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On Saturday, the 18-year-old Driskel could add starting quarterback at Florida to his growing list of accomplishments.

Driskel is expected to become the first freshman to start at quarterback at UF since Chris Leak in 2003 when the Gators play at no. 1 LSU. Florida coach Will Muschamp has yet to name

Driskel the starter, but acknowledged he was “ahead” of quarterbacks Tyler Murphy and Jacoby Brissett this week in practice.

Success has come quickly to Driskel. according to his high school coaches, it hasn’t come without hard work. Driskel earned a 3.94 grade-point average in high school while putting in time on the field as well.

“He’s the single hardest-working kid I’ve coached in seven years of high school baseball,” said Oviedo Hagerty baseball coach Jered Goodwin.

Goodwin has mentored Driskel, teaching him in three classes while coaching him in both high school and the AAU-league baseball traveling circuit. Goodwin is convinced that Driskel, a power-hitting center fielder who could run the 40-yard dash in 4.5 seconds, would have been taken in the first round in last June’s amateur baseball draft if he stuck with baseball.

“he probably turned down $2 million to be a Gator,” Goodwin said. “There’s not a lot of people who could do that. at the end of the day, he came to me and told me he thought it was best for him to go to (Florida) early. I was supportive of him because I knew that’s what he really wanted.”

Driskel enrolled early at Florida as a 17-year-old last January to get a jump on learning the offense. he worked his way up to second on the depth chart and played the second half against Alabama when starting quarterback John Brantley was sidelined with a high ankle sprain.

“we have the ultimate confidence in Driskel,” Florida sophomore receiver Andre Debose said. “I feel like he can get the job done.”

Debose said that Driskel has progressed in his 10 months on UF’s campus.

“his whole attitude has changed since the time he’s been here,” Debose said. “he let us know he doesn’t even consider himself a freshman anymore.”

That maturity doesn’t surprise those that are closest to him.

“He’s a serious kid,” Goodwin said. “He’s serious about his academics, serious about athletics, serious about his relationships and his family. he likes the little things. He’s like a 12-year-old trapped inside a man’s body. He’s got that kind of sense of humor. And he enjoys being around his family and friends.”

Driskel was born in Jacksonville, the son of a Naval senior chief. the Driskel family moved to Japan when Jeff was 7. Driskel’s father, Jerry, was assigned to the U.S. Naval Base in Sasebo, Japan.

In Japan, young Jeff played baseball and made friends on and off the base.

“he was called the white Babe Ruth,” Goodwin said. “he said it felt kind of awkward because he was one of the bigger kids. But he liked everyone there and said everyone was nice to him.”

When Jerry Driskel retired from the Navy in 2003, the family moved to Oviedo, an Orlando suburb. by the time Jeff was 14, he had sprouted to 6-foot-1 and was 180 pounds. Hagerty High in Oviedo was in just its third year as a high school football program. Hagerty football coach Nate Gierke was approaching the school’s first full season with no seniors on the roster.

“in a way, anybody that stood out, regardless of if they were a freshman or a junior, was going to get noticed,” Gierke said. “I had every intention of playing Jeff with the freshman team, but when he came in, when you saw him perform on the field and the physical gifts he had. he was clearly a step above everybody.”

Driskel finished his freshman season throwing for 4,844 yards and 36 touchdowns in eight games as a varsity starter.

“I knew coming in the kind of physical ability that Jeff had.” Gierke said. “But what I didn’t know was what kind of kid he was. Jeff was really, really mature for a 14-year-old. And he really had that ‘it’ factor, that intangible factor. the players respected him and he always was looking to get better, to work hard and to compete.”

While Driskel continued to grow physically, he continued to gain attention from colleges throughout the country. Gierke said he had a feeling Driskel would hit the national scene following a game in his sophomore year. in that game, Driskel threw for 240 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead Hagerty to the state playoffs.

“I told their parents, y’all better get a bigger mailbox because you are going to be getting a ton of letters from all over the country,” Gierke said.

Goodwin recalled during one Florida recruiting visit, Driskel was taking batting practice. he turned on a fastball that cleared the 50-foot fence on the baseball field and landed beyond the infield of the adjacent softball field.

“(Former Florida quarterbacks coach) Scot Loeffler was here,” Goodwin said. “we got the tape measure out and decided to measure it. it was 477 feet.”

