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Sunday, Sept. 2 - Colorado State, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High
Saturday, Sept. 8 - Sacramento State at Folsom Field
Saturday, Sept. 15 - At Fresno State
Saturday, Sept. 22 - At Washington State
Saturday, Sept. 29 - UCLA at Folsom Field
Thursday, Oct. 11 - Arizona State at Folsom Field
Saturday, Oct. 20 - At Southern California
Saturday, Oct. 27 - At Oregon
Saturday, Nov. 3 - Stanford at Folsom Field
Saturday, Nov. 10 - At Arizona
Saturday, Nov. 17 - Washington at Folsom Field
Friday, Nov. 23 - Utah at Folsom Field
Colorado spring football practices will be closed to the public and media members will be allowed to view only parts of practices, coach Jon Embree said.
Embree hinted last fall that his policies would be different this year. He said there are a variety of reasons for closing practices and limiting access, but the primary reason is the Buffs begin next season against Colorado State and open practices easily could allow CSU to scout the Buffs. CU opened last season against Hawaii and didn't play the Rams until the third game of the season so scouting from the Rams wasn't a worry.
But Embree has other concerns that played a part in his decision.
"With this being such a young team, I want to keep distractions for those guys at a minimum," Embree said. "I don't want them coming off the field every day feeling like they're being judged.
"I just want the kids to learn how to play, no anxiety, no nothing."
Colorado will have just 10 seniors on the roster this spring. The 2012 Buffs are expected to feature a lot of sophomores, redshirt freshmen and true freshmen playing on Saturdays. On national signing day earlier this month, Embree estimated that as much as 75 percent of his freshman class of 28 could earn playing time this upcoming season.
Embree said he is leaving open the possibility of having part of fall camp in August open to the public, but that isn't a sure thing at this point. Last year, the public was able to watch the first 10 practices of fall camp in their entirety. He said that decision will be made later this summer and it will depend, in part, on how the quarterback competition goes this spring.
Third-year sophomores Nick Hirschman and Connor Wood are the frontrunners to win the job and redshirt freshman John Schrock is a darkhorse candidate.
If coaches feel like one player is clearly separating himself and taking control of the position, Embree said he might be more inclined to open some practices in August. If the quarterback competition is still a muddled picture going into fall camp, practices likely will be closed to the public.
"I don't want seven million people on the Internet saying, 'Well, no, it should have been this guy,'" Embree said. "It's going to be hard enough whenever you do pick that guy. No matter who it is, you're always going to have that faction of people wanting it to be the other guy. With the fans, I'll probably just let them into some (August) practices here or there, but not just a general statement of open."
Former coach Dan Hawkins was criticized when he limited access to practices at times during his tenure. Hawkins always had at least some parts of fall camp open to the public in each of his five seasons in Boulder.
Embree said he does not mean to alienate fans. He aims to please them by taking the program back to the postseason next fall, but he believes the best atmosphere for developing a team capable of doing that is having practices with as few eyes as possible watching. If the Buffs were an older team with more entrenched veterans and fewer positions up for grabs, Embree might take a different approach.
Tone it down
One of the major story lines from Embree's first spring in Boulder a year ago was the decibel level at practices with coaches doing a lot of yelling at players. The tone and temperament of practices dramatically changed from the Hawkins era.
Embree won't be doing as much yelling this year out of necessity. He recently had throat surgery and has been limiting how much he speaks the past week. Embree said, only half joking, that he shouldn't have to yell as much this spring as he did last year because the Buffs should know what is expected of them.
"I'll definitely be staying on a short leash for awhile," Embree said.
Wright moving on
Embree said four-star cornerback recruit Yuri Wright has enrolled at a new school in New Jersey and is getting on with finishing his course work and graduating from high school so that he can join the Buffs this summer.
Wright was expelled from Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J., in January after using his Twitter account to post dozens of inappropriate messages of a racial and sexual nature. Wright later apologized and acknowledged he had made poor decisions and vowed not to repeat them.
"He is enrolled at another school," Embree said. "He's following up on his stuff."
Embree said there are no new discipline cases or injury situations that will have an effect on spring ball and he hopes it remains that way. ... He said Hirschman is recovering nicely from foot surgery and might cleared for full participation at the start of spring ball. That remains to be seen. Hirschman has been positive in messages he has posted recently on his Twitter account. "So close to 100 percent rehab does the body good," Hirschman tweeted earlier this week.


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We have just come through another month of chaggim, those ubiquitous holidays that start off the school year. We call them holy days. What is the difference between holidays and holy days?
Let me state at the outset that I often get irritated with this interruption of my work week. At times, there is a full month of days missed, of classes to make up, of studies lost and work piled up. I need to write, be at meetings and get stuff done. These days are lost to me as working days, and while my colleagues get ahead, I fall behind. On top of that complaint, my very traditional role brings with it an added burden. It sometime feels like I cook and clean up all the time. There are often three days strung together during which we eat, go to synagogue and then eat large meals again and again. All that "festive" time requires advance preparation, marketing and cooking. In order to invest joy in our meals, guests are invited, again requiring extra kitchen work. So much for the spirituality of the moment. We're called upon to be happy on these festivals, but doing the dishes at 11 p.m. is a strain on the joy factor.
So where's the simchah, the elation, of holy days? Where can we find the fullness of the holidays during this month in modernity?
A holiday is a vacation. In a way, these days are vacations that are imposed on us. The challenge is to find in them ways and means to break with our daily and annual routines. How can we do that?
The method developed in our tradition is to confront the work ethic and space in a new frame. What does that mean to me? I had to use these days off to figure out what chafes at work and what is smooth. What angers and what calms me in my career? Slowly, as I sat and prayed, the twists in my gut became guides to problems and expenditures that perhaps I should no longer be paying. Perhaps by taking some time away from classes when I don't have time, I'm forced to understand the essentials of teaching and the price of education. Challenged by time off, if I listen carefully to myself, I can learn a lot. Slowly, I can come to grips with issues central to my core of beliefs and goals. Slowly this forced vacation from teaching has turned into a spiritual quest, into a holy day.
So, too, can my other petty complaints be exposed. Yes, I spend too much time in the food department. But truth be told, I love it, even though I am bone tired. I love feeding people good food. I enjoy cooking, making intricate meal plans and designing new recipes. I like having a diverse group of people around my table talking, arguing, and laughing. To me, the holidays become sanctified as guests sit around a table and bless the food I prepare. So I'm tired and overworked, but I know of no other way to make the days sacred. The rituals of holy days are centred in shared meals.
Somehow our ancestors understood the need for holiness and for celebration. They anchored our tradition with these elaborate rituals of prayer and food. And it can work. Perhaps it's a bit overdone. Perhaps two to three days of yom tov, holy day, is too much for anyone. Perhaps we would all do better with the Israeli model: one day of yom tov only.
