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(RNN) - Seriously, how great is the Alabama Crimson Tide this year?
The question isn't meant to be rhetorical. It's not asked in terms of their "place in history," and it's not meant to poke fun (like this) either.
What I'm asking about is greatness within the confines of this season. Is this team actually better than everyone else in the country? Or even the SEC?
Many believe so, but there is not enough evidence to support a perceived gap between Alabama and everyone else. And I think the Tide looks primed for an upset.
Head coach Nick Saban has been saying as much all season, in his "Bill Belichick Charm School" kind of way.
The team kicked off the season with a 41-14 win against Michigan, which was supposed to be a Top 10 team. Then the Wolverines followed by eking out a win against Air Force, couldn't score a touchdown in a loss to Notre Dame and dropped out of the polls.
The rest of the Tide's path has been a relative cakewalk. The best team they have played is Ole Miss, which got crushed by Texas two weeks prior.
Another issue is talent, especially on offense. They still have it, but could anyone argue they have that much more than other top teams?
Trent Richardson was the engine that made the team go last year, and he's gone. Yes, the O-line is the best in the country, but it can't score touchdowns on its own.
A.J. McCarron is an accurate, pocket quarterback, but that's it. Eddie Lacy is a good running back who can get tough yards up the middle, but that's it.
True freshmen T.J. Yeldon and Amari Cooper look like they could be the real deal, but … they're true freshmen.
The Ole Miss game showed how much work Saban and Co. still has to do. It also offered a blueprint on how to attack and defend the top-ranked team.
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Alabama scored 33 points on the Rebels, but one touchdown came on a kickoff return, and the other two TDs were scored after Ole Miss turnovers.
The rest of the game Alabama was held in check by a disciplined defensive strategy: keep them in front. The usually proficient rushing game got stalled by linebackers staying home, filling the gaps opened by blockers and not over-pursuing.
In the passing game, McCarron was allowed to find receivers open on short routes, but defenders were quickly on top of them before they could gain yardage after the catch.
Ole Miss only rushed four defensive linemen for most of the game, too, because – again – Alabama has the best O-line in the country. Why bother?
While McCarron rarely dealt with pressure, he had to look out on a field of more defenders than passing options. And he's not a guy who can make first downs with his legs.
Forcing Alabama to take what is given won't lead to a shutout, but no team could accomplish that anyway. By keeping them from breaking plays for long gains, it increases the chances the offense will fail to convert or make a mistake.
Oh, one more thing - Lacy doesn't protect the ball before contact. It's in one arm all the time. Go get it.
The same thing Team X should try to get Alabama to do is the same thing Team X should do when they have the ball. In other words, take what they give.
Sounds crazy, right? Well, the Tide defense is a rare combination of size and speed, so a team can't overpower them or outrun them. In order to move the ball, opponents needs to make quick decisions, try not to do too much and live with the results.
That means a running back gets the ball and hits his spot, no dancing behind the line. And a pass-catching running back is an offense's best weapon against the Tide. It provides a safety outlet for the QB and stretches defenders horizontally, opening up the middle of the field.
Team X should keep three or more wide receivers on the field, because Alabama is best when it can keep four defensive lineman and three linebackers on the field.
Oh, and no-huddle offense the entire game. Even the best defenders get tired, especially the D-line – the biggest strength of the Crimson Tide on that side of the ball.
The Rebels employed a short passing strategy and had success moving the ball. Alabama reacted by bringing their cornerbacks closer to the line of scrimmage, and leaving only one safety deep.
That's when Team X needs to look for the long ball. Ole Miss did this right on a pass down the sideline during their first scoring drive. Their problems came when the QB didn't look off the deep safety and threw it right to him.
If the QB can run, that's a big help; he can move the pocket and get yards when a play breaks down.
This is only an outline of what Alabama has been susceptible to so far. And if I'm seeing it, Saban and his coordinators are working to fix it.
But without a real superstar on offense and with inexperience on defense, Alabama is not the unstoppable juggernaut everyone has made them out to be, at least not yet. While they could be by the end of the year, let's hold off on crowning them for now.
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Lack of power in a 184
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Re: Lack of power in a 184
If I'm reading this correctly, you set high idle (as much as you could get) at 16* BTDC, but when you retard the throttle it stays at 16*? This should not happen and it leads me to believe that the weights in the distributor are stuck, not allowing the advance function built in to work as it should.
For the low idle, there is a screw on the back side of the carb on the throttle shaft. As you back the screw out, it allows the butterfly to close reducing the fuel allowed into the combustion chamber which slows the engine. This is the easy fix.
For the high idle (full throttle-no load), there is a bolt on the top side of the governor that limits the travel of the governor rockshaft, which limits the movement of the throttle shaft in the full throttle position. Before you mess with this adjustment, set the low idle on the carb and repair what is necessary inside the distributor to allow the advance function to work.
