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April? As in, the fourth month of the year? How are we so far into the year? How is it that in about two weeks, I'll be on my way home?
Time's going by so fast, and I'm not sure it's a good thing. There are so many events packed into the last couple of weeks of semester, and finals are fast approaching.
On Thursday, I watched concert band play some wonderful pieces, including an arrangement by a very talented Clarkie. To top that off, our choir performed at the beautiful church across the street on Saturday. And although I didn't get to attend the whole thing, The Clark Bars (one of our acapella groups) had a concert on Friday night with special solos for seniors.
So, overall, it was a good week for music at Clark, with a lot of reminders about who's leaving and who's staying after the next couple of weeks.
Friday, April 19th was the national Day of Silence. To commemorate this day, OPEN held a table in Red Square the whole day where people could write supportive messages to the LGBTQ+ community and have a photo taken – these photos were combined into a presentation. To finish off the Day of Silence, we had an open mic night called Night of Noise where people performed poems, music, and told stories about silence. We had an awesome group of students come in from WPI and perform, along with their adviser! As a future member of OPEN's e-board, it makes me really happy to see students from different schools support each other.
It's really weird to think we're so close to the end of April, and I'm getting excited just thinking about my journey home – I'm even planning on starting packing next week! Almost done with a quarter of my college life…
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According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood institute (NHLBI), 22 million Americans suffer from asthma. When airways narrow and swell, less oxygen is able to get to the lungs, causing chest tightness and shortness of breath. Thick, sticky mucus can also accumulate, further blocking airways and triggering wheezing and coughing. Sometimes asthma symptoms are mild; however, they can also be fatal. While a cure hasnt been found yet, there are many ways to help prevent and relieve asthma flare-ups:
1. Know your triggers. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic agree its not necessarily clear why some people have asthma; however, a combination of genetic and environmental factors is most likely to blame. And while you cant change your gene pool, you can avoid asthma irritants. Air pollutants, for example, can upset your airways. Cigarette smoke naturally falls under this category, and can be an asthma sufferers worst nightmare. Perhaps seemingly less harmless is your pet, but unfortunately, animal dander ranks right up there with pollen, mold and dust mites as a trigger.
The Mayo Clinic also notes emotional stress, food preservatives and even cockroaches as things to avoid if youre prone to asthma attacks. Although some irritants are harder to dodge like cold air and physical activity knowing what might set off your symptoms can help prevent an attack.
2. Create an asthma action plan. Check out www.nhlbi.nih.gov where the NHLBI can help you set up an asthma action plan. First, talk to your doctor about what type of treatment is best for you including long-term control vs. quick-relief medications. Because asthma can improve or worsen throughout your life, depending on factors such as age and lifestyle, youll need to be your doctors right-hand man when determining a treatment plan. The NHLBI recommends that adults and kids as young as 10 should keep a journal noting how often their asthma symptoms strike, as well as where and when. Frequency of inhaler use or incidents of asthma attacks should also be recorded so your doctor can give you the best care possible.
3. Connect. Ongoing education and support are very valuable for those battling asthma. The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) has an entire website dedicated to their Support Community where patients, friends and medical experts can discuss new forms of treatment, tips for relief and more. You can upload entire journal entries or simply post a question at www.inspire.com/groups/asthma-and-allergy-foundation-of-america/. At AAFAs main website, www.asthmacapitals.com, youll find news reports, information on clinical trials and support groups in your area. Parents of children with asthma will especially appreciate the friendly online atmosphere.
Living with asthma doesnt mean finding a cure, but rather finding control. Treat your condition like a long-term research project, and communicate with your doctor about what works and what doesnt. You may never be able to toss your inhaler, yet knowing how you can try to prevent using it calls for a big sigh of relief!
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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - President and CEO of the Center for Women and Families Marta Miranda is passionate about the purpose of the center and its power
"We started in a one room place at the YWCA, now it's the Henry Clay Estate, in a leaky room," she said.
For over 100 years its mission has been serving survivors of intimate partner abuse of sexual violence in 10 Kentuckiana counties. Temporarily closed signs now hang on the door.
"A client came in pregnant and wanted to know where she could go, of course I could tell her, but hanging these signs, of course people are use to just walking in here and just getting what they needed and for a short time they're not going to be able to," Miranda explained.
The facility at 927 South 2nd Street has been forced to close its doors and relocate elsewhere for now.
"To make a sad and hard story short when I came on board there were a couple of small leaks," a project she said cost $350,000, "Then this winter happened."
The 9th snowiest winter in 50 years brought 25.9 inches to Kentuckiana between October 24, 2013 and March 25, 2014. With the snow came below average temperatures each of those months.
A few leaks now turned into $3.2 million cleanup project and roof replacement.
Miranda said the building is structurally sound and so are all of the programs of the Center.
Miranda said, "We could and would not in any way go public with this issue until we knew 100 percent of our clients and staff and programs were relocated."
Miranda made the plea, and the announcement, to make sure the Center on 2nd Street does not stay closed. They now call on the community to open their hearts and pocket books.
"I'm the last person here and I will close the door and flip the switch," she said.
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The Crisis affected public spending. Research and innovation is one area often highlighted as needing protection. This column does not find strong evidence that European countries sacrificed research and innovation more than other government expenditure. However, there is strong heterogeneity across countries. Innovation lagging and fiscally weak countries cut R&I spending while innovation-leading forged it ahead. Research of this divide and long-term growth is still limited.
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Meet William Marler, a Food Safety Lawyer Hungry for Change
Posted Nov 24, 2009 2:08 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
Young and "extremely overconfident," William Marler took a leading role in his first food-borne illness case when he was only five years out of law school.
But news coverage about his severely injured 9-year-old client helped persuade another 200 alleged victims of a fast food restaurant in Washington state to seek help from his law firm, too. After winning a $15.6 million settlement for the girl and her family, Marler persuaded two former opposing counsel to open a boutique specializing in the practice area in 1998, reports the Seattle Times.
"I love my job," he tells the newspaper. "I represent poisoned little children against giant corporations."
Today, however, Marler has his eye on an even bigger platform, the Times reports in a lengthy profile of the Seattle attorney.
Although it will potentially cut down on his legal business if enacted, Marler has been actively lobbying Congress to improve food-safety laws. Meanwhile, he hopes his next job will be as undersecretary for food safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Prodding U.S. senators to move forward with proposed legislation, he sent them all t-shirts this year. "Put a trial lawyer out of business," the t-shirts say.
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Invariably when you knit there comes a point when you have to "weave in" the loose ends that are left from your cast on and bind off. The one exception I've found to this is patterns that incorporate the loose threads into a fringe of some kind. I recently bought some wonderful Koigu linen yarn and a pattern by Churchmouse that does just that. Other than that kind of thing, though, you pretty much can count on weaving in ends.
I am not a fan of weaving in the ends. I'm capable of doing it, but it often seems that no matter how well I do it, they eventually will wiggle their way out and have to be woven back in again. I've tried leaving long ends, short ends, knotting them and trimming them off closely, and just leaving them hanging (I don't recommend that last method). My latest approach, though, is to incorporate them into the design in a way that they become functional or decorative, rather than hidden… since clearly "hidden" isn't working for me.
