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The WebMD Healthy You Challenge: Two Mom Makeovers
Four Kids and a Sweet Tooth continued...
•15 full sit-ups. Instead of crunches, do military-style full sit-ups where you come all the way up. Lie down, knees bent, with arms overhead. As you sit up, you can swing your arms over your body and touch the floor next to your heels when you reach the top. Keep your lower back rounded as you lower yourself back to the floor.
•10 lunges on each leg
•20 shoulder presses with dumbbells
•30 seconds to 1 minute of jumping jacks or jumping rope
Repeat this routine three to five times, with short, active breaks in between. If you're doing it at the gym, run on the treadmill between sets. At home, you can get the kids to do this routine with you -- call it the "Swanson Family Olympics." Make it a competition to see who can do a wall squat longer or who can do more jumping jacks in one minute.
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Heidi, it seems that you get really distracted fighting fires and become too busy to take care of yourself. Your big challenges are both planning and saying no. Like running out of groceries -- you know you have four kids and how much they consume. How often is that happening? Is it because you haven't put your life on a schedule where you're able to anticipate what's needed, so that the things that are important to you can have some place in those priorities as well?
First, let's try to create some structure around your job, which is being a great mom. You need to be a good boss for yourself and manage your performance. Sit down and outline your job description as a wife and mom, your duties in that job, and then your "human responsibilities." Plan all those things into your weekly schedule -- and don't forget to add the gym, some reading time, and a non–work-related date.
Then, for anything that's not a part of that plan, begin a practice of pausing before saying yes to it.
If something falls outside your core, planned, weekly routine, you have to say, "Let me get back to you." That creation of space before you say yes to something is really important: It gives you a moment to ask yourself, "Is this really the best way for me to be using my time?"
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Polly Johnston, 33, Springfield, Va., grade-school teacher and mother of two young children, ages 4 and 2. Polly is 5'7" and weighs 220 pounds.
What do I want to change about my life? Where do I start? My schedule is crazy. I'm up at 6:30 to get the kids going, drop them off at preschool, and I'm at work by 8:10. I pick the kids up at 6 p.m., then we go home, do dinner and bedtime routines, and after that I work until 11 p.m. on lesson plans. The weekends are a little better -- my husband takes the kids in the morning and lets me sleep in.

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The $250-million facility will be constructed adjacent to the existing Novelis aluminum rolling mill and will produce 400,000 metric tonnes of aluminum sheet ingot from recycled material each year.
"This investment represents another step in delivering on our commitment to dramatically increase the recycled content of the rolled aluminum sheet we provide to our world-class global customers," said Phil Martens, president and CEO for Novelis, in a company announcement. "The advanced sorting, processing and casting capabilities of the new Nachterstedt operation will propel us closer to our goal of 80 per cent recycled content by 2020."
The Nachterstedt facility in Germany will allow Novelis to save valuable natural resources while enabling its customers to create products with a higher recycled content and smaller environmental footprint. Using recycled aluminum as input material requires only five percent of the energy used to make primary aluminum from raw materials, thus avoiding 95 per cent of the greenhouse gases associated with production, the company says.
The new center will help support the company's drive to increase end-of-life recycling in Europe, where Novelis is already the leading recycler of aluminum beverage cans. The center will process used beverage cans as well as numerous other forms of aluminum scrap from across continental Europe. The company expects the center to create 200 new jobs when it is commissioned in mid-2014.
The Nachterstedt expansion is the latest in a series of recycling and casting expansion projects launched by Novelis over the past two years totaling nearly $450 million, including the commissioning last month of the company's new integrated recycling and casting center in Yeongju, Korea. These projects, and others underway across the world, are designed to increase Novelis' recycling and casting capacity to 2.1 million tonnes by 2015.
Je suis certains que l'usine Saguenay de Novelis au Québec aurait tiré très favorablement son épingle du jeu dans le recyclage de l'aluminium.Au lieu de fermer l'usine sauvagement, un tournant environnemental était possible car nous étions en mode recyclage depuis quelques temps et que l'appui des palliers gouvernementaux était disponnible. Mais M.Martens a en horreur le Canada et le Québec en particulier et sa décission est purement du protectionisme américain. Et M. Luc Boivin la dedans se lave les mains de cette décision de fermeture, lui en gars du Lac et ex-directeur. Je crois qu'il aurait pu nous défendre un peu tout de même. Mais bon. Tout ce paie un jour. Saluc !!!
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After wreaking havoc on opposing quarterbacks in 2013, and more of the same so far in 2014, there is little doubt Oklahoma linebacker Eric Striker has the most fitting name in college football. The No. 4 Sooners play at West Virginia at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Big 12 viewer's guide: Week 4
Those, among others, will be the storylines to follow today in the Big 12:
Central Michigan at Kansas, 3:30 p.m. ET (Fox Sports Regional): The pressure is already on Kansas coach Charlie Weis, whose Jayhawks were overwhelmed in a 41-3 loss to Duke last week. Kansas desperately needs a better performance from sophomore quarterback Montell Cozart, who against the Blue Devils struggled mightily, completing just 41 percent of his passes while throwing a pair of interceptions. A bounce-back performance won't come easy. Central Michigan returns 19 starters, and hammered Purdue by three touchdowns on the road two weeks ago. The Jayhawks, though, will catch a break, with Chippewas star running back Thomas Rawls, who rushed for 155 yards against the Boilermakers, still facing suspension after being accused of stealing a woman's purse.
No. 4 Oklahoma at West Virginia, 7:30 p.m. ET (Fox): The last time these two teams met in Morgantown, they staged a classic -- and this showdown has the makings of the same. The key matchup figures to be West Virginia's big-play wide receivers against Oklahoma's big-play defensive backs. According to ESPN Stats & Information, the Mountaineers are averaging 247 yards after the catch a game, which is third most of any Power 5 conference offense. The Sooners, however, are giving up just 4.4 yards after the catch per reception, which is tops among Big 12 defenses. The Oklahoma secondary also forced three turnovers last weekend against Tennessee, including Julian Wilson's 100-yard touchdown interception return. Both teams will be missing key players. Oklahoma running Keith Ford is out with a leg injury, while West Virginia cornerback Daryl Worley has been suspended indefinitely after being accused of assaulting a female last weekend. The Sooners still have Samaje Perine (177 yards) and Alex Ross (132 yards) to shoulder the rushing load, while the Mountaineers will get back 2013 starting cornerback Ishmael Banks from an academic suspension, which should help ease the loss of Worley.
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Mailbag: On K-State, OU-WVU, Tech woes
On to the 'bag:
Trotter: The K-State game should make Oklahoma fans a little queasy. The week before meeting the Wildcats on Oct. 18, the Sooners play Texas. The same weekend, the Wildcats will be off. We saw Thursday night how good Bill Snyder is at drawing up a game plan with an extra week to prepare. And this time, his opponent won't have the extra week as well.
@Jake_Trotter what are the chances kansas state beats one of baylor or Oklahoma? Or somehow both of them?— Seth Meadows (@meadows1115) September 19, 2014
Trotter: The good news for Tech is that Oklahoma State's offensive line hasn't exactly dominated, either. But the Cowboys have good backs and they create creases by spreading the field. Though Daxx Garman can't run like J.W. Walsh, he can stretch the field to open up the running game with his arm. That said, if Tech gets steamrolled up front by an Oklahoma State offensive line that even Mike Gundy has termed as "very below average," the Red Raiders might very well get steamrolled by all comers the rest of the way.
@Jake_Trotter If Tech doesn't get it's run defense together, how do you think they'll do against Oklahoma State?— James Alexander (@KingJamesofMars) September 19, 2014
Trotter: You're not going to like this answer, but I think it comes down to recruiting better players more than anything else, especially along the defensive line. There isn't a scheme out there that can account for a team's defensive front getting blown off the ball the way Tech's did against Arkansas. The Red Raiders can be better defensively than they were against the Hogs. But ultimately, you either have the horses or you don't.
