Monte Kiffin moves on from college

January, 13, 2013

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The Dallas Cowboys' new defensive coordinator, Monte Kiffin, is the Godfather of the Tampa 2 defensive scheme. In college he wasn't considered that.

Kiffin's last three seasons at USC didn't go so well, especially in his final season. USC finished 7-6 overall and lost five of its last six games. But Kiffin's defense allowed 39 points to Arizona, 62 to Oregon and overall the defense finished 40th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 24.3 points per game. Oh yeah, one more thing, the defense finished 60th in total defense at 394.0 yards per game.

Did the game pass Kiffin by?

"I just think the wear and tear of college," said former Tampa Bay linebacker Derrick Brooks, who played for Kiffin at Tampa. "He's a football junkie, you spend 20 hours a week on football. (The downward spiral) started to show on the defensive performance in USC. It takes a level of time in this defense to get good. It's simple but a lot of reps."

Calvin Watkins joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009. He's covered the Cowboys since 2006 and also has covered colleges, boxing and high school sports.

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4704725/monte-kiffin-moves-on-from-college

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Newtown weighs fate of Conn. school where 26 died

Glen Hoffman of Extra Mile Ministries with K9 crisis comfort dog Beau, listen during a community meeting at Newtown High school on the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Standing at right is Francis Pennorla, moderator. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, Pool)

Glen Hoffman of Extra Mile Ministries with K9 crisis comfort dog Beau, listen during a community meeting at Newtown High school on the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Standing at right is Francis Pennorla, moderator. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, Pool)

Kristen Kinsey, of Newtown, speaks during a community meeting at Newtown High School on the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Standing at right is Francis Pennorla, moderator. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, Pool)

Newtown First Selectwoman Patricia Llodra speaks during a community meeting at the Newtown High School on the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Standing at right is Francis Pennorla, moderator. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, Pool)

Aimee Tabor, mother of a Sandy Hook Elementary School student, speaks during a community meeting at the Newtown High school on the future of Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. Standing at right is Francis Pennorla, moderator. (AP Photo/Michelle McLoughlin, Pool)

Area residents enter Newtown High School for a community meeting to determine the future of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown, Conn., Sunday, Jan. 13, 2012. Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 students and six educators. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Michael Duffy)

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) ? Talk about Sandy Hook Elementary School is turning from last month's massacre to the future, with differing opinions on whether students and staff should ever return to the building where a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators.

Some Newtown residents say the school should be demolished and a memorial built on the property in honor of those killed Dec. 14. Others believe the school should be renovated and the areas where the killings occurred removed. That's what happened at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., after the 1999 mass shooting.

Those appear to be the two prevailing proposals as the community begins discussing the school's fate. A public meeting on the building's future drew about 200 people to Newtown High School on Sunday afternoon, with another meeting set for Friday. Town officials also are planning private meetings with the victims' families to get their input.

Sunday's meeting was an emotional gathering with many speaking in favor of keeping the school. Although opinions were mixed, most agreed that the Sandy Hook children and teachers should stay together. They've been moved to a school building about seven miles away in a neighboring town that has been renamed Sandy Hook Elementary School.

"I have two children who had everything taken from them," said Audrey Bart, who has two children at Sandy Hook who weren't injured in the shooting. "The Sandy Hook Elementary School is their school. It is not the world's school. It is not Newtown's school. We cannot pretend it never happened, but I am not prepared to ask my children to run and hide. You can't take away their school."

But fellow Sandy Hook parent Stephanie Carson said she couldn't imagine ever sending her son back to the building.

"I know there are children who were there who want to go back," Carson said. "But the reality is, I've been to the new school where the kids are now, and we have to be so careful just walking through the halls. They are still so scared."

Mergim Bajraliu, a senior at Newtown High School, attended Sandy Hook, and his sister is a fourth-grader there. He said the school should stay as it is, and a memorial for the victims should be built there.

"We have our best childhood memories at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and I don't believe that one psychopath ? who I refuse to name ? should get away with taking away any more than he did on Dec 14," he said.

