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EMILY Newett is days away from parting with the one thing most teenage girls never would.
In the name of charity, the youngster will say goodbye to her long locks.
The 14-year-old wanted to help out any way she could after learning a family friend had been diagnosed with brain cancer.
Emily's friend, another 14-year-old girl, has undergone treatment and numerous operations.
Emily will cut off her hair over the weekend to raise money that will go to the Cancer Council.
She put things into perspective when she was quizzed about the upcoming trim.
"I don't mind at all, it's for a good cause," she said.
Port Macquarie High School
"Most people have said it's a good thing and others are saying I'll look a little weird without any hair," she said.
"It's going to be interesting what I'll look like, but I'm more worried about raising the money."
She said she was aiming at a goal of $1,000 and said she was already part way there.
But, it looks as though Emily won't be the only one donning the crew cut and will have a little help with the fundraising.
She has managed to talk her friend, Cody Temple, into loosing his locks as well.
"It looks as though the date for the shave will be this weekend," Emily's mother Jodi said.
"It's exciting, she's doing it for a good cause."
Those those who want to donate to the worthy cause can do so by going to the link http://nsw.cancercouncilfundraising.org.au/DYT13emily512.


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Unverified Voracity Mesmerizes With Ice Cream
We will carry him through the city of God on a golden palanquin, crying out "oh child of wonder, share with us your one true vision." If you're like me—a shiftless loner who can watch TV during the day and really likes the national soccer team—you no doubt remember the searing vision from last year's Italy-Brazil Confederations Cup matchup. Someone made an animated gif of it.
I know you will never stop watching that, and I'm sorry.
Holy cow. This will mark the second time in a week something interesting has been said by a West Virginia newspaper that had nothing to do with Rich Rodriguez. (Floating an apparently legit rumor that Chuck Heater is a potential Jay Hopson replacement was the other.) Imagine this alternate history as told by Mike Brey:
"Four or five years ago my athletic director called me in for a meeting and told me to be prepared. We're going to the Big Ten," Brey said, so matter-of-factly that you figured everyone knew about it.
But that really wasn't the case.
No one knew that Notre Dame stood on the doorstep of jumping to the Big Ten a few years back. They knew they had the chance to go, that the Big Ten wanted them, but that were close enough that the Irish athletic director was calling coaches in and telling them to prepare for the move, that it was a sure thing … well, can you say Miami, Virginia Tech and Boston College.
"It changed at the midnight hour," Brey said, "but he was preparing me for that."
I have no penetrating insights here. Just… wow. This will prompt even more Mike White shrines across ND Nation.
Another departure? Probably not. USF fired Jim Leavitt after he went Woody Hayes on one of his players and then lied about it extensively. This led to a number of articles floating Calvin Magee as a possible replacement, in which he'd "expressed an interest," albeit not publicly.
It looks like South Florida is going another direction, however:
Nothing could be confirmed late Monday, but speculation was heavy that the Bulls could be a match for Holtz, the son of a coaching great who has guided the Pirates to back-to-back Conference USA championships.
That's a non-entity of a statement there, but there's an article in the competing paper that says Holtz has been contacted by USF:
"I have gotten a call to find out if I had interest in talking to them,'' he said. "Obviously, there is interest from a standpoint of the league they play in, the Big East, and my parents live here in Orlando, my wife is from Port Charlotte. We would have four grandparents right there. There are a lot of positives to it. I think it's definitely an up-and-coming program so, yeah, there would be interest.''
It's rare to see a guy with a job make a public statement of interest and not get the gig. Michigan looks like it will hold on to Magee, then.
(HT: Orson as Spencer.)
Midterms. The NHL's Central Scouting Board has released their midterm rankings. Players of note for Michigan:
20. Jon Merrill, D, USA U18
50. Jacob Fallon, F, USA U18
75. Luke Moffatt, F, USA U18
98. Alex Guptill, F, Orangeville (2010 or 2011)
132. Kevin Clare, D, USA U18
170. Derek Deblois, F, Cedar Rapids, USHL (2010 or 2011)
(About Guptill and Deblois: It's uncertain whether or not they'll be on campus next year. They are eligible for this draft and usually that means they'll be on campus the season after they get drafted, but when they committed they were expected to be members of the 2011 class. Robbie Czarnik leaving opens up a spot for one, and it's possible they'll bring the other in early with the money they'd earmarked for (argh) Jack Campbell.)
Items of note other than "argh Jack Campbell": Merrill and Moffatt have dropped, Moffatt considerably. These are just North American skater rankings. Add in Euros and goalies and Merrill projects as a late first or early second rounder, Fallon a third-rounder, and Moffatt somewhere in rounds three to five. Moffatt was getting hyped as a possible top ten pick and a definite first rounder. That might be bad for their instant impact but better for the long term future of the program if they decide to stick around longer. Also a possibility: the CSB rankings, which can be wack, are a little wack.
On the other hand, Fallon keeps moving up and Clare is in a nice sweet spot for a stay-at-home defenseman who will be around for three or four years. The above-listed players and USHL D Mac Bennett are the entire class. Since Bennett went in the second round last year, that's impressive. Every player Michigan is bringing in next year is expected to be or has been drafted, and it seems likely the majority of the class will be off the board when the fourth round rolls around. If it makes you feel any better about this year, no one in State's current class is even on the list.
The timing on this is fantastic. So, yes, John Beilein got an extension after one of the most disappointing losses of his Michigan career, one that finally closed the door on all but the most insane Michigan fan's NCAA tourney hopes. Predictably, people were outraged on the radio. Predictably, Mike Rosenberg rushed to write an article that reads like "a Goofus and Gallant article with Goofus (RR) mostly standing just outside the frame" according to zingy MGoBoard poster wolverine1987.
Assorted e-pinions that, in retrospect, are directed at people who won't listen anyway:
- This was not decided after the season started.
- Yes, obviously David Brandon knew this was happening. Conspiracy theories about Bill Martin dropping a nasty present in Brandon's lap are transparently silly.
- The buyout is the thing that matters and I doubt that it increased significantly, if at all, should Beilein's tenure go the same direction Amaker's did. I think that point is moot—the NCAA bid will buy him enough time to get a full roster of his guys in and his history indicates that he'll be successful enough in the long run that he will likely retire a Wolverine. If it's not, though, a few hundred K here or there is not going to prevent Michigan from making a move.
- Short of massacring an entire village of Vietnamese peasants, Beilein is here for a long time, extension or no.
Etc.: Rivals recognizes the Big Ten's bowl season as basically on par with the SEC's and far better than anyone else's. CMU hires Michigan State assistant Dan Enos; Enos is regarded as Dantonio's primary recruiter guy. Should be some small help with in-state recruiting. Charles Woodson, your NFL defensive player of the year, extensively profiled by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Unverified Voracity Is Distorted For Fun
Baseball draftin'. While the Major League Baseball draft isn't a major concern for anyone currently on the team—only Chris Fetter is expected to get drafted, and he's a senior—there are a couple of recruits who will be watching carefully to see where they go:
Derek Dennis, a shortstop from Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central High School, Daniel Fields, an infielder from University of Detroit Jesuit, and Patrick Biondi, a Dearborn Divine Child outfielder, are all potential early-round draft prospects.
Maloney said Baseball America projects Dennis as a third- or fourth-round pick and Fields as a fifth- or sixth-round pick.
Dennis, Baseball America's #6 high school shortstop, appears to be leaning towards school. Varsity Blue highlights a Grand Rapids Press article and sums up:
Michigan is close to signing Forest Hills shortstop Derek Dennis. Dennis visited this last week, talked with Coach Maloney, Lloyd Carr, John Beilien, and Red Berenson to discuss the benefits of college. The GRP makes it sound like if he's not taken in the top 3 rounds, he will forgo signing and come to Michigan. This may bode well, as if a team suspects he may not sign, he may get drafted even lower, increasing his odds of coming to Ann Arbor.
Dennis did not go yesterday, when rounds 1-3 were held. Fields, meanwhile, was the subject of an ESPNRise article in May that contains only this about the probability he'll end up on campus:
"He's got the combination of speed and potential power that a lot of people covet," says his father. "The power has to be more consistent, and I think it will be. To me, he's a potential five-tool player."
"He's the whole package," adds Fernandez.
MLB scouts will likely come out in droves this spring to watch Fields, who knows he has another great option -- his scholarship to Michigan -- in case the draft doesn't work out.
I didn't find anything on Biondi.
Zonin' it. Florida State, now possessors of former Rodriguez offensive line coach Rick Trickett, is something of a funhouse mirror via which we can discern things in the Michigan program. Trickett's installed the same sort of zone blocking Michigan has, and this has led to a fantastic post at Tomahawk Nation about the system. My favorite bits are the ones where TN transcribes a video of Alex Gibbs, the longtime Broncos guru and a guy who had major influence on zone running games across the country, including the spread 'n' shred:
Above all, we want guys who want play so bad they could die. We want guys who can run, who are athletic, who have "recoverability", but who maybe lacks bulk and strength. Maybe doesn't know what his body is about yet. We want guys who are going to take advantage of that redshirt year.
TACKLES: Tall, length, maybe no basic strength, but he can run, and we're willing to let him add that power. 6'5 1/2" is usually the max we want.
GUARDS & CENTERS: height and length doesn't mean ****. Marginal height, but plays with great leverage. "LOW WAISTED" (long torso short legs), with leverage under our bodies. Healthier by not being heavy. RARE for them to play early. Nobody over 6'3". My center must be football brilliant.
Very intelligent on the inside. The "test score limit would SCARE YOU."