After the advance is working, then check the timing and RPMS again, both low and high idle. If it is still low, you can adjust the bolt on the governor to allow the high RPMS to increase to the desired setting.
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Okay, I tried to adjust the carburetor low idle screw for the low idle stop (hoping that is what you are referring to) and more then just a slight backing out of that screw shuts the motor down. Can restart if I choke and place in fast idle but, as soon as is slowed down to low idle, it shuts off.
The weights you mention, are they in the distributor or inside the governor? I have had the distributor off in the past and I do not remember any weights in it? I'll refer to the manual to see if I can determine what you are telling me. Thanks.
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Ok, if backing the screw out kills the engine, then it's either the timing killing the engine or lack of fuel. Reset the timing to around 8* (approximately half way between the low and high marks) for the time being. Then retry backing out the screw and see if the engine still stalls. If it does, then your Carb will also need going throuh, with particular attention to the idle circuit (passages).
Here is a page from the manual that you can see the distributor weights (item 14):
Re: Lack of power in a 184
How do you get to the weights in the distributor? I also have no idea what I am doing with a carb. (I so like diesels). I know I can find the main components of the carb but, I am not even sure what passages should be where let alone how to clean them out. I have some dental picks and such from the tool and die trade. Will they work? Thanks.
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Dieselrider, Where are you located? There maybe someone close by that can help with the carb, or a Cubfest that you could also attend.
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Re: Lack of power in a 184
Thanks, Bob. I am in West central PA (Southern Clearfield County) I don't usually have a lot of time in the summer months as we run a CSA (community shared agriculture) here where we sell vegetable shares to clients as well as pork, beef, chicken and eggs so, summer is pretty busy. That is why I am trying to work on it now. However, if I could get somewhere with it and get someone to show me the ropes, I would greatly appreciate it. I am not a mechanic but, I am (I believe) fairly mechanical. I just don't have the experience and these have a lot of adjustments that could be out. I think once I had seen or been shown the how, I could then do what is needed. Is there a Cubfest anywhere close? A member, perhaps? Thanks again.
Re: Lack of power in a 184
That wasn't so bad. I pulled the distributor off, took it all apart, cleaned it up (those weights were rusted but, I don't know that they were seized up or anything- you could move them with a screw driver- probably dragging some ), then reassembled everything and put a bit of oil on everything. I'll warm it up tomorrow and reset the timing and see if that makes any difference in the advancing of the timing. Thanks.
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Were the springs still attached and in good shape?
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Try stastic setting the advance at 0 degrees. Then start the engine and check it at fast idle. Your current low idle is so
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Re: Lack of power in a 184
Yes the springs were still attached and rusty but still have "springy ness". I cleaned them up with a small wire wheel on a Dremel tool as well as the other parts and put a little oil on everything to help it stay clean.
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Re: Lack of power in a 184
"low idle is low"? According to the book, it should be at 600 rpms and mine is saying 1350 (and it varies from 1200 to 1380). Now, I have no idea just how accurate this digital tach. is. It is a cheap unit and I don't know what could be used to test it. Perhaps an electric motor that is supposed to turn at a certain rpm? Then how will I know the motor is accurate?
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Your tach is probably fine. Just make sure the settings on the tach match the application. One long piece of tape all the way across the diameter of the pulley gives you two counts per 360 degree rotation. Verify that your tach is not looking for one count per 360 degree rotation. It may be reading double the number or some other multiplier.
Getting those advance weights in the distributor to move freely and verifying the springs are functional are key to getting the timing right. The manual says to set your timing to 16 degrees at wide open throttle (high idle) and then to reduce the throttle to an idle and verify the timing moves toward 0 degrees. It is more important to have it right on at wide open throttle than at an idle.
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Re: Lack of power in a 184
I just had one piece of tape on the timing pulley and was getting the 1350 reading. The instructions on the tach say if you use more then one piece of tape at different spots around the diameter, you then divide the reading by the number of pieces of tape. But, it also said that was mostly necessary for very low rpm applications. I assumed that one piece of tape would be giving me a direct reading. Do you think this is correct or no?
If the reading is doubled on low idle then I am much closer to where I need to be but way low then on high idle. Thanks
Re: Lack of power in a 184
I had a long day.
The code D distributor that belongs on a Cub begins to advance somewhere between 0 and 400 rpm. The advance at speed should be:
400 - 0
800 - 5
1200 - 12
1600 - 16
Re: Lack of power in a 184
Reading the manual on your tach is a good thing. I would think one piece of tape from the center of the pulley to the outside edge of the pulley would give you one count per 360 degrees of rotation. Tach's used for model airplanes often require two or three counts per 360 degrees depending on the propeller design they are measuring.
Your 184 engine should be able to idle around 450-500rpm.
When measuring from the PTO that value will read around 390-400rpm.
