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Breaking down the key matchups inSaturday’s SEC East showdown betweenUK and Florida.

UK defensive coordinator Rick Minter’s defensevs. Florida offensive coordinator Charlie Weis'pro-style offense

When the Gators have the ball, excit-ing things are always liable to happen.Florida senior quarterback John Brantleyis a strong-armed pocket passer with goodpresence and the ability to find his pletho-ra of play-makers in space. The Cats, whohave never been a major pass rush threat,will have to find a way to disturb BrantleySaturday or the former high schoolGatorade National Player of the Year willhave a field day in Lexington.

Brantley’s biggest asset on offense willbe senior running back Chris Rainey, whocurrently leads the Gators in both rushingand receiving with 48 carries for 306 yards,11 catches for 214 yards and four totaltouchdowns. Accompanying Rainey on of-fense for Florida are fellow senior runningback Jeff Demps, senior wide receiver De-onte Thompson and do-everything sopho-more Trey Burton. Demps, who also runstrack at Florida, is widely regarded as thefastest player in college football and if theCats fail to contain him, he is a threat toscore on every play. Thompson is a bigwide receiver who can provide a large tar-

get for Brantley to find on the outside, andBurton is the man who torched UK for sixtouchdowns in last year’s meeting.

The Gators’ offense is built upon speedand execution of the pro-style offense,which involves a mix of run and pass that ifexecuted correctly can threaten any part ofthe field on any play. UK’s defense, on theother hand, is built upon wreaking havoc atthe line of scrimmage with different looksfrom the linebackers and safeties, creatingmistakes by opposing offenses. The defen-sive line will have to show up in a big wayto occupy the trenches while the Cats’ line-backers are flying around making plays.Athletes including senior linebackers Ron-nie Sneed and Danny Trevathan, as well aslinebacker/safety hybrid Winston Guy, willhave to have a nose for the football to con-tain Florida’s athletes and prevent themfrom breaking loose for big gains.

“All of us in here have heard the term‘speed kills,’” UK head coach JokerPhillips said in his weekly press confer-ence Monday. “I know that’s one of theclichés. Which one is overrated? It's notoverrated this week. They got the type ofspeed that can hurt you.”

Edge: Florida's offense. UK's defense has shownsignificant improvements from a year ago underMinter, but Florida's offense simply has toomuch speed and athleticism for the Cats to han-dle. Charlie Weis will have his Gators running thepro-style offense to perfection, meaning thateven if UK plays perfect, it will still need a few

bounces to go their way. Expect Florida to putup big points.

UK's football program vs. the history booksTwenty-five up, 25 down for Florida

against UK. Over a quarter century hasgone by since the last time the Cats defeat-ed Florida, not to say they haven't comeclose in the past. Some players use the los-ing streak as motivation for the game. Oth-ers choose to keep it out of mind and focuson the task athand. But formost UK de-fenders thestreak is some-thing theythink about,but don’t allowto consumethem.

“You think about it ... You think aboutit for a while because its been happeningfor 25 years, but you just have to keep itin your mindset and then get it out be-cause you don’t really want to think aboutthat,” senior defensive back Randall Bur-den said.

The Cats’ losing streak to Florida is thesecond-longest current losing streak by oneteam to a specific opponent in the nation.The longest? UK again, this time againstTennessee, which has beaten UK 26 years ina row. Saturday, UK will look to end one of

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Liz. “We wanted to run the race be-cause we just graduated. It was the per-fect time — we were stuck in a timewhere we didn’t know what we wanted to

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Twins compete on world-traveling game showK-Lair celebrates 50 years

Over the past 50 years, many UK studentshave satisfied their appetites at K-Lair.

The diner-style grill lit its burners for the firsttime in 1961 and has been a consistently depend-able restaurant for students and UK Dining Serv-ices.

Even though it’s the smallest of UK’s campuseateries, K- Lair has been part of the college ex-perience since it was established.

“It’s just a really special place in its own littleway,” said Parker Edwards, assistant director forUK Dining Services.

His relationship with the popular grill runsdeeper than most students.

“It’s special to me because that’s where I startedas a student,” said Edwards, a UK alumnus.

Twenty years ago, K-Lair gave birth to theprofessional career Edwards has today.

He serves as an administrator over UK’s fourmain residential dining facilities: Commons, K-Lair, Ovid’s and Blazer.

“I worked the dining room, dishes, the frontline — I did everything just like the student work-ers today have to,” he said.

Edwards said that when he was a student hispeers enjoyed eating at K-Lair just as much asstudents do now.

“For years, everyone loved its chili because ofthe cook who used to be there,” he said. “It wasreally good!”

