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There's not Democratic Party in country anymore
In response to Laurie Haley's letter ["Nev. Democrats will be ready for 2014 election," March 1]:
The King James version of the Bible, Jeremiah 5:21: "There are none so blind as those who will not see."
The American people are waking up to the fact that there isn't a Democratic Party any longer. It has been taken over by socialists.
What the Democratic Party and Reid have done to this country and the State of Nevada are shameful. No jobs, high prices, immigration problems, Obamacare, losing your health care, the repeated lies and on and on.
We the people want our country back. We do not want any more Saul Alinsky tactics used here.
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We arrive in Carrickfergus around 2.30 am and sleep in the marina for a few hours and take lovely warm showers. The weather gets worse, we VHF Belfast harbour master and head to our mooring on Lagan river in the morning, surrounded by mist and rain. We are also doing water quality readings along the way to the Lagan, yet aware that we need to come back for more concentrated sensing later on.
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I had never sailed North Sea before. I do remember a ferry trip from UK to France, where a man was so sick he was green, which amused his girlfriend tremendously. So I was surprised of two things; that most of the coastline North of Germany and Holland is quite shallow, with many riffs and even way out to the sea, depths of 8-10 meters, and very far out to reach 20 meters. I had thought that the Baltic Sea was very shallow, but this gave new perspective. Unfortunately the shallowness also meant that waves would be rocking the boat to set a rather projectile tone to the sailing experience of Michael and Nigel. I don't know where it comes from, but I had no nausea at all and could sleep in my cabin, even though the bigger waves would lift me slightly from the mattrass, and sounds around me were like being in a big washing machine, full of hard objects.
Already the first day was informative with regard to working on board: no reading, typing in this type of weather. More learning to balance and cook tea without hitting your forehead more than twice a day would be the appropriate, embodied research to take place on board. At the same time we would be learning a lot of how to sail this cat using the Raymarine C80 plotter, and connected wind meter and echo sounder. We went to 2-hour watches from the very first day. Except for understanding the lights on ships, most things were relatively OK to handle.
In Borkum we witnessed a celebration of the island's mini railway on our way to an Internet bar, to get decent weather forecasts and communicado. After a night well slept, we decided that instead of going against the wind towards the Channel, we would sail straight out to England. Off we sailed, with quite many big ships crossing our route yet not from very near.
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M.A.R.I.N. project was presented within 4 days – and 9000 kilometers – on March 31st at Paralelo event in Sao Paolo, and on April 3rd at the Pixelache Festival in Helsinki. Tapio Mäkelä gave a talk, that has evolved over the last few months of dialogue with artists and researchers on art and ecology, titled Ecolocatedness: Art and Science Practice as Situated Information Design. This paper to be published by InterArts (in Spanish) discusses the role of art and design in creating agency through information design and participatory practices. Ecolocatedness as a term bridges ecology, location and situatedness. More to follow on this topic later…
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Marko Peljhan (co-founder of M.A.R.I.N.) & UCIRA /UCSB, in collaboration with F0AM, Brussels, hosted a Luminous Green workshop in Pam Springs Desert, February 13-17th, 2009. The setting was Boyd Deep Canyon Desert research center, surrounded on the one hand by pristine desert landscape, and a posh golf course on the other. Discussions reflected art and design practices on ecology, interdisciplinary collaboration, ways of interacting with audiences, and similar.
The event continued as a workshop on UCSB campus on Feb 19th-20th, discussing also ways in which student and other initiatives on the campus could integrate luminously green concepts. Tapio Mäkelä gave a talk titled Art, Ecology and Information Design, which included a preview into the M.A.R.I.N. project.
"Luminous Green is series of gatherings, workshops and play-spaces dedicated to a community of people who care about the world. About the world that supports life today and about the possible worlds, that may support a cleaner, greener and more fulfilling life in the future. The Luminous Green community is composed of creative thinkers, doers and makers, deploying their imagination and ingenuity to shape a brighter future, disentangling from the unsustainable and unnatural."
M.A.R.I.N. + API brainstorm at the sea
After the Luminous events, Marko Peljhan, Matthew Biederman and Tapio Mäkelä, accompanied by Marko's son Boris, went out to the Pacific Ocean to brainstorm on M.A.R.I.N. infrastructure, and collaboration with the API (Arctic Perspective Initiative). We discussed how to interface work on remote locations with exhibition audiences, and what kinds of tool sets one could use in workshops. We came up with a few good workable ideas, and as on any outing to the sea, had some lunch.
During the outing we saw plenty of pelicans fishing, seals going for their catch, and dolhpins playfully joining our short ride. Sea lions climbed on top of buoys, and even units run by the local oil drilling companies. This area had been a site for a major oil spill that was a catalyst for Californian green movement in 1969.
Dialogue on Art and Climate Change, Beijing
Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) hosted an event titled Dialogue on Arts, Culture & Climate Change in Beijing, October 9-12 2008.
The Marine working session looked at marine ecosystems, art and science collaborations and new designs for sustainable technology for the seas. Tapio Mäkelä presented the M.A.R.I.N. network and art & science residency concepts, Toshiroh Ikegami shared examples of marine and land based biospheres, Andreas Siagian talked about art and science and workshop practices by HONF (House of Natural Fiber), and Oleg Koefoed discussed plans for a boat project, to be based from Denmark and to address climate change.
The ASEF event gathered 43 Asian and European artists, designers, architects, cultural practitioners, environmentalists and scientists, who participated in a three-day workshop, organised in partnership with the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, the China Academy of Social Sciences and the Danish Cultural Institute. A second project phase will follow which will lead to an event held in Copenhagen in December 2009 alongside the Climate Change Summit. A report of the event can be found from here as a PDF.
Marine and littoral biospheres
An eco-designer based in Osaka, Japan, Toshiroh Ikegami works with sustainability of seaside cities. He aims to create designs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while demonstrating the vast possibilities design has to offer for the revitalisation of cities.
His Sea Farm project focuses on experimental equipment installation concentrating on the recovery of living organisms in the Osaka Bay. Sea Farm will create a suitable surrounding for marine life forms that would no longer be able to cope with the water in the Osaka bay. Further, development ot phytoplankton and algalg reproduction aids in the absorption of carbon dioxide by photosynthesis. The project has been proposed for Tokyo Bay area.
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The Yankee Air Museum is close to purchasing a 175,000-square -foot portion of the property from General Motors' bankruptcy trust.
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At least a corner of Ypsilanti Township's former Willow Run bomber plant, the factory where Rosie the Riveter toiled during World War II, may yet be transformed into the Yankee Air Museum's new home.
The museum confirmed Tuesday that it is close to purchasing a 175,000-square-foot portion of the property from General Motors' bankruptcy trust.
