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Startups in the wide-ranging Australian healthtech sector have raised more than a combined $165 million in funding, while biotech sits at $87.8 million.
Education has always been a strong contributor to the bottom line of the Australian economy as well as one of this countries greatest exports.
OurSay is an analytical platform looking to facilitate transparency between government and communities
OurSay is a Melbourne-based startup working to facilitate transparency and communication between organisations and civilians using an online platform.
Canva has announced today the introduction of new productivity tools that will allow users to visualise, embed and host data.
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text: On December 5, 2016, Liberty Mutual announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Ironshore Inc. stock from Fosun International Ltd. for approximately $3 billion. Pending regulatory approvals, the transaction is anticipated to close sometime in the 2nd quarter 2017. Once the acquisition is completed, the plan is to have Ironshore continue to operate with its current brand under the Liberty umbrella and have the Ironshore management team continue to run the unit. It is anticipated that it will be business as usual once the transaction is closed.

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Justin Bieber harmonizes with Boyz II Men on stage during their performance on Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday (November 1) in Los Angeles.
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Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvement District in Arizona had constructed a new 500,000 gallons per day biological wastewater treatment system in 1997. As time passed, the aging plant was unable to keep up with increasing demands.
In 2012, the District started working with Sunrise Engineering to find a solution that would work in their existing plant. Sunrise Engineering partnered with Aeration Industries International to upgrade the equalization basin, as well as the sludge digester/thickener.
In order to upgrade the plant while still keeping up with demands, the Aire-02R Equalization Basin and Digester systems were installed. The equalization basin is a new addition at the
facility that allows for large spikes in influent flows and loadings. This helps the influent enter the plant more uniformly.
The systems Aire-02 Tritons'- allow for aeration and mixing to be done with one piece of equipment that can be easily accessed from the surface. The aerator also offers a slide rail assembly which can effortlessly handle changes in water levels with its robust stainless steel design. Anti-slip, fiberglass reinforced plastic/stainless steel walkways also make it possible to access the equipment safely without having to shut down or drain the basin.
Dissolved oxygen levels are monitored in the basin. When demand is low, the Aeration Industries' control system turns the equipment on and off to save energy. The Triton aerators/mixers allow the plant to reduce odors while keeping solids in suspension.
Sludge digestion/thickening occurs in one basin with the use of a Aire-02 Triton'R aerator/ mixer. The equipment aerates to achieve significant volatile suspended solids (VSS) destruction, as well as consistent treatment from mixing. To decant, the equipment is turned off and the solids settle to the bottom allowing the supernatant to be removed. Brad Bowers, Contract Operator, has been seeing a significant decrease in the amount of sludge due to this process. Previously, the facility ran the belt press approximately three times a week and now it only needs to operate once every two weeks. Less sludge and more energy savings!
The addition of sludge digestion and thickening has dramatically decreased the facilities need to land apply bio solids.
The addition of both the equalization basin and the sludge digestion/thickening systems have greatly improved operation at the Big Park DWWID Wastewater Treatment Plant. Having a robust system that can handle influent changes seamlessly has made it possible to reduce time spent maintaining equipment and more time spent optimizing the treatment process.
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Big Park Domestic Wastewater Improvement District in Arizona had constructed a new 500,000 gallons per day biological wastewater treatment system in 1997. As time passed, the aging plant was unable to keep up with increasing demands.
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Paul Jackson live-blogs another recording session
Prophets Quartet lead singer Paul Jackson will be live-blogging another vocal session today at his blog, here. (EDIT 8/6/11: Broken link removed). The Prophets have definitely done a great job keeping up a buzz online, despite what is approaching a year-long delay in the release of their debut project.
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CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - State Sen. John Unger said he received an assurance Wednesday from officials in Charleston, W.Va., that a Division of Motor Vehicles office will open near Charles Town.
"The Jefferson County DMV is a go," Unger said.
Robert Ferguson Jr., secretary of administration for the governor's office, has given the project a green light, although some details, including the site of the Division of Motor Vehicles office, remain unknown, said Unger, D-Berkeley/Jefferson.
The DMV office would be the second in the Eastern Panhandle, with an office in Martinsburg now serving residents of both Berkeley and Jefferson counties.


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Robert Aldred CEng FIMMM had a long career in the UK's mining industry.
In memoriam: An appreciation of past members
This page lists member obituaries. If you would like to contribute an obituary of an IOM3 member to be published here, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com. Notifications of members who have passed away should be sent to email@example.com.
Dr Andy Thomas CEng FIMMM was a well known member of IOM3, locally and nationally, and
contributed greatly to the development of the Materials Society of
Sue Panteny ran her own consultancy for materials in transport applications. She was active within the Institute's Midlands Plastics and Rubber Group.
Frederick Cooke worked on the technology of plastics for over
50 years. He was widely known for his work on processing machinery, particularly in
injection moulding and extrusion.
Dr Alfred James Kennedy qualified
with a degree in physics but made many distinguished scientific and technological contributions to metallurgy, many of them in an engineering oriented context.
Robert Waterhouse was an expert in fatigue and fretting, and worked at the University of Nottingham. He passed away on 4 October 2010, aged 88 years.
David Smalley was part of the packaging
establishment and worked tirelessly for the IOM3 packaging division.
Dr David Osborne was heavily involved with the Mining Institute of Scotland. He had a successful career in academia at the University of Strathclyde.
A Life Fellow of The Packaging Society, David Osborne passed away on 22
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the 1970s to 2000, delivering lectures on his specialist subject,
Albert Davies was a Past
President of the former Institution of Mining Engineers (IMinE). He died on 13 July 2010.


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Director: Joseph Zito
Writers: Victor Miller, Ron Kurz
Stars: Corey Feldman, Crispin Glover
Rated: R
Run Time: 91 min
In honor of it being Friday the 13th, I felt that it was my duty to post a review of a film in the Friday the 13th series. Part four is my favorite film in the series because it came back with a vengeance after the disappointing, yet still classic third entry (first time Jason donned his iconic mask). The film shows a young Corey Feldman and the always awkward Crispin Glover early in their careers. It also boasts some of the more ferocious and memorable murder scenes in the franchise, at least in this reviewer's opinion. None of the other sequels have quite lived up to the overall quality of this film, but that is not to say that they should be forgotten, as each one contains something special.
Here's a short clip to get you in the mood:
The main thing that makes this slasher work is that everyone involved knew the type of film they were making. It's fun, brutal, atmospheric, and rocks a retro sounding horror score. The practical effects are great for the time period and are far more convincing than the computer animated crap that has infiltrated its way into modern horror fare. The acting is also effective. I don't know if these actors hung out much before filming started, but it looks like they were having a fun time around each other, which makes the ensemble scenes more entertaining than should be. And that, in my opinion is what makes these low budget, crappy movies so much fun. They have a certain energy and inspired tone to them because they were generally made by people trying to make a name for themselves. No, it's not a great cinematic experience, but it's definitely a fun, creepy thrill-ride.
