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From the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service and the Hilles Immunology Laboratory, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston(Drs Sainz de la Maza, Foster, and Jabbur); and the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Athens, Greece (Dr Baltatzis). Dr Sainz de la Maza is now with the Hospital Clinico y Provincial, Barcelona, Spain.
To evaluate ocular characteristics and systemic disease associations in patients with scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy and its different patterns, and to assess any ocular or systemic prognostic significance of the presence of the types of peripheral keratopathy in patients with scleritis.
Review of 125 patients with scleritis alone and 47 patients with scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy; review of patients with scleritis and the different patterns of peripheral keratopathy: peripheral corneal thinning, stromal keratitis, and peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK); review of ocular and systemic outcomes comparisons between patients with scleritis with and without peripheral keratopathy.
Patients with peripheral keratopathy had more necrotizing scleritis(57%, P<.001), decrease in vision (81%, P<.001), anterior uveitis (62%, P<.002), impending corneal perforation (62%, P<.001), and potentially lethal specific-disease association (87%, P<.001) than did patients with scleritis alone. Patients with PUK had the worst ocular and systemic outcomes. Of the 24 patients with PUK, 16 (67%) had necrotizing scleritis (P = .02), virtually all had a potentially lethal systemic disease (P = .02), and all had impending corneal perforation (P<.001).
The detection of peripheral keratopathy, and especially PUK, in a patient with scleritis indicates a poor ocular and systemic prognosis.
KERATOPATHY associated with scleritis usually occurs directly adjacent to or in the same quadrant as the active scleritis. It may progress circumferentially, centrally, or posteriorly (in which case corneal perforation may occur). Early diagnosis and treatment may improve the ocular prognosis before vision is affected or perforation is imminent. In a study of enucleated eyes with scleritis associated with rheumatoid arthritis, Sevel1 found that 36% had peripheral keratopathy, and in different clinical studies, Watson et al2,3 found that 29% to 37% of patients with scleritis had peripheral keratitis.
Peripheral keratopathy associated with scleritis may be relatively benign or serious, and clinical differentiation of the types of keratopathy may be important if they have different ocular and systemic prognostic significance. The clinical types of peripheral keratopathy associated with scleritis include peripheral corneal thinning (intact epithelium and no inflammatory cells in the stroma), stromal keratitis (intact epithelium but with inflammatory cells in the stroma and without stromal ulceration), and peripheral ulcerative keratitis(PUK) (epithelial defect, inflammatory cells in the stroma, and stromal ulceration). This study evaluated the ocular characteristics and systemic disease associations of patients with all 3 patterns of scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy.
We reviewed the records of 172 consecutive patients (231 eyes) with scleritis seen in the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, during an 11-year period and divided them into 2 categories: those with and those without peripheral keratopathy. Patients with scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy were further divided into subgroups depending on the pattern: peripheral corneal thinning, stromal keratitis, and PUK. The 3 patterns of scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy were defined as follows:
In peripheral corneal thinning, the periphery of the cornea (within 2-3 mm of the limbal margin) becomes grayish and about one-third thinner in 1 or more areas. The epithelium remains intact throughout the thinning process.
In stromal keratitis, isolated or multiple white or gray nummular opacities composed of leukocytes appear within the corneal stroma, and, unless successfully treated, expand slowly toward the periphery and/or center of the cornea. The epithelium is intact.
Finally, PUK is a peripheral corneal ulcer with epithelial defects, stromal infiltration, and stromal degradation. The ulcer has a well-defined border on its limbal and corneal edges.
Patient data, including age, sex, type of peripheral keratopathy, type of scleritis, bilaterality of peripheral keratopathy, and previous ocular surgery, were analyzed. Scleritis was characterized as anterior or posterior, according to the classification of Watson and Hayreh2;anterior scleritis included the diffuse, nodular, necrotizing, and scleromalacia perforans types. For the purpose of this study, scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy after ocular surgery was defined as scleral inflammation and peripheral keratopathy appearing in the exact area of the previous surgical procedure.
Ocular manifestations, including permanent loss of best-corrected visual acuity, anterior uveitis, and impending corneal perforation, were analyzed. Decrease in visual acuity was defined as loss of vision of 2 or more Snellen lines at the end of the follow-up period or visual acuity of 20/80 or worse at presentation related to the inflammatory disease process. Anterior uveitis was diagnosed based on the detection of inflammatory cells in the anterior chamber with or without synechiae or keratic precipitates. Impending corneal perforation was defined as progressive destruction of the peripheral cornea, leaving only some layers of deep stroma and/or Descemet membrane.
We studied specific disease association as a result of compatible history, review of systems, laboratory, and biopsy data. For the purpose of this study we grouped interrelated disorders under the term spondyloarthropathies; those disorders include ankylosing spondylitis, Reiter syndrome, psoriatic arthritis, and arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn disease and ulcerative colitis).
Data were analyzed with a customized database software program, and comparisons were made between patients with scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy and patients with scleritis alone. A multifactorial analysis of variance was performed for all variables except age (Mann-Whitney test). Relative risk analysis between patients with scleritis with and without peripheral keratopathy was conducted for all variables except age. Comparisons were also made among scleritis patients with different patterns of peripheral keratopathy(peripheral corneal thinning, stromal keratitis, and PUK). Statistical analysis was performed with the χ2 test for 3 variables; specific analysis between groups of 2 patterns was conducted with the χ2 test for 2 variables with a Bonferroni adjustment.
A total of 47 patients (27.3%; 65 eyes) with scleritis had an associated peripheral keratopathy; 12 patients (16 eyes) had peripheral corneal thinning, 11 patients (15 eyes) had stromal keratitis, and 24 patients (34 eyes) had PUK.
Patients with scleritis-associated keratopathy (47 patients, 65 eyes) were compared with patients with scleritis alone (125 patients, 166 eyes)(Table 1). Eleven patients (18 eyes) with keratopathy had diffuse scleritis, 9 patients (11 eyes) had nodular scleritis, 26 patients (35 eyes) had necrotizing scleritis, and 1 patient(1 eye) had both anterior (diffuse) and posterior scleritis. Comparisons of types of scleritis between patients with and without peripheral keratopathy showed that diffuse scleritis was significantly more frequent in patients without peripheral keratopathy (P<.001), and necrotizing scleritis was significantly more frequent in patients with peripheral keratopathy(P<.001). Nodular scleritis did not differ significantly when compared in patients with scleritis with and without peripheral keratopathy.
Patients with scleritis-associated keratopathy (mean age, 62.53 years; range, 15-85 years) were older than patients without peripheral keratopathy(mean age, 48.47 years; range, 11-87 years) (P<.001). Twenty-seven patients (57.4%) with keratopathy were women, and 20 (42.6%) were men. The predominance of women did not differ significantly when patients with scleritis with and without keratopathy were compared. Scleritis was bilateral in 18 patients (38.3%) with peripheral keratopathy and in 41 patients (32.8%) without peripheral keratopathy. This difference was not statistically significant. Previous ocular surgery was detected in 18 patients (38.3%) with scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy and in 10 patients with scleritis alone (8%) (P <.001). The mean interval between ocular surgery and onset of scleritis was 6.62 months (range, 1-14 months) and 11.2 months (range, 1-28 months), respectively. Previous ocular surgical procedures included cataract extractions in all patients with peripheral keratopathy and in all but 2 patients with scleritis alone; those 2 patients developed scleritis following strabismus and retinal detachment procedures, respectively.
In patients with peripheral keratopathy, 38 (80.9%) had decrease in vision, 29 (61.7%) had anterior uveitis, and 29 (61.7%) had impending corneal perforation. Comparisons of these conditions between patients with keratopathy and those with scleritis alone showed that decrease in vision, anterior uveitis, and impending corneal perforation were found more frequently in patients with peripheral keratopathy (P<.001, P = .002, and P<.001, respectively).
