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Prosperity Team and the iPAS System
Question: How many systems and funnels does it take to sell the Empower Network?
Answer: I need to set up a new funnel to answer that question!
The newest funnel on the market to help sell the Empower Network system is the iPAS system which was created by Chris Jones and Chris Campbell of the Prosperity Team.
I have known about Chris Campbell from his days with Global Resorts Network and the Reverse Funnel System back in the day. I kept seeing him on the leader-boards and I couldn't figure out how he was making so much freaking money! This was before the days of Facebook when you could just stalk your internet marketing celebrities!
It turns out he was using solo ads before anyone really knew about them and he scaled his business quickly and made a TON of money in Global Resorts Network and the Reverse Funnel System.
Since then he has promoted a number of programs that were usually high end products and I was a bit surprised to see him on the leader boards at Empower. I think he was the first major Internet guy to come over to EN that mostly consisted of lower end MLM players and MLSP drop outs.
Back to the IPAS system
The IPAS system was created in order to copy the existing way the Chris and Chris already market which is by sending out these packets of information to people and then upselling those people into to various income streams. The iPAS system was developed to make it duplicatable to their team members so that they could then sell Empower Network on the backend.
The iPAS system is a collection of information that someone can buy for about a $10 trial. If they keep it they are then charged $40 and the referring person will then keep the $20 commission. It basically a funded proposal system. Once the person has the information they are then called by a telemarketer that specializes in closing people into Empower Network. It's a very smart system and I can see the iPAS system working for people if they are will to pay for traffic.
Once the iPAS call center closes a lead for you, you must pay a commission to the Prosperity Team. I believe the commission is about 20% for the iPAS system telemarketer and this service is only available to Prosperity members that are "ALL-IN".
The iPAS system is yet another system that has been created to sell the system! It seems kind of weird that a system that is supposed to be so powerful like the Empower Network needs so many third party systems and funnels just so people can buy a blog that doesn't even rank well! So if the blog doesn't rank well and you need a the iPAS system to sell the EN system, then what are you really buying? Hopes and dreams?
The iPAS system looks awesome but it is just another reason why I don't promote Empower anymore. Nobody is willing to learn how to market, nobody is willing to put in the work. They all want some sort of easy button program that all they need to do is click a few buttons and money comes flowing out!
That's fine and dandy, but in the long run you will have to keep chasing these leaders around so they can invent the next iPAS system that does everything for you while you just give them all of your money!
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2. Black holes are formed when large stars collapse in on themselves. A chain reaction kicks off, and as the star gets smaller, the gravitational field on its surface increases. This puts more pressure on the star to collapse, further increasing gravity. In the end it gets so compact that if a star the size of the earth collapsed into a black hole, its matter space would have a radius of less than 9mm.
3. Black holes end up having an enormous gravitational pull because there is so much mass concentrated into them. This makes it impossible for nearby objects to escape their gravitational pull.
4. As with wind, we can only spot black holes by seeing the effect they have on their surroundings. Their intense gravity pulls in dust particles or nearby stars and as these particles speed up and heat up, they emit x-rays. Using satellites, astronomers can locate black holes by seeing the x-rays.
5. It was by using this technique that the Chandra x-ray telescope recently spotted something like proof that we have a big black hole near the heart of the Milky Way.
6. What is scary is that black holes get bigger and more charged with energy as space debris falls into them, a bit like inside out snowballs. But they can also get smaller if energy is stolen from them. But understanding this is rocket science and you have to have to get your head around Hawking radiation first.
7. The concept of black holes first emerged when 18th century English geologist John Michell realised that - in theory - it was possible for gravity to be so strong that nothing, even light travelling at 186,000 miles an hour, could escape. But he realised that the object would have to be ridiculously dense and enormous so the conditions seemed impossible.
8. The concept was revived in 1916 by German astrophysicist Karl Schwarzchild, who computed gravitational fields of stars using Einstein's new field equation. It wasn't until the 1930s that people truly realised such things could exist. In 1971 John Archibald Wheeler named black holes, based on the idea that light can't escape from them.
9. We're not that special, though. Intelligence from the Hubble telescope tells us that nearly all galaxies have supermassive black holes.
10. We're unlikely to experience the proper thrill of being sucked into a black hole, but lots of people stay up at night designing programmes to help us simulate the experience. Much safer that way.

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This handout discusses the situational nature of writer's block and other writing anxiety and suggests things you can try to feel more confident and optimistic about yourself as a writer.
"Writing anxiety" and "writer's block" are informal terms for a wide variety of apprehensive and pessimistic feelings about writing. These feelings may not be pervasive in a person's writing life. For example, you might feel perfectly fine writing a biology lab report but apprehensive about writing a paper on a novel. You may confidently tackle a paper about the sociology of gender but delete and start over twenty times when composing an email to a cute classmate to suggest a coffee date. In other words, writing anxiety and writers' block are situational (Hjortshoj 7). These terms do NOT describe psychological attributes. People aren't born anxious writers; rather, they become anxious or blocked through negative or difficult experiences with writing.
Although there is a great deal of variation among individuals, there are also some common experiences that writers in general find stressful.
For example, you may struggle when you are:
Choose a writing buddy, someone you trust to encourage you in your writing life. Your writing buddy might be a friend or family member, a classmate, a teacher, a colleague, or a Writing Center tutor. Talk to your writing buddy about your ideas, your writing process, your worries, and your successes. Share pieces of your writing. Make checking in with your writing buddy a regular part of your schedule. When you share pieces of writing with your buddy, use our handout on asking for feedback.
In his book Understanding Writing Blocks, Keith Hjortshoj describes how isolation can harm writers, particularly students who are working on long projects not connected with coursework (134-135). He suggests that in addition to connecting with supportive individuals, such students can benefit from forming or joining a writing group, which functions in much the same way as a writing buddy. A group can provide readers, deadlines, support, praise, and constructive criticism. For help starting one, see our handout about writing groups.
Often, writers who are experiencing block or anxiety have a worse opinion of their own writing than anyone else! Make a list of the things you do well. You might ask a friend or colleague to help you generate such a list. Here are some possibilities to get you started:
Choose at least one strength as your starting point. Instead of saying "I can't write," say "I am a writer who can …"
Writing is an attempt to fix meaning on the page, but you know, and your readers know, that there is always more to be said on a topic. The best writers can do is to contribute what they know and feel about a topic at a particular point in time.
Writers often seek "flow," which usually entails some sort of breakthrough followed by a beautifully coherent outpouring of knowledge. Flow is both a possibility—most people experience it at some point in their writing lives—and a myth. Inevitably, if you write over a long period of time and for many different situations, you will encounter obstacles. As Hjortshoj explains, obstacles are particularly common during times of transition—transitions to new writing roles or to new kinds of writing.
