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Tana Amen, RN was 23 and Charlie Nox was 29 when they were diagnosed with thyroid cancer—now the fastest rising cancer among women.
Not only have rates of the disease soared by 240 percent over the past 20 years, but it's expected to become the third most common cancer in the US by 2019, according to Julie Ann Sosa, MD FACS, chief, section of endocrine surgery and director of health services research, department of surgery, at Duke University School of Medicine.
This year, more than 60,000 Americans—including more than 45,000 women—will be diagnosed with the disease, which typically targets people under age 55. Another scary fact: about 2 percent of cases occur in children and teens, the American Cancer Society reports.
"Almost all of the increase is papillary thyroid cancer, which used to account for 80 percent of thyroid cancer cases and has recently risen to 90 percent," reports Dr. Sosa. The disease occurs in the thyroid: a butterfly-shaped gland in the neck just below the Adam's apple.
Because the disease has a high survival rate (over 97 percent) it's often perceived as a "good," "easy" or "safe" cancer—descriptions that patients like Amen and Nox say trivializes their terrifying ordeal.
"For 11 years, while my friends were falling in and out of love, studying for exams, and starting their careers, I endured horrendous surgeries and radiation treatments," recalls Amen, a nutrition coach and author of The Omni Diet.
"A lot of people told me that this is the 'easy cancer' and acted like it was no big deal, but I can tell you that having cancer is really scary and changes your life forever," says Nox, a dating coach who is working on a book about continuing to date with cancer.
"I was shocked at the diagnosis," Nox adds, " I thought, 'I do yoga. I eat salad. I feel great. How can I have cancer at 29?"
Particularly over the past decade, rates of thyroid cancer have dramatically and continuously increased around the world, according to a new review published in Journal of Cancer Epidemiology.
Although many experts theorize that increasing use of medical imaging has lead to greater detection of small, asymptomatic cancers, there's also evidence that large cancers have become more common, the researchers report.
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Looking back, Amen says, "For five or six years before I was diagnosed, I had a lump in my neck that slowly got bigger until it looked like a man's Adam's apple. But my ob/gyn never checked my neck, so I thought this was normal. I was a teenager at the time and had never heard of thyroid cancer."
By the time Amen was finally diagnosed, she had advanced thyroid cancer that had spread to her lymph nodes. Despite aggressive treatment with multiple surgeries, radioactive iodine, and other therapies, the cancer has returned three times. It's relatively common for the disease to recur, says Dr. Sosa.
Nox also noticed a small lump on her neck, but considered it such a minor problem that she waited six months to consult a doctor. However, the cancer was still caught early, allowing her to avoid the risks and side effects of radiation therapy. Instead, she was treated with surgical removal of the thyroid.
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"We've played Butler, a very quality opponent. We've played Indiana, a very quality opponent. We've played Texas at Texas, Indiana at Indiana and those are good opponents. We haven't played well any of those three games... I've got to do a heck of a lot better job and they've got to buy in and we're just doing some of the silliest things out there that I've ever seen."
When asked if he agreed with his head coach's comment about the players needing to buy in, James Michael McAdoo replied, "If he says so, yeah."
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Junior wing Reggie Bullock was more outspoken, telling reporters that Williams's comment was on point.
"A lot of players just don't need to worry about individual stats," Bullock said. "Just go out and commit to this team."
General George W. Casey, Jr., the former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, spoke to the team last week and his message focused on how everybody has to commit to the team for it to be successful, according to Bullock.
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McAdoo didn't seem to think his team was flirting with the edge of a dangerous slide.
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First came chest man-scaping, made famous in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (above). Then earlier this year, Jay-Z and P. Diddy reportedly had "brozilians"—the male equivalent of the Brazilian wax. Women everywhere let out a big now-you-know-how-it-feels whoop of joy, followed by a resounding "Huh?!" Guys are so good at being hairy—what gives? Blame the evolution of metrosexuality and the mainstreaming of porn: That hair-free aesthetic is catching on with guys, too. "My girlfriend loves it for the same reason I like it on her: It's soft and smooth and clean," says Evan, 29, a music producer in New York City. It doesn't hurt things in bed, either. "Waxing can't turn bad sex into great sex," he says, "but the extra sensitivity you both feel can make good sex even better." It's a whole new ball game. (Sorry, we couldn't resist.)
