged' to serve as a sreen for projecting tourists' interior design fantasies, see trailer of one of those newer Venice-documentaries "The Venice principle":
greetings from Europa
I seriously doubt if 500 year old bricks covered by 400 year old stucco, covered by maybe 100 layers of old paint is staged. Please.
It's funny that what some people see as charming is actually a lot of decay and structural damage that comes mostly from neglect, not age. I've been to Venice a number of times and that's exactly the case with Venice, not to mention many other parts of European countries. On the whole the city is more sad than anything else considering so many buildings are empty and crumbling away. There is a lot of truth to what rimbaud27 said.
"I love these colors, but they are tricky to transplant to New England. I painted a bathroom a sort of washed terracotta color after falling in love with Venice. For like 5 minutes I loved it, then I came to my senses. What was I thinking? It did not work."
That's because colors have different impacts when used in interiors as opposed to exteriors. It has nothing to do with "New England." Also, many people when on vacation or visiting some place for the first time are seeing things through rose tinted glasses. Live in those places or travel there enough times and the so-called "charms" of many things quickly wears off. That's my experience.
While there certainly is a lot of charm to Venice on the whole it is a sad, neglected and run down city that is mostly uninhabited.
Venice is stunningly beautiful, but as many have pointed out, it has become a decor for tourists, a ghost city where very few people live and work. It is sad.
Fewer and fewer people live there but still around 59k, not completely deserted.
And not a single car: this is revolutionary!


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The Volvo Group will be participating as a cooperation partner in a joint environmental program between the US and Swedish Governments. The program is aimed at reducing consumption of fossil fuel by focusing on projects within the areas of energy and vehicle development. For Volvo, it would involve producing powertrains based on alternative fuels suitable for heavy vehicles.
Total deliveries of trucks from the Volvo Group's four truck companies, including Nissan Diesel, through May this year amounted to 82,865, which is a decrease of 10%, compared with the year-earlier period. Deliveries from Nissan Diesel only include the period April to May 2007, since the company was consolidated as of April 1, 2007. Excluding Nissan Diesel, deliveries amounted to 76,635, a decrease by 17%, compared with the year-earlier period.
Volvo Buses in Norway has secured its largest individual order to date. The bus operator Veolia Transport has ordered 173 Volvo buses that will be deployed in traffic operations in the Stavanger area.
AB Volvo's Board of Directors has decided to invest slightly more than 1.7 billion in Volvo Powertrain. The investment will result in manufacturing capacity for heavy diesel engines increasing by 20 percent and capacity for heavy gearboxes increasing by 50 percent.
The Board of Directors of AB Volvo has decided to apply for delisting of the Volvo share from the NASDAQ stock exchange in the United States and for deregistration of the Class B share from the US Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC.
Last Saturday, China's President Hu Jintao came to Volvo in Göteborg. The stopover at the Swedish vehicle manufacturer was part of an official state visit.
A Volvo bus contract in Santiago, Chile, with a new bus operator, has been cancelled. Volvo Buses, though, continues to deliver new buses to the three other operators in Santiago.
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Volvo Trucks North America, part of the Volvo Group, is divesting its entire 28.68-percent ownership in U S truck stop chain Petro Stopping Centers Holding L P to TravelCenters of America and Hospitality Properties Trust.
For administrative reasons, Volvo will not be able to request redemption of the remaining shares outstanding in Nissan Diesel at the company's Annual General Meeting in June. Instead, this will be done at an Extraordinary General Meeting in Nissan Diesel that will be held at the end of August, at the earliest.


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Alumni and Giving
ALEXA KRITIS, CLASS OF 2011As the Wedding Coordinator at Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, a five-star resort in Florida, Alexa ensures that brides and grooms' vision for their big day comes to life.
Lola Mendez, Class of 2010After transferring to LIM, Lola was determined to pursue a career in public relations. Internships at Nanette Lepore, People's Revolution, and KCD Worldwide helped pave her way.
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Getting in a truck accident can lead to the death or maiming of you, or a loved one. The pain, suffering and loss of a wage earner, grandfather, or grandchild, for example, can be too much anguish for a person to bare. This is why it is so important to retain an experienced and sympathetic professional in this area of California state and federal tort law.
Even if you think you can handle this yourself, you need to think about funeral expenses, paying for medical and other bills, disability, physical therapy, and all the other things that come from a tragic and life altering experience, such as a truck crash in a bustling California city. Commerce dictates that big rigs will be on the move more in a highly populated area. Ehline Law Firm PC has recovered millions for victims of motor vehicle injuries sustained in traffic and freeway type accidents all over the state. Call us for a free legal consult at 888.400.9721.
Ehline Law Firm PC - Truck Accidents Law Firm in Los Angeles County and Beyond
Based in LA County, has litigated many complex and difficult prime mover cases, and other truck-caused personal injuries throughout our years as legal professionals. Our professionals focus in on your case like a laser beam. We work hard to get you the maximum compensation under the law for your accident insurance claims in Northern and Southern California cities.
