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Former MSU hockey coach Ron Mason dead at 76 Former MSU hockey coach Ron Mason dead at 76 Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More More Sports Top of draft shows stark contrast between haves and have-nots by Peter King Add Favorite Favorite Added Twitter Email Posted: Mon Apr. 9, 2012 It's rare that I begin with the Stat of the Week in this column, but there's a method to my statness.Part of the method is I'm so damn sick of all the other bounty-related crap that keeps oozing from the NFL's pores, and I figure you must be too, that I want to lead with actual football. The draft, specifically, seeing that a historic first round is 17 days away. The draft is usually America's fourth-biggest sport (behind the NFL, major league baseball and the NBA), but the spate of bounty and Peyton Manning coverage has relegated the draft to a lesser pastime. So let's spend a couple thousand words on the draft, and the teams drafting, here at the top.***Teams with the most 2012 draft choices in the top 85 overall picks: Cincinnati, Cleveland, Miami, New England, St. Louis (four).Teams with the least 2012 draft choices in the top 85 overall picks: New Orleans, Oakland (zero).***I'll get to everything of note this week, and the looming bounty suspension news, and the overwhelming sadness of the Steve Gleason-Sean Pamphilon mess, and the death of a good man in Dallas. But we start out west, with one of those draft-pick-poor teams, and what the Oakland Raiders are doing about it.The Raiders are actually doing things right, and Reggie McKenzie's the reason why.When the Raiders hired McKenzie as general manager in January, he took over a team with the most decimated draft board in recent history. No first-, second-, third-, fourth- or seventh-round picks because of prior trades or Supplemental Draft picks. McKenzie inherited a team that, in late February, was $26 million over the salary cap and had two draft choices -- the 148th and 189th overall -- before the annual compensatory picks were awarded. Think about it: An 18-year scout finally gets his chance to run a team and pick the players he wants ... and he's hamstrung by the worst cap situation in the league, and one of the worst draft-choice pools in NFL history. And one more thing: Peyton Manning just walked into his division."Never thought, 'Woe is me,' '' he said the other night from his office in Oakland. "Not once. Never thought I shouldn't take the job because of things like that either. It never entered my mind. I just figured, 'We'll find players.' I know how to find players. I've been in Green Bay when we found Mark Tauscher and Donald Driver late in drafts, and found Tramon Williams on the street, and signed Charles Woodson in free agency. It can be done.''If McKenzie's right, it will be done this year with low-cost free-agents starting at three positions (Shawntae Spencer and Ron Bartell at cornerback, Philip Wheeler at linebacker), and one well-paid (five years, $20 million) starting right guard, Mike Brisiel. Help also came in the form of three of the top 10 compensatory picks awarded last month in the third, fourth and fifth rounds. Oakland's first pick will be the first compensatory choice awarded by the NFL, the 95th overall choice, which means McKenzie will sit around all night Thursday on day one of the draft, and all night Friday through rounds two and three, till the end of the third round.I asked McKenzie if he wished he could have the Carson Palmer trade back. Last October, then-coach Hue Jackson dealt first- and second-round picks to Cincinnati for Palmer. "You can beat that doggone story 'til it's worn out,'' said McKenzie. "But I know this: We've got a quarterback we think can win the division and take us to the playoffs. Losing a one and a two doesn't bother me one bit."McKenzie said he feels honored to be the first person in almost half a century other than Al Davis to be running the Raiders' draft. "This is a new day in the Raider organization,'' he said. "Coach Davis, he knew football. I relish the chance to follow him and get this team back where it belongs.''Analyzing who's picking where, and who's in control of this draft.• The Rams have five of the first 96 picks overall (6, 33, 39, 65, 96), and Jeff Fisher told me St. Louis would like to trade down from six for the right price. If not, Justin Blackmon would fit a major need at six.• New England has five picks in a 66-pick span in the first two days of the draft (27, 31, 48, 62, 93). How smart would they be to deal No. 31 to a live-for-today team in the top 12 of this draft (Buffalo?) for a first-rounder next year?• Cleveland will reap the benefit from the Julio Jones trade last year. They've got the 22nd and 118th overall picks as the final booty from the deal with Atlanta, first- and fourth-round picks. In all, Cleveland has six by the middle of the fourth round: 4, 22, 37, 67, 100, 118.• The Saints almost had to pay big for defensive tackle Broderick Bunkley, and also for Curtis Lofton and David Hawthorne, and not only because of the probable Jonathan Vilma suspension. They have one pick in the top 120, at No. 89. They need help on D badly.• Cincinnati is not a big trade team on draft day, so I'd expect they'd pick at 17th (with the Carson Palmer pick from Oakland) and 21st (their own). No way Michael Floyd is still there for them at 17, and they're not a big offensive line team in the first round. That could change, and they could get the best guard in the draft, Stanford's David DeCastro, in the middle of the first round with one of those picks.• Denver could be a package team. By that I mean the Broncos like to move around (they have in recent years), and they've got three picks in a 30-pick span (108, 120, 137). Suppose the league gets scared of Janoris Jenkins because of his sketchy background, and the best cover man in the draft is sitting there early in the second round. Could the developmental-corner-needy Broncos deal three picks to move up for him?• The Eagles have the 51st overall pick, courtesy of the Kevin Kolb deal last year, along with the 46th pick. I can see Andy Reid going developmental quarterback with one of those picks.• Atlanta will have to make the picks count. The Falcons pick 55th and 84th, then not again until 157 in round five.• The Raiders, their fans can only hope, are out of the long, dumb draft-trade death spiral. Last year, they gave a 2012 second-round pick to New England in order to draft tackle Joe Barksdale and running back Taiwan Jones. Barksdale and Jones are backups. They cost the Raiders the 48th pick in a rich draft. McKenzie's not going to do that ... and if he does, he'll be darned sure that at least one of the two picks he ends with starts.***It's impossible to have a one-way, clinical view of the Gleason-Pamphilon mess. At least for me it is.Last fall, I arranged after some negotiations to do a story for the NBC Super Bowl pregame show on Steve Gleason, the former (and heroic) New Orleans Saints special-teamer who'd been diagnosed with ALS, a fatal disease, early in 2011. I flew to New Orleans in November to begin reporting on the story. Gleason and his shadow, documentarian Sean Pamphilon, met me for lunch. Pamphilon had been working for months with Gleason and wife Michel on a project that they hoped would turn into a marketable documentary or movie about Gleason's life of dealing with this fatal disease. For Gleason, an added motivation was that his infant son, Rivers, would have footage he could always see of his father, no matter how long his life lasted.Immediately, I could see the closeness of the two men. Pamphilon helped Gleason -- still ambulatory, but with an awkward gait -- sit and get around when help was needed. When Michel arrived at the restaurant with baby Rivers an hour into the meeting, Pamphilon stood up and took the baby carrier and in a gentlemanly way cleared a place for Michel to sit. For a while he held the baby and