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Prosecutorial misconduct allegations get huge 'robo-signing' case dismissed
Posted Feb 28, 2013 1:57 PM CDT
By Mark Hansen
A massive mortgage fraud case against two California title officers has been dismissed over allegations of prosecutorial misconduct by the Nevada attorney general's office.
Lawyers for the two defendants claimed that prosecutors in the attorney general's office gave a grand jury an improper definition of what constitutes forgery and threatened a witness (who later committed suicide) into pleading guilty, the National Law Journal reports.
They also claimed that the former lead prosecutor in the case, then the head of the attorney general's mortgage bank fraud task force, failed to disclose that the company the two defendants worked for at the time was then in the process of foreclosing on his own home.
Clark County, Nev., District Court Judge Carolyn Ellsworth on Monday dismissed more than 300 counts each of mortgage fraud against co-defendants Gerri Sheppard and Gary Trafford in a bench ruling. But she also gave the attorney general's office leave to refile the charges.
Trafford's lawyer, John Hueston, said the judge found that the improper definition of a forgery had tainted the entire indictment. She didn't address the conflict of interest claim, he said. Sheppard's lawyer could not be reached for comment.
A spokeswoman for the attorney general's office told the National Law Journal there was "no intent to mislead" the grand jury. She also said the office was evaluating whether to refile the charges.
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text: Best of POPSUGARTV, Sept. 9 to 13, 2013 Ombré Noodles, NYFW Beauty, and a DIY Beanie: The Best of POPSUGARTV This Week by Ryan Roschke 9/15/13 4 Reactions 17 Shares Print 0 6 11 0 0 This week on POPSUGARTV, it's all about optimum beauty. We discovered a gorgeous way to imbue your noodle with ombré color and gained insight into Julianne Hough's leg-toning routine. We also zeroed in on the expression beanie trend with a solution of our own and dug up a few endlessly useful makeup tips from backstage at New York Fashion Week's Marc Jacobs show. Check out all that and more in our video roundup! The Four Most Popular NYFW Street Style Trends You Need to Try Now! We've been tracking all the stunning street style during New York Fashion Week Spring 2014 and, before we bid farewell to the Big Apple, we wanted to let you in on the top four trends you must know about. You won't want to miss our NYFW street style cheat sheet, which includes everything from bold, bright prints to full-blown '90s nostalgia. Watch how we break it down! 1 / 13 Ombré Noodles: Add 50 Shades of Pink to Your Meal Love the ombré look but not ready to commit to trying it on yourself? Take a stab at something less permanent but equally delightful: these pink and purple noodles. With a few everyday pantry items and 20 minutes of time, you'll be eating this playful take on Japanese somen. Watch the video to learn more. 2 / 13 Get Dancer's Gams With Julianne Hough's Leg Workout Looking to get shapely dancer legs? Inspired by Julianne Hough's long, lean stems, we spoke to her trainer Astrid Swan McGuire and learned the starlet's favorite leg-toning exercises. Watch this video to learn five fun and effective moves for getting dancer's gams. 3 / 13 How to Get Perfect Winged Eyeliner, Every Time The hardest part of doing a winged eyeliner look is getting the lines perfectly straight. In this episode of Lazy Girls' Guide to Beauty, vlogger Jackie Perdue has a few simple tips and tricks on how to master this look like a pro. 4 / 13 Adriana Lima Preps For the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show With Boxing! Adriana Lima sat down with us during the New York Fashion Week madness, and though she's not walking in any shows this year, she did have a lot to say about everything from the upcoming Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to coconut water to boxing — and even chocolate cake! Get the scoop now. 6 / 13 Video: Five of the Best Fake Viral Videos You'll Ever See! Jimmy Kimmel announced that he fooled the world when he revealed that he and his team created the viral video "Worst Twerk Fail Ever." In honor of his amazing prank, we are looking back at some of the best fake viral videos of the Internet. Remember the eagle that scooped up a baby and the cat woman looking for love? All fake! 6 / 13 Daniel Radcliffe on Life After Harry Potter: "There's No Grand Plan or Big Strategy" Daniel Radcliffe plays a young Allen Ginsberg in his upcoming film, Kill Your Darlings, and we caught up with him at the Sony Pictures Classics dinner at the Toronto International Film Festival to talk about the role and his own connection with Beat poetry. Daniel also reflected on life after Harry Potter, why he refuses to refer to actors as artists, and being in the company of Benedict Cumberbatch and Dane DeHaan — two other actors who, like Daniel, have three films at TIFF this year. 7 / 13 The Michael Kors Approach to Spring '14? "No Bandage Dresses, No Leggings" We caught up with the always-charming Michael Kors backstage at his Spring 2014 runway show today, where he let us pick his brain about the inspiration behind the relaxed, romantic collection. The main thing the iconic designer seemed to have in mind was "the opposite of skintight: no bandage dresses, no leggings" — works for us! Michael also let us in on the biggest challenge he faced while designing the pieces and dropped some true '90s nostalgia when revealing the craziest thing that's ever happened to him during a runway show. You won't want to miss what he has to say, so watch our NYFW interview with the impossibly charismatic Michael now. 8 / 13 Marc by Marc Jacobs: Easily Re-Create the Rock-and-Roll Look Backstage at Marc by Marc Jacobs, we got a firsthand look at the madness! Lead hairstylist Guido (for Redken) changed the hair at the last second, creating a heavy texture with oil for a grungy feel. And although Marc did use his new lacquers on the nails, Dick Page for Shiseido masterfully applied a vibrant blue to the models' lids — and that's it. For the manicures, Marc was inspired by the lacquered look of one of his coffee tables and used that as inspiration for his own polish collection. Go backstage with us for our preshow interview and see all the beauty looks up close in our Marc by Marc Jacobs gallery. 9 / 13 A Warning From Celebrity Trainers: Stop Eating These Foods . . . Celebrities pay their trainers a lot of money to keep them in shape — even if it means that part of the process is giving up their favorite foods. We spoke to the trainers that work with high-profile clients like Jessica Biel, Brooklyn Decker, and Jennifer Garner to find out which foods were absolutely off-limits as far as they're concerned. While most of these might not surprise you, do you think you could give them up for good? 11 / 13 Find Out What Our Favorite Top Chefers Are Up to Now Curious to know what your favorite Top Chef contestants are up to now that the madness of reality competition has come to a close? 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On New Year's Eve, come "Ring the Bell" at Colvin Run!
You may have heard the Colvin Run schoolbell pealing at previous New Year's Eve midnights. That happy sound means the community has gathered to celebrate another year of fellowship in this beautiful, historic building.
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CHICAGO – In the final game of the 2013 St. Xavier Holiday Classic, the Ashford University women's basketball team trimmed a 19-point halftime deficit to single digits against Robert Morris, but ran out of time in a 75-67 loss, the third in a row for the Saints.
For the second day in a row, Lancaster, Wis.-native Madison Wagner topped the Saints with 20 points while freshman Sarah Vozel collected her second career double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds, but the Saints suffered their third loss in a row to drop to 6-12 on the year.
After the game, Wagner was named to the All-Tournament Team.
The Eagles took control of the game from the opening tip, knocking down 44.1% (15-for-34) of their shots while forcing 13 Ashford turnovers to take a 41-22 lead at halftime.
Ashford would start to chip away at the lead at the start of the second half, knocking the lead down to single digits with 4:49 left in the game after a Wagner free throw. AU would cut the deficit to as little as five, but the Eagles closed out the game from the free throw line.
Tikeyiah Johnson led Robert Morris with 22 points, one of five Eagles to reach double-figures on Sunday, as they improved to 7-5 on the year.
Ashford connected on 38.8% (26-for-67) of their shots on the afternoon while the Eagles knocked down 41.3% (26-for-63) of their tries. The Saints dominated the battle on the glass, pulling down 50 rebounds while surrendering 35.
