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Intelliflo appoint ex Avelo (now Iress) Managing Director David Child as Non-Executive Director
By Jo Gilbey
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David Child has been appointed as Non-Executive Director of Intelliflo with immediate effect.
David, 53, has extensive experience in senior management positions in the UK and has over 25 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry.
He started his career at The Bank of England, where he spent 10 years in the Banking Division before moving to DBS Management Plc (latterly Misys Financial Services) where he spent 12 years and had Board responsibility for compliance and technology.
In 2003 David joined The Exchange as Managing Director at a crucial time in its development, successfully taking the company through its acquisition by Vertex, where he was appointed to the main Board which included responsibility for the Life and Pensions Outsourcing Division, and the acquisition by Lloyds Development Capital (LDC).
He led the business through the acquisitions of 1st Software and more recently N4 and the company's significant growth during this 7 year period was substantially a result of his vision, commitment and execution skills.
David commented on the appointment: "I am genuinely excited to be joining Intelliflo at such an interesting and dynamic period of the company's development. The business has performed exceptionally well during the pre and post RDR period which is a testament to the company's talented management and staff, strong business model and excellent customer proposition.
I look forward to working with this proven team lead by Nick Eatock and the outstanding adviser centric technology, innovations and heritage of Intelliflo. These factors, together with the recent investment by HgCapital, position the business for growth in the UK by taking advantage of the material changes and technology migrations in the financial services distribution sector."
Nick Eatock of Intelliflo said: "We are delighted to announce David Child's appointment as a Non – Executive Director. David brings a wealth of particularly relevant experience and expertise to the business having spent much of his career in senior management positions across technology and financial services distribution. We are looking forward to David joining the Board as we continue to develop our UK-focused adviser technology propositions."
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Extremely fast amelioration of plasmid fitness costs by multiple functionally diverse pathways
Microbial Musings – January 2020
Gavin H. Thomas
https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.000882
Two-component systems regulate ABC transporters in antimicrobial peptide production, immunity and resistance
Ashfaq Ahmad, Sidra Majaz and Faisal Nouroz
Bacteria offer resistance to a broad range of antibiotics by activating their export channels of ATP-binding cassette transporters. These transporters perform a central role in vital processes of self-immunity, antibiotic transport and resistance. The majority of ATP-binding cassette transporters are capable of detecting the presence of antibiotics in an external vicinity and are tightly regulated by two-component systems. The presence of an extracellular loop and an adjacent location of both the transporter and two-component system offers serious assistance to induce a quick and specific response against antibiotics. Both systems have demonstrated their ability of sensing such agents, however, the exact mechanism is not yet fully established. This review highlighted the three key functions of antibiotic resistance, transport and self-immunity of ATP-binding cassette transporters and an adjacent two-component regulatory system.
Mycoplasma genitalium: A Review
Roshina Gnanadurai and Helen Fifer
Mycoplasma genitalium is a fastidious organism of the class Mollicutes, the smallest prokaryote capable of independent replication. First isolated in 1981, much is still unknown regarding its natural history in untreated infection. It is recognized as a sexually transmitted pathogen causing acute and chronic non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) in men, with a growing body of evidence to suggest it also causes cervicitis and pelvic inflammatory disease in women. Its role in several other clinical syndromes is uncertain. The majority of people infected remain asymptomatic and clear infection without developing disease; asymptomatic screening is therefore not recommended. Prevalence rates are higher in patients attending sexual health clinics and in men with NGU. Limited availability of diagnostics has encouraged syndromic management, resulting in widespread antimicrobial resistance and given that few antimicrobial classes have activity against M. genitalium , there is significant concern regarding the emergence of untreatable strains. There is a need for wider availability of testing, which should include detection of macrolide resistance mediating mutations. Expertise in interpretation of microbiological results with clinical correlation ensures targeted treatment avoiding unnecessary antibiotic exposure. Public health surveillance nationally and internationally is vital in monitoring and responding to changing epidemiology trends. In this review, we summarize current knowledge of M. genitalium , including epidemiology, clinical and microbiological data, and discuss treatment challenges in the era of rising multidrug resistance.
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Microbe Profile: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: opportunistic pathogen and lab rat
Stephen P. Diggle and Marvin Whiteley
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen and a model bacterium for studying virulence and bacterial social traits. While it can be isolated in low numbers from a wide variety of environments including soil and water, it can readily be found in almost any human/animal-impacted environment. It is a major cause of illness and death in humans with immunosuppressive and chronic conditions, and infections in these patients are difficult to treat due to a number of antibiotic resistance mechanisms and the organism's propensity to form multicellular biofilms.
Characterizing species interactions that contribute to biofilm formation in a multispecies model of a potable water bacterial community
Alex F. Thompson, Erika L. English, Adam M. Nock, Graham G. Willsey, Korin Eckstrom, Brynn Cairns, Matthew Bavelock, Scott W. Tighe, Andrea Foote, Hannah Shulman, Androulla Pericleous, Shilpi Gupta, Daniel E. Kadouri and Matthew J. Wargo
Microbial biofilms are ubiquitous in drinking water systems, yet our understanding of drinking water biofilms lags behind our understanding of those in other environments. Here, a six-member model bacterial community was used to identify the interactions and individual contributions of each species to community biofilm formation. These bacteria were isolated from the International Space Station potable water system and include Cupriavidus metallidurans , Chryseobacterium gleum , Ralstonia insidiosa, Ralstonia pickettii, Methylorubrum (Methylobacterium) populi and Sphingomonas paucimobilis , but all six species are common members of terrestrial potable water systems. Using reconstituted assemblages, from pairs to all 6 members, community biofilm formation was observed to be robust to the absence of any single species and only removal of the C. gleum / S. paucimobilis pair, out of all 15 possible 2-species subtractions, led to loss of community biofilm formation. In conjunction with these findings, dual-species biofilm formation assays supported the view that the contribution of C. gleum to community biofilm formation was dependent on synergistic biofilm formation with either R. insidiosa or C. metallidurans . These data support a model of multiple, partially redundant species interactions to generate robustness in biofilm formation. A bacteriophage and multiple predatory bacteria were used to test the resilience of the community to the removal of individual members in situ, but the combination of precise and substantial depletion of a single target species was not achievable. We propose that this assemblage can be used as a tractable model to understand the molecular bases of the interactions described here and to decipher other functions of drinking water biofilms.
Novel intermicrobial molecular interaction: Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quinolone Signal (PQS) modulates Aspergillus fumigatus response to iron
Hasan Nazik, Gabriele Sass, Shajia R. Ansari, Reyhan Ertekin, Hubertus Haas, Eric Déziel and David A. Stevens
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) and Aspergillus fumigatus (Af), the commonest bacterium and fungus in compromised host airways, compete for iron (Fe). The Pseudomonas quinolone signal (PQS), a Pa quorum sensing molecule, also chelates Fe, and delivers Fe to the Pa cell membrane using Pa siderophores. In models of Af biofilm formation or preformed biofilms, PQS inhibited Af in a low Fe environment. AfΔsidA (mutant unable to produce siderophores) biofilm was more sensitive to PQS inhibition than wild-type (WT), as was planktonic AfΔsidA growth. PQS decreased WT Af growth on agar. All these inhibitory actions were reversed by Fe. The Pa siderophore pyoverdin, or Af siderophore inhibitor celastrol, act cooperatively with PQS in Af inhibition. These findings all indicate PQS inhibition is owing to Fe chelation. Remarkably, in high Fe environments, PQS enhanced Af biofilm at 1/100 to 1/2000 Fe concentration required for Fe alone to enhance. Planktonic Af growth, and on agar, Af conidiation, were also enhanced by PQS+Fe compared to Fe alone. In contrast, neither AfΔsidA biofilm, nor planktonic AfΔsidA, were enhanced by PQS-Fe compared to Fe. When Af siderophore ferricrocin (FC),+PQS, were added to AfΔsidA, Af was then boosted more than by FC alone. Moreover, FC+PQS+Fe boosted AfΔsidA more than Fe, FC, FC+Fe, PQS+FC or PQS+Fe. Thus PQS-Fe maximal stimulation requires Af siderophores. PQS inhibits Af via chelation under low Fe conditions. In a high Fe environment, PQS paradoxically stimulates Af efficiently, and this involves Af siderophores. PQS production by Pa could stimulate Af in cystic fibrosis airways, where Fe homeostasis is altered and Fe levels increase, supporting fungal growth.
