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It has come to my attention that if I really don't like the men and women running Washington DC. Then how in the world can I like the American people for voting them into office? Never is that more true to me then in today's involvement of our society. And never is that more true at any time in our country's history. I really don't like ether. From back then on up until now. Too many sinners, from to many lies. So now what?
I can't really stomach the lack of character of the people living in our society, in or out of government today. I would just hate to spend any amount of time in the company of most of the people that I see on TV, in and out of the news. I once had much more tolerance in the personality of people that was around me. But now in my later years that is not true anymore. I really hardly let anything slide that I don't like now. If you don't walk the straight and narrow then you don't walk with me.
Nothing so far is going to change in our society anytime soon. Only the worst of what is bad will in fact get even worse. And what is OK, and what is good, will generally be far in between us living out our daily lifestyle. So until we can save our own soul how in the world can we save someone else soul. I will go my own way then taking care of what I can, doing good for myself, and mind. Obviously I am not going to join up with how they believe, and I really don't expect that the crooked will straighten their path choosing to join my team. So I truly don't want to understand their madness ether. And I'm not expecting much more from how they feel. So just what is the expropriation date in our time together, "Que Sera Sera."
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Good morning, Tiger Fans. I’ll start today’s update with a couple of tid-bits related to LSU football.
First, congratulations are in order for LSU football signee Jeryl Brazil who ran the nation’s fastest 55 meters in this year's LHSAA indoor track state champs with a time of 6.27. As my Dad (Don) used to say, “speed kills on the highway and on the football field.” I can’t wait to see Brazil as a Tiger, returning punts on special teams and catching a few passes out ohttp://www.nfl.com/news/
Also, I awoke to unconfirmed rumblings of LSU receiving a football commitment last night. According to a couple of emails I received and a few tweets I saw, LSU offered and received a commitment from Edna Karr linebacker Donnie Alexander (6’2”, 215, No. 51 on my list-in-progress of top LA Football Prospects for 2014). I will try to confirm the news with LSU today before adding Alexander to my list of LSU commitments for 2014. Alexander is one of several solid 2014 prospects from Edna Karr including ATH Speedy Noil and DL Willis Gerrald.
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Tyrann Mathieu eager to shed his 'Honey Badger' past
- By Kareem Copeland
- Around the League Writer
The LSU cornerback was kicked out of school and missed the 2012 season because of repeated violations of the university's substance abuse policy. He was a Heisman Trophy finalist in 2011.
"I'm not totally asking them to trust me right now. But what I am asking is for them to give me the opportunity to play the game again. I've had a lot of time to reflect on it, especially without football. It's really given me a different outlook on life."
Mathieu was arrested for marijuana possession in October after already being kicked off the team. He's been to rehab, undergoes counseling and has a sponsor. Mathieu said he hasn't used an illegal substance since Oct. 26.
"I thought my bottom was when I got kicked out of school," Mathieu said. "I think when I got arrested in October, that was a different bottom. So, I decided to go to rehab. But this time, rehab was for Tyrann. I just wasn't going to it for publicity or because my school told me to go. I actually wanted to get my problem corrected."
Mathieu acknowledged his behavior probably has cost him millions of dollars, but claims that doesn't bother him. He credits people in his support system, which includes Patrick Peterson (Arizona Cardinals), Darrelle Revis (New York Jets), Morris Claiborne (Dallas Cowboys) and Corey Webster (New York Giants), as helping him move on his life.
"My best friend right now is honesty," Mathieu said. "I want to be as open as possible because I'm trying to rebuild my trust.
"I know what it's like not to have football. I know what it's like to not be the center of attention. I know what it's like to be humiliated. To go back down that road? Not a chance in the world."
Mathieu needs to convince teams he can be the player that was once the top ball-hawk in the country. He also has to continue to keep his nose clean as a professional with a lot more cash in his pocket.
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Settle It: What is the biggest storyline of the upcoming 2013 college football season?
Ben Cornfield | February 22, 2013 at 12:08 pm | 0 Comments
Alabama Crimson Tide offensive linesman Alex Shine (67) celebrates after the 2013 BCS Championship game against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Sun Life Stadium. Alabama won 42-14. (Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY
The 2013 college football season is still off somewhere in the distance, nearly too far away to even spot along the horizon. That said, so much has already taken place this offseason. A number of juniors and seniors are headed to the NFL, so many freshmen have arrived to replenish the ranks, and with spring practices just around the corner we can begin to take stock of where our teams really stand, well before the arrival of the year’s first kickoff.