If block or apprehension is new for you, take time to understand the situations you are writing in. In particular, try to figure out what has changed in your writing life. Here are some possibilities:
It makes sense to have trouble when dealing with a situation for the first time. It's also likely that when you confront these new situations, you will learn and grow. Writing in new situations can be rewarding. Not every format or audience will be right for you, but you won't know which ones might be right until you try them. Think of new writing situations as apprenticeships. When you're doing a new kind of writing, learn as much as you can about it, gain as many skills in that area as you can, and when you finish the apprenticeship, decide which of the skills you learned will serve you well later on. You might be surprised.
Below are some suggestions for how to learn about new kinds of writing:
Once you understand what readers want, you are in a better position to decide what to do with their criticisms. There are two extreme possibilities—dismissing the criticisms and accepting them all—but there is also a lot of middle ground. Figure out which criticisms are consistent with your own purposes, and do the hard work of engaging with them. Again, don't expect an overnight turn-around; recognize that changing writing habits is a process and that papers are steps in the process.
Chances are that at some point in your writing life you will encounter readers who seem to dislike, disagree with, or miss the point of your work. Figuring out what to do with criticism from such readers is an important part of a writer's growth.
Often, writing blocks occur at particular stages of the writing process. The writing process is cyclical and variable. For different writers, the process may include reading, brainstorming, drafting, getting feedback, revising, and editing. These stages do not always happen in this order, and once a writer has been through a particular stage, chances are she or he hasn't seen the last of that stage. For example, brainstorming may occur all along the way.
Figure out what your writing process looks like and whether there's a particular stage where you tend to get stuck. Perhaps you love researching and taking notes on what you read, and you have a hard time moving from that work to getting started on your own first draft. Or once you have a draft, it seems set in stone and even though readers are asking you questions and making suggestions, you don't know how to go back in and change it. Or just the opposite may be true; you revise and revise and don't want to let the paper go.
Wherever you have trouble, take a longer look at what you do and what you might try. Sometimes what you do is working for you; it's just a slow and difficult process. Other times, what you do may not be working; these are the times when you can look around for other approaches to try:
Okay, we're kind of kidding with some of those last few suggestions, but there is no limit to what you can try (for some fun writing strategies, check out our online animated demos). When it comes to conquering a block, give yourself permission to fall flat on your face. Trying and failing will you help you arrive at the thing that works for you.
Start storing up positive experiences with writing. Whatever obstacles you've faced, celebrate the occasions when you overcome them. This could be something as simple as getting started, sharing your work with someone besides a teacher, revising a paper for the first time, trying out a new brainstorming strategy, or turning in a paper that has been particularly challenging for you. You define what a success is for you. Keep a log or journal of your writing successes and breakthroughs, how you did it, how you felt. This log can serve as a boost later in your writing life when you face new challenges.
Wait a minute, didn't we already say that? Yes. It's worth repeating. Most people find relief for various kinds of anxieties by getting support from others. Sometimes the best person to help you through a spell of worry is someone who's done that for you before—a family member, a friend, a mentor. Maybe you don't even need to talk with this person about writing; maybe you just need to be reminded to believe in yourself, that you can do it.
If you don't know anyone on campus yet whom you have this kind of relationship with, reach out to someone who seems like they could be a good listener and supportive. There are a number of professional resources for you on campus, people you can talk through your ideas or your worries with. A great place to start is the UNC Writing Center. If you know you have a problem with writing anxiety, make an appointment well before the paper is due. You can come to the Writing Center with a draft or even before you've started writing. You can also approach your instructor with questions about your writing assignment. If you're an undergraduate, your academic advisor and your residence hall advisor are other possible resources. Counselors at Counseling and Wellness Services are also available to talk with you about anxieties and concerns that extend beyond writing.
Apprehension about writing is a common condition on college campuses. Because writing is the most common means of sharing our knowledge, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves when we write. This handout has given some suggestions for how to relieve that pressure. Talk with others; realize we're all learning; take an occasional risk; turn to the people who believe in you. Counter negative experiences by actively creating positive ones.
Even after you have tried all of these strategies and read every Writing Center handout, invariably you will still have negative experiences in your writing life. When you get a paper back with a bad grade on it or when you get a rejection letter from a journal, fend off the negative aspects of that experience. Try not to let them sink in; try not to let your disappointment fester. Instead, jump right back in to some area of the writing process: choose one suggestion the evaluator has made and work on it, or read and discuss the paper with a friend or colleague, or do some writing or revising—on this or any paper—as quickly as possible.
Failures of various kinds are an inevitable part of the writing process. Without them, it would be difficult if not impossible to grow as a writer. Learning often occurs in the wake of a startling event, something that stirs you up, something that makes you wonder. Use your failures to keep moving.
We consulted these works while writing the original version of this handout. This is not a comprehensive list of resources on the handout's topic, and we encourage you to do your own research to find the latest publications on this topic. Please do not use this list as a model for the format of your own reference list, as it may not match the citation style you are using. For guidance on formatting citations, please see the UNC Libraries citation tutorial.
Hjortshoj, Keith. 2001. Understanding Writing Blocks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
This is a particularly excellent resource for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Hjortshoj writes about his experiences working with university students experiencing block. He explains the transitional nature of most writing blocks and the importance of finding support from others when working on long projects.
Rose, Mike, ed. 1985. When a Writer Can't Write: Studies in Writer's Block and Other Composing-Process Problems. New York and London: The Guilford Press.
This collection of empirical studies is written primarily for writing teachers, researchers and tutors. Studies focus on writers of various ages, including young children, high school students, and college students.
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Eight mass communication students from Northwestern Oklahoma State University have spent their summer gaining hands-on experience through completing internships by working for various companies in the area.
Juniors Jessica Binder, Inman, Kan.; Xin Xin Liu, China; Tyler Mays, Edmond; Austin Prickett, Enid; and seniors Johnny Gonzalez, Fairview; Lane Goodner, Medford; Joe Perez, Alva; and Austin Sterling, Kiowa, Kan., have had the opportunity to see what duties are expected in the "real world" setting as a mass communication major. This experience served as a guide to help students understand the ins and outs of everyday life for a mass communication professional.
Binder has been working for Western Equipment, LLC, in Alva on the advertising side of the business. She has worked on putting ads together for newspapers, magazines and radio. She's also been in charge of all online sales ads and keeps the web site up-to-date with equipment sales.
This internship has taught her to work on-task and to do things under pressure.
"This experience has helped me learn what is at stake in the advertising world," Binder said. "It has also put my name out there, and I have already had people give me references of people they know to contact."
Binder feels that internships are great for students to complete to realize if the field they are working in is really the right choice.
Gonzalez has been spending his time at the KPAK/KALV radio station in Alva. While there, he has been assisting in productions as the board operator for coverage of American Legion Summer League and talent for a few local commercials.
"I would have to say that this experience has shown me the importance of personal responsibility in the mass communication field," Gonzalez said.
He explained that while the crew is at a remote location, he is the one back at the studio entrusted to fulfill his duties for a successful broadcast.
For Gonzalez, the internship has given him an opportunity to develop ideas on the various ways his abilities can be used in a media-related career.
"The most beneficial part of my internship has been the hands-on experience with various equipment and instruments used in the radio industry," Gonzalez said.