Understanding Semi Truck Regulations
Semi trucks laws and regulations are usually based upon California and United States (U.S.)codes and statutory laws specifically relating to trucks, which includes 18 wheeler trucks. Many of these semi-truck laws are promulgated by the Department of Transportation, Public Utilities Commission and Department of Homeland Security, or even the Los Angeles City Council. These semi-truck regulations decide how much a fully laden commercial truck may weigh, who may drive big rig trucks on the roads, how many hours you can operate a truck before pulling over for a nap, and the type of training.
When these many and varied laws are violated by a commercial trucking company, or truck operator, injured victims frequently seek the advice of those educated in negligence law. Frequently, the violations of these regulations are the legal cause of the accidents themselves.
Some Steps a Greenhorn Should Take After a Truck Accident
Individuals and their loved who endured a stunning debacle involving an 18 wheeler need to take affirmative steps starting the minute they are hurt as follows:
- Collect Evidence - At future legal proceedings you will want the the court to take notice of exculpatory and damaging evidence that supports your lawsuit. You or a party on your behalf must obtain names, addresses and phone numbers of witnesses, as well as the ID and insurance info of the defendant and trucking company he or she works for. Get official proof of road conditions, the weather, and time of day (ex: was it dusk, was it high noon, etc.?) Take pictures of the roadway itself. Photograph faulty road repairs, damaged asphalt, broken or missing traffic signals. It is always handy to keep a throw away camera, but you could also use the iPhone or PDA camera.
Obtain Copies of the Traffic Collision Report - It goes without saying. Call the cops. Assure that there is actually an official report and that the defendant cannot weasel their way out of it or leave the scene, after giving you bogus info. If you later find the report is a dunning type report, with factually false info, track down the officer and demand they correct the inconsistencies.
Never Admit Liability to Anyone – Abe Lincoln said it best: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." Don't be a dupe. Keep your mouth shut. Your not an expert. You were just banged up and not all there yet anyways. The smart move is to call a trucking accident lawyer in Los Angeles and protect yourself.
Some Injuries Are Not So Obvious
Any person who has been hurt in a crash, knows that the adrenaline levels are so high, that they block the sensation of pain immediately after the impact and loud report of a smash up. You may see stars and not even realize you just suffered a head injury. You could even have a ruptured spine, or hairline fracture and be walking around.
This is all part of the fight or flight response in every human. But when an injured person is running around a traffic collision site, police and some first responders could perceive this as a no injury accident. This is why in a perfect world, a victim would remain still and get evacuated to a hospital.
A casualty can easily poison their own case even though a wound latently reared its ugly head. This is why it is so important to have a lawyer build your case early and get the medical treatment, and evidence of impact right out of the gate. Don't stress yourself about it anymore. Put it on cruise control, sit back, relax, and let us do the work.
Potential Parties Who Can Be Made To Pay
There are many circumstances that can involve more than one wrongdoer as a defendant. This theory of joint and several liability can involve respondeat superior, well as products liability and warranty claims. Most of the defendants are identified after it has been determined what caused or contributed to the catastrophe. The aggrieved through their attorney, can potentially sue the following parties:
- The Trucking Company - Tort law makes employers responsible for employees who are negligent or reckless in the course and scope of their employment
- The Truck Operator - A victim's attorney will sue the driver in most cases, as they are always typically responsible in some shape or form. (Could have been intoxicated, improperly trained, unlicensed driver, etc.)
- Truck Repair Facilities - For faulty vehicle maintenance, etc.
- Third parties - Yes, another cause of these wrecks are passenger cars that cut off the large trucks, and cause them to jack-knife. But it could be another vehicle. Or it could involve many successive vehicles in a chain collision. We search high and low to find and sue these individuals and their masters.
- Government Defendants - Many people are unaware that the state, county and city may also have negligently maintained of created a dangerous condition, for which they too can be sued. But there are struck guidelines to follow and time baring limitations that require a specialist in the Tort Claims Act.
- Vehicle Manufacturers - From Mac, to Mercedes, to Peterbuilt and as against the companies they subcontract out work, all are potential deep pockets. They are typically joined in the case if they negligently designed, built or mislabeled (failed to warn, etc.), and that played a role in the accident.
After the casualty identifies the insurance and assets of the parties, and meets his or her burden of producing evidence or duty, breach of that duty, liability and the victim has met the standard of proof, he or she is entitled to receive reasonable compensation for bodily harm and any property claims. Total loss of a car comes to mind when one thinks about property to be replaced/repaired. The financial compensation available is based upon the severity of the injuries, and to some degree, on the percentage of comparative negligence of the plaintiff, if any. No two cases are the same and neither are any two plaintiffs. You take your victim as you find him, and if the victim's pre existing injury is made worse, that becomes a part of the money that is awarded. So there is simply no way to tell how much a person will ultimately win.
Some of the Main Factors in the Amount of General Damages Earned:
- Past, present and future loss of earnings.
- Past, present and future pain and suffering.
- Diminished ability to continue earning.
- Past, present and future medical, nursing and hospital care.
"Contingency Fee" Means No Recovery No Fee to Us
If you or a loved one was seriously injured after being jolted or jarred in a truck accident, our jurists want to help you recovery for your injuries. We can help you pursue both general and special damages (like past, present and future economic loss). We treat every roadside accidents case with excellent professionalism, and we cover all the costs and fees up front! Those are the regulations we follow. Plus, we don't recover money unless you recover money! This is called a contingency fee and that is what we do for you.
