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A novel Zn-indiffused mode converter in x-cut lithium niobate
Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 23, pp. 15576-15582 (2007)
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A novel Zn-indiffused mode converter has been proposed and experimentally studied in an x-cut/z-propagation lithium niobate at a wavelength of 0.632 μm for the first time. The optimized phase-matching and mode-conversion voltages for maximum conversion are 12 V and -5 V, respectively. The results show that the proposed mode converter can operate with a stable conversion efficiency of about 99.5% between TM and TE polarizations at a throughput power of 25 μW in a period of 60 min. Moreover, a comparison of optical power-handling stability between the Ti-indiffused and the Zn-indiffused channel waveguides, was explored. The encouraging results indicate that the Zn-indiffused waveguide has better power stability than the Ti-indiffused waveguide. Thus, it is expected that the proposed mode converter will have better stability than the conventional Ti-indiffused ones, especially in the visible wavelength region.
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OCIS Codes
(130.3120) Integrated optics : Integrated optics devices
(160.3730) Materials : Lithium niobate
(230.2090) Optical devices : Electro-optical devices
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Integrated Optics
Original Manuscript: September 10, 2007
Revised Manuscript: November 6, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: November 7, 2007
Published: November 9, 2007
Ruey-Ching Twu, Hsuan-Hsien Lee, Hao-Yang Hong, and Chin-Yau Yang, "A novel Zn-indiffused mode converter in x-cut lithium niobate," Opt. Express 15, 15576-15582 (2007)
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Theoretical study of birefringent filters as intracavity wavelength selectors
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A detailed theoretical study of the transmission function of birefringent filters using exact 4 × 4 matrix formalisms is presented. The Brewster-angle effect for the filters acting as intracavity wavelength selectors is also analyzed. Finally, the change in phase of the transmitted wave is calculated and the resonance condition of a cavity with a birefringent-type selector is obtained. The results are compared with those obtained from the usual Jones method.
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P. J. Valle and F. Moreno, "Theoretical study of birefringent filters as intracavity wavelength selectors," Appl. Opt. 31, 528-535 (1992)
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The holy water and alchemical supplies are readily available. A paladin-crafted wand of lesser restoration and a pair of arcane scrolls (infernal healing and snapdragon fireworks) are on order. Being in camp for thee days (counting today) means that Shange can rest (today) and two days of full bed rest (the next two days), which allows him to recover five points of Constitution.
During your first day (of two) of travel back along the trail, I'd like a set of Perception checks for everyone. Your checks can accompany your relative position in the marching order and your general activities during the first leg of the trip.
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In addition to tended Rest, Ojore can, and will cast Lesser Restoration on Shange every day so he should easily be back to full con before the end of the camp time. And I assume there were no taker's on Ojore's offer to cast Masterwork Transformation for anyone?
Ojore offers to take point with his cat. He is fine trading this off to anyone who wants to rotate. When not at point he will bring up the rear.
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (14) + 8 = 22
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14
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Nicoleta remains on point, a little ahead of the others, and does little but pay attention to the trail and her surroundings. She does not actively avoid the company of the rest of the group, but it is hard not to realize that she is more comfortable on her own.
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17
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I did the math and I only had enough gold for 1 flask of holy water. Change reflected on sheet.
Dabbing his forehead with his perpetually clean hanky, Elsir follows behind Ojore, practicing his grasp of Mwangi dialectic with the muscular guide. During breaks and meals he will studiously withdraw from his Handy Haversack a quill and parchment and spend what little free time he has working towards transcribing one of his arcane equations to vellum. I'll be creating a scroll of Burning Hands during my down time. While marching Elsir will keep a sharp eye about the path, having quickly deduced that his vision seems to be superior to the rest of his companions.
Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (15) + 12 = 27
Perception: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18
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The first day's journey is unremarkable. Your party covers the now-familiar first leg of the trail and makes camp without incident. Assuming no forced marches, Elsir has time to march and camp and still give the requisite 8 hours to scribing. Your scroll is scribed.
The next morning's journey is well underway when Elsir and Ojore suddenly pause, mid stride. Only a few hours from the site of the Drowning Stones, Shange scents the air as the elf and the druid exchange a concerned glance.
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Slowing his pace, Elsir begins to slowly move towards Ojore, making no threatening movements. "Ojore, do you recognize those beasts?' Elsir whispers leaning in towards the Mwagani guide.
Knowledge (nature): 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (6) + 10 = 16
It looks like it got missed, but Elsir was ok with selling the bracers of armor. Can we back date that to have occurred in camp with profits split amongst the party and the emergency fund?
