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'The Three Trees'
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This is the largest and finest of Rembrandt's landscape etchings, confidently worked largely with direct needle and burin lines. He took the view near the Diemerdijk, in the vicinity of Amsterdam. The brilliant lights and darks of a sky filled with storm clouds bring a feeling of dramatic intensity to the flat landscape.


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Ima Keithel - Manipur's warm-hearted Mothers' Market
Wrapped in scarf-like innaphis and sarong-like phaneks, their foreheads marked with elegant streaks of sandal paste and their teeth stained from chewing kwa (betel), Imphal's mothers get ready for another day of business. Their laughter rings out over the hubbub of haggling and footfalls, even above the sounds of vehicles gnashing in the street. Ima Keithel or the Mother's Market has long been a part of Manipuri tradition, by some accounts dating back to the 16th century. Today, located in four concrete structures in Imphal's Khwairamband Bazaar, it is one of the city's unique travel experiences.
Yahoo India's Travel editor BIJOY VENUGOPAL explores Ima Keithel and returns basking in the warmth of maternal love.
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The Futile Vignette Company was formed in 2003.
The name came from the amount of 'unsuitable' commissioned work that I was producing which was subsequently rejected & replaced with something 'a little less challenging'.Some of this work was exhibited in New York in 2004 (see screenprints) & the company name stuck. I wish it was shorter & easier to spell.
Mick Marston - The Futile Vignette Company.
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After years of dead end jobs and dreams of being either a rock star or a footballer he decided to embark on a course in Graphic Design. In 1992, Mick graduated from Leeds Polytechnic (now Leeds Metropolitan University) with a first class honours degree in Graphic Arts & Design and immediately began working in the University Printmaking department. Whilst studying part time for a Masters degree, he dipped his toe into the world of commercial illustration and to his continuing astonishment his work has appeared in quite large and prestigious advertising campaigns, many national and international magazines and newspapers, book covers, packaging and websites. Mick also exhibits his work in various galleries and public spaces throughout the UK and more recently in the USA.
In addition to his freelance illustration career, Mick also devotes half of his time to lecturing in the Graphic Arts at Leeds Metropolitan University and is a visiting lecturer at a variety of institutions around the UK.
Mick is also a regular contributor to prestigious events for the Association of Illustrators including 'Cross Pollination' and 'Illustration in the Digital Age' at the Royal College of Art.
Mick lives in Sheffield with a wife & 3 whippets.
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Atlantic Records, Asda, Barclays, BBC, Bloomsbury, BT, Cadburys, Camelot, Caspian Publishing, Channel 5, Disney, EMAP, Express Newspapers, Financial Times, Guardian Newspapers, Haymarket Publications, Hodder & Stoughton, The Independent, John Brown Citrus Publishing, Liptons, Lucozade, McCann Ericson, Macy's, Merrydown, Microsoft, NCH, New Scientist, New York Times, Nickelodeon, Nintendo, Oddbins, Orange, Penguin Books, RNIB, The Science Museum, Sega, Shell, Sony, Times Education Supplement, Virgin, Vodafone, VW, Waitrose, Walker Books, Wannado, Wrigleys
Museum of Childhood
A series of 4 posters for The Museum of Childhood in London commissioned by AMVBBDO. Brief was to illustrate the 4 given strap lines whilst incorporating the text within the image.
Times Education Supplement
This is for a weekly illustration slot for the Times Education Supplement for an article entitled 'My Worst Parent'.
CIA Promotion 2010
These are an annual commission for the CIA agency calendar & an image provided for the 'Licence To Inspire' book.
Filthy Spam
This was a series of images for a personal project based on all the spam emails I was receiving. Promises of larger tools, polished instruments, engorged pork products & increased stamina became too good to resist.
Flat Black
Group exhibition in Sheffield in 2007.
The idea behind the piece for the 'Flat Black' exhibition was simply led by the title, therefore everything is flat or black & sometimes a combination of the two.
