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Police activity reports
Compiled from selected police activity reports.
Buckeye Lake
• Feb. 8: Police stood by as a woman removed her belongings from a Buckeye Lake residence.
• Feb. 8: Police assisted the Licking County Sheriff's Office with a report of an active burglary at a residence on Edgewater Beach Boulevard near Thornville. The Buckeye Lake officer was the first on the scene. The complainant identified a man exiting the residence as the same person who had been seen crawling through a window to enter. The man was detained until sheriff's deputies arrived. It was determined the man was the son of the property owner and was there legitimately.
• Feb. 8: A driver was cited for a faulty license plate light.
• Feb. 9: A driver was cited for traveling 46 in a 35 miles per hour zone.
• Feb. 9: A driver was cited for traveling 55 in a 35 miles per hour zone.
• Feb. 9: A driver was cited for an improper right turn on red.
• Feb. 9: A driver was cited for headlights required after dark.
• Feb. 10: A driver was cited for improper display of a license plate.
• Feb. 11: A Dollar General employee said two males entered the store and one of them stole a camera.
• Feb. 11: Police assisted the Licking County Sheriff's Office arrest a man for breaking and entering a Lynn Street home in Hebron.
• Feb. 12:Police stood by while a Columbus woman removed her belongings from her estranged husband's home on Walnut Road.
• Feb. 12: A businessman reported that a business partner removed several of his items from their tattoo shop.
• Feb. 14: A driver was cited for not having a license plate on a trailer his vehicle was pulling.
• Feb. 14: Police were advised of a man at the McDonald's drivethru that appeared to be intoxicated with blood down his arm, a baby in the back seat and blood all over the car's trunk. A Fairfield County Sheriff's Office deputy located the vehicle and found the man was not intoxicated, but had hit a deer and placed it in his trunk.
• Feb. 14: A West 7th Street man said his neighbor's mother continues to park on his property illegally, which led to a shouting match between them. Police advised.
• Feb. 14: A Lancaster woman said someone broke into her car while it was parked in Buckeye Lake Village.
• Feb. 14: Police responded to a report of an active domestic dispute in the Buckeye Lake Yacht Club parking lot. The "female half" of the argument was transported to the EconoLodge for the night because she had been drinking.
• Feb. 15: Police received a report of an individual kicking in a front door and assaulting two individuals with the homeowner displayed a firearm. Police were dispatched to a Lake View Drive residence. While en route, dispatch told police that the person causing the problems, a female, had left the area and the homeowner had discharged his firearm. While police were trying to locate the residence, dispatch determined that the call was actually in the Village of Johnstown, not Buckeye Lake.
• Feb. 16: A driver was cited for traveling 46 in a 35 miles per hour zone.
• Feb. 16: A driver was cited for traveling 50 in a 35 miles per hour zone.
• Feb. 16: A Millersport man, who was initially cited for driving under suspension, was found to have an active warrant out of Van Wert County.
• Jan. 1: Police took a property damage report after a bullet hole was found in a window at the Family Dollar store.
• Jan. 3: Police were dispatched to a reported domestic dispute on Refugee Street. No charges were filed.
• Jan. 8: Police were called to the Circle K gas station about some recovered property.
• Jan. 13: Police are still investigating a theft complaint at a Lecrone Avenue home.
• Jan. 14: Police took a report on a theft complaint at the Circle K gas station.
• Jan. 15: Police are still investigating a theft complaint from the Family Dollar store.
• Jan. 17: Police heard screams coming from a vehicle and discovered an active domestic dispute. Police mediated the dispute.
• Jan. 20: Police on patrol had contact with a suspect possessing drugs and paraphernalia.
• Jan. 23: Police were called to a Chautauqua Boulevard home on a report of a suicide threat. An arrest was made.
• Jan. 23: Police worked a warrant in the Mill Street area and made an arrest.
• Jan. 29: A driver was cited for traveling 35 mph in a 25 mph zone.


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Topeka, KAN. (WIBW)--A jury found 24-year-old Jesse Dennis Dimmick guilty on 2 counts kidnapping, theft & eluding police Thursday afternoon. The jury, after deliberating for more than 2 hours, found Dimmick not guilty of battery and possession of drug paraphernalia.
After a manhunt that started the day before in Geary County, Dimmick crashed a stolen van in the Rowley's front yard in Dover. Displaying a knife, he then walked into their home, and held the newlyweds hostage for 3 hours. The Rowleys escaped when Dimmick fell asleep watching Patch Adams on their television.
In Dimmick's preliminary hearing, Lindsay and Jared testified they thought they were going to die that day. Family members said the September 12th, 2009 incident has left a constant feeling of fear in the newlyweds.
About 30 of Lindsay and Jared Rowley's family members and friends were in the courtroom for closing arguments Thursday morning. They heard the prosecution argue that Dimmick used force, fear and deception to keep the newlyweds confined in their Dover home.
The defense did not use all of the 45 minutes given to them for closing arguments. Dimmicks attorney, Mark Bennett argued how Dimmick could have held the couple hostage while he fell asleep and asked Lindsay to wake him up after the police left.


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Who Was at Fault in the Justin Bieber Car Chase Case?
Justin Bieber was involved in a pretty scary car chase last week with the paparazzi. Though Bieber received a speeding ticket for the incident, it's still not quite clear to authorities who was really responsible for the dangerous speed chase.
TMZ reports that the California Highway Patrol are divided as to whether Bieber deserved the ticket to begin with. Though Biebs was cited for going 80 mph, a lot of officers think it was unfair to punish him for trying to get away from photogs, calling him "a victim of the rogue paparazzi." "This was like a Princess Diana situation," one source told TMZ. "It was not Bieber's fault."
However, other officers insist Biebs was in the wrong. "It's like rushing a woman to the hospital who's about to give birth," one of them explained. "You can't endanger the lives of innocent people, and Bieber did." Welp, that's true. Driving that speed is unsafe, especially when people are on your tail and driving aggressively themselves.
The CHP also said that despite Bieber's harassment complaint against one particularly jerky paparazzo, the photographer likely won't be charged with a crime. A source said, "It's a misdemeanor committed outside the CHP's presence and it's a stretch the City Attorney will take the case."
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Office Space to Rent in Nicholson Street, SE1
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Nicholson Street, SE1. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
We have a variety of serviced offices available to rent in Nicholson Street, SE1. Each office space is offered at the best rates and suited to your individual needs and requirements.
Both the 1st and 2nd floors present newly refurbished space of a high standard. Huge amounts of open plan 'break out' space with dedicated café areas offering fully inclusive teas, coffees, still and sparkling water and all the facilities. Each floor will contain a 'free to use' meeting room for up to 4 people and 'free to use' board room for up to 8 to 10 people. Every single office is individually styled and decorated to the clients own specification. This centre offers a co-working suite with huge amounts of 'breakout' space, private booths, inspirational zones, breakfast bars, fully stocked kitchens, meeting and conference rooms and a large event suite, all available free of charge to clients with memberships. It is designed to put communication and interaction at the forefront of its purpose. Each member will be provided with a dedicated desk with privacy dividers, lockable storage, and connectivity to the WiFi which runs at 250 Mbps.
This exciting redevelopment of this business centre has provided brand new studio offices in the heart of Bankside, just 500 metres from Borough station. The striking double height reception area is home to a contemporary on site café, a thriving co-working space and professional meeting room. As a result of a vast rooftop extension, there are new duplex studios available over the fourth and fifth floors. The studios have impressive views across Southwark through the floor to ceiling glazing. All studios feature wooden flooring throughout and flowing natural light. This City fringe location is perfect for entrepreneurs with a fashionable, yet business-orientated attitude looking for a home to grow and develop from. Its central location makes it ideal for meeting clients and provides fantastic transport links to the rest of London.
The building is well located providing easy access to both Waterloo and Blackfriars station and also to Southwark Tube station. The offices will have great natural light. Amenities/ Facilities: raised floors, kitchenettes, break out areas, showers & bike storage and CCTV.
This is a former warehouse building that originally comprised part of the IPC Media printing and distribution centre. The majority of the building is arranged in open plan with a certain amount of partitioning forming various meeting rooms, breakout areas and private offices.