An associated disease was found in 41 patients (87.2%) with peripheral keratopathy and in 57 patients (45.6%) with scleritis alone (P<.001). Specific associated diseases in patients with scleritis with and without peripheral keratopathy included connective tissue or vasculitic diseases in 34 patients (72.3%) and 52 patients (41.6%), respectively, and infectious diseases in 7 patients (14.9%) and 5 patients (4%), respectively(Table 2). Rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener granulomatosis, and infectious diseases were found more frequently in patients with peripheral keratopathy than in patients with scleritis without peripheral keratopathy (P<.001, P<.001, and P = .01, respectively).
Relative risk analyses showed that, compared with patients with scleritis alone, patients with peripheral keratopathy were 5.3 times more likely to have necrotizing disease and 4.8 times more likely to have had previous ocular surgery. The relative risks for complications in patients with peripheral keratopathy were 3.9 for decrease in best-corrected visual acuity, 1.7 for anterior uveitis, and 1.9 for associated diseases (Table 3). Furthermore, patients with peripheral keratopathy were 3.4 times more likely to also have Wegener granulomatosis and 3.7 times more likely to have an infectious disease.
Comparisons among the different patterns of peripheral keratopathy with respect to types of scleritis and previous ocular surgery (Table 4 and Table 5)showed that PUK was more frequently associated with necrotizing scleritis(16 patients, 66.7%) and previous ocular surgery (14 patients, 58.3%) than stromal keratitis (2 patients, 18.2%, and 1 patient, 9.1%, respectively) (P = .02 and P = .03, respectively).
Comparisons among the different patterns of peripheral keratopathy with respect to ocular manifestations (Table 4 and Table 5) did not show statistically significant differences for decrease in vision and anterior uveitis. However, PUK was more frequently associated with impending corneal perforation (24 patients, 100%) than peripheral corneal thinning (3 patients, 25%) or stromal keratitis (2 patients, 18%) (P<.001 and P<.001, respectively).
Comparisons among different patterns of peripheral keratopathy with respect to specific disease associations (Table 4 and Table 5)showed that PUK was more frequently correlated with an associated disease(24 patients, 100%) than was stromal keratitis (7 patients, 63.4%) (P = .02). Different patterns of peripheral keratopathy did not differ significantly with respect to specific associated diseases(Table 6).
The results of this study provide insight into the severity of scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy and its different patterns. The detection of peripheral keratopathy in a patient with scleritis should be regarded as a grave ocular sign because scleritis patients with peripheral keratopathy more often had necrotizing scleritis, decrease in vision, anterior uveitis, and impending corneal perforation. In addition, it is interesting to compare scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy at different tertiary referral centers. Our proportion of scleritis patients with peripheral keratopathy (65 of 231 eyes, 28%) is similar to the proportion reported in a large retrospective study performed in 1976 by Watson and Hayreh2 at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, England (88 of 301 eyes, 29%). However, the peripheral keratopathy population from our service showed a higher proportion of eyes with necrotizing scleritis (35 of 48 eyes, 73%) and a lower proportion of eyes with diffuse scleritis (18 of 197 eyes, 17%) and nodular scleritis (11 of 50 eyes, 22%) than the population reported by Watson and Hayreh (necrotizing scleritis, 59% of eyes; diffuse scleritis, 23%; and nodular scleritis, 26%).
The detection of peripheral keratopathy in a patient with scleritis is also a warning sign of increased likelihood of an associated disease. In this study, scleritis patients with peripheral keratopathy more often had an associated disease than patients with scleritis alone (87% vs 46%). Rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener granulomatosis, and infectious diseases were the most common associated diseases.
Several distinctive patterns of peripheral keratopathy are found in patients with scleritis: peripheral corneal thinning, stromal keratitis, and PUK. In our experience, all 3 patterns may cause decrease in vision and may be associated with anterior uveitis. Studies with anterior segment fluorescein angiography showed that corneal thinning, stromal keratitis, and PUK in patients with scleritis had varying degrees of vaso-occlusive changes in the arterial, venous, or capillary circulations of the episcleral and conjunctival vasculature.4- 6 In some instances, this vascular shutdown may lead to catabolic resorption of the stromal tissue.5 The larger the area of vaso-occlusion, the greater the degree of corneal and scleral destruction.6 Therefore, the vaso-occlusive changes of peripheral corneal thinning or stromal keratitis are less extensive than the ones present in PUK. Furthermore, the area of vaso-occlusion is larger if areas of peripheral corneal thinning or stromal keratitis undergo impending corneal perforation. In our experience, impending corneal perforation was present in patients with all 3 patterns of peripheral keratopathy, but it was found most frequently in patients with PUK.
Histopathologic studies on conjunctival, episcleral, and scleral biopsies from patients with PUK and necrotizing scleritis showed that most had an inflammatory microangiopathy of the episcleral and conjunctival vasculature.7 All patients with PUK had an associated disease, including systemic vasculitis diseases and infectious diseases. The inflammatory microangiopathy in scleritis patients with PUK may be caused by the extension of a systemic vasculitis process, a bacterial or viral invasion, or a local immune response to these organisms.7,8
Inflammatory microangiopathy of the episcleral and conjunctival vasculature may be triggered by trauma such as ocular surgery in predisposed patients with systemic vasculitic disease.9 This may result in scleral and/or corneal destruction. In this study, the pattern of peripheral keratopathy most frequently found after ocular surgery such as cataract extraction was PUK. All patients with PUK had an underlying vasculitic disease. Immune complex–mediated vasculitic damage following the surgical trauma may underlie the pathogenesis.9,10
The findings presented here are clinically relevant and provide important advice for practicing ophthalmologists:
Look for corneal involvement in every follow-up visit of a patient with scleritis. Scleritis patients with peripheral keratopathy must be followed especially closely because they are more likely to have necrotizing scleritis, decrease in vision, anterior uveitis, and impending corneal perforation than patients with scleritis alone.
Search for an underlying disease in all scleritis patients. Scleritis patients with peripheral keratopathy are especially likely to have an associated disease, the most common being rheumatoid arthritis, Wegener granulomatosis, and infectious diseases.
Distinguish the different patterns of scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy. Although scleritis patients with any type of peripheral keratopathy may have ocular complications, such as decrease in vision, anterior uveitis, and impending corneal perforation, scleritis patients with PUK have the worst ocular prognosis because they have the highest risk of developing impending corneal perforation. Furthermore, scleritis patients with PUK more frequently have potentially lethal underlying diseases.
Be aware that surgical trauma may trigger inflammatory microangiopathy (episcleral and conjunctival vasculature) in a predisposed patient with a systemic vasculitic disease, resulting in scleritis-associated peripheral keratopathy. Investigate such patients aggressively to identify this potentially lethal disease while it is still amenable to successful treatment.
Accepted for publication September 5, 2001.
Supported in part by grant FU 90/37276861 from the Fulbright Program, Bethesda, Md.
Presented in part as an invited paper at the World Congress on the Cornea IV, Orlando, Fla, April 1996.
We thank Llorenç Quinto for his extensive statistical assistance.
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This is the mechanism that once enabled a gun to fire. Often finely decorated, wheel-locks were collected by aristocrats as both works of art and technical devices that could be taken apart. This example has been delicately chiselled with scenes of hunters in contemporary clothing. The illustration is an adaptation of hunting prints produced over the preceding 150 years.


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2008 Ole Miss Rebels Football Schedule
Final Record: 9-4, 5-3 (SEC)
Sep. 6
|at Wake Forest Demon Deacons
BB&T Field, Winston-Salem, NC
|Lost 30-28
Sep. 13
|Samford Bulldogs
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
|Won 34-10
Sep. 20
|Vanderbilt Commodores
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
|Lost 23-17
Sep. 27
|at Florida Gators
Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, FL
|Won 31-30
Oct. 4
|South Carolina Gamecocks
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
|Lost 31-24
Oct. 11
|Open Date
Oct. 18
|at Alabama Crimson Tide
Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL
|Lost 24-20
Oct. 25
|at Arkansas Razorbacks
D.W.R. Razorback Stadium, Fayetteville, AR
|Won 23-21
Nov. 1
|Auburn Tigers
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
|Won 17-7
Nov. 8
|Open Date
Nov. 15
|ULM Warhawks
Vaught-Hemingway Stadium, Oxford, MS
|Won 59-0
Nov. 22
|at LSU Tigers
Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA
|Won 31-13
Nov. 28
|Mississippi State Bulldogs
Davis Wade Stadium, Starkville, MS
|Won 45-0
|2009 AT&T Cotton Bowl
Jan. 2
|Texas Tech Red Raiders
Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX
|Won 47-34
3 straight SEC West road games for Auburn…@ LSU, @ Arkansas & @Texas A&M. That's harsh
I would guess CBS starts out 2017 in either Atlanta or Arlington but ESPN sure would love both of them
Another neutral-site game. I got to be honest, I'm sick of this stuff, especially from the SEC, who seems to be the biggest user/abuser of these match-ups. Why can't you just play a home-and-home match-up? That's what college football is all about. Are you that desperate to have an easier win by avoiding a road game? I know Texas Tech is also to blame, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they couldn't get a home-and-home with Ole Miss.
