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Unverified Voracity Is Wearing Grandpa's Jacket
Pelini forever. The day that Bo Pelini ceases being a Big Ten coach is going to be a sad one.
He screams like a lunatic, he makes jokes about his cat, he wears… that… and looks like he believes the camera is taking a piece of his soul with it. Joke's on you, camera! Ain't got no soul, he thinks. Oh and his offense is kind of a looney tunes spread triple option thing that is both modern and very Nebraska. I only wish he was still in our football conference.
Always the best thing out of media days. Mike Spath's anonymous chatter articles are quality as always and the defense one is free. An opponent on the tao of Countess:
"I thought Blake Countess was tough to play against. He's not real physical but he's one of those guys that knows what he does well and what he doesn't. And he sort of lulled us to sleep. We kept thinking that we could go at him and I think that's what he wanted because he stepped in front of two balls, picked one, and we didn't throw at him very much after that."
Countess had INTs against Minnesota, Iowa, and OSU last year, FWIW. The offense is paywalled, but I have to quote this bit:
"They were one of those teams that were tough to prepare for and not tough at the same time because they did so many different things. We had a lot of guys watching a lot more film the week before because they could run 75 different plays in the same game, but I think what stood out was that they didn't have an identity and they never had go-to plays so if you just played sound, technique-strong football, you were OK."
And that had a lot to do with Michigan's ups and downs. OSU did not play anything approximating sound football in their secondary last year and Michigan ate them up; Iowa is nothing but sound cover two and Michigan could do nothing.
The overall theme of that latter one is that opposing teams have a hell of a lot of respect for Devin Gardner since he did not die last year.
You could knock me down with a feather right now. Shock and alarm at unexpected news:
"Going in (to camp, there will be competition between Devin Gardner and Shane Morris)," Hoke said during his appearance on "Numbers Never Lie." "We've got great competition. (But) if we opened the season today, Devin would start for the Wolverines."
I will personally fight anyone* who sends me an email about whether Morris should start.
*[Offer not valid unless you are Ellen Degeneres.]
Ready to go. Ondre Pipkins is cleared and even more importantly, is apparently fit.
"He's done a nice job, he's made a lot of progress and he's passed the conditioning test and all those things," Michigan coach Brady Hoke said this week. "We'll probably be smart with him as we move forward, you know, especially on two-a-days.
"We'll (watch his) reps and those things. But he's cleared and ready to go."
Figuratively and literally massive for the defense. Article notes that Willie Henry is slated to compete with Pipkins at nose, but I'm hoping they figure out that they can start both those guys. We'll see.
'96 Colorado. I missed this game; remember sitting in a car listening to the end of it just terrified about the Hail Mary.
Well, no. No we do not. Hoke on the opener:
Brady Hoke says he gets some grief from alumni about having App State on the schedule. No one wants to see those highlights, he says
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) July 31, 2014
He didn't do it.
LEMON UPDATE. Aw man I am going to have to find like a video crew and a roaring fireplace.
Junior linebacker Joe Bolden was named the 2014 Meyer Morton Award winner. The Morton Award is given to the player who "shows the greatest development and most promise as a result of the annual spring practice."
Jarrod Wilson and Chris Wormley also pulled in awards.
The plan. After experimenting with Graham Glasgow at tackle it seems like Michigan is going to leave him at center:
When fall camp opens Sunday, though, Hoke says Glasgow -- who is suspended for the season-opener against Appalachian State due to an offseason drunken driving arrest -- will begin where he ended last year. At center, and likely with the first team.
"I would say he could (be with the starters at center) early in camp but then you've got to develop others," Hoke said this week at Big Ten media days in Chicago. "This is why, when you make decisions that don't help the team, you find out how you hurt the team."
If Glasgow does move that says more about Ben Braden than anyone else. That is an outcome I don't want to see, as that would be a major strike against a player who was hyped up as a physical marvel by many people a year ago.
It also sounds like the current plan is to leave Cole at left tackle for this year to provide a backup there. Tuley-Tillman and Fox are both likely to need another year before putting them on the field would be anything other than a major problem.
The rehab. Ondre Pipkins is cleared to practice at the start of fall camp
It could be worse, everyone! Man, Illinois fans are grasping at straws:
Tim Beckman came into this morning's press conference after a long bowl game-less winter and a 4-8 season record with only one conference win. But something was noticeably different about his speech this time. He finally seemed comfortable and confident at the podium.
… he hardly pauses or stumbles for the right words. His "uhs" and "ums" are fewer and farther between than in the past. He came off as a true leader and respectable speaker.
Well, I know that our coach starts every sentence with "well" and is not exactly Steve Spurrier. But there's going to be a post this year on an Illinois blog that says "we may have lost by sixty points but it seems like Tim Beckmann's dressing himself these days, so things are really coming along for us."
Unfortunate for Northwestern. Projected starting corner Daniel Jones is forced to retire thanks to injuries. Corner being the Wildcats' achilles heel since it ceased being "the whole team," that bodes unwell for the Wildcats and better for Michigan. Jones was lost for the year in the opener, so this is more Northwestern not getting that guy back than anything else.
