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"Do you want to know how that applicant you just interviewed will actually perform on the job? Check out her Facebook profile" says Todd Wasserman on Mashable.com.
That's the advice of a new study from the Northern Illinois University, the University of Evansville and Auburn University. The researchers recruited a group of four Facebook-savvy human resources professionals and students to evaluate the Facebook profiles of 56 users. The four perused each of the profiles for about 10 minutes each before grading them according to the so-called Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism).
Six months later, the researchers compared the evaluations of the 56 users' work supervisors and found a strong correlation for traits including intellectual curiosity, agreeability and conscientiousness. The evalauations are, of course, subjective, but job seekers shouldn't necessarily worry that they need to clean up their Facebook profile.
For instance, Don Kluemper, one of the authors of the study, says that contrary to popular belief, a picture of you partying won't necessarily hurt your chances of getting hired. "I don't think a picture of someone holding a beer adversely affected them, but [a picture of you] being drunk in a ditch somewhere might be a negative," he says. Not surprisingly, pictures and references to traveling signaled openness to new experiences and adventurousness, while the number of friends you have indicates extroversion.
A second study also looked at evaluations drawn from Facebook profiles and academic success. Kluemper says that report, which included a larger sample (244) and found the profiles were an accurate predictor of GPAs. "We can predict academic success better than a standardized IQ test," Kluemper says.
Despite the studies, Kluemper says that companies shouldn't use Facebook to screen applicants, although, of course, many already do. Kluemper says there hasn't been enough research yet to show a definitive connection between Facebook profiles and job performance. "This offers a shred of validation," Kluemper says of his research. "But there are thousands of studies that show personality tests predict performance. More studies [on Facebook as an indicator of job performance] need to be done."


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Natural Radioactivity Levels in Surface Soil of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Oil and Gas Fields
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[1] Ajayi, T. R., Torto, N., Tchokossa, P., & Akinlua, A. (2009). Natural Radioactivity and Trace Metals in Crude oils: Implication for Health. Environ Geochem Health, 31, 61-69.
[2] Bright, A. K. (2009). Oil and Gas Exploration: What ONELGA Suffers (pp. 34-43). Port Harcourt: B' Alive publications co.
[3] Chukwuocha, E. O., & Enyinna, P. I. (2010). Radiation Monitoring of Facilities in Some Oil Wells in Bayelsa State and Rivers State, Nigeria. Scientia Africana, 9(1), 107-111.
[4] Diab, H. M., Nouh, S. A., Hamdy, A., & El-fiki, S. A. (2008). Evaluation of Natural Radioactivity in a Cultivated Area Around a Fertilizer Factory. J Nucl Radiat Phys, 3(1), 53-62.
[5] Environmental Protection Agency. (2008). Retrieved from www.epa.goo/radiation
[6] Fatima, I., Zaidi, J. H. Arif, M., Daud, M., Ahmad, S. A., & Tahir, S. N. (2008). Measurement of Natural Radioactivity and Dose Rate Gamma Radiation of the Soil of Southern Punjab, Pakistan. Radiation protection Dosimetry, 128(2), 206-212.
[7] Isinkaye, M. O., & Shitta, M. B. (2010). Natural Radionuclide Content and Radiological Assessment of Clay Soil Collected from Different Sites in Ekiti State, South Western, Nigeria. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 139(4), 590-596.
[8] Mokobia, C. E., Edebiyi, F. M., Akpan, I., Olise, F. S., & Tchokossa, P. (2006). Radioessay of Prominent Nigerian Fossil Fuels Using Gamma and TXRF Spectroscopy. Fuel, 85, 1811-1814.
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[10] Tchokossa, P. (2006). Radiological Study of Oil and Gas Producing Areas in Delta State, Nigeria (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.
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Stealing was an automatic death sentence -- especially from a dealer. More often, executions were ordered when addicts, desperate for crack, robbed each other. Rather than attract unwanted attention by allowing favela residents to report these crimes to the police, drug lords provided deterrence with their own brand of justice.
Shootings were unusual, Gomes said. Hits usually involved something more primitive, like a hammer. They weren't quick deaths either. Known for torture, drug lords would often order henchmen to break a thief's arm and toss him into the river. If the thief didn't drown, favela residents stoned him.
Gomes was terrified.
"I saw mothers who would come looking for their sons ... They would show me a photo, and I had seen their son being killed by the drug lords," he said. "I was taking the same drugs they were. I didn't want that happening to me."
He had thought about escaping, but it seemed impossible.
Influenced by his older brothers, Gomes began using drugs at age 11. He started with marijuana but quickly graduated to crack cocaine. Within a year he was living on the street, routing through garbage to scrounge up enough money to bankroll his next high. It didn't take much.
"Crack is really the poor man's drug," Gomes said. "You can buy it for less than a dollar. ... Ninety percent of street dwellers here use it."
U.S. government statistics back Gomes' claim. According to the Central Intelligence Agency, Brazil is the world's second largest consumer of cocaine.
Ironically, during the seven years he spent on Rio's streets, Gomes turned down multiple opportunities for help from a ministry called Cristolandia -- "Christ-land" in Portuguese. Created as an outreach of Brazilian Baptist churches, Cristolandia provides food, clothes and lodging to addicts, prostitutes and the homeless. More important is the center's offer of freedom: the means to end addiction and escape the streets.
"People who do drugs feel there's no hope. They think they can't get out of it," Gomes said. "There were people that would point to me and say, 'That guy, there's nothing that can be done for him. He's going to die smoking crack.'"
But on April 21, 2012, Gomes proved them wrong. Driven by his fear of Rio's drug lords, he told Cristolandia volunteers he was ready to make a change.
They cleaned him up, got him off crack and introduced him to Christ. It wasn't easy. Five others left the streets the same day as Gomes. Of the five, he's the only one who made it.
Now, two years after Cristolandia changed his life, Gomes is helping the ministry do the same for others. Serving at Cristolandia as a short-term missionary with the National Mission Board of the Brazilian Baptist Convention, he helps rescue and care for other addicts who want a fresh start.
"We go out there and tell them, 'Yes, there is hope. It happened to me and it can happen to you,'" Gomes said. "And they say, 'That guy's for real. It's true what he's saying because I saw him suffering out here with us.'"
Gomes said the first step of Cristolandia's recovery strategy is to meet people's physical needs. Step two is focused on internal transformation -- specifically, the need for a relationship with Jesus Christ. Everyone who comes through the center hears the Gospel, and though acceptance isn't a condition of entering Cristolandia's rehabilitation program, Gomes admits his own success wouldn't have been possible without it.