The Saints return to Kehl Arena for their next game on Jan. 7, when they welcome the Trojans of Trinity International (Ill.) to Clinton for the first of back-to-back meetings.
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The Dragons prevailed in a key FAA rivalry game, defeating the Masters School of New York 54-42. The win brought GFA's overall record to 10-2, and their FAA record to 7-1.
Having just played each other five days earlier, the game more resembled a defensive cage fight than a free flowing game. Both teams took away the other's primary scoring options, so it became GFA, the team that had more options, who won.
Pat Ryan (Darien) stepped it up with another strong performance, scoring 17 and rebounding five. Matt Tate (Greenwich) was a force on both ends. He assisted on nine baskets, and it was his, Hunter Eggers (Greenwich) and Brendan Bieder's (Fairfield) intense ball pressure that was key in holding Masters to only 10 first half points.
Zach Baines (Stamford) was seemingly everywhere, blocking shots, assisting on baskets, scoring and pulling down a game high tenrebounds.
Having just played at Hopkins, 24 hours earlier, team depth was important in the Dragons' ability to keep Masters (7-4) from finishing their determined second half comeback attempt. Andrew Chase (Weston), Sam Hodge (Westport), Scott Deutsch (Southport) and Van Barnet (Ridgefield) all played well when called upon.
The key victim of the tightly played, low possession, style of play was that Sean Obi's amazing two and half year, 56 game, double-double streak was ended. The Dragons big man played well, scoring 12 against a double teaming defense and he snatched seven steals, but there just was not enough shot attempts for him to get his standard double digit rebounding number. He finished with seven.
Congratulations to Sean for compiling one of the greatest streaks in high school sports history, and a GFA school record that is likely to stand forever.
The Dragons have been attracting large and vocal opposing team crowds in their road games this season, as the opponents' student bodies attempt to bring the noise and inspire the upset wins. On Saturday, when Hopkins comes to play at Coyle Gym at 5 p.m., Greens Farms looks to return the favor.


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Horrible sauropod skulls of the Yale Peabody Museum, part 2: Brontosaurus; and no, I do not mean Apatosaurus
April 15, 2014
How can it be?
All credit to the Yale Peabody Museum for having the courage to display this historically important object in their public gallery instead of hiding it in a basement. It's the skull from the original mount of the Brontosaurus (= Apatosaurus) excelsus holotype YPM 1980.
Needless to say, it bears no resemblance at all to the actual skull of Apatosaurus, and the one they now have on the mount is much, much better:
But how did the YPM people ever arrive at this double-plus-ugly skull above? We see a similar skull in Marsh's (1891) second attempt at restoring the skeleton of Brontosaurus:
But even this is not as ugly and Just Plain Wrong as the physical model they made. (Marsh's first restoration of the Brontosaurus skeleton, in 1893, had a much less clear skull.)
So how did the YPM come to make such a monstrosity? What was it based on? Tune in next time for the surprising details!
Bizarrely, we've never really featured the YPM 1980 mount here on SV-POW! — we've often shown individual bones, but the mounted skeleton appears only in the background of the much less impressive Morosaurus (= Camarasaurus) lentus mount. We'll fix that real soon.
Photography and illustration talk, Part 12: Stereo and 3D
March 24, 2014
Here's a working version of that link.
Working links:
- Falkingham (2012) on photogrammetry for free
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 1
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 2
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 3
- Mallison photogrammetry tutorial 4
- Powell, Jaime E. 2003. Revision of South American Titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum 111: 1-94.
Welcome, Cracked readers–here's some eyeball bait
March 9, 2014
Although it would be nice to think that our site views have octupled in the last day because of Mike's fine and funny posts about what search terms bring people to SV-POW!, the real reason is that we were blessed by incoming links from both pages of this Cracked.com article.
Now, as any person who has ever accomplished anything whatsoever knows, it is super-important to avoid Cracked.com or you'll still be up 23 hours from now reading, "6 Mind-Blowing Ways that Comedy Writers are Secretly Destroying Your Productivity". (I'm kidding, that article doesn't really exist–but if it did, I'm sure it would consist entirely of descriptions and links to six other Cracked articles). But that's only true because most of the articles there hit the sweet spot at the intersection of funny, surprisingly informative, mercifully short, and well-written. Crack.com would be a more honest URL, but I assume it was taken.
Anyway, I'd like to return the favor, so here's a list of the 6 SV-POW! Posts Most Likely to Blow the Minds of Cracked.com Readers. If I missed some goodies or recommended some stinkers, let me know–the comment thread is open.
1.How big was Amphicoelias fragillimus? I mean, really?
Who doesn't want to read about the bizarre real-world mystery surrounding what might have been the world's largest dinosaur? If you're not sold, consider that the picture above shows a single vertebra that was–or at least might have been–seven and a half feet tall.
2. Oblivious sauropods being eaten
The mercifully short version of this much longer post, in which I consider the consequences of the world's largest animals having the world's longest cells.
Weapons-grade anatomical pedantry.
4. CONFIRMED: the Umbaran Starfighter is an Apatosaurus cervical
Yes, there is a ship in Star Wars: The Clone Wars that is basically a flying dinosaur vertebra. It took us about five weeks to unravel that story–the post linked above has links to the rest of the saga.
5. SV-POW! showdown: sauropods vs whales
Our original linkbait post. Don't miss the shorter follow-up with more critters.
6. Friday phalanges: Megaraptor vs Saurophaganax
A deliberately goofy post in which I wax poetic about the largest predatory dinosaur claws ever discovered.
So, that was a big pile of superlatives and Star Wars. If you're hungry for more substantial fare, you might start with our Tutorials page or our Things to Make and Do series on dissecting and skeletonizing modern animals. We also blog a lot about the evils of obstructive publishers and the need for open access to the scientific literature–you can find those posts on our Shiny Digital Future page.
A parting shot in my desperate quest for attention: this Star Wars ship flying around in the background in Firefly and Serenity is at least partly my fault–full story here. Oh, and my co-blogger Mike Taylor has written an insightful and affordable book about Doctor Who; read about it here.
Photography and illustration talk, Part 3: Backdrops and lighting
February 11, 2014
Somewhat lamely, this is the only slide I had in about lighting. I left it up while I talked about the most important points, which are:
- Don't use a flash unless you absolutely have to.
- If you can swing it, the common convention is to have specimens illuminated from the upper left.*
- If you have the time, it's not a bad idea to bracket your Goldilocks shot with brighter and darker photos, by fiddling with your camera settings.
* I happily violate this convetion if illumination from another angle shows the specimen to better advantage–and if I have any control over illumination. Working with big bones in some collections, you basically have overhead florescent lights and that's it. The NHM shot above may look not-so-hot, but there we at least had a desk lamp we could move around. In a lot of places I've worked, I didn't have even that.
The other posts in this series are here.
Giraffatitan skull photos
February 10, 2014
Let it never be said that we don't take good care of our commenters. Heck, we'll even degrade ourselves by blogging about theropods, if that's what it takes to keep you all happy.
Today's post is a response to this comment by Dean, asking for lateral view photos of the skull of Giraffatitan. Mike and I did get to spend some quality time with the T1 skull (a.k.a. "Old Toilet-Face") when we were in Berlin in 2008.
Unfortunately, most of our photos turned out not-so-hot. The room around the skull was not large, so we couldn't get back very far from it. Hence our photos are plagued by perspective distortions.
Also, we didn't have a tripod along and the light level was fairly low, and the combination of handheld shots and long exposure times meant that most of the shots are at least a little blurry.
BUT. It was still a thrill to see that skull up close.
The crazy thing about Giraffatitan is that the skull looks like it's going to be pretty sweet when you see it from the side. Because you're thinking it's going to be kinda narrow, like a giraffe's head. Then you get even a partial front view and suddenly the animal's whole skull looks like a partially-deflated whoopie cushion (whereas in life it looked like a mostly-inflated whoopie cushion). And then you have to live with the knowledge that one of the most majestic animals that ever lived on Earth was afflicted with derpty-face. I'll bet they went extinct from shame.