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6 Hobbies You Wish You Had
You may play ukulele or brew beer, but here are some hobbies that probably put yours to shame. Sorry, but it's true.
You may play ukulele or brew beer, but here are some hobbies that probably put yours to shame. Sorry, but it's true.
Marisa Diamond a few minutes ago
We've all had your days, and when you're feeling down on yourself, remember you are beautiful in every single way.
Sheridan Watson a few minutes ago
We can all die now. KBye.
Zoe Weiner a half hour ago
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean Jacques Rousseau Welcome to Bhubaneswar, the City of Temples – a city that boasts of a million population dwelling in accommodations ranging from slums to luxurious apartments. There are also fellow citizens that don't have a home to call their own. They live out there on the streets deprived of their family in their old age, for reasons unknown. So what if life has rendered them destitute in the Lord's Abode! They have a heart large enough to hold kindness that could melt you heart and make you fall in love their random act of kindness. But despite faced with life's tragedy, the homeless has found a way of living – sharing his food with the stray animals. Indeed, stories like this inspire us to be more compassionate and appreciate life as it comes to us. Because if he can smile, we must! Text credit: Sushant Sahoo
Raj Sampad a half hour ago
Craft some kiwi, stitch up some strawberries and put together the perfect pineapple piñata.
mallorymcinnis a half hour ago
Hurry up and wait.
Brandon Martin a half hour ago
This 26 year-old man has ALS. His mom has it, his grandma too. He believes dumping water doesn't do quite enough to spread awareness for his community. So he dumps the water on himself, in a lovely and revealing way, but also takes us inside his life — the life of a young man with ALS.
bumblebee3 an hour ago
Just don't eat your pillow.
missalissa an hour ago
Install this beta software, they said. It will be easy, they said.
Colin Heasley an hour ago
Just because the dudes are more famous, doesn't mean the women aren't hella cool.
Tommy Shane an hour ago
What to loudly say to a friend (or stranger) in case Ryan Gosling is close by. Guaranteed (maybe) to distinguish you from all the other people trying to accost him.
brownelk 2 hours ago
So much derp, so few seconds.
OliviaRoat 2 hours ago
Time to get trolly!
Kayla Yandoli 3 hours ago
We're not small. We're fun-sized.
Jayson Flores 3 hours ago
Hint: Not at the Disney Store.
Jayson Flores 3 hours ago
Move over Rachel, Ross Geller really needs to be crowned the ultimate fashionista of Friends. Here are some of his finest fashion moments.
SnehalShah 3 hours ago
You know you're single when the dating scene seems like a crazy web of unfortunate haircuts and bad decisions, your mom keeps reminding you that you aren't getting any younger, and your friends flaunt their significant others like they're the limited edition shoes on the fall line.
kbcarmo 4 hours ago
Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.
Maddi Lewis 4 hours ago
Russia brings us yet another breath-taking dashboard cam video. This time, it involves a motorcyclist and probably the most impressive display of acrobatics you'll see all day.
Max Fuller 5 hours ago
He's listening.
Anya Kurennaya 5 hours ago
Everyone knows the "M" is missing in MTV. The VMAs are just not good enough.
GinnyIsaad 7 hours ago
Come meet my bossy, possessive & beautiful new friend!
offplanetfilms 7 hours ago
Be your own role model. Channel your inner Beyoncé Pad Thai.
Maureen "Mo" Elinzano 8 hours ago
Don't judge just enjoy! These are the songs that I never skip at the end of an episode.
Drop of Venus 12 hours ago
In honour of ABC's new comedy Utopia (Wednesdays, 8.30pm) we bring you the ultimate office facepalm moments.
rhiannonsawyer 12 hours ago
Because you only live once! #YOLO
Meg Scanlon 12 hours ago
When one door closes another opens.
gracevanvranken 12 hours ago
All by MYYYYYYYSEEEEEELLLLLFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Zeina Elhaj 13 hours ago
"Minha máquina de lavar alagou toda a sala"
Ana Freitas 14 hours ago
With the upcoming fall season it is time to ditch the swimsuit and put on the warm clothes. Here are some FABULOUS finds for you and your fall wardrobe!
Stephanie Burton 14 hours ago
If you like the idea of exploring the great outdoors and sleeping under the stars but don't actually like the idea of waking up with leaves in your hair and smelling like an old boot, then perhaps you need to join the growing trend of "glampers" who camp in style.
BlueWriter 14 hours ago
Everything (about this) is awesome!
424Hannah 14 hours ago
The first impression is everything. And you are screwed.
NataliaLehaf 14 hours ago
Remember them? You may recognize this duo as the Naked Brothers Band from Nickelodeon. They are still brothers, and they are still a band, but they are slightly more clothed now (unfortunately).
