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One week after a local clean water rally and less than two weeks before a planned rally in the state capitol, an increased flow of regulatory freshwater releases have been discharged from Lake Okeechobee into the Caloosahatchee.
Right in time for tourism season.
But, don't believe every thing you see or hear. Last week, when the Army Corps of Engineers reportedly increased its regulatory releases by a considerable level, then made a decision on Friday to maintain an increased flow beginning Saturday, it was a sound one, says Town Environmental Sciences Coordinator Keith Laakkonen.
The Town's scientist says the salinities in the upper estuaries have been too high, and more freshwater is needed to counter-balance.
"Right now, we are very pleased with the Corps decision on the current releases and hope it can restore some of that freshwater balance in the upper estuaries to help regenerate some of the tape grass that got heavily impacted over the past few years," he said. "We have to think about the system as a whole, which includes the freshwater part of the river east of Fort Myers and the downstream impacts.
"The 650 cubic feet per second (cfs) they had been giving us has not been sufficient to keep the Caloosahatchee River below the minimum flow level violation standard of 10 parts per thousand. Anything above 10 psu (practical salinity units) is recognized as causing significant harm to the estuary, especially in the tape grass."
Increased flows during this time of year are part of the norm to regulate lake water levels ahead of rainy season. But due to an earlier rainy start and an overabundance of rain last summer, the long-standing water quality issue was elevated after increased freshwater releases began sooner and were higher than normal.
Last Friday's decision resulted in the Corps adjusting the target flow from the lake to the Caloosahatchee Estuary upward to a 10-day average of 1,000 cfs as measured at W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam (S-79) near Fort Myers, according to an online report by Corps' Public Affairs Specialist John Campbell. Local runoff outside the lake into the Caloosahatchee River could cause flows to exceed this target.
"We're hoping that the 1,000 cfs number can help push the salinity wedge further downstream to fight off some of that salinity from the Gulf of Mexico," said Laakkonen, who is involved in weekly conference calls with the Corps, Southwest Florida Water Management District officials, colleagues from Sanibel and Lee County, Audubon Society officials, various National Wildlife Refuge officials, state agencies and similar folks from the east coast of Florida.
"The lake has seen a one-quarter foot rise in the past week and the most current analysis of forecasted conditions show an increase to projected lake inflows over the next six months," said Lt. Col. Tom Greco, the Corps' Jacksonville District Deputy Commander for South Florida. "We'll continue to work with stakeholders to assess conditions in order to make sound operational decisions."
The current "pulse" releases mimic what a natural rainfall would be and are crucial for the water management and lowering of the lake level during the course of the year, which includes dry season typically in April and May and rainy season typically from late June through October.
"When they do have the operational flexibility to make decisions about the how much water they can give us, that's when the stakeholders have the ability to maybe ask for more flexibility, like right now," said Laakkonen.
Rally officials, who gathered at Alliance of the Arts on Feb. 1, are planning on a "Rally in Tally" to campaign for a clean water declaration on the steps of the old Capitol in Tallahassee on Feb. 18. Activists say that too much freshwater mixing with saltwater causes water pollution and offer photos of a murky, oil-like, brown-colored water against traditional green-blue Gulf water as proof.
Laakkonen says our Beach waters shouldn't be affected as bad with the current increased flows.
"This past summer, there was so much organic matter in the water and that was really causing stress to those tape grasses in the upper estuaries," he said. "We are going to get more (color) than we are getting currently, but it certainly won't be of the same deep, dark colors that were much more nutrient-laden this past summer," he said. "The average of 1,000 cfs is likely a healthy number for the Caloosahatchee during winter."
Since Oct. 21, 2013, the target flow from the Franklin Lock had been 650 cfs and the target flow from the St. Lucie Lock has been 0 cfs, according to the Corps. SFWMD continues to move water south through the Stormwater Treatment Areas to the Water Conservation Areas.
Last Friday, the lake stage was 14.02 feet and has been on an upward trend since Jan. 30. The releases are being conducted in accordance with the 2008 Lake Okeechobee Regulation Schedule (LORS). The current LORS guidance allows for releases up to 3,000 cfs at Franklin Lock and 1,170 cfs at St. Lucie Lock. However, at this time the current target flows are being adjusted out of consideration for all project purposes.
Estuaries require a balance of fresh and salt water, depend on nutrients and support an abundance of sea life, said Roland Ottolini, a civil engineering expert in water pollution control and water conservation, in October 2013.
"Our estuary out there is very important. It has national and state significance and is very important to our economy," he said. "Unfortunately, we do not have a natural system. It is subjected to a lot of extremes because it is a managed system."
Sending discharges south used to be the approach, but it's more difficult now.
"The historic route and desire is to send it south, but now we have what was hundreds of miles wide has now been shortened out to narrow canals. We also have a lot of agriculture and communities now," said Ottolini. "There is also a federal court order that says you can't send dirty water to the Everglades National Park. There are a lot of environmental considerations."
Solutions involve storing and conveying more water. Long-term projects are being looked into, such as Caloosahatchee River (C-43) West Basin Storage Reservoir (designed to hold 170,000 acre feet of water), Central Everglades Planning Project (reconnect Lake O south with Everglades National Park, but water needs to be treated/clean) and the restoration of Herbert Hoover Dike (to enhance structural integrity and provide additional storage).


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Secretly Greatly ("Eunmilhage Widaehage")
- South Korea
- 2013
- 127 mins
- Korean
- English (subtitles)
The 5446 unit of the North Korean army is composed of highly trained killing machines completely devoted to their country. Lieutenant Won Ryu-han represents the elite of this division. He was shaped to be a true animal and sent to the South in an infiltration mission. Waiting on instructions that will allow him to reach glory or die a legendary death, he must integrate into his new environment as the village idiot. It has been two years he's played the fool for this colourful community, who all fell for it. Following a strict code, he trips and falls at least three times a day, defecates in public and lets himself be bullied by people he could kill with a kleenex. However, his torments seem to be over when two young North Korean spies come to town — Hae-rang, pretending to be a young rocker and Hae-jin, in the role of a student. While Ryu-han helps them get integrated, some political wrangling is afoot up North concerning the 5446 unit. When Ryu-han receives the much awaited signal, he cannot believe his eyes. Every member of 5446 is ordered to kill himself, or mutually kill each other. If they disobey, the one that taught them everything will personally go eliminate them.
In 2010, director Jang Cheol-soo took the world by surprise with his first feature BEDEVILLED, selected at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes. Following Juhn Jai-hong (POONGSAN) and Jang Hun (ROUGH CUT), another student of Kim Ki-duk (BAD GUY) asserted himself with a dense and intense work reminding of the glory days of the Korean New Wave. For his second film, Jang tackles something enormous: adapting the popular web comic Covertness. As evidenced by the record attendance at the night of its release (previously held by THE HOST since 2006), he managed to do it masterfully. SECRETLY GREATLY unfurls twice, offering a hilarious first half where one watches Ryu-han's slapstick prowess and hears him curse his surroundings, and then the film transforms half-way into relentless suspense in which explosive action scenes abound. The young star Kim Soo-hyun (THE THIEVES) is surprising in the lead role, offering a stunningly physical performance, leading a stellar cast composed of endearing personalities. Funny, exciting and powerful, SECRETLY GREATLY must be seen on a big screen, whether to see the trajectory of one of the most promising Korean directors, or to see the perfect summer blockbuster.
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Niger ready for Zone 3 African Nations Championship
Niamey, Niger, October 9, 2012- Niger's men's and women's volleyball teams are ready to participate in the 17th edition of the Zone 3 African Nations Championships being held in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, October 12 to 21.
The annual competition for West African countries was originally scheduled October 5 to 14. It was postponed to the new dates to allow the delegations from Benin, Togo and Ghana to arrive by road across the borders.
The Niger Volleyball Federation, FENIVOLLEY, did their best in the last few weeks to prepare the teams for the solidarity tournament that gathers nine countries.
The President of FENIVOLLEY, Issouf Badar, expressed his gratitude to those people who helped the teams prepare technically and financially and provided complete equipment for the men's and women's selections ahead of the event. Niger teams are now fully ready to compete for the title.
"Indeed, the investment policy of the major players in clubs outside Niger is very important as the selected squad includes five professionals; three of them play in Algeria, one in Senegal and another in Burkina Faso, said Badar. "Those professionals will reinforce the group of local players, mainly from the USGN, who won the last Cup of Clubs Zone 3 Championship in Niamey."
The selection came at the end of eight weeks of intensive preparation and showed determination to win the Zone 3 title.
For the women's team, the coach injected new blood from training centres all over the country, including Niamey's Dosso and Doutchi. The new-look team is now composed of more than 90 per cent young players taking part in their first major competition.