I'll be completely honest by saying that this type of film is stale by today's standards, and I think most of you will agree. However, this is a shining example of trash cinema at its finest. Alcohol, nudity and deaths by sharp objects are plentiful. Also, you will be hard pressed to find a better film in this franchise (although the bar is set pretty low). Jason is one of those horror icons that is famously recognizable without having to have watched any of his movies. Regardless of his status and the diminishing quality of this popular franchise, if you're trying to watch some classic slasher films then this one better be on the list.
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text: One of the reasons for the state owning the school buses and not the county school districts which is another South Carolina thing here in Ohio every city is it's own school district responsible for it's self, anyhow the state I guess in theory supposedly has better buying power and they thought if the state was in charge then they can throw there weight around and buy school buses better then each county school district can. Of course that's not really working out because the state of South Carolina wants to buy school buses like I want to buy new ball joints for my car (thank god I got a clean bill of health from the shop today). They said in an article I read there was a county school district in 2015 that contracted it's school bus driving out to Durham School Services which in Ohio operates under the name of Petterman. Durham School Services is pretty much the Swift or USA Truck or JB Hunt etc etc of the School Bus business. And let me stop right there, aint nobody going to drive a school bus and all it's liability for $12.00 an hour with no benefits. A decent Class B driver could get a box truck job that pays a few bucks more an hour and have half the liability and some fringe benefits, obviously there are some things wrong with this picture. Now according to a Dec 2016 article 5,624 buses is the amount of buses the South Carolina Public Schools board of education operates. Now they said since 2007 or what ever the amount of students enrolled in public schools has increased by 40,000. Now that would mean more routes and more buses because each bus can only do one route. I don't know what the capacity is of a mid 1990s Thomas Pusher the reason it's called a "Pusher" is because the motor is in the back of the bus and pushes the bus. Here in Ohio there were some pushers, my school district had maybe 3 or 4 of them, but most of our transit style school buses had the motor in the front. My school district where I went to school was a big buyer in the 1990s of International Lonestar School buses flat nose or "transit style" with Wayne bodies. They did however have 2 Carpenters which the got rid of because Carpenter's had a defect in the welding where the roof caved in. Carpenter was a Michelle, Indiana company and I don't even think they are around any more. Anyhow you figure 75 persons per bus, and each school district is different on this, some like to pack the buses full 3 to a seat others only 2 to a seat, but you figure 75 persons per bus that's about 534 new routes which would mean 534 new buses at $90,000 bucks a pop that's a cool $48,060,000 bill so all you South Carolina residents better get out and start playing your state school bus system needs you! The lottery they say all that money goes to help the schools. Well here in Ohio they gave up on that lie. They no longer say the Ohio Lottery helps the schools in fact I was watching Cash Explosion tonight and they no longer say "Money from the Lottery Year to Date or since Inception has gone to help the schools by X amount of dollars." Actually in South Carolina they were going to use lottery money that was unclaimed to buy new school buses? Excuse me, but who wins lottery money and then doesn't claim it? Oh sure, I'm sure it's happened, but I can't believe there would be enough of that to replace an entire school bus fleet. Of course, that's the thing there isn't enough of that so they keep the same buses. At any rate though certain counties in South Carolina have realized that big government has failed them and have taken things into there own hands. Counties with money have added to there bus fleets them selves buying there own buses getting there own maintenance people and making there own routes and subsidizing them selves. I guess not every county can do that because of monetary issues, but the ones that can have. However, my favorite video on You Tube and it's a shame because the actual video it's self was taken down, but in 2008 The South Carolina Public Schools Department of Education paid money to have a school bus safety video made and in that video they blew up an out of service 1995 Thomas Pusher School bus. Anyhow they really did blow the school bus up they exploded the heck out of it. Here is the behind the scenes making of that video: I've actually seen the real film but it was pulled from You Tube. Anyhow I hope you all had as much fun reading this as I had writing this and that everyone learned something I know I sure did! Oh they said that the school bus they blew up the explosive force and explosive rigging was the same amount of explosives force that was used in the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995. I guess the military and police rigged the bus with explosives at the Fort Jackson, Military Explosives training compound in South Carolina. I gotta give the state of South Carolina credit though they are the only state I know of that blew up one of there older out of service school buses. Anyhow here is a media report if you like the news and there spin: The one thing I don't get though is it's in the pre trip on any commercial vehicle exhaust leaks are a no no regardless of age of vehicle so I don't understand why that's a factor at all and in 1988 when some of those buses were brand new they didn't have any exhaust leaks, but in 2017 they can't have any exhaust leaks either so what's the big deal because if there's an exhaust problem it has to get fixed no matter what. Anyhow I hope you all enjoyed this and learned something like I said I did.


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- Heat oil in a large pot and saute onion, leek and celery until the onion has gone translucent.
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Monday, September 17, 2012
Webster Tarpley: Middle East Riots a Provocation to Damage Obama's Campaign
far-lefty Webster Tarpley is a member of the Democratic party. Read between the lines of what he's saying. He isn't saying that Romney and Obama are two sides of the same coin. He's outlining his unwavering support for Obama that he's had since the beginnings of President Obama's administration even given his past light excusatory criticisms of Obama. If the war crazed people of the US can be successfully convinced that Obama is "weak" then there`s no way he`ll be able to win. And even if he could the elections will obviously be rigged again so whoever the parasite class want in will get in, no matter how incompetent. Tarpley`s been convinced for three years that the bloodsuckers want Romney to replace Soetero because he`s no longer useful to them, so that`s why he`s totally shifted focus from Obarry to Bishop Magicpants. So if he`s right that this is who WS, CFR and the rest of the vultures are backing


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Today's Trivia Question: What men's tennis player has won the most Grand Slam titles (14)?
Today, I meant to write about Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a new movie Kath and I saw on the Giant Screen at the Muvico Peabody 22. There actually is a lot to say about this movie, which I really liked and goes a long way to illustrate what is right and what is wrong about today's mass media culture (of which, this site is but a totally insignificant part). However, I'm forced to put off my thoughts on the movie to address something more annoying: the lack of apparent value provided by mobile communication providers, at least in Memphis. Kath and I went to investigate getting a second cell phone after the movie, and the experience left me shaking my head.