cooed to him. And for the next couple of months, whenever I was around the Gleasons and Michel's tightly knit New Orleans family, Pamphilon was a combination of videographer and mother hen. I thought he was as close to the Gleason family as anyone could be without being in the family.Which is why I can think of only one word to describe the disagreement and gulf between Pamphilon and Gleason this morning: sad.Gleason has remained close to the Saints since his diagnosis. Very close. Sean Payton has given him the run of the football building; if Gleason ever needs treatment or help with rehab, he can use the Saints' training facilities. Last fall, the Saints surprised Gleason, who last played for the team in Payton's first year as coach, 2006, with a Super Bowl ring, even though he didn't play on the 2009 Super Bowl-winning team. The owner of the team, Tom Benson, thinks so much of Gleason that he commissioned a bronze statue of Gleason blocking a punt in the first post-Katrina game in 2006 for the outside of the Superdome.Payton invited Gleason to make the trip to the Saints' playoff game in San Francisco in January. The night before the game, Gleason was invited into the defensive team meeting room, and his shadow, Pamphilon, went with him. That's when defensive coordinator Gregg Williams made his infamous speech directing the Saints to go after various players on the 49ers in graphic and disturbing ways -- the exclamation point on what the NFL believes has been a three-year practice of bounties on opposing players and off-the-books financial rewards for starry defensive plays.A few things here are very clear.1. Pamphilon was disturbed by what he heard in the meeting.2. Pamphilon would never have been in the meeting if he wasn't a trusted friend of Gleason.3. Pamphilon tried to convince Gleason to allow him to use the audio damning Williams. Gleason, who never played for Williams, didn't like what he heard in the meeting either, but he didn't want the audio released. Obviously, if what they heard in the meeting was going to be made public by Gleason or Pamphilon, the Saints would never have let either in the room.Gleason knew if the tape came out, he'd spend much of whatever cogent energy he has left on something he never intended to fight -- the rantings of a renegade coach -- instead of focusing on what his aim is: trying to make ALS patients live more productive lives.Pamphilon betrayed the wishes of a dying man and a former very close friend by releasing the tape; that much we know. But the interesting thing in this story is that the public seems conflicted much more than I thought would be the case. The majority who have responded to me on Twitter (I'd say 60 percent) have said Williams' words were so reprehensible that they, in essence, gave Pamphilon sufficient reason to break his relationship with Gleason and release the audio to the public. He's being seen as a whistleblower the public should applaud, not condemn.By blowing the whistle, though, what has Pamphilon accomplished? He has shone a light on a dark story. He has earned a seat at what I expect will be a Congressional hearing on the bounty scandal. But Williams already had been suspended indefinitely by commissioner Roger Goodell. Williams already had said he would not appeal the suspension. The release of the audio didn't affect the league's probe, except perhaps to slam the door shut on any chance Payton -- an innocent in Pamphilon's eyes -- had to get his appeal reduced. I got the distinct impression sniffing around the probe Friday that the audio corroborated the league's investigation but did not advance the story.Now as to the legality of it. Pamphilon, through Mike Silver of Yahoo! Sports, said he did not violate the agreement he had with Gleason when releasing the audio, and Silver wrote the contract does not "specifically prohibit either party from posting footage ... prior to completion of the film.'' I have not seen the contract, but a source with knowledge of the relationship between Gleason and Pamphilon said it was never contemplated anything regarding the film would be released without both sides agreeing.The mere discussion of what's legally right is what turns my stomach the most. I told you how close these two men were. This is one of those cases where what's legally right shouldn't matter. What's morally right should. What's morally right is that Pamphilon, who never would have heard what Williams said without being attached to Gleason, shouldn't have released the tape without Gleason's permission.I'm tremendously conflicted on this story. I've thought about it for three days straight, trying to divine what's right and wrong. I enrolled in college to study journalism in 1975, one year after the Watergate burglary and coverup forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency. I'm all for the public's right to know. And in the end, I'm tempted to say the more clarity about this story the better, just so the public understands why Goodell acted with such an iron hand. But I can't get over the way the material was acquired and made public. It's just not right.I cannot find it in my heart to quite call Pamphilon a rat, but I cannot call him a hero either.The upshot of the tape for the Saints, and for Gregg Williams.I've said this for the last couple of weeks, and I still believe it: Roger Goodell will give Gregg Williams a path back into the NFL. Goodell likes stories of redemption. He gave Michael Vick a path back, and Vick was as radioactive in his own way back in 2009 as Williams is today. I think if Williams does what the league wants -- and he's already started, by admitting his guilt, saying he is sorry, and not appealing his sanction -- he'll become a spokesman with high schools and colleges for what surely will be the league's anti-bounty and anti-violence push that comes out of this.Does that mean he'll get another coaching job? That's another question. The Rams are now going to have to think about what keeping Williams will mean to their team. Is it possible for Williams to stand up in front of a group of men, all of whom will know he advocated aiming for knees and wounded heads in fiery speeches, and reach them? What about having Williams on your coaching staff, and going into free agency trying to recruit players? Money talks, yes. But will the presence of Williams be a free agent repellant?As for the Saints, while some will think the audio tape will isolate Williams as a rogue coach, I feel strongly that's not how Goodell viewed it. Look at Goodell's prior statements and rulings here. He blames Sean Payton and Mickey Loomis for enabling a three-year pattern of this renegade defensive behavior. Goodell heard the tape and I can bet he thought: We warned them, and we told them to make sure this has stopped, and here it is, at the end of the third season, two full years after we were assured this wasn't going on anymore, and here's the defensive coach telling his players to aim for Frank Gore's head and Michael Crabtree's knee. Absolutely, totally unacceptable.Which is why I cannot see any reduction in the sanctions to Payton and Loomis. Goodell didn't buy Payton's I-didn't-know-this-was-going-on stance six weeks ago, and I doubt sincerely he heard anything from Payton on Thursday to change his mind.Goodell talked with NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith during the week, apparently for quite a lengthy conversation. Whether they'll be on the same page with any player suspension, I doubt. I can't predict how many players will get suspended, but it seems logical to think middle linebacker Jonathan Vilma will get the lengthiest one and perhaps three or more defensive leaders will get lesser bans. But that's based on common sense and nothing else. I do know this: Goodell hates bad news occupying front sports pages, particularly when it robs coverage from an event the league loves -- the draft -- and so I believe Goodell will rule on the suspension appeals today or Tuesday at the latest, and I'd be surprised if he doesn't rule on the players this week.