Goodner applied for the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation Scholarship last March for her summer internship, and was accepted by The Okeene Record.
While working for the Okeene Record, she has gained experience in creating and placing ads on the paper, taking photos, advertising, creating layout designs for special events and creative writing.
"This job has led me to take my creativity and go crazy with it," Goodner said.
"This internship has helped me with getting the job done successfully by not stressing out. I have been able to learn my lesson when trying to meet a new deadline."
She highly recommends that upcoming juniors and seniors apply for this summer scholarship.
"I have had so much fun and learned so much," Goodner said.
Liu has been going out in the field with reporters and writing stories for the Oklahoma City-based news9.com. She's also written stories for the newscast and has been practicing her own reporting skills in front of the camera.
Some of the most beneficial moments for Liu have been through meeting new people, especially professionals in this field and being able to learn from them. She was happy to report that some of her work has been chosen to be on the web site and the newscast.
"Meeting a lot of people and building good relationships is definitely going to be helpful when I start my career as a news reporter or producer," Liu said. "However, the most important thing of all is that I get to put the skills I learned from school into practice, and improve myself professionally."
Liu's continued enthusiasm for journalism has strengthened because of this internship. She believes that she can constantly improve herself by being a reporter and going out to investigate the stories, meeting new people and learning new things every day.
This internship has given Liu a connection with professionals in the field, and she has been able to learn new things from producers, anchors, reporters and photographers.
"Everyone has been giving me a lot of advice and pointers," Liu said.
"At first I was having problems with my accent when I was doing my reports," Liu said. "However, everyone was helping me overcome this problem, or fear, and I believe now I am doing much better."
Mays has been working for radio station WWLS in Oklahoma City, and has set up interviews with NCAA football and baseball coaches and NBA national analysts. He's had the opportunity to sit in on multiple shows at the Sports Animal while learning how to create sound bytes, answer phones and run the boards.
"While at the Animal I have not only enjoyed meeting and working with those voices I hear so often on the radio, but by meeting them I have greatly increased my stock in the business," Mays said.
Prickett's primary duties have been in in the promotions department at Renda Broadcasting in Oklahoma City. The radio stations 92.5 KOMA, 107.7 KRXO, 104.1 KMGL and AM 1520 KOKC make up the Renda Broadcasting company.
His normal day duties consist of getting materials ready for the week's remotes, and helping to gather promotional materials from companies. One opportunity Prickett helped with involved organizing and putting on special promotions for each station.
"In one instance I contacted and signed up listeners to compete in a grill race that I was helping organize," Prickett said.
"I believe the relationships I have built with the employees at Renda and the skills they have all taught me will help me secure a job in the future," Prickett said. "This experience has made me want to go into the radio side of mass communication."
Sterling has been working for KFOR-News Channel 4 in Oklahoma City. He's been out with reporters covering breaking news and working with producers. He's also had the chance to go out and get footage with the photographers about stories the reporters have covered.
His favorite part of his internship involves the people. Sterling enjoys going out and talking with people and being a communicator. He mentioned that sometimes it's hard to go through the emotions with the people he is interviewing. People sometimes deal with traumatic things, and those stories are difficult to cover.
Overall, this has been an eye-opening experience for Sterling. At first, he didn't know what to expect, but in the end he enjoyed going out with the reporters and talking with people.
Perez is finishing up his internship at KOCO news 5 in Oklahoma City, and he believes his experience there has been a valuable one.
"While working at Channel 5 I have been able to go out with reporters watching how they work—learning the ins and outs of what it takes to be a reporter in a real-world setting," Perez said.
Perez said the interviewing process is what he liked most about his internship.
"I've had the opportunity to interview civilians and politicians; however, it has been my interviews with running candidates lately for the 2010 elections that have been of more interest," Perez said.
He mentions one interview with a politician where he felt out of his element and a bit nervous, but he was able to walk in with confidence and obtain the information he thought voters would want to hear.
"It was at that point I didn't feel like a regular intern, but a strong, willing reporter; that has been one of my favorite moments at the job," Perez said.
Through this internship, Perez has realized how much he's learned from his time at the Northwestern.
"Reporting at a university news station, you utilize all that you learn; you are your own photographer, reporter and at times producer," Perez said. "It makes me proud to be an effective and efficient journalist, especially in an industry that is fast-paced and ever-changing."
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Another important issue that hasn't received as much attention was the decision last week by the Supreme Court who confirmed three-to-two that the Abortion Supervisory Committee has no power to examine certifying consultants' decisions allowing abortions in individual cases.
Right to Life New Zealand fought against the decision by the Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal had decided by a majority that the committee was not empowered to examine the lawfulness or the clinical correctness of particular decisions made by certifying consultants.
A Supreme Court majority of Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias and judges Justice Peter Blanchard, now retired, and Justice Andrew Tipping upheld the Court of Appeal decision.
The Supreme Court majority thought the committee could ask consultants how they were approaching decision-making in general over the whole of their caseloads, a statement from the Supreme Court said.
But the majority view was that the committee could not question consultants about how they came to a diagnosis or conclusion in a particular case, even a case selected at random and presented anonymously in a consultant's report.
While this may seem pretty ordinary, it actually has wide-reaching implications. The Supreme Court has basically said that the law as it stands does not allow the ASC to check in with dodgy consultants who are signing off on abortions on the weak grounds of mental health.
Odd and a real shame that most mainstream media did not run comments from Right to Life, which you would expect them to.
Right to Life, is however, disappointed that the Supreme Court dismissed the first grounds of our appeal of the judgment of the Court of Appeal. This ground sought recognition that the Committee had the power to review or scrutinize the decisions of certifying consultants and form its own view about the lawfulness of their decisions to the extent necessary to perform its functions.
Right to Life notes that 98 per cent of abortions are authorized on the grounds of mental health. Right to Life also notes that a previous chairperson of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, stated in a national newspaper in 2000 that she did not believe that all these women were suffering from mental ill health and that consultants were using mental health grounds to provide abortion on demand.
A set back for the pro-life movement. But we'll soldier on. Thank God for good people like Ken Orr and Right to Life, for being brave and stepping up to fight the good fight on behalf of the unborn.
St. Mark the Evangalist, patron saint of lawyers, pray for us.


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MOD17: Vegetation Production MOD16: Evapotranspiration, MODIS Land Science Team
Principal Investigator: Steven W. Running
Faculty and Research Associates: Ramakrishna R. Nemani, Peter E. Thornton, Kenlo Nishida, Qiaozhen Mu, Maosheng Zhao
Director of Software Development: Joseph M. Glassy
The NASA Earth Observing System is a $7.3 billion program planning satellite-based earth monitoring for 15 years, and is the heart of global change science for the United States. The central sensor on board the Terra Satellite Platform is the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS picture). Terra was successfully launched on December 16, 1999, and a second MODIS-based satellite, Aqua, was launched May 4, 2002.