Driskel eventually grew to 6-foot-4 and 235 pounds. by his senior year, Driskel was considered one of the top quarterback prospects in the nation. in his final high school game, against perennial state-power Lakeland, Driskel threw for 182 yards and rushed for 270 yards in a 56-35 loss.

“it was the best single-game performance that I have ever seen, and I’ve been fortunate enough to coach some guys who have gone on to college and the NFL,” Gierke said. “we were facing one of the top high school programs in the country and he refused to let our team quit.”

Driskel finished his senior season with 1,819 yards passing and 1,333 rushing. he showed his running ability (if not happy feet in the pocket) during a 31-yard scramble against Alabama in the second half. But Gierke said Driskel is not a run-first quarterback.

“when he scrambles, his eyes are always downfield,” Gierke said. “we had kind of gravitated to a spread offense. I’m a pro-style guy, but we were running the spread by the time Jeff was a senior. But he’s capable of throwing the ball downfield and making big throws.”

On Saturday, Driskel could face the biggest on-field challenge in his young career. not only could Driskel make his first career start on the road, he would be doing it against a top-ranked LSU team that arguably has the best defense in the country.

“Regardless of what happens on Saturday, he’s going to be special,” Goodwin said. “He’s the kind of athlete that Florida can be proud of.”

AUSTRALIA'S economy continues to perform well, but this is more the result of good luck than good management. The mining boom is good for Australia. Mining companies are recording record profits and, not surprisingly, most are lifting their investment rapidly.

Our country is rich. we have a stable financial system and our unemployment rate is lower than in many other developed countries. yet many people today will not be feeling as if they all are sharing in boom times. we face the challenge to ensure that businesses and people not directly involved in the mining sector share in the benefits of the boom.

It is here that good economic management comes into play. Governments should avoid making life harder for those industries already feeling the stress of rapid structural change. It should avoid loading them with additional regulations and taxes. It should avoid competing with businesses for scarce funds in the capital markets. It should avoid being overly prescriptive in labour markets.

Unfortunately, this government does not understand this. It believes in big government. It believes government knows better than business and individuals how best to conduct their affairs. Labor sees business as the enemy, which can’t be trusted to deliver services and out of which every last drop of tax must be squeezed.

This government is increasing government expenditure and funding it by increasing debt and increasing tax. It is increasing red tape and regulation and winding back previous reforms. none of this helps business adjust to the new financial environment. Rather than greasing the wheels of commerce, this government is putting sand in the gears.

One of the unfortunate consequences of this government’s higher taxes and increased regulation has been a stalling in productivity. gross domestic product per hour worked in the June quarter this year was virtually the same as the June quarter in 2009. Productivity has not increased in two years.

It is only through productivity improvements that Australia’s long-term standard of living can be increased. Australians would not be getting richer under Labor if it were not for the mining boom. this is the clearest example that Labor is benefiting from good luck, not good management.

The Coalition will not take for granted Australia’s future prosperity. The Coalition understands what business needs and we will act. Business needs policy certainty and stability. Business needs low taxes. Business needs to cut through the red tape and work in a regulatory and taxation environment that lays the groundwork for growth in productivity.

Most important, business wants to be consulted on relevant changes.

In my post-budget address I outlined a four-point strategy for reducing the size of government and lifting productivity.

Step one is to return to surplus and pay off Labor’s debt. a return to large surpluses will remove the government as a factor in higher interest rates and will ease some of the upward pressure on the exchange rate.

Step two is to reduce the tax burden. In just four years, Labor has implemented 19 new taxes and has increased existing taxes. The Coalition will reduce the tax burden on business.

Step three is to address weaknesses in our competition policy and regulatory frameworks to promote productivity growth. The Coalition will undertake a review of the Competition and Consumer Act focused on giving small business a fair go. we will also revisit the Financial Services Reform Act and ensure that product disclosure statements are simpler and smaller.

We will establish a new son-of-Wallis style comprehensive review of the financial system to explore ways to deliver better outcomes for bank customers.

And in housing we will explore with the states ways to reduce the complexity of the regulations and the overlaps between different jurisdictions. The pay-off will be more affordable housing.