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(MCT) — A Georgia-licensed truck driver was behind the wheel of the tractor-trailer that struck and killed Illinois State Police Trooper Kyle Deatherage last week while he was conducting a traffic stop on Interstate 55 near Litchfield, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The department's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has declared Johnny Felton, Jr. an imminent hazard and ordered him to immediately cease all commercial vehicle driver operations due to his failure to exercise an appropriate duty of care to the motoring public regarding his medical conditions.
Felton, a driver for DOT Transportation Inc., a trucking company based in Mount Sterling, Ill., was ordered to cease operating following a crash on Nov. 26 that resulted in Deatherage's death.
"Commercial truck and bus companies and operators that violate federal safety standards and jeopardize public safety will be shut down," U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a released statement. "Safety is always our top priority."
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration immediately placed Felton out of service after agency investigators found serious safety concerns surrounding his medical condition and qualifications under his commercial driver's license issued by the State of Georgia. Investigators discovered Felton failed to disclose to a medical examiner his disqualifying medical conditions, including his medications prescribed in treating those conditions.
"This case sends a clear message that we will use every tool at our disposal to identify and remove from our roads unsafe operators," FMCSA Administrator Anne S. Ferro said. "Our agency is committed to raising the bar for commercial vehicle and driver safety."
The USDOT report said Felton lost consciousness while driving a commercial vehicle and struck Deatherage, causing his death.
The Illinois State Police continues its investigation into the accident that killed Deatherage. No official charges have been filed yet.
Deatherage is survived by his wife Sarah and two young children.


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The Morning Heresy 7/25/12: Go Get a Real Hobby
July 25, 2012
Your daily digest of news and links relevant to the secular and skeptic communities.
A lot of bloggers have helped spread the word about the petition to the White House for jailed Indonesian atheist Alexander Aan, and I want to take this moment here to offer my sincere thanks. Freethought Blogs' writers as a group have been particularly good about encouraging folks to sign and share, and all of us here at CFI appreciate it. Please, please keep it up.
Pick out your Halloween costume and tune your six-string. It's time to get ready for CSICon 2012 in Nashville!
Point of Inquiry returns with a conversation with Kerry Emanuel, a conservative scientist trying to bring his political friends to acceptance of climate change.
Child rape enabler Msgr. William J. Lynn gets three-to-six.
I didn't even know this was a thing, but Daniel Florien picks out his favorite "Hail Sagan" designs. Not sure how I feel about this, but I kind of like the one with the blue dot, the dodecahedron, and the four-dimensional cube.
CFI's Institute Online opens registration for a new course, "What is Atheism?" with John Shook and John Loftus.
Nothing crazy about this: Heal yourself with the help of a didgeridoo.
Science-reality-medicine-ethics fail: Homeopathic vaccine for Hep-C.
Ugandan Christian authorities are all upset about a new religion taking root, the Japanese-borne "Happy Science" religion, whose leader (surprise) is also the deity.
The Christian Post takes seriously the Mark Mellman piece about Obama's declining support among atheists (which was written more to point out how silly Mellman thinks worrying about tiny sub-groups is), ponders the question, and quotes a "conservative leader" who is afraid to be named who says:
If I were a died-in-the-wool atheist, I wouldn't care how many times President Obama talked of his Christian beliefs or used 'God' in his speeches because the longer he is in office the more he can undermine Christian beliefs through his judicial appointments.
Scientologists plan to infiltrate the London Olympics, according to leaked letter.
Speaking of the games, Steven Novella warns of the coming onslaught of sports-related pseudoscience we're all about to be inundated by.
You don't know fake mermaids like Joe Nickell knows fake mermaids.
David Niose went on MSNBC's The Cycle to talk about nonbelievers, but I'm not going to watch (sorry, David) because I find this show unbearable. But that shouldn't stop you.
Greta has a pretty comprehensive to-do list for improving the atheosphere's inclusiveness.
Dave Silverman plants his boot's heel firmly on the neck of misogyny within the movement.
Georgia church wanted guns allowed in, federal court said no.
Group called "Ufology Research" says that UFO sightings are at an all-time high in Canada.
You guys don't need more Chik-fil-a links, do you? I mean, Facebook really has that covered, I feel.
Quote of the Day
You know, I thought I wasn't going to find a good QOTD this morning, and then I checked the ol' inbox, and we got this great piece of hate mail, signed "Christian Acupuncturist," so you know it's going to be good.
To The Center Of Inquiry [sic],
I'm convinced that your organisation [sic] is filled with men who were seriously bullied as young boys...nerds who never got the girls, whose only solace was found deeply embedded in books about science and mathematics. Filled with men and women who were social outcasts...never got asked out on dates in high school or college beacause [sic] you "didn't fit in"?
Well here's a news flash...you don't fit in...America doesn't want your atheistic garbage. Don't fool yourselves into thinking that you matter...you don't. You're in the 1% that believes your superior intelligence is all you need...faith in science, not God...now that's laughable. Go get a real hobby and leave the rest of us alone.
Now, I should concede that, yes, I for one was bullied quite a lot all throughout school. But, alas, I did not find solace in math, and I fared poorly in my science classes, which were on the whole poorly taught. No, I did something even worse: I got into theatre. Take that!
Linking to a story or webpage does not imply endorsement by Paul or CFI . Not every use of quotation marks is ironic or sarcastic, but it often is.
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necrit: I agree, and I think I have already meant to propose or already proposed something along these lines... I will make sure it gets to the teamies responsible with it, in any case. :)
ETA: ah, except the teamie in question is Oldies which already has it now on his unread replies. :)
Anyway, one more vote from me, if I may, for a possibility to filter on "since".
I do not think we will get a "since" line in before the final release of 2.0.
We are looking at some documentation automation and revising the "notes" in the source files which will make this easier in the future, but currently, stuff like "since" would all have to be handled manually, and there are more important things to be done before that.
Awesome. Thanks for your effort
Is there a function for inserting data (topics, etc) into a forum. I need such a function, since I want to create a forum from an existing data wich resides in a database.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Aug 2012 19:54 UTC
As Sammobile reports: "Samsung will not bring any kind of new Bada phones in the second half of 2012. Samsung's latest bada phones showed up last year at IFA 2011 in Berlin. Samsung showed the Wave3, Wave M and Wave Y, all those devices run on Bada version 2.0. The focus of Samsung in the second half of 2012 is fully on Windows Phone 8 and Android. Because the Windows Phone market is in the hands of Nokia they will try to get that share back. Samsung will also try to make their Android position better than before. Thanks to some new Galaxy products in the second half of 2012. Another sad thing is Samsung moved their first TIZEN OS devices to 2013. Samsung already gave away some developers devices with TIZEN 1.0. The only problem is the support from TIZEN itself." Tizen was a lost cause to begin with, and Bada, while actually pretty good, can easily be replaced by Android. As much as it sucks to lose two operating systems (don't kid yourselves - these are EOL messages), it makes sense from a business perspective. Next up: the TouchWiz team.
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"But restarting time and time again, no that's not a receipe for success.
Why not? They have huge resources and unlikely to run out of names. "
Maybe it's just that they're trying too hard. Maybe they should do the Google/Microsoft thing and just let their employees experiment with things to their heart's content, not concerned with failure since it doesn't cost as much.


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The National Center for Science Education has long defended educators' right to teach evolution in public schools. Now climate science too is under attack. NCSE executive director Eugenie Scott talks about how teachers and parents can fight the push to get climate change denial into the classroom.
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We have enough talent to win now
So thorough was the coaching incompetence at Michigan the past two seasons that many among us have genuinely become convinced that we don't have good players on our team. On-field ineptitude chipped away at our psychology, making us feel that all things Michigan football were inept. Even in the past glorious days, there are Michigan fans claiming that we don't have good players and that we should temper our expectations for Harbaugh's first years. Maybe by 2017 we will have a competitive team.
We have extremely talented players and can be competitive this next season. The table below shows the total points from the 247 Composite Team Rankings for the 2014, 2013, and 2012 recruiting classes. Players from these classes will be teams' primary contributors during the 2015 season. Total points take into consideration both quality and number of recruits in a class. The "Total" column in the table simply sums the total points from the 2014, 2013, and 2012 classes, resulting in total points over the three-year period. Further, since older players typically contribute more, another column, "Weighted total," gives more weight to 2012 (x2) and 2013 (x1.5) points to privilege talent more likely to contribute next year. Note that the top 50 teams in terms of three-year total points, plus Big Ten and future opponents are included in the table.
Based on recruiting rankings, Michigan has the seventh most talented roster in the nation, ahead of every Big Ten team and every 2015 opponent outside of Ohio State. Using the weighted total, Michigan has the fifth most talented roster in the nation, with a preponderance of talent in the upper classes.
