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This Week's Obsession: The Future of Sports Media
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The Question:
What's the Future of Sports Media like?
The Responses:
BiSB: Very Professional Podcasts.
David: Visual podcasts.
Ace: A vast web of two-minute autoplay videos with 30-second ad lead-ins.
Brian: Why is autoplay even an option? Why have you forsaken us, computer scientists?
Seth: Ask the legions of ad network peddlers who got my email when I joined the IAB newsletter. Someone saw on a spreadsheet that videos get incrementally higher ad rates and took this to all the board rooms in America.
Brian: It can't be incremental, can it? It has to be vastly different for the level of effort everyone is putting into video nobody watches
Seth: Rates are so dependent on so many factors that any generalization is necessarily incremental.
Brian: Anyway, it seems to me like there are a few different models for sports content that are viable. I would like you guys to guess at the models.
Ace: Grantland. RIP.
Seth: /giphy pours one out
Brian: Boutique prestige content is indeed one.
- PROS: good content written by people who don't feel like monkeys in the click factory.
- CONS: apparently doesn't make money? I kind of dispute that Grantland didn't make money because it couldn't, especially given the immediate and huge success of Simmons's podcast.
Seth: Obviously we're rooting for this one. It depends on the media environment. The market of people who want to think long and hard about anything is so small I spent most of my life not knowing we were even a demographic. In a consolidated market like cable TV, the easy numbers favor the lowest intellectual demographic, so that becomes the ONLY market served (Hi TV news!). The internet is an open environment, so boutiques can find their market.
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But they have to grow from the bottom-up. Grantland could be making money, but ESPN was structurally incapable of understanding how or why it did. Nobody who thinks putting Skip Bayless or Steven A. Smith on TV is a good idea knows the first thing about marketing to people who fire off braincells for fun. The best thing for everybody would have been to spin it off.
Ace: The other issue with those prestige sites is writers tend to get snatched up. Grantland was a pretty unbelievable collection of talent that The Ringer has had a hard time replicating.
Brian: Yeah, a lot of them want to move on to doing other things because they can. This is not so much an issue with Graham Couch.
The ringer is also stuck on Medium, which is a terrible decision because it feels like a part of something instead of its own thing. That's fine if you're yet another Gannett site but bad if you're trying to be bougie.
Other boutique prestige shops include VICE Sports, The New York Times, Sports on Earth, and The Classical. The former two are parts of much larger organizations, the latter two basically died and live on as husks that don't pay many people.
So this is a dodgy and ephemeral way to live.
[Hit the JUMP for other ideas, like not paying for trash, more diagrams, or embracing "Embrace Debate."]
Mailbag: Late Game Threes, Basketball And Football Recruiting Reassurances, The Poisoned Chalice Of Access
Go for three against MSU?
Frustrated after the end of the MSU basketball game. Simple question...if you have the ball down 2 points, with the chance to take the last shot, wouldn't you give yourself a better chance to win the game by running the clock down and taking the best three point shot you can get within the last five seconds?
Simplistically, Let's say it has a 35% chance to go in, and that your win % if it goes in is 100%. The other option is go to go for a two point shot with time left on the clock. What are your odds of winning with that strategy? Much worse, right? I'm no math major, but to me the odds go like this:
- generously, a 50% chance of making the shot, which then...
- gives your opponent a possession to win. Call it 50/50 that they take advantage.
- even if they don't, all you get is overtime, which lets call another 50/50 shot.
Maybe you can run the numbers, but it seems like your win % is something like 12.5%. You need three toss ups to go your way.
I'll hang up and listen...
Philip Maguran
It's a bit more complicated than that.
- Michigan isn't just worried about what will happen if they score. They're also worried about what will happen if they don't. Michigan had 20 seconds left when Bielfeldt tipped the ball in. If that had gone the the other way they had an opportunity to force a turnover or get another bite at the apple in the event MSU did not knock down both free throws. Even an 80% shooter like Denzel Valentine gives you a shot at the game about a third of the time.
- Michigan's tying basket was a off an offensive rebound. Off a two, yes, but even if it was a three the ensuing putback is still worth two.
- Your chance at a putback is greater if you aren't shooting a jumper. In the NBA, shots within 6 feet get rebounded at a 37% rate; threes at just a 26% rate. (Threes are still better than long twos at 21%.) Albrecht's shot was a weird floater, one that saw Branden Dawson checking Bielfeldt at the FT line in an attempt to prevent a three—the nature of that shot greatly aided the subsequent putback.
- Your chances of an OREB are zero if you wait for a three at the buzzer.
- Last second threes are generally bad shots because the opponent is maniacally focused on the three-point line. Albrecht's three to bring Michigan within striking distance was a good example of the phenomenon. To get any sort of look he had to take the shot a few feet behind the arc. See also:
you're welcome
Given all that the decision is far less clear. I'd be totally on-board with an open look that came out of the context of the offense. I would prefer it to any non-gimme two. But waiting for a do-or-die three is not good eats.
I don't have a problem with the way regulation ended. In that situation the imperative is to have a good offensive possession, hopefully quickly, and Albrecht's quick take got a decent shot that put Michigan in position for an OREB without bleeding much time.
[After the JUMP: talking people off various recruiting related ledges]
Dear Diary Lights the Tires and Kicks the Fires
Devin, I'm sorry about Funchess. Everybody liked him. I'm sorry.
Red or Blue. A week after a program-shattering loss turns fandom into an election year, with wins taking the place of electoral votes. This year's ballot has close races in quarterback, head coach, and AD, as well as referendums on blocking style, tempo, and punt formations.
On Saturday night those races appeared decided when everybody departed with eight minutes left of a two-score game against an opponent Michigan was outgaining. They'd seen the jewel of Rich Rodriguez's recruiting wasting an NCAA gift of a senior year in a new offense that still treated him like Tom Brady, so shell-shocked by years of abuse that any peripheral motion triggered desperation.
Then Shane, and the interception came, followed by the rain, and you could count the Hoke supporters by picking out the few hundred dots of blue or yellow between the blob of red. Everybody else looked at the scoreboard, looked at the radar, and recalled Michigan huddling—huddling!!!!—and calculated the obvious move. The 98,000 empty seats were a consensus: Hoke probably has to go, and Dave Brandon absolutely has to go first. The moment was stark, but it couldn't last, because stupid hope and the will to support your team is stronger than your brain's ability to store information it doesn't want.
The fanbase needs to have this conversation, and the diaries did just that. ST3 posted a curtailed Inside the Boxscore wherein his kid's quotes provided the subheads:
"Another huddle? Really?"
* Seriously, my son actually said that. I don't think he reads MGoBlog, and I hadn't said anything about tempo or huddling. So if a 9-year old can watch Utah succeeding with pace, watch Michigan plodding along, and gets exasperated at the huddling, why can't Brady figure this out?
Jhackney got home and thought about spiritual cleansings and what kind of coach doesn't wear a headset:
Dave Brandon is a whiz at marketing and salesmanship and Hoke is a whiz at clapping his hands while keeping his ears the same color tan of his face and running a clean program. There needs to be a coach that is involved in at least one side of the ball. Saban would mutilate your skull with his championship rings if you tried taking his head set away.
Every coach has inherent flaws—Nick Saban is an offensive dinosaur and doesn't care about his players beyond what they can do for him. It's whether the good things overcome those flaws. Hoke makes his program worse by willfully ignoring fundamental developments like the spread offense, tempo, the shield punt, and game theory. He and Mattison make it better by running it clean, recruiting excellent players and people, and building a strong defense. Like with political candidates, everybody's flawed; it's whether their angels or demons will come out ahead.