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Used to be that men of a certain age got snipped when they were done having kids. But now a small but increasing number of childless guys in their twenties—ones who aren't even in relationships—are choosing to have the surgery too. "Unlike the spur-of-the-moment tattoo, it's usually a decision they've thought long and hard about," says Paul Shin, M.D., a urologist in Washington, D.C., who specializes in male fertility issues. "I see guys who think the world is overpopulated and want to reduce their environmental impact on the planet."
Douglas Stein, M.D., of Tampa, Florida, who performs about 2,000 vasectomies a year and is known in the field as the "King of Vasectomies," sees another theme among his patients: "The way the world is, I just don't want to bring a kid into it." And, yes, some guys want to preserve their freedom—call it the Knocked Up ripple effect. Days after we spoke, Dr. Stein performed three vasectomies, all on men in their early twenties. One agreed to get on the phone with us—Eddie, 23, a college student in St. Petersburg who recently returned from a tour in Iraq. "I did it because older guys I work with got in a lot of trouble from having kids unplanned with their girlfriends," he says. "They had to stay in the military to support the kids, and their lives got sidetracked." At that point in the interview, he excused himself: "Sorry, I've got to go get on ice."
Jeremy Youngman, a 32-year-old artist in Downer's Grove, Illinois, who had a vasectomy at 27 because he feels there are already enough kids in the world, is so committed that not even dream girl Christina Aguilera could get him to go back. "If Christina divorced her husband," he says with feeling, "and we fell in love and got married and she asked me to reverse it, I would say, 'Sorry, baby.'"


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LIFELONG passion for sport has led one football coach to help pass on his passion to a new generation.
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Last year the company underwent a rebrand recognising its wider work and is now trading as Onside Sports Coaching, covering everything from cricket to rugby league and working with some of the area's best athletes.
Mr Dawson originally took part in the Linkstart programme when he set up the company and he has now received guidance from the Britain's Energy Coast Backing Business scheme.
The scheme provided Onside Sports Coaching with a £1,000 grant to help buy new equipment including bibs and uniforms, as well as helping to provide some help in terms of the direction of the company.
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The company is split into three geographical areas working with schools and groups in South Copeland, North Copeland and the South Lakes – and each manager works with two or three coaches as well as professional rugby and cricket players to provide the coaching.
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CUPERTINO, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced today the general availability of Zend Server, a Web application server that offers new levels of reliability, performance, and security for PHP-based Web applications. With a focus on usability and native updates, customers benefit from a complete IT-ready solution that also integrates Zend Studio for Eclipse and Zend Framework to make it faster and easier than ever before to develop and deploy rich, reliable, and secure Web applications using PHP.
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Carolina Blues By Marcel Parker
United States down south Carolina
New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi
Florence, Pamplico I've got the blues.
Speakeasies are calling an end to prohibition
we're prohibiting sex, pulling knives to our throats
marking signs step over step away step out
through the tobacco fields, rat filled apartments
I'm just trying to find my way home blues.
Living down home going uptown I watch
working class girls toss back, the word beautiful
with explanations of poverty, over priced beauty salons universities
Rena Belle stands at the grill of Uli's Quickburger
for twelve hours a day from eight to eight flipping the bloody
hey lady make it rare. Drops fists of cornmeal batter to the fryer
empties baskets of hush puppies onto paper plates and the meeting
of Rena Belle's breasts pools in a funnel of fish fry diner sweat.
Sundays the sweaty preacher man makes
Southern Baptist redemption sweet like magnolia blossoms
or pine needles after a thunder storm. Rena Belle's
knees never touch church altars her life is the life of nicotine
dust and work and more work to make babies
so her babies can make babies giving birth to
trailer parks, overturned oil drums, half empty whiskey flasks.
And one of her babies gives birth to poverty
and poverty gives birth to me with a sound
like a tin crash head-ache in the deep south
Uncle Billy breeds hound dogs in the back
of his boarded-up supped-up El Camino takes off for weeks
fathering this new religion of loneliness Uncle Billy
has washed his hands of children
and potatoes and a wife named Fanny Jo.