I recently designed a little washcloth pattern, which I've decided I'm pretty sure I can't share with you due to copyright infringement (the pattern I used for the main part of it is from a swatch in the "365 Knitting Stitches a Year Perpetual Calendar"). If anyone understands differently (and would be willing to act as my lawyer and fine payer should the need arise), please let me know, because it's really a cute pattern and super easy. See what I mean?
So, knowing that I can't tell you the specifics of the pattern, you may wonder why I'm still showing it to you. No, I'm not just bragging about my work and the fact that I actually completed a project. I wanted to show you what I did with those pesky little ends that are especially difficult for me to get to stay hidden with the cotton yarn and it's tendency to peek back out after I've woven it in. I tied off the yarn at the edge of the washcloth, then made a loop for hanging the washcloth.
Because this washcloth is just for me, I'm done at this point. If it was for someone else, I might try making it look a little more finished by crocheting a little chain and tying it back in… depends on how good a friend it's for! :)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I buy Mountaineer boards?
In Switzerland and some other European countries, directly from a Web shop operated by the Mountaineer Group itself. In all countries, they can be ordered from Mouser.
Where are the Mountaineer boards produced?
Some of the boards are produced in Switzerland, some of the boards are produced by GHI Electronics in the United States.
Is there a Mountaineer community?
Yes, you can find it on the GHI forum.
.NET on a microcontroller? Isn't .NET far too large for that?
The original implementation for PCs and servers is indeed way too large for a microcontroller, and provides much functionality not needed in an embedded system. However, the .NET Micro Framework is a completely separate implementation, with a carefully chosen subset of the .NET libraries, especially designed for microcontrollers. It is about one percent of the full framework's size. You can build useful, albeit small, NETMF applications for microcontrollers that have a total of 48 KB of RAM. For someone used to developing software for resource-constrained devices, a micro-controller with 96 KB of RAM is comfortable, one with 192 KB of RAM downright luxurious, not to speak of the high-end 256 KB parts. And this enables application (and to a large extent, even driver) development in C#, cross-developing from Visual Studio, symbolic debugging with breakpoints, etc.
Is Microsoft's NETMF really open source?
The Apache 2.0 license is one of the most popular open source licenses. Examples of Apache-licensed projects are Apache Tomcat (Web server), Apache Subversion (version control system), and Google's Android. Unlike GPL-licensed software, you can use, modify and distribute Apache-licensed software, both non-commercially or commercially, without having to publish your changes. As far as we are concerned, this license is extremely open.
Why did you open-source NETMF for STM32 and the Mountaineer boards?
Managed code enables us to write more robust code faster. We like programming environments in which we can work quickly. However, as engineers, we do not like hacking together some code that barely works, and will break down completely when the first change requests are implemented. Managed code is an effective aid for achieving both robustness and productivity. We want to use these advantages in at least some of our embedded projects as well. By contributing to the NETMF platform and by creating suitable hardware designs, we helped expand the scope of mission-critical projects for which NETMF is suitable. It is now possible to use modern Cortex-M microcontrollers without having to do the difficult architecture port from older ARM microcontrollers. And now there are boards that allow the quick and low-risk development of prototypes, and have a path towards optimized "industrial strength" custom boards as well. We don't depend on anyone else's code that we cannot change, nor are we drowned in millions of lines of code of large operating systems. In a time-honored Swiss tradition, we like to cooperate and contribute, but want to remain fiercely independent as well.
Is this an open source / open hardware project?
If we distinguish between open source software and open source projects, then Mountaineer and NETMF for STM32 are open source software / hardware, but not open source projects. Why not? Our companies have developed these assets for our own internal uses, and for our customers (usually medium to large enterprises). And as we have profited from the openness of NETMF ourselves, it seemed only fair that we contribute back. However, we do not have the resources to manage open source projects: to constantly interact with the community, to regularly and quickly assess and integrate submitted contributions, etc.
What are the further goals with your software?
For our software, we have the following goals:
We understand NETMF for STM32 well enough, including the STM32-specific drivers, that we can reliably judge whether NETMF is suitable for a customer's mission-critical application, or not.
We are able to modify anything in order to make our customers' projects successful.
No embedded platform is suitable for every application. We want to steadily increase the range of mission-critical applications for which NETMF is suitable, or even excels.
We want to keep NETMF for STM32 in sync with Microsoft's official NETMF releases.
Over time, we want NETMF for STM32 to earn its place as the gold standard for robust NETMF implementations.
To achieve these goals with our very limited resources, we established the following policies:
We do not accept contributions to the portable part of NETMF (PAL layer). Such contributions should be submitted directly to Microsoft via Codeplex. They will automatically come back to us later, after Microsoft has integrated them into the NETMF mainline.
In more or less regular intervals of about three months (paying customers always get preference), we will look at possible issues of our STM32 HAL-layer code that have been submitted on Codeplex.
For non-critical issues, we will focus on those issues that are clearly described and can be reproduced most easily, or come with a good analysis of their root causes.
We give priority to robustness over new functionality, to reliability and maintainability over quick-and-dirty fixes, and to customer-relevant issues over others.
Through the above policies, and the community support provided by companies like GHI Electronics and SecretLabs, we hope to be able to further contribute to NETMF from time to time. Even if our work is done mostly in the background.
Is it possible to program a Mountaineer system even without the Gadgeteer libraries, using "plain vanilla NETMF"?
Yes. If you only use modules with digital or analog I/O - including PWM - then the standard NETMF drivers are all that you need. If you use UARTs, SPI or I2C buses, you also have access to these communication mechanisms through standard NETMF drivers. However, the modules may require some more or less complex protocol on top of these buses. In such a case, you want to find out whether the driver that comes with the module allows use without Gadgeteer, or is available in source form so that it can be adapted. All Mountaineer-branded modules can be used with and without Gadgeteer, as "plain vanilla NETMF" is often the best choice in commercial projects.
Is it possible to program a Mountaineer system even without NETMF, using some other RTOS?
Yes. We clearly focus on NETMF, because of its unique nature as a small bootable managed code runtime. However, the fundamental nature of embedded systems is their extreme variety. As a result, no single platform can be the best choice for all projects. There exists support for various operating systems for STM32, e.g., FreeRTOS, ECos, and Contiki. uClinux is too large, it would require several MB of external RAM (which would be possible with the larger STM32 packages that support a bus to external memories, but would require the design of a larger mainboard). You would probably need to write your own drivers for 3rd party modules, though.
Why are your modules black, and not blue (cloud modules) or green (field modules)?
.NET Gadgeteer requires power-producing boards to be red, and power-consuming boards to be black. After consulting with Microsoft's Gadgeteer team, we introduced red mainboards. This upholds the simple rule: "To be on the safe side, never use more than one red board in a system". But we didn't want to complicate the color scheme by introducing further colors. Moreover, some modules can either be used as cloud or as field modules, e.g., Bluetooth modules. And we would need yet another color for touch display modules or other user interface modules, which might be regarded as a third dimension of extensibility. So we kept the color scheme simple, if a bit boring.
Does Mountaineer fragment the Gadgeteer platform, by introducing incompatibilities?