The University of Montana is the only Forestry School in the country with a member on the EOS science team. Our responsibility is to provide computer programs to use this new satellite data to calculate global photosynthesis and evapotranspiration for all terrestrial biomes. We envision the EOS satellite to provide a dramatic improvement in our ability to accurately monitor global ecological conditions. Large scale climate shifts, deforestation, desertification, pollution damage, crop conditions, glacial retreats, flooding, wildfires and urbanization are examples of the types of earth system monitoring planned. Currently, as we work on these software products, we are using Montana as a testbed for this advanced satellite technology.
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NTSG MODIS Algorithms
The University of Montana NTSG lab is under contract to NASA as a Science Compute Facility (SCF) on the Land Science team, tasked with developing two at-launch MODIS algorithms, and two post-launch algorithms. The post-launch algorithms under development include:
- MOD15 Fractional Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) and Leaf Area Index (LAI) algorithm. This Level 4 product will be retrieved at 500m spatial resolution and composited to 1 KM on a 8 day basis. LAI defines an important structural property of a plant canopy which is the equivalent layers of leaves relative to a unit ground area. FPAR measures the proportion of available radiation in the photosynthetically active wavelengths (0.4 to 0.7 micro meters) that a canopy absorbs.
- MOD16 This MODIS evapotranspiration (ET) algorithm is based on the Penman-Monteith (P-M) equation. We incorporated surface stomatal resistance and vegetation information derived from MODIS land products to estimate daily ET and potential ET (PET) which is then composited over an 8-day interval. ET/PET ratio represents not only the "dryness" of the land surface but also the characteristics of the land surface in terms of energy partitioning, which has a large influence on the local and regional climate and environment. Evapotranspiration algorithm. This Level 4 product will be retrieved at 1000m spatial resolution and composited to 1 KM on a 8 day basis. In this product, evapotranspiration is described as a fractional value called "Evaporation fraction (EF)," which is a fraction of latent heat energy to available energy. This value represents not only the "dryness" of the land surface but also the characteristics of the land surface in terms of energy partitioning, which has a large influence on the local and regional climate and environment.
- MOD17 Photosynthesis (PSN) and Net Primary Productivity (NPP) algorithm. These vegetation production products are designed to provide an accurate regular measure of the growth of the terrestrial vegetation. Production is determined by first computing a daily net photosynthesis value which is then composited over an 8-day interval of observations over a year, to produce a Net Primary Productivity (NPP) measure. MOD17 - Global GPP and NPP User's Guide Includes information about Collection 4 data (1.43MB PDF)
- MGDI Following the occurrence of a major disturbance, there will be a reduction in Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) because of vegetation damage; in contrast, Land Surface Temperature (LST) will increase because more absorbed solar radiation will be converted into sensible heat as a result of the reduction in evapotranspiration from less vegetation density. MGDI takes advantage of the contrast changes in EVI and LST following disturbance to enhance the signal to effectively detect the location and intensity of disturbances.
- Global Vegetation Workshop 2006
Missoula Montana - August 2006
- MODIS Vegetation Workshop II
Missoula, Montana - August 2004
- MODIS Vegetation Workshop
Missoula, Montana - July 2002
Data & Images
- NTSG Image Gallery
MOD17A2 (GPP) Regional, Continental and Global Mosaics
- NTSG MODIS Data Holdings - Improved MOD17 Available Here
FTP Acccess to Standard and Enhanced MODIS data granules (HDF-EOS Tiles)
- EOS Data Gateway (Land Processing DAAC) - Near Real-time MOD17 Available Here
Data Access, Product and Data Center Alerts & Status
Projects & Programs
Historical Documents
- NTSG MODIS QA Plan Version 2.1 (PDF)
- MODLAND-SDST Mtg Sep 1998: Anticipated QA Problems (PDF)
- MODLAND-SDST Mtg Sep 1998 : QA Slides (PDF)
- MODIS FPAR,LAI At-launch ATBD (PDF)
- MODIS PSN,NPP At-launch ATBD (PDF)
Links to Other Sites...
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December 27, 2012
Fiscal Cliff My Ass The "Shock" is Worth The Drop!
By John Russell
I describe the real genesis behind the so called nonsense of The Fiscal Cliff and its solutions. It's about YOU/ME US dying sooner and how the poweers that be are going about doing just that in the interests of generating fiscal savings and further concentration of economic and political power at our collective expense.
Let's get down to the real Nitty Gritty. The fiscal cliff is a crock" a kabuki dance of the very first order. We all know this of course... The so-called left wing president is no such thing. He is but the latest in a long list of corporate anointed apparatchiks who while pretending to be a voice for the people, is merely one more ultimate tier activist for "The Corporation" and the wealthiest of the wealthy, not only domestically but abroad as well. The Great Explicator is the supreme implement of the corporatists in that he can like no other, explain away especially to his grateful and fervent supporters any and all policy that is antithetical to his previously articulated "campaign" positions. President Obama is after all the maximum Trojan Horse.
As is anyone who reaches the lofty political heights, he is entirely bought and paid for, owned and operated by "Them" that brung him and he ain't about to let "Them" down. We hear that any of the aforementioned so-called cliff avoiding agreements bandied about from "either" side will according to leading economists of every sort bring about austerity, which will hasten recession and all that that will entail for many, but not all Americans. Remember, not everyone loses in a recession. Prices drop and for those with the cash to buy, what does that mean for them? Deals right? Real estate/stock prices sink once again and "investors" can buy up investments/properties CHEAP! After shorting on the way down!
You may retort by saying but the assets held by the wealthy will lose value too. Ah, that may be true, but the wealthy guy is more than willing to watch paper values drop temporarily if he/she is able to increase their volume of holdings long term. The wealthy are able to tolerate this in a way that the average guy cannot, due to shear scale and differing short and long term requirements of wealth, income and assets.
On the labor front, parallel dissimilar income utility/constraints prevail in comparing the well heeled to the everyman. Worker desperation leads to further drops in wages i.e., labor costs in the aggregate as lower and mid skilled workers compete amongst themselves for increasingly scarce employment opportunities. The net result being a little more "Shock Doctrine" medicine for the little guy and another wealth/power transfer away from the shrinking middle in the "politically engineered" shift of assets, wealth and income up the pyramid, further widening the gulf between the haves and the have-nots. Accordingly, the negative economic/political labor variance will most likely be of a permanent nature thus contributing to the gulf between the haves and the have-nots.
So the game no matter how you characterize it, unless you're still seriously deluded one way or another politically, is a bipartisan singular effort on behalf of the corporatists to further concentrate political power in the hands of the anointed few, through a concocted economic plan of necessity i.e., Simpson Bowles or any variation thereof. As Middle America becomes more fearful of economic loss or diminishment, their political power becomes commensurately less as well.
This, I am sad to say is not the greatest benefit to the corporatists and the haves who control this nation both politically and economically. It is however quite a bit more sinister than that which I have described above. In Washington, retirees are described by an acronym NPC, which stands for the term Non-Productive Citizens. The fact of the matter is that these people that are in charge, and I am not speaking of "Their" elected representatives, I am speaking of the people behind the curtain, ala the "Wizard of Oz" that controls these fascist puppets. The "Wizard's" determination quite clearly is that America cannot afford to have working people retiring and living another 20 years thereafter. "The "Wizard's" position is that working Americans need to find themselves a hole and jump in it not long after they stop working. The "Wizard" can't just execute us as it were, so that leaves the sneaky business of putting in place federal policies that will essentially provide the same desired result. "Their" minions are left to the task!