Add to that, in the area of business regulation, Tony Abbott has already committed a Coalition government to reduce the regulatory costs on business by at least $1 billion a year with a scheme similar to Victoria’s program to reduce red tape.

Step four is to explore better approaches to fiscal management. we will publish regular estimates of the structural budget position. this will provide a measure of the budget balance adjusted for the impact of the economic cycle.

A budget that is in structural balance across the cycle ensures the government is living within its means.

Joe Hockey is the federal opposition treasury spokesman.

By a staff reporter

Australia’s top chief executives have named declining productivity as the most urgent issue the federal government must address in order to ensure sustainable prosperity, as their optimism about the prospects for the local economy plummeted 25 per cent over the past quarter.

The latest Business Spectator Accenture CEO Pulse survey shows 147 surveyed chief executives – who run companies with an Australian turnover of $100 million or more – nominated declining productivity as the most urgent issue for government to address (46 per cent) and the most urgent issue for business to address (63 per cent) in order to ensure sustainable prosperity.

The sentiments on productivity were broadly in line with those expressed by BHP Billiton ltd chair Don Argus in a speech on Monday, in which he described productivity growth as woeful and in need of urgent attention, saying it “certainly needed more careful consideration than throwing billions of dollars at projects which have not been risk assessed”, and whose benefits hadn’t been analysed by the Productivity Commission.

On economic performance, CEOs gave the federal government its worst scorecard since the inception of the survey, rating them 2.6 out of 10, a significant decrease compared to the 3.3 score reported in Q2.

Pessimism over the government’s prospects increased significantly since Q2, up 24 per cent to 50 per cent.

The plummet in optimism about the Australian economy was in line with CEOs’ feelings about the prospects for their own organisation in the next 12 months, which fell to 55 per cent from 72 per cent in Q2.

CEO sentiment on productivity and prosperity

Also echoing sentiments of current BHP chair Jac Nasser, mr Argus and Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens, who called for the government to improve its focus on increasing productivity, the chief executives surveyed agreed the decline must be addressed in order to ensure sustainable prosperity.

CEOs surveyed were most likely to nominate increased productivity (93 per cent) and investment in innovation by the business community (86 per cent) as extremely important over the next 15 years.

They nominated the manufacturing industry as the sector requiring the greatest investment in innovation (37 per cent) and the greatest productivity increase (47 per cent) over the next 15 years.

In terms of measuring the prosperity of Australia as a country, surveyed CEOs said economic growth (e.g. productivity) was extremely important (79 per cent), followed by social well-being (e.g. education, safety), at 77 per cent and political stability (e.g. security, freedom), also at 77 per cent.

Advice to the chairman of the Productivity Commission, Gary Banks

When asked what advice they would give to the chairman of the Productivity Commission, Gary Banks, surveyed CEOs offered a diverse range of advice and feedback. many expressed a desire to see more significant headway being made on productivity levels in Australia as well as a more pro-active and independent (of the government) approach to improving productivity levels.

There was also sentiment from surveyed CEOs that the Productivity Commission should strengthen its relationship with industry and private enterprise in order to better understand their needs.

One CEO surveyed wrote: “Realistically compare Australian productivity with other developed and developing countries aiming to find alternative actions to improve our productivity. He should listen to a variety of sectors and come up with a plan for the long term future of Australia.”

While another noted: “find a way to push through red tape or other market blockers and achieve one or two ‘wins’ in our most important areas. For instance, if innovation is important, focus on it and achieve an outcome. if it’s investment or capital, focus on that.”

“Gary Banks should have a good look at the manufacturing sector. It’s in the news now, but the horse has bolted. it has been left to its own devices for too long. How about some form of support for local manufacturers rather than funding auto manufacturers to source offshore,” one CEO wrote.

Matching a desire for more awareness from another: “Publicise that real productivity is falling and invite industry to provide the top 5 barriers that need to be reduced to support its increase in both innovation and cost reduction.”

Research design and analysis for the CEO Pulse was conducted by GA Research and fieldwork by AFS. the sample comprised 147 CEOs of organisations with an Australian turnover of $100 million or more who opted to participate in a five minute survey conducted over the phone or online between Monday 22 August and Sunday 4 September 2011.

I want to order a hoodie that is only available online. the measurements are given, but I have trouble understand how I'm supposed to measure myself.