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|The effect of chewing gum on tobacco withdrawal.
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|When smokers are in situations where smoking is prohibited, chewing gum is believed to reduce cravings to smoke. However, there is little scientific evidence to support this widely held assumption. The present study assessed craving for a cigarette and nicotine withdrawal in 20 dependent cigarette smokers under one of two conditions. All subjects smoked an initial cigarette upon arrival to the experimental session and were informed that they would not be allowed to smoke for the remainder of the session. The session consisted of each subject watching a movie, then waiting an additional 30 minutes. Half of the subjects were assigned to a Gum Condition where they were given free access to chewing gum throughout the experimental session; half were assigned to a No-Gum Control. Nicotine withdrawal was assessed immediately following the movie (Time 1) and again 30 minutes later (Time 2). Results from this study indicate that chewing gum reduces craving and helps with withdrawal when a nicotine-dependent person cannot smoke.
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|Created Date: 1998-03-10 Completed Date: 1998-03-10 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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|Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater 74078, USA.
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Unicel Technologies – the leading provider of Integrated Cloud Communications Solutions in the country announced today that the company has launched "INBOXED"- A zero spam e-mail service. The company`s cloud communication solutions are integrated across SMS, Voice, USSD and E-Mail platforms.
Bangalore, Karnataka, India., February 27, 2014 - (PressReleasePoint) - Unicel Technologies – the leading provider of Integrated Cloud Communications Solutions in the country announced today that the company has launched "INBOXED"- A zero spam e-mail service. The company`s cloud communication solutions are integrated across SMS, Voice, USSD and E-Mail platforms.
By adding Inboxed in its offerings the company aims to deliver the agility and productivity of cloud communications to the enterprise community. Inboxed reduces the cost and complexity of managing event based and promotional email communication, apart from being capable of scaling seamlessly in a secured manner.
Inboxed can be easily integrated with existing applications, saving time and empowering users with greater control on emailing activities. The solution offers best-in-class security, robust performance and easy centralized management.
Mr. Sanjay Aggarwal, CEO, Unicel Technologies said, "UNICEL being synonymous with QoS aims to provide quality email service to the enterprise community to make sure the information in the email always reaches the desired recipients inbox. It's from that perspective Inboxed was developed to make the emailing world spam free."
UNICEL has led the march in Enterprise Communications in India, delivered over the cloud, since the day of its inception. Inboxed extends the benefits of cloud communication, making it simple and easy to use, without worrying about the cost of infrastructure.
Mr. Vinay Aggrawal, MD, Unicel Technologies added, "With the growth in internet penetration in India, we see a huge opportunity in helping enterprises build more reliable, personal, time saving and interactive communication modules to reach out to masses on the web and on the mobile."
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"The University of Illinois is also in turmoil. The university sports an Interim Chancellor, an Interim Athletic Director, and an Interim Football Coach; the game will be played at Soldier Field, making this an Illini Interim Home Game."
recruiting is legit yo
How Dear Diary Got Into College
A reader asked for a screenshot from that movie where a bunch of kids are going through the process of applying to and selecting their college destination and the dad of one decides to don the only appropriate attire for accompanying said decision-makers. And the MGoBoard came through. Color this gunter embarrassed to have totally forgotten about this cheesy '80s flick. You know who didn't forget about it? Craig Barker of Hoover Street Rag (and HTTV Hoops/Hockey), who wrote the IMDB synopsis (nice job MGoShoe in spotting it).
Another Shot at Recruiting/Performance Charts. Trying to figure out how to rate the value of four recruiting classes ago versus the latest one etc. and come up with an expectation for that year's performance was all the rage in the diaries last year. We've got a new entry, and his methodology is seniors x4, juniors x3, sophomores x2, freshmen x1. He then took the conference and BCS championship games and ran down them all so we could see what level of recruiting (by 247 composite) was producing these victors. It's got a lolTyWillingham chart:
Lol Willingham, and lolWeiss for underperforming that graph so much. His conclusions are a bit wonky because he doesn't acknowledge the limits of recruiting to explain things like transfers and coaching changes and hiring GERG.
Wallpaper from FabFiver5 (we're from Five!):
Please make "Win the Game."
Etc. You read Goal by Goal analysis already right? Trying to guess 2015 available schollies2015 available schollies.
Best of the Board
The board has been doing a great job of collating and contextualizing the available information. That's Erik_in_Dayton's timeline of events which he has kept updating as info streams in. There has been an epic amount of helpful comments from people with relevant experiences that helps put these events into context. I'm still collecting them and will break that off into a separate post.
Best of the Board (not the Kicker)
Count the Wolverines on the wall. [Max Ortix/DetNews]
I grew up a long time ago in a house not far away from Brother Rice, one of the bigger D-II programs in-state. When I was in high school Rice had this legendary head coach who was celebrating his 30th season there. Understand, the guy was a massive Spartan, and I went to Groves and rooted for Seaholm (long story), so I'm supposed to despise Brother Rice. But Al Fracassa is just a guy anybody who cares about football in this state should know and respect.
He sent 20 kids to scholarships at BCS schools since 2002, including a parade of 4-stars to East Lansing, but nothing but walk-on's to Michigan for a long while now. When they named the field after Fracassa in Sept 2006, Bo came and spoke (one of his last engagements). He just retired THIS year, so I thought I'd use the announcement of his successor to pay him tribute.
Michigan's last Jack Weisenburger came for its baseball program and wound up one of the key members of its greatest football teams ever. UM recently inked another Jack Weisenburger (his grandson) to play baseball here. Grandpa says he's a fantastic kid, but would not guarantee this means football will go two years without a loss.
ETC. Help these kids get their wings. Dated, but MBB's remaining schedule side-by-side with the competition. Eighty-five percent of NFL players would risk higher brain functioning to play in Superbowl—not surprised; underlines the need for better controls. LolOSUlostlol. Sports myths. Happy Bend Over to Dave Brandon Day.
[Jump for the zen part cause it's really giffy.]
Monday Recruitin' Transcends Fred Jacksoning
I Have To Praise You Like I Should
High School All-American week is officially over. Jabrill Peppers unofficially won the week. Just ask ESPN's Tom Luginbill, who wrote this in response to a question about the most impressive Under Armour practice performer [emphasis mine]:
[Peppers] is more than capable of playing both ways if needed, but as far as cover corners go, he is a more explosive version of Dee Milliner, and we love that he welcomes contact too. He is mature and knows that there are high expectations for him to perform.
Or ask his Team Nitro coach, former NFL head coach and defensive back Herm Edwards—and his friend, some guy named Deion:
"It's not even close. He's the best [UA All-American defensive back] I've coached. I called Deion [Sanders] over and said look at that guy, and Deion saw the same thing," Edwards said. "[Robert] Nkemdiche was really good last year, he was a big guy who could run and [Peppers] is comparable to that as far as skill level at the position he's playing. I played that position and coached that position for a long time and he's a special talent."