[Related: Way too early preseason college football rankings]
For example, as fans, coaches and experts all look to the West Coast, can a Pac-12 team unseat the SEC and win the national title? Both Stanford and Oregon won BCS bowls last year, and both look to be even more formidable in 2013-14. With UCLA, Washington, USC and both Arizona schools all on the up-and-up, could an undefeated Pac-12 squad go all the way?
For that matter, what about Lane Kiffin at USC? Always fun to watch, but will you be hoping for a championship or a train wreck out in La La Land?
Of course, a lot of that hinges on the performance of the Big Ten. If Ohio State manages to go undefeated yet again, might they earn a nod for the title game?
Or will the conference as a whole fall flat on its face once again?
Will Alabama dash the hopes of Stanford, Oregon, Ohio State and every other school in the nation, for that matter? Can the Crimson Tide possibly make a run at a three-peat?
It would be a heck of a run, no question, and thousands of members of Tide Nation will be paying close attention each and every week — but will you be? Is there another storyline that catches your eye even more closely?
There are a number of relatively small-time schools looking to make a push in 2013. Will any of them prove to be next year’s Northern Illinois? In all likelihood, such a team would come out of the revamped Mountain West, but what about another MAC squad?
What about the Big East? This summer, the ACC adds both Pitt and Syracuse. On July 1, 2014, Louisville (ACC), Notre Dame (ACC), Rutgers (Big Ten) and the ‘Catholic 7′, non-football members are all expected to depart, leaving the Big East as a 10-member conference consisting of: UConn, Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Memphis, South Florida, SMU, Temple, Tulane and UCF.
Will anyone, besides those member schools, of course, be paying any attention?
And what about the Heisman Trophy race? Texas A&M’s Johnny Manziel captured the imagination of the country when he and his ‘backyard football’-style of play took down mighty Alabama and then Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl. In-between, he became the first freshman to ever win the Heisman Trophy. Now, as he gears up for his second season under center in College Station, the nation asks: Can he “wow” us all again?
Only Ohio State’s Archie Griffin has won two Trophies, earning the prestigious hardware in both 1974 and ’75. Can Johnny Football do it while the nation looks on in high-def?
Or will Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina’s pride and joy, become the first exclusively defensive player ever to win the award?
Manziel’s coach, Kevin Sumlin, enjoyed a year of virtually unparalleled success in just his first one in Aggieland. Following a 2012 season that ended disastrously for a number of schools, more than two dozen new coaches were brought in across the nation. How curious will you be to see how either your school’s new hiring or that of another school pans out?
We have made all of these references to conferences, and to Alabama. But what about the team without a conference, and who lost to Alabama?
How will Notre Dame rebound after the drubbing it took at the hands of the Tide in Miami in the BCS title game? Will quarterback Everett Golson mature and improve enough to lead the team to sustained success, or did they lose too many pieces of the puzzle?
Will they, or the Pac-12, or the Big Ten, or the Big 12 or ACC be able to unseat the SEC? Forget Alabama right now, the Tide’s conference has won the national title in seven consecutive years. With Aaron Murray leading the way at Georgia, AJ McCarron still at the helm of Bama, Manziel with A&M, Jadeveon Clowney poppin’ helmets off at South Carolina, Jeff Driskel making moves with both his arm and legs at Florida, Zach Mettenberger in his final year at LSU and both Vandy and Ole Miss on the up-and-up, can anyone stop this monstrous conference?
Do you care?
Is that what you will be paying closest attention to as the 2013 offseason gains steam and the season finally kicks off? Or will it be any number of other storylines that may play out?
We’re just going to come right out and ask it …
What is the most intriguing storyline to you as the 2013 college football season approaches?
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Tuning Into the Universe
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Images of space are ubiquitous in our lives. We have been surrounded by stunning portrayals of our own solar system and beyond for generations. But in popular culture, we have no sense of what space sounds like. And indeed, most people associate space with silence.
The spiral galaxy M106. Photo courtesy of NASA, ESA, the Hubble
Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team),
and G. Bacon (STScI).There are, of course, perfectly valid scientific reasons for assuming so. Space is a vacuum. But through radio, we can listen to the Sun's fizzling solar flares, the roaring waves and spitting fire of Jupiter's stormy interactions with its moon Io, pulsars' metronomic beats, or the eerie melodic shimmer of a whistler in the magnetosphere.