James P. J. Hall, Rosanna C. T. Wright, David Guymer, Ellie Harrison and Michael A. Brockhurst
The acquisition of plasmids is often accompanied by fitness costs such that compensatory evolution is required to allow plasmid survival, but it is unclear whether compensatory evolution can be extensive or rapid enough to maintain plasmids when they are very costly. The mercury-resistance plasmid pQBR55 drastically reduced the growth of its host, Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25, immediately after acquisition, causing a small colony phenotype. However, within 48 h of growth on agar plates we observed restoration of the ancestral large colony morphology, suggesting that compensatory mutations had occurred. Relative fitness of these evolved strains, in lab media and in soil microcosms, varied between replicates, indicating different mutational mechanisms. Using genome sequencing we identified that restoration was associated with chromosomal mutations in either a hypothetical DNA-binding protein PFLU4242, RNA polymerase or the GacA/S two-component system. Targeted deletions in PFLU4242, gacA or gacS recapitulated the ameliorated phenotype upon plasmid acquisition, indicating three distinct mutational pathways to compensation. Our data shows that plasmid compensatory evolution is fast enough to allow survival of a plasmid despite it imposing very high fitness costs upon its host, and indeed may regularly occur during the process of isolating and selecting individual plasmid-containing clones.
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Analysis of phylogenetic diversity and in vitro adherence characteristics of respiratory syncytial virus and Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates obtained during pediatric respiratory co-infections
Jaelle C. Brealey, Peter D. Sly, Paul R. Young and Keith J. Chappell
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and Streptococcus pneumoniae are frequently co-associated during acute respiratory infections, particularly amongst infants and young children. In this study, we aimed to identify strains of RSV and serotypes/sequence types of S. pneumoniae associated with co-infections within a cohort of paediatric patients, and to assess RSV-mediated adhesion of pneumococcal isolates. The RSV glycoprotein sequence was determined for 58 RSV-positive samples and molecular serotyping and MLST was used to analyse 26 pneumococcal isolates. We also compared 23 pneumococcal isolates for their adherence to RSV-infected or mock-infected airway epithelia cells using immunofluorescence microscopy and automated particle counting. The tight association between RSV and S. pneumoniae was also visualized using scanning electron microscopy. This study did not identify any statistically significant trend in the strains of RSV and S. pneumoniae associated with co-infections. Furthermore, almost all isolates (22 of 23) showed significantly increased adherence to RSV-infected cells. The level of adherence did not appear to correlate with pneumococcal strain or sequence type, and isolates obtained from RSV-infected patients displayed a similar level of adherence as those from RSV-negative patients. The absence of particular S. pneumoniae or RSV strains associated with co-infection, together with the near ubiquitous presence of RSV-mediated adhesion throughout the pneumococcal clinical isolates, may indicate that the mechanisms governing the association with RSV are of sufficient importance to be maintained across much of the species.
AzeR, a transcriptional regulator that responds to azelaic acid in Pseudomonas nitroreducens
Cristina Bez, Sree Gowrinadh Javvadi, Iris Bertani, Giulia Devescovi, Corrado Guarnaccia, David J. Studholme, Alexander M. Geller, Asaf Levy and Vittorio Venturi
Azelaic acid is a dicarboxylic acid that has recently been shown to play a role in plant-bacteria signalling and also occurs naturally in several cereals. Several bacteria have been reported to be able to utilize azelaic acid as a unique source of carbon and energy, including Pseudomonas nitroreducens . In this study, we utilize P. nitroreducens as a model organism to study bacterial degradation of and response to azelaic acid. We report genetic evidence of azelaic acid degradation and the identification of a transcriptional regulator that responds to azelaic acid in P. nitroreducens DSM 9128. Three mutants possessing transposons in genes of an acyl-CoA ligase, an acyl-CoA dehydrogenase and an isocitrate lyase display a deficient ability in growing in azelaic acid. Studies on transcriptional regulation of these genes resulted in the identification of an IclR family repressor that we designated as AzeR, which specifically responds to azelaic acid. A bioinformatics survey reveals that AzeR is confined to a few proteobacterial genera that are likely to be able to degrade and utilize azelaic acid as the sole source of carbon and energy.
Novel function of transcription factor Uga3 as an activator of branched-chain amino acid permease BAP2 gene expression
Sebastián A. Muñoz, Juan F. Gulias, Jenniffer Valencia-Guillén, Susana Correa-García and Mariana Bermúdez-Moretti
Gene regulation in yeast occurs at the transcription level, i.e. the basal level of expression is very low and increased transcription requires gene-specific transcription factors allowing the recruitment of basal transcriptional machinery. Saccharomyces cerevisiae BAP2 gene encodes the permease responsible for most uptake of leucine, valine and isoleucine, amino acids that this yeast can use as nitrogen sources. Moreover, BAP2 expression is known to be induced by the presence of amino acids such as leucine. In this context, the results presented in this paper show that BAP2 is an inducible gene in the presence of nitrogen-non-preferred source proline but exhibits high constitutive non-inducible expression in nitrogen-preferred source ammonium. BAP2 expression is regulated by the SPS sensor system and transcription factors Leu3, Gcn4 and Dal81. This can be achieved or not through a direct binding to the promoter depending on the quality of the nitrogen source. We further demonstrate here that an interaction occurs in vivo between Uga3 ‒ the transcriptional activator responsible for γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-dependent induction of the GABA genes ‒ and the regulatory region of the BAP2 gene, which leads to an increase in BAP2 transcription.
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La cuspide est une éminence coronaire (i.e. de la couronne) de forme convexe et de volume variables qui est présente sur la face occlusale (face supérieure des dents, qui s'emboite avec celle de la dent en vis-à-vis) d'une dent (prémolaire ou molaire) ou le bord libre d'une canine. Elle se distingue du tubercule, élévation coronaire présente sur les faces autres que les faces occlusales (exemples : tubercule de Carabelli ; cingulum sur les incisives et canines et qui est une réminiscence odontogénétique des cuspides).

L'intercuspidie est le contact entre dents antagonistes (point de vue statique), l'intercuspidiation est la mise en contact de ces dents (notion de cinématique mandibulaire). L'intercuspidie maximale désigne la position de contact entre les deux  où les cuspides dentaires ont un maximum de contact.

La morphologie de la couronne, le nombre, la forme et la disposition des cuspides de sa face occlusale, le nombre et la longueur des racines et l'épaisseur de l'émail dentaire renseignent sur l'espèce de vertébré (vivant ou fossile) et son régime alimentaire.

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Une cuspide est formée de quatre arêtes convergentes (arête mésiale, distale, occlusale, vestibulaire) et est divisée en deux versants par une crête (versant externe et interne). Les Cuspides permettent de distinguer les différentes classes de dents : canine uni ou monocuspidée, prémolaire généralement bicuspidée, molaire pluri ou multicuspidée.

 Les cuspides primaires sont les cuspides vestibulaire des dents inférieures et les cuspides palatines des dents supérieures. Les cuspides primaires sont aussi appelées cuspides supports, car elles supportent l'occlusion dans les mouvements de la mandibule. Elles sont arrondies.

 Les cuspides secondaires sont les cuspides linguales des dents inférieures et les cuspides vestibulaires de dents supérieures. Les cuspides secondaires sont aussi appelées cuspides guides, car elles guident l'occlusion dans les mouvements de la mandibule. Elles sont pointues.

Lors de l'occlusion, on parle de points d'impacts pour le(s) point(s) situé(s) dans les fosses et les crêtes marginales et de points de contacts pour les points situés sur les cuspides et les versants cuspidiens des dents en contacts.