@Jake_Trotter exact same question as last week, any solution in sight for Tech's porous defense?— Andy Dobbins (@adobbins29) September 19, 2014
Trotter: Brandon got the plum assignment of covering the stadium unveiling against SMU. At the moment, I'm not sure yet when exactly I'll be assigned to go down to Waco. But when I do, I'm going to see if I can find a spot in the Baylor Armada.
@Jake_Trotter when are you coming down to McLane to join us for some sailgating?— Baylor Bearmada (@BaylorBearmada) September 19, 2014
Trotter: It's a big loss, no doubt. Ford has been OU's best all-around back. But the Sooners are better equipped to deal with the loss of Ford than West Virginia is the loss of standout cornerback Daryl Worley.
@Jake_Trotter what's your prediction for the OU WV game? I think fans are taking this game lightly. Keith Ford bigger loss than we thought?— Ben Luton (@Lutotime) September 19, 2014
Trotter: The fact that Kansas State, Oklahoma State and West Virginia hung tough against Auburn, Florida State and Alabama will do nothing but strengthen the perception of the Big 12 in the eyes of the playoff selection committee. I don't think the committee will get overly focused on scoring differentials. But Oklahoma (or Baylor) beating the Wildcats, Cowboys and Mountaineers would be viewed as quality wins, based on how those three opponents performed in their nonconference schedules.
@Jake_Trotter say Ou beats KSU and WVU by more than Bama and Auburn did. How much will the committee look into scoring differentials?— Travis Guidry (@TGuidry25) September 19, 2014
Trotter: Did you not see the Duke score? I guess anything is possible. But there's reason why Kansas is 1-29 in its last 30 Big 12 games.
@Jake_Trotter what do you think are texas' chances of losing to Kansas before the red river game?— Matt Peacock (@Mpeacock5) September 19, 2014
Trotter: Why would I trade away the league's best basketball program? And why would you want to trade away an automatic win for whatever team you pull for?
@Jake_Trotter if you could trade Kansas for a fellow bottom dweller in a P5 conference, who would it be and why?— Brad Gibson (@BradWGibson) September 19, 2014
Matt H. writes:Is there a chance for Clint Trickett or Kevin White to be mentioned in the Heisman race if they keep performing at the high level they are playing at right now?
Trotter: White has no shot, if only because receivers don't win Heisman Trophies. But if Trickett lights up a really good Oklahoma defense Saturday, he might begin to generate a little buzz as a possible darkhorse contender.
Big 12 true freshman power rankings
The rankings:
1. K.D. Cannon, WR, Baylor (previous rank: 2): Cannon has been nothing short of spectacular while temporarily taking over the role as Baylor's No. 1 receiver with Levi Norwood, Clay Fuller, Corey Coleman and Antwan Goodley all out with injuries. In three games, Cannon leads the nation with 471 receiving yards, while averaging 33.6 yards per catch. No other Big 12 receiver is averaging more than 25 yards per catch. This is a future star in the making.
2. Samaje Perine, RB, Oklahoma (3): Perine has been stout as Oklahoma's power back, but will only see his role expand after the leg injury to Keith Ford. While splitting carries with Ford and Alex Ross, Perine has still rushed for 177 yards while averaging 5.5 yards a carry. Ross is expected to get the start at West Virginia, but don't be surprised if Perine gets the most work.
3. Dravon Henry, FS, West Virginia (1): Henry has kept his starting job, though has been rather quiet since shining in West Virginia's opener against Alabama. He'll face another huge challenge this weekend against the balanced Sooners.
4. Dimitri Flowers, FB, Oklahoma (5): Flowers continues to be an instrumental part of Oklahoma's powerful rushing attack. He hasn't seen the ball much. But he has paved the way with his lead blocks for Ford, Perine and Ross and an Oklahoma ground game that averaging 5.6 yards per rushing attempt.
5. Allen Lazard, WR, Iowa State (7): Lazard led the Cyclones in receiving in their 20-17 victory over the Hawkeyes. He also hauled in a key pass on Iowa State's game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter. With Quenton Bundrage out for the season, Lazard has taken over as Iowa State's go-to receiver on the outside.
6. Davion Hall, WR, Baylor (4): Like Cannon, Hall has made the most of his opportunities as the rest of the Baylor receiving corps recovers from injuries. He's currently 10th in the league with 192 receiving yards.
7. Elijah Lee, LB, Kansas State (9): Lee didn't have much of an impact Thursday night against Auburn, but he still ranks fifth in the league with 2.5 sacks. Bill Snyder leans against playing true freshmen, but Lee has earned his trust.
8. Justin Stockton, RB, Texas Tech (10): Along with the rest of the Red Raiders, Stockton struggled against Arkansas with only seven yards rushing on six carries. But the week before against UTEP, he was outstanding with 135 yards rushing, including a 75-yard touchdown dash.
9. Corey Avery, RB, Kansas (8): While the rest of the Kansas offense did little, Avery was the lone bright spot in the loss at Duke. He led the Jayhawks with 87 yards rushing, after rushing for 91 the week before in his debut.
10. Jason Hall, S, Texas (NR): Hall had a sack and a couple of big hits against UCLA after entering the game in the second quarter. His aggression figures to warrant him more playing time after Texas returns from the open weekend.
On the radar: Tevin Madison, CB, Texas Tech; Colin Downing, P, Iowa State; Cameron Batson, PR/WR, Texas Tech; Matthew Boateng, CB, Kansas; Steven Parker II, Oklahoma
FPI-based must-see TV for Week 4
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Gainesville native Blake Sims leads Alabama into Saturday's game against Florida.
The games ranked highest in matchup quality will be competitive games between two highly ranked teams in ESPN's Football Power Index (FPI). Based on this metric, here are the top four games for Week 4.
Florida at Alabama: 91.6 pregame matchup quality
In a meeting of schools that have won four of the past seven SEC titles, third-ranked Alabama is a 73 percent favorite to beat Florida, according to FPI.
These teams will again play a big role in the conference race, as the Gators have the best chance to win the SEC East at 37 percent.
Alabama has a with a 25 percent chance to win the division and a 16 percent chance to win the conference, both best in the SEC.
This game is the only meeting of units ranked in the top 10 of ESPN's efficiency rankings this week, as Florida's ninth-ranked defense will try to slow Alabama's seventh-ranked offense.
Clemson at Florida State: 90.5 pregame matchup quality
This is the only remaining game between ranked teams this week, and the top-ranked Seminoles are a 77 percent favorite over No. 22 Clemson, according to FPI, even without QB Jameis Winston for the first half.
It's only Week 4, but the ACC title may be on the line, as Florida State (61 percent) and Clemson (14 percent) are FPI's favorites to win the conference.
Strength will battle strength, as Clemson ranks fifth in defensive efficiency and will try to slow a Seminoles offense that gained 565 yards of total offense against the Tigers last year.
Florida State won that game 51-14 after leading 27-7 at halftime, with a 93 percent win probability at the break.
Mississippi State at LSU: 90.1 pregame matchup quality
LSU has dominated the series, winning 14 straight and 21 of the last 22 meetings. Mississippi State last beat the Tigers in 1999, a one-point home win.
LSU's pass defense has been its strength this year. The Tigers have allowed the lowest Total QBR in the nation (11.2) and are one of three teams yet to concede a completion on a pass thrown at least 15 yards downfield.
FPI gives the Tigers a 61 percent chance to beat the Bulldogs.
Oklahoma at West Virginia: 87.2 pregame matchup quality
West Virginia has been one of the biggest surprises in the FBS this season. The Mountaineers have jumped 24 spots from their preseason rankings, the third-largest increase of any Power Five school.
FPI gives Oklahoma 77 percent odds to win, and this is one of three remaining games in which the Sooners have a predicted win percentage below 80 (at TCU and vs. Baylor are the others).
That relatively easy schedule means the Sooners have 18 percent odds to win all their remaining games, behind only BYU's 21 percent chances.
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Buy or sell: Is Miami-Nebraska relevant?
Miami (FL) heads to Lincoln to take on No. 24 Nebraska (Saturday, 8 p.m. ET on ESPN2). The two teams have met in five January bowl games, but their most recent meeting was the Hurricanes' 23-point win in the 2002 Rose Bowl. Are you buying that this game is still relevant?