The second oldest eatery on campus (besidesthe Student Center) has an unparalleled history.

When K-Lair first came into being, it was oneof UK’s early conservation of “green” projects,

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UK grad now a ‘hotdogger’

Many students’ post-gradua-tion plans include graduate schoolor pursuing careers. One UK gradhad a slightly different plan.

Russell Brammell, whograduated in May with an eco-nomics degree, decided to takethe road less traveled after col-lege and become an official Os-car Mayer Wiener “hotdogger.”

Hotdoggers are students whodrive the iconic Oscar MayerWienermobile around America.

Brammell beat out roughly1,200 other applicants for the jobto becoming one of 12 currenthotdoggers in America.

Each Wienermobile has twostudent drivers who are assigneda region of America.

Brammell’s Wienermobilestops in various cities in thesoutheast to work events.

At the events, hotdoggers areexpected to meet with all theguests, take countless pictures,give tours of the Wienermobileand give out the Wienerwhistles.

However, Brammell said inan average week he gets at leasttwo days to explore the cities.

“It’s a really awesome op-portunity,” Brammell said. “I’ma lucky dog.”

He said his desire to travel

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PHOTO BY QUIANNA LIGE | STAFFA flash mob staged outside the Student Center featured students from Team Wildcat doing “The Wobble,” a popular line dance.

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Gatorade has come a long way since its inception inthe 1960s, and nobody knows the story better than Dr.Bobby Barton.

A 1968 graduate of UK, Barton has been involvedwith athletic training his entire career. One of his firstjobs was at the University of Florida, which put him onthe football field with a drink that would change collegesports forever.

Dr. Robert Cade invented Gatorade for the FloridaGators football team in 1965. The players noticed im-mediate positive results. While visiting teams hadcramping issues, the Gators kept right on running. Spec-ulation ran wild in the football world, trying to figureout what the Gators were drinking to improve secondhalf performance. Other programs tried to duplicate theproduct, but to no avail.

“Georgia had what they called Bulldog Punch.These other teams had variations, but none were near asgood as Florida’s Gatorade,” Barton said.

By 1970, Florida decided to sell Gatorade to thegeneral public and did so with resounding success. Re-hydration had become a topic of importance, especiallywith the oppressive heat in the South. Information wasbeing compiled on the subject to help alleviate crampingand heat-related illness.

“Florida figured out that if it was good for the ath-lete, it was good for the person cutting grass or playingsoftball,” Barton said. “They were very forward thinkingabout this process.”

Coach Doug Dickey was in charge of Florida foot-ball in the early Gatorade years and left a memorableimpression on the athletic training staff. The head coachlooked over at the trainers one day and had a questionfor them.

“Guys, it’s a little sticky out here today, do y’allwant to give the boys an extra Gatorade break?”

This was a far cry from the traditional and rugged at-titude many head coaches held during the ‘60s.

“Before all the new information and science on re-hydration importance, most coaches had the logic thatdrinking too much during a game would make the play-ers not perform well,” Barton said.

In 1982, Gatorade became the first sponsor of theNational Athletic Trainers’ Association. From this pointforward, athletic trainers across the country were askedto test new products related to the sideline use ofGatorade.

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“Pan Am,” which captures the glory daysof stewardesses (you know, back before theymade you fork over $10 for a bag of peanuts),debuts Sunday at 10 p.m. EDT on ABC. Hereare five other shows that have featured stew-ardesses, or, um, as we call them today, flightattendants.

“Flying High” (1978-79) — Short-liveddrama about the adventures of three newstewardesses for Sunwest Airlines. They wereplayed by Connie Sellecca, Pat Klous andKathryn Witt, all of whom were former mod-els with little acting experience.

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according to Edwards.The building, located next

to the Haggin Hall dormitory,was originally the footballteam’s locker room before itwas converted into a restau-rant.

Even though most peopledon’t understand its name, itdoes have a meaning.

“There was contest toname the place,” Edwardssaid. “The K is obviously forKentucky, and the Lair is be-cause Wildcats live in lairs.”

K-Lair’s first menu con-

sisted primarily of burgers,but it adjusted to students’taste buds over time.

“As styles have changed,K-Lair has changed,” Ed-wards said. “Now, most of itssales are on the chicken side.It’s kind of famous for itschicken strips.”

Students do not deny thatK-Lair is still a campus fa-vorite.

“Freshman year I ate thereabout three or four times aweek,” said Steven Decker, amining engineering junior. “Ireally liked the spicy chickensandwich and tenders.”

UK freshmen, likeJazmine Hudson, might not

be familiar with all aspects ofcampus yet, but they knowabout K-Lair.