Or ask Scout, which named Peppers the top practice performer of the week on either team while noting that this year's crop of defensive backs was particularly strong.
Rivals stands as the least bullish outlet on Peppers after the UA game, and all they did was name him Sunday's #3 performer, Monday's #1 performer, and Tuesday's #5 performer, and the actual game's #9 performer for Team Nitro before giving him the third spot overall for Team Nitro on the week behind Da'Shawn Hand and Ermon Lane ($):
Playing in his first national-level event, Peppers was surrounded by intrigue from the moment he arrived in Florida. As it turned out, it didn't take him long to live up to his billing. Peppers, the No. 2 overall prospect in his class, was dominant in every practice and was as aggressive and spirited as any player on the field. He struggled a bit in Thursday's game but didn't allow a big play all week. Peppers also blocked a field goal that was ultimately negated because of an all-star-game specific rule.
In addition to the negated blocked field goal (above)—illegal because rushers on kicks weren't allowed to go inside their man in the UA Game, which... okay—Peppers had a couple passes defended, returned two kickoffs for 65 yards (one a 41-yard burst to midfield), and took a few snaps as a wildcat quarterback, though he couldn't break anything big offensively in a pretty ugly game overall, as high school all-star games tend to be.
Interestingly, Scout omitted both Hand and Lane from their top ten overall list, with neither cracking the top two of their respective position groups. It's safe to say Peppers made a strong argument that he deserves consideration for the top overall spot in the 2014 class.
[Hit THE JUMP for a whole lot of content from the All-American games, Michigan's latest 2014 offer, an update on George Campbell, a potential second quarterback in the '14 class, and more.]
Hokepoints is Legit, Maybe Not Legit. Yo.
Moe (1) and Jabrill (2), via.
In last week's roundtable on the state of the conference I pulled out this table grading the new Big Ten's teams on their 2013 seasons (by Fremeau Efficiency Index) and their futures (by composite 247 score for the 2012-'14 classes):
West | East School FEI Grade Rcrt | School FEI 2013 Rcrt Wisconsin 13th A C+ | OSU 8th A A+ Iowa 30th B C | MSU 9th A B Minnesota 49th C D+ | Michigan 29th B A+ Nebraska 51st C B | Indiana 62nd D+ C NW'ern 60th C- C | PSU 65th D+ B Illinois 75th D C- | Maryland 74th D C+ Purdue 114th F C- | Rutgers 98th E- B- AVG 56th 2.0 2.0 | AVG 49th 2.1 3.0
That's about how I feel: A conference baseline of "C" (ie ranked around 50th) teams with one division recruiting at a "B" level and the other "getting the most out of" C level recruiting.
This I pulled from a spreadsheet of FEI and recruiting data that I'd like to mine further, because if you're looking at a chart it still counts as doing work.
Recruiting = legit, yo/maybe not so legit. So here's a new look at the old stand-by: recruiting on the Y-axis, performance on the X-axis, and a nice, heavy trend line with an R-squared of 0.46 to show an inconvenient-for-narratives correlation. Performance is FEI expressed as a percentile. The composite ranking is a bit more complex: the 2009 (5th year seniors) is weighted at 0.5 the 2010 and 2011 classes at full, the 2012 class at 0.40 and the 2013 at 0.10, which are arbitrary values I assigned based on expectations of how much a class contributes to a given team.
Blicking on it makes it cig.
It says they're correlated, but doesn't necessarily mean one is causing the other. FWIW the r-squared of the Rivals composite determined the same way was .4135; I haven't done Scout or ESPN yet. Look at how the correlation of recruiting %-ile of each class and 2013 performance %-ile changes by year:
|247 R-Squared
|Rivals R-Squared
|2009 (5th yrs)
|2010 (Jr/Sr)
|2011 (So/Jr)
|2012 (Fr/So)
|2013 (RS/Fr)
|2014 (recruits)
The highest correlation is to the freshman class, and the 3rd-highest is to the class that's not even on campus yet. There's a strong echo effect going on here, wherein the teams that are good today are getting the highest-ranked recruits. The diminishing returns from seniors, I would posit, are because they're the classes hit hardest by attrition, and most likely to have been recruited by a different coach or to a program in very different circumstances.
The other thing that immediately jumped out at me about that chart is look at all the color on top of the black trend line. Those gray dots are mid-major programs, who are largely outperforming expectations from recruiting, versus only one SEC team managing to do so. I bet that's a system bias in the recruiting rankings: there's little to parse between an under-the-radar guy who commits to Purdue versus one going to NIU except one of those is a Big Ten school.
[Jump for MEETING EXPECTATIONS and THE FUTURE]
Dear Diary Mails It In
I'm gonna Akron this column today since we're sending the final PDFs of Hail to Hoops and Hockey to the printer. The contents (click to make it readable):
Actually we had to cut the 2nd Bartelstein article today
If you don't know what Henri* is doing in the upper-right corner you didn't follow hockey so much last year. If you did follow hockey last year you probably have strong opinions on goaltending. HTTV contributor MGoBlueline put together a neat diary this week trying out the "quality start" metric they use in baseball for hockey goalies. He gives them out for having a save% better than the DI average, i.e. a start that gave your team a chance to win. My quibble: it's justification of feelings-ball (-puck whatever).
|Racine's year to MGBL: 12 quality starts, 10 non-quality, 5 cheap wins, 2 wasted quality starts. [Paul Sherman, Michigan Daily]
The problem with any gamesmanship stat is this: have you ever met a goalie who ever liked any goal going by him in any situation ever? It makes sense for pitching because it's possible to surrender a run to get an out, a pitcher's most important currency; for goalies the currency is time. What you're measuring is consistency, which is useful so long as you remember that's what you're measuring (and that we wouldn't be having this conversation if Racine posted any shutouts last year).
While we're being realistic, alum96 wrote a board post that got diary-bumped that compared the recruiting profiles of Michigan's defensive line to those of Ohio State. His metric for guys is the quality of offers—Michigan's were mostly regional while OSU's guys mostly had Alabama offers and plenty more power programs after them.
True, and that's a big part of why Michigan is hard after the top DL recruits in the country right now. If you take away the Heininger Certainty Principle Michigan's DL looks really thin; since pass rush is more of a talent thing it should be no surprise that the deficiency in recruiting stars is most apparent there. But then Ohio State's line is just ludicrously stacked right now—Michigan doesn't need to get 8 guys Saban wanted badly to get to good.
[Jump for the Weeklies, Best of the Board and some badly needed zen]
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm Once They've Seen SEC Hungus?