Still, there is some cool anatomy to see here, especially the snout-troughs leading down from the external nares, and the neurovascular foramina on the maxillae.
And, crucially, brachiosaurs had the good taste to hide their freakish countenances 45 feet up, where they could be safely ignored by everyone other than pterosaurs and birds. This has not escaped the notice of exhibit designers:
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Pathological mammal skulls of the California Academy of Sciences
January 31, 2014
Back in the early aughts Cal Acad did a huge exhibit simply titled, "Skulls". It was extremely rad, and I could have been running a separate blog this whole time with nothing but photos from that exhibit. (Update: the website for the exhibit is still going. Check it out.) I was just sorting through some old folders and found some favorites. The photo above is the wall of California sea lion skulls, 900-odd in all, arranged from the biggest, gnarliest males on one end to the most gracile females on the other end.
They also had quite a few pathological sea lion skulls. Here are two that haunted me–they got tangled up in fishing lines that slowly sawed through their skulls and into their brains, killing them.
This elk had a pretty funky growth on its right dentary.
But easily the most "Naw!"-inducing pathology in the whole exhibit was this poor deer, which has a pathological growth the size and shape of a big pastry where its right eye used to be. I don't know if it's just a coincidence that its antlers are all wonky, too–maybe Darren will show up and enlighten us.
So if you're feeling down, you can at least console yourself that you don't have a flyblown, pus-leaking cinnamon roll of pathological bone growing on your face. Have a nice day!
Vicki's book, Broken Bones, is out!
December 18, 2013
When we last left my better half, Dr. Vicki Wedel, she was helping to identify a Jane Doe who had been dead for 37 years by counting growth rings in the woman's teeth. That case nicely illustrated Vicki's overriding interest: to advance forensic anthropology by developing new methods and refining existing ones. To that end, for the past few years she has been working with her PhD advisor, Dr. Alison Galloway at UC Santa Cruz, to revise and update Alison's 1999 book, Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma. The revised and much expanded (504 pages vs 371) second edition, co-edited by Vicki and Alison, came out Monday (Amazon, Amazon.co.uk).
You can read the whole table of contents on Amazon (click to look INSIDE!), but the short short version is that the book has three major sections. The first covers the science and practice of trauma analysis (pp. 5-130), and the second classifies hundreds of common fractures throughout the skeleton, with illustrations (pp. 133-313). The chapters in these sections were all written by Vicki, Alison, and another of Alison's former students, Dr. Lauren Zephro, solo and in varying combinations. Lauren, whom I always think of as "the Amazon cop", is a 6-foot blackbelt forensic anthropologist for the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office. If push came to shove I have no doubt that she could beat me to death with her bare hands and then produce a technical analysis of my corpse.
The final section (pp. 314-410) consists of nine case studies contributed by forensic anthropologists, pathologists, medical examiners, forensic and medical artists, and a DoD casualty analyst, based across the Anglophone world from Hawaii to Scotland. There's some grim stuff in there: trauma to the homeless and elderly, from intimate partner violence, and from child abuse. It's gut-churningly awful that the defenseless suffer from bone-breaking violence; it's always been amazing to me that people like Vicki, Alison, Lauren, and the other contributors have both the courage to face these horrors and the technical chops to make the unspeakable solvable.
Beyond that unavoidable darkness, if you're interested in the many, varied, and often just plain weird ways in which people die, the book is a treasure trove. There's an elderly woman lying on her deathbed for six years, slowly turning into a natural mummy… (wait for it) …while her daughter went on living in the same house. There's a classification of plane crashes with a description of what human remains will be found and over what area. There are people hit by trains; the funniest line in this very serious book is the deadpan and unsurprising, "The typical pedestrian hit by a train is male and often highly intoxicated."
That's from the top of page 122. At the bottom of the same page is my one contribution to the book, which also appears as the cover art (yeah, nepotism, whatcha gonna do). There's a story behind this. This guy–yes, male, dunno if he was intoxicated–was hit by a train and his head was sheared in half, with the somewhat fractured but mostly intact facial skeleton separated by a lot of missing bone from the occipital region. With no way to obtain the deceased guy's permission to use his mortal remains in the book, Alison and Vicki didn't feel comfortable including their photos, so I spent a weekend bashing out a technical drawing for them to use instead. That reawakened my interest in pen-and-ink work and led to the dödö pöst.
I should say two things right here: first, that yes, I am hijacking the rest of the post to talk about myself. (Is anyone really surprised? I thought not.) Second, that I have had no training and possibly my stippling violates Art Rules or best practice guidelines of which I am ignorant. But I hope it also illustrates what can be achieved in a couple of days, with about $15 worth of supplies, by a guy whose only rule is "möre döts".
So anyway, if you're curious, here's the method I use for my pen-and-ink illustrations:
- Get a decent-sized photo of the object to be drawn. I usually roll with $2 8x10s from MalWart, in this case one for each half of the skull.
- Tape the photo down to your work surface. I have a large, incredibly hard, perfectly smooth cutting board that I use for this, but in a pinch you could use just about anything, including just a larger piece of paper. Cardboard off the backs of desk calendars is nice.
- Over the photo, tape down a piece of tracing paper.
- Lightly trace the outline of the photo and all the major details in pencil.
- Once you've gone as far as you can with that, peel up one side of the tracing paper, unstick the photo from the work surface, and remove it. Stick the tracing paper back down the work surface.
- Using the uncovered photo as a reference, pencil in any other salient details by eye. Also contour lines for shadows. All of the pencil lines are going to be erased later, so don't be shy.
- Whenever you decide you're done with the pencil, get a good pen and start tracing, directly over the pencil lines. I tend not to be too persnicketty about my tools but decent pens are a real help here. For these recent works, I picked up a three-pack of beige-tubed Micron pens for $7 (this set).
- In all of the following pen-related steps, be careful to keep your big stupid hand and arm off the wet ink you just laid down–one careless smear can ruin a few hours' work. Having a work surface that you can rotate is nice, so your pen hand can approach the drawing from any angle. Anytime I have to lay my hand on the drawing, I put down a piece of clean scrap paper first. Even if the underlying ink is dry, it just feels like a smart precaution.
- Once the lines are on, add döts to taste. With a little experimentation, you can get patterns of dots to not only indicate light and dark but also suggest textures. Different pen tips and amounts of pressure will yield dots of different sizes, which can also be useful. Dense, overlapping dots can produce an effect similar to scratchboard. BTW, sometimes I do "gear down" and place each dot with thought and care, but in the dense sections I just rat-a-tat-tat like a Lilliputian jackhammer. Try different speeds and see what you can tolerate.
- When you're done dötting, at least to a first approximation, and you're dead certain the ink is all dry, get a decent eraser and erase all of the pencil lines. I used one of those clicky mechanical erasers because it was cheap and soft enough to not tear up the paper.
- Re-ink any lines lightened by the erasing. I find that the döts are usually unaffected, but lines are often knocked down a bit by the eraser work. I suppose it would be cleaner to just draw natively in pen, with no prior pencilling and therefore no erasing, but the few times I've tried it, it hasn't gone well. YMMV. If you're drawing a 3D solid, this is a good time to employ an old illustrator's trick, which is to make the bottom outline heavier and darker than the rest, to subtly convey a sense of weight.
- Scan, touch up as needed in GIMP, post to blog, bask in self-admiration.
In this case I had a few more steps, which consisted of making variants of the drawing and test-driving them by Vicki and Alison so they could pick their favorites.
This is just embarrassing: after scanning the two drawings and doing a little touch-up, I just scooted them together until they looked like a skull. The problem is that the occiput is nowhere near anatomical position. See that flange of bone above the ear-hole, pointed down and right at a 45-degree angle? That's the back end of the zygomatic arch, and it should be aimed at the forward stump of the arch, which is just down and back from the eye socket.