"I tried to leave drugs in the past, and I never was able to," he said. "Jesus tells us in John 15:5 that without Me, you can do nothing. And that's true ... with Him, I was able to quit."
Today, Gomes is looking toward the future. Now 22, he still lives at Cristolandia but knows he can't stay forever. He says God has blessed him with a job cleaning tour buses and the chance to go back to school. His dream is to save enough money to buy a place of his own, get married and start a family. But Gomes says his new life won't keep him too far from Cristolandia.
"Showing my gratitude to the Lord is serving these people," Gomes said. "What moves my life now is Jesus, because He brought about this transformation. I never had anything in my life before ... and now I have a life."
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Fox's comeback from heart surgery personifies Broncos' run
NEW YORK - For hearts and brains, pro football is rushin' roulette. It's a gamble just to show up to work, be it running backs or blitzers rushing into brick-wall linemen, or coaches, seized by stress on every play. But these men embrace it, live it, cherish it, because pro football is life, until life becomes life.
"When you've been doing this for so long, and something takes that away from you for a period of time, it gives you a true appreciation of what you get an opportunity to do everyday," said Gary Kubiak, who was the Broncos' offensive coordinator for two Super Bowl victories and suffered a mini-stroke this season as the coach of the Houston Texans. "I know for me, it's made me take a step back, take care of yourself and really enjoy what you're doing. It's fun to compete every day, it's very demanding, but I think we enjoy that or we wouldn't do that. But when something happens to you, it puts a different perspective on what's going on."
Which leads us to John Fox - the gruff, guffawing coach of the Broncos - who also has a sharper perspective on life and pro football these days. Fox has learned they sometimes aren't the same thing. The weekend that Kubiak collapsed midgame, Fox collapsed on a golf course in North Carolina. Fox survived open-heart surgery, missed four games and returned to work, leading Denver to Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday.
"(It was) how fast I could get back to normalcy - that is coaching for me," Fox said Friday at a Super Bowl news conference with Pete Carroll, the coach of the Seattle Seahawks. "Really, it was like a sprained ankle. It was going to be four weeks. I feel 150 percent better. I had a valve that was probably the opening the size of a pinhead - now, it's a 50-cent piece. Just from a feeling-good standpoint, I feel way, way, way better than I did two months ago. I never really gave it a second thought about coming back not being an option, or returning to coaching being an option. It's worked out pretty well."
"What a stud," Carroll chimed in. "He's comparing an open-heart surgery and being on his back to an ankle sprain. Congratulations on that. That's really amazing. Come on, John, that's awesome."
Fox's resilience, really, is a microcosm of the Broncos' 15-3 season. Injuries and surgeries and DUIs and suspensions marred Denver's run to the Super Bowl but never derailed it. Much of the credit goes to the godfather, the raspy-voiced coach who set the tone for the Broncos. "Next man up" isn't a mantra; it's a lifestyle. And the 58-year-old Fox splashes his persona upon everything orange, be it his football mind in meetings or his personality in the locker room.
"I knew with Coach Fox that he'd fight through it and come back even more energetic," said Denver defensive tackle Terrance Knighton. "He's just a ball of energy. Always in the locker room, hanging out with my teammates and me. He's always joking, almost like one of the players in the locker room. He's not one of those coaches who walks into the locker room and then everyone gets quiet. He's right in the thick of things with us. He has that perfect balance of having fun with guys and getting down to business. When he flips the switch, it's easy for us to do the same thing. And it's almost like having two defensive coordinators."
Jack Del Rio was at his home in the Garden District of New Orleans, enjoying a well- deserved escape. It was Denver's bye week when "I started getting texts. 'Is coach Fox OK? Is coach Fox OK?' So that's when I texted him," said Del Rio, Denver's defensive coordinator. "And he shoots back, 'Everything's good, just have to get a couple tests done.' He like totally downplayed it. And then the next day he's like, 'Well, I might have to have a procedure done.' John told me that (Broncos executive) John Elway would be calling."
Del Rio served as the interim coach, going 3-1 and keeping the Broncos afloat. The moment that sticks with him was, fittingly, Thanksgiving.
"He had come back into town and he wasn't really allowed to return to work," Del Rio said of Fox. "But I said, 'If you're in town, please come over and see us. Otherwise, we're all going to be driving to your house, 50 cars piled up. Guys would love to see you. I would love to see you.' So he came over to Dove Valley, just to say hello after practice.
"He didn't want to be a distraction. He just wanted to say: 'Hey I'm going to be fine. You guys are doing great.' Everybody got to hug him.
"It's pretty remarkable, really, to think that you have open-heart surgery, have your chest cracked open and your heart worked on, and be back at work as quickly as he did. And really not just walk in the building and be there, but come back and be the John Fox he was before - just a little thinner."
Indeed, Foxy is lookin' good. He's dropped over 10 pounds, as if he knew he'd be in the nation's spotlight for Super Bowl week. He still has that Bob Uecker face and quick wit. And now, after the fight of his life, he has the biggest fight of his life in pro football. He outcoached legendary Bill Belichick in the AFC championship game, and now he will face Carroll's team in Sunday's Super Bowl.
"What a tremendous story with John, finishing up this Sunday with a chance to win a championship," Kubiak said. "That's why we do what we do. John's a good friend. I'm very proud of him, glad he's doing well."


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If people want to play this map they should be contributing ideas to help qwert work with the foundry and the guidelines, not against them.
If all people want to do is complain about the guidelines, do it in an appropriate place like the The Final Say on Map Size Announcement.
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For now we are firm standing on our guidelines. Maybe in the future they will change, and we will come back and look at the arguments for and against. Hence the reason this will stay open, so we don't clutter other important threads with the discussion.
KEYOGI wrote:qwert wrote:well like andy say maybe in the future these map be alove to play,so i will work in these map on dimension 850x500,and hope that some day will be open for game.
840 is the absolute maximum.
KEYOGI wrote:qwert wrote:
well like andy say maybe in the future these map be alove to play,so i will work in these map on dimension 850x500,and hope that some day will be open for game.
840 is the absolute maximum.
mibi wrote:I think there should be an allowance for epic type maps like this one. They could be 3 sizes, small large and epic. World 2.0 would classify as epic in my book.
DiM wrote:the text is almost impossible to see at this point. imagine how it looks at 630*600
Because of the mapsize and because there are some weird provinces, I think you should take the opportunity to carve up europe in different zones based on military geographical tactical merits.
