May 20th, 2012
We kicked off our on the trail series last weekend with a look at the top 20 prospects in college football, you as Jets fans should be watching in 2012. In this weeks edition we’re going to focus in on one player, safety Eric Reid for the LSU Tigers.
Here we are going to just take a quick look at Eric Reid and if you take the jump, I’ve selected three games in LSU’s season that we need to focus on to see how Eric Reid tests against some of the better passing attacks in college football.
This off-season we have signed Landry and we have signed Bell. We’ve drafted Bush and Allen and we still have Smith and Wilson. I see potential, but I also still see a need for a player with excellent ball skills and more range. A true top end talent. Landry and Bell will likely be short term answers, I’m not sold on Wilson or Bush yet and Antonio is unproven and the less said about Eric Smith as a starter the better.
In an ideal world, a couple of those players make the jump this year and come draft time we are not even discussing the safety position. However I doubt that happens, so I’ll be really focusing in on the safety talent in college football this year and if you want somewhere to start, I suggest you start with Reid.
(Eric Reid, a Lifelong LSU fan)
Reid has the potential, skill set and size to play either safety position. A highly recruited prospect (4 star), Reid committed early to the local Tigers. An intelligent man (4.3 GPA) and athletically gifted (Track and Basketball player in High School). Most are predicting a break out season for Reid who has already made a good impression in LSU on both special teams and in the base defence.
This off-season Eric has found himself on the Lott Impact Trophy watch list which is awarded to college footballs Defensive Player of the Year who best exemplifies integrity, maturity, performance, academics, community and tenacity. Academics and athletics have always been equally important to Reid and his family, Notre Dame heavily recruited him a couple of years ago and I remember following that recruitment process with interest.
In his Sophomore campaign in 2011, Reid started all 12 games, ranking third on the team with 65 tackles. A free safety at LSU, he has ideal size at 6’2 and 210lb’s. He’s a natural leader who plays intelligent football, taking good angles to the football and having the capability to come up and play the run or be a free roamer in centre field.
If you just looked at his stats, I don’t think you would be that impressed. However if you look at the progress he made last year as a Sophmore, and his skill set. It looks like Eric is set for a massive 2012. Will be enter the 2012 NFL draft? who knows, academics are important to him and he is scheduled to graduate in 3.5 years. However it’s going to be a lot of fun watching him develop this year into a guy I believe will be the best safety in college football at the end of it.
In 2012 the Tigers will face off against Washington on the 8th of September, Washington were ranked the 35th best passing team in NCAA Division 1 football in 2012. Led by Quarterback Keith Price, Washington spread the ball around, which really test athletic safeties. 7 Huskies players had 200 yards receiving or more last year, so this will be a very good early test for Reid in week 2.
Week 8 represents another challenge for the LSU pass defence and Reid in particular. As the Tigers travel to Texas to face off against the Aggies who were ranked the 18th best passing team last year. Now Tannehill is gone, and so is Jeff Fuller. However they return 1000+ receiver Ryan Swope and one of the best offensive lines in college football that will give a high octane offence plenty of time to throw.
The Final game that I have highlighted in 2012 is the season finale in Arkansas. Arkansas were ranked as the 13th best passing offence in college football last year and despite their turmoil, they’ll be an extremely dangerous team in 2012. They lost Joe Adams, Jarius Wright and Greg Childs to the NFL draft. However they return impressive quarterback Tyler Wilson, and wide receiver Cobi Hamilton and tight end Chris Gragg. A final test for Reid
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May 20th, 2012
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May 17th, 2012
Concussions followed Jeff Ulbrich throughout every stage of his playing career, from high school all the way to the starting ranks of the NFL.
The routine was always the same whenever Ulbrich’s head felt woozy.
“It used to be ‘touch your toes, touch your nose,’ give you smelling salts and get back out there,” Ulbrich said.
Ulbrich, 35, isn’t out there anymore, due in no small part to a series of concussions that ended his NFL career as a special teamer and linebacker. He’s now content with walking the sidelines. Ulbrich was hired in January to coach the two phases of the game he knows best, special teams and linebackers, at an age when he could still be playing the sport he loves.
Like many of his contemporaries, Ulbrich can’t pinpoint exactly how many concussions he had. He knows his first one came in high school. The last came in his 120th and final NFL game, when he went down covering a kickoff.
Violent post-concussion episodes ensued. He was dizzy, nauseated and getting lost while driving. Soon after, Ulbrich and a team of Stanford doctors mutually decided that it was time to call it a career.
Ulbrich has seen the word “concussion” accumulate weight during recent years. He now coaches in a world where the diagnosis and treatment of concussions is vital to preventing a host of long-lasting brain injuries that have befallen players at all levels of the sport.