But no matter the number of days, the actual experience depends on a great deal of human effort, both spiritual and physical. Without real preparation, understanding and intention, nothing works well. After many decades, I'm beginning to get it. I'll still complain. That's my nature. The physical can overwhelm me and take precedence over the existential and the holy. I do live in the moment.
But once we can get into the fullness of the actual celebration, the joy of the ritual moment takes charge, as it's meant to. The holiday becomes a holy day, and I'm surrounded by joy and a glimpse of the sacred.

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"Reality tells us there are no guarantees. Except that some day Jon Lester will be on that list of 100-game winners." - Peter Gammons
Jayson Stark was on WLW this morning. He said that he was at Harang's last start. He was concerned with what he saw. He asked scouts in attendance what they saw. The response was that he was only working on locating his fastball, no breaking stuff. The scouts thought he looked ok.
The take home lesson? We shall see on opening day.
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
Harang's stats don't bother me all that much....the reports of his fastball not being fast and his breaking pitches not breaking do.
edit: found this on the spring training updates from Sir Charles: "Actually, Aaron ended up going 6 innings of no hit ball and 4 k's and 2 bb's. Nice to see Aaron his dominant self again."
In the same way that a baseball season never really begins, it never really ends either. - Lonnie Wheeler, "Bleachers, A Summer in Wrigley Field"
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Off today...watching hoops...didnt listen. That report is good to see!
Nice game by Harang today, especially considering the Pirates were playing their starters and not the Sunday Special scrubs....
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." G.K Charleston
A 6 inning no no is more like the Aaron Harang I'm used to....
he probably would have made the team out of spring if not for his heel injury. either pitchers found a new way to get him out, or he didn't entirely recover from it, but he was out of the game not long after.The big guy was Stratton.
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The Reds have let teams know that they will wait and see whether they need to move Aaron Harang during the season. Harang is scheduled to make $12.5 million next season and $12.75 million with a $2 million buyout for 2011. After going 34-23 with a 3.68 ERA from the start of the 2006 season until he made his four-inning relief stint on two days' rest on May 15, 2008, he went 4-11, 5.88. "Aaron's been OK this spring, because he battles so hard," one scout said. "But the life on the ball he runs in on left-handed batters isn't the same."
Dusty on Harang today:
"He was sharp," Dusty Baker said. "He had a great breaking ball. Threw some good inside fast balls. That's as good an outing as I've seen in long time. He should feel very proud himself. Hopefully, we can go from here."
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Cedric 3/24/08It's absolutely pathetic that people can't have an opinion from actually watching games and supplementing that with stats. If you voice an opinion that doesn't fit into a black/white box you will get completely misrepresented and basically called a tobacco chewing traditionalist...
I personally think that anyone who's trying to use quotes by unnamed sources or Dusty Baker is barking up the wrong tree. I'm not neccessarily saying you guys are doing it, but if the intention is using those snippets as anything more than "food for thought" then I think your going to get a misinformed opinion. Until we see Harang in the regular season all of these opinions are just as worthless as the next.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but it is funny how Baker is an idiot when he isn't on your side of the fence and all-knowing when he is.
I was thinking the same thing (in general, not just pointed at you OBM).
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- MrCachet said...
Hummels they are.
- December 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM
- snugglebug said...
my grandma used to collect those hummel figurines. She had three. They sold for $150 on ebay.
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I love this site - it makes me want to tuck a photo or something neat inside a book and sell it to a used book store.
Do any of the books get sold with the items still between the pages? Or do they all get taken out first?
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...I'm in a MERVYN'S commercial from the late 80s.
...I'm in a MERVYN'S commercial from the late 80s.
I missed it. Where do I apply Head On?
Watching Around the Horn getting ready to swith to ESPNU at 5:30.
Is that when he's set to announce?
Is this on TV? Is there a stream?
EDIT: ESPN U has recruiting nation starting at 5:30...guessing that might have it?
"to be early is to be on time". For the MGoYouth, George was the Director of the Marching Band in the 70's.
POSBANG for quoting George Cavender.
Will he choose Stanford? NERDS!
...I thought WE got to be the nerds...
Regardless, I'm gonna strum like Booger Presley.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be in the library all night, rather than enjoying Thirsty Thursday.
For those of us stuck at work, you guys will have to give us the play by play!
Get it? Double meaning! "Go Blue" and also "choose Michigan!" GO Blue!
Washingtonpreps.com will have a live stream of Josh's announcement at 6 EST.
Is it an actual live stream with video or just a live blog?
Right now it just looks like a live blog.
I don't even want him to go blue.
This is not a counter jinx.
The above is not an anti-counter jinx.
I'm at half-mast already
I'm sure on a Stanford blog they have posted a Ted Kaczynski pic.
I am out West. A caller just called into a local show (790 a.m.) and said that he is going to Stanford.
We had a nice run guys.
We better have this open thread deleted then. Some guy just called in to a local radio show, and said he's going to Stanford. Close it down, boys......
The caller said he was going to Stanford. He didn't seem to know anything about Josh. (Just trying to soften the blow when he doesn't pick us :)
I like your optimism!
The caller said he was going to Stanford. He didn't seem to know anything about Josh. (Just trying to soften the blow when he doesn't pick us :)
Will you never post here again if you are wrong?
I have never been wrong, so I don't know how to respond to you . . .
garnett said a couple weeks ago that he was going to try to do something tricky for his decision.. so be on the look out.
yeah well, i say he is going to Michigan.
my word against the callers.
....I will go through the pre-flight checklist anyway. That way, I am prepared regardless.
Me too! SEA-ORD.
I have a really odd feeling, he seems prepared to face a "social media" backlash. I have never seen him tweet much towards the Stanford group. I don't feel like they would be sour. I have this feeling him and Erik are great friends but maybe the whole "your my boo" thing was a show. Kind of like the arnett fake commitment thing last year. I will be happy if he commits but I'm prepared for him going to standord
As a twin and the father of twins with a twin brother-in-law (all of us are Wolverine lovers), I'm an expert on the subject. Rachel Garnett already has accepted a debate scholarship to Concordia Lutheran down here in Irvine, CA. I'd be shocked if twin brother Joshua choses UM over Standford. Unless, that is, she is also fond of the meat-eating Wolvernine vs. the more veggie "Tree." GO BLUE and best wishes to the Garnett twins!
I have no idea what you are talking about.
...but isn't Palo Alto like a long long way away from Irvine?
Yes. Irvine is in Orange County and Palo Alto is all the way up north.
Some people up there might say it is "hella" up north.
It''s a quick 7 hour drive, +/- any hellish traffic around the 405 while crossing LA.
They are far enough away from each other that a college student might as well go to Michigan. It's not like he's going to have enough time to travel to see her on the weekends. I think this logic is flawed.