The Daily makes the Daily show. You gotta put it in your click hole, nerds.
The most correct thing. This isn't relevant to anything but it is the most correct thing that's ever been said:
I spent five days in Las Vegas by myself earlier this month. If that sounds like your idea of paradise, let me stop you right there, because you're wrong. Even though I know nothing about you, I'm fairly certain that five days alone in Vegas is enough to make anybody rethink their life. Five days in Vegas with friends or family is still probably four days too many, but being alone in Vegas is like finding out halfway through a party that you were invited by mistake. Everyone is having the time of their lives around you, and even though you were excited when you arrived, you're just off to the side wondering what you're doing there.
As someone who spent a week in Vegas by myself*, this is so accurate. I eventually just spent the money for wifi (this was back when wifi still cost money at hotels) and sat in my hotel room because being alone by yourself is so much more tolerable than being alone around everyone. Vegas by yourself: horrible.
The rest of this article is an entertaining Mark Titus piece on attending an NBA scout "school" and finding out just how horrible that job is. So it's sports! On topic! (Not on topic.)
*[Qualified for the WSOP during the heyday of online poker and couldn't hector any of my friends into railbirding me. WSOP was very large that year so there were four separate Day 1s for a quarter of the field and two Day 2s.]
Etc.: Arian Foster gives classic 'Sheed interview. 1985 Big Ten commercial might as well be from 1685. BHGP sent a horse to Big Ten Media Days. This is legit you guys. Hooray Michelle Beadle. Michigan unranked in opening coaches' poll.
Big Ten coaches really like the word "think." Derrick Walton transitioning away from being just a shooter. I found the only Penn State fan that doesn't loathe us with the fury of a thousand suns.
Unverified Voracity Is A Mobius Strip Argument
Yes. Terrific article from John U Bacon on ticket sales and program malaise and the things we've been talking about all summer. There are about five money quotes. Here's one:
Brandon said, "We all think of every home Michigan football game like a miniature Super Bowl."
I don't know any Michigan fans who think that. Quite the opposite, they think Michigan football games are the antidote for the artificial excess of the Super Bowl.
Bacon has hit a nerve here—his server is imploding under the pressure.
The problem with Dave Brandon is that he is a mediocrity in a suit with one skill, which is wearing the suit. Unfortunately, this is who is in charge most places. But when Georgia fans, who were until recently saddled with one of our nation's greatest suited mediocrities in Michael Adams, are pointing at us and saying "it could be worse"… well, it ain't good.
At least we have the student government?
The move to general admission was fairly disastrous for Michigan last fall, and former student body president Michael Proppe launched a survey of students midway through the season.
"It was so overwhelmingly negative, we knew we had to come up with something," Proppe said.
The first survey that had 6,000 respondents was taken after the fourth home game and responses — including 76 percent saying they did not approve of general admission — were shared with the athletic department.
"It just didn't really work," he said.
A second survey administered with the athletic department gave a better gauge of what students want. They were asked to rank what's most important for their game-day experience, and No. 1 was being able to sit with friends. Interestingly, students said having Wi-Fi was the lowest priority.
"That is such a misconception that putting in Wi-Fi is going to get students to show up," Proppe said.
Michael Proppe for AD. Seriously.
Also yes. Bo Pelini suggests doing away with Signing Day altogether, which I almost support for this reason:
"If somebody has offered a kid, let him sign, it's over," Pelini told ESPN.com on Wednesday. "That will stop some of the things that are happening -- people just throwing out offers, some of them with really no intention of taking a kid."
The "almost" part is that the kid should be able to get out of the LOI if the coach he committed to gets the axe. The best system would maintain the Signing Day hoopla but also feature a non-binding LOI that you could sign whenever that would 1) prevent coaches from contacting you, 2) prevent you from taking an official visit to another school, 3) let the coaches you signed with talk to you whenever they want, and 4) guarantee you a scholarship at school X.
you get better pictures from the Mars lander
Well that clears up everything. The Ann Arbor News has an in-depth investigation about whether Taylor Lewan was the guy who punched some Ohio State fans who were begging to get punched ("Munsch had been walking around with a megaphone … taunted U-M fans on the street and inside the Brown Jug") after last year's edition of The Game. They have video that clears nothing up and quotes that contradict each other from about a dozen different people.
My takeaway is that this is time that could have been better spent finding anything else out. It seems like this incident has gotten a ton of attention for some drunk bar punchin' such as happens just about everywhere most years.
The last time I mentioned a potential transfer coming in for a visit it worked out all right. West Virginia shooting guard Eron Harris will be on campus this weekend, and a commitment to someone should be forthcoming soon. Harris has already been at Purdue and Michigan State, his other two finalists.
Perhaps relevant: MSU just landed a commitment from 2015 OH SG Kyle Ahrens, a guy who was vaguely on Michigan's radar. Harris is effectively a 2015 SG, so that may be a signal MSU doesn't have a great vibe with him.