We all know that cell phones are a ubiquitous part of modern life. Everyone has one, even young people who have few other possessions, and many people have careers that depend upon them. Over the past few years in the US, the number of mobile communication providers has been shrinking, as the larger fish have been buying up the smaller fish. There is nothing wrong with that, of course, as it is part of the normal part of doing business. Consumers have come to accept the benefits and drawbacks to consolidation in various marketplaces. In Memphis, this consolidation has slowed somewhat, and there are really only a few providers of mobile communications that people have available to them: Cingular (which is really owned by BellSouth, and now, ATT), Verizon (the monster baby bell), Cellular South, Sprint, and a few other smaller players, such as Cricket.
I'm going to focus on Cingular, as I have the most experience with that company since coming back to live in Memphis in 2002, but I think my criticism actually touches each of the larger companies. And, while I actually like the service they provide, I don't like the direction things are moving. Yes, my calls actually get through. They very rarely get dropped, and it is almost always a problem with the person I'm calling's carrier. They provide good billing feedback, and they have a decent website to allow for as much self-service as I would like to do. But, I'm starting to wonder, are we all getting screwed anyway?
Cingular offers two kinds of service: pay-as-you-go service (called Go) and service tied to a time-based commitment (which can expire, but you are still tied to the terms of the previous commitment when it expires). The pay-as-you-go service only makes financial sense for a very limited number of people, and most of the people that use that service are only doing it because of poor credit or a lack of understanding of what they are paying for. But even people in a time-based commitment should really give some deep thought to what they are buying and why they are paying so much for it.
Here is a fact of retail: Most companies selling you products or services make most of their money from the middle of their product offerings. What this means is that, if Company X sells one widget for $10, a slightly better widget at $25, an even better widget for $50, and a top-of-the-line widget for $200, then Company X is going to make most of their money on the $25 and $50 widgets. The $10 widget will be widely purchased, but the profit on it will be so low that it won't make much money. The $200 widget will make a good profit, but there is only a limited number of people that can afford it over the other widgets, which largely accomplish the same goals.
The mobile communications business is a shining example of this business in action. However, unlike other businesses, when even the savvy mobile communications consumer stays away from products they don't really need or would be paying too much for, they are increasing getting screwed. It all comes down to how you use the device. If you get the most basic phone, you are committing to essentially $50/month for 2 years (once taxes and other fees are added in), which comes out to $1200, and that is only the case if you don't go over the limited number of minutes you are given (currently 700 for the most basic plan). Plus the cost of the phone, which is about $50. If that seems like a lot of money to simply be able to have quick conversations with people for the next 2 years, that is because it is. That is a lot to pay for what is, regardless of what people have come to think today, a convenience.
More annoying is the fact that the high-end offerings really don't offer much beyond what they offered a few years ago. Despite all of the talk of "3G" networks and quick Internet access in the palm of our hand, the reality is that high-end mobile devices continue to be (1) too expensive, (2) too proprietary, (3) too slow, (4) clunky to use day-to-day, and (5) more designed to separate you from your money than offering real value. A Palm Treo 650 with full service from Cingular will cost you at least $90 per month, just for voice and data, which comes to about $2300 for 2 years. Plus you have to buy the device for $350.
Can you check you email from anywhere (well, from most large cities)? Sure, but with a small laptop and a wi-fi connection, you can do it much more easily and be able to better reply and deal with attachments. Can you talk on the phone? Well, sure you can do that with a much cheaper device. Can you surf the web? Sure, but the experience on such a small screen and relatively slow network (when compared to cable and DSL) is painful. A lot of Treo users just don't bother except for very specific things. Can you keep your addresses and other contact info in the phone? Sure, but you could do the same in a cheap $100 Palm PDA for whole lot less.
In short, the pace of mobile technology, considering both the devices and the speed of the network needed to utilize them, has not kept pace with computer-based technology over the years and continues to fall behind. This is largely because of the increasing control the ever-shrinking mobile communication companies have over the marketplace. These companies dictate what kinds of devices their manufacturer partners will make for consumers. In addition, mobile communication companies maintain a pretty strong grip on how their network is used. You aren't likely to see a problem with file sharing on a mobile network, largely because it is more efficient to do that on a standard, wired Internet connection, but also because mobile companies don't have to put up with it. In fact, they don't have to put up with anything that doesn't tie their customers to them for a long time, providing them just enough features not to transfer their service to the shrinking number of other providers in the immediate area.
Unlike areas like computers, we are unlikely to see positive disruptive technologies to shake up the marketplace and make mobile communication providers give more value to their consumers. This is why Cingular and other companies turn off the wi-fi capabilities of the Treos they sell: if you use your device on another (better) network and aren't eating your minutes, you aren't contributing to Cingular's bottom line. This is also why, though the branding and retail marketing of mobile devices by mobile communication companies, you aren't likely to see any kind of truly useful unified device any time soon. You know the kind of device I mean, one that will let you communicate how and when you want, in the way that you want, and provides hooks into other types of technologies (such as GPS) that will allow you to do more with less effort.
The potential exists, technologically, for a reasonably useful and affordable unified device to be made available in about a year. However, I don't expect them to become widely available in less than 5 years. Too much money can be made in making all of us pay through the nose for upgraded features we really don't need while we stay in line, waiting for the marketplace to provide the answer to our prayers. But, much like the electric car, it simply isn't in the best interest of the the shrinking number of companies that sell mobile products and services to give us what we really need, especially if we are more than willing to pay for stuff we don't need and will reap those companies a bigger reward.
Like most of the times the marketplace fails the consumer, we have only ourselves to blame.
In the end, Kath and I walked away from getting a new mobile phone. We may look again later in the year, but I won't get my hopes up. We simply need many more people to say, "Enough! I'm tired of paying more and more for the same old thing. Give me something new and better or I'm not going to pay you anything." Until then, we should all just be prepared to wait.


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Kadi Burhan al-Din
Kadi Ahmad Burhan al-Din (died 1398) was an Oghuz vizier (high-ranking minister) and atabeg (a noble custodian of the crown prince) to the Eretnid rulers of Anatolia. In 783 AH (1381–1382), he took over Eretnid lands and claimed the title of sultan for himself. He is most often referred to by the title kadi, or Islamic judge, his first position under the Eretnids.
