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Every time I see people plant roses around here they die or remain in a state of stunted growth and eventually die...
We tend to have rocky soil with a lot of clay here in East TN but id really like to try my hand at roses.. how hard will this be and does anyone know of a good hardy variety that might fare better than others? |
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Your soil, climate and growing conditions are unique to your area. I will put a link below to a list of rose experts in your vicinity who will be happy to give you free advice. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with any of them. The list is part of the website of your closest rose society (rose gardening club), which serves eastern Tennessee. This is a good resource for you to learn how to improve your particular soil, and which rose varieties do best in your climate. At the top the link you will also see tabs for information about meetings, growing tips and more. |
Here is a link that might be useful: local rose experts giving free advice
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- Posted by karl_bapst_rosenut 5a NW Indiana (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Jan 26, 11 at 0:21
An expert grower in East Tennessee is Ann Peck, the authority on RRD in the country. Ann and her husband live in Blaine, just north of Knoxville. E-mail me for her e-mail address. They successfully grow hundreds of roses in very similar soil and are helpful to any and all. If anyone can help you discover the pleasure of rose growing, it's Ann. I might add, growing roses is only as hard as you want to make it. Choosing disease resistant roses, those best suited for your area, and learning to live with insects, will make it easier. Insisting on growing only hybrid teas, perfect roses, and not learning to let nature be your helper will make it difficult and frustrating. |
Start with Knockout roses and Buck roses. If you don't mind once bloomers, try some old garden roses (many of these will grow in poor soils). Rose descriptions can be found at http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/index.php You can buy many varieties at |
As long as you grow roses tolerably suited to your climate, if you can grow decent vegetables in a "vegetable garden"? You can grow decent roses. |
- Posted by ronda_in_carolina Upstate SC -7a (My Page) on Fri, Jan 28, 11 at 18:38
Ditto what Karl said. |
- Posted by mike_in_new_orleans 9a/ coastal LA (My Page) on Fri, Jan 28, 11 at 21:46
Ditto ditto what Karl said. I like to think of your question as equivalent to "Is cooking hard?" You can always delve deeper and deeper into the "art" of cooking, or in our case, growing roses. But if you know little about it, following a simple recipe will allow you to enjoy success. For roses, the basics are: 1) Pick varieties that are well-suited to your growing conditions--heat or cold-tolerance, resistance to diseases common to your area, etc. Local rosarians can steer you toward good varieties. 2) Sun: roses generally need 6 or more hours of direct sun per day to grow their best. A few varieties are a little more tolerant of partial shade or fewer hours. But all will do well in full sun. 3) Water: roses are thirsty plants. They grow and produce so quickly that they need adequate water to do the job. 4) Soil--this amounts to good drainage and healthy nutrients and soil structure: Clay is definitely not the best soil type for roses, but there are things you can do to improve it. Ann or others in your area can help. Amendments to the soil, and raised beds are two primary ways to improve drainage. Roses will not tolerate their roots soaking in standing water for long. 5) Fertilizer: because roses bloom and grow so much, they also need nutrition to do that. Organic sources are generally the most gentle and least likely to chemical-burn feeder roots. But artificial fertilizers can be good too if you follow the instructions carefully and avoid over-fertilizing. Organics have the advantage, too, of building healthier soil. 6) Pest control: insects, mites, and diseases (deer and rabbits, too, for some folks). For insects, best to treat only once you know the insects are present. For diseases, the best think is to start with varieties that are best suited to your region and are disease resistant. Local rosarians are the key to learning which. Then, preventive measures for diseases that are present in your area. 7) Winter protection where needed: Again, this depends on the varieties you plant and where you are growing them. Some roses need no protection whatsoever. And where I live, we hardly even have winter. All these few components of growing roses can be as simple or elaborate as you want to make them. But if you'll just remember that roses do best when these elements are taken into consideration, you'll be off to a good start. You're biggest initial concerns may likely be to ensure your soil is shaped up to be decently drained and soft enough for good root development, and that you plant where the roses will get enough sun. Those 2 factors will ensure that your roses have a good shot and growing and even tolerating other mistakes you make along the way. Mike |
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Generation Pause, Candy Crush Saga, financial education and doing what makes your heart sing; this week on the Young Money show
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And "what is Creative Thursday?" you ask. A question I hear often. Pretty simple answer really – and one that only took me fifteen years to trust.
I am happiest when I am being creative.
While working a 9 to 5 job, as an interior designer in Boulder Colorado and still hardly getting any creative time in, I decided that at least one day a week, Thursdays, had to be set aside for Fun and Creativity! And this is how CREATIVE THURSDAY was born. Just a short time later, while chatting with a friend driving from Boulder to Denver – I announced that Creative Thursday would be the name of my business that I would have 'some day'. I knew that I would be endlessly inspired creatively and would never want to be boxed in - and 'Creative Thursday' would be the perfect umbrella to house all of my artistic ambitions.
As you know, since you are reading this while visiting my web site 'some day' happened, and In 2004 I started {my second} business.
Trial and error, successes and failures, moments of joy and many tears, and most importantly a willingness to just keep going {through it all} - brought me here to create and share the art, the fabric, the book and soon to be web series {coming May 2015} that you now know as Creative Thursday. Those characters in my paintings, the ones wearing hats and holding hands, first made their appearance when I needed them most, their soft expressions reminding me it would all be okay. Today they are still here to cheer us on, providing a calm reassurance and a gentle reminder to live joyfully and contentedly - to a live a life we love.
Marisa Anne Cummings lives and works fulltime as an artist in Los Angeles California with Sean and Garbo {her creative muse}. Marisa's work can be seen online; here at her website, her Etsy shop and on the Creative Thursday blog, also home to her podcast. She tweets and instagrams and finally returned to Facebook {only with a business page}. Her work is licensed through Oopsy Daisy and Papyrus, and sells in select boutiques and stores throughout the country from Urban Outfitters and Land of Nod to Target. In 2011 her first fabric line launched through Andover Fabrics. In November 2012 Marisa's first book 'Creative Thursday – Every Day Inspiration to Grow Your Creative Practice' was published. Marisa's work has been seen in, Better Homes and Gardens, Where Women Create, Artful Blogging, Home Decor Buyer, Southern Living Magazine, Interview Magazine and on blogs including, Apartment Therapy, Decor8, Poppytalk, Bloesem, Design Sponge, A Cup of JO, SFGirlbybay and Soule Mama. Her art has also been featured in television and film, in shows like Up All Night, Criminal Minds, and Army Wives. Marisa also speaks, consults and teaches in person and online via her e-course, "In the Fish Bowl. Life as an Artist Online" that she launched in 2009. Marisa's bit of advice {if you're asking}: you know that little voice of inspiration, the one that gets excited when you decide to go a certain direction…follow it.