On parle alors de contact monopodique (un point d'impact/contact), bipodique (deux points d'impacts/contacts) ou tripodique (trois points d'impacts/contacts).

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Denture

Anatomie dentaire

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Welcome back to the Hebrews Bible Study, friends, and thanks for joining me for week seven. Feel free to jump in now if this is your first time here, though you're also welcome to go back to the beginning and read through it all (and I'll leave links to each post) and start there. It's a blessing to have you on this journey along with us!
Here are last week's three points.
And our weekly takeaway: Our true hope is in Jesus alone – in what He's done, and in the work He does in our lives each day.
Today's study is based on Hebrews 7. You may click on the link here to read it.
What pacified me from then on until recently was the knowledge that if I could, somehow, be perfect, I'd most likely be overcome with pride that I was better than everyone else. And therefore, I decided it was impossible to be perfect, so it was a relief that to me that I had Jesus.
And yet, that was completely the wrong focus. For one, I had to know that it's impossible to be perfect because sin is in our natures; it's unavoidable, an instinct that runs so deep, no amount of therapy or treatment or strong-will can cure it.
And additionally, I had to know that it didn't matter that I wasn't perfect, for the only way to be saved is to believe on Jesus and in His righteousness for me and on His sacrifice and to have a relationship with God on His terms.
When Jesus came, things flipped. No longer was it an option for us to follow the Levitical Law to the end in order to be saved.
No, the Old Testament law of commandments and sacrifices and rituals and washings does not apply to us any longer.
Jesus lives today. He sits at the right hand of God, and He is always there to save those who call out to Him.
There is no such thing as "too far gone" to be saved. There is no such thing as too much sin or too much darkness or too much impurity, for the Light is more powerful than all of it.
Jesus would not have had a reason to come if we could have saved ourselves, and His sacrifice covers us precisely because we cannot rescue our own souls. It's not about how great we are, but how great He is.
We must always keep it on the forefront of our minds that He is the source, the sustainer, and the giver of our salvation. And He is always there for us to call out to.
Because Jesus was (and still is, of course) sinless, there was no need for Him to pay for His own sin; it wasn't there. Instead, His perfect sacrifice covered all sin of every person on earth. To receive that, all we have to do is believe.
Once for all is huge. It means that we no longer need to work for our holiness, because Jesus has made us holy.
Not that we should live like lazy sloths; not at all.
In living a life of grace, we will be properly motivated to live well – not because we must earn something, but precisely because of that will we want to please our God in everything we do.
*The law has changed – and it's marvelous. Jesus is sufficient.
*Jesus will never stop being able to save us, sinners.
*Jesus' sacrifice for us was once for all – because He Himself was enough to cover all sin.
In short? Jesus is enough for us – and even more; a life lived by grace is one of true holiness.
How does it impact you to know that even if we could be perfect, salvation's by grace, and not our own effort?
Have you ever listened to the lie that tells you that you're too far gone to be saved?
Thanks for this post. I really enjoy reading these and look forward to the next post!
That means a lot, Rebekah. Thank you, girl!


Heya! Phew, we've been getting lots and lots and LOTS of snow again. I think I will need to leave home tomorrow again if I want to get to work in time. It's been snowing heavily the whole afternoon and I don't think it'll stop anytime soon.
With all this snow I think the card I want to show you today is perfect. It's the first Christmas card I've made in 2013.
I used the sweet Pickles from Wild rose studio as my main image. I colored him with Promarkers and Fabes Castell pencils. On the white part of the cap I used glitter glue. The star paper that I used on the left side of my card is from Folia. That's the only dp I used. The paper with music notes was actually a white cardstock which I inked with TH Antique linen DI and stamped over it with Kaisercraft stamp. Ovals are SB dies. I embossed the white oval with Cuttlebus swiss dots embossing folder and then inked the raised dots with my stamp pad. The border you can see going down the middle of the card is my new Cart-us die. The gold stars are cut from a star ribbon that you can buy at Crafty ribbons store. The paper stars under the ribbon ones are my new Nellie Snellen dies. I inked those stars with TH distress ink and embossed them with Cuttlebug EF.
Oh that is so sweet, Cebelica! Love the gold stars and soft fur colouring!
Hello maja, your card is fab. That image is so cute. i am yet to make a Christmas card for this year. Hope you don't have too much hassle getting to work tomorrow.
Adorable! You are so smart to do your holiday cards throughout the year!
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Gorgeous image and layout... love your colouring... and those gold stars too!
Thank you for sharing with us at Totally Gorjuss!
Lovely card. The colours are so Christmassy and I am going to have to buy that Cart-us die.
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Thanks for joining us at ABC Christmas Challenge and hope to see you next time as well.
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Masashi Kishimoto Biography
Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist, best known for creating the popular manga series 'Naruto.' Let's take a look at his family, personal life, career, etc.
Nationality: Japanese
Famous: Artists Japanese Men
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Born in: Nagi, Okayama Prefecture
Famous as: Manga Artist
siblings: Seishi Kishimoto
education: Kyushu Sangyo University
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Masashi Kishimoto is a Japanese manga artist, best known for creating the popular manga series 'Naruto.' 'Naruto' has gone down in history as one of the most-loved manga in the world. Masashi was born in Okayama, Japan, and was a huge fan of anime and manga since his elementary school days. He was a massive fan of the 'Dragon Ball' manga and the series. Its creator, Akira Toriyama, became one of his main inspirations to become a manga artist. Masashi was also inspired by the artistic brilliance of the animated film 'Akira' and 'Ghost in the Shell.' He decided to study arts in university. While in college, he started submitting his works to various magazines, and his first successful manga, the pilot for 'Karakuri,' was submitted to 'Shueisha' in 1995. He earned several honors for his work. However, this was followed by a vastly unsuccessful phase. In 1997, his one-shot version of 'Naruto' was published. The serialized version of 'Naruto' premiered in 1999. It ended in 2014 after being in circulation for 15 years. Having sold millions of copies in Japan and other countries, it became one of the most successful manga of all time. Several other versions of 'Naruto' were written in the following years, making Masashi one of the most celebrated manga artists of all time.
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Masashi Kishimoto was born on November 8, 1974, in Okayama, Japan. As a child, Masashi had three addictions: baseball, basketball, and 'Dragon Ball.' He and his twin brother would often spend hours in front of the TV, watching endless reruns of 'Dragon Ball,' which is arguably the most successful and popular Japanese anime of all time. While in elementary school, he developed a fascination for the art of manga.
He started drawing his favorite characters from the manga he read and the anime he watched. Soon, he was addicted to manga and started neglecting his studies. He started faring poorly in school. As he approached his teenage years, he began idolizing Akira Toriyama, the creator and designer of his favourite 'Dragon Ball' characters.
While in high school, he started drifting away from manga and spent a lot of time playing baseball and basketball. Everything changed when he saw the poster for the animated film 'Akira.' He became highly impressed with the poster design and decided to become a manga creator.
During his first year at the 'Kyushu Sangyo University,' Masashi tried to draw Chanbara manga, which was a less-explored genre. The genre revolved around sword fighting set in a historical period. However, he lost his confidence when he came across 'Blade of the Immortal,' a widely celebrated Chanbara manga. He thought he was not good enough to create anything as good as that.
In his second year of college, Masashi thought his work was more suitable for adult readers, and he started submitting his ideas to magazines. As he met designer Tetsuya Nishio, he realized that his designs were instead perfect for shōnen manga, which was primarily meant for teenage boys.
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Masashi Kishimoto started his career in the mid-90s, when he submitted the pilot of his manga 'Karakuri' to 'Shueisha,' a publishing company. As a result of its success, Masashi was honored by the company with a mention in their monthly 'Hop Step Award,' in 1996. For the next couple of years, Masashi worked on several unsuccessful projects, such as 'Asian Punk' and 'Michikusa.' In 1997, a one-shot version of his creation 'Naruto' was published in 'Akamaru Jump Summer.'