Here's the B version, where I was working entirely off of the zygomatic arch ends, and trying to get the skull into anatomical position. Scientifically this is probably the best variant I produced (I'm not claiming it's the best possible), but aesthetically it's a little crowded.
I'll spare you versions C-E, all of which just scooted the back end of the skull around in an attempt to find a balance between scientific and aesthetic concerns. Here's the winning F version, which got used for the figure, and became the seed variant for the cover.
For the cover, we tried a lot of things, including the white skull on a black background, and one that was simply inverted from the figure. By this point the publisher had sent Vicki some test versions of the cover, and I thought it would be cool if the drawing was in the same color as the cover text, so I sampled that color from the publisher's sample cover image and applied it to all of the drawn bits. They knocked it down a few tones for the printed version, so happily it's not this garish.
Incidentally, I had never tried to replace a bunch of discontinuous areas of the same color with another color in GIMP, so I had to look it up. The two key steps are Select > By color, with the threshold set to zero (or not, if you want to grab a bunch of related colors at once), and "Fill whole selection" in the Bucket tool. Hat tip to this dude and his commenters.
One last step: I thought the bare, unfilled yellow version looked too flat, so I tried different levels of fill to make the skull pop out from the background. I didn't use bucket fill here–too fiddly with so many dots and edges. Instead I created a new layer of solid yellow and dropped the opacity to 17%. Then went to the drawing layer and used the magic wand tool to select the whole non-skull background. Then popped back to the yellow layer and cleared that selection, leaving yellow fill only in the boundaries of the skull outline. I also tried 10% and 25% opacity for the fill layer, but 10% was too subtle and 25% was starting to swamp some of the detail in the drawing. Between goofing around with colors and opacity levels we went through 10 versions at this stage, of which the one above is the ultimate champion.
So, that's how the cover art came to be. Back to the book. There's a bibliography with 1237 references (Vicki knows), and an index. The book is hardbound, with a printed cover and no dustjacket, and IMHO reasonably priced at $65, currently a few bucks less on Amazon. You probably already know whether you want a copy. If so, do the right thing–it's not too late to get it by Christmas.
Wedel, V.L., and Galloway, A. 2013. Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma, Second Edition. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, 504 pp.
Wedel, V.L., G. Found, and G.L. Nusse. 2013. A 37 year-old cold case identification using novel and collaborative methods. Journal of Forensic Identification 63(1): 5-21.
Bare bear bone: beautiful
December 17, 2013
Yes, it's bear skulls on the brain lately. I have nothing scientific to say here, I was just going through old files and found myself struck by the beautiful form and texture of the bones. The photos are all close-ups of this skull of an American black bear, Ursus americanus.
Part of the forehead, where the nasal bones (bottom center) and maxillae (either side) meet the frontals (top).
The left temporal bone in posterodorsal view; anterior is to the left. The open web of bone in the middle of the photo is one of the pneumatic sinuses inside the temporal bone. The round hole just above the web enclosed a blood vessel in life. The half-tube on the right is the bottom half of external auditory meatus, or bony ear-hole (where you stick the Q-tip when you clean your ears, if you're a reckless, safety-warning-diregarding outlaw). All of this got exposed when a bullet or shotgun slug took the back quarter of this bear's head off, as described here.
Personally I'd be happier if the skull was still in the bear and the bear was still doing its bearish business, but as long as it's dead anyway, we might as well learn what we can from the remains (my universal policy on dead animals). And also just stop now and then to appreciate their natural intricacy and beauty.
Carnivore Skull Challenge: the reveal
December 10, 2013
Many thanks to everyone who played pin-the-skull-on-the-carnivore. The answers are down at the bottom of this post, so if you've just arrived here and want to take the challenge, go here before you scroll down.
To fill up some space, let me point out how crazy variable the skulls of black bears, Ursus americanus, are.
Here's the one I helped dig up, missing the occipital region. Note the double inflection in the dorsal outline that separates the forehead from both the snout and top of the head, and the way the nasal bones stick out at a very different angle from the maxilla.
Here's the skull of a black bear from the La Brea tar pits, in the Page Museum in L.A. I don't know if this one was female or juvenile or what, but the dorsal margin of the skull is one mostly-smooth curve from occiput almost to incisors, with the nasals scarcely deviating at all. Lest you think these differences were caused by evolutionary change rather than intraspecific variation, similar "roundhead" bear skulls from modern times are here and here and near the bottom of this page.
It's this variability that first got me thinking about doing the Carnivore Skull Challenge. I saw a couple of photos of skulls of wolverines, and except for having carnassial cheek teeth instead of flatter premolars and molars, the wolverine skulls look like they could fit right into the span of black bear skull variability (in shape; obviously they're not nearly as big). Then I saw a hyena skull and thought that it wasn't that far off from a wolverine either. A little more searching for plausible distractors and I was all set.
Here are the answers, by the way:
It's kind of ironic, then, that the first two people to venture identifications picked out the black bear right away. In the very first comment, Dean got it almost all right except for swapping the seal and the fossa. Dean was also the first to get all of the skulls correctly identified, albeit on his second pass. Markus Bühler (of Cthulhu-sculpting fame) was the first to get them all the first time. Tom Nutter, our own Darren Naish, and microecos Neil also aced the test, although in light of the Page Museum bear skull shown above, I was amused to see Darren's "D: Bear. Because forehead." I guess it's one of those presence-of-forehead-means-bear, absence-of-forehead-does-not-rule-out-bear things that logicians are always going on about.
I was really happy to see people getting the wolverine and hyena mixed up, because they really do look strikingly similar to me. It's almost like hyena + bear = wolverine.
Brian Engh asked on Facebook when I was going to do one for sauropods. Patience, good sir! It's on my to-do list.
Finally, speaking of bear skulls, you can get a sweet tiny bronze one with a hinged jaw as part of this already successful Kickstarter, or from Fireandbone.com once the Kickstarter ends.
Something very different, and very unexpected, tomorrow.
Know your mammal skulls? Take the Carnivore Skull Challenge!
December 9, 2013
In this image I have assembled photos of skulls (or casts of skulls) of six extant carnivores. I exclusively used photos from the Skulls Unlimited website because they had all the taxa I wanted, lit about the same and photographed from similar angles. The omission of scale indicators is deliberate.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to match these skulls with the animals they came from. Here are their currently-understood hierarchical relationships, scientific names, and common names (aside: I know this is ugly, is there a way to make nested tables in WordPress?).
- – Herpestoidea
- – - – Eupleridae
- – - – - – Fossa, Cryptoprocta ferox
- – - – Hyaenidae
- – - – - – Brown hyena, Hyaena brunnea
- – Arctoidea
- – - – Ursoidea
- – - – - – American black bear, Ursus americanus
- – - – Musteloidea
- – - – - – European badger, Meles meles
- – - – - – Wolverine, Gulo gulo
- – - – Pinnipedia
- – - – - – Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus
If you accept the challenge, leave your guesses as comments below, but only if you've played fair–no checking websites, references, or your own skull collection! Don't worry about being wrong, I freely admit that I would have flunked this bigtime if anyone else had inflicted it on me. I decided to set up this challenge after I noticed the striking similarity between two of these critters in particular; I'll tell you which two when I post the reveal in a day or two.


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Brahmo Samaj
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Brahmo Samaj (Bengawi ব্রাহ্ম সমাজ Bramho Shômaj) is de societaw component of Brahmoism, a monodeistic reformist and renaissance movement of Hindu rewigion. It is practised today mainwy as de Adi Dharm after its ecwipse in Bengaw conseqwent to de exit of de Tattwabodini Sabha from its ranks in 1859. After de pubwication of Hemendranaf Tagore's Brahmo Anusdan (code of practice) in 1860 which formawwy divorced Brahmoism from Hinduism, de first Brahmo Samaj was founded in 1861 at Lahore by Pandit Nobin Chandra Roy.
