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Bulls "forced" to make changes
February 28, 2013 in Rugby - Bulls
Hi all,
In my post prior to the Bulls' opening game I said that the team selection was a bit conservative in my view. However the 22 guys that made the cut did their job and put four points in the bag.
Bulls team for Saturday against the Force:
15 Zane Kirchner, 14 Sampie Mastriet, 13 Lionel Mapoe, 12 Wynand Olivier, 11 Bjorn Basson, 10 Mornè Steyn, 9 Francois Hougaard, 8 Pierre Spies (captain), 7 Arno Botha, 6 Jacques Potgieter, 5 Juandrè Kruger, 4 Flip van der Merwe, 3 Werner Kruger, 2 Chiliboy Ralepelle, 1 Mornè Mellett
Substitutes: 16 Willie Wepener, 17 Frik Kirsten, 18 Grant Hattingh, 19 Jean Cook, 20 Jano Vermaak, 21 Louis Fouchè , 22 Jan Serfontein
With injuries to Stegman, Potgieter and JJ Engelbrect the Bulls management has been forced to make some changes and exciting changes they are.
Sampie Mastriet comes in for Engelbrecht and in turn, Mapoe moves to outside centre and Olivier moves to inside centre. Sampie is an exciting player with LOTS of gas and I hope he gets more opportunities than Mapoe did on Friday night. Mapoe will be closer to the action this time around and I hope he can display some of his running and stepping skills that we know he possesses. With Olivier at 12 we can expect the same tried and tested combination between Steyn and Olivier, I just pray that Olivier makes some passes to the exciting players on his outside. I wonder if there is any correlation between Wynand's reluctantcy to pass and his playing in the Japan league. Surely there, against much weaker and smaller opposition, Wynand was able to run, break tackles and gain big chunks of ground without ever considering to make a pass. If this is the case the Bulls management should pull him aside and rectify it, or pick someone that is willing to distribute. Just a thought…..
In the loose trio, Potgieter and Stegman were injured and they will be replaced with Arno Botha (7) and Jacques Potgieter (6) respectively. The fact that the Bulls won't have an out and out fetcher does not concern me a great deal especially against a Force team that no longer have David Pocock playing for them. What excites me, however, is that in Spies and Potgieter they have two very fast and very strong runners and Arno Botha could be the link that puts these boys into some space/on the front foot. On Friday night Arno was everywhere and provided good support when Stegman and/or Spies broke some tackles.
Every time Dewaldt Potgieter comes back I hope that he gets through his first game, but he has rotten luck when it comes to injuries. At one point in his career he was being touted as a possible Bok captain but sadly the numerous injuries have curtailed his progress.
Having said all of that, I am EXTREMELY happy to see young Serfontein on the bench. The kid has buckets of talent and promises to be a very exciting player. I hope he gets an opportunity to strut his stuff, and begins to stake a claim for a starting position.
I think the Bulls have the squad to go all the way, but they might just fall short due to some inexperience in some positions. I mean, losing to Bok flanks and being able to replace them with another two Bok flanks shows good depth. Player rotation and morale management (of the players that warm the bench or don't make the 22) will be crucial though.
I am hoping a for a win with four tries for the bonus point. Even if th win is only by 1……….


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Here is a brief history of Capital University Library, according to the first edition of the CAPITALIAN, published in 1915; and University history books, These Hundred Years: The Centennial History of Capital University, by David B. Owens, and Chronicle of Change: Capital University 1950-2000, by James L. Burke.
The cornerstone is laid for the Rudolph Memorial Library (currently Kerns Religious Life Center), Capital's first library that served the College. A $10,000 bequest had been received in 1908 from Mrs. Rudolph, of Pennsylvania. The Board of Regents had requested permission of the Synod to use the bequest to establish a separate library from the Seminary to serve the College. Permission eventually was granted, and plans for a new library to serve the College, at an estimated cost of $14,000, were accepted by the Board in Summer 1913.
Rudolph Memorial Library is dedicated. The final cost was $15,500, with an additional $2,000 for furnishings.
Board of Regents (known today as the Board of Trustees) recognized an "urgent need" for library space and asked the Board of Higher Education and the American Lutheran Church Board of Trustees to "place in high priority" the building of a library.
President Harold Yochum listed a two-phase building program that included $350,000 for a library addition. The transfer of Seminary holdings to its new library when the Seminary separated from Capital that same year created only temporary relief.
Regents recognize an 84,000-square-foot library must be built to hold 300,000 volumes at a projected cost of $2 million.
Regents approve plans for financing the new library. The included a Title I grant for $848,000, a Title III loan of $900,000 at 3 percent interest; and a LIFE contribution of $590,535. The final cost for the building and its furnishings came to $2.3 million, making it Capital's most expensive building at the time.
Construction of the new library begins following the razing of Recitation Hall.
Construction of the new library is completed and the building is dedicated in March
The same year the chapel was moved to Rudolph Library.
The Board of Trustees approved naming the library the Josiah Hillerman Blackmore Library in honor of Capital's 12th president.
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There is much to-do and consternation afoot in the land today concerning financial derivatives. Many of you do not understand derivatives, foremost among you being the Federal Reserve Chairman, the US Treasury Secretary and virtually all of those of you who buy, sell and manage that which you miserable, insignificant human beings like to call sophisticated financial instruments.
This is too easy. It would be far better if you mere mortals called upon Mr. Mental to explain complicated and important affairs, such as the mystery of the teenage female mind or the ultimate origin of the Universe, the latter of which is surprisingly close to Cleveland. Derivatives! I laugh at the concept: Ha.
Calculus Made Easy
First, though, allow me to remove the cloud from your brain concerning another ill-understood, yet dreadfully simple field of study: Calculus. Integral calculus is nothing more than the memorization of a few simple formulas to calculate the area beneath a graphed curve.
Say that you have a curve showing the population of America spiraling out of control during the period that Ted Kennedy possessed a seat in the US Senate, which is no mere coincidence, incidentally, you brain-dead morons who keep electing him. The area beneath that curve represents the total number of people living in America while the Hero of Chappaquiddick did his best to destroy America. (If only he had shown as much concern for pulling a pregnant Mary Jo Kopechne from the murky waters of that channel now known as Poucha Pond as he shows for pulling millions of pregnant mestizas from the waters of the Rio Grande.)
One employs formulas (functions) to calculate the area beneath a curve. This is analogous to using a tool (which is all a function really is) called a yardstick to measure the size of a room. That's it. Now you understand calculus.
If only you could have attended the Grand Galactic University of Antares, as did I, you would have learned calculus in one day and spent the rest of the semester chasing girls and drinking beer, which is the proper activity of healthy, college-age males throughout the Universe.
And Now for Something Completely Differential
Now for Differential Calculus. In mathematics, a derivative also concerns a curve, but restricts itself to describing the shape, or slope, of that curve. This is necessary in order to use integral calculus to learn the area beneath that curve. In short, a derivative tells you about a curve's rate of change of slope. For example, in a graph of America's impending suicide by population growth, the graph of Americans plus mestizos rises to infinity at a constant rate. In other words, the rate of change of its slope is zero.
On the other hand, if Ted Kennedy, who favors abortion for as many White babies as possible, had been aborted in his 139th trimester, as was his brother, a man who, unlike Ted, got plenty of oxygen while in the womb, the slope of the American population growth curve might actually show an ever-decreasing rate of change, the natural result of honoring the price paid by those who died for nothing at the Alamo (not to mention divers wars such as Revolution I, WWI, WWII, the War of Northern Aggression and WWIII, which now is underway on the other side of the world).