You may be aware that the Big Ten has not been too good at football of late. You are probably also aware that Ohio State and Michigan are locked in a titanic struggle for the sexiest recruiting class, one featuring players like Jabrill Peppers, Vonn Bell, Derrick Green, and Jalin Marshall. The opposing sides in The Game had top five recruiting classes last year according to the 247 composite rankings, with OSU second and Michigan fifth. So far this year Michigan is first and Ohio State ninth.
Meanwhile, the rest of the league is flailing. The next Big Ten team on the list was #22 Nebraska; #30 Penn State—NCAA-crippled Penn State—followed. That concludes our list of Big Ten teams with better-than average recruiting classes amongst the 60 or so BCS teams.
Here is a team that finished higher than all but the mentioned Big Ten teams.
Kentucky. A team that stopped releasing attendance numbers. Mississippi State, Vandy, Baylor, and Virginia beat all these teams plus Penn State out. It was not so good out there last year.
Surely that's a flu…
Kentucky has six OH commits. Non-MI/OSU B10 combined: 7.
…mother of God. Everyone on that list has a Big Ten offer from a school that has been something other than a depressing blight on the idea of sport during the last ten years. (Ok, it depends on how you classify Illinois. They went to a Rose Bowl, but also: Illinois.) What's more, Tennessee has gotten in on the raiding, snatching three kids out of the Midwest.
What follows is a brief survey of the Big Ten's footprint recruiting areas. Prepare for carnage. Before we start, I should mention that despite being under extraordinarily punitive NCAA sanctions, Penn State has four-star recruits from Delaware and North Carolina and is currently holding on to a top 20 spot in the rankings. They'll slide back down to where they were last year before things are said and done because they will have a tiny class, but Penn State is retaining its recruiting cachet as well as—probably better than—they could have hoped. Once they're out from under the yoke they should quickly excise themselves from Little X talk.
Nebraska, too, consistently recruits at a level above most of the rest of the league even if they're off to a poor start this year. This is more about the conference's traditional middle class.
DeShone Kizer's top three is Alabama, LSU, and Tennessee. He has an offer from only the latter.
Ohio State is going for half of the 16 consensus four-stars, with six already in the boat and the probable acquisition of the two main Glenville kids this year. Michigan has one, Michael Ferns. Northwestern has one, Dariean Watkins. The four other guys are probably headed to Alabama or OSU (Derek Kief), ND or Kentucky (Darius West), Louisville (Daniel Cage), and somewhere in the SEC (DeShone Kizer).
Yes. There is one four-star in Ohio who will head to a Big Ten program not named Michigan or Ohio State.
It gets worse. One of the next nine guys (QB Chris Durkin, MSU) is committed to a Big Ten school. Three are headed to Kentucky or Tennessee. None of the other five have publicly stated a leader but Kentucky and Louisville are involved with three and two more are up in the air.
It is likely that only two or three of the top 25 guys in Ohio end up in the rest of the league.
top 100 linebacker Nyles Morgan favors… Vanderbilt
Illinois is going to be chaos and depression for the middle class of the Big Ten. The top ten kids are either headed to the Big Two (Bunting, Westphal, and Jamarco Jones), committed to another conference (Watson, Helm, Wilbon), or headed that direction (Clifton Garrett, Nyles Morgan, and Dewayne Hendrix are all headed south). Northwestern is the only L12 team to pick off a four-star kid from Illinois.
It's a little less grim as you head down to 25. Northwestern and MSU have five of those guys, OSU has one, and it looks like a few more will end up in the league. The top is just a disaster, though.
- L12: 10, 1 of them in the top ten
Three of the four consensus four stars are off the board to M/OSU with Malik McDowell strongly expected to join the club. Michigan also has #10 Moe Ways. The Big Ten held on to most of the other guys in State except Chance Stewart, who bizarrely decommitted from Wisconsin and chose WMU shortly thereafter.
Michigan remains loyal, if a little talent-sparse.
Dominique Booth's top four: Tennessee, FSU, Vandy, Alabama.
The top player in the state has no Big Ten teams in his top four; OSU is the only one on the list of #2. ND and OSU have 3 and 5 committed, respectively. Louisville and Kentucky are heavily involved with #4. The next five guys are still fuzzy, with Purdue favored for a couple, if only because they seem interested while others are not.
if Dravon Henry stays in the B10 it will be at OSU or PSU
Pennsylvania has always been more up for grabs because anyone from the Eastern part of the state doesn't think of the Big Ten as local, so it's less of a surprise when things have a more national feel. Even so, only Penn State has made any headway in PA. They have 3 of the top 20. Michigan has one, and then Temple, BC, WVU and FSU also have one. The rest of the Big Ten? Zero. 247 projects that number will stay at zero, with Pitt, OSU, and Michigan cleaning up.
- L12: 8, almost all of them to Penn State
The top five players in Wisconsin are committed to the Badgers. Good job, Wisconsin. Here are some cheese curds for you.
Iowa is doing similarly well in Iowa, with three of the six guys 247 rates committed, and a fourth probably on the way.
Nebraska has a commit from one of the two guys they've offered in-state and should get the second.
Minnesota has a soft verbal from the top kid in the state and may lose the second; everyone else is not the kind of recruit that would make Minnesota anything other than Minnesota.
Big Ten schools not named Michigan and Rutgers have zero of the top 20 in NJ. Penn State has the #5 kid in Maryland, and that's the only B10 commit in that State. Maryland is supposed to get a couple, and PSU may get a couple more.
This is where I mention that recruiting is not destiny. Wisconsin has never been particularly good at it in the eyes of the gurus but has turned themselves into a major program by keeping everyone they have for five years—Bielema just had a class of 13 guys, because Wisconsin only had room for 13 guys—and hewing to a system that works for the kind of players they can access. It remains to be seen whether they can keep that going without a hand-picked transition like Alvarez-to-Bielema. Similarly, Michigan State's classes have been almost devoid of attrition and they have locked into a stable defensive style that has produced.
Recruiting is kind of destiny, though: Wisconsin has reached the last three Rose Bowls. It has lost all of them. Witness any Big Ten program against Alabama. Football is random and rankings are not perfect, but if you're at the bottom any success you have is pushing uphill.
The slope of that hill is about to become alarming. It bodes unwell for the Big Ten's middle class that the gap between themselves and the heavyweights is growing, especially when it comes not only from the two at the top improving on historically good classes but from the meat-and-potatoes kids they've relied on for so long opting to leave the conference. Every kid in Ohio who opts for Kentucky or Tennessee or Louisville is virtually irreplaceable for programs whose recruiting reach outside the Midwest is limited to scrabbling for guys without Vandy offers.