Call or E-Mail to Discuss Your 18 Wheeler Truck Injury Claims
If you were injured in a Los Angeles 18-wheeler collision, call our 24 hour attorney hotline at 1-888-400-9721 to discuss your valid claims for loss. Just because you are a trusting soul, does not mean the insurance company will be on the up and up with you. Most of our clients get strung along by these large corporations and sabotage their own claims by wasting valuable time trying to negotiate the case themselves.
In some cases, there may even be punitive damages available to an aggrieved party. Don't wait till the last minute trying to cut an unfair deal. Experienced Los Angeles trucking injury legal counsel are waiting to hear from you.


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Legislators are often criticized for failing to predict the manner by which market permutations might nullify a law's intent. Such is now the case with an important aspect of the laws governing condominium and homeowner associations in Florida, and a significant legislative update is required in light of the recent Third District Court of Appeal opinion in the case of Aventura Management, LLC v. Spiaggia Ocean Condominium Association, Inc.
Traditionally, associations have avoided acquiring properties through their own foreclosure actions for the past-due fees, given that lenders typically moved quickly on their foreclosure actions and the associations' ability to recover delinquent fees is limited under the law.
However, recently many associations began moving quickly to take ownership of the delinquent owners' units prior to the banks' foreclosures. RealtyTrac's data shows that it takes an average of 2.5 years for banks to complete foreclosures in Florida. During that period associations can acquire title to the properties when the owners are also delinquent in their payments to the association, as is usually the case. Following their acquisition, associations can lease the residences to recover fees. When the lenders eventually complete their foreclosures, the associations have then been billing the new owners for the sums owed by the original delinquent owner. This tactic has become increasingly popular and was used by the association in the appellate case.
However, the Third DCA opinion will likely cause community associations to reconsider this approach — proven to be a significant boon for many associations — and may delay their struggles to regain financial stability. While the lower court's ruling in the case found that the association was entitled to bill the new owner for the past-due fees owed to the association prior to its ownership of the unit resulting from its expedited foreclosure, the appellate court reversed the decision, finding Florida law provides that "the previous owner" is liable together with the new owner for unpaid assessments coming due up to the time of the transfer of title. The opinion concludes that there is no exception when the association becomes an intervening owner between the original delinquent owner and the owner acquiring title following a lender's foreclosure. The majority held that the association became liable for the unpaid assessments owed to itself, and it could not then impose that liability on the new investor acquiring the property after the bank's foreclosure.
Despite the appellate opinion, associations should be exempt from liability for the unpaid assessments that are owed to themselves in these situations given that the legislature did not envision associations as owners of these properties. Tellingly, the dissenting opinion recognizes that the law was created to assist associations to be made whole in collecting delinquent assessments from foreclosure property buyers, who are expected to accept responsibility for the past-due fees prior to acquiring a foreclosure property.
The Florida legislature can rectify the impact of this ruling during the 2013 legislative session by enacting laws establishing an exception for associations that become the intervening owners of properties resulting from their own foreclosures prior to the completion of lenders' foreclosures. In such cases, the law should ascribe collective liability for unpaid association fees to the owner of the property prior to the association's ownership and the new owner subsequent to the bank's foreclosure action. Millions of Florida property owners in community associations would applaud such a measure as a necessary response to the market forces that have led to unanticipated circumstances invalidating the law's original purpose.
Attorney Roberto C. Blanch is a partner with the Coral Gables-based law firm of Siegfried, Rivera, Lerner, De La Torre & Sobel, P.A., which focuses on community associations, construction law and real estate matters with offices in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.


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December 5 – DOHA, Qatar – Today, youth groups issued a strong demand to governments across the world at the UN climate conference.
The youth groups from every continent stood in solidarity with the world's poorest people, who are most at risk from the current and projected impacts of climate change.
The Filipino minister, Lucille Sering, held a somber tone at the action, in light of the devastating super-typhoon that has left over 80 people dead in her home country.
"We stand behind the countries who have voiced their rejection of false solutions and a dirty deal here in Doha. The deal on the table, which they are being bullied into accepting is a suicide pact for their people," said Julian Velez, from Mexico and a student of the College of the Atlantic.
"We stand here today not only as members of a silenced civil society, not only as representatives of our various organizations, but as human beings standing in solidarity with the suffering and loss caused by a lack of political will and inaction," Velez said.
A call-and-response song of resistance lead by Neelam Khare of the Canadian Youth Delegation accompanied the action.
Youth are drawing attention to super-typhoon Bopha, the 16th extreme weather event to affect the Philippines this year and a reminder that climate change is affecting people now.