***RIP, Coach Joe.Joe Avezzano was always in search of another coaching gig, or another country song. And if he couldn't find a coaching gig here, he'd go anywhere. That's why he was in Italy when he died of a heart attack while on a treadmill Thursday, preparing to coach the Milano Seamen of the Italian league.In 1991, I went on a scouting trip prior to the draft with the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff. The Cowboys used their coaches to scout. So on this trip, to North Carolina State, Tennessee, Michigan State and Notre Dame, Jimmy Johnson brought some of his key guys along: Norv Turner and Hubbard Alexander on offense, Butch Davis and Dave Wannstedt on defense, and Avezzano, the special teams coach, to look at the punters and kickers. Fascinating trip. That was the draft enriched by the Herschel Walker trade, and others, and the Cowboys picked Russell Maryland, Alvin Harper and Dixon Edwards, among others that year.But the star of the trip was Avezzano. Boy, did he know how to have a good time. The group went to Tennessee coach Johnny Majors' house (that's how long ago this trip happened -- Majors was the Vol coach) one night, staying long past 12, and Avezzano picked up a guitar and started crooning. "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys'' was first. Avezzano was no phony. The man could sing, and he could play the guitar. Then, to Majors' delight, Avezzano launched into a rousing "Rocky Top'' rendition."Rocky Top, you'll always be,Home sweet home to me.Good ol' Rocky top,Rocky Top Tennessee!''By the end of it, he had everyone doing the chorus. And I thought it was a good thing that Majors didn't have any neighbors close by. They'd have all been woken up by the bad singing."Joe,'' Johnson said to him on that trip, "I wish you could just learn to relax a little bit.''Don't let that give you the wrong impression of the guy. He could coach the kicking game. Three times he was named special teams coach of the year, and he was part of three Super Bowl championship teams in Dallas, where he coached for 13 years. And TV networks loved him, because he was one of the most demonstrative coaches ever. A sideline ranter, with that wild white hair. Other than Johnson, he was easily the most charismatic and well-known of the Dallas coaches on that staff. Just an unforgettable man."We've got to do everything in the world to make sure we kill Frank Gore's head. We want him running sideways. We want his head sideways ... Every single one of you, before you get off the pile, affect the head. Early, affect the head. Continue, tough and hit the head ... We need to decide on how many times we can beat Frank Gore's head.''--Former New Orleans defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, in his pre-game speech to the defense before the Saints played San Francisco, in the now-infamous audio released by documentarian Sean Pamphilon on Thursday."This is the most heinous, egregious thing in the history of the this game ... Not for one second would I sit in a room and listen to someone say, 'We're going to take out someone's ACL,' without standing up and saying, 'What the hell are you talking about?' ''-- Former NFL defensive tackle Warren Sapp, to Steve Corkran of the Contra Costa (Calif.) Times, concerning Williams' speech the night before the San Francisco playoff game."As much as we love the Brewers, unlike Jesus, they didn't die for your sins. With regard to beer and brats on Good Friday, let's just say that's why God created the three-game series."-- Milwaukee archbishop Jerome Listecki, telling Wisconsin Catholics to abide by religious teachings and avoid meat on opening day Friday -- Good Friday, when Catholics are not supposed to eat meat -- at Miller Park.When is Demetrius not Demetrius? When it's Demetress.Free agent Demetress Bell signed with the Eagles to play left tackle last week. Only when he sat down to dinner with Philadelphia offensive line coach Howard Mudd, Bell explained to Mudd that his first name wasn't really "Demetrius,'' as had been listed as his name going back to high school -- and perhaps before. He looked at his birth certificate entering college at Northwestern (La.) State, and saw his name really was "Demetress,'' but just never said anything to anyone about it.(Bell's life has been an odd one in another way. He was born out of wedlock to ex-NBA star Karl Malone and a fellow resident of Summerfield, La., Gloria Bell. Malone didn't take an active role in Demetress' upbringing, talking to him but once, according to a story by the late Allen Wilson in the Buffalo News in 2008.)So in 2003, he enrolled at Northwestern State, knowing his name was "Demetress'' but going along with the more conventional "Demetrius.'' He never told anyone when he was drafted by the Bills in the seventh round of the 2008 draft, and throughout his career in Buffalo. But when he was being recruited to play for the Eagles, he told offensive line coach Howard Mudd his real name, and when he signed with the Eagles, Mudd alerted Philadelphia director of football media service Derek Boyko, who called Bell to ask him how he wanted to be identified. Bell told him he wanted to be known as "Demetress'' and he wanted the name changed officially with the NFL. So the Eagles did that.The Eagles have been a name-change bastion in recent seasons.In 2006, tackle Tra Thomas -- whose official name is William Thomas III and whose nickname was "Tra'' -- asked to be known by his real name, William Thomas. That lasted two years. In 2008, he asked to be called Tra Thomas again. Tra Thomas is retired now.Also in 2006, the Eagles signed former Giants cornerback Will Peterson, whose full name was Williams James Peterson Jr. When he arrived in Philadelphia, he told the Eagles he wanted to be known as William James. That's how he is known today. He is unsigned, having last played for San Francisco in 2010.In 2008, defensive end Juqua Thomas changed his last name to "Parker'' to honor his father, whose last name was Parker and who died in 2005. Juqua Parker left the Eagles last month and signed with Cleveland."ColtsFans,roster reshaping exciting n producing a very physical MONSTER!Things have always pointed toward #12 but eval process is OpenMinded''-- @JimIrsay, the Indianapolis owner"Padres-Dodgers broadcast returns from commercial, featuring shot of full moon over Petco. Vin Scully: 'Can you believe we put a man on it?' "-- @dombonvissuto, NFL.com editor Dom Bonvissuto, former editor at SI.com, at home in California Friday night, enjoying one of the major benefits of trading the East Coast for West.1. I think if you think the New Orleans Saints' signing of three free agent linebackers -- two (Curtis Lofton and David Hawthorne) for significant money, with Lofton a middle linebacker -- had nothing to do with the almost certain impending suspension of Jonathan Vilma for his connection to the Saints bounty scandal, you're delusional.2. I think the Atlanta Falcons aren't surprised about the mess Bobby Petrino has himself in at the University of Arkansas. That's harsh, but just in case you don't remember clearly what happened four and a half years ago with the Falcons, here goes. He signed a five-year, $24 million contract to coach the team in January 2007. Then Michael Vick had his dogfighting scandal and was gone from the team, sentenced to prison late in the season, and Petrino, after 13 games of his first season, left the Falcons on a Monday with three games left in the season. To this day, it's the most immature, classless thing I've seen a coach do in 28 years covering the NFL. He left his assistant coaches in the lurch, and his players, and the owner who hired him, Arthur Blank. In each player's locker when they reported for work the day after he left for Arkansas, Petrino left this note: "Atlanta Falcons players: Out of my respect for you, I am letting you know