Discover London office space on the cultural pulse of this city's iconic river bank. South Bank Central sits between Blackfriars and the Southbank Centre in one of London's thriving locales for business and the arts. Featuring eight floors of private offices, common areas, and event spaces, along with an open-air terrace and communal garden, this coworking space provides a balanced environment for companies both established and startup. The brand-new building is at the hub of the hip "new Central" London neighbourhood, less than a five-minute walk from the London Waterloo station and Southwark tube station. Give your company access to the up-and-coming scene when you move into South Bank Central.
Dating back to 1819, the property has been converted into more than 60 modern office units specifically designed for small business use.The centre offers a host of facilities in this central location.
This centre has a light modern contemporary feel set around an Alison in Wonderland inspired interior design. The space is perfect for companies within the media or creative industries or in fact for those businesses who want an environment a little bit different to that of your average office. Medium to large scale office accommodation is currently available, starting from minimum requirements of 10 desks upwards. This amazing space comes with Roof Garden, FREE use of Meeting Rooms, On site - IT Support, Break Areas and a Shared Office Environment. High quality work environments:- Modern, welcoming, business atmospheres with friendly and professional support. High specification technology and facilities with fresh decor and stylish interiors. Free breakout and networking locations. With this business space you will also receive an 'Access All Areas' lounge card which gives you access to all centres nationwide and also have access to serviced bedrooms located in the heart of the London.
The high-spec studio spaces (many with their own balconies) are home to a wide range of companies, from software agencies, to film production and FinTech start ups. The building also features a co-working space on the ground floor, situated near to an independent café where Square Mile shots are pulled from an original John Gordon-customised Synesso. This centre is ideal for companies looking to locate themselves conveniently between London Bridge and Waterloo, in prestigious surroundings. In terms of somewhere to base your business, the centre has everything you could need; the building has high spec meeting rooms, best in class connected services with a dedicated support team, regular networking and social events, a games room, and is within easy walking distance of Borough Market.
This annex building comprises of 15 workstations and offers a convenient location for public transport. Its features include: a gym, bicycle parking and CCTV.
This spacious co-working space operates within the shell of an old print works. With a stylish industrial fit out and communal lounges reminiscent of a New York coffee house, this space is truly unique. This business centre provides a mix of co-working space as well as large private office space. All offices come with high-quality desks and chairs.
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August 29, 2013
All event times are Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise specified.
On the first two days of class, faculty will report a census of the students who attend their first class meetings. This will be done on Thursday and Friday, August 29th and 30th. Census lists for each class will be sent to instructors through their Administrative Assistants on Wednesday, August 28th. The faculty will submit their class attendance information through the Mid Semester grading function in Ask Wally. It is important for students to attend classes on Thursday and Friday, August 29th and 30th or they will not officially be enrolled for the Fall Semester.
If due to extraordinary circumstances, beyond the student's control, he will not be on campus on these days, he should contact the Registrar's office at 361-6245 or 361-6416.
Students, who have not attended class and have not checked in with the Registrar's Office by August 30th, will not be registered for the Fall Semester.
Glee Club Auditions: Fine Arts Center M125, 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Chapel Talk: President Hess: Chapel , 11:15AM
The Sphinx Club is happy to announce that the very first Chapel Talk of the year will be given by Wabash's 16th president, Dr. Gregory Hess. His Chapel Talk will be this Thursday at 11:15 AM and is title "The Presidential Chapel - a New tradition for the First Day of Classes."
President Hess comes to Wabash from Claremont McKenna College were he served as Dean of the Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs. He received his undergraduate education from the University of California-Davis where he graduated with high honors. He went on to receive his Master's and Ph.D in economics from The Johns Hopkins University. President Hess and his wife, Lora, have two daughters, Abigail and Meredith. He is currently in his first year at Wabash College.
Please join the Sphinx Club for what is one of Wabash's oldest and most treasured Traditions.
Lafayette, IN Monthly Luncheon: 12:30PM
The Lafayette Association of Wabash Men invites you to attend its monthly luncheon at The Lafayette Brewing Company 622 Main Street Lafayette, IN
Auditions for Wild Oats: Fine Arts Center Ball Theater & Experimental Theater, 7:00PM
Auditions August 28 & 29 for Wild Oats by James McLure, directed by Dwight Watson. Scripts may be signed out in advance from the FAC box office.
AMC Classic Cinema 8 Show Schedule: 205 Dry Branch Drive


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Sep 17, 2013
BALTIMORE – The first Retriever Roundup Show is now available for viewing on UMBCRetrievers.com. Produced and directed by the UMBC Video Production staff, in addition to the Athletic Communications staff, the Retriever Roundup Show features recent UMBC game highlights, coach interviews, student-athlete feature stories, and a Retriever Sound Bites section.
The Retriever Roundup will air on a bi-monthly schedule and will be featured prominently on UMBCRetrievers.com, the UMBC YouTube Channel, and other social media outlets including Twitter and Facebook.
Creator Scott Hopmann formed the concept and designed the show with Zach Seidel assisting in creative and production capacities. Kayla Martinez and Dan LaHatte co-host the show.


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School News
Tigers Serving Others cleans bus memorial
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- Published on 05 February 2014
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
A group of Mount Vernon High School student athletes converged on the School Bus Accident Memorial last Wednesday as part of the Tigers Serving Others program.
The group plans to work on projects each Wednesday. For information on how to nominate a project, see the Jan. 30 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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- ITV Report
Jade & Caroline prepared to risk all in gold hunt
Jade Etherington and Caroline Powell are prepared to sacrifice a fourth Winter Paralympics medal to go for an elusive gold after seeing slalom success slip through their fingers on Wednesday.
Visually-impaired skier Etherington and guide Powell claimed their third medal from as many events on their Games debut, but could not hide their intense frustration at having to settle for silver.
The pair were in pole position after the first run, but Russia's Aleksandra Frantceva turned around a 0.55 seconds deficit on the second to win by 0.65secs.
"We were aiming for the gold and we didn't get it," Etherington said.
And now the Britons are willing to risk everything in pursuit of revenge.
They are one of only three pairs left in the super combined, which will be completed on Friday with the super-G stage. Just finishing would guarantee another medal, but, comfortably in second, they are determined to go for broke and attempt to make up the 3.12s on Frantceva.
Taking it easy is not an option.
"It's a fight between me and Frantceva again, so we're just going to have to go for it," Etherington said.
"It's one run, you are not going to do it again. Bring on the day off tomorrow and we'll be ready for the super-G on Friday.
"Frantceva and I both started on the circuit at the same time, six years ago, so we've constantly had that battle.
"She used to beat me every single race and she was the one I would look up to.
Now sometimes I beat her and sometimes I don't. It's good to have rivalry - and I've dragged Caroline into the fight."
No Briton has ever won four medals at one Winter Paralympics. But, with Wednesday's medal following their silver in the downhill and bronze in the super-G, that achievement is now within Etherington's and Powell's grasp.
It would be a remarkable feat for the debutants given they only met last April and have only been skiing together since August.
Another trip to their podium took Great Britain's medal tally to four, doubling UK Sport's target, but the pair's bitter disappointment with Wednesday's result was etched on their faces.
It was a sign of how much their ambitions have changed over the course of the Games.
"I know we can work really well together, I know we can do it," Etherington said.
They were the first pair out for the opening run, but, being fastest, went last for the second and were third quickest, but still managed to hold off Slovakia's Henrieta Farkasova, the bronze medallist, by more than a second.
Powell said: "The first run and second run were very different. The first run we started right at the front and got the best piste we could. The visibility was really good as well.
"On the second run visibility was not so good, it was a bumpier course because we were going down seventh so it's been raced on. We did well, but we didn't do well enough."


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Age: 66
Residence: Chula, Mo.
Family: Wife, Beverly; sons Garrett and Jeffery
Occupation: Retired from Morton Buildings (32 years)
Education: Chillicothe High School
Military service: Army (2 years)
Rank: E4
Assignment: Arrived in Vietnam Dec. 1966. Squad leader and carried M60 Machine Gun. Wounded April 1967. In hospitals five months, then discharged. Places of duty: Fort Hood, Tex.; Fort Riley, Kan.; Vietnam; Japan; Okinawa


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A high-school football player who is under investigation in Lebanon County for ripping an opponent's helmet off and apparently striking him with it during a game is now under investigation for an incident in Berks County.
Multiple media outlets have reported that Berks County District Attorney John Adams has opened an investigation into an incident involving Hamburg High School football player Joseph Cominsky after a video emerged of Cominsky throwing a football at a defenseless teammate during practice.