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fascinated Kander. Entire cities, such as Fengdu, were moved, from one bank to another; with the
construction of the Three Gorges Dam, 1.8 million people were forced to relocate from the 13 cities, 140
towns and 1,342 villages that now are flooded forever. Kander, renowned for his striking portraiture
and his large-format landscape photographs, began to see the river as a conflicted symbol of both the
nation's rapid and profound progress while simultaneously the vast eradication of much of the nation's
The photographs, for the most part, use a soft, somber palette. Throughout, there's a lack of blue sky,
just what seems to be a permanent, overcast, industrial haze. The images are sparsely occupied, but not
empty. Most often, the individuals depicted are tiny, dwarfed by the river or the structures behind them.
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the course of the Yangtze, and yet ultimately the river cannot be completely controlled. Moreover, the
single individual has little say in China's brisk progression.
"Nostalgia is the overwhelming feeling inspired by Kander's pictures of the historical mutation
surrounding the Yangtze: the nostalgia of human beings subjugated by their own creations, themselves
bound to repeat the cycle and disappear one day in the name of a new idea of progress." Jean-Paul
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Yangtze – The Long River, and The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Obama's
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The bladder is a triangle-shaped, hollow organ located in the lower abdomen. It is held in place by ligaments that are attached to other organs and the pelvic bones. The bladder's walls relax and expand to store urine, and contract and flatten to empty urine through the urethra. The typical healthy adult bladder can store up to two cups of urine for two to five hours.
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You might think that $50,000 is an awfully big carrot, a prize that's tasty enough to lure even the most reluctant chef before television cameras.
Chef Rob Evans, owner of Duckfat, cooks for a benefit at Flatbread in Portland on Sunday. Evans will compete for $50,000 on "Chopped Champions" Tuesday night.
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But Rob Evans, owner of Duckfat in Portland, confesses his first reaction to going back on the Food Network show "Chopped" was, "Thanks, but no thanks." He thought about it for two months before changing his mind and saying yes.
The show is actually "Chopped Champions," a contest that pits 16 past winners of the "Chopped" show against one another in the kitchen. Evans was shown winning round four in last week's episode and advancing to face three other chefs in the grand champion round, airing at 10 p.m. Tuesday. The winner will receive $50,000, a reward that's much grander than the show's usual $10,000 prize.
The chefs had to cook three dishes using mystery baskets of ingredients that usually contain unusual combinations of foods. The rounds were timed, and one chef was "chopped" by the judges after each round.
"I have to say, I enjoy the cooking part of it," said Evans, 49. "The first time it's really anxious, and then as you get an idea of what it's like, it's just fun. Just ready, set, go, try to make something that's better than everyone else. Whether it's delicious or not, I don't know. It just has to be more delicious than the other three guys, because it's not the way I cook. It's very quick and short."
Duckfat, where Evans and his cooks corn tongues for three weeks, brine food overnight and make their own charcuterie and fermented sodas, has had three wins on "Chopped" -- not bad for a little northern New England sandwich shop.
Evans won $10,000 on an episode that aired in October 2011 before winning round four of last week's "Chopped Champions." A Duckfat cook, Missy Corey, took home $10,000 from the show in April of last year.
The staff at the restaurant had a party during last week's airing of "Chopped Champions" and watched it together, "which was a blast to have my whole crew behind me and my own cheering section," Evans said.
He plans to watch Tuesday's grand champion show with a small circle of friends. Evans and his wife, Nancy, live on a farm in western Maine and don't have cable TV.
Although Evans almost didn't participate in the show this time around, in the end, he decided he couldn't turn down the national exposure for his restaurant.
"You know, the money's tempting, but it's about PR," he said. "I don't like being on television, really. I think I do OK on it, because I just ignore the cameras and talk my spiel.
"As I was thinking about doing it, I just couldn't toss away the PR that it offers. As a restaurant owner and chef, win or lose, it's a win for me, because the exposure is so huge. "
Evans started his restaurant career 30 years ago.
"When I started cooking, it wasn't as glamorous as it is today," he said. "I loved the counter-culture aspect of it. I did a lot of traveling with it. It wasn't until, I think, 10 years into it that I started thinking about it as a serious career."
Evans owned Hugo's on Middle Street for 12 years. His work at that restaurant won him national acclaim and, in 2009, a James Beard award for Best Chef Northeast. He has owned Duckfat, just down the street from Hugo's, for eight years.
Evans is an avid supporter of Share Our Strength, an organization that fights childhood hunger in Maine. He began by volunteering at the group's annual Taste of the Nation benefit dinner, and upped his involvement after raising $48,000 for the organization in a single night at Hugo's.
He now organizes similar events, called "No Kid Hungry" dinners, throughout the year at other restaurants. On Sunday night, he joined Sam Hayward of Fore Street and Chad Conley of Gather in Yarmouth making pizzas at Flatbread for a more casual, family-style benefit dinner. There will be another one at Gather on April 7.
"I try to rally chefs to come on board and do this," Evans said. "I don't always cook at them, but I'm there. I help them get donated food and help them figure out their menu."
The giving back is part of what Evans called a "well-balanced life," one that he can have now that he is settled on his 80-acre Limington farm, where he is raising pigs and hopes to eventually grow vegetables for his restaurant.
"For the last 25 years, I've been trying to buy land in Maine and live a rural life," he said, "but I own a business in Portland, so right now we spend half the time out in the country and half the time in Portland. It's a little bit healthier lifestyle than I had at Hugo's. I have more time for family, more time for friends, more time for my health, more time for my wife, all of it.
