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Fort Sumter
10/11/2008 – Michigan 10, Toledo 13 – 2-4, 1-1 Big Ten
Not to turn this column into a running diary about Douchebags of Michigan Stadium, but after Kicking Competency Lopata went a long way towards being just KC again I attempted to bolt from the stadium as fast as possible. I got caught in the inevitable traffic jam a dozen or so rows up from my seats. A couple rows above me, a middle-aged man stood on a bench and booed and booed.
He was angry. I was angry.
I stooped to pick up whatever flingable bit of detritus I could find, seized upon an empty water bottle, and chucked it at the booer. I missed,* lightly damaging an older man a row behind him. But I did get his attention. And the old guy looked like he was on The Other Side, so eff him.
At this point a shouting match ensued. Shouting matches are never like they are on TV—laced with penetrating logical deductions that leave the yelled-at victim incapable of response—so I mostly just told him to shut up like 10 times consecutively.
At some point he actually said "if this bothers you that much there must be something wrong with you," at which point my irony sensors exploded. It was sort of like this minus the laughter:
He did shut up, though, or at least direct his anger somewhere other than the field.
Anywhere large groups of Michigan fans interact has fallen into civil war, with people like this on one side…
Listen, I just wanted to vent. I have supported this team this year.
I supported them when Utah won, I supported them when Illinois blew us out of the frickin stadium.
This, I cannot support. I am absolutely disgusted with this.
In my opinion, Calvin Mcgee, Rich Rodriguez, and even Mike Barwis, yup, that's right, Mike Barwis, can go back to West Virginia where they came from.
…and bottle-chucking hippies on the other. That email hit my inbox yesterday around noon; I got a few others like that. You can check the increasingly annoying comments here, where virtually every thread descends into a flamewar within five posts.
And I don't get it. If you read this blog and think I will be at all sympathetic to the idea we should get rid of our extremely successful coach after one year (and hire who? and recruit who?) you have reading comprehension issues. If you use the words "unacceptable"—not actually in this email but man have I see that particular word everywhere in the past few days—and "disgusted" because Michigan's confused, young, and physically inadequate offense can't cobble together drives no matter who they go up against, do you realize that the core community of this blog, including the author, kind of loathes you? I am not on your side.
Sports suck sometimes, especially when you care so much about something you control not at all. I assure you that every Michigan fan was angry on Saturday, and every one had second thoughts about this New Era thing. Some of them chose to swallow that anger, and some chose to give it to someone else. What's the adult thing to do? What would those people in hats have done in 1935?
They would have sucked it up. So suck it up, you pansies. It hurts. Act like a man about it.**
Go do something else. This makes you mad. People say Hinterland is pretty good and it's only twenty bucks. Go play that. Go ride a bike. Or hike into the woods and look at the chipmunk-bears. Build 60-foot sculptures out of balsa wood and your shattered hopes. Just get off the goddamn internet.
Come back in fits and spurts and keep whatever connection you want to have with the program but don't hit that post button when the vein on your forehead is sticking out. It's not that important.
And what does "unacceptable" even mean, anyway? Okay, you do not accept the Toledo loss. And now…? You will inform the internet of this? I see. Congratulations. Go away.
*(Yes, I threw the bottle at Tacopants. If I was one of those guys calling for Threet's execution this would be the height of irony.)
**(Women, in my experience, do not have these issues.)
- There are also two camps about the defense: 1) they only gave up 6 points (really nine if you count the chip-shot FG Toledo missed) and that should obviously be good enough to beat Toledo. 2) That one guy caught 20 balls and they had something like 350 yards of offense. I lean towards two; the only reason Toledo didn't score more was Zoltan's munificence and some of their own incompetence. Though they figured out how to defend some of the play action rollout stuff late, it shouldn't take 5.5 games to come up with a response to the quarterback exiting the pocket. Too many opposing teams have been able to remove Michigan's defensive line from the game by leaving in blockers or hitting short passes or rolling the pocket, and Michigan's insistence on leaving in a thousand crappy linebackers against spread formations is maddening.
Scott Shafer was supposed to be an aggressive man-to-man guy, but Michigan this year has seen a ton of zone and a ton of three-man rushes. WTF?
- Also, on a late third and one Michigan had a three-man line in the game. Toledo ran and made it easily. WTF?
- The playcalling made a lot more sense once Threet's injury was revealed. Also Threet's horrible first few passes, though the endzone pick six wasn't inaccurate. If Nick Sheridan was in for reasons other than "starter incapacitated" even my enforced patience was going to be tried.
- No, this offense would not be any better if it was lining up under center every play and running isos. Banish this from your mind. When you have freshmen at quarterback and most of the skill positions and a line with something like 6 even quasi-reasonable options and the lone senior on the two-deep is the third-string tight end, you are going to be awful no matter what offensive philosophy you adopt. There are like two and a half good players on offense.
And what would that buy Michigan? A Motor City Bowl invite? I'd like to keep the bowl streak—not going to happen—but if the choice is between a crappy December bowl and some increased chance Michigan is great in 2010, I'll take the latter.
- I think that "pre-hab" stuff is well debunked.
- Cissoko seemed to do well, though it was tough to tell with all the zone.
- Zoltan!
Amen the second. The notion that this would somehow be another glorious season of football at Michigan were it not for the coaching change is as nutty as someone claiming that the Dodge K car I drove in the 1980s would sprout wings and fly to the moon if only I wanted it enough. In his blog, Jim Carty actually says that this team might be 5-1 if Lloyd were coaching it. 5-1. Let the awesome craziness of that sink in.
The only leg Carty could stand on there is the (heavy) assumption that Mallett would have stayed and taken a big jump. I don't think any staff could squeeze success out of this team.
We really could use the extra practice time that six wins would give us...and Jake Long.
The funny thing is that Carty is no longer a newsman. He's in law school at - wait for it - Toledo. He made that 5-1 crack-smoking post on his own personal blog.
That the bowl streak's importance is not playing in the bowl, but the additional practice time that the team would get in December for playing in a bowl, and a lack thereof if it did not happen? I know that Minnesota, for example, seemed to recover OK from not having that extra practice time, but is the former related to the better in 2009/2010 notion?
And Brian, I'm with you, a short haired preppie in my case, but fighting the good fight of patience. The snowball finally caught us. It had to happen eventually, it's happened to every other "football school" in recent memory, it's finally happened to us. The difference is not how bad this year is, but how we come out of it in the future.
That is my only reason for caring about a bowl game. They get a lot more practice and any game experience is good experience for this crew. I don't think it will have catastrophic relusts if they don't get that practice time, but it would help.
This is awesome! We should try to lose to Toledo every year so everyone can be happy with this level of play and accept it. This is great fun. We can let o$u have a rivalry with u$c and we can start up a rivalry with Toledo. Acceptance!
The fact that you would write this after reading the post is mind-boggling. Just stop it, dude. Or bring it elsewhere.
The internet is definitely the place to tell people not to express their opinions. Certainly. In my mind Michigan is 6-0!!! We destroy all Toledo Rocket powered schools on our way to a dominatingly acceptable 12-0 National Championship! Hooray for us, we are acceptable!
I can't wait until you treat us all to some form of an "acceptable" joke in every single post you provide for the next three weeks, just like the ever so hilarious "Don't say anything, ShockFX might not agree with it" series.
You can express your opinion. And, seeing how's it's his blog, Brian can express his. Which is that your opinion sucks. For some reason, Brian has built a career around his opinions of Michigan athletics and you haven't.
banhammering is pure internet joy
Not to sound like Bill & Ted or that guy from "Blossom" but whoa....
I was waiting for someone with some form of sanity to realize that it isn't physically possible to "adapt" to our current level of talent. My head is going to explode if I see another internet comment/blog screaming for this. How do you adapt any system to a QB that can't hit a wide-open receiver only 10 yards down-field when your OL can't run-block? Well, let me tell you... YOU CAN'T. So stop with it already. If you want to argue that we might still have Mallet and other OL if we had gotten a different coach, then fine, but at this point we are going to have to live with what we got and prepare for the future. However, Brian, I disagree with your "pre-hab" debunked comment. It would take more than one off-season to completely undo the "conditioning" program from the previous regime.
