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He’s already had “a great career,” according to USC coach Clay Helton. Smith has twice led USC in tackles and might have all three of his seasons had he not gone down to injury as a freshman.
Smith had 112 stops last season for an 11-3 team. He has 273 tackles for his career with a shot to become the program’s all-time tackle leader, a record held by Hayes Pullard with 373 from 2011-14.
Smith prides himself in how he prepares, be it yoga to stretch or film work to break down opponents. He watches what he eats and believes in what he preaches as a team captain. But the 6-foot-2, 250-pound Smith does have a weakness. It just doesn’t wear shoulder pads.
Mostly, Smith feeds on ideas.
As part of the program’s leadership group, Smith and friends have been brainstorming on starting new traditions at USC.
“Something like in high school, where we had Thursday night dinners, or something like that,” Smith said. “We’re trying to do something this year where on the last day we all take a jump off the high dive at the pool. Something to remember us for, so years from now we can say, ‘Remember when we started that in 2018?
As you will obviously already know, Franz Smuda is manager of Widzew Lodz in the Polish third tier. He’s doing very nicely too, taking the side famous for pulling Manchester United’s pants down all those years ago to the top of the league, and looking good for promotion. This is Smuda’s fifth spell in charge at the club, the siren call once again guiding him home last year, drawn back again and again to the team he first managed in 1995.
That is one of many, many things that Poland’s third-largest city and national cultural hub has in common with Barnet. For this morning Martin Allen, no doubt in tribute to Smuda’s success this season, was appointed the Bees’ manager for the fifth time, making him the fourth manager to try lifting the side away from the perils of relegation from the Football League this season.
Now, to the untrained eye, a single club having that many bosses in one campaign might suggest an organisation more suited to the business of face paint, flowers that squirt water and buckets that they pretend contain water, but are actually filled with glitter. Not so, according to chairman Tony Kleanthous, who released a statement explaining why the season had panned out as it had, revealing himself to be such an adorable optimist that he appointed one of the four managers in the full knowledge that everyone would hate him.
So it came to pass, and Allen is back, continuing the eternal love story between man and club, who try to exist apart but end up falling back into each other’s arms again and again. The Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of the football world: unable to live with each other but completely incapable of imagining life without each other.
Perhaps understandably given his multiple spells with the Bees, Allen has never been a man to set down roots too quickly. When he took over at Notts County in 2011, he used their website to ask the locals if anyone had a spare room he could kip in.
Perhaps this is why he keeps going back to Barnet: he’s such a frequent visitor that he at least has a strong handle on the local property market. Still, if anyone has a spare room in the north London area for a very good boy called Monty and his owner, drop Barnet a line anyway.
But for now, let us wish good luck to Martin Allen: Mad Dog, occasional Barnet manager and most importantly of all, the English Franz Smuda.
“One has to take advantage of the fact that the forwards can not touch attackers inside the area. So I played a little bit with the vividness and I let myself fall” – Universidad de Concepción forward Jean Meneses says he did not commit one of the worst dives in history to help his side to a 2-1 win over Colo Colo, but simply played with everyone’s mental perception of gravity.
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“Surely we already have sports photo of the year. If I was one of the youngsters I’d be putting it on social media with the hashtags #PeakyBlinders #Conjoinedtwins and then watch as Cambridge Analytica harvest the (Snip! – Fiver lawyers)” – Noble Francis.
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Danny Welbeck will not face retrospective action for his tribute to Greg Louganis during Arsenal’s 3-1 Big Vase win over Milan, Uefa has confirmed.
After José Mourinho upped his trolling of Luke Shaw by offering Ashley Young a one-year contract extension at Manchester United, the 22-year-old played his Winston Bogarde card and suggested he may see out the final year of his contract at Old Trafford whether he plays or not.
Chelsea’s Andreas Christensen turned to EFLJT for advice after his mistake led to a Barcelona Big Cup goal. “I have realised it, looked at it and now I have moved on,” shrugged the distrait Dane.