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I brought up selling those twice, but since you did not respond I did not want to push it. I think they were worth 1000 gold so would sell for half that, or just 100 gold each. Maybe better for you to hang on to them for now. Your call. If nothing else its a compact and secure way to carry 500 gold around. :)
Seeing the threat the druid is already in motion. Ojore directs Shange to guard the wizard, tells Elsir quietly Move the party along quickly. and takes a few unthreatening steps off the path towards the reptiles. He begins to make clicking and cooing noises in their direction.
Wild Empathy: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17
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Forgot to add my +6 perception skill on my rolls, but wouldn't have mattered if Nicoleta with her 17 didn't see them either.
Being appraised of the potential danger Nesipho moves along cautiously, keeping to the far side of what little path there is, his eyes trained on the strange reptiles. Occasionally glancing back at his brother with concern as he approaches closer to the beasts.
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With slow steady movements Elsir silently directs the group to continue moving down the path. There's several extremely large reptiles up ahead. I believe that Ojore is attempting to calm them while we pass. Please continue to move along and make no threatening gestures.
Yea Ojore, I mentioned at camp I was ok with selling them, but I think they got missed. If we did sell them then I could keep cranking out scrolls in the mean time. Otherwise, I'll hold onto it for now. I think the Brooch of Shielding was the real find.
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Ojore's approach is met with a long, low roar from one of the creatures. The creature sounds as though it is gargling with rocks. The druid takes this as a simple "come no further" gesture. The reptiles watch Ojore with cold-blooded regard, and monitor the movements of the party with equal concern, as the group passes through.
Consider the bracers retroactively sold.
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Ojore Elsir hisses as he slowly skirts away from the beasts. I think the beasts are dimetrodons. I saw a reference to them once. I'm not sure however if they are grazers or predators. Are their teeth pointed? It should give you a clue as to their nature.
Nicoleta Mashrava |
Watching the tense scene, Nicoleta checks to make sure her crossbow is loaded and cocked, but she continues to move slowly down the path, hoping Ojore can keep the large lizards from taking offense at the party's presence. As she does, she scans the local foliage again, in case other surprises might be approaching from a different angle. Perception check, if appropriate: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (18) + 8 = 26.
Ojore |
The druid stops his forward progress at the audible warning, but continues to try to sooth the large lizards. He stands in awe of such magnificent creatures and prays to Gozreh that he is not forced to try to hurt them.
Garden Tool |
Discerning no additional threats nearby, Nicoleta and the remainder of the team are able to pass by safely while Ojore placates the dinosaurs. Though the situation is tense, especially for the brave druid, the reptilian pair holds their ground and makes no move to attack. The party is once again on their way.
Each dimetrodon is worth 800 xp, so that's 1600/5 = 320 xp for each PC. Isn't wild empathy convenient?
Ojore |
Nice! Its even better when you don't tank your charisma, but I always try anyway. lol. Rolled decent that time. And leaving the creatures alive not only helps save resources, but its way cooler for a druid not to have to fight animals from a role playing perspective. :)
Nesipho Inkosi |
"Ale basted mammoth? Not many mammoths around here. You might find yourself on the list of delicacies in these parts Kargath. But should the opportunity arise, I think I'll pass on a taste test for that."
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (12) + 6 = 18
Noting Nicoleta's troubled face regarding the conversation Nesipho's lips turn to a slight frown. "You seem uneasy Nicoleta. Does our jesting trouble you so? Or is something else on your mind?"
Ojore |
Once safely away from the threat Ojore joins the conversation. Good thing you two did not try to fight those lizards Nesipho. I am not sure which side I would have joined to help. his smile at his older brother shows he only jests though.
Nesipho Inkosi |
Putting his hand to one side of his mouth and turning slightly away from the dwarf, Nesipho whispers loud enough to be heard by the dwarf, "I think you'd find that ale basted mammoth meat a bit tough for your liking Ojore. Chicken flavored reptile would be better suited to your appetite."
Garden Tool |
According to the rough map that you were given, your party ought to be approaching the Drowning Stones at the end of your march. Will you be traveling all the way to the stones today, or resting some ways off and completing the last of your journey in the morning? Once you reach the Drowning Stones, you'll have to start making "forced march" checks if you want to do much else besides set up camp, and sleep at the dungeon's door...
Ojore |
Ojore looks for a good place to set up camp as the group marches on.
Survival: 10 + 9 = 19 Taking 10
Its getting late in the day. I think we should stop here and camp for the night. That will allow us to arrive and the stones fresh and ready to explore and react to whatever we might find there. I, for one, am more at home in the jungle than in some strange rune.