Marisa Diamond 15 hours ago
Some of you may remember the Holderness family of Raleigh who created a glorious Christmas card parody Of Will Smith's "Miami" just before the holidays. "The Holderni" (Penn, Kim, Penn Charles and Lola) are at it again this fall, prepping us all for the upcoming school year. Whether you are a student, parent, bus driver, administrator or teacher (who they graciously thank at the end) go ahead and MAKE THAT HEALTHY LUNCH!
getLowder 15 hours ago
So a film with a 16 action men lost out to 4 ninja trained turtles, so let's hear what critics thought of it…
smurph25 15 hours ago
A new "art" blog about the talented and beautiful Iggy Azalea has graced the internet world comparing her looks to food.
NataliaLehaf 16 hours ago
Good things come in brightly colored packages. Here's a vibrant collection of design inspiration.
mallorymcinnis 16 hours ago
A look back at some of the show's best moments before it goes away forever on August 26th.
Brice Sander 16 hours ago
Three meals a day is a joke. So is portion control.
Alessia Santoro 16 hours ago
The CLAAAAASSIC signs.
jadebw 17 hours ago
If you haven't seen these yet I truly feel sorry for you. How long have you been deprived of such anime/manga greatness? Here is basically a list of my favorite anime/manga that I think everyone should watch/read sometime in their life and why.
Drop of Venus 18 hours ago
Last week Haruki Murakami's latest book, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, was released to the extreme excitement of uberfans everywhere. If you are new to the phenomenon that is Murakami, or you're just so excited about the new one that you want more too, here are five suggestions to get you started on what will certainly be a new obsession.
PowellsBooks 18 hours ago
It'd actually be pretty cool if someone could throw some #shade on Texas.
Sarah Swinney 19 hours ago
Pure joy…
midnighttwice 19 hours ago
It's a snack-down.
audreyw12 19 hours ago
Brandon Martin 19 hours ago
Walking into an office and shouting as loud as possible "Pay me money to do things. Need money please!" is not going to get you a job.That's what an informational interview is for. It is the Tinder of networking.
Brandon Martin 20 hours ago
Seniors find joy in teaching English online while students in Brazil feel connected to those overseas and brush up on their skills.
Jolene Latimer 20 hours ago
Love is blind.
Brandon Martin 20 hours ago
Because they really suck.
brownelk 20 hours ago
It's here!
Brandon Martin 20 hours ago
Laugh at my jokes!
Brandon Martin 20 hours ago
At twenty-four years old, Taylor just released her newest music video, Shake it Off, which has already gone viral, but who remembers the sixteen-year-old just breaking into the business?
Jacqui Marie 21 hours ago
You better like cooking in your bathroom.
Mallory Schlossberg 21 hours ago
This cartoon straight up broke science on a weekly basis, particularly when…
thelegend26 21 hours ago
Yes, there IS a women's World Cup.
Phoebe Greenwald 21 hours ago
CNN's Brian Stelter "strongly" suggested "you not take … medical advice" from Fox. He has a point there.
Lisa L. Reed 21 hours ago
Anyone can DIY if you lower your expectations!
Colin Heasley 21 hours ago
Words can't begin accurately describe how epic this video is…
Shamownage 21 hours ago
Ever wondered what the ideal Celebrity beach body looks like? Well now you can thanks to this survey MyVoucherCodes did. Do you agree with the results?
thechosen 21 hours ago
You know that wistful little song Cats in the Cradle? About a kid who wants to be just like his old man but his dad has no time for him, and then the kid grows up to be just like his dad and doesn't have time for his old man? Yeah, these examples are a little bit more messed up than that…
Shihab S Joi 21 hours ago
Pharrell must be very, very proud.
Wayne Betts Jr 21 hours ago
Romance, thrills, comedy… And Abs. Don't forget about the Abs.
tmukit 22 hours ago
Taylor Swift just released a new song and video with a bevy of characters. If they went to high school, here is what the year book would look like.
greg_boil 22 hours ago
De las pasarelas a la pantalla grande. Los mejores casos de modelos que, después de triunfar en las pasarelas o en sesiones fotográficas, migran al cine para comenzar una carrera de éxitos –o mediocridades, dependiendo el caso- en el cine. El artículo orginal está en KLIC
Gaby Faure 22 hours ago
You couldn't move in the 1980s for people singing the theme tune to the hit BBC show 'The Paul Daniels Magic Show'. So I put the lyrics up in public for the benefit of everyone.
PhilLucas 22 hours ago
I salute you, Mister Blake Shelton, for your hilarious Twitter banter and constant state of intoxication. We all look up to you… literally… you're tall as shit.
Amanda Valenzuela 22 hours ago
We want to hold on to the relief like a big cuddly bear.
janac489e636ce 22 hours ago
Yes, I do mean it.
TonyaPenn 22 hours ago
Less smiling, more sleeping.