Clearly, recruiting rankings aren't completely accurate predictors of college performance, but Michigan's superiority based on this metric is so vastly beyond every non-Ohio State opponent (Nebraska is next at 27th), that even if there is a margin for error, we should still rest assured that our players have the talent to compete in every game next year.
Now that we have a proven winner, leader, and developer-of-talent at the helm, we can feel good about our odds this next season. The talent is there. These kids came to Michigan with the expectation of being developed, being put in position to succeed, and being great. Get after it, Jim.
Pride and Playcalling: Know Thy Team
"We want to be able to run the football with a back in the backfield."
- Brady Hoke in 2011 interview upon hiring at Michigan
"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle"
- Sun Tzu in The Art of War
Offense: Who We Want To Be
Coach Hoke has made it clear from the word 'go' that his vision for Michigan includes a stout offensive line that fuels a power running game. Wear the opponent down. Use the run to set up the pass. Control the clock. Preserve your defense. He walked into a roster ill-equipped to play this style of offense, but he promised to be patient and flexible during the transition. Denard Robinson can probably tell you whether this was successful or not.
Regardless, Hoke must feel pretty good about making progress toward this goal of a power running game after his first few recruiting classes at Michigan. Top tier offensive line classes in consecutive years. Stud workhorse running backs. Tight end restocked. The pieces are in place for a good power running game at Michigan in the future.
This season is not the future.
Offense: Who We Are
Who are we as an offense? This is a tough question to answer. Let's start with who we are not. Yesterday, we ran 34 plays on first down. Here are the results:
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In a power running offense, you rely on three to five yard runs on first and second down to gain short-yardage situations on third down. Yesterday we averaged 1.8 yards per play on first down runs, including 11 of 17 plays that went for one yard or less. When Devin Gardner ran on first down, he gained 8.4 yards per play with only one run for less than two yards. On the 12 occassions that passed on first down, we averaged 13.8 yards, including incomplete passes that gain zero yards.
We are not a power running team.
It is not clear that the coaching staff yet appreciates this, and as a result we are succumbing in every battle. It seems that the staff thought that this would be the year that they could transition fully to a power running game base offense. They tried to impose their will against Akron, UConn, Minnesota, and Penn State. In each case, it hasn't worked.
Whatever our opponents' self-knowledge, they can all be sure that when they play Michigan, we will try to operate out of a base offense that runs on first down. Whatever you think about our talent/youth/experience on the offensive line, we have consistently run into walls of defenders who are happy to not have to make decisions but rather just move ahead and fill a running lane.
We need to recognize who we are on offense and make a fundamental shift in approach.
A Note On Psychology
Albert Bandura's theory of self-efficacy explains how people come to believe that they are able to do something well. How people develop confidence in their ability. Devin Gardner's confidence is in the tank right now. It was clear that by the second half of the UConn game, he was trying to not throw interceptions more than he was trying to complete passes. But the coaches aren't helping him.
Self-efficacy theory holds that the best way to build confidence is to cultivate "mastery experiences," opportunities to be successful in the task at hand. In our case, this means giving Gardner easy passes--like screens, quick slants, and running back passes--to allow him to have little successes and rebuild confidence. Right now, we're doing the opposite. We've reacted to his turnovers by going into a shell and reducing his throwing opportunities. This has created a vicious cycle with us running into a loaded box of defenders, failing, then giving Gardner throwing opportunities in third and long situations, where he has less opportuntiy for "mastery." Gardner makes a mistake, loses further confidence. Coaches lose further confidence in his passing ability. Rinse. Repeat.
So, Who Are We, Again?
I'm not a coach, but it seems like, at this point, we need to fundamentally alter our approach to de-emphasize the early down running game. Power football doesn't work with 1.8 yards per first down run. We have had success in the short passing game, including last night. These plays have to become the new normal on first and second down. Whether this is spread or west coast or whatever, the pass has to start setting up the run.
That's not what Hoke wants, but it's better to be honest with oneself than aspirational. Will we make the change? We'll see. We know coaches to be a prideful race.
Securing Top In-State Talent: "Hold Me TomVH"
There has been some squirming lately about the potential college choices of some of our top in-state talent in the class of 2012. I, personally, hate the idea of losing out on the best Michigan high schoolers, and some have been predicting doom for the program if we aren't able to secure the likes of Ross, Jenkins-Stone, and Richardson this year. Jon Chait over on Rivals has laid the gauntlet, suggesting that this recruiting cycle will determine the destiny of the program for the foreseeable future (how great is it, by the way, that Jon Chait, a world-class writer and social commentator, contributes to our piddly Rivals site?).
Facts, data, and stuff
In response to the anxiety, I thought it would be interesting to look back at the college-selection fate of Michigan's top H.S. talent over the course of the past ten years. Using Rivals recruiting rankings, I compiled data for all the 4- and 5-star recruits out of the state of Michigan since Rivals launched their rankings in 2002. In the ten recruiting classes between then and now, there have been 76 such recruits out of Michigan high schools. That's an average of seven or eight top-end athletes per year, and most of these recruits are regional—if not national—targets. Now, Michigan does not pursue every four-star athlete in the state, and there is less regional and national attention for some four-star players versus others. However, Rivals rankings are a close approximation for identifying the top in-state talent in any given year.
What fate befell Quincy Landingham?
The data show that, of the 76 top recruits from 2002-2011, 28 (or 37%) chose to play for U-M. Fewer than half of the top high-school players opted for the Maize and Blue. Our biggest competition, as you may expect, was Michigan State, which reeled in 24 (32%) of all 4- and 5-star players. Another 24 of these players went out of state, with Penn State being the most popular destination (four players), followed by Purdue and Ohio State (three players each). Tennessee and USC are the only other schools to sign more than one top state-of-Michigan recruit during this period (Landingham, out of Bloomfield Hills Lahser in 2007, is the only four-star guy to choose Wisconsin).
There has been some variation from year to year in U-M's success in securing top in-state talent. Some attribute this variation to the head coach's recruiting prowess, our on-field success, or the historical relationship between recruits' high schools and U-M. The table below shows the college destination of top in-state talent by year from 2002 to 2011.
A few things stand out from the data. U-M has typically been able to pull in roughly half of the top in-state recruits in any given year, but got hammered in 2010, 2009, and especially 2007, a year in which the state was loaded with top-end talent. The former two classes were Rodriguez's first two full classes and the latter 2007 class was Carr's final full class. The 2010 and 2009 classes followed losing seasons. The 2007 class followed an excellent season, capped by one of the most high-profile games in Michigan football history. Only two of the 13 best in-state players seemed to care.
And your point is?
Few would argue that we don't need to bring in the best in-state recruits in order to achieve a high level of play. However, even during the "stable" years of the program in the early part of the decade, U-M still lost out on roughly half of the top in-state recruits on an annual basis (save 2005, a weak year talent-wise in which U-M pulled in all three 4/5 stars). Another semi-myth that the data dispel is that Ohio State has been making major inroads on state-of-Michigan talent. Ohio State has signed three total Michigan 4/5 stars during the past ten years: Gholston in 2004, Taurian Washington (meh) in 2007, and James Jackson (meh) in 2009. That record hardly constitutes an impending coup.
MichiganState is by far the biggest threat in stealing in-state talent, and one could view the last three recruiting cycles as disturbing in that regard, as MSU has signed 12 of the top recruits to our six. The Ohio States, Penn States, and USCs are much smaller threats.
Of course, U-M recruits nationally, and thus has a distinct advantage over MSU in overall recruiting. But if we want to dominate in-state recruiting, MSU has been our biggest historical obstacle. Not pulling in Ross, Jenkins-Stone, and Richardson this year would be wrenching. Precedent suggests that it may not spell doom for Michigan football, but it sure would feel goddam good.
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State of the Offense
[Ed: bumped for general interestingness.]
Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielma made the following statement after the Badgers 48-28 victory over Michigan on Saturday:
"We're not the spread offense, so it's not sexy," he said. "We're not on the [top] of everybody's wish list. But I tell you what—48 points is fun."
This, after Michigan's vaunted offense had stalled out at inopportune times and Wisconsin's pro-style attack had done as it pleased throughout the game en route to 48 points on 558 yards with only one punt along the way. The Wisconsin offense had more fun than Michigan's.
Despite claims that it cannot be successful in major college football, there is little doubt that the spread offense, in general, works at the highest level of the NCAA. The top two teams in the nation this season, Oregon and Auburn, both employ it in some fashion. The spread is viable, just as the pro-style is viable. However, there is wide variation in productivity across teams within the same basic offensive scheme.
Michigan's spread offense this year has been something of a revelation, thanks largely to the ascendance of Denard Robinson. The feats that Robinson has accomplished as a true sophomore in his first season as a starter are truly remarkable. This is virtually indisputable. With two games remaining in the season, he has already broken the all-time FBS rushing record for a quarterback and has become the first player in NCAA history to pass for 2,000 yards while rushing for 1,500. His season has been an historic one.