In here you see the initial seeds of Molk, Omameh, and Huyge's successes, plus the coaching staff's out-and-out glee at picking up 6'3" Quinton Washington. You can also see why maybe Dann O'Neill was buried and why Mr. Plow said "screw you guys, I'm going home." Also of interest: that Christian Pace AMP interview where he came off like a future engineer.
Also note Florida State's heir apparent at running back, Jermaine Thomas. Thomas was a nondescript three-star—though ESPN made googly eyes—with but two major offers (Florida State and LSU). All he did last year was this:
And that's not especially cherry-picked runs against I-AA teams, either: take out Thomas's 18 carries against them and his average drops, sure, but only to 6.2 YPC. His highlight video is strikingly reminiscent of someone you might be familiar with:
That guy is a smaller, possibly faster, version of Brandon Minor down to the upright running style. One cut. Go. Also, check out how many of Thomas' big runs here are outside zones that get, you know, outside. I don't think I saw Michigan pull this off at any point last year. I specifically remember posting UFRs that openly questioned why the fullback always shot outside of a tackle who was getting shoved back to the point where the tailback had no choice but to turn it up between said tackle and Molk's generally-effective reach block. Since I never saw anyone actually get outside the tackle, it seemed like a waste.
I wonder what caused that. There are a number of possibilities:
- The tackles weren't that good.
- Molk's youth and lack of strength made it tough for him to anchor and dangerous for the tackle to hold his ground lest the holes evaporate entirely.
- Opposing teams, confident in their ability to avoid second-level blocks from Michigan's ponderous guards, sold out to stop players from getting outside.
The answer was probably some mix of the three.
Say what? Tennessee blogs are casting about, looking for ways to explain the flood of secondary violations that have descended upon the program since Lane Kiffin was hired. Bruce Feldman helps out:
Truth is, almost every program has at least a dozen secondary violations a year. Until recently, they almost never made news.
Uh… maybe if Feldman is talking about entire athletic departments, and even that's a stretch. To suggest the Keystone Kiffins are anywhere near an NCAA median—or even under it—is wrong:
Of the 21 NCAA recruiting violations committed by Big Ten schools during the 2007-08 year, Ohio State committed more than half with 13.
Big Ten teams not named Ohio State averaged 0.8 secondary recruiting violations last year… for their entire athletic department. Even violation-happy Ohio State had only four fey self-applied wrist taps given to the football team, which is two fewer than Tennessee has racked up in six months.
How much does this matter? In no way whatsoever, apparently. But let's not pretend that this is some sort of media explosion over nothing*: Kiffin is racking up secondary violations at a rapid pace, and the reason they're so much more visible than the others are is that other secondary violations are things like "accidentally talked to recruit on Shrove Tuesday." Kiffin's blunders are far stupider, and far more public.
*(WE GET IT, Clay Travis. The SEC is going to dominate everything forever and everything that happens is evidence of this.)
Holy pants. Yost Built relays word that Michigan's disgusting 2010 hockey recruiting class looks to get disgustinger in the near future:
Mike Spath posted that Lucas Lessio, a first-round pick in the OHL Draft, may become a Wolverine. He would then play at St. Mike's (The school that produced Caporusso, Cogliano, and Burlon) next season. His source told him that Lessio would be the best player to come to Michigan out of Ontario in the last decade (which includes the names listed above as well as Mike Cammalleri). Lofty praise. He's been compared to Rick Nash in the past, according to that thread.
Holy hotpants. Please get to campus, everyone.
Tim also has a complaint about the home schedule, which finishes up with a Thursday night game against new power Notre Dame, but a commenter corrects him:
Spring break doesn't start until Feb. 27 or something like that next year, so thankfully students will actually get to be there for senior day. I'm assuming that is part of the reason why the game is on a Thursday.
If so, this is a fantastic move by the AD. Most previous senior days have been over breaks, which has been an enormous missed opportunity. Having a full-fledged home crowd for what could be a CCHA-title deciding game also seems like a good idea.
It will continue. Michigan's basketball scheduling looks like it will remain shiny as long as Beilein's around:
"When you have a situation like we're in right now when you have an (experienced) team coming back, I wanted to get my arms around this thing," coach John Beilein said. "We wanted to have enough games so we can have enough games in this (Crisler) arena. At the same time, when you've got a team coming off the NCAA tournament and a lot of people back, that's the time to go after it."
Adding Kansas to the mix may be the most intriguing element.
"I always would like to have one really marquee big-time team coming here," Beilein said.
Etc.: Nick Montana commits to… Washington? What? Some flashy Darius Morris highlights at UMHoops.
Beilein Ceiling Five Times Fast
In the aftermath of Michigan's first tourney bid in forever and the looming (as in 2010) departures of the two guys who were the engine behind that bid there's been a lot of discussion about what we can expect in the future when Beilein doesn't have the services of two stars who wanted to play for someone else. There was a mailbag. There has been talking in comments and on blogs and on message boards. A winding response to various opinions follows.
It Can Work
Excellent diary from Bronxblue on the Beilein thing and potential ceilings it may have:
[Beilein's] system was designed to compensate for the lack of the "big time" star. The heavy reliance on three pointers that is a hallmark of his offense is designed to compensate for the lack of a post threat and/or a dynamic finisher around the basket. Similarly, the 1-3-1 was designed to create turnovers as a way to compensate for little interior defense from a dominant inside presence. …
Unfortunately … this type of system has a finite level of potential success - something I'll refer to as the Mid-Major Ceiling (MMC). Look at teams like Gonzaga (though their recruiting has gotten better over the years), Xavier, Creighton, and throw WVU into that mix (though they come from a major conference, they would never have succeeded in the Big East simply trying to out-recruit other teams). While they all are/were consistent NCAA teams, none ever made it past the Elite 8 (except George Mason, which was the flukiest of fluky runs), and even getting past the Sweet 16 was a crapshoot. The reason for this, at least in my opinion, was due to the fact that they inevitably ran into a team whose talent was great enough to expose the deficiencies each of those systems was designed to hide.
I don't think that necessarily has to be the case. John Hollinger put out an article earlier this year noting that the percentage of three-pointers attempted in the NBA is rising relentlessly, and the teams that are playing better than expected are doing it with the longball. Check it:
In fact, few stats correlate better with winning than 3-point attempts. If you tell me only how many 3-pointers a team has chucked up this season and provide no other information, I can tell you whether it is a winning team and be right eight times out of 10.
Check this out: The teams in the top 10 in 3-point attempts per field goal attempt have a combined winning percentage of .593 … and those in the bottom 10 have a combined winning percentage of .400.
That's no accident. Three-point attempts have correlated highly with winning for the past several years.
Now, the NBA is a completely different animal where just about everyone can shoot and everyone has legitimate post players, but that's just attempts, not actually making them.
You can see the power of the three-pointer in Michigan's numbers this year, which are at right: though Michigan was well above average at making their twos and well below average at making their threes, the eFG numbers are almost identical. If Michigan was even a little less unbalanced, the torrent of threes they jacked up would be a net benefit even though the stats would say they're better at twos.
Okay, yes, this sort of analysis misses a ton of factors: drawing fouls (advantage twos), turning the ball over (advantage threes), offensive rebounds(?). Also you just can't shoot all threes. Some percentage of Michigan's threes are really good looks, and those have the best percentage. Some percentage of them are okay looks, and those have an okay percentage. And some of them are "Manny… no!" or "Stu… no!" shots that have a poor percentage. Threes Michigan didn't shoot were bad shots indeed.
But the raw data from a place where the talent is much more evenly distributed is that if you can put together a team that takes a ton of threes you will be pretty good. Jackin' it up doesn't concede defeat.
As to the 1-3-1, we have not yet seen the full annoying extent of its power, not with 5'9" point guards and 6'4" power forwards and so on and so forth. When there's one guy shorter than 6'6" on the court and they've all got long arms it becomes much more of an issue. And I disagree with Bronxblue's characterization of it. The 1-3-1 doesn't seem like a necessary response to deficient talent, it seems like a way for Beilein to run his perimeter-heavy, three-mad offense without getting crushed on the defensive end. Beilein didn't have a talent disadvantage at Cansisus or Richmond, at least not an insurmountable one, and that's where his system was developed.
Take Evan Smotrycz. He's 6'9" but a stick. He's a super tall small forward and will remain that way if Beilein has anything to do with it. If asked to check a post player in man-to-man he won't do well. He'll do better than Zach Novak, but not well. If stuck on the wing in the 1-3-1 he'll make the skip passes that are its achilles heel long, looping, fruitless things, and then Beilein gets to use a 6'9" three-point shooting small forward on the offensive end.
The 1-3-1 and the Beilein offense have synergy, which is a horrible corporate word that happens to be useful. I don't think they're responses to a lack of talent, I think they're a single way of having an unusual system that happens to be unusually efficient at basketball.
Put it this way: if Evan Smotrcyz turns out to be Dirk Nowitzki and Matt Vogrich turns out to be Kyle Korver Beilein's system isn't going to hold them back on their Final Four run.
Okay, Then, Why Did You Say This?
… in the mailbag that started this:
Michigan basically abdicated on being a powerhouse when they hired Beilein.
Because of Bob Huggins, basically. The year after Beilein left West Virginia, Huggins landed five-star Devin Ebanks, who originally committed to Indiana, seriously considered Memphis, and then ended up with Huggins. That's Kelvin Sampson, John Calipari, and a guy who had a 0.0% graduation rate at Cincinnati. He's a microcosm of why this blog has a tag called "basketball recruiting is dirty like dirt in a dirt sandwich."