Fee Fi Foe Fum
The 'FeeFiFoeFum' publicity drive fulfilled my need to break away from the constraints of commissioned illustration where a 'box' has already been provided for your efforts (even though its an article about giraffes and you have a 50mm x 200mm landscape to work in) & the idea an illustrator brings is often dismissed by autocratic art directors or diluted by unimaginative clients.
Initially it was intended to be a giant sized newspaper (to fit the title – which is the Giants rhyme in the fairytale Jack & The Beanstalk) but due to financial & logistical constraints I decided to illustrate 'FeeFiFoeFum' by breaking the word up into its 4 syllables which provided 4 themes for the work;
Fee – money, price, cost etc
Fi (as in Hi-Fi) – sound, noise, music
Foe – enemies, predators, war etc
Fum – a difficult one so I cheated with 'thumb'.
The package consists of 12 lithograph/screenprints & 5 lithograph header sheets, wrapped in a screenprinted newsprint poster. Finished size is 390mm x 297mm, edition of 200 individually numbered & stamped on recycled popset grey 100gsm stock.
This was featured in Form magazine July 2007.
Fee Fi Foe Fum prints are available from the CIA shop
Design for Thunderdog Studios world famous Thundermutt toy.
As opposed to simply decorating it with nice shapes I decided to do mine about dog care, hence the link to dog worming tablet - D-Worm.
Has a 2 coloured mini screenprint inside head.
These are very rare (only 130).
The Futile Vignette
These prints were produced from the scraps of my increasingly rejected work (hence the title). They were exhibited in New York in 2004.
I have a few left for sale, email if you are interested.
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I won a D&AD yellow pencil for this Merrydown poster.
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Pickling Trojans
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Last year, the Gulf Shores High duo captured the 18 and under crown at the inaugural Gulf Coast Region of USA Volleyball Beach Series Grand Championships. But Emily suffered an ACL injury while competing in the javelin at the state track and field meet in May, forcing Erin, a rising senior, to find a new partner.
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GSHS teammate Virginia Jones, a rising sophomore, stepped in and the two didn't miss a beat. They played together at the three previous series stops this summer and won Saturday's grand championships with a 21-9 victory against Niceville, Fla.'s Paige Forrester and Delaney Bell.
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What a wonderful writer Bernd Heinrich is!
He has published fine books on the raven, and on the honeybee, and on a dozen other subjects. He's the sort of naturalist who seems an expert on most everything in the natural world, fully confident in his abilities and judgment, while at the same time modest, and slightly amused by, his, and all human, limitations.
The sort of naturalist, in other words, who, when describing a tiff with his siblings over his mother's estate, will say "the difference between what can happen to a human and to a naked mole rat family is mainly one of terminology."
He's expert with a pen, too. "The Homing Instinct: Meaning & Mystery in Animal Migration" (Houghton Mifflin, 368 pp., $27), Heinrich's latest, is an enchanting disquisition on many things, involving many different biological disciplines, relating to homing – "the orienting and ability to return to our own good place if we are displaced from it."
The subtitle is appropriate because humans, who form a good part of the subject of the book, are, after all, animals ("innate homebodies," we get lost easily, he says). But that subtitle is not quite complete, in that Heinrich even discusses what appears to be homing (or at least migrational) behavior in plants (chestnuts) as well.
The book is full of astounding animal feats, many of which you read about when you were a child but have since forgotten. They still boggle the mind, and a book review should be permitted at least one: Each wandering albatross parent will fly up to 1,500 kilometers over ocean – ocean that appears to humans bleak and featureless – to find food for their chick; having gathered a full crop of squid, each then flies back to its nest, on a small, remote islet, in a straight line: "It knows where it is at all times," says Heinrich.
Homes, for Heinrich's purposes, need not be nests, caves, houses or hives. Some homes are "to the herd," as he calls it – schools of fish and, in the 19th century, flocks of passenger pigeons.
It is delightful that Heinrich is not afraid of the word anthropomorphism – "a pejorative term," he says, "that has been used for the purpose of separating us from the rest of life."
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Mercifully – and, in this day and age, surprisingly in a discussion of the natural world – the book is mostly free of global-warming hectoring.