Northwestern is the exception. With their committed niche offense and recent success they'll be a thorn in the side of anyone whose defense can't handle the spread. If they can just get their defense to middling, it's on in the West.
Hokepoints: What's a Little Peppers?
Omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod omigod—YOU GUYS!
We got a recruit. Like a GOOD recruit. Like the best recruit we've ever got, in the if-he-stays-ranked-as-high-as-he-is-in-May kind of way.
How do we feel about this? Happy right? Extraordinarily happy? Off the roof happy? Roses in our teeth happy? Really really really happy?
Like, the scouting reports are nudging you toward "2016 Heisman!!!" happiness. But then the Buckeyes in your life are reminding you that it's an aggregate science, not an exact one—and oh yeah in ur cass, stealin ur non-smurf dude. And your Sparty co-workers and family members are all reminding you that recruiting ratings don't matter nearly as much as how good your school is at developing players (and exciting new types of dirt). And your brain is like "there's only ever been between four and zero humans in the last 70 years as good at cornerback as HIM."
Stupid Buckeyes. Stupid Spartans. Stupid brain. #yalljustjealous #iknowitsenvyshutupimtryingtohashtaginhere
Alas, you're a Michigan fan, meaning even in moments like these you can never shut these people up. So let's try to come up with a reasonable level of expectation by peering into the careers of the few other consensus 5-star corners in the history of recruiting databases.
Edorian McCullough
Class: 2002. School: Texas. Ht/Wt: 5'10/190. Rankings: #3 CB (after Leon Washington & Devin Hester) to Rivals, #3 CB (Hester, A.J. Davis) to Scout.
Other Suitors: Texas A&M, Miami (YTM), Nebraska, Oklahoma, Michigan State.
Scouting Report: Speed in buckets; one of the fastest-ever high school players in the country. Also a great running back and accomplished track star. Academic and behavioral red flags: has 'em.
College Career: Started immediately at nickel back and kickoff returner. Was caught with pot with a big group of teammate but the case was dismissed. Academic problems forced him to sit out his sophomore year and finally get dismissed from the team, transferring first to a junior college and then signing a letter of intent to play for Oregon State. However he couldn't get academically eligible there either so he stayed at his JC in '05 then went pro.
Pro Career: Signed with Jacksonville as a free agent in '06, released in preseason. Appeared on NFL Europe teams and most recently signed with an IFL team in 2010.
Applicability to Jabrill: Track star and standout running back in high school. McCullough's best 100-meter was a 10.32 (versus Jabrill's 10.83) and Edorian's 21.0 in the 200 meters would easily be the record in New Jersey, where Peppers came close with a 21.37. Peppers is fast but probably not Edorian McCullough fast. Edorian was a pure cover corner and sized like one—his Scout report said he was 5'9, though he appeared on Rivals and on the Texas roster as 5'11. Had a 30" vertical, which is just okay. The academic problems that sank him are the opposite for Jabrill, who wants to be an orthopedic surgeon and has a 3.9 GPA. Notably, nobody called McCullough "aggressive"—he was an okay high school tackler rated highly for his Deion-like skills.
[Hit the jump for the others]


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PATTON, Pa.—Officials say more than two dozen school students have escaped injury when their bus driver crashed after suffering a medical emergency in central Pennsylvania.
State police and officials with the Cambria Heights School District haven't released the name of the driver who passed out behind the wheel about 3:15 p.m. Monday. That happened on Route 36 between Chest Springs and Patton, about 70 miles east of Pittsburgh.
The Altoona Mirror ( http://bit.ly/16LTjH2) reports the bus hit a tree and rolled another 100 feet into a field before stopping.
The driver was taken to Altoona Regional Medical Center with unspecified injuries and the medical condition.
School officials, along with a school nurse, elementary and middle school principals, responded to the crash.
Information from: Altoona Mirror, http://www.altoonamirror.com


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Anne Mitchell | August 16, 2004 | Comments
How to protect your domain name and even pursue someone who spoofs your domain name.
Don't legitimate emailers have enough to worry about with CAN-SPAM, blocklists, and erroneous spam reports? Increasingly, spammers, who scatter millions of pieces of uninvited email to the Internet wind, ruin legitimate mailers' names by using those mailers' domains as the sender address in their spam runs.
Known as spoofing, the practice of hijacking someone else's good name to avoid detection and evade spam filters can have devastating effects for the unsuspecting emailer who's been spoofed. It creates a public relations nightmare for the spoofed company. And it can cause the victim company's legitimate email to be rejected or eaten by spam filters when receiving sites equate the domain with spam, and the domain name is disseminated among the anti-spam technology gatekeepers.
Spoofing can also lead to the functional equivalent of a DOS attack, as the victim domain's inbound mail servers are bombarded with the bounce notices generated by hosts who were the spam run's targets.
Last week, Florida ISP Tallahassee Telephone Exchange (TTE) revealed a spoofer led to the clogging of a number of TTE's customers' inboxes as bounce messages poured in. AOL has included damages incurred when dealing with bounce notices as part of its anti-spam lawsuit strategy since at least 1998.
To add insult to injury, the law with which these legitimate mailers must comply, CAN-SPAM, offers no relief when their own domains are used for nefarious purposes. CAN-SPAM only allows lawsuits to be brought by the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and ISPs. There's no private right of action for businesses or individuals.
The secret weapon that protects your domain name and even allows you to pursue someone who spoofs your domain name? Trademark law.
Register your domain as a trademark (in this context, a "service mark"). Then, if you want, you can sue spoofers for trademark infringement.
Yes, it's really that simple. Run, don't walk, to get your domain registered. Assuming that your trademark application is approved (no trademark application is guaranteed automatic approval), you'll have a good way to try to stop the spoofer.
Trademark law has been around for years. It's an area of law that's well understood by judges (unlike this newfangled Internet). Trademark infringement is fairly well defined, with generally accepted definitions (unlike, say, spam).
Here's how it works. Let's say I own the domain "sueaspoofer.com" (because I do). I've registered the domain, I use it in business (this is key), and I've registered it as a service mark for trademark protection.
Joe Spoofer sends out a spam run of a bazillion pieces of spam, using the sender address email@example.com. He's trying to trick innocent consumers into accepting his spam because they think it's from sueaspoofer.com
Because I use my domain in business and Spoofer used my trademark, attempting to capitalize on my trademark to get his own mail delivered, Spoofer is guilty of trademark infringement.
"But," you say, "how will I ever find Joe Spoofer? He's probably offshore in Slobovakistan."