April Shernisky 23 hours ago
Whether it's a professional makeup artist or an 18-year-old who knows her way around liquid liner, Youtube is filled with videos that can teach you a thing or two about makeup. And then there are these cringeworthy tutorials. These ladies clearly weren't all there when they hit publish.
ShannonFarrell 23 hours ago
BRB, gotta go eat ALL the things. Some of these you can bake yourself while others are only for the dauntless. May the odds be ever in your flavor.
lauralouda a day ago
Who knew one product could make such a huge difference?
ShannonFarrell a day ago
A helpful guide for communicating with bibliophiles.
BookBub a day ago
If Hollywood had superlatives, she would win them all. Especially Best Dressed
jfiorentino a day ago
Childhood movie moments that still make you laugh now.
VictoriaMaryRey a day ago
Ever wanted to know why stickers are so awesome? Of course you did.
Anya Kurennaya a day ago
It's not the dress; it's the girl in the dress.
Claire Marie Ochse a day ago
Kids say the darndest things, amiright?
Kayla Yandoli a day ago
Because raising money for/awareness about a crippling disease is kind of a popularity contest.
brownelk a day ago
And there are many…
zacharycharlesd a day ago
Thanks to the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter, most people picture white women when they think of women entering the workforce during World War II. But these inspiring photos will remind you that women of color were heroes during the war, as well.
Rachel Wilkerson Miller a day ago
Voto censitário, de cabresto, quem se lembra?
Gaspar José a day ago
From "Accidentally in Love" to "A Long December" revisit the entire Counting Crows catalog from one fan's perspective.
Mike Chin a day ago
Forget Dean, Jess, and Logan — Rory's hair choices were always the most important part of Gilmore Girls. To some of us, anyway.
Gyan Yankovich a day ago
Once you get over driving on the opposite side of the road, driving in Europe isn't that different from driving in the UK….. There's plenty of great road trips to take around Europe, here's a few!
lauralouise1990 a day ago
A TV intro mashup featuring Alex Cox's harrowing 1986 film "Sid & Nancy" recut as an 80's romantic comedy sitcom using the theme song from "Growing Pains"
robertj17 a day ago
These probably aren't going to make you hungry.
Rosina Ayling a day ago
For every child who's ever been wrapped in Christmas lights.
Jillian Goltzman a day ago
They're so overused, it's scary.
caldorrainbow a day ago
I'am running a crowdfunding project myself with as goal to pay for my photography study. Don't worry I will not spam the url here because a BuzzFeed editor would probably execute me on the spot with a silver bullet between my eyes if I did. We all heard the stories of people raising thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars in just a few days for the most stupid things. So I thought it would be a piece of cake convincing people to donate for study purposes. However, after 15 months and 6 people who've donated a total of 190€ (about 250$) I'am slightly disappointed in the whole crowdfunding thing. Probably I'am doing something wrong. After a lot of thinking and self-evaluation this is the list with 12 reasons why your crowdfunding fails.
Jonathan Maxwell Reeves a day ago
Prepare for happiness and your heart to grow 2 sizes.
lucyalicej a day ago
Ao menos em um mundo paralelo.
Ana Freitas a day ago
Seriously though…
gracevanvranken a day ago
The city of Twinsburg was named after identical twins Aaron and Moses Wilcox in 1819, after the twins donated land for the construction of a public square. Every year, since 1976, the city has hosted The Twins Day Festival where thousands of twins and multiples congregate to celebrate their uniqueness and similarities. Here are 10 photos of twin attendees and some interesting information about twins and multiples.
venusinorbit a day ago
Because man's best friend can raise awareness for ALS, too.
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Because dead presidents are so overrated!
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"We've been setting up a public cloud service of global scale. We just opened our second data center in US East, and we have designs and plans to blow out data center presence so in six months you should see some progress there," explained Dan Baigent, Sr. Director of Business Development for HP Cloud Services, in this SYS-CON.tv interview with Cloud Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan at the 11th International Cloud Expo, held November 5-8, 2012, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo 2013 New York, June 10-13, at the Javits Center in New York City, New York, will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.
The growth and success of Cloud Computing will be on display at the upcoming Cloud Expo conference and exhibition in New York City, New York, June 10-13, 2013.
The recent Cloud Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, was the largest Cloud Computing conference ever produced with more sponsors, exhibitors and delegates than all other Cloud events of the year combined!
Cloud Expo New York will attract more than 10,000 delegates from 48 countries and over 200 sponsors and exhibitors!
All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented at the 12th International Cloud Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications, and they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network.
"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term 'cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and chairman of SYS-CON Events, Inc. "Cloud has become synonymous with 'computing' and 'software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2013, more than 50,000 delegates per year will be attending Cloud Expo."
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Learning programmes at Kew
Botanical Horticulture There's a wide range of opportunities to gain horticultural qualifications or experience at Kew
Our learning programmes provide opportunities for people at all stages of education, from curriculum visits for school pupils to specialist training courses for professionals. Kew also offers a broad range of informal talks and courses for adult learners.