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1. Oil and food markets: Oil and food prices remain at the top of the
list. We need to be watching carefully what the Arabian Peninsula is doing
with its money and what the Russians are planning to do. In the immediate,
we need to be following global crop forecasts. Unseasonable rain in the
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percent this year. Flooding is hitting China's harvests right now as well,
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increases in the price of corn are Japan, South Korea, Mexico and Egypt.
Mexico and Egypt are particularly prone to food-related civic unrest, a
development that must be monitored carefully. Along those lines, all food
crops around the globe must be carefully monitored as prices continue to
climb. This is much more immediately significant than oil prices right
now. If there are crop failures larger than the U.S. corn crop looming,
prices are really going to soar. That is not going to result in a one or
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Stability Pact by higher than acceptable deficits was to ignore it. There
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powerful - have said things it is hard to back off from, too. Meanwhile,
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of this.
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presence in Iraq, a key part of U.S.-Iraqi strategic talks, continues to
escalate. Opposition to any deal that could cut into Baghdad's sovereignty
has brought together not just warring Shiite factions but also elements
from both major sectarian groups. The Iranians are obviously making this
an issue because it not only undercuts their influence in the U.S.-Iraqi
dynamic but could create a security threat for them. The Iranians have
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uprising - something that has not happened throughout U.S. forces'
involvement in Iraq. Obviously U.S.-Iraqi talks should be watched, but
more importantly, we should keep an eye on any signs of renewed
U.S.-Iranian contacts because both Washington and Tehran are posturing and
do not seek a confrontation.
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northwest tribal belt struck a Pakistani military border post and killed
11 soldiers, including an officer. The two sides have agreed to jointly
investigate the matter, but Washington's position has been that it struck
at hostile forces and the strike was in line with standard operating
procedures. This incident clearly shows that Washington's attitude towards
Islamabad has entered a new phase where U.S. forces will engage in routine
overt military actions - something Stratfor had forecast for some time.
The thing to watch is the reaction from not just the Pakistani street but
the state, especially the army.
7. Chavez's difficulties: Chavez reversed himself on three policies: his
stance on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, a new tax and a new
intelligence law that would have required citizens to spy on one another.
In the past he has been enormously surefooted. Last week he seemed to be
behaving like a man under a great deal of pressure from all sides who had
engaged in some pretty careless politics, got burned and retreated. He
seems to be weakening. Venezuelan state-owned energy company Petroleos de
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Chavez is in trouble. We need to keep watching for cracks in Chavez's
party as the November local elections approach. Ongoing dissatisfaction
with Chavez could give the opposition the fuel it needs to pursue change.
8. Asian economies: Vietnam is having economic problems. Not important in
itself, unless like the Thai bhat in 1997, it signals deeper problems. We
see issues in Korea and elsewhere. Asia's economies have always appeared
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Pelini forever. The day that Bo Pelini ceases being a Big Ten coach is going to be a sad one.
He screams like a lunatic, he makes jokes about his cat, he wears… that… and looks like he believes the camera is taking a piece of his soul with it. Joke's on you, camera! Ain't got no soul, he thinks. Oh and his offense is kind of a looney tunes spread triple option thing that is both modern and very Nebraska. I only wish he was still in our football conference.
Always the best thing out of media days. Mike Spath's anonymous chatter articles are quality as always and the defense one is free. An opponent on the tao of Countess:
"I thought Blake Countess was tough to play against. He's not real physical but he's one of those guys that knows what he does well and what he doesn't. And he sort of lulled us to sleep. We kept thinking that we could go at him and I think that's what he wanted because he stepped in front of two balls, picked one, and we didn't throw at him very much after that."
Countess had INTs against Minnesota, Iowa, and OSU last year, FWIW. The offense is paywalled, but I have to quote this bit:
"They were one of those teams that were tough to prepare for and not tough at the same time because they did so many different things. We had a lot of guys watching a lot more film the week before because they could run 75 different plays in the same game, but I think what stood out was that they didn't have an identity and they never had go-to plays so if you just played sound, technique-strong football, you were OK."
And that had a lot to do with Michigan's ups and downs. OSU did not play anything approximating sound football in their secondary last year and Michigan ate them up; Iowa is nothing but sound cover two and Michigan could do nothing.
The overall theme of that latter one is that opposing teams have a hell of a lot of respect for Devin Gardner since he did not die last year.
You could knock me down with a feather right now. Shock and alarm at unexpected news:
"Going in (to camp, there will be competition between Devin Gardner and Shane Morris)," Hoke said during his appearance on "Numbers Never Lie." "We've got great competition. (But) if we opened the season today, Devin would start for the Wolverines."
I will personally fight anyone* who sends me an email about whether Morris should start.
*[Offer not valid unless you are Ellen Degeneres.]
Ready to go. Ondre Pipkins is cleared and even more importantly, is apparently fit.
"He's done a nice job, he's made a lot of progress and he's passed the conditioning test and all those things," Michigan coach Brady Hoke said this week. "We'll probably be smart with him as we move forward, you know, especially on two-a-days.
"We'll (watch his) reps and those things. But he's cleared and ready to go."
Figuratively and literally massive for the defense. Article notes that Willie Henry is slated to compete with Pipkins at nose, but I'm hoping they figure out that they can start both those guys. We'll see.
'96 Colorado. I missed this game; remember sitting in a car listening to the end of it just terrified about the Hail Mary.
Well, no. No we do not. Hoke on the opener:
Brady Hoke says he gets some grief from alumni about having App State on the schedule. No one wants to see those highlights, he says
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) July 31, 2014
He didn't do it.
LEMON UPDATE. Aw man I am going to have to find like a video crew and a roaring fireplace.
Junior linebacker Joe Bolden was named the 2014 Meyer Morton Award winner. The Morton Award is given to the player who "shows the greatest development and most promise as a result of the annual spring practice."
Jarrod Wilson and Chris Wormley also pulled in awards.