"I have no idea what the stock market is going to do next month or six
months from now," Warren Buffett told CNBC on Friday. "I do know that
the American economy, over a period of time, will do very well, and
people who own a piece of it will do well."
Dude, just stop.
I was at a study abroad program in Europe, flush with Michigan pride after our national championship. I used to regularly talk football with another American in the program, and often made fun of him for his school's continuing football ineptitude. IN Fact, I even went as far as to nickname him "6 and 6" for his team's record the previous year, which had meant they had failed to go to a bowl. And his school was...
USC (as in Southern California).
The message in this? Football moves in cycles, we were bound to suck sometime, and this will not last forever.
A good post.
We will win when Jim Harbaugh come home.
Anyone who wants to complain about this current team, should realize that most likely, this current team (even with Mallett and a different coach) would probably only be one win better. That's the Toledo game. Would that put us any closer to actually winning something of importance? Probably not. In fact, if the same system (scheme and recruiting) was still in place, Michigan would be sliding further back of the O$U's, USC's, entire SEC, etc. Thank goodness we are moving towards a program that can compete (scheme and recruiting) instead of being happy with 14 - 3 losses to O$U and 20+ point blow outs to anyone else in the top 10.
It doesn't matter how many yards you give up to this guy or how many catches that guy had, points win games. I'll take giving up 1,000 yards of offense and holding a team to 6 points anyday.
My guess is Shafer is employing the "bend but don't break" philosophy (see Baltimore Ravens and Chicago Bears). It actually works to our defenses advantage. Don't get burned on the big play (our weakness at safety) and let the field get shorter playing into our strength (D-line and run defense).
It sounds crazy, but again, six points.
no way Shafer came here to play bend but dont break defense, yet that is exactly what we saw on Saturday. We ran that with Bo, Mo, and Lloyd and despite bringing in a blitzing man-man Def Guru. If RRod is not going to change is scheme based on talent then the same argument could be made for Shafer. He had confidence in Stanford's athlete's to run this defense in the Pac 10 - Our defense should be able to run it against Toledo. I have no idea why we only rushed 3 men for much of the second half. Dropping back in a zone and giving 5 yard dumps makes no sense to me. You can be satisfied that we only gave up 6 points but allowing them to escape bad field position time after time turned the field position game into a losing battle for us. We need a defense to get 3 and outs. Our offense cant put together an 80 yard drive. We need our defense to put our offense in position to score. Its asking a lot, but its our only hope.
Thanks Brian, glad you pointed out that we wouldn't be that great even with our offense in the I-formation running iso plays all the time. This should shut up a large contigent of the complainers out there saying that Carr or Miles or Hoke would be running a good offense with our inexperienced and attrition-heavy team. I don't understand why people keep complaining? What good is it going to do? Vent a little and then let it go. LET IT GO.
I will definitely stop because you own me and what I think and what I do. You own me, what should I do next chitown blue? You can't say "kill yourself" either, that has already been offered. Please tell me what I can and can't feel. Please God, allow only thoughts and opinions of chitownblue to be relevent so this world can become a bunch of bloggers who are narcissistic and self-bloviating even though they don't coach or play football and know nothing more about football than what they have read, yet still believe their opinions mean anything to anyone other than themselves and further more are vastly superior to anyone elses thoughts about the game. Please.
I'm not even arguing with you, Marques. I'm asking you to calm down and stop taking umbrage.
I know you must know a lot more about football than Brian, you said so yourself.
That's why I find it funny Brian runs a blog with 40,000 hits a day and the only thing you do is piggyback off his success and use his site to shout your holy opinions to the world. Since, you know, nobody would read them if you had your own blog.
Jealous much?
Just out of curiosity, do you enjoy trying to start flamewars on message boards? I could have sworn reading something about starting flame wars on the internets recently...
RR is a successful coach. His first year at WV was 3 wins. This will get a lot better in the coming years.
Until then, to cope, look for silver linings. Pick out a few freshman to follow and watch their progress. Follow recruiting, for that brings hope.
M will get through this. We lived through the Demetrius Brown/Michael Taylor season after Harbaugh. We lived trough the Tyler Ecker capped debacle against Nebraska season of infinite pain.
We lived through Jimmy Carter's presidency, and are about to live through another one.
It will be moring again in America.
Thank you, Brian. I've hated hearing people tell me what is "acceptable" by their standards for some time now. Take that, Michigan Football, Mr. Angry Fan just gave you an F.
If this season ends 2-10 I will still appreciate it for having culled the fanbase. Some fans love Michigan. Some just love winning.
...culling the nitwits is always a good thing.
i'd also point out that, while i still despise notre dame for many, MANY other reasons, the refreshing reduction in nitwit domer fans after last season makes them much less annoying.
I would really have liked to see the bowl streak continue, but oh well. I am confused less by the offense, as they are young and obviously overmatched. I am very confused by the defense tho. Shafer needs to get this group shipshape or he might be the one to get the axe to appease the rabid alumni after this disaster of a season. I am still solid for RR.
Why does everyone think that the defense should be good to great? I don't see it. The front 4 are pretty good, and, were he healthy, Warren is good. But beyond that? Saftey play is bad. Linebacking is awful. At one point in the Toledo game - a key point, mind you, when Toledo was in the red zone - Michigan had a 200 lbs. freshman walk-on out there playing linebacker. A freshman walk-on, for god's sake! That is not the sign of a team with enough health and talent to have a good to great defense.
All I am saying is that there will be politics at the end of the season and I wouldn't be suprised if someone gets axed just in the name of change and to please disgruntled alumni. Shafer seems the obvious choice at this point as the D hasn't been dominant (as you point out, this isn't that suprising), and Shafer also has less of a track record to fall back on (W. Michigan and 1 year at Stanford do not a Michigan D-Coord. make). Not to mention that Shafer isn't one of the old gaurd from WFV. This defense was expected to be pinning its ears back and rushing the passer while playing tight man coverage. We haven't seen much of that.
Oh, OK, I get it now. I see that you're not claiming that the defense should be good. It would be very unfortunate were Shafer to be fired to appease some whiners. I can't say that I'm terribly impressed with him to this point, but I have a hard time seeing how he could possibly be expected to compensate for the god-awful linebacking or weak secondary play.
Dude, its obvious now that our D isn't that special. We all know that. Our D-Line has been terrific, but they've been overshadowed by poor LB and safety play. As good as our D-Line is, they can't go anything when teams keep going max protect. Quality and depth are severely lacking at LB and safety positions; I'm really not surprised that a walk-on was out on the field playing linebacker.
I am still on the fence about the defensive performance. On one hand 6 pts. On the other multiple 10+ play drives. On the one hand no Warren/Graham. On the other it's Toledo. One point I do disagree w/ Brian is Toledo's incompetence. That offense is built around short passes. After the 1st couple of possessions their QB was on the money all game and I can't think of a single dropped ball. NW dropped 4-5 balls against MSU w/ no one around them and it killed a couple of drives. I do not remember that happening to Toledo once. The thing I can't get over, outside of the dozens of missed arm tackles, is the lack of turnovers. This team is not good enough to beat anyone if the defense is not forcing turnovers.
Hard, I know. You'll be back. I'd be more worried about losing some recruits this year than anything long-term.
...but you usually get a one year freebie with a coaching change. I don't think recruiting will suffer for '09 or '10.
If anything, since Michigan still basically recruits itself and RR doesn't seem to be a negative on the recruiting trail at all (we're still getting at least the same level of talent from what it looks like so far), these guys can take one look at our team this year and go "Holy shit, I could be starting at MICHIGAN as a freshman or sophomore".
I mean jeez, the Zooker got blue chip recruits to come to Illinois when they were TERRIBLE, even worse than we look this year, as they regularly got blown out by bad teams and had one year where I think their only win was over some marginal 1-AA team. And Zook didn't have RR's track record of success, he had a track record of "you turned Florida from a national title contender into a talent-loaded miasma of mediocrity"
that I think are separate. The first is about the future of Michigan football and how well RR will do in 2009+. The second is about how he is doing this year.