Who raises three generations
of babies works three sets of jobs while
Uncle Billy goes out back with hound dogs singing
they worked me like a dog, pulp mill, paper mill blues
And Fanny Jo at work, an' in the kitchen with the kids singing
my baby's gone an left me laundry stone hard at workin' blues
living down home going uptown department stores fast food restaurants
I've been watching working class girls toss back the word beautiful
with a one two, a one two three
decades of excuses exploding hot grease from the fryer
in poverty shaped burn patterns
in rhythm to ovarian cancer, tobacco field melanoma, false
teeth, stew beef soup stock, smoker skin, she says she's found
Jesus at the end of a sawed off smokin' shot gun barrel,
but these thin housecoat excuses are tearing me up
I see you and you are beautiful
Growing babies as fast as butter beans, pulling barbecue
from the bone spitting out apologies of poverty
snapping babies in half, three-quarters in quarters
slicing them lengthwise now the babies are leaving
for credit card mini-vans high speed DSL internet connections
in suburban houses, They're raising second
generation confederates who don't know the taste
of plastic porch swings, empty roads
vinyl couches, or okra plants, but I know the church rising like thunder
in empty pine fields hound dogs and shot guns
callused hand dirty boot sweaty cap poor men these babies
can't taste anything, their bodies have been turned off
this debt of poverty is growing exponentially
with mortgage payments, and down payments, and credit card bills
we are burning up like
bacon grease everything but the money is running out
the money was never there in the first place
So I'm going out back with Uncle Billy, Fanny Jo, and Rena Belle
and together we're singing those sweet down home Carolina
Oh, I've got the Blues.
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How Derek Mason will teach defense at Vanderbilt
For a moment, let's go back to 2007. The stock market hasn't crashed yet, you've never heard of Twitter or Facebook and, best of all, Justin Bieber is still some unknown adolescent in Canada. Times are good.
Now imagine how hilarious this sentence would sound to you then: To keep its vibrant football program churning, Vanderbilt has hired Stanford's defensive coordinator as head coach in hopes of slowing down all the hot-as-lava SEC offenses it faces week after week.
Seven years later, here we are.
Fox Sports' Coy Wire traveled to Nashville to pick the brain of Derek Mason, the new top Commodore, to study how Mason's brand of defense will allow them to withstand the offensive onslaught of Missouri, Kentucky, Auburn, Ole Miss, Texas A&M and the like.
We're not going to spoil the whole thing (which is an excellent read), but here are some gems that help explain Mason's defensive philosophy.
On repping against no-huddle opponents - which Mason refers to as NASCAR - every week no matter the opponent: "Even if you're playing Alabama – who does not run an up-tempo scheme – you have to have a period of practice that subjects the players to a fast pace. Over a period of time, you'll create habits and muscle memory that will help you find success when you do face an up-tempo team."
On preparing for no-huddle offenses in practice by throwing two separate offenses at the defense: "When we first started doing it, it looked like a cluster, but the more the players did it the more their mental capabilities grew. It started to become second nature to operate that fast. Eventually they could stay focused when they were tired and handle more responsibilities at a faster pace. Once each week, we would run 30 different plays at them in under 10 minutes, let them rest and then do it again."
On getting your defenders exhausted - on purpose: "We push our players to the limit. We physically exhaust them, but then we train them to still be able to think and communicate after they have reached exhaustion."
Todd Hoffner, a Minnesota arbitrator and one very awkward situation
Remember back in August of 2012 when Todd Hoffner, the head coach at Minnesota State-Mankato (D-II) was suspended based on photos of his children that were misinterpreted? Hoffner was later cleared of all charges, and he landed the head coaching job at Minot State (D-II - ND) this off-season.
To make matters even more interesting, an arbitrator handed down a ruling yesterday in favor of coach Hoffner, stating that he's not only due back pay, but he can also have his old job back if he wants it.
Wait, what? Go ahead and read that again.
Has anything like this ever happened before in the coaching profession? A coach has the opportunity to leave his current head coaching position for his old stomping grounds, no questions asked?
Most people would probably assume that coach Hoffner would never go back to Mankato, call it bad blood or being unjustly accused, most people wouldn't want to go back to that kind of environment after the ordeal him and his family went through.
However, the bottom line is that Mankato is a heck of a job, a great place to live, his family wouldn't have to uproot and move, and his wife wouldn't have to start a new job hunt in an unfamiliar town. Plus, Hoffner helped build the MSU-Mankato program to national relevance during his time there by going 34-13 in his four seasons, and winning multiple conference titles. Oh, and his wife stated yesterday that a return to Mankato is something that they're currently considering. This has the potential to be unprecedentedly awkward.
If Hoffner does decide to come back to MSU-Mankato, what happens to current head coach Aaron Keen and the staff currently in place? They've done an outstanding job, going 24-2 over the past two seasons, including a trip to the D-II national semifinals in 2012, which qualifies as the best season in school history.
