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Some fun (and totally stylish) pics from Jen Huang of this darling husband and wife for their anniversary. Who says you can only take couple's photos when you're engaged?
Thanks Jen! And thank you Trent and Dara!
Holly /
Good point! I hardly have any photos of me with my boyfriend and it's kind of depressing. Every couple should go out and have their picture taken by a professional even if they aren't engaged.
Victoria /
I adore the idea of a love shoot- what a fun way to capture the joy of marriage together!
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Lizzie [Ten Thou Bride] /
Such a lovely shoot! They are completely adorable together!
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UM, adorable! They look so in love. Much more inspiring to me than any engagement shoot!
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Worlds are colliding! Kathryn, I went to college with Jen!
London Wedding Photographer RAMYAD /
Such a lovely set of photos, they look so in love.
Michelle Guzman /
What a cute session. They pulled off the sunglasses well. :)
Jessica Lynn /
love these images!
PaperDollMN /
Cute shoot. And of course, I finally grew out my bangs and now she makes me want them back!
Rock Paper Scissors Events /
LOVE this! Great to see the photographer in front of the camera for once, and always a pleasure to see Jen's work.
xo, Ara
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What a stylish and in-love couple! I love the girl's layering of jewelry and the guy's cardigan and skinny tie!
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In the weeks following the online publication of Alexandra Juhasz and Ted Kerr's conversation Home Video Returns: Media Ecologies of the Past of HIV/AIDS for Cineaste, the HBO version of The Normal Heart debuted. The film provided the conversationalists, coming from different generations and experiences of HIV/AIDS, to further consider the theories and ideas brought up in their initial conversation: How does the film version of The Normal Heart relate to media ecologies of AIDS of the past? How is The Normal Heart related to the ideas and histories of the "AIDS Crisis Revisitation" they put forward? Click here to read the conversation.
The initial conversation had begun with talk of the Oscars, specifically for the Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2013), also then focusing on Philomena (Stephen Frears, 2013) and a host of more alternative AIDS videos that all build arguments about AIDS now by using images and stories of AIDS past. It seems fitting then to begin this follow up conversation with talk of the Emmy's, given that The Normal Heart is nominated for 16 statues![1]
TED KERR: Its seems that as the golden age of television continues, the Emmys have become, for some, as exciting as the Oscars, which makes sense given that the differences between cinematic and televised events continue to collapse. The Normal Heart certainly fits into this move. But maybe more exciting than the Emmy nods, deadlinehollywood.com[2] reports that President Barack Obama called director Ryan Murphy after seeing his HBO version of The Normal Heart. Screenplay by Larry Kramer, based on his 1985 play, the 2014 film chronicles the early days of the AIDS crisis in New York through the life of Ned Weeks (Mark Ruffalo), a character Kramer molded after himself. In the film, as in the play, we meet Ned just as his world is changing. The "gay-liberaterory" 1970s are over—a period Kramer was critical of (see Faggots[3])—and on the horizon is a horrible epidemic. The audience stays with Ned during his growing frustration because no one around him is doing anything about the heightening emergency, including the New York Mayor's Office or the White House. He fights not only with his brother to get involved but also, it seems, the entire NYC gay male community. Eventually he founds an organization (what became Gay Men's Health Crisis in the real world to which this fiction refers)—made up largely of white gay men—to respond to the epidemic, only to be unceremoniously kicked out due to what they see as his over-aggressive and bombastic style. It is a classic story about one man's courage to fight the system for what he believes in.[4]
As part of the ongoing conversation, Home Video Returns[5] with Alexandra Juhasz, in which we explore contemporary revisits to early AIDS activist media history, and their impact on the present and future, I watched The Normal Heart during Queens Pride at my friend Mathew Rodriquez's house. He is a writer for the thebody.com, and has written beautifully about his father who he lost to HIV/AIDS.[6] He is about a decade younger than me (I am 35). My conversationalist, Alex Juhasz, is from another generation—the first one affected and activated by AIDS and the generation that all these movies return to and rely upon—she is fifty and was an early AIDS video activist and member of ACT UP. I currently work at Visual AIDS as the Programs Manager.
Before the film started Mathew ordered pizza, and talked about all the friends we know who recently started PrEP, the HIV Criminalization conference he had recently attended, and my reluctance around watching The Normal Heart. As we talked I realized that while I grew up always knowing about AIDS, I came to the virus and its meanings in deeply personal and solo ways. I poured through the back pages of Entertainment Weekly when they would annually publish the photos of those in the industry lost to AIDS (crying in my parent's basement upon seeing dancer Gabriel Trupin[7] among the dead). I stayed home from school to watch Ryan White on Donahue because I felt some connection to him, deflated and confused upon understanding he wasn't gay and his HIV status had nothing to do with sex. I repressed all of these mediated early encounters with AIDS once I started working at AIDS service organizations with people living with HIV and those fighting against the systems of oppression that exasperate the epidemic. So this return to mass media AIDS events not only brings up my unreconciled past, it gives me pause around other audiences as well.
ALEXANDRA JUHASZ: I too was reluctant to watch the Normal Heart, so our anticipated conversation about it also forced my hand. I was worried that the mainstreamification of my own history would be upsetting, and I was right. In 1986, I arrived in NYC, fresh-faced and political (I was a feminist and also active in the nascent gay/lesbian rights movements), to attend grad school in Cinema Studies at NYU. I volunteered at (Kramer's) GMHC soon thereafter, and found myself in 1987 working in the fledgling Audio-Visual Department, which at that time was the incredible Jean Carlomusto who was single-handedly producing a cable access show called "The Living With AIDS Show."[8] With few real skills of my own, but a lot of chutzpah and real conviction, I suggested to Jean that I produce a segment for the show about women and AIDS. Feminist, anti-racist and anti-poverty activists in NY were just mobilizing around a shared raising awareness about the certain affliction that women (and children) would face in large numbers if the government, public health, non-profits, the media, and activists did not think logically (and politically) and realize, and act, on the imminent threat that HIV posed to communities outside the gay white men who had first organized GMHC (and hemophiliacs, Haitians and heroin addicts, the other known "risk groups" at that time).
"Living with AIDS: Women and AIDS" (1987) was one of the first documentaries about this issue, and also the first show from GMHC that took the shape of long-form (30 minutes) documentary, rather than the talk show format Carlomusto had been using to that point. GMHC's Audio-Visual Department went on to make a great many more of these documentaries. They played on Manhattan cable access and then moved into the broader AIDS mediascape in a variety of ways: they were bought and borrowed from GMHC, they were donated to libraries, community centers and hospitals, they played at conferences and in film festivals, we screened them to activists and organizers.