The plan. After experimenting with Graham Glasgow at tackle it seems like Michigan is going to leave him at center:
When fall camp opens Sunday, though, Hoke says Glasgow -- who is suspended for the season-opener against Appalachian State due to an offseason drunken driving arrest -- will begin where he ended last year. At center, and likely with the first team.
"I would say he could (be with the starters at center) early in camp but then you've got to develop others," Hoke said this week at Big Ten media days in Chicago. "This is why, when you make decisions that don't help the team, you find out how you hurt the team."
If Glasgow does move that says more about Ben Braden than anyone else. That is an outcome I don't want to see, as that would be a major strike against a player who was hyped up as a physical marvel by many people a year ago.
It also sounds like the current plan is to leave Cole at left tackle for this year to provide a backup there. Tuley-Tillman and Fox are both likely to need another year before putting them on the field would be anything other than a major problem.
The rehab. Ondre Pipkins is cleared to practice at the start of fall camp
It could be worse, everyone! Man, Illinois fans are grasping at straws:
Tim Beckman came into this morning's press conference after a long bowl game-less winter and a 4-8 season record with only one conference win. But something was noticeably different about his speech this time. He finally seemed comfortable and confident at the podium.
… he hardly pauses or stumbles for the right words. His "uhs" and "ums" are fewer and farther between than in the past. He came off as a true leader and respectable speaker.
Well, I know that our coach starts every sentence with "well" and is not exactly Steve Spurrier. But there's going to be a post this year on an Illinois blog that says "we may have lost by sixty points but it seems like Tim Beckmann's dressing himself these days, so things are really coming along for us."
Unfortunate for Northwestern. Projected starting corner Daniel Jones is forced to retire thanks to injuries. Corner being the Wildcats' achilles heel since it ceased being "the whole team," that bodes unwell for the Wildcats and better for Michigan. Jones was lost for the year in the opener, so this is more Northwestern not getting that guy back than anything else.
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The most correct thing. This isn't relevant to anything but it is the most correct thing that's ever been said:
I spent five days in Las Vegas by myself earlier this month. If that sounds like your idea of paradise, let me stop you right there, because you're wrong. Even though I know nothing about you, I'm fairly certain that five days alone in Vegas is enough to make anybody rethink their life. Five days in Vegas with friends or family is still probably four days too many, but being alone in Vegas is like finding out halfway through a party that you were invited by mistake. Everyone is having the time of their lives around you, and even though you were excited when you arrived, you're just off to the side wondering what you're doing there.
As someone who spent a week in Vegas by myself*, this is so accurate. I eventually just spent the money for wifi (this was back when wifi still cost money at hotels) and sat in my hotel room because being alone by yourself is so much more tolerable than being alone around everyone. Vegas by yourself: horrible.
The rest of this article is an entertaining Mark Titus piece on attending an NBA scout "school" and finding out just how horrible that job is. So it's sports! On topic! (Not on topic.)
*[Qualified for the WSOP during the heyday of online poker and couldn't hector any of my friends into railbirding me. WSOP was very large that year so there were four separate Day 1s for a quarter of the field and two Day 2s.]
Etc.: Arian Foster gives classic 'Sheed interview. 1985 Big Ten commercial might as well be from 1685. BHGP sent a horse to Big Ten Media Days. This is legit you guys. Hooray Michelle Beadle. Michigan unranked in opening coaches' poll.
Big Ten coaches really like the word "think." Derrick Walton transitioning away from being just a shooter. I found the only Penn State fan that doesn't loathe us with the fury of a thousand suns.
Hokepoints Goes Over
In honor of our annual right there -----> which I expect will get Kickstarted a third year in a row today, I thought I'd share a little sneak peak from it. Brian asked me to create these for the linebackers page:
Click to big. Right-click to open in a separate window so you can reference it as you go.
That's a side by side comparison of Michigan's prohibitive starters this year before and after the "shift" to a 4-3 over and accompanying position changes were announced. Seeing it you can start to appreciate how all of those announcements make sense.
For the lay, what you're looking at are alignments of the front seven. The "under" shifts the defensive line away from the strength of the defense and the linebackers swing the opposite way to compensate. The result is very much like a 3-4 (picture the WDE in the photo above as yellow) and plays like it. In this alignment the strong side is the left because there's a TE there. Michigan would often align this to the hash rather than the offense, shifting the DL toward the sideline.
The "over" shifts the line the opposite way, but not to such an extreme. The linebackers wind up centered over the ball, and the DL spread across the formation. There is nothing 3-4 about it except the nose tackle.
Let's run through the positions to appreciate what's changed and what will be expected of them.
Weakside Defensive End (Frank Clark/Mario Ojemudia)
Ojemudia lined up as a 7-tech in the under [Fuller]
In the Under: The WDE is the leading pass rusher. He lines up so far outside of the backside offensive tackle that he'll wind up getting a 1-on-1 battle with that guy all day. The tradeoff was being further from the point of a attack in the run game. The WDE is further from the run game but in position to drop into coverage, a thing he was tasked to do quite often as the DE-like linebacker opposite him charged into the backfield. Much of the good done by the over shift is it creates double teams elsewhere to preserve the WDE's ability to attack upfield.
In the Over: The weakside end is still outside the offensive tackle, but shaded in a "5 technique," i.e. over the outside shoulder of the offensive tackle.
If you remember your 5-techs from 4-3 under school, you'll get the difference, though unlike your Ryan Van Bergens the weakside end usually doesn't have a tight end lined up to his side (ace even, H-backs and the like do happen) so he needn't be a double-team-eating anchor. The new WDE's biggest change is he's not dropping into coverage all the time. He has to control that OT in the run game, and often he has to cover the B gap. The linebackerity of the position has been removed; this man is a defensive lineman, and not necessarily a flashy one—Michigan State's been plugging their workhorse DE Marcus Rush in this spot for four years while various SDEs make the highlight reels.
The fit: Clark showed signs of being a pretty good player by the latter half of last season and now up near 260 he is large enough to not get kicked by OTs. As a pass rusher he's only like fifth or sixth in the conference, partly because the interior DL couldn't push the pocket very often, and partly because he wasn't great at closing when he beat his guy. Ojemudia and true freshman Lawrence Marshall aren't large men in your memory, but both claim to be up to 250 now. They're all better full-time defensive ends than 3-4 OLBs.
[Jump for the rest of the DL—LBs coming up in Part II]
Monday Presser Transcript 10-7-13: Brady Hoke
Boo boos:
- Jake Ryan has been cleared to play.
- Ondre Pipkins tore his ACL.