Origin and early career[edit]
He was born on 8 January 1345 in Kayseri. His father, Muhammad Shams al-Din, like his grandfather and great-grandfather, was a kadi, descended from the Oghuz Turkish tribe of Salur.[1] His father gave him his first education, which he furthered in Egypt, Damascus, and Aleppo. When he returned to his hometown in 1364/65, one year after his father's death, the local ruler, the Eretnid Giyath al-Din Muhammad, so esteemed his education and character that he gave the young man not only the post of kadi, but also the hand of his daughter.[1]
Despite this unusual favour, Burhan al-Din secretly participated in the rebellion of the local magnates (beys) in which Giyath al-Din was killed in 1365.[1] The latter's successors were incompetent, and Burhan al-Din rose further to the posts of vezir and atabeg, before proclaiming himself as the sovereign sultan of the Eretnid domains in 1381/82.[1]
The Eretnid sultanate he inherited had a large Turkmen and Mongol population but also contained many of the older, established urban centers of the Seljuks of Rum and Ilkhanid Anatolia. The sultanate resembled these older states more than the Turkmen beyliks then ascendant in other parts of Anatolia.[2]
The Kadi's eighteen-year rule was not peaceful. He challenged the Turkmen Karamanids and Beylik of Erzincan and twice fought Kötürüm Bayezid, Jandarid bey of Kastamonu. In 1387, he was defeated by the Mamluks of Egypt. The Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, accompanied by his vassal the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaeologos, campaigned against Burhan al-Din in 1391, but was defeated at the Battle of Kırkdilim.[3] He met his end in 1398 at the hands of the Ak Koyunlu and was succeeded by his son Zayn al-'Abidin, who ruled for a short time between 1398 and 1399.[4] His türbe, or mausoleum, survives in Sivas.[5]
He was an outstanding poet, who wrote primarily in Persian.[6] Qāżi Aḥmad Borhān al-Din played significant role in the development of the Azeri Turkish poetry.[7][8]
'Aziz ibn Ardashir Astarbadi, a companion of Kadi Burhan al-Din, wrote a Persian language history of his rule called Bazm-u Razm which was edited by M. F. Köprülüzade in 1928. An analysis and commentary has been provided by H. H. Giesecke, Das Werk des 'Azīz ibn Ardašīr Astarābādi (Leipzig, 1940).
- ^ a b c d Rypka, J. (1960). "Burhãn al-Dīn". In Gibb, H. A. R.; Kramers, J. H.; Lévi-Provençal, E.; Schacht, J.; Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. The Encyclopaedia of Islam, New Edition, Volume I: A–B. Leiden: E. J. Brill. pp. 1327–1328. ISBN 90-04-08114-3.
- ^ Claude Cahen, Pre-Ottoman Turkey: A general survey of the material and spiritual culture and history c. 1071-1330 (New York: Taplinger, 1968), pp. 362-3.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Zachariadou, "Manuel II Palaeologos on the Strife between Bāyezīd and Kādī Burhān Al-Dīn Ahmad" Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Vol. 43, No. 3. (1980), p. 471.
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- ^ https://www.princeton.edu/~turkish/aatt/azeri.htm, American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages


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Oct 29, 2012 12:36 PM CST
Someone can help me identify this Aloe
Oct 29, 2012 12:37 PM CST
|It's beautiful! I will check tomorrow at work. We have ~ 100 different Aloes!
Oct 29, 2012 12:45 PM CST
|Dutchlady Many thanks
I have lost the card with the name
Oct 29, 2012 1:14 PM CST
|It looks familiar so I think I could get an ID.
Oct 29, 2012 7:57 PM CST
|It appears to be Aloe striata
They can become monstrous.
Be content moving inch by inch because, by days end, the inches, will add up to feet and yards.
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Oct 30, 2012 3:08 AM CST
|First I was also wondering if it was maybe A. striata (I have several) but the leaves are a different shape. Plus A. striata has a red edge on the leaves.
Oct 30, 2012 6:22 AM CST
|Yes, I think A. striata leaf is a bit different. I hope you get an ID, Hetty. There are so many beautiful Aloes!
I garden for the pollinators.
Oct 30, 2012 6:32 AM CST
| - I'll be heading out to the Succulent Garden momentarily so I hope to have more info soon.
Oct 30, 2012 5:27 PM CST
Aloe striata seems to have the larger leaf
Nov 16, 2012 7:06 AM CST
|Alessandro ~ I am sorry you have not received an ID for your plant.
I was looking at my A. striata and still wonder if the size of the leaf is affected by the age of the plant, the size of the container or perhaps the nutrients/ moisture received.
If you do not mind, I would like to post a photo or two of my Aloe striata. I have had this plant since 2006. When I received it it was tiny and I would not have believed it would grow as large as it has. I have removed it from the pot and cut the roots back, repotting it twice since I got it.
The lack of teeth on the edges of the leaf and the white border as well as the striation pattern in the leaf are indicators of the ID.
The color of the white border begins to turn pink when temperature drops. Mine has never bloomed but the coral color of the bloom is the reason this plant is also known as a Coral Aloe.
Hope you won't mind the photos... Kristi
Be content moving inch by inch because, by days end, the inches, will add up to feet and yards.
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Nov 16, 2012 8:09 AM CST
|Kristi - notice the surface of the leaves on yours are flat whereas on the one Alessandro shows they are more convex; that is why I don't think his is A. striata.
Nov 16, 2012 8:47 AM CST
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Memorial services for Susan Nell Lincoln, 61, of Toledo, Ohio, formerly of Frost, were Saturday, October 24, at United Lutheran Church. Burial was near her childhood home at United Lutheran Cemetery, Frost. Susan died September 14, 2009, at Mercy St. Vincent's Hospital at Toledo on September 14 following a courageous, eight year struggle with cancer.
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Welcome back to The Professor, a weekly guide to what we learned in college football. For more from Week 13 in college football, catch up on scores here and check out our five takeaways from Saturday night.
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Alabama finds itself in a strange position as the calendar gets set to flip to December: The Crimson Tide have no control over their postseason fate.
Auburn beat Alabama 26-14 in Saturday's Iron Bowl, sending the Tigers to the SEC championship game for what will almost certainly be a playoff play-in game against Georgia. Alabama will stay home after four trips to Atlanta in five years. The last time the Crimson Tide didn't win the SEC West, it came as a result of the Kick Six loss to Auburn in 2013. They dropped to fourth in the BCS standings after that, with little hope of leaping into the top two, even though did end up third.
There is more hope this time because of the creation of the four-team College Football Playoff, which makes the situation different for the 2017 Tide. And thus Nick Saban found himself in an unfamiliar position after the game on Saturday: A few weeks after labeling media positivity about his team "rat poison," Saban went to work himself advocating on behalf of the Crimson Tide's overall body of work.
"I think this team deserves the opportunity to get into the playoff by what they have been able to accomplish and what they have been able to do," Saban said after the game.