that, with a heavy heart, I resigned today as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons. This decision was not easy, but it was made in the best interest of me and my family. While my desire would have been to finish out what has been a difficult season for us all, circumstances did not allow me to do so. I appreciate your hard work and wish you the best. Sincerely, Bobby Petrino.''3. I think these are the Petrino words that ring the hollowest: Out of my respect for you. In other words, if I may paraphrase, Out of my respect for you, I am walking away from a valid five-year contract after 11 months, in the middle of a season no less, because the task is hard and I found a sap university that would pay me a sick amount of money. And now that sap university is living with the consequences of handing control and nearly $3 million a year to a married father of four who rides a motorcycle around town -- helmetless -- with an engaged 25-year-old university employee he admits having an inappropriate relationship with. What a tangled web he weaves.4. I think the NFL needs to send Warren Sapp to the Rookie Symposium this year -- and I'm serious -- to explain how a player at the heights a decade ago could declare bankruptcy today. It's the kind of cautionary tale players can learn from. I can think of only one word for Sapp's story: sad.5. I think the funniest thing I heard in the last week was Jets owner Woody Johnson saying of the Jets importing Tim Tebow: "I think Mark will have no problem with this.'' All quarterbacks love having a guy come in to take five to 15 snaps per game away from them. It's amazing more teams didn't think of bringing in Tebow, because certainly their quarterbacks would love coming off the field three or four times a game.6. I think, as much as I'd love to see it, "Hard Knocks'' and the Jets would be a stupid marriage. Not for HBO. For the Jets, if they're serious about winning.7. I think the 4.6-ish 40-yard dash times of Baylor wideout Kendall Wright from the Scouting Combine, which threatened his status as a top-five wide receiver in the draft, are starting to be put in some perspective. Scouts were surprised at the time because Wright played faster on film -- and teams are seeing that now upon further review. I've seen his times on the official combine sheet, and they're as low as 4.49 and 4.51 seconds, with an average of 4.54 seconds. Not blazing, but not tight end-like, either. From what I'm told, Wright is a legitimate high 4.4-second guy, and it shouldn't crush him on draft weekend. Wright's time is a classic example of overrating what you hear about red flags at the Combine.8. I think I like how progressive the Jaguars are being under new owner Shad Khan. I like the fact that they're thinking about what they're doing instead of just doing what everyone else in the league does.9. I think Lions fans are about to get lucky. Mike O'Hara, one of the best correspondents I ever had at Sports Illustrated for NFL coverage, is being hired by the team's website to write about the Leos regularly. What I've always liked about O'Hara is he can be as acerbic as they come when he has to be covering the team (which has been often, obviously), but he's been able to retain his ability to find good stories even when the team's been down. Love the hire by the Lions.10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:a. Good for Bubba Watson, who may never have gotten to Butler Cabin in his dreams but who totally deserved to win The Masters.b. Happy marriage, Jeff Darlington. Jeff's the terrific recent NFL.com and NFL Network hire, and he got married Saturday. Hear it was a lively affair. Good luck, Jeff. You're 31.7 years of wedded bliss behind me.c. I love The Masters. That's where the stands behind a green are not called "bleachers," according to CBS, but rather "the patron observation platform." Riiiiiightt.d. Kept watching the tournament Saturday, in part because I can't imagine a more beautiful place (outside of Bryce Canyon) on earth. After having seen it in person last year, I realize it's not just CBS painting an incredible picture with its sightlines. It's true: As far as the eye can see -- incredible lovely.e. That, people, is the ultimate thing you've got to cross off your sporting bucket list. The Masters. So much fun. In part because they don't sell a zillion tickets. You can watch the tournament, walk from hole to hole, and not be crowded unless you're following the lead group or it's day four and there's only one story that everyone's watching.f. Peter Hanson can putt.g. Congrats on the first goal of your NHL career, Stephen (kid brother of Brian) Gionta, to beat Ottawa Saturday in the New Jersey Devils' season finale. And congrats, Ilya Kovalchuk, on your 37-goal season. Knew you had it in you.h. Devils 48-28-6. Red Wings 48-28-6.i. Best first-round Stanley Cup series: Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. Second-best: Los Angeles at Vancouver; they split four games this year, with the two Canuck wins by a goal.j. Congrats on the national title in hockey, Boston College. Heck of a job by your goalie.k. The greatest thing I heard about the one-and-done Kentucky hero, Anthony Davis, in the aftermath of the Kentucky win is that Davis' high school team won 13 games in his last two years of prep basketball. Who'd he have playing with him? Four Peter Kings? What a player that kid is, and he doesn't have to score to be great.l. The mark of a great player is being impactful when you're getting more defensive attention than anyone else in your sport. That's what happens to Brittany Griner every game, and she still is the best player in the game, every night.m. This is why Joe Maddon is so good. In the first two games of the season, Jeff Keppinger and Matt Joyce batted cleanup, and Tampa Bay beat the Yankees twice, scoring 15 runs. Joyce batted ninth in game one. Keppinger batted seventh in game two. Egoless team, chess-pieced well, with a terrific pitching staff (which helps).n. I really want to see Bully. And I will. But I'm not looking forward to the two weeks of depression that would be sure to follow.o. Journalism of the week: Excellent job on breaking the Gregg Williams audio story, Mike Silver, and on the interpretation of it that was so important.p. Red Sox closer ERA: 63.00 (Aceves, Melancon).q. Orioles, Mets: 6-0. 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a gathering of drunken people, usually more than 5, when people say CASUAL NIGGAAA! it means you all have to clank yo bottles of booze and drink up!
We gotsta drank deez 40s beeyattch!!! SOCIAL, NIGGA!
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Similar to a guido, only this term refers to the Mexican faction of these people. They usually wear designer clothes , ugly Deisel shoes, Nextel Boost Mobile phones attached to the hip, and guys have spiked up hair with loads of gel. They use a lot of Spanish slang and are often loud and obnoxious. Party a lot and blast shitty techno from their cars. This term seems to be limited to San Diego, feel free to let me know otherwise.
Those socials will be partying in TJ tonight.
by Lightbulb March 26, 2005
a term first coined in Winnipeg used to describe a private party thrown in a rented hall often with drinking and dancing.
We should go to the halloween social saturday night!
by melaniek October 12, 2005
a rich mexican who wears expensive designer label clothes (i.e. abercrombie, american eagle, true religion, hollister),has multiple houses in the United States and Mexico, use the slang word, "gwey" (slang for dude) excessively , travels in groups with other socials, and attends raves
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The adjective form of interaction between two or more beings
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Any idea where to get the latest Linux download? package() fails because there's nothing in http://www.algodoo.com/wiki/Download.
Edit: Nvm, works pretty well in wine.