Isn't this better than Ole Miss vs. Lamar or Texas Texas Tech vs. Alcorn State? Man take what you can get.
You may of not noticed but the game is in TEXAS. How is it easier win for Ole Miss playing in the state of Texas against Texas Tech? Now that is home field advantage for the Red Raiders, just another excuse to bash the SEC for no reason & of course blame it on the Rebels (sneaking suspicion)……come on, really?
Day, sir, what you don't seem to understand is that the state of Texas is gigantic. While it may be the same state that TTU is in, Houston is still over 8 hours away from Lubbock and only 30-45 minutes closer than Oxford. Houston is not exactly a TTU hotbed, it goes TAMU, UT, UH, and then everyone else.
I understand how big the state of Texas is, my point is pointing the falseness of making comments like " Are you that desperate to have an easier win by avoiding a road game? " How is that an easier win?
"Another neutral-site game. I got to be honest, I'm sick of this stuff, especially from the SEC, who seems to be the biggest user/abuser of these match-ups"
There are 20 neutral site games this year, SEC has 7 of them, one reason is because how popular the SEC is in football but the other neutral site games have nothing to do with SEC, so just don't watch them I guess.
Why can't you just play a home-and-home match-up?
Because there is a lot of money in neutral site games plus they're are easier to schedule & bring fans that pay money to come see them. Big cities love them!
Plus the same people that complain about not having H/n/H don't even go both games so what's the point of complaining about an event you are not even going to participate in?
" I know Texas Tech is also to blame, but I have a sneaking suspicion that they couldn't get a home-and-home with Ole Miss."
lol…..I luv this one because it says, well, the SEC has a sneaking way of making these games happen. Like TT was going to say NO to a large pay check. Or the city of Houston said, "no, we don't want more money poring into our city but we will take it if we have too."
The deal is TT & Ole Miss have a chance to make a lot of money no matter where the game is played, btw, Ole Miss is playing in Orlando this year against FSU, I have heard no complaints from any Rebel fans about having to drive or fly to Florida where they will be out numbered by Seminole fans. Ole Miss is just happy to be there & will enjoy the paycheck plus should have fun in Orlando & who knows, may pick up a win as well.
Good luck.
These "neutral" site games would not be a problem is you played either A.) another power 5 game, or B.) Another conference game.
However, you would rather play Little Sister of the Poor 3 times a year.
Don't lump all SEC schools together. Auburn is doing a neutral site game with Oregon but they have home and homes with Clemson, Cal and Penn State scheduled.
Auburn could have chosen to do a home-and-home with Oregon in 2018-19 but took the easy way out, avoiding playing a home-and-home in Autzen. Just like Texas A&M and Georgia did. At least Auburn didn't cancel on Oregon. So Auburn is still in search of a P5 OOC game in 2018. Who are the Tigers going to schedule? Not many choices left out there.
Auburn took the easy road out? Yet the're are still traveling to California & Pennsylvania , that is not an easy road
So down to Auburn, Vandy and Arkansas as the three final P5 programs, with openings on their 2018 schedule, who have yet to schedule a OOC game versus another P5 program in 2018. So are these three going to schedule each other as non-conference games as Wake Forest and North Carolina have done for 2019? Or just schedule ULL and obtain a waiver from the SEC.
Well, Arkansas was set until Michigan dropped us a month ago.
Auburn & Vandy will play each other in a "non"conference game. Arkansas will get a waiver since Michigan dumped them so late (they play both in the regular season so the non-conference conference game wouldn't work for them)
As a lifelong Rebel fan I have been waiting 40 years for us to play a PAC 12 or BIG 10 team. Ole Miss has done the BIG 12 to death between home and home series with TX Tech, MO, and TX as well as bowl games against OK, OK State, Texas Tech, & TCU. Not to mention Nebraska when they were in the BIG 12. There must be some hidden rule in our athletic department prohibiting us from playing schools on the west coast. Non-conference home and home series are what makes college football great. We should be playing USC, UCLA, Ohio State, or Michigan State in home and home series. I'm a big fan of Ross Bjork but he totally dropped the ball on this neutral site game with TX Tech
I'm right there with you, Mitch. Who wouldn't love to see those home and home match-ups? USC played home and homes with Arkansas and Auburn in the 2000s. Those were great games. (But maybe the fact that we dominated each match-up while going 4-0 is why you don't do schedule teams like us anymore.) However, I think the SEC AD's, Coaches and the SEC Commissioner care more about the easiest path to the College Football Playoff rather than having the most fair and balanced path to the CFP… And people wonder why fans chant "SEC Bias."
Sure,go back almost 20yrs & complain about how the SEC does not want to play teams like USC (btw Bama plays them in less then a month). I don't really think the SEC teams are worried about teams like USC these days. The only people that chant SEC bias is people with to much time on their hands, I rather just enjoy the games & once again. Neutral site games are very popular & they just keep building, they have not taken over h/n/h, just added more excitement to the game.
People forget teams like Ohio State canceling a series with Georgia and Tennessee or Michigan who canceled a series with Arkansas.
Happens all the time…
I have a feeling the people who think this is an SEC problem are only allowed to write in crayon and use a kiddie spoon.
They don't forget, they just don't bring it up & if they have to its all about how the SEC does it all the time & you are correct, it happens all the time among ALL conferences.
Joe and Day,
When the SEC does it, they replace the games with scrub Sunbelt and FCS games. When any other conference does it, they replace the games with another one just like it… Stupid argument.
Not true, Bama cancelled the game with Michigan St & filled it it with USC & FSU.
They play only 1, ONE, JUST ONE Power 5 game!!!! They play just 8 conference games!
Historically, there was great equality in college football up until 2006 when college football expanded from 11 games to 12 games. Whereas the Pac 12 (at the time the Pac 10) expanded to 9 conference games, the other conferences stayed at 8 conferences game. In the case of the SEC, they added an extra cupcake game, which is what no other conference did. (You can make the argument that the ACC did too, but there OOC scheduling is harder. The Big 10 on the other hand had a way stronger OOC schedule). On top of all that, the FCS games, which were not often played before 2006, did not count every year to the bowl requirement. Now it does? Why? There should be no reason why a team that went 2-6 in conference games should go to a bowl game just because they went 4-0 against a very weak OOC schedule.
I'm not trying to hate on the SEC. That's what I want SEC fans to know. However, I want there to be greater schedule balance in the Power 5 conferences. Yes, I understand that the SEC has been up-and-down better than the ACC and Big 10. But what needs to happen in this CFP era so that we get the right teams in the playoff is each team needs to play:
1.) 10 Power 5 games. (I prefer everyone plays 9 conference games and minimum 1 P5 OOC game.)
2.) A championship game.
Only when each P5 conference is put on equal footing will we truly know who deserves to be in the finals.
P.S. ESPN's SoS metric is so ridiculous. It's not an accurate description of toughness of schedule. How can a conference (SEC) that has the easiest OOC schedule (which includes 4 OOC games) have the toughest SoS overall? I know! It's because they have an all but guaranteed 7 more wins by playing 1 less conference game!
I fully agree that home-and-home games at campus stadiums is what makes college football great.
Mississippi St played Oregon in a home and home series in 2003-02. Bulldogs lost both games. So Rebels don't want to come to Autzen. Just like the Razorbacks don't want to come to Autzen, just like…
Where is this "Arkansas doesn't want to come to Autzen" narrative coming from? We only had openings in 2018-19 come up about a month ago. And afaik, neither AD brought up the idea. Some of us fans did.