Yes, it is possible to have a legit powerhouse without sketchy recruiting stuff going on but it takes time and tradition; Michigan isn't starting from square one on the latter but it's not far off after ten years of crap and scandal before that. Fair or not, the last thing anyone outside the Michigan fan community remembers as a positive for the program happened in 1989, which is 1) 20 years ago and 2) before anyone we're recruiting was born. So the only way to go from zero to powerhouse was to cut corners and hire a John Calipari. We did not do this.
I've read a lot of criticisms of this position that I'd like to address, and the best way is probably through a rare-but-deadly double reverse fisk. The WLA quibbled. Now comes the thunder:
-The question appears to be "can Beilein recruit like Izzo/Matta/whoever," and the answer is very probably not.
Frankly, if this is the case, someone better inform Beilein. Brian waves off the 2010 targets Trey Zeigler, Casey Prather, and Will Regan, but, like, why? Prather, Ray McCallum, and Zeigler are respectively the #30, #56, and #75 recruits in the nation. Brian is appropriately skeptical of Michigan's chances with Prather, but, as shown by Beilein's near-steal of Nate Lubick from Duke, things can happen. Regardless, given Beilein's snag of Darius Morris from across the country, the landing of highly-praised Matt Vogrich, and Michigan's current lead for Zeigler - arguably the state's best player - the evidence that Beilein can't recruit on this level just doesn't exist, unless you care to assume that Beilein's recruiting won't improve from Morgantown to Ann Arbor - a theory he's already disproven.
Okay: I know we're all excited about Beilein's highest-rated recruits ever, but Morris is #77 on Rivals, #100 on ESPN, and an unranked three-star on Scout. Vogrich is #100 on Scout, #137 on Rivals, and unranked on ESPN. Those are the crown jewels of the class.
According to Rivals, the following Big Ten teams have two players rated higher than Michigan's two best in the 2009 class (ie: one higher than Morris, one higher than Vogrich): Michigan State, Illinois, Indiana, and Minnesota. At best Michigan has the fifth ranked class in the conference, with Wisconsin and Purdue not far off.
I didn't say Beilein can't "recruit on this level"; I said he can recruit like Izzo or Matta or anyone else who can expect to regularly assemble top 25 classes. Michigan's 2009 class does not dispel this idea. By the numbers Michigan will be operating at a talent deficit relative to the conference.
He is a guy who will bring guaranteed respectability, likeable teams, and a host of tourney bids with some fun runs to the Sweet 16 or whatever. Michigan basically abdicated on being a powerhouse when they hired Beilein."
Look - a horrible Wisconsin team made the final four in the unwatchable Dick Bennett days. George Mason made it. Eighth-seeded Villanona and NC State won championships. Flukes? Definitely.
Again the talking is orthogonal to what I am saying. Sure, Michigan can get hot in a tourney and Pittsnogle their way to a final four at some point. It can happen. It nearly did for Beilein at West Virginia. But that doesn't mean it's likely to. "Not a powerhouse" does not mean "never makes Final Four." It means "is not likely to make Final Four."
Even if we move Brian's argument out of the Tournament and into the realm of general regular-season success, the point seems to fizzle. As mentioned ad nauseum - Beilien started a walk-on point guard and two freshmen who would have been coming of Valparaiso's bench barring Beilein's desperation to bring in a few players upon his arrival in Ann Arbor. This Michigan team possibly had four players that had the talent to justify significant minutes in a major conference - Harris, Sims, Grady, and Lucas-Perry, and they still garnered a #10 seed and earned a second-round game in which they gave Oklahoma a tougher game than #3 seed Syracuse. With Michigan's best recruiting class in years on the way and the probability of at least one additional top-100 player arriving the following year, is a #2 or #3 tournament seed that far out of the question?
You're just going to have to trust me on this: yes, it is that far out of the question. Michigan vastly exceeded expectations this year but on a possession-to-possession basis they finished 50th in the Kenpom rankings, which was sixth in the conference. They were three-point jacks away from losing to three different horrible teams and missing the tourney. One Big Ten team got a 2 or 3 seed and it was Michigan State, #8 in Kenpom. There is a huge gap between Michigan's team this year and the sort of seed expectation you just threw out, and more experience plus the 2009 recruiting class only gets you halfway there.
Why Am I Bothering With All This?
It really bothers me to see evidence of people going from "I hope we make the tourney before I die" to "Now we're Duke!" This WLA sentence is why this 2000 word post exists:
Comrades, now is a time for optimism.
How did we get to a spot where making the tourney most years with a few runs to the Sweet 16 (or beyond!) isn't optimistic? Am I crazy? If Beilein does nothing more than he did at West Virginia—mid-conference finishes with consistent tourney bids, no high seeds, lots of fun in the tourney—he'll be an absolute roaring success. If there's a time to complain about Morgan instead of Appling or a stunning lack of Final Fours, it's fifteen years from now, when someone else is the coach.
Season Finale
3/21/2009 – Michigan 63, Oklahoma 73 – 21-14, 9-9 Big Ten
The narrative of Michigan's basketball season was one of gritty, gutty, Eckstein-like overachievement, what with walk-ons at point guard and a 6'4" freshman at power forward and mismatched pieces in many places. It's not like this was a secret. I've typed "walk-ons at point guard" and "6'4" freshman power forward" probably a dozen times over the past couple months, often with exclamation points(!) in proximity.
But series finales are often overwrought things that take thematic overtones and bash them into your forehead, so Michigan drew the most un-Eckstein of opponents: Oklahoma and their THOG SMASH team. Then Manny Harris disappeared—maybe he's an angel—five minutes into the game and was replaced by Anthony Wright.
Death! Deeaaaaaaaath!
Wright proceeded to grit his way into 12 first-half points and Michigan went in behind by a single point at the half. They would have had a lead if not for the demands of the narrative, which caused them to blow a couple of easy fast break opportunities and the front-end of a one-and-one that would have pushed their lead to something substantial.
Halftime was spent in shocked contemplation of what had transpired. A brief attempt to calculate the probability of "Anthony Wright is Michigan's leading scorer at halftime of a second-round NCAA tourney game and the team is down one" was abandoned when one particular exponent was too large to fit in a 32-bit integer. A similar calculation for "Manny Harris plays five minutes in the first half and the team is down one" met a similar fate. ("Tim Brando is an abomination" came out to 1.)
So all this was clearly too good to be true, and Michigan duly proved that at the beginning of the second half when Harris emerged from the bench. But just as reality set in and began to harden, CJ Lee took a bite of his grit sandwich and gritted a gritty pair of gritballs, which in gritspeak are three pointers, three being the grittiest number and "balls" being the grittiest way to say "points."
Calculations begun! And hastily abandoned when Oklahoma threw it into Griffin and someone looked sideways at him and was whistled. Or something. Michigan loses, exeunt season.
And so. Here we are. This is going to be an embarrassing confession, but I remember standing in Crisler Arena on another Senior Day a few years ago and choking up a bit as the names along the lines of Chris Young were announced and the whatnot went on.
And I remember thinking that they should retire Lavell Blanchard's jersey, if only for sucking it up and staying home and enduring all the stuff you had to endure during that portion of Michigan's basketball history. At that point, anyone who managed to stay in school for four years without beating anyone with a belt or rolling an SUV or being Gavin Groninger seemed like a hero. I wanted to credit Blanchard with changing the culture of the program.
He actually which he may have done this, but the culture instituted was just a different kind of horrible. A much, much less horrible kind of horrible, but horrible just the same.
Thanks to Anthony Wright, we've all permanently lost our ability to criticize Beilein's rotation. This means we have to consider the walk-ons, and consider what it means when Jerrett Smith is deposited on Grand Valley State's bench and Kelvin Grady on Michigan's in favor of the above-pictured. In Smith's case, it just means he's bad at basketball. In Lee's case it just means he's better than Grady.
In Merritt's case… well. Merritt brought very little on the floor. His playing time is most easily interpreted as a rebuke to whatever Grady was doing that Beilein hated. Merritt is the culture Beilein wants, and he's going to get it, but a half-foot taller and able to pass and maybe score more than a couple points a game. This is just the end of the beginning.
- Michigan fans can't even assert that it was Harris' two quick fouls that doomed them since the guy soaking up the vacated playing time was Wright.
- As obliquely referred to above: Michigan had an opportunity to push its lead out to seven or eight points in the first half, which would have made the final, post-CJ-Lee-apocalypse minutes frenetic as hell. But they blew two fast breaks when guys pushing up the floor just had to catch the ball and lay it up, one of which led to a fast break the other way, and Douglass clanked the front end of a one and one. That's probably a seven-point swing,—you have to credit Oklahoma with about a point for their possession—enough to turn that five point deficit that was the closest Michigan came after their disastrous first few minutes of the second half into a two point lead.
These are the kind of opportunities you have to take if you're the ten seed, I think.
- I see I wasn't the only one to dub Griffin's treatment the Full Tebow. What perfect misfortune to draw the loathsome Tim Brando for this game. I mentioned this on Saturday, but at one point when it was declared Griffin had a "quiet" 30-15 I enjoyed a brief, dark laugh.
- The 400 shots of Griffin's parents may have made me want to claw my eyes out but at least they explained that weird ginger ubermensch effect going on. Over and over again. In the most annoying way possible.
- Also explained: why Griffin's opponents occasionally suplex him. He, Devendorf, and Vasquez should let their powers combine ("Ginger!" "Domestic Violence!" "Inadvisable Media Handling!") to summon forth Captain Douchebag.
The Situation: Basketball
In a word: ugh. You probably know the story: Michigan led by four with a minute left, then Iowa got back to back trips to the line, one of which was a 50-50 play on a drive, the other a loose ball foul on Sims after Manny Harris didn't get the exact same call Iowa just got. The number of calls Manny Harris doesn't get continually astounds me. My favorite in this game was the charging call he got when some Iowa guy planted himself under the basket.