Best and Worst saw the fruit of Hoke's demonic seeds:
No, what killed my optimism about this team and this staff, about this program as it is currently stumbling through another shitty year, is how absolutely true-to-form it is to the dreams of the men in charge.
[…lights out on the Titanic.gif]
Ron Utah made the obvious comparison: we are experiencing a reverse Rich Rod. I'll add Bill Martin reversed to Dave Brandon and liken it to the classic two-party problem. Martin and Rodriguez alienated the crucial top of the fan pyramid with their Whiggish football ways, an inability to commit to a defensive faith resulting in total bedlam. Brandon went the other way; his Tory pandering alienated the students (SaddestTailgateEver on another little hoarded thing) and entitled alumni (dnak438 on his noodle exchange with Brandon) while Hoke's offense and special teams have repeatedly been derailed by dogma trumping sense.
Given most of the week to calm down, jmdblue wrote that he'd rather give Brady one more term to work things out while the upstarts drown themselves in their own corruptions. Unless someone can convince Colin Powell to run.
Etc. Alum96 reviewed the 2012 recruiting class to see if there was a development issue. If you don't compare against other schools though it means nothing, since most recruits don't play to their star rankings. Average size of each B1G team's offensive line starters. GIF about punting. Regular stats make M look good (see: outgained ND and Utah).
Mailbag: Not Quite All About Firing Everyone
I got a pile of email, so this is really long and still leaves out a number of missives. Apologies if yours wasn't selected.
A fairly comprehensive coaching-firing email.
I got a lot, obviously. This one touches all of the bases.
I'm currently operating under the following two assumptions:
1) Brady Hoke is done unless Michigan at least wins at least the Big Ten East with wins over both rivals on the road, which currently seems about as likely as two nuclear missiles turning into a sperm whale and a bowl of petunias and one of them telling our coaching staff how to coach offensive football before they plummet to earth.
I don't think it is that cut and dried yet. If Michigan goes 7-1 in the Big Ten with a loss to MSU and ends up 9-3 and going to the Citrus Bowl or something, that is a weird way to get to what people expected before the season. I think any 8-4 record is a hard sell that might induce a decision that we all hate and 7-5 is 100% dumped. (This is not what I'd do; unless he runs the table before the OSU game I would give him the Earl Bruce pre-Game firm handshake. This is what I'm guessing the athletic director would do.)
But yeah, going 7-1 in the Big Ten seems about as likely as the bowl of petunias thing. I am thinking "oh no, not again," tho—we solved it! The bowl of petunias is a Michigan fan.
2) That Dave Brandon will make a comically inept hire of either a warmed over retread with a tenuous connection to the past (Cam Cameron!), a mediocre young coordinator with a tenuous connection to the past (Scott Loeffler!), or a flashy idiot who must be great in interviews even though he's a moron coaching a football team (Lane Kiffin!)
Given that, how long would it take to set up and execute a reasonable search committee for a new athletic director? And is there any chance at all the university leadership acts decisively to remove the fundamental problem? It seems like the answer to those questions are too long and no at the moment.
The timing is bad. Schlissel just got in and has no frame of reference, so is he going to make a serious move? Does he even care about it, or is it something that's 11d on the agenda at a random meeting? And is he going to do it now-now-now, like he'd probably have to?
The answers to these questions are probably no. I think we're stuck with Brandon. If Michigan did make a move now there are a number of obvious candidates: Jeff Long is Arkansas's AD, Brad Bates is Boston College's, Warde Manuel is UConn's.
Long hired Bobby Petrino when Petrino bugged out on the Falcons, and then replaced him with Bret Bielema. Both are impressive hires from a football perspective and odious from a "you want me to root for THIS guy?" perspective. Manuel hired Turner Gill at Buffalo, was handed interim basketball coach Kevin Ollie (who then hired himself by winning a lot), and executed a logical search when UConn replaced Paul Pasqualoni, first trying to grab Pat Narduzzi and then going with Notre Dame DC Bob Diaco.
And while we're contemplating the fundamental horror of being Notre Dame, is Hoke Davie, Willingham, or Weis? Seems to me he recruits like Weis and coaches like Willingham, which is somehow worse than either of those guys. Or at least more frustrating.
Davie. His recruiting is better than Willingham and he's not a deliberately offensive, off-putting goon. Davie was an amiable man who couldn't organize a footbaw team.
Of course the real problem is that there really doesn't seem to be an upwardly mobile candidate at the right level to actually go after. I mean obviously you'd take a shot at Sumlin, but no way A&M doesn't match that offer. Which sort of leaves you hoping the Ravens' front office semi-criminal dickishness makes John Harbaugh quit and then you hope you can outbid like 15 NFL teams who would immediately jump at the shot to hire him. Not a great situations. Only name I can maybe come up with at a realistic level is Craig Bohl, who is unfortunately 56 and in the first year of his new job at Wyoming. That juggernaut he built on North Dakota State is impressive though.
Basically I think we're doomed. Are we doomed?
It looks fairly doomy, but we were all laughing about Ohio State's coaching search when they settled on the previously-obscure Jim Tressel. There are guys out there. You mention Bohl, who I have also wikipedia-stalked to my disappointment. Michigan may as well take a run at Sumlin types, but realistically any SEC school is going to match the money, and if you're crushing it in the SEC what is the motivation to move?
There is a name out there that I think might work: Dan Mullen. He made a previously awful team competitive in the brutal SEC. Nobody's been able to win much of anything at Mississippi State in 20 years—Jackie Sherrill had one ten-win season in 1999 and was otherwise bouncing between 8 and 3 wins. The Bulldogs have gone from winning a quarter of their SEC games under Sylvester Croom to winning 42%, and they've gone to four straight bowls for the first time ever. That's a James Franklin-like resume.
Mullen grew up in Pennsylvania, so he'll have some useful recruiting contact, he's 42—good long term upside if he works out—and he was Urban Meyer's OC for Florida's run of dominance there. He just beat LSU on the road. If Mississippi State goes 9-3 or better this year he'll be a very attractive candidate.
The problem is that Florida is going to be looking as well and I have bad feels about competing with them given our current situation and Florida's proximity to bounteous talent.
[After THE JUMP: more stuff like this, and an Ondre Pipkins Q.]
Never Be The First To Report Someone's Dead
[ED: Meta. I was just going to put a bullet in a UV about this but things got a little crazy and I ended up with a full post.]
Joe Paterno's death was a hugely misreported fiasco of the sort that is inevitable given the speed of information in the internet age. This post is an attempt to provide a framework for existing in a world of uncertain information.
This is what happened: Onward State, a blog/online newspaper run by PSU students, reported Paterno's death based on an email sent to Penn State players that turned out to be a hoax. This was good enough for a local radio station and StateCollege.com. It hit twitter and was then picked up without attribution by CBS Sports. It took off from there once the imprimatur of a major news agency was on it. Black Shoe Diaries has a detailed chronology of the mass screwup if you're interested in details. Shirtless Mark Twain isn't sure if he approves of this whole business or not, but would like you to know that rumors of his rippling pecs have been sorely undersold.
It's a story about the internet screwing up in very understandable ways. Onward State had what seemed like reliable information, and it passed their threshold for reporting. It is not a good threshold, but not everyone has one these days. CBS's Adam Jacobi did something unwise and sloppy. Pagewhoring Huffington Post saw an opportunity for views and cares about nothing else.