So what's Ol Miss going to do to fill their 2017 schedule opening?
For 2017, seven programs still need to schedule an additional FBS opponent:
Florida St*, Missi, Tulane*, San Jose St, FIU*, ULL and Troy
(*Florida St, Tulane and FIU still have two games to schedule in 2017.)
Of course they ALL want home games.
And Arizona is still without a P5 OOC opponent but appears they have not been attempting to schedule one (Wildcats have been consistently purposely scheduling weak).
In 2017 Fresno St, San Diego St, Hawaii, San Jose St and BYU can all play an extra game (Hawaii exemption). But none wish to, as it would take away their only bye game (a valuable rarity).
So in 2017 maybe end up with:
Tulane@Missi (or in Superdome?)
San Jose St@Arizona
Troy@Florida St
ULL@Florida St
Florida doesn't prefer to play FCS programs and instead typically schedules an additional G5 opponent. And in 2017 I suspect Florida St wants do the same.
Then expect TCU, Arkansas, Kentucky, Miami-FL, Syracuse, Air Force, UNLV, Tulane, and FIU to schedule a game versus a FCS opponent, as they all want home games.
West Michigan, Akron, Ball State, ULM and Coastal Carolina will also likely opt to play FCS opponent as well, as they all want home games.
Let's be clear, Florida didn't decide they prefer not to play FCS programs until they lost to Georgia Southern a couple of years ago. Before that they scheduled them yearly like the rest of the SEC.
This is a great match-up & we all should really enjoy it in stead of complaining about would've should've could've about a home n home & what could of been. The deal was made & both these teams will be receiving a nice little pay check. I'm happy for both teams.
Read this article and tell me where I'm wrong that the SEC benefits from playing an 8 game conference schedule compared to a 9 game schedule.
This would be an exciting high scoring affair with two of the top offenses in the NCAA.
Great matchup for both teams. Let's hope Tulane can get to a place where they can win one or two before these games happen.
Who knows by the time the 2021 game comes around ,Tulane along with Cincinnati, could be part of the Big 12 Conference. Still have to believe the Big 12 is looking for and speaking to schools about making their conference whole (12) again. These two mentioned schools in many regards make a lot of sense (tv markets, recruiting in two important states for high school football, and finding something closer for West Virginia).
I think Memphis has to be considered on the Big 12's list too. Better overall sports program than Tulane and a much larger school.
I was curious when your Pac-12 and Mtn West helmet schedules might be out? Not trying to be pushy, it's just I love your guys helmet schedule.
Let's see if Stoops will be around for this game. His seat is getting warm.
Seriously Greg? Coach Stoops just took the Sooners to the playoff and is favored to win the Big 12 and return to the playoff and contend for a National Championship. How, pray tell does that and his entire performance as one of the winningest coaches at one of the winningest programs of all time make his seat warm? Either you're an Oklahoma Sooner hater or you're high as a kite!…..#OUDNA
Resume the Battle of the Bell and play Southern Miss – especially since they are bad now and Tulane has a good chance at winning!
Bad now??? 2015 CUSA title. What does Tulane have? I'll tell you what, a 3-9 participation trophy
Why can't the University of Washington schedule teams like Mississippi, TCU and Auburn? At the same time they have Idaho twice, Easten Washington, North Dakota, Sacramento State twice, Portland State,etc. 11 FCS games in 8 years and 4 games against power 5 schools with Rutgers being two of those. Only Michigan in 2020 and 2021 has any appeal.
Ole MIss & Cal are starting to put some nice looking OOC future schedules together. We will see a lot more PAC-12 & SEC collide during regular season.
Cal's OOC schedule is pretty good. Ole Miss' is getting better, but it's still pretty weak. To get respect when you play 8 conference games, you need to play a tougher OOC schedule (at least 2 Power 5 teams). Thanks!!!
One thing about Ole Miss and Miss State is that I'm guessing they'll have more trouble getting top P5 teams to go there. They don't have the prestige of the traditional SEC bluebloods and I don't think they're in a hotbed for recruiting (I'm open to being corrected). I know Ole Miss got Texas a couple of years ago but I don't know how much incentive an Ohio State or USC would have to take a road trip into Starkville or Oxford. They may have to take what they can or play more neutral-site games.
They also have an uphill climb in the SEC as it is, without having to deal with a major OOC foe as well.
You nailed it! Ole Miss & Miss St are a good 8-4 or 9-3 team at best each year or there at the bottom of the SEC with a 3-9 record. Last year these schools had great teams but being in the SEC West they ran into a buzz-saw. Ole Miss & Miss St normally do schedule smaller teams in order to have more wins & make a bowl, in which is better for the conference the school, recruiting & pay. These teams are not that attractive at all when it comes to playing a USC or The Ohio St but if the Mississippi schools keep up these winning ways then they will be but I doubt that will happen due to all the other power houses in the SEC. I luv this match-up cause it gives you PAC-12 vs SEC with two teams that are really never all that hot.
LOL.. I love how you still are spouting the hype of the SEC West…The proved just how overrated they were in their bowl games..Bama beat easily, Ole miss abd Miss St taken behind the wood shed. LSU losing to lowly Notre Dame. Ole Miss and Miss St played garbage OOC guaranteeing 4 wins.
You guys are out of your mind! Ole Miss has to play in division conference games against Bama, LSU, Auburn, Ark, T A&M and the likes of cross division teams like Tennessee, Florida and Georgia. That Western Division SEC Conference is THE juggernaut of ncaa football. They WIPED OSU off the field in the Sugar Bowl and would most likely have been in the National Championship game if Arkansas' BS fluke play hadn't gone their way. Rebels had the 4th highest strength of schedule by end of season. Very hard for ANY team in the SEC West to not have a couple of losses.
I like how California is scheduling. Future schedules have either 2 PA or 1 PA plus an upper tier G5 school. The 3rd OCC is against the FCS, but one weaker game as a tune-up is fine.
"It will also mark the first time Ole Miss has faced an opponent from the Pac-12."
Absolutely pathetic. Get out of your comfort zone, Ole Miss!
This announcement would indicate that they are working on getting out of their comfort zone.
You do know that the SEC and PAC12 haven't met in a bowl game in I don't know how long either. For some odd reason. Other than the national championship. There is much more controlling who these teams play than some want to realize. I may be wrong but the universities don't have much say in which bowl they go to. And yes it is pathetic they haven't played a PAC12 team. I want to see better OOC games and at the same time I want to see better bowls. At least then, at the end of regular season, we can compare equally ranked teams and truly figure out who the best conference is. But the bowl matchups this past year were absolutely pathetic. Somewhat better than in the past but still a long ways to go. The people with the "say" don't give two sh*ts about quality matchups in the bowls, all they care about is money. What has been controlling many of the OOC scheduling in the past. But hey can you blame them.
I think this is how OOC scheduling should go for all FBS teams (minimum)
1 P5 team, 1 G5 team, 1 FCS team.
For conferences that play 4 OOC games, it would go:
FBS teams should be allowed to play FCS team, as the FCS teams actually benefit from it, but it shouldn't count towards bowl eligibility, just played as an exhibition game. That means that teams that tend to finish with 5-6 wins each season would stray from scheduling FCS teams, or they would plan an FCS team as a 13th game.
You should have to go 6-5 or 6-6 at worst against the FBS to be bowl eligible, not 5-6.
NO FCS Games. They are worthless and btw dangerous to FCS athletes. Schools with 85 scholarships are playing a school with 63. Even in FBS if you said some teams get 62 and others got 85 scholarships it would create a large disparity, that's why sanctions like what happened to Penn State and Miami killed their programs when scholarships were reduced. With FCS it's even worse b/c they are dealing with lesser and smaller athletes in general and fewer scholarships. The games are worthless and all conferences should do what the b10 is doing in phasing them out or be like USC, UCLA, and ND who have never played an FCS school. FCS games are also bad for fans. They pay the same money to see a good game or a worthless FCS game. Schools have many reason to get rid of then as mentioned and another is they are becoming more expensive as schools are wanting 800K for them and the games often don't sell out .