Irvine and Palo Alto are like 350 miles away. It's not like they'd be neighbors.
Irvine is far enough from Palo Alto that it barely qualifies as being in the same state. Detroit and Chicago are significantly closer together, for example.
He can come to Michigan where he can room with his good frend Eric Manguson.
Anyone know if you can get in there with a ticket and how much they are? I just live a couple miles from Garnett's high school and I'm thinking about biking there now
Over? Did you say "over"? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
When the going gets TOUGH.....
What the fuck happened to the MgoBlog I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Ape, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. Urban, he's a dead man! Kelly, dead! Dantonino...
Forget it, he is on a roll.
We had Josh at Hello
I gotta be honest, I don't have a good feeling about this. I hope I'm wrong though.
Sorry for my ignorance. I have espnu...is it confirmed that his announcement will be on ESPNU live?
Im getting some sort of male order bride with this link?
Interesting fact. He wants a top football program,coaching, tradition, and a top bioengineering dept. Michigan according to an article I found using google is ranked #8 and stanford is ranked #12 nstionally. So we beat them at everything he's using to decide where he's going. He's going Blue
Can we get the Mgoblog app updated to send a push notification of recruiting announcements that would be awesome.
This is a great idea.
This would not aid my work productivity at all. Great idea!
ESPNU hasn't said anything. I'm starting to feel like it's not going to be on here.
Who is your daddy and what does he do?
are going to try desparately to be the first one to post a new topic of where Garnett he is going. Someone probably has a message all typed out
I don't believe it's on ESPNU... Just saw a tweet from Josh saying something along the lines of "lol no man I don't have the stars to be on ESPN"
Where can announcement be heard?
I know we're out of the Ronald Darby sweepstakes but his high school wears winged helmets. . . just saying
How many stars does ESPN give him?
4*, No. 44 player in the country
Rumor is on @MGoRecruit that his parents are wearing UM shirts... fingers crossed harder than ever. I need a seat belt
Wouldn't that spoil the surprise?
...Urban Meyer and T. Forcier were on that liveblog as well. I wouldn't put too much stock in anything you read during the pre-announcement "festivities" over there.
Notice how they keep talking about prospects looking at the sames schools on ESPNU. They're all considering Alabama, Auburn, and Florida State rather than prospects looking at the midwestern schools.
I just read Grantland Rice's poem, Garnett has to committ here now.
Garnett appears to be wearing a Stanford Polo Shirt in a crowded gymnasium! #rivalsnsd @doubletrouble [via Twitter]
aaaaaand we're done.
I want him to be the clothing equivalent of a clown car....successively pulling off Michigan and Stanford shirts until he has his announced school written on his bare chest
It's only a polo because it can cover a Michigan T-shirt. Right? RIGHT?!?!?
So are we sure Garnett's making a live announcement at 6? It seems like ESPNU is segway-ing right into something about Satan...err...I mean Saban.
ESPNU the network is riding a motorized scooter into Nick Saban? Now I've seen everything.
He's making the announcement but it doesn't seem like it's going to be on TV. Also, segue.
On the Washington Post Liveblog I voted Washington in the poll.
Ha, so did I.
Guys . . . its over. Go to twitter.
Now we need Diamond.
Interesting - Stanford Medicine shirt...
Even without Garnett I don't why we can't pull a decent RB with our future OL
Where's the pressed at? I live like 10 mins from puyallup hs.
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You'd think ESPNU's Recruiting Nation would at least mention that their #44 player in the nation is deciding now. Nope...just Saban chatter.
Best of luck at Stanford.
he picks...
damn... stanford.. bummer
Sad Face.
Stanford gets him. Good luck to the kid.
Bummer. Hope he's happy there. Stanford is a great school.
0 for 1 right now. I'm realistically hoping we go 3/5 on these remaining recruits. At this point, that would ideally be getting Diamond, Reeves, and Kozan. I would obviously love to have Grant too.
Good luck to Garnett, he will do well at Stanford.
...and I wish him the best of luck. But first, I need a good ole fashioned James Vanderbeek type of crying session.
Blah, oh well you win some you lose some. Best of luck at Stanford, please don't anyone give this kid shit on the social media's.
The sad thing is some losers out there will
A douchebag said something like "Enjoy winning 7 games each year at a school made up of 4,000 Koreans." Nothing like incoherent racism.
That's awful.
Hopefully he doesn't read that.
Thought that was UCLA or UC Berkeley?
Best of luck to Josh. Seems like he definitely knows what he wants, and their two lineman projected to go in the top 15 in this year's draft shows that you can get a good education and a shot at the pros @ Stanford.
Kind of like the 11w reaction to the Kyle Kalis/Tom Strobel commits. They basically called them fags. I'm talking about the writers not the message board posters.
Good luck Mr. Garnett.
This was a great decision on his part. I wish he had gone the other way but it his decision and I hope he does well.
If he wanted the NFL he may have made the wrong choice or at the very least a far riskier one since Stanford may be at its peak. For medicine though top notch. I think he chose a heck of a school.
Onto other recruits.
Damn Caleb Stacy loss hurts even more because I just dont feel any confidence at all that Diamond is gonna commit plus he is a tackle prospect.
Good luck to him! He's a high quality guy from what I hear. Hope he does well unless we see him in the Rose Bowl (ha with no Andrew Luck I don't see that happening any time soon).
But good luck to him in Palo Alto
Oh well. Best of luck to Josh, he's a smart kid who will succeed in whatever he does.
But, right now, I could use a hug. Or a strong shot of something.
I feel like we have no recruiting momentum left
Same here I can easily see us closing the class out with nobody else and then I can see us landing the 3 big remaining targets.
Well that sucks
if we can grab diamond i won't be upset anymore. now, onto worrying about reeves.
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...Also, good luck to the kid.
I don't really wish him good luck shoulda went blue
Best of luck to him. It is a little odd that we were recruiting like mad when there were initially a bunch of question marks about Hoke and the team, but after winning a BCS game we don't have much mojo. It probably just looks that way due to the hot start for this class. Hopefully we still get some nice surprises.
boohoo. i feel like a school girl whos boyfriend just cheated on her with stanford. good luck josh. damn it damn it damn it!
It wasn't your decision, so it can't be a wrong decision.
While we all wish he was coming to UM, going to a school like Stanford is a dream for countless kids applying to colleges out there. There is nothing wrong with him choosing it.
Good luck to Josh and his endeavors.
He made the decision that was best for him. He's not making a decision for you. It's an 18-year-old kid making his decision on where he's going to spend the next 4 years of his life. Have a little perspective.
Shame. Best of luck to him.
Garnett going to Standford. UGH!!!
Back to your regularly scheduled program.
Ah, damn. Location wins again.
The sky is falling!!!!!!!
