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Pure Play Maintenance Costs Consuming IT Budgets? 39
from the is-your-IT-budget-being-eaten-away dept.
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Go on, pull the other one.
OK, ok, I'll be serious for a second. What about:
Unlike an engine, software doesn't "wear out". You write it once, you write it well, and it works, and keeps working.
Let me take the opportunity to welcome you to planet Earth. Things work a bit different here.
As a programmer that is still supporting MSDOS programs I "wrote well" in the early 90s, I feel I am entitled to comment.
You've forgotten that things change. Business needs change. The third party apps you integrate with change. The programming languages change. Hell, even the operating system changes
The article doesn't define "pure play" applications. Is this a common term of art in IT? Google shows "pure play" defined on investing sites as a firm that concentrates on one type of product.
But in practice, the level to which any pure play application integrates with an infrastructure management suite can be a significant variable, and there is always the possibility that adding something like lifecycle management means adding yet more pure play applications to the maintenance list.
So, kind of a limited version of the old *nix ethic. Do one thing, but
Pure-Play Application Service Providers
Market analysts created the term "pure-play" to designate those providers that focus solely on the real application services delivered to their customers online, and if possible, on a rental basic. Pure-play ASP's business models, marketing strategies, research, and operations focus mostly on business applications: value chain activities, data processing, or analyticals (see application taxonomy). In their purest form, the
Market analysts created the term "pure-play"
Who let market analysts on slashdot? The quoted definition, while worth the attempt to find it, makes even less sense. I'm still trying to get my head around "application taxonomy." Someone obviously got a new thesaurus this week.
I'm still trying to get my head around "application taxonomy."
Sounds awfully Web 1.0 to me!
The only thing worse than this is some crappy quote from Tim O'Reilly (I think?) trying to define "Web 2.0":
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2008.00524.x
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TANEI, R. and KATSUOKA, K. (2008), Clinical analyses of atopic dermatitis in the aged. The Journal of Dermatology, 35: 562–569. doi: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2008.00524.x
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The aim of the present study was to analyze the characteristics of atopic dermatitis (AD) in the senile phase. Subjects were comprised of 16 patients investigated for clinical features, serum immunoglobulin (Ig)E levels and skin manifestations. Mean age was 76.9 ± 6.2 years (range, 68–87), with a man : woman ratio of 3:1. Mean age at onset was 67.7 ± 15.7 years. Eight patients (50%) had personal histories of chronic eczema until the young adult phase and three patients (18.8%) showed the classic course of child AD. Eczematous erythroderma in 10 patients (62.5%) and unclassified chronic eczema in five patients (31.3%) were the predominant clinical presentations. Mean total IgE level in sera of the 16 patients was 8810 ± 13 511 IU/mL (range, 5–53 605). Fourteen patients showed positive results for antigen-specific IgE antibodies, and the mean total IgE level for these patients was 10 056 ± 14 044 IU/mL. Specific IgE to the main antigen, Dermatophagoides farinae, was observed in 12 patients (85.7%), representing the principal antibody in eight patients (57.1%). Eczematous dermatitis manifested predominantly in the face and neck, trunk and extensor and flexure sites of extremities, and less commonly in the antecubital and popliteal areas. Other stigmata of AD were observed as follows: red face in 10 patients (62.5%); Hertoghe's sign in six (37.5%); goose-skin in four (25%); facial pallor in three (18.8%); and dirty neck in one (6.3%). These results indicate that senile-type AD represents a characteristic subgroup of AD that appears in the last stage of life in AD patients.


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My mom passed this link on to me and I thought it was interesting enough to share:
Whole Foods wants people to eat healthier, despite the fact that they carry so many animal products and junk.
The nutrition rating thing seems to have its faults and it probably won't make people change what they eat, but I like that all of the highest rated stuff is vegan (apart from salmon and shrimp :( )
Very interesting. This is the push I need to start buying more greens even though they're so expensive around here. My body says thanks.
I'm glad to know that my favorite veggies are the highest ranked.....now if only french fries were a little higher, I'd be in heaven.
Kale is the healthiest food in existence!
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Dispute with Former Lanlord
I didn't know if this was appropriate for this forum, but perhaps someone here has had experience and can help. Our former landlord is suing us in small claims court for "damages". (Note: we left the residence in the same condition as it was in when we moved in.) Anyway, on the accounting he sent us, he listed things like glass cleaner, comet powder, light bulbs,... even a stepstool and broom that he supposedly had to buy to "fix" and "Clean" the residence after we left. There are numerous other things that he listed, but my question is, can he claim these items? What can a landlord legally get reimbursed for? He's also claiming $12.00 an hour for "labor" for time that he supposedly spent cleaning. Is this a figure the courts will allow? I had heard somewhere that $10.00/hr was what could be claimed in court for labor preformed by a landlord.
Whew! The place was in good repair when we left, but (lesson learned the hard way) we didn't take any pictures to prove it, so I'm trying to figure out if these costs that the landlord incurred are a little exessive.
Any help or advice would be appreciated!
Look up your state's "Residential Landlord Tenant Act" ... it's quite specific on what can and can not be charged for, and cleaning and inspections.
What did the lease say you had to do before moving out? Did you have a pre-move in and a post move-out inspection with a detailed list of condition and damages? (if not, it's your word against his, and his trying to charge you for light bulbs anbd cleanser will mek him look greedy in froint of the judge)? Was there a cleaning deposit mentioned in the lease?
You say "same condition" ... but what was the move-in condition and do you have ANY witnesses at all?
Landlords can NOT charge for "normal wear and tear" ... it's the reality of life that carpets get soiled, etc. They can charge for extraordinary damages, or clenaing that was specified in the lease and not done by the tenant.
They certainly can NOT charge for a stepstool they can use elsewhere (that's a tax-deductible 'tool', and cleaning supplies arre also tax-deductible expenses). Light bulbs? Only if you took all the bulbs when you packed.