The mother of a former teammate of Cominsky provided the video to NBC-10 in Philadelphia. It appears to show Cominsky throwing a football at another Hamburg player's stomach while the player was standing against a wall and holding an object in front of his face. The video also appears to show Hamburg coach Joe Sinkovich directing Cominsky to throw the ball at the player.
"We have been provided a copy of the video and we are investigating this incident," Adams stated in an email to the Reading Eagle on Tuesday.
According to NBC-10, a former player at Hamburg shot the video on his cell phone, and eventually his mother, Karen Hoagland, viewed the footage.
"He told him to throw the ball at the boy's chest or stomach, knowing how fast the quarterbackthrows," Hoagland told the station. "He allowed four more balls to be thrown until it hit the kid. To me, he's putting kids' lives at risk every day when something like that is allowed to go on."
Hoagland said she initially had no intention of making the video public but changed her mind when she saw video of the incident involving Cominsky in Lebanon County.
Cominsky, a senior who plays quarterback and safety, is under investigation in South Annville Township for an incident that occurred during a football game on Sept. 6 at Annville-Cleona High School.
In a video of the incident taken by WGAL TV-8, Cominsky can be seen ripping the helmet off Annville-Cleona junior offensive lineman Josh Hartman and twice swinging the helmet at Hartman. With the second swing, Cominsky appears to strike Hartman squarely on his head with the helmet while Hartman was lying on his back.
Cominsky was ejected from the game. Per PIAA rules, he was automatically suspended from his team's next game.
South Annville Township police Chief Ben Sutcliffe announced on Sept. 10 that he had opened a criminal investigation into the matter but said it would be a lengthy investigation.
Lebanon County District Attorney Dave Arnold said there is precedent for prosecuting athletes for incidents that occur during sporting events.
Hoagland told NBC-10 she believes the new video suggests that Sinkovich has created a violent culture for his team that indirectly led to the fight at Annville-Cleona.
"I think if the coaches would be held more accountable for what happened, this stuff wouldn't happen on the field," she said.
Information from the Lebanon Daily News, www.ldnews.com


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The Academy Awards are Hollywood's most glamourous night.
But despite the bling and the stylists and all that money, there are still numerous fashion miscues. As we wait to see what Sunday's red carpet brings us, here's a look at the Oscars' most memorable fashion fails.
Click here to see Photos: The Oscars' worst red carpet fashions.


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RH GIU Missing as Root
Hi all,
I'm running an old AMD K6II - 450 with RH 7.2 workstation - just using it as a file server on my network. I store some fairly important data there and back it up to a FreeNAS box.
I need to change the IP address as I'm made significant changes to my network configuration.
But I'm having problems with the RH box when I login as Root. I don't get any interface popping up after re-booting anymore. No gnome gui, no CLI - nothing, just a dark blue screen. When I login as a regular user, I get Gnome and all is good. But I also can't run sudo commands as the regular user, because the user isn't included in Sudoer's group.
So I can't edit some of the machine's files under etc/../network-scripts to modify the IP address, because I'm not Root.
Any ideas on how I can get an interface back up? Is there a key command, or something else I can check?
Thanks for your help!
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Welcome to Indian Vegetarian Kitchen!
November 10, 2009
Special Mor Kuzhambu(Spicy coconut-buttermilk gravy)
Mor Kuzhambu is a typical South Indian dish made with buttermilk and coconut-green chilli-cumin paste. This recipe is slightly different from the usual. The addition of roasted spices makes the gravy flavorful and taste better.
Thick Yogurt-1 cup
Hing-1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
Curry leaves-a few
Any one vegetable of your choice(lady's finger/capsicum/pumpkin/chayote squash)-1/2 cup chopped into big pieces
Spices to roast in 1/2 tsp oil till golden brown:
Urud dal-1/2 tsp
Coriander seeds-1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds-1/4 tsp
Red chillies-2
Other Ingredients:
Coconut-2 tbsp
Green chilli-1
Mustard seeds-1 tsp
Roast the spices mentioned above and grind along with coconut and green chilli with 1/4 cup water to a smooth paste.
If you are using lady's finger(aka okra) or capsicum, fry it in 1 tbsp oil till it is cooked.
If you are using, pumpkin or squash, boil it with water and a pinch of salt till it is cooked.
In another vessel, mix yogurt with 1/2 cup water and beat well. Add salt, hing, curry leaves and turmeric powder. Add the ground paste and prepared vegetable. Simmer for 5 minutes. Do not stir while cooking. Turn off the heat and stir.
Season with mustard seeds and garnish with coriander leaves.
Serve with hot rice, ghee and beans parupu usili.
Click here for parupu usili recipe!
Have a great week ahead!!
24 comments:
Welcome back Mahima, nice flavourful Mor Kulambu, I like it with hot rice!ReplyDelete
Glad to see you back with a delicious mor kuzhambu Mahi...delicious gravy..ReplyDelete
nice variation. and i love the black background!ReplyDelete
Delicious moar kuzhambu there. Varuththu araichchu vitta taste-ae thani illaiyaa?ReplyDelete
Varutharaicha mor kozhambu, delicious and colourful. welcome backReplyDelete
Wow this is ma fav....like it with rice. Nice clicks and presentation...ReplyDelete
Lov elove this moru curry, i used to eat heaps of rice if mom mmade this.ReplyDelete
Looks delish.....
This is my all time fav...gr8 with rice,yummy picture...ReplyDelete
simply yummy!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
my fav.nice clickReplyDelete
Looks so delicious, love it at all times.ReplyDelete
Looks very very yummy Mahi... the paruppu usili would definitely be the best side for this... never tried mor kuzhambu this way :-)ReplyDelete
Perfect mor kuzhambu, same like my mom's version.ReplyDelete
I love morkuzhambu... can be made in a jiffy and pairs so well with usili or ennai kathirikkai :)ReplyDelete
love the picture!
definitely every week I have to make this with roast aloo my hubby's favourite, I do fry the spices for making morkuzhambu but never tried this way, urad dal !!, I must try this definitely, the best in the click I loved was those little gorgeous looking bhindis peeping at us!!, lovely click mahi..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM
did u used store bought yogurt or home made ? if store bought which brand pls let me knowReplyDelete
Kanna, I love itReplyDelete
Sounds good to me! Will try next time,coz bored of the usual one!ReplyDelete
I i love to try diff.morkulambu..will surley try this too..ReplyDelete
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Mor kuzhambu, paruppu usli & potato fry - unbeatable combination.. :)ReplyDelete
It's so tempting mahima.
The spice which goes in this gravy are interesting!ReplyDelete
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CPU, GPU and Memory
With its dual-core TI OMAP 4470 system-on-chip, the Z10 starts out in a bit of a hole against iPhone 5's quad-core A6 custom SoC (but it's directly on par with the iPhone 4). Both devices use ARM Cortex A9 application processors; BlackBerry's run at 1.5GHz and Apple's at 1.3GHz. BlackBerry has the edge on system RAM. The BlackBerry 10 OS and its apps will have 2 GB of RAM in which to spread out and run, doubling that of iPhone 5's 1 GB. The BlackBerry comes with 16 GB of storage that's expandable by 64 GB via microSD; iPhone 5 comes with 16, 32 or 64 GB and isn't expandable once purchased. On the graphics front, there's relative parity between BlackBerry and iPhone. Both use multicore PowerVR GPUs from Imagination Technologies and both support 1,080p capture and playback at 30 fps. The BlackBerry's OMAP SoC has the SGX544 GPU with an IVA 3 multimedia accelerator. The A6 chip in iPhone 5 incorporates the PowerVR SGX 543MP3, which Apple claims that when combined with its ARM cores doubles application and graphics performance from the previous generation's A5X, the SoC in iPhone 4.


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DES MOINES - Playing in their third straight state tournament, Class 3A No. 3 Estherville Lincoln Central simply took care of busy in beating rival Sprit lake for the third time this season.
The Midgets led from start to finish in the 55-39 victory on Tuesday and looked very comfortable in doing it.
ELC defeated Spirit Lake twice during the regular season-the first time on Dec. 21 when the Indians were without leading scorer KJ Veldman and ELC won 70-36. Veldman was back for the rematch, but the Midgets won that 51-36.
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Estherville Lincoln Central's Macy Dahl stuck her defensive assignment of guarding Spirit Lake's leading scorer KJ Veldman throughout Tuesday's Class 3A Quarterfinal game at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
Photos by StevePope.com
"The girls have been down here two years in a row, they're playing a familiar opponent and they're not in awe of the arena," said ELC coach Tony Klein after his first victory in the state tournament. "It's just a basketball game on a different court."