Not at all. Every Mountaineer board is a true Gadgeteer board, and compatible with other Gadgeteer products. We simply constrained the mechanical design space slightly, to make use of the boards easier in some situations.
Can I produce boards that adhere to the Mountaineer Design Rules?
Sure. However, you must not call them Mountaineer boards, as Mountaineer is our trademark.
Do you intend to design go!bus compatible boards?
Not at this time. However, we are closely following this promising new approach for embedded plug & play extensibility. The devil's in the details. We will analyze go!bus when the initial products have become more mature, and a good specification document has been published that includes descriptions of the protocol layers.
Will there be more Mountaineer boards?
That's possible, but will depend on where our customer projects lead us. There is no product roadmap, as we are not product companies. However, see our Mountaineer Prime reference designs, which can be licensed.
Besides software and hardware, will there also be Mountaineer cloud services?
There are no plans for such services. Note, however, that Yaler GmbH, which is a spin-off of Oberon microsystems, hosts a relay service that allows to connect to devices behind firewalls.


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"It's a family friendly park, so I wouldn't want to have bodies laying around," says park goer Spencer Ward.
Some park goers are un-nerved, especially since investigators say it appears the body had been there for several months.
"I think that it's really crazy because there's people all the time and nobody's smelled anything or heard or seen anything," says Mandi Brock, who comes to the park all the time with her kids.
"The thing that does kind of strike me odd is, if they did die sometime during the summer, normally, certain indicators would let you know that a decomposing body is in the area," says Weary.
Investigators want to stress that the remains were found in an area of the park that's not open to the public.
"It's not an area where people need to be of great concern," says Weary.
One park worker says homeless people have been known to camp out in the area the body was found and police believe that could help them identify the person.
"We've reviewed missing persons files and as of right now haven't come across anything that rings a bell," says Weary.
More answers will come as police continue their investigation.
"We have no reason at this point to believe that this is a homicide. Right now it's just a death investigation until we determine the matter of death," says Weary.
Now it is a waiting game on what the medical examiner will find.
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(Beaufort-AP) February 8, 2007 - Beaufort County sheriff's deputies say a second man has been arrested in the rape of a teen held at gunpoint for 13 hours.
Thirty-six-year-old Vincent Charles Gardner is charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in last week's attack.
Lieutenant Jim Bukoffsky says two men raped the 15-year-old girl after she was dropped off at a St. Helena Island home against her will Friday night.
The girl managed to escape 13 hours later and run home.
Fifty-two-year-old Thomas Louis Davis was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree criminal sexual assault, kidnapping, pointing a gun at a person and weapons violations.
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This is an article about the state of Oklahoma Football as we know it now. After getting completely destroyed last night by OSU in a game I will refer to as a "pass game", there are a ton of things OU needs to do in order for this not to be such a game. What I mean by a "pass game" is this game has officially signaled that one program has passed up the other. OSU, no matter how much we hate it, will most likely contend for Big 12 titles for years to come. OU is most likely to start contending for the Cotton Bowl or lower for years to come. In January of 2001, OU played a"pass game" where they passed up Florida State. You know what has happened since then, so you know what I am referring too. There are several things that need to happen for OU to recover, however, we all know what will happen, so this will be filed under a "fantasy" for now.
1. Coaching changes- Major coaching changes should be in the works. This is a school that prides itself on loyalty however, and I do not see any of this happening. And no one is exempt. Obviously, the biggest change everyone is asking for is for Venebles to go. I say Norvell should also face the music, and whereas I would like to keep Heupel as a QB coach, if he will not accept that demotion, he also needs to go. Pete Martinez was fired from Georgia for a REASON. Does anyone not see this? Did anyone notice that Georgia was playing LSU in the SEC Championship game, which I am sure has as much to do with Richt as it does with the fact that Martinez no longer is a part of that program. I will go as far as to say that if he is unwilling to make changes, Bob himself must even go.
2. Scheme changes- Defensively, we could solve a lot by abandoning the whole 4-2-5 or 3-3-5 we have adopted lately and go to more of our base defense plus a nickel and or dime which employs cornerbacks instead of additional safeties. Safeties are good defending the run, but this conference tends to like to pass. Also we must mix up coverages with zone and man. Offensively, we must take advantage of the fact that we have 2-3 very fine fullbacks on this roster. We have the personnel to line up and play power football from the I formation, we just choose not to. I think a lot of this has to do with the experience and expertise of the coordinators we employ presently. I am not asking for an I based offense, I am just saying that we need to mix our offense and make it more of a pro style than this "air raid" crap we have been trying to play.
3. Players need to show some pride- Bottom line. I have said for years, that I would rather have a player who grows up wanting to play for the University of Oklahoma, than one who is talented and is using us as a step to the pros. I feel this was one of the major differences between Sam Bradford and Landry Jones. Sam was a Sooner, Landry seems to be more there to be there, maybe for an education, at times he just looks clueless. Bottom line, Landry had the worst performance of any Sooner Starting quarterback last night since a man by the name of Eric Moore took the field. I would have thought maybe Tom Wort would have stood up and provided some leadership defensively but I guess I was wrong. He seems more interested in hitting people so hard that he makes a highlight reel. Tom, I love what you are doing on the field, you are the closest thing we have had to The Boz since the man himself, but Brian Bosworth was a leader.
Needless to say, this is one fans opinion, and I know the reality of it all is that there will be no changes made next season. It will take the unthinkable for anything to be done here, and it may take a year or two of that for it to be done. With no changes being made, I can tell you that I believe that this team, next season, with all the current coaches, philosophies, and players in place will finish somewhere between the 4-8 to 6-6 mark. Be ready Sooner nation, because we have seen instances like this before.... Bedlam 2011 has been a program changer. The sooner we embrace it and do something about it, the better we will be.


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Jun 15, 2013
The power of appreciative words: "Mishan's Garden," by James Vollbracht & Janet Brooke
"The greatest gift you can ever give another is to see what is best and unique about them."
This morning I stumbled downstairs, bleary-eyed, having got home late after teaching a class the night before. My six-year-old daughter gave me a running hug and a huge smile. She's naturally affectionate, but I suspect there was an ulterior motive, because a few seconds later she came running back to me with Mishan's Garden in her hands, asking that I read it to her. And so, I did.
Mishan is the titular heroine, a young girl who lives in The Village Above the White Clouds, where her father is the innkeeper. Misha is a special girl, …
Tara Brach
Apr 10, 2013
The sacred art of listening – nourishing loving relationships
To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be changed
By what we hear
-Mark Nepo
What happens when there's a listening presence? When we're fully in that listening presence, when there's that pure quality of receptivity, we become presence itself. And whether you call that God or pure awareness or our true nature, the boundary of inner and outer dissolves and we become a luminous field of awakeness. When we're in that open presence we can really respond to the life that's here. We fall in love.
This state of listening is the precursor or the prerequisite to loving …
Caroline Jones
Feb 04, 2013
"The Five Mindful Keys to Communication," by Susan Gillis Chapman
I first started reading The Five Mindful Keys to Communication while waiting for my daughter at the airport. At the same time, a text came in from a young friend, announcing that he was probably going to be indicted by the FBI. It was difficult to keep my mind on the reading at this point, and yet I found solace there too, as one of the main themes in the book is working with fear. Even though most of the advice regarding fear centered around communication with others, I found it very helpful when communicating with myself that evening.