I am a Landlord and I can tell you straight out ... the Landlord cannot charge for normal cleaning. They can charge to clean or repair things that are above and beyond normal wear and tear. We usually charge $65 per hour which is the going rate for handymen in our area. This varies greatly according to location so check your local handymen services to see what they charge. Even if it was damage, they could not charge more than the going rate in the area. Your next step is to write them a letter disputing the charges. Make sure you keep a copy for your records. Depending on the state in which you are in, one of you has to file a small claims case. In many states, the LL has to file in order to keep the security deposit if there is a dispute. You will have your day in court and you need to bring whatever documentation you have available. The letter he sent alone may send the judge into spasms because I have never seen anyone itemize comet. Let us know how it turns out.
All other issues aside, $12.00 an hour for cleaning after a move is dirt cheap! Where I live the standard rate is $85.00 an hour. Obviously that's not what a person would pay to have a cleaning service come in; it's what landlords charge when they have to have someone come in and clean after a tenant moves out. It's kept at a high rate, I'd guess, to deter tenants from leaving a gross disgusting mess. (I am referring to cleaning an "uncleaned" apartment - it's not that every tenant who moves from anywhere is charged $85.00 an hour for regular cleaning of normal wear-and-tear. There is not supposed to be any charge at all for that, assuming you leave the apartment in reasonable condition.)
As to whether he can charge for light bulbs, Windex, etc., I doubt it but you should check your state's landlord/tenant laws to see what is legal and what isn't. Good luck.
The letter is a very good idea. Be sure to make it polite and fair as you will probably be showing a copy in court. Send it U.S. mail certified, return reciept requested so you can prove it was delivered. If you watch Judge Wapner's 'Animal Court' you get a good idea of how small claims works. If it's your word against theirs, the judge starts looking at paper documentation. Just because the landlord hires a cleaning service doesnt prove you caused excess damage. In our state the landlord can't argue about the condition of carpet if it is say 6 or seven years old unless you did something like rip it up and hang it from the ceiling. If you have any witnesses who can vouch for the condition at move-in and move-out that might help you if the landlord pulls out documentation from the cleaning service
Thank you all so much for your terrific advice! I must clarify, though, the 12.00/hr was just for the labor. (He supposedly cleaned the residence himself, he didn't hire out the work. The statement he sent shows all of the various cleaning supplies listed, plus an additional 12.00/hr simply for the labor) Anyway, though, this whole thing is frustrating to me because the residence was left in great shape! Other than the "normal" wear and tear. There were some oil stains in the driveway from where an old truck of ours leaked. (We didn't realize it was happening, or we would have put down cardboard, etc.) This we have no problem paying for. My fiance also got a little over-zealous with the spray paint in the garage and there is a small (less than 1' X 1') making of green spray paint on the garage wall. (The landlord has claimed $400.00 for an estimate to repaint garage. The garage was sheetrocked, but not taped or textured, so I'm guessing this quote must include taping/texturing. Not sure what a fair settlement would be on this issue. I'd be happy to pay to replace the sheet of sheet rock.) Other than that, though, the rest of the charges seem a little over the top. Just wanted to see what the general concensis (sp?) was.
The interior of the place was move-in ready. The garage and driveway were the main issues. Now he's trying to claim other "damages" too. So frustrating! Thanks for your help! Next time I'll take pictures- duh! (The lack of photgraphic evidence is my fault)
Thanks for your help everyone!!
Oil on a driveway! That's normal wear and tear. If you had gouged out a chunk of the paving, that would be a repair.
Overspray in an UNPAINTED, untaped, unmudded garage? Point out to the judge that he's trying to get the WHOLE garage painted (when it was not painted before) because of a bit of overspray ... hiding an improvement in the guise of repair is not allowed.
And next time get an itemized list of existing damage from the landlord on a move-in walkthrough, and take LOTS of pictures of the way things are when you move in and move out. A walk-through on exit with signoff from the landlord is usually required by law if the tenant requests it.
I suspect that if you dispute this, your landlord will quickly back down. Anyone who tries to deal with their former tenants this way is used to making quick money off of intimidated people.
By the way, check your local laws. We once had someone try to ding us $300 on our security deposit for changing a furnace filter. (!)
However, she had taken forever to file the complaint. In the state we were living in at the time, landlords had thirty days to inspect a rental and return a security deposit/list of damages. Going past the thirty days legally meant a tenant could ask for triple their security deposit back.
We politely informed her of this, and told her we'd waive the triple security deposit and forget the whole thing if we got our original security deposit back without any further fuss. We did.
Re charging for cleaning supplies: although I still don't think he's allowed to do this, you might ask him - since YOU paid for the Windex, etc. - what happened to the leftovers? Since YOU paid, they are YOURS. As in, invoice says Windex, $3.29. Well he probably only used about 1/4 cup to clean an entire apartment so where's the rest of the bottle???
$12.00 is still cheap for labor (don't tell him that!) In my area, as I said, they charge about $85.00 an hour but that doesn't mean the landlord is hiring out for the service. He might do it himself but they still charge a high fee. Cleaning an oven is a separate charge of about $130. It's just a method to keep people from leaving a mess.


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My boss approached me and said he'd had a new tax code through for me, but if he applied it, it would have effectivly cost me a weeks wages? he says the new code costs me more tax, yet my earnings havent changed in the tax year, where do i stand? i know nothing about these cand of things.
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its a small buisness with a "boss" i work for, so if the code is incorrect, who takes the hit me or him? whos responsibility is it to sor it out?
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Nothing has changed as far as i'm aware, i'm going to phone the tax office tomorrow and see what they say.
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First, the enormous reserves of natural gas in the USA is welcome news. Second, why are we already exporting this stuff if one of the reasons for extraction is reducing purchases of foreign oil? Third, 200 years are gross abuse by the extraction industry created the overviews(brine disposal, site recovery to name two) that make extraction less damaging. Four, extraction industries are currently fighting more transparency requirements, such are prior notification of intention to drill. Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom... and capitalism.
The illustration was from ExxonMobil. The rest as well? This reads like an advertorial. No depth whatsoever.
The only 'poor image' of fracking is in the minds of a few anti-hydrocarbon zealots. The industry smirks at the idea. Essentially every well is fracked. When understood in the context of high natural decline rates, any type of fracking ban would leave us freezing in the dark. http://independentstockanalysis.com/
What? Will the sun be extinguished?