“I was in FSP (FreshmanSummer Program), so thefirst few times I ate there wasthis past summer,” said Hud-son, who is an education andsocial work double major.

Hudson said she’ll con-tinue to be a one of K-Lair’spatrons.

“I would consider itamong my favorite places toeat (on campus),” she said. “Ilike it more than Ovid’s orCommons.”

Hudson said she usuallyorders the cheeseburger, butshe also likes other items she

has eaten at the restaurant.This past summer, Hudson

was one of the first students toexperience K-Lair in its newform after the eatery receivedan early birthday gift.

The price tag was$42,000 for the facility’ssecond-ever renovation,which included new seating,floors, countertops and menuadditions.

The decision to update K-Lair shows that it has been aUK tradition for a half-centu-ry and will continue to be onein the future.

“It will be around as longas the university will let us,”Edwards said.

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and meet new people was whatreally sold him on the job.

Even on his off time,Brammell gets approached fordriving the Wienermobile. Hesaid the 27 by 8 by 11 footvehicle is hard to miss.

At UK, Brammell was themascot, Scratch, for twoyears. His experience helpedhim get the job.

Now, Oscar Mayer has sixdifferent Wiernermobiles tour-ing all across the country.

“I had no idea it was 75years old,” said Leo Weis-berger, a political science sen-ior. “I’m glad, though, be-cause I remember seeing itwhen I was a little kid.”

Every year, new hotdog-gers are selected from col-leges across America.

“I can’t name a hotdoggerwho didn’t enjoy the experi-ence.” said Rachel Kerr, mobilemarketing coordinator forOscar Mayer.

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would literally walk and run almostevery day before until the race … Westudied maps, we made sure we went toa compass class … to learn how to reada compass just because we knew we’dbe directionally challenged, so we reallyneeded that help.”

Q. What were you nervous about?

Marie. “The thing we were nerv-ous about was going to different coun-tries and the language barriers becausewe really hadn’t ever traveled anywherebesides Mexico. So we thought thatwould be our biggest obstacle.”

Liz. “We were both worried aboutbeing able to read maps.”

Q. Did you learn anything abouteach other?

Liz. “What we’ve totally learned isthat we don’t pay attention to detail. We

learned to be more detail-oriented.”

Marie. “I think we just learnedmore about each other and how we per-formed in different situations, how wereact to certain things. It just brings outthe best and the worst of you.”

Q. What was your favorite thingabout UK?

Marie. “I think my favorite partof UK is the sense of community. Wefelt a part of school.”

Liz. “The teachers. I just had a reallygood experience with each professor Ihad. Especially because we were in theCollege of Agriculture.”

Q. Do you have a favorite professoror faculty member?

Liz and Marie.Adviser: Dr. Witham (Deborah

Witham, community & leadership devel-opment) Professor – Dr. Weckman(Randy Weckman, agricultural commu-nications)

Q. Favorite activity you did at UK?

Liz. “I really enjoyed actually writ-ing for the newspaper when we had towrite for our journalism classes. I feltlike I was contributing to the school.”

Marie. “I just overall loved all myclasses in the agriculture school.”

Q. Do you plan on coming back toKentucky a lot?

Liz and Marie. (in uni-son) “Yeah! We’re going to be back forKeeneland in two weeks. We are excitedabout it.”

Q. How was it adjusting after yougot back from the race?

Liz.“It was sad. I mean because itwas really fun, traveling and doing somany fun and crazy things. So it washard, but I’m excited to watch it on Sun-day and show everyone what happened.”(They said the show filmed in fiveweeks.)

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To think that I almostdidn’t go dramaticallychanges the retrospect land-scape of my summer. I wasbeyond exhausted that daylast spring, but I still feltpulled in that direction. Mypresence turned out to bemore than a response to per-ceived obligation. It turnedout to be a pivotal point inmy life — a crucible thathas forever impacted meand my approach to oppor-tunities.

The speaker at this Stu-dent Activities Board eventwas Dan Austin from thenonprofit organization88Bikes. Dan and his brother

Jared started 88Bikes tobring happiness to childrenin underdeveloped areas ofthe world. Since it costsabout $88 for all the parts ofa bike, they use donations topurchase these parts, deliver,assemble, and give them tochildren everywhere fromsmall villages in Mozam-bique to Nepal to Peru.