Then Michigan's attempt at a buzzer-beater degenerates into Harris launching an off-balance three from four feet behind the line, Harris is benched for the entirety of overtime, Iowa hits a wide array of circus shots, and Michigan's bid is on serious life support. I blame myself for hosting a liveblog.
Beilein in the aftermath:
"I didn't think (Harris) was really playing well. He didn't look fresh, he wasn't himself, and so we decided to go in another direction," Beilein said. "We really thought it would help us, but (Iowa) went on a run just like they did at the beginning of the game when he was in there.
"I wouldn't be too concerned about (Harris not playing in overtime). We needed to score some points and Manny wasn't in a good rhythm at that time."
That might make sense if the guy you stuck in the lineup in Harris' stead wasn't David Merritt, with whom I am developing the exact same relationship I had with Pat Massey: though he must be a tremendous individual I want his eligibility to expire immediately so the coach can't keep throwing him out there and causing me psychic distress. (I will never understand this year's rotation, specifically the inability of Jevohn Shepherd to get minutes over the two tiny walkons despite playing pretty well when he gets on the floor. Lord knows if he was closing out three-point shooters in the corner that Iowa guy named Bullwinkle would have had more difficulties.)
But setting aside the choice of replacement, was Beilein 100% wrong? I don't think so. Harris takes terrible shots in every game when he gets frustrated or complacent or feels he won't get a call (which he won't, but eh) and has moments of defensive laxness and is just generally a really frustrating player. Having Harris out there wouldn't have helped that much, anyway. Iowa couldn't miss in overtime, and Harris was not going to bring Michigan's offensive efficiency up to a level at which it could compete.
Beilein's obviously not 100% right, either. If he thought Michigan had a better chance to win with David Merritt on the floor, he's nuts. More likely he had about reached his limit and sat him in what appears to be a fit of pique. I get that: Harris at the moment is a basketball doppelganger of Braylon Edwards in his afro phase, when he was benched because he and Carr weren't "on the same page" despite his clear superiority to Michigan's other receiving options. Edwards wised up and blew up. Harris? We'll see.
I would have preferred the teachable moment had not come in overtime of a crucial road game, though. You know.
Okay. What now? The prevailing assumption was that Michigan had to split its final four games and then not die against Indiana or, uh, Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament to assure itself a bid. That still holds, but winning two of Purdue, @ Wisconsin, and @ Minnesota is a vastly tougher proposition than winning one. Kenpom has us at 32% against Purdue, 18% against Wisconsin, and 25% against Minnesota. 8-10 isn't going to do it without an improbable Big Ten Tourney run, especially because the committee has been de-emphasizing conference tourneys in recent years.
In short: we're screwed.
Elsewhere. UMHoops has the game recap, pointing out that Manny's been benched like this a couple times before. A commenter sums up the refereeing fiasco pretty well:
First and foremost, Big Ten officiating is a joke. As someone mentioned, all those moving screens called on us, but when Merritt is running the baseline in the 1-3-1 and the Iowa post player is in the middle of turning his back and knocks Merritt completely off his route to the shooter, there's no call. The last foul that they called on Sims to put Gatens to the line was just flat terrible. And Manny still isn't getting calls in the lane. The charge they called on him early was pretty bad; he was already in the air by the time the Iowa player slid over and got set.

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Practical ways to transmit the beauty of our heritage.
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Looking for an indicator of how much Washington's high-end housing market has recovered since the recession? Look no further than the Parc Somerset condominiums in Chevy Chase.
An undisclosed buyer recently acquired the penthouse unit there for $7.95 million, or nearly $1,200 per square foot, which by most accounts is a record for residential condominiums in the region. The seller, Paul Elicker, paid $3.1 million, or roughly 151 percent less than the recent purchase price, for the 6,737-square-foot condo in March 2000, according to land records in Montgomery County.
TTR Sotheby's International Realty Vice President Zelda Heller brokered the sale that set the record, last held by a condo at The Ritz-Carlton Residences in Georgetown, which traded in 2009 for $7.3 million. Heller said the Parc Somerset condo was privately marketed, and she spent just two days finding buyer, whose identity she declined to reveal. The sale has not yet been recorded.
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yields 1 (13 by 18-inch) pizza
1 recipe fresh pizza dough (recipe below)
3 to 4 baby Yukon gold fingerling potatoes, finely sliced
1/2 small onion, finely sliced
6 slices applewood smoked bacon, finely chopped
2 tablespoons rosemary leaves
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra to grease pan
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup shredded fontina cheese
1 cup baby arugula, optional
1/2 lemon, juiced
Fresh Pizza Dough:
2 packages active dry yeast
2 teaspoons sugar
2 cups warm water (100 to 110 degrees F.)
2 tablespoons kosher salt
6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for bowl
In a small bowl, combine the yeast, sugar and water and stir gently to dissolve. Let the mixture stand until the yeast comes alive and starts to foam, 5 to 10 minutes. If you're using a stand mixer,
combine the salt and flour to the bowl and pulse a few times to mix.
Add the yeast mixture, at the lowest speed, until the flour
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about 2 minutes. Add the olive oil and pulse
a few more times. Stop the machine periodically to scrape the dough off
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small amount together between your thumb and fingers. If it's crumbly,
add more water, if it's sticky, add more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and fold it over
itself a few times, kneading until it's smooth and elastic. If you're making the dough by hand, add the yeast mixture to a
large bowl and stir in the salt and the 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
Then begin stirring in the flour. When the mixture becomes too stiff to
stir with a spoon, knead
in the rest of the flour by hand, adding just enough so that the dough
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dough together between your thumb and fingers. If it's crumbly, add more
water; if it's sticky, add more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time. Knead
until smooth and elastic, about 10 minutes. Form the dough into a round and put it into a lightly oiled bowl,
turning it over to coat the dough entirely with the oil. Cover with plastic wrap or a damp towel and let it rise in a warm spot (i.e., over a gas pilot light) until it doubles in size, about 1 hour.
Pizza: Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Put a jelly roll pan or half sheet pan in the oven. In a large mixing bowl, combine the fingerling potatoes, onion,
bacon, and rosemary leaves. Add 1/4 cup of olive oil and season with
salt and pepper, to taste. Toss together to coat with olive oil. Take the preheated jelly roll pan out of the oven and drizzle
some olive oil over entire surface. Cut the dough into 2 pieces and
reserve 1 piece for another use. Stretch the pizza dough out so it is
just bigger than the pan, then lay it inside the pan so the dough comes
up the sides to form a crust on the rim. Pour the potato mixture onto the pizza dough, then sprinkle with
shredded fontina. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until crispy and golden,
about 20 to 25 minutes. Garnish with arugula and drizzle the lemon juice over the top. Serve immediately.
bacon recipe courtesy of: Tyler Florence, "Pizza," Tyler's Ultimate, Food Network
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July 19, 2012 — Abortion-rights advocates this week fired back against Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's (R) refusal to certify new regulations requiring abortion clinics to meet the same building standards as new hospitals, AP/NBC Washington reports (AP/NBC Washington, 7/17).
Cuccinelli on Monday said that the state Board of Health unlawfully voted last month to exempt existing facilities from the new requirements, which are among several regulations being implemented under a law Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) signed in January. The rules specify several building standards -- such as the size of exam rooms, widths of hallways and ceiling heights -- and create new requirements for inspections, record-keeping and medical procedures.
The new rules were written to specifically apply to health centers that provide abortion services and do not apply to other medical facilities that offer invasive procedures. Critics have said the regulations could force many of the state's 20 abortion providers to close, while supporters maintain that the rules are necessary to protect women's health (Women's Health Policy Report, 7/17).
Reaction to Cuccinelli's Decision
On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia said Cuccinelli, who opposes abortion rights, is trying to force the board to rewrite the rules so that existing abortion clinics will have to either shut down or undergo costly renovations.
Katherine Greenier, director of the ACLU of Virginia's Women's Rights Project, said Cuccinelli is exceeding his authority by "imposing his personal political views in the regulatory process." She added, "While the Attorney General has the responsibility to review proposed regulations to determine if the Board has the authority to adopt them, the law does not give his Office veto power over the Board's policy decisions about what to include in the final rules" (Bassett, Huffington Post, 7/17).
Abortion-rights supporters also launched a website to draw attention to the issue. Stephanie Arnold, the site's founder, said abortion-rights supporters plan to attend public appearances and press Cuccinelli on the clinic regulations issue (AP/NBC Washington, 7/17).
Slate Columnist Criticizes Cuccinelli
Cuccinelli's actions reflect his office's "longstanding pattern of 'interpreting' state policies in 'deeply flawed' ways to suit his own ideological views," Slate's Dahlia Lithwick writes. She adds, "Evidently [Cuccinelli] is willing to lose massive symbolic cases that serve the larger interests of nobody and accomplish nothing but do show off his Tea Party bona fides."
Lithwick writes that given the backlash against the Virginia Legislature's attempts last spring to pass a controversial ultrasound bill and a "personhood" measure, "You'd think the lesson would be clear here: Voters may be deeply conflicted on the question of abortion, but women aren't going to tolerate state efforts to eliminate it under the guise of protecting their superfragile health" (Lithwick, Slate, 7/17).


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So, you have an annual Christmas family get together, but you and your dh decide to plan the luncheon on the same day?Because your dh does not like crowds and it is much easier for you and your dh to get to?Am I missing something? (Yes, there appears to be more history here), but honestly, I think you and your dh were and are in the wrong here. Is this annual Christmas get together something that dad will be going to also? So, he is to go to a lunch and then another Christmas get together?Also, you say the planning has been in the stages for months. With who? Were the sisters ever involved in the planning or just you, your dh and dad? Why would you plan a luncheon on the same day as the annual family Christmas get together?