We've seen this happen before when a newspaper intern replicates an internet rumor on one of the dingy blogs shuffled off into the corner of large metro papers: as soon as a rumor gets paired with header graphics associated with a real newspaper, everyone else is confirming it via "sources." In this instance, CBS's screwup was compounded because they didn't even provide a link to the primary source; Huffington Post did the same thing, but that's just their MO. Jacobi is a BHGP founder and should have known better.
I've screwed these things up myself. Earlier this year I erroneously reported that Kaleb Ringer had been booted from his high school team based on information that seemed solid but obvious was not. By contrast, a couple years ago I had the sense not to run anything about the serious car accident that Jon Bills and Mark Moundros were in despite having a ton of solid sources telling me about it. That seemed like a place to let journalists be journalists.
As I go along here that realm has steadily expanded. I probably won't report something like the Ringer thing again for a lot of reasons. Michigan playing Alabama is one thing to be wrong about; a high school kid's problems or lack thereof is another. This leaves windows open for crass opportunists like Ace Williams, but it's the internet. There's always going to be a bottom of the barrel.
Anyway, these things evolve naturally. As this site expands it has more at risk and becomes more cautious. People just starting out have little to lose and have not experienced the backlash from being wrong—or the frightening period between your post and official confirmation of it. Also some of them are total idiots.
From the user's perspective, the thing to do is maintain a Bayesian approach. Phil Birnbaum explains what that is:
Generally, Bayesian is a process by which you refine your probability estimate. You start out with whatever evidence you have which leads you to a "prior" estimate for how things are. Then, you get more evidence. You add that to the pile, and refine your estimate by combining the evidence. That gives you a new, "posterior" estimate for how things are.
You're a juror at a trial. At the beginning of the trial, you have no idea whether the guy is guilty or not. You might think it's 50/50 -- not necessarily explicitly, but just intuitively. Then, a witness comes up that says he saw the crime happen, and he's "pretty sure" this is the guy. Combining that with the 50/50, you might now think it's 80/20.
Then, the defense calls the guy's boss, who said he was at work when the crime happened. Hmmm, you say, that sounds like he couldn't have done it. But there's still the eyewitness. Maybe, then, it's now 40/60.
And so on, as the other evidence unfolds.
That's how Bayesian works. You start out with your "prior" estimate, based on all the evidence to date: 50/50. Then, you see some new evidence: there's an eyewitness, but the boss provides an alibi. You combine that new evidence with the prior, and you adjust your estimate accordingly. So your new best estimate, your "posterior," is now 40/60.
So if some guy with 50 followers claims Armani Reeves is headed to Michigan because Urban was late for his in-home visit, you might increment your 50% to 51%. If Mike Farrell says its 52-48 you might bump it to 52%, but if Farrell said he thought Reeves was definitely headed to Michigan you could push it up further. You base your confidence in the opinion on previous accuracy, with a list like this…
- TomVH/Sam Webb
- Established message board posters
- National analysts
- Random message board posters
- Raving lunatics
- People who don't know what football is
- Fictional races from another galaxy
- Hyperintelligent tacos
- Regular tacos
- Tacos that aren't too bright even for tacos
- Ace Williams
…and change your baseline confidence based on the information and your confidence level in it. This is something people do naturally, but too often the weight they put on the information is either 0 or 1 when it should be somewhere in between.
For purveyors of information, it's time to put an explicit confidence level on what you're relaying. My mistake with the Ringer thing, other than mentioning it at all, was saying something was the case when I should have said something less certain. When I got tips about the Michigan-Alabama game I erred by saying with certainty a contract would be signed on a certain date when the people involved with the thing probably didn't know that.
I try to follow a policy of revealing as much as I can about the nature any information I pass along without exposing a source, and that added transparency is necessary in an age when information—valid information—can come from anywhere or anyone. I still make mistakes. That's inevitable. I'm trying, though.
However, not even linking to the original report is a mortal sin. If you are going to run something based on someone else's reporting it is vital that you explicitly tell readers that. Otherwise one report from a little-known online news source turns into multiple reports, some of them from organizations with people paid to do reporting, and the echo chamber starts going exponential. If you do not link, you are telling people that you are reporting it, and when it turns out to be wrong you can't point the finger at anyone but yourself.
Unverified Voracity Latches On
UFR will go up tomorrow. FYI.
It's raining wallpaper. As per usual. This one is from jonvalk:
This week in bowl parasitism. Bowl games are parasites on college football designed to bleed as much money from the system as they can get away with. Thanks to the interest levels provided by the teams—not the stadiums or locations—some of them do actually pump money into the system (although far less money than an NCAA controlled playoff would). The latest example of this:
The Fiesta Bowl has a deal with the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau that pays the bowl hundreds of thousands of tax dollars a year in return for requiring participating teams to stay in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley resorts.
The bowl says the agreement is strictly legal and good business for all parties involved.
But it may increase the cost for schools playing in the Fiesta Bowl and BCS Championship Game, because they are required to stay a certain number of nights at high-end hotels.
The bowl, according to records obtained by The Arizona Republic, received $491,340 from the Scottsdale CVB this past college-bowl season when the Connecticut, Oklahoma, Oregon and Auburn football programs stayed in Scottsdale-area resorts for the Fiesta Bowl and Bowl Championship Series title game, respectively.
Legal or not, that's a half-million dollars of overhead from the payment alone and however much more from the monopoly lock in the payment provides. We can ballpark how much this is from UConn's trip to the Fiesta last year:
UConn also has a hotel obligation — a total of 550 rooms at three different hotels ranging in price from $125-225 a night, not including tax, with blocks reserved for either three or seven nights.
Without the lock-in teams could put the band in six rooms at the Super Eight and save themselves a bucket of money. The Sugar does this as well. Their defense is "this is legal," which is true but beside the point.
If bowls are going to exist they should be worthwhile businesses without heaping unnecessary expenses on the participating teams. This is a relatively piddly expense relative to ticket guarantees that erase payouts and leave cash-strapped programs with a net deficit, but it just shows how much of a racket bowls are. Not that you needed to be told that when the Michigan-OSU game featured Rose Bowl reps when the combined chance of either team making it to Pasadena was zero percent.
Crose enough*! Andy Staples has an article about the Big 12's sudden, unsurprising opinion flip in re: an expanded playoff field. It promises change:
Monday, Big 12 athletic directors voted in a straw poll to get behind the idea of a plus-one format that would allow four teams to compete for the national title. Such a format would have allowed USC to play for the national title in 2003, Auburn to play for it in 2004, Texas to play for it in 2008 and Oklahoma State -- which finished behind No. 2 Alabama by the slimmest of margins in the BCS standings -- to play for the title this season. If the league's presidents choose to agree with their athletic directors, the Big 12's support would be a huge step forward. The Big 12 was one of several leagues that blocked SEC commissioner Mike Slive's 2008 proposal for a four-team, seeded tournament. The ACC was the only conference that supported the plan.
With Larry Scott now creating the future in earnest in the Pac-12, the major remaining obstacle to a playoff is one of these two men.
Left: Lando Mollari. Right: Jim Delany
Jim Delany still hates the Narn with all his heart.
"Our view is we'd like to stay where we are," Delany told the Tribune. "We do believe in the slippery slope theory."
You should have thought of that before you joined the BCS, dude. As soon as the dumbest playoff in history was instituted, outrage started piling up. As soon as the sanctity of the Rose Bowl was undermined, erosion got busy. The levees are about to break.