Maybe when its your home on the line (like mine) and you wonder about things 10, 20, 50 years from now - you'd take a different tone. (heck I can run the distance in less than ten minutes) Plus, the only long terms studies are industry ones, and since the chemicals have been kept secret - we can't independently verify anything from the past. Please excuse my desire to be safe rather than sorry.
"would leave us freezing in the dark" - speaking of zealots, I bet you still believe BP when they said only a little oil leaked in the Gulf of Mexico.
Comment by Doctor Whom: "the only long terms studies are industry ones"
EPA's Study of Hydraulic Fracturing is underway:
Also, the US Department of Energy, New York State, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia are all studying the impact of fracking. And Ohio regulators recently concluded that fracking had nothing to do with seismic activity in the state.
I found all this out from a 5 min google search. Did you think of checking before making your statement or was it more a "belief" you hold?
>>Essentially every well is fracked.
Obviously not.
I like the point that gas simply isn't very exciting. Which explains why the media are desperate to make it so by creating flaming faucets, earth shaking events, hair falling out and dead birds falling from the sky.
For those new to natural gas, www.nohotair.co.uk has been following shale for four years. I don't have letters after my name, or work for a big consultancy . But go to the site and see I was right about shale years before this article.
The series does make a mistake in underestimating the impact of shale, or tight oil. Gas is important, but is so Q4 2010, a long time ago in shale
Finally: What about the UK? Remember the Economist is the publication that a year after I was writing about shale was telling the UK readers the lights were going out http://www.economist.com/node/14167834
And Economist Conferences made good money the next year on the same theme.
This does read a little too much like an advertisement for fracking. Do you eat nappies? Is it not an issue to pump the chemicals that go into making nappies into ground water resources? Do you drink biocides or water your garden or crops with them? Why are we so eager to risk water resources that are becoming limited the world over? Answer some of the questions surrounding the process of fracking and this article might read more like an article that belongs in the Economist rather than an advertisement.
I realize that some articles are much shorter than others within any given Economist issue. That said, I question the editorial decision to treat such an important subject with such a lack of analysis and presentation of both sides. I have to agree with Jim Q - this does sound like an advertisement; one that could've been produced by Chevron.
First, let me say this: I really hope that fracking can become safe for the environment. But this...article...if you want to call it that, doesn't really address the issues. Another article, from Discover Magazine, does: http://discovermagazine.com/2011/may/16-fracking-nation/
The following is a summary:
- In Ft. Worth, Texas, the first community to experience fracking, residents have continually complained about contaminated water, poor air quality and unexplained health problems such as muscle contractions, dizziness, blackouts and headaches. In other Texas communities, with drill rigs near schools, parents complain of their children having nosebleeds, nausea and dizziness. They worry about cancer causing benzene being released into the air.
- Communities in Pennsylvania have similar complaints - especially contaminated ground water. Look at the pictures in the article. Testing of their water has shown high levels of methane. Anyone up for flammable water? And why is it that this type of drilling is exempt from the Clean Water Act? That right there should tip you off.
- Shale rock contains toxic and radioactive metals such as uranium, barium, zinc, arsenic - among others. When the high pressure water breaks up the rock, these elements are released and can "hitch a ride" back to the surface when the waste water is siphoned back up.
- There is the potential for these materials and the chemicals used to leach into groundwater supplies.
- The state of New York has halted all horizontal drilling until the environmental impact of fracking is fully understood. An NYC study came to the conclusion that fracking could be disastrous to the city's water supply.
- Methane is released from the process; methane is 20x more damaging as a greenhouse gas.
- On the bright side, there may be a solution: Liquefied Natural Gas, instead of water. There are many potential benefits to this, but the primary one seems to be that almost no waste water is left below the surface.
Anyway, if we can find safe ways to extract this natural bounty of gas, I'm all in favor of it. But, to just rush into this without fully understanding the impact on the environment is insane.
And to communities that forgo their due diligence, in the pursuit of a quick buck, don't come asking Michigan for water in the future when your kids are growing extra toes.
Odd bit about how fracking has minimal impact above ground. Of course, most of the damage is below ground, which the article makes only passing reference. Rather poorly researched piece of journalism and not upto the usually high standards of this magazine.
A million-gallon reservoir?
British gallons or American gallons?
While the height is in metric.
This is the Economist, not a serious journal staffed by professional journalists.
Others have already pointed out that this is no so much a piece of journalism as an advertorial for the fracking industry. How much advertising does TE get from Big Oil per year?
But, there is another lie in that Exxon graph: It shows the "groundwater aquifer" at a shallow and steady depth of about 100 meters. That's actually bad science to start with: Most "groundwater aquifers" are shallower than this where they get tapped. But, what is a groundwater aquifer in one place may be deeper in others, especially in the relatively hilly areas where much US fracking takes place. Furthermore, ground aquifers share waters with deeper aquifers which the graph studiously omits. In the main fracking areas in the US, there are aquifers up to depths of 8000-10000 feet (about 3000 meters), i.e. close to where the fracking takes place. Indeed, some aquifers lie *below* shales - and it is a matter of time before these, and the ones they correspond with up to ground level, get irremediably polluted by the unknown chemicals that Exxon and their ilk don't want us to know about.
Quite the expert in groundwater. Are you degreed in geology and/or hydrology? When and where did you do your research in the hydrology of Western Pennsylvania?
Or perhaps your background is in reservoir engineering, and you have compiled extensive subsurface maps of the Marcellus Shale and water sands across the region?
What is your data source that supports the claim that aquifers can exist below a shale @ 8000 ft (shale is impermeable to water, by the way) and contribute to shallow drinking-water source aquifers?
I suspect, however, that your expertise lies in regurgitating fiction and unsupported claims you read on environmentalist websites.
Bankster Inc said it all. Evidently SkepticPa is an ignorant stooge of Big Oil, whether paid or just deluded by self-interest.
The prime evidence of that is claiming that the article is only about Western Pa. Stooge did not even read the article.