The author, Susan Gillis Chapman, is a marriage and family therapist, who has been …
Rick Hanson PhD
Jan 22, 2013
Mindful speech as a tool for mental health
It's been said that the most powerful tool for physical health is a fork (or spoon), since the choices you make with it determine the good or bad things you put into your body.
In the same way, perhaps the most powerful tool for your mental health – and certainly for the health of your relationships – is your tongue. Thousands of times each day, it (or your fingers on a keyboard: same thing) offers the good word or the bad one out into your world.
If you say what's true for you, and say it clearly and kindly, you get one kind of results. But if you use a sharp tongue, …
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Jan 06, 2013
"Zombies on Kilimanjaro," by Tim Ward
'"Your guide will probably tell you," Ezekiel said, "that the name Kilimanjaro comes from kilima, the Swahili word for 'mountain' and jaro, the Maasai word for 'snow-capped.' But that's just for the tourists. We Chagga people who have always lived here, we believe the name comes from our own language: kilema-kyaro, which means 'Impossible to Climb.'"'
So begins Buddhist writer Tim Ward's latest book, 'Zombies on Kilimanjaro,' an intriguingly and perhaps misleadingly titled memoir about climbing the highest freestanding mountain in the world with his 20-year-old son, Josh.
It's a good beginning, plunging the reader straight into the 'plot' of …
Dec 12, 2012
Apology as a spiritual practice
Yesterday I lost my temper with my daughter and yelled at her. I even snatched out of her hands the baby monitor that she and her brother had been using to make a noise with.
I'm not proud of losing my temper. In fact I'm ashamed when that kind of thing happens.
It's true that I'd asked her several times to stop, but that's still no excuse.
It didn't help either that I'd been trying to get a little work done in the living room and was trying hard to stay focused on a message I was writing. But that's no excuse either.
Oct 13, 2012
Ten Tips for Skilful Communication
Communication is a huge part of our lives. All our relationships depend on it, but it often seems to go wrong and we can react or lose patience, even with people we're close to. Here are some suggestions for developing our communication with the help of mindfulness
1. Notice your habits
Habits probably play a big part in how we communicate, so we need to reflect on how we communicate, and particularly what difficulties arise. Notice if you tend to focus on what others do when things go wrong: change comes when we identify what we contribute ourselves.
2. Use meditation
When we meditate arguments and unresolved difficulties often rise up into awareness. We can use that time …
Rick Hanson PhD
Sep 29, 2012
The five principles of wise communication
"Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
Ah, not really.
Often it's words – and the tone that comes with them – that actually do the most damage. Just think back on some of the things that have been said to you over the years – especially those said with criticism, derision, shaming, anger, rejection, or scorn – and the impacts they've had on your feelings, hopes and ambitions, and sense of yourself.
Words can hurt since the emotional pain networks in your brain overlap with physical pain networks. (The effects of this intertwining go both ways. For example, studies have …
Jul 11, 2012
"Whatever is well said is the word of the Buddha." Maybe not.
As well as keeping things going at Wildmind, I run a site called "Fake Buddha Quotes," where I explore some of the sayings misattributed to the Buddha on Facebook, Twitter, quotes sites, and even in books, and attempt to track down their original source. It's fun to do.
From time to time I receive critical messages from people, claiming that the Buddha was too spiritual to bother about things like being misquoted, or having words put in his mouth. How they know this, I don't know. Perhaps they have some kind of mystical communion with deceased enlightened beings.
Not having such powers, I have to read the Buddhist scriptures for clues …
May 03, 2012
Ten tips for setting up a meditation practice
The benefits of meditation come with regular practice, and that means making it part of your life. That's one of the great challenges of learning meditation, so here are ten tips for establishing a meditation practice.
1. Get some instruction
You can learn the techniques of meditation from books and CDs: there are some good ones around (check out our shop). But it helps a lot to learn from a real person.Take a course – or go to a class where you can ask questions about the issues. In time, it helps to have friends or even teachers who are more experienced meditators than you are.
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Wellwood changes it up, Canucks make a DVD for kids, Luc Bourdon's mom carries Olympic torch
Matt Cooke Gets His Cup - Congrats to former the former Canuck agitator for going the distance.
On this day in Canucks history, Vancouver lost Luc Bourdon to a tragic car accident.
You can still win a jersey or donate money to some worthwhile causes, all in the name of hockey. Read on for more.
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All the news that's fit to comment on. Except no one ever really comments. SO it's more like a monologue of slightly OCD mind.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
I'm not sure why, but we're getting a 9/11 tag
It's called the Global War on Terrorism plate. A bill in the legislature hoped to buy body armor from the proceeds of this plate. The plate costing 35$ of which 20$ would go to the Oklahoma Military Department to buy the body armor for our National Guard troops.
We already offer 144 different plates, not counting the NASCAR plates which I lumped into one. We also offer 5 colors of blank plates you can choose from with your own message.
I had INETPCS on a blank blue plate when I drove my 1993 Ford Ranger.
After that I had the Oklahoma Historical plate...
I currently have the USMC tag...
which of course has 2MC 666 on it. I had to ask for that number special as they normally don't issue the 666 tag. Mostly because it gets returned.
It's a pretty sweet deal too, cause it's just 9$ to renew.
On the wife's car we have...
Go Sooners. Like the University needs the additional money this tag generates. All this manages to do is piss people off when we drive to Stillwater, home of the Cowboys, Oklahoma State University. Honks and fingers, for everyone with this tag.
We love our tags here in Oklahoma. Check out the complete list.
Fark.com had a photoshop contest for our new tag. There are some pretty funny tags in there.
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- =HPSF=Jarhead said...
Its none of my business, but why did you choose SAM PLE for your wife's car? You could have been a little more original.
- August 9, 2007 at 5:04 PM
- OkieRover said...
It has OU 150 on it.
We were the 150th to get one of the tags. The series is now on at least OU7 999.
- August 10, 2007 at 8:05 AM
Why did you choose 2MC 666? Are you a satanist or something? I don't think the Lord Jesus Christ would approve of your plate number, and it is rather disheartening to know people like you are in my beloved Corps.
- March 21, 2008 at 3:18 AM
- OkieRover said...
First, 6 is my favorite number. And if you knew me personally the whole thing would make a lot more sense to you.
Don't be disheartened, I WAS in our beloved Corps. And I GO to church every Sunday.
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How The Indians Finally Won The World Series—And Saved Cleveland
The BSBS Is Born
Mike knew that he had to start by making the Indians look better than they were, but now he knew how to do it. First he tweaked the computer program a little so it would accept statistical data about the performance of ballplayers instead of statistics about the performance of mortgages. Then, using basic performance data like ERA and batting average, he divided the Indians' likely 25-man roster for the upcoming season into three tranches—from riskiest to least risky. And then just as the computer program instructed him to, he pressed "Ctl-Alt-Enter" on his computer keyboard and the riskiest tranche of Indians moved up to a less-risky one. In fact, he found out that if he just held down these three keys for a few extra seconds the bottom tranche of players moved up all the way to the top.