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Package Details: algodoo 1.x.x.latest-2
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- boost-libs
- curl (curl-git, curl-http2-git)
- glew (glew-git)
- libcurl-gnutls
- libjpeg6 (libjpeg6-turbo)
- libpng12
- libzip
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amar commented on 2016-06-25 23:29
Any idea where to get the latest Linux download? package() fails because there's nothing in http://www.algodoo.com/wiki/Download.
loserMcloser commented on 2015-06-14 17:58
Can still download Algodoo 1.8.5 for linux here
Ville.Kovacs commented on 2014-08-15 14:48
==> Making package: algodoo 1.x.x.latest-2 (Fri Aug 15 17:46:32 EEST 2014)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Found algodoo.desktop
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
algodoo.desktop ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
==> Starting build()...
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting package()...
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
jose1711 commented on 2013-04-21 07:34
Anonymous comment on 2013-04-20 21:29
Oh... Mea culpa, I didn't checked it. I remembered there was a Linux version earlier... And as I see, now it is not possible even to download the old version. :(
jose1711 commented on 2013-04-17 19:27
do you see a linux version for download?
Anonymous comment on 2013-04-17 18:52
Algodoo 2.1 is out and is for free - http://www.algodoo.com/
jose1711 commented on 2013-02-08 20:18
@Xemertix: could you please try again with an updated version of libcurl-gnutls? tx. jose
Xemertix commented on 2013-02-06 21:06
$ algodoo
/usr/share/algodoo/algodoo.bin: /usr/lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: version `CURL_GNUTLS_3' not found (required by /usr/share/algodoo/algodoo.bin)
Anonymous comment on 2013-02-03 22:12
@jose1711 I have tried modifying it, but, to be honest, this is the first time I've even looked at a PKGBUILD file... :/
I only made things worse...
jose1711 commented on 2013-01-28 22:06
@oldtimeyjunk: could you please try to modify the pkgbuild so that it runs on 64bit architecture? i have no place to test it. j
Anonymous comment on 2013-01-28 22:02
ERROR: algodoo is not available for the 'x86_64' architecture.
Note that many packages may need a line added to their PKGBUILD
such as arch=('x86_64').
jose1711 commented on 2012-12-22 22:37
@Nudin: what's the error message?
Nudin commented on 2012-11-18 23:32
Seems not to work under 64-bit OS.
jose1711 commented on 2011-07-29 21:43
i finally managed it to run. haven't really tested it yet but this is what i did: (warning: truly nasty stuff!)
from the directory where the algodoo binary resides:
ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4
ln -s libcxcore.so.2 lib/libcxcore.so.1
ln -s libcv.so.2 lib/libcv.so.1
ln -s libhighgui.so.2 lib/libhighgui.so.1
ln -s libtiff.so.3 lib/libtiff.so.4
ln -s /usr/lib/libjpeg.so lib/libjpeg.so.62
the game complains: /lib/libcurl-gnutls.so.4: no version information available (required by ./algodoo.bin) but it runs nonetheless
jose1711 commented on 2011-06-04 10:56
1.8.5 is out
mickael9 commented on 2011-04-16 10:55
I contacted them, waiting for their reply.
jose1711 commented on 2011-04-16 05:46
this is an e-mail i adressed to algodoo a week ago. so far no response :-(
i've just purchased algodoo 1.8.5. too bad i did not try demo first because i'm not able to run it on my linux (arch linux, i686) desktop. please is there a chance you can compile with libraries staticaly linked? furthermore even if you're setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a directory containing libraries, there are missing ones:
- libcurl-gnutls.so.4 - only seems to be found on debian(-based) systems. and it requires a other dependencies: libldap_r-2.4.so.2, liblber-2.4.so.2, libsasl2.so.2)
- libtiff.so.4 is required but libtiff.so.3 is included in lib/
- libjpeg.so.62 - it would be great if algodoo could use of libjpeg-turbo as well..
thank you. j
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I am a robot. This is not an official message. AUR guidelines suggest to not include binaries. Examples:
The tarball is alarmingly large: 979KB. Feel free to disregard this as you would any other comment. This robot will not post here again.
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jose1711 commented on 2010-09-04 21:16
could you please add desktop file? thank you, jose
roobre commented on 2010-07-01 18:56
I wasn't able to run it when I downloaded from the official page.
With this package, everything works Ok.
Nice Work!
And Thank U!
Anonymous comment on 2010-06-30 20:58
This 'game' is pretty severely crippled until you buy it.


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The purpose of the event was fourfold: 1) To connect the work that is done in Belo Horizonte on blue-green landscapes with the work done on the topic by members of the Global Suburbanisms project housed at York University in Toronto; 2) For the visitors from abroad (coming from Africa, Asia, Europe and Canada) to learn about the Belo Horizonte urban region; 3) to explore the possibility of publishing the work presented at the conference in a joint publications in English and Portuguese; and 4) to explore the possibilities of further collaboration through research and teaching.
The conference began with an extensive tour of the southern suburbs of Belo Horizonte, among them the community of Nova Lima and the Parque Estadual Serra do Rola Moca. It gave participants an excellent overview of the layered landscape of a traditional mining region that is now being transformed through rapid developments at its periphery.
The opening tour was followed by two days of intense presentations and debate. A program of the event can be found here. Papers on regional planning, greenbelts and conservation areas that intersect with global suburbanization in places as diverse as Belo Horizonte, Frankfurt, Gurgaon, Johannesburg, the Ruhr, Seoul and Ontario were presented. The workshop ended with a productive discussion on a forthcoming book publication and an intended joint research program.
A copy of the workshop program can be downloaded here.
Spotlight on Istanbul: Building and Rebuilding the Periphery
The Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century is holding an international workshop on Building and Re-Building the Urban Periphery in Istanbul, Turkey, December 10-12, 2015.
The event is co-organized by Roger Keil and Murat Üçoğlu at York University with Kazim Murat Guney at Columbia University, Sylvia Tiryaki and Mensur Akgün at the Istanbul Kültür University, and Julia Strutz and Erbatur C̨avuşoğlu at Mimar Sinan University as well as Jean-François Pérouse (IFEA).
The workshop specifically is designed to address the political economies of large scale housing projects in the peripheries of the world's cities. The event/project is about the various ways in which peripheral urban housing projects are being built and re-vitalized.
The location of Istanbul where the workshop will take place was deliberately chosen. The significance of the city's development from providing housing through gecekondu-style squatting and regularization to massive state-led building of mostly peri-urban housing estates (through organizations such as TOKI) is widely recog
nized as exemplary and subject to much inter-referencing in global debates on housing in post-suburbia.
Istanbul is also a geographical bridge between West Asia, North Africa and Europe, both historically and currently. We therefore would consider Istanbul to be at several intersections of theory, history and geography.