Ojore |
Oh, smart big brother. You bring a druid along. But you choose not to take his advice on survival in the jungle. Ojore chides in a joking manner. There will likely be threats at the stones. I'd face them well rested and in the full light of day please.
Kargath Thunderstrike |
Kargath was talking with Nicoleta in a low voice, chatting away at the inquisitor, though the woman wasn't talking much back. At one point, the dwarf paused for breath and noticed the night sounds were different, somehow. He stopped talking and turned to listening instead, spinning slowly in a circle, letting his darkvision show him the area around the camp.
perception: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (17) + 0 = 17
Garden Tool |
Nicoleta, despite Kargath's rambling (but certainly interesting, if true!) personal accounts and stories, maintains the presence of mind to catch a now-familiar glimpse, through the reeds and undergrowth that choke the swamp... the flash of moonlight upon wide, fish-like eyes.
Nicoleta's sharp mind registers that it is unlikely (or at least unusual) to spot only one lurking ulat-kini. Their eyes locked, the "skum" makes no move to attack, move, or even signal. It just watches. It is perhaps thirty feet off the trail, and hunkered down low.
Initiative starts when one party takes hostile action against another, so if Nicoleta is going to attack, roll it up. If not, you can cast a spell, shout, or do whatever else (although your actions might provoke the lurking skum to attack).
Nicoleta Mashrava |
Nicoleta's starknives are in her hands in seconds, and she says with unaccustomed forcefulness, "Kargath," cutting the dwarf off in mid-sentence. "Skum. Ten paces, there." She starts heading toward the ulat-kini with speed, hissing, "Watch for others, and wake the camp."
Nicoleta takes a move action to approach the watcher. I am not rolling an attack because I'm not necessarily attacking - but since I am moving aggressively toward the skum with weapons in hand, it might not realize that.
Elsir Thran |
Oof! As Elsir is rudely kicked away he props himself up with one hand while looking around bleary eyed. Wha, more? Pushing himself to his feet he groggily looks around while taking no overtly hostile action. perception. Just a few days here and I have been nearly killed almost four times. Randall Was right, this place may very well be the death of me. Well, does anyone know what language they speak? It has not attacked yet so either it is waiting for others before it does, or it is curious about us and wishes to learn more.
Perception 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (11) + 12 = 23
Ojore |
Ojore struggles from sleep. The process is speeded up by a dwarven boot in the gut trying to rearrange the meal he ate the night before. Once he understands what is going on he quickly stands and looks to where the "threat" is indicated.
Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (1) + 8 = 9
Unsure exactly where the creature is, he begins walking in its direction calmly and without his armor or a weapon. Shange, stay. He commands in polyglot. This creature had not attacked yet, and it obviously could have. he says calmly. Lets see what it wants. Keeping his hands at his sides he moves to within 20 feet or so and stops, waiting.
Nesipho Inkosi |
Nesipho resists the urge to trip the dwarf, given the dwarfs fighting style it probably would not end well for the Mwangi.
Perception: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
Seeing everyone else looking off into the darkness in the same direction he focuses his vision in that area. He slowly picks up his spear and stays in a low crouch but otherwise does not move.
Ready action to cast daze on the creature should it, or anything else possibly hiding out there, attack us.


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There may be no greater kick you can get than that twinge of excitement when you come across food ripe for the foraging.
Whether it's a loaded lemon tree hanging over your neighbour's fence, weeds run rampant in a spare paddock nearby, a forest filled with pine mushrooms or a blackberry bush by the side of a quiet road, there's a lot of joy in stumbling across food freebies.
But on the forage trail it's often helpful to have a few resources at the ready.
Whether it's to help identify the plant, for tips on how to use it, or simply just to remember where the heck that mulberry tree you pilfered from last season was located.
Fortunately, some generous folk have made all sorts of helpful guides to get you going. We've done a little roundup of the best resources we've found so far.
An essential guide for any Australian wild-food forager, this book by Adam Grubb, our mate at Very Edible Gardens, and Annie Raser-Rowland is full of loads of knowledge on edible and medicinal weeds that can be found locally.
There's also an updated calendar on the site for their Melbourne weed walks and workshops.
The lovable Diego Bonetto, with a passion for the medicinal and edible properties of weeds is host of this blog (featured on Gardening Australian in the video above).
You'll find a page of self-guided tours and maps for different areas around Sydney, as well as updates on the exciting Wild Food Map, which is still in beta stage, but will create an awesome shareable map of foraging locations uploaded by the community via Instagram.
Pat Collins has been a fave weedster of ours for many years now, and this book of hers remains a classic.
You can get her book (and a wide variety of herbal and weed based medicines also) via her website, or if you're near Muswellbrook NSW, go visit her in person.