Too often in life, someone's entire life is unjustly broken and those responsible for breaking that life simply can't or won't put the pieces back together. Credit the arbitrator in this instance for trying to right this wrong. But no one, not the arbitrator and not Coach Hoffner, can stop the passage of time, and the simple fact that dozens of lives on each coaching staff will be affected by the decision Hoffner now faces.
We'll keep you updated on how this one plays out. Either way, Hoffner is the one in the driver's seat, and that's the way that it should be when you consider what him and his family have gone through over the past two years.
Read more on yesterday's ruling here.
Here it is: Video of Texas Tech's dance-off featuring Kliff Kingsbury
The title is pretty much self-explanatory.
You should really watch the whole thing, but Kliff starts dancing around the 1:45 mark.
Twenty-seven nuggets worth knowing about college football's 2014 schedule
I have poured through each and every of the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision schedules for the 2014 season (now just 138 days away!) and pulled out 27 weird, wild and wacky nuggets worth knowing.
Here goes nothing:
1. Thursday, Aug. 28 is the celebrated opening date of college football's 2014 season but, in reality, the season kicks one day earlier, as ESPNU will televise Abilene Christian at Georgia State on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Thursday night as college football's opening kickoff only became a regular thing in 2005, and we could not find a year that kicked off on a Wednesday. If anyone has an example, we're all ears.
2. You may have heard something about South Carolina hosting Texas A&M on Thursday, Aug. 28 as the official kickoff event for SEC Network. This marks the South Carolina's seventh Thursday night opener since 2005; the Gamecocks have won each of their previous six Thursday night openers.
3. Ohio State visits Navy to open the season, the Buckeyes' first road opener since visiting West Virginia to begin the 1998 season.
4. Michigan State at Oregon. No note here except for that's a game that's really happening on Sept. 6.
5. Cincinnati is the last team to begin its 2014, waiting until Friday, Sept. 12 to host Toledo. That's the 170th game of the season, 16 days after Abilene Christian and Georgia State get things going on Aug. 27.
6. Louisiana Tech and Ohio win the award for latest home opener in college football. After visiting Oklahoma, Louisiana-Lafayette and North Texas to open the year, the Bulldogs won't play in Ruston until September 20. Ohio opens at Kent State, Kentucky and Marshall before finally hosting Idaho on Sept. 20.
7. LSU has an incredibly front-loaded schedule. After facing Wisconsin in Houston on Aug. 30, LSU's next four games and seven of their next nine are in Tiger Stadium. The trade off, though, is that the Bayou Bengals have the earliest Senior Day in college football, Nov. 8 against Alabama.
- Other home-friendly starts to the season:
- Central Florida: five of six at home in Oct. and Nov.
- Florida International: first four at home
- Oklahoma State: a neutral site game, then four straight at home
- South Florida: first four and five of first six at home
- Pittsburgh: five of six at home from late Sept. to early Nov.
- Syracuse (four of first six at home, plus a neutral site "home" game in New York City
- Vanderbilt: first four games all in Nashville
- Virginia: five of first six at home
- Wisconsin: one true road game before Nov. 1
8. Then there's Chuck Martin's poor Miami (Ohio) bunch. Coming off an 0-12 season, the RedHawks open with two straight at home and become college football's only team to play five of six on the road - all without an off week.
9. Kentucky also closes its home slate on Nov. 8, tied with LSU for the earliest in college football.
10. On the flip side, Georgia doesn't leave Sanford Stadium after Nov. 8. Same for Duke.
11. Seven clubs will make road trips to both coasts (or thereabouts) this year: BYU, Colorado, Idaho, Notre Dame, Rutgers, UCLA and USC.
12. A handful of MAC teams do not play a single Saturday game in the month of November: Bowling Green, Buffalo, Northern Illinois and Toledo.
13. And then there's poor Central Michigan, the only MAC team to play every one of its conference games on a Saturday.
14. Thanks to MACtion, we will be blessed with live football on television every night from Thursday, Oct. 30 through Monday, Dec. 1 except for Nov. 26, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Thirty-two out of 33 ain't bad.
15. In what has to be a record, Ole Miss will play three consecutive games in NFL stadiums. The Rebels closed last season in the Tennessee Titans' LP Field for the Music City Bowl, open 2014 with Ole Miss in the Atlanta Falcons' Georgia Dome, and then return to LP Field to meet Vanderbilt.