It's not hard to agree with Saban's point of view. After all, this is Alabama. It has one road loss to a red-hot Auburn team that also blew out Georgia on its home field two weeks earlier. Alabama is 11-1 and outscoring opponents by an average of four touchdowns per game. It ranks 10th nationally in yards per play on offense and second in yards per play allowed on defense. Even if you somehow ignore the recent history that says Alabama is probably one of the four best teams, there's plenty of evidence to look at this season that says the Crimson Tide are one of the top four teams right now. They're still first in the Sagarin ratings, fourth in the Massey composite ratings and second in Football Outsiders' S&P+.
But based on the way the College Football Playoff selection committee evaluates the "best" teams -- it typically leans toward "most deserving," no mater what it says -- Alabama's case gets murkier. It does not have a resume that provides playoff security. Through no fault of Alabama's, the win over Florida State isn't in the same ballpark as what it was thought to be at the time (the Seminoles went from preseason No. 3 to a 5-6 record). The SEC as a whole has also weakened, and Alabama drew Vanderbilt (5-7) and Tennessee (4-8) as its cross-division opponents. The Tide's best wins are against LSU (9-3, lost to Troy) and Mississippi State (8-4, got blown out by Auburn and Georgia). It doesn't have a bad loss like Oklahoma (Iowa State), Clemson (Syracuse) or Miami (Pitt), but its marquee wins are clearly lacking.
Comparisons will naturally be made to 2016 Ohio State, another prestigious one-loss team that didn't win its division and made the playoff anyway. But the Buckeyes had a much stronger resume. Their loss was closer, at Big Ten champion Penn State, and they owned top-10 wins over Oklahoma, Michigan and Wisconsin. Those three wins are more impressive than anything Alabama has accomplished this season, putting the Buckeyes in position to become the first team to make the playoff without winning a conference title.
Of course, there may not actually be an Alabama debate. The winner of the SEC championship game between Auburn and Georgia is all but guaranteed a playoff spot. The winner of the ACC championship game between Clemson and Miami appears to be a lock, too. If Wisconsin beats Ohio State in the Big Ten and Oklahoma beats TCU in the Big 12, there may be no room for arguments. However, if the Sooners and/or Badgers lose, we're heading for an avalanche of debate. There's certainly a plausible scenario in which Ohio State beats Wisconsin to set up a debate between 11-1 Alabama (12-point loss at Auburn, no SEC title) and 11-2 Ohio State (15-point loss vs. Oklahoma, 31-point loss at Iowa, Big Ten title), which has an opportunity to earn both a conference championship and an impressive victory against an undefeated, top-five team on Saturday.
Regular-season Alabama losses have been rare, with only nine total in the past 10 seasons. In several cases, Alabama has had a chance to bounce back: It played for the national championship or made the playoff after losses to LSU in 2011, Texas A&M in 2012, Ole Miss in 2014 and Ole Miss in 2015, responding to those defeats by getting a little help but also doing what it needed to do to play its way back into the national title conversation.
This week presents a rare instance of Alabama having to sit back with no control. It can't play its way back after a loss. The team that is known for dictating the conversation and controlling its own fate is left to wait for the results on championship Saturday and wonder about the thoughts of 13 people in a boardroom in Texas.
Not playing this weekend could actually help -- Alabama is the only playoff contender that can't lose a game on championship Saturday -- but it can't help but feel like an uncomfortable position for the Crimson Tide, because there are no more arguments on the field for Alabama to make.
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Lessons Learned in Week 13
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Pitt continues to torment national championship contenders
The two worst Pitt football seasons of the 21st century featured wins over teams ranked No. 2.
The Panthers finished 5-7 in 2007 but beat rival West Virginia in the season finale, knocking the Mountaineers out of the BCS title chase. On Friday, the Panthers capped a 5-7 season with a 24-14 win over Miami, spoiling the Hurricanes' undefeated season. Miami can still make the playoff with a win over Clemson, but it was nevertheless another instance of Pitt rising above its typical level of play to pull off a massive upset.
The Panthers have now won four straight games as an unranked team against an AP top-three opponent: No. 2 Miami on Friday, No. 3 Clemson last year, No. 2 West Virginia in 2007 and No. 3 Virginia Tech in 2002. The Panthers also beat Penn State in 2016, before anybody knew the Nittany Lions would go on to win the Big Ten title.
According to Pitt, Friday's win was the Panthers' first home upset of a top-three team since beating Fordham in 1941. Those Panthers finished 3-6 with losses to No. 1 Minnesota and No. 3 Duke, but they dealt Fordham its only loss of the season, 13-0.
Chris Petersen owns the Apple Cup
The Apple Cup has featured two teams ranked in the AP poll only seven times ever. The past two years have been the first time it's happened in back-to-back meetings, but, unfortunately, neither game has lived up to the hype.
With the Pac-12 North on the line last year, Washington beat Washington State 45-17. With Washington State's Pac-12 North title hopes on the line on Saturday, Washington beat Washington State 41-14, sending Stanford to the Pac-12 championship game. The Huskies dominated the game at the line of scrimmage, as Myles Gaskin rushed for 192 yards and four touchdowns and the Washington defense pressured Luke Falk relentlessly and came away with three interceptions and five sacks.
Mike Leach has done a great job at Washington State, which has won 26 games over the past three seasons, but the Cougars are 0-4 against Petersen's Huskies, losing by an average of 27 points.
Notre Dame may have played itself out of the New Year's Six
Notre Dame went from aiming for a playoff bid after blowout wins against Michigan State, N.C. State and USC to potentially being left out of all the major bowls altogether. Two weeks after getting blown out by Miami, Notre Dame turned a 20-17 lead at the end of the third quarter at Stanford into a 38-20 loss. The Cardinal scored three touchdowns in less than four minutes early in the fourth quarter, capitalizing on an interception and a fumbled kick return.
This has still been an impressive turnaround for Notre Dame, as it has a chance to win 10 games for the second time in three years, sandwiched around last year's 4-8 record. To get to 10, it will have to win a bowl game. It might not be as high-profile as hoped. All the New Year's Six games would love to have the Fighting Irish, of course, but their major bowl hopes are at the mercy of the selection committee rankings. The Citrus Bowl or Camping World Bowl in Orlando may be more likely now.
The War on I-4 shows off its potential
Central Florida and South Florida were floated as possible Big 12 expansion candidates for many reasons: They are both large schools with up-and-coming football programs in relatively big markets in a talent-rich state. If the Big 12 were to expand, investing in two Florida teams would make sense.
UCF is in only its 22nd season of FBS play, and South Florida is in its 18th. Despite their proximity, Friday's game was only their ninth meeting. The American Athletic Conference got exactly what it wanted: a raucous atmosphere at Spectrum Stadium with a crowd of nearly 50,000 watching a game that decided the AAC East title and served as an elimination game for a New Year's Six bowl bid. The Knights beat the Bulls 49-42 in arguably the most exciting college football game of the 2017 season, a thriller that included three touchdowns in less than a minute late in the game. Mike Hughes won it with a 95-yard touchdown on a kick return after the Bulls had just tied the game with a touchdown and two-point conversion.