Even if a Shale layer (not just Shale) is impermeable to water, that in no way precludes water underneath the Shale layer. It could certainly extend out to one side and connect into shallower aquifers. This isn't even to mention the possibilities of disruptions in layers caused by development or natural geological processes.
This has been the object of plenty of thesis, I doubt it's as simple as you suggest.
Can you explain what happens to the toxic chemicals pumped into the ground during fracking? They vanish into hyperspace, perhaps?
We might also ask what fracking does to the permeability of the shale, especially where the shale is the only aquiclude. Grump.
These are good questions, and warrant a reply. What happens to the "toxic chemicals" during fracking? Well, they don't vanish into hyperspace, that would be pretty miraculous. When the shale is fractured, the frac fluid (about 99% water and 1% polymers and other chemicals), which is full of sand (called "proppant"), holds the network of fractures open, allowing the sand to pack into the fractures (which are usually around 2-4 mm wide). The water stays in the well bore and fracture network as long as pressure is applied. After complete, the well is flowed, and the frac fluid is produced back to surface. The well will be produced until all of the water is produced back to surface (being captured in either plastic-lined pits or tanks) and the gas is completely dry, where it is filtered and re-used on the next well. In the Marcellus region of Western Pa (which this article is about) Chevron recycles 100% of all water used during drilling and fracturing operations. This is all publicly available data.
What does fracturing do to shale permeability? Short answer - nothing. Rock is rock, permeability is a physical property, and there's nothing you can do to change the physical properties. The frac-pack of permeable sand, which is left post-fracturing, allows the dry gas to flow into the well bore from the shale.
The Marcellus is not the only aquiclude. It is at ~8000' deep, and the groundwater is in the 100-300' range. Here are some of Penn State's resources on the regional geology:
By the way, one loses all credibility when one immediately resorts to name-calling when challenged to produce data. Invariably, this means that the person actually has no verifiable data. I would expect more from a reader of the Economist. Let's keep it civil. I'm a very experienced engineer, I deal in data and facts. I'm no fool and no stooge. I asked Toc-Toc to produce data to support his speculative claims about ground water, and I'm still waiting.
On the contrary, there is actually no verifiable data to support wild allegations that fracturing has anything to do w/ contaminated ground water. Anecdotal stories and speculation is NOT data. (I mean really, children have been getting bloody noses and getting sick for millennia, how does that have anything to do with drilling and completion operations?) However, there is TONS of verifiable data to support the FACT that groundwater contamination is due to coal mines, which stretch across all of Western Pa, W. Va, eastern Ohio, Kentucky, JUST BELOW aquifers, in the 300-600 ft depth range. These huge coal deposits have been extensively mined for 100+ years and have massive amounts of associated gas (called coal-bed methane). All of the "flaming faucet" incidents are directly tied to this coal-bed methane, verified with testing of the gas to obtain its "fingerprint" which always matches coal-bed methane, and has never matched Marcellus Shale gas. Flaming faucets have been around Pa for decades, due to shotty water well drilling and poorly regulated coal mining practices. They just never got any press because "Big Oil" was never around with scary fracking, and the coal industry is king around here.
So now we know who SkepticPa works for, and against.
Dear SkepticPa,
So much for experts in geology and hydrology:
-What happened in 2009 in Köln (Germany) when by building the underground several buildings collapsed including the historical archive? Were there not experts engaged in this project?
-And what happened in 2008 in Staufen (Germany), when the city council drilled 140m to install a heat exchanger, you can read the horror here:
Is that not horror enough to show that we, humans, DO still know very little about our underground to simply play with it and full it with chemicals?
Who can seriously think the chemicals or they byproducts or decomposition products of it will not move in 10, 20, 50, 100 years? And then what?
Osborn et al., PNAS 2011:
"Methane concentrations were detected generally in 51 of 60 drinking-water wells (85%) across the region, regardless of gas industry operations, but concentrations were substantially higher closer to natural-gas wells (Fig. 3). Methane concentrations were 17-times higher on average (19.2 mg CH4 L-1) in shallow wells from active drilling and extraction areas than in wells from nonactive areas (1.1 mg L-1 on average; P < 0.05; Fig. 3 and Table 1). The average methane concentration in shallow groundwater in active drilling areas fell within the defined action level (10–28 mg L-1) for hazard mitigation recommended by the US Office of the Interior (13), and our maximum observed value of 64 mg L-1 is well above this hazard level (Fig. 3).
The δ13C-CH4 and δ2H-CH4 values and the ratio of methane to higher-chain hydrocarbons (ethane, propane, and butane) can typically be used to differentiate shallower, biologically derived methane from deeper physically derived thermogenic methane (14). Values of δ13C-CH4 less negative than approximately -50‰ are indicative of deeper thermogenic methane, whereas values more negative than -64‰ are strongly indicative of microbial methane (14). Likewise, δ2H-CH4 values more negative than about -175‰, particularly when combined with low δ13C-CH4 values, often represent a purer biogenic methane origin (14).
The average δ13C-CH4 value in shallow groundwater in active drilling areas was -37 ± 7‰, consistent with a deeper thermogenic methane source. In contrast, groundwater from nonactive areas in the same aquifers had much lower methane concentrations and significantly lower δ13C-CH4 values (average of -54 ± 11‰; P < 0.0001; Fig. 4 and Table 1). Both our δ13C-CH4 data and δ2H-CH4 data (see Fig. S2) are consistent with a deeper thermogenic methane source at the active sites and a more biogenic or mixed methane source for the lower-concentration samples from nonactive sites (based on the definition of Schoell, ref. 14)."
In simple terms: The wells leak gas into the water Pennsylvanian drinks. Science does belie SkepticPa's claims. That is how one loses all credibility.
I can presume that SkepticPa will point out that this is not evidence of poisoning by those secret fracking compounds. But of course, that's a matter on another timescale and requiring other methodologies.
By the way, the above data are for the Marcellus Shale in Susquehanna county. That should not excuse SkepticPa continuing the for-hire lie by claiming that the article only deals with that area. See what is NOT in the title? See that mention of the Haynesville shale? Heck, see the masthead?