Behind Robinson, Michigan's offense has been at the top of the Big Ten and in the top five nationally for much of the season in terms of yards per game. Big plays abound, and 500-yard games have become more the rule than the exception. This prolific output has created much buzz around the offensive side of the ball (and stand in stark contrast the immense struggles of the defense). Indeed, the offense has almost single-"sidedly" carried the team to victories against Illinois, Indiana, and Notre Dame, and its fluency has become the loudest argument for Rich Rodriguez to stay at the helm in Ann Arbor beyond this season.
However, the offense has been outshined in Michigan's losses. In these contests, Michigan's offense didn't just fail to play like a top-five unit nationally. It wasn't the better unit on the field during the game. In these games, Michigan produced 377, 522, 423, and 442 yards against Michigan State, Iowa, Penn State, and Wisconsin, respectively, while yielding 536, 383, 435, and 558 yards. Michigan's maligned defense was party to these opponents' gaudy offensive outputs, but Michigan's offense did not keep pace. Not surprisingly, these four opponents also have some of the best scoring defenses of the teams that Michigan has faced this year, and the question arises as to whether Michigan's "sexy" offense can be successful against good defensive teams.
The offense has improved in three seasons under Rodriguez, and, even now, it remains young. Its leader, Robinson, is a true sophomore, as is starting tailback Vincent Smith. The starting offensive line has only one senior [ed: depending on the health of Perry Dorrestein] and the wide receiver corps has none. One could argue that there is still room for growth and that the trajectory demonstrated over the past two years under Rodriguez is positive. Still, it bears examining exactly where the offense is at present. Is it an unstoppable force or a paper tiger? Or something in between? This analysis dissects the Michigan offense with one game to go in the 2010 season.
Yards, scoring, games, and drives
Michigan's offense works fast. There is no huddle. They get to the line of scrimmage quickly. They gain yards in chunks. They score in a flash. All of this, in part, leads to shorter times of possession per drive, which generally leads to more drives per game (the defense giving up long, run-laden drives to the opponent notwithstanding). Michigan, as of November 19, had the most drives in the Big Ten this season (105, tied with Illinois) against BCS competition. Wisconsin had the fewest number of drives in the Big Ten against BCS opponents with 71.
A more useful way of understanding offensive effectiveness than looking at yards per game is to examine what an offense does with a typical drive. The importance of drives was illustrated in the first half of the Michigan-Wisconsin game, as Michigan had only four full drives to work with. What a team does with a drive is a means of measuring offense that allows for fair cross-team comparison. As of Friday, Michigan averaged 2.57 points per drive (PPD) this season against BCS teams, good for third in the Big Ten, behind Wisconsin (3.72) and Ohio State (3.19) and tied with Iowa.
Table 1 - Points per drive against BCS opponents
|Ohio State
|Michigan State
|Penn State
Calculated with data from www.cfbstats.com: drives = punts + fumbles lost + interceptions + failed 4th down conversions + FG attempts + TDs
Michigan's offense is above-average relative to other teams in the conference in this stat but not as dominant as the yardage number suggest. Stated alternatively, this statistic suggests that Michigan scores a touchdown roughly one out of three drives against BCS competition. When taking into consideration the number of drives in which an offense has an opportunity to score, Michigan's offense is still among the leaders in the Big Ten.
"Michigan's offense can score on anybody"
It goes without saying that an offense typically performs worse against a better defense. One would expect an offense to do less with a typical drive against a good defense compared to a bad defense. However, with Michigan this season, this relationship is ambiguous. Table 2 shows Michigan's BCS opponents' points-allowed-per-game (PAPG) against BCS competition alongside Michigan's PPD against them.
Table 2 - Michigan's PPD by BCS opponent and opponent's scoring defense against BCS competition
|Michigan State
|Notre Dame
|Penn State
Calculated with data from boxscores at www.mgoblue.com and team statistics from www.cfbstats.com
Michigan's most productive games, in terms of PPD, came against Indiana, Connecticut, Penn State, Illinois, and Wisconsin, in that order. Against these foes, Michigan's PPD was better than what would be considered average in the Big Ten this season and better than their own average through the Wisconsin game. Indiana has the worst scoring defense among Michigan's nine BCS opponents, and Michigan's offense enjoyed their best PPD output against them. Otherwise, Connecticut has the fifth best scoring defense, Penn State the seventh, Illinois the sixth, and Wisconsin the third. Michigan's worst PPD came against Purdue, who has a poor scoring defense (eighth among opponents), but weather conditions during that game may explain this apparent deviation. Further, it could be argued that Connecticut's relatively low points-allowed-per-game is due their membership in the Big East and a weaker slate of BCS competition. Regardless, with a sample size of well over one hundred drives, opponents' scoring defense does not predict Michigan's PPD with statistical significance (p = .42). These results would appear to support claims that Michigan's productive offense can "score against anybody" and could perhaps provide evidence against arguments that Rodriguez's spread offense cannot succeed against good defensive teams.
All drives are not created equal
The success of a drive varies in importance based on the circumstances of the game. Scoring a touchdown when the score is tied is more valuable than scoring a touchdown when down 30. One criticism of the Michigan offense this season is that it struggles to capitalize on opportunities to extend leads and put teams away. Table 3 shows that Michigan has scored a touchdown on 48% of drives when the game is tied, 44% of drives when they are behind, and only 17% of drives when they are ahead. This difference in scoring percentage across these three situational categories is statistically significant (χ = 12.12, p < .05). Michigan's drives are apparently more successful when the score is even or when they are behind. They have scored touchdowns at a much lower rate when in position to go up by multiple scores.
Table 3 - Michigan's situational drive scoring outcomes (count and row percentages shown)
|No points
|Field goal
|34 (81%)
|1 (2%)
|7 (17%)
|10 (44%)
|2 (9%)
|11 (48%)
|22 (51%)
|2 (5%)
|19 (44%)
Calculated with data from boxscores at www.mgoblue.com
A further criticism of Michigan's offense is that it not only fails to put games away when presented with an opportunity, but also that it is successful against good defenses only when the game is already out of hand, that is, when the opponent is ahead by a wide margin. In all games against BCS competition, Michigan has scored touchdowns on 46% of drives that begin with them down by ten or more points; they have scored touchdowns on only 30% of drives that begin with them within ten points, tied, or ahead. This difference, however, is not statistically significant (p = .21). How does this difference bear out against good defenses?
The best defenses Michigan has faced this year are Iowa, Michigan State, and Wisconsin, which are also three of the top four teams in the Big Ten (along with Ohio State). Against these teams, Michigan's offense has performed well when they are down by ten or more points. In these large-deficit scenarios, the offense has averaged 2.80 PPD, above their overall season average and toward the top end of the Big Ten. When down by ten or more, they have scored touchdowns on eight of 20 occasions, a rate of 40%. When the game is close (i.e., when Michigan is within ten, tied, or ahead) the story is considerably different for this team. When the game is still in the balance, Michigan has averaged 1.43 PPD, with two field goals and two touchdowns (14% rate) in 14 opportunities—this is significantly worse than when the deficit is large (χ = 4.87, p < .10).
Table 4 - Michigan's situational drive scoring outcomes against top defenses (count and row percentages shown)
|No points
|Field goal
|Down 10+ points
|12 (60%)
|0 (0%)
|8 (40%)
|Within 10 points, tied, or ahead
|10 (71%)
|2 (14%)
|2 (14%)
Calculated with data from boxscores at www.mgoblue.com
The data show that Michigan's offense has been poor—as bad as the worst Big Ten teams' average PPD output—against the best teams in the Big Ten when the game is close. Their most impressive offensive work against these good teams has come once they already trail significantly, in which case they have performed above-average relative to average Big Ten PPD standards.
So is the Michigan offense an elite offense?
Looking at the success of offensive drives, a statistic that controls for the pace of the game and the number of overall opportunities an offense has, Michigan has a good offense relative to the rest of the Big Ten—they are tied for third in productivity with Iowa, behind Wisconsin and Ohio State. Michigan averages the most yards per game and has scored the second most points in the conference, but they have also had the most opportunities to accumulate yards and points, most likely due to the fast pace at which they execute their offense, the quickness with which they have sometimes scored, and their high rate of turnovers. They are third best in the Big Ten at capitalizing on drives.
So, is Michigan's spread offense under Rodriguez elite? The answer appears to be, "circumstantially." They perform very well when the game is tied or when they trail. The offense struggles, however, to pull away when they have a lead. Further, the offense has struggled in close-game situations against the best Big Ten teams. There is much variability in how the offense performs, dependent, in part, on the score of the game when the offense assumes possession.