So first look at uncrossable rivers, mountain ranges then at defendable hills, rivers, fortifications as they were in 1944. Then see how you can divide it in game playable zones.
I belive that western front be finished before these final map.Coleman
My point of view is I would like to see Western Front and Central if he makes that it's own map both finished before this. If he is just adding Central here to connect East & West then never mind on that part.
There are too many different shades of blue. It might be confusing, and it will be hard to read the cyan numbers
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well there only 7 primary colours so you can safely say there will be different shades of colours in this map
I know you're just going to continue doing what you want to do regardless, but I would really like to see this put on hold until Western Front is released. I don't like seeing the productivity on your other maps suffer while you work on this project. Don't misunderstand me, I like this project, I just want your other maps as quickly as possible first.
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love this map and wondered if we could have the central part of europe as a seperate option then this map would really be a large version of 3 existing maps, but i love the idea even if you dont want to do that.
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Tour d'Afrique Ltd is planning its first ever North American bike tour and has partnered with the U.S. bike charity Trips For Kids to raise money and awareness about their bike programs that help at-risk youth.
Through the Tour d'Afrique Foundation, the riders and staff of the 2011 tour will be making donations to these Trips for Kids chapters:
• TFK Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, run by TFK volunteer Jack Harding
• TFK Chicago Voyagers, a part of the Chicago Voyagers program
• TFK Pontiac, Mich., operated by the Baldwin Center
• TFK Marin, San Francisco, operated by TFK founder Marilyn Price
• TFK Tallahassee, Fla., operated by Ken Foster of Bicycle Tallahassee
The tour will visit each chapter along the 8,000 km (4,971 mile) route from San Francisco to St. John's, Newfoundland, to make donations and to raise awareness about the great work being done by Trips for Kids.
"Cycling is a great way to introduce kids to a healthy lifestyle and the environment," said Tour d'Afrique Foundation Director Paul McManus. "Trips for Kids Chapters are getting tens of thousands of kids on bikes that otherwise would never have the opportunity."
The Tour d'Afrique Foundation gives back to the communities each tour travels through by supporting organizations that improve people's lives through the use of a bicycle. The Foundation has donated more than1,300 bikes and raised more than one million dollars for various charities.
Find out more, at the North American Epic Bike Tour.
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I suspect many of you will remember Apple's adverts a few years back, with the tagline Think Different.
Not think better. Not think world-changing. Think different.
What does "different" mean from the point of view of a user or developer? Different file formats. Different systems. Things that don't interact. A hundred different bugs in every application. Just ask a web developer what they think about different browser implementations.
Developers get faced with choices between different systems all the time. Why should I use system A instead of system B? Does system A do something that system B doesn't do, and do I care about that something? If so, then this is an excellent reason to use system A. Perhaps system A does the same thing as system B in every regard that matters to me, but does it better. This is still a good reason to use system A, providing I haven't already invested heavily in system B.
But "different" isn't better automatically. From the point of view of a commercial entity, "different" is generally worse by default. "Different" costs money. Is it worth it? You have to justify that, justify why different is better in this case.
In light of this, I have a question for you, the contributing community of KDE. What makes KDE better? What makes it world-changing?
Doing something revolutionary
Let's make this a bit more specific. Most immediately I'm interested in what KDE has to offer the software industry at large. What is KDE pioneering that would make a company that has historically based it's business model on web applications built on Microsoft technology, but is now branching into open source because it's not afraid to follow interesting trends, sit up and pay attention? Consider a target audience of someone who thinks the time of the WIMP interface is over, but that the iPhone is a testament to the ingenuity of graphical designers and not software engineers (and software engineering is what we're interested in here). Consider the trend towards service-based computing. Consider Google's dominance.
Think about seamless integration of mobile devices, of reading something at your computer, then having to rush off and getting it onto your iPhone/eeePC/PDA/portable toaster with almost no interaction required. Think of the problem of sifting through the cruft of the intarwebs (cat captions and all) to find that useful nugget of information. Think of how your life revolves around trust networks (who do you ask for advice?), but how poor computers are at duplicating that. In short, think of the unsolved problems in computing.
Is the semantic desktop (cf Nepomuk) a bold leap into the future of computing? If so, how?
Is JOLIE integration into the desktop layer where it's at? Why?
Will Plasma revolutionise the way we interact with small form-factor devices?
What problems are KDE solving that haven't been solved before?
Remember, we're thinking here about why people who've never heard of KDE and see Linux as a server OS should be interested in what we're doing. We're thinking about why budding young developers who don't care about the GNU software libre philosophy but just want to work on an exciting, intellectually challenging and world-changing project might jump at the chance to get involved with KDE.
Doing something better
Secondly, why should people (again, who don't care about the KDE desktop) use our development framework? What makes us better?
Perhaps Eigen is the matrix library to end all matrix libraries?
What can Akonadi offer the world beyond the kdepim module?
How will Plasma make the hoards adore your application?
In what way are KComponents the light side to COM and CORBA's dark side?
Why should you embed Marble into your application?
How is KDE solving the problems that developers care about in a better way than they have been solved before?
Final words
I'm fully convinced that KDE is awesome. I care about software freedoms, and KDE is free. I care about frameworks and APIs, and Qt/KDE beats the competition easily in that regard. But I want to be able to evangelise KDE to other developers who don't care about these things, and I don't have the knowledge to do so.
Post your responses in the comments, or put them straight down on my Techbase page. I will try to collate everything there.


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This is my first time submitting a question. Im quite new to Visual Basic programming. Im using VB 6.0 Leaning Edition. Im trying to write a number-adding program to use in a very specific area of my work. I have been successful in writing the program; i.e. it does what I want it to do. However, the question I have is this: Is it possible to display MULTIPLE lines of data, generated by my program, in a Label Box or Text Box? I know that a Text Box can ACCEPT multiple lines of inputted data if the Text Box property is set to multi line, but can it also display multiple lines of data generated by my program? If its possible to do this in either a Label Box or Text Box Id really appreciate an example of the code required? Below is the code that I have written to generate the kind of data I show at the bottom of this question:
Private Sub Form_Load()
Add = InputBox("TYPE A NUMBER; TO END TYPE: '0'")
If Add = 0 Then GoTo 4
total = total + Val(Add)
count = count + 1
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4 Loop Until Add = 0
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End Sub
I currently am having the data displayed on the Form (if the AutoRedraw property is set to True). Id like to be able to print the displayed data, but I dont want to have to print the form to do it. It would be easier to print it from a Label Box or Text Box. Below is an example of the data that is displayed on the Form:
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Number 2 45 57
Number 3 87 144
Number 4 678 822
Total 822
Average 205.5
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Not everyone loves root beer. Some people really can't stand it. The medicinal, wintergreen, anise-y punch—it's exactly why others love it so much. Remember ordering it as a kid and thinking, how cool, they didn't even card me!...?