Meanwhile, as someone else pointed out I believe, it is typical that 10% of fracking wells are in some other violation - so we know where self-regulation will take this. I'll go along with SkepticPa's narrow worldview and point to the area he thinks is the center of the TE universe:
You might say who cares, given that not too far away in Philadelphia, water scored an incredible "1" on the 1-100 EPA scale, with 1 being the worst water. But hey, nothing says the rest of the US, let alone the world, wants to live in that dump, whether polluted by coal or fracking gas. Quite a few will end up living with the spills, though.
Shameful article, TE, absolutely shameful. Not even the slightest desire to investigate the opponent's viewpoint.
Of course fracking causes disruption
"Landscape With Well" (July 14th) reads like public hearing testimony from an industry spin man presented to a bunch of economically disadvantaged small town people concerned about the only thing their town has going for it: fresh water and a relatively undisturbed environment and way of life. Yes, there are the temporary well drilling jobs, most of which go to temporarily relocated wildcats and land men from previous oil and wireless booms. And a few landowners that are willing to let their land get trashed benefit from leases at the expense of everyone else (heavy truck traffic, impacts to sub-standard rural roads, potential water quality issues, localized housing bubbles…). Gas mining has its place, but please don't insult these people by spinning it to sound so benign and wonderful. Using the Empire State Building to minimize the potential impact of towers and wells to be located in rural areas is pure hucksterism. Probably the worst, most condescending article I have ever read in the Economist. I expect much better.
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I never thought I would see such a blatant piece of crap published as 'news' in The Economist. What were you thinking??
Every time a hole is made through a water aquifer, there is contamination. The chemical laced mud used to drill the initial hole and the toxic materials released from the rock will mix with the water- there is no way to avoid this. Industry's own figures say that six percent of new well casings are defective. Projections predict that even a perfectly constructed cement casing will fail within 50 years. All cement casings will fail eventually. For an excellent description of how a gas well is built, watch "Dr. Ingraffea Discusses Gas Well Construction and Hydrofracking"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N60hcRzAK_0
Yours is the only anti-fracking comment here that attempt points to any specific issue with the gas wells. All the rest reduce to "If you're not against fracking, you're an idiot!"
Putting on my psychiatrist's hat (it came for free with the mail-order diploma) I might speculate that people are so hateful of anything related to the oil and gas business because in their subconscious they know that they are utterly dependent on it. The feeling of dependence is close to the feeling of powerlessness, especially when what they're dependent on is "power" in the most physical sense. Combined with a pervasive undercurrent of guilt nurtured by the vague and widespread notion that "western civilization" in general and petrochemicals in particular are bad, while recognizing that they want the cheap plane tickets, the big screen TVs, and the roomy suburban houses, the result is a hatred of a repressed part of themselves which manifests by projecting it onto "the oil industry". This is a safe sort of hatred and projection to do, because they don't need to worry that the oil industry will actually succumb to their hatred of it. It's like a child saying "I hate you mommy! I wish you were dead!" when she doesn't get the lollipop she wanted. The hate is safe, because she knows mommy won't really die.
>>Putting on my psychiatrist's hat
Perhaps you should have put on your 'thinking cap' before spouting off.
The reason why people are opposed to fracking is simple: it poisons the ground-water.
You are completely wrong. The ground water aquifer section is drilled with AIR. Not "chemical laced mud". The video even states this correctly at 0:50! And after being drilled with air (i.e. no contamination) that section is isolated with cemented steel casing, and eventually another 2 to 3 cemented steel casing strings. The lecturer attempts to bolster his anti-shale gas position by saying that "sometimes" this section is drilled with mud. In the Marcellus Shale region "sometimes" means "almost never." However, he also admits that even when drilling WATER WELLS the aquifer is exposed to the same contamination potential. Should we stop drilling water wells to prevent contamination of our water???
This ism ore akin to a child's hating her abusive, co-dependent parent who tells her that beatings (here, toxics introduced to drinking water) are for her own good, and that she could not survive without the parent (energy dependency).
I don't hate industry, and I wouldn't complain merely for my dependence on commercial products. I do, and I think we all do, hate those abusive, co-dependent individuals and organizations that choose to prey on us when we are reliant on their product. (Now, I'm thinking heroin dealers who treat their customers with disdain/violence.)
A company's willingness to externalize costs (shifting clean-up, health-costs, etc. to consumers and neighbors) is what we hate. Don't stop selling us things, just don't poison us while you do it while expecting us to bear the effects!
For the record, I am both a small-business owner and commerce-development professional. Corporate industry is not bad. Malfeasant corporate industry is.
SkepticPa- Although industry's "best practices" discourages using anything but air while drilling the water aquifer portion of the well, they are not legally required to follow this guideline. Even if they were, there would be no way to enforce it. The only way to prove or disprove contamination by drilling fluid would be to have a baseline line test that accounts for exactly what chemicals and products a company will use at each step of the drilling process. Many ingredients in drilling products are deemed proprietary and are kept secret, so developing a baseline test for proving contamination is impossible. The operators don't know exactly what is in the products they are using and even if they did, they wouldn't risk the liability of maintaining accurate records, especially when they aren't legally required to do so. Even if nothing but air is used, there are still contaminants in the hole that mix with the water. This is true of water wells as well, but considering that the Marcellus and Utica shales would have hundreds of thousands of wells drilled in the next few decades, the risk that gas and oil wells pose to water aquifers is much greater than that of simple water wells. In order for the casing to properly isolate the water table, all debris created by drilling the initial hole has to be removed completely for the cement to form a perfect barrier. There is no way to tell if the all of the debris has been completely flushed out before pumping in the cement and since the cement barrier is only an inch thick, the margin of error is quite small. There are already multiple cases of cement problems in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia- http://www.google.com/search?q=gas+migration+pennsylvania+OR+ohio+OR+"west+virginia" & http://www.google.com/search?q=fluid+migration+pennsylvania+OR+ohio+OR+"west+virginia" , and this is just the beginning of the number of wells that the industry has planned.