How True! Washington was one of the last hold outs with no FCS prior to 2011-and then the damn burst with AD Scott Woodward and getting at least one a year scheduled through 2021-twice as many FCS games from 2015-2021 as Power 5 games (8 vs. 4). 2011-Eastern Washington; 2012- Portland State; 2013- Idaho State; 2014-Eastern Wash and Georgia State; 2015-Sacramento State; 2016-Idaho and Portland State; 2017 & 2021-Montana; 2018-North Dakota; 2019-Eastern Wash; 2020; Sacramento State. Only 4 power5 conference OOC games scheduled for 7 years and 2 are against lowly Rutgers.
In 2014, the UW paid GeorgiaState $900,000 to come to Seattle. There were over 5,000 unsold seats @ $ 30 dollars less than for P% games and at least 15,000 no shows for a Saturday afternoon game in 80 degree weather. The Huskies played listless and trailed at the half 14-0 before winning 42-14. The players were unmotivated to play a lesser team, The gate was reduced by a few hundred thousand, the fans were totally uninterested-I could not give my tickets away.
In 2007, Washington's OOC schedule was- @ Syracuse and @ homw with Boise state and Ohio State. In 2008- BYU, Oklahoma & Notre Dame. 2009-LSU, Idaho, Notre Dame. 2010-BYU, Syracuse & Nebraska.
Fast forward-2014-Hawaii, Eastern washington, Illinois & Georgia State.
2016-Rutgers, Idaho and Portland State. 2017-Rutgers & Montana. 2018- North Dakota (not St.), Nevad and BYU. 2019-Eastern washington, Hawaii, BYU. 2020 Michigan, Sacramento State.
If any one can fin an OOC schedule weaker than that, please advise.
First, FCS games should only be allowed in the spring and at the end of August as pre-season exhibition games – that do not count toward the win-loss record.
Then, all P5 teams should be required to play at least 2 P5 OOC, with at least one on the road or at a neutral site.
The Selection Committee could better compare and rank teams if the P5 conferences play each other more often. The fans would benefit tremendously too.
So, instead of each playing Idaho in a payday home game, USC and Auburn would play EACH OTHER (see 2015).
Instead of playing Georgia Southern, West Virginia and Georgia play EACH OTHER (see 2015, again).
Instead of playing Troy, NC State and Wisconsin or Mississippi St. play EACH OTHER (see 2015).
Agree with no FCS games and I hope other conferences will phase them out like the B10 is doing. They are bad in so many ways. The 2 P5 OOC would be nice but will not happen. The only way you could do it is setting up a system like they do with the ACC/B10 challenge or SEC/B12 challenge in bball. All the schools of the conferences would have to coordinate to specify certain dates for all the games like week 2 or 4 are ACC vs B10 and 3 ad 5 are 12 vs b12 or whatever. Without that level of coordination it would be impossible to assure everybody gets 2 games that fit the right dates. The top programs, if you look at future schedules, are going to 2 P5's most years and when they don't they have 2 p5's they are going with a P5 and a top level mid major.
The first thing I would mandate before 2 p5's OOC would be everyone play a 9 game conf schedule and 1 P5 at a non neutral site. The ACC and SEC don't play 9 games which is logistically asinine with 14 teams Those two conferences also play the most FCS games. In the SEC every team plays one and most years the ACC is the same, I think it was 13 of 14 ACC teams played a FCS last year and the SEC was 14 of 14. Next year both are 14 for 14 while the B10 has 7 and the other conferences have 8
The second mandate would be end FCS games.
I think those 2 things would make a huge difference so teams would be playing 10 of 12's guaranteed vs P5's. The top programs are already scheduling 2 P5's. Ending FCS games would also give some of the better midmajors better scheduling opportunities. Some of that is already happening b/c with the B10 phasing out FCS games they are also have more future home and home series with mid majors as they are also reducing their pure pay games. Part of the b10 strategy by their commissioner was playing each other more which was done by 9 games, playing better OOC games and financially reducing pay games which on average in 2013 cost almost 1 mil per game.
WelL it looks like the Sec is starting to schedule home and home series. Nice to see. Need to see more quality matchups like these. Legit. Great for college football.


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A 57-year-old Holly Hill man was killed Saturday morning in a boating accident on the Halifax River in Edgewater, officials said.
Danny Park died in the south Volusia County crash, which was reported to around 3 a.m., according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Officers found a 14-foot Jon Boat that had run aground on the rocks in the 1500 block of South Riverside Drive.
A recreational fisherman found Park's body about 200 yards from the boat, officials said.
Park was catching shrimp in the Halifax River when the accident happened, officials said.
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A helicopter was damaged in a "hard landing" at Lehigh Valley International Airport just after noon Tuesday.
Emergency crews responded about 12:10 p.m. to what initially was described as a helicopter crash.
The unidentified female pilot was injured, with lacerations on her hand and a contusion on her head, according to an airport spokeswoman. She was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital in Bethlehem.
The injured woman has a private helicopter license and is working toward accumulating hours so she can get her commercial license.
The aircraft received significant damage.
The acccident was described as a "hard landing" by the airport spokeswoman. No word yet on what caused it. It is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration.
The accident did not interrupt airport flight operations.


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Recently, a local blogger "discovered" the Santa Clarita Valley Facilities Foundation and its connection to school site acquisition for the William S. Hart Union High School District.
A quick trip in the way-back machine reveals that this humble columnist wrote a three-installment summary of an examination into the foundation's public financial filings in June 2005.
This immediately brings two things to mind. First, I can't wait to read this blogger's take on the fall of the Berlin Wall and how the Soviet Union will never allow a reunification of Germany.
It also reveals a need to review the purpose of the 11-year-old foundation and its mechanisms for operation.
One can summarize the original purpose of the foundation in a simple phrase: Maximization of state matching funds for school construction.
During the fiscal season that saw the building of West Ranch and Golden Valley high schools and Rancho Pico and Rio Norte junior high schools, the foundation assisted in this undertaking.
A simple example:
Let us address the issue of a developed pad for the construction of a comprehensive high school. (A developed pad includes proper grading, streets and utility service connections.)
The school district can acquire the approximate 50 acres necessary from a friendly property developer for $1 million per acre or a total cost of $50 million, with the state covering $25 million of the cost and the remainder covered by local bonds.
Alternatively, the district can develop its own property by purchasing unimproved land for $200,000 per acre and spending $600,000 per acre for the costs of grading, streets and service connections.
That's a total cost of $40 million, with the state covering $20 million, effectively leveraging the nonprofit status of the district in that it does not need to generate a profit from the effort of development.
The second alternative seems great — and it is — because it saves the district taxpayers $5 million and the aggregate taxpayers $10 million.
But consider a third way: The foundation buys the property, spends the money to develop it, and then sells it to the school for the private-developer market value of $50 million, placing the $10 million in developer profit in a kitty dedicated to the acquisition of future school facilities. And it receive $25 million from the state.
This truly results in a $10 million "windfall" for the district, since it collected an incremental $5 million from the state and still keeps $5 million of local taxpayer money without the necessity of throwing the bucket into the bond well again.
An extra benefit: The federal and state income tax payable by a private developer evaporates, too!
Now one can reasonably disagree on whether this constitutes a good idea or not. Those who take advantage of this third way marginally claw more money from the state than districts that don't, so one might consider a district negligent if it did not maximize the goodies.
However, if everyone engages in the strategy, it only increases the aggregate cost of school construction.
Back in 2005, certain constituencies in the SCV, including the entire editorial board of the Mighty Signal, thought the principals of the Facilities Foundation must have benefited directly and significantly from the school construction with so much money sloshing around.
I found no evidence of wrongdoing, but a continuum exists.
The unschooled in financial matters think one can open a file and find a red invoice detailing a bribe payment, but one finds actual benefits more nuanced.
People who own adjoining property benefit from the introduction of streets and service connections, but that also happens in a commercial development.
The school district's ability to bypass certain local planning rules like a ridgeline ordinance also benefits adjoining property owners.
What about contractors who may receive slightly more for their work than otherwise but still within a reasonable range?
One can argue about this all day long and it generally boils down to one's view of the principals of the foundation and its honesty and veracity.
