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A woman has shared her labour and birth via social media – tweeted TMI details, gritty Facebook photos and all.
Ruth Iorio, a Los Angeles writer, told Huffington Post that she wanted to show her "unique experience, whether attractive or not, and just to be honest about it". And over the course of her 12-hour labour, she and her husband showed the messy, painful and ultimately rewarding reality of a home birth.
The birth wasn't without its difficulties; after baby Nye's birth, Iorio was taken to hospital for complications arising from her placenta not detaching properly. She remained there for two days under obvservation after receiving a blood transfusion.
Now, however, Iorio is at home enjoying life with her husband and new son.
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Angela Wilson
Angela Wilson, LMHC, RYT 500, is a Kripalu faculty member who teaches the science of yoga. Formerly on the faculty of Kripalu's Institute for Extraordinary Living, Angela conducted research on the scientific benefits of yoga and coauthored a well-cited scientific theory paper entitled, "Potential Self-Regulatory Mechanisms of Yoga for Psychological Health." She also teaches mind-body stress reduction programs to health-care workers and has contributed to Yoga International and Yoga Therapy Today, writing about the intersection between yoga, Western psychology, and science.
Playing with Fire: The Power of Tapas to Help Us Fulfill Our Intentions
We apply tapas in any moment when we consciously go against the grain of our conditioned way of being and engage in a new behavior or way of thinking.
Yoga and Trauma: Reclaiming the Body
Yoga can offer tools to come back into the body, empowering students to begin reclaiming their inner experience.
Your Brain on Mindfulness Meditation
One of the most well-known and utilized tools in meditation and yoga is the practice of self-observation without judgment, or mindfulness. Swami Kripalu...
Three Steps for Stopping Negative Self-Talk
For people with depression, rumination is pervasive. A tool that helps them move the mind away from those thoughts can be more helpful than talk therapy alone.
Why Yoga Increases Feelings of Connection
While many people turn to yoga to reduce stress, an equal number go to yoga class in order to experience a greater sense of connection.
The Science of Breath
Pranayama, or the regulation of breath, is an essential part of yoga practice.
How Yoga Changes the Brain
For many of us, the practice of yoga helps us feel calmer and more soothed.
Small Amounts of Loving-Kindness Meditation Lead to Big Change
One increasingly popular form of meditation is loving-kindness meditation (LKM), the practice of wishing one's self and others to be happy and at ease.
Relationships as Spiritual Practice
Not long ago, a student asked me, "What do you think has been the most healing experience of your yoga practice?" The question gave me pause. My mind...
Ask the Expert: Meditation for Beginners
In this edition of Ask the Expert, Angela Wilson, a senior Kripalu faculty member and Project Leader for the Institute for Extraordinary Living's Frontline...
Four Ways to Strengthen Your Stress Resilience
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Can Yoga Defeat the "Silent Killer"?
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Yoga as a Tool for Self-Regulation
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Yoga and Positive Emotions
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1 – What is the www.solutionsforwater.org?
The Solutions for Water is an online community platform launched by the International Committee for the 6th World Water Forum to collect solutions related to water problems. The platform is:
- an online knowledge hub offering concrete solutions to water problems worldwide
- a professional social networking site for people, institutions, organisations, companies and NGOs working in the water sector
2 – For whom is the Solutions for Water platform and who contributed?
The Solutions for Water platform is for anyone interested in finding concrete solutions to specific water problems across the entire world. Providers of solutions are NGOs, government ministries, international organisations, research institutions and private companies working in the water sector.
3 – What is a solution?
Solutions (existing or innovative) can be legal (a law, a decree, a treaty…), technical (an appropriate device, a plant, a tool, a software…), institutional (governance structures, plans, policies…), financial (levy, transfers, tariffs…) or educational (advocacy campaigns, videos, leaflets…). Click here for more details.


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A resource for a discussion list ostensibly dedicated to The Mighty Fall. Frequented by the sick and weak.
Remember to reload this page. Something may have changed (although I doubt it) since you last had too much free time on your hands and made this pathetic journey.
It's the New Thing! So maybe it's really a bit old, but you really should take a peek of this Step Forward promotional postcard. Thanks, Kovin.
Gig Reviews
Interview with Mark E. Smith
by Tony Herrington
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How to Spot a Deltic
Comix Featuring The Fall
Kovin's Gems
Other Fall resources:
- The Fall Lyrics Parade brought to us by Jeff Curtis & Jonathan Kandell
- A gentle introduction to the Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall brought to us by Christoph Lüth
- The Biggest Library Yet thoughtfully provided by ISDN'er Graham Coleman
- Stefan Cooke's gigography-in-progress
- The "Official" Fall Home Page Now ed by Rich Kidd, Jeff Curtis, and Stefan Cooke
- The Fall: Ephemera and...a handsome site with interviews and scans of rare, early singles courtesy of Bruce Tiffee
- The Rough Guide to The Fall—a seriously long and somewhat accurate history of the band, complete with line-up changes
- Entry for The Fall in a database of submitted reviews maintained by Andy Burnett
- A gallery of Fall album (and a handful of singles) covers courtesy of our man "Arid" Al Angen


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JungleYard.com was a company I started 2 months ago.
I created this site because I've had many people contact me for creating simple one page websites so I knew there was a market for it. There aren't any companies out there that just specializes in selling one page sites.
But I decided to sell because I am now working on another company which I want to focus on so I'm putting this site on the market for anyone else to take over.
What I'm selling here is the site and a domain so you get everything you need and just start promoting the site to get clients.
You should be able to find many quality 1-page templates out there, such as themeforest and wrapbootstrap so you can resell those and flip them relatively easily.
What makes this site special is the design. I paid over $15k for the design alone and this type of design is something you will not find anywhere else at this price. You should be able to run a nice profitable business in a short time with this.
With a design like this, it will be a great way to start building your new business around.
With this site, a single customer can net you $500/year. It'd be up to you to get clients but I'm sure you guys are better at that than I am.
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So all you need to do is just get clients and I'll provide the rest.