My thoughts are that we will be average in 2009 and amazing in 2010+. I understand the cyclicality of football and the fact that we were mediocre the past ~10 or so. Also, I understand that RR's system and philosophy take patience and time.
All of this sort of makes losing to Illinois-like teams sort of OK (well as OK as losing can be). However, losing to a bad MAC team like Toledo (led by a Rivals 2* QB) means that RR is doing a bad job this year. There I said it and mean it. That doesn't mean he should be fired, or his system canned. It's similar to Shaffer admitting that he was out-coached. So, RR's being out-coached this year and may be in over his head. Due to his past success and our current recruit class, I think this will be solved next year and we will be very excited in 2010!
Go Blue!
At the end of the day, the cupboard was bare this year. Charles Stewart should never play another day, and neither should the majority of our "linebackers". Also, since Clemons was born without fingers, maybe he shouldn't be in as receiver.
I believe someone said this earlier this year (Dex maybe?). But I am done reading the message boards. It is impossible not to get sucked into the flamewar, mostly because of the maddening nature (IM OLD! I GIVE MONEY! I DEMAND BETTER! FIRE DICKROD!).
Until i get bored, at which point I will probably wander back over to tear my hair out. Masochism at its best.
Thanks for calling this out Brian.
You have severe psychological issues, and I'd strongly recommend you seek help. No joke.
And amen, Brian.
The defense didn't play well yesterday, but it played well enough to win if the offense had done anything.
The internet isn't for venting. Vent to yourself or to one of your buddies in private. In the old days people used to write angry letters and then crumple them up before sending them. Clicking "post" is a lot easier than walking to a mailbox, so these days it's a lot easier to make a fool of yourself.
There's nothing to see here.
Please move along.
Totally in agreeance with you Brian. It may be painful to watch our team stumble around the field, but we can't go burning down the Big House. I feel like they have the ability to come out and win any game, but there is a mental block that prevents them from getting it done. I see flashes of brilliance that bode well for the future, and I just hope they see it too. It seems as if they have some sort of amnesia that prevents them from being great, and we need a cure for that. At this time, I'm willing to except the difficult season in hopes that the lessons learned will be the ground work for national championships to come. Call me delussional if you like, but I do have faith in the Rod. Rome wasn't built in a day!!
I think it is downright disrespectful the way that many Michigan fans conducted themselves this season, especially toward Rich Rodriguez. He and his crew are proven winners that were handed very little offensively when they got here, even for a pro-style offense. On top of that, we experienced some bad luck and saw Mallet and others leave.
We need to give RichRod and his coaching staff a few years of die-hard support before we begin to even think about saying some of the things that are being said. And I hear you Brian, the "adults" are the worst. Last year, these same jaycats were calling for Carr's head and wanted a more interesting coach.
I think some Blue fans need to get laid on the quick. As hard as it may be to believe, there are more important things in life than football. Like, perhaps, being voted the 18th best university in the world last week?
GO BLUE, now and forever
Class of 2001 & 2003
Haven't posted in awhile, simply because there wasn't much to say. However, I do have one problem that Brian has pointed out, but doesn't seem to have made a big enough deal about. I was excited about RR bringing a new offense and some unpredictability to Michigan. I'm getting tired of beign able to call a play just like I could with Carr and co. What makes it more frustrating is normally it's a running play that isn't going to go anywhere. I understand that a lot of our running plays don't go anywhere, but this is getting close to Zone Left levels with the predictability.
I love McGuffie, and understand that he is our best option at RB because RR has a problem with Grady, for multiple good reasons. However, at this point Sam can't be expected to run as much as he has to without some sort of passing game to open up some lanes for him. Just once I would like to see a Michigan team come out throwing the ball in the first quarter just to fuck with the other team's mind.
Also, quick question. I started using the 15 second jump ahead button on my remote during the second half and then didn't watch any sports for the rest of the weekend. What was the nature of Threet's injury?


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Quest for OVC title begins Dec. 29
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — Games against squads from the ACC, Big East and Atlantic 10 as well as a trip to the iBN Sports Las Vegas Classic highlight Tennessee Tech's 2011-12 non-conference men's basketball schedule.
In addition to a 16-game Ohio Valley Conference slate, the Golden Eagles play 14 out-of-league games, a list that includes the season-opener at Miami (Fla.) on Nov. 11, as well as trips to West Virginia and Duquesne.
In all, Tech will play 14 home games and as many as 11 games against teams which participated in postseason play a season ago.
"I like our schedule," first-year head coach Steve Payne said. "I think it's very challenging. We play three games against teams from top-level conferences, we've got our traditional regional games, and the Las Vegas Classic will be a great pre-Christmas trip where we will get to play in a tournament-like setting on a neutral floor."
The Golden Eagles ended the 2010-11 season with a bang, advancing all the way to the OVC championship game, knocking off regular-season champion Murray State on the way, and playing in the CIT postseason tournament.
With four starters from that squad returning, one of the most anticipated seasons in some time begins when the Golden Eagles take the floor at Miami on Nov. 11.
Like Tech, the Hurricanes debut a first-year head coach in Jim Larranaga, formerly of George Mason. Miami finished 21-15 in 2010-11 and advanced to the NIT quarterfinals.
"Anytime you play an ACC team, it's a real challenge," Payne said. "We've played there before (in 2004-05) and had chances to win late in the second half and didn't pull it off. It's a good chance for Zach Bailey to go back home and play in front of all his friends and family.
"Miami has some returning all-conference players in the ACC (senior guard Malcolm Grant and junior center Reggie Johnson), so they have some of the best players in the country, and it will be a challenge."
The Golden Eagles play back-to-back home games after facing Miami, welcoming Reinhardt and Appalachian State into the Eblen Center on Nov. 15 and 19.
Located in Waleska, Ga., Reinhardt is an NAIA member. Appalachian State visits Cookeville in a return game from the 2009-10 BracketBuster contest.
Tech then travels to High Point on Nov. 22 in an attempt to avenge an 80-69 loss at the Eblen Center last year.
After returning from High Point, the Golden Eagles again enjoy back-to-back home contests on Nov. 25 and Nov. 27 against Lamar, a new addition to the schedule out of the Southland Conference coached by Pat Knight, and Wilberforce, an NAIA squad hailing from Ohio.
A Dec. 3 date at Duquesne marks Tech's second matchup against a high-major conference opponent. The Dukes finished 19-13 and 10-6 in the Atlantic 10 in 2010-11 and played in the postseason CBI Tournament, where they advanced to the quarterfinals.
Consecutive home games again welcome the Golden Eagles as they square off against regional rivals East Tennessee State on Dec. 7 and Lipscomb on Dec. 10. ETSU went 24-12 and 16-4 in the Atlantic Sun a season ago and advanced to the CIT Tournament semifinals.
The Golden Eagles then embark on a stretch of six consecutive games away from home, beginning with a trip to Evansville on Dec. 17. The Purple Aces finished 16-16 in 2010-11 and advanced to the CBI Tournament quarterfinals.
"The traditional rivalry games against Evansville, East Tennessee State and Lipscomb, those are games we would like to continue to play," said Payne. "We want to play regionally and play home-and-home as much as we can. It's sometimes difficult for us to schedule home games, especially when people think we are going to be good, and these series are good for everyone involved."
After facing Evansville, the Golden Eagles then begin play in the iBN Sports Las Vegas Classic which begins with first-round play at home sites. Tech will travel to West Virginia for their first-ever meeting with the Mountaineers on Dec. 19.
Coached by Bob Huggins, West Virginia went 21-12 in 2010-11 and advanced to the Sweet 16, where it fell to Kentucky.
Tournament play then shifts to Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, where Tech will face Kennesaw State on Dec. 22 and either Bethune-Cookman or Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 23. Bethune-Cookman finished 21-13 in 2010-11 and played in the NIT.
The rest of the field includes Missouri State, Baylor and St. Mary's.