This situational inconsistency may be attributable to a variety of factors (e.g., youth and inexperience on offense, conservative play-calling when ahead, nerves), and one can speculate as to which are most salient. These analyses are intended to deconstruct the offense and offer a more nuanced picture of the state of that side of the ball, beyond a rough yards- or points-per-game. With the travails of Michigan's defense this season, it is tempting (and perhaps healthful) to look at the offense as being "solid" and not something to worry about. Compared to the defensive unit, this may be true, but there are interesting and complicated phenomena at play with Michigan's sexy side, as well.
Other tidbits from the data
Starting field position does not significantly affect the likelihood of the Michigan offense scoring a touchdown (odds ratio = .98, p = .20).
Michigan's offensive productivity, in terms of PPD, is highest in the first quarter (2.81), followed by the third (2.72), fourth (2.33), and second (2.00) quarters.
Michigan's offensive productivity against good defenses (Iowa, Michigan State, and Wisconsin), in terms of PPD, is highest by far in the third quarter (3.50), followed by the fourth (2.63), first (1.43), and second (1.11) quarters.
Michigan has yet to score on its third drive of any game versus a BCS opponent this season; its highest PPD is on its second drive of the game (4.22).
There is variation in the point outcome of a drive, that is, some drives end in zero points, some in three, some in seven. This variation may be due to factors associated with the opponent (e.g., the quality of their defense) or factors associated just with the drive (e.g., whether the team is ahead or behind when the drive begins). Cluster analyses show that almost 100% of the variance in Michigan's points earned on a drive is due to factors associated with the unique drive. This suggests that our opponent, per se, has little bearing on the outcome of a drive, once one takes into consideration unique aspects of the drive, such as the how far ahead or behind Michigan is.


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In WKU's season opening win last Saturday against Austin Peay, senior wide receiver Marcus Vasquez didn't have a particularly amazing stat line: one catch for 25 yards. But the fact Vasquez was on the field at all is a tribute to the power of the human body, spirit—and the miracle of modern medicine.
Marcus flashes a smile when he's asked about the last play of last year's game against Indiana State. But it's the kind of smile you give when you're about to delve into a painful memory you'd rather forget. The game was a blowout—the Hilltoppers trailed 44-16 at home. On the game's final play, quarterback Kawuan Jakes threw the ball to Vasquez.
"I caught a pass coming up the middle and turned upfield," says the senior wideout. "The safety was coming down to hit me. I stuck my foot in the ground to avoid him, and as soon as I planted, my knee buckled and popped. And I was down. End of the game. Over."
Marcus had just suffered an injury no athlete wants to endure: a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.
The term "ACL" is one that has become commonplace with athletes and sports fan. When an athlete suffers a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his or her knee, that individual knows that almost without exception it's a season-ending injury. In just a split second, an athlete is confronted not only with the pain running through his body, but the possibility of months of intense rehabilitation away from the football field, basketball court, or soccer field.
The ACL runs from the femur—or thigh bone—to the tibia, which is the leg bone below the knee. The ACL helps keep the knee properly centered, as opposed to being loose and wobbly.
When a WKU football player tears an ACL, Danny Cobble is usually the first person to speak to the athlete about the injury.
"I like to put a bit of time between the injury and telling them exactly what the injury is, so that we can kind of get the emotions under control," says Cobble, who is the head football athletic trainer for WKU. "A lot of them are going to be upset and say 'man, I'm out for this game.' And in the back of our minds, we're thinking they're out for the season. So we want to manage their emotions so that they understand when we tell them what's going on, and what we need to do."
Marcus Vasquez remembers his first thoughts after going down with his knee injury last season. At first, he wanted to believe it was something he could quickly get over.
"I had my hopes, and the hope is it's nothing serious. But I heard it pop. You always got in the back of your mind, 'man, it could be my ACL." Your hopes are up and you're praying to God that it's nothing too serious. But it's there. It's reality."
The knee injury suffered by Marcus seemed especially cruel. In 2010, he suffered a broken collarbone that ended his sophomore season prematurely. Now, after rehabbing and coming back from that injury, Vasquez found himself again flat on his back on an athletic training table, being checked for another potential season-ending injury.
"So to hear it--that my season might be done again? It killed my spirits," admits Vasquez.
WKU football athletic trainer Danny Cobble confirmed the 22-year-old's worst fears: his ACL was torn and he was once again out for the season. Cobble says following such an injury, he and staff will meet within a day to begin mapping out a plan to get that athlete back on the field by next year's pre-season practices. Part of that schedule includes the surgery to repair the torn ligament.
Dr. Reid Wilson knows a lot about ACL surgeries. Wilson is an orthopedic surgeon at Owensboro Medical Health Systems. He says one of the cruel things about torn ACLs is that they usually happen when the athlete has made a routine move on the playing field.
"So we're not talking about a running back running down the sidelines and getting hit," says Dr. Wilson.
Instead, says Dr. Wilson, an estimated 70% of ACL injuries to athletes occur in non-contact situations, like when a running back or wide receiver tries to suddenly pivot to avoid a would-be tackler.
"Someone's running down the field, and they land or pivot in an awkward position. Usually their leg is straight, rather than being bent. And then that forceful anterior translation of the leg will tear the ACL."
Dr. Wilson says it's a mistake to think that a surgeon is repairing an athlete's torn ACL. In fact, the surgeon is creating a brand new ligament using bits and pieces from the athlete's body, including part of another ligament known as the patellar tendon.
"Probably what you're going to find today is bone-patellar tendon graph, where we take a slice of your patellar tendon, about a little less than half of an inch, and a piece of bone from your tibia, and another piece of bone from your kneecap. Then we reconstruct the ACL from that," says the Owensboro surgeon.
An athlete recovering from an ACL reconstruction can expect to wait four or five months before they can get medical clearance to even jog. During that time, WKU football athletic trainer Danny Cobble and his staff are working almost daily with the athlete on a regimen of rehabilitation training, including exercises designed to build flexibility, strength, endurance, coordination, and agility.
When asked about what that time is like, WKU wide receiver Marcus Vasquez doesn't mince words. Life in rehab stinks, he says.
"I hate being in here, because when you're in here you're injured. I'd rather be outside the training room. But the training room has helped me get back to where I am today," says Vasquez.
WKU football athletic trainer Danny Cobble says it's important for athletes coming back from a knee injury to understand they aren't just rehabbing the knee. They have to essentially rehab their entire lower body.
"We start with the calf muscles, you have to strengthen those. You have to strengthen the hamstrings, the quads, and the hips. The hips support the thigh bones, so that bone is part of the knee joint. We look at core strength which helps support the muscles in the lower body. It almost turns into a total body rehab process."
And the rehabilitation isn't limited to the athlete's body, says Cobble. It's just as important—and often much more difficult—to keep the injured athlete's mental outlook sharp and focused, especially when the rehab takes a setback.
Cobble says athletic trainers are unofficial "team psychologists", tasked with handling 115 young men with 115 different personalities.
"There are guys that come in here and they're riding high, they're ready to hit the rehab and they're doing good," says Cobble. "But life happens. Classes get tough. You break up with your girlfriend. Now they're in the dumps and they're not motivated. So now we have to find a way to get into the head, get them focused on their goals, and get them to know there are still things we need to do."
That's a sentiment echoed by WKU senior wide receiver Marcus Vasquez. He says an athlete rehabbing after a knee surgery has to walk into the training room with the same mental toughness he would if he was entering the field of play. When asked where he currently stands after a year of rehab, Marcus says his knee is about 90% of where it was before he injured it in last season's third game.
So what will it be like when he takes the field, runs a route, and realizes he's finally back to 100%?
"It's gonna be a joy," he says. "It's been a long time coming. I've had two knee surgeries, and it's been a year since I actually played on the field. So to get to a 100%? It's gonna feel great."
Marcus says when he's on the football field he doesn't worry about reinjuring his knee. He says if the doctors and trainers tell him he's good to go, he believes them.
If he injures the same knee again, Marcus says he'll just assume it was meant to be.


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Manchester City's Champions League hopes have long been neutered and spayed, but an unpalatable dilemma remains. Beat Borussia Dortmund and nine Europa League matches that could derail their Premier League prospects may lie ahead; lose or draw and their Uefa co-efficient drops like a stone, ramping up the chances of another brutal Champions League group stage next September.
However, ahead of Tuesday's game at the Westphalian Stadium, Roberto Mancini is insistent that City are better off in Europe than out. "It will be difficult because in the Europa League you play Thursdays so you don't have a lot of rest before Premier League matches," he said. "But we must try to play in the Europa League. We need to stay in Europe."