It was one of de most infwuentiaw rewigious reformist movements[1] responsibwe for de making of modern India.[2] It was started at Cawcutta on 20 August 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Debendranaf Tagore as reformation of de prevaiwing Brahmanism of de time (specificawwy Kuwin practices) and began de Bengaw Renaissance of de 19f century pioneering aww rewigious, sociaw and educationaw advance of de Hindu community in de 19f century. Its Trust Deed was made in 1830 formawising its inception and it was duwy and pubwicwy inaugurated in January 1830 by de consecration of de first house of prayer, now known as de Adi Brahmo Samaj.[3] From de Brahmo Samaj springs Brahmoism, one of de recent sects or faids of Hinduism. It is not recognised in India as a separate rewigion distinct from Hinduism despite its non-syncretic "foundation of Rammohun Roy's reformed spirituaw Hinduism (contained in de 1830 Banian deed) and incwusion of root Hebraic – Iswamic creed and practice" [4] dough de position is different in Bangwadesh.[5]
Meaning of name The Brahmo Samaj witerawwy denotes community (Sanskrit: samaj) of men who worship Brahman de highest reawity.[6] In reawity Brahmo Samaj does not discriminate between caste, creed or rewigion and is an assembwy of aww sorts and descriptions of peopwe widout distinction, meeting pubwicwy for de sober, orderwy, rewigious and devout adoration of "de (namewess) unsearchabwe Eternaw, Immutabwe Being who is de Audor and Preserver of de Universe."[7]
Sociaw and rewigious reform[edit]
In aww fiewds of sociaw reform, incwuding abowition of de caste system and of de dowry system, emancipation of women, and improving de educationaw system, de Brahmo Samaj refwected de ideowogies of de Bengaw Renaissance. Brahmoism, as a means of discussing de dowry system, was a centraw deme of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's noted 1914 Bengawi wanguage novewwa, Parineeta.
In 1866, Keshub Chunder Sen organised de more radicaw "Brahmo Samaj of India" wif overtones of Christianity. He campaigned for de education of women and against chiwd marriages. But he nonedewess arranged a marriage for his own underage daughter. The Brahmo Samaj of India spwit after dis act of underage marriage generated a controversy and his pro-British utterances and weaning towards Christian rites generated more controversies. A dird group, "Sadharan (ordinary) Brahmo Samaj", was formed in 1878. It graduawwy reverted to de teaching of de Upanishads but continued de work of sociaw reform. The movement, awways an ewite group widout significant popuwar fowwowing, wost force in de 20f century.
After de controversy of underage marriage of Keshub Chunder Sen's daughter, de Speciaw Marriages Act of 1872 was enacted to set de minimum age of 14 years for marriage of girws.[8] Aww Brahmo marriages were dereafter sowemnised under dis waw. Many Indians resented de reqwirement of de affirmation "I am not Hindu, nor a Mussawman, nor a Christian" for sowemnising a marriage under dis Act. The reqwirement of dis decwaration was imposed by Henry James Sumner Maine, wegaw member of Governor Generaw's Counciw appointed by Britain, uh-hah-hah-hah. The 1872 Act was repeawed by de Speciaw Marriage Act, 1954 under which any person of any rewigion couwd marry. The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 appwies to aww Hindus incwuding fowwowers of de Brahmo Samaj. In India de statutory minimum age of marriage for fowwowers of Brahmo Samaj is de same as for aww Indians, viz., 21 years for mawes and 18 years for femawes. It is awso de age marriage in Bangwadesh.
It awso supported sociaw reform movements of peopwe not directwy attached to de Samaj, such as Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar's movement which promoted widow re-marriage.
The fowwowing doctrines, as noted in Renaissance of Hinduism, are common to aww varieties and offshoots of de Brahmo Samaj:[9]
- Brahmo Samajists have no faif in any scripture as an audority.
- Brahmo Samajists have no faif in Avatars.
- Brahmo Samajists denounce powydeism and idow-worship.
- Brahmo Samajists are against caste restrictions.
- Brahmo Samajists make faif in de doctrines of Karma and Rebirf optionaw.
Principwes of Brahmo Samaj[edit]
The fowwowing prime principwes are accepted by de vast majority of Brahmos today.[10]
- On God: There is awways Infinite Singuwarity – immanent and transcendent Singuwar Audor and Preserver of Existence – He who is manifest everywhere and in everyding, in de fire and in de water, in de smawwest pwant to de mightiest oak.
- On Being: Being is created from Singuwarity. Being is renewed to Singuwarity. Being exists to be one (again) wif Loving Singuwarity.
- On Intewwigent Existence: Righteous actions awone ruwe Existence against Chaos. Knowwedge of pure Conscience (wight widin) is de One (Supreme) ruwer of Existence wif no symbow or intermediary.
- On Love wove and wove: Respect aww creations and beings but never venerate (worship) dem for onwy Singuwarity can be adored.
Supreme Court decision[edit]
In a wawsuit deawing wif de rights of aided educationaw institutions run by Brahmo Samaj, de Supreme Court of India decided on 5 May 2004 dat de University Services Commission cannot compwetewy controw de sewection of teachers weaving no rowe in it at aww for de aided educationaw institutions. The court did not consider it necessary to decide wheder de institution was in fact a minority institution, uh-hah-hah-hah.[11] It has been wrongwy cwaimed by some dat de court's decision meant dat de fowwowers of Brahmo Samaj are not Hindus. The court deawt wif onwy rights of aided educationaw institutions to appoint teachers of deir choice and did not comment wheder Brahmo Samaj educationaw institutions were minority institutions. It did not decware Brahmo Samaj as a separate rewigion, uh-hah-hah-hah.
In Brahmo Samaj Education Society vs. State of West Bengaw (2004) 6 SCC 224, de Supreme Court of India hewd dat notwidstanding an institution was receiving aid, its right to choose teachers, subject to fuwfiwwing de reqwisite qwawification, couwd not be taken away by a State University Service Commission, uh-hah-hah-hah. The distinguishing features of Brahmo Samaj decision are:[12]
(a) The Supreme Court did not consider it necessary to answer de issue wheder de institution was in fact a minority institution, uh-hah-hah-hah.
(b) The University Services Commission wanted to compwetewy controw de sewection of teachers weaving no rowe in it at aww for de institution, uh-hah-hah-hah. It was in dose circumstances dat it was observed dat such a condition was not consistent wif de rights of an aided institution, uh-hah-hah-hah.
(c) The Supreme Court did not interpret de scope and ambit of de right under Articwe 30(1) of de Constitution, uh-hah-hah-hah.
(d) The Supreme Court uwtimatewy did not decide de vawidity of de impugned provision as is apparent from para 11 of de decision, uh-hah-hah-hah. It issued a direction dat de State Government shouwd take note of de judgment in TMA Pai and make suitabwe amendments to de waws.
Divisions of Brahmo Samaj[edit]
See awso[edit]
- Adi Brahmo Samaj
- Adi Dharm
- Arya Samaj
- History of Bengaw
- Prardana Samaj
- Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
- Tattwabodhini Patrika
References and notes[edit]
- ^ J. N. Farqwhar, Modern Rewigious Movements of India (1915), p. 29
- ^ "Brahmo Samaj and de making of modern India, David Kopf, pubw. 1979 Princeton University Press (USA)."
- ^ "Modern Rewigious movements in India, J.N.Farqwhar (1915)" page 29 etc.
- ^ "Officiaw Brahmo website". Brahmosamaj.org. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
- ^ "Bangwadesh Law Commission" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-10-15.