The foundation certainly did not constitute some grand and dark conspiracy to prevent high school construction in Castaic.
If anything, one could argue that without the foundation, Golden Valley High School might not exist today, and Hart's football team might actually possess a CIF ranking.
So this concludes my five-year review of the Facilities Foundation. I look forward to more edifying remarks from the local blogger when he finds out the Rams moved to St. Louis and the British lost the Crimean War.
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ASBURY PARK — Tierra Morgan-Glover, the 2-year-old Lakehurst girl whose body was found partially submerged in a stream in Wall on Tuesday, was eulogized this morning at Cathedral International in Asbury Park.
Rev. Bernadette Glover-Williams delivered the homily in front of an overflow gathering of about 250 people at the small church.
Meanwhile, a nationwide manhunt continues for Arthur Morgan III, who picked up his daughter on Monday for a court-approved visit but then failed to return her to her mother. The girl was found strapped into her car seat in a stream in Shark River Park.
Imani Benton, the girl's mother, was escorted into the church about 50 minutes into the one-hour viewing that preceded the funeral. She wore an ivory dress with purple shoes and carried a bouquet of purple and white roses that were later laid on Tierra's white casket.
Purple was Tierra's favorite color, according to family members.
The girl was lain in an open casket wearing a white dress with two gold bracelets on her right wrist and purple flowers in her hair. Three people carried it in to the church and were followed with a large stuffed teddy bear.
Benton joined the church on Mother's Day five years ago at the behest of Tierra's father Arthur Morgan III. Morgan's family are longtime members of the congregation.
The parents of Morgan III sat crying on the opposite side of the church. They were occasionally consoled by other mourners.
Family members did not speak during the service.
The girl will be laid to rest later this afternoon at Ocean County Memorial Park in Toms River.
The cause of death was listed as "homicidal violence."
Authorities say the FBI and U.S. Marshals are among several agencies searching for 27-year-old Arthur Morgan III.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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If you have hay fever, you know the cruel irony of waking up on a gorgeous spring morning when the trees and flowers are bursting with blooms, the sound of lawn mowers buzzing in your ears, only to discover you can't breathe.
Not only is your nose clogged tight, your eyes feel as if they contain the half the Sahara desert. As soon as you sit up, the sneezing starts. Then the dripping. Then the coughing as everything loosens up and starts draining down the back of your throat.


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How to Reveal the Killer's Identity (rerun)
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LOL. The first Panel just makes the whole comic. Amazing, as always, Scott.
The hat is a dead giveaway.
Lol old comic but still funny as hell.
I like to watch crime investigation documentaries (not the scripted stuff - it's way too believeable)
Sadly, there are still plenty of police who really just "like" a suspect without processing any evidence to see what it shows...
And then the jury convicts the suspect because he "showed no emotion" (Maybe because he's a little uncomfortable in front of a roomful of people who "just know" he's guilty)
...And then, ten years later, The Innocence Project pays to have the evidence processed, which proves it was somebody else, the prosecutors refuse to admit they made a mistake, but the conviction is overturned anyway, and TRU TV (because we can't spell "true", and anyway, we're not really...) does a documentary.
Scott has it too right - to hell with fingerprints, just book 'im.
ALWAYS wear a bathrobe while investigating a crime scene.
Never trust a man wearing a cumberbund without a bowtie.
I don't know, I only see one person in that room with sinister-looking facial hair (which, as we know, is how you recognize the killer)
Fezzes are cool
I LOVE Colonel Sanders Rick!
The classic Mark Trail approach. Never fails.
I'm so glad I don't live in a country where a bunch of random people can put someone in jail.
This one cracks me up - I've read it a dozen times! Good work Scott.
And a big Hi to any visiting Android users <3
I love any strip with the smoking jacket, Rick's Kentucky Fried Boss Hogg suit, and a fez . . .
My God, is that Xander Crews in panel 2?
If you think this strip is funny, you might appreciate Larry Blamire's excellent movie "Dark And Stormy Night", which is this level of detective work taken to 11 for an hour and a half. Yes, there are smoking jackets! And a fez, worn by an undead floating head called Gunny Gunny Luckcakes. Don't forget to shoo away the tiny invisible balloon mice...
Angry Client would have made an awesome suspect


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Booshank means that something is very good. used as an alternative word for anything good, originating from the best prog in the world BO`SELECTA.
1:that girl is booshank(meaning she is fit as)
2:that kebab was booshank.
3:aivd merrion is booshank. or see `shatpank` meaning the same.
2:that kebab was booshank.
3:aivd merrion is booshank. or see `shatpank` meaning the same.
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Thats a word that means good on the street "the bear" - Bo Selecta
Do you like my new trainers i fink there 'Boo-Shank'
See Also Shat-Pank
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Proper Bo, Very Good, Blingin', Shak Plank, awesome, the shit, brilliant.
this music is fooking boo-shank.
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1) Something is very very good
That dance you just did was just boo shank
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While this one does still have some RPG questions, a lot more of the focus is on scrolling shooters, beat em ups, and platformers.
Let's see how you do! :)
I've got a third one on the way, as well as my write ups for ToS and Borderlands!
Oct 11, 2012 6:06AM PST
While this one does still have some RPG questions, a lot more of the focus is on scrolling shooters, beat em ups, and platformers.
Let's see how you do! :)
I've got a third one on the way, as well as my write ups for ToS and Borderlands!
cool quiz but I think you are leaning on Nintendo and RPG more than anything else. I guess I'm being a sore loser. I'd like to keep doing them but maybe throw in some Sega, Atari, 3D0, and TurboGrafx stuff in there.
I plan on making many many more of these - probably a full series of 10 quizzes in total, and right now I'm going off of what's fresh in my memory - i.e., games I've played within the past year or so, which coincidentally was a lot of SNES RPG's - it will continue to grow more varied :D
Scored a 351. That's sad.
That Rayforce/Layer Section/Galatic Attack question is confusing. I have the JAP version, Layer Section (SAT). I knew Galatic Attack (SAT) was the US version. I still got the answer wrong. I think I read the question wrong.
That was a tough question to formulate, let alone answer - when that game came out, it led to TONS of confusion because of differences in name across all regions PLUS their arcade counterparts - that one is tough for anyone who doesn't have deep knowledge of shootemups!
I did a little better than the last one. The only one I should've known hands down was the "what was 3D Realms previous name". I got it on the second guess, but I'm kicking myself for not getting that one right away. The rest of them I made educated guesses on. I've read a lot about all those games but haven't played many of them yet.
Its one of two things, either i know what you and me play and talk about too much, or i really need to get a life hahahaha
And I'm not sure how I managed to do that well, lol.
On what generation of gamer you are, and how insanely dumb your level of memory is with useless video game trivia, which mine is a bit too high, but what can you do :P My brain was wired to remember stupid details about games older than I am - tis a blessing and a curse.
I just did both of them... 602 on the first, but that was largely luck; I guessed at a lot of them. V2 went much better; I knew most of those and got 808. Good stuff! Love the FFVI questions :)
Yeah I really wanted these to be challenging, not only because I want people to really think about the questions, but because it also gives me a good opportunity to write really informative extra info at the end of each question, so even if you don't do so well, you should still pick up on something new about games you're both familiar with and not so, so it's a learning experience above all :D


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: to make (someone) quiet, calm, or still
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The woman in the seat behind me was trying to hush her baby.
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back-formation from husht hushed, from Middle English hussht, from huissht, interjection used to enjoin silence
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IN THE MOOD for dinner and a show? Why not combine the two at a restaurant that pampers guests with a theatrical approach to topflight service?
Truly inspired tableside service is more than just a turn of the pepper mill or a ladle of sauce over a dessert. Once confined to the tossing of a Caesar salad or the preparation of a flaming dessert, tableside service can now range from over-the-top eatertainment - dramatic cocktail shaking, customized guacamole, baked Alaska delivered a la minute - to the more refined attentiveness that involves the skillful boning of Dover sole or precise carving of a rack of veal for two.


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HOUSTON - Rosemary Larson, 90, died Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Fairview Cemetery in Pampa with the Rev. Carl Novian, associate pastor of the First Baptist Church of Pampa, officiating. Arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors of Pampa.