2016 IN PG Eron Gordon is also slated to be on campus this weekend, and then the Michigan elite camp will bring in all manner of 2016 gentlemen fighting for Michigan's love and vice-versa.
The new guy. MGoVideo has a supercut of every Ty Isaac touch from last year. Sorry, you'll have to go over there—no embedding. I'm a little torn—Isaac doesn't look particularly explosive but then he outruns defensive backs in that game against Cal. Maybe he's just one of those guys who don't look like they're moving at high speed but somehow are. Guys do tend to bounce off him; Isaac had some nice chunks of YAC and tends to fall forward when that's at all a possibility.
You cannot be seeeeeeeerious. The NCAA published a snippy little press release about the portion of the O'Bannon case that EA settled on that must be seen to be believed:
The NCAA did finally find someone in their office who had a dictionary and changed "benefactors" to "beneficiaries." Meanwhile, the NCAA claiming that the "real benefactors" are the lawyers, who have dared to make money off the backs of student-ath…
uh… this is a terrible idea
I know, but that's never stopped us before
…DARED TO MAKE MONEY OFF THE BACKS OF STUDENT-ATHLETES is just… wow, man.
And they're probably going to try to draw a line between athletes being compensated for the use of their likeness in a court case and being compensated for the use of their likeness legally. I set the over under on exploded heads at NCAA HQ in the next two years at 2.5.
None of this does anything. The hockey rules committee was looking at some notable changes including three-quarter shields and changes to overtime procedure. Those all went away. The most notable change they have suggested:
Faceoff Location – Offensive Scoring Opportunity: If the offensive team is attempting to score and the puck goes out of play – the faceoff will remain in the attacking zone.
Status quo. Jake Butt is still on track to return by week three:
"I don't think we know (exactly when he'll be back) yet, but I wouldn't expect him back until after week three," Hoke said. "He feels great, he thinks he's Superman. They all do at that age.
"But he feels good."
Hoke said the hope is to get Butt back to seeing live contact action after the week three game against Miami-Ohio -- at the earliest.
This will be interesting. The Ed O'Bannon case kicks off Monday. SI has a primer and the NCAA witness list, which consists of folks disproportionately relevant to you: both Brandon and Mary Sue Coleman are on it, as are MSU AD Mark Hollis and Jim Delany. It seems like bad news that one of the economists on the NCAA side has this quote in a book of his:
"The NCAA restricts competition in a number of important activities. To reduce bargaining power by student athletes, the NCAA creates and enforces rules regarding eligibility and terms of compensation."
It'll be interesting, but not suspenseful. Claudia Wilken, the judge in the case, has already dismissed the word "amateurism" and ruled that the NCAA can't even mention non-revenue sports, leaving:
Her reasoning is that no one forces schools to sponsor teams that can't financially support themselves, so she considers the impact on those teams irrelevant in the eyes of the law. This doesn't leave much for the NCAA to argue except the pro-competitive aspects of its rules.
A pro-competitive aspect that anyone who's ever looked at a recruiting site knows doesn't exist and the SEC commissioner just said this about:
"I consider this period of time one of the historic moments that all of us are witnesses to — an evolutionary change where we put the student-athletes first and we build our philosophies on the student-athlete rather than the so-called level playing field," Slive said.
The NCAA is gon' die. Their current arguments are straightforward descriptions of functioning markets.
"In those circumstances, it is basic economics that allowing cash payments for (name, image and likeness usage) for the first time will tilt the distribution of talent and success towards colleges and universities with more cash to spend."
Oh, and this one.
They are only in the stadium at all because their colleges and universities have agreed to let them play ... (Athletes) cannot own the right to broadcast their games when they need the same permission that broadcasters do to be in the stadium at all.
The only tension is in how fast the NCAA will get laughed out of court.
Etc.: Caris finds his way onto a list of the top 15 draft prospects already in school. If you have no idea about soccer here's a good place to start. Looking at next year's softball team. MVictors points out a Kickstarter for old-timey jerseys. B10 championship to stay in Indy; basketball tournament to still mostly rotate between Chicago and Indy. North Carolina's Rashad McCants says the school bit of his career was a total sham.
Thursday Recruitin' Crawls For The Team, The Team, The Team
Signing Day: It Happened, I Guess
By the time I was able to get my laptop to start yesterday*, Michigan had already received LOIs from every committed prospect, and Malik McDowell had announced his intention to attend Michigan State. Brandon caught up with all the freshly inked signees on Tuesday night; other than the usual coachspeak-filled presser, there was little else of note to happen on the recruiting front yesterday for the Wolverines.
Of course, there's the McDowell situation, which is a mess. He committed to MSU in a ceremony at Southfield High School. His father attended, though he's still not a big fan of the decision; his mother did not. As of now, McDowell's LOI remains unsigned, and potentially could for a while:
"I'm not legally able to do it because I'm not the custodial parent," Greg [McDowell, Malik's father] told The Detroit News, noting that Malik is only 17. "[Joya Crowe, Malik's mother] has to sign it and I have to sign it, too. I don't know when it will happen. Malik has to handle that with his Mom. I'm willing to do whatever my son wants. It's been a long process and an uneasy process.