The reserve price is just $1k as the starting bid because as a first timer on flippa, I wasn't sure what to expect.
Jungleyards hasn't made any sales to be honest but it's because I have never marketed it. Marketing has never really been my specialty, all I'm good at doing is building sites.
As for CMS, it's built on top of Zend Framework, I have made my own custom CMS out of it, which you can check it out at jien2.jaequery.com. It has ability to do everything from blogs, forums, ecommerce, anything that needs custom-made it can do it.
As for the rate I'll charge flat fee of $250/site for now to integrate a theme of your choice into my CMS. The more sites you bring in, I'll lower it even to $100 range. The initial time of converting a theme to work w/ CMS is the only work involved and after that you can just sell them as you please.
I'm also the founder of stiqr.com, which lets you do graphical changes on your site real-time, so I'm looking to integrate that to this CMS sometime shortly. That will definitely get a lot of interest soon, and it's something I'm working full-time on now.
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- Fees upon fees upon fees
- Completely unreliable fares
- Fuel surcharges on fuel they paid for months ago
- Fare guarantees that are wiped out by change fees
- Weird overhead bin policies and behaviors
- The small but obvious minority of airline employees "having a bad day" and venting on customers
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In their fickleness, inclination to change the rules to suit themselves, inconsistency with punishments, overplay of their power advantage and infantilization of their customers, the airlines are very much like a bad authority figure. I thought of many ways to title this article -- Bad Boss, Bad Baby-sitter, Bad Merchant, Bad Nanny State, Bad Teacher, Bad Friend, Bad Judge, Bad Parent, Bad Name-Not-Fit-to-Print -- so let's do them all! Without further hesitation...
Airplane Horror Stories
The Bad Boss
From "Dilbert" to "The Office," bosses are often depicted as responding to an overworked employee by giving him or her more work. A correlative airline behavior might be a recent experience New Jersey-based educator Ann Laurence had with US Airways. Laurence had booked a flight to Boston with the airline, but found out the day before her flight that a family member on the West Coast had taken very ill. She called US Airways in hopes of switching the Boston flight to a different flight out west on the same day.
It may have been the same day, the same airline, the same traveler and a compelling reason, but US Airways would not make the change. They forced Laurence to purchase a new full-fare flight to the West Coast, and gave her a "credit" on her original flight -- subject, of course, to a $150 change fee if and when she actually used it (a fee that was almost half the cost of the original flight).
"Sure, we can take this project off your desk for now. Here, do this other one -- then you can complete the original one."
Seven Ways to Bypass Baggage Fees
The Bad Baby-Sitter
My recent experience with bad baby-sitters usually comes down to a sitter who says she wants the job, but, as you discover later, doesn't actually want to deal with, you know, kids.
Years ago the airlines lowered prices, attracting a much larger and less affluent customer base, then cried that they couldn't afford to provide service at those prices and didn't really like the class of people they attracted. Now they routinely blame their own tremendously successful low prices for all the things they now inflict on passengers.
The airlines, which became rich, large and intertwined in the lives of regular Americans by offering very affordable (and sometimes absurdly low) airfares, now regularly complain that travelers want very affordable (and sometimes absurdly low) airfares. It was not travelers who set fares so low that regular folks would buy them -- now they're mad that we bought them?
The Bad Merchant
Everyone has visited a store where prices are not displayed prominently, if at all, and every trip you make to the register feels like an improvisation based on how much of a sucker you look like that day. Or perhaps it is more programmatic than that; for example, the Valero gasoline chain recently got into some legal hot water for failing to display its credit card prices, which were higher than the prominently posted cash prices. A lot of customers felt they had been hoodwinked into paying the higher price.
The airlines take this a step further, charging you extra almost no matter how you pay for your flights. For example, Allegiant charges a fee to book by phone, and a fee to book online -- what else is there? In this case, isn't the fee really just part of the fare? That these folks are allowed to advertise low base fares without the fees is a travesty.
The Bad Nanny State
The term "nanny state" has taken on a very loaded political meaning, but maybe that makes it all the more appropriate here. The phrase is used to disparage situations where constituents are assumed by policy makers not to be able to think and choose for themselves. Let's forget for now that some of the choices they are said to be making with full knowledge and consent are "drinking poisoned tap water" and "eating known carcinogens" and see how it applies to the airlines. In my case, it was when an airline did not look out for our interests at all.
On a recent bumpy Continental flight, the seatbelt signs finally went dark, and I sprinted my 4-year-old boy to the back of the plane from our seats near the front. When we arrived, the flight attendant was pushing out the food cart, and said, "You'd better hurry up or you're not getting back to your seat." We went as fast as we could, and literally ran back up the aisle to our seats. The cart was already blocking our aisle, however -- we missed by one row. The attendant refused to let us back in our seats, forcing us to stand in the galley in the back of the plane until the food service was complete. When the cart finally reached us, the attendant barked, "Move over! Move ALL THE WAY over!!" Having forced a 4-year-old (and four other adults) to stand for 20 minutes on a bumpy flight, she also felt the need to scold everyone.
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Our exclusive top floor duplex apartment is designed for the needs of vacationers & business travellers, newly renovated & comfortably furnished & equipped with all amenities, which will enhance your stay in Munich to make you feel good. The peaceful location & the sunny garden with patio facing south west are ideal to relax or rest your self after stressful days at work. Our house has: Designer-bathroom/toilet with bath tub/shower, living room with sofa bed, stereo, 42" flat screen TV, walk-in closet, kitchenette with dishwasher, exclusive dining area, TV/audio, highspeed internet. The bedroom has a double bed, flat screen TV, dresser. Garderobe at the apartment entrance with shoe rack. The living area is approximately 60m². Additional bedroom for reservation on the first floor (15m²) has double bed, closet, TV / DVD, dressers, table, 2 chairs, wireless internet access. Garden can be used.
Bed linen & towels are always included!