The winner usually wins it all. In four out of the last five matchups between these teams, the winner won the national championship. The one game in which the winner did not win the national championship was the 1989 Orange Bowl when Miami (FL) finished second to Notre Dame.
Two great running backs. Since the start of last season, Ameer Abdullah ranks second in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game (130.4), while Duke Johnson ranks second in the ACC (108.8). Johnson has eight runs of 50 yards or longer since his freshman season, tied for the most in the FBS.
The teams cannot even win their conferences. Since Miami (FL) moved to the ACC in 2004 and Nebraska moved to the Big Ten in 2011, neither school has won its conference.
No longer top-tier programs. The last time Miami (FL) finished in the top 10 of the AP poll was the 2003 season. Nebraska has not finished in the top 10 since the 2001 season.
Is Kenny Hill the best QB in the SEC?
Texas A&M's Kenny Hill is 3-0 as a starter and became the first player in school history to throw for 1,000 yards in the first three games of a season. Is Hill already the best quarterback in the SEC?
Total QBR sees all. Total QBR accounts for all of a quarterback's contributions, and Hill ranks third in the FBS and first in the SEC with a 92.9 Total QBR.
Hill is a TD machine. Hill has thrown 11 touchdowns and no interceptions in 117 passes. Every other SEC quarterback with at least 50 passes has thrown at least one interception. Hill's plus-11 touchdown-to-interception ratio leads the FBS.
Three games is a small sample. Hill may lead the SEC in Total QBR through three games, but dating back to last October, Nick Marshall leads the nation in Total QBR.
His receivers deserve some credit. Texas A&M has gained 585 yards after the catch, the most of any team in the SEC. On three of Hill's touchdown passes, Texas A&M's receiver gained at least 20 yards after the catch.
Will the Big Ten rebound this weekend?
The Big Ten has won 63 percent of its games this season, the lowest winning percentage for any Power Five conference. With one weekend left before we get into the heart of the Big Ten schedule, are you buying that this is the weekend the Big Ten rebounds?
There is a chance. According to ESPN's Football Power Index, the Big Ten has more than a 50 percent chance to win in three of its five matchups against other Power Five schools this weekend.
Did you see the Big Ten last week?. The Big Ten lost all five of its games against other Power Five schools last week. In fact, since Rutgers defeated Washington State on Thursday, Aug. 28, the Big Ten has lost 10 straight games to other Power Five schools.
They still have not beaten anyone good. The Big Ten is 0-9 against non-conference opponents currently ranked in the top 50 of the Football Power Index.
The only conference with a worse record in non-conference games against Power Five opponents is Conference USA, which is 0-16 in such games.
Should Oklahoma be on upset alert in West Virginia?
Oklahoma is 3-0 and is winning by an average margin of 33.7 points. The Sooners are facing a West Virginia team that put up a good fight against Alabama. Are you buying that West Virginia has a good chance to upset the Sooners?
West Virginia's done it before. According to ESPN's Football Power Index, the Sooners have a 77 percent chance to win at West Virginia, its third-lowest likelihood of winning of the season. Last season the Mountaineers pulled a similar upset by defeating No. 11 Oklahoma State at home.
Clint Trickett is a different QB. Clint Trickett may be the most improved quarterback in the nation. He ranks third in the FBS with 1,224 passing yards and has raised his Total QBR rank from 85th in 2013 to 15th in 2014.
Oklahoma has been dominant. The Sooners have had the fifth-highest average in-game win probability in the FBS. They have led by an average of 24 points by halftime.
The Sooners' defense is for real. Oklahoma ranks third in ESPN's defensive efficiency ratings and has allowed the third-lowest Total QBR in the nation. The Sooners have been a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks, leading the Big 12 with 40 total pressures (hurries + knockdowns + sacks).
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How slow? Only three games were on tap this week, and one of those -- Kansas State hosting Auburn -- was played on Thursday.
Weeks like these are rare, but it gives both West Virginia and Kansas the opportunity to put on a show -- for the recruits in attendance and for those who will be watching on TV. West Virginia gets a huge test in a home game and conference opener against Oklahoma. Additionally, Kansas will look to improve to 2-1 as it hosts Central Michigan.
Grissom's versatility key for OU's defense
It was just like Sooners defensive coordinator Mike Stoops envisioned.
"He's a great athlete," OU coach Bob Stoops said. "Geneo's a big guy, he has great range, he can run, he's got great hands. If our 120 players on our team had a pickup basketball game, he'd be one of the first couple picked. That's the kind of athlete he is, even with that size."
Cornerback Zack Sanchez probably puts it best.
"He's a freak of nature, the way he can get to the ball and make plays," Sanchez said. "Geneo is a freak athlete, he's a ball player."
In many ways, Grissom is too good an athlete for his own good as the Sooners kept tinkering to find the best way to put his skills to use. His athletic prowess resulted in stops at defensive end as a freshman, tight end as a sophomore and defensive end again as a junior before finally finding a home at linebacker this fall.
In Saturday's Big 12 opener against West Virginia, Grissom's versatility and talent will be in the spotlight. WVU coach Dana Holgorsen excels at finding ways to create mismatches and exploit defenses with the run or pass, but that task gets harder with Grissom on the field.
Last time these two teams met in 2012, the versatility of Tavon Austin gave the Sooners fits. This time around it could be the versatility of Grissom that creates chaos for WVU's offense. He has the size and strength to handle the run and the athleticism to be comfortable in coverage against the pass. No matter what approach the Mountaineers' offense takes, run or pass, Grissom can remain on the field and impact the game.
"For me personally, this is going to be a good game for me to test where I'm at and where I need to get better," Grissom said. "I'll measure myself and the things I need to work on."
Don't be surprised if Grissom and Striker excel against the Mountaineers, as their ability to rush the passer or drop in coverage is one of the reasons the Sooners made the change to a 3-4 defense after the 2012 season.
"Every game is like that with those two guys, they give us a lot of versatility," Mike Stoops said. "That's what we like about this defense, and it will be put to the test again."
Grissom has started all three games for the Sooners, contributing 12 tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss, along with his interception.
"If he hasn't shown it already, this [game] will add on to what he's capable of doing," Sanchez said. "Playing tight end a couple years ago helps him go up and get the ball and make crazy plays like that. He's so athletic, he's smart, he knows where to be, he just flies around the field."
While Striker creates havoc all over the field from his position as "field" linebacker, Grissom has more than held his own as the "boundary" linebacker. He finally got comfortable at his new position near the end of two-a-days in August and has performed like a veteran during nonconference action.
"He's one of those guys who's always watching film," Sanchez said. "He's always watching film and if he makes a mistake, he's fixing it. He's not one of those guys that makes the same mistake twice. He's real tenacious in everything he does."
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Big 12 players in the Week 4 spotlight
Oklahoma RB Samaje Perine: Now is the freshman's time to shine. Perine, a freakish 243-pound power back, will share the load with Alex Ross now that Keith Ford is sidelined and could have a big night in Morgantown. He's a hard dude to bring down and his speed is probably underrated. He should find the end zone a few times against West Virginia.
West Virginia CB Ishmael Banks: After missing West Virginia's first three games due to an academic suspension, "Icky" will be back on the field at a critical time, right as Daryl Worley is suspended indefinitely. A senior who started every game last season, Banks will have to be one of the DBs responsible for stopping Sterling Shepard and trying to make this explosive Oklahoma offense more one-dimensional.
Kansas QB Montell Cozart: It's a gut-check week for Cozart, who completed just 11 of 27 passes against Duke, couldn't get the ball to Nick Harwell and looked far too nervous under pressure. Charlie Weis' staff is committed to making this work with Cozart, but you can't get the yips in a big game like that. He needs this Central Michigan game to be his bounce-back performance.
Kansas State DE Ryan Mueller: Not just because Mueller is one of K-State's best, but because of this particular matchup. Playing against a team that has mastered the zone read, the pop pass and all sorts of option wrinkles creates a real challenge for any defensive end. K-State's front seven must maintain gap integrity, and Mueller in particular has to make responsible decisions and get tackles for losses at the mesh point when he's in position to make a play.