16. Massachusetts is the only team in college football to schedule all four of its non-conference games against Power Five foes. Mark Whipple's Minutemen open with Boston College and Colorado at home, and then visit Vanderbilt and Penn State.
17. Most Sun Belt or MAC schools line up one payday game against a college football blue blood, but Florida Atlantic is the only school brave (or dumb, or desperate) enough to play two in a row. Charlie Partridge's Owls (who play in Conference USA now but scheduled these games while Sun Belt members) open 2014 at Nebraska, and then at Alabama.
18. For the first time since joining the Big 12, West Virginia does not make trips to the heartland in two consecutive weeks. The downside, though, is that Dana Holgorsen's Mountaineers must visit Texas Tech on Oct. 11, host Baylor on Oct. 18, visit Oklahoma State on Oct. 25, host TCU on Nov. 1, and then visit Texas on Nov. 8.
19. Texas Tech has already sold a school record 34,100 season tickets, and is on track to sell out the entire stadium for the season. The Red Raider faithful is obviously enthused about the direction of the program under Kliff Kingsbury, but the home schedule also deserves a chunk of credit. Texas Tech hosts Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the same season for the first time in school history.
20. If ever there was a year to buy Florida State season tickets, this is it. There's obviously, you know, the defense of a national championship, but the Seminoles host an all-timer of a schedule with their ACC rivals (Clemson), their archrival (Florida) and everyone's favorite non-rival (Notre Dame) coming to Doak Campbell Stadium.
21. June Jones has his work cut out for him. SMU opens with road trips to Baylor and North Texas, then host Texas A&M and TCU, visit East Carolina, and then return home to face Cincinnati. That's five returning bowl teams, plus a club that the Mustangs are 2-12 against since 1999. The Mustangs could easily be an improved bunch from 2013 and still not win a game until Oct. 25.
22. After hosting Nicholls State on Sept. 6, Arkansas faces a grand total of one non-bowl team the rest of the season. The Razorbacks get Texas Tech, Northern Illinois, Texas A&M, Alabama and Georgia, a one-week breather against UAB on Oct. 25, then close with Mississippi State, LSU, Ole Miss and Missouri. By the way, Arkansas opens the season at Auburn.
23. Florida is the only SEC East team saddled with the one-two punch of facing both LSU and Alabama.
24. Utah draws the short stick among Pac-12 South members, hosting Oregon on Nov. 8 and then turning around to visit Stanford on Nov. 15.
25. The folks that run game day operations at Oklahoma's Memorial Stadium might as well shut things down and take a nice long sabbatical this fall. In the eight weeks between the Sooners' Sept. 13 home date with Tennessee and their Nov. 8 game against Baylor, Oklahoma will play one home game. They'll go on the road to West Virginia, take a week off, visit TCU, head back to the Metroplex to face Texas in Dallas, host Kansas State, take another week off and then visit Iowa State before closing with three of their final four in Norman.
26. John Swofford's new toys will meet for the first time ever, as Louisville makes a trip to Notre Dame on Nov. 22.
27. The SEC's end-of-season rivalry match-ups have shuffled around a bit. Louisville-Kentucky moves to the end of the season for the first time since the rivalry was renewed in 1994, while the LSU-Arkansas year end tradition-that-wasn't-really-a-tradition comes to an end. LSU heads to Texas A&M on Thanksgiving night, and Arkansas visits Missouri two days later.
Watch the Illinois coaching staff do some top notch trash talking
You can tell that the Illinois staff plans on having some fun with the orange and blue spring game tomorrow afternoon, and it's starting with some friendly staff trash talk.
A handful of these coaches can really bring it in the trash talking department, others could use a bit of guidance. Take these two coaches for example.
Blue squad coach Mike Bellamy: "Most of these coaches have their AARP cards," and "We'll stretch the game out and have it go past their nap time."
Orange squad coach Greg Colby: "Alex Golesh...I mean what can you say about Alex? Not much."
Seriously though, this is a fun, lighthearted way to promote their spring game, and looks like they had a lot of fun with it.
North Dakota State has made a film about the building of its dynasty
There was a time when North Dakota State was not the FCS version of mid-90's Nebraska. In fact, there was a time when the North Dakota State looked at moving to FCS with trepidation. That time was only a decade ago.
After claiming eight national titles and 26 conference championships, the Bison decided to leave Division II for FCS, then known as Division I-AA. At the time, the migration from Division II to Division I was not the sure thing it appeared to be. The road was littered with the corpses of programs that had attempted the move before.