Pay attention, you slovenly, misbegotten humans, because these are pearls being cast at your feet.
Thus, a derivative calculus analysis of population in a Ted-Kennedyless America might well be an ever-increasing negative. Extending the yardstick analogy, a derivative is a tool that describes a tool. Put a yardstick in the hands of a newly-immigrated Somali in downtown Cincinnati and he likely will try to eat it. The all-powerful Mr. Mental has blessed you, however, with the understanding (a tool) to employ another tool (like a yardstick).
Science is rife with this business of using one tool to manipulate and understand other tools. In differential calculus, they are called derivatives because they depend upon something else (integral calculus) in order to have meaning - their significance is derived from another thing. Then there are Second Derivatives (simply the rate of change of a rate of change of a curve's slope), which allow one to understand First Derivatives, which in their turn allow one to understand the integral calculus of a graphical representation (a curve) of reality. And Third Derivatives ... and so on.
See? This stuff isn't so hard. Now you understand differential calculus and mathematical derivatives, the concepts from which financial derivatives get their name. This leaves lots of time to play hide the shuttlecraft in the free-floating asteroids of the Antarean cluster. GGUA is not known as the ultimate party school for nothing.
Derivatives and Other Worthless Concepts
The very term "financial derivative" is itself a derivative from the mathematical analog.
A dollar bill is a derivative, you know. It has no inherent value beyond something that might well become useful in an outhouse (an idea coming soon to a surprisingly large number of Americans). To the left is a picture of a Zimbabwean boy holding enough hyperinflating and essentially valueless Zimbabwe dollars to buy a loaf of bread ... today only, because tomorrow many more will be required. Now you see why Zimbabweans use dollars in the outhouse - they actually provide more paper than exists in toilet paper that can be bought with any given amount of Zimbabwean dollars.
A dollar derives its value from something else. Used to be, dollars derived their value from gold and silver. Then, after Nixon severed that Constitutionally-mandated connection, the dollar derived its value from oil, because everybody in the world bought and sold oil using dollars as the medium of exchange. Today, the dollar derives its value from American military force, as in "Use our dollar to conduct business or we will come to your country, rape your daughters and kill you." Thus, the dollar, itself, is a derivative - something that derives its value from something else.
Stocks and bonds are derivatives, strictly speaking, because they derive their values from something else. Mutual funds are derivatives of derivatives, kind of like mathematical second derivatives. Options and futures are even more distantly-removed derivatives. Puts, calls, strips, straps and straddles are even more arcane forms of even more distantly-removed stock market derivatives.
During the height of the mutual fund boom there were far more mutual funds trading in equity stocks than equity stocks being traded, oddly enough, in a very junior-league illustration of the relationship of today's financial derivatives to their underlying assets of inherent value.
Derivatives of Derivatives of Derivatives
The really remarkable thing about derivatives is how they mushroom as their levels grow, with truly huge amounts of derivative value dependent upon the value of a single dollar of genuine asset value, akin to the multiplier effect of fractional-reserve banking, but on steroids. Investors sell each other these claims on claims on claims, back and forth, to and fro, making the mutual fund/stock disparity as but a single drop of water in an ocean of financial insanity. The entire world's derivative structure is a massive construct, the total size of which is both incalculable and unfathomable, but clearly thousands, if not millions, of times the size of the ultimate assets with any inherent value (inventories and fork lifts and grain, for example), upon which they rest and from which they derive their value.
Like your credit-card debt and car loan, your home mortgage is a derivative, too, because its value in your lender's hands derives from the ever-decreasing inherent value of your home, which is why bankers' hands these days are so sweaty. Really clever bankers bundled hundreds of mortgages just like yours into large packages, then sold claims upon those packages (another derivative known as a "collateralized debt obligation," or CDO) to other investors (like your pension fund), kind of like raffle tickets. The real similarity will come after the raffle ends, when a great many of the buyers of CDOs find that, rather than playing musical chairs, they really have been playing musical chair.
The real problem with derivatives is that they bear more than a passing resemblance to Ponzi schemes, in that they must continually be increasing in size in order to survive. Like sharks in the ocean that literally drown if held in one place, a static or, worse, deflating total size of the world's derivatives begins to run the process in reverse, with truly disastrous consequences. Austrian economics refers to it as a Kondratieff winter economy, analogizing to the desolation of a nuclear winter. This is why the American central "bank" now is inflating with its every breath, in an attempt to counteract the effects of deflation that have taken hold. It will fail, as surely as Zimbabwe has failed, and for the same reasons.
Unwinding Derivatives: Look Out Below
For the first time since Depression I, home values are declining, both in nominal terms and as adjusted for price inflation. Many foreclosed homes now are languishing on the market, with their values declining faster, even, than can be justified by the rate at which mestizo illegal aliens are sneaking into them at night to rip open their walls and strip out the copper pipes and wires to sell the following day at the junkyard. Just another job that you and I refuse to do, of course.
Now, whole swaths of neighborhoods lie vacant in cities like Detroit and Cleveland, which today look like something straight out of Zimbabwe, one of so many reasons why American dollars one day soon will have value only in the outhouse.
Picture the most massive iceberg ever, with just its bare tip glistening above the waves. Now, flip that iceberg upside down, so that just the tip is in the water. That's what derivatives would look like if piled atop the real assets to which they ultimately relate.
Like that inverted iceberg, as the tiny nucleus of real value begins to melt, huge sheets of icy debt come crashing down, having lost their bases of support. That is what is happening in the world today. And it only has just begun, you poor, dumb earth creatures.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-haa! We had this problem on Antares in our distant past, but we solved it by stringing up all the politicians, bankers and plutocrats responsible for stealing from us that which we had earned by the sweat of our brow. You will wish you had done the same, you poor, misguided and unenlightened bipeds. But, at least, now you understand how they did it to you, because you understand derivatives. And, with that, I return control of this space to your merely human host.
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Jack Cashill
Jack Cashill is an Emmy award winning writer and documentary producer. He is also the executive editor of Ingram's Magazine, a Midwest business publication. He has a Ph.D. in American studies from Purdue and has taught as a Fulbright professor in France.
His writing has appeared in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other national publications. Jack has authored several books which include Snake Handling in Mid-America, 2006: The Chautauqua Rising, and Ron Brown's Body. In addition, he co-authored First Strike: TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America.
Past Shows:
Baffling Disappearances
Former lawman turned investigative journalist, David Paulides, discussed patterns of missing persons in America's national parks and other rugged wilderness areas, and how these disappearances fit a peculiar set of circumstances that defy logic. First hour guest, writer and producer Jack Cashill talked about the downed Malaysia plane, and shared various theories about what might have happened. ... More »
Host: George NooryDarwin & Intelligent Design
Pointing out a hitch in Darwin's theory of evolution, Cambridge trained philosopher of science, Stephen C. Meyer, presented an argument for intelligent design. Darwin believed the appearance of purposeful design in living organisms was a kind of illusion, and explained it as a byproduct of an undirected process such as natural selection. First hour guest, writer and producer Jack Cashill commented on new evidence in the crash of TWA Flight 800 that's being presented in an upcoming documentary about the 1996 incident. ... More »
Host: George NooryIn the Year 2012...
