- Buffalo Bills
defensive tackle Marcell Dareus may insist he’s not a “trouble guy,” but he has
a convincing critic to contend with in making that assertion: Buffalo Bills
defensive tackle Marcell Dareus. One day after insisting to the media that he isn't
a troublemaker, Dareus backed up his words by being taken into custody by
police in Hamburg, N.Y. for his involvement in a car accident stemming from an
apparent drag race. He was charged with reckless endangerment in the second
degree, a Class A misdemeanor, as well as reckless driving and participating in
an illegal speed contest, both unclassified misdemeanors. Dareus, the third
overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft, hasn’t exactly dominated the league since
then. In other words, he needs all the practice he can get and yet, there was Bills
coach Doug Marrone saying that he and Dareus reached a "mutual
decision" for the third-year veteran not to participate in the remainder
of organized team activities, which run through June 12. "It wasn't a
disciplinary action," Marrone said. "We're in a voluntary period, so
I have to be very careful of my language with the league. ... It was both of us
sitting down and talking -- how do we move forward, how do we get this thing
right -- working together, coming up with that decision. Marcell has made some
poor decisions lately. I've been working with him -- he's dealing with a lot of
personal issues, too, Not a disciplinary action? Nicely played semantics,
coach. To say Dareus has a lot of
personal issues is to oversimplify the matter. To say he’s a loose cannon who
is placing the chance to channel his inner “Fast & Furious” over the career
that makes him seven figures annually is a better way of putting it……..
- Pittsburgh is not the safest place. Specifically, it’s not
a safe place for people who do not have the necessary skill set to fend off
attacks from the local avian population. People like Eileen Bridge might be
best to stay inside until they take the necessary bird defense classes or until
the powers that be find a way to curtail the aggression of the local red-tailed hawk
population. Bridge’s nightmare occurred over the weekend, when she was
dive-bombed by a while washing her car. She stooped down for some more soap
from the bucket and that’s when it happened. “And when I came up, it just
blind-sided me, hit me,” Bridge said. “Knocked me down...I actually fell.” She
said the attack felt like being struck with a baseball bat even though she
likely has never been clocked in the head with a bat. Her neighbors saw the
attack and said Bridge appeared to be unconscious for a few minutes after the
attack. The hawk left her with facial, scalp and ear lacerations and a healthy
sense of paranoia every time she steps outside. Her husband Pat, who might want
to consider dressing his wife in combat attire and a helmet when she steps
outside, told her she looks like a combat veteran after a battle. He was at
work when the attack occurred and rushed home to take his wife to the hospital.
The hawks in the Bridges’ neighborhood moved into a 2-foot-wide nest in a tall
pine behind their home and the close calls for the family began shortly
thereafter. The birds also attacked a neighbor and her dogs, but the trio were
able to get inside before the fur began flying. After the attacks were
reported, the state game commission showed amazing alacrity for a government
agency and will move the nest and relocate the hawks………
- Really, science? There are still places in the world
where reliable wireless service is a dream on the scale of Mitch McConnell
developing a personality and Mitt Romney finding a soul and you’re hard at work
attempting to
set up a broadband connection between the Earth and the moon using lasers? Yes,
the wicked-smaht academics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
NASA have reported a successful attempt to make this connection magic happen
with their Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration, sending potent laser beams
to transmit information from the Earth to the moon at exceptionally fast
speeds. The LLCD broke multiple records during the testing process, downloading
data over the 238,999 miles between the moon and the Earth at 622 megabits per
second. Those numbers are five times the current rate from lunar distances,
NASA said. Just as on Earth, upload speeds were a bit slower, around 19.44
Mbps, but that was more than fast enough to send a high-definition video to the
moon to allow high-definition video conferencing via Skype. Why anyone would
Skype with the moon is unclear, but what is crystal clear is that NASA has
found a way to vastly outstrip its data rates with its current radio frequency
communications devices. The download speed along is believed to be faster than
that of any commercial broadband or Wi-Fi service available in North America,
which has typical download speeds of between 15 and 25 Mbps. NASA no longer
sends people into space, but it can use lasers to send information and assist
future missions. "It is generally agreed that present-day science and
exploration missions to deep space are constrained by the amount of data they
can get back to Earth," explained Don Boroson, who headed the MIT research
team developing the communication system. "It has been known for years
that laser communications have the potential to deliver much higher data rates
and use smaller space terminals than radio-based systems." In the test, Wi-Fi
signals, converted to laser pulses, were transmitted between four telescopes in
White Sands, N.M. and a NASA satellite, LADEE, in orbit around the moon. Maybe
T-Mobile customers should check out real estate on the moon in their perpetual
search for a better signal……..
- Uh-oh. Look the hell out, because Mogwai is launching
verbal nukes and their targets are rock legends who clearly are in for a war
they cannot possibly win. Clearly, when one thinks of the true monsters of rock
‘n roll over the past few decades, certain names come to mind. Metallica, Led
Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam…and Mogwai. That’s why
true titans of the industry quake in their boots when Mogwai declares them to
be
"unbelievably bad." That’s the criticism the Scottish rockers levied
against Metallica, denouncing the Glastonbury headliners partially out of
obvious jealously and partially to promote their show on The Park Stage at
Glastonbury on the same night. Jealously is obviously in play when a more
successful band gets a better slot at the same festival and many more people
will line up to see them play than to see you jam out to a bunch of songs they don’t
know. Asked about their fellow headliners, Mogwai member Barry Burns went off. “I
can't wait to hear that guy play the drums again – unbelievably bad,"
Burns said of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. He denounced Ulrich's technical
ability and said the only reason people are talking about Metallica being at
Glastonbury is because the iconic metal rockers are “sh*t.” Mogwai frontman
Stuart Braitwaite also piled on, but his comments were unfortunately less
incendiary. “"I just can't wait until we go all quiet and you can hear
'Enter Sandman' in the background, because we're on at the same time,” Braitwaite
said. “I don't really see the fuss. They're a pretty big rock band and it's a
pretty big rock festival." Someone sounds jealous………
- Sandstorm. It’s not just a bitchin’ techno/dance song that
loops for hours on end at raves in abandoned warehouses filled with ravers
tweaking and peaking on Ecstasy and jumping around in bounce houses while
wearing glow stick necklaces. No, it’s also a very real threat to the lives of
people across the Middle East and that fact was hammered home once more when a powerful sandstorm struck Tehran on
Monday, blocking out the sun and turning the sky orange. In China, no one would
notice because the smog would block out the sand blocking out the sun and
turning the sky orange, but in Tehran, there was no avoiding it. Making matters
worse, state television reported speeds of between 66-70 mph and that’s where
the lethal part of the equation came in. As the storm blew through and caused
widespread damage, power cuts and traffic accidents while blanketing entire
neighborhoods so thoroughly that the government could not even venture outside
to oppress its people and trample their fundamental human rights, trees were
toppled and became nature-made instruments of blunt force trauma. So far, five
deaths have been reported and authorities believe that all of them were struck
by falling tries. This does answer the question of whether a tree falling in
the desert in the middle of a sandstorm so severe that no one can see or hear
said tree fall does make a sound….and that sound is the sound of a human being
dying in horrendous fashion. Witnesses recounted tales of a giant cloud of dust
emerging from nowhere and the entire city going dark. State media broadcast
warnings for children and the elderly, as well as those with heart problems, to
remain indoors while the able-bodied sect waded out into the carnage and began
the cleanup process. This is the rare story that can actually elicit sympathy
from Americans when Iran is involved and it’s also a nice reminder that the
Iranian government cannot control everything within its borders……..
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