Even more comforting for Ulbrich is the fact that his boss is well aware of what he calls an “epidemic” in football.
UCLA coach Jim Mora continues to insist that his staff will hold safety in the highest regard when it comes to his players.
“I’ve been with guys that have really suffered personally because of the fact that they maybe played through some things that they shouldn’t have played through,” Mora said.
As a UCLA team physician for 18 years and counting, Dr. John DiFiori has been at the forefront of concussion treatment at UCLA.
DiFiori, who works primarily with the football and men’s basketball teams, is responsible for setting UCLA’s concussion protocols – the sequential treatment process every concussed UCLA athlete must go through before returning to the field of play – and has seen his protocols evolve as awareness grows.
Paramount to DiFiori’s handling of head injuries is education. At the high school level, 40-50 percent of concussions go unreported, DiFiori said.
Ulbrich said he rarely missed time with any of his, even though his brain was in a depleted state.
Athletes can be wont to dismiss headaches, whether out of fear of missing playing time, fear of seeing their replacement take minutes or simply a lack of knowledge.
“We hope that education and recognition will hopefully have players feel more comfortable learning to recognize what’s going on and bring these issues to the attention of the medical staff,” DiFiori said.
Most concussions heal in a week, DiFiori said. But after suffering one, the risk of suffering another – one that can take much longer to heal – is increased. For these multiple-concussion athletes, the monitoring process becomes more stringent.
During the football team’s recently completed spring practices, the cases of redshirt junior Alex Mascarenas and redshirt sophomore Wade Yandall were under the microscope.
In 2011, Mascarenas played defensive back in four games and started twice before sitting out the rest of the season with a head injury. Yandall was similarly getting his first-ever shot with the first team, starting three times before he was sidelined for the final four games with a head injury.
Mascarenas missed all of spring practice while Yandall, expected to compete for a starting spot on the offensive line this season, suited up for two practices all spring. Mora discussed his handling of Yandall’s situation before the spring game.
“His symptoms reappeared,” Mora said. “He got a headache and there wasn’t one significant incident; it was just his symptoms reappeared. You just don’t play with that stuff. I’m not playing with that.”
Mascarenas and Yandall were not available for comment under UCLA football’s policy regarding injured players.
Mora was also firm in his response to redshirt senior starting linebacker Patrick Larimore, who suffered a concussion and healed late in spring ball: You are sitting.
“It’s hard when you’re dealing with a 19-year-old kid who plays football as a passion, to explain, ‘let’s really proceed with caution as we proceed through your career here,’” Mora said.
Ulbrich empathizes with young players who are going through what he did and is happy to see an increased emphasis on player safety, which could prevent someone from suffering his fate.
“I don’t think I ever thought about (concussions),” Ulbrich said. “I always tried to play dumb. I never looked into it, never thought about it. I knew that I was having them on a fairly regular basis. You don’t want to know when you’re playing.”
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May 17th, 2012
BMW, Car News, Motorsports, Nurburgring — By MR on May 17, 2012 at 11:44 am — No Comments
A new MotoGP Safety Car is heading to the Nurburgring’s M-Festival starting this weekend. Following the 1M and M5, there is a new BMW M6 MotoGP Safety Car for next year’s bike championship.
Like the F10M M5 last year, the new 2013 F12M M6 Safety Car received an extensive package with lightweight carbon fiber parts and technical upgrades. The exterior has a front bumper lip, side mirrors and adjustable rear wing in carbon fiber. Polycarbonate side and rear windows are included as well.
At the back, the M6 MotoGP will come with a special lightweight titanium race exhaust system from Akrapovic providing a combination between weight saving and an improvement in the sound track. Special warning and safety lights are placed on top of the roof and the reflecting racing livery was delivered by 3M.
Inside the cabin, BMW has added a roll cage, two racing Recaro bucket seats, controls for the safety lights and an M steering wheel in Alcantara. The rear seats have been removed.
The BMW M6 will do its first laps on the legendary Nordschleife on Friday afternoon leading the M Festival’s M Corso. Stay tuned for more and the official release this weekend at the M-Festival on the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
[Via BMWblog.com]
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May 14th, 2012
May 14, 2012
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan’s Transportation and Research Institute is embarking on the next step in a $22M motor-vehicle safety research project, by equipping vehicles with connected vehicle technologies—devices that enable vehicles to send and receive wireless messages, messages that may someday prevent crashes.
The joint effort named “Safety Pilot Model Deployment,” is the largest connected vehicle, street-level pilot project in the western hemisphere. UMTRI and the U.S. Department of Transportation have partnered to examine connected vehicle the technology in the real world use, by actual drivers.