"I think you need to play in a tournament-type atmosphere," Payne said. "It's never going to be as intense and keyed-up as the OVC Tournament will be, but it's an opportunity to play back-to-back with short scout time, short prep time and short recovery time. Those things will help us prepare for a tournament run, and basketball is a tournament sport."
After Christmas, the 16-game OVC schedule begins with a two-game road swing at SIU Edwardsville on Dec. 29 and Tennessee-Martin on Dec. 31.
With the addition of SIU Edwardsville as a full league member this season, the OVC schedule drops from 18 games to 16. Instead of playing each team in the conference twice, Tech will instead play home-and-home series with six teams while facing four squads — Eastern Illinois, Southeast Missouri, at Austin Peay and at UT Martin — just once.
"Anytime you have an unbalanced schedule, somebody is going to get the short straw," Payne said. "That being said, I think 16 games is the right amount of games for us to play. I do think it's a disadvantage for us to play at Austin Peay and not have them play here."
The 2012 portion of the schedule begins with Tennessee State and defending OVC tournament champion Morehead State visiting Eblen Center on Jan. 5 and 7. Both squads finished with winning league records a season ago, while Morehead advanced to the NCAA Tournament round of 32, beating Louisville in the first round.
On Jan. 14, the Golden Eagles travel to defending regular-season champion Murray State, which played in the NIT a season ago, before returning home to host Jacksonville State and Southeast Missouri on Jan. 19 and 21.
The road swing known around the OVC as the "Death Valley" trip is next up for Tech as they travel to Eastern Kentucky on Jan. 26 and Morehead State on Jan. 28 before returning home to host SIU Edwardsville on Jan. 30.
The month of February begins with games at Austin Peay, a 2010-11 CBI Tournament participant, on Feb. 2, and Jacksonville State on Feb. 4. Tech then hosts Eastern Illinois on Feb. 9 before hitting the road again to face Tennessee State on Feb. 11, then coming back home to host Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 15.
The Golden Eagles are scheduled to play on the road in this year's Sears BracketBuster event on Feb. 18 against a team to be announced. Tech hosted Gardner-Webb in last year's game.
Murray State then visits Cookeville on Feb. 25 for the regular-season finale in a game that could loom large if the league's regular-season finishing order is still up in the air.
The OVC Tournament begins on Feb. 29 at Municipal Auditorium in
Nashville, Tenn., with the same format as last season. The
fifth-through-eighth seeds will play on Feb. 29, with winners
advancing to face the first-through-fourth seeds on March 1.
Semifinals will be played March 2 with the champion being crowned
on March 3.
Season tickets for the 2011-12 Golden Eagle basketball season are on sale at the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center, or by calling (931) 372-3940. Tickets may also be ordered online at TTUsports.com.

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Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.


text:
"...One study of 65 subjects suggests that creativity prefers to take a slower, more meandering path than intelligence. 'The brain appears to be an efficient superhighway that gets you from Point A to Point B" when it comes to intelligence, Dr. (Rex) Jung explained. "But in the regions of the brain related to creativity, there appears to be lots of little side roads with interesting detours, and meandering little byways.'"
Eide Neurolearning Blog
13 Sep 2010
Via ddrrnt


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Somebody better tell all those Windows developers who keep using DirectX to do their graphics. It seems that very few developers (id, Epic) still use GL in Windows, and they probably use it just because they plan to port their games. IIRC, Croteam (makers of Serious Sam) uses D3D with simply amazing results and speed.gounthar said this:
OpenGL 2.0 seems pretty much like the definitive solution...
Linux port of SS2? Didn't know about that one.
I know Ryan Gordon (formerly of Loki) is doing
the port of the first Serious Sam game, with the full
support of Croteam. Details are hard to find,
but take a look at
As long as IDSoftware uses OpenGL, there will be life left for it on the games industry.
It's especially problematic for graphics standards. GKS, which was hideously based on ideas from pen plotters, still dominated much of the 1980's. Open GL has been pretty good, but it's stuck in some 1980's ideas. For example, the strict ordering of primitives makes sense in a world of bit blasters where double-buffering and Z-buffering are expensive, but it makes little sense on modern hardware and even worse makes it impossible to implement some of the better modern techniques (such as hierarchical global scanline algorithms). Some day, we're going to have systems that cost less than a million dollars that can do real-time ray-tracing, radiosity, and other solutions of the Rendering Equation.
A most interesting point is right at the end of the article:
One of the key points stressed by the ARB is that the "open" needs to go back into OpenGL. The group has pledged that all ideas submitted for OpenGL, if adopted, are then open for use and not licensable as IP.
So, they won't pull a "Rambus" here... hopefully.
...has always been that driver support is buggy. nVidia is notoriously bad at this; their DirectX drivers are quite stable, but OpenGL blue screens left and right (especially with a lot of detail in the scene graph). I always wondered why they even bothered to include OpenGL support in their drivers, although I suppose with such a major standard they have pretty much no choice.
Now, with OpenGL 2.0, if they have to support three different API's, isn't driver quality going to suffer even more? Oh well, ATI has been getting a lot better recently, I guess we can always switch to them.
THEN, maybe Micorsoft and the OpenGL group can try come to terms and maybe bring DirectX compatibility closer to OpenGL (Or vs/vs) and have a single standard.
It sounded like Microsoft wanted to come into compliance with OpenGL before, but dropped it because the OpenGL group moved too slowly. (Insert your own M$ conspiricy theory here, but I suspect they really honestly tried, and if a good opportunity arose, would come back and try again).
"Blue Screens" are caused by a fault in the Kernel or something writing to memory it's not meant to be writing to.
This is almost correct. Blue screens are caused by a fault in *kernel mode* (Ring 0 on Intel architecture), which is not equivalent to "in the kernel." WDM drivers [amazon.com] (like the nVidia graphics drivers), as well as all NT drivers [amazon.com] and in fact the entire USER and GDI subsystem [amazon.com] (since NT4), all run in kernel mode. None of these components are technically the kernel. Btw, wild pointer writes are a kind of "fault in kernel mode."
Assuming normal user processes can only write to their own memory space, then it is a fault of the kernel.
No argument there. See also this page [zappadoodle.com]. But as I already pointed out, the nVidia driver runs in kernel mode, not user mode, so this argument is not relevant.
Sure, Open GL might be buggy,
OpenGL can't be buggy, it's just a specification. nVidia's implementation is buggy, like I said. This is especially apparent considering that the blue screen errors have the name of nVidia's kernel mode driver in them.
but it's your Windows kernel that's causing the blue screen.
Again, confusing "the Kernel" with "kernel mode." Hey, I hate Windows as much as the next guy, but that's no reason to post incorrect technical information about it and hope nobody will realize you're blowing smoke out your ass. Next time, do a little more research [amazon.com] first.---
I admit, I haven't played my "blows up every time" test case (Descent 3) for a couple months, so it's possible the newest drivers actually won't crash. The DirectX component of the nVidia drivers is definitely rock solid. Looks like it's time to download the newest ones and try again
The nvidia drivers have their bugs, sure, but in my experience (graphics programmer), blue screens are very rare. Perhaps something is wrong with your hardware.
Also, OpenGL has no scene graph. I think you don't know what you're talking about.
Could you please be more specific? I'm not wrong about it bluescreening, that's for sure.
OpenGL has no scene graph. I think you don't know what you're talking about.
You got me there. I'm not a graphics programmer by any stretch of the imagination, I must have confused it with something else. This isn't relevant to my point about the drivers crashing though. I apologize for misusing a technical term, all I meant was that it tended to crash more when the scenes got more complex.
Perhaps something is wrong with your hardware.
Based on the number of comments in this thread insisting there must be something wrong with my hardware, I think I'll have to go with the majority opinion. There's probably something wrong with my hardware. Probably the power supply, actually, I just upgraded it, I'll have to try those nVidia OpenGL drivers again.
What exactly leads you to say otherwise? Presumably personal experience, rather than just a desire to trash nVidia, but compared to what? Given that 3D game luminaries have repeatedly stated they prefer nVidia's OpenGL drivers to those from ATI or (shudder) Matrox, that really only leaves the few remaining "professional space" vendors (sgi, 3DLabs), and I can't imagine they're universally perfect either.