"That's something he'll have to deal with, because at the end of the day it's all about him and he has to work it out."
State's coaches sounded confident that he'll be a Spartan eventually—if worst comes to worst, McDowell doesn't even need a LOI in order to get his scholarship and enroll in the fall, though that leaves MSU in the unenviable position of hoping he sticks to his commitment without any binding document.
Could Michigan potentially get back into his recruitment in the meantime? It's highly unlikely. Malik is obviously intent on going to MSU; if he's forced to compromise with his mother, FSU and OSU are also possibilities—and there's also the matter of whether or not the coaches would want a player who may not really want to be in the program. Usually in these types of situations, the prospect eventually gets his wish, and that's what I expect to happen here.
As for actual newsworthy bits regarding Michigan's commits, there's one worth reprinting: Drake Harris, who missed his senior season with a torn hamstring, is "feeling more and more 100 percent," according to Jeff Hecklinski, and should be healthy for spring practice.
[Hit THE JUMP for a great Bo Schembechler story, Bo Pelini's unusual recruiting methods, lolTimBeckman, actual evidence that tweeting at recruits doesn't work, and more.]
Punt-Counterpunt: Nebraska 2013
Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt.
By Nick RoUMel
We need a good dose of optimism. Like the little boy who got all excited when he got a bag of horse crap for Christmas, happily exclaiming that Santa must have left him a pony outside.
But Punt, or Counterpunt - or whatever I am this week - is rarely an optimist. Look what happened last week. I go all giddy and pick Michigan to beat the Spartans, despite the odds and common sense. We got horse crap instead.
It would be so easy to revert to form. Get all grouchy, and say we suck; that we'll lose to Nebraska, even though they are without seemingly 7th year senior citizen Taylor Martinez, who is tending to his arthritis and bunions.
But - just as nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Nobody expects Punt to be predictable, either.
I therefore unpredictably predict a comfortable Michigan victory, now that we are back in the cozy confines of the Big House. All warm and fuzzy, like retired former Punt, Ken "Sky" Walker, sitting at home, soaking his large feet in Epsom salts, sipping on a Long Island Iced Tea, cursing Al Borges while wrapping his Michigan Snuggie close, like so:
Meanwhile, Heiko and I will freeze in the cold rain, cheering an embattled Michigan team, which will defy the odds and common sense, and do some crazy, unpredictable things themselves. Like running for positive yardage. Aggressively pursuing the opponent's young, inexperienced quarterback. And the craziest thing of all?
Michigan won't be the softest team on the field.
By Heiko Yang
Hey, remember when Nebraska won the division and made it to the Big Ten Title game last year?
Good news! The team visiting the Big House today isn't that Nebraska team. This year's edition of the Cornhuskers needed a Hail Mary just to beat Northwestern at home. Wait …
Sorry sorry. Enough with the self-evisceration. Today is the post-apocalyptic-where-does-society-go-now game. Let's try to find something in the rubble that isn't still on fire and start rebuilding.
Michigan got nuked into negative yards rushing last week. Whatever. I'm over it. Today, let's get positive yards. The kind where someone takes the ball, runs past the line of scrimmage, and gets tackled—not for loss, but for WIN. Yes, I think we would all to see Michigan get tackled for win.
Devin Gardner got sacked like he was Rome last week, only worse and more frequently. Today, let's see if we can erect
a wall some kind of obstacle maybe that could at least moderately hamper any incoming barbarians. I hear Michigan has offensive linemen. They should get really offensive today with personal insults like "you're fat" or "you remind me of Indiana." I even recommend name-calling and epithets, because upsetting the opponent is an important step towards slowing them down.
Finally (and somewhat seriously), let's see if Michigan can show any indication that they're willing to try something different this time to avoid another apocalypse. Quit screwing around with the gimmicky offensive line stuff. Maybe call a running play out of the ace formation, and stop going play-action on obvious passing downs. Throw a play-action pass from the inverted veer. I don't know. Anything at all would be nice. Even just one spread punt would be so reassuring.
Again, I mean, whatever. I'm over it. The sun is out today, and it's not rainy and disgusting. It's good to know at least the weather knows how to improve.
Nebraska 30, Michigan 28
Mailbag: NCAA Reform #1, DL Moves, Coaching Evaluation, Bo Pelini's Secret Twin
How to resolve the NCAA being terrible thing.
My friend and I were having a discussion about the best way to compensate college players, and he came up with the idea of paying players based on performance, sort of how incentive laden contracts work in the NFL, with the stipulation that the players will not receive the money until they graduate or go pro. I thought his idea was awful and unrealistic, because the "student athletes" would now become paid employees of the university and we essentially would have a semi-pro league on our hands. BUT, that got me thinking about a possible solution…
The issue we have here is the balance of compensation between stars and bench-warmers, large schools and small schools, men's sports and women's sports (which could also very well be a legal issue), revenue-generating and non-revenue-generating sports, etc. Instead of trying to figure out that mess, let's take the decision of compensation out of the universities' hands.