Here is a short overview of our rooms and the offer: Our exclusive guest house, bungalow and top floor duplex apartment are specially designed for the needs of vacationers and business travelers, newly renovated and comfortably furnished and equipped with all amenities, which will enhance your stay in Munich and make you feel good. The peaceful location and the sunny garden with patio facing south west are ideal to relax or unwind your self after stressful days at work. All housing units have: kitchenette with dishwasher, designer bathroom/toilet with bath tub or shower, living room with sofa bed, dining area, TV / audio, tel / fax / high speed internet, 2 bedrooms, garden. Internet connection with flat rate, telephone, fax, flat screen TV, DVD-player, movies on DVD, stereo, radio alarm with CD in the bedrooms, there are many of free parking in front of the house, beverage.
Services available: See price list
Area information: On foot or with the car, you can reach diverse restaurants (Bavarian, Italian, Greek, Viennese, MC Donald's, café, snack bar, disco, pubs, etc.), indoor swimming pool, shopping facilities such as Real, Aldi , Lidl, Norma, Obi, media-market, Takko, DM, shopping ring, shopping center, medical center, Forstenrieder alley metro station (U3), central bus terminal, car repair, gas station, motorbike rentals, BMW/Mercedes/Audi/VW/Skoda/ Opel/Renault/Porsche subsidiary. It takes 2 mins by car to the Munich-Garmisch highway, 5 mins to the Munich-Lindau highway, 10 mins to the Munich-Salzburg highway, 15 mins to the Munich-Stuttgart highway, 25-30 mins to the Munich Trade Fair Centre, 10 mins to the zoo. 15 mins to the German Museum. Without a car it takes 3 mins to the subway U3, with the metro/city train about 15 mins to Marienplatz, 30 mins to Allianz Arena, 30 mins to the Olympic stadium, 15 mins to the German Museum, 30 mins to the trade fair.
More facilities: Cellular, telephone/fax, high speed internet - flat rate, 3 TVs with DVD-player, CD-audio unit, radio, CD/DVD-collections, home library, trouser press, hairdryer, grill, garden furniture, awning and sun loungers. **FUERSIE2010**
Preisliste Munichappartement, Belegung tageweise: Dachgeschoss-Wohnung/Tag belegt mit einer Person, Selbstversorger: Siehe Preisliste, inklusive Bettwäsche, Handtücher, Geschirrtücher, Nebenkosten.
Zusatzkosten pro Zusatzperson/Tag 10 €
Endreinigung obligatorisch pro Aufenthalt 60 €
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Stayed in the top floor apartment with two other couples and it was perfect. Very close to the underground trains for getting to downtown and amenities nearby. Was very clean and the hosts even left us chocolate on easter!
Nice location. Near the underground to get a quick trip downtown. Well appointed and equipped. Only complaint is the step to the attic bedroom was little more than a ladder.
Also they combination of pictures is confusing on the website. Bedroom combinations; cottage, ect.
Everything was wonderful, and we enjoyed Christmas Munich very much. Nice appartment with cozy living room and comfortable kitchen.
Thank you, Martina and Reinhard! We will surely visit your house again, when in Munich.
The house and location is good and the bathroom for top floor is wonderful and also the bedroom at the top. The owner is nice to give us a bottle of wine and other drinks to welcome us. We enjoyed staying in the house. I would give 5 stars if 1. The owner wil teach us how to use all the equipment; No one taught us how to use any of the CD, DVD player, etc-they are in German. 2. I could not get in touch with the owner to let them know we are leaving; 3. The telephone was not working and so were the fax and printer. On the website, it says that they have phone and fax, but they did not work. If they fix all these problems, we would like to come back. Thanks so much for the wine and drinks.
We had a wonderful & relaxing time in Munich, thanks to this great vacation rental house by Mr. Taubmann. It was the most unstressful time we have ever had. Our week in this home was absolutely fantastic. The location of the home is very nice, lot of greenery around. The bedrooms are very comfortable, the kitchen nice sized and very well equipped. We had everything we needed for a great week. Supermarkets and underground metro U3 is very near (just few minutes walk away).
This house is better than advertised. It was such a pleasure to arrive and find the house in immaculate condition with all the ammenities at your disposal. The owner was super easy to deal with and everything went smooth as silk.
I would certainly rent this home again if the opportunity to travel to Munich presents itself, and I hope it does. Thank you for sharing your magical home with us.
This rental was great--very up-to-date and comfortable. Our 3 children slept in the sleeping room, we slept upstairs. Feel free to ask Herr Taubmann ANY questions regarding the unit. They even have a laundry service. Close to U-Bahn, nice quiet neighborhood. Very clean.
Situated in the district of Solln/Forstenried in the suburbs of Munich, our exclusive guest house, the exclusive top floor duplex apartment and our bungalow are waiting to provide a feel-good atmosphere away from home for guests from all around the world. Located with good transport connectivity and yet in an absolutely calm surrounding, you can enjoy the infrastructure of one of the most beautiful neighbourhood of Munich. We have the underground transport/ bus terminal 500 m away from the house, numerous shops, restaurants and Doctor's clinics lie 2 minutes away from the Garmisch highway, 5 minutes from the beltway A 99 and 7 minutes from A 8 Munich-Salzburg. The zoo is just 5 minutes away, Allianz Arena 30 minutes, Olympic stadium 15 minutes, downtown 15 minutes, Bad Toelz 30 minutes, Garmisch 45 minutes, Salzburg 80 minutes, Augsburg 40 minutes. You can use your car without any parking problems, but it is ideal to use the best transport links as an alternative.
Ski: You can reach the Ski resort Schliersee by car within about 35 minutes. The Ski resort Lenggries/Brauneck is 45 minutes drive away.


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The running costs of Boris Johnson's £60 million Thames cable car are set to hit £6 million in its first year.
Transport for London has admitted operating costs of around £500,000 a month since the sponsored scheme, called the Emirates Air Line, was launched by the Mayor last June.
More than 1.7 million passengers have already taken the five-minute trip between North Greenwich and the Royal Docks, surpassing its first-year target of 1.3 million trips.