Radio waves emitted from celestial bodies can be turned into sound by ordinary radio receivers, which contain amplifiers and speakers that convert electrical signals into sound waves. Using this century-old process, the universe becomes soundful.
This is all possible due to the science of radio astronomy. The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933. Whilst optical astronomers use telescopes to look at the visible light emitted by stars, radio astronomers use radio telescopes to detect radio waves.
Back in 2001, my artistic group, r a d i o q u a l i a, created Radio Astronomy to allow listeners to encounter different celestial frequencies, hearing planets, stars, nebulae, and the constant hiss of cosmic noise. The intention was to unearth the sonic character of objects in our universe, and in the process, perhaps make these phenomena more tangible and comprehensible. Radio enabled us to hear something which was physically present, but imperceptible to our senses, which as radio artists, appealed to us.
APEX (the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment) in the Chilean Andes. Photo courtesy of ES0/B.Celestial radiation was received by an international network of radio telescopes, common radio receivers were used to make the radiation audible, and the resulting sound was then broadcast online, on FM, and live inside galleries, where we presented it as a sound installation.
So what could people hear?
The inevitable star of the show was our own Sun: the loudest and brightest object in our radio sky. When there is a solar flare on the Sun's surface, it is often accompanied by a burst of radio energy projected into space. This energy can be monitored with radio receivers. Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual decrease back to the original audio level. (LISTEN: Solar observation here.)
X Class Solar Flare. NASA image captured March 6, 2012. Photo courtesy of NASA/SDO/AIA.Think of the static between the stations when you are tuning a Shortwave radio. Most of that hiss is interference from man-made sources on earth. But, depending on where you are, some of that gentle static sea may be made of radio waves from the Sun.
We can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems.- Honor HargerMuch of what we have learned about the planet Jupiter is from our mentor and collaborator, Richard Flagg, from the Windward Community College Radio Observatory in Hawaii. The complex interplay between Jupiter and its volcanic moon, Io, produces "radio noise storms", which can be heard on the radio band from about 15 MHz up to 38 MHz. A storm can last from a few minutes to several hours. Two distinctive types of bursts can be received by radio astronomers during a storm. L-Bursts (long bursts of radiation) vary slowly in intensity with time. Flagg has said L-Bursts sound like, "ocean waves breaking up on a beach", which we can hear very clearly when we encounter an L-burst. S-Bursts (short bursts of radiation) have durations of a few thousandths to a few hundredths of a second and can occur at rates of tens of bursts per second. S-Bursts sound like popcorn popping, or, as Flagg has noted, like "a handful of pebbles thrown onto a tin roof". Have a listen and see what you think.
Honor Harger and Richad Flagg, pictured at the Windward Community
College Radio Observatory, Hawaii, 2003. Photo courtesy of Honor Harger.Audio can also ensonify more distant and abstract phenomena. Pulsars are a good example. A pulsar is a highly condensed neutron star that contains an enormous amount of energy, which causes it to rotate, often very rapidly. Pulsars rotate between around 1 time per second up to 716 times per second[iv]. It is challenging to convey the significance of this through visual media, but audio can really bring this to life. Each rotation can be heard as a click, or a beat, and through audio it sounds like a slow, steady metronome. This is the sound of a Vela pulsar which is the debris of the Vela supernova remnant that occurred 10,000 years ago. It rotates 11 times per second, and sounds rather like a techno-beat.
Vela Pulsar by NASA, Chandra, 01/07/13. Photo courtesy of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.Radio Astronomy reflects our fascination with how audio can be used to understand information or ideas. Just as scientists visualize data through charts and pictures, we can use 'data sonification' to translate radio signals into sound that help us better understand some of our most enigmatic planetary systems. Astrophysicist Donald Gurnett and his team used data sonification to create an aural vocabulary for Jupiter and Saturn. Their sonifications of plasma waves of the Jovian moons, Ganymede , Europa and Callisto are amongst the most musical of the recordings we have encountered. Sonified plasma waves make a violent shaking sound, which then evolves into a loud melodic 'twinkling' sound.
Jupiter & Io. Photo Courtesy of NASA, Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, and Goddard
Space Flight Center.Thus, radio allows for astronomical radiation which is physically present, but inaudible, to be heard. By combining radio astronomy, radio engineering, and sonification we can hear as well as see the stars, and thus greatly expand our sensory perception of our cosmos.
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