There is another, entirely rational, reason for Mancini's determination to salvage something from this season's campaign. If City fail to get a point against Dortmund they will finish with the lowest tally of any English team in the group stages of the Champions League. Even the widely derided Blackburn side of 1995-96 – who sparred with themselves more than their opponents and finished last in a group containing Spartak Moscow, Legia Warsaw and Rosenborg – managed four points. City currently have three. "I am disappointed not embarrassed with our performances," said Mancini. "We wanted to get to the second stage but we didn't play as well as Real Madrid or Dortmund. We should accept this and try again next year."
Mancini knows that City's hopes of reaching the Europa League are out of their hands. They need to beat Dortmund and also hope that Real Madrid do not lose at home to Ajax – a far from forlorn hope given that the Spanish champions have won five matches against Ajax, outscoring them 16 to one, in the past two seasons.
However, history is not on City's side. The last time Dortmund lost to an English team at home in Europe – a 6-1 tangoing in the 1964-65 Fairs Cup by a Manchester United side inspired by a Bobby Charlton hat-trick and goals from Denis Law and George Best – Harold Wilson was in power and Sonny and Cher had just got hitched. City's record in Germany – played five, lost four – hardly inspires confidence either.
But while history is against them, circumstances may end up working in City's favour. Dortmund have qualified in first place in Group D; they can afford to rest some players and experiment with others. Neven Subotic, who injured his pelvis during the 1-1 draw with Bayern Munich, is out. As is Dortmund's captain Sebastian Kehl and the defender Sven Bender. And there are also doubts over Lukasz Piszczek and Mario Götze, who will undergo fitness tests. When Dortmund drew 1-1 with Bayern Munich at the weekend the average age of their side was only 24. Against City it may be even younger. This certainly will not be the Dortmund team that repeatedly punctured City's defences at the Etihad only to fail to land the death blow before Mario Balotelli's injury-time penalty equaliser led to an unlikely point.
Even so, Dortmund's manager, Jürgen Klopp, is in confident mood, praising his players and confidently dismissing reports linking Manchester United with his Polish striker Robert Lewandowksi.
"I am not afraid he will be leaving," he said. "United are one of many teams showing interest in him but I have no worries. His contract is with us. The time when rich English clubs tried to take our players from Germany – thank God that time is over."
Klopp was just as enthusiastic about his side's Champions League campaign so far, calling it: "Great, sensational, fantastic. What can I say? I didn't think it would be this good."
Mancini, meanwhile, has been left trying to making the best of a bad situation. A place in the Europa League could be construed as a consolation. It may also prove to be a poisoned chalice.


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5. How Old Is The Website?
When an email for an order or credit application comes in, look up the listed website's domain registrations. If something is fishy, it might show up there first, Bares said.
"Almost every single time, you'll see the website was just registered in the month or so prior. They're impersonating big companies that have been around awhile, so a website shouldn't be new," he said.
If a company's main Web page includes a "Coming Soon," message, that's another indication something could be wrong, Bares said.


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http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlbGiancarlo Stanton was home in Westwood, Calif., on Tuesday when he heard the news that five of his teammates were being traded to the Toronto Blue Jays. His first thought hadn't changed by Thursday night.
"I do not like this at all," Stanton said. "This is the 'winning philosophy?' Then to say it's not about money? What is the motivation? There comes a breaking point. I know how I feel. I can't imagine how the city and the fans feel."
Stanton, who turned 23 two weeks before the deal, reflected on last winter when the Marlins signed Jose Reyes, Mark Buehrle, Heath Bell and John Buck.
"They talked about that, a winning philosophy, and how they were building a winner to play in the new ballpark," Stanton said. "They talked about me and Jose. They talked about how they'd have Jose and [Emilio Bonifacio] and Hanley [Ramirez] in front of me and how they would go get a bat to protect me.
"Jose, Bonifacio, Hanley ... all three are gone now. I had people warn me that something like this could happen, but it runs against the competitive nature every athlete has, that nature that everything is about winning. This kind of thing is what gets talked about all the time around this team. Former Marlins come back and they warn us. It gets talked about during the stretch, in the clubhouse, after games, on the road. Again, I do not like this at all."
Marlins president David Samson said during a radio interview this week that the Marlins' last-place finish in 2012 prompted this trade.
"We sat down after the season and talked about the team and said, 'We cannot keep finishing in last place. It doesn't make sense.' We lost 93 games, and we entrusted all of our scouts and development people and upper-level baseball people and said, 'What can we do to possibly start this to turn around? What needs to happen? How can it work?'"
At one point Tuesday night, Stanton sent out an uncharacteristic tweet. He is one of the game's brightest stars, who by the age of 22 had hit 37 homers in a season despite missing 40 games because of knee and oblique injuries. Stanton led the National League in slugging at .608. His average home run traveled farther than any other player in either league.
Stanton always plays the game hard, without flair, without the need for attention. He is unfailingly modest, which made the tweet so unusual: "Alright, I'm [ticked] off!!! Plain & Simple"
In 2013, in his fourth Major League season, Stanton will be playing for his fifth manager and working with his fourth hitting coach. He has a close friend remaining in Ricky Nolasco, who soon could be gone, as well.
Stanton chose baseball rather than being the next great football tight end because of his love of the game, that joy of going to Dodger Stadium with his father.
"The one thing I didn't understand was the Minor Leagues, how that part of the business works," Stanton said of his younger days. "I'd see Todd Hollandsworth out there one game, and the next game he wouldn't be there, and I didn't understand. I didn't get the Minor League thing. I didn't understand that part of the business."
Now Giancarlo Stanton is experiencing the business side of the game.
"I can deal with losing as long as one is trying to win," Stanton said. "If you're losing and you're not trying to win, that is not fair. I play to have fun, I play to win, I play for my teammates.
"Then to say it's not about money, what is the motivation? Where is that winning philosophy? How many times do you have to be told something and have it change before you realize what's going on? It's like the boy who cried wolf.
"There's nothing I can do. I'm not going to change the way I work out in the offseason and prepare. I'm not going to change the way I approach the game. I'm not going to change the way I play every day."
Samson and Marlins manager Mike Redmond chose not to comment on Stanton's reaction to the proposed trade, which still is pending approval by the Commissioner's Office.
Last winter, the Marlins were unable to sign Albert Pujols, among others, because they would not give no-trade clauses. The deals they signed with Reyes and Buehrle were back-loaded, which allowed them to later move the bulk of the investments to other teams.
"Maybe that's the business everywhere," Stanton said. "But I would like to think it's not that way. Baseball is about winning. It is about people. When it's not about winning and not about human beings, I don't want to be a part of that."
In other words, the "breaking point" Stanton sees approaching probably will become a part of the Marlins' business plan at the end of the 2013 season. The strapping outfielder will be eligible for arbitration next fall, and if he stays healthy and gets enough pitches to hit to continue the upward graph of what eventually could be a Hall of Fame career, he is probably going to be in line for enough money to push the Marlins to entertain multi-player offers for the 23-year-old star, especially given that Stanton is not likely to sign a long-term deal to stay in Miami.
For the time being, the Marlins are not planning to trade Stanton. They also have not been in contact with Stanton's representatives about a long-term deal.
The last two offseasons, Stanton has gone to Europe to explore, learn and allow his mind to expand past the competitive juices that drive him. He has traveled to Japan; he eventually wants to see the Pyramids and the Middle East. But this weekend, his escape will be the USC-UCLA game: His high school teammate, Wes Horton, is a defensive end for USC, where Stanton would have played football had the Marlins not drafted him and offered him the opportunity to play the other sport he loves.
Anyone in South Florida who cares about the Marlins now has no choice but to believe that Stanton is going to be no different than Kevin Brown, Gary Sheffield, Mike Piazza, Moises Alou, Al Leiter, Josh Beckett, Ramirez, Reyes, Buehrle, et al.
The shame of it is that Stanton logically should be the face of Miami baseball. Stanton is thoughtful, civil, decent and plays the game the right way, not to mention at a skill level about which most players only dream. Now, one first wonders if baseball will ever be to Miami kids what the Dodgers were to a young Giancarlo, then one wonders where his historic identity will be planted.
Most of all, Stanton is human, not oil on canvas, and that he does not like. Not at all.


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bad religion are better both in musical way and their way of life.
bad religion are better both in musical way and their way of life.
Definitely Offspring.
Originally Posted by Mike_911
I saw them a while back and they're fuckin immence. To be honest i think they play better live than the offspring (who too are immence) and I just find their music has more appeal. So although i love the both of em I'd have to say BR are the best.
And to whoever keeps bitching about sinsiter rouge its about the idea that the church was a corrupt force which was used to control and abuse people.
"Innocents burned,
alive at the stake
Tortured and dumped
In nameless graves
Centuries wane
Authority died
Scattering seeds of ancient lies"
And the idea that a modern and rational thinkin public would reject such an arcahic instisution in favor of morality.