Expert in ancient manuscripts, Glenn Kimball, discussed what the Mayans and other ancients recorded on their calendars about the year 2012, and the grand implications of what could be in store for humanity. ... More »
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Writer and producer Jack Cashill discussed the connection between the first World Trade Center bombing (1993), the downing of TWA Flight 800, the Iraq war, and how the terrorist attack on 9/11 could have been averted. ... More »
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In the first half of the show, Howard Bloom shared his analysis of the Middle East situation, naming Iran and Saudi Arabia as being behind Hamas and Hezbollah in the Israeli conflict. ... More »
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Author Jack Cashill presented an in-depth report on the life and death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, whom he believed was shot in the head by Croatian contract agents, after his plane went down in 1996. Further, Cashill suggested that Brown's plane was misled by a rogue beacon that caused it to crash rather than land at the Dubrovnik airport. ... More »
Host: George NooryThe Downing of TWA Flight 800
Jack Cashill, an investigative journalist, and co-author of First Strike, spoke with Barbara on Sunday night. He presented evidence that the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 was the result of a terrorist action. ... More »
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ZTE Transcoding Solution Nominated and Shortlisted for Awards in Multiple Categories
By Jacqueline Lee, Contributing Writer
The IPTV (News - Alert) World Forum has nominated ZTE's low bit high rate IPTV solution for the World's Best Component or Enabler Award. The solution was also shortlisted for the Best Quality Improvement Solution Award and the Best Service Growth Achievement Award.
"ZTE's (News - Alert) IPTV low bit rate high definition transcoding solution is a great driver for the global IPTV industry and we are honored to be nominated for this award," said ZTE Business Products General Manager Chen Xinyu. "We continuously work to develop global IPTV technology."
ZTE's solution, which was on display last week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, decreases the amount of IPTV video streams needed for network transmission. Its encoding technology is more efficient that other solutions on the market, carrying HD content that would normally transmit at 8 Mbps at 3Mbps. These solutions reduce network capacity strain and lower costs of ownership for telecom operators.
ZTE has created the world's largest H.264 IP network, with over 3 million online users and 12 million users worldwide. ZTE is currently China's only listed telecom company, trading on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock exchanges. The company led the industry with over 20 percent revenue growth in 2010 and dedicates 10 percent of its revenue to developing telecom solutions in emerging markets. The company is also a member of the UN Global Compact.
According to Informa (News - Alert) Telecoms and Media, IPTV revenue and subscriber numbers will double in five years. Asia will lead the way in number of subscribers, particularly in China and South Korea. The United States will come in a close second, followed by France and Western Europe. The number of subscribers will only include the five percent of the number of households with television sets, leaving plenty of room for continued growth. Revenue for IPTV is expected to grow to $11.9 billion by the end of 2016, an increase of $5.7 billion from the number recorded in 2011.
ZTE, for its part, delivers its solutions to over 500 operators in more than 140 countries around the globe.
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Kimberly Schuyler – Babe of the Day
Kimberly's a 24 year old model from Tampa, Florida who graduated from Florida State University in December of 2009 and was on the Deans List with a double major in Finance and Real Estate.
Kimberly's a 24 year old model from Tampa, Florida who graduated from Florida State University in December of 2009 and was on the Deans List with a double major in Finance and Real Estate.
The women who host cooking shows fall into two distinct camps – there's the lumpy grandmother types like the Barefoot Contessa and the hot sex kittens like Giada De Laurentiis. Nadia G is the latter.
Ashley Zeitler, a Playboy Cyber Girl , is a 5′ 1″ spitfire from San Antonio, Texas. Aren't things supposed to be bigger in Texas? We're glad that doesn't include the women.
Meet FerJenks, a SuicideGirl who owns her own lingerie shop. Bet that comes in handy.
Another weekend has come and gone, so we're here once again to make sure that your Monday isn't too painful. After all, you get to browse through galleries of hot chicks for Babe of the Week.
Okay, sure, we couldn't make it out to Coachella to see all the hottest buzzbands, but that doesn't stop us from crushing from afar.
Jenna's a 23 year old model, actress, singer, choreographer, and businesswoman from Billings, Montana who's currently working toward her MBA at Montana State University.
Kiley's a 24 year old swimsuit model and socialite who's originally from Reno, Nevada but now lives in Los Angeles.
This has been a rough year for college sports and it an even rougher month for Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino. After losing his job for lying to adminstrators about his relationship with fellow staffer Jessica Dorrell, it turns out after a review of his phone records that he had some kind of a relationship with former model and (soon-to-be former?) Senate Assistant at Republican Party of Arkansas, Alison Melder.
If there's one thing we can say about newly-signed country singer Rachel Bradshaw, it's "Thank God she didn't inherit the old man's looks."
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Had there been an application error, all three of the treatments would have shown signs of the greenhouse powdery mildew, he says.
Because he did not isolate the mildew spores, Coffey says he doesn't know whether individual organisms are resistant to both fungicides. Individual organisms within the same population could be resistant to one product whereas others in the same population could be resistant to the other fungicide.
"We really don't know what we've got out therewe're going in blind," Coffey says.
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Brenna Aegerter, a UC Cooperative Extension farm adviser in San Joaquin County, says she isn't surprised by Coffey's findings, considering tomato growers make repeated fungicide applications and only have a handful of registered products from which to choose.
"We've had [Rally] registered for tomatoes since 2000-01, and we've relied on it quite a bit in the intervening years," she says. "Until the strobis came along, we didn't have too many alternatives. It wouldn't be shocking with [the DMI] class of fungicides to see a gradual drop in efficacy."
Strobilurin fungicides only have been registered for tomatoes for the past few years.
Aegerter blames part of the mildew-control problem on last year's moderate temperatures, which were nearly ideal for tomato production as well as powdery mildew. Near the end of the season, powdery mildew pressure was abnormally high in many areas.
Unlike some mildews, the species that infects field-grown tomatoesLeveillula tauricacan remain latent in plant tissue for up to two weeks, causing only mild chlorotic spotting mostly on the underside leaf surfaces. The symptoms are not the stereotypical white or gray fuzzy masses seen with other mildew species in other crops.
Unless you're familiar with the symptoms and scouting very carefully, you can easily overlook the beginning stages of tomato powdery mildew, she says.
By the time the symptoms are readily visible, the disease is widespread and even the best fungicides have trouble controlling it, Aegerter says.
"They're very effective if used early on," she says. "Once the disease is established, you really can't expect those materials to do a whole lotthey're more preventative."
Many growers with late-season fields that had dense plant canopies also relied upon aerial fungicide applications, which don't provide nearly the coverage that ground applications do, Aegerter says. With powdery mildew, fungicide coverageespecially leaf undersidesis critical.