"It was very good to win this past weekend. Homecoming, the Brown Jug, multiple things that were good. There was improvement, which you want every week. Fundamentally and with technique. We have to continue that with all positions. Two penalties and no turnovers, probably as much as anything besides winning, was very good for us as a football team and something for us to make sure that we pay attention to. I think we do, but the significance of that was huge to be plus two in turnover margin."
Losing Ondre Pipkins, how does that affect what you guys do?
"Well, Richard Ash … We have some multiple guys. Willie Henry can play the three. Ryan Glasgow. Your heart just goes out to Ondre. Any guy that gets hurts, obviously. It's something that is a little bit of adversity for him obviously and for our team. Just like anything else, we'll work together and get through it."
Is that past the redshirt deadline?
"That's all something that we'll have to appeal and do all that stuff with. It's way too soon to say it is or isn't."
Necessary But Not Sufficient
10/5/2013 – Michigan 42, Minnesota 13 – 5-0, 1-0 Big Ten
Eric Upchurch
Jon Falk has a compatriot at Minnesota. He's probably had a dozen over his 40 years as Michigan's equipment manager. Some guy who comes in with the latest Gopher coaching staff, wonders what it's like to hold the jug in his meaty palm, and maybe once gets to shepherd it for a year. Since Falk arrived at Michigan a fresh-faced young thing four years into Bo's career, his opposite number has had this experience three times.
In proof lingo, this means that beating Minnesota—beating up on Minnesota, usually—is a necessary but not sufficient property of Michigan teams that want to do anything with their seasons. Sometimes you can retain the Jug despite not being very good; sometimes you can retain the jug despite being headed for 3-9 because Nick Sheridan has an out-of-body experience. When you're headed for 3-9 you get a little misty about the Jug coming out. When you're not the worst team in Ann Arbor since the 1930s it's a checkbox to fill out.
Michigan did so in perfunctory style, grinding out a second half in which they went from vaguely threatened to bored. Since this came on the heels of narrow escapes against teams that lost 43-3 to Ohio on Saturday and 41-12 to Buffalo last week, it's progress. How much is unknown.
This game settled into a grim fugue state almost from the drop, as Michigan manballed its way into the endzone on a Statement Drive to start the game. Unfortunately, that Statement was "by putting Taylor Lewan next to Michael Schofield we can bull our way down the field against Minnesota." That statement is unlikely to apply to many teams on the schedule. But, hey, progress.
Then Minnesota donned turbans and embarked on the Ishtar Drive. An epic production galaxy-spanning in its dullness that arrived at its destination two hours too late and failed to have the desired impact, it ate up the rest of the quarter. Michigan left it without having attempted a pass.
This was a little dull.
It was the kind of dull that had Space Coyote, the Michigan's blogosphere's resident instant analysis savant, pleading with the masses that the intricacies of a well-blocked power play were just as appealing as, say, watching 175-pound Venric Mark activate his truck stick on an Ohio State safety. I can't imagine there's another Michigan fan in the world more receptive to that argument than yours truly and even I wasn't buying that as the secondary effect of all that manball kicked in: punt, commercial, play, end of quarter, commercial, play play, punt, commercial. Touchdown, commercial, kickoff, commercial—the NFL special. As the teams' attempt to blow through this game in record time was thwarted by the networks, being in Michigan Stadium became the worst concert of all time interrupted by bouts of football-related activity.
It was the kind of thing that made you consider what the purpose of your fandom was. Am I only here to see Michigan end a game with a larger number on the scoreboard than Opponent? Is there any valid goal outside of this? Am I a bad fan for wishing something interesting would happen? Do the people on twitter who scorn you for having feelings other than Go Team have a point? What is the point of any of this, and why can't they make the wifi work?
At halftime, the guys in front of me discussed whether they would bolt for Frazer's, and two did. I'm usually a guy who thinks leaving an athletic event before it's decided is a mortal sin, but I kind of envied the guy in the home-made muscle shirt screwing off to a place where he could get a beer and not hear "Build Me Up, Buttercup." At any other time, I would have thought this man's attendance at Michigan Stadium was a necessary property of a fan that he had just shown was not sufficient by leaving a touchdown game at halftime like he was a sorority girl about to blow a .341. On Saturday, I was with him in spirit.
This is a fearful development. I don't want to think like that. I want to be forever ten years old, excited by everything. On Saturday I had a long look down the elevator shaft.
It'll pass like the moment above did. Someone will do something interesting, and there will be something at stake other than a piece of crockery that just means you're not horrible, and sometimes not even that. I had a bad day, I was pissed at Dave Brandon when I discovered I was thirsty but knew I couldn't do anything about it without missing a large chunk of the game I was there to see even if it was narcoleptic, I was emo after the last few weeks of expectation-depressing terror. It'll pass, and the doors will close on the moment where I reached out and felt the slight outlines of a limit to my fandom.
Michigan won by a lot, eventually.
Completely one-sided highlights:
Brady Hoke Epic Double Point Of The Week. Has to be Michigan's new favorite worst nightmare at wide receiver: Devin Funchess. Relieved of many blocking duties and deployed on the outside, Funchess displayed fantastic hands on a couple of catches outside of his body, ran routes that got him tons of separation, and went right by a Minnesota cornerback(!) on a straight-up fly route(!) to prove himself Michigan's best deep threat(?). By the end of the game he had newspaper types plumbing the statistical depths for completely invalid comparisons to Jim Mandich, who was a tight end, which Devin Funchess is not.
Honorable mention: No Turnovers, which may be Devin Gardner's temporary name until such point as he turns it over. Schofield and Lewan were mashing as tackle brothers. Blake Countess did have a pick six, albeit one of no importance. James Ross and Desmond Morgan had lots of tackles, usually at the LOS when not facing spread formations.
Epic Double Point Standings.
1.0: Devin Gardner (ND), Jeremy Gallon (ND), Desmond Morgan(UConn), Devin Funchess(Minnesota)
0.5: Cam Gordon (CMU), Brennen Beyer (CMU)
I guess? [Upchurch]
Brady Hoke Epic Double Fist-Pump Of The Week. Wow. Are we at a loss here? We might be at a loss here. Countess's interception was after the game was decided, as was the long Funchess fly route thing. Michigan's longest run went for not many yards. I guess we're going with Fitzgerald Toussaint scoring an easy ten-yard touchdown, as it hinted that Michigan may be able to run the ball forward? Yeah, okay.