ELC advances to the Thursday's 5 p.m. semifinal game against second-ranked MOC-Floyd Valley. The Dutch also won their first-round game easily, defeating 13th-ranked Mid-Prairie 51-30. The top four teams in Class 3A all won Tuesday as top-ranked Davenport Assumption cruised to a 71-25 win over Red Oak and fourth-ranked Cascade shut down fifth-ranked Bondurant-Farrar for the final three quarters in a 33-26 win in the other starter quarterfinal games games.
Against Spirit Lake, ELC's Casey Sievert and Allie Sievert both helped the Midgets get off to a quick start.
Allie scored the first five points of the game, but ELC led just 7-5 after the Indian's Alissa Christoffer connected on a 3-pointer.
Sara Heywood answered with a 3-pointer of her own to start an 8-1 ELC run that ended on a 3-pointe by Casey Sievert for a 15-6 lead with 1:32 left in the first quarter.
"I think we were ready to play," said ELC senior Emily Kirchner. "Usually we want to get the ball inside and then reverse it, but our outside shooters were hot, so we just kept feeding them."
Meanwhile Veldman finally scored her first basket, a trey, late in the first period to make the score 15-9 after one quarter.
ELC opened up the second quarter with a 13-1 run that threatened to put Spirit Lake away. The run included two 3-pointers by Casey Sievert, one by Macy Dahl and two points each from Heywood and Emily Kirchner.
Spirit Lake bounced back with a 10-1 run that included 3-pointers by Christoffer and Emma Dau and four points from Veldman to cut the halftime deficit to 29-20.
While ELC was 5-of-11 from 3-point range in the first half, most of the damage in the second half came from the inside. The Midgets out-scored the Indians 18-7 in the quarter with both Sieverts scoring five points in the period and Heywood with four.
Spirit Lake never threatened in the final frame.
Casey Sievert finished with a game-high 18 points including 6-of-11 from the field (3-of-4 from 3-point range) and 3-of-3 from the free-throw line.
Allie Sievert finished with 13 points and six rebounds while Heywood had 12 points, four assists and four steals.
Kirchner had a quiet scoring night with six points, but she had a team-high nine rebounds. Dahl finished with three points, three steals and three blocked shots while guarding Veldman most of the night.
"Veldman had 14 points and one of those was three off an offensive rebound and one was a hook shot, but for her to be only to the line two times, that's just great defense," said Klein. "The first time against us (this year), she got to the line nine times."
Christoffer led Spirit Lake with 16 points, which included 7-of-10 from the free-throw line and 3-of-8 from 3-point range.
Spirit Lake ends the season with a 16-9 record. Of those nine losses, four of them came when Veldman was out of the lineup with an injury. Class 2A top-ranked Western Christian and ELC accounted for the other five losses.
ELC (22-3) lost to MOC-Floyd Valley in the second game of the season. The Midgets look forward to Thursday's rematch.
"They run a defense that we haven't played all year- a 1-1-3 zone," said Klein. "They trap a little bit out of and funnel you to (Alexis) Conaway."
Conaway, a 6-foot forward, has verbally committed to playing volleyball at Iowa State. She averages 18.3 points and 7.56 rebounds per game. She is one of three returning starters on a team whose only loss is to defending Class 2A State champion Western Christian, 51-46.
The Dutch are trying set up a rematch with Assumption, who they lost to in the Class 3A state final a year ago.
Meanwhile, the Midgets are trying to get back to the state final after losing the Class 2A title game to Odeboldt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove two years ago.
SPIRIT LAKE (39)-Christoffer 3-10 7-10 16, K. Veldman 5-17 2-2 14, Horsman 0-1 0-0 0, Stokke 1-6 0-0 2, Dau 1-4 2-2 5, J. Veldman 0-4 0-0 0, Newman 0-0 0-0 0, Brevik 1-1 0-0 2, Hassel 0-0 0-0 0, Loveall 0-1 0-2 0, Kabele 0-1 0-0 0, Ites 0-0 0-1 0, Duncan 0-0 0-0 0, Thate 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 11-45 11-17.
ESTHERVILLE LINCOLN?CENTRAL?(55)-Dahl 1-4 0-0 3, Heywood 5-10 1-3 12, Kirchner 1-3 4-6 6, C. Sievert 6-11 3-3 18, A. Sievert 3-7 7-9 13, McCauley 1-5 0-0 2, Jensen 0-1 0-0 0, Gjerde 0-1 0-0 0, Bates 0-0 0-0 0, Humble 0-0 0-0 0, Clayton 0-0 1-2 1, Anderson 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 17-42 16-23.
3-point goals-Spirit Lake 6-19 (Christoffer 3-8, K. Veldman 2-5, Dau 1-2, Horsman 0-1, J. Veldman 0-3), Estherville 5-13 (C. Sievert 3-4, Dahl 1-3, Heywood 1-3, McCauley 0-3). Rebounds-Spirit Lake 32 (K. Veldman 7), Estherville 33 (Kirchner 9). Assists-Spirit Lake 5 (K. Veldman 2), Estherville 10 (Heywood 4). Fouls-Spirit Lake 17, Estherville 16. Fouled out-None.


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Hi. I'm returning to Greek and need a bunch of accessible reading to freshen up. I have the first edition JACT Reading Greek books, but I'm fed up lugging around multiple books and I feel I want a more Orberg/Lingua Latina-method.
So, I note that the Italian edition of Athenaze is highly recommended but I also see that there's a new English edition which has been substiantially revised (I hear) in the style of the Italian version. I can't, however, seem to get my hands on the books before buying.
Any thoughts/comments?
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not just a shooter
This Week's Obsession: Hoop Futures
[Marc-Grégor Campredon]
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Nick's Question:
[long gushing thread about Poole's ceiling]
Nick: And Livers and Teske are still so young. And then the incoming class…
Seth: Yeah in two years this could be Beilein's best team ever.
Nick: I don't even know which of these guys to be the most excited about!
Seth: Is that your TWO question?
Nick: Sure.
Seth: Good because we've been talking about the same thing in slack all this time.
Ace: Just one? Top three? Top five? I have a hard time containing my enthusiasm with this bunch and the 2018 class.
Seth: Should we try to come up with a consensus rank?
Brian: Top three. Ordered by projected alpha dog on the 2019-2020 team.
Ace: I'm gonna drop this in from the discussion that led to this topic:
Alex: I mean the roster in two years could look like:
PG - Z, Brooks/DeJulius
SG - Poole, Nunez
SF - Iggy, Johns
PF - Livers, Johns
C - Teske, Castleton
I don't want to get too far ahead of myself but that's a group that could do some big things, especially if Z continues to improve
This, of all things, is going to kill me.
Brian: First and second year players on this team and the incoming croots are eligible.
Seth: So Iggy has one spot.
Ace: Does he, though?
Brian: Alpha dog is defense and rebounding inclusive. Everyone has their own list.
Ace: I thought the same thing and then I looked over everything again and this is really damn hard. There's a legitimate argument for everyone on Alex's two-deep outside of Brooks and probably Nunez, and those guys aren't exactly dead weight.
[Hit THE JUMP for very exciting gifs and stuff]
Odds On Favorites: Not Just Shooters
[Ed-Seth: Reminder what this is since it's been on hiatus: Jamiemac of Just Cover Blog and the MGoPodcast was dragged out of quasi-retirement to give us an odds-angle view of relevance to you, and Draft Kings offered to to sponsor it, and puts up a fantasy game to commune in so you can use sports knowledge to win currency of relevance to you.]
Well you can kinda-sorta have him back. You can draft Nik Stauskas on your Draft Kings fantasy squad. In fact the Sacramento rookie is only $3,400, like half of the mean.
Not saying you should draft him since McLemore played Wednesday and is holding onto his starting spot for now. I also noticed they got Jamal Crawford at an unreasonable $5,400—that's got to be a combination of his playoff run and holding off new daddy J.J. Redick in the preseason. The points system favors guys who take more shots behind the arc and those who get multiple double digit stats, not just shootersDRINK!
(No Burke/McGary/THJ/GR3 this week because they all play on Saturday)
-$30,000 prize pool.
- First place wins $5,000
- $2 entry fee (FREE with fist deposit).