Tired of repeated failures, he saw one last hope when he was hired to perform some changes on 'Karakuri' for 'Weekly Shōnen Jump.' The reader surveys rejected it. This made Masashi more careful about the quality of his art. 'Yakyūō' and 'Mario' were two more unsuccessful projects that he worked on, before he decided to give another shot to the shōnen genre, with 'Magic Mushroom.' In the middle of the project, he was asked to stop and develop a serialized version of 'Naruto' instead.
In September 1999, the serialized version of 'Naruto' was published and became an instant hit. The series followed the life of an orphan boy named 'Naruto' and his adventures through a ninja training school. He befriends 'Sasuke,' a child with a dark past, and the story follows through their years together in the school. The series hit the right notes with the readers and became hugely successful.
Before it ended in November 2014, the manga series had become a trendsetter. It sold more than 113 million copies in Japan and more than 95 million copies in the US. The manga's success in the US was rather uplifting for Masashi, who stated that the fact that Americans could relate to the ninja world, a world totally unknown to them, showed they had good taste.
The creator of 'One Piece,' Eiichiro Oda, widely known as one of the most creative and popular manga artists of the contemporary era, read 'Naruto' and accepted Masashi as a rival. Masashi was a big fan of Oda and said that it was a huge honor for him to be acknowledged by him as his rival.
Later, the manga was transformed into two anime series, 'Naruto' and 'Naruto Shippuden.' These too became hugely popular in both Japan and America.
Apart from 'Naruto,' Masashi also experimented with other successful ventures. He designed a character for the globally famous combat game 'Tekken 6.' His design for the character named 'Lars Alexandersson' was positively received. The character later made a crossover appearance in the video game 'Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2.'
Even after the original 'Naruto' manga reached its conclusion, Masashi's association with it continued. It was later announced that in 2015, Masashi would release a mini spin-off series named 'Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring.' Masashi was also deeply involved in the production of two films, 'The Last: Naruto the Movie' and 'Boruto: Naruto the Movie.' Once the movies were released, he was asked to continue with his 'Naruto' legacy, to which he responded by saying that he had had enough of 'Naruto' and that he was too physically exhausted to continue with it.
In August 2015, he announced that he was working on a new manga, which would include science-fiction elements. Some of his main inspirations during his younger days had been the science-fiction manga 'Akira' and 'Ghost in the Shell.' Masashi stated that he planned to go beyond 'Naruto' in terms of quality and that he would release it digitally. In late 2017, it was announced that he would launch his new series in 2018.
Masashi Kishimoto has a twin brother, Seishi Kishimoto. Both the brothers grew up together watching anime and reading manga. Seishi too went on to become a successful manga artist and is known best as the creator of 'O-Parts Hunter' and 'Sukedachi 09.'
In the manga 'Naruto,' the lead character, 'Naruto Uzumaki,' is shown to be addicted to ramen, a Japanese dish. Masashi drew inspiration to shape this character from his own life, as he himself loves ramen. 'Naruto's favorite ramen shop is modeled on Masashi's favorite ramen shop that actually exists at the 'Kyushu Sankyo University,' where he studied arts.
Masashi is married since 2003, but he has never been able to spend enough time with his wife due to his busy work schedule. The couple has a son.
See the events in life of Masashi Kishimoto in Chronological Order
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Nessebur, Bulgaria: Off the Beaten Path
Nessebur is a mostly undiscovered precious stone, a relatively uncrowded port of call that is home to the remnants of more than three millennia of history.
It is one of the oldest towns in all of Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Nessebur is in the southeast corner of Bulgaria, on the Black Sea, less than 50 miles from the border with the European side of Turkey.
Because of its position on the land route between Asia and Europe, its history is as a crossroads. There is evidence of some of the world's oldest civilizations.
The small town of Nessebur, about 14,000 people—sits on a rocky peninsula jutting out from the coast. It has a rich mix of architectural styles—including Greek and Roman remains—and some beautiful stone churches from the early Middle Ages.
Did I say some churches? Nessebur sometimes claims to be the town with the highest number of churches per resident; I can't verify that, but I do know there are a lot of churches, many of them ancient.
Today, about forty ancient and significant churches survive in whole or in part. The churches of Nesebar represent the rich architectural heritage of the Eastern Orthodox world and illustrate the gradual development from Early Christian basilicas to medieval cross-domed churches.
Amongst the town's remarkable collection of churches and other structures from the Middle Ages are Stara Mitropoliya ("the old bishopric"), also known as the Church of Saint Sophia, which dates from the 5th to 6th century. Some believe it was built on the site of the original agora—the main square—when Nessebur was a Greek settlement.
Here are some more photos, from our visit today to Nessebar.
Up the coast is the seaside resort of Varna. It wasn't always a place to play.
The Varna Archeological Museum holds a significant trove of objects from the prehistoric, Thracian, Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman periods, as well as medieval Bulgarian and Byzantine Empires, the Ottoman rule and the Bulgarian National Revival.
The Museum's most celebrated exhibit is the Gold of Varna, said to be the oldest gold treasure in the world, excavated in 1972 and dating to about 4600 BC.
This is the last port of call on this cruise; to those guests leaving us in Istanbul tomorrow, I wish you safe travels. And for those staying on: ahead lies the Greek Isles and Aegean Turkey.
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The Olympic Games start today in Rio de Janeiro. 80 years ago Europe appeased Nazi-Germany in the notorious Berlin Olympics where Jewish-German athletics were not allowed to participate and the regime persecuted the Jewish minority. Instead of boycotting Hitler's Berlin Olympics, most countries continued to develop its relations with Nazi-Germany until he plunged Europe into war and ruin.
Attila Petschauer (1904 – 1943) was a famous Jewish-Hungarian athletic who was murdered in the war by his own country for which he had competed in the Hungarian national sport fencing. He was an Olympic fencer and won the team gold medal and a personal silver medal in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympic Games and the team gold medal in the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
During WWII, when Hungary under the rule of Admiral Miklos Horthy was allied to Nazi-Germany, he was brutally murdered in a forced labor camp. His tragic fate inspired the film Sunshine in 1999.
Sports before the war often served as a bridge between the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds in Europe. Friendships and comradery formed between these two societies. During the Holocaust, some of these bonds would help save Jews, when non-Jewish athletes bravely risked their own lives to rescue their Jewish compatriots from Nazi persecution.
These brave individuals, who stood up against the evil that prevailed at risk to their own lives, would later go on to be recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem, the world Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
In the spirit of the Olympic Games set to open today (5 August) in Rio de Janeiro, Yad Vashem has dedicated two on-line exhibitions to commemorate these Jewish and non-Jewish athletes. The Exhibition entitled "Jews and Sports before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective" utilizes images and artifacts to portray different sporting events and competitions in which Jews participated.
The other exhibition "The Game of their Lives" tells the stories of non-Jewish athletes recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.
The inspiring accounts of a dozen brave men and women are highlighted in the exhibition – most notably the rescue stories of world-renowned Italian cyclist champion Gino Bartali, Olympian swimmer Margit Eugénie Mallász, and Czechoslovakian soccer player Martin Uher –truly embody the Olympics spirit of "social responsibility and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles."
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Why You Should Support Woody's Home for Veterans during Give for Good
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The Community Foundation's annual 'Give for Good' day is Tuesday, May 7 and this is why I thing you should support Woody's Home for Veterans.
If you're not familiary with the Community Foundation of North Louisiana, it's a philanthropy that was established in 1961 with the express purpose of bringing people and resources together to solve problems and enhance our community. Since they're inception, the foundation has awarded over $80 million in grants to local non profit organizations.
One of the ways they secure the funds to help our community is through their annual Give for Good Campaign. The day is truly an event... In the span of just 24 hours, they raise record amounts of money. Last year alone, $1,876,807 was raised through 9,023 donations that were in turn given to 205 local organizations. This year's event is Tuesday, May 7th, 2019, but you don't have to wait, you can schedule your donation now by clicking here.
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So why am I asking you to consider supporting Woody's Home for Veterans during Give for Good? As a media personality, I come in contact with a ton of different non profits and other community organizations. Leading up to Give for Good this week, I've decided to highlight some of the programs I am really passionate about.