Honorable mention: Funchess reception, pick one. Countess pick. Black FF.
Epic Double Fist-Pumps Past.
8/31/2013: Dymonte Thomas introduces himself by blocking a punt.
9/7/2013: Jeremy Gallon spins through four Notre Dame defenders for a 61-yard touchdown.
9/14/2013: Michigan does not lose to Akron. Thanks, Thomas Gordon.
9/21/2013: Desmond Morgan's leaping one-handed spear INT saves Michigan's bacon against UConn.
10/5/2013: Fitzgerald Toussaint runs for ten yards, gets touchdown rather easily.
[After THE JUMP: actual game analysis instead of pathetic emo self-pity mooning!]
Minnesota Postgame Presser: Brady Hoke and the Devins
Brady Hoke
Funchess is listed as a tight end, but you played him as a wide receiver. Was that the plan?
"Well we obviously planned it that way. Getting him out on the perimeter a little bit, a mismatch in a lot of ways because he runs awfully well. He's a big target. And then we get into the 11 personnel and he'll be a tight end. Just trying to really take advantage of his skill sets."
No turnovers coming out of a bye week has to be a big plus.
"It's huge. No turnovers. Had two penalties. So I think that speaks to how these guys have really worked. The bye week, I thought, came at a good time for us in a lot of ways. It was good to see us respond."
It's one thing to have a plan, but another to execute it. You obviously want to get the running game going. Can you talk about how that played out?
"Well we wanted to run the ball. We wanted to send that message. I thought we did a pretty good job of it. We didn't have as much yardage probably as we'd like to have from that aspect, but I really believe the threat was there consistently throughout the game that we were going to run the football. I think tackles for loss, I think there were three until the last when we were milking the clock at the end. I thought it worked out well."
Picture Pages: Folding Back
This space mentions all the time that in Mattison's defense the usual end/tackle distinction for the four guys on the defensive line is not a good representation of how similar or interchangeable those guys are. The nose stands alone; the SDE and 3TECH are kind of the same player, and the WDE and SAM are kind of the same player.
A primary reason for this is that Michigan runs a ton of defensive plays on which the SDE/3T and WDE/SAM switch roles. These are so common that they have a mascot around these parts: Slanty The Gecko, who was inexplicably the first Google hit for "line slant football" a ways back. This is another Slanty post.
I've covered this ground before, but to reiterate: a slant is an aggressive defense designed to get penetration as offensive linemen are surprised by the gap the defender tries to fill. This can lead to unblocked defenders—and big cutback lanes. Unless the offensive line makes the on-the-fly adjustment they lose a blocking angle at best, and then you've got a free hitter… as long as your linebackers understand what's going on in front of them and present themselves at the spot they should.
I'm revisiting this because the UConn game provided a look at what happens to the WDE when the playcall asks him to become the SAM. Both of these plays are Frank Clark-centric; as is often the case, this means one is good, one is bad.
The Good Part
First quarter, second and four on the UConn 29. they come out in four-wide. Michigan shows five in the box with linebackers over the slots.
That safety is a bit of a giveaway that Michigan will bring Beyer off the edge.
On the snap, Michigan does send Beyer; simultaneously UConn sends a slot guy in motion, threatening a jet sweep.
One of the primary goals with a slant is to confuse an offensive lineman expecting one assignment executing that either against air or a guy who he really can't block. Here that's going to be the right tackle. Henry, our last arrow to the bottom of the screen, is going to head outside immediately on the right guard; he needs to get upfield and be the force player.
Clark will "fold" back after taking a step past the line of scrimmage to get the right tackle to commit.
[After THE JUMP: it's like origami except someone gets buried at the end.]


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The Food-Fraud Writing On The Wall? Get Back To Basics.
Bottomline: Food manufacturers are no different from tire or television manufacturers. Their primary allegiance is to stockholders to make a profit. They do so by reducing costs and raising prices. The name of the game is buying materials as cheaply as possible and selling finished products as high as possible, what the market will bear, whether it's canned peaches, cream puffs or microwaveable casseroles. Legally or illegally. And the lines are often blurred.
As Byron Beerbower, Compliance Manager, Michigan Dept of Agriculture and Rural Development says, "In the food end of the world, where profit margins are measured in pennies or parts of pennies, if you can substitute something of lesser value and sell it for a higher value, you make a lot more money."
Over two third's (2/3's) of our food dollar goes to marketing these processed foods, which food companies do with bright, often misrepresented labels, exaggerated or misleading claims in separate advertising (not on product labels) backed by plenty of psychological research, playing on emotions with warm and fuzzy commercials giving the impression you will be thin, beautiful, and sexy if you consume these products.
As awareness about health increases, we see more and more artificially-concocted "technofoods" with manufacturers touting their products as beneficial, whether they are or not. I've actually coined a new term for this: "healthifying" which you can read about in my "Rainbow of Foods and Dietary Trends" chapter from my book, Truly Cultured.
Who's protecting Us? Depending upon the food, the USDA, FDA, federal and state agencies have jurisdiction here. Budgets are tight, yet, are they doing their jobs? Evidence keeps mounting to question this.
In October 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) gave the FDA failing grades for preventing false and misleading labeling. GAO found that while the number of food firms and products has increased dramatically, the FDA's oversight and enforcement actions "have not kept pace." As a result, the "FDA has little assurance that companies comply with food labeling laws and regulations," says the Center for Science in the Public Interest's "Food Labeling Chaos" report.
So, whadda we gonna do about it? Isn't it time we Get REAL with this? Read my conclusions and the simplest actions you can take to be assured that you and your family are getting safer, healthier foods in my "9 Ways the Fake Food Alert Can Help Your Family Eat Better" sequel on www.YourTango.com.


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Beautiful heated pools. Quiet. Clean lobbies. Good location. Starbucks coffee.
Dusty rooms. Live palmetto bug I had to kill. Hard beds. Expensive parking. No waiters around pool.
Once you check in, there are hidden charges, such as resort fees and parking fees. Very misleading rates and not fair to people living on a budget. I wouldn't have stayed if the actual rate was posted on line.
Clean rooms and comfortable bed.
Front desk is not very friendly and do not seem very happy doing their job.


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Getting ready to bottle my first batch of IPA homebrew, Several friends of mine who have never homebrewed insist on me using Amarillo Hops for my dryhopping. Is this a good idea and what does it do for an IPA?