In a 1994 I wrote my first article about AIDS activist media for Cineaste. There I explained: "Women and AIDS, a tape I produced with Carlomusto in 1987, utilizes a conventional documentary style to relay the then unconventional information that women, too, suffer from AIDS. The tape consists of talking-head interviews with female activists, educators, and healthcare providers who articulately present the distinct issues which affect women within the AIDS crisis: the potential dangers of negotiating safer sex; safer sex as birth control; the effects of racism, poverty, sexism, and homophobia upon HIV-infected women; and the scapegoating of prostitutes as an attack upon all women. The tape also includes detailed information about cleaning IV drug works and safer sex."[9]
I start with this, my history, because it marks that women were always active in HIV/AIDS, and lots of us were "heroes" in that we too tried to raise awareness of the epidemic through a variety of enraged and informed acts and in the name of many beliefs.
TK: I think that is great place to start Alex. There has been a lot of push back against the film version of The Normal Heart in terms of race, such as Sarah Schulman's interview in New York magazine, and then a response from Peter Staley on the Huffington Post but with the exception of the article on Indiewire we mention further down, there has been little-to-no pushback regarding the lack of women and the role they and feminism play in the epidemic in the conversation about The Normal Heart.
In thinking again of Obama watching the movie, I wonder, did he watch it alone or with some of the many women who help to shape his life: his daughters? Michelle? Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to the President? Surely one of them would have noted that the Julia Roberts' character and the lesbian that makes an appearance later in the film could not have been the only women involved? Nellie Andreeva's reports for Deadline Hollywood that the President was incredibly moved by the TV movie, to which Murphy responded, "The whole movie is about Larry trying to get the attention of Washington and 30 years later, to get a call from the President is a full-circle moment." But is that what the movie is about? Is that what moved Obama? Thinking about him watching the film, I am curious to consider what he saw—and what he didn't see—when watching The Normal Heart.
AJ: Like me, I'm sure the President saw things that are basically forbidden from the image landscape, what we call our AIDS media ecology, although they are seared into my own memory banks: seemingly healthy people getting horribly sick, quickly, and dying even faster to the indifference of the broader society. It was shocking then, as now.
TK: Agreed. At its most powerful, the film evokes the emotional affect of We Were Here (David Weissman, Bill Weber, 2011) in its ability to convey to a broad audience what it was like to be in a social world where people were sick and dying. We see this in an early scene where Ned runs into Sanford (Stephen Spinella), his face marked with KS legions. He is a harbinger of the ever more sadness, disease and pain to come. Kramer is successful in being able to broadcast to the mainstream (and its President) the horror of the early American AIDS crisis that they may not otherwise have witnessed.


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COACH Walt Harris: We congratulate Notre Dame on a victory here today. Obviously they played good and our guys played hard.
I thought our guys from our perspective played a little better. We had some unfortunate things happen that were weren't quite able to capitalize on the plays that we needed to capitalize in order to make it a lot closer game, but that's football; it doesn't always bounce the way you want it to bounce. We have a lot of work to do, but we have some improvements that I thought offensively at times, defensively I think it still continues to get a little better. Special teams was better today. But once again, we ran into a good football team with a good quarterback, and they protected him tremendously well and they operated like you expected them to. I thought Darius Walker did a nice job. Obviously their front was the difference for us on offense.
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Q. You mentioned the mistakes that your receivers dropped two pretty open balls. Do you see it as one of them was a touchdown that could have changed the tenor of the game?
COACH Walt Harris: We thought both of them had a chance, one for sure in the end zone and the other one had a chance to be a good gain, but that's the way it is. As far as football, you've got to try to fight your way through it, and they weren't able to do it.
Q. Is there something that Victor Abiamiri does against you guys that allows him to be so successful? Is there kind of a kink in your scheme that allows him to do that?
COACH Walt Harris: No, I just think he's a good football player. Correct me if I'm wrong, we won't have to face him again? I'm sure Charlie will come up with some others. He can't wait to play us, that's what it looks like. We wish him well.
Q. Notre Dame started with a long drive. Do you think defensively, do you think that the guys sort of wore down as the half went on?
COACH Walt Harris: I'm sure they did. I don't think that drive was so wore us out as much as we came back with a 14 play drive, but then we had three drives and three downs to punt. That wore our defense out. We weren't able to get it done.
Once again, I think you have to give credit to the defensive front. I thought they were they dominated us in the short yardage situation and also pass protection.
Q. You ran the double pass for a touchdown. Did you see something in their scheme, something that personnel makes that vulnerable to that kind of play?
COACH Walt Harris: Well, whenever you try a play like that, it could be real good or it could be real bad. We thought they had a chance. It took a while to come down, and we were praying pretty hard. Fortunately our guy camped underneath it and got it done. It was one of those plays, I wish we were at the point where we don't have to do that kind of stuff, we just go down and execute it, but sometimes we have to do that.
Q. You've been plagued by injuries. How would you assess your backups in the running game today?
COACH Walt Harris: How would I assess our backups?
Q. Like Toby, the guys who ran the ball today.
COACH Walt Harris: It was great to have Anthony Kimble back, he was physical for us, and I thought Toby did, too. I think the thing I can't wait to watch is we really had trouble pass protecting and yet we ran the ball effectively most of the time. It's the same guys blocking, same guys defending. I thought we had a good plan to run the ball and we tried to run the ball. One of my goals personally was to stick with the run game longer and see if it would help us. I think we improved, so that's positive for our picture.
Q. Notre Dame's offensive line has at times struggled this year. What was your assessment of it?
COACH Brady Quinn had a lot of time to pass on a consistent basis. Not every time, but on a consistent basis. They're big and physical, and it's nice to have a freshman come in and play as a true freshman. You've got to look way up to see him. We're hoping he graduates early.
You know, they're good up front. They play a tough schedule and they've got physical guys. I think that most of those guys are veteran football players except for him. That makes it a lot better for Brady.
Q. You had a 4th and 1 play midfield. Was that something you saw in the defense?
COACH Walt Harris: We would sure like to maybe try something different, but we felt like we had to come into the game and try to make something happen. To play conservative, I don't think that that's what we needed to do in order to give our players a chance to win. A lot of times when you do that, you decide you wish you would have called a different play or maybe wish you had kicked. But I just was trying to help our team because I thought we were in for a tough battle here in a hostile environment, and I thought it would help. Unfortunately we didn't get it done.
Q. Would you compare this team to the Notre Dame team you saw last November? Do you think it's a better team?
COACH Walt Harris: They're both good teams. They both beat us. They have a fifth year senior quarterback, who I just talked to him briefly before the game. He's really matured, and like Coach Weis said, he's already played through a lot before Coach Weis ever got a hold of him. Obviously he gave him an excellent offense to play in. But he's seen it, so he doesn't get rattled and he has great composure and he's a very good scrambler. He makes the plays and that really helps their pass protection, makes it hard on the defense.
Q. There's been several times this year where you evaluate receivers during the game and make substitutions based on their play. What was the decision of the different evaluation of receivers you had to keep them in the game?