ESPN 300 WR Lodge opens up recruiting
Texas A&M took a rare blow in recruiting Thursday when ESPN 300 wide receiver DaMarkus Lodge announced he has decommitted from the Aggies.
Lodge, No. 70 in the ESPN 300 and the nation's No. 9 receiver, verbally committed to the Aggies on June 19.
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Picture I took Friday Night and gif'ed up of Ursa Major/The Plough (full info on Flickr here). What's the difference?
Both The Plough and Ursa Major are asterisms. This is the name given to a group of stars joined together to create a pattern. Like many asterisms, there's more than one way to draw the lines to form Ursa Major (Latin for "Larger Bear"), so don't be surprised if you've seen something different out there.
A constellation nowadays is one of 88 areas of sky with well-defined borders recognised by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), each named for an asterism they contain. Astronomical objects can be located by the constellation they're in. Bode's Galaxy (M81) and the Cigar Galaxy (M82) are both in the constellation Ursa Major, even though they're not within the asterism itself (they're located above the bear's head).
All human history happens in the last 15 seconds of the cosmic calendar.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via mrserialx)
Really? Back of an envelope calculation:
Calendar = 12months => Universe time = 13.8 billion yrs
1month => about 1 1/8 billion years
1 day => 3/80 billion years = about 35 million years
1 hour => about 1.5 million years
1 minute => 25,000 years
15 seconds => about 6500 years.
… and ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script dates back to around 3500 BC… so pretty damn good. I guess where you start the human history clock is much of a muchness, but this analogy seems good to a couple of seconds. How about that :)
Each second comes out to about 433 years, give or take maybe a decade in rounding errors.
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson has an important message about proper attribution.
If you want to help your favourite Science research please, please do. It's not just about getting the right source so people can follow the trail, although that's important too; if you source correctly, the research will get more funding and you'll see more of it.
In the UK, we're currently doing the Research Excellence Framework, or REF. Departments in institutions have to write a hefty report on all the research they've done over the past five years. Part of that is an impact statement which includes impact on the public. Not much market-ready technology comes out of blue-skies research like astronomy. But astronomy is great at one thing - inspiration.
If you source the images and research you use correctly by citing the authors and year (e.g. Smith et al. 2013) and even including a link to the paper, scientists can find where they've been cited in places like tumblr and record comments. We need to show that our research and our effort in publicising it has encouraged people to take up science/physics/astronomy in some way, whether that's as a hobby, in school or a career path. The holy grail of comments would be, for example "Wow, that looks and sounds so exciting, I want to be an astronomer now!"
If users don't cite in the first post, we can't find these comments for the REF, our impact is under-estimated, we're ranked poorly and we lose funding. Simple as. So please, please help us!
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Beautiful photos of the assembly of the James Webb Telescope.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. JWST will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. JWST will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System. JWST's instruments will be designed to work primarily in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum, with some capability in the visible range.
JWST will have a large mirror, 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in diameter and a sunshield the size of a tennis court. Both the mirror and sunshade won't fit onto the rocket fully open, so both will fold up and open once JWST is in outer space. JWST will reside in an orbit about 1.5 million km (1 million miles) from the Earth. (x)
(via astronomnomy)
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"Please consider not doing a PhD."
Please read it all, including the comments if you can! Choice quote, I really agree with it, and it can sneak up on you:
"Doing a PhD will break you. It's pretty much designed to break you."
I also agree with this blogpost fully. A success story that is as realistic as one will find in academia. Vital advice. Use it.
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We are not simply stardust…
I've seen that Lawrence M. Krauss "… You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time…" quote being bandied about and I need to say a couple of things about why that's not entirely true. Sorry.
Now, those elements (the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, etc) are necessarily the remnants of some star. The giveaway for the fact the star exploded is down to the fact we find radioactive material in the earth's crust, where it simply decays. Going back in time, these radioactive elements must have formed somewhere, and the formation of the earth was probably not violent enough to spur nuclear reactions with enough energy to produce these elements. Radioactive materials must be formed by smashing heavier elements together, for which, in the vacuum of space, those conditions only really exist when a star goes supernova. Best guess is the rest of our elemental make up (the atomic weight of iron and smaller) came from the same supernova, but hey, where you find molecular clouds, made up of stuff like molecular hydrogen and carbon monoxide, the conditions tend to be right for star formation too. Such elements could have been created in some other kind of star, not just an exploding one.
I digress… your body, by the number of atoms, is dominated by hydrogen; around ~67% by elemental abundance. Hydrogen is not created in stars - in stars, it is fused to allow the release of energy by nuclear fusion, in turn creating heavier elements. Maybe we get some hydrogen back when the star goes supernova? … putting all that explosive supernova energy back into the atoms the star has built, back into separating them into hydrogen atoms. Maybe, but not much. Basically, there has only ever been one source of hydrogen which was the creation of the universe: the Big Bang. Without a universe, there is no such entity as space-time and thus, no dimension as time. The Big Bang was itself the beginning of time.
Most of your hydrogen atoms have been around since the dawn of the universe. And sure, yes, evolution couldn't continue without your oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, iron, etc. But the most basic building block of all life, and thus very necessary for evolution, was created some 13.7 billion years ago in the same instant that the very fabric of space-time came into being.
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky — that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that's helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts — American, Russian, and Canadian — living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We've also got two robot science labs — one wielding a laser — roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
- The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
- The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
- Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
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If you are counting how many hours a week you are working, you probably don't like your job very much.
The thing you spend your life on shouldn't feel like a transaction to you. I have no idea how many hours a week I worked in grad school, because I wasn't thinking about it at the time. I could probably go back and estimate, but why? It varied week to week, just like the hours I work now. Some weeks are efficient and productive and require less time, and some are slow, arduous, and irritating. Just like now.
I know we'd all like to think that the only thing standing between us and awesomeness is a single number– a magical tipping point beyond which success is certain (I'm looking at you, Malcolm Gladwell). Unfortunately, that's not true. You can spend a lot of time trying to do something better and only see incremental gains, even when other things come naturally and require little investment of time. That's not to dismiss hard work, which I think often takes a back seat to the idea of "talent" in our common lore– talent is usually just hard work that went well. But ultimately, success is not a product that can be yours for a set purchase price.
The way you feel about your work is like the weather on a long hike– changing, fickle, with days you will always remember and days you will try to forget. The calculus of whether it's worth it to go hiking at all is up to the individual.
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The detection of interstellar boron sulfide: A Motivational Correspondance
Aimed at grad students/one-day grad students - this email encompasses a mentality in the field that you may have to deal with. Be warned.Does everyone remember the famous letter from Caltech chemist Erick Carreira to his unruly, unmotivated, and apparently unprincipled laboratory assistant? Or subsequent discussion about the compulsory workaholic culture of academic chemistry which followed the letter's publication in 2010?
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"The Chinese Proof" of the Pythagorean theorem (the little orange square is
a², the medium orange square is
b², and the large orange square is
The righthand picture above appears in the Chou pei suan ching 周髀算經 (ca. 1100 B.C.), for the special (3,4,5) pythagorean triple….
…the earliest known proof of Pythagoras is given by Zhoubi suanjing (The Arithmetical Classic of the Gnomon and the Circular Paths of Heaven) (c. 100 B.C.E.-c. 100 C.E.)
[T]his proof, with the exclamation `Behold!', is due to the Indian mathematician Bhaskara II (approx. 1114-1185) …
Jöran Friberg … presented convincing evidence that the … Babylonians were aware of the Pythagoras theorem around 1800 B.C.E.
The Euclidean proof is similar: literally forming squares using the lengths of the sides of a right-angled triangle.
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"S*** Astronomers Say" by the ".astronomy 4 Hack Day" group.
I know these kinds of videos are rather overdone, but for those interested in an career in Astronomy, you'd be wise to pay attention to what you'll be hearing day in, day out!
- IDL is a coding language used by astronomers (and climate scientists). More astronomers are moving onto another language called Python nowadays. FORTRAN 77 is an old version of the coding language FORTRAN; many people still know these old versions because they had to run and edit codes their supervisors edited that their supervisors edited written by their supervisors… and so on and so forth.