There are two ways to Give for Good. You can either select the specific organization you would like to support or your donation can go into the 'Langiappe' fund, which will then be distributed to the participating groups.
Donate to Woody's Home for Veterans through Give for Good
The mission of Woody's Home for Veterans is to help as many veterans as possible who suffer from mental health issues and give them a place to call home. Woody's was founded by Dr. Ronald Key in honor of his late father and other veterans like him in 2003.
Visit Woody's Home for Veterans website
Here's what Dr. Key has to say about Woody's:
Our veterans are the forgotten ones. Most remember and support the veterans who return from overseas with an obvious handicap. Our residents came back from their time of service with deep wounds not necessarily visible to the naked eye. Conditions such as (PTSD) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression, both brought about by the horrors of combat, can be devastating and permanently alter a person's life.
We provide a home and safe haven for our veterans. They can interact with one another, feel safe, and continue to receive the care they need and deserve. In 2008, we opened the doors to our second home and currently stay 90% or more.
We are accredited with the VA hospital. Locally, the VA has over 300 registered homeless veterans in our area and unsure of nonregistered. The numbers continue to grow in every town, city and state.
As the daughter of a retired Lt. Col in the United States Air Force who served two tours in Vietnam, I know how important our veterans are. I grew up around military bases surrounded by men and women who dedicated their careers and lives to serving our country. While my father didn't show the scars of his service during war time, they were there. His time in Vietnam was the one thing he wouldn't talk about with me, ever, before he passed. Combine that kind of trauma with other issues like mental health issues, homelessness, etc... and you have the sad state of affairs that a lot of our veterans are living with today. Thankfully, my father was never in a position to need an organization like Woody's, however, had he needed it, I would hope that there was room. Every veteran should have a safety net. They've earned it.
All veterans deserve our respect and we owe it to them to provide a service for them, as they put it ALL on the line in service to us. As Dr. Key says, 'If not now, when? If not us, who?' Indeed.
I can go on, but this video can explain what Woody's does so much better. May God bless Dr. Key and the folks that make Woody's possible.
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Media, Communication, Digitalization
Online Tools and Performance in Asia
Wed, 17 Jul, 2019
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.51
Bernard Arps
Miguel Escobar Varela
National University of Singpore, Singapore
Beng Choo Lim
Jan Mrázek
The internet and performance are intimately intermeshed. Music, drama, dance, puppetry from national and international stages, but sometimes also from remote villages may be watched online, in real time and often for years afterwards, on computers, tablets, and smartphones, just about anywhere in the world. Not suprisingly scholarship becomes involved as well: these more or less obvious mediations of performance are also being studied. Technologies and techniques of performance analysis—in short, tools of study—that utilize the web's affordances, not in the last place its multimediality, are following suit.
The present panel of scholars at different career stages, hailing from across the globe, is devoted to these current developments and their academic ramifications, both in general and with specific reference to parts of East and Southeast Asia. The presentations examine, on the one hand, videos, audio, photographs, scripts, and verbal descriptions or discussions of performances that are accessible in online websites, archives, and portals, alongside other aspects of the genres in question such as photos of stage equipment, costumes, masks, puppets. These representations are mediated. The panel's presentations call for sensitive awareness of their mediated nature.
On the other hand the presentations also address issues surrounding multimedial analysis and online publication of the results, in an effort to advance the theory and methodology of online performance studies as a part of digital humanities. The panel will theorize and critique these novel approaches, and suggest strategies to render them feasible and sustainable in the current academic world, where they tend to be institutionally disadvantaged. It hopes to present new insights into the politics of performance and of the internet and social media, and into the academic politics surrounding publication and validation of research outcomes, and ultimately, appointments, promotions, and RANKINGS.
Sustainable multimedia scholarship on Asian performance
Miguel Escobar Varela – National University of Singpore
Devotion, humour, violence: studying affect in performance
Bernard Arps – Leiden University
One Click at a Time: Researching and teaching traditional Japanese theater in the digital age
Beng Choo Lim – National University of Singpore
Caught in the Net: Performers/Audiences/Scholars of Javanese Puppet Theatre
Jan Mrázek – National University of Singpore


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If you find yourself being challenged, review the related topics and then revisit the problems. You may also want to consider developing a study plan. To do this, begin by making a list of the sections that need extra attention. Then divide the material into manageable chunks and dedicate time periods no longer than a couple of hours. Then decide upon the date and time when you will be ready to take the CCTM exam.
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Cleveland Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell was asked about the team's cohesiveness as a whole when guys are in and out of the lineup after his stellar night vs. the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday (43 points/6 rebounds/5 assists/4 steals/17-27 FG/4-8 3-PT/5-5 FT during a 116-102 home win).
(via Cleveland Cavaliers):
"That's the ultimate sign of a team we want to be. You look at the different teams around the league who have been to the Finals or have been far in the playoffs, Milwaukee, Golden State, Boston, Phoenix, you can keep going down the line, there's gonna be guys in and out. And you look at them being able to have guys come in and out of the lineup and can still continue to keep that level of play. That's what we're ultimately trying to get to. It's always great to have our whole team there, but that's not always gonna be the case, and understanding that everybody's gonna have to step up in their moment and what they do. We're building that. We're learning and we're building that.
"It's been great at times, and there's been times where we lost 5 in a row, lost games we shouldn't have. But that's all part of the building process and learning, and getting used to each other and getting used to that. Ultimately, it just builds with everybody. And the thing about this group is we have guys that even if they don't play, like Raul Neto for example only played a minute and 42 seconds tonight, but we all know for a fact if you gave him a 25, 30 minute stint, he knows exactly where to be, how to run an offense. So that's the best part about this group is that we know where to be, and we're continuing to build that as a group."
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That's exactly how I feel about sleep regressions. The first one was hideous but as soon as the second one hit my whole body went into overwhelmed panic! Suddenly you remember how it feels to have 5 minutes sleep, rickets and a back like a question mark from standing in the dark all night trying to cajole a tiny willful beast into going back to sleep.
The first sleep regression according to everyone Mumsnet should have only lasted 2-4 weeks. River, being quite the overachiever, managed to stretch his out for almost 6 months. That's right! My little bundle of joy went from sleeping through from 8 til 7 to waking every 45 minutes-2 hours for s-i-x- w-h-o-l-e- m-o-n-t-h-s.
This week River began to resist his naps and I knew something was up. I mean the giant pig wouldn't sleep at night consistently for over half of this stubborn little life but he's pretty much been a champion snoozer through the day. I could bank on an afternoon nap everyday whilst he snuggled into his definitely not cot suitable blanket, I usually got about an hour and a half unless Amazon swung by with something else I definitely shouldn't have bought. But all of a sudden this was out the window, he wouldn't snuggle in, he knew the blanket wasn't cot suitable and he wouldn't lie down. It was like my water's breaking again, I knew something painful was coming. Sure enough, bam. 45 minutes after being put down that evening -hysterical crying! Nooooo! I can't, I won't! I didn't sign up for this. Give me the epidural.
Last night he woke up a total of seven times. SEVEN!
So that's where we are. I have no idea how long this second labour regression is going to last but I do know it is as bad as the first time and you don't forget the pain.
My little one has gone back and forth with regression. It's been a mixture of teething and reflux. I am with you lol. Here's to hopefully getting more sleep.


The new album from Lantlôs has only 5 songs, long songs that are slow and doomy. To contribute to the confusion the album is released on 3 different CDs each with different versions of the songs, and this is not helping to clear up the picture. Vocalist Neige from Alcest is guest artist on the production, but I can not really see that it should lift the level of their songs.
Intrauterin is slow black metal that almost brings the listeners to sleep with the unpersonality they give it. Bliss is starting with a promising tempo and some substance, but soon turns into slow and boring noise. Bloody Lips And Paper Skin is messy and black from start to finish, not good enough to be included in a musical record. You Feel Like Memories again is super slow and without any kind of content to give the song some character. Eribo I Collect The Stars gives it a finish but not any different from the other songs level, more anonymity and weak performances.
