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My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946) is one of the greatest classic Westerns of all time, directed by one of Hollywood's most honored directors, John Ford. This film foreshadowed other great, more complex westerns that Ford would later direct - The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). It was filmed in his favorite locale - Monument Valley in northern Arizona, in only forty-five days. The film's title was not chosen in honor of any of the central characters or the shoot-out, but after the name of Earp's civilizing, female acquaintance in the town of Tombstone.
The film's screenplay, by Samuel G. Engel, Sam Hellman and Winston Miller, was taken in part from the 1931 novel Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal by Stuart N. Lake. Although the book claims to be an accurate account of Earp (an historical, heroic Western character) and of the legendary O.K. Corral incident from the US past - it imaginatively includes a number of fabrications. Ford's film similarly retells the violent episode of the gunfight-shootout at the O.K. Corral (an actual historical event that occurred on the afternoon of October 26, 1881), the story of the duel between two families - the good one represented by the Earps and the notorious one represented by the Clanton family.
Films based upon this incident and Wyatt Earp had already been made many times earlier:
- Law and Order (1932) with Walter Huston as the Earp-like character
- Frontier Marshal (1934) with George O'Brien as Earp
- Frontier Marshal (1939) with Randolph Scott as Wyatt Earp and Cesar Romero as John "Doc" Holliday
- Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942) with Richard Dix
- Gunfight at O.K. Corral (1957) with Burt Lancaster as Earp and Kirk Douglas as Holliday
- Hour of the Gun (1967) with James Garner as Wyatt and Jason Robards, Jr. as Holliday
- Doc (1971) with Harris Yulin as Wyatt and Stacy Keach as Doc
- Tombstone (1993) with Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp and Val Kilmer as Holliday
- Wyatt Earp (1994) with Kevin Costner as Earp and Dennis Quaid as Holliday
The film's theme is the coming of civilization to the West. The western town of Tombstone becomes in Ford's poetic film the point where savage forces (the wild countryside, the rugged Monument Valley backdrops, the brutish Clantons, the Mexican whore Chihuahua) and civilized forces (the urban barber shop, dining room, the new church and school, the 'respectable' Earps, Doc Holliday's cultivated Bostonian learning, Clementine the schoolmarm) meet.
Henry Fonda, a superb character actor, portrays the life of the legendary Wyatt Earp, an independent, drifter cowboy and ex-marshal who becomes a responsible lawman. The development of his personal life from a scruffy cowpoke in the first scenes to a dignified, well-groomed Marshal parallels the civilizing of the town of Tombstone - from a rough frontier outpost (with raucous saloons) to a civilized, law and order community settlement (with a church, a school and new schoolmarm, and even a traveling Shakespearean actor).The Story
The credits play on wooden placards which each come into view by a twist of the signpost where they are attached, while the familiar ballad 'Oh My Darlin' Clementine' is sung by a cowboy chorus. The setting is Arizona in the year 1882.
The four Earp brothers, Wyatt (Henry Fonda), Morgan (Ward Bond), Virgil (Tim Holt), and the youngest James (Don Garner) are driving a small herd of cattle west to California near the small, wild town of Tombstone, Arizona. Each of the brothers is introduced by a low-angle medium shot: first James, and the last Wyatt. On the side of the trail, a buckboard appears with Old Man Clanton (Walter Brennan) and his oldest son Ike (Grant Withers), part of the notorious Clanton outlaw clan.
To complete the film's symmetrical structure, both the opening and closing of the film present confrontations between the Clantons and the Earps. In an ominous meeting, the two groups size each other up - foreshadowing their eventual shootout. Clanton visits with the bearded, scruffy Wyatt, while Ike sits mute and expressionless in the buckboard next to him. The old man offers to buy Wyatt's cattle, as the camera views Earp from more low-angled closeups:
Clanton: If you ain't got 'em committed to no shipper, I'll take 'em off your hands.
Wyatt: Not interested.
Clanton: I'll make ya a good offer. Pay in silver, three dollars a head.
Wyatt: Nope.
Clanton: Might raise it to five dollars silver.
Wyatt: Made more than that in Mexico.
Clanton: They'll be a sorry looking lot by the time they get to California, son.
Wyatt: They'll feed out when we get to grass country. Sure is rough looking country. Ain't no cow country. Mighty different where I come from. What do they call this place?
Clanton: Just over the rise there, a big town called Tombstone. A fine town.
Wyatt: Tombstone! Yeah, I heard of it. Well, me and my brothers might ride in there tonight. Get ourselves a shave maybe. A glass of beer.
Clanton: Yeah! You'd enjoy yourself. Wide-awake, wide-open town Tombstone. Get anything you want there.
The three older brothers eat their supper at their campsite, teasing their youngest brother James about his solid silver cross medal ("twenty-five American dollars worth of solid silver") that he plans to take to his blonde sweetheart Cory Sue for an impending marriage. Then, they leave the cattle for James to mind and mount up, riding off to spend the evening in Tombstone for shaves and glasses of beer. As the younger brother watches them leave, he calls out their names, with the camera lingering on his face:
So long Wyatt, Morgan, so long Virgil.
When they arrive at the uncivilized Tombstone under a darkened, turbulent sky, they discover it is the "wide-open town" that Old Man Clanton had promised - a rough, raw, lawless and chaotic, sinful hellhole, filled with bustling, raucous saloons. The brothers first enter the Bon Ton Tonsorial Parlor, "the barber shop" according to Wyatt, and he settles into the newly-purchased barber's chair in front of the white-coated attendant for a "shave." When asked what they are doing, Wyatt answers: "Just cattlemen, passing through here. Shave please." [Wyatt's first stop in Tombstone, the barber shop, is an indication of his latent tendencies toward civilization and the establishment of a community.]
His shave is interrupted by gunshots that narrowly miss him and shatter the mirror in the shop. When the barber flees, Wyatt, a law-and-order man, expresses his exasperation with the situation, "What kind of a town is this? Barber?" while walking outside with his face still lathered up and carrying his barber's sheet. Dance-hall girls run screaming from the Oriental Saloon across the street [later in the film after some long establishing shots, the saloon is nowhere to be seen across the street] where a reckless, drunken Indian Charlie (Charles Stevens), a symbol of the wildness of Tombstone, shoots his gun into the air.
Luke (Harry Woods), the town's Marshal, resigns and turns in his badge to the town's Mayor (Roy Roberts) rather than face the source of the gunshots: "I ain't commitin' suicide on myself." Wyatt steps into the crowd and again asks:
What kind of a town is this anyway? Excuse me ma'am. A man can't get a shave without gettin' his head blowed off.
When the marshal turns and leaves, Wyatt is exasperated that no one will confront the drunk and take charge. Disgusted and still lathered up, he hands his barber sheet to the Mayor, picks up a heavy rock, enters the saloon through the second story window, successfully pursues and subdues the Indian, and then drags the unconscious man by his heels out into the street, where the townspeople have been witnessing the quick dispatch of the man. He repeats his question one more time to everyone: "What kind of a town is this anyway? Selling liquor to Indians." He runs the Indian out of town: "Indian - get out of town and stay out!"