This is one of the beauties of using trademark law. You can sue not only Spoofer, but also anyone who benefited from the infringement. Most spam is in English, and most English-language spam has some connection to the United States, usually through the merchant whose goods or services are advertised in the spam. Thus, it becomes relatively easy to find a culpable party on whom to serve a lawsuit. And if the party isn't the actual spoofer it will, in fairly short order, lead you to the spoofer. Plus, you may recover some of your financial losses by suing for damages.
Registering a trademark costs only $335.00, plus whatever fees you pay to the attorney or service that prepares the application. Trademark registration services can be found online for as little as $200.00. It's a small price to pay for such a big and potentially effective insurance policy.
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Following a jury verdict that found Samsung guilty of patent infringement in a high-profile lawsuit filed by Apple, the court is preparing to consider a potential sales ban a number of the Korean company's mobile devices. After the jury was dismissed, Judge Lucy Koh quickly transitioned to the subject of injunction hearings to determine which, if any, devices will be affected by the case.
Lawyers representing Apple have asked for the process to be expedited, considering the "irreparable harm" caused by Samsung's patent infringement. Judge Koh agreed to the request, asking Apple to submit its injunction filings by August 29 ahead of the formal hearing.
Samsung objected to having just 14 days to respond to Apple's filing, citing the large amount of evidence in this particular case. Judge Koh declined to provide more time, however, due to the court's busy schedule.
A ban could affect a wide range of devices, though the case was limited to aging models rather than Samsung's latest devices. The company still faces a damage award that exceeds $1 billion and could rise if the court decides to triple the amount due to willful infringement.
The injunction hearing has been scheduled for September 20, however Samsung has vowed to continue the fight.


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March 3, 2011
Kingston Brownie Troop 80354 visited Sugar Plum Bakery as part of earning their Cookies Count Try-it badge. They were given a tour of the bakery and asked the bakers questions. The girls were very excited to meet Joanna Lyons who recently competed on the TLC TV show The Next Great Baker. They also decorated their own cookies as a yummy treat.


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Knowing the possibility that Tavoris Cloud could lose to Bernard Hopkins wasn't totally out of the question on Saturday night, but James Prince wasn't worried about the Tallahassee fighter having a bright future.
Prince has managed several fighters, including Winky Wright, and has put them in position to come away from the game with deep pockets. He is highly optimistic that he can do the same for Cloud.
"My goal for my fighters is I want to see all of them become millionaires," Prince said. "I'm going to do what I have to do the make things happen." ...


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With pre-production done, a clear storyboard and character designs approved by the client, and scenery research completed, we began full production on the film. Each member of the team took on at least one shot for 1-2 weeks and then rotated who worked on which shots, to keep anyone from spinning their wheels on the same problems for too long.
As a hybrid 2D/3D project, the team used a lot of different tools: Adobe Flash for 2D shots and Autodesk 3ds max for 3D shots, and Adobe Photoshop for 3D art textures, 2D backgrounds, HUD designs, and credits. We rendered everything as PNG sequences and used Adobe After Effects for putting it all together into a single film. Effects work used all of these tools, and we used dropbox.com for our production and render storage.
Daily communication became even more important once full production began. The final film needed to be collected each week on Tuesday to be ready to revise and show in class on Thursday, and this meant the majority of the work– easily 10-20 hours a week by most of the artists– had to be done Friday-Monday each week. The artists learned that they needed to get drafts up on the department forum as early as possible to get feedback and avoid problems that would only get bigger the further they revised in a wrong direction. Those who got draft up Friday and Saturday were the most successful; those who waited until Sunday often struggled with late work, occasionally holding up the entire project. As the team practiced their weekly deadlines they got better about communicating their progress and showing drafts, and the production went much smoother by the last month.
For the audio on the project we had the pleasure of working with Akash Thakkar, head of the Game Audio club at Berklee College of Music. The Production Team class has worked before with Berklee students in general and Akash in particularly and we are always thrilled with their work. This semester we are enormously happy with the results of Akash's efforts and appreciate his bearing with us through many revisions as we struggled to communicate what we wanted from the audio for this film.
As a course dedicated to teaching good teamwork as much as the production process, we held a number of exercises to establish trust and to learn to work better with each other:
* To promote conversation on how the team could be structured and what members wanted and worried about for this class, we held discussions on past team and leadership experiences. We learned methods for facilitating meetings and rotated meeting leadership responsibilities throughout the semester.
* To discuss bad practices in meetings and how they can be overcome we roleplayed a meeting where each participant got a slip of paper with a description of a particularly bad way to treat others, and then spent a hilariously miserable 10 minutes trying to agree on a pizza order.
* To explore ways to deal with issues before they become more serious problems we learned how to speak using I-messages and roleplayed difficult co-worker discussions from imaginary bad odors to bad performance.
* To help the team establish a space safe for talking about needs and what helps each of us to be most productive, we discussed Gary Chapman's Five Love Languages and re-interpreted the relationship concepts into ideas appropriate for the workplace.
* To examine office politics we played Witchhunt, a variation on Dimitry Davidoff's famous Mafia game.
The only tangible way the artists get paid for this huge amount of work (we estimated 1000 hours by this team of five by the end of the semester) is in their grades. In order to incentivize both good work and good teamwork, all artists write Peer Evaluations for their teammates at midterms and finals, and a significant percentage of their grade are determined by those evaluations.
Once pre-production is done, our course demands the full animation be drafted in just three weeks, in time for midterms. This is so the film can be shown to a committee made up of the animation faculty and department chair. The committee is given no information on what the film is supposed to be about; just a link to youtube and a request for feedback. This means all major elements needed to communicate the story must be completely clear by the end of those three weeks: all revised 3D animation, 3D character and setting models, clear 2D backgrounds and at least 5 frames per second of 2D animation. Considering the exceptionally large scope of what the client asked, the team did reasonably well, with only a few big elements missing:
The film-in-progress at Midterms,
after three weeks of full production
The feedback we received from the committee helped us to focus our efforts on rendering and texturing styles that would help differentiate each sequence, and also emphasized for us the need for a game-themed Heads Up Display (HUD) that would make it clear when Emma was in a game world. After a number of attempts over many weeks we decided to use a unified HUD rather than changing it for each game, and this led to the idea of a progress bar and text that identifies the specific event in support of Child's Play that each game is supposed to represent.
In general, we found it more challenging to reproduce the motion of 2D games than 3D games. The 3D games at early stages of animation looked mediocre but still recognizable, but when the 2D games were off they felt REALLY wrong. The Emma-Mario felt completely off when she ran with fully articulated legs, and we needed to examine the original Mario's motion much more closely. The Emma-Pacman's munching tended to go too fast and the pigtails we added looked at first disturbingly sperm-like. The term "Uncanny Valley" in animation refers to near-miss attempts to reproduce facial expression motion in animation, where characters in movies like Polar Express tend to feel exceptionally creepy when they look close-to-reality but fall short, and the argument goes that we as humans are programmed to know faces so well that slight discrepancies feel huge and alarming. It seemed to us, working on the Child's Play film, that the real 2D Mario and Pacman have become similarly engrained in us, so that slight problems felt terribly wrong, and we ended up tossing lots of revisions before we felt we got those scenes right.