"It's been a nice next level for me. I think most people in my position just go off and expand, and I have no dreams of an empire. I want to make a good living and be connected to all aspects of my life."
Evans cannot reveal any of the details of Tuesday's episode of "Chopped Champions," including the outcome. He said on last week's show that if he won the $50,000, he'd probably buy a tractor.
"I'm hoping now that I've done enough PR that I can just retreat to my property out west and not have to see a TV camera anymore," he said.
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No. 121: Texas State
By Paul Myerberg // Apr 16, 2012
He's a wanderer. Brian Kelly's been a head coach at four different stops, starting at Grand Valley State in 1991. Todd Graham's had four head coaching jobs since 2006, two of which, Rice and Pittsburgh, lasted a single season. Nick Saban's had four jobs, each on the F.B.S. level: Toledo, Michigan State, L.S.U. and Alabama. Jerry Kill has had five, beginning with Saginaw Valley State in 1994 and continuing at Minnesota, where he's about to enter his second season. Dennis Franchione sees your four, smiles knowingly at your five, and raises you all the way to eight, if you count Texas State twice. Southwestern, in Kansas, from 1981-82. Pittsburg State, also in Kansas, from 1985-89. Texas State — part one — from 1990-91. New Mexico from 1992-97. T.C.U. from 1998-2000. Alabama from 2001-2. Texas A&M from 2003-7. Then break, then back to Texas State — part two — in time for last season. He's a wanderer. The Bobcats hope that Franchione, in his second go-round, has decided to make himself a permanent home.
San Marcos, Tex.
Returning starters
17 (8 offense, 9 defense)
Last year's ranking
No. N/A
2011 record
(6-6, 0-0)
Last year's
No. N/A
2012 schedule
- Sept. 1
at Houston
- Sept. 8
Texas Tech
- Sept. 22
Stephen F. Austin
- Sept. 29
- Oct. 6
at New Mexico
- Oct. 13
- Oct. 27
at San Jose St.
- Nov. 3
at Utah St.
- Nov. 10
Louisiana Tech
- Nov. 17
at Navy
- Nov. 24
at U.T.S.A.
- Dec. 1
New Mexico St.
Last year's prediction
For the third time, not applicable. There's only one more of these coming. That would be Massachusetts, which is coming fast.
2011 recap
In a nutshell You can split the season into three portions. The first came over the season's first two weeks, when Texas State assumed its fairly common role as patsy to an F.B.S. team looking for an easy win. The Bobcats opened the year with losses to Texas Tech and Wyoming by a combined score of 95-20. Par for the course. That was followed by a glorious five-game winning streak, which had Texas State fans dreaming of a wildly successful final season on the F.C.S. level in Franchione's first year with the program. Then the bottom dropped out: four losses in five games to end the year, leaving the Bobcats at an even 6-6. A successful season? Certainly, especially after the Bobcats went 4-7 under Brad Wright in 2010. But was losing four of five the way the Bobcats wanted to end one life in the F.C.S. and begin another in the F.B.S.? I wouldn't think so.
High point The five-game winning streak, of course. Two victories came over teams that finished the year over .500: Stephen F. Austin and McNeese State. The Bobcats averaged 35.6 points per game during this stretch; in comparison, the offense averaged only 21.6 points per game over the Bobcats' 1-4 finish.
Low point Of those four losses, only one was particularly hard for Texas State to swallow. That would be a 23-10 loss to Southeastern Louisiana, which would win only three games on the year. The most painful loss, however, came against Central Arkansas, which would go 9-3 in the regular season and earn a spot in the F.C.S. playoffs. After Texas State took a 22-20 lead with about five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, Central Arkansas went ahead for good on 19-yard field goal with a minute left.
Tidbit Texas State's home field was known as Bobcat Stadium from 1981, when the facility first opened, until 2002, when it was renamed Jim Wacker Field at Bobcat Stadium in honor of the university's former coach and athletic director. Wacker went 42-8 at Texas State — then known as Southwest Texas State — from 1979-82, winning the Division II national championship in each of his last two years before leaving for T.C.U., where he went 40-58-2 from 1983-91. He returned to Texas State in 1998 as the A.D., and held that position through 2002; Wacker passed away just prior to the start of the 2003 season after an extended battle with cancer. Most of you are probably very familiar with Jim Wacker Field at Bobcat Stadium: it served as the home for fictional Texas Methodist University on the show "Friday Night Lights."
Tidbit (McMurry edition) Burnt Orange, that oracle of Texas football, first clued you into this fact in the comment field below the Texas-San Antonio preview. For an idea of how Texas State and U.T.S.A. might match up, consider the transitive relationship between the Bobcats, Roadrunners, Stephen F. Austin and McMurry, the latter a former Division III program transitioning up to Division II in 2012. McMurry beat U.T.S.A., 24-21, last September. Stephen F. Austin lambasted McMurry, 82-6, in last year's season opener. Texas State beat S.F.A. on Sept. 24. If McMurry beat U.T.S.A. by a field goal, S.F.A. beat McMurry by 76 points and the Bobcats beat S.F.A. by nine points, what does that say about how the Bobcats and Roadrunners might match up in 2012?