The mayor offers Wyatt the marshal's position for $200 a month (and then adds $50 more), but he declines: "Not interested. I'm just passin' through tryin' to get me a relaxin' little shave." Wyatt calls out for the barber in the crowd to continue his shave: "Hey Mr. Bon Ton. Shave please." When he identifies himself as Wyatt Earp, the mayor knows of his reputation:
Mayor: Wyatt? You're not by any chance the marshal from Dodge City?
Wyatt: Ex-marshal.
When they return to their campsite in the rain, they find their younger brother killed, lying face down on the wet ground, and their cattle herd is stolen. Wyatt returns to town, wakes up the mayor, and offers to take the Marshal's job immediately to tame the community of Tombstone [its name symbolizes death], bring decency to the wild land, and seek revenge - legally - for the killing:
Mayor? Is that Marshal job still open?...I'll take it...providin' my brothers are my deputies.
Then, Wyatt asks about the town's sources of power:
Wyatt: Who runs the gamblin' around here?
Mayor: Doc Holliday mostly.
Wyatt: Who runs the cattle?
Mayor: The Clantons. Old Man Clanton and his four sons.
In the next scene as he leaves the hotel where the mayor lives, Wyatt comes face-to-face a second time with Old Man Clanton and his clan who are coming in from the rain. In a series of confrontational closeups, he tells them of the cattle rustling and implies in a subtle exchange that his duty as newly-appointed Marshal is to find his brother's murderers. They scoff at the idea of a Marshal in Tombstone until they learn his name, setting themselves up for the inevitable conflict:
Wyatt: I didn't get very far with 'em. They was rustled this evenin'.
Clanton: So, well, that's too bad. You should be headin' for California, heh?
Wyatt: No, I figured on stickin' around for a while. Got myself a job.
Clanton: Cow-punchin'?
Wyatt: Marshal.
Clanton: Marshaling? In Tombstone? Ha, ha, ha. Well good luck to you Mr. uh...?
Wyatt: Earp. Wyatt Earp. (Clanton looks back at Wyatt with a shocked expression on his face.)
Alone, Wyatt buries his brother out by their campsite, not in Tombstone's cemetery. He marks the gravesite with a tombstone engraved: "JAMES EARP, BORN 1864, DIED 1882." In a touching gravesite scene against a Monument Valley backdrop, he solemnly speaks to his dead kid brother, promising him that he will consecrate himself to restoring order for future generations. He also appeals to their unseen father (Pa):
1864, 1882. 18 years. You didn't get much of a chance did you James? I wrote to Pa and Cory Sue. They're gonna be all busted up over it. Cory Sue's young, but Pa. I guess he'll never get over it. I'll be comin' out to see you regular James. So will Morg and Virg. I'm gonna be around here for a while. Can't tell. Maybe when we leave this country young kids like you will be able to grow up and live safe.
As newly-appointed law enforcer, Wyatt is interested in gathering evidence to prove that the Clantons murdered his brother and stole their cattle. In the town's saloon while Earp plays poker, a hot-blooded Mexican dance-hall girl named Chihuahua (Linda Darnell) tries to distract him, putting her leg up on the table, and then shortly later, singing to him:
Ten thousand cattle
Gone astray
Left my range
And wandered away
And the sons of guns
I'm here to say
Have left me dead broke
Dead broke today.
In gambling halls, delaying
Ten thousand cattle straying,
...Ten thousand cattle straying.
To one of his poker playing partners, a professional gambler he calls Mr. Gambler (Earle Foxe), Wyatt relates his love of poker:
Sir, I really love poker. Every hand a different problem. Got to do a little figurin' here. What would I do if I was in your boots Mr. Gambler? (Chihuahua signals his opponent about the cards Wyatt holds.) You drew three cards and I stood pat and yet you raised me. Now the question is, what should I do? (Wyatt looks up at Chihuahua behind him.) Yeah, mighty interestin' game, poker. Game of chance.
Sensing that Chihuahua has been "increasing the odds" against him, he drags her outside and threatens her, mistaking her for an Apache Indian:
Wyatt: If I catch you doin' that again, I'll run ya back to the Apache reservation where you belong.
Chihuahua: Listen, you tin star Marshal. This is Doc Holliday's town, and when he comes back...(She slaps him across the face - he pushes her into the water of a horse's trough.)
When he returns to his game, saloon chief "Doc" Holliday (Victor Mature) makes a dramatic entrance by striding into the saloon. The reactions of the poker players to his entrance signal his domineering authority and presence. The hands of the professional gambler pause on his winnings, and then he quickly tries to collect the money before Doc marches over to the poker table. Holliday asserts his authority over "Mr. Gambler" by knocking his hat off and ordering the professional gambler out of town.
An oppressive silence falls over the saloon as Holliday walks back to the end of the cleared-out bar and stands alone. The poker game is quickly curtailed while Wyatt complains: "Sure is a hard town for a fella to have a quiet game of poker in." The Marshal scoops his poker chips into his hat (which he puts on), and then walks down the saloon bar toward Doc.
Unaffected by Holliday's presence, Wyatt joins him at the end of the bar. As they look each other over and size each other up, they both know each others' reputations. Holliday challenges the new Marshal's authority in the town known for death and the "biggest graveyard west of the Rockies":
Holliday: I know all about you and your reason for being here.
Wyatt: Heard a lot about you too, Doc. You left your mark around in Deadwood, Denver and places. In fact, a man could almost follow your trail goin' from graveyard to graveyard.
Holliday: There's one here too, biggest graveyard west of the Rockies. Marshals and I usually get along much better when we understand that right away.
Wyatt: Get your meanin' Doc.
Holliday: Good.
As his "guest," Holliday firmly insists that Earp have a glass of champagne rather than a standard whiskey shot. By accepting the champagne drink, Wyatt somehow acknowledges and accepts Holliday's power, and things become more relaxed in the saloon.


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I know that many of my friends hate the idea of "Christian celebrities." I totally get it – although I'm less critical. Rob Bell finds himself in a situation where he can speak to the broader culture. I believe that this is a gift, one that he has for the most part wielded responsibly. His words on Super Soul Sunday build a great bridge to a culture that is spiritual but burned out by the oppressive examples of religion. Here's a great clip. You can watch the whole interview here.
Rob Bell & Oprah talk about what they talk about when they talk about God
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OH, now I see what people were reacting to after _Love Wins_ came out. Bell was and is still is on a trajectory away from any specific commitment to the Gospel as Jesus actually conveyed it, and away from any commitment to Jesus as the explicit embodiment of God in any conceivable historical development, into the nebulous NOW WORLD of truthiness, the OH WORLD of the (semi?) divine O, into the all too comfortable world of God is WITH US, and FOR US, and AHEAD OF US, and doing everything to make our experience here and hereafter just what we'd want it to be if we were God. Uh, Oh, I don't think I can go there. Jesus, come soon, and make yourself known in the midst of this vacuous world of words that seem designed to make us feel better about ourselves than we should, more detached from your way of working in history than we should, and farther from you. God direct our thoughts, hearts, and lives, may we center our lives in Christ Jesus, knowing you through the words of your Apostles, and in everything may we depend on you by submission to your Spirit, and by putting our hope in your promises in the Gospel. May your church not be detoured into enticingly inspiring words that only lead back to ourselves; may we instead follow you wherever you lead.