Lantlôs is presenting .neon, their second album. Slowly they kick off with Minusmensch, a slow, depressive tune which seems to contradict the album title, but then the song explodes and becomes a black metallic one. Lantlôs is the brainchild of Herbst who plays all instruments and writes the lyrics, but ask Neige (Alcest) to join him and handle the vocals. The opener is a sonic roller coaster ride which leads you into a post black metal universe. Fursy Teyssier's cover is dark, depressive and seems to visualize the music of Lantlôs. Hopefully this is self-therapy, coz if the music reflects the personality of the one who wrote it, then his life is full of anger, hate, despair and insanity. At Pulse / Surreal sadness shows through... The despair is back, but not the raw anger - for awhile. Songs like Neige de Mars and Coma take you onto a journey into a dark sonic world. The title track is the closer, in the beginning post rock, then you hear a female voice... Spoken words, telling about getting lost... About feeling like a corpse... And the black metallic sounds are kicking in. A very intense track which makes you shiver... and the awkward feeling stays til the last note.
Fans of Alcest should check out Lantlôs! If you are into their debut, then .neon won't disappoint you!


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Tramel's ScissorTales: Meet OU football coaching candidates Luke Fickell & Dan Lanning
Berry Tramel, Oklahoman
December 4, 2021, 8:03 AM ·24 min read
The OU football coaching search nears the weekend, and it seems quite likely that Joe Castiglione is waiting to chat with some candidates whose teams play Saturday.
There isn't much integrity left among college football coaches, but there's enough that some coaches decline to interview for a job while still preparing for important games.
Which means Joe C. likely is waiting to talk with the likes of Cincinnati coach Luke Fickell, Baylor coach Dave Aranda and/or Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning.
The Friday ScissorTales check in with College Football Playoff committee chairman Gary Barta and look at the Cincinnati-Houston showdown for the American Conference title. But we start with the OU coaching search.
Aranda, you should know plenty about. I wrote about Aranda earlier this week. But here's a primer on Fickell and Lanning:
Tramel's ScissorTales: Personal stories from OU football coaching candidates
University of Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Luke Fickell talks with hs team during a timeout against Tulane University at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans Saturday, October 30, 2021.
Luke Fickell
Hometown: Columbus, Ohio.
Alma mater: Ohio State.
Playing career: Fickell was a nose guard who started 50 straight games for the Buckeyes. He then signed with the New Orleans Saints but suffered a knee injury and never played in the National Football League.
Coaching career: graduate assistant at Ohio State in 1999, defensive line coach at Akron 2000-01, then spent 15 years on Ohio State staffs, as special teams coach, linebacker coach/co-defensive coordinator and interim head coach, and head coach at Cincinnati 2016-present.
Record: 6-7 as Ohio State's interim head coach in 2011, between the Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer regimes; 47-14 at Cincinnati.
Positives: Extensive experience at a powerhouse, for vastly-different coaches Tressel and Meyer. Ultra-success as a head coach at Cincinnati.
Negatives: Geographically limited, with his entire life spent living in the state of Ohio, except for the season with the Saints.
Carlson: The biggest hire of Joe Castiglione's tenure? Nah, it's OU's biggest ever
Dec 29, 2018 New Orleans: Dan Lanning, assistant coach outside linebackers, takes questions during the Georgia defense press conference for the Sugar Bowl against Texas on Saturday, Dec 29, 2018, in New Orleans. Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com
Hometown: Richmond, Missouri, just outside Kansas City.
Alma mater: William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri, alma mater of Kansas State coaching legend Bill Snyder.
Playing career: Linebacker William Jewell, which was in the NAIA when Lanning played from 2004-07.
Coaching career: Park Hill South High School assistant 2008-10, University of Pittsburgh graduate assistant 2011, Arizona State grad assistant 2012, Arizona State recruiting coordinator 2013, Sam Houston State defensive backs coach 2014, Alabama graduate assistant 2015, Memphis linebackers coach 2016-17, Georgia linebackers coach 2018, Georgia defensive coordinator 2019-21.
Positives: Touted as a recruiting whiz and clearly a sharp coach, with Kirby Smart entrusting his defense to Lanning.
Negatives: Limited experience. Lanning has been a coordinator for three years, at a place that already had a stout defensive culture and still has a head coach (Smart) who is a defensive mastermind. Lincoln Riley was 33 when named head coach at OU, but Riley had seven years as a coordinator and had established the offensive culture himself at both East Carolina and OU.
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National Pregame: Big 12 on display
Saturday is a Big 12 showcase. Conference championship games will be played all across America, but the Big 12 can lay claim to two.
OSU-Baylor, of course, but also Cincinnati-Houston in the American Conference title game. Cincy and UofH soon will join the Big 12, either in 2023 or 2024.
Cincinnati, 12-0, is ranked fourth by the College Football Playoff committee, and Houston, 11-1, is No. 16.
Cincinnati "probably ought to be ranked higher," Houston coach Dana Holgorsen said.
The Cougars and Bearcats are examples of mid-major programs that made a heavy financial commitment which paid off with the Big 12 invitation.
Houston is paying Holgorsen $4 million a year, and the Cougars are 18-14 since hiring him away from West Virginia.
Cincinnati is paying Fickell $3.5 million a year and is 47-14 in Fickell's six years as coach.
The stakes are high in the American game. Cincy playing for an historic playoff berth. Houston is playing for a major bowl berth.
"Obviously, Houston's a great football team," Fickell said. "This is, to me, as well-balanced a football team as we've played all year, on offense, defense and special teams."
And Cincinnati has played Notre Dame.
Upset special: Oregon over Utah
Two weeks ago, Oregon was ranked third by the playoff selection committee. But the Ducks were routed 38-7 at Utah, and Oregon's playoff hopes withered.
Now the teams meet again on a neutral field, in Las Vegas, for the Pac-12 championship Friday night.
Oregon at its best is quite a team. The Ducks won 35-28 at Ohio State in September but have struggled at times since. Utah has been a solid, yet unspectacular team. The Utes lost at Brigham Young, at San Diego State and at Oregon State.
The one-sidedness of Utah's victory over Oregon two weeks was an aberration. These teams are quite evenly matched.
Utah is a 3½-point favorite, but let's go with Oregon in the upset.
Coach on the hot seat: Georgia's Kirby Smart
Smart has done a spectacular job building the Bulldogs into a national power. But there's one thing he hasn't done. Beat Alabama.
Georgia hasn't beaten Bama since 2007, Nick Saban's first season in Tuscaloosa. Since then, the Crimson Tide is 6-0 against Georgia, including two memorable Southeastern Conference title games, won by Bama 32-28 in 2012 and 35-28 in 2018. The Crimson Tide also beat Georgia 26-23 in the 2017 national championship game.
Saturday in Atlanta, Smart gets another crack at Alabama and has the better team. Georgia is ranked No. 1 and has been dominant throughout the season.
A Bulldog victory could eliminate Bama from playoff consideration and signal that a changing of the guard is at least possible in the SEC. But an Alabama victory would remind the world that Saban still is king.
This is Smart's chance to elevate Georgia to the level of Alabama.
Ranking the games
1. Georgia vs. Alabama, 3 p.m. Saturday, CBS: Will the SEC get two teams into the playoff, or will Georgia knock out the Crimson Tide? Even a close Bama defeat wouldn't necessarily eliminate the Tide.
2. Oklahoma State vs. Baylor, 11 a.m. Saturday, ABC: You know, there's still a sliver of hope for Baylor to make the College Football Playoff. If Iowa, Houston and Baylor win, the Bears could be in the running.
3. Michigan vs. Iowa, 7 p.m. Saturday in Indianapolis: The Wolverines haven't won an outright Big Ten title since 2003. The Hawkeyes last won in 2002.
4. Houston at Cincinnati, 3 p.m. Saturday, ABC: Big game on every front. College Football Playoff. Mid-major breakthrough. Fickell in the coaching carousel.