But this is just one thing after many, and a rather small thing if you think about it. And DH just can't take it anymore. I get upset, we argue and it's just unpleasant all around.
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Man's mother came up with this one sometime in the last year of her life. We thought it was very clever of her, as she was legally blind. Keep the rings or earrings (really works great for the earrings!) separated and the container is easily obtainable, light weight, snug locks, reasonable size. They might even be stackable if you purchased all the same kinds, something to consider if you purchase new.
Would be great for RVers, researchers, and anyone who loves earrings and rings. Would pack great for a vacation and can be used for every day life in a rig or in a stickbuilt.
No tangles, no misplaced earrings (huge issue for me, I am horrible about earrings, take em off and lay em down, one time I even threw a brand new pair in the garbage with paper that was on my desk).
I would just have to remember to take the earrings off and actually PLACE them in the pill box! LOL
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- Sherry - Family Tree Writer said...
This is a great idea! I think I will get one for my mom, and one for me! My necklace's are always getting tangled up!
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What a great idea! Very clever!
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Brilliant idea! Just need to look at objects with an open mind. I get a kick out of the "Grasshopper hoppeth" too. Thanks for dropping by my blog! We've been out of touch for a while, and it was so nice to see you photo and comment. Happy RV-ing. We met a couple in N.M. in May --been on the road for two years. Sold all they had and now just the Airstream and their dog. Lovely.
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There's no point bragging about being faster than last month's graphics card if your own is still a quarter of a year from being an actual product.
I'm more worried about the state of PC gaming. We're taking a long slide recently and I'm starting to worry if this high end hardware is worth it.
It's true that a few years ago you had to stay close to the cutting edge and now you don't; but I'm pretty sure it's not because graphics cards had outpaced games, but because game developers slowed their pace because they wanted good performance on consoles.
I'm sure game developers could easily overwhelm graphics cards if they wanted to, but that doesn't only block PCs without high-end cards, but also all the consoles. I have to say that as a PC-only gamer, I find the situation very positive. I like not having to upgrade constantly.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you there.
Look at the 4850. When it was brand new, it cost $199, and it could run ANY game on the market at full resolution and detail with a smooth, sustained framerate. Flash back to the year 2000. Try to find me a $200 card back then that could do the same. Hell, I challange you to do the same thing just 5 years ago, back in 2004.
Good luck.
I'm gonna have to disagree with you there.
Look at the 4850. When it was brand new, it cost $199, and it could run ANY game on the market at full resolution and detail with a smooth, sustained framerate. Flash back to the year 2000. Try to find me a $200 card back then that could do the same. Hell, I challange you to do the same thing just 5 years ago, back in 2004.
Does this mean that we're hitting a software complexity wall?
It's now the devs turn to play catch up... I hope nobody cheats by adding idle loops (looks around menacingly).
As a poster previously in the thread stated, a big part of it are games that need to work on consoles and PC. As an example, considering the 360 has a video card roughly equivalent to a 6600GT, there is only so far they can push ports. Hell, even now, 3-4 years into the current gen, there are STILL framerate problems with a lot of games...games that can now run at an absurdly high FPS on a decent gaming PC.
companies don't want games on console and PC. The reason is there is a lot less control on PC. So they want to shove console requirements onto a PC and you end up with horrible ports like Borderlands and MW2. Thus, nobody wants the PC version and they go "oh, nobody bought the PC version" even though the reason is they fucked their own community, so that they don't have to keep making games for PC.
It's a really shortsighted strategy, but it's basically an attempt at creating a walled garden all over again.
Yes, it pisses me off that DX9 is the development target precisely because that's the feature level of the two most powerful consoles. It's funny you mention Borderlands, because the game is very fun to play, but the graphics are annoying.
1. They took the same graphics on the 360 version, and just added a whole bunch of pitch-black dynamic shadows for the PC (I think they don't realize that you can assign DYNAMIC RANGE for your shadow intensity). This makes the game way too dark, and since their gamma con
Does this mean that we're hitting a software complexity wall?
From the perspective of a game programmer, I'd posit that it's not as much a software complexity wall as it is a content creation wall. Creating a fully-realized world in a modern videogame is amazingly time consuming. It's now all about how to reduce the dozens of developer-years required to build the environment (world geometry, props, models, effects, etc) and gameplay content (events, missions, etc). One of the problems has been that with each new generation, we not only have to re-build all our cont
Look at the 4850. When it was brand new, it cost $199, and it could run ANY game on the market at full resolution and detail with a smooth, sustained framerate
Pull the other one. It has got bells on it.
Define "full resolution".
If I have a very old 1280x1024 monitor, sure.
If I have a new 1920x1200 monitor, not so much.
If I have a dual 2560x1600 monitor setup, not in this life time.
Also, define "full detail". Is that at medium? High? Maximum? What level of anisotropic filtering? Anti aliasing?
But let's have a
They have admitted those 2 games were programmed by monkeys.
If you compare a 4850 from then to a 4850 today with the game fully patched and monkey shit removed you'd see an increase in frame rates. Or compared it to the squeal which had even more monkey shit removed there would be a further increase in frame rates.
Besides the fact that 2 games, that received crap reviews except from the "Oh so pretty" crowd do not represent the market.
I define full resolution as the max resolution of the average big monitor these days...which, unless you have some 27-30 inch monstrosity, cap out at 1920 x 1200. In your example, they have 16XAA enabled, which makes a MASSIVE difference...which is something I have adressed in my other posts made in this thread. That being said, congrats...you're right. I am totally wrong. There actually is a game out there that a then-$200 card couldn't play full bore. Sue me.
By the way, I appreciate you insulting me,
Also, define "full detail". Is that at medium? High? Maximum? What level of anisotropic filtering? Anti aliasing?
Real gamers play with minimum details on an old Athlon XP.
I have two nitpicks.
1) If you tweak Crysis, it performs much better.
2) If you add an SSD for Crysis, it performs much better. In some cases, the minimum FPS doubles. 16fps isn't very playable, but a solid 30fps with vsync definitely is. UE3 gets around this problem(HDD latency) by streaming in textures, so rather than get a lower framerate, sometimes you'll just be staring at gaudy soup textures for a second.
P.S. I play L4D2 on an 8800
Actually I don't even mean it from a technical standpoint. I just feel like the influx of console tailored games, designed to run on local hosts for multiplayer, and designed to prevent modification are really screwing with things. Of course, I have to say that my view is strong in that I'm mainly looking at blockbuster games and not some of the real gems that are PC centric.
since WoW controls 50% of all pc game revenues, the market as it was a few years ago is over. it's not even fun building a PC anymore since everything is integrated on the motherboard except for a decent graphics card.
i'm personally tired of chasing the latest graphics card every year to play a game. i'll probably buy a PS3 soon and a Mac next year just because it's lack of wires makes the wife happy
it's not even fun building a PC anymore since everything is integrated on the motherboard except for a decent graphics card.
And the RAM. And sound card if you want to get it off the mobo. And the hdd/optical drive(s)...
Building a PC can be really fun, still. Getting a decent graphics card for cheap is still possible, too, and you don't have to chase the latest graphics card. You don't have to play games on the Ultra High setting, either...
I think the point is not that building a PC *can* be fun, but rather, it's usually not anymore. ie, the time+cost to reward ratio is off!
Building a computer even 10 years ago was a lot different than it is today. Even minute amounts of overclocking could make a huge difference, small differences in ram timings were noticeable. Getting a Cyrix, an Intel or AMD cpu gave very different performance profiles. Individual steppings were sought out by overclockers. Certain soundcards could greatly lighten CPU load,
I finally made the switch to the console with COD/MW2. I have a PS3 hooked up to a 37inch Samsung LCD. My desktop PC is a simple Core2Duo (2.6ghz) with an old GeForce 6800 256MB. I couldn't stomach the cost of upgrading the hardware on the desktop and having to deal with hackers. In all honesty, it's the hackers that really drove me away. It was probably 2/3rds hackers, 1/3rd knowing that I'd get flawless framerate and top notch graphics on the console. I've been playing LAN/online FPS games since Qua
Umm, the PS3 has native keyboard and mouse support. I plugged in an old wireless Compaq keyboard/mouse combo and it worked flawlessly. No need to buy adapters. If the game devs didn't put in keyboard support for the PS3, that's their screwup.
Thank the pirates for killing PC gaming. Developers actually make money from consoles.
Sure there is, because then some people will wait for this new card rather then buying AMD's card, thus providing Nvidia with revenue and profit.
How long before we saturate the PCI-E bus and need something faster?
In a way, it has already been replaced. PCIE V2 is the current standard. It's backwards and forwards compatible, and has twice the bandwidth of V1. V3 will double that bandwidth again.
It'll be quite a long time before it becomes obsolete.
``By that logic wouldn't those same people then wait for AMD's next offering which will be yet faster?''
Well, some people actually do that. I'm waiting for the budget card that comes out with a fully functional open-source driver available. Until then, my fanless GeForce 6600 is chugging along just fine. I don't even remember what I had before that, but it was something fanless with the open-source r300 driver
But then, I don't buy games unless they run on Linux, either. Which u
"How long before we saturate the PCI-E bus and need something faster?"
Considering Crysis can't fully tax the bandwidth of an AGP 8x slot, probably not for a good long while.
ATi's 4850 AGP flavor rocks Crysis no problem. At that point, it's the CPU/Memory that's the bottleneck.
There's no point bragging about being faster than last month's graphics card if your own is still a quarter of a year from being an actual product.
You haven't spent much time with Marketing people, have you?