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I have an AKC registered AmStaff that won't stop biting and nipping. He does do it to me as much as my son and wife. How do you stop this behavior? I've tried putting my finger under his tongue, but that isn't working. Please help!
I have an AKC registered AmStaff that won't stop biting and nipping. He does do it to me as much as my son and wife. How do you stop this behavior? I've tried putting my finger under his tongue, but that isn't working. Please help!
There is no such thing as a bad breed just bad owners.
Read the sticky, "The Bite Stops Here".
Stop sticking your finger under his tongue - it's not going to teach him anything.
The basic technique is to yelp when he bites. If he stops, great! If he doesn't, get up and turn your back to him. If he follows after, biting your ankles, step over a baby gate or leave the room for 20sec or so. Puppies just want to be with you and play with you, so it's very powerful to teach him that biting makes you get up and walk away.
You need to be very consistent with this method. Puppies bite, it's an important part of their development, and it's not going to stop in a day or even a week. Everyone in the house needs to be consistent and you'll gradually see a reduction in the hard bites, then a reduction in the overall biting, etc.
Watson - Ch. Truepenny Olympic Triumph RN CGC | Welsh Springer Spaniel | DOB 8.2.12Hazel - Truepenny Bright Side of Life | Welsh Springer Spaniel | DOB 4.2.15
I didn't think that would work but I was desperate to try anything. Your suggestion make more sense because he is under me every chance he get. I will try your method and read the sticky. Thanks for all your help! Do think spraying our hands with say vinegar or lemon juice would help?
There is no such thing as a bad breed just bad owners.
ETA: Took at a look at that site and I'd recommend you stay far away! They gave some decent techniques overall, but lost all credibility when they recommended putting a choke chain on a pup (even an older pup) and snapping it every time they bite. There's no reason to choke a dog and there's always a better way to train. Stick around here and you'll learn a lot!
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Watson - Ch. Truepenny Olympic Triumph RN CGC | Welsh Springer Spaniel | DOB 8.2.12Hazel - Truepenny Bright Side of Life | Welsh Springer Spaniel | DOB 4.2.15
I like this place so of course I'll stick around! I totally agree I would never put a choke chain on a puppy and besides that the Amstaff breed doesn't respond to pain. They have a high tolerance and such a method would not work any way. My little guys loves when I tell him he is a good boy. So I will stick with praise over pain any day! Thanks for all your help elrohwen!
There is no such thing as a bad breed just bad owners.
I agree with the above mentioned sticky. It's a great plan. Just be prepared for it to take some time. You should see a bit of improvement in 3-5 days, but, only a bit. It will still take time to gradually reduce the biting over time. It took our first pup 4 weeks.
It's important that everyone in the household responds the same way, and that you are very consistent!
The Bite Stops Here works terrifically with bully breeds b/c they are so eager to please. The may be invulnerable to pain - "now use that 2 x 4 to scratch my other side" - but they're more sensitive than a Yorkie if you give them a dirty look... So, if he nips you and you withdraw attention, the poor dog will crumble, offering to bring you breakfast in bed, if only you'll forgive him... then he'll nip you b/c he's so happy that you forgave him :-)
As Doxie says - try it for a few days, then let us know what happens... there are lots of tweaks to the method if you don't see any progress at all.
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There is no such thing as a bad breed just bad owners.
Oh dear God I just had a cuteness implosion.
Staffie puppies are the cutest!
This training method works on adults, too, it just takes some time. Stick with it.
A lot of us have great results with clicker training. Check out kikopup and tab289 on YouTube. (kikopup is more behavioral issues and basic commands, tab289 is trick training.) you'll be pleased with the results if you give it a fair shot.
Hmmmmm, I checked out the sight and they said never to run away from pup, I always liked a pup chasing me (it was fun) and also nothing better to start pre recall work with a pup than letting him run full speed after you and allowing him to catch and get the reward of crashing into you.
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Yeah, my dogs love playing chase games with me. They chase me down the hall, then I turn around and chase them back up the hall. Never caused any problems. Sometimes I wonder where people get these crazy training tips.
I'd like to recommend Ian Dunbar's Training Textbook. Here is the section about teaching bite inhibition.
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Especially when they put it on the web page, they also mentioned the dominant pup, it's mind boggling all these pup that are whelped and immediately become gang-bangers.Sometimes I wonder where people get these crazy training tips.
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First of all - your puppy is adorable!!!!!! I have a Maltese (Molly) & a Maltipoo (JD); Molly was much more of a biter as a pup than JD was. What worked great for me with her was this. I would actually play with my hand with her to entice her to nibble/bite at it so I created more opportunities to correct and teach her. I would put my hand on the ground and walk it toward her. She was so ready to play with it (and she still loves this routine at two years old). It cracks me up! Anyway, whenever her teeth would touch my skin I would say "no biting" while gently closing her mouth with my hand wrapped around her mouth. They are so small this is pretty easy to do although you may feel bad cause they will struggle with you doing this. Your pup obviously isnt as small as a maltese but you could gently wrap both your hands around his/her mouth. You don't hold it closed long - just enough time to look them in the eyes and say " no biting, Molly - only licking". She definitely didn't like that and it only took a few weeks. She learned quickly and as time went on and she may have slipped up now and then i only had to say the phrase and no longer close her mouth. Then she would come an lick my hand as if to say 'I'm sorry, mom, I know what you mean". Molly is around little kids now and has never had a issue with biting or nibbling.
Hope this may work for you. Be consistent with it - that is always important and have your son and wife practice it too. Good luck!
. Stacie / dog mom to JD & Molly
Don't restrict an Amstaff when trying to teach Bite Inhibition, b/c it can be seen as rough play. We used to try that method, but "The Bite Stops Here" is gentler and more effective. Let us know how it goes.
Given that you have an AmStaff, you really should have it in obedience training. In playing with other puppies, he'll be able to learn bite inhibition better than with just you. The basic lesson, like in adult like, is if you act like an a-hole, nobody will play with you. The mouthing is a chance to learn that lesson. The yelping and withdrawal techniques that people mention work. Playing with other puppies in the 12 week old time frame will help a lot as well. That's where obedience comes in. Given that you have what's considered to be an aggressive breed, you want it really well trained. People will assume things are your dogs fault if there's a conflict even if it wasn't involved.


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Help me out here with a new Wilson purchase
Been shooting a long time, caught the 1911 bug a few years ago and have several that I really like. Feel like I want to take it to a 'whole nutha level' and get a custom 1911 and Wilson is all I am looking at, after doing a fair amount of research. My first will most likely have to be used due to timing and funding though. Although I am getting familiar with the line, I don't know much about the older Wilsons. I have looked at a 2002 Professional and a 2002 Sentinal (in .45 ACP) recently and they seemed reasonably priced (under $2500) for excellent condition, low round count guns. I'll primarily train with this gun and ultimately replace one of my carry guns after some shooting and proficiency. The only thing I really need is an Ambi safety, which I know can be added, because I am left handed. What do any of you think and where, besides Gunbroker are good places to find used Wilsons? My LGS (s) don't seem to ever come across any and if they do they're gone the same day. Passed up an excellent seal on a buddy's almost new X-Tac last month and will probably kick myself in the arse for a long time over that.