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Will I Qualify For Disability Benefits in North Carolina?In North Carolina, about 26 percent of initial disability claims (disability applications) are approved compared to an average national initial claim approval rate of about 32 percent. For most claimants, the prospect of receiving a denial will be high, but the chances of being approved by the second appeal level, the request for hearing before an administrative law judge, will be significantly higher--typically 60 percent or greater, on average, when representation is involved. Filing for disability in North Carolina If you file a disability application in North Carolina, your disability claim will be taken and processed by one of 37 local Social Security offices located across the state. To start the application process, you need only contact a Social Security office and arrange to have an appointment made for a disability interview, the purpose of which is to supply all the information that will be necessary to render a decision on your claim. For the most part, of course, this will focus on information regarding your medical treatment history and work history. In child claims, vocational work information is obviously not an issue, but, rather the child's ability to engage in age appropriate activities; therefore, school records and academic, achievement, and psychological testing records are often reviewed, in addition to IEPs and questionaires completed by teachers. Individuals filing for disability in North Carolina do have the option of applying online through the SSA website. However, filing online has several disadvantages. A disability interview with a field office claims representative is not conducted and, thus, a claimant will lose the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers regarding the filing process, as well as the appeal process if that becomes necessary. Additionally, despite the fact that a high percentage of claims are concurrent, meaning they involve both SSD (Social Security Disability) and SSI, the Social Security Administration does not allow SSI claims to be taken online. For this reason, the online process may not be nearly as productive as simply contacting a local Social Security office. For individuals who have medical mobility or transportation issues and cannot easily get to a Social Security office, SSA always allows the option of having the claim taken over the phone. Processing a disability claim in North Carolina After an application for disability is taken, it is sent to a centralized state disability processing agency known as Disability Determination Services, or simply DDS. Once a disability claim is at the agency, it is assigned to a disability examiner. Disability examiners gather medical records from the doctors, hospitals, and other medical treatment sources you listed when you filed your disability claim and then use this information to determine the outcome of the claim. In some cases, the examiner will review the medical records and determine that the claimant has a medical condition that satisfies the requirements of a listing in the Social Security list of impairments. If the claimant does not have a condition that meets the requirements and qualifications of a listing, the examiner will then review the medical evidence to determine in what ways, and to what extent, the claimant is functionally limited, both physically and mentally, and, thus, restricted in their ability to engage in work activity that earns a substantial and gainful income. This second type of decision is known as a medical vocational allowance and it relies on an examination of the claimant's work history, in addition to reviewing the medical treatment history. In conducting this examination, the examiner must first determine the claimant's functional limitations. Limitations can include, but are not limited to a reduced ability to sit, stand, or walk, or a reduced ability to reach, grasp, lift, bend, hear, see, smell, remember, concentrate, etc. Secondly, the examiner must compare the claimant's remaining functional abilities (known as their RFC, or residual functional capacity) to the types of jobs they have held in the previous 15 year period to determine A) if they can go back to a past job or B) if they perform some type of other work, assuming that they can no longer perform their past work. Individuals who can no longer do their past work, and who, based on their age, education, work skills, and RFC rating, cannot transition to some type of other work, may qualify for disability benefits under the SSD or SSI program. When it is necessary to go to a Social Security Medical exam If the disability examiner finds that the claimant does not have current medical record information, they will typically schedule a consultative medical examination, or CE, to obtain it. This is done because Social Security requires that current medical information be used to make each disability determination; in other words, an approval cannot be made on a claim if there are no recent records to prove that the individual is disabled, regardless of what the older records may say. Social Security will consider older medical evidence/records and, in fact, older information is essential for establishing a claimant's onset date which directly impacts how much they may be owed in disability back pay. But a claimant must have current medical evidence in order for an approval to be made on a claim. Medical evidence that is "recent" is considered to be medical treatment records that are less than ninety days old. If your disability file does not have enough current medical information, you may have to attend one or more consultative examinations (paid for by Social Security) to evaluate the status of your disabling conditions. The examination may be a physical exam, an appointment for xrays, a neurological exam, or possibly a psychiatric examination, or psychological testing for IQ or memory deficits. The doctors who perform these examinations are not employed by SSA but are private physicians contracted to perform consultative exams. After an exam is performed, the doctor will send a medical report to the disability examiner. If your disability claim is denied the Disability Determination Services will send you a denial notice. If you qualify for disability, your disability file will be sent back to your local Social Security office for the final processing of your claim before you are notified of the approval. Rates of denial in North Carolina and filing appeals Most initial disability claims are denied. If your disability claim is denied, you can file a reconsideration appeal. Unfortunately, the reconsideration appeal approval rate in North Carolina is even worse than the initial disability claim approval rate. In North Carolina, the reconsideration appeal rate of 10.4 percent is somewhat lower than the national average of 11.0 percent. Either way, about 89 percent of all reconsideration appeals end in a denial for disability benefits. Fortunately, the disability hearing appeal level (the second appeal level) offers disability applicants the best chance of qualifying for disability benefits. Administrative law judges make their own medical disability decisions and are not subject to having their decisions altered by supervisors or quality control units. That said, to win a case at the hearing level, a claimant must present a rationale for approval that is well supported by objective medical evidence. Very often, a strong knowledge and understanding of Social Security regulations (title 20 of the code of federal regulations), Social Security court rulings, and the medical vocational grid rules that direct decisions on claims will be required to successfully present a case to a Social Security administrative law judge. Both national and North Carolina disability hearing statistics show that more disability applicants qualify for disability at this level of the Social Security disability SSI process. North Carolina�s disability hearing approval rate of 61.7 percent is slightly higher than the national disability hearing approval rate of 58.6 percent. Return to: Social Security Disability Resource Center, or read answers to Questions Individual Questions and Answers Social Security Disability and SSI in North Carolina The Social Security Administration administers two disability programs in North Carolina. They are Social Security disability and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) disability. If you are a resident of North Carolina, you may contact your local Social Security office for a telephone or an in-person disability interview. There are local Social Security offices in the following cities: Ahoskie, Albemarle, Asheboro, Asheville, Charlotte, Concord, Durham, Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Franklin, Gastonia, Goldsboro, Greensboro, Greenville, Henderson, Hendersonville Hickory, Kinston, Lumberton, Mt. Airy, New Bern, Raleigh, Reidsville, Roanoke Rapids, Rockingham, Rocky Mount, Salisbury, Sanford, Shelby, Smithfield, Statesville, Washington, Whiteville, Wilkesboro, Wilmington, Wilson, and Winston-Salem. For a listing of contact numbers and addresses, click here: Social Security offices in North Carolina. Unlike many other states, North Carolina has a centralized system for disability determinations, which means there is one location for the state disability agency which renders initial claim decisions for SSA. This agency is known as DDS, or Disability Determination Services and is located in Raleigh. At some point after filing your claim, you may be contacted by a disability examiner at DDS, or you may wish to provide updated information to your examiner. For DDS contact information, click here: North Carolina Disability Determination Services. Social Security disability hearings are held at the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review or simply ODAR. North Carolina has ODAR offices in the following cities: Fayetteville, Charlotte, Greensboro, and Raleigh. Your residential address will determine which office your hearing will be held at. The current time in months it takes for a hearing to be held after being requested: Charlotte NC hearing office 16.5 Fayetteville NC hearing office 14.0 Greensboro NC hearing office 16.0 Raleigh NC hearing office 13.0 Average number of days for a case to be completed at a North Carolina hearing office: Greensboro NC hearing office 486 Fayetteville NC hearing office 454 Charlotte NC hearing office 441 Raleigh NC hearing office 406 For a listing of Hearing office addresses and contact information, click here: North Carolina Social Security Hearing offices. |


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He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia Law School in 1980-82, 1984-90, and from 2005-2011, and Adjunct Professor at City University Hong Kong from 2008 2011 where he taught an intensive short course on international perspectives on the death penalty. In 1986 he received the Sellin-Glueck Award from the American Society of Criminology for 'Distinguished Contributions to Criminology'; in 1992 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy; and in 1995 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 'for services to the study of criminology'; and in 2000 he was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel. He was sub-Warden of All Souls College from 1994-96, and was College Steward from 1993-2003. From October 2003 to May 2004 he was Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong. In 2003, a Festschrift entitled The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy (edited by Lucia Zedner and Andrew Ashworth) was published by Oxford University Press to mark his retirement. He was awarded an Honorary Ll.D by the University of Birmingham in 2008 and by Edinburgh Napier University in 2011. He received the Cesare Beccaria Medal in 2011 from the International Society for Social Defence and a Humane Criminal Policy for his contributions towards the abolition of the death penalty and in 2012 the European Society of Criminology Award ?for a lifetime contribution as a European criminologist?