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Kew offers a comprehensive programme of specialist training courses for students in higher education, teachers at all levels, and for botanists, horticulturists and plant conservation specialists in search of CPD (continuing professional development).
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Kew offers many learning opportunities for schools, students and teachers. Taught by experienced and enthusiastic Kew staff, the school visit programmes cover all stages of education and are aligned closely with the National Curriculum and work schemes.
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Kew offers a wide range of talks and courses, whether you have a passion for plants and photography, would like to observe kingfishers in their natural habitat, or learn the basic techniques of botanical illustration.
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Steve "Mac" MacLellan is the President of the Central Region for Northern Trust's Wealth Management business. In this capacity he is responsible for leading the region's investment management, banking and fiduciary business for Northern Trust's offices in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri. In addition, MacLellan is a member of the Northern Trust Operating Group, the Northern Trust Wealth Management Executive Committee and is a board member of Northern Trust Securities Inc.
Prior to his current role, MacLellan was the Global Head of Business Practices and Client Segments for Northern Trust's Wealth Management business. In that capacity, he oversaw Wealth Management's professional business practices (investment management, private banking, personal trust and advisory services) as well as Wealth Management's core client segments (Wealth Advisory, Private Client Services, and Foundations & Institutional Services). He was also responsible for the business unit's sales and marketing functions. Prior to assuming this role, MacLellan served as President for Northern Trust's Wealth Management business in the Southwest Region (Arizona, Texas and Colorado). And prior to that assignment he served as National Director of Wealth Advisory Services.
Darrell B. Jackson is President of Illinois. Wealth Management provides fiduciary trust, investment, private banking and commercial banking solutions to Northern Trust clients in both Chicago and the suburbs.
Darrell was previously Deputy Head of Wealth Management – Illinois and Head of Wealth Management, Suburban Illinois. He is responsible for overseeing the company's Wealth Management business in Northwest Lake/Cook Counties, Suburban Cook County, Eastern and Western DuPage, Lake Forest, Highland Park and the Suburban Owner Entrepreneur Group.
Prior to that Darrell was President of the Northern Trust Company's Illinois West Suburban Region. He was also a Senior Vice President and Division Manager in Private Banking at the Northern Trust Company in Chicago. He managed a team of bankers that provided credit, financial planning, trust and investment services to corporate executives in the Illinois and Northeastern states.
Darrell is a career banker with nearly 30 years experience in the industry. His exposure to banking began at South Shore Bank while attending college locally. After working at South Shore Bank, he moved to Harris Bank where he spent 14 years in commercial and private banking.
Monique joined Northern Trust in 2005 as Managing Director of the State Street Financial Center, and brings more than 19 years of banking experience to the Wealth Management division. Her experience includes Commercial, Residential and Consumer Lending; Private Banking and Cash Management. Her background has given her a broad perspective on the financial services industry, and the opportunity to successfully meet the needs of both individual and corporate clients.
Monique is very active within Northern Trust and is past President of the Black Business Resource Council (BBRC) and is a member of the Wealth Management Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Council.
In 2008 and 2009, she was the recipient of the Chairman's Diversity Advocate Award.
Monique serves as an Illinois Regional contact for the DreamMakers Forum, a national conference focused on wealth management.
She has served as Segment Leader for the Affluent Multicultural Market Coalition, a targeted initiative designed to create a comprehensive plan, value proposition; strategies and tactics; to heighten visibility, and generate business opportunities.
She formally spearheaded the Business Resource Exchange Initiative which offered network, mentoring, and continued learning opportunities for targeted women led businesses in Chicago.
In 2003, Monique earned the Small Business Administration (SBA) Financial Services Advocate of the Year award.
Monique received a B.A. degree from Michigan State University and is currently pursuing the Certified Financial Planner designation. She serves on the Anti-Defamation League's Women of Achievement Committee Member.


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Faculty Excellence
Indiana University has long recognized outstanding scholarship, artistic or literary merit, and other achievements through its distinguished and titled professorships. In fact, it leads the Big Ten in endowed professorships for faculty of special distinction. To build upon that legacy of academic and research excellence, IU President Michael A. McRobbie has expanded the university's commitment to its faculty by:
- Raising the base salary of its Distinguished Professors and providing additional research support
- Actively recruiting new faculty members from among the academic and research elite
- Honoring the accomplishments of faculty with the President's Medal for Excellence
The achievements of IU faculty continue to bring worldwide recognition to the university. In December 2009, late IU professor Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics.


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California's beautiful Mineral King Valley was deeply wounded by hardrock mining, but now it is on its way to wilderness protection.