God save us from dilettanti psychiatrists and also from the permanent pollution of soil, which would make the energy gain useless, if the price of it is to seriously pollute the solely (more or less) clean water resources left.
This ridiculous puff piece about fracking is both funny and tragic, and makes me wonder what happened to this publication. When did the Economist get taken over by News Corp?
Fracking is a booM to the American economy, we all understand that. What I think is truly mind-boggling is the amount of water needed for fracking. Enormous sections of the United States are suffering from extreme drought conditions, as is my home state Of Colorado. Clean, fresh water sources are dwindling world wide, yet were injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals into the ground for natural gas. I heard the rhetoric that the chemicals are safe, they're not polluting are aquifers, JUST WASTING PRECIOUS SOURCES OF WATER! HUMANS CANNOT DRINK NATURAL GAS
WOW!! The ECONOMIST has finally become a WHORE..Fracking is just the latest in a long line of FREEMARKET "pennywise business models" sucking profit at the expense of humanity...people who only care about the quarterly profit are nothing more than SCUM..energy companies love those types
For shame, using the term "free market" in all-caps as a pejorative. Even if you disapprove of fracking, environmental integrity are best protected as an extension of private property rights. It's government intrusion into the free market which prevents this from taking place. Look up "free market environmentalism"
What? Without the government, the earth would be a safe, clean, peaceful place? Seriously? On the contrary, it is the lack of oversight, the relative powerlessness of the environmental lobby, and the lack of enforcement capabilities on the part of USDA and FDA and EPA that has enabled companies in the U.S. to institute abominable practices (see factory farming, see genetic engineering, see fracking). If the government subsidized public transportation, the train system could be improved and pollution could eventually be reduced. Governmental regulations always raise red flags here in the U.S. and some might be excessive or might curtail possible economic development. But the protection of public spaces ("nature") requires the government.
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A tipster (send in your tips here) and reader sent in an email and thought we should play another round of Do They Comply with the website of Practical Debt Relief. For those new to the game, Do They Comply is where debt relief professionals review the online marketing of a company and provide comment about if the advertising is ... Read More »
Elimadebt Player Comes Back Around in FTC Settlement With First Universal Lending
David Feingold, a lawyer out of Florida, who I first reported about in relation to Elimadebt, has surfaced again as part of a reported FTC $18.8 million settlement regarding his actions in the loan modification business. The Balm Beach Post is reporting that David J. Feingold, Sean Zauser, and David Zauser have agreed to pay back $18.8 million which will ... Read More »
Johnson Law Group Florida Gets Permission to Make Client Payments Under Supervision
The Florida Bar had recently gone after attorney Clint Johnson of the Johnson Law Group for irregularities in his law firm trust account. In fact Attorney Johnson had his law license suspended. You can catch up by reading this article. When I wrote that last article the court still had a freeze on all of Johnson's trust accounts, including those ... Read More »
Global Client Solutions Named in Yet Another Case. This Time With Alliance8, Freedom Financial Management, Richard Lenard.
The cases keep on coming against Global Client Solutions. Here is one I just spotted that had been previously filed in state court but was just moved to federal court on May 6, 2011. Mary Lord v. Alliance 8, Freedom Financial Management, Global Client Solutions, Rocky Mountain Bank & Trust, and Richard Lenard. It appears the move was brought about ... Read More »
CCCS of Greater Atlanta Sues CreditAbility
On May 25, 2011, Consumer Credit COunseling Service of Greater Atlanta filed suit against a debt relief company in Iowa named CreditAbility. It seems CCCS of Greater Atlanta, who goes by the name CredAbility took exception to the similarly named debt relief provider, CreditAbility. In July 2005 CCCS of Greater Atlanta filed a trademark application for the mark CredAbility. They ... Read More »
Fake Testimonials Nail Company. FTC Watching.
And here is why debt relief websites should not use fake consumer testimonials. This just out today from the FTC. The Federal Trade Commission has charged Russell Dalbey, the CEO and founder of the company behind the "wealth-building" program "Winning in the Cash Flow Business," with defrauding consumers, in some cases out of thousands of dollars, with phony claims that ... Read More »
Get Free PR and Free Targeted Marketing By Helping Others
One issue I've always found ironic is that while some debt relief companies attack some of my debt industry articles the debt relief community at large does not help consumers through the GetOutOfDebt.org site. Critical, but not helpful, interesting. I've been curious why companies that purport to assist consumers in trouble are not offering advice, and assistance in the comments ... Read More »
Morgan Drexen Running TV Commercial for Debt Settlement Clients. Says It Is Exempt from FTC Rules.
So what is the truth about Mogan Drexen? On one hand they claim, as was stated in the recent West Virginia Attorney General suit about them to "merely provide paralegal services to lawyers engaged in debt settlement activities on behalf of clients." Even their own website says: Morgan Drexen provides integrated legal software and paralegal services to attorneys across America. ... Read More »
Put a Fork in P & E Solutions, Vertexsoft Corporation, and Safe Trust Financial.
The bankruptcy trustee in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases involving Safe Trust Financial, P & E Solutions and Vertexsoft Corporation requested an emergency motion on May 19, 2011 to seize the companies and convert the bankruptcy filings to a terminal Chapter 7 case. Unfortunately this almost guarantees the clients of those debt relief companies, as creditors', will receive little in ... Read More »
Century Negotiations, David Leuthold, Freedom Debt Relief, Fast Track Debt Relief and Debt Shield all Named in Class Action
On May 24, 2011 a State of Washington class action case was moved to federal court by Fast Track Debt Relief. The case, Rule v. Century Negotiations, David Leuthold, Freedom Debt Relief, Fast Track Debt Relief and Debt Shield was filed by Paul Lawrence of Pacifica Law Group in Seattle, Washington and Richard Epstein, Esq. of Greenspoon Marder. It looks ... Read More »
Debt Relief Compliance Tracking Software – First Look. Sweet!