The solution: allow the student athletes to sign endorsement deals. If a corporation is willing to pay for a player's likeness, he deserves that money. However, the stipulation here is that all money earned by a student athlete through endorsements would have to be held in an escrow account, and the release of the money would be contingent upon the completion of the player's eligibility or his/her declaration to go pro, whichever comes first. Now if a player is caught accepting benefits beforehand, the NCAA would not look hypocritical when laying down punishments. Student athletes get compensated, legal issues are avoided, and you won't have a bunch of teenagers running around campus with millions of dollars to blow/get into mischief with. What do you think? So crazy it just might work?
Go Blue,
Stephen Y
That's fine. It's a little paternalistic to tell the kids they can't have money until they get their degree, and that will be less effective at legitimizing the stuff under the table, because poor college kids will still want walking-around money. It's still fine.
I'm not sure why there's this widespread opposition to giving people money in exchange for services, but whatever middle ground you want to stake out that gives the kids their image rights and avoids Title IX issues is fine by me. Sign whatever you want, get whatever money you can acquire, and everything will be the same except compliance folk will have to find less mindlessly pedantic jobs. Worries about booster involvement are naïve—they're already involved.
The other major thing that the NCAA could do is get rid of their inane opposition to agents. If you're a legit agent with X number of current pro clients you can sign players regarded as prospects, and give them some advance on whatever they're going to make in the pros. (If you don't make the pros, that's just tough luck for the agent.) The NCAA doesn't even have to redirect any of the buckets of cash they're currently making to make the system
- less impossible to manage
- a more even playing field
- fairer to the players
Yeah: a more even playing field. Right now no one is going to MAC schools over major offers, but schools willing to do under the table stuff—or just not stop it—have an advantage over schools that don't. And it's tough to figure out what the more moral position is there these days.
DL moves?
Hey Brian,
Sometimes in football, it seems that you just want to get the best guys on the field right? Do you think we might see a DL consisting of Beyer, Henry, Qwash, Black?
I would think Black could flip back out to SDE pretty easily and could fold back in to 3 tech occasionally depending on the substitution patterns. To me that gets your best pass rushers on the field more regularly and is the most likely combo to soak up OL in the run game too.
You mentioned that you expect Beyer to take Clark's job when Ryan comes back, but why not just make that switch now? Wouldn't you rather get Gordon out there with Beyer than Clark at this point?
(This was sent before Clark played well against UConn.)
If Michigan was going to put out its best line for one particular play against an I-formation that might well be it, but with opponents running out all kinds of spread packages and Michigan responding by lifting their nose tackle, Black's snaps are mostly going to be spent as an interior rush-type against shotgun formations. It's probably not worth moving him midseason to get a marginal improvement. While I like what I've seen from Henry so far, there was a play against UConn where he got obliterated. (Michigan was fortunate that UConn didn't block the second level well and held the gain down.) He's a work in progress.
Meanwhile on Cam Gordon: for whatever reason they're not playing him, and it's to the point that his lack of playing time speaks to a lack of performance. Beyer's been good, but mostly as a guy with his hand in the dirt. When Beyer's been put in coverage he's shown some flaws. Gordon's not getting more time is probably just his fate at this point.
I don't get it, either. They've been giving him seemingly genuine praise for years now and when it comes down to it they just don't put him on the field.
[After THE JUMP: evaluating Michigan's coaching staff, plus Bo Pelini axe murder.]
Opponent Watch: Week 3 (Overreaction Edition)
About Last Saturday:
Upcoming Opponents
UConn (0-2, 0-0 AAC)
Last game: Maryland 32, UConn 21 (L)
Recap: Mighty UConn put up a valiant effort against the cowardly and unwashed Maryland Turtle-People, but were undercut by intrigue, sedition, and the damn refs. According to the propaganda released by the Maryland-controlled Pravda that is the "Associated Press," Maryland outgained UConn 501-383. While giving credit to the Huskies for 349 yards passing, they claim that they were held to 34 yards rushing on 33 attempts. This is a lie, as with my own eyes I saw UConn break several long and impressive scoring runs to which the scoreboard operator turned a blind eye.
Verily, once the truth is known and justice is permitted to prevail over deceitful treachery, this team is poised for a glorious emergence. Woe be unto the team that must face this juggernaut at this moment in history.
This team is as frightening as: The all-consuming terror mined from the deepest pits of hell; the dredging up of fears long-since dismissed as figments of a scarred past. We had thought the capacity for such nightmares had been smoothed over by time and the advancement of civilization, only to learn that it was simply masked by a thin veneer, waiting to re-emerge. And while the pantries are not yet empty, the hunger pangs remind us all that we are never more than nine meals away from anarchy. Fear level = 10
Michigan should worry about: Pasqualoni to right of them/ Pasqualoni to left of them / Pasqualoni in front of them / Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with run and pass / For last week they played like ass /Into the jaws of Rentschler Field / Into the mouth of Hell / Rode the seventy
Michigan can sleep soundly about: Nessun Dorma.