As the story goes, a pharmacist in the 1870s was messing around with some roots, berries, and herbs, and out came a bitter-but-still-sweet fizzy drink. There's no one root beer recipe. They can range anywhere from super sweet and cola-esque to herb-crazy, with notes of juniper, wintergreen, vanilla, bark, and licorice. There are over 2,000 or so brands in America, many of which are from small-batch bottlers.
We set out to find the best root beer in America, starting with 11 widely available national brands. (Here's part two, featuring the smaller regional brands.)
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- Overall root beer flavor: We rated it on a scale of "mild" to "Holy Sarsaparilla!" If you don't like root beer, maybe you want it mild, but the root beer enthusiasts look for that medicinal, herby bite. Back in the day, sarsaparilla was one of the primary ingredients, but today additions like wintergreen and anise render similar flavors.
- Sweetness: On a scale of "dry" to "sugarush." You don't want cloyingly sweet, but then again, this is soda. It shouldn't be unsweet. What kind of sweet? Vanilla sweet? Fruit snack sweet? Hopefully not so much the latter. And most importantly, there should always be a good sweet-to-bitter balance.
- Carbonation: Tiny bubbles are good. Flat, not so much. Some got flat after just a few minutes of sitting out; others held onto their fizz. Since bottles can lose up to 15 percent of their carbonation while unopened and sitting around, they definitely suffered a bit in this department, but we tried to get cans whenever possible.
The Procedure
I wish I could say we all had frosted mugs* and were served by girls on rollerskates, balancing all the samples on trays. Alas, we used small plastic cups and gathered around the big ole' SE table for the blind tasting. There were actually three separate tastings on three separate days: one for national brands (the results shared here), and the regional brands were split into two.
* Props to Matty who actually did bring his frosted mug to the tasting.
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11. Virgil's
8. Stewart's
7. Boylan's
6. Dad's Root Beer
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2. Hansen's
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Problem. How to partition R^3 into pairwise non-parallel lines?
A possible solution is to stack infinitely many ``concentric'' hyperboloids, by increasing radius and decreasing slope. And don't forget the line on the $z$ axis at the center. The prototype hyperboloid looks like this.
I heard a talk to which I didn't understand a lot ; a solution was given using Hopf fibration. I'm not familiar to these notions, and at the end it went like ``Tadaa! And here is our partition!''. The speaker could not describe what the partition looks like.
I would be very glad to: (1) understand the math he did (article, book?), (2) see what his solution looks like, and (3) know what kind of solutions exist.
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She faces sentencing Aug. 1. The charge can carry up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.


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As wonderful as it was to have the opportunity to look at, listen to and play so many guitars, we had an even stronger sense that we were getting a crash course in the cutting edge of guitar design, artistry and craftsmanship. The show's program is quite plainly a Who's Who of modern luthierie, and we doubt we're alone in the opinion that founder, General Manager and "guitar junky" Jacques-André Dupont has created more than just an event. This show is a harbinger of the guitar's future.
In addition to promoting instrument making, Dupont is also an ardent supporter of music making. In conjunction with the Montreal Jazz Festival, the MGS has created the Ste- Cat Permanent Guitar Collection: each year, at least two luthiers are chosen at random from among the partcipants and asked to create high-quality instruments bearing the festival's Ste-Cat logo, and these are loaned freely to young, aspiring musical talents for one year. This year also marked the inauguration of the MGS Tribute Award, and a trophy made by luthier Michihiro Matsuda was presented to Jeff Beck in honor of his outstanding acheivements.
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Staples upsets Greenwich in Class LL volleyball semifinals
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After being edged by Greenwich in five games two times already this season, including a loss in the FCIAC final, the Wreckers entered Thursday's Class LL semifinals with a lot to prove to themselves and a score to settle with the Cardinals.
Staples did so with gusto, advancing to a match the school hasn't been to in two decades -- the state finals.
Brackett recorded 25 kills, six digs and three assists to help power second-seeded Staples to a 3-1 win over third-seeded Greenwich in the semifinal round of the Class LL tournament at Trumbull High School.
The Wreckers (22-2) advanced to Saturday's championship match where they will play Cheshire at Berlin High School at 7.
Fittingly, Brackett, the Wreckers' most powerful hitter, sealed the victory, ending the match with a booming kill.
"It was a very emotional match," said Brackett, a senior "We wanted to prove that we can beat them because we hadn't before. We lost in five games to them twice before, which is always tough, so we wanted to prove to everyone that we could do this as a team."
Senior Lauren Mushro tallied 11 kills, 10 digs, four aces, two assists and one block for Staples, which won the match by game scores of 25-22, 14-25, 25-20, 25-21.
"This was our third time playing Greenwich, so we knew we had nothing to lose and we were determined to just put it all out there," Mushro said. "We all knew that we wanted to practice again tomorrow (today) and play again on Saturday."
Greenwich, which beat Staples for its first FCIAC championship nearly two weeks ago, ended its season at 22-3, with only two losses in the state.
"I just don't think we kept the pressure on them like we did the last two matches against them," Cardinals coach Steve Lapham said. "We gave them a lot of free balls and you can't do that when you have Amelia and Lauren whacking at the balls like they do. Still, this team put it all out there and I'll never question their heart and desire."
Senior Mirei Kato posted 13 kills, 10 digs, five blocks and five assists, while senior Jessie Schelz had 11 kills and five blocks for the Cardinals.
"This match was more personal than a lot of other matches," Kato said. "We knew it was going to be an emotional match. They kept the pressure on us and we just couldn't hang in there."
Trailing 2-1, the Cards took a 10-8 lead in the fourth game on a tip by senior Catherine Cabano and a kill by Schelz.
The Wreckers went on a run however, opening a 17-11 advantage behind strong play at the net by Brackett and Mushro and the impressive serving of senior setter Ariana Sherman. GHS closed to within 22-21 on three consecutive points by senior Ashley Rispoli, but the Wreckers' on target hitting was too much for the Cards on this night. When Brackett executed her final kill of the match, the celebration began for the Wreckers, who like the Cardinals, were supported by a large following.