And just like that the Indians started to look like a championship team.
Since the winter sportsbook in Vegas was quoting 100-to-1 odds against the Tribe winning the 2011 World Series, Mike saw that he had discovered what the Wall Street people and the baseball statistics experts called a "market inefficiency" and that he could try to take advantage of it. But to make it work he knew that he needed some help from a lawyer, a baseball expert, and a stockbroker. He also needed some financial backing and help selling the BSBS. He already had an idea where he could get the money, the sales force, and the expert opinion. So he started by getting a lawyer.
The only lawyer he knew, a guy named Frank Murphy, ran a storefront legal practice on Detroit Avenue. Murphy had done wills for his wife and him and had handled the probating of her small estate. He had been consulting Murphy again recently as he fought to save his home from foreclosure. Mike went to see him right away and told him what he wanted to do.
The lawyer was, to say the least, a bit skeptical. He told Mike that he hadn't taken a securities course at the night law school he attended and in fact had never even handled a securities matter. He was very reluctant to get involved.
Mike pleaded with him to help and then Murphy had an idea. An old buddy of his, Marty Jablonski, had dropped out of law school after the first year and moved to New York to work in the securities business. Murphy tracked him down and called him. The lawyer explained Mike's basic idea of the BSBS and asked his buddy if he could serve as the investment banker for the deal. Jablonski said that, technically speaking, he didn't really work for an investment bank. In fact, he told Murphy that some people referred to his firm as a bucket shop, though for his part he preferred to think of it as "an investment bank for the rest of us." Murphy wasn't sure what he meant by this, but he asked his buddy to think the situation over some more and get back to him if he thought he could help.
The next day Jablonski called back to say that he thought he could make this idea work. As he sat at home the night before thinking about Mike's idea, he had remembered that his firm had a professional relationship with a similar firm in Tokyo. He knew that the Japanese were crazy about baseball, so he had called the firm to ask if it thought Japanese citizens might be interested in buying small pieces of these BSBS. The people at the firm already knew all about the Indians because of the popularity of Chief Wahoo and because the Indians had signed some Japanese players over the years. They said that if the BSBS was broken into small enough pieces (say, little investment certificates for $20 each) and a Chief Wahoo logo was put on each one of them it should be no problem to sell 4 million dollars' worth of the things in short order. The certificates would offer the buyers the chance to double their money if the Indians had a good year and could be kept as a memorabilia item even if the team did poorly. The key, the Tokyo firm thought, was to put them on sale in March—just before the start of baseball season.
Murphy asked how much Jablonski and the Tokyo firm would get out of the deal. Jablonski told him that for selling 4 million dollars of BSBS to the customers the New York and Tokyo firms would want ten percent of the proceeds, or $200,000 each.
Murphy called Mike with this news right away. Mike walked over to his office to discuss the situation some more and to lay out the rest of his plan. Murphy said he didn't want to know. He gave him Jablonski's number, said that as far as he was concerned he and Mike had never talked about this, and wished him luck.
So Mike called Jablonski directly and laid out his entire plan. He and his buddies would raise 4 million dollars in convents, union halls, church councils, bingo halls, and neighborhood bars and restaurants all over Cleveland, use the money to pay the $400,000 in fees to the securities firms and then make 3.6 million dollars' worth of bets at a number of sportsbooks in Vegas on the Tribe to win the Series at 100-1 odds. They would then use Jablonski's firm to securitize the betting slips they got from the sportsbooks where they placed the bets while holding the betting slips themselves in a safety deposit box (Mike said that he would be acting kind of like the trustee of a mortgage-backed security). Then they would have Jablonski work through the Tokyo firm to sell enough pieces of the securities in Japan to repay the 4 million dollars right away to the people who had provided the initial 4 million dollars. They would also give them their share of the betting slips and tell them to sell them or hold onto them as they chose. If the Tribe got off to a strong start the slips should go up in value as the odds against the Indians winning the Series decreased to maybe 40-1 or less. The holders of the slips could sell them whenever they wanted to anyone who was interested in buying a 100-1 bet at a discount and charge any price the buyer was willing to pay. Mike would also send enough of the betting slips to the Tokyo firm to allow it to redeem certificates there.
Mike told Jablonski that from all his research this is what the investment bankers had meant when they kept referring to the "magic of the free market" when they were talking about MBS and ABS in the years before the crash. Jablonski said that he was basically right about that but asked Mike what would happen if the Indians had a bad year and the BSBS bought by the Japanese turned out to be worthless and the buyers started complaining.
Mike said that he had already thought of that. He reminded Jablonski that the government had bailed out all sorts of foreign banks which had invested in mortgage-backed securities that turned out to be worthless and had never prosecuted the people on Wall Street who had created and sold this garbage, so he thought the government would also bail out these Japanese buyers of the BSBS and be too embarrassed to prosecute him. He called it his "too small to fail" theory.
Jablonski was now even more interested, but he told Mike that two other things were needed—an actual security document for the BSBS and an opinion letter vouching for the safety of the security from a qualified expert. Mike said he had already had the answer in both areas.
For the BSBS security document he would just modify the one which was contained in the program he had obtained from the senator's office by deleting everything that talked about mortgages and their risks and putting in language that talked about the Tribe's ballplayers and the risks facing them. Jablonski would then put his firm's name on the document. And for the expert opinion he would rely on a former ballplayer who lived in the neighborhood.
This ballplayer, Paul ("No Hands") Hansen, was something of a local celebrity. He had played for ten years in the Indians' minor league system and finally had a two-month stint with the big league club but for the last fifteen years or so had fallen on hard times. He hung around one of the local bars, and people who remembered him stood him drinks in return for stories about his years in baseball. Mike had already checked with him and told him about the computer program that showed that the Tribe was actually a great team, and he had agreed to sign a letter stating that in his expert opinion as a former major league ballplayer the Indians were a good team with a great shot at winning the Series this year. In fact, Sally had already created a letterhead for him using the bar's address as his office address. And the letter was just waiting to be signed.
After hearing all this, Jablonski paid Mike what he considered to be the ultimate compliment. He said, "Mike, you should have been an investment banker."
Count Me In
In a matter of days after he talked to Jablonski Mike had modified the document in the computer program to create the world's first BSBS and gotten the expert opinion letter signed by Paul Hansen. He sent them to Jablonski, who told him that they looked every bit as good as any MBS he had ever seen and agreed to put his firm's name on the BSBS. Jablonski told him that it was now time for Mike to try to raise the money necessary to buy the betting slips. Mike knew exactly where to start.
Over the years he had stayed in contact with his old fifth grade teacher, Sister Aloysius, who was now living in a home for retired nuns. He knew that the home was experiencing financial problems and could use some help. He also knew that Sister Aloysius was a great Indians fan who, along with some of the other nuns from her order, often went to Tribe games with the tickets the team provided them. So Mike went to see her.
After he laid out his plan, Sister Aloysius smiled at Mike and said, "Michael, you always were one of my favorite students. Count me in." But then she offered a suggestion. She told Mike that the watchword in raising the money had to always be the following: "Keep your mouth shut and we just might all get out of the hole Wall Street dug us."