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The critical importance of SOA
by Toby Ward — The current state of the intranet is terrible; piss poor. There are some great leaders such as IBM, HP and many others that I've documented as case studies on this site, but most are quite terrible.
Corporate communications is to blame; IT is to blame; HR is to blame; and above all else, senior management is to blame. IT needs to better understand the business and usability; HR needs to better understand the technology; and communications needs to get better at everything. Moreover, corporate communications is uniquely positioned to step-up and take control of the intranet as its champion; to convince senior management of the benefits, to bring together disparate groups in the organization, and to paint a vision of the future while leading the march towards it. Before they can take charge, communicators need to better understand the technology and the future.
The technology underpinning the intranet has rapidly changed in the past 10 years, and it will likely change even more dramatically in the next 10 years. In recent years we've witnessed the rise of advanced content management, knowledge management, search, and the enterprise portal solution. The new social media, Web 2.0, burst onto the scene and is proving to play and important part of this future. Another critical arc in the intranet's evolution is represented by service-oriented architecture (SOA), a mission-critical important component to the increasingly important portal solution.
Firstly, the concept of portal is nothing new. A portal is a door or gateway of importance. An enterprise portal solution is a complex piece of software that powers a portal intranet and provides user personalization, search, advanced security and, perhaps most importantly, enterprise application integration (EAI, the software and processes that link together or integrate an organizations many applications (e.g. ERP, CRM, HR applications). Application integration is arguably the most important component of the portal and SOA is the catalyst that fuels the integration.
- Composite application – an application that draws its functionality and data from different sources
- Portal – a composite application that integrates data from many different sources
- SOA – a style of integrating disparate resources or applications
Notwithstanding the underlying technology, if you subscribe to the notion that the intranet in purpose is very different from the Internet, and that employees are typically after very specific pieces of data and knowledge, and rarely if ever 'surf' the intranet, then the importance of application integration is clear. As employees most often complain they "can't find anything!" Therefore, quick access to the data and knowledge they need is tantamount to success. SOA enables this quick access.
SOA is not a product but a style or framework for integrating disparate resources or applications. SOA allows different applications written in different languages on different systems to be accessed and retrieved by a single composite application, such as a portal, for all to see – without the end user having a proprietary piece of software (client) to use each of the different applications. In short, applications are 'loosely coupled' together and are consumed or used (viewed most often in the web browser) despite the different technologies. Put another way, different applications are used or made available by independent services regardless of platform.
Portals are not really entities unto themselves, but rather a composite of all the tools and applications linked together by the SOA. Portals work in coordinated fashion with other supporting technologies including:
Content management systems
Document management systems
Knowledge management tools
Enterprise search
Light directory access protocol
Business intelligence
Web applications for finance, HR, and operations
Customer relationship management
Web 2.0 (blogs, wikis, etc.)
In short, SOA is the glue that holds the enterprise intranet portal together. Without SOA, the intranet home page can never be a true portal without a phenomenal amount of manual effort to integrate and update all of the little pieces that comprise the enterprise intranet. Additionally, the SOA framework allows for easy application portability – or the ability to change application server without reinventing the wheel.
"Being locked to an application server means that you cannot keep your portal (e.g. WebLogic), if your IT department decides to migrate to another application server," warns Janus Boye, of Boye IT, the author of the preeminent Enterprise Portals Report from CMS Watch. "Believe it or not, organizations actually change application servers from time to time! Either way chances are that you will not be using the same application server forever. Being locked increases your future migration costs."
The intranet has traditionally been not a single system working for the benefit of the organization, but a collection of fiefdoms operated by independent groups and egos with independent priorities and politics. This approach has led to sprawling intranets of 1000s of sites and applications (see the portal and intranet case studies on IBM and Ericsson) and wasted millions upon millions of dollars and a tons of employee man years while frustrating the hell out of employees. Smart planning and strong leadership will provide a process for eliminating (or lessening the deleterious impact) a lot of the waste and politics. SOA provides the technology framework for putting this together under a single umbrella, a single portal.
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Not any more. A new orthodoxy is becoming fashionable in our time which praises as a virtue, rather than decrying as a vice, the aggressive and competitive instincts of human beings. Politically, the fashion is manifest in the rise of the New Right Republican Party of Newt Gingrich in the US. Intellectually, however, this movement draws its wellspring from an unlikely source: science.
The past couple of years have seen a flood of popular books on evolutionary biology and on the application of Darwinian principles to human beings and to society. Since May this year alone, at least five evocative titles have been published: Evolution and Healing, Reinventing Darwin, River out of Eden - A Darwinian View of Life, The End of Evolution, and The Moral Animal - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology.
In Britain, the London School of Economics is running a series of "Darwin Seminars" to explore topics ranging from "The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating" through "Female Body Shape: Attractiveness, Health, and Fecundity at a Glance" to "War as an Institution". So popular have these seminars become that they have had to move into the largest lecture halls at the LSE.
In the main, this interest in evolutionary biology reflects the ferment of excitement within the subject itself, as professional biologists realise that they can make comprehensive sense of the bewildering variety and diversity of the natural world. By applying powerful mathematical techniques taken from the theory of games, they can explain, for example, why it is in some animals' interest to display "altruism" towards kin or even unrelated animals, although it might be at the cost of their own lives. Not just the anatomy but the behaviour of animals can now be explained in evolutionary terms. As Richard Dawkins writes in River out of Eden: "Never were so many facts explained by so few assumptions."
There is professional controversy, too. Niles Eldredge's Reinventing Darwin, to be published later this week, is a passionate polemic against the "ultra-Darwinists" - the most prominent of whom is, of course, Richard Dawkins - whom he accuses of "physics envy" as they try to reduce everything in the living world to one element: competition to pass one's genes on to the next generation. The ultras are usually theorists and geneticists, and against them Eldredge pitches the "naturalists" - those who actually go out and observe animals and plants in their natural state and who regard it as "mere empty rhetoric" to claim that complex biological systems can be interpreted simply in terms of selfish genes struggling to survive into the next generation.
A good academic spat offers harmless enjoyment to the rest of us, and as Richard Dawkins is no mean polemicist himself, this one promises fair entertainment. But the contemporary fashion for Darwinism has its darker side. The very reductionism Eldredge decries within the profession is being applied, mainly by popularisers and those on the fringes of the subject, in psychology and the social sciences, for example, to human behaviour and society. There is an attempt to derive a new ethics from evolution, an attempt to derive what is right and what is wrong by looking at what biology tells us is the true inner nature of the human animal and at our innate programming, which, allegedly, drives us to struggle to pass on our genes.
Some of the answers have been seized for political ends. The trend has been most marked in the US, with the publication of The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, which argues that the members of the "underclass" in American cities (predominantly blacks) are genetically pre-ordained to be stupid and to be failures in complicated Western industrial societies. It was followed by Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, which, although it explicitly disclaims a right-wing political agenda, nevertheless finds justification for Victorian values from evolutionary biology.