- Many (but by no means all!) astronomers use UNIX based operating systems like LINUX and Mac OS's instead of Windows because they find them easier to code with, leading to distaste for Microsoft products. Apart from Powerpoint it seems.
- A common thing to hear is that '50% of all results in Nature [a top scientific journal] are sensationalist/wrong'. Is it true? I'm not sure yet, but usually whoever says it is trying to be witty so maybe they're exaggerating to make themselves feel better about not getting their paper in the journal ;).
- MCMC, or the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, is a way to solve a system of equations to find the best solution. It's a bit complicated but what this video is getting at is that it's treated like a magic solution at times and is really popular to use at the moment.
- "What time is it in Chile?" Many astronomers have collaborators all around the world, so they will have teleconferences and email each other all the time. If you want and answer from someone today, you better find out what time it is in whatever country they are first!
- "Has anyone got a dongle?" A LOT of astronomers have macbooks (and other Apple products) and have to give presentations. With that comes the issue of needing a dongle to connect to a projector and no one ever brings their dongle to conferences!
- "Hawai'i/Australia/Chile/South Africa again?" These are where all the big telescopes are, and astronomers get a lot of travelling done covering observing shifts. So much so the travelling can seem like a chore at times for some people!
- "Rumormill" is where people post up information regarding jobs in astronomy and who got what offer. Postdocs and graduating PhDs especially are attached to the site.
- Astronomers are astronomers, not business people, and are on the whole only okay at writing and performing presentations! Someone invariably falls asleep, and common and soul/research-destroying questions get asked at the end.
- "Segmentation faults" are computational errors that are notoriously difficult to debug.
- Bayesian/frequentist are two different ways of understanding statistics (you probably learnt frequentist stats in school).
- Astro-ph is a site where all new papers in astronomy (and physics) are posted as a free alternative to journals. Usually people wait until their paper is accepted into a journal before posting to astro-ph.
I hope that helps people!
I love this :)
And following up from astronomnomy:
- I wrote a bit about MCMC or Markov Chain Monte Carlo a while back for the keen.
- "What time is it in Chile?" : Chile has a whole bunch of observing facilities and is the home of many new telescopes, such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT), Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), etc …[on a separate note: astronomers are fond of acronyms]. The subtext behind the lead up to the question is usually 'I emailed X a question and they haven't answered in the last couple of hours. If they're not in the office, they're probably observing, and if they're observing, it's probably at one of those fancy-pants telescopes in Chile…at night… so…'
- On those after-talk questions.. the question on magnetic fields is a doozy. Unless you're specifically studying magnetic fields in astronomy, chances are you won't have considered them… they're considered a known unknown.
- I'm going to be fair about the statement on Nature… it is something you hear off astronomers, but it's quite flippant so let me quickly reason it out. Nature deals with high impact, cutting edge, scientific research and results of that research. And with cutting edge research, you're more likely to find things that have never been seen before, which might ruffle a few preconceptual feathers, but that sometimes turns out to just ruffle something else.
- Finally, it really is usually Prof. Hans Walter-Rix who brutally cuts down your research after being asleep at the front through the whole of your talk.
XKCD has started explaining "what-if" scenarios with hard physics. In the first edition, XKCD answers the question "What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?". The explanation is straight, which only adds to how hilarious it is:
These gamma rays and debris expand outward in a bubble centered on the pitcher's mound. They start to tear apart the molecules in the air, ripping the electrons from the nuclei and turning the air in the stadium into an expanding bubble of incandescent plasma. The wall of this bubble approaches the batter at about the speed of light—only slightly ahead of the ball itself.
Source: what-if.xkcd.com
Watch the transit of Venus live on the UQ website
Tomorrow Venus moves in front of sun (or 'transits'), and Brisbane is perfectly placed to observe both the ingress and egress of the transit. If you miss it, the next transit is in 2117, so the chances are you won't be alive to see it. However, if you don't live in Australia, we have a telescope linked to a camera, and will be streaming the transit over the web. Ingress starts at 08:16 AEST tomorrow morning, so those of you in the UK still awake at 11:16 tonight will also be able to see it.
Unless it's cloudy of course…
Last chance you'll get this lifetime!
Happening now! NASA link from Mauna Kea with commentary if you fancy :)
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Hi! Just reposting an infodump I made for r/cosmology on reddit in case someone else is interested.
"Although this simulation isn't new, it's over a year old. I'll just info dump about simulations if you don't mind.
So the simulation itself is worth mentioning. The code used is called AREPO, and it's ridiculously clever. Broadly, simulation codes work in one of two ways; on a grid, or with particles. Grid simulations split their simulation box up into tiny cubes (cells) that each have associated with them numbers for a temperature, energy, density, amount of hydrogen… etc. At each time-step in the simulation, physics equations (and approximations to them in some cases) are applied to the cubes and their neighbours and the numbers are updated to show e.g. gas moving from one cell into another.
Particle simulations do something different a bit different. Particles are spread out in the box, and particles are assigned a mass. The particles then move in the box under the influence of gravity, so the particles gravitate towards the densest point, giving automatic higher resolution in the denser areas. The resulting particle pattern is smoothed out to calculate the density and other values.
AREPO combines these two methods using a moving Voronoi mesh (here 's what it looks like, I can't find a video/gif but it's mesmerising to watch). In comparison tests it seems to reproduce and keep turbulence better than a particle code called GADGET, which is interesting. AREPO uses the same particle solver as GADGET to do the dark matter portion of the simulation, mesh is hydro only. AREPO and GADGET were both written by Volker Springel for the most part.
This particular simulation isn't a big one by any means, which is to be expected as I think this is just the proof of concept simulation? Looking at the vid description it's a 20 Mpc box which means that at the output time of z=2 (3.3 billion years after the big bang) when this snapshot was taken, the box is ~7 Mpc wide or in more easily pictureable terms, 23 million light years, or 700ish Milky Way galaxies end to end.
The simulation itself shows the distribution of gas in the box and highlights some large galaxies and galaxy mergers. They're drawing attention to the structure of the galaxies and the tidal streams of gas during the mergers to show how well resolved and complicated they are.
Tl'dr, this simulation is a showcase for the AREPO code."
The [academic] job market is brutal, we all know that. Grad school is a gamble, and most people shouldn't take it — a good thing to point out. But this business of "The Big Lie" … deliberately brainwashing students about the "life of the mind" in order to suck them into exploitative … careers…. simply isn't true.
The lack of data, the bad career advice, the unrealistic expectations, all of these are not the product of some conspiracy, but of a poorly organized and often anarchic system that has developed without any overall plan at all. To improve it, we need to think about the systemic patterns that produce it, not seek out some tenured villains to blame it on.
Take the lack of placement statistics. [It's not] that "Most departments will never willingly provide that information because it is radically against their interest to do so." … They won't provide that data because in most cases they don't have it. Large graduate programs in the liberal arts are strikingly anarchic places…. It can be difficult to get a list of the graduate students who are enrolled, let alone those who aren't around any more.
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Grill fresh apple slices and serve them on spring greens and spinach. Accent the sweetness of the apples with shaved Cheddar cheese and a cider vinaigrette.
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- 1 cup pecan halves
- Vegetable cooking spray
- 4 Gala apples (about 1 1/2 lb.)
- 1 (6-oz.) package baby spinach, thoroughly washed
- 1 (5-oz.) package spring greens mix, thoroughly washed
- 3 ounces extra-sharp white Cheddar cheese, shaved
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Brown Sugar-Cider Vinaigrette
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- 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Bake pecans in a single layer in a shallow pan 6 to 8 minutes or until toasted and fragrant, stirring after 4 minutes.
- 2. Coat cold cooking grate of grill with cooking spray, and place on grill. Preheat grill to 350° to 400° (medium-high) heat. Cut apples crosswise into 1/4-inch-thick rings, cutting from one side through the other.
- 3. Grill apple rings, covered with grill lid, 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until crisp-tender. Arrange spinach and spring greens mix on a serving platter; top with apples, cheese, and toasted pecans. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with Brown Sugar-Cider Vinaigrette.