From there events moved rapidly. Some of the convent's pension money was invested in the BSBS. After Sister Aloysius had placed some discreet calls to some other nuns from other convents where there were a lot of Indians fans, still more money came in. And then, with Sister Aloysius's permission to use hers and the other convents' names, Mike, Sam, Jack and some of their unemployed friends fanned out to councils of churches which had been scheduled for closing, to bingo halls where fewer players had been showing up every week, to union halls where unemployed workers were meeting, and to everywhere else in Cleveland where they thought they could raise money. And they told the same story everywhere they went: "The sisters who taught you have invested in this. It's a good chance to make back some of the money you all got screwed out of. So put your money in. But keep your mouth shut."
In two weeks' time they had raised the four million dollars. Mike and Sam promptly went to Vegas and made 3.6 million dollars' worth of small bets at 100-1 that the Indians would win the Series. They brought the betting slips back with them in a box in the trunk of their car. Once home, they put them in a safety deposit box.
After that, things went like clockwork. They sent Jablonski the $400,000 fee they had agreed upon for the two securities firms and enough betting slips for the Tokyo firm to hold as trustee for the Japanese buyers of the pieces of the BSBS. The Tokyo firm sold the entire 4 million dollar allotment of the BSBS in one week. It sent the money to Jablonski who in turn sent it to Mike. Mike and his buddies then repaid all the seed money to the people who had provided it and also gave them their proportionate share of the betting slips. Then everyone waited for Opening Day, which was just ten days off.
As all Tribe fans everywhere now know, the Indians got out of the gate fast, and the Vegas odds against their winning the Series began dropping sharply. As the Tribe's injured players returned to form, as their young players began blossoming, and as their prospects moved to the major league club and prospered, the Tribe found itself in first place by mid-June.
The next two months saw them cling to the division lead, though at times the lead shrank to only a half-game. But as the team continued to play well, the fans began to believe in them and the crowds at the games grew steadily larger. Now the drumbeats of the drummer were accompanied by the sounds of cheering fans, who pushed the team on to rally after rally and win after win.
And the longer the Indians stayed in first, the more valuable the betting slips became as the Vegas odds continued to drop. The initial investors began to sell some of the slips at a huge profit and began catching up on their mortgages. Foreclosure cases began to be dismissed and "for sale" signs started coming down. Houses all over the city began to get new coats of paint, and some got new roofs and driveways as well. As people began to feel a little more secure, they began patronizing local businesses again, and many small businesses reopened. Men and women who had been unemployed for several years began working at local shops and restaurants and for small construction companies. Many people used their profits from the slips to rebuild their retirement plans. Churches which had been scheduled for closing were now able to justify remaining open, and church attendance grew. The sisters in the convents and retirement homes suddenly had a brighter future. The city began to feel good about itself again.
And the Indians kept winning enough to remain in first. By early September, though, the Twins and the White Sox were both making a move. Progressive Field was sold out game after game, as the crowds, which included many religious orders who showed up en masse, willed the Indians onward.
The designated drummer now had to beat his drum louder because, in addition to the cheering, he was competing with a distinct humming sound which echoed throughout the stadium and reminded people of the vuvuzelas heard at the recent World Cup. The sound was actually coming from the thousands of rosary beads which were clicking together as the sisters prayed the team on to victory.
And, finally, everyone's prayers were answered. The Tribe pulled away from the field in September, won the division by plenty, and swept every postseason series.
As the World Series victory parade moved slowly down Euclid Avenue on a sunny late October afternoon, anyone paying close enough attention noticed two things. They saw that the lead car had several players but also a newlywed couple, Mike and Sally. And in the background, amid all the wild cheering, there was the distinct sound of church bells ringing all over Cleveland.


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If you use liquid from a highlighter, you'll get blood that will glow the color of the highlighter under black light. Not every highlighter glows, so test it before using it. If you use glow powder or paint from a craft store, your glow in the dark blood will glow when the lights are off, providing you "charged" the blood up by shining a bright light on it first. Glow powder typically glows yellowish green.
I had great luck with this glowing blood. It was very bright and washed off easily with warm water. It likely will stain clothes, so watch out for that.


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Over a third of students who apply to The Ohio State University get rejected, and successful applicants tend to have grades and standardized test scores that are above average. In the graph above, the blue and green data points represent accepted students. You can see that the majority of students who got in had "B+" or higher averages, SAT scores of about 1650 or higher, and ACT composite scores of 23 or above. Higher numbers clearly improve your chances of getting an acceptance letter, and almost all students with "A" grades and above average test scores were accepted.
Note that there are some red dots (rejected students) and yellow dots (waitlisted students) hidden behind the green and blue in the middle of the graph. Some students with grades and test scores that were on target for Ohio State did not get accepted. Note also that many students were accepted with test scores and grades a bit below the norm. The admissions folks take into consideration the rigor of your high school courses, not just your grades. AP, IB and Honors courses all carry extra weight. Ohio State is also interested in your leadership experiences, extracurricular activities, and work experience. Finally, if you are a first-generation college student or part of an underrepresented group, you may get additional consideration.
To learn more about The Ohio State University, high school GPAs, SAT scores and ACT scores, these articles can help:
- Ohio State Admissions Profile
- What's a Good SAT Score?
- What's a Good ACT Score?
- What's Considered a Good Academic Record?
- What is a Weighted GPA?
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Before this column goes any further, an apology for the subject matter:
I'd like to apologize to all readers for writing about the Jacksonville Jaguars. Undoubtedly, you'd like to read about a better pro football team. Undoubtedly, I'd prefer to write about quarterbacks who throw seven touchdown passes in a game or who, even as opposed to Chad Henne against the Raiders, got more than 13 out of 40 passes to go more than 5 yards, as The Florida Times-Union Jaguars writer Ryan O'Halloran tweeted.
It would be great if I were writing about a team that fulfilled my preseason hopes — one which the defense catalyzed changes in game momentum, one which the quarterback took advantage of his top-of-the-first-round tackles to make reads of the defense and to spread the ball around to receivers, one which the running backs hit holes hard and broke free into the secondary with reckless abandon, one which fans hoped would bring it for 60 minutes every week.
If that were the case, I'd be writing about the Jacksonville Sharks or the Jacksonville Dixie Blues. I'm writing about the Jaguars, however, and apologizing, much like the Orlando CBS affiliate did for showing Jaguars vs. Raiders instead of the Manning Bowl (Eli's New York Giants vs. Peyton's Denver Broncos).
Apologizing. Like the Jags should, for drafting a punter instead of Russell Wilson, the Seattle signal-caller who was still on the board when punter Bryan Anger was picked in 2012. And how did you like that Seattle game, by the way (Seahawks 29, 49ers 3)?
Apologizing. Like Shad Khan should, for putting this pitiful product on display in Jacksonville. Jack Del Rio, Mike Mularkey, Gene Smith and the rest of the gang are gone like the wind; but frankly, we don't give a damn, since the product looks the same.