South Florida losing Willie Taggart to Oregon last year and UCF potentially losing Scott Frost this year reinforces the AAC's status in the middle of the 10 FBS conferences, but Friday was nevertheless a banner day for its conference and two teams that can help it grow in status … at least until the Big 12 comes calling.
Michigan's quarterback carousel continues
Ohio State seamlessly shuffled from senior J.T. Barrett to redshirt freshman Dwayne Haskins after Barrett exited Saturday's win at Michigan with a knee injury. The Buckeyes trailed by six when Barrett left in the third quarter, but Haskins stepped in and led a touchdown drive, and Ohio State ultimately won 31-20 behind its backup quarterback.
As if Michigan didn't have enough reasons to be frustrated -- an 8-4 record, 13 losses to Ohio State in 14 years -- the disparity in quarterback play couldn't help but stand out. Jim Harbaugh has a reputation as a quarterbacking guru and did a terrific job with Iowa transfer Jake Rudock in 2015, but results have been mixed since then. This year, incumbent starter Wilton Speight was hurt in the fourth game and hasn't played since then. John O'Korn replaced him but was ineffective, and redshirt freshman Brandon Peters attempted only 63 passes in four games before getting hurt at Wisconsin. That put O'Korn back behind center, and after a stellar start, inaccuracy and a late interception held back the Michigan offense against the Buckeyes.
Speight announced on Sunday that he will transfer for his senior season. O'Korn is a senior and will be gone. That will leave Peters as the lone returning player with experience in 2018, and he'll get competition from freshman Dylan McCaffrey and others in what could prove to be a pivotal year for the program's growth under Harbaugh.
Oklahoma and Memphis offenses reach rare levels of explosiveness
With Baker Mayfield not starting, Oklahoma backup quarterback Kyler Murray picked up 66 yards on a run on the first play of the Sooners' win over West Virginia. It set the tone for the entire game, as Mayfield came in and completed 14 of 17 passes for 281 yards and three TDs, averaging 16.5 yards per attempt. Oklahoma scored 59 points and racked up 646 yards on only 54 plays, good for an average of 11.96 yards per play.
According to Sports-Reference, it was the 11th-best single-game yards per play average since 2000. And yet it wasn't even the highest mark of the weekend.
In a 70-13 win over East Carolina, Memphis ran 49 plays for 635 yards, an average of 12.96 yards per play. That's the fourth-most of any team in a game since 2000. Riley Ferguson threw what turned into an 89-yard touchdown to Anthony Miller on the first play of the game, and he ended up completing only nine passes for 299 yards.
Nine more teams achieve bowl eligibility
Congratulations to the nine teams that won bowl play-in games in Week 13, reaching six wins to earn possible postseason trips: Duke (31-23 over Wake Forest), Texas Tech (27-23 over Texas), Purdue (31-24 over Indiana), UCLA (30-27 over Cal), Utah (34-13 over Colorado), Temple (43-22 over Tulsa), Louisiana Tech (20-6 over UTSA), Middle Tennessee (41-10 over Old Dominion) and Buffalo (31-24 over Ohio).
Those nine teams took the number of bowl-eligible teams from 70 to 79, meaning that all 78 bowl spots will be filled by teams that won at least six games in the regular season. Florida State, Louisiana-Lafayette and New Mexico State can still get to bowl eligibility next week.
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All-America Team of the Week
QB: Lamar Jackson, Louisville. The Cardinals built a 31-10 halftime lead against Kentucky and cruised. Jackson completed 15 of 21 passes for 216 yards and two TDs and rushed 18 times for 156 yards in a 44-17 win.
Lamar Jackson was doing more Lamar Jackson things for @UofLFootball today. pic.twitter.com/W1dk4xttT6- ACC Digital Network (@theACCDN) November 25, 2017
RB: Myles Gaskin, Washington. Gaskin had his biggest game of the season in the Apple Cup, rushing 25 times for 192 yards and four touchdowns.
RB: Markell Jones, Purdue. Jones became Purdue's first 200-yard rusher since 2009, rushing 31 times for 217 yards to help the Boilermakers win the Old Oaken Bucket and attain bowl eligibility.
WR: Jordan Lasley, UCLA. The Bruins reached bowl eligibility with a win over Cal in which Lasley hauled in 12 catches for 227 yards and a TD
WR: Ryan Davis, Auburn. Davis was a constant thorn in the side of Alabama, which entered Saturday ranked No. 1 nationally in defensive passer rating. He had 139 yards on 11 catches, tied for the second-most receptions any player has had against a Saban-coached Alabama team.
TE: Mike Gesicki, Penn State. Gesicki had five catches for 35 yards in Penn State's 66-3 blowout win at Maryland. He makes this list because he hauled in two touchdowns, including a fantastic diving one-handed grab in the end zone:
ICYMI: Few make it look easier than @PennStateFball TE Mike Gesicki. pic.twitter.com/AnnuQpwfK4- Penn State On BTN (@PennStateOnBTN) November 26, 2017
OL: Washington. The Huskies have struggled up front at times, especially after losing OT Trey Adams to an injury, but against a disruptive Washington State defensive front, they allowed just one sack and four tackles for loss and paved the way for 328 rushing yards in a blowout win.
DL: Ed Oliver, Houston. The Cougars contained Navy's option attack in a 24-14 win, and Oliver, a tackle, racked up 14 tackles and 3 ½ tackles for loss. The Midshipmen didn't score in the second half.
DL: Mat Boesen, TCU. Boesen racked up 5 ½ sacks -- the most any FBS player has had in a game this year -- and 10 tackles in TCU's 45-22 win over Baylor.
DL: Cedric Wilcots, New Mexico State. As the Aggies pursue bowl eligibility, Wilcots had another huge game. He had a total of one sack in the first eight games. He has 6 ½ in the past three after finishing with 3 ½ in a 17-10 win over Idaho.
DL/LB: Jeff Holland, Auburn. His stats don't show it -- two tackles, zero sacks -- but Holland relentlessly disrupted the Alabama backfield, once again generating constant pressure to help contain the Crimson Tide.
LB: Tremaine Edmunds, Virginia Tech. The Hokies shut out Virginia for their 14th straight rivalry win. The defense was led by Edmunds, who had a team-high nine tackles with three tackles for loss.