Relax everybody
It's a good thing we started so strong, because we are doing nothing as of late. ZERO MO.
Is that we have more slots open for next year. And with Shane helping with the recruiting, we should be fine.
Oh no!!! It's the end of the world!!! we might as well close up shop!!
seemed like a great fit, but he made the best choice for him. This is part of the game, much better than not even being in on the top kids
Just tweeted he hates being lied to. I think he's talking about the person who told him Garnett is coming to Michigan, I don't think he's talking about Garnett, but you never know.
I wanted him more than Diamond. Now Diamond is an absolute priority
We march on, were Michigan
PeeWee sounds pissed. Looks like JG to him he was blue.
I hate my life right now. What's the point now?
He is talking about Josh Garnett.
Can't trust people but I wouldn't want it around me or
Strange tweet from Ondre "I wouldnt want it around me or Michigan"
He led Magnuson on a bit...
Ondre Pipkins is not please
Me either. I just don't believe he was undecided last night. He was a favoring Stanford, but continued to float all the pro UM tweets. He just wanted the attention. Sounds like a decent kid overall, but yes, I agree with Ondre that he's got some B.S. in him.
Sucks, but best of luck to JG. The Farm is a great school and I wish him the best unless he plays Michigan.
I really feel like we're not going to get Diamond either
Man we could really use Kozan now. We need another solid OG
Maybe we will find a Diamond in the rough
or maybe we can get Jordan Diamond. When you said Diamond it reminded me.
They already lost one of our promised jewels, so kay jewelers better have the diamond i am looking for.
Well the chances of us playing Stanford in the next four years are actually pretty good, so I'm sure we will see him. And he will lose.
For once, I can't say that a kid isn't as serious about academics as he claims because he didn't pick us. He chose the one place that has us beat in that department. Best of luck to him. We still have a killer O-line class, and we'll probably land Diamond.
Quick! Somebody make sure Magnuson is not hyperventilating!!!
Will come because of Garnett not coming and there being more space for playing time. Hopefully Michigan turns up the notch because lately we haven't done jack shit
For no reason at all, my gut feeling says Diamond is going to Arkansas
Losing him to ohio would hurt much more.....we already have a good group of off. lineman but getting Diamond-Kozan or Muller from Rutgers would be nice....I long for the days when I didn't follow recruiting and just read the list of stud recruits Bo hauled in on signing day....an 18 year old kid from Washington just ruined my day lol
and play his football in front of 50,360 fans in Stanford stadium. That's a capacity crowd there. The last time Michigan had a home game with fewer people than that?
1969 Sept. 27 Washington (Bo's second game as HC) 49,684 fans.
You have to go back to 1963 for another Michigan home game with a crowd that small.
I wonder if Jim Harbaugh encouraged him to choose Stanford. After all, that was Harbaugh's number one choice—not Michigan:
"I used to stare down at that field as I was stenciling those numbers," Harbaugh told reporters, athletes and others who crowded into the Arrillaga Family Sports Center's Kissick Auditorium. "I so very badly wanted to go to Stanford and play for the Cardinal. … This was my number-one choice all along."
In case you haven't noticed, Jim Harbaugh is a douchebag.
Can you all please save the disingenuous "Oh well best of luck to him! Great choice nonetheless!" It's incredibly lame and needs to stop.
So you're in the "I hope you blow out your ACL" camp, then?
Oh lord no I'd never wish injury upon someone else..... I said nothing of the sort in my post. How you come to that conclusion is beyond me. What I do wish is for people to stop the, "Oh well, go get em (recruits name)!!" The kid basically led michigan on and decided the school wasn't good enough for his needs. Acting like we're all going to become fans of every kid who spurns Michigan is retarded. The minute he chooses otherwise is the minute he no longer matters to us. Save the rhetoric.
So being classy and wishing good luck to a kid we all wanted to come to UM is being retarded?
I think you should stop digging the hole you're in.
Why would you think that I am being disingenuous???
I honestly wish the best for him. He picked a great school. Why is that lame?
I immediately acquire the maturity level of a small child when following recruiting. Oh well, Good luck Josh!
I feel cheated on in the same way I felt cheated on when I found out Natalie Portman was pregnant. She was never mine, and though I thought we were in love, all she ever did was smile at me.
cheating whore...LOL
Would have been great. But assume that academics really are no. 1 with the kid... Michigan opens many, many, many doors as professional schools and careers after football are concerned.
But Stanford opens 'em all. I'd have probably done the same.
(or maybe do Michigan undergrad then Stanford medical? He does know he's not guaranteed admission to Stanford's medical school, right? Admission to the med school is even tougher than undergrad-- and they don't care if you can play football... just sayin', seems like the best of both worlds, but if you want a guaranteed Stanford degree on your wall, take the Cardinal-red bird in hand)
Ah well, maybe just being philosophical but this leaves more room in the talent pipeline for the trench guys they're still after this year plus the 2013 guys. Seems to me it has a way of balancing itself out.
Dont act all high and mighty, Don. Any negative attention Garnett gets right now from us is well deserved. Consider yourself duped with the rest of us, me most of all.
I never thought Garnett was coming to UM in the first place, and I'm far from surprised that he chose Stanford. Save your dupitude for other people.
As for your statement: "Any negative attention Garnett gets right now from us is well deserved," you've now crossed over into Buckeye fan territory. Or have you forgotten how Kalis was treated by Ohio State fans?
Summoner10 wasn't pulling an OSU on Kalis, nor was I... and you tried to make it that way. There is nothing wrong with what Summoner10 said, at all. I'm the last guy to wish ill on someone like that, however, if one deliberately decieves, then the LAST thing they'll get, are "good wishes and best of luck".
i am never ever going to follow a kids recruitment again! to hear him say all the right things than choose a different school. just let me know when some one commits.
by the way. whats jordan diamonds twitter name. I'm gonna go see how interested he is in michigan.
sick to the gut!
I don't dislike the kid, but I'm sure as hell not going to wish him luck. I don't wish luck on kids from any other program, let alone Stanford.
exactly... and lets see what Don says after Garnett possibly swaying Magnuson to Stanford.
I can finally poop a solid turd now.
Tha is the second Garnett we done lost out on smh!
I wonder what happens when a Stanford kid goes in for an interview if it's such a superior school. Because every time I've gone in with Michigan on my resume' I've always gotten an "Ooooh so you went to... Meechigannn." They must really bust a ...gut over those Stanford kids.
He's the enemy now..
just checked out stanfords class. got some studs. including barry sanders jr. just saying.


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Andrey Arshavin has launched a scathing attack on the Emirates Stadium home crowd.
The former Gunners star said the atmosphere is 'weird' and that the Arsenal players feel no advantage whilst playing at home.
The home fans were edgy and frustrated throughout the Gunners' 2-0 defeat to Chelsea, and after Tottenham boss criticised the White Hart Lane crowd, Arshavin has done the same.