Dryhopping helps to increase the hop aroma in your beer. I have dry hopped with amarillo in my pale ale and they are a nice flavor/aroma hop. They have a strong citrus component, but unlike cascade they lean more toward orange than grapefruit
Amarillo is a sport of Cascade and has many similar properties. If you like Left Coast citrusy IPAs, hit it.
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Amarillo has been in just about every pale ale I';ve made since I first tasted it. Dry hop or boiled as a late addition, it's awesome.
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amarillo hops are great IMO, go for it
Its your beer! Dry hop it with oregano if you want. I have used Amarillo, mmmm. Nugget, mmmm. Cascade, mmmmm. It is your beer! Friends pay for beer = friends making decision.
If your friends have never brewed before, why are they so partial to Amarillo? Dry hopping with Amarillo is just fine. Dry hopping adds an additional burst of hop aroma and flavor to your brew. This is a characteristic of an IPA, especially an American IPA. There are various websites and books that detail the different flavor and aroma profiles of the different strains of hops. Do some reading up, and see what you think you might like. "I read on the internet that Cascade hops taste like grapefruit!"
Primary 1: Apfelwine Primary 2: Buddy's Brown Porter Primary 3: "Brown" Hefeweizen (oops?) Primary 4: Chocolate Stout
Amarillo may be my favorite hop (in fact my last brew was an all Amarillo IPA!). I tend to like my IPAs on the citrusy/floral end of the spectrum over the earthy/spicy kind and Amarillo hops are hard to beat for that task!
your probably going to have trial and error in the ipa ring.i would have to make 20 ipa's to figure out wich hop i like best. I just pick the craft brew ipa's hops that are my favorite and try those hops.Chinook,centeniall,warrior,and simcoe are all on my hit-list.


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Jump to: Modern Intellectual History. Contemporary European Philosophy. Philosophy of Art (PHIL 349). Free Speech and Censorship (PHIL 345). Introduction to Philosophy. Philosophical Foundations of Education (EDUC 605). Contemporary European Philosophy. Entrepreneurship and Ethics. Capitalism in the Modern World. Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325). Ethics (PHIL 122). Business Ethics (MGMT 441).
Management 441:
Business Ethics
Quinlan Graduate School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
Of all the endeavors that have contributed to the quality of human life, business ranks with science, art, and education. Yet like all human endeavors, business raises its share of difficult ethical questions and problems. Our task this semester will be to explore those questions and problems.
We will divide our time equally between theory and practice. We will discuss competing accounts of morality, rights, justice, profits, competition, the nature of employer-employee and business-consumer relations, and we will discuss the practical implications of those debates through numerous real-life case studies.
Reading and Viewing:
* David Henderson, editor, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
* Stephen Hicks, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (video lecture):
1. What the tragedy is.
2. The free-market solution.
3. The socialist solution.
4. Comparing the two solutions.
5. Supplemental: The entire lecture at YouTube (43 minutes total). Summary flowchart of the arguments.
* Garrett Hardin, "The Tragedy of the Commons" (at Concise Encyclopedia of Economics).
* Elinor Ostrom on "Ending the Tragedy of the Commons." The Nobel-prize winning economist explains how, with proper governance, humans are capable of finding peaceful solutions to the problem of resource scarcity.
* Flavio Felice and Massimiliano Vatiero, "Elinor Ostrom and the solution to the tragedy of the commons".
* Alexei Marcoux, What Is Entrepreneurship? (video, 17 minutes).
* Stephen Hicks, "What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship" [pdf].
Free Speech and Censorship
Who should decide what books are read? Should pornography be censored? What about politically rebellious pamphlets? Or the advertising of tobacco on television? Or hate language that attacks a person's sex, race, or ethnic origin? Should church and state be separated? If the government does not fund some artists on the grounds that their work is offensive, is that censorship? In this course, we will study what some of the greatest minds in history have argued about free speech and censorship in Art, Politics, Religion, Business, Science, and Sex.
Plato, excerpt from Book 10 of Republic.
Galileo Galilei, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" (1615).
John Locke, excerpts from A Letter concerning Toleration (1689).
John Stuart Mill, Chapters 1 and 2 of On Liberty (1859).
The modern era in Western Civilization saw revolutionary changes in all areas of life—religion, science, philosophy, engineering, economics, politics, and art. The course includes lectures and Friday seminar discussions.
Modern Intellectual History, 1600-1900
Reading and Viewing:
Course Readings [pdf] from Galileo, Locke, Beccaria, Rousseau, Smith, Jefferson, Madison, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, and others.
PowerPoint files to accompany my lectures: 1. Introduction. 2. The Renaissance Context. 3. England to the Glorious Revolution. 4. Justice and Modernizing the Law. 5. From Feudal to Modern Business and Economics. 6. The American Enlightenment. 7. The Battle for Women's Liberty and Equality. 8. The Enlightenment. 9. The Enlightenment in France. 10. The French Revolution. 11. Romanticism. 12. The Battle against Slavery and Serfdom. 13. Human Nature and the New Biology.
Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy asks the big questions of life: What is it to be a fully developed human being? Am I in control of my destiny? What kind of world are we living in — for example, do gods or a God exist? How do we know these things — should we believe based on tradition, feelings, faith, evidence? And what difference does it make — what is the best kind of life to live? We will grapple with fundamental philosophical issues and discuss the views of major thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition.
The supplemental Readings in Philosophy booklet [pdf].
Philosophical Foundations of Education
In this course we cover the major philosophical issues that bear directly upon education, read the works of philosophers — Plato, Locke, Kant, Dewey, and others — who have influenced education greatly, and we look at several systems of educational philosophy.
Reading and Viewing:
My course lectures on video. (Also full playlists of the lectures at YouTube.)
Supplemental booklet: Philosophical Foundations of Education [pdf].
Contemporary European Philosophy
In this course we investigate several major European philosophies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thinkers we will cover include Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Hayek, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Albert Camus.
Selections from Marx, Mussolini, and Goebbels [pdf].
Organizational Ethics
BSMS 315: Syllabus and Schedule [pdf].
The purpose of the study of ethics is to develop a set of moral principles to guide individual and social action.
* What core values and virtues should individuals embody?
* What is the value of organizations?
* What core values and virtues should organizations embody?
* Who should set the terms of production, consumption, and trade?
* How should prices be established?
* What counts as a fair trade?
* Who should control more abstract values such as information?
In this course we will integrate theoretical debates over ethical principles with controversies over classic and contemporary organizational actions.