Police said Adam Lanza, 20, killed his mother at the home they shared in Newtown before opening fire with a semiautomatic rifle at the school and killing himself as police arrived.

Last week, residents around town expressed similar opinions about the school's future.

"I'm very torn," said Laurie Badick, of Newtown, whose children attended the school several years ago. "Sandy Hook school meant the world to us before this happened. ... I have my memories in my brain and in my heart, so the actual building, I think the victims need to decide what to do with that."

Susan Gibney, who lives in Sandy Hook, said she purposely doesn't drive by the school because it's too disturbing. She has three children in high school, but they didn't attend Sandy Hook Elementary School. She believes the building should be torn down.

"I wouldn't want to have to send my kids back to that school," said Gibney, 50. "I just don't see how the kids could get over what happened there."

Fran Bresson, a retired police officer who attended Sandy Hook Elementary School in the 1950s, wants the school to reopen, but he thinks the hallways and classrooms where staff and students were killed should be demolished.

"To tear it down completely would be like saying to evil, 'You've won,'" the 63-year-old Southbury resident said.

Residents of towns where mass shootings occurred have grappled with the same dilemma. Some have renovated, some have demolished.

Columbine High School, where two student gunmen killed 12 schoolmates and a teacher, reopened several months afterward. Crews removed the library, where most of the victims died, and replaced it with an atrium.

On an island in Norway where 69 people ? more than half of them teenagers attending summer camp ? were killed by a gunman in 2011, extensive remodeling is planned. The main building, a cafeteria where 13 of the victims died, will be torn down.

Virginia Tech converted a classroom building where a student gunman killed 30 people in 2007 into a peace studies and violence prevention center.

An Amish community in Pennsylvania tore down the West Nickel Mines Amish School and built a new school a few hundred yards away after a gunman killed five girls there in 2006.

Newtown First Selectwoman E. Patricia Llodra said that in addition to the community meetings, the town is planning private gatherings with the victims' families to talk about the school's future. She said the aim is to finalize a plan by March.

"I think we have to start that conversation now," Llodra said. "It will take many, many months to do any kind of school project. We have very big decisions ahead of us. The goal is to bring our students home as soon as we can."

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Associated Press writers Michael Melia and Pat Eaton-Robb in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

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iPhone Twitter notifications - specify which account the pop-up notification is referring to [updated]

This would be HUGE for me. I'm on the move between 10 locations and now do most of my social media work through the hootsuite app, which is great, except that I have no idea where the notifications come from most of the time, unless they're a follow or a mention, and I happen to see it when it happens. I can't memorize the 60 or so feeds and searches, or go through them one at a time, to see what happened where. Just adding the little badge inside the app would make a world of difference.

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Six held in India over second bus gang rape

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Six held in India over second bus gang rape

By Ashok Sharma, New Delhi

Monday, January 14, 2013

Police said yesterday they have arrested six suspects in another gang rape of a bus passenger in India, four weeks after a brutal attack on a student on a moving bus in the capital outraged Indians and led to calls for tougher rape laws.

Police officer Raj Jeet Singh said a 29-year-old woman was the only passenger on a bus as she was travelling to her village in northern Punjab state on Friday night. The driver refused to stop at her village despite her repeated pleas and drove her to a desolate location, he said.

There, the driver and the conductor took her to a building where they were joined by five friends and took turns raping her throughout the night, Singh said.

The driver dropped the woman off at her village early Saturday, he said.

Singh said police arrested six suspects on Saturday and were searching for another.

Gurmej Singh, deputy superintendent of police, said all six admitted involvement in the rape. He said the victim was recovering at home.

Also on Saturday, police arrested a 32-year-old man for allegedly raping and killing a 9-year-old girl two weeks ago in Ahmednagar district in western India, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. Her decomposed body was found Friday.

Police officer Sunita Thakare said the suspect committed the crime seven months after his release from prison after serving nine years for raping and murdering a girl in 2003, PTI reported yesterday.

The deadly rape of a 23-year-old student on a New Delhi bus in December led to the woman?s death and set off an impassioned debate about what India needs to do to prevent such tragedies. Protesters and politicians have called for tougher rape laws, police reforms and a transformation in the way the country treats women.