32-year-old Russian Arshavin spent four years in North London and though a favourite after his move from Zenit, the end of his Arsenal career was plagued by discontent from the Arsenal faithful.
And Arshavin has slammed the fans at Arsenal:
"The atmosphere was weird," he said in the Sun. "It felt like the crowd was at the theatre - good seats, expensive tickets and they wanted to see a show, not to support the team.
"It was like there was no advantage in playing at home. Many of the players - the leaders that were left from the club's time at Highbury - often complained that the atmosphere in the stands was so bad."
Arsenal's form for a long time has been better on the road, and this season is no exception.
Despite impressing at home in the league in games against rivals Tottenham, and against Norwich - when they scored this goal of the season contender - Arsene Wenger's side have lost their last two games at the Emirates.
Defeat against Borussia Dortmund in Europe and Chelsea in the cup are beginning to make people doubt the credentials of this Arsenal side, who currently sit top of the league.
The Gunners will be looking to get back to winning ways on Saturday against Liverpool, and will be hoping for a positive reaction from the fans.
And Wenger is keen for Arsenal to rectify their home form.
"We want to win every home game, so the home form is a concern - but not as big a concern as the statistics might show it," he said.
"Against Dortmund and Chelsea, we gave easy goals away. That is a positive and a negative. The negative is that we gave the goals away, but the positive is that neither of them created too many chances against us.
"It is down to how we get rid of those mistakes without losing the belief in our qualities. That is what is at stake.
Arsenal will be without injured star Mathieu Flamini but are likely to recall Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud to the starting line-up.
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Jets feel AHL success will help top prospectsby Patrick Williams / Winnipeg Jets
The managerial team of the Winnipeg Jets can take pride in the fact they've solidified a foundation of good, young talent by way of the NHL Draft.
The pipeline is brimming with blue-chip prospects ready to make their mark. Forward Mark Scheifele, a 2011 first-round pick (No. 7) and defenseman Jacob Trouba, the team's 2012 first-round pick (No. 9) are two recent top picks who've already established themselves.
"The goal once we came to Winnipeg was to try and increase the depth in the organization and I think [general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff] and the other management group have provided us with a lot of picks over the years and given us an opportunity to try and improve the depth and grow our organization from within," Jets director of amateur scouting Marcel Comeau told NHL.com. "That's the mantra [Cheveldayoff] has in place and that's what we're trying to do."
After making 30 picks at the past four drafts, Cheveldayoff should be pleased. The team's American Hockey League affiliate, the St. John's IceCaps, reached the Calder Cup Final last season before losing to the Texas Stars in five games. That team, coached by Keith McCambridge, was fortified with talent on both ends of the ice.
"It was extremely beneficial for our prospects to play high-caliber games, intense games, against good competition for a significant period [in the AHL playoffs]," Comeau said. "When the big team is not playing, the management is keeping a close eye on the prospects so they had a chance in front of the people who make the decisions to show what they have and how close they are. Because of that they'll probably earn themselves a longer look in training camp."
Here's a look at Winnipeg's top 10 prospects, according to NHL.com:
1. Joshua Morrissey, D
How acquired: 1st round (No. 13), 2013 draft
Last season: 59 GP, 28-45-73, Prince Albert, WHL
The 6-foot, 186-pound defenseman received invaluable experience with the IceCaps during their playoff run last season and contributed two goals and nine points in 20 postseason games. He served as captain for Prince Albert last season, his fourth in the WHL, and set career-highs in goals, assists and points. If Morrissey doesn't earn a roster spot for the Jets out of training camp, he will return to Prince Albert for one more season before turning pro. The Jets project the 19-year-old will be a top-four defensemen whenever he gets to the NHL.
"The thing that really stands out is his hockey IQ," Comeau said. "I think he really reads situations well offensively and defensively and has the ability to push the pace. He played in 20 AHL playoff games when the chips were on the line, so you know he's pretty close as a 19-year-old. Now it's up to him to push the envelope."
Projected NHL arrival: 2015-16
2. Adam Lowry, LW
How acquired: 3rd round (No. 67), 2011 draft
Last season: 64 GP, 17-16-33, St. John's, AHL
The 6-4, 187-pound Lowry was drafted as a left wing out of Swift Current in the Western Hockey League. But he was shifted to center the season after Winnipeg selected him, and the move has benefited both parties. The 21-year-old is the type of player a coach would have confidence in putting on the ice in any situation.
"I think everybody likes size and strength down the middle and we certainly think Adam brings that," Comeau said. "We like to have people who can play both ends of the rink. He's a good faceoff man and good penalty-killer."
Projected NHL arrival: 2015-16
3. Nikolaj Ehlers, LW
How acquired: 1st round (No. 9), 2014 draft
Last season: 63 GP, 49-55-104, Halifax, QMJHL
Before joining the Mooseheads, Ehlers spent time with Biel in Switzerland's top professional league and had Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks and Tyler Seguin of the Dallas Stars as teammates during the 2012-13 season. The 18-year-old had 11 goals and 28 points in 16 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff games as a rookie last season in Halifax.
He might not be NHL-ready this season, but Comeau believes he isn't too far off.
"There's some really dynamic offensive upside there," he said. "This guy has big time speed and puck skill and we think he's one of those players who you know is going to make something happen whenever he gets the puck. He's not a big guy (5-11, 162), but we know he'll do what he can to make himself as strong as possible to compete against men at the next level."
Projected NHL arrival: 2016-17
4. Michael Hutchinson, G
How acquired: Trade (Boston Bruins), July 19, 2013
Last season: 24 GP, 17-5-1, 2.30 GAA, .923 SVP, St. John's, AHL
Hutchison (6-foot-3, 174 pounds), chosen by the Bruins with the No. 77 pick in the 2008 draft, was re-signed to a two-year contract July 2 and is in line to become the full-time backup to Ondrej Pavelec. He got a taste of the NHL last season, going 2-1-0 with a 1.64 goals-against average and .943 save percentage in three late-season starts. The 24-year-old then played 21 games (12-9) in the Calder Cup Playoffs and was exceptional with a 1.95 GAA, .938 save percentage and three shutouts to help the IceCaps reach the final.
"I think Michael's concentration level and rebound control are good," Comeau said. "He doesn't give up a lot of bad goals. He's a guy who's focused, limits his second chances and really does a good job of making the other team earn everything they get."
Projected NHL arrival: 2014-15
5. Ben Chiarot, D
How acquired: 4th round (No. 120), 2009 draft
Last season: 65 GP, 6-14-20, St. John's, AHL
The physically intimidating Chiarot (6-3, 215 pounds) had a strong AHL season and made his NHL debut in November. He had two goals and five points in 21 postseason games for the IceCaps, and agreed to terms on a one-year, two-way contract July 23. In 144 AHL games, the 23-year-old has eight goals, 34 points and 196 penalty minutes, all with St. John's.