Perhaps your perspective needs widening? Or perhaps you're running into the same bug over & over and have not bothered to notify nVidia about it? (or perhaps they just think it too isolated a case to get a high priority)
The most immediate step to creating an advanced OpenGL standard will be to combine backward compatibility with OpenGL 1.3, while maintaining parity with DirectX by incorporating required features such as vertex and pixel processing,and memory management.
You would think they'd know OpenGL cold?
That seems to be the consensus here. Maybe it's a hardware problem, not a software problem. But then, why doesn't DirectX crash?---
Total FUD. NVIDIA has been quite good about OpenGL support. I've played several of the first-person shooters (Quake, SoF etc.) using NVIDIA hardware and haven't had a single OpenGL related problem. Also, a person I have a lot of contact with at work uses SolidWorks (a nice 3D CAD package for Windows) which is exclusively OpenGL display with both consumer and professional level NVIDIA cards under Win2K. He hasn't had a single card-related crash, and he has some very complex models.
You should also read some of Carmack's recent
In short, if you're seeing blue screens using the NVIDIA OpenGL drivers, you very likely have a hardware problem. Otherwise, they are very good.
Now, with OpenGL 2.0, if they have to support three different API's, isn't driver quality going to suffer even more?
How so three different APIs? There will be OpenGL and Direct3D. What other one do you count?
Oh well, ATI has been getting a lot better recently, I guess we can always switch to them.
Good luck...and do read Carmack's
299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!
Sorry, I disagree about the mess with OpenGL.
I think the OpenGL API is exceptionally clean, and generally stable. Yes, there are core code paths in OpenGL that are not accelerated by everyone, nor every driver. However, I find the general implementation far better for developing real 3D applications. 99% of the time I am not developing for other hardware, I'm working to get a concept rolling at 15fps on whatever I'm developing on. Same concept that John Carmack uses to develop his next generation game engines. Just push the boundary till it crawls, because in the timeframe it takes to refine the product to a shippable solution will unfailingly show a shift in feature support. This means, you make it WORK at 15fps or even slower then, over the next year, design code paths that optimize for existing hardware.
Both Direct3D and OpenGL require 'special' code paths to handle the tons of strange hardware out there; there is no escaping that fact. Therefore the various application code paths must be designed to switch over to alternative paths, primarily for optimization purposes.
Otis, you know from DemoGL how hard it is to handle all the tons of alternative hardware out there through OpenGL, but have you done the same with Direct3D? I find the CAPS structures in Direct3D far more difficult to write support code because I end up dealing with the problem of supporting various BITS of Direct3D which may kill my code dead, instead of reliably knowing OpenGL's core code path always works albeit slowly. Another interesting consideration, once your application has demand to work correctly by over even a hundred users because it looks cool, expect the next driver iteration to support the code path better. ATI has been highly responsive to my requests in the past, and so has nVidia.
Extensions are there mainly to optimize code paths for specific purposes. With the ability to transfer frame buffer data back into texture data, allows for nearly everything to be accomplished in multiple passes, even extremely slowly. Only some very specialized pixel operation absolutely require cube mapping, generalized shader, or bump support. However, they are generally cosmetic, and should be treated as dress-up accelerated features. i.e., Grab a Toy Story DVD and watch the 'behind the scenes' stuff, it's amazing to see how the visual process works. Animate simple blocky characters, apply lighting and moderate texture detail, drop in finer meshes, dress-up the scene, and polish. That's how programming game engines work too.
A vertex processor, fragment, pack and unpack are going to be supported.
All this will be done in software (although fragment processing is notoriously slow to do in software), but hardware already exists that does programmable vertex & fragment processing. It wouldn't surprise me if programmable pack/unpack hardware also existed on modern GPUs, and was just waiting for an API to expose it.
I thought the ATI command method looked cleaner, but Carmack says it was "massively more painful" [bluesnews.com], and prefers nVidia's string-based approach.
It's true that nVidia did want a licence (protecting their IP, yadda yadda) which may have slowed adoption, but come to think of it, there isn't even ONE NV_* extension supported by ATI anyway, even the useful ones like NV_texture_rectangle (and yes, the ATI hardware does support it, they just refuse to expose it under Windows until it becomes "officially" supported), so I kinda doubt it really slowed down anything except ARB adoption (which is happening now in OpenGL 2.0, the way it should be).
I don't see much signs of this happening, however. Huge amounts of drawing code have been built into toolkits (like Qt and KDE and the Gnome libs and on Windows into MFC and various DLLs) that should really be in the graphics interface, and the people who know how they work are not willing to cooporate together and move all this work to a more sensible place.
There's the artistic question of whether textures should be drawn or programmed. In the film industry, everybody except Pixar mostly draws, while Pixar writes RenderMan shaders for everything. (The whole OpenGL vertex/pixel shader thing is basically a lightweight version of RenderMan). Artists would rather have more texture memory than programmability.
A whole language for writing data pack and unpack functions is overkill. Pack/unpack doesn't do that much. It's not like the graphics board is going to unpack a JPEG image. It's just converting bitplane order, depth, and such. OpenGL already has quite a number of modes for texture storage; this just handles the people who wanted their favorite storage mode supported. A more declarative mechanism would have been more appropriate.
They are used extensively in film graphics. All other major renderers, not just RenderMan, have shader languages. Ie vMantra, Maya, LightWave, etc.
Shaders do not "replace" texture maps. One of the most-used functions in a shader is to look up a given uv coordinate in a texture map and use the resulting color to control the shader. In fact most of the shaders we write involve manipulating texture maps, which were (as you said) painted by hand. We can do much more interesting things with textures other than just using them to color the surface!
I agree about the pack/unpack mess. I think all useful image formats could be described by these items: number of bits per sample (limited to powers of 2), number of samples per pixel, delta between each pixel (so they can be further apart than the number of samples or you can trivially mirror it with negative numbers), delta between each line (allows a "window" to be cut out of a larger image, allows flipping upside-down, and allows 90 degree rotations by adjusting both deltas). There is no need to describe what the samples are, that can be determined from the count and what function you are calling, we can insist on RGBA order for normal images.
I actually think standardizing stuff like vertex and pixel shaders is the wrong thing to do right now - there are too many differences between the major implementations that smoothing them over in a universal API would be costly/inelegant, and the feature sets are changing very rapidly (new texture modes every 6 months!)... It would be smarter to wait a year or two, when things will have settled down a bit, and then write the standard in stone.
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Being the chief of information, as in chief information officer, means you're responsible for the flow of knowledge between people in your organization. CIOs often are described as not much more than technocrats who are wrapped up only in the procurement and implementation of new technologies. Too often, those within their agency (and sometimes even CIOs themselves) don't realize the true strategic value their office delivers. It's about a lot more than fixing BlackBerrys — CIOs facilitate agencywide collaboration and efficiency that furthers the government's mission. The key to CIOs being more to their organization than just the head IT officer is to communicate their value.
1. Be the chief of information.
CIOs already do a good job of managing enterprise-level technology adoption and policymaking that meet strict requirements. But have you considered going above and beyond the traditional role of a CIO? Consider this: What if you were truly the chief of information, sharing openly with subordinate groups about organizational plans and objectives? Those who work for you, or groups that depend on your office, may not truly realize how valuable the work your office does is for them unless you make that information readily available. Don't neglect telling your story to others in the organization. The messages should drive your overall strategy as a CIO — ensure that each time you communicate, it's filled with purpose.
2. Don't just tell, show.
People are generally visual thinkers. So communicating your messages to stakeholders, especially in a fast-paced, digital-driven world, will go a lot further if they are visual. Create compelling charts, infographics and photo-driven stories about your successes. Design collateral that people want to read, and can quickly scan and still get the point — which is that you're doing a great job, and the CIO's office is contributing exponentially to the agency's overall success.