Successful achievement of "Their" goal will be reflected in a modification of the actuarial tables along socio-economic lines through purposefully engineered government policy. Just think about it for a moment" Can you really trust Wall Street with your retirement money? What little you might be able to put away over the years with declining wages/salaries, increasing costs of living, health care costs, putting kids through college etc. will for most working Americans never be adequate to sustain you in retirement. After all, in order to save anything at all you must have discretionary income right?
What proportion of America realistically can say that they can afford to put a reasonable percentage of their income aside exclusively for retirement? Very few workers still have defined benefit pensions, which used to be part of the bargain between 20th century labor and big business. How many working people are really equipped to manage their investments/savings effectively for the long haul?
That leaves Social Security. The bipartisan team of "Corporatocrats" and "Corporaticans" are working in unison while putting on a broadway show worthy of a Tony award as if they were working for YOU irrespective of acknowledged ideology. It is a pretend adversarial relationship nearly identical to that of the WWF! There never was any broad ideology behind this scam other than mass deception, as no matter what, these puppets are marching to the same drummer and it ain't YOU!
The game is as I noted earlier is for YOU/I to die sooner than we otherwise might with a reasonable modicum of income and access to quality health care. What I say is irrefutable. If you work longer, you are that much closer to your end. If you have inadequate or no income, no health care, and you're eating cat food and cutting back on the heat in order to save money, how well are YOU going to do?
"They" may not have hired guns going door to door executing the peons as in some sci- fi flick, but "They" ARE going door to door nonetheless. "They" are funding tax cuts for the highest echelon on the backs of the poor and the soon to be poor, as "Their" minions in the congress and the White House do "Their" bidding by putting in place the policies that will result in what I describe without any doubt.
There was a reason why the New Deal was put in place, and if WE don't want to personally experience the same, WE better step up. Mussolini said it best in describing the corporatist state" "The alliance between big business and government to attain their mutual benefit." "Their" mutual benefit at whose expense? Why OURS of course!
Tomorrow, I will publish the solutions to the fiscal cliff box that "They" have put us in. The solutions are not that difficult, and would be less so IF we had a political system whereby candidates were not required to "SELL OUT" by play'n ball with "The Wizard." Your feedback is encouraged. John Russell, MS/ARNP-C, MBA Health Systems Mgt.


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Three of the hazards have a direct link to information technology with several others closely related. "The inherent complexity of HIT-related medical technologies, their potential to introduce new failure modes, and the possibility that such failures will affect many patients before being noticed--combined with federal incentives to meet Meaningful Use requirements--leads us to encourage health care facilities to pay particular attention to health I.T. when prioritizing their safety initiatives for 2013," says James Keller, Jr., vice president of health technology evaluation and safety at ECRI.
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Pfc. Darius Delafoisse knows there are two types of soldier: The one people see on TV and in movies, and the one that actually exists.
But with rakes, brooms, pruners and tiny shovels in hand, the latter can sometimes come as a surprise to the public.
"A lot of people think the military is just all about killing," said Delafoisse, a small gardening shovel in one hand and a soiled work glove on the other, prying weeds and grass from cracks in a downtown Olympia parking lot. "People always think we don't really care about the community.
"I don't think they even realize we're soldiers until they actually come up and ask us why we're out here and what we're doing."
Delafoisse and more than 70 fellow soldiers from JBLM's 593rd Sustainment Brigade might have debunked some common soldier stereotypes for those who have never actually met during Olympia's semi-annual Downtown Cleanup, an event that put gardening tools in the soldiers hands and took them briefly away from their Army environment.
The city uses the cleanup – a widespread, three-hour volunteer effort in which anywhere from 150 to 200 community and service members participate – to polish up the streets downtown in preparation for Arts Walk, a series of performances and displays that showcase the talent of local musicians and artists.
"We care about making sure the streets are clean, making sure the parks look good, because we live in these communities just like they do," said Lt. Col. Douglas Levien, commander of the 593rd Special Troops Battalion. "We care about them, just like they care about us."
The 593rd has offered volunteers for almost the last decade to the city, which partners with the brigade under JBLM's community connector program, an initiative that joins local communities with Army units for varying forms of support.
And the support goes both ways.
The brigade lends it assistance for the cleanup twice a year and delivers a holiday tree to the city's park every December. Whenever any of the brigade's soldiers deploy, the city holds a parade to wish them farewell and assembles care packages for them.
"I'm a business man here in town, and I know that it's all of us working together, and our service people our an integral part of our community," said Jeffrey Trinin, a board member for the Olympia Downtown Association and one of the founders of the cleanup event. "It's been a real opportunity for me to get to know a lot of soldiers here."
Trinin isn't a veteran, but he's well versed on the rigors of military life, the biggest of which can sometimes be adjusting to life in a new region of the country or world.
But even pulling weeds, trimming hedges, sweeping sidewalks and picking up trash can help welcome the new with open arms.
To Delafoisse, it's all part of giving for a change instead of taking away.
"It feels good just to put something back into what I'm taking out of," said Delafoisse, who also volunteers regularly at an animal shelter in Seattle. "We might be in our Humvees, and we might hold up traffic, or we might be at the range, and our range might be right behind someone's backyard."
But as Levien sees it, volunteering has every bit to do with where you live as it does where you came from – the communities soldiers left back home before joining.
"All the soldiers here come from neighborhoods, and they all come from hometowns, and this is the type of stuff that you ought to be doing in your hometown," Levien said. "And now that you're part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord, you have an adopted hometown.
