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GO CARDS.

GO CARDS.

The Louisville football program's first "signature win" had come more than a decade earlier via a thrashing of Alabama in the Fiesta Bowl, but this was the monumental victory that set the tone for U of L's rise to prominence over the next few years.

In a torrential downpour, the Cardinals - who had already dropped games to Kentucky and Colorado State after entering the year with their highest preseason ranking in history - forced the fourth-ranked and unbeaten Seminoles into overtime.

On the first play of overtime, FSU quarterback Chris Rix had his pass intercepted by U of L free safety Anthony Floyd. One play later, Louisville running back Henry Miller burst through the middle and waltzed into the endzone, inspiring the soldout crowd at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium to storm onto the field and tear down the goal posts.

"They were better than we were," said Florida State head coach Bobby Bowden. "Before the season, I was very concerned about this game because they were playing as good as anybody last season. We simply did not stop them."

Bowden also praised Cardinal quarterback Dave Ragone, who he said was "as good as any quarterback in the country."

"We fed off an unbelievable crowd in a torrential downpour," Ragone said afterward. "They started ripping down the goal posts, ripping off my helmet, ripping off everything."

12. JERRY SMITH COMES HOME AND BEATS MARQUETTE (2/18/07)

Desperately needing a signature road-win, the once-struggling '07 Louisville Cardinals found one when freshman Jerry Smith buried a deep three-pointer just before the buzzer to stun No. 12 Marquette in front of a sellout crown in Milwaukee.

The win was especially sweet for Smith, a Wisconsin native who many felt was denied the state's Mr. Basketball honor because of his decision to take his game to Louisville.

"I'm just speechless," said Smith, who played his high school ball at Wauwatosa East. "I could have never dreamed this."

Remarkably, this was the third time in six years that the Cardinals had gone on the road and beaten the rival Golden Eagles with the aid of a made shot in the game's final seconds.

Vote or freedom will immediately cease being.

Chenoweth Lane: 7am- 4pm

Frankfort Ave: 7am- 5pm

Douglass Loop: 7am- 9pm

2003: Overtime Loss After Lefors INT

2005:  Total WTF game, USF destroys Brohm, Bush, Mario, etc. 45-14.  CardsFan922's streak of bad luck watching UofL games at BW3s on Bardstown Road continues (2004 @Marquette, 2004 Renardo Foster tears ACL)

2007:  Treat Guy fumbled the opening kick-off for a USF TD and it went down hill from there.  This is the only video evidence I could find of the 55-17 beat down:

So bad things seem to happen in South Florida, for some reason.

But the past doesn't matter, and this will be one of the weaker USF teams to welcome us to Tampa.  And the Cards defense has quietly put together defensive scores of 13 (Ark. State), 17 (WVU) and 9 (Syracuse) in the last three weeks.  Do we have a shot?  Will Froman do a Groethe impression?  Also, please note that in the simulated season, BJ Daniels was the starting QB.  And we win tomorrow 30-3.  We here at CardChron headquarters don't know if the fact the season was right about the first means it will be right about the second.

So what do we know about tomorrow?

According to the Courier-Journal, Adam Froman was mentally there even if he wasn't physically 100%, and they almost put Will Stein into the game against Syracuse.  The decision not to proved prescient (your move, Heiser) as Froman led them on the winning TD drive:

"You could tell he was a little rusty," Kragthorpe said. "But he made some nice plays for us off the scrambles. He can make some plays with his feet. He'll be fine."

Coaches considered pulling Froman from the game, but as quarterbacks coach Matt Wells said: "He was so into it mentally."

"If he wouldn't have been there mentally, we would have probably made a change, but he wasn't missing anything mentally," Wells said. "I expect him to come back and play at a high, high level this week."

USF's 9th Year Senior Carlton Mitchell (seriously, how long has that guy been there?) will apparently be healthy enough to play tomorrow, says the Trib: 

University of South Florida WR Carlton Mitchell (ankle) is probable for Saturday's game against Louisville.

Mitchell missed last week's game at Rutgers after suffering a high ankle sprain against West Virginia on Oct. 30.

"He's going to dress for the game," USF coach Jim Leavitt said. "How much he plays depends on how well he feels. He's getting close."

Mitchell, who showed no signs of being limited as he sprinted off the practice field Thursday, leads USF with 29 receptions for 542 yards, four touchdowns and 14 years of eligibility. 

 

Part of that quote is altered from the original.  Can you guess which?

That same link summarizes the pre-game story lines in a nutshell: bowl-eligibility on the line, as long as they don't turn the ball over:

he Bulls (6-3, 2-3 Big East) can become bowl eligible with a win against Louisville (4-6, 1-4). On paper, that shouldn't be a problem as USF is an 11 1/2 -point favorite.

Turnovers, however, are the big equalizer. Through nine games, USF has committed 18 turnovers, but half (nine) have come in its three losses.

"You just can't turn the football over," offensive coordinator Mike Canales said. "That's been the demise of us."

USF has won only once since Oct. 3, but in that game (a 30-19 win against WVU), the Bulls were turnover-free.