Robert Wright concedes that the new Darwinism "lends itself to morally conservative use". His vision of human nature is, if anything, more apocalyptic even than Hobbes's: fathers kill their step-children allegedly because there is no genetic relationship between them, and "natural" fathers kill theirs because they have come to doubt, consciously or unconsciously, their genetic connection; "it is 'natural' in the sense of being 'approved' by natural selection, for a man to kill someone he finds sleeping with his wife," he writes. "Rape may, in the same sense, be 'natural'."
Similar ideas were briefly fashionable as "sociobiology" 20 years ago. Steven Rose, Professor of Biology at the Open University, says: "Clearly, there is a new round of this going on." He cites a recent scientific paper that argued for sexual selection in mathematical skills: girls are worse at maths than boys because, in our evolutionary history, males needed to navigate more effectively in three dimensions as they hunted for food. This sort of thing is "vulgar neo-Darwinism", says Professor Rose. Males and females do - self-evidently - differ, and some of that difference may be expressed in intellectual as well as physiological terms, but anyone trying to account for the massive present-day differences in mathematical attainment would do well to look for a social explanation, in terms of the inferiority of maths teaching in girls' schools in Britain over the past century, as detailed exhaustively in the Cockcroft report Mathematics Counts in 1982.
Patrick Bateson, professor of ethology (the biological study of behaviour) and Provost of King's College Cambridge, says: "When evolution is applied to social problems, it's fraught with difficulties." The proponents of the new sociobiology tend to ignore one of humanity's most distinctive features: culture. Behaviour learnt by one individual can be transmitted down the generations in a manner that is neither Darwinian nor genetic. Professor Bateson has studied the relationship between the avoidance of inbreeding (biological) and the development of taboos against incest (social). There is no direct link, he says.
The superficially plausible idea that the social mechanism evolved to fulfil the biological imperative of avoiding weakened children from inbreeding does not hold up under close examination, he maintains. The prohibitions on marriage contained in the Kindred and Affinity table of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer, for example, are against the marriage of people who - given the social conditions of the time when the table was drawn up - would have been likely to grow up together from an early age, not just those who are genetically close.
The biological link, according to Professor Bateson, is that "People who are familiar with members of the opposite sex from early life are not much attracted to those individuals, and when they spot others who are, they disapprove." The incest taboo is "all about the supression of disharmonising abnormal behaviour" - it is about the promotion of social cohesion rather than the rejection by society of inbreeding. The taboo remains because "once there is verbal transmission of culture, you get the transmission of people disapproving of things which they wouldn't do themselves". Similarly for the prohibition on eating pork, characteristic of both Judaism and Islam: "To look for a Darwinian explanation, in terms of people dying from tapeworm parasites, would be dotty," says Professor Bateson.
Although some of today's sociobiology is better than that of 20 years ago, Professor Bateson believes "there is the taint of unwittingly projecting ideology on to biological material and then coming back to society and saying 'There it is'."
For Professor Roy Porter, the social historian of science and medicine, that the new social Darwinism should end in ultra-conservative politics is no surprise. "Marx's interpretation of Darwinism was that it was political economy applied to the natural world, and historically speaking, Darwin applied to nature what Adam Smith and Malthus had applied to economics and society. The new sociobiology grudgingly incorporates elements of altruism but the overall model is still competition."
Both Rose and Porter see the multi-billion-dollar international project to tease out and analyse all human genes - the Human Genome Project - as one of the vehicles propelling the new sociobiology. "It's easy publicity for scientists to say 'we have identified a gay gene or a violence gene'," Professor Rose points out. "That's not journalists mis-speaking science, it's what the scientists say. For people at the cutting edge of genetics, complexity has already set in. But one stage removed, the sociobiologists and psychologists are still in simple mode."
"The genome project is the highest spending and biggest one going," Professor Porter says. "But if we believe that by understanding the genetic alphabet we'll understand better how society should be organised, we're deluding ourselves." Referring to the recent spate of car burning in Luton, he continues: "The unemployment figures tell us more than genetics about social behaviour. It's the cultural differences that are more interesting determinants than the basic genetic background. We have the same genes as people had 30 years ago but our society is more violent."
But the policies that follow from social explanations require money and political will. The new Darwinism instead promotes individualism and selfishness - "the greedy gene", Professor Porter notes. "I can't get beyond the idea that all this is a form of politics rather than science."
Darwin's heirs: how the species evolved
Richard Herrnstein, the co-author of The Bell Curve with the right- wing political theorist Charles Murray (left), was professor of psychology at Harvard University until his death in September last year. In the late 1960s, he was an energetic propagandist for the Californian psychologist, Arthur Jensen, who claimed his IQ tests had shown that blacks were less intelligent than whites and that this difference was genetic and therefore ineradicable by "affirmative action" programmes. The Bell Curve argues that there is now a "cognitive elite" in American society composed of people clever enough to work by manipulating ideas and abstractions. They are the leaders and beneficiaries of society and the (stupid) underclass is doomed to manual labour. Again, the agenda is that cognitive ability is somehow fixed and that the social environment cannot alter it.
Dean Hamer, a genetics researcher at the US National Cancer Institute, is the man behind the claim that homosexual orientation is influenced by the genes. The alleged discovery of the so-called "gay gene" provoked widely different reactions: gay pressure groups in the USA welcomed the announcement on the grounds that if being gay was in the genes then it was "natural". The alternative interpretation was summed up in the newspaper headline: "Gay genes finding offers abortion hope". Recently, Hamer's data has been questioned as other researchers have failed to replicate his findings.
Robert Wright, an American journalist, has tried to derive a new morality on the basis of recent developments in evolutionary biology and genetics. His book, The Moral Animal, argues that our moral sentiments are themselves the product of evolution. After spending most of the book explaining how selfishness is "natural" (and that even altruism is selfishness in disguise), however, there is a leap of logic to the conclusion that morality consists in fighting the beast within and in trying not to be selfish.
Niles Eldredge, curator of invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History, and Stephen Jay Gould (below) of Harvard University are among the world's leading theorists about Darwinian evolution. But they reject the reductionist notion that genes are just about the only things that need to be considered in evolution. Instead, they believe that social economics and environment fundamentally influence evolutionary change.
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Today on the PS3, players can purchase and play used games. But publishers can require the game to be registered, especially when playing online. EA's "online pass" required gamers to pay $10 if they wanted to play a used game online.
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I know a novel that begins: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." Now here is one of the saddest movies I have ever seen, "Albert Nobbs." It is sad because a woman has chosen to lead her life in a way that is fearful and unnatural to her and must live every moment in dread.
As you must know by now, Albert Nobbs (Glenn Close in an Oscar-nominated turn) is not a man. She works as a butler and waiter in a 19th century Dublin hotel, where she dresses and passes as a man because a woman would not be hired for the job, and she needs the economic security. We can sympathize. But the pain she lives in isn't worth the money. Many people pass as members of the other sex for many reasons, but my impression is that for most of them, it answers a genuine emotional need.
Albert Nobbs isn't happy being a man. I don't believe she's ever happy at all. There is something stiff and genderless about her, and we suspect she has no sexual experience and desires none. Her entire life is focused on economic security, and she lives in terror of being exposed. Regard her body language: shy, repressed, reclusive, trying to fade in and become invisible.