Staples is on board with big chunks of the MGoPlayoff, not quite arriving at six teams but still proposing something I'd love:
If conference leaders are smart, they'll design a plan that allows for the two semifinal games to be played on the home fields of the No. 1- and No. 2-seeded teams. If they wanted to appease the must-win-your-league crowd, they could require that a team must win its conference to host a semifinal. Home-site semifinals would eliminate concerns about fan bases traveling twice -- a non-starter -- and would help reinforce the importance of the regular season. Teams would go into the final week fighting for a home game in a sport where home-field advantage means a lot. Just imagine an LSU-Stanford semifinal at Tiger Stadium or an Alabama-Oklahoma State semifinal in Stillwater (using the must-win-conference rule). Also, to remove the negative consequences of a semifinal loss, the two losing teams would be placed into premium bowls, where they could take a well-deserved victory lap for a great season. This would appease bowl executives, who for some unknown reason strike fear into the hearts of the people who run the sport.
One day people will wake up and realize that doofs in yellow jackets getting paid is not in the best interests of the sport. Think Of The Children.
Not fair. UMHoops has David Merritt breaking down some of Michigan's pick and rolls from Maui.
Hard Hedge
As Witherspoon jumps out to hedge, Trey Burke puts on the brakes and changes direction with a between the legs dribble. All within a split of a second. This makes the play right here. The change of direction gives him another screen but also has his defender back up and lose attachment.
All Trey has to do now is get to the outside of Barton's left leg and he will get in the lane.
It's Picture Pages for basketball. All we've got now is a superior use of the crop tool.
So exactly right. There was a point a few years ago when I railed almost weekly against the relentless stenography that mainstream coverage had degenerated into. It was the bubble screen of 2007. I dropped six months after that hobby-horse expired, but when an ESPN vet like Tim Keown lays into the modern press conference I cannot resist a very long blockquote:
The death of the interview has spawned a generation raised on generalities and clichés. Caution is a lesson [Titans QB Matt] Hasselbeck has learned many times, most recently after the Titans beat the Colts on Oct. 30, when he was asked -- or told, he can't remember the phrasing -- to compare current teammate Chris Johnson with former Seahawks teammate Shaun Alexander. In Hasselbeck's view, it was a question with "a negative vibe" -- his pet peeve.
What followed was an instructive look into the void left in the interview's wake. Hasselbeck, attempting to answer the question honestly, said he did see similarities: two great running backs who followed MVP-caliber seasons with "normal" years. He was attempting to make the point that both players were victims of unfair expectations, because nobody can be expected to perform at an MVP level every season. "It's hard to be elite every year," he said.
Predictably, he was seen as "ripping" Johnson and "throwing him under the bus." … The question was legitimate. Johnson, a former offensive player of the year and recent signee of a huge contract, had been booed at home in much the same way former MVP Alexander was when his production dropped off after he signed a huge contract. The answer, as far as it went, was legitimate as well. What was missing was context, and before Hasselbeck could massage his message, he was hit with a new question and the group conversation -- such as it was -- moved on.
"If I were Chris Johnson, I would have wondered, 'Why is my quarterback saying this about me?'" Hasselbeck says. "Everyone knows how the Shaun Alexander story ended in Seattle, so it looked like I was ripping Chris Johnson." The subsequent coverage centered on Hasselbeck's "unflattering" comparison between the two running backs. "I was asked a negative question, and instead of being a jerk I gave an honest answer," he says.
His solution? Be boring. "It's a headline-driven world, and what I said provided a headline," he says. "That's why I'm guarded, cautious. I don't want to accidentally give bulletin-board material. If someone asks me about a player, I say, 'He's a great player.' If they ask me about a coach, I say, 'He's a great coach.' "
The problem is finding which section to blockquote since all of it is deadly accurate. It starts "BEHOLD THE DECOMPOSED REMAINS of the sports interview" and is probably 3000 words long. It's worth the read.
The local spin comes in two parts. Part one: boy is it nice to have a coach with his banalities down pat. Rich Rodriguez may have gotten unfairly pilloried for his "get a life" statement, which was ripped out of context like Hasselbeck's statement was, but he was a magnet for that kind of stuff. Hoke hasn't had a misstep yet; he's settled into a comfort zone where the media is his lapdog, and that won't change. If things start going poorly the media will be defending Hoke and scorning fans until it's over.
Part two: Michigan's suddenly better about this than most schools with their coordinator pressers and the relatively straight answers given in there, especially from Mattison.
Etc.: Gobbler Country profiles Michigan, which is us. More on this later, but Chris Brown's long-ago profile of the Hokie D is remarkably useful since it's about how they've adapted to the spread. UMHoops talks Oakland with a Summit League blogger.


text: I thought it would be a good idea to have a Cricket Web Pool Championship. It will be best out of 1 game in pool matches for a win and best out of 3 in the knockout stages. What will happen is it will be either pools then knockout or straight knockout depending on the numbers. the maximum would be 16 4 pools of 4. but the "cut-off" for applications is this friday so games can get underway this weekend(or earlier if u guys submit early ). We will be playing the games here. Ok the rules can be changed depending on what you guys think. Bascially once the draw is decided i will set a round time (i'm thiking 2 days) and it is up to the two players to choose when to play. Once you have decided just go to that site (here) and select create (depending on who has agreed to create) then set a password and game name and tell your opponent to join. joining is easy simply type ur name (USE YOUR FORUM NAMES PLS) and teh detaisl ur opponent told you. to avoid dispute take a screenshot of each game (press print scr abive insert and then go into MSPaint and press paste. then save it as a jpeg and call it wat u want) screenshots do not need to be posted unless players dispute the score. the winnder will post the score. i think everyone here is honest enough but just in case take a sreenshot. any other rules/regulations/suggestions you guys want post here and i will consdier it. just simply say I'M IN if you wish to ojin. please make sure you have read through this entire post.

subset: commoncrawl


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Hindu calendar actually based on the waxing and the waning phase of the moon. During the waxing phase, the moon's light part increases and on the completion of fifteen days it attained the full moon. In the waning phase, moon's lighted part shrinks and on completion of fifteen days attains New Moon. In both phases, the eleventh day is called Ekadashi. However, each Ekadashi is known by different names.
Generally, Ekadashi falls twice in the month. In a year, there are 24 Ekadashi. When any year falls in the category of Adimas it has 26 Ekadashi. Year 2015 comes in the catagery of Adimas and thus has 26 Ekadashi.
Vijaya Ekadashi is one of the important Ekadashi that is commenserated in the Hindu Month Phalguna(twelfth lunar month).
How People Celebrate Vijaya Ekadashi?
People generally keep fast on this day. They eat pure vegetarian food the night before Ekadashi. People keep fast for 24 hours means they will break their fast on the next day. During the night of Ekadashi, they wake up for the whole night (Jagaran), and they worship Lord Vishnu. They place the idol of the VishnuVishnuVishnu is one of the Supreme Gods of Hindus and is a part of Hindu Trinity,.. on the seven grains, and they are as follows:
Wheat (Gehun), Rice (Chawal), Whole Green Gram (Moong), Red Lentil (Masoor), Barley (Jau), chickpea (Channa) and Black Gram (Urad).
After that light an earthen lamp and incense sticks in front of the deity. After prayers, Devotees offer fruits, flowers, Charanamrit and Prasad It is the sacred food that is distributed after an auspicious event or day after offering it to the Godsto the deity to seek his blessings and later distribute to the devotees gathered there for the prayer. People break their fast on the next day, i.e. Dwadashi (twelfth day) with donating the earthen pot full of seven whole grains.
Significance Of Vijaya Ekadashi
There is a believe that the one who keep fast on this day can increase its good fortune and ward off his bad fortune. He/she can overcome all the obstacles in his/her life and get rid of all the difficulties in their life.
According to Hindu scriptures, one who donates gold, land, cow would be bestowed with blessings of the Vishnu.