There's a phrase for it, paper launch [wikipedia.org] or paper tiger [wikipedia.org]. If this actually gets released is one thing. I'd like to see benchmarks, not theoreticals.
The days of needing the biggest, fastest, most expensive card are pretty much over. You can run just about any game out there at max settings at 1920 X 1080 silky smooth with a 5870, which goes for less than $300. Hell, even the 4870 is still almost overkill.
Unless you plan on maxing out AA and AF while playing on a 30 inch screen, there is no reason to drop $500-$600 on a video card anymore...
This is pretty much the case with me. I plan on doing a full system upgrade this Cyber Monday, but I haven't bought any new hardware for my computer other than a new DVD drive in about 2 years...and I STILL haven't needed to turn down visual details in any games that are released.
Yeah. I paid about 150 for my graphics card, a 9600 GT, I have a nice 1680x1050 monitor I'm not going to upgrade any time soon, and at this point I can't imagine what games would require me to buy a new CPU.
I can run any game whatsoever at full resolution and visual details.
That's always been the joke...if you buy a middling video card, you're buying the same thing that's in a PS3 or whatever the newest console is, because those were created a year ago.
Seriously? I paid $100 for a 9800 GT a while back, and have two 1400x1050 monitors. Your card sounds expensive.
I agree with you though, aside any hardware failures, I won't be upgrading it for a long time either. Heck, I wouldn't have moved up from the old 8800 GS if it weren't for VDPAU requiring a newer card.
I probably got it before you, I think I've had it a year at this point.
$100 is normally the spot I aim at, but I had some extra cash last time, because cost of the memory and motherboard suddenly dropped before I bought, so went about $50 higher than normal.
Not always. Not when both kinds of platforms weren't homogenized to such a degree...
Well, the "problem" is those are not really ports anymore; often practically the same engine.
Which kinda sucks, coming from both worlds, enjoying both kinds of games - now that Microsoft made targeting both platforms from the start of development "sensible", most games are hybrids; not exploiting the strengths of either platform.
I'm sorry. I can't resist. I simply must put a
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Mostly agreed, however I will take a low-to-mid range CPU if it means I can afford a top of the line GPU...when it comes to gaming, anyway.
The GPU is a much larger bottleneck in terms of gaming, although the line of importance between the GPU and CPU has been blurring a bit lately.
You can run just about any game out there at max settings at 1920 X 1080 silky smooth with a 5870, which goes for less than $300.
Well, that's until Crysis 2 with Stereo 3D + Multi-Head and Windows 8's compositing + DirectX 13 come out.
Then it'll be again waiting 1 year until the hardware catch up.
Remember the mantra
What hardware giveth, software taketh...
Also, you assume discreet GPU.
nVidia and ATI have still to do some improvement until the performance you quote happen on a low-power miniature *embed* GPU in a laptop (that doesn't drain the battery flat after 10 minutes).
Thus expect future generation with better performance per wa
i agree completely but i think that this situation will be a catalyst for the next big step. i think back to when unreal was released. there was almost no hardware that could run the game smoothly, in a way it was a proof of concept of what gaming could become, but as hardware caught up we saw it give rise to a whole new way to make games, FPS, RTS, RPG, all genres really, have adopted the 3d model, even board games. now the market is saturated and the pressure is off the hardware vendors to make components
You can run just about any game out there at max settings at 1920 X 1080 silky smooth with a 5870, which goes for less than $300.
The 5870 still seems to cost more than $400, but your point is of course valid. What might become an issue is multi-monitor gaming like ATI's Eyefinity. Running a triple-screen setup demands a bit more. I don't know if multi-monitor will become mainstream, but it's roughly in the same ballpark price-wise as high-end GPUs.
augh! yes indeed, I meant $400. You can also get the 4870 for cheap even when it was new, and for super cheap now that it has some age on it...an extremely capable card that will likely last at least another generation or two of video cards.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129113 [newegg.com]
$170, awesome stuff
"Unless you plan on maxing out AA and AF while playing on a 30 inch screen,"
Totally unnecessary with the subpixel rendering engines in most LCD TVs nowdays, considering their native resolution is FAR higher than their maximum capable resolution (that's where the subpixel rendering comes into play, for upscaling to three times the amount of pixels. A 30-inch TV would have HUGE pixels at 1920x1080 if aspect were followed.)
I assume they mean the scientist Enrico Fermi. So, did they dig him up, or is this one of those Jesus fingerbone type of thing, where there are more fingerbones than there are chickens? Did they use the whole Fermi, or are there only specific pieces of him that work? Whatever the case, there must be a limited number of cards that can be built, since there is a finite amount of Fermi.
I assume they mean the scientist Enrico Fermi. So, did they dig him up, or is this one of those Jesus fingerbone type of thing, where there are more fingerbones than there are chickens? Did they use the whole Fermi, or are there only specific pieces of him that work? Whatever the case, there must be a limited number of cards that can be built, since there is a finite amount of Fermi.
They used his skull with the jawbone of an orangutan. [wikipedia.org]
Enough to write a Free driver?
While the articles is very interesting on explaining the chip archetecture and technical specifications, I can't believe there sin't a single actual gaming benchmark on these chips yet.
The best they can do is give an estimated calculation on how the chips may or may not actually live up to. They estimate that it will be faster at gaming than ATI's already released 5870.
By the time Nvidia actually releases their Fermi GPU's, ATI's Cypres will have been actively selling for over 3 months. And there's a funny thing about advancements over time: things keep getting faster (aka Moore's Law). Supposing that chips are supposed to double in transistor count every year, the new Fermi chips need to have 20% more transistors than ATI's RV5870 if they release 3 months later... just to keep on the same curve.
And there's still no mention of pricing... but that's expected on a product that doesn't actually run games yet. I don't see a lot of optimism on the gaming front, so I hope for Nvidia's sake that the investment into GPGPU is the branch out they need to trump ATI's sales.
Does nVidia sell any of these top-end GPU chips with a full x86 core on the die with it? A CPU that's maybe as powerful as a single core P3/2.4GHz, tightly coupled for throughput to GPU and VRAM, going out to the PC bus (PCI-e) just for final interface to a video display (or saving to a file, or streaming to a network).
Yes, that is why the GPU is on there. The x86 is there for everything else: OS and application processing, managing devices, etc. A single chip with both CPU and GPU for maximum total performance. An x86 because that's where the most SW runs.
Looks like a cool chip. It will be interesting to see how Nvidia does in the marketplace when the don't have rabid enthusiast gamers subsidizing their development efforts every 6 months. Let's face it, who runs out to buy the latest graphics card anymore, when you get the same game on your 360/PS3 with no upgrade? They're mostly positioning this launch as a 'compute' GPU, so they certainly see the writing on the wall. With Fermi and beyond, Nvidia will have to provide tangible real-world profits for some c
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response to the situation!


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Final Update: Alright, the second league is officially filled, and I need to know when would be the best time for us to conduct the draft. A few members have expressed that next weekend would be an issue due to other leagues that they are drafting in, or that they were going out of town. I'll be e-mailing everyone to ask, but if you have a preference, let me know below. It would be great if we could sneak it in tomorrow, but I won't commit to it until I know everyone would be able to make it. If we don't tomorrow, we'll likely draft two weeks from now, either on Saturday or Sunday.
Update: The first league is officially filled and the draft date has been set for tomorrow at 3PM central time. I am now opening up the second league for recruiting, so if you did not get in on the first league and are interested, let me know. Otherwise, I will also take anyone who is interested in joining both leagues. If you are interested, please send me an e-mail at email@example.com. Thanks again everyone and I look forward to the first league's draft tomorrow.
Recruiting for the league is now closed with 14 members. If anyone else is interested we had a few members that were unable to get into this league, so let me know if you are still interested, as I might launch a second league if we have enough people. For those that are in and received their invitations, please let me know what days would be good for the live draft. I was thinking this Sunday around 3pm central, but I want to build a consensus.
Greetings everyone. It is getting to be that time of year. It is time for the start of football season. Every year, as far back as I can remember with this site, we have always run a fantasy football league. This year I took the liberty of starting the league up and am now looking for members who are interested in joining.
This year, the league will be run on ESPN's website. The season starts in just under a month, so we will be looking to move quickly. I currently have the league set to ten teams but will bump it up to 12 (preferred) or 14 if we have enough people. If you are interested in joining, you can shoot me an e-mail at email@example.com and I'll get you entered in. We currently have 3 people participating for sure, with more likely to join. So act fast if you are interested. It usually proves to be a fun time.
We are officially at 12 teams. I can bump it up to 14 if we get 2 more people interested. If you are interested, please e-mail me at the e-mail address above, as the last two slots might go fast.


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Prof. Dawn Digrius named Series Editor for New Book Series, History and Philosophy of Biology
Prof. Dawn M. Digrius (Assistant Professor, History) has been named Series Editor for the new book series, History and Philosophy of Biology, for Pickering and Chatto Publishers, LTD. Digrius, a historian of science, will oversee the history of biology side of the series.
The first book in the series, Romantic Biology, 1890-1945, will be published in October, 2013.
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This series brings together insights from historians and philosophers to shed light on significant developments and issues in the life sciences. It includes all aspects of the biological sciences as well as philosophical studies from both the analytic and continental traditions.
The scope of the series will include studies relating to evolutionary theory, environmental sciences, systems biology, biotechnology, bioethics, race and sex.


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RICHMOND – Main Stay Therapeutic Riding Program will host its first Fall Festival from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 27 at Main Stay's farm at 6919 Keystone Road.
The day will feature performances by Denny Diamond and the Family Jewels, Cassandra and the Gravel Road Band and the Bart Alonzo Group.