But passenger numbers have fallen from 180,000 a week during the Olympics to as few as 300 travellers a day, leading for demands for the Mayor to do more to attract commuters and cyclists rather than marketing it as a tourist attraction. Last month about 20,000 passengers a week used the cable car.
Now a freedom of information request has laid bare the operating cost to TfL in addition to the £15.5 million it had to pay towards the construction costs, despite Mr Johnson's hopes of building it "entirely from private finance".
TfL spent £2.296,000 in the first 20 weeks of the cable car's operation - meaning its costs are on course to hit £6 million in its first 12 months. The project also received £8 million from the European Commission.
Caroline Pidgeon, Lib-Dem transport chairwoman on the London Assembly, said: "The Mayor promised Londoners that the Thames cable car would not cost a penny of taxpayers' money, but in reality even in 10 years' time the sponsorship deal will barely pay for half of its construction, let alone running costs.
"The Mayor's false claims have also been exposed by the fact that too often the cable car is not even generating enough fare income to pay for its daily running costs."
TfL charges £4.30 for an adult to cross the Thames by cable car, reduced to £3.20 for pay-as-you-go Oyster cards. Oyster travelcards are not accepted.
TfL declined to reveal how much had been taken in fares on the cable car, on which is has spent £171,000 on marketing. The cable car has been closed on 21 occasions, each for an average of more than three hours.
"Having poured so much public money into the scheme the Mayor must now ensure it operates as an integral form of public transport as this is the only way to drive up passenger numbers," Ms Pidgeon said. "A good start would be to ensure that people with a Travelcard are not charged for using this form of transport."
Danny Price, TfL's head of the Emirates Air Line, said: "The Emirates Air Line is a remarkably low cost option for providing a new and much needed river crossing in east London.
"It is envisaged that revenue generated will, over time, cover all costs including the operating costs. The Emirates Air Line should make a modest surplus in the medium term and any surplus made will be reinvested into the transport network. Revenue figures for the Emirates Air Line will be provided in the TfL Annual Report."
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Company database update: The global impact of petfood
A closer look at our Top Petfood Companies Database shows the far-reaching grasp of pet humanization across the globe, as well as what markets remain under-served or untapped
Currently, Petfood Industry's Top Petfood Companies Database compiles comprehensive information on over 300 international petfood and treat manufacturers. Our industry is now making a significant influence in almost every country and every continent and, most importantly, nearly every home with a family pet. Even markets like Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East are seeing less table scraps and more packaged petfoods in dogs' and cats' bowls, while mature markets like Western Europe and the US are continuing to innovate and adapt to a demanding pet parent-influenced marketplace.
Let's take a closer look at some key areas across the globe and spotlight the movers and shakers in our database that are truly making an impact.
According to a recent report by Euromonitor International Brazil, Mexico and Japan are poised to make the most growth by volume (in tons) based on 2013–2017 data and projections. Looking to capitalize on the rapid growth in Brazilian petfood markets, in July 2014, Brazil-based Mogiana Alimentos and Barcelona, Spain-headquartered Affinity Pet Care joined together in a 50/50 partnership that included the transaction of all petfood categories as well as the Campinas and Bastos plants. All brands of Mogiana Alimentos currently marketed in Brazil have been maintained.
Affinity, in its international expansion plan, was looking for petfood market opportunities in Brazil. Mogiana Alimentos' main competitive advantages that were decisive for this joint venture with Affinity were the full product portfolio and the company distribution capacity in Brazil. This joint venture has strengthened both companies…


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Novi, MI (rushPRnews) 11/20/13 — Automotive manufacturers and suppliers were impressed with the cost and performance benefits of Ultraseal International's recycling porosity sealants at the recent Engine Expo North America show.
Several manufacturers and suppliers expressed an interest after hearing how it was far more economical to use recycling sealants such as Rexeal 100™ as a routine quality enhancement than it was to scrap parts that leaked.
Vacuum impregnation with sealant is a reliable and permanent solution to the eternal problem of casting porosity - microscopic holes in cast metal parts that can create leak paths that ultimately cause a part to fail.
Bob Remler, Vice President of Ultraseal America Inc., explained the economic and environmental benefits of impregnation with Ultraseal's recycling sealants at a presentation attended by a number of top industry figures.
He explained that for a typical four-cylinder engine block weighing 20 kilograms, the cost of scrapping the finished machined engine block was $90 - far more expensive than the $8 cost of vacuum impregnation.
The largest aluminum casting supplier and a leading automotive manufacturer were among the audience for his talk at the Open Technology Forum being held as part of Engine Expo at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan.
Mr Remler said: "Visitors to our stand were interested in the genuine cost reduction advantage, performance advantage and environmental benefits of our porosity sealants and they were impressed with our products' global approvals.
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New Penn State begins today
So the other shoe has fallen. The NCAA has lowered the boom on Penn State football.
Four years with no bowl games, the loss of 40 scholarships over that time, and very likely the loss of some top players and blue chip recruits over the next two to three years anyway.
But, now, the school can begin to rebuild its image. As I said earlier in this space, if the students, faculty, alumni, and sports programs work to do this, in time, that image can be rebuilt.
The four-year loss of bowls and scholarships will hurt the on field product. But, the program can recover. Coach Bill O'Brien continues to exude the right attitude. Beginning with the 2014 recruiting class, students will be back in the bowl hunt when it's their time to make an impact. If the talent pool is depleted then, Penn State may be attractive as a place players can make a quick impression.
All in all, the sanctions are about what I expected. Except for the vacating of wins since 1998.
Typical NCAA stupidity. Purely punitive towards Joe Paterno. It means nothing. This time or any other time the NCAA has imposed it. It just makes the organization look foolish.
At any rate, the deed is done. The central Pennsylvania economy will not be devastated by the absence of Penn State football. Nittany Lion fans can still fill Beaver Stadium and cheer for their team on picture perfect fall Saturdays.
The autumn leaves will just be tinged with a slight splash of melancholy among the reds and golds.