The hotel is a Dublin crossroads for people of some means but no great distinction. It's run by the ebullient Mrs. Baker (Pauline Collins), who sails a jolly ship but as an employer is no paragon. Employees come and go, and although Albert is considered by everyone an odd fellow, she's still there. Homosexuality is not unknown in this establishment; Viscount Yarrell (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) checks in with a free-drinking crew and specifies an adjoining room for his friend. But Albert Nobbs isn't a homosexual of any description; life would be simpler if she were.
One day, Hubert Page (Janet McTeer) arrives to do some house painting. Hubert is tall, lanky, smokes a lot, kids around, and is obviously (to our eyes) a woman. She gets by on personality and nerve. She quickly reads Albert, and in what must be the most astonishing moment of Albert's life to date, exposes her breasts and shares her secret. I wonder if that was the first time Albert realized she wasn't the only person who has ever passed for another sex.
That opens the film's only scenes that give us some reason to hope for Albert. The two women spend a liberating day on the beach, and Hubert takes Albert home to her wife, Cathleen (played by Bronagh Gallagher with quiet calm and tact). It becomes clear, if it wasn't already, that Albert has only a sketchy idea of what men and women do with each other, what sex is, what marriage is.
But she has a dream. She has her eye on a storefront that she believes would make a nice little tobacco shop. There would be a room in the back where tea would be served. And a room upstairs to, well, to share with a "wife." In an exercise of dismaying naivete, she imagines Helen (Mia Wasikowska), a young housemaid at the hotel, in this role. For Albert, it involves a business partnership, not a romance.
This is such a brave performance by Glenn Close, who in making Albert so real, makes the character as pathetic and unlikable as she must have been in life. The film is based on a story by George Moore (1852-1933), an Irish realist writer who may have known some real-life parallels in Dublin. Close starred in an Off-Broadway production of a play based on it in 1982, and tried ever after to make it a film. The Hungarian director Istvan Szabo was attached to the project circa 2001, but now the film has been made with Rodrigo Garcia, whose sure touch with women characters can be seen in his "Nine Lives" and "Mother and Child."
Close never steps wrong, never breaks reality. My heart went out to Albert Nobbs, the depth of whose fears are unimaginable. But it is Janet McTeer who brings the film such happiness and life as it has, because the tragedy of Albert Nobbs is that there can be no happiness in her life. The conditions she has chosen make it impossible.


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Johnson, who has lived across from the hill for seven years, said he has seen the slope slide four times (including this one), prompting him to get full insurance coverage on the van he always parks on the road.
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Integrated literacies : every online player wins a prize
Peacock, Judith A. (2011) Integrated literacies : every online player wins a prize. In Proceedings of 15th Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Information Online Conference, ALIA, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, NSW.
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QUT Library's model of learning support brings together academic literacy (study skills) and information literacy (research skills). The blended portfolio enables holistic planning and development, seamless services, connected learning resources and more authentic curriculum-embedded education. The model reinforces the Library's strategic focus on learning service innovation and active engagement in teaching and learning. ----- ----- -----
The online learning strategy is a critical component of the broader literacies framework. This strategy unifies new and existing online resources (e.g.: Pilot, QUT cite|write and IFN001|AIRS Online) to augment learner capability. Across the suite, prudent application of emerging technologies with visual communications and learning design delivers a wide range of adaptive study tools. Separately and together, these resources meet the learning needs and styles of a diverse cohort providing positive and individual learning opportunities. Deliberate articulation with strategic directions regarding First Year Experience, assessment, retention and curriculum alignment assures that the Library's initiatives move in step with institutional objectives relating to enhancing the student experience and flexible blended learning. ----- ----- -----
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Robert Gibson, 83, Ex-Episcopal Bishop Of Virginia Diocese
By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ
Published: September 25, 1990
Bishop Robert Fisher Gibson Jr., former head of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, died Friday at Stuart Circle Hospital in Richmond. He was 83 years old.
A spokesman for the family said Bishop Gibson, who retired in 1974, died of a heart attack.
An outspoken leader in the ecumenical movement, he served in the mid-1960's as chairman of the Consulation on Church Union, which developed a plan to merge eight major Protestant denominations into a 24-million-member church. He also supported the movement to admit women to the governing bodies of Episcopal parishes.
Bishop Gibson also served as vice president of the House of Bishops and as chairman of the Province of Washington, which includes the dioceses of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
He was a graduate of Virginia Seminary and of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. He was ordained as a deacon in June 1940 and as a priest six months later. He served in two parishes and did missionary work in Mexico before teaching church history at Virginia Seminary and serving as dean of the School of Theology at Sewanee.
He served as Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia from 1949 to 1954, when he was elected Bishop Coadjutor.
He was elected as the 10th Bishop of Virginia in 1961. After his retirement he remained active in church affairs and was a member of the House of Bishops.
Bishop Gibson, who lived in Richmond, is survived by his wife, Alison; three sons, Robert Gibson 3rd of Tenafly, N.J., John Gibson of Memphis and Peter Gibson of Washington; a daughter, Greta Marshall of El Cerrito, Calif., and five grandchildren.


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Harris County Officials Say They're Ready for Emergencies
With the tornadoes hitting North Texas last night, many are wondering how ready Houston is in the event of an emergency, whether natural or manmade. Francisco Sanchez of the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management says they are.
"We had over 504 classes, trainings, exercises and drills within our office and with partner agencies to test our plans, find gaps, improve them and make sure that we are better prepared for any type of incident," Sanchez told KTRH.
Sanchez says his office has learned from past storms, like Hurricane Ike, which hit in 2008.
"The biggest lesson was that during large scale, long-term events we needed to do a better job in transitioning from the response team to the recovery team," Sanchez explained.
Hospitals in Houston are ready as well. Dr. Jeff Kalina of The Methodist Hospital says everyone is talking to each other.
"Houston has an awful lot of cooperation with all the hospitals. There are systems in place allowing each other to communicate about bed capacities, capabilities and operating room capabilities," Kalina said.
Kalina also said there were lessons hospitals learned from Ike.
"People that are on a lot of medications should have a list of those and their doses. So when they arrive in the emergency room we can derive what their medical problems are if they are unable to speak," Kalina explained.
The Atlantic hurricane season will begin on June first. Multiple forecasts have it being an above average hurricane season. The Weather Channel is calling for 16 named storms, nine of which will become hurricanes.
The federal government's seasonal forecast will be out on May 23rd.
Hurricane Season officially begins June 1. This new billboard will debut today along I-45 the Gulf Freeway north of FM 519 in LaMarque.