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— Canadian outdoorsman Marco Lavoie spent three months stranded in the wilderness of the Nottaway River in Western Quebec. His plight began when a bear attacked and wrecked his boat, ravaging his supplies. Lavoie's pet German shepherd apparently helped drive off the bear. Eventually Lavoie, starving and dehydrated, struck his dog on the head with a rock and ate him.
Lavoie's actions earned him a torrent of criticism when he was finally found, 90 pounds thinner and dogless, earlier this month. While survival experts supported his decision, Lavoie told authorities immediately after the rescue that he wanted another dog, and this wish provoked particular ire. On the Huffington Post, for example, one commenter wrote "I would rather eat my own limbs than my dogs."
I wrote a master's thesis on dog-in-the-wilderness stories, so the Lavoie tale, and the outraged public reaction, piqued my interest. Of the "Man and Dog vs. the Wild" genre, popular at the turn of the 20th century, we mostly remember the works of Jack London, a writer so loved that a new biography merits a long review in the New Yorker. Parents may be familiar with the real-life tale of Balto the sled dog, who brought diphtheria medicine to snowbound Nome, Alaska, in 1925 and has been memorialized in children's books, animated movies and a statue in Central Park.
But many of the "Man and Dog" stories from the 1900s to 1930s now reside on the lower layers of the cultural landfill. Ever heard of Arthur Bartlett's "Spunk: Leader of the Dog Team" (1926), Ernest Harold Baynes' "Polaris: The Story of an Eskimo Dog" (1924), Esther Birdsall Darling's "Baldy of Nome" (1916)? Probably not. Even John Muir's story "Stickeen," about a dog who traversed a dangerous Alaskan glacier at the explorer's side, is now relatively unfamiliar.
What all of these stories have in common is a careful balancing of ideals of wildness and domesticity. Historian Gail Bederman, whose book "Manliness and Civilization" shaped a lot of my ideas, describes key conflicts within turn-of-the-century ideas of white masculinity. At a time of urbanization and modernization, Bederman argues, people were obsessed by wildness and tameness. Fears of the bad effects of soft city living were joined by equal fears of descent into "savagery." (This was a time when eugenics and cultural chauvinism were quite mainstream.)
Summer camps, wilderness recreation and cultural tourism on Southwestern reservations, all of which were newly popular, were inoculations against softness. What all of these activities had in common was the promise that participation might give you just enough of that taste of wildness to get you through your everyday "civilized" life.
The dog in the wilderness was a perfect literary metaphor for the times. Dogs like London's Buck in "The Call of the Wild" found their wild interior when they were forced up against the harsh realities of Alaskan travel. Dogs learned to fight, to eat wild game, and to persevere on long runs.
But through all of this exertion, they always loved their masters. Their wildness was never so complete as to foreclose that affection — and, indeed, many of the fights they engaged in were on behalf of those masters. Like Lavoie's dog, they stepped between the dangers of the great North and their masters' hides, turning "red in tooth and claw," but for a purpose. The dogs in these stories, like the men they accompanied into the wilderness, were brawny, with a solid core of morality.
In using dogs as transportation, white explorers, missionaries and prospectors were adopting a practice of the native Alaskan, but they staunchly held that they were doing it better. Hudson Stuck, a missionary who wrote a memoir called "Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled," argued that native Alaskans had never figured out how to run dogs in teams, and it took white immigrants to perfect the concept. (Musher Scotty Allan and game warden Frank Dufresne agreed, taking credit for the invention of the harnesses and sleds that made rapid dog transportation possible.)
Sourdoughs in any number of stories contrasted white kindness to animals with native cruelty. At a time when the anti-animal cruelty movement gained traction nationwide, the stories embraced this particular emblem of "civilization" as one that differentiated white from native in the frozen North.
In a 1905 story by Addison Powell in Alaska Magazine, "The Alaska Partners," a prospector's dog, Summit, is kidnapped by native Alaskans, who have covetously observed his hunting prowess. Summit's fate, "tied to a post with no food except an occasional raw salmon that a squaw threw to him," shows the inferiority of native treatment. In Katherine Reed's story "The Klondike Nugget," published in Alaska Yukon Magazine in 1907, the heroic Prospector Dave's very character is tied up in this difference. The narrator observes: "'Go to Hell yourself but be white to your dogs' was one of [Dave's] favorite proverbs."
Dog-eating, an extreme form of this kind of cruelty, was in these fictions a practice observed only by native Alaskans. In the 1933 film Eskimo, for example, Mala, the Inuit star, eats his dogs one by one when he's lost on the ice. In a 1930 skit in which he played a sourdough, W.C. Fields made a joke at Balto's expense, telling an inquirer that he "just et Balto," and adding "Right good he was with mustard, too." That joke worked because white prospectors were not supposed to eat their heroic companions, no matter how hard things got.