COACH Walt Harris: Yancy got hurt and was out for quite a while, so that was a big reason why Mike he actually came back in the game. The only other one we don't have that many. The only other one was Sherman, and Coach Waugh, an outstanding receiving coach, thought it would be best to go with the other guys.
Q. Marcus McCutcheon didn't practice warming up before the game. Coach's decision or doctor's advice for him to not play today?
COACH Walt Harris: No, I think it's hard to come back from a somewhat serious knee injury and be out for four weeks and come right back in and the first game he has to play is in Notre Dame Stadium. He's been able to run around with a regular and be able to be touched by somebody. I think we want to take care of our guys, and we still have some games to go, so we're looking he should be better this week with another week under his belt and still be confident. He really wants to play. There's no question he's chomping at the bit.
Q. Looking at the stats right here, Stanford was 1 for 8 on 3rd down and Notre Dame was 7 for 13. Can you talk about how big that was and what you've got to do to try to change that?
COACH Walt Harris: That's been a challenge for us all year. That's how you win games, that's how you lose games. You've got to get it done on 3rd down, and we weren't able to and they were. It's simple. We know it's plagued us, and that's why you have those three plays, then out. That's our challenge right now.
Q. You talked earlier about you wanted to stick with the running game today. Both of your top two runners averaged over four yards per carry. Are you surprised that that did not help open up a better passing game?
COACH Walt Harris: I don't think the passing game wasn't open. I think that's not a fair statement. I think the passing game was open, we just couldn't get to it.
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Stanford Player Quotes
Junior RB Anthony Kimble
On his TD pass in the second half ...
"That's my first touchdown pass since I was a senior in high school. It certainly wasn't a great pass, but it gave us a score. I believe we got that play from USC last season and we put it in the game plan as we were able to execute it."
On his team's offensive effort...
"We have had some problems with the running game so it was good to get some productivity out of that today, but we still need to get everyone executing on a consistent basis and on the same page then get it going. The offensive line did do a great job today in getting holes to run through, but we still need to bring it all together."
Senior QB Trent Edwards
On his overall effort ...
"I felt like I took a couple of sacks that I shouldn't have because I held on to the ball too long. I also missed a couple of receivers when they were open, so it's pretty frustrating, but I have to learn from it."
On the offense's performance ...
"We talk about it early in the week to get something started right away and we did that with the first drive. We got some momentum, but unfortunately we didn't continue that the rest of the game. We had a lot of players that continued to fight, but we just couldn't stay steady all day."
On Notre Dame's defense ...
"We knew we needed to play well up front because their front four guys are really talented and they ran some good stunts and twists up front that kept us off balance all day."
Senior LB Michael Okwo
On Notre Dame's offense ...
"They came out on the first drive pumping on all cylinders and they were in control from there. They got a little extra spark at the end of the first half and they were able to keep fresh legs in there almost all day and they wore us down a little bit."
On Stanford's defense ...
"I think we are starting to really come together and play as one unit. I know that I really enjoy playing with these guys, but we just have to be more steady in our play and keep one another on the same page."
An Interview With: COACH Charlie Weis
COACH Charlie Weis: I know the Yankees are losing 4 0 so you don't have to start with any wise cracks (laughter). Go ahead.
Q. (Inaudible).
COACH Charlie Weis: I had a few guys that we could have gone either way on going into this game. Zibby I know will never tell me the truth when it comes to how he's feeling coming off of that. I just didn't feel that he had total straight back, even though he was pretty close, and I felt that I wanted to try while I could try to do all I could to try to save him so we had two weeks before we played another game.
You could put a bunch of guys into that category. You could put him into that category, Travis was another one where he could have played the game, Ambrose is another one that could have played the game, Renkes, he could have played the game. There's a lot of guys that could have played the game. But all those guys that were close, the only guy that wasn't in that situation was Paul Duncan was sick, so it had nothing to do with an injury, he was just sick. That's why he was in sweats. But all those guys were close to playing a game. I was just trying to bite my lip and see if I couldn't buy some extra time, which fortunately worked out okay.
Q. Was it his shoulder or --
COACH Charlie Weis: It was the remnants of yeah, it was the strength that he had lost some strength after that pop. It wasn't the head, it was more the strength in his upper body. He was running around out there fine, it's just that I told him, look, Zibby, if I ask you if you can go, you'll say you can go and you'd be lying, so we'll leave it at that and see if we can't buy you some time.
Q. How would you evaluate their concentration, focus and their execution?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, I think that I was really pleased with that long, meticulous first drive that we had on offense, 17 plays, 91 yards or whatever it is. As a matter of fact, we had four drives in the game that were fairly long, 91, 68, 76 and 77 so it wasn't like we had great field position in the game for some of these drives.
But then they came back and answered with a long drive of their own, and why that happened, the offense kind of I thought fell asleep a little bit because now we're on the field for half of the first quarter, they're on the field for the second half of the first quarter. By the time we get the ball back there was a little bit to go in the first quarter and I thought there was a lull in the action there for a while.
But to be honest with you, the defense after that first drive, for the rest of the game with the exception of the halfback pass, they played pretty darn well.
Q. Can you just go through your decision to play James Aldridge late?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, last week when that situation the last game when that situation presented itself, we had a sloppy field, the kid is coming off a knee, you have a sloppy field, and the last thing I want to do is go pound him inside for a few runs, which is what we gave him today. We pounded him inside with a few runs, and have a sloppy field the first day out and the kid is a little bit scared the first time anyway.
So today I had an opportunity to get him a few carries. I'm certainly not going to throw the ball in that situation and I'm certainly not trying to score. I think that it's important in his case to go ahead and get in coaching analogy, get his feet wet, get in there and get a couple reps where he gets tackled by the bad guys. I think that will only have positive residual effect.
Q. Victor Abiamiri, is there something that Stanford does that makes him so effective against them?
COACH Charlie Weis: I don't know, we might just try to get him see a psychologist and see if we can put an S on all these helmets we're going against because he turns into a pass rushing demon when we go against them.
Q. The defensive line as a whole really had a nice push all day. Could you evaluate their play?
COACH Charlie Weis: Same thing, we played a lot of four man rush schemes. It wasn't a big blitz day today, and I thought that they had sustained good pressure on them, on the quarterback, for most of the day.
Q. As far as Brady, he really spread it around nicely, very efficient. Where is he as far as improvement throughout the course of the season?
COACH Charlie Weis: That type of day, there aren't that many quarterbacks that can play the game the way he plays the game. By play the game, I mean throw it to the open guy. Most quarterbacks want to lay up to a couple good guys they have and throw it over and over and over again. Well, this offense doesn't really work that way. This offense is more read the coverage, run through the progression to try to get it to the right guys and we're a couple balls and hands away from having a humongous day. There was a couple of balls that were really, really close to having a monster day. But I thought he was pretty well on today.