"That final point was amazing," Brackett said. "I was crying, it felt unreal. I was just so excited and happy."
Sherman, a setter, notched 32 assists, two aces and one kill for the victors, which drew a lot confidence by pulling out the first set. The Cardinals started fast, seizing an 11-8 edge in the first game on kills by Cabano and senior Heather Desino.
But the Wreckers got its offense going, claiming a 21-17 lead later in the set. Brackett capped the opening game with a kill.
"It was awesome to get that first game under our belt," Mushro said.
"Having that first win right away gave us the momentum."
Desino registered six aces, six kills and seven digs, while senior setter Xanthi Katsigiannis had 26 assists, four digs, four kills and one ace for the Cardinals. Senior libero Erin White, who had a strong match in Greenwich's FCIAC finals win against Staples, also made her mark Thursday, helping the Cards run their offense with a number of key digs and passes off of serves.
"We made a lot of unforced errors, especially in the first game," Desino said. "Today, our passing wasn't what it usually is, but hats off to Staples. They're a great team and their offense was really great today."
With Katsigiannis setting Kato, Desino and Schelz up for kills, Greenwich controlled the second set and held a 19-16 advantage in the third.
Staples evened the score at 19-19, then took a 20-19 edge on an ace from Dayna Gelman. Senior Knox Schieffelin's ace later in the set put Staples up 23-20. The Wreckers outscored the Cards 9-1 during the latter part of the pivotal third game.
"All we were saying was we wanted to play for tomorrow," Brackett said. "We didn't want to give up our season yet."
"We had a lead in the third set, I just wish we could have put more pressure on them in the third set," Lapham said.
Despite the heartbreaking loss, Greenwich exited the match knowing it had one of the most successful volleyball seasons in school history.
"As always, Staples provided us with great competition," Cabano said. "Our season was amazing, I couldn't have asked for a better team to spend the season with. I don't think we should regret anything."


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Spain has emerged as the new Greece – the focal point for the euro zone's ongoing debt crisis. This week, that crisis has begun escalating again.
On Monday, interest rates on Spain's long-term debt rose above 6 percent, a level not seen since the last flare-up of the euro crisis. On Tuesday, Spain saw its costs of short-term borrowing nearly double from a month ago. Although investors snapped up its debt issues with enthusiasm, they demanded nearly twice the return that they did a month ago. Spain's 12- and 18-month government bonds went for an average yield of 2.6 percent and 3.1 percent respectively, up from 1.4 and 1.7 percent on March 20.
If its borrowing costs keep rising, then Spain will be unable to service its debt – a squeeze that has already forced Ireland, Portugal, and Greece to seek a bailout from the European Union. But Spain isn't Greece, it's far larger. The default of the euro zone's fourth-largest economy would shake confidence in the currency in a way that tiny Greece never could.
"Spain is a much bigger threat to the euro zone itself," says Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics, an economic research subsidiary of Moody's Corp. and based in West Chester, Pa. "If Spain goes, then the entire periphery [of the euro zone] will unravel."
So far, Spain appears to be in a stronger position than Greece. It has a more solid competitive economy. It is slightly ahead in its timetable to sell €86 billion ($113 billion) of debt this year. On Thursday, Spain will auction two- and 10-year bonds, a crucial test of investors' confidence.
Another plus: While the EU and European Central Bank (ECB) still appear behind the curve in solving the region's mounting debt problem, they at least have gained more experience dealing with it.
"The leadership has been reacting to and addressing crises in the past two years rather than being ahead of the market, but look at where they are now compared with 2010 when Greece first became a problem," says Hung Tran, deputy managing director of the Institute of International Finance, Inc. (IIF), an association of global commercial banks and other financial institutions, based in Washington, D.C. The euro zone has created firewalls to contain the crisis and signed a fiscal compact that binds nations to budget targets. "Compared with two years ago, we have the tools" to address the crisis.
While Greece's problem is whopping government debt – 160 percent of gross domestic product – Spain's government debt at the end of 2011 stood at only around 70 percent of GDP, which is below US levels and even the euro zone's average. Instead, its main problem is private-sector debt.
The collapse of a housing bubble has pushed the private sector's debt to GDP ratio to a huge 214 percent, 70 percent higher than Greece's. Of the five largest euro nations, it has by far the highest private debt ratio.
Spain's housing prices soared more than 50 percent between 2002 and 2007 in Spain, twice the US gain, according to the International Monetary Fund. Only Iceland, a nation that defaulted early on in the debt crisis, saw a higher increase. Now those housing prices are crashing, pushing hordes of homeowners into insolvency along with the banks that financed their mortgages.
It's the parlous state of these mortgage loans that has markets worried. The total debt exposure of Spanish banks is an estimated €2.4 trillion, or about 230 percent of its GDP. That's a huge burden anytime, but it is especially difficult now when the Spanish economy is contracting. Recession means fewer jobs. Nearly a quarter of Spaniards are already unemployed – the worst unemployment rate in the euro zone – and the more workers that are thrown out of jobs, the harder it will be for them to make their mortgage payments.
When the US faced the initial fallout from the bursting of its housing bubble, the federal government stepped in with a huge stimulus package. Spain's new prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, is doing the opposite. He's pulling government money out of the economy by reining in Spain's deficit spending from 8.5 percent of GDP back to 5.3 percent.
In reality, he has little choice. The EU has demanded austerity before it will step in and help. But it might be demanding too much austerity. If the economy contracts too much, then its banks will be in a worse situation, causing even more jitters among buyers of Spanish debt because the government might be forced to step in and bail out troubled banks.
"Regardless of where you are in the economic cycle. you have to address the issue of lack of growth in the peripheral area," says Mr. Tran of the Institute of International Finance. "Cutting the deficit alone is not sufficient, particularly in the countries suffering from recession."
But that help would have to come from the EU or the ECB, neither of which so far has been willing to commit the type of resources that would be needed. The EU's firewall is not big enough to handle a default the size of Spain. The ECB has so far shown an unwillingness to make new purchases of government debt.
Spain's job is twofold: rein in its deficits and restructure its labor rules to make its workforce more competitive, says Mr. Zandi of Moody's Analytics. "That isn't going to happen without help" from the rest of Europe.
Some analysts are critical of the moves that Europe has made so far. "They're not adopting sound policies that are putting the system back on a sound basis," says Robert Carbaugh, professor of economics at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash., and author of "International Economics" a textbook in its 13th edition. "It's a series of Band-Aids."