I'm fortunate enough to have been selected as an alpha tester for the new debt relief software by USDR. Granted it's early days on the rollout but I had to share with you what I've seen so far. There are still more modules to implement but the software makes it VERY easy for any debt relief company to track a ... Read More »
Company Claiming to Reduce Credit Card Interest Rates – Shuttered by FTC
The FTC has settled two actions that charged marketers with deceptively claiming they could reduce consumers' credit card interest rates. Both operations allegedly made deceptive telemarketing calls, called consumers on the Do Not Call Registry, and used illegal robocalls. The settlements will ban all of the defendants from selling debt relief services. Advanced Management Services The FTC charged that Advanced ... Read More »
Veritas Assurance Group Announces Full Legal Protection to All Consumers in Any Debt Settlement Program. No Need for an Attorney Debt Settlement Company Anymore.
This is finally public and it might be a great asset to all performance based debt settlement companies that would like to provide legal protection to their clients. It's a big advantage for consumers since they can now get access to legal protection while in a debt settlement plan without having to pay an attorney firm all those advanced fees ... Read More »
Loan Modification Lawyers Disbarred. Christian Lawyers of America, Anything But.
A tipster (send in your tips here) sent in a notice about an even that happened earlier this year but the story struck me so much I wanted to share it with you anyway. It's a good example of what happens to lawyers who lose control of their professional ethics and allow the sale to become more important than their ... Read More »
Credit Counseling Requests Way Down. Funding Cut.
A couple of articles today painted an interesting picture of the challenges credit counselors are facing and the declining demand for their services. According to the National Foundation for Credit Counseling (NFCC), the number of consumers seeking help has dropped twenty percent from 2009 to 2010. This has NFCC scratching their head especially when the CARD Act required lenders to ... Read More »


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Welcome to Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research :: Vol 49, Issue 2, Apr-Jun, 2015 :: Latest Issue
The Official Journal of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI)
(Registered under Registration of Societies Act XXI of 1860 No. 122 of 1966-1967, Lucknow)
Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (IJPER) [ISSN-0019-5464] is the official journal of Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI) and is being published since 1967. IJPER, a quarterly publication devoted to publish reviews and research articles in pharmacy and the related disciplines of Pharmaceutical education. It mainly covers the articles of special interest, covering the areas of Pharmaceutical research, teaching and learning, laboratory innovations, education technology, curriculum design, examination reforms, training and other related issues. It encourages debates and discussions on the issues of vital importance to Pharmaceutical education and research. The goal of the journal is to provide the quality publications and publish most important research and review articles in the field of drug development and pharmaceutical education. It is circulated and referred by more than 6000 teachers, 40,000 students and over 1000 professionals working in Pharmaceutical industries, Regulatory departments, hospitals etc.
- Editor-in-Chief : Prof. M Ahmed
- Frequency : Quarterly (4 issues/year)
- Indexed and Abstracted in : ABC Chemistry, African Index Medicus, Connect Journals, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research (GFMER), Google Scholar, NewJour-Georgetown University Library USA, OpenJGate, Pharmaceutical Sciences Open Access Resources (PSOAR), Science Central, Ulrichsweb, Indian Science Abstracts, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Abstracts (MAPA), HINARI, DOAJ [Directory of Open Access Journal] and many more..
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From Synthesis and Spectral Analysis to Molecular Modeling – Multidimensional Teaching of Medicinal Chemistry: Aspirin as an Example10.5530/ijper.49.2.1
Pharmaceutical Waste Management in Pharmacies at the Primary Level of Health Care in Serbia - Situation Analysis10.5530/ijper.49.2.5
Assessment of predictive value of admission criteria of candidates for pharmaceutical studies – an empirical investigation10.5530/ijper.49.2.6
Pharmaceutical Research
Evaluation of the analgesic effect of Umbellipreninand Umbelliprenin-morphine co-administration on the acute, chronic and neuropathic pain10.5530/ijper.49.2.7
Microspheres Embedded In Microbeads: A Novel Approach to Improve Various Controlled Release Characteristics of Highly Water Soluble Drug through Ionic Gelation Method10.5530/ijper.49.2.10
Effect of compounds isolated from Filicium decipiens and Ventilago madraspatana against diabetic nephropathy in streptozotocin induced diabetic rats10.5530/ijper.49.2.11
Effect of pioglitazone, quercetin and hydroxy citric acid on inflammatory markers in experimentally induced non alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).10.5530/ijper.49.2.12


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David Butler II-US PRESSWIRE In Sunday's AFC East showdown between the Patriots hosting the Bills, New England narrowly escapes with a 31-37 win at Gillette Stadium. Danny Woodhead contributed considerably with a 15-yard rushing touchdown, and an 18-yard receiving touchdown. Quarterback Tom Brady is grateful to have Woodhead as a teammate. "He's just come in and done such a great job," Brady said. "He's the ultimate team player and teammate — dependable, consistent, you always know the level of play you're getting from Danny. He had a huge game yesterday for us. We really needed it, because as an offense, I'd say everyone really didn't have their best day but Danny. He really saved the day for us." Brady would not have had Woodhead's services available if it wasn't for the division rival Jets letting him go. Nobody seemed to see what Danny was capable of except for the Patriots. Brady comments that he knew right away what he had in the first practice. I remember his first game," Brady said. "We kind of joked on the sideline, [former Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien] and I, we kind of said, 'The legend is born.' We saw him that week in practice, what he was capable of doing, and said, 'Why did the Jets release that guy?' They had him playing receiver and he was a running back in college." New England has found great success being able to utilize Woodhead to his full potential, and to their highest benefit. The Patriots have so much depth with players like Woodhead to make a big push deep into the playoffs this year. Any player on the roster has the ability to thrive in the Patriots system. Follow us on Twitter @DownandDistance Down and Distance Columnist - Austin Peat @PistolPeat187The post Brady Praises Woodhead For 'Saving The Day' appeared first on DOWN & DISTANCE.
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Fremantle Dockers midfielder Ryan Crowley makes a brief statement to media after the club announced he had tested positive to a substance banned under the AFL's anti-doping code.
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Almost 800 people strip off at South Fremantle beach in Perth to record the world's largest skinny dip.
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Dan Watson documented his 5,000km trek from Fremantle to Bondi on his Facebook page In Between Drinks.
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Fremantle escaped with a scrappy 18-point AFL win over Melbourne but not without the preseason injury curse again striking.
