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Since we're 100 days from the actual start of the college football season, it's time for our annual Freaks List. We've been doing it for a decade, focusing on the top workout warriors or players who amaze their teammates and coaches with what they can do in the weight room, on the track or in some other "wow" aspect of athleticism.
Among the Freaks to make this list: Calvin Johnson, Adrian Peterson and last year's No. 1 guy: SMU's Estonian shot putter-turned-pass rushing/kick blocking terror Margus Hunt. With a big thank you to coaches, players and sports information directors around the country, here is the 2013 Freak List. As you'll notice, it's bigger than ever. (I considered any players who are already on campus and will be eligible this fall.)
1. Jadeveon Clowney, South Carolina, DE: Like just about everything else that Jadeveon Clowney does athletically, his workout numbers are jaw-dropping but nothing (not even this) illustrates just how freakish the South Carolina DE is better than the Tendo.
The what?
The Tendo is an electronic power and speed analyzer (a speedometer of sorts) invented in Slovakia and has been around for about a decade in the U.S. strength and conditioning community.
"It's become one of the go-to tests in the strength industry," said Bert Sorin, owner and VP of Sorinex Exercise Equipment, the sole North American distributor of the Tendo. "It's changed the way a lot of people are training. Now you have a quality approach instead of just reps. You can see what kind of force is produced."
According to Sorin, a former All-American hammer thrower at South Carolina in the late 1990s, about 90 percent of top 25 football programs use the Tendo in some variety.
"It measures velocity and power in meters per second," explained Joe Connolly, the Gamecocks head football strength and conditioning coach. "It'll give you a power number, and it's expressed in watts. It takes into account body weight and different things. (Clowney) is in the 8000s and we're talking repetitive numbers in the 8500-range, and there isn't anybody on the team within 2000 of that.
"Clowney has a 8655w peak power reading. The closest number that a teammate has is a 6800w peak power reading. This differential is pretty vast. One major difference is JD can produce this kind of power repeatedly. Nobody else can do that."
Connolly's example: "Clowney first jump: 8655w. Jump two: 8653w. Jump three: 8650w. The rest of the word: Jump one: 6600w. Jump two: 6300w. Jump three: 6000w."
When Clowney arrived in Columbia two years ago as the nation's No. 1 recruit, he was a chiseled 6-foot-6, 238 pounder with explosiveness that had college recruiters raving. He was also "a recipe for disaster," said Connolly. "When he walked in the door he was a Ferrari engine in a Yugo. He was extremely explosive but he needed to stabilize a lot of his joints to help keep him injury free."
Since then Clowney has blossomed into a 275-pound guy who has many seeing him as the first pick in next year's NFL Draft and a viable Heisman Trophy candidate. "His first step was lightning, and that's just who is he and what God gave him," said Connolly. "The difference with him is that he's faster at 275 now. He's even more explosive and powerful at 275, which is frightening."
Clowney was tested by Gamecock coaches the week before South Carolina started spring ball. He vertical jumped 38 inches and clocked a 4.54 40 weighing 274 pounds. A year ago, he ran a 4.58 at 257.
A year ago, Clowney's teammate, Devin Taylor made the Freaks List. A former state triple jump champ, Taylor was a 6-7, 267-pounder who broad-jumped almost 11 feet.
"Devin was fluid and extremely smooth. Clowney is violent," said Connolly. "Devin will play in the NFL for a long time. Clowney is more violent than anybody I've ever seen. There is a violence to his first step. I've never seen anybody with more first-step quickness than he has. He's off the ball while the ball is still in the center's hands. His explosiveness is unparalleled."
Asked if it's realistic to think Clowney could show up next winter in Indy for the NFL Combine and vertical jump 40 inches while weighing 290, Connolly said, "There's no question that is within the realm of possibility.