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SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Canada defeated the United States 10-2 Sunday night at the Ford World Women's Curling championship, presented by Meridian Manufacturing, but there was much more to it than the lopsided score.Read More
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Japan tops Russia in battle of Ford Worlds unbeatens
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — Not a lot of people saw this one coming. Japan stood alone at the top of the standings at Ford World Women's Curling Championship, presented by Meridian Manufacturing, after afternoon play Sunday at the Credit Union iplex.Read More
Another dramatic win for Team Canada at Ford Worlds
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — They're rapidly turning into the Cardiac Kids of the 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, presented by Meridian Manufacturing.Read More
Russia opens Ford Worlds with two wins and heavy hearts
SWIFT CURRENT — Team Russia emerged from the first day of play at the Ford World Women's Curling, presented by Meridian Manufacturing, with a perfect 2-0 record and with heavy hearts.Read More
Canada ekes out extra-end victory to open Ford Worlds
SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — It wasn't the start Chelsea Carey wanted, but the ending was just fine on Saturday afternoon for the skip of Team Canada at the Ford World Women's Curling Championship, presented by Meridian Manufacturing.Read More
CIS-Curling Canada University Championships begin Sunday at Kelowna
Canada's best university curling teams will meet in the 2016 CIS-Curling Canada University Championships, presented by Travelers, starting Sunday, March 20, at Kelowna, B.C.Read More
Ford World Women's Curling Championship begins Saturday in Swift Current
A rookie Canadian skip will take aim at ending a seven-year dry-spell when the 2016 Ford World Women's Curling Championship, presented by Meridian Manufacturing, gets underway Saturday at the Credit Union iplex in Swift Current, Sask.Read More
Hot-shooting Koe leads Alberta to Tim Hortons Brier championship
OTTAWA – Kevin Koe's razor-thin pick of a Brad Gushue counter in the seventh end was the pivotal shot that led to Alberta's 9-5 win over Newfoundland-Labrador in the championship game of the Tim Hortons Brier Sunday evening.Read More
Eleventh end single gives Northern Ontario Tim Hortons Brier bronze medal
OTTAWA — Brad Jacobs had a tough time getting up for the Tim Hortons Brier bronze-medal game Sunday and he was short on the house on his first draw, but he and his Northern Ontario teammates got it together in time to get past Mike McEwen of Manitoba 7-6 in 11 ends.Read More
Measurement gives Alberta semifinal win over Northern Ontario
OTTAWA – It took 10 nail-biting ends and a measurement on the winning point for Kevin Koe of Alberta to get by Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario 6-5 in the Tim Hortons Brier semifinal Saturday evening.Read More
"Perfect game" gives Alberta win over Manitoba in Page 3-4 game
OTTAWA – Kevin Koe made all the shots he had to while Mike McEwen had some early struggles and that was more than enough for Alberta to take a 7-5 victory over Manitoba in the Tim Hortons Brier Page 3-4 playoff game Saturday.Read More
Curling Canada Rocks & Rings celebrates one million kids!
A program that has introduced kids across the country to the sport of curling crossed a significant milestone today at the Tim Hortons Brier in Ottawa.Read More
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OTTAWA – Brad Gushue of Newfoundland-Labrador made a gentle tapback to count one in the 11th end Friday to beat Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario 7-6 in the Page 1-2 playoff game and earn a berth in Sunday's gold-medal game of the Tim Hortons Brier.Read More
Playoff pairings set at 2016 Tim Hortons Brier
OTTAWA — It's down to the final four at the 2016 Tim Hortons Brier. Friday morning's final draw of round-robin play was meaningless in terms of determining playoff pairings, but it was important for playoff teams wanting to generate some momentum going into the medal round.Read More
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Gift Economy App Lets People Sell Their Spots In Line
Shout is a new mobile app that lets people place an offer on other's restaurant reservations, tickets and more.
Standing in line can be a drag – whether it be for dining at a no-reservation restaurant or at a secret gig by Prince. But now a new app is making standing in line less boring and more business, monetizing the idea of saving a spot for someone.
Shout allows people to either request or post a 'spot' for sale – both physical spots in line and virtual spots for those things that have been bought in advance, like reservations and tickets. Offerings that currently live on the app range from $30 for standing in line for a Cronut to $250 to get for waiting in the ticket line for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
The idea of Shout is to encouraging the sharing economy, by fostering spontaneous exchanges between people. The founders explained on Medium:
As a community, we should be able to pool our resources. We are striving to create an environment, a marketplace, where two people can trade seamlessly at a moment's notice. Each shout may or may not be satisfied; yet, it is our hope that by creating a mechanism for people to connect with those around them, spontaneous and extraordinary exchanges can occur.
Shout allows people to make 'off menu' requests, for specific spots they'd like fulfilled that may not be on offer. The app allows busy people to find ways to get what they want, and offer others the opportunity to share what they have and may no longer want.
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Robert Emmet
On this date in 1803, Robert Emmet, the Irish patriot and infidel, was hanged. Born in 1778 to a Protestant family, he attended Trinity College in Dublin, until he joined the United Irishmen. He fled to France in 1800 after the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was crushed. There Emmet became a Deist and met Napoleon and Talleyrand. For organizing an aborted uprising against the British upon his return to Ireland in 1803, Emmet was condemned to death. Refusing to permit a priest's ministrations, Emmet called out on his way to the scaffold that he was "an infidel by conviction," according to the History of the Irish Rebellion by Maxwell. (Source: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Rationalists by Joseph McCabe.)
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George R.R. Martin
On this date in 1948, novelist, screenwriter and producer George Raymond Richard Martin was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. Martin, the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and his wife Margaret Brady Martin, grew up with siblings Darleen and Janet watching the boats come in and out of the docks. Feeling isolated, Martin turned to literature for inspiration, devouring fantasy and science fiction novels. He even began writing monster stories, selling them for pennies. Later selling his fiction to comic fanzines, Martin was first published in 1970. Martin earned his B. S. in journalism, graduating summa cum laude, and a Masters from Northwestern University. During the 1970s, Martin wrote part time, working also as a VISTA volunteer and as a chess director for the Continental Chess Association. In 1976, he became an English and journalism instructor at Clarke College in Iowa. Martin moved to Santa Fe in 1979 to pursue his writing passion full-time, receiving Hugo Awards and Nebula Awards for his short fiction. Venturing into Hollywood, Martin took a position in 1986 as a story editor for "The Twilight Zone" at CBS, and as executive story consultant for "Beauty and the Beast" in 1998, quickly moving up to co-supervising producer. During this period, Martin served as vice-president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
In 1996, A Game of Thrones was published, Martin's first installment of the epic fantasy series that would launch him to celebrity and become his magnum opus. A Feast for Crows (2005), the fourth novel in the series called A Song of Ice and Fire, became a New York Times No. 1 bestseller and was nominated for a Quill award and the British Fantasy Award. The next installment, A Dance With Dragons (2011), was heralded an international success, remaining on the bestseller list for 88 weeks. That same year, the first book was adapted by HBO into the Emmy-winning hit series Game of Thrones, of which Martin is the co-executive producer. The following seasons received further critical acclaim, with Martin winning two Hugo Awards to accompany his other laurels, which include six Locus Awards. Exploring the inner turmoil of the human condition, and blurring the borders between right and wrong, good and evil, Martin's novels are as stirring as they are thrilling. A man with a firm moral compass — he was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War — Martin persuades readers to confront their beliefs, to question bedrock assumptions, often killing his darlings to the dismay of his fans. Martin was married to Gale Burnick (1975 to 1979) and in 2011 married Parris McBride.
"You would consider me an atheist or agnostic. I find religion and spirituality fascinating. I would like to believe this isn't the end and there's something more, but I can't convince the rational part of me that that makes any sense whatsoever."