USF better be careful, or Jim Leavitt will scare the bulls--t out of them at halftime:

The Bulls not only got trampled on the field, but also ESPN's A-team announcing crew had little good to say about the Bulls once the game got out of reach.

Even before the second half started and USF trailing 13-0, ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews provided a glimpse of the atmosphere around the Bulls.

"It was very loud, very intense, and very scary in there," Andrews reported someone told her of Coach Jim Leavitt's halftime speech.

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So we face a USF team who was just humiliated on national television, who faces Miami in the Game of the Century next week on ABC at 3:30 PM, and we face them in a place we've never beaten them.

Go Cards! 

In addition to enjoying the festival of trees and lights at Louisville Slugger Field this weekend, stop by Browning's Brewery and Restaurant to experience the "Dickens Village" and partake in the beer dinner on Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22! We will be opening at noon on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday.

We are having a "Just Peachy" drink special (Peach Rooibee Red Tea and Old Forester Bourbon) at Gertsle's in St. Matthews.  Local band, Edgehill Avenue, is playing - they are a great alt-country band playing all original music....incredible songwriting and musicians.

Samantha and Brandon competed twice against Chapman. Chapman is known nationally for the competitiveness of its arbitration teams, and one of its teams won the nationals in the arbitration competition last year.  True to their reputation, these teams ranked first and second after the first two rounds, and Samantha and Brandon held their own against them.  Here are some of the comments Samantha and Brandon received.  Brandon did a "good job arguing [his] position" at the outset of the opening and "bringing out the facts of" his witness's position with a "good organized direct." Samantha did a good job in her closing "arguing [her] perspective" and using a "good theme."  She also "asked good questions" and "addressed some problems with the case head-on" and made her witness "real and sensitive" on direct examination.  

Lily and Jamie competed in the second round.  They performed very well, and one of the three arbitrators voted for them.  Jamie was praised for her good delivery, for knowing the record well, for organizing her opening and direct well, and for her leading technique on cross.  Lily was praised by one arbitrator for "a very good summation," "very good direct questions," and a "good job" on cross examination.  One arbitrator provided each of them with a score of "superior" for the category of professional and ethical presentations. 

The Hog and The Barrel Dinner will feature three 300-pound locally raised English black pigs showcased alongside fine Van Winkle Bourbons. Before sitting down for the main event, diners will be treated to an intimate reception with Julian Van Winkle, featuring inspired swine snacks and bourbon and cocktail tastings. The six-course feast will begin with Chef Michael Paley taking diners through the hog's head, neck, and shoulders. Highlights include Coppa di testa (crispy ears, chicory, Brussels sprouts, grapefruit & cacao roma) and Corned Picnic Tortellini (pork neck brodo, scallion, sauerkraut). For the back, middle, and ham, acclaimed Chicagan Paul Kahan will take the reigns, giving diners a taste of the creativity that has earned Kahan multiple James Beard recognitions.

Lindsay Hack, a Louisville native, began making jewelry after a long love affair with all things sparkly and shiny. She started her career with beaded jewelry, but became frustrated with the available supplies at local craft stores. After graduating college with a degree in journalism, she enrolled in a local silversmithing class and began making metal jewelry and findings of her own. Several years later, she's still hammering away, bringing lovely new designs to the Derby City!

Former President Richard Milhous Nixon rarely watched TV news or read the newspaper and instead relied on a daily summary typed up by his aides, a recently released study says.

The study, “What Can a President Learn from the News Media?,” (PDF) says Nixon’s reliance on the daily news summary is a cautionary tale for future presidents.

Nixon’s solution to the problem of news consumption was noteworthy: he avoided direct exposure to newspaper, television or radio reports almost entirely. Instead, he instituted an elaborate system of media monitoring that substituted for almost all first-hand consumption of the news. Nixon was not the first president to use his staff to monitor the news, but his monitoring system was more extensive than any of his predecessors. More importantly, Nixon was the first president to rely on such monitoring as his primary source of exposure to the mass media.

Reading the news summary was the first thing on Nixon’s schedule every day. He devoted 20 to 30 minutes to reading them, scrawling notes on the margins that “helped dictate a significant portion of the daily business for the White House staff,” writes Christopher F. Karpowitz, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University.

Nixon’s marginal comments show that he used the summary to comment on the success of administration initiatives, to direct public relations efforts, to praise or discipline administrators, or simply to blow off steam.

The summaries were prepared by staffers Lyndon K. ('Mort') Allin and Patrick Buchanan. Although the summaries were advertised as the best way for Nixon to get an objective, cross-section of news coverage, they often were written in a way that fueled “the president’s already burning resentments and biases,” Karpowitz writes.

The summaries themselves tended to personalize the news, repeatedly drawing attention to the perceived biases of prominent reporters.

The possibility the summaries didn’t give him an entirely objective view of the news wasn’t lost on Nixon. Karpowitz notes, for example, that Nixon wondered if Buchanan’s distaste for his historic trip to China colored how Buchanan wrote the summaries. Buchanan was a newspaper editorial writer before joining Nixon’s staff and later ran for president himself.