People angry at Marco Lavoie aren't explicitly mad that he wasn't "being white to his dogs." But the long history of the "Man and Dog vs. the Wild" story can shed some light on the fury his action provoked. Taboos about the treatment of particular species, as Dana Goodyear explored in her recent story about eating and loving animals in the New Yorker, are wrapped up in a lot of cultural baggage. In the case of Marco Lavoie, we have years of stories telling us that we should starve rather than violate the man-dog bond.
That doesn't mean the reactions to his case were uniform. Some of the most interesting responses to the Lavoie story can be found in the comments section of the conservative site The Blaze. Here, some commenters compared Lavoie to Obama, repeating the story that Obama ate dog meat in Indonesia while growing up. Other commenters shrugged, saying "Let's just say he was resourceful." One added: "If [Lavoie] would have died before eating his dog, his dog would have surly [sic] ate him."
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Powell, Ohio – The Board of Directors of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is pleased to announce the unanimous selection of Tom Stalf to the position of President and CEO of the Zoo and its other entities: Zoombezi Bay, Safari Golf Club and the Wilds conservation center.
Stalf joined the Columbus Zoo in May 2010 as the Senior Vice President of Operations and one year later was promoted to Chief Operations Officer. The Board of Directors appointed him interim CEO when Dale Schmidt resigned in August 2012.
"The Board commissioned an assessment of the organization--where it is now and where we want to be in the future. It became very clear from the report, and comments from many leaders in our community, that Tom Stalf is the right person to lead the Zoo and its other properties," said Board Chair Phil Pikelny. "During his time as interim CEO, Tom demonstrated strong leadership and advanced the organizational goals and mission. He is directing the progress of Safari Africa, the largest project in the Zoo's history which opens in 2014, and is coordinating this summer's arrival of 25 animatronic dinosaurs to engage people of all ages in the prehistoric past and lessons for our planet's future. In 2012 the Wilds experienced record breaking attendance and Zoombezi Bay produced record revenue. Safari Golf Club was voted the number one public course in central Ohio. Tom has the experience and credentials as a successful zoo director, he embodies passion and vision, and he has our full support and endorsement."
Tom brings to his leadership role more than 20 years experience gained by first working as zookeeper and then advancing quickly through every aspect of zoo management – from animal care to exhibit design to financial management to strategic visioning. He became the youngest zoo director in the country when tapped to manage Niabi Zoo in Illinois in 1995 and guided that zoo to gain national accreditation for the first time.
Annually more than 2.4 million people visit the Columbus Zoo and its other entities, making it one of the most successful zoological institutions in the country and a significant economic engine in central Ohio.
"My life has been dedicated to inspiring people to care about wildlife and wild places but I know I can't do it by myself," Stalf said. "I walk through the Zoo and talk with our animal care experts, educators, conservationists, guest services representatives and others who I encounter. As often as possible I travel to the Wilds near Zanesville and immerse myself in the important science we conduct there. Whether I'm talking with team members from the Zoo, the Wilds, Zoombezi Bay or the golf pro at Safari Golf Club, our entire team is united by our shared goal of furthering our mission of connecting people with nature."
A tireless champion for wildlife, Stalf uses his gift of storytelling and love of education to help inspire people to join the Zoo's mission to protect animals globally and locally. He has traveled with Jack Hanna for education programs, zoo promotions and national television appearances for more than 15 years, and he does regular speaking engagements and television appearances. He also speaks on behalf of state and federal legislation that affects wildlife.
Stalf places a high priority on animal welfare and conservation, and he has traveled to several countries where the Zoo supports programs that help people help protect wildlife, including a program that helps to save mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Africa. Globally, The Columbus Zoo has more than 70 conservation projects in 30 countries that are supported by $1 million raised through public donations and fundraisers each year.
"Since coming to the Columbus Zoo, and while I served as interim CEO, I utilized the time to engage staff members and members of the community and I heard how passionate they are about our Zoo," Stalf said. "I share that passion and am enthused to have this tremendous responsibility and feel privileged to do what I love each and every day."
Stalf is a professional member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), has served as an AZA accreditation mentor and is currently a member of the Government Affairs committee. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Western Illinois University.
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On April 29th, WGAE members and staff joined the AFL-CIO and thousands of union and community activists in a march from City Hall through the financial district to spread the message "Make Wall Street Pay!" Read more about it and read the running commentary on Twitter.
WGAE Members Rallied and Marched on Wall Street
Wall Street tanked America's economy, killed jobs, took $700 billion in taxpayer bailout, then went right back to business as usual, choking off credit, handing out $145 billion in 2009 executive pay and bonuses and fighting meaningful financial reform.
America is 11 million jobs in the hole and it's time for the financial industry to pay up, to use profits not just to generate more wealth for themselves but to build, revitalize and innovate, creating employment and security.
On April 29th, WGAE members and staff joined AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and thousands of union and community activists from across the country in a march down Broadway through the heart of the financial district. Our voices were heard.
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