There will be horse-drawn hayrides, a stage coach demonstration, pumpkin decorating, games, a costume contest and other fall activities.
This year's event also will commemorate Main Stay's 25th anniversary of providing equine-related therapeutic activities to people from 3 to 93 who are faced with a broad spectrum of challenges.
Main Stay volunteers, horses and students will be honored on the day of the event with a Parade of Stars.
Tickets before Saturday are $10 a person. After that they are $15 a person. The cost for children 10 and younger is $5.
The ticket price includes lunch.
To buy tickets or for information, call the Main Stay office at 815-653-9374 or visit www.mstrp.org.


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At 29, Robin van Persie may have appeared too old to make it on Sir Alex Ferguson's transfer list, but he has been a revelation since joining Manchester United to become one of the manager's greatest signings.
Van Persie was handed his United debut on a cold Monday evening at Goodison Park at the start of the Premier League season, where he found it difficult to get involved.
For anyone doubting Van Persie's credentials however, the next 24 games in the league, have been sensational. The Dutchman scored a stunning first time effort against Fulham on his Old Trafford debut, and hasn't looked back since.
Against Southampton, he hit a crucial hat trick with two late goals turning defeat into an unlikely 3-2 victory, despite missing a penalty, and he's now netted a total of 18 Premiership goals.
Even more remarkable has been his contributions in the big games this season. The winner at Anfield, a goal at Stamford Bridge against last season's European Champions, a powerful strike against former club Arsenal, and the winner in his debut Manchester Derby, at the Etihad, in the dying seconds.
Other memorable scenes include; an impeccable goal at Upton Park to salvage a draw in the FA Cup and another winner against arch rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.
However, it's not just the goals that are making the difference as RVP is also influencing the team with a number of assists, 6 so far in the Premier League alone.
Manchester United and Robin van Persie appears a match made in heaven, and Sir Alex often speaks of his bewilderment at the level of his talent.
Even more remarkable than his scoring record is the fact that he has proved the doubters wrong by remaining injury free, and there is an argument to suggest that the Dutchman's new role as a central striker is helping him avoid the treatment room.
Van Persie has been the catalyst in United's brilliant first half of the season. Their best ever start to a Premier League, an F.A. Cup tie against Reading to come, and a mouthwatering 'Perfect Match' with Real Madrid in the Champions League last 16.
If United are to win anything this season, Van Persie's arrival will be seen as crucial. Thus far, the 29-year-old has been the difference. The Red Devils lead the Premier League title race by 9 points, and top the form sheet, with only fixtures away at Arsenal and home ties against Chelsea and Man City looking particularly tricky.
But in this form, United should fear no one. A positive display against Real Madrid in Spain next week and it could be another momentous year for Sir Alex and his team.
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Burkholder named HCAC player-of-week
By Bill Hanefeld Jr., interim sports information director
October 3, 2005
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Senior Seth Burkholder (Bluffton/Bluffton) has been named special teams' football Player-of-the-week for the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference for the week ending Oct. 2, 2005.
Burkholder came up big in the Beaver's victory over Manchester 59-7 on Saturday, October 1. Seth connected on all eight of his PAT attempts and tacked on a 34-yard field goal in the second quarter to finish with a team-high 11 points. He was equally as productive as the team's punter. His net yards per punt were an outstanding 38.6, including two punts over 50 yards and three which left the Spartans inside their own 20-yard line.
Bluffton will play host to Anderson University on Saturday, October 15 in the annual Homecoming game. Kickoff at Salzman Stadium is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.


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Renewable Energy in Lebanon - Because of frequent and lengthy power outages, many families and businesses in Lebanon make use of diesel generators, which pollute the environment. Wind turbines and photovoltaic systems are promising alternatives. A project initiated by the UN links up decentralized renewable energy sources to the grid. A net-metering system keeps track of how much green energy each small provider feeds into the grid. That earns the provider credits for energy to be taken from the grid at a later date. Child Workers and Their Union in Bolivia - Around the world an estimated 215 million children work on a regular basis. The prevailing view is that child labor must be abolished, but child workers in Bolivia -- and elsewhere -- argue there is no alternative for now, and are fighting for their rights. Child workers in Bolivia have set up their own labor union. They are demanding decent pay, working hours that do not conflict with the school day, and better conditions. They say they have to work to feed themselves and their families. In their eyes, child labor should only be banned when adults succeed in making enough to support their families. Questionnaire: Jana Stroe, a taxi driver in New York City, USA - Jana Stroe (57) from Romania has been driving a cab in New York for almost 26 years. As a proud New Yorker, she sees taxi drivers as ambassadors for the city. She loves driving and meeting people from all over the world. She works hard and hopes to see her son through law school. Chinese Nurses Prepare to Work in Germany - There is a shortage of caregivers and nurses in Germany, and plenty of well-qualified staff in China who are eager to work abroad. A commercial school in China prepares nurses to go and work abroad, teaching them the language of their destination country and informing them about the customs and culture there. A group of 150 are getting ready to come to Germany.
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I have some relatives who sent me a couple of e-mail forwards. Both were Snopes-able, so I sent the links back along with my usual note in such circumstances (something like "So relieved to find this isn't actually true!," because a lot of e-mail forwarders seem to get their kicks out of feeling like the world is against them, but won't usually come out and say, "But I wanted to feel oppressed!" )They haven't done it since. I suspect I was ruining the fun.
I don't get these people. I can't think of a single thing I would forward to EVERYONE in my contacts, they are such a diverse group. I get forwards from a few people who seem to think I am *******, anti-immigration, and several other adjectives that I am NOT. I have been known to Snopes on occasion.
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Montana: The Second Century
Beginning in 1988 and continuing through 1994, this KUSM-TV produced series produced over 70 programs covering social, political, cultural and historical topics all across Montana. A limited selection of these titles is shown here.
Wild Howl: The Wolf Returns to Yellowstone (No. 907)
For centuries wolves in legend and fairytale were regarded as vicious, bloodthirsty, and evil. The wolf's return to Yellowstone has asked us to rethink these myths. For the Shoshone, Wolf brother created Yellowstone. For others, the wolf represents our vain tinkering with nature. For the National Park Service, restoring the wolf to Yellowstone restores the natural balance missing in its ecosystem for nearly seventy years. Like all conservation stories of our time, the wolf's return to Yellowstone blends myth, emotion, and controversy. This film explores the range of controversy and reverie surrounding the wolf's wild howl in Yellowstone. (First Aired Friday, April 18, 1997)
Frances Senska - Art All The Time (No. 906)
MSU-Bozeman professor emerita Frances Senska taught some of the most influential innovators in American ceramic arts, among them Rudy Autio, of Missoula, and the late Peter Voulkos, a native of Bozeman. What connects their work with hers? (First Aired Friday, March 21, 1997)
Peace Through Unity-The Custer Battlefield Name Change (No. 901)
This program explores the reasons for the name change of the Custer Battlefield National Monument to the Little Bighorn National Monument and will include the views of both opponents and proponents. Highlights of the name change ceremony held at the battlefield in 1992 are featured. Among those in attendance are Native American Veterans and Educators, Cheyenne Spiritual Leader Austin Two Moon, members of the Sioux and Cheyenne Tribes, as well as U.S. Parks Service Officials. The video also includes scenes from the U.S. Congressional debate over the name change issue. (First Aired Friday, November 01, 1996)
The Adventures of Moccasin Joe (No. 804)
Explore the wonders and horrors of Montana's Wild West days through the eyes of young New Englander, Sgt. George S. Howard, nicknamed Moccasin Joe. As a cavalry scout Howard fought in many a battle (Rosebud, Powder River, Tongue River and Slim Buttes), marched in blinding snowstorms in Montana and Wyoming, nearly starved during the Horsemeat March of 1876, and roamed Yellowstone. This documentary, which is based on his remarkable diary, is part of the Montana: The Second Century series. (First Aired Friday, January 19, 1996)
Vigilante! The Rise and Fall of Frontier Justice (No. 802)
When Henry Plummer, the sherriff of Bannack took control of Virginia and Nevada cities with his band of road agents in the 1860's, the people watched what little law and order they had disappear into chaos. The only solution was to fight back, and so one of America's most famous vigilante movements was born. But, did it really happen? Or, is it just the romance and myth of History? Governor Marc Racicot, MSU President Mike Malone and other historians explore this unique chapter of Montana and American history. (First Aired Friday, November 17, 1995)
Sadie Sings (No. 801)
Meet Sadie Dawkins, a young Montanan who aspires to a career in opera. See how her special talent was discovered, and her work and determination to be involved in the performing arts. The program includes clips from Sadie's early performances and interviews with people who have worked with her. It also portrays two frantic weeks as Sadie joins visiting artists and Montana musicians to sing the role of Musetta in the Intermountain Opera Association's production of Puccini's "LaBoheme." (First Aired Friday, October 20, 1995)
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War (No. 707)
This program offers the Nez Perce perspective of leader Chief Joseph and the War of 1877. The program explores the origins of the conflict and the many misconceptions that have influenced popular history. Nez Perce band members, including several of Joseph's descendants, discuss the war and its lasting consequences. Produced by Dennis Aig for KUSM. (First Aired Sunday, May 21, 1995)
Frank Little: The Hobo Agitator (No. 708)
The summer of 1917, when the war of the Copper Kings was winding down, was a highly charged time for Butte, which had a socialist mayor and no unions. This captivating profile of Frank Little, the hobo agitator, takes us back to that summer, when vigilantes ruled city and mines alike and shut the miners union right down. (First Aired Friday, April 21, 1995)


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Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 5/9/14
From Press Release
Penn opened up its 2014 NCAA Tournament much in the same way it closed out the Ivy League Tournament – taking advantage of early scoring chances and denying opponents any momentum on attack – en route to a 9-4 win today over Canisius at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex at the University of Maryland.