The workshop will bring together leading Turkish and global researchers and activists on peripheral housing and settlement as well as social activism around housing, displacement and re-settlement with members of the MCRI research team to discuss how inter-referenced forms of urbanism are used to a) build peripheral large scale housing estates and b) manage those estates over time, in times of re-vitalization, shrinkage, population change, environmental challenges and economic crisis.
The event opens with a tour of Istanbul's periphery and a keynote by Mustafa Dikeç (Ecole d'Urbanisme de Paris) on The Political Challenge of the Urban Periphery. This will be followed by two days of presentations by international and local experts. The program for the workshop can be downloaded here.
The event has been supported financially by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through the MCRI Global Suburbanisms, by the York Research Chair in Global Suburban Studies and by local host institutions Istanbul Kültür University and Mimar Sinan University.
Click here for a PDF copy of the workshop program.
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Inhabited Futures/ Constructed Pasts
The international graduate PhD program "The World in the City," run by a consortium of universities from Berlin, New York, and Toronto, is having its annual meeting in Toronto November 19-21, 2015. The topic of the meeting is Inhabited Futures – Constructed Pasts.
Please join us for the meeting's keynote lecture by York University professor Ute Lehrer. Professor Lehrer will speak about "Urbanism, Public Space and the Condominium: Between Dark Age and the Good Society."
The lecture takes place at the George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto, 4pm, November 19.
Suburban Governance in an Era of Globalizing Urbanization
This workshop, organized by Professor Pierre Hamel at the Université de Montréal, took place over two days, October 26 and 27, 2015.
It was hosted at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Université de Montréal and brought together international scholars with expertise in urbanism and suburban governance in different parts of the world, and doctoral candidates engaged in joint research with them. Researchers in the suburban governance subproject of the MCRI Global Suburbanism as well as faculty members and students from Montreal universities also participated.
A paper with the title "Institutional Forms, Political Outcomes and Democratic Challenges of Suburban Governance in an Era of Global Urbanism", distributed by Hamel presented an overview of recent debates about how to meet the new challenges suburbs are facing in a globalizing world considering that the traditional dichotomy between the city and the suburb is clearly behind us whilst urban democracy is being defined in new terms. While urban studies researchers share a large consensus about an inevitable transition in the management of cities from government to governance within a globalizing context where the role of the state has been redefined, numerous disagreements prevail regarding the meaning of the notion. If some insist on the role played by private economic actors in managing public resources, others focus on the openness towards participation and deliberation – governance becoming in that perspective a "distinctively normative model" – while some others prefer an analytical approach emphasizing the role played by norms, culture and institutions in circumscribing the cooperation between public and private actors. Finally, collective work in an volume on Suburban Governance edited by Hamel and Keil on the governance of suburbanization highlighted three modalities (the state, capital accumulation, and private authoritarian government) in the governance of suburbanization in several parts of the world.
Participants of the Montreal workshop presented case studies based on exploratory interviews in various regions across the world: Bangalore, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Miami, Montreal, Shanghai, and Toronto. These presentations brought out common concerns about the main issues of suburban governance. The papers led to intensive discussions on the conceptual and empirical aspects of each paper. The contributions will be the basis for chapters in an edited book for the University of Toronto Press's Global Suburbanisms series.
Click here for a copy of the workshop program.
Presentations from the Global Suburban Infrastructure Workshop, Waterloo, June 14-16, 2015
The Global Suburban Infrastructure Workshop June 14-16, 2015
School of Planning, University of Waterloo, June 14-16, 2015
As the world population is becoming increasingly urban, most of the growth is happening in suburbs. It is thus there that infrastructure stress is most acute, would it be because of a lag of infrastructure development relative to population and economic growth, neglect of suburban populations relative to those of more central parts of urban areas, or the location in suburbs of large infrastructures serving the needs of the entire metropolitan region. The workshop will explore suburban infrastructure issues from a global perspective. It will identify the specificity of these problems according to different parts of the world as well as conditions faced by all suburban areas across the globe. Participants to the workshop will use this information to formulate solutions to suburban infrastructure problems.
The workshop, which is organized jointly by the Faculty of Environmental Studies of York University and the School of Planning of the University of Waterloo, will group international academic experts in different types of infrastructures. For information you can reach Pierre Filion (firstname.lastname@example.com, 519 888-4567×33963) or Roger Keil
View a copy of the conference program
View a copy of the presentation abstracts
International Forum on Global Suburbanism
May 9-11, 2015
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
As a rapidly growing city, Shanghai is exposed to significant challenges with regard to social, economic, environmental, and cultural planning. This forum analyses suburbanization in Shanghai as well as other regions in China from various aspects including land, governance, and infrastructure.
Organized by Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) on Global Suburbanisms The City Institute at York University
Co-organized by Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Center for Urban & Regional Studies, Institute of Population Research, Fudan University, Centre for Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal University, Institute of Urban and Demographic Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
View a copy of the conference program
View a copy of the presentation abstracts
Center for Metropolitan Studies Podcast: Interview with Roger Keil
Professor Roger Keil speaks to International Graduate College (IGK) Fellow Lisa Vollmer for the Center for Metropolitan Studies podcast series (November 2014).
MCRI researcher in the mediaJune 14, 2016
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One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
From one of today's most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society--a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual lines.
One side originated in the tradition of republican virtue, the other in the counterculture of the late 1960s. Himmelfarb argues that, while the latter generated the dominant culture of today-particularly in universities, journalism, television, and film--a "dissident culture" continues to promote the values of family, a civil society, sexual morality, privacy, and patriotism. Proposing democratic remedies for our moral and cultural diseases, Himmelfarb concludes that it is a tribute to Americans that we remain "one nation" even as we are divided into "two cultures."
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Gertrude Himmelfarb is the author of many books, including intellectual biographies of Acton, Darwin, and Mill; essays on the Victorians, including Victorian Minds; the social history studies The Idea of Poverty and The De-Moralization of Society; and reflections on contemporary culture, On Looking into the Abyss and One Nation, Two Cultures.
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ESPN's New Orleans Saints beat reporter Mike Triplett sat down with former West Texas A&M University running back Khiry Robinson after Saturday's playoff win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
"Khiry Robinson didn't just go undrafted out of West Texas A&M. The New Orleans Saints' rookie running back also went unsigned that first weekend as a free agent.
Instead, he had to settle for a three-day tryout at the Saints' rookie minicamp -- where he was just impressive enough to earn an invitation to training camp.
Eight months later, Robinson was helping to run out the clock in the Saints' 26-24 playoff victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Robinson had eight carries for 45 yards against the Eagles -- including three carries for 22 yards during the Saints' game-winning field goal drive."
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Nathan Sloop's own words describe ugly abuse before 4-year-old's death
Defense says Ethan Stacy died from overmedication, not severe abuse
Photos of the boy en route to Utah showed no obvious injuries, but photos taken once he was in Utah showed redness and swelling, said Layton Police Sgt. Jeff Roderick. He said there were also traces of blood found on the wall of Ethan's room, believed to be from the boy's nose rubbing against the wall.