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The UN employs dozens of movie stars, artists, models and sports figures, offering them a chance to be taken seriously in exchange for the publicity they bring
Canada has joined more than 100 other countries at the United National climate summit to pledge action amid widespread cynicism about their strength and sincerity
Minister John Baird responded negatively to the news, correctly criticizing the UN Human Rights Council (under whose auspices Mr. Schabas will operate) as "a sham," and denouncing the investigation as "an utter shame [that] will do nothing to promote peace and dignity in Gaza for the...
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That C/S skates was WILD, all over the place. Something seemed off, are they having some personal problems?
That C/S skates was WILD, all over the place. Something seemed off, are they having some personal problems?
Yes going back to the placings i realised they're cool
Well, Both leaders are virtually tied and both did very well,
Still can't get over to the reaction from J\C to their fall,
That reaction shows there's a history with that element
At Bompard it was so easy for him that he used his free hand to uplift the crowd
At Olympics i think he kinda fell at the end of it, Right ?
Maybe there's a story behind that lift from their practices
Is Simon ill or something? That's three triples he's doubled in the short/long. I don't think they were all pops either. What a shame.
Probably will end up 11th. That's too bad.
(I just got here and saw the end of the Italians. Can't wait to see that in full later along with whatever the drama was in the French team's performance.)
You know the state of US pairs skating is bad when the national championships don't have reliable SBS jumps or a second throw triple...
Interesting to see the Antipovas in the FS,
Crossing fingers for MT\M my darlings
C\P with a possible medal shot i guess
Group three are on the ice warming up.
Peng and Zhang's outfits really stand out.
We don't really get that Antipova and Maisuradze are skating to Pink Floyd. These outfits scream Italian opera.
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Here we go
Antipova and Maisuradze of Russia are next to go
They are skating to Money and Great Gig in the Sky
Expressive opening poses
Huge quad twist to open
3sal 2toe sbs
pair combination spin - very Mishkutenok and Dmitriev inspired
Moving into the back outside death spiral
choreographic sequence is next - nice spiral variations from this team
throw triple flip. maybe a touch down from Julia
Both stumble on the sbs triple toe loop
Group 5 axel lasso lift carries a lot of speed and distance
Julia touches down with her free foot on the 3loop throw
good unison on the sbs combo spin
Group 4 lift carries a lot of speed and distance - complex split exit
outstanding group5 reverser lasso lift
Audience really enjoyed this performance.
I feel like despite the mistakes
And despite the big brother small sister feel
And despite their suit and dress which are hilarious for a 70's rock program
(and maybe also because of it)
I'm kinda starting to fall in love with the Antilopas
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Dear Worship Leader,
Thank you for your work. Each week you spend countless hours honing your voice and your instrument to lead us in turning our hearts and our minds toward God. You stand before us and raise your voice, and we follow suit.
It must be difficult, in this celebrity culture, to resist the temptation to make worship a performance. As a uniquely talented individual, we honor you by placing you in front of us. That could easily go to your head, and we thank you for fighting that hard fight and taking on a role of submission.
But we need something more from you.
Our Western, American culture is shaped by individualism and consumerism. Unfortunately, we don't leave those things at the door when we enter the worship space. We bring them in with us. Our default position is to bend things to our advantage, to make all things serviceable to our desires. Daily we are bombarded by enticements to buy and consume things that promise to enrich our lives. When we come together for worship, too often we are guilty of judging its efficacy by how it makes us feel that day. We consume worship each week instead of being consumed by worship.
The American Dream idolizes the rugged, self-made individual. Daily we try to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and climb another rung further up whichever ladder we're on. We look out for number one, casting ourselves as the lead players. The plot services our hopes, our dreams.
So when we enter into a time of worship in the company of others, we are primed to exclude everyone else from that experience. We close our eyes as we sing and we shut out those around us, making the gathered worship time an individual experience. But that is the last thing we need. We need to be thrust into a community who worships together. And you can help.
When you choose the songs we sing together, take some artistic license. Whether it is David Crowder or Charles Wesley, or any other songwriter in between, change all the first person pronouns from singular to plural. It really is a small thing, something you can do almost on the fly. And it won't even mess with most rhyming schemes or rhythms.
It will do wonders for our worship, though. Each phrase that we utter will work to knit us together as a community. You will lead us in coming before the throne of God together, offering our praises, laments, supplications, and pleas together. Try it now. Take whichever song you're rehearsing and replace all the "I's," "me's," and "my's" with "we's," "us's," and "our's."
And if you are writing songs for us to sing together, have us in mind. Pen the lyrics on our behalf. Resist the temptation to write a love song to Jesus, reflective of only your personal experience. Instead, be empowered and sent by us to compose for our community.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. We appreciate you. We need your talent and your leadership. The rest of our days are filled with opportunities for us focus on ourselves. Help make that hour we're together different. Lead us into community and then root us there. Turn us to Christ as one and break us out of ourselves.
-The Worshippers


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The anti-regulation SWAT team at Quayle's Council on Competitiveness has succeeded in easing proposed pollution rules and speeding new drug approvals. Now the council is taking aim at what one top Administration official calls "the enormous barriers in telecommunications that are standing in the way of innovation." Issues to be addressed include legal restraints on local phone companies, lack of competition among them, and regulations that hobble more efficient allocation of the broadcast spectrum. The council plans to detail its complaints in an April white paper.
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I've actually gained a reputation in the office of being the girl-who-change-her-hairstyle/hair colour-every-quarter. Not something to be really proud off but that's one of my passion. I tend to change hair colour (note: due to my job nature, drastic colour is almost not possible) or hairstyle, often.
The problem with me is that whenever I promise myself to keep my hair long, it almost wouldn't happen. Mainly because my hair is of-lion-king-hair-texture, I choose to trim off everytime (without fail) even though i promise myself to keep it long. Its like a vicious cycle. Told myself to keep long hair, only to cut it a week later, then promise myself again, and went to cut again. and the vicious cycle continues. *devil smirk*
And this time round, there's no exception BUT at least my haircut with Elvis of H-Park Hair Salon, Taipei lasted slightly longer than one quarter.