Pitting us as crusaders against ever invasive species, this site gives you a guide to finding and making a meal of invasive species of both weeds and animals.
Info is divided into land, sea and fresh, with plenty of good info and a recipe suggestion once you click through to each species page.
This is a super spot to hit for a great range of books on wild food.
From the site's own publications on beginner basics and wild greens and vegetables, to their well-stocked bookstore of carefully-selected tomes on edibility, identification, poisonous species, cookbooks, as well as all-in-one's, there's more info than you can poke your garden clippers at.
While those in United States are lucky to have this knowledgeable guy running regular tours on foraging in the northeast's regions, here in Australia we can still put to good use his helpful pages on identifying and using various wild plants and mushrooms. You can also now access the info via his new app, Wild Edibles Plus.
You can download the Wild Edible Notebook app from this site for an informative online magazine delivered to your iPad or iPhone every month for less than two bucks. It's quirky, well written and packed with foraging insights.
For those sans Apple equipment, you can also subscribe to receive it as a PDF each month.
Got any other great foraging resources you use or know about? We'd love to have them on our list!
Words by Emma Bowen, eater of weeds and creator of TheSlowpoke.com
Another good U.S. site is http://www.eattheweeds.com (Green Dean). Always interesting and informative, and often relevant for us down here.
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I always loved the idea of foraging and have occasionally munched on the odd leaf in my allotment. My problem is the confidence to know what it what, I definitely need more education on this. The lack of confidence stems from a guy I knew one who was a forager, he ended up in a coma from eating the wrong weed, he came out of it ok though!
Some os the site links on this blog look good to get started, for all us beginners. Seems fitting as I am in the process of clearing my allotment from a dandelion infestation, now I can view it as a salad infestation NICE!
I'm signed up and excited for the Midwest Wild Harvest Festival, located in the driftless region of Wisconsin, USA, for any of you in the midwest.
Thanks for these links, guys. I'm really keen to get into a bit of foraging and utilising my surroundings better. I also lack the knowledge to know the good stuff from the bad but I guess the only way to learn is to give it a go!
Yes! I've been looking for a collection of foraging resources + couldn't find much. Thank you for gathering this information for all of us. Can't wait to read more + start picking.
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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:On a warm summerandrsquo;s night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered with images, while a pair of large scissors, glue, electrical tape, and some dentures shared space with a pile of old medical journals, butcher knives, and various other small objects. Keim had cleared a space on the floor, and the wall directly behind him was bare. His body completed the tableau. Art and artists often end in tragedy and obscurity, but Keimandrsquo;s story doesnandrsquo;t end with his death. A few years later, 180 miles away from Keimandrsquo;s grave, a bulldozer operator uncovered a pine coffin in an old beaver swamp down the road from Allen C. Sheltonandrsquo;s farm. He quickly reburied it, but Shelton, a friend of Keimandrsquo;s who had a suitcase of his unfinished projects, became convinced that his friend wasnandrsquo;t dead and fixed in the ground, but moving between this world and the next in a traveling coffin in search of his incomplete work. In Where the North Sea Touches Alabama, Shelton ushers us into realms of fantasy, revelation, and reflection, paced with a slow unfurling of magical correspondences. Though he is trained as a sociologist, this is a genre-crossing work of literature, a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead. What follows isnandrsquo;t a ghost story but an exciting and extraordinary kind of narrative. The psycho-sociological landscape that Shelton constructs for his reader is as evocative of Kafka, Bataille, and Benjamin as it is of Weber, Foucault, and Marx. Where the North Sea Touches Alabama is a work of sociological fictocriticism that explores not only the authorandrsquo;s relationship to the artist but his physical, historical, and social relationship to northeastern Alabama, in rare style. Review:"If Hunter S. Thompson had been trained by Boaz in anthropology, Engels in economics and Arendt in philosophy, he might write something like Taussig, whose ninth book follows on the heels of Law in a Lawless Land, and is a further study of the ways and means of south Colombia's poor communities. Taussig literally imagines his book to be a 'cocaine museum'; it's a conceit that brings Taussig's first-person outsider's perspective together with Colombia's major cash crop, and with the things that people make and use around it. Short chapters riff on a particular person, place or thing — town officials who clap out death warrant-like denuncias on manual typewriters; citizens who distill the lighter fluid-like drink biché as their only income-generating activity; children who mine gold by hand and can go years without finding any — and then spiral out into the entwined histories of slavery, drugs and colonialism, as well as into philosophical speculations. 