Former players in the N.F.L.
1 DT Fred Evans (Minnesota).
Arbitrary top five list
N.B.A. teams that need Anthony Davis the most
1. Charlotte Bobcats.
2. New Orleans Hornets.
3. Washington Wizards.
4. Golden State Warriors.
5. Cleveland Cavaliers.
Dennis Franchione (Pittsburg State '73), 6-6 after one year back at Texas State. He's 19-15 overall with the Bobcats, with last season's .500 finish joining a 13-9 mark from 1990-91. Even then, by the second year of the 1990s, the then-40-year-old Franchione was close to the fifth head coaching job of his career; his wandering ways didn't develop later on, when he had moved to the F.B.S., but have been the defining aspect of his career from the start. From the start: Southwestern, where he went 14-4-2 from 1981-82; Pittsburg State, his alma mater, with a 53-6 record from 1985-89; with the Bobcats to start the 1990s; on to New Mexico, with a 33-36 record from 1992-97; T.C.U., where his star rose with a 25-10 mark from 1998-2000; to Alabama, where he built up and then broke hearts by going 17-8 from 2001-2; and to Texas A&M, where he went 32-28 from 2003-7. That's Franchione, from start to finish. Outside of A&M, where things fell apart, he's had a golden touch. He laid the foundation for Rocky Long's success at New Mexico. He did the same at T.C.U., leaving Gary Patterson in a position for immediate success — though both Long and Patterson exceed Franchione's accomplishments at each school. At Alabama, Franchione had fans believing in the program's revival; his name remains a four-letter word in Tuscaloosa to this day. He's always been a well-regarded figure in San Marcos, however, and the program should be happy to land a coach with his name and track record. Given Franchione's history, however, there's no reason to believe he's not looking to turn another successful turn with the Bobcats into a more prestigious position.
Tidbit (coaching edition) Franchione lost co-offensive coordinator Darrell Dickey to Memphis in late January, leaving him with two options: either hand Mike Schultz all coordinator duties or find a true replacement for Dickey, one who would share the coordinator title with Schultz. Franchione went with the latter option, choosing to team Schultz with former Sam Houston State wide receivers coach Jeff Conway. I spoke about Sam Houston State's offense in the New Mexico preview: under new U.N.M. coordinator Bob DeBesse, the Bearkats showed great offensive balance with a lean towards the run — Franchione's desired offensive system, based on history. So why didn't the program merely hire DeBesse, a Texas State graduate? Timing: Bob Davie hired DeBesse in late December, while Dickey wouldn't leave to join Justin Fuente at Memphis until a month later. Obviously, having Sam Houston State's actual play-caller would have been better for Texas State. Regardless, Conway's experience in that system makes him a valuable addition. He'll provide a new voice for the Texas State offense.
Players to watch
Texas State proved it can run the ball against F.C.S. foes, but can the Bobcats taste the same level of success on the ground against this drastically tougher schedule? The entire season hangs in the balance — so no pressure, of course. The offense needs to run the ball well because, for now, that's all the offense does well; passing was secondary last fall, and barring vastly improved quarterback play, the offense will again butter its bread with the running game. Hopefully, Conway can help tweak the system slightly to include a bit more focus on the pass.
The Bobcats are in trouble if the running game takes a step back. It's simple: the Bobcats haven't shown an ability to pass — yet, as I'll discuss below — leaving the running game in the position of carrying a heavy burden offensively. Part of that is by design, but there's little question that Texas State should not be running the ball more than three-fourths of the time, as it did a season ago. In the big picture, however, a strong running game keeps Texas State's defense off the field. This would be a good thing.
On a positional level, Texas State's biggest offensive concern lies up front, where the Bobcats lost three linemen with at least 20 career starts, including F.C.S. all-American right guard D.J. Hall, as well as left guard Jon Vernon, who had 12 career starts. Last year's line will resemble this year's group in only slightly: as in 2011, Thaddeus Watkins will start at right tackle, while sophomore Charlie Will Tuttle will move to right guard from center, where he started seven games as a rookie.
It'll be a very raw and untested group outside of Watkins and Tuttle. Redshirt freshman Mike Freeman is the current leader at center, ahead of another redshirt freshman, Stephan Jacobs. Two JUCO transfers, Mike Yoder and Tyler Potter, are in the mix at left guard and tackle, respectively. Another redshirt freshman, Zach Crawford, is in line for a backup role on the interior of the line. At left tackle, Texas State has designs on handing the job over to Adley Eshraghipour, an oft-injured former defensive lineman. The line could be serviceable if the JUCO transfers hit the ground running and Eshraghipour can translate to the offensive side of the ball. If that doesn't happen, Texas State's offense might be in trouble.
Let's be optimistic: if the line does shake out, the Bobcats have a pair of backs capable of carrying the offense. One is senior Marcus Curry, a former Navy transfer who rushed for 637 yards and 3 scores in his first season of eligibility. Curry's once-promising career in Annapolis fizzled out following a series of rules violations. In his final season with Navy, in 2009, Curry rushed for 585 yards with a team-best 10 receptions for 287 yards. That dual-threat ability continued with the Bobcats: Curry added 19 receptions for 119 yards a year ago.