When they play Michigan: Michigan is about an 18-point favorite.
Next game: vs. #15 Michigan
[AFTER THE JUMP: So much to fear. And Iowa]


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Believe it or not,
after this weekend we will be 1/4 through this NHL season already. If your league has playoffs, you may be a 1/3
through the regular season already. In
other words, if you don't like your team by now, you'd better act quick. Fortunately, we're hear to help. Here is this week's edition of the fantasy
hockey planner:
WHO's HOT
Kunitz. Crosby. Malkin. Dupuis.
Even Matt Cooke is starting to put points on the board.
Patrick Kane
Kane has been
inconsistent in recent years, but he has come out on fire this season. The hotness continues, with 6 goals and 8
points in his last 4 games.
Henrik Zetterberg
Similar story for
Hank. With 4 goals and 5 assists over
his last 5 games, he's risen near the top of the scoring leaders.
Pekka Rinne (G-NAS)
After a sluggish
start, Rinne is on fire. He's won 4
straight, allowing just 3 goals during that span.
Sheldon Souray (D-ANA)
Seems like he has a
new sweater every year, but one thing stays the same: he scored goals. He's potted one in each of the last 3 games,
giving him 4 on the season. That's more goals
than Kessel, Sharp, Hall, Richards, Nash, Semin, Ryan, and many other
goal-scoring forwards.
WHO's COLD
In terms of goals,
see Souray's file above… here are a few more disappointments:
Jordan Eberle (F-EDM)
Just one lousy
assist in the last 5 games. This guy was supposed to challenge the leading
scorers this year.
Mikko Koivu (F-MIN)
Those good vibes to
start the season on fire with Parise have vanished. Four straight games without a point. -3 over that span.
Rick Nash (F-NYR)
Just one point in
his last 4 games. Ice time is starting
to be reduced.
Milan Michalek (F-OTT)
After a solid start,
he's registered just 1 assist in the last 5 games. Somebody missing Spezza?
Evander Kane (F-WPG)
3 games without
seeing his name on the scoresheet. He
did register 7 shots on goal last night.
Need one to go in now, Evander.
Marian Gaborik (F-NYR)
Is there a streakier
human being on the planet? After four
straight games without a point, he broke through with a goal last night. Guess it's time for another hat trick, Marian?
Shea Weber (D-NAS)
You're killing me,
Shea. 1 lousy point on the season? Please don't look where I had him ranked
WHO's HURT
Viktor Fasth (G-ANA)
You may have already
missed the boat on this one. Fasth isn't
your typical rookie up for a cup of coffee.
He's 30 years old and has had success in Europe. Now, he's challenging Hiller for the job in
Anaheim. 4-0 so far in his NHL career
with a GAA under 1.
Colin Wilson (F-NAS)
The Preds are
quietly making their move, and 3rd year winger Colin Wilson is leading the
charge. He has 6 points over the last 3
Martin Hanzal (F-PHO)
Seems to be
recovered from some early season injury woes, and is running the show in
Phoenix. 4 goals and 1 assist over the
last 4 games for the Coyotes.
Andy Greene (D-NJ)
Before last week, it
was foolish to suggest the name Andy Greene on a fantasy hockey website. However, 2 goals and 4 assists later, he
deserves a nod.
Jiri Hudler (F-CGY)
The Flames are a
team worth looking at in fantasy circles.
They've played just 8 games, meaning you can take advantage of those
extra games going forward. Hudler is on
to consider. 7 point in 5 games this
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it scares me how I shy away from formal training
for some reason I dread the t word
training is like work
I just like to ride my bike
the t word
somehow I fear that training would take the fun out of riding
or maybe I am just lazy
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I could have written that exact post - except for the last line ;)
you and your cohorts share a passion that is fueled by smiles
it is great to see people so motivated by themselves and pleasure
fast and fun
an odd mix
you guys keep it soulful!
It's a different kind of fun - at least for me. I enjoy challenging my body and when I'm racin' and I hear the ragged breathing of my competitors while I'm still breathin' easy and plotting attacks, well that's so much fun it makes every minute spent doing a little less fun during the work waaay worth it.
racing I understand
it is the training part I do not get
gentlemen do not practice
racing for me is about going out hard
dying in final miles
wishing I had approached the event better prepared
rinse and repeat
a lifetime of bad habits
you've just emphasized one of the reasons I like the whole cycling thing.. there's a place for everybody and every style making the mix a little richer.
today I got a copy of Cyclocross Magazine
am stoked to check it out
it looks super cool
like a cross racing dirt rag!