Since his retirement in 2003 he has lectured on the death penalty in China, Hong Kong, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, USA, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain, Taiwan, Trinidad, and Uganda.
His research has had four main strands: the death penalty; race and sentencing; the parole system; and the history of the emergence of penal policy. The fourth edition of his book The Death Penalty: a Worldwide Perspective (with Carolyn Hoyle) was published by Oxford University Press in April 2008 and has since been translated into Chinese and Persian.
He is currently undertaking a public opinion survey on the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia on behalf of the London-based Death Penalty Project.
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R G Hood, 'Abolition of the Death Penalty: China in World Perspective' (2009) 1 (1) City University of Hong Kong Law Review 1
R G Hood, 'Capital Punishment: the Commonwealth in World Perspective' (2008) 17 (3) The Commonwealth Lawyer 30
R G Hood, 'Hermann Mannheim and Max Grünhut' (2004) 44(4) British Journal of Criminology [...]
Also published as book chapter in Jurists Uprooted. German Speaking Ãmigré Lawyers in Twentieth Century Britain
R G Hood, Martina Feilzer, Stephen Shute and Aidan Wilcox, 'Sex offenders emerging from long-term imprisonment. A study of their long-term reconviction rates and Parole Board members judgements of their risk' (2002) 42 British Journal of Criminology 371 [...]
An empirical study which challenges a number of preconceptions about the risks posed by sex offenders who have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment, as well as the ability of parole board members to identify those who pose the highest risk of being reconvicted.
R G Hood, 'Capital Punishment in Global Perspective' (2001) vol 3, No 3 Punishment and Society 331 [...]
Reviews the extent to which the movement to abolish capital punishment has been successful and discusses some of the influences which have produced a remarkable increase in the number of abolitionist countries in the past two decades.
R G Hood, 'Penal policy and criminological challenges in the new millennium' (2001) 34 (1) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 1 [...]
Given as a keynote address at the Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, 2000
R G Hood, F Seemungal and S Shute, A Fair Hearing? Ethnic Minorities in the Criminal Courts (Willan Publishing 2005) [...]
This book reports an empirical study which was commissioned by the Lord Chancellorâ's Department and jointly devised and directed by Roger Hood and Stephen Shute. The book was jointly written by them, with fieldwork and computing support from Florence Seemungal, research officer at the Oxford Centre for Criminology.
R G Hood, The Death Penalty: a World-wide Perspective, Third Edition â Revised and Updated (OUP 2002)
R G Hood, 'Abolishing and Replacing Capital Punishment: Recent Developmentsâ' in Hemdat Libi Israeli (ed), The Fortitudes of Creativity: In Honor of Shlomo Giora Shoham (Israel 2010)
R G Hood, 'Attacking the Death Penalty in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Criminological Contribution' in Luis Arroyo, Paloma Bigling and William A. Schabas (eds), Towards universal abolition of the death penalty (Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch 2010) [...]
previously printed in Festschrift für Heike Jung, 2007
R G Hood, 'Towards Global Abolition of the Death Penalty: Progress and Prospects' in Paloma Bigling and William A. Schabas (eds), Towards Universal Abolition of the Death Penalty (Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch 2010)
R G Hood and C Hoyle, 'Abolishing the Death Penalty Worldwide: the Impact of a âNew Dynamicâ' in Michael Tonry (ed), Crime and Justice, vol. 38, Capital Punishment (University of Chicago Press 2009)
R G Hood, 'Introduction' in Jon Yorke (ed), Against the Death Penalty: International Initiatives and Implications (Aldershot: Ashgate 2008)
R G Hood, 'The Death Penalty: The Movement towards World-wide Abolition' in S.G. Shoham, O. Beck and M. Kett (eds), International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice (New York, CRC Press 2008)
R G Hood, 'Attacking the Death Penalty in the Anglophone Caribbean: A Criminological Contribution' in Heinz Müller-Dietz (ed), Festschrift für Heike Jung (Baden-Baden, Nomos 2007) [...]
reprinted in Luis Arroyo, Paloma Bigling and William A. Schabas (eds.), Towards universal abolition of the death penalty, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch (2010), 241-264
R G Hood, 'Hermann Mannheim and Max Grünhut' in J. Beatson and R. Zimmermann (eds), Jurists Uprooted. German Speaking Ãmigré Lawyers in Twentieth Century Britain (OUP 2004)
R G Hood, 'Criminology and Penal Policy: the vital role of empirical research' in Anthony Bottoms and Michael Tonry (eds), Ideology, Crime and criminal Justice: a Symposium in Honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz (Willan Publishing 2002) [...]
Discusses the importance of empirical evidence for criminological theory and criminal policy.
R G Hood and Stephen Shute, 'The changing face of parole in England and Wales. A story of well-intentioned reforms and unintended consequences' in Prittwitz, Baurmann,Günther, Kuhlen, Merkel, Nestler and Schulz (eds), Festschrift für Klaus Lüderssen (Nomos verlagsgessellschaft 0) [...]
An analysis of the factors influencing changes in the parole system of England and Wales and of the unintended consequences of these changes.
R G Hood, Stephen Shute and Florence Seemungal, 'Ethnic Minorities in the Criminal Courts: Perceptions of Fairness and Equality of Treatment' (2003) Research series No. 2/03 Lord Chancellors Office, London 137 plus aendix: total 149 [...]
A large scale study, based on extensive interviews and observations, of the extent to which ethnic minority and white defendants and witnesses perceived their treatment to have been fair and free of ethnic bias.
R G Hood, 'Enhancing EU Action Against the Death Penalty in Asia' (European Parliament, Directorate General for External Policies EXPO/B/DROI/2011/22 2012)
R G Hood and F Seemungal, 'Public Opinion on the Mandatory Death Penalty in Trinidad' (Death Penalty Project, Oxford Centre for Criminology 2011)
R G Hood, F Seemungal, D Mendes and J Fagan, 'A Penalty Without Legitimacy: The Mandatory Death Penalty in Trinidad and Tobago' (Oxford: Centre for Criminology 2009)
R G Hood and F Seemungal, 'A Rare and Arbitrary Fate. Conviction for Murder, the Mandatory Death Penalty and the Reality of Homicide in Trinidad and Tobago' (Death Penalty Project, Oxford Centre for Criminology 76 2006) [...]
The research on which this report is based was devised and directed by Roger Hood. Fieldwork, the development of a database, and statistical assistance was the responsibility of Florence Seemungal, visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Criminology. The report was written Roger Hood.
R G Hood and M Feilzer, 'Differences or discrimination? Minority ethnic young people in the youth justice system' ( 248 2004) [...]
This book reports an empirical study which was directed by Roger Hood with the fieldwork and statistical analysis being carried out by Martina Feilzer, then a research officer at the Oxford Centre for Criminology. The book was jointly written by Martina Feilzer and Roger Hood.