Refence of Vijaya Ekadashi in Ramayana
We can get the reference of the Vijaya Ekadashi in the Ramayana (one of the important epic of Hindus). It depicted the importanct phase when RamaRama As of late, in the year 2007, the idea of whether Rama... was sent to exile. Ravana had forcefully kidnapped the wife of Rama, Sita.
Rama had kept this fast to get success in the war with Ravana and liberates SitaSitaSita is the most benevolent Goddess, who is known... from the shackles of Ravana. We all know that there was a remarkable war between Rama and Ravana took place, and Rama slew ten heads of the Ravana and overpower him.
Vijaya Ekadashi falls on 15th February 2015.
The fast timing starts on 15th Feb; Time = 07:03 to 09:15
And end on 16th Feb Dwadashi; Time = 15:46


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Betsey Davis (left), who has been a learning support teacher at the Kane Middle School for 34 years, is retiring at the end of the current school year. Some of her students include, left to right: Cassie Ginkel, eighth-grade; Desirae Hulings, eighth-grade; and Dale Coates, seventh-grade. A Pittsburgh native, Davis and her husband, Dennis reside in Kane. They have a son, Matthew. Davis came to Kane for her first teaching job in 1977-78 after graduating from Mansfield State University. She has been in Room 139 at the Kane Middle School during her entire career as a special education teacher. She has worked under six Kane school district superintendents and six building principals.


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Arsenal have been given a small boost in their attempts to beat Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City to the signing of England international starlet Wilfried Zaha, as he has revealed he is a fan of the Gunners.
Zaha has reportedly been attracting major interest from the Premier League's top clubs and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been linked with a January bid for him.
However, his counterparts at Old Trafford, Anfield and the Etihad Stadium have also been mentioned as possible suitors for the Crystal Palace winger.
Sir Alex Ferguson's interest may have something to do with reports that Nani is set to depart the Red Devils after failing to agree a new deal, while his local rival Roberto Mancini has a lack of wide players at City and Zaha's threat as a winger could explain his reported interest.
Zaha's attacking prowess has been praised many times this season after his form propelled Palace in to the top two of the Championship, which will be why Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has been credited with an interest – the Anfield club have a severe lack of viable forward options.
However, the 20-year-old could have given a hint to his preference if it came to a transfer, as he took to Twitter to reveal his affinity for the Emirates Stadium club during their Champions League loss to Olympiacos on Tuesday evening.
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Terrebonne Parish will hold a Dec. 5 public hearing on its 2013 budget of $203 million, up about 4 percent from this year's $196 million spending plan.
The hearing will be held at 6 p.m. on the second floor of the Government Tower in Houma.
The new budget aims to improve the parish's roads, drainage and coastal-restoration efforts.
Parish officials cite higher sales-tax revenue this year and an increase in property-tax money next year for the ability to spend more, parish comptroller Donald Picou said.
Parish President Michel Claudet anticipates the parish will see a 7 percent increase in sales-tax revenue this year. About $80 million would be collected compared to $75 million in 2011.
"The sales tax increase has to do with our area unemployment rate being one of the lowest in the state, if not the lowest," Picou said. "With that, people are able to spend their money."
Houma-Thibodaux's unemployment rate inched up slightly from 4.2 percent in September to 4.3 in October, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey. The parish trails only Lafayette for the lowest jobless rate among Louisiana's eight metro areas. Lafayette's rate was 4.2 percent.
Parish employees got a 3 percent raise last year but will not receive raises in 2013, Claudet said.
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Employees also could pay higher costs for health insurance in the coming year because there were costly health-related payouts this year, Claudet said.
"That's something we are still deliberating," Claudet said.
The parish pays 85 percent of employee premiums and employees pay 15 percent.
Some of the major projects in the budget include $500,000 to repave Thompson Road from La. 56 to La. 57, $2.8 million for Bayou LaCarpe drainage improvements and $447,000 for repairs to the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center roof.
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Mardy Collins
Sebastian Telfair
Jameer Nelson
Delonte West
Marcus Banks
Dan Dickau
Jerryl Sasser
Speedy Claxton
Andre Miller
This year Eric Maynor and Patty Mills are the en vogue mid-major points. Mills has the advantage of his brilliant run in the Olympic Games last year, while Maynor has thrown together several nice tournament performances to help his case. Maynor on the surface has appeared to be more of a fit in the traditional point guard role, while Mills quickness allows him to score easier. But for a team in need of a point guard like the Bucks (possibly), are either of them worth the risk?
The above list is first round mid-major point guard picks since 1999 (Excluding 2007 and 2008 drafts, it's just too early to tell). I included Telfair because he was facing mid-major competition in high school. Ten guys with varying results. Without question Andre Miller has had the most successful career of the aforementioned players with Jameer Nelson inching closer each year. There doesn't seem to be a specific blueprint on what translates ones mid-major college success into prolonged NBA success. Miller has been one of the worst shooting point guards in the league since his entry, but has made up for that by looking exactly like Richard Pryor in addition to having great size and terrific vision.
College teammates Nelson and Delonte West have thrived playing with incredible talents. West has taken well to spotting up outside the arc waiting for Lebron to dish to him and defending with great zeal at the other end. Nelson has taken a few years to develop but his defense has been catching up to his natural shooting ability. He was voted an all-star for the first time this year largely thanks to the open shots he gets by playing with Dwight Howard. While neither is a pure point guard they both fell into the right situations. West can play like a two for large portions of the game because Lebron handles the ball so much. Nelson is enough of a point guard to lob the ball up for Howard or keep it moving around the perimeter for Rashard Lewis and Hedo Turkoglu, but if they really need a playmaker they can give it to Turkoglu and let Nelson move off the ball.
I would say the one thing that the more successful guys on this list had in common was above average athleticism or shooting ability. It sounds stupid to say, but a lot of times the key to sticking in the league and being successful is being really good at something. Yes, everyone in the NBA is really good at something, but if a player has a specific skill that they do better than most guys they have a great shot at sticking around. Miller has an incredible basketball IQ, Nelson is a very good shooter and from all accounts a great leader too. He gets the guys together every off-season in Philly to work-out and grow as players together. Speedy Claxton made a living off being speedy. Then he blew out his knee and none of his other skills were good enough.
Mardy Collins was a professional goon. That would explain his presence on the Clippers. Jerryl Sasser and Marcus Banks? They weren't really good at anything. Actually disregard that. Banks had a nice half season with Minnesota and played that into a big contract to back-up Steve Nash, even though he wasn't very good. So he was good at something: hiring the right agent. Sasser was just one of those mythical tall point guards that were all the rage for some time. He probably now hangs out with Reece Gaines and Julius Hodge wondering what went wrong.
So the question becomes then, are Maynor and Mills good at anything?
Maynor has shown incredible ball hawk and clutch shot prowess in his short stints on national television. His classic performance in the CAA tournament a few years ago was one that will not soon be forgotten by fans and GM's alike. He did it again in the NCAA's that year against Duke and nearly thrilled once more in this past year's tournament against UCLA. So much for shriveling under pressure.
Meanwhile, Mills spent his summer last year blowing by Chris Paul, Deron Williams and Jason Kidd whenever he felt like it in the Olympics. Actually it was just in the exhibition game. The actual game that counted he was contained much better. Still impressive!
So both guys have some serious skill. I don't think we'll have any Jerryl Sasser or Sebastian Telfair problems here. Scouts and pundits alike seem to like Maynor more be it his polish, size or whatever the reason may be. He's in contention at ten for the Bucks. Mills looks like he'll find a place later in the first round, though he could move up if he shows something he wasn't able to show at the end of the year after suffering an injury.