LB: Roquan Smith, Georgia. The nation's best linebacker shined again as Georgia shut down Georgia Tech's option attack. Smith had nine tackles and three tackles for loss, and the prolific Yellow Jackets' ground game finished with 188 yards.
LB: Josey Jewell, Iowa. Nebraska's running game went nowhere, and Jewell had a team-high eight tackles with a tackle for loss, three pass breakups and an interception in the Hawkeyes' 56-14 win.
LB: Ryan Connelly, Wisconsin. The Badgers shut out Minnesota, and Connelly led a dominant defensive effort with six tackles and three tackles for loss, including a 12-yard sack.
DB: Levonta Taylor, Florida State. Taylor intercepted two passes, returned one 18 yards for a touchdown, in the Seminoles' win over Florida.
DB: Avonte Maddox, Pittsburgh. Maddox led the charge on defense in Pitt's upset of Miami, with two pass breakups, two sacks and a forced fumble to seal the win.
Avonte Maddox, who forced the final Miami fumble, is really wearing this chain pic.twitter.com/go7UefBIDg— Brian Batko (@BrianBatko) November 24, 2017
DB: Mark Gilbert, Duke. The Blue Devils reached bowl eligibility by stopping the hot streak of Wake Forest QB John Wolford. Gilbert intercepted Wolford twice, including one to seal the win on the Demon Deacons' final possession.
AP: Mike Hughes, UCF. In addition to finishing with two pass breakups and an interception on defense, Hughes won Friday's game against USF for the Knights, returning a kickoff 95 yards for a touchdown with 1:28 left after the Bulls tied the game on the previous play.
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Report Card: Grading The Week In College Football
A+: Georgia, Clemson and Wisconsin. The Bulldogs, Tigers and Badgers were all expected to take care of business in heated rivalry games to ensure that next week's conference championships are playoff play-in games for them. They all did just that. Georgia clobbered Georgia Tech 38-7, holding the Yellow Jackets to just 4.1 yards per play. Clemson got an early pick-six from Ryan Carter and cruised to a 34-10 win over South Carolina. And Wisconsin beat Minnesota for the 14th straight season, shutting out the Golden Gophers 31-0.
A: Penn State. The Nittany Lions finished off their second straight double-digit-win regular season with a 66-3 demolition of Maryland -- the same 63-point margin of victory as their last trip to College Park in 1993. Falling short of another Big Ten title and the playoff may be disappointing, but Penn State is the only team that currently ranks in the top 10 of points and points allowed and it lost two games to ranked teams on the road by a total of four points. It's still be an excellent season, one that will end in another New Year's Six bowl game.
A-: LSU. At the end of September, there was talk about whether Ed Orgeron could even make it to a second full season as LSU's head coach. The Tigers got blown out by Mississippi State and lost at home to Troy, creating a potentially ugly situation. So credit to Orgeron and the Tigers for bouncing back: They lost to Alabama, but they won six of their final seven games, including Saturday's 45-21 rout of Texas A&M in Death Valley. The pain of the Troy loss is impossible to erase, but a bowl win would get LSU to a 10 wins and set the stage for greatly increased optimism about the direction of the program under Orgeron.
B+: Oklahoma State, Northwestern and Michigan State. Three there-loss teams played some of the worst Power Five teams and did exactly what they're supposed to do Oklahoma State routed Kansas 58-17. Northwestern routed Illinois 42-7. Michigan State routed Rutgers 40-7, holding the ball for 47:50, as the Scarlet Knights ran only 31 plays on offense -- the fewest of any team in a game since at least 2000.
B: Kansas State. The season didn't go as expected for Kansas State, which was ranked 20th in the preseason AP poll, but the Wildcats ended it on a high note. First they upset Oklahoma State last week. This week, they beat Iowa State 20-19 when Skyler Thompson threw a one-yard TD pass to Isaiah Zuber on the final play of the game.
B-: Virginia Tech. It didn't look pretty, but the Hokies will continue to take wins over Virginia however they come. This time, in their 14th straight Commonwealth Cup victory, the Hokies scored only 10 points but shut out the Cavaliers. Struggles to sustain and finish drives didn't matter. Virginia Tech still hasn't lost to Virginia since 2003, and its within reach of another double-digit-win season.
C+: Florida State. Florida State beat Florida 38-22 on Saturday, meaning that it can get to bowl eligibility if it wins a rescheduled game against UL Monroe. But the Seminoles had 216 total yards and averaged 3.9 yards per play. There were no real winners in the least essential FSU-Florida rivalry game in ages.
C: AAC Saturday endings. Friday's UCF-USF game was specular. Saturday's Cincinnati-UConn and SMU-Tulane games also went down to the wire but had quite different, excruciating results. After falling behind by seven with 1:28 left, UConn went on a 12-play, 93-yard touchdown drive, scoring from the two-yard line on the final play. However, it was flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct, and it missed the ensuing 35-yard extra point that would have sent the game to overtime. Meanwhile, Tulane needed to beat SMU to attain bowl eligibility, but officials ruled quarterback Jonathan Banks short of the end zone on a run on the final play of the game, even though it appeared as though he might have gotten in. The call was upheld upon review, and thus an inch will keep the Green Wave home for the holidays after a 41-38 loss.
ABSOLUTE CHAOS. pic.twitter.com/C1bvaAYeT3- CBS Sports Network (@CBSSportsNet) November 25, 2017
C-: Boise State. The Broncos lost a Mountain West game for the first time this season, 28-17 at Fresno State. But beyond likely dropping them out of the selection committee's top 25, the result didn't matter in the slightest: The two teams will meet again in the Mountain West championship game on Saturday. And despite the fact that they are both 7-1 in league play and Fresno State just won the head-to-head regular-season game, Boise State will host the title game, based on computer ratings.
D+: Kentucky. There's no shame in losing to Lamar Jackson, but this season nevertheless felt like a missed opportunity for the Wildcats to take a step forward. They started 5-1 with a heartbreaking one-point loss to Florida. After losing to Louisville 44-17, they're 7-5, meaning that they've lost at least five games 33 seasons in a row. The ceiling on the program just can't be broken through.
D: Arkansas. The Razorbacks fired coach Bret Bielema minutes after a 48-45 loss to Missouri in which the Tigers kicked a game-winning 19-yard field goal with five seconds left. The defeat dropped the Razorbacks to 4-8 overall and 1-7 in the SEC. Their only wins in the past 14 games have come against Ole Miss, Florida A&M, Coastal Carolina and New Mexico State, and Bielema finished his Arkansas tenure with an 11-29 SEC record in five seasons.
D-: Tennessee. The Volunteers have now lost four of six to Vanderbilt, a team that beat them only once between 1983 and 2011. Vanderbilt's 42-24 win in Knoxville sealed a winless SEC season for Tennessee and the first eight-loss season in school history. The news for the Vols only got worse as the weekend progressed thanks to the coaching hire fiasco on Sunday.