In any event, there is enough human insanity to worry about. In another piece of mind-boggling information, this time not the good kind, Heinrich reports that scientists are working on robot bees to pollinate genetically modified plants. The robobees would be immune to the heavy doses of herbicides and pesticides, applied to GM crops, that kill Mother Nature's bees.
"The Homing Instinct" is marvelous, both for the knowledge it imparts and because it points out, as well, what we don't know. In regard to some behaviors, Heinrich says, "there is more going on than we understand." Or: "we have learned much, but it has left us with the mysterious, magical, and miraculous."
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Great video. Thanks.
I'm in the minimalist camp. Don't replace my legs!
Zeo wrote:Hey Charles at the end of the video you said you were at T-minus 7 minutes......it was a great video....but can you just let us know why those last 7 minutes were cut?
When I watched your show, you did mention about the "Heart Monitor". I knew that there is a device from Microlife called Blood Pressure Monitor. It can link with the PC by USB connection. How can I use the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to control it, please.
This is one of the best videos ive watched on channel 9 and ive watched a few
Keep up the excellent work.
1) Make generic driver that can talk to any USB printer that supports P1 spec. Call it "Windows Ready To Print" logo.
2) Any device that supports P1, also supports P1+ which is a driver that is installed *on the device. The driver can be downloaded from the device using the P1 driver. The P1+ driver will contain the URL for the Model (not the home page) with updated drivers or app software. P1 and P1+ are drivers *only* and run in user mode only and must be certified if they want the Ready-To-Print logo. I'd pay extra if they did not install all that crud in the tray or my desktop!!
3) People could also install the CD or from exe or inf as today if needed.
Great video!
I was wondering out of curiosity if there will be an easy way to add and remove drivers from the driver store to make, for example, a custom installation CD with all the drivers already installed or to manage the existing store.
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I have a small tip for you that may work. If I was about to reinstall Windows XP or Vista from scratch, before I did, while I was still online, I would go to the Web site of the manufacturer of my built-in Broadcom Gigabit network hardware, and download the drivers to my hard drive. Then, from there, I would copy the driver files to either a USB Flash memory key or just burn them onto a recordable CD or DVD. This is exactly what I have done, prior to reinstalling Windows Vista Home Premium. The network drivers for my Dell XPS 720 home tower PC (and a whole load of other drivers besides) have been copied onto a DVD+RW. This means I have all drivers to hand!
In your case, you are setting up the network hardware from a brand new PC (after you have installed Windows.) I take it the machine has Windows XP Home or Pro on it at the moment? You could be in a Catch-22 situation here! However, Vista may have the drivers for your network hardware already inside the operating system (I know Vista has a lot more built-in drivers than XP had.) Failing that, then the only way would be to use a second PC that is already online to the Web to download the drivers that way. Then put them on a USB Flash memory key or DVD+RW (if you have the correct DVD drive on the other PC) and then try to install them on the laptop.
If you could tell me the exact make and model of your network hardware (you should find this information in your laptop PC manual somewhere), I could try to find it on the Web for you, if you like.
Sorry I could not be of any more help, but I am very new to Vista and have never even installed it before, so I don't know what to expect when I do come to reinstall it!
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Your sunrise summary of everything you need to know about weather in H-town.
Gone is the drier air, although the humidity should at least hold daytime highs to around 90 degrees.
Today we welcome back the humidity to Houston, setting the stage for a potentially wet weekend.
A cold front will sag toward the Houston region on Saturday, and stall north of the city on Sunday, say forecasters with the National Weather Service.
Frankly, the forecast models are all over the place as to the timing and location of rain, although it does appear rain chances will be highest on Sunday as the front sparks the increasingly moist atmosphere to produce showers.
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PITTSBURGH - The Pittsburgh Steelers say they have no plans to trade Ben Roethlisberger.
Roethlisberger says he doesn't want to play anywhere but Pittsburgh.
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His career has more past history than future promise, so who knows how many more seasons he has?
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But the possibility of a deal can't - and shouldn't - be dismissed out of hand, either.
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The only surprise in Clint Hurdle winning the National League manager of the year award is that he wasn't a unanimous choice.