- Top 4,000 are paid.
- Starts on Friday, October, 31st at 7:00 EST
- Salary Cap Style Drafting. $50,000 to select 8 spots
- Roster Format: 1 PG, 1 SG, 1 SF, 1 PF, 1 C, 1 G, 1 F and 1 Util.
- First time depositors at DraftKings receive a 100% bonus up to $600
Take the link.
There is a place where Michigan has a three-game winning streak over Ohio State. Where they have won six of nine against Michigan State. Where the Wolverines are defending Big Ten Champions. This place has hardwood flooring.
On January 27, 2011, Zack Novak's aneurysm of leadership burst, Stuart Douglass swished a decisive 3-pointer, and Michigan upset the 11-point favorite MSU Spartans at the Breslin Center. Big 10 Basketball has not been the same since.
[After the jump: journey to Jamie Mac's Big Ten basketball preview, a place where Michigan regularly beats the spread]
Unverified Voracity Was Bonkers Yesterday
- 2014 ncaa softball tournament
- big ten expansion
- carol hutchins
- dave brandon creates the future
- ed obannon lawsuit
- give money to someone elseeeeee
- lolncaa
- mascots that give me the willies
- nba draft
- ncaa: the hypocrisy and how to fix it
- ncaa: the lawsuits
- nik stauskas
- not just a shooter
- notre dame
- Softball
- unverified voracity
HELLO LADIES (not like that). If you took in yesterday's softball double-header you got 14 innings of tension, home runs, and dugout gibbering capped by what has to be the nuttiest final inning I've seen in the sport: Michigan, down one, clubs back-to-back first-pitch homers off one of the best pitchers in the country to go up one, then puts someone on base for the final batter, who hits a rocket that…
…NOPE. Michigan had just blasted a ball over the centerfield fence that none of the outfielders bothered to move on, and this particular ball seemed harder-hit than that. It must have been on more of a line or really temporarily heavy or something. CF Lindsay Doyle was given an opportunity for the walk-off rob of a potential walk-off homer, which she took.
Even Carol Hutchins, an outpost of Red-like reserve in a sport that has a lot of jumping up and down, was momentarily baffled into GIF-worthiness.
You and me both. The catch was Sportcenter's #1 play, which is pretty remarkable on a day that had plenty of baseball and NBA action.
Michigan advances to their ninth super regional in ten years of the current format; they'll travel to Tallahassee to take on the #8 overall seed Florida State. FSU is hosting their first super ever at an impressive 53-6. The best two of three series kicks off Thursday at 7 on ESPN.
Victory. The Michigan money cannon remains undefeated:
EDSBS Bowl 2K14 closed at midnight last night, and the total for the week's fundraising is staggering and very much awesome: $33,250.85 raised for Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta, all from your contributions. …
University of Michigan $10,183.68
University of Georgia $4,024.20
Notre Dame $2,249.32
University of Alabama $1,977.55
Georgia Institute of Technology $1,969.72
Auburn University $1,716.40
Well done, gentlemen. I have excellent news: in honor of the cannon, RRISA is naming their conference room something Michigan themed. Orson has asked us for suggestions, so I throw it open to the MGoPeanutGallery. Please keep in mind that we are trying to retain people's goodwill, so something like "Leaders and Best (unlike all non grads)" would not be good.
[11:27 AM] Spencer Hall: If there's a huge Michigan painting, they'll put it up there
[11:27 AM] Spencer Hall: seriously
Anyone that wants to provide a candidate shoot me an email.
Stauskas time. Nik Stauskas didn't shoot at the NBA combine but that's not to say he didn't shoot at all in the past week. A few gents put on a workout beforehand, and Stauskas proved that he is the unstoppable workout freak($) that you may have seen on youtube:
None of them disappointed Monday. During early shooting drills, Stauskas had the lead early, hitting 47 of his first 50 attempts. At the end of the workout, it was McDermott who couldn't miss, beating everyone with 13 3-pointers in 35 seconds. … Each player takes roughly 100 3-point attempts during a workout. On most days, Stauskas and McDermott are shooting about 85 percent. That's really remarkable.
That is nuts.
Chad Ford also notes that Stauskas looked "terrific" in the various ballhandling drills at this workout and is… wait for it… also grab a beer… "making a play to be more than just a shooter." While Stauskas isn't likely to be an NBA PG unless his team wants him to gently escort opposing points to the basket, his ability to get his own shot and excellent P&R skills will see him be more than just a shooter. Ford has Stauskas #12 now and thought he was upwardly mobile even before he put up impressive combine numbers:
Michigan's Nik Stauskas and Creighton's Doug McDermott really shined, as well. Stauskas was especially impressive. He measured with a 35.5-inch max vert, a 10.79 lane agility score, a 2.92 shuttle run and a 3.27 sprint. Those were all very good numbers and should boost his draft stock.
I know you are thinking about what I am thinking: what about the Pistons? Detroit needs shooting, and they need someone who can run a pick and roll with Andre Drummond without resorting to miserable off-balance jumpers. DX's latest mock has them taking McDermott. While that makes sense, as currently constituted Detroit could use a guy who can play 1-3 with bad defense a lot more than a guy who can play 3-4 with bad defense. Also, McDermott seems constitutionally incapable of being an okay defender because he's such a tweener; a hypothetical NBA Stauskas coached by Stan Van Gundy could be all right down the road, especially if Caldwell-Pope can be the 3-and-D guy.
If Detroit stays at eight I'd say there's a pretty good chance Stauskas ends up being the player who makes the most sense. Other than McDermott, guards/wings available at eight are likely to include Tyler Ennis, James Young, Rodney Hood, Gary Harris, and Zach LaVine. Only Hood and McDermott are in Stauskas's universe as a shooter, and Gary Harris being more 6'2" than 6'4" probably eliminates him.
Also in Michigan draftee news, DX's post-combine mock has Robinson and McGary as the last two picks of the first round.
All right, all right. Eighty-seven people have emailed or tweeted me about the latest indicator that things aren't going well on the season ticket front, so I am compelled to reproduce it:
The existence of such a thing isn't much of a surprise… except you'd think they'd translate "Added Value Opportunities" into English before releasing it to the world. The outstanding quality of the athletic department is how remarkably ham-handed they are at being marketers. This is supposedly Brandon's expertise and he's throwing powerpoint slides at the public.
The lord's work. Deadspin continues its excellent series demolishing bad arguments the NCAA tries to muster in its favor. The latest to meet the guillotine: competitive balance.
…my own research in 2011 showed that of the 1,000 top recruited athletes over a decade, 99.3 percent went to power conference schools. … the truth is that the current rules seem to lock in imbalance, and prevent would-be upstarts from building recruiting momentum.
That makes intuitive sense. A team can't put its money where its mouth is if it really really wants a guy that another school wants. When compensation is fixed* all choices are about things other than compensation.
And since it's currently impossible to make the system more unbalanced…
*[I guess it does technically move based on the value of a degree from school X. That is not going to be a huge consideration for many football players. See: every player ever citing academics as a reason he went to school Y, no matter what that school is. "I have chosen Wyoming School Of Finger Twiddling for its excellent academics," etc.]
Pyrrhic press conferences for 1000. When the press gets the temerity to ask a question that leads to this answer…
"No buyer's remorse at all," Delany said Wednesday after the Big Ten administrators' meetings. "When I go to Jersey, I go to New York, I go to support, not to judge."
…things are not going well in the PR realm. Jim Delany just described visiting his sister in rehab.
No surrender. O'Bannon plaintiffs have asked the court to ditch the individual damages in their lawsuit and, as a side effect, ditch the jury.
The plaintiffs' lead attorney, Michael Hausfeld, told ESPN that forgoing the effort to seek damages for the individuals who are named in the lawsuit streamlines the case, making it all about stopping the NCAA from continuing to prevent athletes from sharing in the media revenues they help generate. …
The filing by the plaintiffs aims to focus all of the attention on whether the NCAA's economic model should be changed. It's an attempt to avoid the messiness of sorting out who may have been harmed for past wrongs, and to what degree.
That would be the NCAA's worst nightmare, as judge Claudia Wilken is the person issuing statements like "I don't think amateurism is going to be a useful word here." It seems like the NCAA's best shot is to bamboozle a jury with the arguments Deadspin is currently blowing up.
As with any story about the O'Bannon lawsuit, we have a new opportunity to point and laugh at the NCAA's beleaguered lawyers.