Philosophy of Art
PHIL 349: Syllabus and Schedule [pdf]
Great artists probe the central issues of the human condition, yet in a different way than do philosophers, psychologists, and political scientists. How does art do what it does—whether it be a piece of music you play over and over again, a novel you hate to see end, or a movie that makes you laugh and cry? And what is art? Can it be defined? What is the difference between good, mediocre, and incompetent art? Or are no such distinctions valid? Is it possible to say of a given piece of art, "This is great art, but I don't like it"?
In this course we will raise these and other philosophical questions about art, trying to understand the nature of an enterprise that ranges from music to sculpture to dance to painting to poetry to motion pictures. We will read reflections on art by philosophers, artists, and other commentators.
My Art Images page with links to sections on Classical Greece, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Golden Age, Nineteenth-century France, and Modern and Postmodern.
Entrepreneurship and Ethics
This course integrates entrepreneurship, business history, and business ethics. It consists of case studies of major entrepreneurs in modern history, e.g., Commodore Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, John Johnson, Martha Stewart, Bill Gates, and others. Each case study involves learning the entrepreneur's business practices and how he or she achieved business success. What traits did they have: intelligence, risk-tolerance, leadership, ambition, ruthlessness? And part of each case study involves learning about the ethical controversies: Were they "predatory competitors," "monopolists," "robber barons" — or highly productive individuals who traded with others to win-win advantage? Students read histories and biographies by both proponents and detractors.
Business and Economic Ethics. PHIL 325:
Business and Economic Ethics
Of the endeavors that have contributed to the quality of human life, business ranks with science, art, and education. Yet like all human endeavors — especially innovative endeavors — business raises its share of ethical challenges. We discuss crucial theoretical issues such as the debates over egoism and altruism and free-market capitalism and socialism; competing accounts of rights, justice, profits, and competition; and employer-employee and business-consumer relations. We discuss the practical applications of those issues through real-life case studies.
Reading and Viewing:
David Henderson, editor, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics.
Tom Beauchamp, "McAleer v. AT&T" [pdf], "Manufacture and Regulation of Laetrile" [pdf], "The FCC's 'Fairness Doctrine'"[pdf], "Putting the Squeeze on Citrus Hill Orange Juice" [pdf].
Stephen Hicks, "What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship" [pdf]. Notes on the ABC News Special "Greed". Business Ethics Cases: my video discussions of Minimum Wages, Rent Control, The Tragedy of the Commons, Laetrile and Experimental Cancer Drugs, Telecomm: The FCC's "Fairness Doctrine, and more.
This course investigates the best arguments on moral issues such as affirmative action, sex and love, torture, capital punishment, welfare, and legalizing drugs. We will also look at several relevant theoretical issues in ethics — for example, the debates over egoism and altruism, relativism and universalism, rights, virtue, and justice.
ECON/PHIL 376: Syllabus and Schedule [pdf] Syllabus and Schedule for Management 441 [pdf] David Henderson, editor, The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. Stephen Hicks, "What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship" [pdf]. Go to the online Texts in Philosophy page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
Capitalism in the Modern World
This course integrates economics with ethics by focusing on two key questions: What is capitalism? Is capitalism moral? Students discuss major pro-capitalist writers (e.g., Mises, Hayek, Rand, Friedman, Phelps) and major anti-capitalist writers (e.g., Rousseau, Marx, Heidegger, Marcuse, Foucault). We discuss the competing theories about what capitalism is; the moral debates over economic liberty, economic equality, and economic justice; whether capitalism is essentially win-win or zero-sum; and the debates over capitalism's historical connections with the Industrial Revolution, whether it sped or slowed the elimination of slavery, and whether it improved or made worse race relations and the status of women.Business Ethics
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Of all the endeavors that have contributed to the quality of human life, business ranks with science, art, and education. Yet like all human endeavors, business raises its share of difficult ethical questions and problems. Our task this semester will be to explore those questions and problems.
We will divide our time equally between theory and practice. We will discuss competing accounts of morality, rights, justice, profits, competition, the nature of employer-employee and business-consumer relations, and we will discuss the practical implications of those debates through numerous real-life case studies. Reading:


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Thanksgiving is going to be at my "New" home this year - at this point it looks like 20. So in an effort to make things easier ( and so I can actually enjoy the company) I have decided that I am going to cook Turkey breasts instead of a traditional bird. Stuffing in a crockpot. I bought a roaster oven ( it's actually a hamilton beach 18qt) it came with the three inserts. I am hoping that someone may have an idea for sides that I can make in the roaster - I really need to free up space in the oven. I am not so sure how to use the roaster - can I use it in place of the oven? or is it best used as a way to keep everything warm? I have looked for a cook book specifically for the roaster - but they won't get here until after the holiday. I even checked the library not one .....
thank you for any help
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Do you have an oven and a cook top? Will you be making rolls and pies that day? Will you be having a side of scalloped oysetrs that need to be baked? Will you ba having a baked sweet potato dish? Do you have a microwave? I would make the rolls the day or more before...freeze and heat at the last minute. Bake the turkey...or breasts in the oven, have the sweet potatoes all boiled and the topping on and ready to bake...Make the mashed potatoes while the turkey is cooking and re heat in the microwave....make the pies in the morning before the turkey is in the oven. When the turkey is cooked and while it's resting cook your sweet potatoes and pan of stuffing and veggie casserole if having one.....when the potatoes and veggies are done, remove from the oven and cover with foil and towels to keep warm, re heat the rolls, carve the turkey, make the gravy while the turkey is resting....and use the roaster to keep the gravy hot. I cooked holiday meals for lots of years with one oven, 4 burners and no microwave. Stuffing in a crock pot is a mushy nasty mess....never gets a crisp top. Lots of sides don't need to be kept hot...salads relish tray, cranberry relish, olives and pickles. Linda C |
- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 07 at 15:56
Why not use the roaster oven for the turkeys. Below is a thread about using it for that. Then you'll have the oven for the sides. Also go to www.hamiltonbeach.com & you'll find recipes for your appliance. |
Here is a link that might be useful: 18 qt Roaster
- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 07 at 16:09
Here are some other recipes for roaster ovens that might be helpful & give you some hints as to timing, etc. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Oven Roaster Recipes
- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Sun, Nov 11, 07 at 16:19
- Posted by columbusgardener (My Page) on Mon, Nov 12, 07 at 14:53
Thank you for the links - I obviously don't know how to search the internet very well. I do have an oven, cook top and a micro - I guess I am just overly concerned - and your right just as many sides can be in the fridge. Thank you for the suggestions Debbie |
- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Mon, Nov 12, 07 at 17:23
You're most welcome. Hope you'll post back with your results. |
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Kuroda, 32, will bolster a rotation that already includes righties Derek Lowe, Brad Penny and Chad Billingsley, with Jason Schmidt recovering from shoulder surgery and Esteban Loaiza another candidate.