Research: Criminology, Penology, Criminal Justice, History of Crime and Criminal Justice, Sociology of Law
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KENTUCKY (7/5/14) — Have you ever wanted to create your own light bulb?
Our "Science Guy" Jason Lindsey shows us how to create the toilet paper tube light bulb by using a few ingredients from around the house.
- Electrical Tape
- 8 "D" Batteries
- 0.7 mm Pencil Lead
- Mason Jar
- 2 Wires with Alligator Clips
- Toilet Paper Roll
- STEP 1: Use the electrical tape to secure all of the "D" batteries together in a series.
- STEP 2: Use the electrical tape to secure the alligator clips to the sides of the toilet paper roll.
- STEP 3: Place a 0.7 mm piece of pencil lead between the alligator clips at the top of the toilet paper roll.
- STEP 4: Place the Mason jar over the toilet paper roll, alligator clips, and 0.7 mm piece of pencil lead.
- STEP 5: Close the circuit by touching the ends of the alligator clips to the ends of the roll of batteries.
The electrons from the battery flow through the alligator clips and pencil lead, which is actually graphite, creating a closed circuit. The graphite or filament becomes so hot it glows and fills the Mason jar with smoke.
Go to www.hookedonscience.org for more experiments that might get you and your family "Hooked on Science."
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Hello all, I have learned from last release's attempt at internationalization and have gotten .pot files ready beforehand this time. I have taken the helpful advice of Flammie and changed a lot of the strings to make things easier for you all. Unfortunately for your translations to make it into the release I will need them in the next few weeks. I am sorry I could not give you guys more time, but gli-dialog didn't really stabilize until very recently. According to robbat, the docs people should have access to svn. The translation files should go in /gli/branches/overhaul/src/fe/dialog/languages/ If you do not have access to svn please email me the files directly and I will add them. Thanks in advance, and let's make this the first internationalized gentoo installer! -Codeman
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text: This course contrasts central issues of schooling as seen from the "outside" political domain and the "inside" experience of students. It addresses how the problems and potentials of schools can be examined in informed ways. This course is intended both for prospective teachers and for students interested in examining critically one of the key institutions that shape American society.


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This report describes and postulates the three competing economic doctrines that shape trade policy debates.
The current frameworks measuring knowledge-based capital still need significant work before being a useful macro indicator.
Despite modest growth, U.S. manufacturing is not experiencing a renaissance.
A growing array of interests stand resolutely opposed to innovation. ITIF nominates 10 organizations that have done the most to smash the engines of innovation.
Conventional economics provides an increasingly poor guide for economic policy and should be replaced by an evolutionary economics framework.
"Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage." This new book delivers a critical wake-up call: a fierce global race for innovation advantage is under way and the United States is running the risk of losing.


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Serge Lutens belongs in the camp of artists whose creative expressions are not bound by a specific medium. His career has taken many shapes: photographer, fashion designer, creative director, hair stylist, make-up artist. But today, we honor him as a legendary perfumer.
After lending his vision to now iconic beauty brands Christian Dior and Shiseido, Lutens set out in the early '90s to create his own eponymous line of fragrances. The collection, which achieved cult-classic status in no time, is imbued with Lutens' worldly and infinitely curious personality. Each bottle seems to tell its own story. Just take a look at their descriptions—Ambre Sultan, Iris Siliver Mist, Boxeuses, Muscs Koublaï Khan, to name just a few—and you'll see what we mean.
Getting your hands on one of Lutens' glowing cloche bottles used to entail cross-Atlantic travel to his store in the Jardin du Palais Royal in Paris. But as of today, Barneys brings them a bit closer—to the Madison Avenue flagship—with the exclusive Palais Royal collection. No passport required!
The Serge Lutens Palais Royal collection is featured exclusively at our Madison Avenue flagship (212.833.2425). However, you can shop the rest of the Serge Lutens collection at Barneys.com.


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MyTrees.com, formerly Kindred Konnections, looks and works better than ever. This genealogy search site has been completely reorganized and renamed, and it now offers an attractive option for researching your family's story.
MyTrees.com provides a very strong sense of community. Its database of existing family trees contains more than 280 million names. When you search the Ancestry Archive, you have access to all of that. Using the work of the family historians who came before you makes a lot of sense. One search of the site's Ancestry Archive also helps you tap into census, naturalization and Social Security Death Index information.
The variety of record types on MyTrees is not the widest among genealogy search sites, but the database will be able to help many researchers. The total number of family tree databases on the site is 190,058 and there are 64 other record collections that include more than 250 million names.
MyTrees.com has one of the largest pedigree-linked databases we saw. Here are some of the records that can be found in the Ancestry Archive:
This genealogy search site offers a few international records too, such as UK, Canada and New Zealand census records. However, those records are extracted and are not complete.
MyTrees.com has an entire section dedicated to other resources, which can be helpful to genealogists who have come to a dead end in their quest for family records. Some of the resources include a section on professional genealogists, genealogical libraries, white pages, free software, free forms, digital voice recorders and tools for digitalizing old photos and slides.
This genealogy search site has improved in major ways in recent history. When it was known as Kindred Konnections, you were bombarded with several tabs of multiple colors and sizes. In order to use the search function properly, reading all the text was necessary. Unfortunately, this made for a time-consuming search experience. Also, the site appearance was distracting and made navigation difficult. The navigation is now much easier. Type in a name at the top left corner of the screen and you'll reap the benefits of a speedy search.
Telephone support is only available to make a payment or for technical support. However, you can send an email that will be answered within a 24-hour period. We like the site's learning center and the newsletter. The newsletter covers a wide range of topics, and everything is well organized so you can find answers to common questions and information on up-to-the-minute genealogy developments.
Though it isn't our favorite genealogy search site, MyTrees.com is a pretty good value overall for the cost of the subscription price. This genealogy search site does not have quite the variety of documents that some of our top sites have, but it is well organized and will help a number of folks find their families.
We like the varied subscription options, helpful resource section and free software download.
Other sites have a wider variety of documents.
It may not offer the largest quantity of data, but there is some great genealogical information on MyTrees.com.


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Well now, Judge Stephens and County Attorney Bill Montgomery have themselves in political conundrum over the outcome of the Arias sentencing decision,: "darned if they do and darned if they don't".
Does Montgomery spend the monies needed for a new 'sentencing' trial or just hand the decision to be made over to Stephens who only has to award Arias 'life', with or with out parole, possibly suffering defeat when her bench-term is up?
Or, Montgomery on the other hand weakening his political career by not going for the death penalty. This is a prime example of how our system is broken.
Several years ago the Court in it's infinite wisdom ruled, a jury must decide the penalty in cases where 'death' is an option. Now you have untrained individuals who are, in many cases, deciding with their 'hearts' instead of the 'facts'. Give the penalty decision making back to the judges.
The Arias disposition clearly demands the decision be made with the 'black cloth' adorning the crown of Judge Stephen's golden locks.
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This citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged buildings during battles between the rebels and the Syrian government forces, in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Syria's upwardly spiraling violence has resulted in the confirmed killings of almost 93,000 people, the United Nations' human rights office said Thursday but acknowledged the real number is likely to be far higher. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A senior administration official says there is "very little doubt" that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians in an incident that killed at least a hundred people last week.