"The difference is he sees the light at the end of the tunnel. He's always been an average worker. But when you see, 'The draft before my draft is now done,' he's kind of flipped the switch. There's no question he's been very upfront and forward about the different things he wants to accomplish this year, and he realizes that strength and conditioning is a very important factor to getting to those goals."
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test tube burger...would you eat one??
13 May 2013 - 08:11 AM
http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz2TB5qs2MH
It promises to be kinder to the environment, reduce animal suffering, and solve the problem of food crises - but will people want to eat it?
The meat was produced in huge vats from muscle cells by Dr Mark Post, from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
His work is funded by the Dutch government, as well as an anonymous donation of 300,000 euros - but it remains to be seen, however, whether the pioneering development will find favour with a public that likes to think of its chops, steaks and sausages as having their roots in nature, rather than in test-tubes.
His burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue, the New York Times reported.
Dr Post, who has conducted some informal taste tests, said that even without any fat, the tissue 'tastes reasonably good.'
He plans to dish it up at an event in London next month - adding only salt and pepper for flavour.
The cell-grown burger is produced with materials — including fetal calf serum, which used to grow the cells — that will eventually be replaced by materials not orginating from animals, the New York Times reported.
In-vitro meat or cultured meat is an animal flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal, and is quite different from imitation meat or meat substitutes, which are vegetarian foods made from vegetable proteins like soy
Dr Post has all but promised that meat will soon be grown in his lab.
Manufactured cultured meat could be sold next to animal meat for a competitive price - but experts claim this development is far into the future.
'This is still an early-stage technology,' said Neil Stephens, a social scientist at Cardiff University in Wales told the NYT.
Scientists continue to make developments with test tubes.
Some have come a step closer to replacing missing teeth with implants grown from stem cells.
Researchers succeeded in engineering hybrid human-mouse teeth coated in enamel with developing roots.
In the future, it is hoped the work will lead to dentures being replaced by real substitute molars grown from 'seeds' planted into a patient's jaw.
The technique involved growing cells from human gum tissue and combining them with tooth stem cells from mouse embryos.
My thoughts:
Probably wouldn't eat it for a few years(possibly longer) until the effects are better understood
If they make it cheaper it could be good for poorer and more populated areas
Could be a source of meat less dependent on droughts, and may even lower the costs of other products like grain and corn that are fed to livestock.
Would be a source of meat that doesn't require the huge amounts of antibiotics we have to pour into animals to keep them healthy until slaughter
Probably good for the world, but not for me yet.
- Hamburger built from strands of beef muscle tissue grown in a laboratory
- Will be served at special event in London next month
- Burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue
It promises to be kinder to the environment, reduce animal suffering, and solve the problem of food crises - but will people want to eat it?
The meat was produced in huge vats from muscle cells by Dr Mark Post, from the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.
His work is funded by the Dutch government, as well as an anonymous donation of 300,000 euros - but it remains to be seen, however, whether the pioneering development will find favour with a public that likes to think of its chops, steaks and sausages as having their roots in nature, rather than in test-tubes.
His burger consists of about 20,000 thin strips of cultured muscle tissue, the New York Times reported.
Dr Post, who has conducted some informal taste tests, said that even without any fat, the tissue 'tastes reasonably good.'
He plans to dish it up at an event in London next month - adding only salt and pepper for flavour.
The cell-grown burger is produced with materials — including fetal calf serum, which used to grow the cells — that will eventually be replaced by materials not orginating from animals, the New York Times reported.
In-vitro meat or cultured meat is an animal flesh product that has never been part of a complete, living animal, and is quite different from imitation meat or meat substitutes, which are vegetarian foods made from vegetable proteins like soy
Dr Post has all but promised that meat will soon be grown in his lab.
Manufactured cultured meat could be sold next to animal meat for a competitive price - but experts claim this development is far into the future.
'This is still an early-stage technology,' said Neil Stephens, a social scientist at Cardiff University in Wales told the NYT.
Scientists continue to make developments with test tubes.