3. Justify investments.
Do you have trouble persuading leadership, or even your employees, that your investments are the right ones? Can you really blame them if you haven't shown them what the predicted outcomes are? Again, you're showing stakeholders, not just telling them, that your plans can work.
Do this with business cases. Perhaps another agency or private-sector organization already has pioneered the way with strikingly good results. You've done your homework on why your proposed investments are good ones — but no one will know if you don't show them. Create scenario stories and show how your solutions fill the gaps your agency may have in the future. Justify investments by communicating openly about them and telling stories that people can easily grasp instead of just throwing numbers at them. And don't be afraid to elicit feedback — the communication model needs to be two-way. Stakeholders are likelier to buy into your strategy when they're part of the solution.
4. Make your contributions clear to non-IT executives.
Whether in government or commercial operations, the CIO plays an important role in keeping things working from day to day. Without the solutions your office implements, many functions that other executives — and ground-level employees — take for granted wouldn't be available. But many stakeholders who depend on your services daily probably don't think about the hard work that goes into providing them (unless, of course, something goes wrong).
Building relationships with other executives and employees in your organization before there is a problem makes things go more smoothly when issues arise. To do this, it's imperative that you maintain a steady flow of digestible information in and out of the CIO's office. Digestible means, of course, information that enables non-IT executives to understand the intricacies of all the things you're doing to make their lives easier. Identify a talented communicator, either internally or externally, who can successfully translate technical topics for nontechnical people. Do the legal, public affairs, science, HR and other professionals in your agency truly understand what you do for them? Do smaller internal organizations that rely on the CIO's office for guidance and support really appreciate the value you contribute? If they don't, perhaps it's time to speak in narratives, in layman's language and with visual components that effectively explain your office's successes.


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With Gareth Bale completing a record move to Real Madrid, Adam Bate enlists the help of some of the interviewees from our Brits Abroad series to look at some of the key factors that will make or break his time overseas.
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Last Updated: 03/09/13 11:47am
Over the past year, Sky Sports has interviewed more than 30 players past and present as part of our Brits Abroad series. Here we pick out some choice quotes to build a picture of what Gareth Bale must bear in mind now his move to Real Madrid is complete. Click on the names of the players quoted below to read their full story...
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Having your name chanted in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium before doing keepy-uppies for the world's press. It's been quite a day for Gareth Bale as he discovers that for all the history at Tottenham, a move to Real Madrid represents another world entirely. However, he's not the first British player to be overwhelmed by his reception abroad.
Sky Sports pundit Alan McInally remembers his move to Bayern Munich being an eye-opening experience. "It was a massive step up with the greatest respect to Aston Villa," says McInally. "It wasn't really an option for me with Bayern Munich to think it was a move to turn down. We had an open day and I thought what's an open day? They said, 'Well, we have a training session'. There was this massive beer tent and 30,000 people turned up! That's when I realised - Oh my god, this is an unbelievable football club."
Sometimes it is the pageantry that takes you by surprise. Speaking about his move to Benfica, Revista de la Liga presenter Scott Minto says: "We had one presentation game at the Stadium of Light and it was almost like the red carpet was out - they were introducing each player individually. The lights would go down and then the lights would come up - Joao Pinto... Karel Poborsky... Scott Minto. There were 80,000 people there for that pre-season game against Lazio. It was just amazing."
And sometimes it is just the passion. "When we landed at the airport there were around 5,000 Bari supporters there," recalls Gordon Cowans of his move from Aston Villa to Serie A. "It was absolutely potty. We couldn't walk through the airport because there people grabbing us and kissing us. It was a huge shock just how much it meant to them that we were coming to join the club."
Having a friend helps
Although Bale is following in the footsteps of Steve McManaman, David Beckham, Jonathan Woodgate and Michael Owen, he will be the only British player at the club. Former Brits Abroad feel that having a colleague from back home out there too was a huge help.
Cowans was in Bari with Paul Rideout and admits it was important. "Having Paul with me made things a lot easier," he says. "We obviously knew each other well already and with neither of us able to speak a word of the language it meant we had someone to talk to."
Trevor Francis made a success of his time in Italy, spending four seasons at Sampdoria, but even he acknowledges that the presence of an English speaker was needed early on. "It was reassuring to have somebody there who could speak English," says Francis. "Having already been there in Italy with Juventus, Liam Brady could speak Italian which was also helpful. Liam moved on after two years and I took over his role then with Graeme Souness in terms of helping Graeme. It was good to have an English-speaking person there."
Former AC Milan midfielder Ray Wilkins agrees. "It does help enormously to have one of your countrymen alongside you as far as getting to know the place," says Wilkins, who was at the San Siro for three seasons alongside Mark Hateley. "But it doesn't help much with the language because obviously you speak too much in English rather than smashing into the Italian and getting it done."
Can you learn the language?
"I went into a press conference and the general manager was wanting me to do it on my own, rather than with the interpreter," recalls Howard Kendall of one post-match exchange in his role as Athletic Bilbao manager. "And this journalist kept pushing the microphone in front of me, rattling off at 100mph. I hadn't got a clue what he said."
Learning the language is obviously an important aspect of any move abroad. "I think language is a big thing," says former Hamburg striker Mark McGhee. "You've got to be prepared to try and learn the language and really make yourself a part of it."
Rob McDonald won the Eredivisie title with PSV in 1986 before going on to play in Portugal, Belgium, Denmark and Turkey. "You've got to be a person who can mix and adapt," says McDonald. "I've always been one for learning languages. I can speak Dutch fluently and in Portugal I took lessons there. I wanted to get the craic in the dressing room and after three months I could understand quite a bit of it. I think you've got to be open to learning the language."
Can you throw yourself into the culture and the lifestyle?
Others feel that there are more important factors than language. Bale can let his football do the talking as long as he adapts to the culture. "I think the culture is the bigger thing than the language," says current Sporting defender Eric Dier. "The language is important for the basics but you don't really need it for the football side. There are players at Sporting who have come and don't really speak Portuguese but they pick things up."
Steve McManaman knows that better than most. The former Liverpool and England player has been mentioned by Guillem Balague as an example of what Bale must aspire to in terms of integrating himself in the Real dressing room. But McManaman himself admits that while he took Spanish lessons before joining the club, his initial period at the club was a tricky one where he just had to muddle through.
"In my first days at the training ground we were taken away to Switzerland for a pre-season camp and you're just left to sit on a table at meal times with 10 players who all speak Spanish," explains McManaman. "So it is very daunting and you feel very much on the periphery. But you have to go through those times, you want to learn from them and you want to be involved. Sometimes you just have to sit and have a beer with them even if you don't understand them."
Can you deal with the expectations?
McManaman was a success on the field as well as on it, winning the man of the match award in the 2000 Champions League final. Lifting a tenth European Cup is a burning ambition for Real Madrid and their €100million man must deal with the expectations that come with life at a super club.
McInally recalls of his time at Bayern: "Uli Hoeness said to me, 'We expect to win the title every year' which obviously we did, except for when I got injured. He also said, 'We want to win the European Cup' and unfortunately I got to two semi-finals."
Rohan Ricketts doesn't have those experiences on his CV but the much-travelled midfielder has some apposite words on the matter too. "There is more pressure and more involvement from the directors," he says. "You don't see Daniel Levy coming into the Spurs dressing room or into training to tell you that you must win today and offering extra money if you do so."
Are you the right type of person?
"Some players have an island mentality." adds Ricketts, who has played in Hungary, Moldova, India and Ecuador among others. And while the very fact that Bale has set his mind on a move abroad would indicate that half the battle has been won, history is littered with British players who were not suited to the challenge.
"I'd never really thought of playing abroad," admits Tony Cottee when discussing his move to Malaysia. "But I wasn't on anything like what the players would be earning nowadays, even taking into account inflation. So for me to get what turned out to be a tax-free offer was a real carrot to be dangled."
It was a similar story for Mick Quinn when he left English football for PAOK in Greece. "It was a case of necessity," says Quinn. "The phone was quiet. I spent the summer sitting by the phone waiting for a call but nothing came of it. So in the end I thought I'd give it a go." Neither Cottee nor Quinn lasted a year.