"He's a big defenseman who can move the puck and give you some physical play in your own zone," Comeau said. "He's tough on people in the corners but can also handle team quickness."
Projected NHL arrival: 2014-15
6. Nicolas Petan, C
How acquired: 2nd round (No. 43), 2013 draft
Last season: 63 GP, 35-78-113, Portland, WHL
Despite his 5-9, 165-pound frame and being a focal point of the opposition each game, Petan continued to light up the scoreboard; he has 95 goals and 269 points in 198 WHL games. He also was fourth in scoring during the WHL playoffs last season with 28 points in 21 games to help Portland advance to the WHL final. He scored four goals and had five points in seven games for Canada at the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship in Malmo, Sweden.
Petan, 19, is a prototypical puck-distributor, anticipates well and would work wonders on a power play.
"Some of the things he does on the ice just wow you," Comeau said. "He creates opportunities for himself and others. He doesn't play on the outside; he's in the battle all the time."
Projected NHL arrival: 2015-16
7. Connor Hellebuyck, G
How acquired: 5th round (No. 130), 2012 draft
Last season: 29 GP, 18-9-2, 1.79 GAA, .941 SVP, 6 SO, Massachusetts-Lowell, Hockey East
Hellebuyck, who will turn pro this season, went 5-3-0 in eight starts in March to lead the River Hawks to their second consecutive Hockey East tournament championship with back-to-back shutouts at TD Garden in Boston, and an appearance the Northeast Regional Final against Boston College. He made 30 saves in a 4-0 victory against the University of New Hampshire in the Hockey East championship game to earn MVP honors, becoming the first player to win the award twice. He also was the recipient of the first Mike Richter Award as the most outstanding goaltender the NCAA after leading the nation in goals-against average and save percentage in 2013-14.
Projected NHL arrival: 2016-17
8. J.C. Lipon, RW
How acquired: 3rd round (No. 91), 2013 draft
Last season: 72 GP, 9-32-41, St. John's, AHL
Lipon (6-foot, 183), 21, is quite effective in his role as an agitator. As a rookie for the IceCaps last season he had a team-high 136 penalty minutes but also proved his ability as a playmaker. He also is versatile, evidenced by the fact the right-shot forward played right and left wing in St. John's. He's projected as a bottom-six forward but could be an extremely valuable commodity in that role.
Projected NHL arrival: 2015-16
9. Scott Kosmachuk, RW
How acquired: 3rd round (No. 70), 2012 draft
Last season: 68 GP, 49-52-101, Guelph, OHL
Comeau said he feels fortunate the organization was able to get the 5-11, 185-pound right-handed shot in the third round two years ago; all he did in four OHL seasons with Guelph was pile up 120 goals and 246 points in 271 games. Kosmachuk, 20, also had 10 goals and 28 points in 20 playoff games to help the Storm win the OHL title and earn a berth in the Memorial Cup.
"He had an exceptional year in Guelph and was one of the key players all year," Comeau said. "He's worked himself up the lineup, and when we drafted him we thought he would be a top-nine [forward] rather than a top-six, but I think he's elevated his game so much at the major-junior level that we now view him as a player who can possibly play on your top two lines.
Projected NHL arrival: 2016-17
10. Eric Comrie, G
How acquired: 2nd round (No. 59), 2013 draft
Last season: 60 GP, 26-25-9, 2.57 GAA, .925 SVP, Tri-City, WHL
Comeau said Comrie (6-1, 167) is a solid candidate to represent Canada at the 2015 World Junior Championship in Montreal and Toronto in January. Getting that opportunity will enable him an opportunity to show how mentally strong he is in pressure situations.
The 19-year-old won a gold medal with Canada at the 2011 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup but sustained a hip injury that required season-ending surgery in February 2013 and delayed his development. He progressed well enough last season that he got into two AHL games.
"We really like his technique and work ethic and liked the way he always kept his team in the game," Comeau said. "He didn't really have strong teams in Tri-City the last couple of years but he's the kind of guy who battles and keeps you in the game every night. The injury situation is not an issue moving forward; he played in 60 games last season and had impressive numbers for team that wasn't strong."
Projected NHL arrival: 2017-18
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The next pontiff, whoever he is, will have an enormous task of reforming the Roman Curia
The identity of the next Pope is now at the forefront of many people's minds, and given the fact we now live in an age of 24 hour news coverage, Facebook and twitter, the space for speculation has certainly grown since the year when Popes John Paul I and John Paul II were elected. One thing stands out from that interesting year in my memory. I followed the news closely in the lead up to the conclaves, and at no point did anyone mention Albino Luciani (with the exception of one passing mention in Time) or Karol Wojtyla. When both men stepped out onto the balcony they did so as complete unknowns, and great surprises. Perhaps this time too the next Pope may be someone of whom we have not yet heard? There are after all 117 Cardinal electors, and not all of them, even now, will be given wall to wall coverage.
That year, 1978, the year of the three Popes, was also the year in which we heard insistently about the desirability of a Pope from the Third World. That idea is still with us: perhaps its time has come at last? But we were told another thing too: it was impossible that we could ever have an American Pope. The reasoning behind this, I seem to remember at the time, was that an American Pope would mean the Catholic Church being seen as aligned to the West, when the Church had to steer a neutral course between the West and the Soviet bloc.
At present, with the Soviet bloc being history, we are still told that we cannot have an American Pope, on the grounds that America is the world's only superpower. Poor America, it cannot win. Only when it has sunk into total obscurity will it be able to give the world a Pope.
But why should this be the case? Who says an American can't be Pope? Why should anyone be disqualified, or indeed qualified, by nationality?
When the See of Peter was last vacant, I was commissioned by a national newspaper to write an article on the Conclave, which was never published. But I remember saying that the first task that awaited the new Pontiff was the reform of the Roman Curia. That reform has still not been undertaken; indeed the Roman Curia seems more dysfunctional then ever. (There is a good analysis of this here.)
The task of reform is something that the new Pope, whoever he is, will not be able to put off. The pressure for reform is surely now irresistible. However, it will take great energy, and huge willpower, to cleanse the Augean stable. When I picture the enormity of the job ahead of the new Pope, I see him as the sort of man who will take no nonsense. Who is it the enemies of reform most fear, I wonder? Might it be an American Pope?
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William Fahner, 54, went to a fast food restaurant thinking he was meeting a young child fo sex, police said.
An Ormond Beach man was caught in a Daytona Beach police undercover sex sting when he went to a Wendy's thinking he was meeting a child for sex, reports show.
William Fahner, 54, was charged Thursday with use of a computer to seduce/solicit/lure a child, travel to seduce/solicit/lure/entice a child and possession of a firearm while in commission of a felony, a Daytona Beach police arrest report said.