—— George R.R. Martin, Entertainment Weekly, July 12, 2011 (George R.R. Martin Talks 'A Dance With Dragons', Interview by James Hibberd)
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Upton Sinclair
On this date in 1878, Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore. As a boy, his two heroes were (the anticlerical) Shelley and Jesus Christ. Sinclair paid for his education at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University by writing for newspapers, magazines and boys' weeklies. Sinclair's sixth novel, the muckraking classic, The Jungle (1906), catapulted his literary career. The Jungle brought a presidential inquiry into stockyard regulations, and resulted in passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act and the Meat Inspection Act (1906). Raised in an Episcopalian family, Sinclair was skeptically deistic as an adult, never quite losing his boyhood admiration for the moral teachings of Jesus, but going after organized religion in his book, The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (1918). In the preface, which Sinclair wryly titled "Offertory," he explained, "This book is a study of Supernaturalism from a new point of view--as a Source of Income and a Shield to Privilege." A cursory scan of its chapters reveals its thrust: "The Priestly Lie," "The Great fear," "Priestly Empires," "Prayer-wheels," "The Butcher-Gods," "the Holy Inquisition," "Hell-fire," "Anglicanism and Alcohol," "Bishops and Beer," "Trinity Corporation," " 'Suffer Little Children,' " "God's Armor," "The Unholy Alliance," and "Riches in Glory." Sinclair was an activist socialist who ran for public office, unsuccessfully, several times. Over his lifetime, he wrote 90 books, many of them political novels. He won the Pulitzer in 1942 for Dragon's Teeth, about the rise of Nazism. D. 1968.
"There are a score of great religions in the world. . . and each is a mighty fortress of graft."
—Upton Sinclair's Magazine, April 1918
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Oct. 9, 2012
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Vols have learned a lot this season, sometimes the hard way, but they are ready to translate those lessons into action.
Their next opportunity to showcase their improvement will come on Saturday when they square off with No. 19 Mississippi State in Starkville (9 p.m. ESPN2) and they aren't taking it lightly.
"We've had a good couple of days," Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley said. "This is a big time for our team and I told them that. It's time to go out there and start acting on all the lessons we've learned in these earlier games.
"We just have to go out there and be ready on the road, go out there and finish four quarters and be able to execute the plays you need to execute to win a football game. That is where we are."
The Vols know that the Bulldogs, winners of seven consecutive games, are not going to make it easy on them. Patience will be the key to success, according to Dooley.
"Their philosophy is sound, fundamental football and they grind teams out, that's what they do," Dooley said. "The important thing is that you can't get frustrated and you have to play every play. If you play that way, opportunities will come. When the opportunities come, take advantage of them."
In order to create those opportunities, Tennessee knows that it has to eliminate the defensive breakdowns that have plagued it so far this season. While they could delve into the details of the defensive scheme, switch personnel or any employ any number of other fixes in an attempt to solve the issue, the Vols know improvement really boils down to the basics - physicality and attitude.
"We have to be clean, we have to be sound, but we want to be multiple," Dooley said. "More than anything it is whipping blockers and running to the football. That will never change in defensive football because you can sit there and say that I have this gap and you have that gap, but at the end of the day it is 11 hats whipping the guy in front of them and running to the football. That will never change and that is what we can't compromise. That is what we worked on in the open date.
"What happens is it is something that you temper when you get really drawn in to where you are supposed to be and then you have to remind them that it can't compromise what matters. We do the same thing on special teams, whether it is kickoff coverage or punt coverage. There are certain fits and places that you need to be relative to the ball and the blockers, but when you are sitting there thinking about where I need to be sometimes you forget about the most important thing which is showing up in a real bad mood at the ball carrier."
Vol quarterback Tyler Bray watches a lot of football. He pours over game film preparing for opponents. He also watches the Vols to see how they can continue to make adjustments.
Bray also watches the NFL and takes notes of what teams are doing. On Monday night he was tuned into the Houston Texans-New York Jets matchup and paying attention to the way one of only two undefeated teams in the league use their offense.
The Vols signal caller took special note of how a former Vol plays a key role in the Texans' potent play-action offense.
"You can run the ball, pound and pound and pound and then the play action is wide open," said Bray. "The Houston Texans game from last night is a great example. They ran the ball with Arian Foster and then they play actioned and then Owen Daniels was wide open in the end zone."
Bray hopes to utilize certain attributes of the Texans offense and knows that the Vols' backfield will play a key role in the success.
"Each week you try to learn," said Bray. "I tried to force the ball down the field a little too much and made some mistakes. So I'm working on checking the ball down, getting it to Rajion (Neal), Marlin (Lane), Devrin (Young), and letting them make plays."
Bray is also trying to be more patient with his game can help the Vols' effectiveness on offense.
"As a quarterback, you feel like you can make every throw every time, regardless if your receiver is triple covered or not, so it takes time to learn to check it down," Bray said.
Experience is definitely on junior wide receiver Justin Hunter's side this season as he continues improving each week.
Hunter has been watching lots of film to prepare for Mississippi State's defense - especially their cornerbacks.
"From what I've seen, I know number 13 (Johnthan Banks) is real physical, he's very long and lanky, just like the NC State corner (David Amerson)," Hunter said. "It will be a good test for me to see if I can get around him. The [corners] wait for you to make a mistake. They wait on the quarterback to get a rush and that's just the schemes they do.
"[Their defense] is a lot of zones," Hunter continued. "They have the defense blitzing a lot. I have to keep my head up high, and I have to think that I can beat him going into the game, otherwise I can't [beat him]."
Hunter is prepared to be one of the central focuses in Saturday night's game in Starkville, Miss. He already knows that being double-teamed by the Bulldog defense is a definite possibility.
"You have to learn techniques to get away from [the double-coverage]." Hunter said. "You're not supposed to let anyone cover you. I don't get too mad when I'm double-teamed, though. [Being double-teamed] is kind of just the norm, now. "
With the help of his teammates, the trio of Zach Rogers, Cordarrelle Patterson and Hunter has been making names for themselves on the field each Saturday. The Volunteer offense is currently standing second overall in total yardage, as well as fourth overall in scoring. The Vols are averaging 506.6 yards per game and 39.4 points per game.
"Zach (Rogers) has been doing a good job for us," Hunter said. "He's out there helping everybody. He goes out there to make the deep passes - it's been him with the deep passes all year."
With the solid spread of wide receivers, it helps each of them have plays off in order to rest and be one hundred percent on every snap.
Hunter knows that the win won't come easy, but he knows what he should expect from Mississippi State.
"I think they just try to mix it up," Hunter said. "They don't want to jam every time and then I just have to figure out how to get around it. They just try to keep me confused.
"They like to be real physical and get up in your face," Hunter said of the Bulldog defense. "It's a lot like Florida; they were one of the most physical defenses that we've seen this year, so at least we have something to compare it to. It's about the kill, shot, tackle, jam, just disrupting your route, everything."
Since the last time the Tennessee football team played in Starkville was in 2007, there are no Vols on the current roster that have experienced the cowbells ringing at Davis Wade Stadium.
But one Vol knows his way around a cowbell. And he can thank his mom for that.
"I have never been [to Starkville]," said offensive lineman Dallas Thomas. "But my mom has a cowbell so I am used to that."
When asked why his mom might own a cowbell, Thomas explained, "She had that cowbell since I started playing football. She told me this is how you know you can find me in the crowd when I played in big games. She would ring it; I would look for it and see her."
His mother actually got the idea from his cousin.