But others are more sanguine that Europe's moves to solve the crisis, even if by fits and starts, will pay off. "They have to go through this process. They can't make these changes without the angst of investors – they need the angst to maintain the pressure," Zandi says. "I think they'll figure it out."


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Government users and industry analysts chime in on motion-controlled video games, augmented reality and vertical GPS.
When future historians look back on 2011, they'll certainly conclude that we were a society obsessed with video games, minicomputers masquerading as phones and an endless supply of online distraction. But in a few years, many technologies developed in service of these functions may be repurposed in extraordinarily sensible ways.
Motion control, for example, is driving a revolution in video gaming, but may soon help doctors diagnose patients via video conference. Augmented reality, used on smartphones to track down bars, might soon make police officers smarter and safer. In two decades, unmanned aerial vehicles plying the skies might be mundane. The following five emerging technologies are poised to go from amazing to ordinary — and the change will most certainly benefit us.
Whether you play video games or not, you've no doubt heard of the Nintendo Wii. Launched in 2006, the video game console sparked a revolution in interactive entertainment. Now Sony, Microsoft and others have leapt into the motion control market with more powerful and accurate motion controllers. In Microsoft's case, the premise of the Xbox 360 maker's new Kinect peripheral is that you are the controller. The technology not only opens the door for innovative video games, but also can transform how people work in the classroom, the operating room or even on the battlefield.
"Right off the bat, areas outside of gaming that have sparked the most interest for the use of Kinect and our natural user interfaces are health care and education," said Chris Niehaus, director of innovation for Microsoft Public Sector. Kinect uses a 3-D image viewer and a highly sensitive microphone to isolate a user's movements and voice. This allows Kinect to respond to both gestures and verbal commands.
"I think public safety would be one you would think about right away for that sort of biometric recognition ability," he said. "In the next few months, you'll be seeing more announcements and pieces of our technology coming forward around speech recognition."
Niehaus said Microsoft is refining the Kinect technology's sensitivity to pick up subtle movements like hand tremors and fluttering eyelids — a capability that will make Kinect technology a tool for doctors conducting telemedicine.
"If [a doctor] is doing a video conference with someone in the living room, the Kinect sensor is not only providing a video link so that you're seeing and talking to the other person, but it's also watching different movements to determine if those movements are indicative of pain or side effects," Niehaus said. "That's going to assist with early diagnosis and evaluation." Microsoft, he says, has talked with the U.S. Department of Defense about using the technology for rehabilitation therapy for wounded veterans.
On the education front, Niehaus said there's interest from schools to create interactive curriculum using Kinect. "There is a big trend toward gamification [adding game mechanics to otherwise traditional activities] and personalized learning," he said. "There are some education-based games already available for the Xbox — and a lot of them are really STEM (science, technology, education and math) focused."
For example, 20 Chicago-area public school districts are experimenting with Xbox and Kinect in their classrooms and after-school programs, Niehaus said. "We're getting a lot of support from organizations like Get up and Move, Play 60 and different nonprofit programs that are focusing on getting kids up and moving, active and keeping them engaged. When you combine that with education, it is really taking off."
A common problem on the front lines — be it in war, a disaster or any other emergency — is a lack of communication. In the years since walkie-talkies made their debut, technology has evolved, making it easier for soldiers and first responders to communicate. But most communications improvements have hinged on fixed, physical infrastructure to transmit voice and data over distance. In remote areas, this usually requires personnel to erect radio repeater towers atop geographical high points to facilitate communication over a wide area. In a battle, such personnel are vulnerable to the enemy. In a forest fire, crews risk getting caught behind fire lines.
What if that troublesome tower could be replaced with a balloon? You'd have what Chandler, Ariz.-based Space Data calls a balloon-borne repeater platform — a floating communications hub that can be deployed in minutes by personnel miles from danger. The company offers what are essentially weather balloons loaded with radio repeater gear. The StarFighter model, already used by troops in Afghanistan, facilitates two-way radio communication up to 500 miles while floating at 80,000 feet, safely away from enemy fire. The StarFighter soon may be used by emergency responders.
"It's a platform that you really can put any type of communication on," said Gerald Knoblach, CEO of Space Data. "It takes 15 to 20 minutes to prepare it for launch, and the platform rises at about 1,000 feet per minute, so it gets to 90,000 feet in an hour and a half, and then it levels off there and starts relaying voice and data traffic across this big footprint."
Knoblach said the balloons suspend for about 12 hours and operate at one-tenth the cost of communications aircraft. The range, responsiveness and interoperability of the balloons might make them ideal for emergency responders who suddenly find gaps in their communication networks after a disaster.
"This is tailored for wide communications and really complex terrain," Knoblach said. "We all see how fast phones are becoming smaller and more capable; we can take all that kind of consumer technology and put it inside this, and every year get more capacity."
Augmented reality apps are popular for iPhones and Androids. Generally such apps ask users to point their in-phone camera at a horizon, and the software then overlays the image with restaurant and bar information, or it provides walking directions and other details. A few apps use augmented reality to make a video game of the real world, using large smartphone screens to place digital bad guys on an otherwise normal cityscape. It's one of those nascent technologies that gets many people excited about future possibilities.
Public safety officials say augmented reality can make public safety personnel more effective while keeping them safer, something Motorola is exploring.
"We spend a lot of time trying to understand the needs of public safety officers and folks in the federal government police and security forces. And it is just not understanding what their needs are today, but also understanding what they are tomorrow," said Curt Croley, Motorola's senior director of Innovation and Design. "What piqued our curiosity, and what we are very much watching, is the augmented reality space."
The confluence of data analytics, high-speed wireless data and sophisticated end-user devices is enabling significant developments in augmented reality, a lot of which is being developed in the consumer world, said Craig Siddoway, Motorola's director of Advanced Radio Concepts, Innovation and Design. "And we can learn a lot from that. The challenge here is to really allow [a police officer] to focus on what he is trying to do, and that obviously changes under certain conditions."
An approach might be to provide officers with lightweight glasses that flash different colors in the officer's peripheral vision indicating danger, or display simple data gleaned from a license plate. The trick is to provide data via augmented reality that improves situational awareness without overwhelming or distracting an officer.
"The context always has to be, first and foremost, the safety of the officer," Siddoway said. "If he is at a traffic stop, there might be a covert alert that is either a vibration, audible via earpiece or something visual by glasses that suggests, 'Heads up. Something is going on.'"