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One of the great things about being a food blogger is that it encourages me to try new recipes and techniques in the kitchen. I've always been adventurous in the kitchen, but now I seem to be in constant search of the next great recipe, tip or trick to blog about. My most recent culinary adventure is canning. Thanks to my mom (who is an expert at canning and preserving) and the Washington State Fruit Commission (who just accepted me as part of their CANbassador Program), I have, not only, learned this very cool skill, but I now have a pantry stuffed full of homemade jams and preserves.
The goal of the CANbassador program is to spread the word about canning and preserving, and to encourage people to explore Sweet Preservation, their comprehensive online resource for all things related to canning and preserving. They provide everything from recipes, to tips for buying fruit, to free downloadable jar labels. If you're new to canning (as I am), this is the best way to educate yourself about it!
So, last Friday, a huge box of just perfect plums, peaches and nectarines arrived at my door, courtesy of the Washington State Fruit Commission. The fruit was so outrageously juicy and delicious that I figured I'd better get right to work preserving it; if not, my family surely would have polished it off on me! Off to mom's house I went, the backseat of my car loaded up with fruit. We spent an entire afternoon canning and preserving. One of the results of that afternoon was this Brandied Plum Jam. It's fantastic on its own or served with some granola over Greek yogurt, but my very favorite way to serve it is with goat cheese and crackers. The deep purple preserves are as gorgeous as they are delicious, and if you keep a jar or two on hand, you've always got a super easy appetizer (or hostess gift) at your fingertips. Here's the recipe:
1 1/2 pounds of plums, pitted and diced
1/4 c. water
1/4 c. brandy
3 3/4 c. sugar
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1 Tbsp. butter
In a medium pot, over medium heat, combine the plums, water and brandy. Bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the fruit pectin and the butter. Return to a boil and stir constantly for 1-2 minutes, until the jam thickens up a bit. Pour the jam into hot, sterilized jars, leaving about 1/4 inch at the top. Wipe the outside of the jars and cover with the lids.
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Remove the jars from the stockpot and place onto a cloth covered surface. Allow the jars to cool fully (this takes several hours). Store jars in a cool, dry place.
*Note - opened jars should be kept in the fridge*
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Today, the crossword question is "Tod's sidekick on "Route 66″". First we find similar definitions for Tod's sidekick on "Route 66″, Next we will look for a few extra hints for "Tod's sidekick on "Route 66″". Finally, using all gathered information, we will solve , slangily crossword definition and get the final answer.
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Tod's sidekick on "Route 66″ : LINC
"Route 66" is a classic television show from the early sixties about two young men traveling across the US in a Corvette. The original lead characters were Tod Stiles and Buz Murdock, with Murdock being replaced by a character called Lincoln Case in the third season.
The famous old highway called Route 66 has largely been replaced by modern interstates. It ran from Chicago to Los Angeles, right through the heart of America, and so it was often called the "Main Street of America". The road gained notoriety because of Nat King Cole's song "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66″, and also because of the sixties TV show called "Route 66″.
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Pascal Haudressy (French, born in 1968) lives and works in Paris.
Contemporary images—be they in the arts or the media—are for the most part "uncontrolled"; there is always room for the random, the imponderable. Image segment, image relay—it is precisely in this type of image that Pascal Haudressy has immersed himself. His marble sphere sculptures seem not so much to defy gravity (this has already been done, from Phidias to Rodin) as to go through it, to weight it.
It is likewise a question of lines. Rodin said that a good sculpture must have infinity. With Haudressy, we go from a multitude of tangled lines to almost random ones. And yet it somehow all "holds" together and has even monumentalized itself. Because all statues of high quality incarnate the Latin verb "stare"; they are either enduring—or nothing. These are not mere marble soap bubbles but, in the words of Pascal, amino acids. That which is chaotic is not this perilous lack of balance but the physiochemical process of generating life itself; a quantum universe where everything is askew. Following Tony Cragg's brilliant example (the tacit agreement of his structures with those of DNA), Haudressy gives statuary a whole new body—a molecular body of potentialities carrying flows of information, awaiting their realization in "life signs". Calder and Tinguely have found in Haudressy an heir worthy of their fateful "blunders".
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I have no idea who I just drew.
Seriously, I was thinking Zyra, then my insides told me, "Nah man, that's Anivia." Then my mind told my insides, "You be trippin', Anivia be a BIRD" Then my duodenum decided to jump in and he said "Itsu definiturri Anivia." Then my left cornea said it looked like a cross between Anivia and some human chick.
I really, really don't know who this is. Someone please help me, it's driving me nuts ;A;
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Each issue carries an
from the
Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
Reprinting prohibited
by James Philipps
The memory is as clear to me now as the day
it happened. My little brother and I were playing and I was
tormenting him about something until he burst out crying.
I had been there and done that many times before.
But this day something amazing happened: I felt
really bad that I had hurt his feelings and I went
into the bedroom to apologize! For the first time,
I realized that my little brother was a person with feelings.
Have you ever had a moment like this when you've
suddenly seen yourself or the people around you in a whole
new light? If so, then you will find in St. Paul a person
who really understands all the ups and downs involved in growing
upphysically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Spend some time in this Youth Update
traveling with St. Paul as he struggles to get to know Jesusand
himself. Most biblical references are easily found in the
Acts of the Apostles. All others are noted in parentheses,
for your convenience in your own travels with Paul.
Paul Sees the Light
When you are first introduced to Paul in the
Acts of the Apostles, he is hard at work "trying to destroy
the Church." At this point in the story, Paul is referred
to by his Jewish given name, Saul.
A devout Jew, this young man, probably just
out of his teens, fervently believes that his Jewish brothers
and sisters who proclaim Jesus as their Savior (Messiah
in Hebrew; Christ in Greek) are glorifying a known
criminal at the expense of their most deeply held religious
beliefs. He decides to put a stop to things once and for all
in the city of Damascus by arresting any followers of Jesussoon
to be known as Christiansthat he finds there.
Something extraordinary happens to Paul on the
way to this large city located about 90 miles from Jerusalem
in the Roman province of Syria. Just as the closest friends
of Jesus did on that first Easter Sunday, Paul meets the risen
Christ: "On his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, a light
from the sky suddenly flashed around him. He fell to the ground
and heard a voice saying to him, 'Saul, Saul, why are you
persecuting me?'"
In that moment, Saul sees Jesus as the fullest
expression of the special love relationship between God and
humanity that his Jewish faith celebrates. His misplaced zeal
has been driving him to attack the source of love and truth
for which he has been searching his whole life! That inner
vision is matched by an outer blindness.
Against the Current
Saul's full transformation into Paul is not
instantaneous. After his profound experience near Damascus,
he is led into that city to the home of a Christian believer
named Ananias who baptizes him Paul. (Often in the Bible,
a character's name change symbolizes a basic life change as
well.) Immediately after the baptism, "things like scales"
fall from his eyes and Paul can see again.
After his adventure, Paul spends some time in
the deserts of Arabia before embarking on the ministry he
will pursue the rest of his life (see Galatians 1:17). While
he doesn't elaborate on what he did during this time, it's
likely that he reflects and prays about his new calling.
When Paul talks about his new beliefs in public,
the response he gets from his audiences is unanimous. Thumbs
down! Nobody likes him.
Feeling terribly betrayed, the Jews in Damascus
who supported Paul in his attempts to persecute the Christians
plot to kill him. Paul leaves Damascus at night in order to
foil the plot and succeeds only with help from his friends:
"...his [Paul's] disciples took him one night and let him
down through an opening in the [city] wall, lowering him in
a basket."
Paul's luck doesn't get much better in Jerusalem.
When he had left town, he was known as an enemy of the Christians
who lived there. Now he's back claiming to be one of them!
Just as you would be if a classmate who has been teasing you
now claims to be your friend, the disciples of Jesus are suspicious.