Mrs. Larson was born Aug. 25, 1917, in Blossom. She was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church in Houston.
Survivors include a daughter, Jane Ramsey of Houston; a son, Jerry Larson of Allen; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
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Prior to visiting the park, lead the class in the following activities:
View the movie "Nez Perce Portrait of a People" (many schools/school districts have purchased this & it is available for sale at the park visitor center for $19.95).
Before watching the film, pose the question "what do you think "culture" means" before and after the movie. Other questions to consider:


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A female who is straight until she is wet.
That bitch is a spaghetti lesbian. (Spahghetti is straight until you cook it by getting it wet)
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Flappy Bird is to return in August with a brand new multiplayer feature, creator Dong Nguyen has told CNBC.
The mobile smash hit was pulled from digital stores back in February after Nguyen said that its popularity "ruins [his] simple life". "I hate it," he added.
Nguyen later said that Flappy Bird was "gone forever", but things appear to have changed since.
Further details on the re-release have yet to be revealed.
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Tutti Melon
10919 N. Wolfe Rd.
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Despite the high Asian population where my parents live, the San Jose/South Bay Area was slow to pick up on the frozen yogurt trend. I remember coming home on several occasions and being shocked that there didn't exist a single Asian self-serve frozen yogurt chain. However, once it started, the yogurt places started to pop up like crazy. It got very competitive and you'll find that most yogurt places charge .30/oz for the self-serve joints (whereas the average in SD is still about .38/oz)
On my last trip home, I've noticed that it's become so competitive due to so many new stores opening, that a lot of the yogurt places are trying to come up with new ideas to distinguish themselves from the rest. One trend I noticed was the offering of fresh made gelato. As a big gelato lover, this is one trend I'm digging and I hope it catches on in San Diego.
Usually, I get my gelato fix from Italian bakeries. The Asian frozen yogurt joints offer a lot of "Asian flavored" gelatos like green tea, along with the traditional Italian offerings like hazelnut, pistachio, chocolate hazelnut.
I saw the new Tutti Melon on my way to Fantasia for my usual taro milk tea treat. I decided to stop by inside. The yogurt offerings included a lot of the more tropical fruits I enjoy such as passionfruit, papaya. However, they were all tart, and I'm not a big fan of tart yogurt. Instead, I opted to try the gelato instead.
After much debating, I decided to try the green tea and honey lavender. The consistency of the gelato was just right: thick, dense and creamy. The flavors were intense, as they should be with gelato. The honey lavender was dripping with honey that was almost chewy. I really liked the gelato here.
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A couple of years ago, my friend who lives in the Peninsula area was visting here. She hadn't heard of the self-serve frozen yogurt places that were starting to pop up all over SD at that time. I guess that area has caught up now!
I still haven't made it to Yogurtland, but Yogurt World on Mira Mesa was charging $.30/oz last week.
I've only been to the Mira Mesa location once, and I was kind of disappointed that it didn't offer as many flavors and toppings as the one on Convoy. But .30/oz is tempting!


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Kevin received degrees in theatre from the University of Texas at Austin (BFA in acting and directing) and the University of Houston (MFA in scenic and lighting design). He has designed shows for Main Street Theatre (The Reluctant Dragon, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Stages Repertory Theatre (Rounding Third, Always Patsy Cline, Grey Gardens, Speech and Debate, Ferdinand the Bull, and The Marvelous Wonderettes), the Catastrophic Theatre Company (Spirits to Enforce, Hunter Gatherers, Life is Happy and Sad, and Blue FInger), Brave Dog Player (Reckless), Mosaic Theatre (This is Our Youth), The Back Porch Players (Jewtopia), Mildred's Umbrella (The Last Five Years), The Classical Theatre Company (Tartuffe), Rice University (The Beggars Opera), and the University of Houston (The Danube, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman). Kevin directed Red Light Winter, Fault Lines and Among the Thugs for Horse Head Theatre Co., and is the current artistic director for Horse Head Theatre Co.
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Cheryl L. Kaplan Zachariah is in her third year teaching for the Drama Department at San Jacinto College South. She has worked as a Writer, Director, Teaching Artist and Theatre Arts Integration Specialist with a variety of theatres, universities and organizations across the country in various roles bringing theatre to the community in both traditional and non-traditional theatre settings. Some collaborators include Main Street Theater, The Alley Theatre, The Ensemble Theatre, The Strand Theatre, SecondStory Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, The Village Theatre, Stage One, and organizations such as Mothers for Clean Air, The AIDS Coalition, The American Heart Association, Teen Health Clinics, and Resource and Crisis Center of Galveston County. For Main Street Theater's MainStage, Ms. Kaplan Zachariah has directed The Busy World Is Hushed and Homebody / Kabul (both in the Houston Chronicle's Best of 2007) and Awake and Sing! (Houston Chronicle's Best of 2009), which was critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal 2009. She received the EPA Clean Air Excellence Award for her program Ozone Theater and the Linn Wright Special Recognition Award from the American Alliance for Theater and Education for the uniqueness and efficacy of her programs in the community. She has a B.A. from Indiana University and an M.F.A. in Directing for the theater from University of Iowa. Ms. Kaplan Zachariah has enjoyed living in the Houston area for seven years.


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November 7th, 2011
Hung Glider
Good one. Maybe just add a level of pedestrians who are getting whapped in the back of the head.
amazing yet again chris. watch out for the hungry flock of birds… that worm could feed the whole lot of em.
hey do you draw most of these in flash?
All the animated ones are in Flash, although I have a traditional/Flash hybrid idea in the works.
that breeze must be so refreshing
I'm guessing it's a warm breeze..?
lolz nice work dood! another classic!
Thanks DG!
That's what I call "Sky Anchor"…
hahahah hung glider
It's like the clouds are gently bouncing against it! Ride the friendly skies indeed!
Hahaha love it
Oh sure, it all looks like fun and games here, but think about trying to use an escalator or ride a tandem bike. You wouldn't love it then, Justin. You wouldn't love it then…
HAHAHAHAH! Oh man it took me a short while til I realised what I was looking at…FUNNY!!!!….now distracted….GAWD WHY CANT I STOP STARING!?!?!
It's not polite to stare, Tu-Anh!
god gave me eyes to stare! blame HIM for my rudeness!!!! 😛
@Tequiero21 – I read an interview with them where they talekd about it and the only thing I'm concerned about is that they don't have a "plan" for where the series is going to go, but I guess it's supposed to be more a character-exploration show, like LOST was, so it should be good!
Is it me or is he getting invisibly motorboated?
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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani troops killed 80 militants and drove the Taliban from a major urban stronghold on Wednesday, the army said, as U.S. military planes brought aid for refugees fleeing fierce fighting across the northwest.
One soldier was killed and nine seriously wounded as troops battled insurgents still holding several other towns in the neighboring Swat Valley, a military spokesman said.
Launched Offensive
Pakistani troops launched an offensive last month after Taliban militants based in Swat pushed into Buner, bringing them within 60 miles (100 kilometers) of the capital of Islamabad and prompting intense U.S. pressure for a stiff response.
Government forces cleared Sultanwas, the main Taliban-held town in Buner, overnight following intense clashes, army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said.
He said troops destroyed several vehicles used by black-clad militants and defused a string of homemade bombs.
"Sultanwas was the main stronghold of terrorist-miscreants in Buner, where they have made concrete underground bunkers and ammunition dumps," Abbas said.
The army claims it has killed more than 1,000 militants and re-claimed swaths of territory recently seized by the militants.
Civilians Flee Homes
However, the clashes have prompted some 1.5 million people to flee their homes, a humanitarian emergency that could sap Pakistani enthusiasm for similar action against other Taliban and al-Qaida sanctuaries near the Afghan border.
Relatives have taken in many of those fleeing. However, more than 100,000 refugees are housed in sweltering camps south of the war zone.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced Tuesday that Washington would provide $110 million in immediate humanitarian assistance to Pakistan.
As part of that effort, two American military planes touched down on Wednesday at an air base near Islamabad laden with supplies including air-conditioned tents and 120,000 pre-packed meals, the U.S. Embassy said.