- ^ page 1 Chapter 1 Vowume 1 History of de Brahmo Samaj by Sivanaf Sastri, 1911, 1st edn, uh-hah-hah-hah. pubwisher R.Chatterji, Cornwawwis St. Cawcutta. Brahmo (ব্রাহ্ম bramho) witerawwy means "one who worships Brahman", and Samaj (সমাজ shômaj) mean "community of men".
- ^ Trust deed of Brahmo Sabha 1830
- ^ "Brahma Sabha". Bangwapedia.search.com.bd. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
- ^ Source: The Gazetteer of India, Vowume 1: Country and peopwe. Dewhi, Pubwications Division, Government of India, 1965. CHAPTER VIII – Rewigion, uh-hah-hah-hah. HINDUISM by Dr. C.P.Ramaswami Aiyar, Dr. Nawinaksha Dutt, Prof. A.R.Wadia, Prof. M.Mujeeb,Dr.Dharm Paw and Fr. Jerome D'Souza, S.J.
- ^ "Account Suspended". Brahmosamaj.org. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
- ^ http://dewhicourts.nic.in/Nov06/Jesus%20and%20Mary%20Cowwege%20Vs.%20University%20of%20Dewhi.pdf
- ^ http://dewhicourts.nic.in/Nov06/Jesus%20and%20Mary%20Cowwege%20Vs.%20University%20of%20Dewhi.pdf
Externaw winks[edit]
- Sadharan Brahmo Samaj
- Worwd Brahmo Counciw
- Bewiefs of Brahmo Samaj
- Brahmo Samaj in de Encycwopædia Britannica
- "The Tagores & Society" from de Rabindra Bharati Museum at Rabindra Bharati University
- The Brahmo Samaj


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THE last surviving ex-soldier from an historic North West army battalion has died at the age of 89.
Wallace Jackson, of Greenbank, Ambleside, served with the 2nd Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers during the Second World War, seeing action in Algiers, Tunisia, Sicily and at the notorious battle for Monte Cassino in Italy.
Mr Jackson was born in Chadderton, Oldham, the eldest son of seven children.
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Mr Jackson's son, Leonard Jackson, said: "My father was always happy to talk about the war and his experiences.
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It was was busy weekend with training camp in full swing. So what did we learn?
1. Relax Tennessee fans. Kiffin said he did nothing wrong: Tennessee athletics director Mike Hamilton acknowledged at the end of last week that the school may receive a letter of inquiry from the NCAA. My experience is when the school says a letter is coming, it's probably already in the mail. Tennessee has already self-reported six minor recruiting violations by Kiffin and his staff. NCAA investigators looked into actions by the school's recruiting hostess program when Kiffin was head coach for 14 unforgettable months. Kiffin left for USC last Janaury but he is proving to be the gift that keeps on giving.
We now know that NCAA investigators were on campus last spring talking to Tennessee coaches who were part of Kiffin's staff but remained in Knoxville when he bolted for the West Coast.
"I have great confidence in what we did there, that we didn't do anything wrong," Kiffin told reporters over the weekend. "Just because they're looking into something doesn't mean we did anything wrong."
Well, if I'm a Tennessee fan I know I feel a lot better.
2. SEC West, ACC Coastal the best: I said in a speech last week that the two top divisions in college football this season would be the SEC West and the ACC Coastal. The first USA Today Coaches Poll proves that out. Four teams in the SEC West (No. 1 Alabama, No. 16 LSU, No. 19 Arkansas, and No. 23 Auburn) were ranked as were four teams in the ACC Coastal (No. 7 Virginia Tech, No. 13 Miami, No. 17 Georgia Tech, No. 18 North Carolina). The round robin in those two divisions will be appointment football this season.
For those of you who are keeping score at home (and I know you are) the SEC had six total teams ranked (No. 3 Florida and No. 21 Georgia From the East) while the ACC had five (Florida State of the Atlantic Division was No. 20)
3. Give Nick Saban credit. He's consistent: When I met with Alabama coach Nick Saban back in the spring, he made the case to me that Alabama probably shouldn't be considered the nation's No. 1 team in the preseason. He made a very logical argument based on the number of starters he would have to replace on defense (9) and the fact that his special teams were simply decimated and he would likely have true freshmen at both kicking spots.
When the coaches poll came out Friday Alabama received 55 of 59 first place votes. One of the four coaches who did not vote Alabama at No. 1 was Saban.
Note: I'm putting the finishing touches on my preseason Top 25. We will release it over five days–five teams a day–starting on Monday, Aug. 16. The top five will be released on Friday, August. 20.
4. Is "grayshirting" fair to the kids? Kevin Scarbinsky wrote a thoughtful piece on the practice of "grayshirting" players. It's the practice of signing more than the allotted 25 players with the knowledge that it is a numbers game. If you sign 28 (which is the SEC limit) and all 28 qualify academically, three guys are going to get left without a scholarship. Those three have to pay their own way to school in the fall with the promise that a scholarship will await them in January.
Kevin believes that is not fair to the players and their families who sign in good faith. The counter argument is this is just part of doing business at this level of college football.
Seems to me that if the school is transparent and as long as everybody understands the risks involved up front, then the process is acceptable. If the player and his family are genuinely surprised when he doesn't get a scholarship in August, then there is a problem. Read Kevin's story and tell me what you think:
5. Be careful with that "we're a better team" argument: I know what Florida's Chris Rainey was trying to say when he told Pat Dooley of the Gainesville Sun that the Gators would be better off this season without all those "prima donnas" from 2009.
The point young Mr. Rainey was attempting to make was that this team does not have as many high-profile and NFL ready players as last season's team, which lost quarterback Tim Tebow and five NFL draft choices from the defense. Because so many "name" players are gone this team has to bond in order to be better than the sum of its parts. I get that.
But also know that this was the argument that Georgia made in 2009 after quarterback Matt Stafford, the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, and running back Knowshon Moreno, the No. 12 pick in the draft, were gone.
Bonding and working together are very important in college football. But you can carry that argument to the extreme. There is no substitute for talent. It's hard to have a good team without good players. It's REALLY hard to have a great team without great players.
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August 9th, 2010
2:59 pm
I agree with you on the talent level. There a lots of great players all around the country. You see that every year during the NFL draft. UGA has certainly had their share and will continue to do so. Should be a much more compelling game this year than it has been the last few.
August 9th, 2010
3:03 pm
Kiffin doesn't know the difference between what is right and what wrong!
August 9th, 2010
3:04 pm
The problem with Grayshirting is paying for these kids to be inschool in June as some the kids at both Bama and LSU. Who paid that tab? If the schools paid for the tab then these kids, then go to them in August and now say sorry. It is wrong..
August 9th, 2010
3:11 pm
Beast… True & good point, one cannot assume we would have won against OSU but as Mayo said in his post I was extrapolating a little based not only OSU's bowl record against SEC teams but with the way both teams were playing at the time. In my belief (which is not fact) we would have beaten OSU that year and won the National Championship. Unfortunately, we did not get the chance. Looking forward to this year though. Gonna be fun.
August 9th, 2010
3:52 pm
The project manager and lead architect for the expansion of Bryant-Denny are both Auburn grads. Auburn can now share in BAMA's success and stop being so jealous. This is truly a great day!
August 9th, 2010
4:19 pm
Tide Rising -
It is exactly as simple as I mentioned with gray-shirting.
Obviously you can't see into the future and tell with any certainty about attrition.
However, if I recall correctly, teams are able to sign 25 players each year. Scholarship limits are at 85. Some players stick around for just three years, some for 5 (or occasionally, 6). If you can't keep 80-85 players each year, you have to ask yourself about the kind of players you're recruiting. It does not make sense to go after 15 kids with questionable test scores the year after you had 10 kids fail to qualify academically.
Certainly, if this were a business, I'd like a full roster. But to play with 83 scholarship players is much better than doing a disservice to a single student-athlete. If these kids want to play at a major school THAT BADLY, be up front with them, tell them they can walk on and have a chance to earn a scholarship their 2nd year once the attrition hits. Don't tell them the full ride is there, then oh, sorry, you qualified but so did everyone else, so you need to hang at a JUCO this year when you could have been playing at USF, Texas A&M or even Arkansas St.