Give us this day
Our daily bread
Your legacy
We'll not forget
Lick the wounds
Cleanse the land
The modern world
Rejects your hand"
yeah, Bad Religion > The Offspring live. i've seen both live a number of times and Bad Religion has performed better everytime.
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offspring.....bad religion.....offspring.....bad religion...
i like them both
the offspring!!!!!!!!!!!!
No band can beat them up.
hum let me think..... ..... ( ps : i love the offspring and i hate bad religion) ..... it´s hard ......... hummm ..dunno .......well goes THe offspring :P
I am not another The Offspring fan but just THE Offspring FAN !
Dexter Holland - "Which one of you goes by the screen name of RonWelty?"
speaking of offspring and bad religion, anyone heard the bad religion song "shattered faith" it's a complete ripoff of The kids aren't alright!
What happens when the intoxication of success is evaporated?
by the way i like the offspring way better.
What happens when the intoxication of success is evaporated?
upon listening to the song, i found very little resembelance to the kids aren't alright. while we're on the whole who copied who thing, the offspring pretty much copied the vandals song too much drama.Originally Posted by GBH2
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|Haar skates at Development Camp this past July.
On Monday, the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, or CCHA, announced it's All-Rookie team for the 2011-12 season. Among those honored on the first team was Capitals prospect Garrett Haar, who spent this past season playing for the University of Western Michigan Broncos.
Haar, 18, was Washington's 7th round selection, 207th overall, in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. The native of Huntington Beach, California, notched one goal, six assists, and 22 penalty minutes in 31 games for the Broncos this year. One of the things that is particularly impressive about this selection is that the CCHA contains some real powerhouse schools, including Michigan, Ohio State, and Miami Ohio.
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idle circuit to primary
Posted 29 July 2008 - 09:46 PM
If I back off and let it run off the idle circuit, its great. Again, into the primary it hardly will run. Stutters and stammers.
While spraying out the carb could I have dislodged something and now have a blockage? I cant think of anything else it might be. No vacuum leaks. I have the advance going directly into manifold vacuum, fwiw.
What am I missing?
Posted 29 July 2008 - 10:25 PM
Emissions systems account for only a small percentage of all that stuff.
You really need to understand the operation of the Hitachi before you start removing stuff.
Posted 30 July 2008 - 12:00 AM
Actually, in the meanwhile I found a pictorial that you [GD] did regarding doing the same. Thats all that I took out. Either way, it left me with a box full of parts and vacuum hose.
Posted 30 July 2008 - 12:27 AM
You very well may need to replace the top cover gasket and you may as well rebuild the carb in the process as I haven't found a source for the gasket outside of an entire kit.
Posted 30 July 2008 - 10:00 AM
I'll get a carb number and order a kit at least.
Posted 30 July 2008 - 05:46 PM
Posted 30 July 2008 - 08:37 PM
Found the culprit. One of the ported fittings above the incoming fuel line was leaking vacuum.
Yeah - the metering ports make things REALLY weird when there's leaks there. You can cap them off if you like - they don't do much.
Posted 30 July 2008 - 08:41 PM
Posted 30 July 2008 - 09:00 PM
I actually had a hose going from it to the one in front of it...thinking it would act as a plug. Seems the other must be a vent or something.
Both are metering ports for different puposes, but yeah - you can't T them together or connect them to each other. They will cause all sorts of weird (undriveable) behavior.
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After only three days online and 148 tweets, an unofficial Twitter account documenting the hassles and failings of the Sochi games has succeeded in attracting more followers than the official Winter Olympics account.
The official @Sochi2014, is being followed by 133,000 people, notably less than @SochiProblems' more than 178,000 followers (who have grown rapidly from the 100,000 on Thursday night).
While @Sochi2014 displays pictures of arriving athletes, the Olympic torch bearers and the competition facilities, the unofficial account has been busy sharing and retweeting information and jokes about unfinished construction, gross hotel rooms and more serious issues such as Russia's gay rights record.
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Michael Owen: Manchester United omission a "kick in the teeth" for Wayne Rooney
Wayne Rooney's omission from the Manchester United side on Tuesday was a "real kick in the teeth" says Michael Owen.
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Rooney, 27, was left on the bench by United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, only coming on for the last 17 minutes, as the Red Devils were eliminated from the competition courtesy of a 2-1 second leg defeat.
"For Rooney not to start is a real kick in the teeth and it's got to be a big worry for him," Owen told Talksport. "It's the biggest game of the season and the manager has shuffled his pack and not included him.
"Wayne will take it one of two ways. He will either get his head down, try to improve and force his way back into the team, or he'll think, 'The manager has not picked me for the biggest game, he obviously doesn't fancy me', and it might not be the end of the story."
Ferguson has said repeatedly this season that England international Rooney needs to play matches to keep fit, and takes time to recover when he has a spell out of the side, the reason given for Rooney's omission for Tuesday's game at Old Trafford.
Two seasons ago, Rooney threatened to leave United for a club that better matched his ambition but was convinced to remain.
Owen, who spent three years at United before being released in 2012, insists he never witnessed any evidence of a problem in the relationship between Rooney and his manager during his time at the club.
"When I was at Manchester United their relationship was very good, they talked, shared jokes and there were no problems whatsoever," said Owen. "I would be surprised if it was something of that nature [a falling-out], but the decision to leave him out isn't going to help if it is that."
If Rooney was to leave United, Owen believes the options open to him are limited.
"Sometimes when you're at the level he is at you don't have many options," said Owen. "If you are a mediocre player you have 20 teams in England and abroad that you can move to.
"If Wayne Rooney moves, where does he go to? Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester City, Chelsea and PSG, there's only half a dozen teams.
"It's just speculation though. He's been dropped for one game and I'm sure he will bounce back.
"Obviously Wayne has got to get his head down now and start recapturing his best form. He's certainly got the right attitude and ability to get back into the manager's thoughts."


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The majority of our people want a secular, free, religious, god-fearing government that is not bigoted: This has always been so. Our people have an typical point of view about having a compassionate, playful and nice environment and for everyone loving one another. A person who fears Allah and is not a self-seeker shall govern Turkey.
There should be respect for every religion but a religious government and this religious government should not intervene with anyone's religious beliefs. Otherwise it is impossible to assure religiousness with the actions of governments. Religiousness could be achieved with the system of the Mahdi. The system and the spirit that will come with religiousness is "love."
The system of the Mahdi brings a lot of love, mercy, compassion, understanding, tolerance, sweetness, broadness of horizon, arts and science. It brings social justice. It doesn't bring societal assertiveness. There is no imposition in the system of the Mahdi; we don't see this in hadiths. What does "Even the sleeping will not be awakened" mean? It means that no one will be interfered with. "Even the sleeping will not be awakened." Look, it says "Not even a single drop of blood will be shed." Bigots want to spill blood and they want to spill lots of blood. It says "Not even a single drop" and "no one's nose will bleed." (June 21st, 2013, Adnan Oktar: A9 TV)2013-07-05 21:35:40


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@Headline Obits:Clark Odell "C.O." Taylor, 81, entered into heaven peacefully Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, with his family by his side.
@Headline Obits:Clark Odell "C.O." Taylor, 81, entered into heaven peacefully Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, with his family by his side.
A funeral will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at First Christian Church with a reception to follow.
A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Forsyth Memorial Park.
He was born Nov. 23, 1931, in Winston-Salem. Clark graduated from Gray High School. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years. After returning home from the Navy, Clark graduated from East Carolina University, where he met the love of his life, Frances Reynolds, to whom he was married for 55-plus years and where he was a charter member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He spent 30 years doing what he loved, teaching and coaching at Reynolds High School, where he earned many honors, including N.C. Tennis Coach of the Year in 1979, N.C. Industrial Arts Teacher of the Year in 1982. He is recognized on the N.C. Sports Wall of Fame. He was inducted into the Winston-Salem Sports Hall of Fame and the Reynolds High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Clark had many hobbies and interests, particularly his family, grandchildren and friends. He took pride in his grandchildren's academics, and his passion was watching them play sports. He also enjoyed ECU Pirate football, golf, dancing, especially shagging, and leaves a legacy of handmade furniture.
Clark was a faithful member of First Christian Church, where he served as a deacon and elder for many years.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Gaither Eugene Taylor and Lollie Hawkins Taylor.
Surviving are his wife, Frances R. Taylor; son Greg Taylor and wife Natalie; grandchildren Abigail and Grayson; and Ed Moreau and Joyce Willard, whom he considered a brother and sister.
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A Mid-Michigan minister charged with killing a young female neighbor in her mobile home is heading for trial after waiving his right to a preliminary examination.
Fifty-five-year-old John D. White agreed Wednesday to forgo the hearing and proceed to trial on a first-degree murder charge. A pretrial hearing is scheduled Feb. 25 in Isabella County Circuit Court in Mount Pleasant.