I am afraid I will like it
while looking at this wonderful glossy mag I talk with my wife and my two boys
I mention uncle marc
as the cover image is from the nationals at kc this past december
my brother missed the pile up
it is a fantastic shot
telling my six year old son dean that uncle marc is a better cyclist is a hard thing to say to a child
maybe my son is too young for reality
the other day my brother and I were talking
we were talking about the sport of mountain biking
and mountain biking is a lot like swimming
and the trail is a great deal like the neighborhood pool
some people come to do laps
others want to do dives off the board
some people will play dibble dabble
some will just stand around and splash
heck... there will be canon balls and competitions to see who can hold their breath the longest
it is great
everybody is free to express themselves how they choose
except for those that fail to get in the water
Are your rides after work not practice? It keeps you in race shape, even if just for fun. Ferrel and Bells would play with other people then there band mates, this was for fun, but it didn't hurt there craft. Gentlemen do practice, they sometimes just don't know they are doing that and improving. Practice is a must if this is ones craft, but we all can get in the pool and have fun.


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The 2010 Texas Freethought Convention is in Dallas on Oct 8-10. I just realized that today is the last day for early bird ticket prices ($75 versus $90).Anyway, some folks over at ATT are talking about it, so maybe we can also join forces and have a mini-meetup of our own while attending! Anyone interested, we can exchange contact info here, or through private messaging.I just registered myself, my spouse, and our son! Let's go people! woo hoo!!!!!


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Al Cleveland, the owner of Map Supply Inc., has a poster in the retail section of his business that shows a portable sign that states: "GPS unreliable. Use road map."
WELCOME | Al Cleveland, the owner of Map Supply Inc., has a poster in the small retail section of his business that shows a lighted portable sign near the intersection of interstates 26 and 40 in the North Carolina mountains that states: "GPS unreliable. Use road map."
Cleveland said the sign refers to road closures and detours due to rock slides, but he took the photograph for the poster he takes to trade shows to promote his business, which makes more than 400 different maps, primarily of cities, counties and states in the Southeast, but also as far west as Texas. The poster also features a story about a couple who nearly died in their car in a snowstorm in the Northwest when their new GPS navigation system directed them to a route through old logging roads in a forest.
A registered cartographer who has been in the map business for 55 years, Cleveland said technology such as GPS systems in vehicles and mobile maps on smartphones has hurt the business, which he has owned since 1990. A dozen years ago, he had 48 employees in Welcome but now has seven and another 19 sales representatives in the field. But technology itself has cut down on the need for employees since computers, in addition to aerial photography, are extensively used to gather and coordinate the information used to design maps, which he likened to "putting together a crossword puzzle."
While the company makes city, county and state maps as well as road and street atlases, Cleveland said he has also stayed in the game by making maps with unique combinations of locations, such as a Piedmont Triad map and a multi-state map of North and South Carolina as well as Virginia. On a local level, the company also offers a waterproof version of a map of High Rock Lake with fishing and boating information.
"Making a variety of products no one else does has helped us in the marketplace," Cleveland said.
Map Supply also offers durable, laminated maps under the "Tuffy" label and large-print maps, which are popular with older customers, who tend to know how to read maps, unlike the younger generation. Cleveland noted school children were routinely taught how to read maps in geography and social studies classes, but that fell out of favor in the late '70s and has only begun to be included in such curriculums again in recent years. "There's a whole generation of people out there who don't know how to read a map," he added.
But GPS systems are not infallible and are expensive to update, Cleveland noted, so people whose work keeps them on the road often buy maps, even if it's used to complement newer technology.
"About 70 percent of all map buyers are local people," he said, noting tourists aren't the main consumers of maps but people who actually live and work in the communities for which they have maps.
He noted that first responders such as fire departments and law enforcement agencies are among the company's major customers, as well as delivery providers such as FedEx and UPS and service providers such as plumbers and electricians. Sales representatives are also a big base of clients, as well as people who like to go to garage sales. Retail chains, including convenience stores and drug stores, sell many of the company's maps.
Cleveland said he has also stayed in business by offering custom maps, such as for an area Board of Realtors. For example, the map for real estate agents would include information on locations of schools and churches and tax district lines, which are not always included on maps for the general public.
Map Supply has also begun marketing specialty maps, which are the company's basic maps but with a retail chain's locations highlighted and the retailer's name on the cover.
Cleveland said there were about 50 small map companies in the Southeast years ago but fewer than 10 now — and he intends to remain one of them.
"The map business will never go away," he said. "It will always be here — not like it was 20 years ago — but people will always use maps."
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Royal Golf Group majority owner John Weiss elected to consult a figurative caddy about two years ago.
He aimed to keep golf affordable at his four courses while boosting membership at each one. So began the search for a management group.
Atlanta-based Sequoia Golf Group emerged as the lead candidate, and in March partnered with Weiss and Co., whose holdings include Royal Fox and Royal Hawk country clubs in St. Charles.
"We wanted to not only compete very competitively on a price level, but we want to offer more services. Better golf course, better amenitites than other clubs," Weiss said. "We're chosen on the basis of what we have to offer and not just on the price."
Justin Baker, manager of Royal Fox and Royal Hawk, recently relocated from Atlanta, where he had worked for just under a decade. The Ohio native is eager to return to his Midwestern roots after taking stock of the facilities at both St. Charles courses.
While Baker has responsibilities to the group's two other courses – Klein Creek Golf Club in Winfield and The Grove Country Club in Long Grove – he is based at Royal Fox.