As you know there are ways around the 25 man rule, having players enroll early to count against the prior year's class, and other tricks. I would not be opposed to a four year rule allowing a class to go past the 25 man limit once every four years in cases such as Auburn where there was significant attrition. But I can't stand behind anyone who offers a scholarship they don't have. It is exactly that plain and simple.
August 9th, 2010
5:00 pm
I'm just catching up here. To whom it may concern, TampaGator, Tide Rising and I are separate entities. Notice I said, "entities," not "identities," as in real people. The three of us have had many encounters in AJC blogland.
- TampaGator, If you like crime novels, Robert Crais is a relative newcomer (23 years of writing), but I've read all of his. Follow his own recommendation and start with "LA Requiem." I'm reading James Ellroy's "LA Quartet" series (The Black Dahlia, et al,) and Ellroy is a *whole* lot darker.
- Tide Rising, the Lake Burton angle on future moves by Mr. Saban may actually give that sneaky rumor some legs. My uncle lived up there for almost 40 years and he was a big trout fisherman.
August 9th, 2010
5:43 pm
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August 9th, 2010
5:55 pm
TampaGator best of luck in retirement..Gator or no you bring the passion a true college fan should without the vitriol so many other do…best of luck to you none for the Gators !
August 9th, 2010
6:09 pm
I have no problems with 'grayshirting' as long as the players can accept multiple scholarships based on the very reasonable premise that they need to cover their bases should an offer be revoked. I suspect the coaches & others who see no problem with the practice would object if we even it out.
August 9th, 2010
6:38 pm
What's all this talk about the almighty Saban?? This is an Atlanta newspaper right?
I SAY IT'S GREAT TO BE A GEORGIA BULLDAWG (in the preseason before they play the games)
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August 9th, 2010
6:50 pm
Grant has some amazing posts. Very insightful as always, clearly the cream of this blog's crop.
August 9th, 2010
6:51 pm
Agreed Jiffy, he is obviously a step beyond guys like Tide Rising.
August 9th, 2010
6:53 pm
If we could just get Grant to post 20 times more than Delbert, we might just have some intelligent things to blog sabout here. I guess that's imnpossible.
August 9th, 2010
6:59 pm
Grant's the first person I've seen on the internet to point out that it was John Brantley who was the QB on the field when the timeouts were called against Georgia. Pretty interesting how no one else has noticed that.
August 9th, 2010
7:02 pm
Guys, Grant also was the only blogger today to hit on how Nick Saban is pretty inconsistent. It's true, go look at his record. Surprising.
August 9th, 2010
7:04 pm
Precisely fellows, and imagine someone like Tampa Gator calling Grant, of all people on the blog, a 'buffoon'? I didn't get that. I thought Grant had some amazing posts.
August 9th, 2010
7:09 pm
Why do you think Saban lost 3 games after his big year in LSU? Might be he sort of stacks the deck for a big year every 9 or 10 years, and then pretty much throws the rest of the seasons in the crapper. Saban probably hopes everybody measures him by 2 years, instead of his WHOLE coachign career record. A lot of 6 and 7 win season in there, even a 7 win season in Tuscaloosa.
August 9th, 2010
7:14 pm
Well, it comes down to your definitation of success, doesn't it? Saban probably thinks he's successful because he has 2 good seasons, where a Coach like Coach Richt probably defines success more about consistency and winning.
August 9th, 2010
7:17 pm
I'll bet Georgia will remember those timeouts Brantley called in 2008 when they start watching the film from the last couple of Ga/Fla games and it's going to effect the way the defense plays.
August 9th, 2010
7:19 pm
Pat Hayden will kick Kiffen's tail if he gets out of line at USC. Hayden has more class than Kiffen,Carroll, or that idiot former AD. USC is very close to getting the "death penalty" when you think about it. Ogeron and Kiffen alone are fully capable of doing something stupid enough to get the boom lowered. I hope so.
August 9th, 2010
7:27 pm
Why did Saban lose 3 games at LSU after wiining the Championship? Could be his team got too full of themselves after that year, happens a bunch, very few teams repeat in college football, especilly in the SEC. You start building statues with your own face on em', and you got a lot of ego involved.
August 9th, 2010
7:29 pm
I've always thought guys who are only good once or twice over a long career, just got a lucky year in there where every break went their way. Saban's career kind of has that trajectory. He's not much of a coach, except 2 or 3 seasons over his career.
August 9th, 2010
7:35 pm
Sounds like the Florida running backs are still a little sore at Tebow for calling his own number on so many option plays last season. it was wierd how many times tebow called his own number, considering Demps rushing average was a lot better thsan Tebow's. But for Demps to think his team will be better WITHOUT a bunch of primma donnas? He's got a whole team full of 5 star recruits. Nothing but primma donnas on the Florida team.
August 9th, 2010
7:39 pm
Keep in mind that Derek Dooley beat Nick Saban, while Dooley was coaching at L. Tech and Saban was in Tuscaloosa, pretty bad for Alabama Crimson Tide to lose to L. Tech. Not much coaching right there, I think that was back in 2007, or 2008, can't remember.
August 9th, 2010
7:44 pm
No, I think it was Loisiana Monroe, not Lousisiana Tech that beat Saban's Tide back in 2007. Saban compared that loss ot Pearl Harbor, such a classy guy.
August 9th, 2010
7:45 pm
Holy cow, comparing a football game to Pearl Harbor? Tell me your joking? Where do these kind of coaches come from?
August 9th, 2010
7:47 pm
Oh that's nothing by Saban's standards. He got voted 'the most hated man in sports' by Forbes magazine for leaving Miami for Alabama. A lot of people felt Nick S. just straight up lied.
August 9th, 2010
7:49 pm
Yeah, that's right, it was L. Monroe, not L. Tech, gave Derek Dooley too much credit. Saban's back to his insult game–called sports agents 'pimps' last week. Real dignified there.
August 9th, 2010
7:51 pm
Anyone who proclaims to be "first" is a fag.
August 9th, 2010
7:54 pm
I'll bet you Saban's career winning percentage will not be on his statue.
August 9th, 2010
8:10 pm
Oh yeah, I found the video where Saban compared losing to L. Monroe & MSU back to back to Pearl Harbor and 911. That comment was a slap in the face to the coaches that beat him. it was also shocking to the 911 and Pearl Harbor families. Just so tasteless.
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August 9th, 2010
8:37 pm
Here's Saban's career:
1) 1990- 9-2
next season 6-5
2) 97- 7-5
next season 6-6
3) 99- 9-2
next season 8-4
4) 01- 10-3
next season 8-5
5) 03- 13-1
next season 9-3
6) 09- 12-1
10- 13-0
5 out of 6 times, he went downhill after a decent year.
August 9th, 2010
8:40 pm
I think Saban went 12-2 in 08, and then 14-0 in 2009.
August 9th, 2010
8:43 pm
Saban should start saying 'how much worse do you want to be than last year?' That's more true to his coaching record.
Or maybe 'just focus on the process of getting worse than the previous year, just always lose more games the next season–focus on the process–of losing more games'
August 9th, 2010
8:45 pm
Guys, give Saban credit, he did get better once in his career, during the 2008-2009 run.
August 9th, 2010
8:47 pm
I've read where some call Saban the most inconsistent coach in college football, now I see why by looking at his record. It's good one year, worse the next.
August 9th, 2010
8:50 pm
I look at consecutive top 10 finishes in 'seasons', not individual 'games', when I look for greatness. Anybody can be lucky for a game, like a National Championship, but it's harder to finish in the top 10 four times in a row like Richt did at Georgia. Something Meyer or Saban, have never been able to do.