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Fremantle has signed defender Zac Dawson until at least the end of the 2017 AFL season.
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In Hong Kong, the massive Harbour City shopping mall in Tsim Sha Tsui doubles as a public art space and is currently playing host to one of Japanese artist & Supertouch buddy Tomokazu Matsuyama's most ambitious exhibitions to date. Ambitiously titled Sky's the Limit, the show is named after the exhibition's centerpiece, a 6.5 meter-high, stainless steel sculpture (the tallest ever at Harbour City, where KAWS'giant Companion once sat) acting as an homage to the Read More
As familiar blue chip names like Koons, Warhol, and Basquiat continued their assault on the wallets of the world's most conspicuously consuming oligarchs at massive auctions at the big houses in NYC last week, it was nice to see a piece by OG punk artist Raymond Pettibon surpass the million dollar mark for the first time as part of the Read More
One of the two best shows currently on display in NYC is Houston-based artist Mark Flood's fantastic Available Nasdaq Symbol currently on view at Zach Feuer Gallery (the other is another show by Flood titled the Insider Art Fair right next door, but we'll get to that in another post). Taking square aim at both the government, technology, Read More
For his first-ever American solo museum exhibition, painter Richard Phillips brings his unique blend of kitschy glamour to the country's capital of said opulence for his mid career retrospective Negation of the Universe at the Dallas Contemporary, which opened last weekend in conjunction with the city's Dallas Art Fair. His strikingly distinctive paintings, notable as much for their Read More
Easily one of the most compelling minds working in the art world today, Supertouch buddy Tom Sachs has built a career around an utterly unique art methodology based on thematic meditations by means of unexpected material explorations. In his new show "American Handmade Paintings" at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, the choice of this title is anchored in specific aspects that are central to Sachs's creative universe; his use of the Read More
A master graphic designer and visual thinker, Supertouch buddy Geoff McFetridge brings the same elegant minimalism to his fine art with "Meditallucination," a new body of paintings, drawings, and hand painted ceramics opening this week at V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, Denmark. "The images are meditations, in that they come from inside but they are also listening to the world around me," explains McFetridge. "The paintings attempt to Read More
For his seventh show with stalwart LA gallery Blum & Poe, Japanese art hero Yoshitomo Nara presents an eponymous retrospective of sorts, featuring 11 new large-scale paintings & 10 new bronze sculptures representing his current visual mode, and a massive survey of over 200 drawings made over the past three decades chronicling in detail his stylistic evolution throughout the years. The result is an exhibition of extraordinary depth and inspiration that will Read More
One of the funnest & funniest current shows capable of lifting snowbound New Yorkers' spirits out of a suicidal, Polar Vortex-inspired funk is painter Austin Lee's "OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK, Painting is a Strange Thing to do but so is Everything Else," currently on view at Postmasters Gallery until March 8th. Read More
There's just something about street art in the Hamptons, an irony embraced by Brooklyn-based graffitist Bast whose new show of paintings & sculpture, "Seafoam" went on display at Eric Firestone Gallery (owned and curated by Supertouch buddy Eric Firestone who also manages the Arizona Boneyard Porject) in the tony NY retreat community last week. Read More
Always one to embrace chaos & disorder in his work, the latest show from UK Street Art legend & Supertouch buddy D*Face, "The New World Disorder" is his definitive statement on these themes to date. The inaugural show in the venerable Stolen Space gallery's new London space, the exhibition is a tour de force visual spectacle comprising new Lichtenstein-inspired Pop paintings, sculptures featuring vintage battle-damaged military helmets, prints, the Grim Reaper on a motorcycle, and vibrant graffiti pieces showcasing the artist's trademark dry English humor. Read More


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Les Miles Calls Out Reporter For Wearing Red During Bama Week [VIDEO]
If you don't think that #BamaHateWeek is a real thing, then check out this video of Les Miles scolding a reporter in the room that decided to wear red to his press conference.
If you don't think that #BamaHateWeek is a real thing, then check out this video of Les Miles scolding a reporter in the room that decided to wear red to his press conference.
UL-Lafayette head football coach, Mark Hudspeth, has responded to Katie de la Rosa, editor in chief of The Vermilion, for her criticism about Ragin' Cajuns Quarterback Terrence Broadway's performance against Tulane in the 2013 R+L Carrier's Bowl in New Orleans.
New Orleans Bowl weekend will be here before you know it. With the tens of thousands of UL fans expected to embark on the Big Easy come December 21, when the Ragin' Cajuns take on the Tulane Green Wave; parties, tailgating and fun are very necessary.
Alabama vs. Auburn in the Iron Bowl is one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports, and when Auburn's Chris Davis returned a missed Alabama field goal for winning touchdown as time expired, we saw their fans give us the biggest reactions in all of sports.
Players cite mistreatment as reason for boycott
We all know what Head Coach Mark Hudspeth brought to the Ragin' Cajun football team. Leadership, a winning attitude, back-to-back bowl championships; the list goes on. A video surfaced today showing Coach Hud on the bench press proving that not only does he talk the talk, he also knows how to walk the walk
NFL draft prospect Tharold Simon of LSU was already famous in his hometown of Eunice, La.; now he's also infamous. Simon, 22, was arrested in his hometown on Thursday night, one day before Eunice officials were to proclaim "Tharold Simon Day" in the city. Simon was arrested and charged with obstruction of public passage(s), unnecessary noise, resisting an officer and public intimidation after police pulle
Coach Mark Hudspeth and the UL Ragin' Cajuns are on the forefront of a new trend that is popping off on college practice fields across the country. Coach Hud has hired a DJ, in lieu of a traditional playlist during team practices and according to the back-to-back NOLA Bowl winning Ragin Cajun head coach, it proves results.
On the field and online, Jack Hoffman was impossible to stop on Saturday.
And just when we thought we were a tad bit late with the Lafayette Harlem Shake video back in late February, the LSU football team dropped theirs early today on YouTube. Les Miles is seen interrupting his famous 'Big Cat Drill' during spring practice, and even gets in on the action himself!