So here goes, my new hairstyle for 2009. Thinking of going shorter in months to come. But please forgive me if I look like a devil-pig (round face).
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Wall Street Sweetens View on IBM
IBM Corp.'s (IBM) share price jumped on Oct. 18, after the technology giant announced 4% higher third quarter revenue and stronger earnings.
Revenues surged from peddling such things as computer hardware, microelectronics, and software.
The Armonk (N.Y.)-based company said late Oct. 17 that its third quarter 2006 diluted earnings were $1.45 per share from continuing operations, an increase of 54% compared to the same period of 2005, when the company took a one-time charge of $525 million for taxes associated with the repatriation of foreign earnings. Without that charge, earnings per share grew 15% from $1.26 per diluted share during the same quarter last year. Total revenues for the third quarter amounted to $22.6 billion, up 4% from the third quarter of 2005 when adjusting for currency.
After the announcement investors bid up the stock nearly 5% to $91.25 per share in early trading Oct. 18 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Goldman Sachs analyst Laura Conigliaro raised her rating opinion on IBM to buy from neutral, and her higher earnings forecast for 2007 pushed up her twelve month target stock price to $100 from $92. "While we would prefer not to be upgrading IBM coming off its strong earnings report, we think the stock still has room, particularly in the current quarter and given the strength of software," Conigliaro wrote in a research note. (Goldman has received compensation for services rendered to IBM within the past 12 months.)
IBM's strength stemmed from improvements in many business lines, including the sale of programming that joins together separate computer programs, which is known as "middleware." Revenues from IBM's middleware brands, which include WebSphere, Information Management, Tivoli, Lotus and Rational products, were $3.4 billion, up 12 percent versus the third quarter of 2005. Revenues from IBM's total software business were $4.4 billion, an increase of 7% compared with the third quarter of 2005.
But IBM did well in other areas too. Computer hardware revenues increased 8% to $5.6 billion in the third-quarter 2006 compared to $5.1 billion in the year-ago period, boosted by stronger revenues from IBM computer products such as the System z and System p UNIX servers, as well as microelectronics. On the weaker side, IBM's Global Services revenue, which includes businesses such as outsourcing and technology services, amounted to $12.0 billion in the third quarter, up 2% from the same quarter last year.
Citigroup analyst Richard Gardner raised his fourth quarter 2006, fiscal year 2007, and fiscal year 2008 earnings and revenue estimates on the stock, noting factors such as improvements in IBM's middleware software, microelectronics, and mainframe hardware businesses. He hiked his twelve month target price to $105 per share from $91. Citigroup's buy rating is based on factors such as the improving business outlook for information technology services, the stock's "attractive valuation," and IBM's lack of exposure to the intensely competitive PC and printer markets. (Citigroup has received compensation for services rendered to IBM within the past 12 months.)
"Our strong performance is the result of excellent execution and the repositioning of IBM's business model to capture the growth and profit areas of a rapidly changing IT industry," said Samuel J. Palmisano, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, in a press release Oct. 17.


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This technology eliminates the need to place cortical fiducial markers during image guided neurosurgery. As an additional and important feature, the technology is able to compensate for brain shift due to deformation of the brain during surgery.
Image-guided surgery systems (IGS) are becoming ubiquitous in medical centers. However, the full potential of such systems cannot be realized at the present due to the inordinate expense involved in getting intraoperative magnetic resonance systems. The traditional method for alignment during image guided neurosurgery involves the use of fidu- cial markers placed on the patient's cranium. The present technology combines information gleaned from a combination of laser range scanning technology, the natural features of the patient's cortical surface and features seen on the patient's preoperative magnetic resonance tomograms to (1) obviate the use of fiducial markers and (2) provide for brain shift compensation. The latter feature of this technology will enable the application of IGS to other surgeries where soft- tissue deformation during surgery is of concern.
Current Status
The technology is undergoing refinement and enhancement and is the basis of an ongoing 40-patient study to qualify the method for both registration and deformation measurement. Methods continue to evolve for implementation and to take full advantage of the unique patient data from this study.
To date, preliminary versions of the registration strategy have been tested in approximately 12 clinical cases. The deformation measurements have been tested with two clinical cases. Several phantom experiments were also conducted that show each strategy works under controlled experimental conditions.
A second prototype intra-operative acquisition system was just completed, and this system has been tested in a small number of neurosurgical cases. This work is currently supported by an NIH grant that will continue for approximately two more years.
As clinical data is collected and application is made to actual neurosurgical data, the system and methods are being validated concurrently with image-guided systems.
This revolutionary approach has three distinct advantages:
- Registration is accomplished off the brain surface; therefore, this method should be more accurate in the presence of shifts upon durotomy than approaches using outer-cranial fiducials.
- Brain deformations can be measured, allowing compensation strategies for brain shift to be developed.
- The overlays provided by this technology provide new spatial cues to surgeons to aid orientation in the intracranial environment.
Current Competitive Products
From the perspective of registration, this technology could replace or augment any registration method that uses external fiducial markers or features. Currently, nothing is used to measure and compensate for brain shift except for intra-operative imaging (magnetic resonance and ultra- sound primarily). Magnetic resonance is neither practical nor economically scalable. Ultrasound is a good candidate, however it does not have the soft tissue contrast necessary. It should be noted, however, that the overall strategy the development team is working towards includes intra-operative ultrasound as a part of the technique.
Value Proposition
Neurosurgeons will prefer this technology since the technique performs registration compensation for brains that deform upon durotomy, which is a common occurrence that compromises any registration solely dependent on external fiducials. Hospitals will prefer it because it should improve the quality of image-guided surgery at minimal cost. The approach will provide some compensation for deformation but in a platform that is on the same order of cost as a standard-of-care IGS system. It will not require new infrastructure to be built within the hospital operating rooms, nor excessive staffing and maintenance costs. Ultimately, by providing better guidance to the neurosurgeon, the hope is that better resections will be facilitated on a more routine basis. It has been shown in the literature that more complete resections do improve patient outcome for brain tumor patients.