In contrast, Mark Burke, who found success in Holland and Japan before earning the distinction of becoming the first British footballer to play in Romania, had a different outlook from day one. "I always wanted to play abroad," says Burke. "When I was about 12 my sports teacher told me it would suit me. I was interested in foreign football even in the days when you couldn't see it on television. I think the idea of being paid for living abroad just fascinated me."
Richard Offiong, who played in various countries from Sweden to South Korea, agrees. "You've got to be open to something different because you never know if you're going to like it or not until you try it. I wouldn't have changed playing football abroad for anything. It's definitely helped me grow as a person."
Is it the right time?
Even if you do go with the right mentality, there remains the question of whether you are emotionally ready for the move. "You have to fend for yourself a hell of a lot," says Wilkins. "It's important to move at the right age as well. I think 27 was a good age to go because I had all the experience on the planet having played around 50 times for my country at that time. So I wasn't walking into something that was totally new to me, instead it was something that I could embrace."
Wales legend Ian Rush will be pointed to by some as an example of one of Bale's famous countrymen who moved to a big club abroad and didn't enjoy success. Interestingly, Rush looks back fondly on his time at Juventus - where he was top scorer in his only season - but does acknowledge that perhaps a transfer later in his career could have been more fruitful.
Rush says: "People say there's an ideal age to go but I don't know really. I think I went when I was 25 and Graeme Souness went when he was 28 - maybe that's a better age because you're experienced and know what to expect - but for me it was the best thing that happened to me."
And even if it doesn't work out...
"I would say to any player that if you get the chance to play abroad in one of the top leagues then you've got to go," says Luther Blissett. "For your football education it's great and whatever happens you will learn from it and come back a better person and a stronger person. You learn from it whether you do well or not."


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LOWER PROVIDENCE — The "Sunnyside Project" started in a dark place.
Christopher Galeassi's home was falling down around him.
A water pipe broke more than a year ago. He'd never been able to get it fixed, at least partially because he'd also been struck by a car while crossing a road after grocery shopping last year.
Several weeks ago Galeassi's health had declined to the point that his across-the-street neighbor was on the verge of kidnapping him to bring him to the hospital.
"I was going to take him," said Jamie Bellis. "I was just going to throw him in my truck."
"He's been silently suffering," said down-the-street neighbor Patricia Durdeen.
A woman who had been helping take care of Galeassi had fallen ill and was hospitalized, a situation that created even more concern for his well-being, neighbors said. Galeassi has diabetes and must walk with two canes, his neighbors said. Bellis recognized gangrene developing in Galeassi's feet as a result of his diabetes.
Despite Bellis' pleas, Galeassi was too worried to leave his cat, Kiki.
"If we didn't take him to the hospital, he would have died," Bellis said. "I really believe that."
What finally convinced Galeassi was Bellis' wife, Barbara. She overheard a conversation between Bellis and Galeassi and expressed, loud enough that Galeassi could hear, that he needed to go.
"He heard her in the background," Bellis said. "He said, 'Well, if she says I should go, then I should go.'"
Galeassi was taken to Pottstown Memorial Medical Center, where doctors had to amputate parts of his feet.
Kiki was taken to a vet for a full check-up and will remain in foster care while Galeassi recovers.
Concerns about Galeassi's trailer home led to an inspection by Lower Providence's codes department.
Since he hadn't had running water for so long and his health was declining, conditions inside the house were found to be dangerously unsanitary. Additionally, the home's roof was collapsing, among other structural issues.
"It was just hanging down," neighbor Denise Senk said of the ceiling inside. "He had to walk around crouched down."
June 6, the property was condemned due to the condition it was in.
"We felt it was a pretty severe situation," said Mike Mrozinski, community development coordinator in Lower Providence, who said the property was brought to their attention by neighbors. "We felt we needed to (post a notice) because of health and safety issues."
Around then, Galeassi's neighbors began to step in to create a solution.
In the ensuing weeks since Galeassi's hospitalization and the condemnation of his trailer home, dozens of neighbors from the Sunnyside Mobile Home Park have volunteered time, effort and supplies toward fixing up the property.
Durdeen and her husband, Kerry, are two of the neighbors who have taken an active role, even though they really didn't know Galeassi until recently.
"A lot of people helping him right now have never met him," Kerry said. "They say, 'Wow, this is happening? What can we do to help?'"
Last Sunday, as some were working on installing a new roof, other neighbors were dropping off food and supplies, coming every 20 minutes or so in the afternoon at one point.
Individuals have also donated furniture and appliances to Galeassi for his newly-finished home.
"They may not all be new," Kerry said of the donations. "(But) they're new to him."
Some have appealed for donations from their own employers. Kerry secured electrical wiring from Comcast. Another who works at Home Depot got a $500 donation toward supplies. Lowe's contributed $250.
Area eateries have contributed food to feed those laboring at the site.
The businesses which have helped out, many of them local, are too many to list.
"It's amazing. It's overwhelming," Senk said.
Patricia, who uses a wheelchair, said that since she can't do physical work on the house, she's quarterbacked the social media side. Through her efforts, many of the donations have come in.
Almost as quickly as someone identifies needs for Galeassi's home, someone else comes through with the supplies.
Lower Providence's codes department plans to re-inspect the property and has been trying to work with the volunteers on moving forward.
"We're working with all the parties involved," Mrozinski said. "We're trying to make sure that health and safety is preserved not only for (Galeassi) but also for the community."
"We call this the Sunnyside Project," Senk said.
The collection of efforts is named after the mobile home community where most of the volunteers live and where Galeassi's home stands, but it could also be a reflection of the way a common cause has pulled so many together.
"Before, people were always fighting (and) didn't know each other," Senk said. "Now, everyone has come together for this."
Galeassi, who could not be reached for an interview, was apparently not known very well by many in his neighborhood before his hospitalization. However, he's become a unifier in his community.
"We were talking to a police officer on Friday night and he was like, '(We're) usually here once a week breaking up a fight,' and now all these people are all here, together," Senk said.
"We're coming together to help him," Patricia said.
Senk said that this effort is also showing the true character of their community.
"When you hear about a trailer park, you usually don't think of something like this," she said. "But look at us. Look at what we're accomplishing."
Several people have asked Senk why they're doing what they're doing.
"Because it's the right thing to do," she answers.
Galeassi remains hospitalized for the foreseeable future, but efforts to help have not stopped at construction on his home.
Patricia Durdeen and Denise Senk said they're working through Pottstown Memorial Medical Center's social worker to get him signed up for Meals on Wheels and physical rehabilitation.
Kerry Durdeen said he's already arranging to have his son, Kerry Jr., mow Galeassi's lawn.
There are plans to frame a letterman's sweater Galeassi has, Senk said. They've already framed a photo of Kiki and given it to him to keep in the hospital.
Once he's back home, neighbors plan to check on Galeassi, too.
"We're not going to do his house then abandon him," Kerry said.
Efforts are ongoing. Construction continues on the home almost every day. By all accounts, though, everyone involved feels they're better for it.
"Chris did it, whether he knows it or not," Senk said. "We tried to do something for him and he ended up helping us out."
A bake sale/donation drop-off point was held 9 a.m. Saturday at 2901 W. Ridge Pike in the Eagleville section of Lower Providence. Those interested in making donations can reach Trish Durdeen at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"to cause to be interested," c.1600, earlier interesse (1560s), from the noun (see interest (n.)). Perhaps also from or influenced by interess'd, past participle of interesse.
mid-15c., "legal claim or right; concern; benefit, advantage;" earlier interesse (late 14c.), from Anglo-French interesse "what one has a legal concern in," from Medieval Latin interesse "compensation for loss," noun use of Latin interresse "to concern, make a difference, be of importance," literally "to be between," from inter- "between" (see inter-) + esse "to be" (see essence).