Regardless I'd look for both these guys to be productive for years to come. In a draft like this that might be something worth looking at with pick number ten.
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Mid-Major to Main Man?
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If the Bucks should draft Paddy Mills, regardless of who else is available at the time. His basketball IQ is off the charts. Fantastic team player, Bogut and Mills would be an ideal pairing as both already have played together.ReplyDelete
To my knowledge Paddy would be the first Aboriginal player drafted in the first round and that would be a pretty big deal in Australia.
Considering the Bucks problems with getting people to pay attention to them internationally, nationally or even locally, going this route may not be a terrible idea. At the very least they'd be the talk of Australia.ReplyDelete
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I will be attending for the 3rd consecutive year. I think it would be awesome if we can get a Subaru convoy down the morning of the rally. The only downside is, like it any other rally,it's in the middle of nowhere.
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Algorithm Challenge: Burning Man Vehicle Exodus 273
As part of my advance preparation for going to Burning Man in 2013, I read on the official site that the car lines to get out of Burning Man often take five hours to get through. Scroll a bit further down and you can find, asked and answered, the question that I thought of after reading about the five-hour waits, and it's worth quoting the whole thing:
Q. You should set up a system where people can register for a departure time and give them an "express" lane (or some version of a priority/regulated system). Those who miss their window or don't register would have to wait longer.
A. This suggestion has made its way to us every year for many, many years now. And on the surface it looks very attractive. But, as is usually the case, the devil is in the details. Here are the primary reasons we have not implemented a reservation-based Exodus system:
- Such a system takes a lot of people power (e.g., people to verify departure times, people to direct traffic, people to enforce the system) and a lot of resources (e.g. a registration system, building secure lanes for 5 miles of Gate Road that would prevent people from jumping into the wrong section)...more than we currently have.
- Verifying registration would require slowing traffic before Gate Road, which will in turn slow down the rate at which people can get onto Gate Road. Without a significant redesign, traffic inside BRC could become gridlocked.
- One thing we have learned about Burning Man is people rarely stick to their intended timeline. Camp clean up took longer than planned, you stayed up really late the night before, it took a while to track down your passengers, you couldn't find your car keys, you just had to visit the ashes of the Man one more time, or myriad other possibilities that are so very common to the Burning Man experience. To get 50,000 people to stick to a specific window of time may very well be the most difficult part of this idea to solve.
- Another thing our Gate experience tells us is that verifying Exodus registrations and enforcing 'rules' will not be a cut-and-dried process. We will no doubt hear many stories (traffic to get from my camp at 2:00 was worse than I thought, but I really did leave in time! My camp-mate burned my registration slip in an offering to the Man but this really is my time window! I have a flight that leaves in a few hours, please I need to get out faster!). Each vehicle that pleads their case in turn holds up traffic for everyone else, and this ultimately will cause significant inefficiencies in the system.
- Remember how we said this type of system would require a lot more people power? Despite our calls for help from the community, we continue to struggle to find enough people to manage the bare basics of Exodus (e.g. highway flaggers). We understand that most people are tired by the end of the event, and many need to get home. However, in order for us to continue to evolve the Exodus process, we need YOUR help. We need volunteers to help run all parts of this process. Everything that happens in BRC is created entirely by its citizens, including Exodus.
Some of the above issues could be overcome, but taken all together a system like this in an environment like Burning Man would be complex and expensive to implement and considerably more difficult to run efficiently.
Bennett again. So I thought about this some more and wondered about a different idea: My question: Why not have a priority exodus line set aside for vehicles who leave during a designated time slot, based on the last digit of their license plate? So for example halfway through Burning Man, a random number or letter would be selected by the organizers — say, "T." During daylight hours on the last day, a priority exit lane is set up where from 6:00-6:30 AM, only vehicles with license plates ending in "T" can exit. Then from 6:30-7:00 AM, only vehicles with license plates ending in "U" can exit. And so on, until you've cycled through all the letters and numbers. (The initial letter in the cycle — in this case, T — would have to be selected after the event starts, to prevent people from gaming the system in advance, by bringing in vehicles with plates deliberately chosen to get an early exit time.) And then you have a second, longer line for everybody else who doesn't want to leave in their designated time slot.
This has a number of desirable features:
It avoids most of the problems described in the FAQ — you don't have to "create" a registration system, or stop cars in order to verify their registered departure time. All you need are observers for the priority exit lane watching to see that the cars in that lane have the correct last digit of their license plate. (Since all exiting cars are passing through the same bottleneck, you only really need one or two observing at a time to glance at license plates.) And if an observer spots a cheater, they don't have to throw their body in front of the vehicle, just radio ahead to tell someone further down the road that there's an unauthorized car in the priority exit line.
It's difficult to cheat. You could try to hack the system by bringing multiple sets of license plates to Burning Man and then, after the departure times have been announced, putting the earliest-departure license plate on your car. However, apart from the fact that this is illegal (which never stopped certain recreational activities at Burning Man, after all), there would be diminishing returns from loading up on too many extra license plates. If you want a guaranteed exit in the first 9 hours, then out of 36 sequential time slots, you'd only need 4 different license plates to guarantee an exit in one of the first 9 slots. But if you wanted a guaranteed exit in the first 3 hours, then you would need 12 different license plates, and so on.
Most importantly, and this is the whole point, would reduce the amount of time waiting in the exit line, for drivers that opted to use this system. Under the existing system, with a single queue that anyone can enter at any time, the queue grows to a length at which the inconvenience of the long wait is just barely outweighed by the desirability of getting out (an equilibrium which apparently sometimes causes the lines to grow to up to five hours). By dividing the population into segments by last digit of license number, those drivers are only queueing up with 1/36th of the rest of the population, and so can expect a faster exit time.
In the theory of queueing, if a population is sufficiently large, then when users are queueing for a desirable resource, the queue will grow until the cost of waiting in the queue is just barely outweighed by the benefits of the resource at the end of it. (Steven Landsburg explains in the opening chapter of The Armchair Economist that if a sufficiently large town opens a free aquarium, the line to get in will grow to the point where the inconvenience of the line exactly cancels out the benefits of the visit, so the benefit to the citizens' lives will be exactly zero.) Interestingly, this means that for the Burning Man exit queue, if you simply divide the queueing population in half — say, by allowing cars with even license plates to exit in the morning, and cars with odd license plates to exit in the afternoon — then you won't accomplish anything, because each half-size population will probably still be large enough that the queue grows to the point where the convenience of getting out just barely outweighs the inconvenience of waiting in line. It's not merely that dividing the population in half wouldn't accomplish as much as dividing it into 1/36th slices; it's that dividing the population in half would accomplish nothing at all. To make the queue shorter, you have to divide the population into sufficiently small slices that there is no longer a large enough population in each slice, to make the queue swell to the point of convenience-cancelling equilibrium. The simplest way I can think of to do that would be to split up the car population into 1/36th by last license plate digit.
It's important to note this does not actually increase the rate at which drivers can exit from Burning Man, which is actually a limit set by the Bureau of Land Management at 1,000 cars per hour. No algorithm can get around that limit. The algorithm only aims to reduce the amount of time that cars spend waiting in line to get out (in the hot sun, some with broken air conditioners). If you want to use the prioritized queue but you know that your time slot won't come around until 2 PM, you can spend the time until then exploring what's left of Burning Man, learning and making new friends, instead of getting in line at 10 AM just to get out by 2.