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The character posters keep coming for 'Captain America: The First Avenger,' with the latest featuring a helmetless Chris Evans as the superhuman superhero against an American flag backdrop.
The second trailer for the film, which opens July 22, continues the recent Marvel tradition of scoring superhero punches to metal bands. Sure, Iron Man and Black Sabbath were a natural combo, now it's Captain America and Tool. Sadly, unless there's a fanvid out there, Thor never swung his hammer to the strains of Led Zeppelin's Viking-tastic 'Immigrant Song.' (Though we love the Trent Reznor and Karen O cover for 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.')
The All-American poster and Tool-heavy trailer are after the jump.
In the trailer, we see more of villain Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving, who's so damn good at this villainry thing), some training sequences proving Tommy Lee Jones is as drolly disapproving as ever, explosive action and a kiss with female lead Hayley Atwell.
What do you think? Do you prefer the retro poster where our hero is delivering a haymaker to Hitler?
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My favorite tricks and treats are: Frankie runs and talks... Too funny! When he is mad he literally tells you off! and Fresh tuna.
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i just watched supernatural. it's my favorite show. does that make me lame? anyway, i love it. today, we watched Death's Door, which is when they "loose" bobby singer. I'm assuming he went with the reaper because if he didn't, and those boys have to hunt him, that's gonna be pretty terrible if you ask me. horrifying.
anyway, don't tell me what happens after if you watch the show, NZ isn't through the season yet. we're only up to episode 10.


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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
The Goose Creek city limit has inched its way a little further down Howe Hall Road.
Goose Creek City Council passed a second and final reading of an ordinance to annex 2.35 acres of land at 128 Howe Hall Road. This action took place at the regular Aug. 13 meeting at city hall.
A mini-storage facility currently sits on the property, according to Goose Creek Public Information Officer Jesica Mackey.
The first reading of the ordinance took place at a special July 25 council meeting.
At this meeting City Administrator Dennis Harmon said the property owner approached the city about the annexation.
"The developer proposed to build a grocery center," Harmon said on July 25. "We have been pursing that for some time now."
According to Harmon about 80 percent of the land is wetlands, which presents a problem. "The property closest to the road is where the facility would have been considered."
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Russian Face to Face because it has a 1993 copyright.
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An aging baby boomer on a quest for meaning, Kate Talkingtree is carrying around a boatload of anger, the accumulation of years of being condescended to and tending to the needs of everyone but herself. Where better to unload her burden than into a mighty river? The bulk of this slender novel takes place by the Amazon, where a shaman leads Kate and a group of fellow seekers whose lives are a symphony of misery (rape, incest, oppression). The travelers share camaraderie, spiritual talk and a mind-altering native drug.
Most of the thinly imagined characters are just props for Kate's voyage of discovery and what she learns will strike some readers as mere New Age hooey (we are told to respect the healing powers of yagé, "the grandmother medicine") mixed with familiar diatribes about how the white man caused the Third World's miseries. But Walker's evocative prose will please her fans: "Everything was in motion. If she listened closely, she could distinguish slithering, sliding, jumping, hopping, ambling, crawling, flying." And few will disagree with the 'Central theme of the book that getting older brings its own rewards. "Age is power," Kate tells her lover when she returns home. "Or it can be if it isn't distracted by shopping and cooking and trying to look nineteen."


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All speculations...MM says there won't be one. I am not going to sit in front my PC (or backwards on my toilet facing my laptop *looking at tsel*) this time. Will try to finish Deus Ex instead, which by the way, is an awesome game.
Isn't it? I still play it once in a while even with my backlog growing. There is something that draws me to that game


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Candlelight ceremony unites LeJeune, Thibodeaux
Julie Christine LeJeune and Francis Shawn Thibodeaux, both of Crowley were united in marriage during a 7 p.m. candlelit ceremony officiated by the bride's father, Rod LeJeune on Saturday, December 12 at the Gueydan Civic Center.
Julie is the daughter of Rod and Kathy LeJeune of Baton Rouge. Her grandparents are Wallace "Gordy" LeJeune and Lillie LeJeune of Iota, and Jacob White and the late Julie B. White of Jennings.
She is a 2008 graduate of Iota High School, attended Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and is currently enrolled in the Nursing program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Francis is the son of Alvin and Kathy Thibodeaux of Egan. He is the grandson of Eula Sonnier and the late Obray Sonnier of Crowley, and the late Frank Thibodeaux and Ada Thibodeaux of Crowley.
He is a 2007 graduate of Iota High School, attended Louisiana State University of Baton Rouge, and has plans to attend the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the spring.
Ushering guests down the candlelit aisle was Eddie Gettys, brother-in-law of the bride.
The altar was accentuated by a garland decorated arch amidst red decorations within.
The bride escorted by her parents, the bride was radiant in a vintage gown that featured a lace overlay and a sweetheart neckline. The ensemble was completed by a cranberry sash at the waist that flowed into simple train and a small tiara that held an elbow-length veil.
She carried a bouquet of deep red roses accented with ivory calla lilies.
Traditional items she incorporated into her special day included her grandmother's pins as something old; her dress and shoes as something new; her tiara as something borrowed, and her garter as something blue.
Serving as matron of honor was Hannah L. Gettys, sister of the bride. Maid of honor was Tierney LeJeune, sister of the bride.
Serving as bridal attendants were Amber Thibodeaux, sister of the groom; Hanna Johnson, friend of the bride, and Addie Sonnier, cousin of the groom.
Junior bridesmaids attending were Hannah Lanclos, friend of the bride, and Payton Adams, friend of the groom.
Attendants were attired in floor-length gowns of cranberry apple of all different designs, some satin and others chiffon.
Each carried handheld bouquets of deep red roses and white calla lilies.
Attending as best man was Alvin Thibodeaux, father of the groom. Groomsmen were Sam Aguillard and Brandon Smith, friends of the groom; William LeJeune, brother of the bride, and Myles Sonnier, cousin of the groom.
Attending as flower girl was Haley Lanclos, friend of the bride, who was escorted by ring bearer Caden Gettys, nephew of the bride.
A reception immediately following was held at the same location. Accenting the reception area were rose centerpieces atop guest tables.
The bride's cake was a white square three-tiered confection with brown ribbon bordering each tier. The top of the cake featured a bouquet of rose and calla lilies.
On the eve of the wedding, the parents of the groom hosted a rehearsal dinner of sausage and seafood gumbo at their home.


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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Having just moved into their permanent home in April, Crabpot Theatre has been bustling with summer performances, camps and classes, but among all the events, they have had their minds focused on the future.
The theatre company just announced their season 22 production schedule and plan to hold auditions July 14-16.
Their largest season to date boasts shows including, "Greater Tuna," "Cinderella," "The Glass Menagerie," "Hogs," "Charlotte's Web, one-acts during the winter holiday and again in the spring, and an original script entitled "Shem Creek" written by Jimmy Ward to premiere during Fleet Week in April 2015. Season passes are now on sale and are discounted until mid-July. To raise funds for the productions, Crabpot is hosting "Burgers and Brews," a summer cookout fundraiser on Saturday, August 9 that will include food, beer and live entertainment with admission.
Before they jump into their upcoming season, though, Crabpot is finishing the summer with a bang.
They have two summer camps to go, as well as an "Acting for the Camera" class for adults, and a "Fundamentals of Acting" class for teens.
If you're interested in seeing them in action before the start of the season, the second series of "Summer Stock" shows for one weekend only, July 24-26 at 7 p.m.
For more information on auditions, season passes, productions, tickets, Burgers and Brew, camps or classes, visit their website at www.crabpotplayers.com or give them a call at 888-303-0763. The theatre is located at 1137 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. in the Stuckey Furniture shopping center off Highway 17 in Mount Pleasant.
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IISS and DCAF are searching for talented individuals aged 35 or under from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro including Kosovo to participate in a fully funded conference in Geneva from 2-4 October.
The Young Faces Conference 2003 seeks to bring together young scholars, NGO activists, journalists and government officials and give them an opportunity to engage with prominent international experts in a broad debate concerning contemporary issues of global and regional security.
Selection is through submission of a paper chosen from a list of topics. Selected papers will later also be published.
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