Fortunately for Paul and for the Church he would
help to build, a disciple of Jesus named Barnabas takes Paul
under his wing and introduces him to Peter and the other leaders
of the Christian community. For a while things are calm, but
eventually another plot against Paul is formed. Once again
Paul has to be smuggled out of town. This time Paul heads
for home, the city of Tarsus located on the southeastern shore
of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
It may be hard for you to understand how any
talk about religious beliefs could get a person in so much
trouble with the authorities. In our country, no particular
religion is promoted or prohibited. This was not true in the
ancient world when the emperor was seen as a god and religious
law and civil law intertwined. Any person who questioned the
official religion of a region was also seen as a threat to
the local civil authorities.
Hitting the Road
Experiences such as these must have helped Paul
to understand that his mission was going to be markedly different
from that of the other eyewitnesses of the risen Christ. Like
a rock star promoting his albums on a concert tour, Paul now
spends his life on the road.
He makes three journeys through the population
centers of the Roman Empire that surrounded the eastern part
of the Mediterranean Sea. In each city that he visits, places
such as Athens and Corinth in Greece, Ephesus in Asia Minor
and Antioch in Syria, Paul proclaims the good news about Jesus.
Eventually, Paul does make it to the big stageRome,
the capital city of the Empirebut not in the way he
expected (more about that later).
Paul is able to travel as extensively as he
does because of the efficiency of the Roman system of roads
and the peace forcibly kept by the Roman army among the various
peoples Rome has conquered. But Paul's travels are far from
Mostly his message about a God who would become
human and then give his life out of love for all human beings
is ridiculed and sometimes violently rejected by both Jews
and non-Jews (also called gentiles) alike. The gods and goddesses
of most ancient religions, with few exceptions, were imagined
as beings with tremendous power who transcended the petty
concerns of human beings. Even Judaism, which developed a
radically different understanding of God, saw such a concept
as a gross insult to God's transcendent power and glory.
Toward the end of the first journey, as Paul
and Barnabas are heading back toward Antioch, a group of angry
Jews meets them on the road, throws stones at Paul and leaves
him for dead. Just after Paul and his new traveling companion,
Silas, enter into Europe on the second journeythe first
time the gospel message would be proclaimed therea group
of disgruntled slave owners in a town called Philippi have
the pair arrested and beaten by the local authorities. They
are charged with conspiring to cause a riot.
Paul and Silas make their escape only because
of a miracle. As Paul is preaching in Ephesus during the third
journey, he is almost killed by an angry mob worked up by
a group of local merchants who are horrified at the number
of Ephesians abandoning the worship of the pagan goddess Artemis.
They have been watching their profits evaporate as sales of
expensive silver trinkets and statues related to Artemis plummet.
(Probably the market for "Artemis Rules" T-shirts bottomed
out also!)
The Word Spreads
Almost every town that Paul visits, however,
holds a few people willing to listen. Some, such as Aquila
and his wife Priscilla in Corinth, are Jews. Most, however,
are gentiles who come from many backgrounds and cultures.
They find in Paul's message about Jesus the source of hope
and truth for which they have been searching in a culture
that seems interested only in power and material wealth.
To Paul, all these people are his spiritual
children. When he can no longer be with a community in person,
he often keeps in touch by writing letters.
Preserved within the New Testament are seven
of these letters from the hand of Paul himself: Romans, 1
and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians
and a brief note to a man named Philemon. Several others (Ephesians,
Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus) may
not have been written by Paul himself but in any case are
inspired by Paul's ministry. (In the times that Paul lived,
attributing a letter or book to a famous person was a way
of showing respectand of increasing the chance someone
would actually read it!)
Unlike the Gospels or Luke's Acts of the Apostles,
which were fashioned long after the events that they describe,
Paul's letters preserve not only his thoughts but also his
feelings at the time he wrote. These letters have a freshness
and liveliness to them that still comes through 2,000 years
later. They are the "e-mail" of the Bible.
God's Free Gift
For a lively communication, read Paul's letter
to the people of Galatia, a mountainous area in the center
of Asia Minor. The Christian community in this region was
being ripped apart by the most serious controversy facing
the early Church.
Some Jewish Christians felt that becoming a
follower of Jesus was a two-step process. First, a person
became a Jew, then he or she could be baptized as a Christian.
Paul always opposes this point of view; either
God's gift to us through Jesus is an act of unconditional
love or it isn't. If it is, Paul maintains, then the only
thing a person needs to do is accept the gift through Baptism
and live in communion with the rest of the Church.
Did you ever experience the frustration of trying
to tell a friend something really important and not being
able to make him or her understand what you mean? Paul's been
there: "O stupid Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before
whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
I want to learn only this from you: did you receive the Spirit
from works of the law, or from faith in what you heard? Are
you so stupid?" (Galatians 3:1-3).
Apparently, Paul's "tough love" approach worked.
Later evidence suggests that the Christian churches of Asia
Minor were some of the strongest in the early centuries of
Christian history. The first part of the Book of Revelation
is addressed to seven churches in this region, and one of
the earliest Christian martyrsSt. Polycarpwas
a bishop from Asia Minor.
Love Is...
What comes through most clearly in Paul's letters
is his experience of God's love. Behind everything that Paul
writes, underlying every argument he makes, is a fervent desire
to tell each of the members of the faith communities he founded
just how much God loves them. And just what is the kind of
love God has shown for us and calls us to show to others?
Paul's answer to this question posed by the members of the
Church at Corinth is perhaps the most beautiful description
of love ever recorded: "Love is patient, love is kind. It
is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is
not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does
not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things. Love never fails" (1 Corinthians 13:4-8).
The end of Paul's life is shrouded in mystery.
At the end of Acts of the Apostles, Paul's tendency to attract
trouble wherever he goes has come to the attention of the
Romans. He hits the "Big Time" when he is sent to Rome on
charges of causing a riot in Jerusalem at the end of his third
journey. (The account of Paul's arrest in Jerusalem, imprisonment
in Cesarea and sea voyage to Rome reads like the plot of an
action movie.)
Paul indicates in his letter to the Church in
Rome that he is planning a fourth journey to Spain (Romans
15:24), but we don't know if he ever went. There is a tradition
in the Catholic Church that Paul was beheaded during the persecution
of Christians by Emperor Nero in 64-65 A.D.
There is no mystery about how important Paul's
life and ministry have been to the Church, however. Paul's
faithful attempts to help others experience the presence of
the risen Christ in their lives in spite of persecution and
hardship helped the gospel message to take root in many different
cities and towns throughout the Roman Empire. The small communities
that Paul founded would become the backbone of the Christian
Church that eventually converted the whole Roman Empire.
Paul's own appraisal of the work that he had
done for Jesus is humble and to the point: "But we hold this
treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may
be of God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way,
but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed....For
we who live are constantly being given up to death for the
sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be manifested
in our mortal flesh" (2 Corinthians 4:7-9,11). For Paul, no
matter what God called him to do, it was always a labor of
James Philipps is a teacher of
religious education on the high school, college and graduate
Andrew "Jingles" Elekes (15), Zak Kennedy
(15), Nick O'Donoughue (17) and Caroline Powers (15) are members
of the San Juan Del Rio Senior High School Ministry in Switzerland,
Florida. They met over all-you-can-eat pizza with their youth
minister, Christina Davis, where they read, discussed and
posed questions about this Youth Update.
What was Paul's relationship with the
It was complicated, but there was always
a sense of mutual respect. According to Acts, Paul goes first
to the apostles in Jerusalem before beginning his journeys
and then heads off with their blessing. Paul's mission to
the gentile world seems to have sometimes placed him at odds
with those apostlessuch as Peterwho were primarily
focused on convincing their fellow Jews to accept Jesus as
the Messiah. Paul describes a pretty unpleasant encounter
he had with Peter in his letter to the Galatians over issues
related to this conflict (see Galatians 2 for the gory details).
How did Paul manage to eat, and where did
he sleep on his journeys?
According to the Acts of the Apostles in
the New Testament, Paul made tents for a living. Presumably,
he continued to do so even while he was involved in his ministry.
He seems to have taken pride in being able to provide for
himself. (See Acts 21:34-40.) Hospitality to strangers was
also an important value in Paul's culture. There were probably
always a few sympathetic souls wherever he went who saw to
it that he didn't go hungry!
Is anything like the travels of Paul happening
right now?