While the team worked all semester to animate their characters so that body motion told the story in each shot, the opening and closing sequences needed the main 3D version of our protagonist, Emma, to be able to express a lot with her face.
It is possible to set up facial animation systems on a 3D character so as to allow the animator to have unlimited options for expression. We decided not to do that. Instead, we only created the few expressions we knew Emma needed for this particular film: various degrees of sadness, pain, surprise, and joy for the first sequence and happiness for the final sequence, along with eyeblinks.
This seemed like a good plan, but in our early attempts at the first sequence–which calls for Emma to appear miserable lying alone in her dark hospital room–she did not look particularly sad. We thought we could communicate misery with just closed eyes and a down-turned mouth, but she felt only sort-of sad. Still, with so much else to complete on the film, we might have decided that was enough and never fixed these critical establishing shots.
Then we took a field trip. As a class we attended a presentation by Chris Landreth, the Oscar-winning animator behind the extraordinary face-driven films "Ryan" and "The Spine." We spent an evening with him studying which of the fifteen major facial muscles are critical to express various degrees of human expressions. At the end of the workshop we consulted as a class and decided Emma's glasses were the problem. They were on her face for all the opening shots, and we needed to see more of her eyelids and especially her eyebrows to make her misery clear. We decided to start the sequence with the glasses sitting on a nearby table so there would be no barrier to her expression, and have her put the glasses on as part of her surprise when the TV activated to pull her in.
Once the glasses were removed, the animator on that sequence nailed the expressions in the first few tries, and suddenly Emma' unhappiness felt very real. Interestingly, once the face worked we had to re-think some of the body poses and motions. Without the blank face as a distraction, we noticed the body was often too-much animated. When Emma rolled over in bed, her right arm moved so much it distracted from her face. Similarly, after sitting up in surprise and putting her glasses on, she originally threw back her hands to support a backwards lean on the bed–far too much motion when we wanted the audience to focus on the growing joy in her face. The animator found the fix by letting the hands drop gently downward after putting on the glasses, a perfectly subtle gesture.
Week eleven came up fast. While the 2D sequences only needed to be at 5 frames/second for midterms (week 8), they needed to be 12-24 frames/second to show the client at week 11. Similarly, the 3D sequences needed polish and effects. The artists pulled together to get the film done before Thanksgiving and, after eleven 7-day weeks of work, enjoyed a full week off. When we came back the client had only a single timing request, that the social media bubbles in the first game needed to stay longer on screen to be readable, an issue we predicted. In addition to planning solutions for this issue, we spent week twelve on a major critique of every shot, and came up with a list of over 30 changes to the project, including adding a total of five and half seconds to the film.
Our goal was to move every shot from bring a strong student film to the level of a broadcast-worthy professional production. Most of the shots began to work around midterms, like the Intro/Outro, 2d Mario, and Pacman and so with a month to revise we were able to get them to a high shine. Others. Like Guityar Hero and Mario Kart, only began to work around week 11 of the project, and required an exceptional push by the team, but the difference in polish is still visible between the shots that mostly worked around midterms and those with which we still struggled in the last few weeks. Overall though, we are very proud of this entire film and this team of filmmakers.
Last Thursday, December 15, was the last meeting of our class. For our final Skype presentation to Child's Play we met at the teacher's home for dinner and games. We sent Jamie Dillan the link and studied her face as she watched the end result of three and a half months of labor. We saw her smile grow throughout the film, and at the end she gave us the best compliment we could hope for:
"This represents us at Child's Play, and what we do."
NEXT WEEK: The final film!
You can read more about Child's Play on their site, http://www.childsplaycharity.org, and we love this video, hosted by their parent company Penny-Arcade:


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Several times, while waiting in a car outside a Jacksonville apartment building, according the Associated Press.
Back-up Jaguars offensive tackle Richard Collier was the victim. He was with former teammate Kenneth Pettway at the time. Pettway, who didn't make the Jags' roster in the last round of cuts, was uninjured.
What a bad run of violence against NFL players. A snip:
Collier is the third NFL player to be shot in the past 18 months. Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor was fatally shot during what police said was a botched burglary attempt at his Miami-area home in November. Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was killed when his rented limousine was sprayed with bullets minutes after leaving a New Year's party at a downtown Denver club in 2007.
Entering his third year after making the team as an undrafted rookie free agent, Collier competed for the starting job at left tackle but was beaten out by Khalif Barnes in the preseason.
Still, the Jaguars believe Collier could be a future starter. They even signed him to a contract extension earlier this year — despite his arrest last season.
Then it goes on in great detail about the 26-year-old's DUI arrest from 2007. Frankly, I'm not sure about the relevance of all that. Doesn't seem like an apples-to-apples comparison there.
It sounds like Collier could have been one of those pleasing NFL success stories,
considering his time stocking grocery shelves before embarking on his
college career. Now everything's up in the air.
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All Access with Jasmine: Team Bonding
Hey AC Readers! I hope you are all enjoying the summer now that school is out! This is the best time to get out and have some fun in the summer sun with your new teammates before the season kicks off. I am going to share with you some of my favorite team bonding activities that I have done with my team here at the University of Georgia as well as with my previous all star teams.
One thing that my team loves to do at least once a month is go out for a team dinner. It's great for bonding, especially after practice because it gives you something to look forward to. Choose somewhere with a great atmosphere where you feel comfortable being social and can enjoy the night eating and talking with teammates.
Another thing that my team likes to do occasionally is have a dance party! For the dance party, you will need to randomly break up into teams of about four people (you can do this by stunt group or by drawing names out of a hat). After the teams are assigned, you should draw songs out of a hat. Whichever song you pick is the song that you will dance to! Everyone gets about 30-45 minutes to make up a dance and then you perform in front of the other groups. This is a fun way to see everyone's choreography and dancing skills.
Movie night is popular for my squad during two-a-days. After a long day of practice it's nice to just throw on comfortable clothes and go watch a movie together. Our coach likes to mix things up by randomly assigning movie seats so that you end up sitting next to someone new on the team. This gives you an opportunity to socialize with the newbies.
Team sleepovers were the go-to bonding activity when I was an all star cheerleader. They're the perfect time to make up couch pyramids, eat junk food and talk about the upcoming season. My personal favorite thing to do at a team sleepover is to make up a chant or song to say each time before you take the floor. Everyone gets to incorporate their ideas for the song, and it gets you pumped up before you get ready to perform!