Cf. German Interesse, from the same Medieval Latin source. Form in English influenced 15c. by French interest "damage," from Latin interest "it is of importance, it makes a difference," third person singular present of interresse. Financial sense of "money paid for the use of money lent" (1520s) earlier was distinguished from usury (illegal under Church law) by being in reference to "compensation due from a defaulting debtor." Meaning "curiosity" is first attested 1771. Interest group is attested from 1907; interest rate by 1868.
The charge for borrowing money or the return for lending it.


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Dime by sanchez give him his due there
Nice work by Powell!
Dime by sanchez give him his due there
That loked like a terrible throw, but I guess it got the job done.
That was all Sanchez's fault. He pump faked and by doing so telegraphed the screen coming. Another dumb rookie mistake by a QB in his 4th season.
Nice blitz recognition markster give him his due again
At least reuland has some semblanc of hands.
Brick just got killed.
Titans blitzing on every down, figure Sanchez can't handle the pressure.
dont piss your pants Sanchez
Sanchez actually stepping up into the pocket, the result was not the best but that is a much better play by him than normal.


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For example, i'm not suppose to add 4x^3+6x^2. Why can't it be 8x^5? I thought if you are add like terms (x), then you can just add the exponents. Can someone explain this to me?
For example, i'm not suppose to add 4x^3+6x^2. Why can't it be 8x^5? I thought if you are add like terms (x), then you can just add the exponents. Can someone explain this to me?
Surely you have heard it said "you cannot add apples and oranges."
Now $\displaystyle 4x^3+6x^3=10x^3$ BUT $\displaystyle 4x^3+6x^2$ cannot be simplified.
It can be factored, $\displaystyle 4x^3+6x^2,x^2(4x+6)$ but not combined.
You can see that 4x^3 + 6x^3 is not 8x^5 (or 10x^5, which is what I think you probably meant to write) by trying a value or two for x. For example if x=2 then 4x^2 + 6x^3 = 4(2)^2 + 6(2)^3 = 64, which does not equal 8(2)^5 = 256. Asking why they aren't equal is like asking why 2+2 isn't 17. One thought that might help is to think of the exponent as defining a dimension, so that x^3 is equivalent to a 3-dimensional cube and x^2 is equivalent to a 2-dimensional square. You can add cubes together - for example 3 cubes plus 4 cubes = 7 cubes, so 3x^3 + 4x^3 = 7x^3. Or you can add squares together (3 squares + 4 squares = 7 squares), but you can't add squares to cubes.
Thanks guys!
what you are asking, is:
why isn't xa + xb = xa+b?
well, let's look at some specific values for a, and b. let's pick a = 1, and b = 2 (i like small numbers).
so, we want to see why:
x + x2 ≠ x3.
now we could just "plug in" various values for x, and see what happens. but since we're doing algebra, let's let the rules of algebra do the heavy lifting (never compute, if you can avoid it, i always say).
let's play "devil's advocate" and pretend that the two sides ARE equal (like we hope they are).
recall that x2 = x*x, and x3 = x*x*x.
what we're going to do, is "factor an x out of each side":
x(1 + x) = ? x(x2)
with me so far? now, if x = 0, it certainly is true that 0 + 0 = 0, but that's kind of...boring...so let's look at any other x. and hey! if x isn't 0, we can "divide it out":
1 + x = x2
we can also subtract x from both sides, that's always fair:
1 = x2 - x.
let's "factor out another x" on the right:
1 = x(x - 1).
hmm. can you see why x can't be an integer? if it was, then x - 1 would also be an integer, so x(x-1) would have to be either 1*1, or -1*-1, and x and x-1 can't be the same integer.
but if it doesn't work for integers, then how can it possibly work "for all x"?
we could go the other way, and suppose "x" is a specific number, like 2:
could it be that:
2a + 2b = 2a+b, for any a and b? again, we let a = 1, b = 2:
21 + 22 = ? 23
2 + 4 =? 8
6 =? 8, no, it doesn't look like that works.
naively, you can think of polynomials as being like integers, only "in base x", instead of "base 10". we don't add the tens place to the hundreds place, so why should we lump x2 in with the x3?


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HEALING SPRINGS | A man was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Tuesday afternoon with serious injuries.
HEALING SPRINGS | A man was airlifted to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Tuesday afternoon with serious injuries after he was involved in a single-vehicle accident on Denton Road in the Healing Springs community, officials said.
Troopers with the N.C. Highway Patrol and firefighters with the Healing Springs Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to the accident at 3:20 p.m.
Trooper M.A. Bowers said a man driving a Honda Civic was trying to pass a truck, which was turning onto Hunt Road, on a double-yellow line. As he was passing the truck, the Honda's tires went off the road to the left, crossed the center line, went back off the road to the right and struck a utility pole at the intersection of Hunt Road. The vehicle came to rest after it clipped the utility pole.
The truck and another witness stopped at the scene to assist the man. Chief Richard Beck of the Healing Springs Volunteer Fire Department said the man was pinned inside the vehicle between 20 and 25 minutes before the extrication was complete.
Bowers said the man was traveling between 50 and 70 miles per hour at impact. Firefighters at the scene said the speed limit in the section of Denton Road where the wreck occurred is 55 mph.
Bowers said the man was not wearing a seat belt. He said the man suffered a broken femur. Bowers said he could not release the man's identity Tuesday evening.
Bowers said it appears improper passing and failure to maintain lane control appeared to be factors in the accident. The trooper did not think weather played a factor in the crash.
Charges, the trooper said, are pending.
Beck said he did not know the man. However, he was familiar with the car and thought the man was local. Beck said the man had no passengers.
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PHILADELPHIA — (January 14, 2013) - GolfTalk Live, now in its sixth year as the leading golf radio show in America, announced today that Norris Sales Company, Inc. will become the new Presenting Sponsor of the show. Norris Sales Company, Inc, with offices in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania and Sicklerville, New Jersey, is a full-service contractor equipment
Since 1956, the Norris Sales team has been committed to providing professional contractors in the Delaware Valley with the best equipment rentals, product sales and parts, service and training for every job. Customer service is top priority and a knowledgeable staff and two centralized locations provide best in class service to all customers.
In addition to contractor equipment and supplies, Norris Sales Party Rental division provides the newest and most professional party rental equipment in the area. For the party rental team, customer satisfaction is priority number one. Norris Sales' expert coordinators and an ever expanding inventory ensure a worry free environment for each event.
With the GolfTalk Live and Norris Sales offices located in close proximity and sharing many mutual contacts, GolfTalk Live host Tony Leodora says this is a match made in heaven.
"Don Zajick and his daughter, Karen, have been friends for many years," said Leodora. "I have watched them grow their business into the premier rental company in the Greater Philadelphia area. They work with the many business owners that make up a large block of the GolfTalk Live audience. In Addition, both love the game of golf and have cultivated a working relationship with many of the superintendents in the area. They will become a very active part of the GolfTalk Live network."
Starting February 1, 2013 GolfTalk Live will officially roll out Norris Sales as the Presenting Sponsor of the show and help to broaden the reach of the company's services. The presenting sponsorship is a yearlong partnership, which includes publicizing Norris Sales during the show open, a number of commercials, prominence on the GolfTalk Live website, visibility on all printed material, and more.
The partnership will be mutually beneficial for both entities and add to the strength of the GolfTalk Live Network, which promotes the unity of area businesses in all industries.
"We look at this as another step in the continuing growth of our business," said Zajick. "The exposure we will receive through GolfTalk Live and the relationships we will make as part of the network will have a long-lasting positive effect on our business"
The GolfTalk Live radio show, hosted by Tony Leodora, is an award-winning weekly radio show. It was named the No. 1 Golf Radio Show in America by the International Network of Golf at January's PGA Merchandise Show. It was the third time in four years GolfTalk Live took the award. The show airs 52 weeks a year from 7 to 8 a.m. each Saturday on WNTP 990-AM, and 3 to 4 p.m. on WOND 1400-AM in Atlantic City. Expansion to additional affiliate stations through syndication of the show is schedule soon. Visit the official website at www.golftalklive.net anytime to listen via podcast.
For more information about the GolfTalk Live radio show, contact TL Golf Services at 610-279-9220 or go to the website at www.golftalklive.net.