White is an ex-convict who settled outside Mount Pleasant and became pastor of a tiny church, Christ Community Fellowship. Police say he confessed to killing 24-year-old Rebekah Gay as part of a sexual fantasy.
Police say White babysat for Gay's 3-year-old son, who was asleep at home during the killing.
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In honor of "Safer Internet Day" today, Xbox Live's general manager Alex Garden has published a lengthy, if still a bit vague, letter to the community. He outlines a commitment to be watchful, but stops short of naming the impetus for the concerns.
"Last year, there was a surge of personal information being compromised and sold, and this undoubtedly has had an impact on all of us," Garden wrote, ignoring the elephant in the room: the money laundering scam that has used FIFA 12 to compromise accounts and charge users for content.
"While we here at Xbox have no evidence of a security breach in the Xbox LIVE service, that is of little comfort to our members whose accounts have been compromised by malicious and illegal attacks," Garden told the Xbox community.
"It's in this vein I'm reminded how important it is to listen to you, our members – to really listen, to really hear and to really do something with what you say." He suggests making use of the Xbox security page for tips on how to stay safe, and mentions a few common avenues to breaches. He warns users to set up steep security protocols, and be careful where you log in in case of phishing. If an account is compromised, he says it can usually be restored to its rightful owner within three days.
"We do not take lightly the frustrations we've heard from our loyal Xbox LIVE members and remain committed to addressing and persistently resolving our customers' individual and collective concerns." He also provides his e-mail address to contact him with unresolved problems.
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STANTON, Ky. (WKYT/WYMT) - It was an unusual call. A poison control center out of Charlotte, N.C. was begging Kentucky emergency responders to help them transport anti-venom.
The call came early Sunday morning to Powell County's 911 Center.
The Carolinas Poison Center needed anti-venom from the Kentucky Reptile Zoo. They told dispatchers a cobra bit a man in Charlotte, and the closest vial of anti-venom was in Kentucky.
"It's amazing to think that we have something like that just sitting in our backyard that can bring so much medicine to people who are in dire need of it around the entire East Coast," explained Powell County's 911 Director Cory Graham.
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Skip to comments.New Law: Virginia will not cooperate with NDAA detention
Posted on 04/20/2012 10:29:57 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER
RICHMOND, Va. On Wednesday, the Virginia legislature overwhelmingly passed a law that forbids state agencies from cooperating with any federal attempt to exercise the indefinite detention without due process provisions written into sections 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act.
HB1160 Prevents any agency, political subdivision, employee, or member of the military of Virginia from assisting an agency of the armed forces of the United States in the conduct of the investigation, prosecution, or detention of a United States citizen in violation of the United States Constitution, Constitution of Virginia, or any Virginia law or regulation.
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Nothing like a state nullifying a Federal law to get the weekend off to a good start!
Specially when it's MY state.
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Good job, Virginia.
Mine too. Secession is next.
Mine, too.!!
Way to go Del. Bob Marshall and Gov. Bob McDonnell!!
THIS is what I want to see. These several states should be fed up with the usurpation of power. It's really ingenious how our Founders envisioned a future under tyrannical federal power. It's just a matter of following their blueprint to resolve the issue universally.
Freedom removes barriers to prosperity. The Federal government wants to enslave us. The states need to stand up to that.
They came together once to solve slavery, it's time we do it again.
"THIS is what I want to see. These several states should be fed up with the usurpation of power. Its really ingenious how our Founders envisioned a future under tyrannical federal power. Its just a matter of following their blueprint to resolve the issue universally."
Amen to that. Gratified to see and use the tracker one gentleman put up on their site so you could track the state's legislative activities in this department. And even more gratified to see my state of Arizona working on one right now (actually started in February in the state senate).
Absolutely!!!! One reason I like this governor (Romney endorsement notwithstanding)!!
I seem to recall that Virginia has tried this in the past, without a lot of success. It also occurs to me that the period generally known as "reconstruction" bears a striking resemblance to the plotline of a current popular movie about "hunger."
Might I suggest that the South is in a better position vs. the North as opposed to the 1860's if we were to try it again.
That said, I'm with ya!
Sic Semper Tyrannis!!
Hurrah! Hurrah!
I freakin' love this state!
Excellent. I'd like to see this become a National trend.
Fantastic. As goes Virginia, so goes America!
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Lt. General (Ret.) Arthur Gregg has more than 60 years of professional experience, having held senior-level command and management positions in the military and industry. Currently retired from active management, he maintains a busy schedule as a member and chair of several corporate and nonprofit boards.
During his more than 35 years of military service, he spent 18 years overseas, serving in Germany, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. His assignments included commander, Army and Air Force Exchange System, Europe; deputy chief of staff for logistics, United States Army, Europe; director for logistics, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC; and the Army's deputy chief of staff for logistics, Washington, DC.
Following retirement from the Army in 1981, Gregg held several private sector positions during the period 1981–1998, including vice president and general manager, Cox Cable, New Orleans; vice president and chief operating officer, American Coastal Industries Inc.; vice president and chief operating officer, Steeltech Manufacturing Inc.; and chairman of the board and chief executive officer, James Martin Government Intelligence Inc.
A bachelor's degree graduate of Saint Benedict College, summa cum laude, Gregg completed graduate-level studies at the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. He also attended the concentrated Executive Program in National Security at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In 1993 he was appointed to the Board of Overseers for Regents College and became chair in 1997. In 1998 he was appointed a founding trustee and chair of the Board of Trustees of Excelsior College. He was named chair emeritus at Excelsior College in 2008 and continues to serve on its President's Advisory Council.
In his honor, the College created an annual award to an active-duty military member. Gregg and his friend Robert Kinsinger also created the Charlene Gregg and Bobbie Kinsinger Endowment Fund to provide scholarships for both financially needy enrolled and future students of the College.
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A prominent leader in higher education, Dr. Joshua Smith was a professor and director of the Program in Higher Education and Center for Urban Community College Leadership, School of Education, New York University until 2001. In 2002, he was appointed Emeritus Professor of Higher Education. Smith has served as chancellor of the California Community Colleges, president of the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York, dean of the School of Education for the City College of New York, and president of Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J. Previous to his work directly within higher education, he served as a program officer for the Ford Foundation in the development of new educational administrative programs at top universities across the country. Smith was also responsible for the leadership development program, and worked on the development of alternative schools and school de-centralization.
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Butternut Squash Doughnuts Recipe
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My mother and I used to make several batches of these cake doughnuts at a time. They're not only different, they're delicious, too!
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- 2 eggs
- 1-1/4 cups sugar
- 1 cup mashed cooked butternut or winter squash of your choice
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1-1/4 teaspoons ground nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- Oil for deep-fat frying
- Confectioners' sugar or additional sugar, optional
- In a bowl, combine the eggs, sugar, squash, buttermilk, butter and vanilla. Combine the dry ingredients; add to squash mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours (dough will be very soft).
- Turn onto a heavily floured surface; roll to 1/2-in. thickness. Cut with a 2-1/2-in. doughnut cutter. In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat 1 in. of oil to 375°.
- Fry doughnuts, a few at a time, until golden brown on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Dust with sugar if desired. Yield: about 2 dozen.
Originally published as Butternut Squash Doughnuts in Country Woman Christmas Annual 2002, p12
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – On the heels of a three-game sweep at Maryland-Baltimore County to open the 2010 season, juniors Andrew Kolmar and Brook Hart have been honored by the Ivy League for their performances. Kolmar earned co-Player of the Week honors alongside Harvard's Sean O'Hara, while Hart shared the season's first Rookie of the Week nod with Columbia's Nick Ferraresi.
Kolmar started all three games against UMBC in right field and went 5-for-11 at the plate. He also drove in four runs, scored a pair of runs and stole a base. He also doubled to record a .545 slugging percentage and drew a walk to round out his on-base percentage for the three-game series at .500. In the first game of Sunday's twinbill, he went 3-for-4 with a double, two RBI and a stolen base. Later in the day, he went 2-for-3, scored a pair of runs and knocked in a run. Kolmar wrapped up the series with an RBI groundout on Monday afternoon.
Hart, got the ball on opening day for Yale and delivered with a solid performance in his collegiate debut. He worked the first five innings of the game, scattering five hits and allowing just one earned run en route to grabbing his first career victory. The southpaw struck out two batters and walked three. He allowed the leadoff hitter to reach safely in just one inning of the Bulldogs' 7-3 win.
Yale returns to the diamond this afternoon, beginning a stretch of eight games at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational at 4:30 p.m. against the University of Rhode Island at Lake Myrtle Park in Auburndale, Fla.
report filed by Drew M. Kingsley, Yale Sports Publicity