The school made the decision to move in August of 2002, and completed in time for the 2004 season. The Bison acquitted themselves well in the Great West Conference, posting a 35-9 record with one conference championship in their four seasons in the league. North Dakota State moved to the Missouri Valley in 2008, and immediately fell flat on their face, going 6-5 in 2008 and 3-8 in 2009.
You know what happened next.
The Bison reached the FCS Quarterfinals in 2010, and then claimed the next three FCS national titles and going 43-2 in the process.
And now the school has commemorated its rise with "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions". It goes on sale April 24, the day before the Bison's spring game. We'll let you know if a full version surfaces online.
Mississippi State has some new commemorative unis
Mississippi State started off the week by hyping up their new uniforms with multiple teasers via Twitter.
.@HailState and #TeamAdidas will be hosting uniform unveiling for @HailStateFB @HailStateBB 3 p.m. Thurs. Stay tuned pic.twitter.com/Vt4TmigERH
— Bill Martin (@MSUBillMartin) April 9, 2014
Dan Mullen is now on his way to pickup the new uniforms! #teamadidas #OurTate pic.twitter.com/FDoGIVHrYq
— Shane Pritchard (@Smoke3x) April 9, 2014
However, before the University released anything official, a reporter leaked the first photos of the new uniforms yesterday. But only die-hard Bulldog fans (or uniform nuts) will notice the differences between these (which celebrate the 100 year history of Scott Field) and the uniforms that they wore last year.
Check these out MSU fans... pic.twitter.com/LRxt6qNnGM
— loganlowery (@loganlowery) April 9, 2014
Now we get to take a look at the real deal.
Hardcore Mississippi State fans will notice a few subtle changes, most notably the "Hail State" across the chest (which the University has also used in the form of hashtags in the endzones), and the stripes on the shoulders. The team will wear these on September 30th.
Here's the new @adidasFballUS uniform we will wear on 8/30 to commemorate the 100th Anniv. of Scott Field. #HailState pic.twitter.com/XD1QJd6c28— MSU Football (@HailStateFB) April 10, 2014
Les did it, Gary Patterson is doing it, will Bielema do it?
Fox Sports released an interesting article this morning on TCU's offensive overhaul. In the piece, Gary Patterson opens up about why he felt some changes to his offensive philosophy were needed, and it started with recruiting.
"I saw too many good players leave the state because they considered us a running team and play action." Patterson told Fox Sports Southwest.
Essentially, Patterson observed that players were giving TCU the cold shoulder to play in up tempo offenses at places like Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Baylor, Texas Tech, or West Virginia. Patterson decided enough was enough, and hired Houston offensive coordinator Doug Meachum to bring his fast paced offensive approach to help him stop the exodus of Texas' top play makers to outside programs.
While the main focus was bringing in a more potent offensive attack, Patterson explains there has been an interesting byproduct of the new approach this spring. To quote the article, "Patterson figures practicing at that speed will better prepare his defense to face offenses that operate at similar tempos."
That will prove to be very beneficial in the Big 12. Looking at their schedule, after their first two games against Samford and Minnesota, TCU faces six straight teams with an up tempo offensive approach (SMU, Oklahoma, Baylor, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and West Virginia).
That got us to thinking, who else out there has a rough stretch when it comes to facing no huddle teams? You know where this is going, don't you...
Four of Arkansas' first five games are wicked. The Razorbacks open with Auburn, and then two weeks later face Texas Tech, Northern Illinois, and Texas A&M in consecutive weekends before eventually wrapping up the season with Ole Miss and Missouri back to back.
A front loaded schedule like that will certainly challenge the Razorbacks' stamina. I recall a few years ago when LSU opened up against Chip Kelly's Oregon team at JerryWorld. To prepare for the tempo Oregon played at, Les had two offensive scout teams run back to back...no breaks for the LSU defense as they tried to prepare for Oregon's attack. You might recall the result...a game in which LSU's defense stoned Oregon all night and Les' group won rather easily. After the game I recall LSU's defenders praising the fact that they faced tempo from the scout teams all through spring and August practice. Given his very public statements against unrelenting tempo, it will be interesting to see how hard Bret Bielema pushes his scout offense to simulate actual game speed that his defense will face in these early games.


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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – With spring around the corner the Central Michigan softball team has been working hard in preparation for the 2014 campaign.
Head coach Margo Jonker enters her 35th season at the helm of the Chippewas and is looking to pick up where the team left off last season.