Other public safety applications for augmented reality include speech or facial recognition to find suspects in a crowd. Building inspectors could be equipped with 3-D maps of a structure. These capabilities could all be made available in a smart handheld device or even a heads-up display. But there's only so much data a human can process at once.
"There are variables that we have to understand," said Motorola CTO Paul Steinberg. "How much information can you present before users shift their focus from something that is more important?"
While no amount of augmented reality is going to lead to a real-life Robocop, the future of augmented reality is so bright you've got to wear data-analyzing, situationally aware shades.
Photo: Augmented reality technology may safeguard officers while making them more effective. Photo courtesy of Motorola
Smart infrastructure, intelligent transportation systems, even the so-called "Internet of things" — all add up to an environment that's more than meets the eye. But there's at least one common fixture few of us give a second thought to, yet it's uniquely positioned to deliver an array of high-tech services — the humble streetlight.
A company called Illuminating Concepts transforms typical streetlights into highly intelligent network nodes that do more than fend off darkness. The Farmington Hills, Mich., company launched a product called Intellistreets that adds lighting control, wireless communication, audio, video and digital signage to any standard streetlight.
Ron Harwood, president and founder of Illuminating Concepts, said Intellistreets can help cities save energy and enhance citizen safety, while even turning a small profit. For instance, restaurants could pay to run advertising messages on downtown intersections equipped with digital signage. Cities also could use visual or audio messages for emergency communications or to guide citizens to emergency evacuation routes.
It's unbelievable how much more the cities can communicate with pedestrians," Harwood said. The wireless mesh network capability of Intellistreets also means the streetlights could display — or tell — people bus or train schedules, information on Amber Alerts, that an emergency vehicle is approaching, or help reroute drivers during road closures.
Outfitting a streetlight with Intellistreets costs about $500, according to Harwood. Each fixture operates individually and includes a microprocessor, a dual-band radio system, audio amplifier, digital sound processor, video output and HD video card.
He said the technology is an affordable option to implement smarter streetlights. "Los Angeles and Seattle are spending a lot of money in retrofitting streetlights, and departments of transportation in all 50 states are experimenting with LED fixtures," Harwood said. "There is a lot of awareness in the cities around retrofitting, but for many, there's just too little money available for it to happen."
Most of us are familiar with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — at least the variety used by American military forces to wage war in the air without risking pilots' lives. But some might wonder why UAVs aren't being used for mundane activities.
It's because UAVs have been federally regulated since their inception, meaning the marketplace hasn't had the freedom to conjure up new ideas for these revolutionary machines, said James Grimsley, president and CEO of Norman, Okla.-based Design Intelligence Inc., a company that develops technology for unmanned aerial systems.
"We call them unmanned aircraft, and we're not describing them in terms of potential, we're describing them in terms of what we see is missing, which is the man," Grimsley said. "But that's going to be changing in the next two to five years."
That change will be possible thanks to an evolution in how the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulates UAVs. The FAA's website states, "To address the increasing civil market and the desire by civilian operators to fly UASs [unmanned aircraft systems], the FAA is developing new policies, procedures, and approval processes." But the agency says these changes aren't anticipated until at least 2015.
There are many potential uses for UAVs, Grimsley said, including package delivery. Think for a moment about sending a package overnight. It often means the package is put aboard a piloted airplane. It might then be loaded onto a truck and driven miles to a remote destination.
"UPS charges you $15 to deliver a package, and they have to deliver it overnight regardless of the cost for them," Grimsley said. "If we had planes that could handle 10 or 20 pounds of cargo that would fly to these small areas and regional hubs, we could move mail and very small cargo and packages. Small vehicles don't require big airports, they don't require the infrastructure planes do, and they're cheaper and safer."
Grimsley points out all the problems that accompany manned flight just to deliver packages: safety devices, life-support systems, and the destruction that can occur if a large plane crashes. By using UAVS, this could be circumvented and things like organ delivery could be more streamlined.
UAVs may also soon be used as communications relays. Instead of incurring the high cost of launching a satellite, solar-powered UAVs could stay aloft for years and serve the same function as orbit satellites.
Another practical use for UAVs, Grimsley said, would be monitoring municipal assets.
"Cities often buy large amounts of equipment that are all over the place, like tractors and trucks. Those things can be stolen, and it can take quite a while before the government will even realize they're gone," he said. "They can be implanted with RFID tags, and you could have a UAV flying around mapping all of these vehicles, and when one shows that it's no longer within the map, you can go looking for it."
In the end, the development of the next generation of UAVs will primarily be driven by safety. Just as NASA came to accept robots as far superior for exploration in terms of safety, cost and efficiency, so too will the coming era of everyday UAVs.
"We typically think of the sexy and exciting things first, but they don't necessarily turn into big financial opportunities," Grimsley said. "What turns into big opportunities are mundane things like delivering mail, cargo, packages — almost a sort of railroad-in-the-sky type thing. That's what will really turn into major drivers and economic opportunities."
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The "great discourses" from the Gospel of John end with the prayer of John's Jesus for the protection of his followers from the hatred of "the world." Just as Jesus and God are one, so the followers of Jesus are one with Jesus and therefore with God, and those in the future who come to know Jesus through the message of the followers will also be admitted into the wholeness of God, Jesus, and the followers of Jesus. Jesus consecrates himself – he prepares himself to be the sacrifice – that will in turn consecrate the followers and those who accept the followers' message, and will reconcile and unify all these elements: God, Jesus, followers, and future believers. This is the heart of John's theology and the theology of the Church that eventually was established by the Council of Nicea in 325 c.e. The rest of the story completes the metaphors of water and wine, baptism and communion, and the conferring of the Holy Spirit (the "spirit of truth").
Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox worked out a theology that makes sense for post-modern, 21st century mystics who want to honor the Christ of John's Gospel without forcing the text into impossible literalism. Fox's "Cosmic Christ" evokes responsibility for the condition of all forms of life on Planet Earth, and confers the power to carry out the work that arises from that responsibility. Taking John's Jesus at his word, when we know who Jesus was, we know God; we know the Christ – the wisdom and the spirit of truth that was one with God from the beginning. We then can know our own selves at that same level of wisdom and truth. We are then one with God, one with the Christ, and we ourselves then can take on the power and responsibility of being – embodying, incarnating – the Cosmic Christ. Fox writes,
Because we are Cosmic Christs and because we are called to birth the yet unborn Cosmic Christ, we are, like Jesus, prophets of order (justice) over chaos (disorder and injustice). This is why [Meister] Eckhart can declare that "all virtue of the just and every work of the just is nothing other than the Son – who is the New Creation – being born from the Creator. In the depths of our being, where justice and work are one, we work one work and a New Creation with God." . . . There is only one work – the work of the Cosmic Christ who declared in the person of Jesus, "I and the Creator are one . . . Whatever the Creator does the Son does too. The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, pp. 138-139.