The other finalists were Fredi Gonzalez of the Atlanta Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Don Mattingly.
But Hurdle competed in a tougher division (three teams in the postseason field) and he managed in an organization that had fewer resources to compete.
For that same reason, it's an injustice that Neal Huntington was the runner up to Boston's Ben Cherington for executive of the year.
It's tough to win in baseball, even tougher with the constraints that come with operating in a small market.
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The Miami Dolphins ran the ball 14 times against Tampa Bay on Monday night and gained 2 yards.
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Thinking aloud in NAIDOC week
NAIDOC week in Port Augusta has already taken a very personal look at some new and different futures of our Aboriginal communities with the Dreambox Photobooth at Davenport Community's Cultural Day.
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Our first ABC Open Dreambox Photobooth was a very inspiring experience.
At the Davenport Community Cultural Day we were not inundated with crowds of people but we did have twenty incredibly considered people come up and share their thoughts via the chalkboard speech bubbles. It was very humbling actually.
Our Photo booth was set against a building a little way from the main action but Community Leader Lavene Ngatokorua kept sending over small groups of people to share their dreams. I came to realise that this was no ordinary task. It was serious business. Sharing a dream is a bit like 'be careful what you wish for'. Many of our contributors had intense expressions, not about the dream but about 'saying it right'.
I really appreciated generosity of these people and how they were literally 'baring their soul'. All the contributors had powerful and moving visions of their future. Some people were hesitant and asked for assistance in wording, spelling and writing.
What I like about this project is that you get to see someone's thought process and an insight into their aspirations and dreams. At the Davenport Community Cultural Day what I REALLY liked was the way everyone took it so seriously. I did not see one person who did not stop in earnest and ponder over every word and discuss their little bit of future with their friends and colleagues.
There was no silliness, negativity or pessimism - just some holy work.
It was very nice to be there.
And when was the last time I thought about a future with such freshness?


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Suspects use weapons in liquor store robbery
The New Year's Eve armed robbery of a Red Deer liquor store has police looking for two suspects.
According to the Red Deer RCMP, the two males entered the Gaetz Avenue Liquor Store, located in the 3400 block of 50th Avenue, at 1:53 a.m. on Monday.
A weapon was brandished and the suspects demanded cash.
Police said the liquor store employees complied with the demand and the suspects left with an undisclosed amount of cash.
The two males were last seen leaving the liquor store on foot, in an unknown direction.
No one was injured during this incident.
Police describe the first male as 1.75 metres (five feet, nine inches) tall, wearing light-coloured pants, a black jacket, dark gloves and a red face mask.
The second male is described by police as wearing blue jeans, a black hoodie with a white logo and the letter P on it, blue gloves and a blue face mask.
If anyone has information that will assist police in identifying the suspects responsible for this robbery, they are asked to call the Red Deer City RCMP at 403-343-5575 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.


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03/31/10: SAP achieves awareness.
Posted by Mike S in Business Objects on March 31, 2010
04/01/10: The end of life as we know it.
(Cue Terminator theme.)
This was the page that loaded when I logged into the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center (formerly BusinessObjects Labs) today.
How to reduce "glitz" in Xcelsius
Posted by Mike S in Business Objects, Visualization, Xcelsius on March 30, 2009
I thought this thread was too valuable to remain buried on the Perceptual Edge message board. "Candy-like" is the adjective I often use to describe shiny, round, three-dimensional-looking dashboard components, and Xcelsius is incredibly candy-like if you don't make the effort to create a clean, professional dashboard. Even the samples on the SAP website are enough to offend anyone's Tuftean sensibilities, also frequently lacking the appropriate data context required for quick analysis.