He's joined in the backfield by sophomore Terrence Franks, last year's team leader in carries (146), yards (863) and touchdowns (9). A good portion of Franks' damage came against Southeastern Louisiana, when he rushed for a school freshman-record 234 yards; he is the only freshman in school history to rush for more than 200 yards in a single game. As a pair, Curry and Franks combined for 1,500 yards and 12 scores on 273 carries. Can each get it done against F.B.S. teams? They showed an ability to find space against Texas Tech and Wyoming last fall, but Curry and Franks will only be successful if the inexperienced line rounds into form.
The Bobcats have targets to work with in the passing game; all they need is a quarterback capable of getting them the football. Perhaps the most intriguing pass-catcher is senior tight end Chase Harper (20 receptions for 287 yards), who received scholarship offers from several B.C.S. conference programs as a JUCO transfer in the class of 2010 — including Nebraska and Miami (Fla.) — but was unable to qualify academically. Texas State reaped the benefits; outside of San Jose State's Ryan Otten, there may not be a more gifted tight end in the WAC.
The Bobcats also return former JUCO transfer Isaiah Battle, who finished second on the team last fall in receptions (27) and receiving yards (368) and led the way with 5 touchdowns. As Texas State closed spring camp, Battle was joined at wide receiver by junior Cody Matthews (8 receptions for 72 yards) and senior Ed Amerson. One player who will move into the mix is Tim Hawkins, who rushed for 288 yards as a reserve running back last fall. Hawkins is too valuable a play-maker to keep on the sidelines.
Well, this defense is terrible. Or was, rather, though I don't see many reasons to predict the defense to turn over a new leaf against a schedule featuring Houston, Texas Tech, Nevada, Utah State and Louisiana Tech, among others. In fact, there is reason to believe that this defense, barring a lights-on turnaround under coordinator Craig Naivar, will rank among the very worst in the country.
Last fall, this defense allowed 561.5 yards per game against F.B.S. competition. Central Arkansas threw for 457 yards. Tarleton State, a Division II program, threw for 256 yards and a score. Prairie View A&M had 300 yards rushing. Southeastern Louisiana gained 496 yards of total offense. The good news is that eight starters are back off last year's team, though to some, that might also qualify as bad news. Not here: returning starters are almost never a bad thing. But it's also clear that Naivar and Texas State have a significant amount of work to do on the defensive side of the ball.
Each of the three losses occurred along the front seven; in one case, at defensive end, the Bobcats are relying on JUCO help. That's coming in the body of Thomas Evans, formerly of American City River College, who takes on a daunting task: replacing former Texas A&M transfer Michael Ebbitt. All Ebbitt did last fall, his only one on campus, was lead the Bobcats in tackles for loss and sacks en route to being named the F.C.S. Independents Defensive Player of the Year. Evans will have his hands full, though he won't be asked to replace Ebbitt single-handedly.
The Bobcats will need to get more production out of junior end Jordan Norfleet (32 tackles, 5.5 for loss), one of three returning starters along the defensive line. Only two seem poised to retain their starting roles: Norfleet and nose tackle Deshun Williams (22 tackles, 2 sacks). At 250 pounds, junior Blake McColloch is simply too small to stand up at tackle. He'll step back to a reserve role in 2012, replaced by JUCO transfer Kamu Tauleiei — only 265, though that's an improvement.
Along the second level, Texas State will step senior Joplo Bartu (51 tackles, 4 sacks) into the permanent role at middle linebacker. This makes sense. So would moving another senior, Brian Lilly (52 tackles, 6.5 for loss) into the starting role on the strong side, where the Bobcats must replace Josh Minde. Not so fast: Lilly may very well grab the starting role eventually, but he's currently embroiled in a competition with redshirt freshman Josh Robinson. The ball's in Naivar's court; if he thinks Robinson can do more than Lilly, who has produced for this defense, then more power to him.
The entire secondary returns, though standout free safety Xavier Daniels (team-best 77 tackles, 3 picks) didn't participate in much of the spring due to academic difficulties. When he does return — and believe me, Texas State needs him — Daniels will reclaim his starting spot, moving his temporary replacement, Tyler Chase, back into a reserve role. The secondary houses three safeties: Daniels, senior Jason McLean (42 tackles, 1 interception) and junior Justin Iwuji (38 tackles, 5.5 for loss). It's status quo throughout, with sophomore Craig Mager (51 tackles) and senior Darryl Morris (62 tackles, 3 sacks) back at cornerback — though Mager needs to heal after dislocating his elbow during the spring.
So what does this defense want to do, anyway? Create confusion. Wreak havoc. That's all. Someday, given the amount of talent in Texas, the Bobcats might be able to cobble together enough pieces on defense — especially in the secondary — to run with the more potent offensive teams in the WAC. Today, the Bobcats aren't nearly far enough along in the process to slow down the better teams on the schedule.