August 9th, 2010
8:52 pm
Ron Mexico,
We'll just have to respectfully agree to disagree on the grayshirting issue but I think you have one misconception about it. The player or players who redshirt are not sent packing to JUCO for a year. They are only delaying enrollment by 1 semester. Secondly the guys that are told that they may have to take a grayshirt upfront are guys that are project players and would have redshirted anyway and been buried on the depth chart. They wouldn't have missed any real playing time. Last of course in Bama's case the couple of players who are told of the possibility of grayshirting are told upfront about this. They know the deal going in and if they don't like it they don't have to sign with Bama. They can go to Ark state or elsewhere. No one is forcing them to sign with Bama. As long as you're upfront with the kid and he understands it and still signs then it is what it is and really shouldn't be anyone else's concern. The funny thing is that Mike Shula grayshirted more players every year than Saban yet nobody complained when Shula did it. They only complain that Saban does it. Gee. Can you imagine what the real motivation behind that is?
August 9th, 2010
8:56 pm
That's a nice stat but Saban was only at LSU for 5 years and when he took over it was a rebuilding year to begin with so not finishing top 10 4 straight years isn't that unusual. He's only been at Bama 3 but you can bet that in the next 2 years he will finish top 10 to have that 4 straight top 10 finishes that you seem to think defines a coach. You define a great coach by a good but not great 4 year stretch. I define a coach by sec and national championships of which Saban has 3 conference titles in 8 years and 2 bcs titles while taking over rebuilding jobs at 2 different schools.
August 9th, 2010
9:04 pm
Saban's been coaching since 1990, anyone that can name 4 years in a row where he finished in the top 10 final rankings if he's so good? No? Didn't think so.
August 9th, 2010
9:05 pm
If you want to define success as 1 game, versus, 4 seasons, fine. But most people would disagree wiht you.
August 9th, 2010
9:06 pm
Earl, Jiffy Jeff, Uncle G, and Dale,
You guys sure spend a lot of time talking about how bad Nick Saban sucks. But alas, you are right. The guy sucks as a coach. You must be very happy that we have such a crappy coach. Sucks for us I guess. Terribly inconsistent too while in the sec. Only 3 conference titles and only 2 bcs titles in 8 years of coaching in the sec. Can you imagine coaching 8 years in the sec and only having 3 conference titles and only 2 bcs titles. That's horrible! Only a 75% winning percentage at LSU and only an 80% winning percentage so far at Bama. I'll say goodnight now and spend the rest of the evening privately stewing over how bad our coach sucks. Man do I ever hate having such a crappy coach! I hate it!
August 9th, 2010
9:06 pm
Anyone name 4 seasons in a row where Urban Meyer finished in the top 10 in the final polls if he's so good?
August 9th, 2010
9:08 pm
Saban's been a great coach, 2x in his career.
August 9th, 2010
9:09 pm
Oops, meant to say 1x, it was his 2008-2009 consecutive top 10 finishes.
August 9th, 2010
9:10 pm
Saban's not a great coach, consistently, coach Richt is.
August 9th, 2010
9:10 pm
You're right Earl. Anyone head coaching at Toledo should have at least 4 straight top 10 finishes. You're absolutely right. Just another reason why Saban sucks. Michigan State? The little brother to Michigan, Ohio State, Penn St., and everyone else in the big 10. Yeah, if you can't finish with 4 straight top 10s there then you really suck. Every other coach that coached before and after Saban at Mich state wins big 10 and national titles left and right. Yep. Mich state. Its certainly a coaches dream to coach there. Yessirreee.
August 9th, 2010
9:11 pm
WHy ya'll dragging me into the mud?
August 9th, 2010
9:11 pm
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As UNHCR statistics generally rely on data from host countries, statistics on refugees alone can give an insufficient account of refugee numbers, as some host countries will not grant refugee status to certain groups. Including statistics for individuals in refugee-like situations is an attempt to account for unrecognised refugees and does not include internally displaced persons. Statistics for stateless refugees are included if available. Various is a category that does not account for the refugee's origin. These statistics, which are for 2011, are the latest available, are provisional and are subject to change.
Click here to see the numbers and origins of refugees hosted by Bulgaria. According to UNHCR statistics for 2011, 5,688 refugees and individuals in refugee-like situations were resident in Bulgaria.
Balgarski advokati za pravata na coveka - Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights Foundation (BLHR)
www.blhr.org / In English
Gurko Street 49А floor 3, Sofia 1000
Tel: +35 99 80 39 67
Tel/Fax: +35 99 86 66 23
Provides legal assistance and strategic litigation related to specific, repeated violations of human rights as Bulgarian and international courts and revealing inconsistency of the Bulgarian legislation and case law with international standards.
Bulgarian Red Cross, Refugee and Migrant Services
www.redcross.bg / In English
Contact information for different offices can be found on their website / In English
E-mail: secretariatredcross [dot] bg
The Bulgarian Red Cross provides advice to receive protection and those seeking asylum on their rights and responsibilities, social orientation, placement, orientation in institutions, medical examinations and grugi. Every weekday, from 13.30 to 16.30.
The Bulgarian Red Cross also assists refugees by providing financial assistance, support for education of children (e.g. funds for lunch and school supplies), university fees, medical and psychiatric care.
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
www.bghelsinki.org / In English
Refugees and Migrants Legal Protection Programme, 1 Uzundjovska Street, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel/Fax: +35 92 98 80 057, +35 92 98 13 318
Email: refunitbghelsinki [dot] org
The programme offers legal consultations, representation and attorney defense to approximately 5,000 people annually; takes part in the development of the refugee and immigration policy of Bulgaria; and assists the integration of refugees in Bulgaria, as well as for their dignified return to their countries of origin.
The programme offers free specialised legal consultations. The programme staff are engaged in: representation in refugee status determination proceedings, professional and independent legal defence, defence before the courts and other state institutions, assistance for successful integration, assistance for voluntary repatriation.
Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria
1000 5 Б Triaditsa Str., floor 2, office 226, Sofia
Tel/Fax: +35 92 98 10 779
Mobile: +35 98 94 76 01 80
Email: daskalova [dot] dianagmail [dot] com
Reception hours: Every Thursday, 10:00-12:00
"Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria" (CLA) is an independent, non-profit organisation founded in the public interest and focused on promoting the rights of migrants and refugees on the territory of Bulgaria, as well as other vulnerable groups of people, through legal aid and policy advocacy. Committed to the belief that all people deserve justice, effective representation, and the realisation of their rights, the aim of CLA is to be a voice in society for all who have no voice, promoting justice and truth, with mercy and compassion.
The CLA advocates for the rights of migrants, promotes progressive legislative reform, and raises public awareness about issues of immigration and integration in Bulgaria. Our vision is to achieve the legal and social recognition and protection of the fundamental human rights of some of the most vulnerable people in Bulgaria.
The Legal Clinic for Refugees and Immigrants, Law Faculty of Sofia University
15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., 1504 Sofia
Email: lcribggmail [dot] com
The Legal Clinic for Refugees and Immigrants at the Law Faculty of Sofia University "Saint Kliment Ohridski" is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation that combines education in refugee and migration law and free legal aid to asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants in Bulgaria. The Legal Clinic holds weekly drop-in sessions for refugees and immigrants to seek legal assistance or a better understanding of their circumstances and rights under law. Clinic members also provide legal counselling and assistance to detained refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants at the Busmanci Detention Center through weekly visits.
Free assistance is provided for:
1) Administrative procedures before the state bodies: In accordance with Art. 56 of the Bulgarian Constitution, "every citizen has the right to defence, when his rights and legal interests have been infringed or threatened. Before the state organs he might appear with a defender." Their activities centre around the administrative procedures stipulated in the Law on Asylum and Refugees and in the Law on Aliens, as well as other legal motions under the Bulgarian legislation;
2) Judicial procedures: Clinic members write appeals and other documents, check information with the court secretariat, and prepare written court defences.