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-702?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13185696#comment-13185696 ] Craig L Russell commented on JDO-702: ------------------------------------- Not clear that we need to update the company model. A stand alone model for just this feature would work for me. The advantage of the company model is that there is a lot of infrastructure already written. And changing the Address classes/interfaces probably isn't best because the most common case for Address is embedded without subclasses. So probably another model is needed anyway. Or create another package outside the company model but use the company infrastructure (e.g. the completeness test). You also want to make sure that the query features (cast, relationships from embedded subtypes, projections of embedded types) work properly. > Support for specification of embedded inherited objects > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: JDO-702 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JDO-702 > Project: JDO > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: api, specification, tck > Reporter: Andy Jefferson > Attachments: JDO-702.patch > > > While JDO2+ allows specification of embedded objects stored with primary objects, it doesn't have any specific way of specifying the embedded object as being inherited and how you would persist it. In particular there is no way to define a discriminator (column) for the embedded object. If we have an example from the JDO spec, and if we have a subclass of Address as also persistable, then we need to specify the discriminator for "primaryAddress" field. > <class name="Employee" table="EMP"> > ... > <!-- field type is Address --> > <field name="primaryAddress"> > <embedded null-indicator-column="PADDR_STREET"> > <discriminator column="PADDR_DISCRIM"/> > <field name="street" column="PADDR_STREET"/> > <field name="city" column="PADDR_CITY"/> > <field name="state" column="PADDR_STATE"/> > <field name="zip" column="PADDR_ZIPCODE"/> > </embedded> > </field> > </class> > So the XSD/DTD need updates to allow <discriminator> under <embedded>, the JDO Metadata API needs to allow this also, and the @Embedded annotation needs a "discriminator" attribute adding. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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Sept. 24, 2012
(Opening statement)
"Just kind of summing up Akron, I always look at those three big things in turnovers, big plays and fourth quarter. We obviously did a pretty good job on all three. We were plus-12 on big plays, I think we had 16 of them on offense which is pretty explosive. We gave up four that we need to correct. We were plus-one on turnovers. Really good job by the defense getting three, but we were a little too loose with the football and that is something that is going to be a big priority this week. Even though we only lost one, we had a couple other opportunities to lose them. We have to get better. The fourth quarter was obviously a great quarter for us. We outscored them, 17-3, outgained them 167-19 and then were plus-one on takeaways. Hopefully we have learned a lot of lessons and we can go try to do that week-in and week-out."
(On injury updates)
"No real updates on personnel. We came out of the game pretty clean from an injury standpoint."
(On Georgia)
"We all know about Georgia. There is no sense in me talking about how good they are. They are probably playing as good as I've seen them in a long time. The quarterback is averaging 10.5 an attempt, the runner is averaging 9.2 an attempt, [they are scoring] 48 points and only giving up 16. They are probably one of the most talented defenses in the country, so we've got our work cut out for us. Hopefully we can take a lot of the lessons we have learned in the first four games and try to go play as good as we can play in Athens and see how it turns out."
(On the team's last game in Athens)
"We are a lot more prepared and we are certainly a lot better than we were two years ago. We didn't play very good down there and obviously need a lot better effort than what we put on two years ago."
(On short-yardage rushing situations)
"We had two that we didn't get. A.J. [Johnson] went the wrong way on one just trying to make something happen. He won't do that again. The other one, they kind of put everybody up in there, shooting the safeties real aggressive. We probably need to mix it up a little bit and give our kids a little better chance."
(On settling for field goals in the red zone)
"There were several factors for not scoring touchdowns. They were bringing the house, safeties everywhere, so we had a couple of protection breakdowns up the middle which forced a bad throw. It wasn't Tyler's fault, but we had a guy wide open on a double move and couldn't convert it. We had a drop, a couple of missed assignments getting a little loose on protection and then one time we were going to throw a slant to Justin [Hunter] and Tyler got stepped on as he was coming back. It was just a lot of little details and the pressure certainly helped them. We didn't execute like we needed to do on throwing and catching and protecting."
(On pass protection)
"[Tyler] got hit more this game than he had, but we've only given up [two] sacks which is one good thing. For the most part, our line is pretty good at pass protecting. We had some breakdowns in that game because of some of that radar stuff they were doing, which I really haven't seen that since the early 2000s from anybody. It's not hard once you work on it, so we adjusted to it and were fine."
(On Georgia having a balanced offense)
"They have a couple of runners, a lot of receivers that can hurt you and I think the biggest thing is the way the quarterback is playing. He is just playing with a lot of confidence. You can tell the confidence they have in them because they can open it up at any time. They hit a big play from the minus-five against Vanderbilt last week, where they got in the gun and shoot it right down the middle of the field. When you can call a game aggressively and the players are playing with a lot of confidence and that back is a real heavy, powerful guy."
(On playing in a hostile environment)
"It is [a concern]. The good news is that a lot of our guys have been in these environments, so it shouldn't be as overwhelming as it has been in the past, at least I hope it isn't. You look on offense and I think everybody except CP and Tiny played at Georgia two years ago. Defense probably not as many but we had a lot of hostile games last year, so hopefully you learn from it. You have to learn to enjoy playing in that kind of environment."
(On working Deion Bonner and LaDarrell McNeil in more)
"A lot of it depends on how the week of practice goes and what our confidence level is in their ability to execute. It didn't work out [last week] but we are going to play them eventually."
(On the backup tailback position)
"We're still searching a little bit. We have three guys we are trying to figure out right now. They all have different skill sets, all do different things and it is probably hard on everybody right now trying to figure it out."
(On Marlin Lane)
"We are looking for a lot more consistency, that is probably the biggest thing. Consistency in his runs, where he is hitting it, consistency in his pass protection. The thing coaches love is when they put a player in a game, they know exactly what they are going to get, no matter how good or bad it is. The things that make coaches nervous is when you put a player in a game and you have no idea what is coming. Just developing that kind of trust of knowing what we are going to get when we put this guy in the game, that is the challenge for all of them."
(On going right back to Rajion Neal after he fumbled)
"I've never been one to just hammer a guy on a mistake and he hasn't had the propensity to do that this year so I think it's an unfair label. It's kind of like the kicker who missed one PAT last week. We are going to try to give him more than one opportunity but obviously there is a point where we are going to make a change."
(On running Rajion Neal 20+ times a game)
"I think it just depends on his production and his durability. My answer is, if he is able to average 4.5-5.0 yards a carry then yes. If the other guys aren't, then absolutely, but the more guys you have that can get in there and do it, the better. You can manage them through the year a little better."
(On the challenge of stopping the Georgia offense)
"We have to win at the line of scrimmage first, play good scheme discipline and then have a lot of hats to the football because one guy isn't going to bring him down. It's very hard when he breaks through the first seven to bring him down with those little guys in the back. Scheme discipline, winning at the line of scrimmage on your man and then a lot of hats to the ball. Then you have to do it every play. That's what happens."
(On Georgia's style of offense)
"Dan [McCullers] didn't play last week, so he will obviously play a lot this week. It's just a different style of tame, a little more like what we saw against Florida in some respects. It's I-Formation, play action but they also have the ability to go spread you out and throw it."
(On Georgia QB Aaron Murray)
"He is playing with a lot of confidence right now. He has a very strong arm and a lot of snaps under his belt. They don't change a lot offensively in what they do, so it is that deliberate practice where he's had a lot of work at getting good at what they do. You can just see him triggering the ball a lot quicker than he ever has, he's a lot more accurate than he has been and that just comes with experience."
(On Dan McCuller's not playing many snaps vs. Akron)
"It just depends on who you play. When they are getting the ball out in 1.8 seconds, it's not an indictment on Dan that he didn't play. It just depends on who you are playing and we have a lot of defensive linemen. We just felt like going the other route was the way to go."