The difference in theology between the writer of John's Gospel and progressive/liberal Christian exiles from traditional doctrine is that this identity with the Cosmic Christ is available to anyone who signs onto the work, whether that person accepts the first century myth of the resurrection or not. The work is justice-compassion. In Fox's thought, justice must be combined with compassion, or it becomes chaos – injustice. But beyond justice-compassion lies non-violent, radical fairness. Non-violent, radical fairness makes justice-compassion distributive because retribution is no longer part of the discussion. John's envelope has now been pushed to its 1st century limits.
In 21st century terms, to encounter the hatred of the world, to experience oneself as alien in the world, as John's Jesus describes his followers, means to be engaged in the struggle for distributive justice-compassion. This struggle is not restricted to assuring economic safety-nets for the poor and elderly; those are the easy fights. Where alienation and hatred are met head-on is in the attempt to understand that unjust systems are the underlying cause of war and violent crimes against persons or property; and in attempting to create life-affirming consequences that can interrupt those continuous loops of injustice that give rise to crime and war. Taking the part of the shooter at Virginia Tech, or the one who opened fire on a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Knoxville, Tennessee, invites a collective social wrath that is justifiable from a systemic point of view, but completely misses redemption that is only possible in non-violent, radical fairness. In contrast, the response of the Amish community toward the man who slaughtered their children in their own schoolhouse stunned conventional thinking, perhaps because it came from a spiritual ethic that seems to elude most of us.
The Gospel of John defines a life-and-death struggle between the world ruled by Satan and those who live in God's love as revealed through the Anointed Jesus. John's Jesus goes to God, leaving his followers to deal with the world until he comes again. The mandate is to love one another, and do the same work of distributive justice-compassion in this life that Jesus did. The power to do that is granted through the Holy Spirit, conferred upon the followers at Jesus' death. The promise is that Jesus will come back and take to God all who follow him, and believe that he was the one Anointed by God to restore God's rule. But the work is to be done here and now.
John's 1st century Gospel speaks to post-modern, 21st century cosmology to the extent that we experience God, the Christ, the Spirit, and humanity as one. To the extent we experience ourselves as the embodiment – the incarnation – of the Cosmic Christ, we experience John Dominic Crossan's kenotic god, whose presence is justice and life, and whose absence is injustice and death.
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Grading The Dallas Cowboys' Offensive Line: Pass ProtectionFebruary 20, 2010
The Cowboys' line is a massive wall of human flesh–one of the largest in the league. The group is composed of five veterans who have great experience playing with one another.
Without looking at any numbers, we know that the 'Boys line provided some of the biggest running lanes in the NFL. Their size and power made it rather easy, relatively speaking, to drive opponents off the ball.
From time to time, however, the group struggled in pass protection. You can't have it all, and overall they are an above-average line. Still, providing better pass protection for Romo is essential to the Cowboys' success. In Minnesota during the playoffs, you saw how poor pass protection can affect an entire offense's rhythm and productivity.
There are some misconceptions about which linemen are the Cowboys' most dominant. I believe the film doesn't lie, and the numbers that are garnered from the tape are proof of that. Take a look at the numbers I obtained from my film study listed on the chart below.
Snap count numbers are only those plays in which the players were in pass protection. Also, sack numbers do not add up to total sacks yielded because some were given up by tight ends, backs, or unblocked. Finally, penalty counts are representative of all plays, not just passes.
And now for the grades.
Pass Protection Grades
LT Flozell Adams: D+
Adams struggled mightily in pass protection all season, giving up nine sacks and, perhaps more importantly, a devastating 42 quarterback pressures. It is certainly difficult to block a team's best pass-rusher, as Flozell had to do more than anyone on the team. Still, I would expect his numbers to be better than this.
Further (and I don't want to beat a dead horse so I won't go into great detail), we all know Adams' struggles with penalties. He had 13 this year, tied for fifth most in the NFL.
LG Kyle Kosier: B+
Kosier is sorely under-appreciated, often labeled by the media as the "weak link" of the Cowboys' line. He gave up just one sack all season though, and had good numbers in both quarterback hits and pressures allowed. He obviously didn't face the speed rushers that Adams, Colombo, and Free faced, but his ability to handle defensive tackles much larger than him is impressive.
C Andre Gurode: A
Gurode had the best season of any Dallas' linemen. He gave up just three sacks, but hits and pressures are more representative of how well a player performed. He allowed his man to pressure Romo just 2.27 percent of all pass plays, by far the best on the team, and did it while performing a task no other lineman was asked to do: snap the ball.
RG Leonard Davis: A-
It was difficult to determine whether to give Kosier or Davis a higher grade. I ended up giving Davis the slightly higher grade because, while he yielded three more sacks than Kosier, he gave up a lower percentage of quarterback hits and pressures, and also did a fantastic job of not racking up penalties: he allowed just four all season.
RT Marc Colombo: C
Colombo's numbers actually came out worse than anticipated. His sack numbers were respectable, but he allowed the highest percentage of QB hits on the team, and his pressures and penalties were nearly just as bad. These numbers also don't include the Cowboys' playoff game in Minnesota, where Colombo allowed three sacks and got manhandled all game (albeit probably due to injury).
RT Doug Free: B-
I was interested in discovering how well Free actually performed on the season and how his statistics compared to Colombo's. As I presumed, his numbers were about average. He didn't have the worst or best percentages in any category, but overall performed better than Colombo. His hits, pressures, and penalty percentages were all lower than those of the man he replaced (particularly the percentage of hits yielded, which was about 2.5 times as low).
So there you have it. In order of excellence, I rate the 2009 performance of the Cowboys' linemen, in terms of pass protection, as follows:
1. Andre Gurode: A
2. Leonard Davis: A-
3. Kyle Kosier: B+
4. Doug Free: B-
5. Marc Colombo: C
6. Flozell Adams: D+
This is further evidence that Dallas should move up in the first round to select an offensive tackle for the future. The numbers don't lie.
In my next "Grading the 'Boys" segment, I will grade the line's run-blocking abilities.