Connected vehicles can help prevent crashes at busy intersections. Source: Department of Transportation
The connected vehicle technology involves both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure wireless communications that privately and securely transmit and receive vehicle data such as position and speed. The systems can alert drivers to a potential crash situation—such as a nearby vehicle unexpectedly breaking, a sudden lane change, merging traffic, etc.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for people 4 to 35 years old. Crashes are associated with 34,000 fatalities a year, 2.3 million patient emergency room visits, and a cost of $240 billion in terms of medical expenses and work loss. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that connected vehicle technology has the potential to address more than 80 percent of unimpaired driver crashes.
The Safety Pilot Model Deployment project is emblematic of the work being done at UMTRI today, and to come in the future. It is an example of UMTRI’s leadership in the areas of motor vehicle safety and sustainability, its multi-disciplinary approach to research, and expertise in embedding research into deployment and the unique partnerships we have cultivated throughout the transportation industry—as well as with state and local governments.
Nearly 3,000 cars, trucks and buses will be equipped with the wireless communication, connected vehicle technology. In addition, similar devices will be located at intersections, curve locations, and freeway sites throughout the model deployment test area.
“We are equipping vehicles that spend time driving in the 48105 zip code – northeast Ann Arbor and the surrounding area. The pilot area is defined by M-14/US-23 to our north, US-23 to our east, as far south as Washtenaw Avenue, and west as far as Main Street,” said program manager Jim Sayer, an associate research scientist at UMTRI. “We are working closely with the University community, but also with the Ann Arbor Public Schools, to identify individuals who want to know more about this technology, and might consider having it installed on their personal vehicle.”
For more information and to participate in this study: http://safetypilot.umtri.umich.edu
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May 14th, 2012
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May 11th, 2012
The deaths of 17 women in a garment store blaze in the Mindanao city of Butuan on Wednesday has thrust the practice of employers letting workers sleep on their premises into the spotlight.
Workers and the relatives of those who died say the government must ensure that employers introduce better safety measures to prevent a repeat of the tragedy.
Many stores around the country allow employees to sleep over, especially ones who live far away from their places of work.
Wednesday’s tragedy at the Novo Jeans and Shirts Enterprises store sent shivers down the spine of fellow workers at the store’s branch in Cagayan de Oro city.
“We feel sad for what happened to our fellow workers. Most of them were our friends,” Elda Quimho said.
The 19 female workers at the Cagayan de Oro branch stay in two small rooms on the second floor.
Authorities said the Butuan fire, which started at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, killed the workers who were sleeping inside rooms on the upper floor of the building.
Survivors said they were always concerned about living in the building but kept silent out of fear they might lose their jobs.
Relatives of the victims have accused the owners of the store and local government officials of negligence.
The parents of Rogelyn Mantumbacan, 26, said their daughter would not have died if the store management had employed proper safety measures.
Mantumbacan, who came from a tribal community, had not been home to neighboring Agusan del Sur province for two years in order to save money for her family.
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May 11th, 2012
The fact that there is as yet no evidence of a focused response from either the government or the private sector to the recently promulgated US Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) is reflective of a seeming indifference to a development, which has direct and potentially serious implications for the country’s manufacturing sector (though not exclusively) and particularly for aspiring small businesses within the sector.
The FSMA was signed into law by President Obama in January last year and what it does, in effect, is to make way for tough new regulations that seek to raise the standards for foods sold to consumers in the United States. The volume of food imports from Guyana into the United States may be relatively small but there are quite a few local manufacturers who regard the US as a critical market and, presumably, others who may be eyeing the US market as the local manufacturing sector expands.
If there are a few examples of local manufacturing entities whose operations have already met the standards required by the US market, there are others, several others, that are lacking by comparison, having, in some cases, been set up on shoestring budgets in the first place and in some instances without much of the technical help that is required in the selection and installation of plant and machinery. Add to that the fact that costs and deficient national inspection processes often mean that important safety and health considerations are overlooked and what we have is a manufacturing sector, which, generally, is still well adrift in some of the requirements that will kick in under the new US law.
Once the full details of the new regulations that derive from the FSMA are made public here in Guyana it is likely that some of the smaller manufacturing entities will have to set aside – at least for the time being – such plans as they might have had to access the US market. Others could struggle to retain existing markets. Among the larger manufacturers, the new US law will see moves towards compliance with the regulations which of course will be costly but which will be worth the while given the volumes of their exports to the US.
Some of the challenges will include those associated with the physical verification of operations which is allowed the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Act and the new and demanding record-keeping requirements that have to do with batches, consignments, formulae and production processes. If the major manufacturers will probably find these to be relatively straightforward assignments, there are others that have neglected to develop such record-keeping systems.
The challenge of meeting the new FSMA standards is not just a private sector one. The growth of the private sector is, in some respects, a government responsibility and this, in our view, is a clear case in point. It should be noted too that the US authorities have already made the point that it expects to see collaborative efforts by public and private sector entities as countries strive to meet with the new requirements under the law.