And the chief executive of US Club Soccer says the rest of the world will soon follow USA! USA!! USA!!!’s ban on youths heading footballs. “No one really knows what are the consequences of heading a ball at this young age,” said Kevin Payne.
Fans of conversations about sharp objects will be upset to learn this Talking Points blog is about the weekend’s FA Cup and Premier League football.
Nick Ames takes a trip into Albania’s dark side and discovers Skenderbeu is where it’s at if match-fixing’s your jam.
“Game over man, game over,” reports Sid Lowe of La Liga.
Relegation battle specialist Bruno Labbadia can’t keep Die Wolf from the door to the second division, reckons Andy Brassell.
Spal/SPAL/S.P.A.L.’s battling 0-0 draw with Juventus has breathed life into Serie A despite the fact nobody knows how to write the club’s name is not quite what Paolo Bandini has filed but it’ll do for here.
The general laying on of hands following Lyon’s win over Marseille is actually a good thing, say both Adam White and Eric Devin.
He was sent off (wrongly) for kicking a referee up the hole in the 1974 World Cup, and since then tragedy has stalked Ndaye Mulambu’s life. Paul Doyle investigates.
WHO SAYS VAR HAS STOLEN THE MOMENT?
[ Litigation ] as a Related Elective for those interested in ADR : International conflicts are often resolved outside the judicial system through aribration or mediation. Students should consider taking one or more courses on conflict resolution to develop this essential skill set. This course is particularly useful for those students interested in international business.
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scott Moorhead, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father Tim Buckley's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.
Over the following three years, the band toured extensively to promote the album, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, they stopped touring and made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album in New York City with Tom Verlaine as producer.
In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work on the album, to be titled My Sweetheart the Drunk, recording many four-track demos while also playing weekly solo shows at a local venue. On May 29, 1997, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, he drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed, in the Mississippi River when he was caught in the wake of a passing boat; his body was found on June 4.
Jeff Buckley on his career to date in a rare archive interview from 1994.
Producer Steve Berkowitz chats to Cerys about the new Jeff Buckley album You & I.
NEWS ANALYSIS: Google made strides in 2014 to improve Android security, but a large number of legacy users might not see the full benefit.
As the popularity of Google's Android mobile operating system has grown over the years, so too have the security threats against it—that is, until 2014, according to Google's Android Security State of the Union 2014 report. Although Google has made significant strides in improving security, the reality is that Android users still face a number of non-trivial challenges and well-known security risks.
At the heart of Google's claims of improved security in Android during 2014 are improvements to the security of apps in Google Play, the official app store for Android. According to Google, more than a billion devices benefit from Google Play's security mechanisms.
Of the Android devices that Google was aware of in 2014, less than 1 percent had some form of what Google refers to as a Potentially Harmful App (PHA) installed in 2014. The rate of PHA installation declines for those devices that only download apps from Google play, where only 0.15 percent of devices had a PHA. Overall, Google claims that the rate of PHA installations declined by nearly 50 percent between the first and fourth quarters of 2014.
A primary reason Android security, from Google's perspective, improved over 2014 is the multiple security enhancements Google made to the platform. Of particular note is the inclusion of SELinux (Security Enhanced Linux) controls in Android 4.4. SELinux provides an additional layer of security policy and control to protect running processes and applications. Starting with Android 5.0, there are even more security enhancements including improved full-disk encryption and authentication mechanisms.
Google's report also calls out the use of the Google Safety Net technology, which aims to provide security protection for all Android apps a user might install, even if those apps were not installed from Google Play. Google's report explains that Safety Net "detects and protects against non app-based security threats such as network attacks."
The report also highlights Google's improved Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection for app developers.
"In May, Google Play Services introduced an updateable Security Provider that allows application developers to use a version of SSL provided and maintained by Google Play Services," Google's report stated.
While Google has tried to help app developers improve SSL transport security for Android apps, the actual deployment story is a bit different. Intel Security's February 2015 McAfee Labs Threat report found that SSL security in mobile apps continues to be an issue. McAfee Labs found that many app developers still don't implement SSL correctly, even though Google has provided developer resources to educate and help improve the state of mobile SSL.