Q. (Inaudible).
COACH Charlie Weis: That was phenomenal. I thought the ball was overthrown to tell you the truth when he threw it, and then he laid out and caught the ball, diving with one hand. Of course when he came to the sidelines, I said, "two hands, please." (Laughter). I thought it was a heck of a catch.
Q. Can you assess the play of the offensive line today? Correct me if I'm wrong, I think all five went most of the way?
COACH Charlie Weis: Except for those couple minutes at the end. We would have try to played Paul a little bit but we held Paul. Those guys played the whole way. I think in the first half they weren't pressuring us very much, and then when we came out in the second half they pressured about two thirds of the time the rest of the game, and I think that we zoned that off pretty well and ended up having a decent day. I thought those guys, with the tight ends included in there, I thought they did a pretty good job blocking in the running game.
Q. Darius had over 150 yards with the running game. Now that you've kind of committed yourself to it the last couple weeks, closer than it was to where you want it to be?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, I'm always committed to it but I want it to work. I always like to call the game that way, where you're heavy more along the balance of 50/50, and I think it really puts more of a mental bind on the defense where you can get into not knowing whether it's a run or a pass every time you go out there. I'd always like to call the game just the way the zones work out that way.
Q. Carlson in the backfield today, talk about that move.
COACH Charlie Weis: A little wrinkle. I think that sometimes your offense can get a little stagnant if you just use your main formations from different personnel groupings, so remember when you guys were asking me about where's my fullback? There's my fullback, so you've figured it out.
Q. You said that if you didn't see what you wanted to see, it might be kind of an unpleasant bye week. How do you feel about this going into a bye week?
COACH Charlie Weis: I'm content with this game. First of all, with the offense, and when the defense goes out there and gives them a long drive and basically shuts them down the rest of the day, that's a good thing. Offense I thought was fairly meticulous, a meticulous day. It's not about scoring 50 points; it's about how you feel about how you're playing. You convert over half of the 3rd down opportunities, you run the ball for close to a couple hundred yards, you throw with no interceptions, throw three touchdown passes. You can sign me up for that most weeks.
Q. What would your evaluation be of the team now that you've completed six of the 12 games?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, we consider it just like wrapping up the first half of the year, so we break the season down into two seasons. Coincidentally the bye comes right in between those games.
I think that the players clearly understand, which is what our message was in the locker room, they clearly understand how much work we have to do as we get ready to go two weeks from now to go against UCLA. But I think they also feel good about themselves that they've rallied down the stretch first half.
The season is a long season. It wasn't that long ago you're walking off the field against Michigan having gotten stomped on, and I think they've really rallied nicely. I think that the confidence is starting to grow, and that bodes well for second season, which kicks off on the 21st.
Q. Could you talk about the defense overall, 226 yards?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, they've been very, very good on 3rd down, even when statistically we've had bad games, 3rd down has not been one of them. They've been getting on the field on 3rd down. I think that bodes well for the success of the defense as far as giving up points. I mean, really when it's all said and done, you give up the double pass, but other than the double pass and the first drive, they came close to pitching a shutout.
Q. Can you talk about the call in the first half?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, let's just put it on the play caller. Let's say that the play caller screwed it up. We'll just leave it at that.
Q. You had a conversation with Maurice Crum. How did he react to that?
COACH Charlie Weis: Well, I very bluntly said to him, look, the quarterback is running over the side. He's throwing the ball 20 rows into the stands. He's not trying to complete the pass, he's just trying to throw the ball away. If you touch him, they're calling a foul.
I don't know how hard he hit him, I couldn't tell from where I was. But the point is that's just not smart. You think about it, you're the official, the quarterback is just throwing the ball into the stands, the guy comes over and hits him, you're going to call a personal foul, too. We're getting off the field in that situation. I just wanted to let him know in no uncertain terms that that wasn't okay.
I had a conversation with Victor, too. Victor was offsides twice during the game. I said to Victor, it's one thing when you jump offsides when you're trying to jump the count; it's another thing when you line the ball up offsides twice. There's some penalties that are lack of mental concentration, and I thought that in those cases they were penalties that were lack of mental concentration.
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Notre Dame Player Quotes
Senior LG Dan Santucci
On fourth down conversions...
"We were just upset as an offensive unit, not converting on fourth down. The coaches have confidence in us and that's something we take pride in. We didn't get it accomplished so we were upset."
On staying focused against an 0-5 football team...
"We stayed pretty focused this week. We concentrated a lot on what we needed to do to become a better football team. When you do that, you don't really care who you play."
Senior WR Jeff Samardzija
On the plays being spread around...
"It's kind of fun; we're just out there making plays. It's real nice when you can spread it around to John, to Darius, to whomever. It kind of keeps you on your toes, ready to go."
Senior TE John Carlson
On his one-handed touchdown catch...
"I just tried to get my hand on it and I came down with the ball. Brady made a great throw. He threw it away from the defense and certainly gave me a chance to make a play on the ball. I got my hand on it and it worked out."
On Coach Weis calling his catch phenomenal...
"I'm just going to ignore that comment and pretend I didn't hear it."
Senior DT Trevor Laws
On Coach Weis' warning of a hard week if the Irish played poorly...
"That was pretty big motivation. Hopefully, this will be more lax of a bye week for us."
On preparing for Stanford...
"You can never underestimate a team even though they've gotten off to a rough start. We were able to review our game last year and see what we did right and what we did wrong."
"We had a pretty good pass rush last year, but there was a lot more we thought we could do. I thought we had a pretty good pass rush today."
On overcoming injuries...
"It always helps having the regular guys in there. When they're not in there, it's nice to know that other guys can step up."
Senior DE Victor Abiamiri
On the defensive line...
"Once the defensive line gets after them, you can sense the other team gets their rhythm thrown off."
"Every time you go out, you want to put pressure on the quarterback. It's frustrating when you don't. We have a talented group of guys and we have to play pretty well for our defense to be successful."
On getting a fast start...
"You always want to get off to a fast start in football. Once you get after a team in the beginning, you start licking your chops."
Senior QB Brady Quinn
On his performance...
"I think I made more physical mistakes than mental mistakes today. There were a couple of passes where I had the right read but didn't put the ball in the right place to make use of the wide receivers."
On today's win...
"It's what we talked about all week. We wanted to get a meticulous win, just going down the field and scoring. We never wanted to give them an opportunity to feel like they were in the game."
On the bye week...
"There are a lot of guys who are banged up and need these two weeks to rest up. Others mentally need a break. It'll be nice to take a break and focus on being a student for a little bit of time."
Senior OT Ryan Harris
On the emotion behind the game...
"We wanted to finish up the first half of the season right. We wanted to beat Stanford, but for us, we wanted to start being the team we know we can be."
Junior RB Darius Walker
On having two strong performances back-to-back...
"It feels good. I have a lot of confidence going into the game right now and I'm really feeling comfortable on the field."
On the effect of a successful running game...
"It keeps us versatile. When everything is clicking, the defense really doesn't know what we're going to do."
On running stronger as the game goes on...