"It started back in high school," said Thomas. "Where my cousin played high school ball they had cow bells at their games so she went and got herself one and kept it."
Now that Thomas knows where his mom is sitting every game in Knoxville, the cowbell isn't as necessary, but Mrs. Thomas brings it to each and every game, and when Neyland quiets down, which doesn't happen often, Thomas can hear the ringing.
Said Thomas, "She's the only Tennessee fan with a cowbell."
Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley started his post-practice media session with a short injury update on Tuesday. This time, however, it was a little more personal.
"I have a little hip issue and I'll keep you updated on it," Dooley said. "" I know I am here, I am working and nothing has changed. That's all that matters."
The injury has slowed him down a little on the field, but not quite enough to get him to don one of the team's non-contact jerseys.
"I wasn't in red, but I wasn't moving like I normally move," Dooley joked.
BRAY IS ROGERS, ROGERS IS BRAYThe Vols had some fun after practice as quarterback Tyler Bray and wide receiver Zach Rogers decided they would switch jerseys while talking to the media.
Bray who stands at 6-6 and weighs 215 pounds had to squeeze into Rogers' slightly smaller jersey (6-0, 172) for the interview.
Rogers was more than willing to trade.
"We traded roles today," said Rogers. "He's me and I'm him. I tried to get Tyler's hairstyle. I don't know how it's working out so well."
Bray thought the jersey switch would bring lightness to the media interviews.
"We're just messing around today for interviews," said Bray. "I'm trying to keep things light. Everyone is starting to bare down, so at the end of practice we're trying to still have some fun."
Rogers later commented on Bray's need for a haircut.
"He got to put on the skull cap," said Rogers. "He's got some hair poking out the sides. I've seen better but we're working on it."


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When Will They Get It Right?
By Snyper on 2/9/11
Matt is an opinionated* golf enthusiast from Pennsylvania. He coaches at the high school level, molding the minds and swings of our next generation. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts and opinions of Matt in the comments. Don't hold back- because Matt won't.
In case you missed it, the PGA Tour provided another awesome tournament this past weekend. Actually, the odds are pretty good that you really did miss it. Why? Because the best part of the tournament happened in the middle of the day on Monday while most of the country was at work!
Time and time again the PGA Tour finds ways to screw up the amazing product that they have. Every year, I get upset about the pathetic Fed Ex Cup "playoff", but their incredibly poor management on a weekly basis is also unacceptable. This past weekend was a perfect example of them having no clue how to sell their product. Maybe nobody at the PGA has heard of this little thing called the SUPER BOWL, but almost everyone else in the country is pretty familiar with this event. So, why in the world do you have a tournament winding down during the biggest sporting event of the year?
Ok, ok. It's Sunday and if the greens hadn't been frozen every day until 10:00, it wouldn't have been an issue. That's true, but the greens were frozen and the Tour knew this was going to be an issue as soon as they looked at the weather for the week! Why didn't they do anything about it!? Instead of being proactive and looking ahead at the best way to get the tournament in so that people could actually watch it, they just sent the players out on the course and told them to play until they couldn't see anymore. Gee, that took some foresight!
Here's an idea. Why not make the necessary adjustments to end the tournament later in the day on Monday so that golf fans can actually watch the last 9-holes? There were about 7 guys that had a shot to win the tournament in an awesome arena for golf, and unless you were at the tournament, or you hate football and are out of work, you didn't get to see any of it! Even if the PGA did exactly what they did on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, why couldn't they just stop the last 20 players after they completed their front 9 on Sunday? That way, play stops before the Super Bowl begins, players could be paired in the traditional twosomes, and they could be sent off according to their score just like every other week. Instead of having them tee off first thing in the morning, let them sleep in and send your first group out at 11:00 or 12:00. That would have the leaders finishing up at a time that some people may actually be able to watch, especially on the east coast. Instead, an awesome finish that leads to two holes of sudden death golf is totally overshadowed and goes almost completely unnoticed. And, instead of the field coming back out on Monday to finish an equal number of holes, some of them finished on Sunday, some of them came back out for one hole, and the last group had an awkward six holes left to play. How is that equal or fair in any sense of the words? It isn't and it is just plain stupid. Instead of the PGA officials putting their heads together and creating a schedule that made sense, they decided to just tell the players to keep playing until dark. Then, be ready to play first thing in the morning and if the greens are frozen, well just hang out till we tell you they are ready. That's genius.
I say shame on the Tour and the tournament executives that allowed this to happen. Look at the weather and connect the dots early in the week. Plan a schedule ahead of time that allows the players to know when they are going to play and for how long. Do your best to provide the fans with an opportunity to watch the end of the tournament and don't ruin the amazing product that the players lay at your doorstep. The fans and the players deserve a little more effort from you in order to prevent this tournament from ending in the dark on Sunday or while everyone is at work on Monday, not to mention the excitement that was lost in shadows of the Super Bowl.
* Matt's views and opinions are his own do not necessarily reflect those of oobgolf.
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Kickntrue says:
I agree with you that they did it wrong- though I'm not sure I agree with your execution. Why not just shorten the event to 54 holes? They play so much all year- and sure, there ends up being some ticket issues, etc... but the best they could've done for tv ratings, the players and the fans, was to finish on Sunday about 2 hours before the Super Bowl kickoff having completed the event.
DrLongballz says:
I had no idea there was a playoff to determine the winner until I read this! I thought Wilson won straight up!
kingwood hacker says:
I think it's ridiculous that they don't show every single tournament online as well as on television. Every year during the masters and the us open, I end up with a window up on the corner of my screen while I'm working. I can't imagine that people wouldn't do the same thing on thursday and friday afternoons, let alone if a tournament has to have a monday finish.
lcgolfer64 says:
Did that for both those and the Open across the pond. Headphones in, email on one screen, spreadsheets on one screen and PGA.com on the other!
I've kept looking at PGA.com to see if they have the live push. So far this year, disappointed...
Kickntrue says:
@kingwood - I think that will be here eventually. Sure it all has to do with $$. Will people watch 1st round coverage of the Twiddle-Dee-Dee Open on the internet? Maybe. But there is a lot of advertising that would need to be sold to make it viable and I don't know if big brands are ready to drop dough on that yet. Soon though- maybe when it's the Twitter US Open.
lcgolfer64 says:
Excellent point, it is about the $$ and it takes a quite a bit to put it up in the 'internets' and not just about keeping joe-hacker (me) happy on opening day on a Thursday morning because I can watch it on the PC.
svj says:
this is all true, but the point of this column was to show how s$%#y the tv coverage was for waste management open... i understand, you cant control the weather(o i would if i could here in ohio) but you can't, but i have no clue what round it was and where everyone was at and when super bowl came on, i had to turn it on the super bowl... i think tpc at scottdale is amazing course with some great money making ideas, but if the people dont get to see the big player on the exciting finishing holes, we aren't going to buy trade investments from who ever...
homermania says:
I usually have the live shot tracker open Thurs/Fridays at work. Anything more and I wouldn't have a job.
Envythepea says:
I watched it. DVR.
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