It gives x length, but how exactly should I measure the length of the hoodie? should I begin from the top of the hood, or from the neckline?

they are not including the actual hood in the measurements. just look at it like a regular sweater.
to measure length do not include the hood. neasure from neckline down.
this may help:

wizardknits.com/measurements.…

I want to buy boots online and considering buying half a size up just in case the style may be tight, i want to measure my foot but im wondering, when using a measuring tape, do you start at the 1M, or the beginning of the measuring tape. because their is always a whole space between the one and the beginning of the tape.
For example:
google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http:…

thanks

What I would do to get the measurement would be to put my foot on the tape and get something flat and put it behind my heel to the beginning of the tape and then go to the toe to get the full measurement of the foot. If you have a shoe that has the size shown on it and then if you know the country the shoe you want to buy is being made, there is a site on line that converts shoe sizes from different countries to the one you live in.

I am painting my soon to be born baby boys' nursery. I am painting one half of the wall yellow and the bottom half of the wall a light green.
In the middle of the wall I am putting up a border that will go all along the four walls. so it will be yellow, border, light green.

Last night I went through and taped off the location of where the border will be. I have a very large window in the room so I am using the window ledge as my center (I want to have the border go all the way around the walls and stop at the window ledge and then continue after the ledge). I measured out where this is and it doesn't appear to be directly in the middle of the wall but I feel this is the best place to put the border so it doesn't look weird.

I have a couple questions:

First, I used a laser level to make a straight line across each wall and put painters tape down where the top of the border will go. so, I will install the border in line with the paint once I paint the wall…Was this the correct way to do it? Should I have put the painters tape where the middle of the border was going to be or is is correct to put it where the top or bottom of the border will be.

Second, I put the tape up so that the window ledge will be the middle of my border. this looks good all the way around until I get to the light switch. The light switch appears to not be in the same spot so the border will not be in the middle of the switch…Should I have used the light switch as my starting point instead of the window ledge?

Any other info anyone can provide on putting about a border would be helpful. sorry for such a long question and thanks in advance!

The best way to protect a wallpaper border while painting the surrounding wall is to apply painter's masking tape to the border. there are various types of painter's masking tapes for different painting situations, and conditions. Paint with small, careful strokes, and use a smaller brush to decrease the chances painting past the masking tape and onto the border. aside from applying the tape accurately, this is the most important thing to keep in mind.

I think using the window ledge as a guide was a good idea. I wouldn't worry about the light switch.
I have put up a border before and what I did was mark off with the top of the masking tape where I want it to be and using a pencil, draw a line at the bottom of the masking tape. Remove tape and paint the top part of the wall to the line, that way you still have a good inch or so (whatever the tape size is) and the border will cover it. Paint the bottom half of the wall the colour you choose and wait to dry then put up your border.

My answer is useless if you have already put up the border, so I'm sorry.

What you do is run the chalk line first. then paint. You only have to come close to the line because the border isn't up.

Wait 2 days, then run a new chalk line where you want one edge of the border to run. make sure the width of the border will cover the old chalk line, and the 2 paint edges. either top or bottom. then apply the border.

Sooo much easier than trying to paint an exact line without getting paint on the border.

Hi, we just had a baby boy 7 weeks ago and did the exact same thing except we put light blue on top then a white border about 10 inches above the window ledge (we too have a large window in his room). below the border is a darker blue. we put masking tape where the border would go (used laser as well). Masking tape went where the middle of the border would be. Next we painted the top (light blue) let it dry, did second coat…let it dry. Next we painted the bottom half (darker blue) once dried then applied second coat. we had to let the paint cure for 30 days before adding the border. At least that's what the people at H. Depot said, otherwise the paint may streak. after waiting 30 days, the border was wet, then applied. it looks awesome. not sure if this helped. too bad I don't see your e-mail address because I would send you pictures of the entire process right through to the finished product.

Laser? Sonic? what brand or type? what surfacce do you need to bounce of?

might try a roller with a wheel that adds feet to the meter.
maybe a laser, it would depend how accurate you need the measurement.

My friend is an appraiser, and uses are laser measure… something like this:

testproducts.com/safecart/product…

It will bounce of pretty much any solid surface.

you can use a measuring wheel.

Get a transit. A good one will set you back about a grand, but if you need "dead-nuts" accuracy, thats the way to go.