"I think it's all about focus. The more comfortable you feel touching the ball, the better you run. For me I think the more I touch it, the better I play."
On the team's lengthy first drive...
"We really wanted to set the tone early, and that 91-yard drive did that for us. We then felt like we could move the ball regardless of where we were on the field."
Senior WR Rhema McKnight
On John Carlson touchdown reception...
"That was one of the best catches I've ever seen. That was a fantastic catch. He had great focus and just made a play."


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Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift have a bestie-a-thon at the 2012 MTV EMA.
Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift might as well go out and get a family-sized pack of friendship bracelets, because LOOK at how much BFF-dom is emanating from these photos of the two winners at the 2012 MTV Europe Music Awards tell us. I can't confirm that this is this is the first time that Lana met Taylor (OMG! "When Lana Met Taylor" has SUCH a good Lifetime TV movie ring to it, no?) but from the awe-struck look on both of those punims, they were probably all like "I just met you, and this is crazy!," and then they sealed their BFF status. Also, prettiest bestie couple EVAR! Maybe aside from Katy Perry and Rihanna. OK fine, it's a tie.
See more photos of Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey at the 2012 MTV EMA, and watch Taylor Swift's EMA performance after the jump.
In addition to palling around backstage, the "Bel Air" singer presented Taylor Swift with the award for "Best Female," and looked truly honored to be doing the damn thing. Do we smell a potential collabo aqui? We're actually all for that (Lana's always kinda had a kinda NC-17 Patsy Cline vibe, happening, amirite?). But we will draw the line at Taylor getting anywhere near a song with lyrics like "Cola." Or "Blue Jeans." Because blue might clash with Taylor's Red. Duh, guys. Everybody knows you don't mix primary colors after Labor Day.
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November 2, 2011 5:43 AM
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There's truth in the notion that some ideas are worth sharing, and a team of Tulane students is on a mission to make sure good ideas are heard. Following the format of the popular TED series, which features live inspirational talks of 18 minutes or less, the Tulane program will present several speakers on Thursday (Nov. 3) on the uptown campus.
Samantha Bosalavage, a student organizer of TEDxTU who assisted in last year's event, says she expects attendance at the free event to be even larger than last year. Organizers want the event to inspire and inform social innovation, make social change a priority, and connect changemakers within New Orleans.
"Last year we had about 300 people attend and this year we already have had 400 people reserve a seat for the event," says Bosalavage.
The TEDxTU program is a licensed member of the TEDx community program, which brings the original TED series format into communities.
The 2011 roster of speakers represents a cross section of the Tulane community by including students, alumni, faculty and community members. Among those signed up to speak are TED senior fellow and urban artist Candy Chang and Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, founder of the Birthing Project, a program to promote health of African American babies.
A former inmate who has been homeless will talk about life lessons he has learned, and the founder of One Million Bones will discuss the art installation that recognizes the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burma.
The event will be held at 6 p.m. in the Kendall Cram Lecture Hall of the Lavin Bernick Center. Registration is requested, as seating is limited.
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Fujifilm XC 50-230mm F4.5-6.7 OIS Review
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Two thing would be really amazing on Fuji cameras A full frame sensor & a tele zoom lens
I liked the lens, but at the end i sold it and use mi 55-200VR from Nikon with an adapter to Nikon G.
This lens is too expensive for 6,7 at the long end.
The weight of this lens is ?????
If you are using manual settings and change the aperture with the command dial, how do you get the (3x) zoom in the display to help with manual focus? (On the xf lens this is done by clicking the command dial but i'm guessing that isn't the case with the xc!)
This lens requires an immediate upgrade to a Fuji X-E1 user to allow for it to function properly. For the first time user of this class of camera/lens it can be a daunting experience finding that firmware update and getting it installed properly. Then it's back through the menu system to get everything set up to function properly such as the OIS.
I am a Fuji X-E1 user owning the Fujinon 55-200mm version of this zoom. My photography student just bought her X-E1 with the 50-230mm zoom and must go through all these changes before she can even take decent pictures. If I wasn't there to help she would be completely despondent over everything she needs to do to get the camera to function. I think Fuji needs to sell with bodies complete with the latest firmware install. At the very least the store selling this gear should take it upon themselves to set it up considering their staff sold her that lens. There lies the problem, buying a camera online or from a department store such as Best Buy where the sales personnel know little to nothing about cameras or computers. IMHO
This lens is an amazing lens for the money and not far behind the faster 55-200mm (which I've previously owned) when it comes to iQ.
Its as light as a feather at approx 375g, more than acceptably sharp wide open and razor sharp stopped down to F8.
Its the best long "kit" zoom I've ever come across so don't be put off by the relatively slow max aperture as with the fuji X camera's you can up the ISO without loosing iQ.
I use both the Xpro1 & XT-1, the lens works faultlessly with both.
I know two people that started with this "kit" lens and both wound up returning it for the better made, faster and sharper 55-200mm F/3.5-4.8. The first user, an experienced Canon DSLR photographer found the mounting flange broke on the plastic cheaper Fuji zoom
One of the main reasons I switch from heavy Nikon D800 equipment was to get a lightweight, all metal, smaller, higher quality lens like the Fujinon 55-200mm zoom. As far as price the Fuji all metal, quality lenses are as much as a third the price as Nikon or Canon glass. Cheapening the build quality so that entry level snapshooters can start buying a higher end camera is ruining their reputation.
I'm a contributing photographer for National Geographic and Fujinon lenses stands the test of time and lives up to the Fuji quality mark. The 50-230mm plastic lens does not IMHO.
@Bob Mielke; given how easy upgrading the firmware of the Fuji bodies and lenses is (just put the image on a SD card, and start the camera), I am very surprised by your comment. I would expect a photography student to be able to perform this basic task.
The lens itself is what it is; an affordable kit lens, if purchased together with a Fuji body. The 55-200 definitely is a better lens, and I would also choose that one unless buying a kit (usually offered with the 16-50 and 50-230 for a very good combo price).
Compared to the kit lenses of Canon (e.g. the 55-250), the Fuji kit lens is rather good, I think.
@Johan on Bob Mielke. Totally agree with Johan. When your student isn't even capable of a bit of reading…. and when even you, claiming to be some kind of a pro, find it troublesome to go through some simple actions to get this lens in action…... Fuji themselves tell you about these actions on their site, so you can be prepaired before you buy such a lens.Don't blame it on the sales people, even when they may be a bit simple…. And beside all this, your comments have nothing to do with the quality of the lens, which is actually quit good for the price!
This kit lens is surprisingly good and working very good with X cameras, here X-E1, same as another cheap XC16-50mmF3.5-5.6 OIS II. Both are no top class, but with this price and size working excellent.