Google also notes in its Android security report that over the course of 2014, it provided 79 security patches for Android. Google also released two major milestone updates to Android in 2014, with Android 4.4 and the Android 5.0 preview.
"Both of these platform releases included security improvements as well as patches for newly discovered vulnerabilities," Google's report stated. "By February 2, 2015, Android 4.4 has become the most widely distributed version of Android with over 41 percent of Android devices that check in to Google services running Android 4.4 or greater."
The patching and update numbers are impressive, but there is a catch. With Android 4.4 representing approximately 41 percent of Android devices, that means that more than half of all Android devices and the majority of Android users are running older software. The challenge and the risk is that not all of those older versions of Android are being actively maintained or patched by either Google or its Android handset partners.
In a January interview with eWEEK, Jeff Forristal, CTO of mobile security vendor Bluebox Security, explained that older Android vulnerabilities that he first disclosed at the Black Hat 2013 and 2014 conferences still pose a risk in 2015. The challenge is that Android device vendors typically only support a given device for two years, leaving older devices at risk.
So while Google has made impressive strides in 2014 to improve security for many in the Android ecosystem, the truth is that there is still a long tail of legacy users that might not see the full benefit.
Miley Cyrus took the stage in Studio 8H over the weekend as the Saturday Night Live musical guest, where she performed her new song "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart," with collaborator Mark Ronson.
The 26-year-old pop star performed the new hit in a shimmering blazer, sans shirt, showing a lot of skin as she belted out the soulful new single.
The outfit was a far cry from her more conservative "Younger Now" look and called back to Cyrus' old Bangerz days -- similar to the multiple Easter eggs in the "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" music video, referencing past moments from the singer's career.
Later in the show, Cyrus was joined by Ronson and Sean Ono Lennon for their debut performance of their new song, "(Happy Xmas) War Is Over," a cover of the John Lennon classic of the same name.
For her second number, Cyrus gave off flawless Christmas vibes in a red and green dress that looked a little like wrapping paper. The outfit was nearly as low-cut and revealing as the first, but felt like the perfect way for Cyrus to celebrate the holidays.
On Thursday, Cyrus sat down with Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show, the night she premiered her new song, and dished on collaborating with Sean -- the 43-year-old son of the Beatles icon and Yoko Ono.
"We wanted to do a Christmas song and I don't think anything could speak louder about what's going on right now than "War Is Over," Cyrus told Fallon.
The singer also gushed over getting to collaborate with Sean, sharing, "He's just such an incredible being to be in the room with, because that magic just radiates. I've always loved John and Yoko -- I'm such a big Yoko fan -- so it's just been amazing to work with him."
"His voice is so special, but I think more than just inheriting the voice, or the way he looks, it's about the magic that he has," she added. "And I think that's what he's inherited more than anything, is just this radiant magic."
For more on Cyrus' recent new music with Ronson, check out the video below.
Miley Cyrus Drops New Music Video 'Nothing Breaks Like a Heart' -- Watch!
Miley Cyrus Has Trouble Recognizing Her Own Song During Game With Jimmy Fallon -- Watch!
Columnist Phil Arvia says a lot is riding on Benson's performance this year if the Bears want to make it back to the Super Bowl, but that camaraderie just isn't there.
Cedric Benson walked alone from the dining hall Saturday on the campus of Olivet Nazarene University, long after most of his teammates had finished their lunch.
Blame it on coincidence or a running backs meeting that went late. Or blame it instead on an outsider’s status undiminished by the offseason departure of Thomas Jones, Benson’s predecessor as the Bears’ load back.
Not quite a year ago, Benson hurt his shoulder during a night practice, the injury reawakening a story line from a few days earlier in the camp. A chippy Benson bowled over Chris Harris and shoved Nate Vasher during one workout, then implied some teammates were taking cheap shots at him to show their displeasure at Jones having been dropped behind Benson on the depth chart.