In one short video, Ethan is seen with his hair mussed and in his pajamas. "I'm having fun with Nathan," he said. "He's not scary anymore."
Prosecutors zoomed in on the boy's face, where there was some redness on one of his cheeks.
In an audio recording played in court, Nathan Sloop can be heard asking Ethan numerous times whether he wanted to stay in Utah or return to live with his father in Virginia. He repeatedly asked the boy if his father was mean or hurt him.
"Where do you want to live?" Sloop asked again.
The boy's voice came through his tears, a croaking wheeze: "My mom, my mom, my mom."
Police and prosecutors list "severe abuse" as the cause of the boy's death and say he was abused between April 29 and May 8, 2010.
Stephanie Sloop initially reported to police on May 11 that her child had gone missing. In a 911 call that was played in court, Sloop said she had woken up in the middle of the night to find both the front door and Ethan's bedroom door open. She told the dispatcher it was the fifth time Ethan had gotten out of bed during the night and the third time he had left their Layton apartment.
Roderick said he was among those who responded in the early morning hours that day and interviewed the couple. Stephanie Sloop mostly talked about an abusive ex-husband.
"She had a hard time staying on track about Ethan," Roderick testified.
The couple was taken to the police department for additional interviews and Stephanie Sloop "started to give indications that there was a body," the sergeant said. Nathan Sloop said that once he heard the words directly from Stephanie, he would tell police where the body was, Roderick said.
Nathan Sloop led investigators to a trailhead near Powder Mountain in Weber County and took them to a burial site off of the trail that had been sprinkled with dog food. He was then taken back to the police station.
Roderick said the burial site was "in layers" and he identified a number of items that were found in the dirt, including a curtain, lighter fluid, a shovel head, a broken hammer, melted ammonia packaging, a burned glove, Ethan's "Florida" sweatshirt and his body, wrapped in black plastic garbage bags.
Roderick said the medical examiner determined that Ethan was burned over 17 percent of his body from the scalding incident. Water temperatures in the apartment could reach around 152 degrees, the sergeant said.
The Sloops took the boy to a chiropractor, who apparently recommended honey for the boy's wounds, according to court testimony.
The autopsy report also listed bruising injuries to the child's privates, which Nathan Sloop initially said, in a police video, were caused by scratching. He then said the injuries were there when the boy arrived before saying they were a result of the way the child sat on the toilet.
Sloop also told police he didn't discipline the boy any more harshly than his own father had disciplined him.
"(I was) certainly not intending to hurt or abuse the child," he said.
Before Ethan was buried, prosecutors said his face had been disfigured. Nathan Sloop told police he used the hammer to do so and then packaged up the boy's body. Both were the ideas of the boy's mother, he told police.
"Stephanie was worried about his dental records," Nathan Sloop explained.
The couple was married May 6 and Sloop told police that they didn't take the boy to the ceremony because of his injuries. He said they should have gone to the emergency room, but they were "afraid I was going to go to prison."
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Islamic State Said to Challenge Al-Qaeda for Leadership
The radical Islamic State's advances in Iraq are strengthening its challenge to al-Qaeda in a contest for the leadership of the global jihadi movement, according to five U.S. intelligence officials.
Its territorial gains and declaration of a caliphate spanning parts of Syria and Iraq, reinforced by its use of social media to broadcast its accomplishments in many languages, are attracting recruits and even drawing defections from the leadership of the core al-Qaeda group and some affiliates, the officials told reporters at a briefing today. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence assessments.
The U.S. intelligence community thinks the Islamic State has an incentive to conduct a major terrorist strike against U.S. or European targets, in part to further assert itself as the true leader of radical Islam, the officials said. There's evidence that the group is establishing cells beyond Iraq and Syria, they said.
There's a "competition for jihadi leadership" in which the Islamic State disparages al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri and his lieutenants for hiding in the mountains as it tries to seize the global jihadi crown, retired U.S. Army Colonel Derek Harvey, a former senior analyst on Iraq for General David Petraeus, said at a panel on Iraq today hosted by the New America Foundation, a Washington policy organization.
While President Barack Obama has sought to separate events in Syria, where he's avoided military intervention in the civil war, and the challenge from the Islamic State, the intelligence assessments suggest a close connection, according to two of the intelligence officials.
The intelligence officials didn't discuss possible U.S. military or other actions now being considered by Obama.
Echoing Clinton
Echoing former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's criticism of Obama's failure to act more forcefully in Syria, the officials said the conflict there provided the ungoverned space and sectarian fuel to revitalize the group. One of the intelligence officials said the Islamic State's caliphate could not happened without the opportunities it had in Syria.
IS began as al-Qaeda in Iraq, was suppressed by U.S. forces and local Sunni tribesmen during the so-called "surge" in 2006-2007, then transformed itself into the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant and finally into its current form, the Islamic State.
The Obama administration also may have underestimated the Islamic State's capabilities in Iraq and Syria -- with the president famously comparing it to a junior varsity team -- in part because of the president's reluctance to put his "toe, foot and then leg" back into Iraq, said Harvey.
Higher Estimate
While the U.S. intelligence community had estimated that the Islamic State had about 10,000 fighters in Syria and Iraq before it captured Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, that estimate is now being revised upward, the intelligence officials said.
The officials said the Islamic State's ranks are bolstered by thousands of foreign fighters, including some from Europe and the U.S. whom officials said may return home with orders or independent plans to hit targets. That threat is highlighted by recent arrests in Europe, including about 40 men detained in Kosovo who reportedly had been fighting for the Islamic State.
IS is a well-organized group with a hierarchy and succession plan, the intelligence officials said. Its leaders are experienced fighters, and most were detained or imprisoned during the U.S. occupation of Iraq, which provided key connections for them, they said.
Its leader, known by his nom de guerre, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, frequently on the move between hiding places in Iraq and Syria, is in control, though he doesn't micromanage the group's actions, officials said.
The Islamic State is essentially self-funding, able to draw on hundreds of millions of dollars through taxes, money looted from banks, sales of oil from areas it now controls, extortion and other measures, the intelligence officials said.
That means one key element of the strategy used against al-Qaeda -- curbing the money flow from the Persian Gulf and other outside sources -- wouldn't be effective, they said.
Islamic State militants are "better equipped, they're better manned, they're better resourced, they're better fighters, they're better trained than the al-Qaeda in Iraq that our forces faced," Brett McGurk, deputy assistant U.S. secretary of state for Iraq and Iran, said yesterday on the Charlie Rose show.