The official says Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community based its assessment given to the White House on "the reported number of victims, reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured, and witness accounts." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly.
The official says the White House believes the Syrian government is barring a U.N. investigative team immediate access to the site of a reported Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs in order to give the evidence of the attack time to degrade.
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HHS volleyball goes 1-2 in Dodge
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By The Hays Daily News
DODGE CITY -- The Hays High School volleyball team was 1-2 at the Dodge City Quadrangular on Thursday.
Hays High defeated Sublette, 25-13, 21-25, 25-10, but fell to Dodge City and Lakin.
Dodge City won 19-25, 25-14, 25-19, and Lakin won 25-21, 15-16.


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Lane Kiffin to return to Alabama in 2015
Alabama announced that offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin will return for a second season on Saturday, and did so in the always-clunky "quote by multiple tweet" format.
"We've very pleased and happy that Lane is going to be staying here at the University of Alabama with us," Nick saban said. (Cont.)
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) January 24, 2015
"He's done a fabulous job and is one of the finest offensive coaches in the country. (Cont.)
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) January 24, 2015
He is going to have plenty of opportunities in the future and we want to continue to help him develop as a coach so when he leaves here,
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) January 24, 2015
he'll be in a very good situation. Our offense was extremely productive last season and we look forward to building on some of the good
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) January 24, 2015
things we did on that side of the ball with this year's team."
— Alabama Football (@AlabamaFTBL) January 24, 2015
A finalist for the Broyles Award as college football's top assistant and lauded for his work with first-time starting quarterback Blake Sims, Kiffin helped Alabama rank 14th nationally at 6.66 yards per play and 16th in scoring offense at 36.9 points per game as the Tide claimed an SEC championship and an appearance in the inaugural College Football Playoff.
However, the Tide's scoring and per play numbers were actually down slightly from 2012 and 2013. Kiffin's second act in Tuscaloosa will be to place Alabama's starting quarterback, leading ball-carrier and top three wide receivers, including Heisman Trophy finalist Amari Cooper.
As always, stay tuned to The Scoop for the latest.
Boom: Starring Gus Malzahn and Will Muschamp
Auburn's head coach and defensive coordinator are united by a single word – BOOM.
Naturally, Auburn has created a hype video celebrating their union on the Plains.
(HT The Big Lead)
Photo: Baylor debuts new gun metal gray helmets
When wants a new helmet but has already exhausted its traditional colors, white, and black, what option does it have?
It goes gray.
We've seen it at Oklahoma State, Oregon, Texas Tech and, now, Baylor.
Head coach Art Briles unveiled the Bears' new gun metal gray lids on his Twitter account on Friday.
The climb is alive and well #NotStandingStill #Determined #B2B #YB pic.twitter.com/k2ZNCmVI2s
— Coach Art Briles (@CoachArtBriles) January 24, 2015
This, of course, is in addition to Baylor's traditional gold,
chrome gold,
and black lids.
Which one is your favorite?
College football's next non-green field… is kinda green
Coastal Carolina will install a teal field to Brooks Stadium for 2015, the school announced Friday.
"When the decision to install an artificial turf field was made, it only made sense that the turf be teal," Coastal Carolina interim director of athletics Matt Hogue said in a statement. "In addition to our winning tradition, we are known nationally for our distinctive color scheme. And it's not just the color our teams wear, but a campus-wide identity. We felt this would be a great opportunity to further build that brand."
Is a teal turf just enough of a unique touch to make Coastal Carolina's home base stand out without being extremely obnoxious about it, or so close to green that it's not worth the trouble?
What do you think?
Gary Patterson: "You've got to reinvent yourself."
Why does Gary Patterson spend two hours a night watching his Twitter feed? Why did he ditch 14 years, most of them wildly successful, of head coaching experience to send his offense in an entirely different direction? Why can't I stop asking questions?
Those entirely unrelated queries arrive at the exact same point: after 30-plus years in coaching, Patterson had to reinvent himself.
First, the part you know. After a better-than-it-looks-on-paper 4-8 season in which his Frogs ranked 88th nationally in scoring offense and 105th in yards per play, Patterson knew he had to change the direction of TCU's offense.
In pulling Doug Meacham away from Houston and Sonny Cumbie away from Texas Tech, Patterson said he wanted to hire coaches experienced in doing more with less. He also wanted guys that got along with the existing offensive staff. Fortunate enough to have co-offensive coordinators Jarrett Anderson and Rusty Burns stay on in reduced roles, Patterson stuck Meacham and Cumbie in the staff room and waited to see if they gelled. "Those guys have got to like them," Patterson said, speaking to a crowd of close to 4,000 coaches at the AFCA Convention last week in Lousiville. "It's not that I like them."
Though scoring more points was the chief reason Patterson changed offenses, it wasn't the only one. TCU had to start recruiting better. Patterson's number one priority was getting back into East Texas; he also wanted to stop watching capable skill players leave the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
On top of all that, Patterson thought it was just time to change. "You get to a point where you're set in your ways. The reality is, you've got to change," he said. "It made practice more fun. Some of the changes we made made our defense better."
The Frogs' yards per play numbers stayed excellent (4.83 in 2013, 13th nationally; 4.66 in 2014, sixth nationally) but their scoring defense average by a touchdown (25.3 vs. 19.0) thanks to a turnover margin that spiked by a takeaway a game, from 28 a year ago to 40 this fall – an FBS best 3.08 a game.
Now for the part you might not know: Patterson follows more than 11,000 people on Twitter. As a point of reference, Kevin Sumlin follows 445, Kliff Kingsbury follows 647, and Bob Stoops follows 377. Art Briles follows 65. In addition to recruits, national media and the rest of the usual suspects, Patterson wants to know what the sophomore studying for her anthropology exam has to say. The 54-year-old coach wants to know what the 17-to-25 year-old crowd is thinking. Patterson said he logs on Twitter from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. to see what his own personal field study is saying, "and it scares the hell out of me."
But there is no better way to stay on the cutting edge when your life's work is developing 18-to-22 year olds. "You've got to be able to reinvent yourself," said Patterson.


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JEAN BELANGIE-NYE, President
Jean Belangie-Nye is passionate about safe bikeways and walkways. Jean would like to see the Bitterroot Pathway system connected to Missoula's system in the near future. She chairs the Missoula to Lolo Trail Committee of BWAM. The MLTA is developing a bike-ped route from Lolo to Missoula. She chaired the Lolo Focus Group for Highway 93 South, serves on the Citizens Advisory Committee for Highway 93 South, and has been a member of transportation committees and study groups for the Bitterroot Valley and Missoula.
Jean is a native Montanan and owns Nye Imagery. Jean lives in Lolo. She enjoys gardening, photography, printmaking, and is currently trying to finish the Eddie's Club Book. In her free time, she and her friend Michael run her two standard poodles in Crazy Canyon.
KENT WATSON, Vice President
As a native Montanan Kent is delighted to have come "home," as it were, to Missoula, a town that has historically advocated for pedestrians and bicyclists. He brought his family back to Montana from San Francisco in 1994, largely as result of having proposed on updating the Missoula Non-motorized Plan in 1991. Though his company did not get the project, this process turned him onto Missoula as a good place to work and raise their daughter.