Financial terms of the deal are not yet known. The contract will not be final until Kuroda passes a physical.
The move, which helps the Dodgers counter the Diamondbacks' acquisition Friday of right-hander Dan Haren, is a significant blow to the Mariners, who were among the teams bidding heavily for Kuroda.
The Mariners, trying to add two starting pitchers, have spoken extensively with the Orioles about a trade for left-hander Erik Bedard. But Kuroda was a primary target for Seattle.
The Diamondbacks and Royals also had expressed strong interest in Kuroda, who was 103-89 with a 3.69 ERA in 11 seasons with the Hiroshima Carp, including 12-8 with a 3.56 ERA last season.
Several teams, including the Dodgers, were willing to give Kuroda a four-year deal. Kuroda, however, opted for three years, leaving open the possibility that he could finish his career in Japan.
The deal is pending results of a physical examination, which Kuroda took this morning at Centinela Hospital, but it's done and believed to be worth between $36 million to $40 millon. Club officials aren't commenting for now, but two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed the deal within the past half hour. Expecting more details later in the day, but this is a huge pickup for the Dodgers. Kuroda will fall somewhere in the middle of the rotation, probably the third or fourth spot. Ned Colletti now has filled two of the club's biggest holes (a starting pitcher and a CF) without giving up ANY of the Dodgers' young players.


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31 "Look, I [am] against you, [O] arrogant [one]," {declares} Lord Yahweh of hosts, "for your day has come, [the] time [when] I will punish you. | 31 "See, I am against you, O arrogant one," declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty, "for your day has come, the time for you to be punished. |
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So I just got back my grade for Concrete design. Needless to say, with the grade that I got, I was pissed. I don't really care about the actual grade, more of just passing the class. The professor is so damn hard to understand. Fucking asian fucker. I have a clip of him on my cell phone just to prove how fuckin hard it is to understand this guy:
Concrete Class, talking about moments
Now, some of you may be able to understand him, then congrats to you. This was one of his better lecture days. The file is ~6min long and ~6megs in .wav format.
This fucker gave me a fuckin F. Why? I don't know. I got a C on the midterm where other's didn't even take it and passed with a C as a final grade. I did most of the HW, did the lab assignment (which was totally fucked up as a lab assinment, we really didn't do any work as a class, the concrete sample was made by the masters' students, so the point of the lab was null). I also turned in the required STAAD program. So I have no fuckin clue as to why I would get an F. My last semester, and this fuckin shit head doesn't give me a D, which is all I need, he gives me a fuckin F. During the final, the TA asked the class, how many of us, of the three problems, finished two. That was with 30 min left in the class. NOT ONE person raised thier hand. By the end of the period I had answered them all, with a shit load of work. Not that they were right, I'm just saying.
I later found out that this fuckin A-hole made the questions REALLY hard just to get even as, according to him, not everyone came to class, which is a crock.
There's student evaluations that are given out at the end of every semester. They are suppose to be annomonious and delievered by a student to the Civil department. He asked us to give it to him. I thought that was totally fucked up... knowing that most of use would rape him on the survey. So, while he was outside talking with a student, I took the surveys, collecting them all from each student, sealed the envelope and delivered it, as per the rules, to the secretaries. He didn't see me, not that it really mattered.
So I'm thinking that this fuck head is getting retaliation against me for that, as the secretaries know me. All they had to do was say a name and BAHM, "D... F...fuke hem... I giva F."
This is messed up.... my last semester and he's gotta be a dick like this.... I'm really curious to know whom else has failed his class. I know that the dude I'm going to work for this summer had him as a professor in the 80's. During the interview, he asked me if I understood what the hell that guy was teaching..... apparantly, this fuckhead sucked back then too.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, I hate this shit!
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Andy Johnson (American football)
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Date of birth: | October 18, 1952 |
Place of birth: | Athens, Georgia |
Career information
Position(s): | Running Back |
College: | Georgia |
NFL Draft: | 1974 / Round: 5 / Pick 112 |
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1974–1982 | New England Patriots |
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Andy Johnson (born Anderson Sidney Johnson; October 18, 1952 in Athens, Georgia), is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League during the 1970s.
He is a 1970 graduate of Athens High School, now Clarke Central High School, in Athens, Georgia where he played quarterback. He then attended the University of Georgia.
Sports career[edit]
Johnson earned Georgia football and baseball letters in 1971, 1972 & 1973. He played quarterback as a sophomore, leading the Bulldogs to an 11-1 record, passing for 341 yards and rushing for 870 yards. In 1973 he passed for 506 yards for the season. He had 431 rush attempts for 1799 yards during his Georgia career becoming one of the top five SEC rushing quarterbacks for a career.
He was drafted by the New England Patriots in 1974 in the 5th round of the NFL Draft, pick 112 overall. He played running back with the Patriots his entire Pro career from 1974 to 1982.
He played one season with the Boston Breakers of the USFL before retiring.
He played shortstop for the Georgia baseball team.
He is a 1996 inductee into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and 2000 inductee into the Athens Athletic Hall of Fame. He is vice-president of the Georgia Lettermen's Club.
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1 What follows is an account of how the land of Canaan west of the Jordan was divided among the people of Israel. Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of the families of the Israelite tribes divided it among the population. | 1 Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. |
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Slovakia: Unfulfilled promises: Failing to end segregation of Roma pupils in Slovakia
Slovakia: Unfulfilled promises: Failing to end segregation of Roma pupils in Slovakia
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Despite the acknowledgements, the political declarations and the judicial decisions denouncing school segregation of Roma, the situation of Romani children in Slovakia remains fundamentally unchanged. Thousands of Romani children around Slovakia continue to be unjustly placed in separate schools or classes within mainstream education, resulting in segregation. Their inferior education and their early introduction to humiliation and separation mark their lives for ever. It is time for the Slovak authorities to recognize their responsibility to ensure that all children in Slovakia enjoy equal access to education.


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