Is dark, but for better low f works I have some prime lenses, where for daily use I prefer zooms and results are very good. Aperture like 1.4, 1.8 or 2.8 I'm using only in some situations with other lenses, but in most cases, both 16-50 and 50-230 are fast enough - in this price tag of course. Now I can walk without heavy camera bag with camera, two lenses from 16 to 230 mm and still got excellent shots. When somebody paying me, I can get my metal case with other lenses and cameras, but I never do it when I shot for pleasure.
If somebody have problem with camera software upgrade, should buy compact camera (here a lot of excellent, not only Fuji) or stay on in phone camera.
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May 31, 2016
County supervisors were expected to vote Tuesday on whether to continue or discontinue the county patrol in its present form.
Of the 82 counties in Mississippi, only Lauderdale and Wayne Counties have a county patrol, working under the direction of the board of supervisors. But the vote didn't happen.
After clearing the boardroom for an executive session that lasted about an hour, the supervisors announced a committee of supervisors Ray Boswell and Jimmie Smith, board attorney Rick Barry, county administrator Rex Hiatt and Sheriff Billy Sollie would first study how to handle potential changes.
"We have asked them to meet and come back with a proposal on possibly making changes with the county patrol issue," said board president Craig Hitt.
The committee will report back to the Board at its next scheduled meeting on Feb. 3.
Sheriff Sollie and some board members have said they favor using the five positions as animal control officers or deputies working under the sheriff's department.
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Skill Level: Intermediate
Sizes: HAT - Small (2-4, head size 17 ½");
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Directions are given for size Small and sizes Medium and Large are in parentheses.
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Materials: 19 oz Worsted Weight Yarn:
Crochet Hook: Size H-8 (5 mm) or size needed to obtain gauge.
Gauge: 4 dc = 1"; 2 Rows = 1".
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Keeping children safe online is a key commitment of the Digital Agenda. Hence the European Commission put together a coalition of 28 leading companies on 1 December to help protect children on the Internet. The founding members include big names from technology and media including operating systems providers, mobile phone and gaming manufacturers, telecom providers and social networks.
The new coalition, which was formed following a call by European Commission Vice-President Nellie Kroes agreed a Statement of Purpose to take action in five areas:
1. Provide simple and robust reporting tools
2. Offer age-appropriate privacy settings
3. Develop a wider use of content classification
4. Increase the availability and use of parental control and
5. Implement more effective takedown of child abuse material.
For each area, there are deadlines and performance indicators, with a review scheduled for the summer of 2012. However, the Coalition is set up as a cooperative voluntary intervention. The Commission's expectation is that solutions developed by the founding members will be embraced by a growing number of companies, and new members will be welcome.
Therefore, while EPHA is pleased about the Commission's initiative to make the Internet a better place for children, there remains a concern that self-regulation is insufficient given the complexity of issues that children and their parents are confronted with online, and the fact that children go online at a very young age.
As EPHA's Briefing on the Digital Agenda for Europe points out, there are a number of issues that will need to be addressed in order for the Digital Agenda to succeed, e.g. pertaining to online security and data protection, digital literacy, as well as concerns related to the uptake of eHealth. The dangers of online marketing targeting children, as well as privacy settings for computers and mobile devices are part of that. The implementatiton of the Digital Agenda will have to be closely monitored and independently evaluated in order to determine whether or not more legislation is required to protect children and other vulnerable users of new technology.
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CORRECTIONS: None
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Family of Jean Hebert & Marie Claire Dugas
Jean Hebert was born Abt. 1705 at Beaubassin, Acadia, and died Abt. 1751 in Acadia.
Wife Marie Claire Dugas was born Abt. 1706 in Acadia, and died 13 February 1759 in hospital, St. Malo, Ille et Villaine, France. They were married Abt. 1727 in Acadia.
Their children were:
1- Marie Madeleine Hebert b: Abt. 1727 Beaubassin, Acadia; d: Aft. 1772 France
+Pierre Blanchard b: Abt. 1721 Acadia; m: Abt. 1749 Ile St. Jean, Acadia; d: 1758 at sea during crossing to France
Notes for Marie Madeleine Hebert:
- 1752 Ile St. Jean census (La Traverse): Pierre Blanchard junior 31 ploughman, wife Marie Hebert 25 Jean Pierre 20 months. Been in the country one year. In live stock they have one ox, one cow and three pigs. The land upon which they are settled is situated as in the preceding cases. It was given to them verbally by Monsieur de Bonnaventure. On it they have made a clearing and out of that a garden.
- 23 January 1759: The family of four persons was transported to France on one of the 'Five Ships'. Only the widow disembarked. She lived in Ploubalay 1750-1772.
2- Francoise Hebert b: Abt. 1731 Beaubassin, Acadia; d: Aft. 1752
3- Elizabeth Hebert b: Abt. 1733 Beaubassin, Acadia; d: Aft. 1752
4- Pierre Hebert b: Abt. 1735 Cobequit, Acadia; d: Aft. 1785 Louisiana
+Madeleine Blanchard b: Abt. 1729 Acadia; m: Abt. 1755 Ile St. Jean; d: 17 March 1759 St. Malo, Isle-et-Villaine, France
*2nd Wife of Pierre Hebert:
+Susanne Pitre b: Abt. 1730 Cobequit, Acadia; m: 30 June 1760 Pleurtuit, Ille-et-Villaine, France; d: 20 June 1786 Pointe Coupee, LA; burial: 21 June 1786 Pointe Coupee
Notes for Pierre Hebert:
- 23 January 1759: Pierre & Madeleine disembarked at St. Malo from one of the 'Five Ships.' He lived in Ploubalay 1759-1772.
- 1785 La Ville d'Archangel - Pierre Hebert 50, Suzanne Pitre 55, Marie 24, Pierre 22, Francois 18, Joseph 15, Mathurin 13, Jean Baptiste 1; Marguerite Henry 35 (daughter-in-law)
5- Anne Hebert b: Abt. 1737 Beaubassin, Acadia; d: Aft. 1797 Lafourche, LA
+Jean Baptiste Blanchard b: Abt. 1733; m: Abt. 1754 Ile St Jean, Acadia; d: Abt. 1758 At sea during crossing to France
*2nd Husband of Anne Hebert:
+Joseph Aucoin b: 1721 Cobequit, Acadia; m: 15 October 1759 Ploubalay, Bretagne, France; d: Bet. 1785-1795 Pointe Coupee, LA
6- Jean Hebert b: Abt. 1738 Acadia; d: 1758 at sea during crossing to France
7- Helene Hebert b: Abt. 1740 Acadia; d: Aft. 1785
+Pierre Aucoin b: Abt. 1742 Acadia; m: 17 May 1763 Ploubalay, France; d: Aft. 1785
Notes for Helene Hebert:
- 1785 La Ville d'Archangel: Pierre Aucoin 44, Helene Hebert 44, Victoire 20, Anne 15, Jean 13, Francoise 11 [marginal note in records: this family did not embark]. They possibly did not leave France.