After he was injured on a hit from Brian Urlacher and Mike Brown, he changed his tune.
Saturday, looking back, Benson reversed field again.
“I’m sure I wasn’t on every guy’s favorite list last year,” he said. “The team really rallied around Thomas, which I thought was cool. Maybe one day I’ll get the same thing, but I don’t know, you know?
Probably not. The Bears need Benson to be what they drafted him to be if they are to reach their goals of returning to and winning the Super Bowl.
Benson needs his teammates, too. But after everything that went on last year, his relationship with some of them will forever be strictly business.
“I’m not mad at anybody or faulting anybody for any certain way they treated me or anything like that,” Benson said. “But it may leave an effect on, like, today.
Was it coincidence that Benson arrived late and sat alone at dinner Saturday, as well?
Imagine feeling like that. Imagine feeling like that as a person who has spent a lifetime being a team member, enjoying the special fraternity of locker rooms. Imagine feeling like that as both a sports lifer and a man sensitive enough to weep on draft day, so relieved was he to be freed from the burdens of the draft process and its eternal fixations on the negative.
I did, and told Benson that having to exist in a situation like that would bum me out.
In Chicago, what has historically won games are running backs who carry the ball 25 times for 100 or so yards. Benson basically was such a back in college - rushing for 5,540 yards on 1,112 carries in 49 games at Texas - but as a pro has been nicked up far more often, including a six-game inactive stretch during his rookie season after he hurt a knee.
Bears fans, I told him, are wondering if he’s durable enough for the job.
“It’s football,” he said. “You have to be lucky to go seasons and seasons without having knee injuries. People dive at your knees. I haven’t had any surgeries, though. I think that’s an example of durability.
Unless, perhaps, you decide to eat lunch alone. Dinner, too.
Yesterday I told you about the unstoppable trend towards more socialism in the US.
I think inflation is the primary factor driving this trend. Americans feel squeezed because the cost of rent, medical insurance, and tuition, as well as other basic living expenses, is rising much faster than their wages.
This creates very real problems for ordinary people. In response, more and more turn to Santa Claus politicians that promise supposed freebies, like a $15 minimum wage or universal basic income.
This is all a predictable consequence of the US abandoning sound money.
August 15, 1971, to be exact. This is the date President Nixon killed the last remnants of the gold standard.
Since then, the dollar has been a pure fiat currency. This allows the Fed to print as many dollars as it pleases. And—without the discipline imposed by some form of a gold standard—it does precisely that. The US money supply has exploded 2,106% higher since 1971.
The rejection of sound money is the primary reason inflation has eaten up wage growth since the early 1970s—and the primary reason the cost of living has exploded.
The next chart illustrates this dynamic. It measures US hourly wages priced in gold grams (the number of gold grams the average person’s hourly income could buy).
Measured in gold, wages in the US have fallen over 84% since 1971. That’s an astounding drop.
The next chart measures the federal minimum wage in terms of gold grams. Priced in gold, the minimum wage has fallen 87% since 1968.
Note that the federal minimum wage was $1.60 in 1968. It’s $7.25 today, or 353% higher in dollar terms.
But that $7.25 buys 87% less than $1.60 did back in 1968. That’s the story you won’t hear from the mainstream press.
This is why millennials and millions of others are gravitating toward socialism.
They feel the economic pain of inflation every day. They know it’s becoming harder and harder to maintain a middle-class lifestyle. They just don’t understand why. So, they succumb to the siren’s call of freebies.
Inflation has a way of perpetuating itself. The more inflation reduces living standards, the more people push for programs that create even more inflation. This includes things like universal basic income and a higher minimum wage… which in turn creates a cycle of inflation.
It’s only a matter of time before “fight for $15,” the rallying cry for a $15 minimum wage, becomes “fight for $20.” Then it’s “fight for $50,” “fight for $100,” and so forth.
What people should really fight for is a return to sound money. It’s the only way to end this insidious cycle. But that’s not going to happen.
In a fiat currency system, the government will invariably print an ever-increasing amount of currency.