The team looks like an expansion team. Like they're Happy To Be There. Like they expect fans to derive some psychic benefit at this late date, almost two decades into the franchise's existence, … More
Remember when Jacksonville hosted the Super Bowl? Seems like it was almost a decade ago — because it was. Paul McCartney was the musical halftime entertainment, and for some, that was the punch line of the joke. For others, it was something far more elemental: the fact that the NFL dared to hold its showcase game — arguably the biggest event in professional sports —i n the Bold New City of the South.
The horror, the horror!
National pundits — such as Tony Kornheiser of ESPN and the Washington Post, Bill "The Sports Guy" Simmons and a cavalcade of media stars — made all of the jokes that you would expect. "In Jacksonville, there are more Waffle Houses than reasons to live" type material. It was great fun to have the national media lay into Jacksonville for its shortcomings when it came to hosting an event like the Super Bowl; primary among them was that the city lacked a centralized entertainment district that one would expect in a major city, and that there were not enough hotel rooms for the influx of visitors.
The entertainment issue was more or less solved, though with Super Bowl parties being held at far-flung venues like Plush/The Edge in Arlington, it was hard to find a cab to get to them. The issue of lodging had a similarly ad hoc solution, in the form of lodging on cruise ships in the St. Johns River. Somehow, we got through the event, albeit with damage to our reputation nationally and even internationally. Or so the narrative goes.
I am reminded of the Super Bowl logistics issues given the recent announcement by Gator Bowl President and CEO Rick Catlett that Jacksonville intends to bid on national championship games in 2016 and 2017.
"We think we're in a really good position," Catlett told The Florida Times-Union in September. "We've got a heckuva offer. We have 84,000 seats and all the hotels that they're asking for. Plus, we've got premium resorts. … We've hosted a Super Bowl [in 2005], so we know … More
Through two home games started by Blaine Gabbert, the Jacksonville Jaguars have been outscored 65-5. If there is one silver lining, the team briefly led in both: 3-0 against the Colts; 2-0 against the Chiefs. So there's that.
The harsh truth, though, is that that just isn't enough. Not even close. Not when discussion — ranging from a USA Today story a couple of weeks ago to a Yahoo! Sports radio spot I heard during my Monday morning commute after the Colts debacle — revolves around whether the Jags can go 0-16. Trading away starting offensive tackles for late-round picks — as the Jaguars did with Eugene Monroe in early October — won't help the team win or the quarterback remain intact.
How bad has it gotten for the Jaguars? It's gotten so bad that when the Jaguars punt these days — and they punt a lot — people call it the Teddy Bridgewater Formation, a reference to the expected No. 1 pick that the Jags will take in the 2014 draft. It's so bad that much discussion lately has revolved around when or whether the Jaguars should sign Tim Tebow to a contract. Again!
You remember Tebow: Nease High School star, Gators superstar Heisman-trophy winner. Took Denver to the playoffs despite having entire halves of games in which he completed one forward pass. Didn't get much of a shot in New York with the Jets. Couldn't stick on the New England roster. That guy. Apparently, there are some who believe he's the franchise savior.
Like the guy in a monkey mask I talked to before the Colts game. I never miss an opportunity to talk to someone wearing an animal mask, and since he had a pro-Tebow sign, I wanted to get a sense of why he thought Tebow would be a good add for the franchise. His answer? Nothing you haven't heard before.
And why would there be anything new to say? The "why not Tebow?" side or the side posting banners that quote General Manager Dave Caldwell saying "even if he's released" he's not coming to Jacksonville … More
As the Florida State Seminoles prepare for a season-defining contest on the road against their Atlantic Coast Conference rival Clemson Tigers on Oct. 19, it's useful to consider how, in just a few short games, the 'Noles team has incontrovertibly staked its claim to being the best college football team in the state — if not the country.
For evidence of the Seminoles' superiority, one need only look back to their last game — a 63-0 drubbing of the previously ranked Maryland Terrapins. As absurd as it may sound, that contest was not as close as the score indicated as, even with second-teamers playing the second half, it was clear Maryland had given up — the game should have been called under some sort of mercy rule provision.
Whenever a sports program experiences a renaissance, there are many reasons why. One of them has to be Jimbo Fisher taking the reins from Bobby Bowden — a great coach in his day, which unfortunately ended late in the 20th century. The Bowden of the 21st century was clearly a caretaker, the equivalent of those ancient Soviet leaders of the early 1980s or Pope Benedict — more for show than for go. His teams had amazing talent, but relatively speaking, they underperformed compared to what they could have done.
When Fisher officially became head coach, it took a little time for his rebuilding to bear fruit. This year, it finally has. Loads of talent on FSU's roster, not least of which is the freshman quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate, "famous" Jameis Winston. He's kicking butt, taking names and enjoying every moment of it, if his comments after the Maryland massacre are any indication.
"It felt like a little league football game out there," Winston said. "It was 12 o'clock, the sun was out. I don't think I saw a cloud in the sky. It was a beautiful day."
Sports fans can forgive Winston's reference to "little league football" as opposed to Pop Warner; he pitched 17 games with a 3.00 ERA and 21 … More
Steve Livingstone sees the fervor in Jacksonville's soccer community and believes the city will embrace its North American Soccer League expansion franchise.
Livingstone, who formerly had stints with NFL Europe's Scottish Claymores and with the Jacksonville Jaguars for the last eight years, was brought in as club president. The team will take the field for the 2015 season.
He said anecdotal and statistical evidence shows Jacksonville is a viable market for the league.
"Jacksonville is already a great soccer community through the tremendous work that's been done within the numerous youth and adult soccer leagues that have been operating for many years here," Livingstone said by email. "You just need to visit any of the soccer parks around the city and region on a Saturday morning to see how many people are enjoying the game."
He said a vibrant local community rabidly supports the U.S. Men's National Team (USMNT) at area sports bars and through social media. Livingstone estimated that there are 200,000 people in town with an interest in soccer.
Will those numbers translate into paying customers? If they don't, it won't be for lack of trying from the local NASL franchise.
"We plan on giving Jacksonville a great soccer team and a great experience when they come to our games," Livingstone said. "Our ticket prices will be very affordable and we will present a great day's entertainment for everyone." Ticket prices for Jacksonville games have not been set. Individual game tickets for NASL games in other markets range from $10 to $55.
We've seen expansion teams come and go in the region. Corporate sponsorship is always part of the plan and a recurrent challenge. According to Livingstone, corporations will get involved because "we can deliver a specific, passionate and highly engaged audience to them," and because the team will be involved in the community through clinics and camps, and will be bringing in world-class soccer events beyond the NASL … More
Hello, Gator fans: four wins, three losses and third place in the SEC East – that's not what you expected going into this season, am I right? And the untimely end of quarterback Jeff Driskel's era — that took you by surprise, too. I wish I had some answers for you. I wish I could say that if a few things just went better for the Gators, then they would be back in the mix.
Basically, I wish I were a better liar. But I'm not.
I deal in reality. And the reality of the Florida Gators is harsher than last week's cold coffee. It's not as simple as losing the starting quarterback, or Dominique Easley from the defensive line, or Matt Jones — no, not the erstwhile Jaguar with the Foot Locker discount card — from the running back stable. The problems with this team cannot be isolated to one or two or three key personnel. They won't be fixed in time for the Nov. 2 Florida-Georgia game. They won't be fixed in 2013.