Foreign Fighters
"It is a global expansionist, global jihadist organization" he said. "It is swollen with foreign fighters and suicide bombers" who will go "wherever the organization tells them to go. And that could very easily be capitals in the region, it could be capitals in Europe and, God forbid, it could be here."
Still, there are factors that may limit the group's ability to conduct a major al-Qaeda-style attack, the intelligence officials said. These include lacking the kind of technical know-how that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's top bomb designer has shown in building devices to be smuggled aboard aircraft, the officials said.
IS also may eventually face financial pressures because the areas it controls in Syria and Iraq are not economically self-sufficient, the officials said. Another vulnerability may be the militants' main transit route through Turkey, if the Turkish government can be persuaded to crack down on would-be fighters traveling to Syria and Iraq, the officials said.
Gaining Momentum
Although the U.S. officials said they don't consider the Islamic State invincible, they said it now has so much momentum that it will be difficult and take time to thwart. If the group begins losing ground, and some recent Iraqi Sunni recruits peel off, it may be weakened, but will remain difficult to eradicate, they said.
Weakening it will require military and counter-terrorism actions, and their effectiveness will depend in part on whether there are social and political changes that begin to drain Sunni support, the officials said.
Many disaffected Sunnis in Iraq are willing for now to see if the Islamic State can govern its areas without the kind of brutality and atrocities it has used against foes and minorities, the officials said.
Territorial setbacks could blunt the group's power, the officials said, since an Islamic State without territory will be less appealing to international jihadists.
Unlikely Target
The intelligence community doesn't anticipate a move against Baghdad soon because the Iraqi capital is defended by security forces and Shiite militias, the officials said. It's an unlikely target, since the vast majority of city's population are Shiites who would fight the Sunni insurgent group, the officials said.
IS also faces a rival in al-Qaeda, with the major rift now between Osama bin Laden's designated heir, Egyptian exile Ayman al-Zawahiri, and al-Baghdadi, who during the U.S. occupation led al-Qaeda in Iraq, the officials said.
Their personal and ideological disputes, first over the group's activities in the Syrian civil war -- where it competes with the al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda affiliate -- and then over the declaration of a caliphate, have led to a public breach and an open rivalry.
Territorial Ambitions
"Since the late '90s, al-Qaeda has been focused on prioritizing attacks against the U.S." while the upstart Islamic State and its predecessor groups seek to control territory in the Middle East -- from Iraq into Syria and the Levant and down into Jordan, said Brian Fishman, a fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the author of studies on al-Qaeda and global jihad.
The Islamic State wants "to eliminate all borders in the Middle East, and that's where they're putting their resources," Fishman said. While al-Qaeda shares that eventual goal, it has targeted its resources on planning attacks on U.S. targets at home and abroad.
That leaves Obama facing questions about how far to go in trying to defeat the Islamic State. Obama will have to weigh the potential consequences at home and abroad. Opinion polls have found little support for further overseas military engagements. Limited U.S. airstrikes this month have fueled thousands of hostile posts on social media threatening U.S. embassies in the Mideast and other American targets, one of the officials said.


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Rex Minerals promises another major Yorke Peninsula deposit as it defendsHillside costs
- From: The Advertiser
- February 15, 2013
REX Minerals' managing director has committed the gold and copper explorer to unearthing another major Yorke Peninsula deposit as he yesterday expressed confidence the company had got its Hillside costs right.
In a letter to shareholders, managing director Mark Parry responded to investor questions about the costs of its Hillside project given capital cost increases experienced by projects worldwide in recent years.
Mr Parry, who became managing director three months ago, said the Yorke Peninsula project was not "hostage" to the vagaries of significant new infrastructure requirements, and that the advantages of its location should not be underestimated.
"The advantages of being in a first world country so close to people, power, port and water are fortuitous," he said.
"For a combination of reasons I believe the timing for Hillside is right."
The company's pre-feasibility study includes $680 million in process plant and related surface infrastructure, $120 million to process waste-tailings into magnetite and $90 million in contingency costs.
Last week, the Ballarat-based company announced its maiden ore reserve for Hillside of 120 million tonnes at 0.53 per cent copper, 0.14 grams per tonne of gold and 12.8 per cent iron.
This translates to 636,000 tonnes of contained copper, which would sustain a mine for eight years, although Rex Minerals is aiming for a mine life of more than 15 years.
Looking forward, Mr Parry said the company was committed to unearthing another Hillside on the Yorke Peninsula, but would focus its 2013 drilling at Hillside.
He said this year's work program aimed to establish a reserve profile for over a decade of production.
"This will reinforce Hillside as the largest copper project in Australia outside of the giant Olympic Dam deposit," he said.


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GSD Course Bulletin - Fall 2011
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Courses taught by Peter Lynch
02121 [M1]: Visual Studies (VIS 0212100)
Lecture - 2 credits
This course is a module. It lasts the first half of the semester only.
Wednesday 9:30 - 11:00 7 Sumner 402
11:30 - 1:00 7 Sumner 402
Tuesday 1:00 - 2:30 Gund 111
Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 7 Sumner 402
Peter Lynch
Course Description
This course will help you develop your sketching ability. The emphasis is heuristic-on specific ways that hand drawing can inspire, guide, and speed your design process. Hand drawing is presented as a complement to software-based design practices. The goal of this course is to help you develop a personal method that moves freely between digital processes and hand drawing - between mediated and un-mediated design approaches.Hand drawing, regularly practiced, sharpens visual perception. It helps you deepen your abstract and experiential understanding. Drawing is a refined and subtle tool to visualize complex relationships: to imagine how buildings and spaces will appear, perform, and be encountered. Drawing also allows one to contemplate the logic of building, space, and construction from an abstract standpoint. Finally, drawing, as a physical act, builds haptic understanding - tactile perception and proprioception.The course meets twice per week - a lecture session in GSD room 111 and a studio drawing session in 7 Sumner, room 402. The first class meets in the drawing studio. Lecture sessions include discussion and tutorials on drawing types (freehand orthographic drawing, surveys, perspectives, isometrics), an analysis of the role of hand drawing in the work of particular architects, and short exercises. Each studio drawing session focuses on one extensive assignment in the studio or in the field: drawing urban or landscape perspectives, constructing maps and site surveys, capturing visual phenomena. These studio sessions help you gain confidence in, and recognize the creative power of, the act of drawing and show you how to observe and draw accurately. Throughout the course the emphasis is on line; tone and color are addressed only tangentially. Format, scale, viewpoint, precision, and gesture will be recurring subjects.Required materials1) Students are required to purchase SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE format sketchbooks and drawing pads for the course. Small sketchbook: You're required to take notes, respond to in-class exercises, and address homework assignments in a small sketchbook. Carry it with you at all times and use it as a recording device, just as you might use a cell phone camera or tablet computer. Please bring this sketchbook to the first studio drawing session and all following lecture and drawing sessions.