"It?s a very deep malaise. This aspect of gender justice hasn?t been dealt with in our nation-building task," Seema Mustafa, a writer on social issues who heads the Centre for Policy Analysis think tank, said yesterday.

"Police haven?t dealt with the issue severely in the past. The message that goes out is that the punishment doesn?t match the crime. Criminals think they can get away it," she said.

In her first published comments, the mother of the deceased student in the New Delhi attack said yesterday that all six suspects in that case, including one believed to be a juvenile, deserve to die.

She was quoted by The Times of India newspaper as saying that her daughter, who died from massive internal injuries two weeks after the attack, told her that the youngest suspect had participated in the most brutal aspects of the rape.

Five men have been charged with the physiotherapy student?s rape and murder and face a possible death penalty if convicted. The sixth suspect, who says he is 17 years old, is likely to be tried in a juvenile court if medical tests confirm he is a minor. His maximum sentence would be three years in a reform facility.

"Now the only thing that will satisfy us is to see them punished. For what they did to her, they deserve to die," the newspaper quoted the mother as saying.

Some activists have demanded a change in India?s laws son juveniles.

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Source: http://feeds.examiner.ie/~r/ieworld/~3/i9vLRSsdG1w/

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IED kills 16 Pakistani soldiers despite Taliban directive

By Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News

PESHAWAR, Pakistan ? An improvised explosive device detonated amid a Pakistani military convoy deployed to fight al-Qaida and militant groups Sunday in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region, leaving 16 army soldiers dead and 22 wounded, military officials said.

The attack took place only a day after Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mahsud asked his fighters to refrain from attacking Pakistani security forces and government installations in North Waziristan and abide by a peace accord signed between the government and regional Taliban led by Hafiz Gul Bahadur.

No militant group claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack on Pakistani security forces, though military authorities and government officials blamed anti-Pakistan militant organizations opposed to the restoration of peace in North Waziristan.

Military officials said the local administration had banned civilian traffic from roads in all of North Waziristan on Sunday because of the movements of the security forces in the tribal region.

The officials said unknown people planted the IED on the Miranshah-Razmak road which went off when the military convoy passed through the mountainous Narray Wala area.

Government officials in the Razmak subdivision said two heavy military trucks were damaged in the blast. They said one of the trucks, which was carrying more than two dozen soldiers, plunged into a 1,000-foot-deep ravine after being hit by the IED.

They said they believe most of the soldiers died when the truck fell into the ravine.

Military officials said it took hours of frantic effort to recover the bodies and injured soldiers from the ravine before dark. Most of the injured were airlifted to military hospitals in Bannu and Peshawar.

Military sources said they feared the death toll would rise because most of the injured were in critical condition.

An official of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) had the death toll at 14 soldiers and the number of wounded at 22. The discrepancy in the death toll was not explained.

Government and military authorities said the attack came as a surprise after Mahsud asked his fighters to abide by the peace accord signed between the government and local Taliban in North Waziristan.

Video:?US drone strikes reportedly increase in Pakistan

Government officials speculated that there might be elements within the Pakistani Taliban who did not want peace to prevail in North Waziristan or there could be a foreign presence trying to create mistrust between the tribespeople and armed forces.

One of the officials in Miranshah said that military officials were encouraged enough by the peace initiative by the Taliban militants that they relaxed curfew for the local tribespeople three times on Sunday on the road where the attack took place so expectant mothers could be taken to hospital to give birth.

"Nobody expected an attack on Pakistani forces," a government official said on condition of anonymity.

The militants affiliated with Mahsud on Saturday issued a pamphlet in which the leader directed his men to abide by the peace agreement between local Taliban and the government for the maintenance of law and order in North Waziristan.

Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan, calling from an undisclosed location, confirmed the Mahsud directive.

"Oh, mujahedeen brothers! As you know that the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban under the leadership of Mullah Mohammad Omar Mujahid are engaged in jihad against the crusaders and infidels, and are supporters of each other in the ongoing holy war, the enemies do not want to see us united and disciplined against them and are being trying to divide us," Mahsud said in the pamphlet.

Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/13/16493627-ied-blast-kills-16-pakistani-soldiers-despite-taliban-leaders-directive?lite

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PFT: Ray Lewis to Joe Flacco: 'You're the general'

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Yesterday was not Joe Flacco?s first playoff win.

But it might have been the first time the Ravens were clearly, obviously and without a doubt his team to lead.

And even the guy who has always assumed that responsibility addressed that in the aftermath of their incredible double-overtime win over the Broncos.

?He grew up today,? middle linebacker Ray Lewis said, via Aaron Wilson of the Baltimore Sun. ?I told him, ?You?re the general, lead us to victory, you lead us today.? I?m just here to facilitate things, just lead us. To look in his eyes, he had something different about him today and I just wanted to encourage him.

?I?ve always been a Joe Flacco fan and always will be, but to watch what he did today was probably one of the greatest things I?ll sit back and remember.?

Flacco threw for 331 yards and three touchdowns (on bombs of 59, 32 and 70 yards), with a 116.2 quarterback rating. He?s now 7-4 all-time in the playoffs.

That it came while Peyton Manning threw two picks and fumbled twice on the other side brought into stark relief the quarterback Flacco has become.

?Perspectives on any player are going to evolve and that?s part of the process for any young quarterback,? Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. ?You look at one of the greatest to ever play the game that was on the other side today [Manning] and if you look back, the perspective on him as evolved over the years. Joe?s going to be like that, like any other quarterback. I?m proud of him.?

While he still does some weird things at odd times, he?s one of the best deep-ball throwers in the NFL, and he has weapons around him to truly facilitate that (including Ray Rice running 30 times, which helps open things up down the field).

?Joe has a cannon,? wide receiver Jacoby Jones said of Flacco. ?That?s why we call him, ?Smokin? Joe.??

He?ll get even hotter this offseason, when it?s time for the Ravens to extend his contract, as this kind of performance is the thing many were waiting to see.

For Flacco to have grabbed the team by the lapels and dragged them along, on a big stage against a Hall of Fame opponent, should clear things up about him.

And at a time when the Ravens are looking for a leader to transition to, his performance came at a perfect time.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/13/ray-lewis-to-joe-flacco-youre-the-general/related

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Globe-nominated foreign filmmakers discuss craft - seattlepi.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The makers of three Golden Globe- and Oscar-nominated foreign films shared the secrets of their craft ? and admiration for one another ? at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's 10th annual Foreign Film Symposium.

Oscar-nominated Swedish filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom moderated the panel featuring "Kon-Tiki" directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Roenning of Norway, "A Royal Affair" director Nikolaj Arcel of Denmark and Austrian director Michael Haneke, whose film "Amour" also earned Oscar nods for picture, director, actress and original screenplay this week.

"It's been a very good week," Haneke said through an interpreter before Saturday's symposium on the Los Angeles campus of Loyola Marymount University.

Hallstrom, whose film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" is up for best picture at the Golden Globes, asked his filmmaking colleagues detailed questions about their approach to the craft during the 75-minute symposium. Do you rehearse scenes? Do you use editing to alter performances? Do you keep the camera rolling between takes? Do you act out the scenes in your head before directing your actors?

Haneke said he rarely rehearses his actors and doesn't allow them to improvise. Through storyboarding, he knows exactly where the performers need to be in each scene.

"Because I wrote it myself, I have to, in a way, act it out," he said. "Otherwise there would be nothing."

The other filmmakers said they also keep rehearsals to a minimum to preserve the spontaneity of the scenes.

Asked which contemporary filmmakers they admire, the 40-year-old Arcel pointed to Haneke and said, "This guy."

Sandberg, 41, and Roenning, 40, also said they've been inspired by their colleagues on stage.

"I'm sitting between Haneke and Hallstrom," Roenning said incredulously.

Haneke refused to answer, because he said whomever he neglects to mention would be upset.

The 70th annual Golden Globe Awards will be presented Sunday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and broadcast live on NBC.

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Source: http://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/Globe-nominated-foreign-filmmakers-discuss-craft-4189188.php

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