'Transgressive substances,' Taussig writes, 'make you want to reach out for a new language of nature, lost to memories of prehistorical time that the present state of emergency recalls.' A book of 'spells, hundreds and thousands of spells, intended to break the catastrophic spell of things,' Taussig's virtual museum feels as real as the hot, damp rainforest where it's set." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Review:"Taussig's latest work continues his anthropological research among the inhabitants of Colombia's western coast. Taussig's ethnography critically reflects on the representation of Colombia's past embodied in the Gold Museum in the Banco de la Republica, which, in his view, fails to address the history of slavery and exploitation surrounding gold mining, and further obscures the reality that cocaine has replaced gold as the nation's principal product. The exhibits in Taussig's own museum give glimpses of the effects of cocaine production on the lives of his informants. But while the ethnography provides portraits of Colombians caught up in the violence and danger surrounding cocaine production, the lives of those producing and controlling the production of cocaine remain in the shadows. In place of the details surrounding the production of this elusive commodity, he provides philosophical reflections on the more mundane realities of the western coast — rain, heat, and wind. Taussig's museum appeals to a wide audience, including those inside and outside the discipline of anthropology." Reviewed by David Strohl, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)
Synopsis:In this book, a make-believe cocaine museum becomes a vantage point from which to assess the lives of Afro-Colombian gold miners drawn into the dangerous world of cocaine production in the rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast. Although modeled on the famous Gold Museum in Colombia's central bank, the Banco de la Repanduacute;blica, Taussig's museum is also a parody aimed at the museum's failure to acknowledge the African slaves who mined the country's wealth for almost four hundred years. Combining natural history with political history in a filmic, montage style, Taussig deploys the show-and-tell modality of a museum to engage with the inner life of heat, rain, stone, and swamp, no less than with the life of gold and cocaine. This effort to find a poetry of words becoming things is brought to a head by the explosive qualities of those sublime fetishes of evil beauty, gold and cocaine. At its core, Taussig's museum is about the lure of forbidden things, charged substances that transgress moral codes, the distinctions we use to make sense of the world, and above all the conventional way we write stories. About the AuthorMicheal Taussig is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of eight books, including Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A study in Terror and Healing, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Table of ContentsContents Author's Note: A User's Guide Gold My Cocaine Museum Color Heat Wind and Weather Rain Boredom Diving Water in Water Julio Arboleda's Stone Mines Entropy Moonshine The Accursed Share A Dog Growls The Coast Is No Longer Boring Paramilitary Lover Cement and Speed Miasma Swamp The Right to Be Lazy Beaches Lightning Bocanegra Stone Evil Eye Gorgon Gorgona Islands Underwater Mountains Sloth Afterword Acknowledgments Bibliography Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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I believe this year will be the biggest win up till now, because next year it will be three in a row and four of the last five.
Let those who don't want none have memories of not getting any. Let that not be their punishment, but their reward. Brother Dave Gardner
GulfCoastTider and AgentAntiOrange nailed it. Oh! And, I dislike buzzincussin's "Dislike." Indeed. Coach Saban can win back to back, etc. But, the best opportunity is now.
My first thoughts were: What win could possibly top this? As I postponed my post to a more convenient time, I left my thoughts in the ether where others found them unguarded. Indeed, who can forget the failed 3-peat and "Missing Ring" of 1966 and the disappointment in the Dec 31, 1973, Sugar Bowl.
For any doubters that this isn't THE BIGGEST WIN EVER, imagine your feelings Tuesday morning after a loss in the BCS Championship. Okay, got that? Next, add all the crap from the Viles, Barners, and others about how Bama choked. OVERRATED! Our rivals will remember it for 40 years. So, will all Bama fans still living. Now, how do you feel?
Oh, Susanna. Oh, don't you cry for me, for I come from Alabama with a banjeaux on my knee. G'wan to Louisiana my true love for to see.
I still disagree.
In the history of Alabama football a win tomorrow will make getting a shot at next years title game the biggest in the history of college football regardless of team. Back to back has been done three times. Twice by Alabama.
I don't even consider ND the most formable foe this year.
I love it!! Greatest felling this year!
I agree somewhat. 3 BCSNC in 4 years is huge. Back to back is huge. Notre Dame is not.... the moment IS
Ya gotta believe!!!!
Back to Back!!! Yeah, YEAH!!
NOW starts the biggest season/games in Alabama history. Winning out would be epic and unequaled by anybody in any era.
DISCLAIMER: I hereby reserve the right to discuss any game on the Alabama schedule I wish, at any time during the season, as I am not a part of the Crimson Tide football program. I am simply a fan who has no impact outside of the money I provide the athletic department via ticket and memorabilia purchases and the energy I can provide when I attend the games. ©2009-2014, crimsonaudio
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