"I'm looking forward to a great season and to getting started," Jonker said. "We've been practicing for quite a while now and the players are pumped to just get outside."
Central Michigan will open up against Drake on February 7 at the Rosemont Rumble in Rosemont, Ill. It will be the first of four games the Chippewas play in a three-day span.
"Getting outside competition is the main thing right now to see where we stand," Jonker said. "We have a very solid infield coming back, we have pitching with some experience and we have behind the plate with a lot of experience so I anticipate having a really good year."
The Chippewas will look to their six seniors to lead CMU to the program's 12th regular season MAC title en route to back-to-back MAC Tournament Championships.
Senior Cory DeLamielleure will serve as team captain after earning Second Team All-MAC honors and being selected to the All-Tournament Team in 2013. The St. Clair Shores native returns for her senior season after leading the team last year in triples (4) and tying the team-high in both home runs (7) and RBIs (34).
Returning to the mound for the Maroon and Gold is senior Chelsea Sundberg. Sundberg appeared in 26 games starting 18, posting a 2.75 ERA, which ranked eighth best in the MAC, earning a ninth-best 11 wins.
Rounding out the seniors is outfielder Lauren Bowman, outfielder/second base Brittney Horan, pitcher Morgan Yuncker and second base/outfielder Raechel Zahrn.
Of the 19 student-athletes making up this year's roster, 13 are returning letterwinners.
Canton, Mich. native CarolAnn Sexauer also earned Second Team All-MAC accolades in addition to a selection on the All-Tournament Team. The junior boasted a .323 batting average, starting all 53 games last season. Sexauer led the team in doubles (12) and tied the team-high in both home runs (7) and RBIs (34).
The remaining returning letterwinners include juniors Trista Cox, Karly Hansen, Kristen Kulman, and sophomores Chelsea DeLamielleure, Evelyn Lorimer and Katelyn Rentschler.
Other returnees include redshirt freshmen Michelle Dornan and Kristen Goodall and sophomore Tricia Graham.
Three freshmen will join the Maroon and Gold this season including pitcher/first base Rachael Knapp, and catcher/infielder Danielle Marlink reigning from Michigan, while infielder Tateum Valentine comes to Mount Pleasant from Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
I'm excited about the season and I'm excited about the players we have," Jonker said. "I think it's going to be challenging, but I think we should be vying for the title again."


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Prospects in Partnership: The Philippines and South KoreaOctober 22nd, 2013
By Andrea Chloe Wong
Since the establishment of diplomatic ties on 3 March 1949, the relationship between the Philippines and South Korea has flourished. The Philippines was one of the first countries that extended diplomatic recognition to South Korea or the Republic of Korea. This was cemented with the Philippine government's deployment of the Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea (PEFTOK) to help South Korea against the invasion of the communist North during the Korean War in the 1950s. After the war, the Philippines provided development assistance to South Korea and helped the country rebuild itself. ….read more
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President Barack Obama's upcoming participation in the East Asia, APEC, and the ASEAN-U.S. confabs in Southeast Asia during his October trip to the region will highlight important challenges that the region faces, particularly the role that small states play in great power relations. While analysts and scholars are still debating the relationship between the United States and rising China, the countries of Southeast Asia, independently and as ASEAN, already understand that the ultimate nature of relations between the two great powers will directly affect them. ….read more
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The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) formally established ties of cooperation with the Diplomacy Academy of Turkey through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which was signed by Mr. Carlos D. Sorreta (left), FSI Director, and H.E. Ali Naci Koru (right), Vice Foreign Minister of Turkey, during the MOU Signing Ceremony held at the Department of Foreign Affairs, Pasay City, on 28 March 2014.
FSI Director Attends Regional Meeting in TokyoMarch 12th, 2014
Mr. Carlos D. Sorreta (front row, right end) represented the Philippines in the 9th Annual Meeting of Deans and Directors of ASEAN+3 Diplomatic Training Institutions held in Tokyo, Japan, from 6 to 7 March 2014.
The event was hosted by the Foreign Service Training Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
The meeting highlighted the importance of regional cooperation in diplomatic training and discussed various trends and issues on training for newly recruited, mid-career and senior diplomats, cross-cultural understanding, and the use of digital media in diplomacy.
FSI Foreign Language Program Holds Closing CeremonyJanuary 14th, 2014
A total of 86 graduates from 7 foreign language courses marched on stage during the Foreign Language Program Closing Ceremony of the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) on 12 December 2013 at the Bulwagang Apolinario Mabini, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Building, Pasay City.