Use of this technology has shown (1) that quality laser range scans (LRS) of the brain surface can be achieved, and (2) that registration by use of the cortical surface is achievable and accurate. There are no barriers within today's standard operating rooms that prevent its adoption, as it has minimal impact on surgical times or space requirements. The adoption of this technology would be no different than the adoption of other digitization equipment into the operating theater.
Some investigators raise the ques- tion of the adequacy of available computer processing to solve the relatively large number of equations required in a time frame that is appropriate for the surgical suite. Current and rapidly evolving computational ability and speed suggest that this is readily addressed by devotion of the appropriate computer resources at a reasonable cost.
Development Plan
The goal is to translate this technology to the clinic in a meaningful way. It is anticipated that with appropriate personnel and resources, this technology could be developed into a product prototype in 1-2 years. Efficient strategies for the integration of the laser range scanner technol- ogy into existing IGS systems are underway.
Intellectual Property Status
U.S. patent 7,072,705 was issued on July 4, 2006, covering apparatus and methods of brain shift compensation. A pending U.S. non-provisional patent application addressing the cortical surface registration and deformation tracking is under examination, and significant claims having already been allowed by the Patent Office. Dr. Miga is a member of an internationally-recognized team that continues to create leading edge technologies for image-guided surgery.


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School Scope
Friday, November 22, 2013
I can't resist the call. I was an 18-year old sophomore at Brooklyn College, living at home in a quickly changing East New York section of Brooklyn. I finally had my driver's license and didn't have to take the train from Pennsylvania Avenue, change at Franklin for the Flatbush line - an hour trip. By car I had a special route that got me to school in 17 minutes – followed by a half hour search for parking.
I was a 2nd year Air Force ROTC cadet in 1963 – the freshman class a year before began with about 50 but had dwindled to around 20 and would end with only four (me not included) by our Junior year as stories from Vietnam emerged. On Fridays at noon we marched and did drills for an hour on what was known as the Girls' Athletic Field across from Roosevelt Hall. We wore uniforms, which even in the early '60s led to some reactions from a nascent leftist fringe at the college. At times we were heckled and leafleted by anti-military protesters – my first consciousness that some people opposed American policies.
As we walked off that day 50 years ago, a buzz went up about a shooting in Dallas. ROTC had a lounge in the basement of Ingersoll Hall with a TV, one of the few on the campus, and we were herded into a very packed space that was filling up with people from around the college.
Uniforms prevailed, including Air Force officers on active duty, for news about our Commander in Chief.
Walter Cronkite said Kennedy was wounded. I had a vision (a hope) of Kennedy at a press conference, his arm in a sling, laughing about it. Within 10 or 15 minutes or maybe 30, there was Cronkite taking off his glasses and announcing JFK's death. That image of Cronkite's glasses coming off is seared in my brain.
Then hours of wandering the campus was in a state of shock. A young student trips in front of me on the steps and I get her some water to wash off her knee. I'm holding my uniform cap in my hand when an officer walks by and glares at me — I point to the young lady and he gives me a "good job" wave. I'm also pledging a fraternity and I carry a paddle with me at all times. That night the six pledges were supposed to be kidnapped — taken out somewhere late at night and left with no money to find our way back. The kidnapping is cancelled and we all gather at a somber frat house, actually an apartment on Foster Avenue and Flatbush, to mourn together. Larry, my politically sophisticated pledge brother who worked in the 1960 Kenney campaign at the age of 14, is still stunned.
Some drinks come out and people liven up a bit. Someone puts on the music – Beatles, I think.
Then something astounding – it gets louder and louder and wilder and wilder as people let go. Someone is sitting on the window sill with his legs out the window. The music is blasting. A couple are walking by, arm in arm, looking up at us in disgust.
No one seems ashamed. I don't either. I have rarely suffered from deep depression over these 50 years, but that was as bad as it got. The next few days are hell.
Saturday must have been awful – I have no memory of the day. Monday of course was the funeral. But Sunday was almost as crazy as Friday. That morning it is so bad for me I have to leave the house to be with people (other than my parents). So I go across the street to my friend Barry's house. I ring the bell and his brother Larry answers the door, screaming, "Someone just shot Oswald." "Good," I say and I race after him down the hall to watch the mayhem that never seems to have gone away.
Read Norm's follow-up, "JFK, Political Thoughts," in his next column. Norm batters the English language daily at his blog: ednotesonline.org.


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Change to Mexican law leaves critical journalists at risk of steep fines
Sergio Aguayo, one of Mexico's most prominent political commentators, said he was taken by surprise when he heard he was being sued for "moral damages." The plaintiff, Humberto Moreira, is a former governor who faced allegations that he severely mishandled the state's finances, was involved in graft and corruption, and had ties to organized crime. He has always denied allegations against him, both when in office and after he resigned to become the president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.


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BERKELEY – Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as the British prime minister who, as an avatar of appeasement of Nazi Germany in the late 1930's, helped to usher Europe into World War II. But, earlier in that fateful decade, relatively soon after the start of the Great Depression, the British economy was rapidly returning to its previous level of output, thanks to Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's reliance on fiscal stimulus to restore the price level to its pre-depression trajectory.
Compare that approach to the expansion-through-austerity policy being pursued nowadays by British Prime Minister David Cameron's government (with Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne leading the cheering squad). The country's real GDP has flat-lined, and the odds are high that British real GDP is headed down again.
Indeed, in less than a year, if current forecasts are correct, Britain's Cameron-Osborne Depression will not merely be the worst depression in Britain since the Great Depression, but probably the worst depression in Britain…ever.
That is quite an accomplishment. As Phillip Inman of The Guardian recently put it: "[T]he UK's plan for recovery from the financial crisis was based on a full-throttle recovery in 2012....[C]onsumer confidence, business investment, and general spending would converge to send the economy on a trajectory of above-average growth."


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There are few industries where the challenge of seasonal spikes in trade is more pronounced than in retail.
The sector is also one that commonly has to deal with a diverse network of small branch offices – the stores – with local management or franchisees.