Oddly enough while many of the key regulations under the FSMA are scheduled to come into force in a matter of months neither the government nor the private sector have pronounced on plans to move forward with ensuring that, as far as possible, the regulations under the FSMA are met. Presumably, some of the local manufacturing entities would have decided to initiate their own individual responses to the FSMA aware as they are that while collaborative responses are desirable, waiting on bureaucracies – whether private or public sector – to bestir themselves is by no means the widest option. This, of course, still leaves most of the smaller manufacturers out in the cold – so to speak – and certainly in danger of finding themselves out of the loop when the new FSMA regulations kick in.
It is apposite to mention at this juncture that the FSMA makes provisions for US-funded support for both governments and private sector entities in exporting countries in areas that have to do with readying exporters for compliance with the new US regulations. Those provisions include opportunities for the training of functionaries who will be involved, in one way or another, in supporting the process in exporting countries. Those provisions perhaps need to be explored at this stage.
It is, however, for the government and the private sector umbrella bodies to provide leadership and guidance on this issue and to do so before we find ourselves in a situation in which our exporters are required to comply with new US food import laws or else, face the loss of lucrative markets, a circumstance which a manufacturing sector that already faces a host of challenges that have to do with securing and maintaining exports simply cannot afford.
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May 8th, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO — Energy companies will need to keep up-to-date records to prove they are running the nation’s aging pipelines at safe pressures under a new set of guidelines the federal government announced Monday in response to a deadly natural gas explosion in a San Francisco suburb.
If pipeline operators can’t ensure their oil and gas lines are running at safe pressures by next year, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration underscored they could face penalties or some other type of sanction.
The advisory bulletin the administration issued Monday mentioned the September 2010 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people, injured many more and left 38 homes in smoking ruins.
The National Transportation Safety Board blamed the accident on multiple failures by one of the nation’s largest natural gas companies, Pacific Gas & Electric Co., including shoddy records based on incomplete and inaccurate pipeline information.
PG&E spokesman David Eisenhauer said Monday the company has undertaken a vigorous records review and verified that its transmission lines in urban areas are running at the right pressures.
“We continue to gather, scan and verify millions of records,” he said.
Federal and state officials will be responsible for enforcing the new guidelines, pipeline safety agency spokeswoman Jeannie Layson said Monday. All companies will be required to keep traceable, verifiable and complete records about pipelines that ferry hazardous fuels through the nation’s most populated areas.
In a later phase, PHMSA also will direct energy companies on what to do if they can’t find records for all their pipelines, she added.
In the wake of the San Bruno explosion, California regulators ordered PG&E and other state utilities to drop the pressure on their pipelines and produce any records of pressure tests done to ensure pipelines did not threaten surrounding communities.
PG&E’s computer records originally showed that the decades-old, high-pressure transmission line that blew was seamless. But company officials later acknowledged problems when the old paper records were incorporated into the utility’s computer system.
PG&E ultimately rented a hulking concert venue where dozens of employees sorted through more than 1.25 million individual gas transmission records hauled out from branch offices and storage facilities to find the required records.
The California Public Utilities Commission is currently weighing whether the record-keeping lapses violated state and federal laws and contributed to the pipeline rupture.
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May 8th, 2012
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — FBI experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaeda bomb to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane, U.S. officials said.
The unexploded bomb represents an intelligence prize, the result of a covert CIA operation in Yemen that thwarted a suicide mission around the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, officials said.
The device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.
“You have this group from Yemen that is proving to be very adaptive, very dangerous and has tried to hit the U.S. multiple times,” said CBS News national security consultant Juan Zarate.
It’s not clear who built the bomb, but because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas Day bomb, authorities suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri.
Al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that al-Qaeda built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010.
“This is a very clever guy, very good at making bombs,” said former CIA analyst Bruce Rydel. “He’s probably al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsulas, a number one threat to the United States directly.”
The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or purchased plane tickets when the CIA seized the bomb, officials said. It was not immediately clear what happened to the would-be bomber.
“This bomb maker is doing everything possible to create devices that evade existing and known security protocols,” said Zarate.
Long Island Rep. Peter King said the bomb’s sophisticated, metal-free construction could create fresh problems for the TSA.
“Obviously, there’s a concern on what this does as far as metal detectors, as far as whether or not it could make it through an airport,” he said.
Forcing security agents to adapt yet again, and balance passenger safety against their right to privacy and dignity.
“On the one hand, Americans unrealistically demand 100 percent security,” said Brian Jenkins of the Rand Corporation. ”On the other hand, they have a lot to say about it when it becomes inconvenient or irks them.”
There were no immediate plans to change security procedures at U.S. airports.
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