Here are some takeaways from the thread:
- Apply a skin like Halo or Windows Classic instead of the default, Aqua (you can permanently change your default theme under File, Preferences, Document)
- Remove gridlines when not they're not necessary, e.g. when the purpose of a chart is to provide relative comparisons, not quantitative precision
- Show limits on circular, horizontal, and vertical gauges; show targets when feasible, e.g. when target locations will be static, not moving with scaling axes
- You can create sparklines with tiny line graphs with all labels, axes, etc. disabled
- Create multiple bullet charts with a stacked bar chart (targets) overlaid with a bar chart (actual), provided that they share a scale, which works best with percentages
And a few things I would add that were not mentioned in the thread:
- Left-align titles and subtitles
- Subtitles, help text, and axes should be a lighter shade than the axis labels, dimension labels, and data itself
- There is a free add-on for Xcelsius 2008 that allows you to create basic bullet charts and sparklines without employing workarounds (scroll to bottom of linked page)
While on his site, I also noticed that Stephen Few has a new book coming out June 1. Preorder!
No database tables showing in Business Objects Designer
Posted by Mike S in Business Objects, SQL Server on March 3, 2009
Has this ever happened to you?
You're in Designer, minding your own business, trying to build a universe on top of SQL Server 2005 data, and you have no database tables in the table browser. The connection works fine when you test it, you've double-checked the ODBC DSN, and everything seems normal. I see this fairly often – especially when using VMs, where the software is infrequently maintained. (That's a little hint as to the cause of this problem.)
Check that the instance of SQL Server 2005 hosting your default database is up to date on its service packs. You just need to be up to date through SP2 to resolve this. Proof that it works:
Here is a screenshot from the About panel of the updated SQL Server instance with version information:


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Germany's Artes Biotechnology is working jointly on vaccine development with Indonesian vaccine and antisera producer Bio Farma in a collaboration announced today.
Artes, which specializes in recombinant protein production and process development from microbial expression systems, will be working alongside Bio Farma with an initial focus on virus-like particle (VLP)-based vaccines. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
"Bio Farma is a strong and reliable pharmaceutical partner and the only vaccine and antisera producer for humans in Indonesia. We are more than confident, that we along with Bio Farma will develop vaccines highly relevant for the Indonesian and neighboring markets. We expect that especially developments based on our Metavax® technology will contribute to Bio Farma´s vaccine portfolio," said Michael Piontek, M.D., founder and managing director of Artes.
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The firm added that Indonesia's Ministry of Health has expressed support for its partnership with Bio Farma, and will be assisting in relevant policy aspects to accelerate the development of vaccines in the country.
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Symposium will be held at the U.S. Navy Memorial's Naval Heritage Center, 701 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. (at the Navy Memorial/National Archives stop on the Metro), on Thursday, October 24, 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Meals are included with the $20 registration fee.
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We are currently conducting a small observational survey of protostars with outflows, at different evolutionary stages, using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Millimeter Array (OVRO-MMA). This survey aims to understand the mass assembling process in nascent stars, as well as the evolution of the interaction between stellar outflows and the infalling dense circumstellar envelope. Here we present the results of the multi-molecular line study of one of the sources in our survey --the protostar IRAS 20582+7724 in the L1228 dark cloud. Our OVRO-MMA data enable us to probe the structure and kinematics of the L1228 molecular outflow and the circumstellar envelope, as well as the outflow-envelope interaction at scales of less than 0.01 pc. Our 12CO(1-0) and 13CO(1-0) observations of the L1228 outflow reveal that this Class I protostar is powering an outflow with a clear wide-angle morphology. In addition, the morphology and the kinematics of the HCO+(1-0), HNC(1-0), and CS(2-1) emission are consistent with a picture where the outflow has constrained the infall region to a limited volume outside the outflow lobes. We speculate that if the L1228 outflow lobes continue widening, they could eventually halt the infall process. We acknowledge the support from the NSF grant AST-0228955.
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Sour milk, rancid meat, stale bread, rotten fruit – whereas most groceries are forced to send expired food to the landfill, Kroger is turning this organic waste into energy.
The grocery chain recently installed an anaerobic conversion system that will help power a 650,000-square-foot distribution center in Compton, CA. The renewable energy will offset more than 20% of the building's energy demand annually, and 55,000 tons of organic waste that cannot be sold or donated are diverted from the landfill.
The technology can handle over 300,000 pounds of waste on a daily basis. The process is carried out in an enclosed, oxygen-free environment.