The sight of me was like-ly hysterical. I sat open-mouthed and wide-eyed.Never had I seen someone sopassionate and servant-heart-ed. I was hooked by88Bikes’ mission: to elevatehappiness as a human need

and strive to “create the mosthappy.” Afterward we spokefor an hour and emailed backand forth for the next twomonths, working out the lo-gistics of opportunities tovolunteer. Finally, the datewas set and the plane ticketspurchased. I was off to Bluff,Utah, for one week in July towork on their first domesticproject.

We worked to construct amobile bike shop from anold trailer to accompany a50-bike delivery to kids onthe local Navajo Reservation.Decorated with old car hoodsand powered by solar panels,

it was to serve as a repairstation, drink stop and stor-age facility for their ridesthrough the desert.

As a volunteer amongstarchitects and companyfounders, one could havesaid that I seemed out ofplace. Yet I was exactlywhere I was supposed to be:camping out under the stars,biking everywhere, sitting inon meetings with 88Bikesand their partners, eating buf-falo burgers, and getting myconstruction on. After thefirst day my hands were cov-ered in callouses; after thesecond, bubble blisters and a

nice cut; after the third, I wascoated in sawdust. I used adrill bit, pried the stickycoating off three-form,ripped out an old floor withsledgehammers and crowbar,and cut steel and wood witha chop saw, among otherthings.

I was blessed with themost amazing volunteer op-portunity in the world, yetthe word “volunteer” doesn’tquite capture it. I got a rarelook at how 88Bikes worksand just how generous, car-ing, selfless, and joyous Danand Jared both are. Thanks tothat trip I now count both asdear friends.

As a guest lecturer oncetold me, “Listen for thosewords that are going tochange your life.” Dan’s cer-tainly did, but I didn’t under-stand how much until I wentto Utah. While there, I ulti-mately came to adopt the

conviction that happiness ISan inalienable human rightand an all-important need.Like Dan, I now believe thatif we focus on meeting thatneed the world will be a bet-ter place.

I say all of this simply toillustrate the absolute impor-tance not only of service, butof the beauty that comesfrom curiosity and spontane-ity. When you feel pulled ina direction, even if you can-not yet discern why, GO. It’staking advantage of opportu-nities like this — ones thatcome out of nowhere andmove you, place you out ofyour norm, and are often justplain crazy — that take youto exactly where you’re sup-posed to be.

Sarah Jones is a com-munication junior. Emailopinions@kykernel.com.

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A PC gamer is a gentle crea-ture that just wants one thing: Hedesires developers to stop mak-ing shoddy ports of console

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Fortunately,Flying WildHog has heardthe cry of thebelittled PCgamer and hasdelivered thegoods in theform of a PC-exclusive first-person shooter“Hard Reset.”

“Hard Reset” is a first-personshooter in its simplest form.There are things to shoot, blowup, destroy and shoot somemore. There might even be somesimple platforming thrown in tofind secret areas, and to navigateobstructions in the environment.

Speaking of the environment,“Hard Reset” has some of thebest environments seen this sideof “Crysis.” The game takesplace in a fully-realized “cyper-punk” world inspired by the likesof “Blade Runner” and “Ghost inthe Shell.” While there is notmuch variety to the environ-

ments, the neon lights and ghost-ly monitors that illuminate theunderbelly of this futuristic citynever seem to get old.

Flying Wild Hog is com-prised of former team membersfrom People Can Fly, the studiobehind “Painkiller” and more re-cently “Bulletstorm.” They knowshooters and they bring this ex-pertise to “Hard Reset” by stick-ing to what makes the genre soappealing. Ridding the game ofthe usual tropes of the genre,they were able to focus on atight, entertaining experience thatany fan of shooters from the1990s will enjoy.

That does not mean that theydid not bring any innovation tothe table. There are only twoguns in the game, but those twoguns transform into five differentweapons, expanding the armoryto a total of 10 guns.

The guns and their transfor-mations can be upgraded with“N.A.N.O.,” which can be foundin secret areas. These upgradesrange from simple — like addinga zoom function to the rifle — tomore destructive, like allowingthe rocket launcher to explodeinto smaller chain-explosions.

The story is admittedly theweakest part of the entire pack-age. While it is very cool and re-

freshing to see the story present-ed in an animated graphic novellook with fantastic voice acting,it is at times annoying that thecharacters talk about places andevents with no prior back storyto fill the player in. The story isakin to the stories from shootersin the 1990s where the plot wasonly meant to provide context forthe worlds the player would in-teract in.

While it did not bother me,some may be bothered by thegame’s length. I easily completedthe game in a little under fivehours, but the developers wiselyimplemented a new “game plus”mode. This mode allows theplayer to take all upgradedweapons on a new playthroughto earn more upgrades or in-crease their score for a level.