Police said Fahner responded to an ad placed online by an undercover police officer posing as a father seeking men to teach his child sex.
Fahner had explicit sexual conversations with the officer. After several conversations, Fahner agreed to a meeting that he believed would be with the child and parent at the Wendy's at Williamson and LPGA boulevards.
He arrived Thursday afternoon in a red Chevy Blazer. Police were waiting.
In an interrogation by Daytona Beach police, Fahner admitted that he had responded to the online ad and that he had communicated his sexual intentions to the undercover officer, the report states.
After Fahner said he sent the messages from his laptop at his Ormond Beach home, police asked him for consent to get the computer. Fahner responded: "I can't allow that, if you search my home, it will only open other doors and I can't handle that right now," the report shows.
Police searched Fahner's vehicle and found a loaded 9-mm Glock pistol in the center console. Police also located a machete, duct tape and rope in Fahner's vehicle, the report said.


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LOWER POTTSGROVE — Beginning Sept. 3, the on- and off-ramps at Armand Hammer Boulevard for Route 422 east will be closed for approximately 2˝ months.
Currently, the estimate for the re-opening of the Armand Hammer Boulevard Interchange is early to mid-November, according to Lower Pottsgrove Police Chief Mike Foltz, but the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said the construction could take as long as three months.
With the ramps closed, those who usually use the Armand Hammer Boulevard Interchange will either have to go farther east and utilize the Sanatoga Interchange or west at the Route 100 Interchange.
This is the next phase of a $73.3 million project to "rebuild and improve" 1.6 miles of the highway between Lower Pottsgrove and North Coventry, according to PennDOT. The ramps are going to be "rebuilt and relocated."
Foltz said the belief is that the new ramps will provide for more acceleration and deceleration time for traffic getting on or off Route 422.
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DENVER -- Peyton Manning bounced right back up.
Manning's home debut for the Denver Broncos was a mixed bag in a 30-10 preseason loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Saturday night. He led two scoring drives but threw two more interceptions and watched his teammates drop plenty of passes and cough up the ball.
Manning played the first half and gave the Broncos (1-1) a 10-9 lead despite three turnovers, including an interception in the red zone for the second straight week.
He looked great on a2-minute drive, but that stalled when tight end Jacob Tamme, his old pal from Indianapolis, dropped a wide-open touchdown pass 6 seconds before halftime.
The biggest positive for the four-time MVP who's returning from a neck injury that required four surgeries and sidelined him all of last year is that he took his first big hit in 19 months and got right back up.
Blasted by defensive end Bruce Irvin with 1:28 left in the half, Manning shook it off and completed a 22-yard pass to Brandon Stokley on his next play.
Terrell Owens had a disappointing debut for the Seahawks (2-0), failing to catch any of the five passes thrown his way.
Owens is trying to show he's fully recovered from a knee injury that kept him out of the NFL for the entire 2011 season, but in his first NFL game action since Week 15 of the 2010 season with Cincinnati, he was out of sync with quarterback Matt Flynn.
Flynn targeted him five times. The first was behind him, the second was over his head, the third was knocked away by Elvis Dumervil and then cornerback Champ Bailey broke up a slant pass.
The fifth incompletion was all on Owens.
He sped past cornerback Chris Harris on a deep post and was wide open to haul in a perfectly thrown 46-yard touchdown pass from Flynn but it slipped through his fingers just as he raced across the goal line.
Manning was sharp on an 11-play, 80-yard that ended with Willis McGahee's 1-yard TD run and in the 2-minute drill at the end of the second quarter, when the Broncos failed to capitalize.
Eric Decker dropped a slant pass, center J.D. Walton was whistled for a 15-yard penalty and Tamme, Manning's old pal from Indianapolis, was all alone in the end zone with six seconds left and dropped a bull's-eye pass.
Coach John Fox sent in his field goal team on second-and-goal from the 8, and Matt Prater's 32-yarder gave Denver a 10-9 halftime lead over the Seahawks despite Manning's two interceptions and a fumble by Lance Ball.
"There's obviously some things we need to work on, but all in all, to have three giveaways in the first half and have the lead, that's a good sign," Fox said at halftime.
In the most anticipated preseason home opener for the Broncos since his boss, John Elway, was the one directing Denver's offense, Manning completed 16 of 23 passes for 177 yards with no TDs and two interceptions.
Even though he has completed 20 of 30 passes in the preseason, three of Manning's seven drives this preseason have ended in interceptions.
On first-and-goal from the 9, defensive end Red Bryant tipped Manning's pass into the arms of linebacker K.J. Wright at the line of scrimmage. On Manning's other pickoff, the ball sailed on him and safety Jeron Johnson easily intercepted it.
Steven Hauschka kicked field goals of 43, 36 and 43 yards for Seattle. His first one came after Dumervil was held on three straight snaps but the replacement officiating crew didn't call any of them.
Flynn finished 6 of 13 for 31 yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions.
The second half was all Seahawks as they went ahead 16-10 on Kregg Lumpkin's 16-yard run before rookie Russell Wilson (10 of 17 for 155 yards) threw TD passes of 34 yards to Tyrell Sutton and 8 yards to Cooper Helfet.
Broncos WR Andre Caldwell and LB Nate Irving both were knocked from the game with chest injuries in the second half. ... Broncos S David Bruton blocked one punt and deflected another. ... The Broncos hosted survivors of the Aurora theater shooting and their families, and they held a moment of silence for the 12 victims who were killed in the massacre.
Seahawks 30, Broncos 10
Seattle 3 6 7 14 -- 30
Denver 7 3 0 0 -- 10
First Quarter
Sea -- FG Hauschka 43, 5:09.
Den -- McGahee 1 run (Prater kick), :00.
Second Quarter
Sea -- FG Hauschka 36, 8:37.
Sea -- FG Hauschka 43, 2:39.
Den -- FG Prater 32, :02.
Third Quarter
Sea -- Lumpkin 16 run (Hauschka kick), 8:38.
Fourth Quarter
Sea -- Sutton 34 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 11:01.
Sea -- Helfet 8 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 3:36.
Sea Den
First downs 22 14
Total Net Yards 405 247
Rushes-yards 44-228 15-38
Passing 177 209
Punt Returns 3-42 1-(-4)
Kickoff Returns 1-22 1-34
Interceptions Ret. 2-45 0-0
Comp-Att-Int 16-30-0 21-34-2
Sacked-Yards Lost 2-9 1-6
Punts 4-37.8 6-52.7
Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-1
Penalties-Yards 7-75 6-56
Time of Possession 39:59 20:01
RUSHING -- Seattle, Sutton 3-48, Lumpkin 9-38, Lynch 6-37, Turbin 10-34, Wilson 5-33, Washington 5-20, Kearse 1-10, Flynn 1-6, Taua 1-2, Portis 3-0. Denver, McGahee 8-28, Ball 2-5, Osweiler 2-4, J.Johnson 1-2, Omon 1-0, Moreno 1-(minus 1).