Position battle(s) to watch
Quarterback The Bobcats return last year's starter, Shaun Rutherford, but I can give you three good reasons why he won't be the starting quarterback in 2012: he's coming off shoulder surgery; Franchione praised his potential replacement nearly non-stop during the spring; and last September, Rutherford admitted that he likes playing receiver more than quarterback. Those three factors — even just one alone, in fact — point towards Tyler Arndt reclaiming the starting role he held in 2010 but lost to Rutherford last fall, when he was still recovering from knee surgery. Arndt started six games for Texas State two years ago, throwing for 1,364 yards and 9 scores in a different system, but took a back seat to Rutherford, the more athletic of the pair, in Franchione's offense.
One issue with that: Arndt's the better passer, and if Texas State wants to actually throw the ball with any consistently in 2012, he'd be the team's best option. It may be safe to say that Texas State achieved its dream scenario during the spring: Arndt stepped forward, according to Franchione's comments, which might give the offense the sort of passing balance it needs to be successful. If his strong play continues, Arndt could grab the starting role outright during the fall — the competition is fairly neck-and-neck leaving the spring — pushing Rutherford either into a role in certain packages, as a running threat, or to a new position altogether. Whether Franchione feels like he can move Rutherford out of the quarterback competition depends on how comfortable he feels with a younger quarterback like Duke DeLancellotti, Jordan Moore or Fred Nixon serving as Arndt's backup.
Game(s) to watch
September won't be pretty, thanks to dates with Houston, Texas Tech and Nevada. With little chance that the Bobcats can take out the WAC's best, this team must take care of business against the league's bottom half if it hopes to win four of five games in its F.B.S. debut. That makes games against U.T.S.A., Idaho and New Mexico State the most important games on the schedule.
Season breakdown & prediction
In a nutshell Compared to Texas-San Antonio, Texas State is Alabama. That doesn't mean much, though having the Roadrunners in the WAC should allow the Bobcats to avoid a last-place finish. Compared to the vast majority of the F.B.S., however, Texas State's issues loom large. The Bobcats need to run the football effectively to score points; unfortunately, the offensive line is a major work in progress. The offense will fall apart at the seams if the Bobcats can't move the ball on the ground. Arndt is a better option than Rutherford, in my mind, but he's a complimentary piece, not the star of the offense. The defense is in shambles: even if the individual pieces will be better — it is the second season in the 4-2-5 — the defense is going to get ripped to shreds during non-conference play and against the WAC's best. Is there good news? There's always good news. The Bobcats should revel in joining the F.B.S. party. Franchione has won at similar stops throughout his career. Recruiting has picked up. I'm not saying that the Bobcats can't eventually win games in the WAC; they just won't in 2012.
Dream season The offense gets a boost from an improved passing game. The defense remains suspect, but does just enough to help Texas State win six games in its first season on the F.B.S. level.
Nightmare season Welcome to the F.B.S., Bobcats. The offense can't run the ball consistently and the defense can't do anything right. What's worse? Texas-San Antonio 14, Texas State 6. Ouch.
In case you were wondering
Where do Texas State fans congregate? I think the best option is Bobcat Fans, which houses a very active message board. For recruiting coverage, check out Bobcat Report. For newspaper coverage, visit the Web sites of The San Marcos Mercury and the San Marcos Daily Record. As always, let me know if there's a site I've missed.
Texas State's all-name nominee S Brixx Hawthorne.
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Who is No. 120? The head coach at tomorrow's program once served under a coach who served under a coach who served under a coach who served under a coach who was an alum of an Ivy League school and coached at two service academies.
Tags: Bob DeBesse, Chase Harper, Craig Naivar, Dennis Franchione, Isaiah Battle, Jeff Conway, Joplo Bartu, Jordan Norfleet, Marcus Curry, Shaun Rutherford, Terrence Franks, Texas State, Texas-San Antonio, Thaddeus Watkins, Thomas Evans, Tyler Arndt, WAC, Xavier Daniels
I'll guess UMass…they've gotta be on here soon.
That's quite a coaching tree… No clue on the hint, btw.
I believe this is a fair critique, Texas State will move further up on next years list for sure.
Great preview. I've always liked the solid rocks like JoePa and Frank Beamer that pick a school and stick with it, but there's something exotic and fascinating about wanderers like Franchione and Dennis Erickson. College football would be less interesting without them, although I wouldn't want one coaching my school.
Todd Graham's one year was at Rice, not Tulsa, where he stuck around for four years–a lifetime by his standards.
Tough clue! Homer Smith graduated from Princeton and coached at Air Force and Army, but that's as far as I can figure out.
Paul: Rice, not Tulsa. They all run together. Thanks, fixed it above.
Berst choice for info., Bobcat Fans?….That's a joke, right? The only reason I go to bobcat fans is to see the local bar/drink specials. I go to bobcat report for my information. http://texasstate.rivals.com/
Also, As much as it hurts to say, I think the predictions are right on. Let's hope for a better season.
- TxSt Alumn
Memphis? They also have to be coming up soon
UNLV might be next- Bobby Hauck coached under Rick Neuheisel who coached under Terry Donahue who coached under Homer Smith ( if being a backfield coach under and OC counts.) Joel explained Smith's connections to the Service Academies and Ivy league.
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