Nixon’s antipathy toward reporters was established long before Woodward and Bernstein’s stories helped bring him down. In 1962, after a failed campaign for California governor, he famously declared his “last press conference” and told the reporters gathered for it that “You won't have Nixon to kick around any more.”

The study recalls historian Stephen Ambrose’s own research of the news summaries, which noted “the prevalence of violent verbs in Nixon’s responses”:

‘Get someone to hit him,’ Nixon would write about one reporter, or ‘fire him’, or ‘cut him’, or ‘freeze him’, or ‘knock this down’, or ‘fight him’, or ‘dump him’, or ‘don’t back off’.

Karpowitz analyzed Nixon’s marginal notes, dividing them into "spin," "policy," "vent," "praise," "discipline," "other," or "missing."

Roughly one-third of his comments were about “spin,” meaning they focused on image and PR, and 18 percent were to “vent,” meaning they expressed frustration or annoyance but didn’t direct anyone to take action. Another 18 percent dealt with actual policy.

Karpowitz concludes that in part because the summaries gave a few staff members too much power as gatekeepers, the summaries didn’t serve Nixon well.

For healthy presidential leadership, there may be no substitute for first-hand consumption of media stories, even if in managed doses. It can be said of presidential news summaries what is sometimes said of the relative merit of vitamin pills and nutritious foods: in a busy world, a chief executive may find it useful to resort to news summaries, but news capsules provided by a president’s aides are an imperfect replacement for at least some exposure to the real thing. The president whose media diet includes only summaries may be cognitively undernourished.

[via The Monkey Cage]

We push universal coverage as a universal right
& parts, like skipping Stupak, Reid wrote right
...but we know the Right might fright, bite & fight.

However: 50 votes plus Joe Biden is a majority
& we have 60 votes in our caucus.
So Reid, forget the Right -- it's just 'Rithmatic.

Let's vote on this & save lives.

Come caucus & carouse with a cause
sharing a night with left-leaning company
at your local progressive social club.

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Louisville Jobs, 11/19/09 originally appeared on About.com Louisville on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 07:30:58.

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The winning entry (PDF) used SAS to visualize various aspects of air traffic, including stylish calendar heat maps showing the number of flight departures delayed or cancelled.

The heat maps break each year into blocks for months, rows for the days of the week and squares for the days. Each square is colored from red to green depending on the intensity of some value, allowing you to spot patterns over time.

The Revolution Computing blog reported recently that the chief medical officer for a medical informatics company recreated the same graphics using R. The blog showed how the code could be used to visualize Microsoft’s stock price.

I had to change only a few letters in their example to show Gannett’s stock price instead:

I can’t help but see it as our profits going up in flames.

Louisville Black Friday 2009 originally appeared on About.com Louisville on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 07:30:02.

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Like many shallow, thoughtless people, my first response to something that annoys me is to condemn it rather than understand it. And so it is with PDFs, which have always pissed me off me because of the difficulty I've had extracting data from them. It's a good thing, then, that the Open Government Data wiki has a page, “The good and the bad of PDFs,” with some realistic scenarios on why people would choose to store information in PDFs, and suggesting that more understanding may be in order, rather than outrage.

In my experience reporters tend to think the worst of government bureaucrats, while assuming their own virtue. It may be that government agencies choose PDFs because it’s the most vexing format, but I doubt that’s always, or even typically, the case.

Here, for example, is a scenario offered on the Open Government Data wiki:

Sam and Alice work for the Governor's Budget Office. Recently, the Governor has just announced his spending plan for the current year, something that many, many people are interested in reading. After hours upon hours of work, they finally have the report done, complete with graphs, charts and images galore. A grand total of over 400 pretty pages ready for viewing.

The report is something that hundreds, maybe thousands of people are going to want to read, which presents an issue for Sam and Alice. They could print off hundreds or thousands of copies of the report, leave some in their office for people to pick up, mail out others and inter-office some more. When they look at the printing bill, however, neither Alice nor Sam are very happy with the cost.

After a little research, Alice finds out about PDF files. With a quick plugin for her copy of Word, she can create an electronic version of the report, which her tech people can then post on the Governor's public web site. Now, rather than printing off tens of thousands of pages, all they need to do is distribute a single link and the information is instantly accessible.

If you prefer the outrage, though, check out Sunlight Labs' recent "Adobe is Bad for Open Government" and the comments that followed.

I would definitely encourage you to check out The Summit. This holiday season, they're offering photos with Santa and sleigh rides for the kids. It's a strip mall, and the outside is all decorated with Christmas lights. Plus, they have a Build-A-Bear Workshop and several baby/toddler clothing shops like Gymboree and Baby GAP.

For the tweens, there are a ton of stores at The Summit that they'll want to check out: Express, GAP, Old Navy, and Hollister, among others. Also, there is a Barnes and Noble for everyone to enjoy and lots of really great restaurants. While all of the malls are doing something for Christmas, The Summit seems to have the biggest selection for a group with people of all ages like yours (Visit Their Website).

Reader Question: Louisville Mall with Best Christmas Attractions originally appeared on About.com Louisville on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 07:30:09.

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