PASSING -- Seattle, Wilson 10-17-0-155, Flynn 6-13-0-31. Denver, Manning 16-23-2-177, Osweiler 5-11-0-38.
RECEIVING -- Seattle, Butler 3-16, Turbin 2-10, Kearse 1-37, Sutton 1-34, A.McCoy 1-26, McGrath 1-22, Winslow 1-11, Helfet 1-8, Taua 1-8, Tuinei 1-8, Morrah 1-4, Bates 1-2, Washington 1-0. Denver, Ball 4-30, Stokley 3-41, D.Thomas 3-28, Decker 2-34, Dreessen 2-27, J.Johnson 2-17, Tamme 2-17, Green 1-15, Omon 1-5, Willis 1-1.


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* We only got documentation for it in late 2008, the amount of bringup work needed with or without AtomBIOS would've been the same, as we would have to find out how things fit together anyway.
* it's a bios, with all bugs and bad interfaces included.
* ATI still does not allow AtomBIOS to be flashed or fixed by users, 5 years on. The nouveau guys are providing their own FuC, but ATI has successfully managed to keep the AMD open source users dumb (this was ATIs game all along: silence the big ATI hatred, but keep fglrx for all serious users).
* AtomBIOS is then just another layer in between, another layer forcing us to be bug compatible with the Windows driver.
* AtomBIOS was promised to be ASIC specific, not board specific. This of course got thrown out of the window by the shortsighted ATI AtomBIOS/Windows driver developers for R600 already.
* AtomBIOS hides bad hw design. Like shifting half a register bank up 1 register from one generation to the other...
* AtomBIOS was promised to be a stable, but powerful, modesetting interface. It ended up seeing rather a lot of changes with every generation, and these changes could've just as easily been handled in proper C code, without any of the other issues.
* Bugs in the modesetting implementation could get fixed on all affected generations when found, not just only on the newest devices with the newest AtomBIOS versions (display unsync was broken from r500 until rv630 for instance).
* Shortsightedness in the AtomBIOS specification caused a massive standard breakage. Namely, the DDWG DVI standard has a hard requirement for a hotplug pin, but this was overlooked for R500 AtomBIOS, even though the hardware had it. This in turn meant that hotplug was never properly tested by ATI or board makers for all R500 generations. We worked around that, by guessing the pin order (which got us 90% correct usage), board quirk data (which got us to 98% correct usage and some boards with hotplug disabled), and this information was gathered easily by our vast user base in september through november 2007.
* AtomBIOS hid only the easy bits of modesetting. The tough bits we had to do ourselves, and ATI never provided us with relevant information there. Things like figuring out how everything fit together (for which ATI never provided information), getting stable dotclocks (which the radeon driver still hasn't managed today -- as they shortsightedly deleted the magic few lines to do so -- a magic few lines which represent several weeks of libv busywork), etc.
* AtomBIOS is a slightly higher level interface, one that changes with every generation too, and it gets in the way of new modesetting infrastructure that might in future come up. It makes it needlessly harder to abstract the hardware in a way that best matches the infrastructure.
* AtomBIOS is the bottom end of a "one source tree per ASIC version, freshly copied every time" graphics driver development mindset. Quite perpendicular to open source driver development.
And all of this on top of more obvious open source advantages, which i am not going to list again for the sake of... well. Brevity.
Did you really think that i did not think this one through? Did you really think that we made that decision purely on free-software-zealotry? Or could it be that we spent a lot of time discussing this, and gathering the pros and cons, and instead of going for the politically more acceptable solution (for ATI, but ATI always searched for new sticks to bash us with), went for the technically superior and long term maintainable option.
ATI got forced by AMD to accept the SuSE proposal. ATI got forced to hand us documentation. We got the 2 500page raw register descriptions out of ATI, and some bad bad AtomBIOS parser code. That was it. We had to write a disassembler for AtomBIOS to find out how things fit together anyway, and i know for a fact that writing C code for the basic modesetting was the same amount of work as using the AtomBIOS interfaces directly. My personal belief is that we were even faster because of that. Not using AtomBIOS allowed us to beat the political deadline that was secretly set on us delivering. Not using AtomBIOS meant that we shipped a driver, and that ATI could not stop us, and that we got a free driver, at all.
Heck. Hours before the first code release, ATI refused to give us clearance on the atombios parser. A last ditch attempt to stop us from shipping this driver. Our answer: "fine, then we ship without the atombios parser, we do not need it for 98% of the use cases". Minutes before we intended to push out the code, ATI then allowed us to change the license on the atombios parser.
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Gender Equality Awards reveals best practices in equal treatment of women and menMar 7, 2014
7 March 2014. Tbilisi. More than thirty business companies, government and local governance agencies and organizations competed for the Gender Awards 2014 in Georgia. The winners of the contest which was initiated by the UNDP in Georgia with funds from the Swedish Government were announced at the Gala Event.
The event brought together representatives of Georgian and international business, Government, Parliament, civil society, international organisations and the media.
H.E Diana Janse – Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Georgia, Inita Paulovica – Deputy Head of UNDP in Georgia, and Irakli Sesiashvili – Head of the Defence and Security Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, opened the Awards ceremony.
The awards and recognition certificates for the achievements and best practices in gender parity were handed over by Manana Kobakhidze – Chair of the Gender Equality Council of the Parliament of Georgia, Irakli Sesiashvili – Head of the Defence and Security Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, and representatives of UNDP.
Gender Equality Awards 2014 is part of the annual Gender Week which runs under the theme: Equality for Women is Progress for All. The Gender Week is organized within the frames of the UN joint programme on gender equality funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
The Grand Award for Gender Equality:
Alliance Group Microfinance Organization
The Award for Gender Balance at the Executive Level:
ProCredit Bank Georgia
Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia
The Award for the Best and Innovative Gender Policy:
International Corporation ICR
The Woman Entrepreneur Award:
Irma Daushvili, Ltd Dio
For Promoting Women to Technical Positions:
BP Exploration (Caspian Sea) Ltd. Georgia
For Promoting Paternity Leave:
Bank Constanta
For Social and Community Activism:
IaMamaladze, Guria News
Recognition Award for the achievements in promoting Gender Equality:
Manana Kobakhidze, Chair of the Gender Equality Council of the Parliament of Georgia
Rusudan Kervalishvili, former Chair of the Gender Equality Council of the Parliament of GeorgiaContact information
Maka Gvritishvili, UNDP Georgia: 551 988999 (mobile), email@example.com
Sophie Tchitchinadze, UNDP Georgia: 599 196907 (mobile), email@example.com