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These two factors make the cloud computing proposition even more compelling for retailers than just about any other business.
He meant it literally since in the case of AWS, the company built its cloud capacity seven years ago specifically to support the computing needs of Amazon the retailer.
"You don't have to guess how much capacity you need – the peaks of the holidays for a retail business is very difficult to deal with and trying to guess around September, October, what your peak is going to be is very hard and very error prone," Jassy says. "You either guess too high and then you sit on all this wasted capital or you guess too low and then you provide a bad customer experience and/or run around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to get the capacity at the last second and you overpay. With the cloud you don't have to guess, you provision what you need and if you need more you seamlessly scale up and if you don't need it any more at the end of the peak you just give it back to us and stop paying for it. That elasticity is very valuable and cost effective."
Retailers of all sizes are moving to the cloud. At the big end of town, cloud is part of
Its deal with IBM includes deployment of a public cloud offering to provide computing resources for application development and testing.
The deal also includes some software as a service, such as IBM Coremetrics Intelligent Offer, which provides real-time insights into how shoppers interact with the online store.
David Jones has indicated it is keen to expand its usage of cloud and is evaluating a number of hosted initiatives that could replace desktop applications. It's understood this could include moving to a predictive cloud provisioning model.
The flexibility and speed of cloud computing underpins the ability of David Jones to experiment and test – essential in its effort to catch up in multi-channel retailing.
The speed of cloud computing as a driver of innovation is a point also emphasised by Amazon's Jassy.
"Ask any retailer or any enterprise how long does it take to get servers to try an innovative idea and we get answers of between six and 20 weeks," Jassy says. "That's maddening – you just stop trying new things if it's going to take so long but in the cloud you can spin up thousands of instances in minutes and then give them back if it doesn't work. So retailers who use us actually find they're able to get more done more quickly for less."
In the midmarket, activewear retailer
Lorna Jane digital strategist Sam Zivot says the company makes its software decisions on a case-by-case basis but cloud applications have frequently won out over other options.
"When purchasing any sort of software spend we take stock of the benefits to the business, the speed of implementation, the accessibility and the security: and those are the four main reasons we'd opt for a cloud solution," Zivot says.
Examples include business intelligence tool Qlikview, customer relationship management application Salesforce.com, social media management software HearIs, leasing application LeaseEagle, asset management system Activa, and flexible hosting system Squixa.
The exercise clothing chain has a strong mix of bricks-and-mortar stores and online retailing and is currently expanding in the US, recently opening its 11th store in California.
Zivot says Lorna Jane, unusually for a retailer, has a fairly constant revenue stream as it has a loyal customer base and the stores get new stock every week. Mother's Day rather than Christmas is the biggest trading day.
However, Zivot says the corporate strategy involves giving a lot of power to store managers, particularly on social media, and cloud helps support the distributed nature of the business.
For small retailers, cloud is a low-cost way to add an e-commerce offering and also improve the customer experience in store. For example, BigCommerce is a cloud solution that enables the rapid establishment of an online store, starting from $24.95 a month. Meanwhile, Vend offers an integrated solution for e-commerce and point-of-sale software for small retailers that starts free and goes up to $199 a month with no contracts.
His software includes point of sale that lets any tablet or laptop computer become a cash register, so sales staff don't need to stay behind a counter. This also creates great flexibility to deal with peaks and troughs of demand.
"Tablets are very interesting for retailers because it moves the technology out of the way. The tablet becomes a discreet terminal that they can carry around with them and you're being assisted in store and you're trying on garments and the sales assistant can literally bag them and check you out in the changing room," Rowsell says.
"If you need to open a pop-up store over summer or you're retailing at a conference or just having a busy patch and need to open a few more registers, with a few clicks of the mouse you can grab another iPad or laptop and you've instantly got another checkout. Then when things get quiet again they can just scale it back and they only pay for what they use."
Rowsell says using a cloud-based platform is also better for inter-connectivity.
"As more and more business tools go onto the cloud it means it's easier for you to connect your inventory or your point of sale to your accounting software or your e-commerce platform or your loyalty program," he says. "It just becomes a matter of either picking a cloud-based system that has these integrations baked in or getting your web developer to connect the dots and join the platforms together. Cloud-based systems liberate your data ... where it's a very closed system and hard to get your data out,they tend to be a lot more open."
Vend also provides the option of benchmarking data so the small businesses can start to share some of the benefits of the 'big data' that bigger players enjoy.
Rowsell says the savings can be significant. He cites one customer that went from spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on managing its infrastructure to thousands of dollars of year after moving to a cloud-based platform.
This point is backed up by Jassy, who adds it's not just about the cost saving itself but also the type of cost.
"If you can trade spending capital expense to lay it out for servers and data centres for variable expense like you get to in the cloud, that's very attractive to companies because capital's often scarce and particularly in retail because it's a very low-margin business," Jassy says.


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And by the way, the quarter inch vertical by ur grandma, totally swayed any chance of me mocking er to us.. I could of looked past the 3min 40time, but the quarter inch vert was to much..lol
Cherrington is an interesting player (had to look him up).
6-2, 345 and moves his load well. 36 reps on the bench (so it ain't all fat).
Ravens were working him out as well.
Couldn't find him on any prospect listings so I'm thinking UDFA?
I watched spadola play high school ball for freehold.. He's a freak. He'd make a great late round pick if we r gonna go wr. Apparently he had a field day at the combine which might have helped him get on some radars for day 3. Id put him in blue.
2017 Draft Wishlist:
1. Christian McCaffrey RB Stanford
2. Raekwon McMillan ILB Ohio State
3. Roderick Johnson OT Florida State
4. Jordan Leggett TE Clemson
5. Ryan Glasgow DT Michegan
6. Chad Kelly QB Ole Miss
7. Billy Brown WR Shepherd
"Behold, the tailgate party. The pinnacle of human achievement. Since the dawn of parking lots, man has sought to fill his gut with food and alcohol in anticipation of watching others exercise."
- Homer J. Simpson
Visiting Rontez Miles! I love it haha the kid is a big hitter at safety