In any case, this isn't my problem, since I took the Burner Express bus in and out of Burning Man and would plan on doing it again. But while I was preparing last year, I went ahead and posted the question to ePlaya, the Burning Man message boards ("playa" being another word for dry lake and the nickname for the physical location of Burning Man). Some of the respondents were convinced that "Bennett Haselton" was an elaborate troll (you guys would get along), although I mostly got people saying, "The organizers have had years of experience doing this, why not wait and see it in person before trying to 'solve' it." Well, I was kind of asking for it, admitting that I had never been to Burning Man before, posting in a forum frequented by grizzled veterans, claiming that from my ivory tower on high, I had divined a solution to a problem that others had been working on for decades. (Of course, none of these are valid reasons why the idea is wrong.)
But anyway, I took the advice in the replies: as I was riding out of Burning Man in the Burner Express bus, I glanced out the window as we passed a mile of non-moving cars waiting to get out. I still don't know what I was supposed to see that would illustrate why the license plate prioritization system would a bad idea. What do you think? Or do you have a different idea?
Then again, maybe it doesn't matter how objectively "good" an idea is, if change is just plain hard. In another thread that I started after Burning Man was over, I said that the porta-potties seemed to work fine but that the dispensers next to the porta-potties, mounted on wooden stakes stuck into the ground, were almost always empty. They could easily attach more dispensers to the posts, or set up more posts (as long as the maintenance company kept replenishing the dispensers with the same frequency), at a cost that would be almost nothing relative to the cost of maintaining the porta-potties in the first place. Even that suggestion was met with fair bit of snark, although eventually someone gave me the email address where I could send feedback like that to the Burning Man organizers. So I sent the hand sanitizer suggestion to the feedback address, but don't hold your breath (except in the porta-potties).


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An anonymous tip led to the arrest of three San Jose residents Thursday for charges including possession of narcotics, stolen weapons and for cultivation of over 800 illegal marijuana plants in Mountain View, police said.
At about 3 p.m. on Thursday, a multi-agency law enforcement group simultaneously executed three search warrants in Mountain View and San Jose based on information developed through an anonymous tip, police said.
The agencies that helped investigate and execute the warrants include the Mountain View Police Department, Mountain View's Crimes Against Persons, Gang Suppression Unit and Youth Services Units, Santa Clara County Specialized Enforcement Team, Regional Auto Theft Task Force, Milpitas Police Department and San Jose Police Department's Bomb Unit.
Following an investigation into the information provided by the tip, search warrants were attained and executed at a commercial warehouse in Mountain View and two San Jose residences, police said.
At the Mountain View warehouse located in the 1100 block of Independence Avenue, the search of the property uncovered over 800 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of over $500,000, police said.
A search warrant executed at a residence in the 3100 block of Kirk Avenue in San Jose netted over 30 pounds of dried and packed marijuana. Officers also found over $10,000 in U.S. currency and a honey oil lab, which produces a concentrated form of marijuana, according to police.
Police said honey oil labs can be a very dangerous environment due to the hazardous process of extracting THC.
Several firearms were also seized at the home, including one reported stolen from a home in Mountain View in 2010, police said.
Officers said a toddler, who was in the temporary care of the adults, was present in the home at the time of the search. The toddler was taken into protective custody.
During a search of a residence in the 1200 block of Branham Lane, also in San Jose, detectives discovered methamphetamine and illegal weapons, including two that were reported stolen, police said.
Officers also found two stun grenades in the residence. The San Jose Police Department's Bomb Unit was called in as a precaution, police said.
Police arrested San Jose residents Semir Metovic, 33, Tito Hernandez, 32, and Abby Rose, 29, during the execution of the search warrants in San Jose.
The two men and the woman were booked for a range of charges including possession of marijuana, altering or removing a serial number on a firearm, being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of a destructive device and a high-capacity magazine, possession of stolen property, manufacturing a controlled substance and for felony child endangerment, according to police.
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Personnaly I do not use it that often but I see users using in their mails trying to put certain information into visible separate blocks.
The default Horizontal Rule is just plain ugly and does not fit with the Eclipse based client. The variation options are also quiet limited.
When inserting a horizontal rule it would be nice to have the properties box come up where you could select different kinds of HR (like with sections), since you always want to change the ugly default look of a HR.
The idea is simple, but it is overlooked when releasing Notes 8 I assume.


text: It's a dog with a stick on its head Our sense of purpose was given to us, or rather to Ellie, by a Universal employee who handed Ellie a card as we walked through the Port of Entry area towards the attractions. There was some kind of competition going on in the park to celebrate the release of the Cat in the Hat movie. Oh this was right up Ellie's street. You had to locate 5 Cat silhouettes, located in different parts of the park and when you had found them you got your card punched. When you had them all you took them to the big store by the entrance and got a prize. That's it, we were on a mission. We reached the top of the Port of Entry and everyone, and I mean everyone, was heading left towards Hulk and Spiderman. We turned right and had the rest of the park to ourselves. It was devoid of all non-Universal employee life. We stop to take a few photos of the emptiness then chug up to the Cat in the Hat ride. The employee on the entrance appears somewhat surprised to have customers at this time of the morning but manages to pull herself together enough to show us where to park the buggies. A quick spin around the ride, where Adrian spends most of the time panicking that Steven will fly out of the car every time it spins, which of course he doesn't, and we are turned out into the gift shop. The gift shop is also the first location for spotting the Cat silhouette. I had studied the competition details and noticed that of the 5 Cats you had to find, 4 were in shops and the other was in a restaurant. Is this a cynical attempt to get you into more shops and buy more stuff? Well it didn't work with us. We walked through the shop and eventually found the Cat – stuck to a light – got the card punched, and left without buying a single darn thing. After this the girls and Harry took a spin on the Carouseussel thing. I don't know what it's called, I just guessed that name. Steven watched from the safety of his buggy, while Adrian and Big Steve attempted to photograph the riders. After this Adrian volunteered to sit with Steven while the rest of us tackled One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Big Steve rode with Ellie, Nanny Lesley rode with Harry, and I rode with Lisa. Of course myself and Lisa were the only ones that got it all wrong and got wet. We were listening to the song instructions and were doing really well but just at the point where we had to go from down to up we whizzed by Adrian who had his camera poised and we were too busy smiling and waving to the camera to go up so instead we stayed down and got wet. As we got off of the fish ride we noticed an ice slide thing tucked in a corner. We've never seen this here before. Maybe it was just there for the festive season, I'm not sure, but Ellie wanted to try it out anyway so we walked round to check out the details. It was a 2 person ride, designed for either 2 children, or 1 child and 1 adult, with an overall weight limit of 300lbs. Ellie dragged Big Steve on there first. You sit in an inflatable raft thing and go down a slide that's about 50 meters long I guess. Only lasts a few seconds but the kids liked it. After this Harry took Lisa on there, and then finally Ellie got Nanny Lesley up there for a go. We were all slid out after this so we headed off in search of something less slippery to do. As we were walking through Seuss Landing we noticed a sign pointing us in the direction of Grinchmas, where apparently you could get your photo taken with the Grinch in his grotto. Well we had to check it out and see what this was all about. We entered the line area and it took us out into a small garden like area where there were ropes and poles snaking round. The line was not reaching back this far so we started to make our way through the ropes. When we had walked about 100 miles round this we noticed where the rope had been dropped so you could cut out the line and walk straight into the grotto. We walked right round for nothing. And even funnier, all the people who came in behind us just followed us around like a flock of sheep. It was funny, but I guess it's another 'had to be there' funny. Anyway we entered the grotto and there was a short line in front of us so we slowly made our way through the exhibit. There was all sorts of Grinch-like stuff in there including a rope hanging down with a sign saying, "Do Not Pull.†Of course everyone was pulling it and it set off a loud airhorn which Steven was totally unimpressed with and proceeded to cry until we were well past this area. We reached the front of the line after about 15 minutes and were escorted through a black curtain into a room where the Grinch man waited for us and proceeded to insult us as soon as we stepped in. "Come on, let's get on with it, get here and get your picture done.†"What, you've queued for 30 minutes and you don't know who's going to stand where?†That kind of stuff. We were in hysterics. Then we spotted the dog. A real dog, with handler. "Yes,†Grinch yelled, "it's a dog, a dog with a stick on its head.†Eventually we got ourselves together and got in position for the photo. Grinch stood behind me and gave me a full face breath and asked whether he needed a Tic Tac yet. It was really funny, and we giggled and skipped all the way out of there – and into a gift shop.