Kent is Owner and Principal of Kent Watson & Associates, Landscape Architecture, in Missoula. As a practicing Landscape Architect he specializes in the planning and design of bicycle/pedestrian systems and facilities, as well as parks and recreation facilities, and other large landscapes all over the Rocky Mountain west. Working with local engineering firms, he has designed most of the bike/ped pathways around Missoula – namely the Bitterroot Branch and Milwaukee Road systems. With this background and expertise, he looks forward to working with the BWAM board to continue improving all of our pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
Having "grown up" in Yellowstone Park, he brings a strong environmental ethic and sensibility to all of his endeavors, which includes his activity with a variety of environmental and non-profit organizations for over 40 years. He holds a BLA degree from N. C. State University and Master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
BOB WACHTEL, Treasurer
Robert Wachtel (Bob) retired from the professional staff of The University of Montana at the end of 2005 after 32 ½ years working audiovisual support for instruction and special events. Bob was a regular bike commuter during his employment at U of Mt, cycling 2 miles each way year round. Retirement has allowed him to join the Missoula Bike/Ped Advisory Board, and participate in the formation and development of BWAM. Bob continues to avoid driving locally as much as possible. His wife is an avid walker and enjoys the ability to walk for many of her errands.
Bob continues to process his own fruit wines from available local fruit. Other interests include flat water canoeing, playing classical and religious guitar, and independent consulting on computer systems and home entertainment systems as Wachtel Consulting, LLC.
EVA DUNN-FROEBIG, Director
Eva Dunn-Froebig has been the executive director of Run Wild Missoula since 2009. Run Wild Missoula's mission is to promote and support running and walking as sports for people of all ages and abilities. Eva hopes that as a board member of BWAM and a staff member of RWM, she will be able to advocate for runners and walkers and keep the lines of communication between the pedestrian and bicycling community open. Eva lives in Missoula with her 7-year-old son and volunteers with the Paxson Running Club and Safe Routes to Schools. You will find her at almost every running event in Missoula, including Run Wild Missoula's signature event, the Missoula Marathon. Eva hopes that she can help improve the safety of trails and streets for runners and cyclists and hopes that her son will have a safe way to bike to school one day. She enjoys outdoor activities with her son such as skiing, gardening, running, hiking, cycling, ice skating and jumping on their trampoline.
TOM GIGNOUX, Director
GINNY SULLIVAN, Director
Ginny Sullivan has lived in Missoula since 1989 (with a year-long foray to Louisiana while her husband attended LSU). Living in the friendly neighborhood near Greenough Park since 1990, biking and walking have become a major interest for the Sullivan's. Ginny and her family are avid bike commuters and cycling recreationists. Working for Adventure Cycling Association as the Special Projects Director provides Ginny with the opportunity to learn about community successes, transportation innovations and new bike/walk trends. Ginny hopes to help the BWAM board grow their membership, take on bicycle safety education and help implement community programs that promote biking and walking in Missoula and beyond.
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Would buy this product again. | 78% |
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gwain on 5/10/2013 4:01:00 AM more reviews by gwain
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
I like this conditioner and the smell is wonderful but i've noticed that it doesn't leave my hair that shiny and soft like other conditioners do.Only if i'm in great need and can't find any other suitable conditioner then i'll buy this one.Also the price is cheap!
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qtmee on 7/28/2012 12:38:00 AM more reviews by qtmee
Age: 19-24 Skin: Normal, Fair Hair: Black Eyes: Black
From the minute I used this product, I felt the difference. It left my hair silky, smooth, and untangled as opposed to the usual which is coarse, tangled, and unmanageable. If your hair is like mine, then this product is definitely for you! The things that I need to take care of now are frizziness and fly-aways.
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*TOP REVIEWER* One1Cherry on 11/19/2011 3:56:00 AM more reviews by One1Cherry
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Medium, Warm Hair: Black, Fine Eyes: Brown
This is a really good inexpensive conditioner for dry hair. Leaves my hair tangle free and soft. I am not crazy about the scent though, and that is a very important attribute to me. The scent is not bad, just not great, is the only reason this is not a staple for me.
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turnthisaround on 8/7/2011 7:07:00 PM more reviews by turnthisaround
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Green
Just like the shampoo, useless. This left my hair with even more buildup and such a waxy feeling.
Obviously never improved or made a positive difference in my hair.
I had high hopes too since I wanted my hair a bit healthier.
I was completely let down.
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ceriseangel2 on 4/10/2011 11:49:00 PM more reviews by ceriseangel2
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Cool Hair: Brown, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
A few hours after using this my hair feels softer and less dry. But near the end of the day, it makes my hair oily but feels brittle at the same time.
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BarbieBlondexo on 4/3/2011 3:13:00 PM more reviews by BarbieBlondexo
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Blond Eyes: Blue
Dove Intense Damage Therapy used to be my favorite until the formula was changed. The new formula not only lacks the moisture my bleached hair craves, but also the amazing scent of the previous formula.
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*TOP REVIEWER* nubletta on 2/28/2011 1:42:00 AM more reviews by nubletta
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Brown, Curly, Fine Eyes: Brown
This and the shampoo are amazing! The conditioner makes my hair feel so smooth and soft.. its one of the few things that can make my dry hair feel like it!
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*TOP REVIEWER* princess_eab on 2/11/2011 1:31:00 PM more reviews by princess_eab
Age: 30-35 Skin: Very Dry, Fair, Cool Hair: Red, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
This review is for the new "white bottle" formula. I am a regular user of Redken Smooth Down Butter Treat but I have been looking for cheaper alternatives. This conditioner is not as heavy as I hoped (in fact, it feels a bit watery) but it definitely smoothes and conditions in a way that's great for everyday use. I used it with a slightly drying shampoo and it did not work as well as when I used it with the matching Damage Therapy shampoo. The combo of the Damage Therapy shampoo and the conditioner make my thick hair very, very soft and smooth. I will purchase both of them again!
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suzerxxx on 1/2/2011 5:54:00 AM more reviews by suzerxxx
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Blue
this conditioner is great! its smells great and is great on heat damaged ends, i use this conditioner regularly and does not cause product build up!
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*TOP REVIEWER* kmkssm on 9/29/2010 9:46:00 AM more reviews by kmkssm
Age: 44-55 Skin: Combination Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
This is a great conditioner ( blue bottle NOT WHITE) for damaged, frizzy, hard to manage hair. I have difficult thick, curly, frizzy/ poofy hair that is damaged from color, flat iron, blow dry etc. I am always looking for a good s/c to smooth my hair but not make it greasy or limp. This conditioner works very well, it does not leave a waxy feel like some others heavy conditioners. My hair is silky, tangle free and shiny.I was fortunate to find a bottle with a pump, after shampooing I apply conditioner and leave on until finished showering.Nothing is going to mend or changed my naturally curly,frizz prone hair but this is one of a few reasonably priced that helps make styling easier. I will always have to use other products before blow drying/ flat ironing to fight frizzes but this is a good base to build on. I have long ago stopped wasting money on 25.00/ 30.00 salon conditioners. I loved Davines Love Smoothing shampoo and conditioner but I just cannot justify the expense. There is little to no difference in my hair when using Dove intense vs more expensive salon conditioners. Just remember this conditioner is for damaged hair if you have thin or hair with just a few split ends this may be to much conditioner for your hair. I do not know why but the Dove intense in the WHITE bottle is terrible. I bought it thinking the bottle had been changed NOT the formula, not so. It was no where near as good as Dove intense in the blue bottle. For the price it is worth giving a try. Walmart has small sample bottles for about 1.00
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