5. Oregon vs. Utah in Santa Clara, California, 7 p.m. Friday: Wonder if the Pac-12 ever will get off the Friday night slot for its title game. A 5 p.m. Friday (West Coast time) kickoff doesn't seem ideal.
6. Wake Forest vs. Pittsburgh in Charlotte, 7 p.m., ABC: Few ramifications in this game, other than which team goes to the Peach Bowl and which team to the Gator Bowl.
7. Utah State at San Diego State, 2 p.m. Saturday, Fox: Aztecs are 11-1 but out of the running for a major bowl, since either Cincinnati or Houston will claim the mid-major berth.
8. Appalachian State at Louisiana-Lafayette, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, ESPN: The Ragin' Cajuns beat Appalachian State 41-13 earlier this season.
9. Western Kentucky at Texas-San Antonio, 6 p.m. Friday, CBS Sports Network: Western figures to be the power in the revamped Conference USA, which was gutted by conference realignment.
10. Kent State vs. Northern Illinois in Detroit, 11 a.m., ESPN: Kent State hasn't won the Mid-American Conference title since 1972.
11. Southern Cal at California, 10 p.m. Saturday, Fox Sports1: Lincoln Riley gets a sneak peek at his new team.
Last week: 36-9. Season: 471-159.
Gary Barta talks Playoff
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta has become a familiar voice this season while discussing the College Football Playoff. Barta is the chairman of the selection committee.
Barta has conducted a teleconference with media each Tuesday night in November and did so again this week, to discuss the committee's penultimate rankings. The committee will announce the four-team bracket Sunday morning on ESPN.
Here is the latest Barta transcript, with my reactions.
Barta opening statement: "A reminder, this coming weekend the committee will have another piece of information to add to our process. Obviously referring to the conference championship winners. Winning a conference championship is an additional part of our protocol that the committee follows when we put together our rankings. It's a reminder -- it's not the only factor we consider but it is an important piece of information. And obviously we'll be able to review that for the first time once the champ games are all done."
Tramel: That's a huge thing for OSU. If the Cowboys beat Baylor and win the Big 12 title, OSU will have the jump on Notre Dame, which as an independent does not have access to a conference title game, and OSU would have the jump on Alabama, should the Crimson Tide lose to Georgia in the Southeastern Conference title game.
Q. Wanted to talk about the coaching changes and availability. In the instance of a team that has a coach or a player injury, but doesn't play in the championship game, is there a way you can kind of weigh that? Or is it kind of a situation where if they don't play, so you can't really evaluate a difference without a coach?
Barta: "Just a reminder, during the regular season, we don't look forward at all. So if we know someone is going to have a game coming up, we don't evaluate that. We only evaluate games that have occurred. And if a coach or a player wasn't available for that, during the game that we're evaluating, then we bring that into the discussion. After the championships are all played and for our final ranking, referring to the committee does have in our protocol the ability to consider any players that won't be available or any coaches that won't be available and then factor that in along with our other protocol, our other criteria. But yes, if we get done, when the championships are done and if anybody is in our conversations that has a player that won't be available, and the committee deems that it's likely it will affect the outcome, but that's the words in the protocol, then that can be discussed and can be considered. And each of the 13 members can weigh that the way they want to weigh it, compared to head-to-head competition and common opponents and all the other things we evaluate."
Tramel: This is in obvious reference to Notre Dame, which stunningly lost its coach, Brian Kelly, who jumped to Louisiana State, leaving a team in playoff consideration. Will the committee downgrade Notre Dame, knowing the Fighting Irish would be without their coach? Maybe. Maybe they already have, though as I pointed out, OSU's resume' jumped Notre Dame's this week, without the Kelly situation.
Q. Saturday night Oklahoma State and Oklahoma played the last game, I think the last meaningful game of the night. I assume every committee member got to sit and watch it. What did you learn and what did maybe some of your committee members from what you ascertained learn sort of watching OSU in that game going into this final week?
Barta: "One of the things we learned is this was a playoff game, for all intents and purposes. The winner goes on to the Big 12 Championship. So one of the things you learn is how a team or how teams can handle that kind of pressure. And I think both teams handled that well. Obviously Oklahoma State came out on top, which means in that pressure situation, whether it's the offense under Spencer Sanders or the defense that's been playing so well all year, they found a way to win in (what) was also a rivalry game. So the committee took that all into account in watching the game. We just learned that two really good football teams but Oklahoma State came out on top. They were able to score some points. The defense continues to play well. I don't know if we learned anything specifically about offense or defense, but certainly learned a lot about the character of the team under pressure."
Tramel: That's a glowing endorsement of the Cowboys. That explanation by Barta gave me more confidence in OSU's chances than anything else I've heard.
Iowa athletic director Gary Barta speaks during a news conference announcing Clarissa Chun as the inaugural head coach for the women's wrestling program, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa.
Q. Gary, following up on the Notre Dame question, I know that, as you said, the committee does not try to project when looking at the regular season. But I guess a two-part thing here: One, I guess it's difficult to ignore the reality of the situation that you guys are sitting there talking last night or even this morning that the news is breaking that Brian Kelly is leaving Notre Dame. But also isn't Notre Dame in a much different situation than these other teams considering that they do not have a conference championship to be looking forward to and for you to judge, and that now that their regular season is over? So in a way that if you were to discuss it this past week, you would not be discussing or trying to project what's going to happen in the conference championship; you actually are projecting how it will affect it in the postseason. And that's what's actually in the principles and protocols.
Barta: "There was a lot in there. Here's the way the committee talked about it and views it. Champ games are going to occur, and some of the top 10 or go down to top 15, wherever you want to stop, will have an opportunity to play in a Big 10 champ game, in the case of Michigan, or Big 12, in the case of Oklahoma State and Baylor, et cetera, et cetera. But there's also going to be a team that's going to lose each of those games. And there's going to be teams that don't play. There's going to be winners and losers in the champ games and those that don't play. I can't project how that's going to impact a particular team like Notre Dame or Ohio State or Mississippi because they don't play. But when all the champ games are done, that's when we'll do our homework. That's when, if there is a team that's going into a game, where we can project whether or not a player or a coach not available is going to make a difference."
Tramel: I believe Barta when he says the committee doesn't project. It evaluates. This weekend is slightly different, of course, but I tend to believe that Barta is shooting straight.
Q. I guess, following up on that, like I said, Notre Dame doesn't have a conference championship, so you are projecting already for them this past week, you're projecting what they would look like in the playoffs. So what's the difference between doing that, say, today and doing it a week from now, now that the regular season is already over?
Barta: "What I'm sharing with you is when we were doing rankings we were not projecting. We were evaluating. Just look at the teams right around them -- Oklahoma State compared to Notre Dame compared to Ohio State, based on what happened through this past weekend. That's all we were evaluating. So the ranking that you see -- 5, 6, 7 -- is based on that."
Tramel: Too often, interviewers on this teleconference seem to want to trip up Barta. But he's been excellent at staying on point and not giving in to aha moments.
Q. I wanted to get the committee's opinion on BYU. There seems out of a slot in the New Year's Six game. What is the committee thinking about them at 12?
Barta: "Well, they're a really good football team. They have the win over Utah. And I know Arizona State is not in the Top 25 but Arizona State has been playing better football. They have a rusher who has rushed for over 14, 1500 yards and a whole bunch of touchdowns. They're at 12. When you compare them to the team that ended right above them, Michigan State, Michigan State has the win against Michigan. So the committee certainly took that into account. Michigan State also has a great rusher in Kenneth Walker. The strength of schedule that Michigan State has is a little bit more difficult than BYU. And then when you look at this past week, the committee looked at the win that Michigan State had over Penn State and compared that favorably. BYU did beat USC but the committee -- when all those factors were taken into account, Michigan State went ahead of BYU. But to your bigger question, the committee thinks very highly of BYU's team."
Tramel: It's a bummer. It looks like BYU probably won't make a New Year's Six bowl and Michigan State might. I think America would much rather see BYU-Ohio State than Michigan State-Ole Miss.