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How have the practices of composition, performance, improvisation, and listening been informed by the piano in its long history? How have the concepts, designs, materials, and sonorous resources of pianos been entwined with musical thought and affect across time and space?
The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies invites proposals for recitals, talks and innovative presentations from performers, scholars, organologists, builders, and technicians for an international festival to be held at Cornell University on August 5–9, 2015. Proposals may focus on composers, performance traditions, improvisatory methods, and geographical centers of influence. Potential presentation formats include traditional conference papers, lecture-recitals, lecture-demonstrations, and discussion panels.
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The last two weeks were big games for the Nittany Lions.
Beating Michigan was necessary in order to stay in the BCS title picture, to maybe oil up the old national championship bandwagon.
In the wake of the Michigan loss, beating Illinois was important to stay in the Big Ten title hunt.
Now that both of those opportunities have been engulfed by Penn State's inability to swim in the red zone, today is another important game -- for a different reason.
This time, it's important for Joe Paterno.
A championship run of any kind aside, the biggest story surrounding Penn State football is how much longer the Paterno Era will last and on whose terms it will conclude.
Paterno signed and/or the university announced a five-year contract extension after the 2003 season. That agreement would expire after 2008.
At the time, even though he was coming off three losing seasons in four years, not to mention losing all of the biggest games in 2002 with a lineup stocked with NFL talent, and even though he was then 76, Penn State stood by its man and went along with JoePa's wishes.
Fastforward four years.
He careened to 4-7 in '04. After a 2-7 start, university officials pushed him on a retirement plan, and he successfully talked them out of it.
He delivered a great year -- in 2005 when the Lions finished 11-1 and ranked No. 3 in the country after beating Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
Last year brought an ordinary 9-4, void of a great Big Ten win but was capped by an encouraging victory over Tennessee in the Outback Bowl.
Which brings us to this year. With hopes high for another 2005-type charge, the Lions once again could not conquer Michigan, and in fact turned in one of the more discouraging performances in recent history, given the expectations, when Paterno tore out the more imaginative plans of the playbook and tried to win the game 16-14.
It didn't work, and the hangover continued last week in a loss at Illinois, embellishing the Lions' away difficulties and sending them to their 19th loss in their last 30 Big Ten road trips.
The upside is they're 16-1 in the last three years at Beaver Stadium.
Iowa has beaten Penn State five straight games, including the 6-4 gem in 2004 -- a game in which the Hawkeye staff practically taunted the Lions by taking a fourth-quarter safety, confident the Nit offense couldn't inch its way into field goal range.
Iowa was right.
Which is all the more reason Paterno has to win today. If he can't stop the bleeding against what this year is a struggling Iowa team, if he slips to 3-3 with visits from Wisconsin and Ohio State sandwiched around a trip to Bloomington looming, not to mention explosive Purdue and improving Michigan State in November, there's reason to think this will be a 7-5 season at best and likely a lot worse.
If that happens, since nobody wants to coach the final year of his contract, obviously preferring to get an extension as a recruiting statement, what does Paterno do?
Does he retire? Does he coach next year? Does he admit to himself that the last time he got the most out of his talent was 1996? Does he push school president Graham Spanier, who recently signed a five-year extension and plans to manage the ultimate transition?
And at 7-5 or less, what does Spanier do?
Since the '04 retirement discussion, the relationship between Paterno and Spanier has been frosty. Paterno has taken a few veiled public digs at Spanier. And during WPSX's "Huddle Up" TV show on the Nittany Lions last week, Spanier said this about the Lion offense: "We clearly did not play to our potential. A lot of our fans I'm hearing from are wondering about the playcalling. We kept trying to run the ball when it wasn't working. We have great wide receivers. I would have thought we would have tried harder to reach them."
At the same time, you'd guess the last thing Spanier wants to do is take Paterno's keys, that his retirement should be graceful, at least a mutual decision, and not a surrender.
But Paterno has resisted a succession plan and clearly created the scenario he's in by staying this long, chasing but unable to catch his 1980s' shadow.
To maintain control of his own destiny, at least through next year if he wants it, JoePa better win today.