The NCAA objected to the new move by Hausfeld to drop the damages claim. The association's lawyers wrote Wednesday night that they were "surprised and troubled by the Plaintiffs' last minute and abrupt decision to attempt to avoid having a jury decide" the case, calling it a "last ditch effort to change course in this litigation."
…Hausfeld dismissed the NCAA's argument.
"There's always been a damages claim and an injunctive claim," he said. "If they haven't been paying attention to the injunctive claim, it's inexplicable."
Well, they are very busy these days.
It'll be a while. Brian Kelly said something about playing Michigan, so everyone gets asked about it again. Dave Brandon has had "zero talks" with Notre Dame about resuming the series. It would take a lot of pride-swallowing for Brandon to do such a thing. The chances of that seem… low.
The earliest Michigan and ND will talk about playing again will be after both places have new athletic directors, and even then they'll be scheduling ten years out. This year's game is the last for probably 20 years. Well done, college football.
Old mascots are always the best. If you could guarantee me that Michigan's hypothetical mascot would look like it was put together at the local insane asylum's arts and crafts night, I would be on board. Hellmascot part 4,210 is MSU, 1966:
No, no money for athletes. Somehow all of this manages to get sucked up despite MSU not adding sports:
"I think it was about 2000, our budget was right around $25 million and today it's $94 million," Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis said. "And it's real easy to take a quick look on where the allocation of those funds have gone, and so much of it — there is the coaching salary component that kind of stands out."
Wait, save that!
"But there's a much larger chunk that has gone to escalation of scholarships and services provided."
All right. What might these things be?
"It used to be a coach and a trainer kind of handled everything. Well now there's somebody to teach you how to cook, there's somebody on some campuses that do the cooking, that show you how to shop."
They have to invent ways to burn this money. That is the situation. They are so far up their own butts that they think they should be taught to cook and shop like they're in finishing school with Betty Draper. How about you give them the money and they decide whether they should spend it on a guy teaching them how to shop* or, like, anything else.
Meanwhile, Michigan made a profit of 90 million dollars from 2007-08 to 12-13, an average profit of $15 million per year. That's going to be great when I get my dividend check.
*["So this green stuff I have… I hand it to the man behind the counter. You don't get any green stuff. But if you had some green stuff, you could give it to the man behind the counter"]
Etc.: I still can't believe Gordon F. Gee was paid like 12 times what an average university president makes. GRIII did well at the combine. No beer at Michigan, because I would do anything for money but I won't do that. Good on Mark Schissel for making Michigan's compensation structure more transparent. Maryland previewed. TJ Leaf has a top four and is visiting soon.
Basketbullets: Penn State Part 3
3/14/2013 – Michigan 83, Penn State 66 – 26-6, entry to second round of BTT
Dustin Johnston/UMHoops
Bleary-eyed and maybe a little puffy after having a good cry about the last two minutes of the Indiana game, Michigan staggered into the United Center wondering why everything was so bright and loud and wondering if a hot dog would make them feel better or worse. A few minutes later, they were down 14-3 and every Michigan fan had a personal reckoning with their panic tolerance.
Did you run around screaming "everything is over?" Did you stuff 35 multivitamins down your esophagus in a cry for help? No, don't tell us. Down 11 a few minutes into a tournament game against Penn State a man finds himself in a place he never thought he'd be. What happens down there is something we should hit with a shovel and bury deep. If you were more animal than man at 2:45 PM yesterday, well… so be it. Character is about recovering from your impulse.
The team did this. Michigan spent the first couple of breaks smacking themselves and screaming "SNAP OUT OF IT," and thanks to the utterly unflappable Trey Burke and Mitch McGary—a man who seems to be productively deficient in human emotions like doubt or restraint—they did. In these moments I like to go check out the Kenpom prediction (which is almost always the Vegas line, give or take a point) and think about how points are worth the same whether you score them early or late. It was 16 in this one; Michigan beat it by a point.
It's strange how frustrating it is to pull away late or recover like Michigan did against Purdue. Or, rather, it's not strange at all. You have to try as hard as you can to say the order in which the points came is not a reason to run around, ripping chunks of hair from your head and shouting "my basketball team ate this."
No rest for the weary; on to demon Wisconsin. Death to backboards, half court, and everywhere in-between.
Zone? Hi. If you follow me on twitter you may have noticed me, um, ranting about Michigan's refusal to even try out a zone defense despite a team that shoots 30% from three gutting the interior of Michigan's defense to the tune of 11/17 shooting from two by Sasa "Pretty Much Shaq" Borovnjak and DJ Newbill in the first half. In the second half we then suffered through five to eight minutes of Penn State keeping pace with Michigan's blistering offensive pace.
For the game, Penn State put up 1.1 PPP. Defense remains a huge issue. At least there's some sort of upper bound on how bad it can be, right? That's the ticket.
Grrr aarrgh. Jordan Morgan came out with the weight of a barely-missed Big Ten championship not so much weighing on his shoulders as burying him neck-deep in misery. Trey Burke's abnormally low assist output—three—was almost entirely on Morgan's four missed bunnies. Morgan was also out of sync defensively as Michigan's pick and roll D was gutted by Sasa "Basically Pau Gasol" Borovnjak. Morgan was the guy who Borovnjak drove from almost the three-point line on.
Enter Mitch McGary, in full on Big Puppy mode. He ripped down boards, he went 5/6 from the floor, he had a steal, block, two assists, and escaped the wrath of the scorer on a turnover that was obviously his fault but seemed to escape the box score entirely. After one hardman board, he let out a simian bellow—an entirely justified one.
When Morgan struggled at the start of the first half, he got a quick hook and his minutes were given to Jon Horford. A strange phenomenon ensued: Gus Johnson started talking about how incredibly impressive Horford had been in the first half, an opinion with no basis in reality. Horford then demonstrated that Gus Johnson is aging backwards through time or something. Horford chucked in 11 points in 10 minutes, blocked a couple shots, grabbed various rebounds, and went 3/3 from the line(!).
John Beilein won't say if he'll leave struggling Jordan Morgan in Michigan's starting lineup
Yow. That says volumes. Also this:
"It's up in the air if I decide it's up in the air," Beilein said. "Right now it's too soon to make that (decision).
"I'll watch some film, we'll talk, we'll look at matchups and decide what we're going to do."
I'd guess Morgan still starts, but Beilein will have a quick trigger a la the second half. Michigan won't be able to crawl out of 14-3 holes with as much ease the rest of the year.
blouses (Dustin Johnston/UMHoops)
Not just a shooter. Stauskas had 15 points on nine shot equivalents plus two assists and zero TOs. Sometimes I think Michigan would be better off moving some of Hardaway's usage to Stauskas. He's got a better handle and seems to create shots a bit better. This may not be the best time to argue that when Hardaway had five assists.
Stauskas also did a much better job on Jermaine Marshall this time around. He torched Michigan behind the line in the last game; in this one he scored 8 points on 14 shot attempts—basically the only PSU player to have a bad day.
Trey statistical weirdness day. Burke assists: 3. Burke blocked shots: 3. Boggle.
Hardaway check. After the Wisconsin game on February 9th, Tim Hardaway was shooting 54% from three in 11 Big Ten games. Since he is 9 of 45, 20%. Michigan's offense has survived admirably in that absence; it would be nice if he was to start hitting some dang shots. I am not sure what to say about this other than "make your threes," but I can say it very loudly if that is required.
A thing that leaps off Hardaway's season box score at Kenpom: his FTAs have evaporated. Up until the Minnesota game Hardaway had gone to the line in every game and had at least six FTAs in 8 games. Since he has been shut out entirely 7 times. Three games in which he was not were against the hackmasters in Happy Valley; other than those games the only times he's been to the line: 3/5 against OSU, 4/5 against Illinois, 1/1 against Purdue, 0/2 against Indiana.
I will repeat my grand desire to see Hardaway commit between one to three charges every game.
GRIII check. If Morgan wasn't struggling so badly I bet we would have seen some dual post action; as it was I was surprised that Bielfeldt didn't get some run early when Penn State was grabbing a bunch of offensive rebounds and Ross Travis found himself having a nice day offensively. Travis shoots 39% from the floor. He was 5/9 in this one.
I'm not sure where Big Ten Geeks grabbed this stat, but I retweeted it since it was in line with my eye test:
McGary has grabbed 11 of the 14 chances he's had for a rebound. GR3 is 2 of 10.