As an aside, there is no mul-tiplayer, as Flying Wild Hogwanted to focus on making thebest single-player experiencepossible.

“Hard Reset” is a short gamewith a nonsensical story, but be-yond that is a beautiful shooterdiluted to its purest form. Whileit may not be everybody’s cup ofslurm, those who remember“Doom” and “Quake” fondly,will get a lot of entertainmentout of it.

‘Hard Reset’ is a love letter to PC gamers

“Appalachia in the Bluegrass”is not new to UK’s campus. RonPen, the founder of the John JacobNiles Center for American Music atUK, has organized the series since2004, based on his love for Ap-palachian music.

This week the series continueswith a performance from “Rich andthe Po’ Boys” at noon on Friday.

“It dawned on me — if I can’tbring Muhammed to themountain, I couldbring the mountain toMuhammed,” Pensaid. “In other words,I started to bring Ap-palachian musicians tocampus as a way ofenabling my Ap-palachian music classto enjoy active en-gagement with thepeople as well as themusic.”

Always held in the John JacobNiles Center located in the lobby ofthe Lucille Little Fine Arts Library,Appalachia in the Bluegrass shedslight on a style of music that nor-mally does not encompass the areaoutside of the large mountainrange: folk music.

Folk music comes to life

through its “vibrancy,” “virtuosity”and the sheer dedication it requiresto learn, said Ben Arnold, directorfor the UK School of Music.

Arnold, who helps oversee theprogram, says he has gained an un-derstanding of folk music fromworking with the musicians.

Folk music requires “thousandsof hours of practice,” and has madethese artists “professionals,”Arnold said.

Appalachia in the Bluegrassprovides an hour to kick back at the

end of every weekand enjoy somelive entertain-ment for free.

“An hourspent listeningand interactingwith extraordi-nary performersin (an) intimatespace ... morelike a back porch

than a concerthall,” Pen said.

Pen said that live music is morethan just music.

“I want students to understandthat people belong to place,” hesaid. “Place matters. We are all tiedto our sense of place by an invisi-ble web of culture. Music is a pow-erful thread in that web that ties usto home and place.”

UK’s relationshipwith Appalachiaincludes music

By Kayla Pickrell

features@kykernel.com

if you goWhat: Appalachia in the BluegrassWhen: Friday at noonWhere: Niles Center, LucilleLittle Fine Arts LibraryAdmission: Free

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“Keith Webster and Jim Madaleno havebeen very involved in UK athletic training,and have done a wonderful job spreading theword in Kentucky about rehydration,” Bartonsaid. “UK has one of the best programs in thecountry on this topic.”

Also developed at the time by Gatorade,was a chart for locker rooms that players stilluse today. This chart records humidity levels,outside temperature and weight loss for eachplayer during a specific practice time.

“I’d say 95 percent of football teams in thecollege and National Football League check inbefore each practice with this chart, or some-thing similar,” Barton said. “Heat illness in the1970s and ‘80s was an issue, and we tried to

fix it.“It’s basically like the attention that con-

cussions get today.” After leaving Florida, Barton found a

home at Eastern Kentucky University. He hasbeen there ever since, spending most of histime alongside legendary coach Roy Kidd.Barton was elected to the Ohio Valley Confer-ence Hall of Fame in 2004 for his efforts inthe area of athletic training.

“Gatorade probably helped our cause towin two championships at EKU,” Barton said.

UK football uses Gatorade products, evenwhen Florida comes to town. UK senior defen-sive back Randall Burden won’t let his dislikefor the opposition deter actions during the game.

“I’m going to drink Gatorade, it does notmatter how much you hate another team orwhere Gatorade came from,” Burden said.“I’m still going to drink it from here on out.”

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those losing streaks in front ofits home fans. For the team’sseniors, it will be their lastchance at seeing Florida fall.

“Just being able to snapthat streak is enough braggingrights in Kentucky alone be-cause we haven’t beat thatteam in a long time and it

would be great to get that inour belt,” senior linebackerRonnie Sneed said. “I alwayssaid, me and my other ‘07guys were like ‘Man, we gotto snap this streak before weleave, we don’t want to go outlike that.’”

Edge and Overall Edge: Floridaand the history books. TheGators simply have too much tal-ent to compete with. While the

Cats’ talent is emerging and dif-ferent positions are finding theirrhythm, they have not been ableto harness it all and pull it to-gether for an entire game. Evenin its victories, UK has notlooked spectacular. Saturday,Florida will represent by far thebest team UK has faced this sea-son. Anticipate the Gators’speed and execution on bothsides of the ball to overwhelmthe Cats early, sealing Florida’s26th straight victory over UK.

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