F: Nebraska. Mike Riley was fired Saturday morning after a 56-14 loss to Iowa dropped the Cornhuskers to 4-8 in his third season. It marked the third time in a row Nebraska gave up at least 54 points, joining losses to Minnesota and Penn State. By doing that, Nebraska became just the 16th team since the legalization of the forward pass in 1906 to allow 54-plus points in three straight games, according to Sports-Reference. This will go down as Nebraska's worst season since before Bob Devaney arrived in 1962 to build the Huskers into a powerhouse.
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Week 14 Syllabus
1. Clemson vs. Miami. The Hurricanes will play for the ACC championship for the first time, with a playoff bid expected to go to the winner.
2. Ohio State vs. Wisconsin. The last Ohio State-Wisconsin Big Ten title game was a 59-0 Buckeyes win that launched them to the 2014 national title.
3. Auburn vs. Georgia. For the first time, the Deep South's Oldest Rivalry will stage a rematch in the SEC championship game.
4. Oklahoma vs. TCU. Oklahoma would be a lock for the playoff if the Big 12 didn't bring back the championship game. Now it has to beat TCU again to be guaranteed a spot.
5. USC vs. Stanford. USC already beat Stanford once and is trying to give the South Division its first Pac-12 title game win in seven tries.
6. Memphis at UCF. A rematch of UCF's 40-13 win over the Tigers will decide the AAC championship and the Group of Five's New Year's Six bowl bid.
7. North Texas at Florida Atlantic. These teams are a combined 15-1 in Conference USA play. The only loss came in Florida Atlantic's 69-31 win over North Texas.
8. Fresno State at Boise State. The Bulldogs and Broncos finished with identical 7-1 Mountain West records, and Fresno State won their regular-season matchup on Saturday. And yet computer ratings dictated that Boise State will host the conference title game anyway.
9. Toledo vs. Akron. Toledo entered the season hoping to win its first MAC title since 2004. It already beat the Zips once this season, 48-21.
10. Troy at Arkansas State. There is no official Sun Belt championship game, but the winner of this matchup will, at minimum, share the league title with Appalachian State.
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Contact Matt at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter @MattBrownCFB and Facebook.


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For Thanksgiving weekend I took a much need mini vacation to my home away from home, away from home–Atlanta! 😉
I made plans to meet with some friends at Ponce City Market and arrived early to walk around and explore before they arrived.
I couldn't believe I'd never been before! The market and atmosphere reminded me of other city markets I've visited like Reading Terminal in Philly (they have good ice cream!) and The Ferry Building in San Francisco (they have ah-mazing empanadas at El Porteno).
People were everywhere shopping, dining, and dancing, and the crowd could easily sweep you this way or that if you weren't familiar with your surroundings. As I sat waiting for my friends to arrive I heard what I assumed to be a mother telling her adult daughter, "Now this is my kind of place. I'm so happy you brought me here!"
Indeed there's something about city markets that make you feel the spirit of a city. They're like a cross section of a metropolis that showcase so many amazing cultural elements. From the languages to the smells to the tastes and the people, it's a fun energy to witness!
Once my friends arrived, we ate and had drinks at Brezza Cucina + Pizzeria, a chic Italian pizza place with very photographic cocktails. 😋
Almost too pretty to drink, eh?
Then we walked upstairs to access the Beltline, which is a wonderful greenway that circles the city of Atlanta. Skaters, bikers, walkers, joggers and strollers alike use this wonderful area, and it was nice to see so many people moving about on a crisp fall day after Thanksgiving.
I've been seeing the Beltline on the Instagrams for some time now 😉, so it's only right that I bothered my friends to model for a few photographs. Luckily, they're not difficult to convince!
We actually didn't get far on the Beltline before we stopped to peruse Paris on Ponce, a vintage store/venue with art, furniture, and oh yes, champagne with cotton candy. Atlanta never disappoints 🙂
Until my visit to Ponce City Market, I had no idea that people actually went to visit The Grinch much like they visit Santa Claus during the holidays. We didn't get a chance to see him, but we did see a Who performing Silk Tissue Acrobatics.
I think I will make it a habit to visit city and farmer's markets wherever I travel. Needless to say, they make awesome photo walks and are great places to people watch and experience a city's culture.
What do you like about city markets?


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Patrick Llewellyn wrestles crocodiles, loves putting 'shrimp on the barbie', and doesn't let haters hate (one of these things is true). As President and CEO of 99designs, Llewellyn made for a spunky 'Ozzie' interview quite worthy of DocStoc's 35th Startups Uncensored.
We got to catch up with some of our favorite #SBflock friends (DocStoc, Digital LA, PulsoViral, LawKick) and met some newbies (hi Cornerstone!) on site. Here are our top 10 takeaways:
"Melbourne is a lot like L.A. (pause)…not really."
"We're not raising money in Australia because there's nowhere to raise money from."
"The reason we didn't raise money earlier is because we didn't know what to spend it on…"
"We kind of think of [online] as a night club. You can meet a lot of people at once – but it's not necessarily the best way to facilitate a relationship."
"The Bay Area still seems pretty bullish to me. Hiring is as hard as ever in the Bay…this notion of traction has really taken shape over the last couple of years."
"If you're going to take outside money, you have to have really clearly defined milestones with that money."
"We've probably underestimated how difficult that was…" – on having the ability to maintain and influence culture across a growing business.
"I think communication is the biggest challenge for any business that grows."
"It wasn't about getting paid. It was about having fun." – on why designers started using the 99designs platform in the first place and why they continue to.
"We handle all of the (quite frankly) the s**t stuff. Anyone who is a freelance designer, especially in this town, knows that these things are challenging."
Speaking of great events where we all get to catch up and learn more about LA tech and beyond – Don't forget to join us and the rest of the #SBflock this Friday, March 29th at 8pm at Cross Campus for TechZulu's inaugural Final Fridays (#TZFF). Make sure you grab your tickets here ASAP and use the discount code "dandb". See you Friday, finally!
Be sure never to miss out on great events like this again! Visit our events page for great local business events!


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The Teen Library Council is comprised of teens who are in the 7th - 12th grades. The Council, affectionately known as TLC, meets monthly to plan library events, suggest books, music and movies to purchase, and offer suggestions that keep the library a relevant place for teens. A membership application is available below or at the service desks in the library.
Email TLC leader, Carol Opalka or call the library for more information.
Upcoming TLC meetings:
Sundays, October 4 and November 22
at 2 pm
Download the application


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