McGary went through a stretch in which he couldn't grab a rebound to save his life, like the rest of the team. Robinson has been pretty weak on the boards since the start of Big Ten play. Against the top four teams in the league, Robinson's rebounding has looked like this:
- @ OSU: 38 minutes, 0 OREB, 1 DREB
- @ Indiana, 40 minutes, 2 OREB, 2 DREB
- OSU: 41 minutes, 33 minutes, 3 OREB, 1 DREB
- @ Wisconsin: 1 OREB, 2 DREB
- @ MSU: 21 minutes, 2 OREB, 0 DREB
- MSU: 31 minutes, 2 OREB, 1 DREB
- Indiana: 37 minutes, 1 OREB, 4 DREB
In one(!) of those seven games GRIII has acquired more than two defensive rebounds despite playing huge minutes at the four in all of them. He's done a bit better against the rest of the league; when the going gets tough he's been found wanting. Ace looked at in detail and found that Robinson was frequently a culprit. I'm getting progressively more frustrated with him as Michigan's defensive rebounding continues its glide path down to last year's numbers. In this one Michigan won the board war but still allowed Penn State to grab 34% of their misses, with Ross Travis grabbing 4 OREBs. Borovnjak was 0 (OREB) and 2 (DREB) going up against the fives.
The bad thing about the way that went down. Michigan is facing down four games in four days if they are fortunate enough to get that far. Because of the slow start starters not named Morgan played 34, 35, 35, and 33 minutes. I generally downplay the idea that a few minutes extra is going to kill an 18-20 year old who spends his entire existence in a gym, but once the games come rapid-fire—and you're going up against teams who had today off—that's a situation in which wilting legs seems like a real issue.
I guess the good bit is Michigan is playing Wisconsin's tortoiseball today. If there's a team less well-positioned to take advantage of their opponent's heavy legs, I don't want to perceive their existence. I don't want to perceive Wisconsin's, man.
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Our good feelings are not helping them reach the tournament, unfortunately.
I dare you to release that Big Ten Network poll, then. In other Big Ten Expansionfiasco news, athletic directors claim that everyone likes having to figure out which division they're in via mnemonic:
"When the Leaders and Legends were first announced, people were like, 'What the heck does that mean?'" said Penn State athletic director Dave Joyner. "I think people are starting to learn it, though. … I don't hear much from fans writing in and saying, 'You've got to change the names now,' or anything like that."
Some ADs, like Barta and Purdue's Morgan Burke, say they actually like the Leaders and Legends monikers.
We have a "faintest praise imaginable" winner. Men responsible for deciding to call something something admit—in public and everything!—that they like what they did. I bet 90% of the people who responded to the BTN's survey Strongly Agreed that "Leaders" and "Legends" were as good an idea as bringing Jim Bollman back to the Big Ten, but Morgan Burke probably likes that too.
Slight pessimism from Evanston. Rodger Sherman is not feeling the Wildcats' chances tonight. Reasons:
Even though Northwestern doesn't help heavily, Northwestern has a tendency of losing shooters: Hey, it's Nik Stauskas! Announcers like to mention that he's "not just a shooter!", because he sometimes does other stuff effectively, but that's like saying Rambo isn't "just an unkillable death machine" because he has lines of dialogue.
Northwestern's best defensive weapon is running the 1-3-1 to throw teams off: MICHIGAN RUNS THE 1-3-1 AND WILL DESTROY IT LIKE THE TASMANIAN DEVIL RUNNING THROUGH ONE OF THOSE BIGASS HAMS WITH THE BONE STICKING OUT OF IT. Even if they didn't run the 1-3-1 and know exactly what to do against it, they're one of the best teams in the nation at not turning the ball over and have a lot of guys who can shoot, so this would be an awful idea.
They do have Reggie Hearn tonight, and unlike last time the Michigan starter who's supposed to be out (Hardaway then, Morgan now) is actually going to be out. Even so, it's an extreme uphill battle that awaits them.
Power rankings. Luke Winn's latest power rankings have Michigan #1, leaping a Jayhawks team that had a close call against West Virginia, and focus on Trey Burke's jumpers off the dribble. Turns out he's good at basketball:
If Michigan wasn't the killer offensive team it is, the step-back twos that rubbed me the wrong way against Illinois might not be bad shots. 124 > 111, so they remain a little frustrating. Especially since there are threes going in at approximately the same rate as the twos mixed into the above chart that prop up the overall PPP.
If you've already run your offense and that's what you've got with five seconds on the clock, it's a great backup option. If you've got other avenues to try, like Nik Stauskas pick and rolls dumping in 1.6 PPP, you should try them.
When I rewatched the Illinois game it did seem that Burke adjusted more quickly than it felt live. He was robbed of a few assists by fouls, fumbles, and Jordan Morgan going down in a heap. Winn includes the step-back at the end of the first half as a GIF, which was both pretty and strategically a better idea than certain other shots since Michigan was holding for the last shot.
Other bits from Winn's power rankings:
- Tim Hardaway is the nation's second-most-efficient scorer in transition.
- Burke is ninth when it comes to transition possessions used per 40 minutes, which is pretty impressive given the pace Michigan plays at. I expect to see Arkansas's BJ Young at the top of that ranking; not so much the point guard for a team hovering in the mid-200s of pace rankings.
- Duke's defense has collapsed without Ryan Kelly.
- Somewhat indirectly: Winn mentioned a stat put together by TeamRankings that averages offensive and defensive rebounding together to get you an overall rebounding stat. Michigan is outside of the top ten, but only just, at 12th.
- #HotCaochTakes. Jeff Goodman assembles the always-entertaining anonymous opposing coach evaluation article on the Wolverines. Ace points out we have a Not Just A Shooter™ reference:
"Burke, but don't sleep on (Nik) Stauskas. He's not just a shooter. He much more than that. But Burke is the guy for them. You can't shut him down, but you need to find a way to slow him down."
The article is filled with lots of praise and some wishful thinking:
"They're not a very deep team. And if you take away their wide-open shots, and make them execute, that's when they'll struggle."
"Try to get them in foul trouble. They don't want to have to think about picking up an early foul or two."
The equivalent of telling someone you're going to stop the run when that run comes from Alabama: easier said than done. There's also a lot of stuff about how they are either tough enough or not as tough as last year. Winning ugly and that.
It is a concern, IME. Take that Nebraska game and make the opponent a Michigan State or a Wisconsin and I can see things going down to the wire.
Er. Nyet. GRIII is up to 18th on Chad Ford's NBA draft board. That's a rise from 25th and starting to get into that guaranteed-first-round area that gets scary. Ford still acknowledges he could benefit from another year:
Robinson is still scratching the surface as a basketball player. But his elite athletic ability (YouTube his 360 dunk versus Minnesota last week), rebounding ability and improved shooting touch all have scouts drooling. If teams are looking for a player who could be a home run down the road, Robinson could easily end up in the lottery. He's not ready yet, but all the pieces are there.
Hardaway doesn't show up in Ford's first round or his "next five in," FWIW.
Etc.: Top tailbacks seem to have two outcomes: great and headcase. I'll take those chances when the average NFL draft slot is a second-rounder. Kenpom continues crusade to have three-point defense recognized as pretty dang random. Michigan State is not their usual selves this year.
Ten Year War II hype? Ten Year War II hype. Also, more Ten Year War II hype, indirectly.
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Mark D'Onofrio is staying.
I just got it confirmed from someone close to the situation. D'Onofrio has pulled his name from consideration for the head-coaching job at Temple.
So, it appears that if reports about D'Onofrio and other finalist Matt Rhule are correct, Rhule would be the favorite to replace departed Temple coach Steve Addazio, who left Temple to take the job at Boston College.
The UM staff, it seems, will be in tact for 2013 -- unless news materializes in the next few weeks or after the NFL season.


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DELAND — Volusia officials who've been pushing to change the state's formula for funding public education found a sympathetic audience Tuesday in the county's legislative delegation.
More importantly, they may find more money for Volusia schools.
Members of the seven-member delegation voiced support for the school district's push for a review of the formula. But Senators John Thrasher and David Simmons went a step further, pledging to seek supplemental funding that could mitigate the county's losses under the current plan, which school officials peg at nearly $100 million over the past eight years.
"This delegation is well-positioned to help Volusia County," Thrasher, a former House speaker and state Republican Party chairman who, like Simmons, serves on the Senate's education appropriations subcommittee, said at the delegation's annual hearing in the DeLand City Commission chambers.