Some have come a step closer to replacing missing teeth with implants grown from stem cells.
Researchers succeeded in engineering hybrid human-mouse teeth coated in enamel with developing roots.
In the future, it is hoped the work will lead to dentures being replaced by real substitute molars grown from 'seeds' planted into a patient's jaw.
The technique involved growing cells from human gum tissue and combining them with tooth stem cells from mouse embryos.
My thoughts:
Probably wouldn't eat it for a few years(possibly longer) until the effects are better understood
If they make it cheaper it could be good for poorer and more populated areas
Could be a source of meat less dependent on droughts, and may even lower the costs of other products like grain and corn that are fed to livestock.
Would be a source of meat that doesn't require the huge amounts of antibiotics we have to pour into animals to keep them healthy until slaughter
Probably good for the world, but not for me yet.
guy pisses on cop's sandwich
29 April 2013 - 09:13 AM
http://blogs.broward..._cops_sandw.php
Christopher Brennan didn't like being put inside a Lee County deputy's patrol car after cops were called in to investigate a disturbance at a Fort Myers resort at nearly 2 Monday morning.
So Brennan thought he'd bemoan this treatment.
And by "bemoan this treatment," we mean he unzipped his pants and took a piss on the deputy's sandwich.
That'll learn ya, copper!
Apparently, some folks at the Pink Shell Resort called the cops to complain about a couple of spring breakers who were being total douchenobs by breaking bottles and causing a nuisance at the resort during the wee hours of the night.
Police identified three people as the culprits. One of those hooligans was allegedly 18-year-old Brennan, who was placed inside the squad car as a precaution.
While the deputy was interviewing the other two, Brennan began to throw a hissy fit inside the vehicle. He banged his head against the window and bars and began screaming.
When the officer told him to stop, Brennan allegedly screamed out, "I will piss in your car!"
Apparently, this was no empty threat, because Brennan had himself a pee party in the squad car, with food and drinks.
Brennan managed to pee through the cage that separates the front seat of the car from the perps in the back. He pissed on several of the cops' personal items, including a cell phone, some water bottles, other cop paraphernalia, and the officer's lunch bag.
No word on how Brennan managed to squeeze through the cage to pee, but we think you can use your imagination on that one.
Brennan was arrested on a charge of resisting an officer without violence. We're no lawyers, but there should be a specific law against pissing on someone's food -- particularly an officer of the law. Brennan was transported to Lee County Jail.
Christopher Brennan didn't like being put inside a Lee County deputy's patrol car after cops were called in to investigate a disturbance at a Fort Myers resort at nearly 2 Monday morning.
So Brennan thought he'd bemoan this treatment.
And by "bemoan this treatment," we mean he unzipped his pants and took a piss on the deputy's sandwich.
That'll learn ya, copper!
Apparently, some folks at the Pink Shell Resort called the cops to complain about a couple of spring breakers who were being total douchenobs by breaking bottles and causing a nuisance at the resort during the wee hours of the night.
Police identified three people as the culprits. One of those hooligans was allegedly 18-year-old Brennan, who was placed inside the squad car as a precaution.
While the deputy was interviewing the other two, Brennan began to throw a hissy fit inside the vehicle. He banged his head against the window and bars and began screaming.
When the officer told him to stop, Brennan allegedly screamed out, "I will piss in your car!"
Apparently, this was no empty threat, because Brennan had himself a pee party in the squad car, with food and drinks.
Brennan managed to pee through the cage that separates the front seat of the car from the perps in the back. He pissed on several of the cops' personal items, including a cell phone, some water bottles, other cop paraphernalia, and the officer's lunch bag.
No word on how Brennan managed to squeeze through the cage to pee, but we think you can use your imagination on that one.
Brennan was arrested on a charge of resisting an officer without violence. We're no lawyers, but there should be a specific law against pissing on someone's food -- particularly an officer of the law. Brennan was transported to Lee County Jail.