There are tons of activities that you can participate in with your team as bonding activities. Go bowling or tailgate for a school sporting event. Try having a car wash, scavenger hunt, pool party or volunteer as a squad for Habitat for Humanity or another charitable organization!
I hope these suggestions help you to bond with your teammates over the summer. Don't forget to keep up your skills throughout your summer vacation too; you should always want to come back better than ever! Happy summer and Go Dawgs!
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Footnote to the UK – Louisville rivalry…
On Saturday, Morgan Newton will get his first start against UK's arch-rival, Louisville, in the annual battle for the Governor's Cup. That Newton is wearing the blue and white, and not Cardinals' red and white, is a victory for the Cats, in its own right.
Newton was one of the premiere quarterbacks coming out of Carmel High School in 2008. One recruiting service had Newton tabbed as a 5-star product, which means the Indianapolis, Ind. native was a "can't miss" player.
Newton made every All-American team that year, including Indiana's Mr. Football and the Gatorade Player of the Year in the Hoosier state.
Louisville was recruiting Newton. Newton liked Louisville.
Why wouldn't he? The Cards were coming off one of the greatest runs in school history, capped off by a win in the Orange Bowl. Quarterback Brian Brohm was a senior and a Heisman Trophy candidate. Newton could come in and compete right away for minutes.
But something strange happened to the Newton family on their way to see the Cardinals play at Commonwealth Stadium in 2007.
"As soon as we got to town and we saw this sea of blue, we thought, 'Whoa!'" John Newton , Morgan's father, said.
"We actually went to see U of L. This is something we hadn't experienced before," Newton said.
The Newton's, like the nearly 70,000 fans in Commonwealth Stadium on that night, saw one of the most thrilling games in UK history. In a moment that defined the Rich Brooks era at Kentucky, Newton saw Andre Woodson hit Steve Johnson with a 57-yard touchdown pass to give the Cats a 40-34 win over No. 9 Louisville. It was UK's first win over a Top 10 opponent in nearly 30 years.
"Kentucky has great tradition of being excellent in basketball," Ruby Newton, Morgan's mother said on Aug. 21, 2008, the day her son committed to Kentucky. "When we saw the football environment, we thought, 'Wow!' Morgan can be part of a great, great ride that Kentucky fans will love in football."
What they're saying about the Louisville rivalry…
Ronnie Sneed, UK senior linebacker – "This game is to see who controls the state."
Danny Trevathan, UK senior linebacker – "You want to win against them. It's like a home state rivalry and where I'm from, home state rivalries are live."
La'Rod King, UK junior wide receiver – "I hear it all the time. 24/7. Half my family is for Louisville, so I have to shut them up. Then when I go home for a family reunion, sitting there at the dinner table, just smiling and laughing, knowing that we beat Louisville again."
Mister Cobble, UK defensive tackle and Louisville native – "That's my hometown and a lot of people in my family root for Louisville. The only person really rooting for Kentucky is my mother. It's like a state championship for me."
Ridge Wilson, UK junior linebacker and Louisville native – "It's a big game. It gets you warmed up for all the beef and the things you're going to face in the SEC."
Winston Guy, UK senior safety – "We've been beating Louisville for these past couple of years. It's nothing but personal for me. There's going to be a lot of emotions, a lot of things are going to go on in the game. I'm pretty sure there's going to be a lot of trash talking."
Mike Summers, UK offensive line coach and former Louisville assistant – " It's very intense. Both sides want to win with so much passion. It's such a big game, too, for both teams, in terms of the season. It makes these games great to win and it crushes you when you lose."


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Posted 11 April 2011 - 02:53 AM
QB Ryan, Redman
RB Turner, Snelling
FB Mughelli
TE Gonzalez, Peele, Palmer
WR White, Jenkins, Douglas, Meier, Weems
LT Baker, Svitek
LG Blalock
C McClure, Hawley
RG Dahl, Johnson
RT Clabo, Reynolds
Snelling has played 4 seasons and will likely be a FA. He has been a good player but is similiar to Turner, we need a player at HB with speed and receiving ability. Norwood has those skills but lacks durability. Hes played 5 seasons.
Gonzalez will retire soon, Peele isnt a receiving threat, and Palmer is a UDFA. We need a talented young TE but HB, WR and OT are greater needs on offense.
Jenkins isnt a threat at #2 and Douglas hasnt been an impact player in the slot. If Weems can translate his abilities in the return game to the receiving game he could make an impact. We need a speed receiver here to open things up for others. Ideally with the size to take the #2 spot and run after the catch ability.
On the OL we have 3 FAs and depth at OT is thin. Baker has had injuries and Svitek and Reynolds are late round picks. Clabo Dahl and Blalock are up for FA, Blalock is most likely to be retained, Johnson could step in as a starter, Hawley is slated to replac McClure
DE Abraham, Biermann, Davis, Sidbury, Anderson
DT Babineaux, Peters, Jerry, Walker, Lewis
LB Lofton, Spoon, Nicholas, Adkins
CB Grimes, Robinson, Owens, Franks
S Moore, Decoud, Shillinger
DE is our biggest need on D, we need 1-2 impact pass rushers. Anderson is gone, Davis likely too. Sidbury may get a chance.
At LB Nicholas and Peterson are up for FA if Nicholas walks Adkins would be next inline but doesnt have much experience on his resume. Even if Nicholas stays adding an OLB for depth and special teams would be a good idea
At CB adding a player to compte with Owens and Franks for the nickel would be agood idea, you need 3 quality CBs plus depth
In the later rounds we could look to add a safety for depth and special teams
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Posted 11 April 2011 - 05:38 AM
Gotcha. I did just skim over it. Sorry. I do ageee with a lot of the same points. I think this would the year we let Redmen go and keep John Parker Wilson. To open up another position spot. And maybe pick up another QB and them on the practice squad.
Thats how the depth chart looks heading into the draft including some potential FAs. In the text section I list the positions we will look to target in the draft
I know the Falcons are scouting Jernigan. He's an explosive receiver in the slot but he's got quality talent playing behind the line. If Coach Smith believes Douglas is going to be back to 100% this season I see Jernigan take snaps as our third down back if drafted.
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Posted 11 April 2011 - 02:06 PM
I agree he's not worth the contract giving him but he's worth having him on the team. I love the rotation of players that we do. Keep our guys fresh in the fourth and keeps the oposing team guessing.
Are we sure anderson is gone? Why would he be? and who do we have thats a better dlineman against the run? I do hope we can renegotiate his contract. But this guy was REALLY young out of college and has a future in the NFL. I think some of our fans are crazy for not seeing any future contributions from this kid. All agreed that he wasnt a first round talent though.
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