(On the Tennessee pass rush)
"I think we have a lot of improving to do. Probably not as bad as what the statistics might show from a sack standpoint, but we certainly have a lot of work to do. Nobody has really stood up and said I'm a dominant pass rusher in this league, not on our team. Most of these teams have a guy who can really get back there and effect the quarterback. I was pretty clear that nobody has proven that they could do it, so hopefully in time they will get better and better."
(On which version of the wildcat package they will use)
"It's going to be based on production but they are all different. They all do different things. A.J. is obviously a different body type, Justin King does some different things that the other guys can't and then Pig we're just now activating him. It's just a lot more stuff that you can do."
(On the reasons for giving up big plays)
"There are some differences in all of them, some subtle differences, but ultimately it is a combination of really screwing up up front in the gap control, and we were doing some different things against these guys slanting the line and the linebackers have to adjust and we didn't, so they caught us. Then it is an ability to get the runner down when he breaks through the line, which a lot of these we've been in man coverage so they are coming off a little later then they would in zone. We're not doing a good job of leveraging the football so that is the common if there is a common theme. None of them are excusable, you just can't give up plays like that running the ball and expect to win."
(On playing zone and man coverages)
"We've been pretty good in both, but we've probably gotten hurt a little more in man. I don't really have any to support that. We are holding our opponents to 5.8 (yards) per pass, which is a respectable number, and we are averaging 8.8. That is usually the number I look at to see if we are playing good pass defense. I don't understand the efficiency deal. We're pretty high in that but I just know how many yards are they getting every time they drop back and throw it over time. We can do a lot of improving. It is the big plays and it always is. We try to average about eight, that is a big number."
(On whether Jacob Carter's success is because of player development or his will)
"I think it is probably a little bit of both, but most of it is a person's mettle. He wasn't recruited because he's not very fast, that is the reality, but he has gone in and has great hands, he's a very smart football player in knowing all of the positions, he is tough and he has a level of grit about him to go just out there every day and be very consistent. It goes back to what I said earlier. If you put Jacob Carter in the game, you know what you are getting. I didn't really expect a nine-ball for a touchdown, but he has earned the right to get on the field because it is a level of trust that you develop with players."
(On Tyler Bray)
"He was sick all of last week but I think he is doing fine now. He was really struggling."
(On Tyler Bray showing less frustration on the field)
"It was a big step for Tyler. There were a lot of conversations about how you manage what goes wrong in a game and how your body language and your thoughts and your words can affect other people, especially guys on the team. He made some bad throws early, bad decisions early and was frustrated wanting to get something happening but he really kept a nice calm about him and worked his way through the game. He got better and better and better as the game went on. That was a good step for Tyler.
(On working with Tyler this season)
He's been great. He acknowledges it. Tyler wants to be a good quarterback and he is on his journey of being one. I think his level of want-to and want to win and want to be a great quarterback is a lot greater than what might be the perception of many. We all bring things on ourselves, so his goal is to work his way out of that and prove to people, not only that he is a really good quarterback, but how important it is to be good and how important it is to help this team win."
(On how much freedom quarterbacks are given to check off on run plays)
"Very little because we would rather just do it ourselves as coaches. I think Tyler plays a lot better when he is playing fast and we are not putting too much on him outside of what he is really good at. We can change them easily. We go so fast it is easy for us to change stuff, but maybe we need to be a little more aggressive."
(On James Stone)
"He's been good. He didn't play as well this game as he had been. I think a lot of that jump stuff slowed our offensive line down a lot. That affected us. They were all jumping around and moving and then it slows you down so then you don't play as physical and aggressive. That's just part of learning but he's been a real steady hand in there. He has a heck of a challenge this week now. This sucker here is a pretty good nose and he is big."
(On Prentiss Waggner playing more safety moving forward)
"I don't know. We have a lot of different combinations. We were screwing up some pattern matches early in the game. All we did was clean up the pattern matches, it wasn't like we simplified anything in the second half. It helps with [Prentiss] on these throwing teams to be down in that kind of linebacker spot. You have a little more athletic guy, space player and then it was who is going to play safety. Last week, we put [Marsalis] Teague in at corner and Prentiss at safety. We could put LaDarrell [McNeil] in at safety and keep Prentiss at corner. We could put one of the freshmen corners in and Prentiss at safety. I think that hurt us on the long run. Prentiss is in the middle of the field and he hasn't played that in a while so he is in a little different leverage position. Brent [Brewer] is coming in at a different spot that he hasn't been at in a while. That's not an excuse but it is certainly a factor. It will be nice to settle in on what we are going to do and it was our first game without Brian [Randolph]. We've had Brian in that position for a year, 15 games, so you get a little comfort zone. We're figuring out what the best combination is."
(On whether Prentiss Waggner is better at corner or safety)
"I think he has strengths at both and some things he doesn't do as well at both. He's that hybrid kind of guy that can play both. Really it has more to do with who is the alternative at safety and who is the alternative at corner. Then what the matchups are and what they are running. You just try to piece it together each week."
(On Jarvis Jones)
"If you are not aware of where he is he can just wreck your game plan because of his athleticism and ability to win on pass rush and be disruptive in the backfield. He just has one of those playmaking personalities. He wants to make a game-changing play and they move him around a little bit. You just have to be very aware of where he is and you have to be very disciplined on how you block him, so we'll try to do both of those."
(On whether he will see more family going back to Georgia)
"No. I get more family at the home games than I do on the road and we stay in Atlanta, so that's one of the reasons."
(On the importance of third-down stops against Georgia)
"You have to stop them on first and second first. We've been pretty good at third, I think. 29 percent opponents which is not a bad number, so we've been pretty decent on third down but you'd better stop them on first and second. When the runner is getting nine [yards] a carry and then they are hitting that play action on second-and-five, third down doesn't do you any good. You have to do it all against these teams."


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Syrian Security Forces Break the Hands of Political Cartoonist Ali Ferzat
Prominent Syrian cartoonist and human rights advocate Ali Ferzat was hospitalized for serious injuries Thursday morning after being kidnapped near his Damascus home by a group of masked gunmen believed to be part of the government's security forces under President Bashar al-Assad. The gunmen beat the 60-year-old Ferzat, singed his beard, broke both of his hands, covered his head with a bag and dumped him by the side of the road, threatening the cartoonist that the attack was "just a warning."Though they often deal with controversial social and political issues, by American standards Ferzat's cartoons are visually tame and contain the kind of all-ages gags one might read in a newspaper's sports or business pages. Ferzat's latest cartoon compared Assad to the recently ousted Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, depicting Syria's president as a hitchhiker. The simplicity of the gag underscores both the horror of Ferzat's attack and also his medium of choice's power as a tool for mass communication:
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The White House condemned Assad's regime in a recent statement by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, citing Ferzat's attack and related violations of human rights. "While making empty promises about dialogue with the Syrian people, the Assad regime continues to carry out brutal attacks against peaceful Syrians trying to exercise their universal right to free expression," Nuland continued. "We demand that the Assad regime immediately stop its campaign of terror through torture, illegal imprisonment and murder."
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[Via The Comics Reporter/The Beat/The Washington Post/MSNBC]