At issue is the state's method for divvying education dollars. Since 2004, the formula has included a yearly cost-of-living adjustment known as "district cost differential." Districts with lower prices and wages like Volusia get less than $1 for every dollar lawmakers allocate for basic per-student funding, while those with higher costs-of-living like Broward and Dade get more than $1.
"Of all 67 Florida counties, we are the biggest loser since that change occurred in 2004," Smith told delegation members Tuesday morning, setting Volusia's losses at $97 million over that time.
Volusia County government and the business community have rallied behind the school district.
"We really need to work on (the formula), to make it more equitable," Volusia County Councilman Josh Wagner told the delegation: "When it comes down to it, all we're looking for is fairness."
"We're hoping an equitable funding system can be looked at," added Cheryl Coxwell of International Speedway Corp., representing the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce.
But any change to the system is sure to be met with stiff resistance from areas now benefiting from it, said Simmons, a Republican from Altamonte Springs who served eight years in the House before his election to the Senate in 2010.
"It's going to be a difficult lift to get a wholesale change," said Simmons, whose Seminole County district was shifted this year to also take in Southwest Volusia. "That battle was fought in 2004, and it brings out every corner of the state. The easier lift for all of us is to have a supplement. That is not without precedent."
Volusia got about $1.5 million annually in supplemental funds for the first three years the formula was in place, school officials said, but it wasn't enough to offset annual funding losses. Volusia expects about an $8 million shortfall this year.
"Any support helps and will be very much appreciated," Smith said after hearing of the senators' pledge following the meeting. "I do hope that if that is the resolution it is at a reasonable level that goes toward offsetting the amount we have not gotten. Unfortunately, there are winners and losers. In the long term, I believe there should be a review and a study."
Sen. Dorothy Hukill, the Port Orange Republican who was elected the delegation's chairwoman Tuesday, agreed with her colleagues that a bigger supplement was probably Volusia's best hope this year.
"As much as we'd like to change the (funding formula)," she said, "for some immediate relief, being realistic, (a supplement) could be done more easily than thinking we can readjust the whole formula now."
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DELAND — Volusia officials who've been pushing to change the state's formula for funding public education found a sympathetic audience Tuesday in the county's legislative delegation.


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Sounds crazy to me, but there it is...
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PC games on the other hand, have to target a wider audience. It will probably be some time before PC games are designed
Aside from that, if the BBC site is correct, it seems that device is not a digital media hub at all. It seems rather stupid (to say the least) that they didn't think to make the thing a PVR. The last generation of boxes had the excuse, but a PVR / media station is almost an expectation of something which expects to occupy a permenant space by the TV.
Still, it'll be interesting to see what Sony produce. If they have sense, they will make it a PVR, and a media jukebox, and a kickass console with backwards compatibility. If it can do all those things when the XBox can't then I don't see they have much to worry about. Better yet if they make it hackable - not so hackable that people can easily pirate games but just enough that people can play around with the box and produce cool things for it.
It's interesting that you mention iTMS. Imagine that Apple produced iPod2 which dumped AAC for something else which is supposedly superior. Would that be a dumb thing or a smart thing to do considering how much people had invested already in AAC?
As for the PVR, yes there is a way to make money from it. A shitload of money. You sell listings. You bundle them with your XBox Live Platinum subscriptions and make even more money. You sell video & music on demand. You bundle everything into an MSN sub and make even more money.
what percentage of people playes PS1 games on their PS2? If you upgrade from your existing console, why not keep your old console around?
Consoles break, and the makers eventually stop production. Once your PS1 bites the big one, you still have a PS2 to play your existing library of PS1 games (except possibly for Tomba! and about a dozen others that Sony couldn't get 100 percent working). Or where can I buy a new Super NES?
And if you're new to the console, why would you buy old games?
Unlike the Fin
On a different note, congratulations to the xbox 360 marketing team, who pulled out all the stops: constant "leaks" heading up to the launch, the first next-gen console shown off, launched on TV, by a pop show, and by celeberities! Not to mention the whole colony buisness. Full marks Microsoft marketing team.
The problem is with nVidia, and it's not technical but legal. This is an older article [gamesindustry.biz] describing some of the problems. While some of the hardware challenges have been overcome, the nVidia problem remains.
It was widely believed, however, that Microsoft had retained a team of hardware emulation experts to work on the problem - although concerns over the viability of such an endeavour were voiced by some experts, especially regarding the company's ability to emulate the functions of the graphics unit in the Xbox without violating NVIDIA's intellectual property rights.
IIRC nVidia has patents on some GPU algorithms in their chipsets that the Xbox used. ATI can't simply copy them without permission, and nVidia is unlikely to give them permission. So the problem is that the Xbox 360 GPU will not respond correctly to an Xbox 1 game. Technically Xbox 360 could emulate the functions before passing commands to the ATI GPU, but it's quite a technical challenge to do this.
Underwhelmed is a perfect description of my feelings towards the XBox 360. I watched the videos and looked at the screenshots and was filled with an overwhelming sense of "Meh" and a shrugging of the shoulders.
Previous generations of consoles almost always wowed me from the first moment, this just makes me want to go take a nap.
Unfrotunately, if every game is Live aware, I am affraid developers will tend to concentrate in the Live gameplay while leaving us the poor unfortunate guys that do not have high speed internet or WiFi (does it comes with an ethernet adaptor?) with 1/3 of the "experience"...
I haven't seen any info on it, but I'm hoping/guessing the internet hookup will be wireless. This is what stopped me from getting the whole Live thing. Dragging ethernet cables through my living room is not something I'd want to do.
This design does not exude coolness. I would've thought it'd have a much cooler appearance -- this physical box alone will not be enough to entice buyers. Better be a good gaming platform.
With the Xbox 360, Microsoft is announcing that it's not just about games anymore.
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Less than an hour before showtime, KC Congdon was worried that slick roads and freezing rain in the forecast Sunday would keep the audience from showing up for her handbell choir�s performance of �A Ringing Christmas 2013.�
After all, one of the Bells In Motion�s 19 members drove all the way from Madison, Wis., to perform this weekend. A handful of members hail from St. Louis, while Congdon, the group�s director, drove from Lexington, which is at least an hour north of Springfield.
�I heard that one concert they did, they had a bad snowstorm, and they outnumbered the audience,� she said before the show. �I hope that doesn�t happen.�
In the end, that wasn�t the case. About 100 listeners braved the slick roads to hear the handbell choir perform their own twists on holiday classics such as �Joy to the World,� �Winter Wonderland,� and �Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child.� The concert was held at 4 p.m. at Third Presbyterian Church, 1030 N. Seventh St.
Since the group�s inception in 1997, Bells In Motion members have performed more than 100 concerts in 14 states and eight countries.
Pam Wall, who�s been with the ensemble since it formed, said she was pleased with the turnout. Because members are located throughout the Midwest, the group meets up just once a month for an eight-hour practice session in Springfield. The rest of the time, the members are expected to practice on their own, she said.
A self-described �bell geek� who�s been performing in groups and on her own for 36 years, Wall said finding time to practice is never a problem. Putting that time and effort in is worth it after successful performances such as Sunday�s, she said.
�You might be a bell geek if you�re finishing a winter concert and are already asking the director about spring music,� Wall said to the audience between songs, prompting laughter from the crowd.
Sunday marked the group�s fourth and final performance of the year � and Congdon�s sixth as director. She came on as director in September 2012, shortly after founding director Michael Lamb retired from the position after 15 years.
So far, she�s pleased with the work the ensemble has put in. She consistently works on improving the group�s stage presence � something that can make or break a performance, she said.
�We work hard on stage presence. I want them to look like they�re having fun because we are. It�s very much like drama. If you forget your line, you make it up,� she said. �Having performed before, and being on the other side of the table, I know that my mood affects their mood. I know I need to have fun up there, too, so they�re having fun.�
Audience member Bob Borcherding was impressed with the choir�s performance. The 66-year-old from Springfield was the first to offer a standing ovation.
It was worth braving the weather, he said.
�We just took it easy on the roads to get here,� Borcherding said. �They all were impressive.�
The ensemble partnered with Bob Evans Restaurant, 4221 Conestoga Drive, in hopes in bringing in additional donations, which the group relies on heavily. Fifteen percent of all purchases made at the restaurant by those who attended the concert will be donated to the ensemble.
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