Q. Considering the teams that are in the top five, all are involved in championship games. What will the committee be looking at in the various championship games? Are we talking about just the control of the game? Are we talking about clean play? Is it an overall eye test? What are they applying to the winners as they view them in the championship game?
Barta: "First of all, it's just exciting to get to this point of the season and have the opportunity to watch all these champ games. It seems like football season just started. But here we are, we're going to sit and watch, Friday and Saturday, we're going to watch all these great champ games. You know, I would say we already have formed -- the committee has already formed opinions. And you said one through five. So we've already formed a lot of, using the whole season, we formed a lot of thoughts about all of them. And so we'll use that information. We'll still use that information when we come back on late Saturday night into Sunday morning. But then we'll have an additional piece of information. And we're not looking for any one thing in those champ games. We're looking to see what that adds to what we already believe about those teams. I mentioned earlier Oklahoma State showed the committee that in a playoff-like environment against Oklahoma in a rivalry game, they really found a way to win. We'll see how that game goes against Baylor. We'll see how Baylor does against Oklahoma State. So there's not one thing that the committee is going to look at. But we all watched the games together. So we'll have a chance while we're watching -- I'm going to be sitting in between an NFL Hall of Famer and a long-time, couple long-time collegiate coaches and other ADs, and you have an opportunity to talk while you're watching, which is really invaluable."
Tramel: The whole notion of the final vote is interesting. The committee in November meets each Monday, I think starting in the afternoon, and finishes up Tuesday morning. But this weekend, it's a contracted process. Voting after the games Saturday night. Late night. Then early morning Sunday.
Q. Question about that protocol. I just looked it up on the website. It does say player or coach moving forward if it would affect the team's performance. I know it hasn't come up in major ways over the years, but does the committee think that they're similar? Would a missing coach be a different level of impact than a missing starter?
Barta: "The great thing about the way that the management group has set this up is dealt with protocol and principles. And then they don't give specific direction to the committee on how we use it. So what I mean by that is there might be one committee who thinks, hey, this team might be more motivated with their new coach. Or I've seen games where a quarterback who starts or running back that starts, they put in the next person and the team actually plays better. So it's a piece of information that the management group has said the committee is able to use but all 13 members may end up using it slightly differently when they place their vote. That's the beauty of the way the committee works. We all have this criteria that we need to use, we're responsible for using. How each committee member uses that in their vote might be a little different for all 13."
Tramel: An interesting issue concerning Notre Dame and Kelly is that Notre Dame defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman was elevated to head coach, and offensive coordinator Tommy Rees decided to stay in South Bend and not follow Kelly to LSU. So that matters. The Notre Dame coaching staff is not gutted.
Q. We are going to set a record tonight for questions about the No. 6 team in your ranking. Regarding Kyle Hamilton, Notre Dame's All-American safety, who, the timeline for his injury … full recovery was supposed to have happened this coming weekend. Now, if Notre Dame doesn't voluntarily mention what his status is and whether he's going to play in the game and whether that timeline is true, will you go to seek that? Will you try to find out from Notre Dame what it is? The second part of the question is a little bit more splitting hairs on the coaching thing. I mean, if it's a staff where a bunch of assistants also leave between now and Saturday, if that also, if the committee has the latitude, I guess, to factor that in?
Barta: "So, I'm going to do the best I can to answer your question. The committee wants and the CFP wants every bit of information it can get. Obviously if, for some reason, Notre Dame would choose not to share that, there's nothing we could do about that. We do have another round of calls this week where we'll be talking to the conferences and the representatives. So there will be an opportunity for the information to be shared. We can't control if they choose not to. So that's sort of part one. Part two, we'll just have to wait and see what the situation looks like before we try to see how it's going to fit into our valuation. The way it's written is if the committee believes that there would be a likely effect on the outcome of the game based on who is coaching or who is playing, it can be considered. So I know that's loose, but I'm not even going to -- I'm going to wait until Saturday night when everything's happened, we'll take all the information that's been given to us and we'll try to factor it in."
Tramel: Truthfully, the whole thing's a slippery slope. The idea of factoring in injured players and AWOL coaches, is a little bit squishy. On injuries, coaches are notorious for misleading information. That would be even moreso on injuries that could affect playoff decisions.
Q. You've been very consistent discussing Michigan these last few weeks. I was wondering your impressions, the committee's impression of the performance against Ohio State?
Barta: "The committee has been calling, referring to Michigan as a complete team now for about three or four weeks as we were watching the team. And I just think about what the defense was able to do. Hutchinson, but not just him, but he had an incredible performance; they were able to put pressure on Ohio State's offense and really contain an incredibly explosive offense, both passing and running. Then on the flipside of that, for Haskins to do what he did and they were able to run the ball in kind of difficult conditions, I would just tell you the committee was not surprised at the way Michigan played -- maybe, like everybody, a little surprised at the way the score ended up. But just a complete team. And that's how the committee's felt about Michigan now for quite a while. And they showed it in a championship environment. I talked about with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State. That was a playoff game. This was certainly a playoff game. And under that kind of environment, Michigan showed that they were able to find a way to win and win convincingly against a really, really good, a great Ohio State team."
Tramel: Barta does a good job of answering needless questions. What do you think the committee thought of Michigan? The Wolverines kicked Ohio State's butt.
Q. I would like for you to talk about Cincinnati. Do you think there's a way that they could possibly be left out of the top four even if they get a convincing win on Saturday against Houston? Do you think that's possible? Hopefully that's not -- do you think it's possible?
Barta: "I'm consistent in telling you that we as a committee don't project. So they're going to play a champ game against Houston. Georgia and Alabama are going to play. Michigan and Iowa are going to play. Oklahoma State and Baylor. We're going to watch all those games. And then until that occurs, until the last game is played, we won't be having any conversations about who is going to be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, et cetera, and that's the way we go about it. So until those games are played, there's really no way to predict who is going to go into those spots."
Tramel: The committee does not project. I don't know how many times Barta has to say it.
Mailbag: Dabo Swinney to OU?
The inquiries about the Sooner coaching search are never-ending.
Norman: "How about Dabo Swinney and Brent Venables and Jeff Lebby?"
Tramel: Fascinating. But fantasy. Swinney is the Clemson coach who has won two national titles. Venables is his long-time (and former OU) defensive coordinator. Lebby, an OU graduate and son-in-law of former Baylor coach Art Briles, is offensive coordinator at Ole Miss. But I don't see it. I don't know why Swinney would want to come to OU. Just because we've had two blueblood-to-blueblood moves this week doesn't mean we'll have a third. If Swinney is tired of the Clemson challenge, he can wait out Nick Saban's retirement and possibly replace Saban at Alabama. Swinney is a Bama graduate. If Swinney were to leave Clemson, it's quite possible that Venables would replace him.
Venue Ventures: AT&T Stadium
OSU plays Baylor in the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Most Oklahomans are well-versed on JerryWorld, which opened in 2009 as the home of the Dallas Cowboys and for my money is the world's greatest football stadium.
Here is the story of JerryWorld, told in numbers:
1: National championship games staged, Ohio State's 42-20 victory over Oregon in January 2015.
1: Rose Bowl hosted, last season, when the game was moved because of California Covid restrictions.
6: Big 12 Championship Games staged, 2009-10 and 2017-20.
31: rank in size worldwide of high definition video screen
75: dollar average for parking at AT&T Stadium.
342: executive suites
1,200: Temporary seats at Super Bowl 45 that were blocked off because they hadn't been erected in time for the fire marshal to inspect them.
80,000: seats
100,000: capacity, counting the huge standing room areas on each end of the stadium.
105,121: record football crowd, Cowboys vs. Giants, September 20, 2009.
108,713: record crowd, NBA All-Star Game, February 14, 2010.
325,000,000: dollars the city of Arlington contributed to the project, through taxation.
650,000,000: estimated cost of the stadium.
1,300,000,000: dollars the stadium cost to build; Cowboys owner Jerry Jones covered the costs of the overrun.
This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Meet OU football coaching candidates Luke Fickell & Dan Lanning
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