I see our pope's travels throughout the
world as his way of being a missionary like Paul. Wherever
he goes, he tries to explain how Jesus' teachings apply to
that particular culture or group. Judging by the crowds he
draws, a lot of people are getting the message. Paul struggled
to find a way to make people understand why believing that
Jesus was the Messiah would change their lives. Each of us,
in whatever ways we can, are called by God to do the very
same thing. In many ways, the cultural diversity of our country
matches that of the Roman Empire at the time that Paul lived,
so we'll need all the conviction and creativity the Holy Spirit
can provide!
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The Soliloquy of the Slain Lou ManzoBy John R. Bohrer • Mar 16th, 2010 • Category: Featured, News, Politics
It's the Ides of March — the hour of Caesar's reckoning. The perfect day to believe there are knives under the togas, to allege plots of political assassination. Some eight months after his arrest in a bribery sting, this is the date that former Assemblyman/political journeyman Lou Manzo has chosen to confront his assailants.


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Staff makeover helps Washington assemble a strong 2015 classJeff Eisenberg at The Dagger9 hrs ago
Having missed the NCAA tournament for the second straight year, lost Terrence Ross and Tony Wroten to the NBA draft and missed out on a handful of potential replacements on the recruiting trail, Lorenzo Romar entered the summer of 2013 eager to replenish his roster.
To help him do it, he shook up his staff, opting not to renew the contracts of longtime assistants Jim Shaw and Paul Fortier and hiring T.J. Otzelberger and Raphael Chillious in their place. Oztelberger had established himself as a top recruiter while helping Iowa State coach Fred Hoiberg revive that program. Chillious had played a key role in recruiting Isaiah Thomas to Washington before leaving for a year to join Jay Wright's staff at Villanova.
49ers need a more efficient, less erratic Colin Kaepernick to meet their goalsJeff Eisenberg at Shutdown Corner1 day ago
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — One of the two touchdown passes Colin Kaepernick threw Sunday afternoon surely had some fans cringing as it left his fingertips.
As Kaepernick rolled left to escape pressure early in the San Francisco 49ers' 26-21 victory over the previously unbeaten Philadelphia Eagles, he spotted Frank Gore leaking out of the backfield on the other sideline with no defender in sight. Off balance and planting on one foot, Kaepernick uncorked a fluttering cross-field pass that violated every rule about quarterbacks throwing across their body and yet somehow made it to Gore for a 55-yard touchdown.
"That was just Kaep being Kaep," Gore said later. "He threw a great ball."
"Kaep being Kaep" indeed sometimes results in spectacular plays for San Francisco, but too often it leads to head-scratching mistakes. Sunday's game was a perfect example of that dichotomy as Kaepernick contributed to both San Francisco's 11-point second-quarter deficit and the badly needed second-half rally that prevented the 49ers from falling into a disastrous 1-3 hole.Sun, Sep 28Philadelphia21 - 26San FranciscoGame Recap
Louisville's latest jerseys are another big Adidas missJeff Eisenberg at The Dagger5 days ago
When Under Armour outfitted South Florida in outlandish board-shorts style jerseys during the 2013 Big East tournament, the look didn't generate much buzz since the low-profile Bulls only wore them one day before getting eliminated.
Little did anyone realize the cheap board shorts look would return 18 months later on a vastly more high-profile team.
Photos of Louisville's new Adidas jerseys p, and the look features a similar thick stripe across the shorts as the uniforms South Florida wore. The shorts are bad enough that one clever Cardinals fan astutely compared them to " swimming trunks you buy at an out-of-town Target when you forget the hotel has a pool."
Bad as the shorts are — and they're awful — they're not the worst jersey Adidas has dumped on Louisville in recent years.
At long last, Josh Pastner finally ditches his flip phoneJeff Eisenberg at The Dagger7 days ago
Forget blood moons, plagues of locusts or the Cubs hoisting a World Series trophy.
The surest sign the end of the world may be near is Memphis coach Josh Pastner finally upgrading his cell phone.
Seven years after Apple unveiled the iPhone and rendered all previous phone models obsolete, Pastner has finally come to his senses and ditched the Samsung flip phone he had infamously clung to with white-knuckle fists. Pastner caved and purchased an iPhone on Monday, 92.9 FM in Memphis reported, because his flip phone no longer allowed him to add anymore contacts.
Nebraska's recruiting ensures recent success won't be a flash in the panJeff Eisenberg at The Dagger8 days ago
Here's the most exciting aspect of Nebraska basketball's recent resurgence under coach Tim Miles: The best may be yet to come.
Not only are the Huskers poised to contend in the Big Ten next season, they also are assembling a formidable recruiting class set to arrive the following year as well.
Nebraska bolstered that class Monday whenit secured a commitment from Edward Morrow, a 6-foot-7 forward from famed Chicago power Simeon High School. Morrow, Rivals.com's No. 103 prospect in the class of 2015, is the second top 150 recruit the Huskers have landed, joining 5-foot-11 point guard Glynn Watson. Consensus three-star forward Michael Jacobson and Kansas transfer Andrew White round out a class that should collectively upgrade Nebraska's talent level.
Louisville newspaper depicts John Calipari as a crying babyJeff Eisenberg at The Dagger11 days ago
Any Kentucky fans who turned to the front of the Louisville Courier-Journal sports page Friday morning likely weren't pleased with what they saw.
The photo illustration that ran alongside an otherwise fair column by Tim Sullivan looked like something a Louisville fan would have posted to a Cardinals messageboard.
Since Sullivan's piece focused on the perceived advantages of coaching USA Basketball and the tendency of coaches to complain when a competitor gains even the slightest edge, someone at the newspaper chose to accompany it with a photoshopped picture of John Calipari's face atop a baby's body. Yes, the image of Calipari in diapers is pretty hilarious. However, it's also a terrible decision from a journalistic or business standpoint.
The Grand Slam: Unlikely hero saves St. Louis, sinks MilwaukeeJeff Eisenberg at Big League Stew11 days ago
Whatever slim chance the Milwaukee Brewers still had of making the playoffs diminished even further Thursday night thanks to some unlikely heroics from one of the most anonymous members of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Tony Cruz, a backup catcher only playing because St. Louis pinch-ran for All-Star Yadier Molina in the ninth inning, delivered a game-winning, 13th-inning single up the middle to plate Matt Adams from second and give the Cardinals a 3-2 victory.
St. Louis had already rallied from a 2-0 deficit thanks in part to a boneheaded eighth-inning miscue by Brewers first baseman Mark Reynolds. Instead of attempting to start an inning-ending double play on a hard ground ball, Reynolds nonchalantly strolled to first base and got just one out, extending an inning that would eventually culminate with the Cardinals tying the game by getting four straight two-out base runners off Jonathan Broxton.Sun, Sep 28Chi Cubs5 - 2MilwaukeeGame Recap
Domonic Brown's painful-looking catch robs Jedd GyorkoJeff Eisenberg at Big League Stew11 days ago
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There are two things hard to fathom about Phillies outfielder Domonic Brown's mesmerizing third-inning catch on Thursday night.
That he caught the ball, and that he did not break his wrist or dislocate his shoulder in the process.
Brown came up wincing and shaking his right arm after robbing Jedd Gyorko of at least a single with a diving catch in which he held onto the ball despite his glove hand getting pinned at an awkward angle behind his back. The 27-year-old outfielder stayed in the game and produced two hits and an RBI in the Phillies' 7-3 loss at San Diego.
The strong performance from Brown ended an eventful day on a high note for the young outfielder.Sun, Sep 28Atlanta2 - 1PhiladelphiaGame Recap


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Gourmet Due L – Black Leather + Canvas
January 23rd, 2011 by Aaron Hope | 4 comments
A couple days ago, Sneaker News showed you a look into the Gourmet spring 2011 footwear collection, of which one pair stood out well above the rest. A cheetah print Gourmet Due looks like a 4-figure handbag with its zippered design, but here's a new pair that goes in the completely opposite direction. This new Due L features a leather mudguard that gives way to a tonal canvas vamp, a simple yet effective combo that's poised to keep you comfy and 'clean' in the new year. Click through to see more and stick with Sneaker News for updates on the stateside release. via Dunk