8- Marie Josephe Hebert b: Abt. 1742 Acadia; d: 30 June 1781 Villou, France; burial 1 July 1781 Tremereuc, Cotes du Nord, France
+Joseph Aucoin b: Abt. 1743 Acadia; m: 5 March 1764 Ploubalay, France; d: Bef. 1788 Lafourche, LA
Notes for Marie Josephe Hebert:
- After their marriage, they lived in St. Coulomb 1761-1763.
- 1785 La Ville d'Archangel: Joseph Aucoin 41, Alexis 20, Fabien 15, Mathurin 14, Joseph 10, Marie Ozitte Braud 40.
9- Victoire Hebert b: Abt. 1744 Beaubassin, Acadia
+Julian Briand b: Abt. 1742 Trigavou; m: 12 January 1763 Ploubalay, France
Notes for Jean Hebert:
- 1752 Census,Ile Saint Jean, Grand Ascension: Claire Dugast, widow of the late Jean Hebert, aged 46 years, she has been in the country one year. She had two sons and six daughters: Pierre Hebert, aged 17 years; Jean, aged 12 years; Françoise, aged 21 years; Elisabeth, aged 19 years; Anne, aged 15 years; Helene, aged 10 years; Marie Joseph, aged 8 years; Victoire, aged 5 years. And in stock they have three oxen, one cow, one bull, three wethers, two sows, and two pigs. [No statement of land holdings included in this listing.}
- 23 January 1759: Claire and her daughters Helene, Marie Josephe, and Victoire disembarked at St. Malo from one of the "Five ships". The following month Claire died in hospital.
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Rapper Nicki Minaj suffered a wardrobe malfunction on a TV show and revealed more than what she had bargained for.
The 29-year-old was appearing on music show 106 & Park when the wardrobe blunder caught the rapper off guard, reported Sun online.
Minaj, who wore a black bra-top and high waist red pants, smiled as she answered questions into a microphone and promoted new album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded", unaware that one of her breasts had popped out of her garment.
This is not her first wardrobe malfunction on TV. Last year, the singer suffered similar over-exposure when she was performing on TV show 'Good Morning America'.


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There were two interesting pieces today about what might happen following an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear program — such as it is. On one hand, there is this New York Times piece about a U.S. military war game which suggests:
A classified war simulation held this month to assess the repercussions of an Israeli attack on Iran forecasts that the strike would lead to a wider regional war, which could draw in the United States and leave hundreds of Americans dead, according to American officials.
The article is actually a little fuzzy on how this would occur. The best we get about the assumed dynamics is:
The two-week war game, called Internal Look, played out a narrative in which the United States found it was pulled into the conflict after Iranian missiles struck a Navy warship in the Persian Gulf, killing about 200 Americans, according to officials with knowledge of the exercise. The United States then retaliated by carrying out its own strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.
Okay, well, maybe. But I am not sure how that develops into a more sustained conflict. The NYT piece adds:
Many experts have predicted that Iran would try to carefully manage the escalation after an Israeli first strike in order to avoid giving the United States a rationale for attacking with its far superior forces. Thus, it might use proxies to set off car bombs in world capitals or funnel high explosives to insurgents in Afghanistan to attack American and NATO troops.
Indeed, this strikes me as more likely sustained outcome. Even if we assume the Iranian would lash out at U.S. military assets, that would likely provoke immediate tit-for-tit responses rather than, I think, an all-out war. I don't want to minimize this sort of outcome. But we're not talking about an unmanageable situation either.
The bigger issue, as I say, is the possibility of a sustained campaign by Iranian proxies. Indeed, this seems to be animating Israeli thinking. Jeffrey Goldberg reports:
One conclusion key [Israeli] officials have reached is that a strike on six or eight Iranian facilities will not lead, as is generally assumed, to all-out war. This argument holds that the Iranians might choose to cover up an attack, in the manner of the Syrian government when its nuclear facility was destroyed by the Israeli air force in 2007. An Israeli strike wouldn't focus on densely populated cities, so the Iranian government might be able to control, to some degree, the flow of information about it.
Some Israeli officials believe that Iran's leaders might choose to play down the insult of a raid and launch a handful of rockets at Tel Aviv as an angry gesture, rather than declare all-out war. I'm not endorsing this view, but I was struck by its optimism.
I am struck by how sanguine some Israeli leaders are about rocket attacks on Tel Aviv.
Again from the NYT piece:
"A war is no picnic," Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel Radio in November. But if Israel feels itself forced into action, the retaliation would be bearable, he said. "There will not be 100,000 dead or 10,000 dead or 1,000 dead. The state of Israel will not be destroyed."
You can see how this logic pushes to a strike. If the Israelis see an Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat, and see the likely Iranian retaliation as "bearable," well, then the logic would see to be to strike. Except… And here is from Goldberg again:
Finally, and even more disquieting, was the contention I heard repeatedly that an Israeli strike in the next six months – – conducted before Iran can further harden its nuclear sites, or make them redundant — will set back the ayatollahs' atomic ambitions at least five years. American military planners tend to think that Israel could do only a year or two worth of damage.
See, this is where the Israelis lose me in terms of logic. Let's grant the five year window. I don't have enough information to make a judgment one way or another on that, but given that I am not sure they are within five years of a workable device even absent a strike, I am certainly willing to consider the possibility that a strike would push a viable Iranian nuclear weapon out to 2017 or beyond.
But then what? You have a nuclear Iran regardless. The threat is still existential. They will certainly harden their facilities further. They will almost certainly redouble their efforts at acquiring nukes. Even if all goes well — as well as can be hoped — is this worth it for five years? Why? What is assumed to happen in the intervening period?
From Goldberg:
A widely held assumption about a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities is that it would spur Iranian citizens — many of whom appear to despise their rulers — to rally around the regime. But Netanyahu, I'm told, believes a successful raid could unclothe the emperor, emboldening Iran's citizens to overthrow the regime (as they tried to do, unsuccessfully, in 2009).
Oof. That is pure wishcasting. And the example Goldberg cites as motivating this belief is that the 1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe that "bolstered the opposition's spirits and proved to them that Amin was vulnerable. Amin's government would fall some two and half years later."
Except that, you know, Amin wasn't removed by some people power revolution, but rather because he provoked a conflict with Tanzania which invaded and remove Amin from power. And anyway, it strikes me that something like Entebbe, an audacious commando operation right in the heart of Uganda, might provide more of a demonstration effect of regime weakness than airstrikes, which often strike observers as vaguely cowardly.
The whole analysis rests on these assumptions:
- If the Iranian programs is far advanced.
- And if striking it can push it back five years.
- And if all Iran does in retaliation is pin-pricks through proxies.
- And if the result is a dramatic weakening of the Iranian regime that leads to its collapse, well then you have a strong case for a strike.
The problem is that is ANY of those ifs is wrong, you've made a bad decision. Assumption 4 is almost certainly wrong. I am skeptical of number 2 as well. I've noted in the past that we don't even have good information about number 1. The only one of those assumptions I'd be willing to gamble on personally is that Iran's direct violent response would be relatively muted.