text: UMW News BureauThe University of Montana Western Bulldogs men's basketball team saw their four-game winning streak come to an end with a 60-56 overtime loss to the Cal State San Marcos Cougars Tuesday night in the final game of the Cal State San Marcos Christmas Tournament. By Lowell Peterson The University of Montana Western Bulldogs men's basketball team saw their four-game winning streak come to an end with a 60-56 overtime loss to the Cal State San Marcos Cougars Tuesday night in the final game of the Cal State San Marcos Christmas Tournament. The Cougars are competing in their first year of basketball but have assembled an impressive, talented team. The squad boasts a group of tall, talented and athletic players, including eight who were previously affiliated with NCAA Division I basketball programs. In previous games this season the Cougars have faced five teams ranked in the top 25 in the latest NAIA Division I basketball poll. They lost games to #1 ranked Concordia 88-92, #9 Azusa Pacific 55-63, #10 Westminster 66-76, #15 Biola 56-66, and defeated #11 Mountain State 75-65. Montana Western led by as many as seven points early in the first half and held a slim one-point lead at the break, 28-27. The Cougars scored the first seven points to start the second half, opening up a six-point lead, but the Bulldogs battled back to take a 37-36 lead on a Tyler Miller jumper with 11:44 to play. An 8-0 run by San Marcos gave them their biggest lead of the game four minutes later, 44-37. Kyle Perry's layup tied things at 44-all and Kyle Erickson's three-pointer put the Bulldogs on top 49-44 with 4:03 to play in regulation, completing a 12-0 run. The Cougars answered with their own 6-1 run to make it 50-50 and send the game into overtime. The overtime featured three lead changes and one tie before Tim Steed converted five-of-six free throws down the stretch to clinch the four-point victory for the Cougars. Perry had the best game of his Bulldog career with 18 points, 13 rebounds, two assists and three blocked shots. Brandon Brown added 22 points and six assists. Tyler Hurley grabbed 10 rebounds, but no other Bulldog scored more than six points. Aaron Chamberlain led the way for San Marcos with 16 points and 13 rebounds (eight offensive). Bryan Emanuel, playing his first game of the year, scored 14, Jacob Ranger added 12 points and Steed reached double figures with 10. Montana Western fell to 11-4 on the season while San Marcos improved to 6-7. The Bulldogs will play at Montana State University-Northern in Havre, Mont. against the University of Alberta on Thursday, Dec. 29. Game time is 4 p.m.


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Minister for International Development Pekka Haavisto will meet Director-General of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Irina Bokova on Friday 13 June. A financing agreement concerning development cooperation between Finland and UNESCO for 2014–2015 will be signed in connection with the meeting.
The financing provided by Finland is targeted for supporting the development of education, and the freedom of communication and expression in the least developed countries. In its assistance for UNESCO, Finland lays emphasis on the education of women and girls; vocational and technical education and training; freedom of expression; free access to information; support for information society development; and security of journalists. The total value of the agreement is EUR 2.4 million. UNESCO cooperation is one way of strengthening Finnish support for education and training in development countries.
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SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan says he understands Gov. Pat Quinn's frustration in cutting lawmakers salaries for lack of action on pension reform.
The powerful Chicago Democrat released a statement Wednesday saying he is "hopeful" Quinn's strategy works.
The governor cut $13.8 million from a budget bill that covers legislators' paychecks. This was the "consequence" Quinn warned of if the Legislature didn't meet Tuesday's deadline to solve the nearly $100 billion debt in the state's public-employee pension program.
Madigan says he warned his House Democrats during the spring session that "doing nothing or passing only a half-measure" was not an answer. He and Senate President John Cullerton passed separate pension plans out of their chambers which didn't get approval from the opposite house.


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text: 'Presto' announces retirement | Jetstar Gold Coast Titans inaugural signing and favourite son Preston Campbell has made the decision to retire at the end of the season. Campbell had previously agreed to play on in season 2012 but has opted to hang up the boots at the end of this year, closing the curtain on a stellar 14-year career in which he has played more than 260 NRL matches, won a premiership, Dally M Medal, Paul Broughton Medal and Ken Stephen Medal. The 34-year-old, who made his first grade debut for the Gold Coast Chargers in 1998, said he had made the difficult decision to retire because he wanted to focus on his community work and life after football.


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I think it's HILARIOUS, but if you can't live with it, you can't. Any chance he has some spare green bulbs and could alternate? Maybe the red and green together would seem more Christmas-y than the red on its own...
That red light in that church is just SCARY!!!!! QuoteI think it's HILARIOUS, but if you can't live with it, you can't. Any chance he has some spare green bulbs and could alternate? Maybe the red and green together would seem more Christmas-y than the red on its own...For the love of all things good and holy, please do not use green!!! When I was a kid, there was a green house out the road from us and the people that lived there decorated their house with GREEN Christmas lights. ALL GREEN. The place looked like a kryptonite mine. The radioactive glow could be seen all the way to my house (and we did not live close by at all!) and it was just scary looking. I still remember that horrible glow!!!As for red... Mom used to put candles with red bulbs in all our windows at Christmas. This was also about the time The Amityville Horror came out. I couldn't walk into a room that was lit solely with a red bulb in a Christmas candle. I had a very traumatic childhood, apparently.
Would yellow or orange bulbs make the village look like Thanksgiving? Then you can pull out the village in October, use red bulbs, dead twigs for trees, etc. November 1st, change out the red bulbs and stick some gourds and turkeys around. Day after Thanksgiving brings "snow" and white bulbs. Three months of use out of one village.
Well, if you wanted to keep the theme, you need an "Angel on the Shelf"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaIrhv_kKFQ
whatever you do you need to post a picture for us to see. Also I am going to try and convince my wife to do this. we will have to buy houses and red lights but I think it is worth it.
....And, the Victorian Bakery. Yeah. A Bakery. Sure. Good cover story. To me, it looks like another kind of business, but...my husband just doesn't.get.why. I find this disturbingly...amusing.
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PASADENA, Calif. — Get ready for more flying sharks.
"Sharknado 2: The Second One" takes a bite out of New York City on July 30 in Syfy's sequel to the campy classic that aired last summer.
Ian Ziering and Tara Reid return from the original film that attracted nearly 1.37 million viewers. They're joined by Vivica A. Fox and Mark McGrath, along with Kelly Osbourne, Judah Friedlander ("30 Rock"), Andy Dick, Judd Hirsch and Perez Hilton. Matt Lauer and Al Roker of "Today" and Robert Klein make cameo appearances.
This time the mayhem moves from Los Angeles to the East Coast, where a freak weather system unleashes sharks on the populace and famous sites like Citi Field, home of the New York Mets.
The original film was a trending topic on Twitter, generating nearly 5,000 tweets per minute at its peak.