The win is the first for the Quakers in the NCAA Tournament since 2010 and advances to the Red and Blue to Sunday's second round against the tournament's top seed, Maryland. That game is slated for a 12 p.m. start Sunday.
Tory Bensen led all scorers with five points, including four goals. Her four-goal effort marked the sixth time this season she has scored at least four times in a single game – including five of her last six outings.
The first half was the difference as the Quakers dominated the early portion of the game, building a 5-0 lead midway through the opening period and holding a 7-2 advantage after 30 minutes had been played. The Quakers would need that dominant first half as the offense went dry in the second half, scoring just two goals.
Despite scoring just twice in the second half, Penn was able to maintain its five-goal lead thanks to a defensive unit which only conceded two goals of its own in the second half. Lucy Ferguson was a big factor in the final frame, making four saves as the Quakers were outshot, 12-2 down the stretch.
She also held the Golden Griffins scoreless on five free position attempts during the game, including four missed eight-meters in the second half. Her two biggest saves arguably came midway through the second half when she denied the leading scorer for the Golden Griffins, Maria Kotas, and then stopped a free position from Tori Quinn. Just over a minute later, Bensen would score her fourth of the game – the final goal of the game – and Penn would go on to the win.
Penn's top-ten team defense came to play, holding the 13th-best offense in the nation to nine goals fewer than its scoring average for 2014. The four goals scored by Canisius is the fewest all season, and the fewest since scoring six in back-to-back games to open the season.
Kotas, who entered the game with 54 goals and 79 points, was held to just two goals thanks to outstanding marking from Taylor Foussadier (Washington Township) who also finished with a caused turnover and two ground balls. Tori Quinn (47 goals and 70 points entering the game) and Taylor Giglio (41 and 61) were each held to just an assist in the game.
Ivy League Defender of the Year Meg Markham had three caused turnovers and three ground balls while winning two draws to contribute to the defense's impressive day. Lindsey Smith (Unionville) was all over the field, with a goal and an assist on attack and an important two caused turnover, three ground ball effort on defense.
The Quakers came out similar to their outing last weekend in the Ivy League Tournament championship game, scoring early and utilizing a stifling defense to frustrate their opponent.
Tory Bensen opened the scoring 2:37 in, working an individual effort from behind the cage – harkening back to Friday's double overtime game-winner in the move needed – and scoring inside the left post for the first goal of the game.
Iris Williamson (Germantown Friends) would net the second goal of the day for the Quakers at 9:05, cashing in a free position.
From there, Penn would hound the high-powered attack of the Golden Griffins, forcing five turnovers in the opening 15 minutes of the game and limiting Canisius to just one shot in that span. The lead would reach five for the Quakers before Canisius would score a goal as Catherine Dickinson and Brooke Kiley (Germantown Academy) would score 1:12 apart and Tory Bensen would follow 3:47 later.
The quick-strike Canisius attack would finally mobilize to score twice in nine seconds with just over six minutes remaining in the first half, both off the stick of Meghan Cuddy. She would score with 6:33 remaining in the half, then again off the draw as Taylor Giglio found her streaking to goal.
Penn would not allow the Golden Griffins to maintain any momentum, Nina Corcoran scoring with 3:13 to play in the half and Bensen scoring her third of the game with 0:19 to play in the opening period.
The Quakers are now 10-9 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and head coach Karin Corbett improves to 9-7 in NCAA Tournament games.
Notes: Bensen now has 40 goals this season, which ranks tied for fourth all-time in a single season by a Penn player (Ali Deluca, 2009) … Bensen's 52 points this season are tied for eighth-most in a season by a Penn player (Erin Brennan, 2011) … Penn improved to 13-0 this season when Nina Corcoran scores at least two points.
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January issue of university magazine releasedUniversity of Hawaiʻi
External Affairs and University Relations
The University of Hawaiʻi magazine, Mālamalama, is hot off the press and entering homes worldwide. The January issue focuses not only on alumni and university news, but other interesting topics such as ethnic dancing, bee research, living on Mars, and learning a second language.
A Tale of Two Sonjas, one of several stories, focuses on two graduate students from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa's Department of Theatre and Dance. Both women found a passion for dance not commonly found in the isles - classical Indian and pre-revolution Iranian. Through travel, research and teaching, these women have presented conference papers, excelled in dance ethnology, and found a love for different cultures.
Replacing Textbooks with Tasks focuses on the University of Hawaiʻi's Department of Second Language Studies and their newest program to bring innovative ideas to learning different languages. This new program works to integrate support, fun and play for students to emphasize the importance of learning by doing, reading and teaching. This in turn, helps to foster an optimal learning environment for second languages.
Mālamalama is a tri-annual University System magazine published every January, May, and September. Distribution covers more than 170,000 alumni and donor households across Hawaiʻi and around the world. The magazine is available online via www.hawaii.edu/malamalama. To obtain a hard copy, call (808) 956-8856.


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CHICAGO (STMW) — Four men were killed and 15 people have been injured in shootings across the city since Friday evening.
The most recent fatal shooting happened about 3 a.m. Saturday on the Near West Side.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 1200 block of West Washburne Avenue and found a 22-year-old man on the sidewalk, with multiple gunshot wounds to the leg, police said.
Jamal Coleman, of the 5400 block of West Monroe Street, was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he died about 3:30 a.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
Another 23-year-old man later walked in to Stroger hospital with a gunshot wound in his leg and told authorities he had been hurt in the same Washburne Avenue attack, police said.
About 11:10 p.m. Friday, Robert Hart, 37, of the 5800 block of South Shields Avenue, was killed when a gunman came up behind him in an alley and started shooting in the 6000 block of South Halsted Street in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, officials said.
Hart was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger hospital, where he died just after midnight, the medical examiner's office said.
About 6:30 p.m. Friday, Brenden Temple, 21, of the 4000 block of South Indiana Avenue, was shot once in the head in the 6600 block of South Honore Street in the West Englewood neighborhood, officials said.
Temple was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he died about 7:20 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner's office.
The weekend's first fatal shooting happened about 6:10 p.m. Friday in the South Shore neighborhood.
Jaleel Pearson, 18, of the 6800 block of South Artesian Avenue was shot in the chest and arm in the 2200 block of East 71st Street, police said.
Pearson was pronounced dead at Stroger hospital about an hour later, according to the medical examiner's office.
At least 15 other people have been wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, including two men who were shot around the corner from each other in separate attacks just minutes apart in Englewood on Saturday afternoon.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2013. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)


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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's soccer team was defeated by New York University, 5-1, this afternoon in Farmingdale, N.Y. A late first-half goal by freshman forward Laura Palumbo (Brooklyn, N.Y./Fontbonne Hall Academy) would prove to be the game-winner for the Violets.
NYU started the scoring early with goal by freshman midfielder Britta Gauthier (White Bear Lake, Minn./White Bear Lake-South) off a corner by sophomore midfielder Lucy Dolly Caires (Honolulu, Hawaii/Iolani School) at the 10:31 mark.
The Rams tied it later in the half with a goal by freshman forward Alyssa Fleming (Levittown, N.Y./Island Trees) at 33:51. NYU quickly countered as sophomore defender Nicole Stutz (Bohemia, N.Y./Syosset) fed Palumbo with a pass through the middle of the box, putting the Violet up, 2-1, less than 30 seconds later.
NYU freshman forward Filiz Kipcakli (Port Washington, N.Y./Paul D. Schreiber), freshman midfielder Rebecca Assing (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich), and Palumbo each added an insurance goals in the second half.
Farmingdale State's sophomore goalkeeper Kimberly Sontag (Lynbrook, N.Y./Lynbrook) had 10 saves. Violet's senior goalkeeper Katie Barnes (Boston, Mass./Boston Latin School) stopped two shots for the win.
The Rams will head to Husson College in Bangor, Maine this weekend. They will play UMass Boston on Saturday, September 8th at 2:00 p.m, followed by Western New England on Sunday, September 9th at 11:00am.


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A Fremont County fugitive who allegedly tried to kill his son with a homemade sword on Sunday was tracked down Wednesday night in northern Colorado Springs.
Zillanz Winter Falcon, 51, was taken into custody shortly after 9 p.m. after Colorado Springs police were alerted by Florence law enforcement that Falcon was staying at a home near Woodmen Road and North Academy Boulevard. A truck matching the description of Falcon's vehicle was spotted in that area, and officers arrested Falcon without incident near the intersection of Woodmen and Academy.
According to Capt. Don Pinover of the Fremont County Sheriff's Office, Falcon traveled to his son's home near Florence on Sunday and confronted him. A fight broke out in the son's front yard, where Falcon allegedly chased his son and attacked him with a "52-inch homemade sword," according to the captain.
"He apparently struck the son hard enough to bend the blade of the sword," Pinover said.
According to Pinover, the son grabbed a large rock, hit his father in the head and ran into the house and called police.
Falcon fled and Florence police alerted southeastern Colorado law enforcement to "be on the lookout" for Falcon, who was initially taken into custody by Custer County Sheriff's deputies, Pinover said.
Falcon was treated a hospital for injuries to his head and released. Pinover said the investigation continued and an arrest warrant was issued Jan. 20.
Falcon, who according to court records also goes by the name James Henry Culver, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, felony menacing, assault and trespassing. He was being held in the El Paso County jail Thursday morning. Pinover said Falcon would be moved to the Fremont County jail.
Court records show that Falcon was sentenced to six years in prison in 2003 for manslaughter. He had been arrested in 2002 on suspicion of murder, but the charge was amended.