The Israeli calculus looks a lot like the American decision for war in 2003. Lots of similarly shaky assumptions.
But what is most interesting to me is the contradictions. The Iranian regime is fanatical and genocidal, and yet it will respond to an attack through limited means. The Iranian regime is unpopular at home, but we can't wait to allow those dynamics to run their course. Iran is committed to the rapid pursuit of nuclear weapons, but their response to a strike will be sufficiently desultory as to buy several years of time. There is a narrow window of opportunity such that in six months Iran's program won't be vulnerable, but it take them five years to reconstitute it. I'm not sure all of those can be simultaneously true.
What is my recommendation instead? Continue with the sanction. Play for time and work to encourage dissent inside Iran, dissent that might increase following a strike, but equally plausibly might not. Make explicit extended deterrence commitment to Israel.


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PENN STATE: Nittany Lions trying to adjust to defenses' pressure
Defenses waited.
That seemed to be the plan of attack for teams opposing Penn State and its new pass-heavy offense early in the season. Drop defenders into coverage. Wait for quarterback Matt McGloin to make a mistake, or a young receiver to run an incorrect route and hope for the best.
The fact waiting didn't work grew evident quickly, as McGloin and the Penn State offense cruised to routs over Illinois and Iowa and used a 22-point fourth quarter, orchestrated mostly through the passing game, to come back and beat Northwestern.
The last two weeks, Penn State's opponents found some success in an adjustment. Ohio State and Purdue decided the best way to defend the Nittany Lions offense was not to let it come to them. It was to attack it.
McGloin was sacked four times in the loss to Ohio State. Against the Boilermakers, he was pressured consistently in the early going, and the offense spun its wheels on several early drives.
"Give Purdue credit," coach Bill O'Brien said. "They brought a lot of max pressure, called blitz zero. And we struggled with that."
The Nittany Lions know they are likely to see more of the same Saturday.
The aggressive, attacking Nebraska defense that awaits Penn State on Saturday in Lincoln boasts some of the most experienced defensive linemen in the Big Ten and three of its best pass rushers - ends Cameron Meredith and Eric Martin and tackle Baker Steinkuhler.
Still, the offensive line recovered against the Purdue pressure to finish off a convincing 34-9 win, a game in which McGloin completed his Penn State-record fifth 300-yard passing game.
Offensive players say their success to handling Purdue's all-out blitzes was simple: They adjusted to the adjustments.
After the Boilermakers blitzed on several plays, most notably on a fourth down on which McGloin was flushed from the pocket before spiking a pass at Brandon Moseby-Felder's feet, Penn State called for max protection on several plays. On others, they kept the running back in to block free rushers rather than go out in the route. The problem: Teams have been attacking Penn State with more rushers than it has blockers, typically allowing a free man to move McGloin from his comfort zone, the pocket.
"Sometimes, there's only so much you can do with how many guys you have," guard Miles Dieffenbach said. "Especially if we're in empty (backfield) or one-back protection. Other times, if we have max protection, we have guys for everybody. We just have to be ready for anything."
McGloin said he bears responsibility, too.
If his linemen and backs can't pick up all of the rushers, he said it's his responsibility to find the free rusher and locate his hot receiver. Getting rid of the ball, he noted, is of the utmost importance when the pocket is collapsing.
"Teams are going to pressure us," McGloin said. "We're a passing team. The line did a great job, but it's not possible to pick up everything. We just have to stay positive. I've got to throw hot. I've just got to tell the receivers that if this guy comes, you're hot. If that guy comes, you're hot. It's all about communication."
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Manning's presence makes for queasy ride on NFL's QB carousel
Alex Smith led the San Francisco 49ers into overtime with a trip to the Super Bowl at stake.
He is not, however, Peyton Manning.
Tim Tebow worked unconventional wonders with the Denver Broncos, elevating the fourth quarter of football games into a quasi-religious experience and guiding a rudderless team into the playoffs.
But he's not Peyton Manning, either.
Since the National Football League includes only one Peyton Manning, and that Peyton Manning continues to deliberate about where he wants to play, those quarterbacks at risk of being replaced have been forced to face some unpleasant truths in recent days:
1) Loyalty is a one-way street in pro football, and that street is constantly under construction. Potholes are prevalent. Detours develop on short notice.
2) However well you do, however much you've done, there are people who get paid to find someone else who can do it better. One of them is your agent.
3) Peyton Manning is still out there, unsigned.
Alex Smith's Sunday flight to Florida and his lengthy meetings with the Miami Dolphins are at least indicative of a bargaining impasse with the 49ers, probably more. Reportedly, the former Helix High star is already in negotiations with the Dolphins for a multiyear deal in the $8-million-per-annum range.
Despite his dramatic progress under 49ers first-year coach Jim Harbaugh, Smith had little choice but to implement a Plan B with San Francisco all agog about Manning.
"This is the NFL. I guess nothing surprises me anymore," Smith told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on Sunday. "I never thought a year ago Manning would be a free agent, either. I'm never surprised by anything."
Complicating Smith's predicament is that his agent, Tom Condon, is also Manning's agent. Or at least he was. Reports Smith may be seeking new representation remain unconfirmed, but Condon's conflict of interest in this case is both self-evident and sadly familiar. When Manning's brother, Eli, spurned the Chargers prior to the 2004 NFL Draft, he was also represented by Condon, who simultaneously represented Chargers incumbent Drew Brees.
No one can serve two masters, it seems, unless there are two commissions at stake.
Twelve days since the Colts released Manning to the marketplace, the situation remains fluid and, in spurts, frenetic. Smith's plan to take his employment search to Seattle was made moot Sunday by the Seahawks' signing of Matt Flynn, previously the ballyhooed backup in Green Bay. Former Jacksonville quarterback David Garrard is scheduled to meet with the Dolphins today.
For the moment, at least, the most promising quarterback openings are with those teams Peyton Manning has already rebuffed.
Having Manning on the market is like having Kate Upton show up at your prom. Suddenly, your date seems dreary and the alternatives significantly more seductive. You wonder if you have what it takes to trade up. You might risk glossing over the ripples of rejection — particularly the impact on a pre-existing relationship — and ruin a good thing as a result.
Worse, you might succeed in your pursuit only to discover Peyton Manning isn't the Peyton Manning you imagine.
These are the risks the 49ers, Broncos and the Tennessee Titans have all assumed in chasing the free agent quarterback formerly of the Indianapolis Colts. They are banking on the Peyton Manning who won 109 out of 144 starts from 2001-2010, who has completed 399 NFL touchdown passes and who has compiled more than 31 miles of professional passing yardage.
They have assessed Manning's numerous neck surgeries, his year's absence from competition and his forthcoming 36th birthday and concluded that he still represents a shortcut to the Super Bowl.