The ceremony was opened by FSI Executive Director Kadatuan P. Usop and was followed by the keynote message of Undersecretary for Administration Rafael E. Seguis, which was delivered by Executive Director Lilybeth R. Deapera of the Ocean Concerns Office.
Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani Delivers Lecture to FSO Cadets Batch XXSeptember 27th, 2013
The Foreign Service Institute was privileged to have Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani conduct a lecture for the junior diplomats attending the Foreign Service Officers' Cadetship Course Batch XX on 24 June 2013. The lecture, entitled "Decision-Making in Foreign Policy Formulation," falls under the ambit of the module on Foreign Policy, which seeks to discuss and examine thoroughly the interests and the positions of the Philippine government on various significant issues. Of specific interest is the decision making process in the formulation and challenges in implementing Philippine foreign policy. ….read more


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Honor Lessons
Teaching honor is trickier than teaching obedience, since honor is a gift. It's awkward to teach someone to give you a gift. Honor must be freely given, from the heart. Honor isn't something you can demand from your children, but you can certainly motivate them to grow in it. Consider the following six ways you can help your children develop honor.
Honor Lesson #1: Teach children to treat people as special
Children often don't realize how specially their parents treat them. They take the daily gifts in family life for granted. To help your children begin to see how honor works, occasionally say to your child with a smile, "I made you some cookies for a snack. I wanted to honor you." Children also learn to treat people as special when they watch how their parents treat each other and those outside the family.
Honor Lesson #2: Teach children to do more than what's expected
Honor looks past the words of Mom's intent. Honor involves being thoughtful and thorough about what you do. "The bathroom is an excellent place to work on honor," one dad said. "We put up a sign by the light switch that read, 'Is the bathroom ready for the next person?'" Instructing children to surprise you by doing something extra teaches them to think about your needs and desires, not just getting away with the bare minimum. When your child does some extra task, it's like giving you a gift. Receive the gift with delight.
Honor Lesson #3: Deal with a bad attitude
When you're teaching children what honor means in practical terms, attitude is a good place to start. Obedience is revealed in actions; honor is revealed in the attitude that goes along with those actions. Don't just point out a bad attitude. Give children healthy alternatives. How should a child respond when given an instruction they'd rather not do? "Okay" is a good place to start. Honor redirects a bad attitude into constructive responses. If you want honor you must continue to correct until the attitude is changed. By disciplining for attitude problems and teaching your children a better way, you're helping them to develop a lifestyle of honor.
Honor Lesson #4: Create honor lessons in life
Several techniques will help teach children to value others. A mother of two preschoolers said, "I teach my children that one way to honor me is to listen with both eyes. They think that's funny, but it helps them understand that we show honor by looking at people when they speak." Your own response to honor is important. When your son folds the towels as you asked and then does more by putting them away, your delight is his reward. Too often, parents focus on what a child doesn't do, and they neglect to praise the child for the good thing he or she did. This results in discouragement, and children may give up on honor because they think it doesn't work.
Honor Lesson #5: Model it
Children learn about honor from their parents. How your respond to the decisions of leaders or to the news teaches children how to respond to you. And the way Mom and Dad treat each other, even in disagreements, is an example to children of how they should treat others. When parents discipline with honor, they must remove selfishness from their own hearts in order to discipline effectively. This is a challenge, but the results reproduce themselves in their children. One adult remembers, " My parents forced me to clean my room and make my bed. I remember I gave them a hard time. I can see now that something else was going on. The way my parents treated me was firm, but it also showed honor. I didn't realize it then, but I was learning some valuable lessons about relationships."
Honor Lesson #6: Appeal to conscience
Children may appear tough at times, but their delicate consciences can be a significant tool for helping them to learn honor. It's amazing what touches a child's conscience. Sometimes it's a word spoken in sadness instead of anger. When disciplining his daughter, one dad said, "It makes me sad when you choose to hit your sister instead of talking things out. It also makes God sad when we don't choose to do the right thing." Appealing to the conscience is different from using guilt to manipulate. It is not a matter of telling a child, "You're bad and you need to change." Instead, we are trying to convey that the child is a good person who has done the wrong thing.
The rewards of an honoring family are great. When parents and children honor each other, the family dynamic changes, and joy is the result.
Used with permission from Scott Turansky, D.Min. and Joanne Miller, R.N., B.S.N., Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes in You and Your Kids (Waterbrook Press).