It's arguable that there are too many problems to list here, but I'll touch on the major ones.
Lack of imagination: An old adage applies to the Gators offense: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This holds true for the putrid offensive football we have seen this year — and really throughout the Will Muschamp era. Florida Gators football for years was among the most exciting college football to watch in the entire country. Throughout the Steve Spurrier and Urban Meyer eras, even non-fans could watch Gators football and know that they were going to see something worth watching. Now? What we get is some low-rent, wannabe Woody Hayes "run the ball, stop the run, and play smashmouth" template that works better in theory, or in sepia-tinged photographs from yesteryear, than in practice. Muschamp built the team to play 16-13 games against Alabama. However, when Alabama needs to throw the ball downfield and score 50, the Crimson Tide can do that. We know the Gators cannot.
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There have been 0-16 teams before in the NFL. Well, OK, one 0-16 team — the 2008 Detroit Lions. And we have to wonder how badly that squad would beat the current incarnation of the Jacksonville Jaguars on a neutral field at this point, after the big cats' last lamentable loss, a 42-10 shellacking at the hands of the defending NFC champions, the San Francisco 49ers.
It's possible, one supposes, to spin this result in a positive way. Maurice Jones-Drew — a Jaguars great of the past and mediocrity of the present — attempted to do just that after the game in London.
"This year hasn't gone the way we wanted it to, but at the same time we're going to continue to work," the running back told The Guardian. "When it is turned around, it's going to make it that much better because you know how far you've come."
Indeed. And the aforementioned Lions organization can speak to what a turnaround actually looks like. The Lions of 2013 are quite legit: The best wide receiver in football, a solid quarterback and a defense that performs well at home for the most part tend to legitimize an operation. The Jags? Well, they have some quality wide receivers in Justin Blackmon and Cecil Shorts, and some building blocks on defense that might develop … down the road.
Of course, who really knows if the team will still be here by the time these building blocks become more than just pieces of potential? The NFL's two-game experiment in London this year went — by all accounts, including that of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — extraordinarily well. So well that at least one Jaguars player said he'd like to go back.
"Playing in the stadium was unbelievable," Paul Posluzsny told The Guardian. "The amount of people here, the fans, the fact that the game got out of hand in the fourth quarter and everybody stayed and was loud. The crowd was unbelievable. It was one of the best NFL atmospheres I've ever been a part of. If Mr. Khan says, 'Paul, … More
Last month, the San Francisco company Fantex announced plans to offer stock in the "value and performance of the brand" of one of the premier players in the NFL — Houston Texans running back Arian Foster. Jacksonville Jaguars fans know his play well, since the Texans would qualify as division rivals, if the Jaguars were a serious threat to do anything this year in the AFC South.
On the surface, this almost seemed like a good idea. Foster is a rarity among NFL players in many respects. Known for being thoughtful, Foster might also be the highest-profile football player ever to claim to be a vegan. As a former vegan myself, I can tell you that most who claim to be vegan fall short of that assertion. Foster has been quite outspoken on the subject of taking money when playing NCAA football at Tennessee, saying that the very idea of amateur status in big-time college sports was a charade and that there was something wrong with a system that turned massive profit while not giving any of that profit back to the talent generating it.
In short, I like the guy — what he stands for and his game on the field. That said, the idea that one would buy stock in an NFL player — a fungible commodity if ever there's sbeen one — is prima-facie absurd.
This is especially true in Foster's case. During his Nov. 3 game, a Sunday night tilt against the Indianapolis Colts, Foster left the game with a back injury. In recent years, Foster has battled everything from hamstring issues and a torn ACL to a heart condition. No one who plays in the NFL is 100 percent healthy, but Foster is never too far from the injury report.
Some theorize Foster's lingering maladies might not affect this initial public offering — which, at this writing, is still in process with no date announced.
"Obviously, if the injury is season-ending and requires surgery and/or rehab, the inaugural IPO could be affected, but just like a stock that has a bad quarter, some may … More
With Oregon's loss to Stanford, the road has been cleared for Florida State University to play in the college football national championship game against University of Alabama. As we get ready to say our last goodbye to the Bowl Championship Series, it seems somehow fitting that we look poised for a national title game for the ages.
There's a slight possibility that it might not come to pass.
"We already know there is a 99.9 percent chance Florida State is going to be in the BCS National Championship Game by virtue of Oregon going down to Stanford on Thursday night, but I've got news for you: The Seminoles will not be playing Alabama; they'll be playing the Evil Genius — Urban Meyer — and his Ohio State Buckeyes," Mike Bianchi wrote in the Orlando Sentinel.
"Alabama has games left at No. 7 Auburn, at Mississippi State and an SEC championship game against either No. 9 Missouri or No. 13 South Carolina. I realize the Crimson Tide have won three of the last four national titles, but they haven't proven anything THIS year. The only decent team they've beaten is Texas A&M — and they had to hold on for dear life to win that game 49-42."
Well, maybe. Maybe Auburn will test them. Maybe Missouri or the Gamecocks. But having watched Alabama dominate its competition year after year, it's hard to imagine 'Bama falling to any of those teams.
Not with AJ McCarron, not with excellent lines on both sides of the ball and not with those outstanding running backs. And not with the ever-present Alabama Mystique — something South Carolina (despite occasional flirtations with greatness during the Steve Spurrier Era) and Missouri simply don't have.
Florida State, compared to the Crimson Tide, has nothing but cake on its plate. A decimated, discouraged and discombobulated Gators squad, and whatever will pass for an ACC championship game, will only be appetizers for the main course — a program-defining contest against this century's … More
Pop Warner is under siege — or so says the national media.
Recent reports are that Pop Warner, America's largest youth football program, saw its participation drop a staggering 9.5 percent from 2010 to 2012, from its 2010 peak of 249,000 participants. Pop Warner, founded in 1929, grew steadily until recent years; according to ESPN, participation dropped 5.7 percent in 2011 and another 4 percent last year. If there's anything encouraging to be said for Pop Warner enthusiasts, it is that the decline appears to have flattened this year.
Why are kids leaving Pop Warner?
Many prominent commentators attribute the decline to factors that include the increased popularity of other sports. Others say Pop Warner is becoming less popular because of the NFL concussion epidemic, which has been blamed for everything from Junior Seau's suicide to Jim McMahon's descent into senescence.
Youth football probably won't go on as it is forever. I remember when I played in the 1980s, and the practices were grueling. Lots of laps and calisthenics, tackling drills in every practice and — for fat boys like me — trips to the sweat box to make weight. Today's parents seem less willing to subject their children to that — or even to let the children choose that for themselves.
Wes Benwick, president of the Mandarin Athletic Association (MAA) for the last two years, is the father of four boys who were or are Pop Warner players. Benwick's sons have had no concussions, though he "understands the risks" of youth football.
"Part of me is not surprised by the decline in participation," Benwick said by phone. "What I am seeing is an increase in younger players participating and a decline among older players due to alternatives" such as different leagues with different rules "because of age/weight issues" or even different sports.
The MAA has spent $25,000 to $30,000 on new helmets over the last couple of years, according to Benwick. Helmet technology is … More


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