With the weather beginning to turn (reluctantly) and more members getting outdoors for early-season rounds, Baker continues to launch into a communications blitz. In addition to polling players informally, he sent members an electronic survey that he hopes provides a solid base for corresponding moves in operations, marketing and other areas.
"You're just trying to gather feedback on things they're happy with, things they're dissatisfied with," Baker said. "That's in order to kind of one, develop the strong areas so that you can build on them and two, identify areas of improvement so that you can begin to develop plans for those."
Sequoia now owns or operates more than 45 golf facilities nationwide, including club, resort and public courses.
Weiss is confident the arrangement will help his courses gain ground in a competitive regional atmosphere. Membership plans at the St. Charles courses start at $295 monthly, designed for young executives or baby boomers with an interest or availability in playing at limited times.
"Not much has changed outside of Sequoia being involved in order to kind of drive the ship behind the scenes," Baker said.
The Royal Golf Group started in 1999, when Weiss and his partners purchased Royal Fox. In 2004, the group acquired what was then Blackhawk Golf Club, a public course. Officials renamed the property Royal Hawk and turned it into a private club a year later.
SCC streaking: Marmion extended a pair of lengthy Suburban Christian Conference championship streaks this week, claiming the league's boys tennis crown for a fifth successive season and its boys track title for an eighth straight year.
On Wednesday, the track team topped host Aurora Central Catholic, 177-129, in the 11-team event behind a deep attack. The Cadets' winners included individuals John Graft (1,600 meters), Tyler Maryanski (high jump) and Isaiah Brown (long jump), plus the 4x800 and 4x400 relays.
North alum shines for BYU men's v'ball: Brigham Young senior middle blocker Russ Lavaja, a St. Charles North alumnus, contributed eight kills and three blocks Saturday as the Cougars lost to California-Irvine in the national championship match.
BYU fell, 23-25, 22-25, 24-26, at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in its bid for a fourth national title. The Cougars' most recent championship came in 2004.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A prison guard accused of having a sexual relationship with an inmate who killed two New York City policemen has given birth to a son.
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Gonzalez was charged in February with having an unlawful sexual relationship with inmate Ronell Wilson while working at a federal detention center in Brooklyn. At the time her attorney said Gonzalez has had a tragic life and made poor decisions.
Wilson was convicted in the point-blank shootings of undercover officers James Nemorin and Rodney Andrews in a 2006 gun sting.
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Voices UnBroken is a Bronx-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing under-heard members of the community, primarily youth ages 12-24, with the tools and opportunity for creative self-expression. Through high quality creative writing workshops in juvenile justice facilities, group homes, residential treatment facilities, jails, and various other transitional and alternative settings, Voices UnBroken nurtures the inherent need in all people to tell their stories and be heard. It is our belief that this telling of stories and sharing of dreams leads to individual and community growth.
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A second student has died as a result of injuries he received during yesterday's shooting rampage at a Chardon, Ohio school.
Russell King Jr., 17, was pronounced dead early this morning. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports:
"Russell was described by students as a sociable kid who got along well with people.
"Enrolled at both Chardon High School and at the Auburn Career Center in Concord Township, the junior studied technologies of alternative energies like solar and wind power while at the career center.
"Auburn Superintendent Maggie Lynch described Russell as a good student, polite and cooperative. Lynch also characterized Russell as 'a very social kid, quick with a smile.'"
Daniel Parmertor died yesterday from his injuries and three others remain hospitalized.
"We are shocked by this senseless tragedy," Parmertor's family said in a statement according to local station WKYC. "Danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him. The family is torn by this loss."
The schools at Chardon remain closed today. Our friends at State Impact Ohio report that District Superintendent Joseph Bergant said teachers and staff should stay home and "spend some time reflecting on family."
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Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Entrance: Free
Minimum age of 18 years required!
Festival Dates: November 16-17, 2012
Time: 10 am
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The OUT Film Festival takes place for the second time in Kenya. The film festival not only wants to celebrate queer cinema, but to make known to Kenya that a community that the general society deems secret exists. The festival promises another selection of films and documentaries from the region, continent and globe.
The OUT Film Festival is about celebrating life's challenges, love and diversity. It continues to carry forward the message of Ubuntu.
Diversity + Tolerance = Ubuntu
Ubuntu = I am what I am because of Who We all Are
The OUT Film Festival is supported by the Gay Kenya Trust, the Embassy of Switzerland and the Goethe-Institut Kenya.
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Dave Grohl is set to host a limited run show on SiriusXM that features music recorded at Los Angeles's legendary Sound City Studios. The premiere episode airs today (Nov. 29) at 4 p.m. EST on SiriusXM's Classic Vinyl station.
As reported by Rolling Stone, each episode will be devoted to a specific time period for music made at Sound City. The last episode, airing January 24, will include a discussion about the making of Grohl's forthcoming documentary film about the studio.
Today's episode covers 1970-1975, and will include music from Neil Young, Elton John and Fleetwood Mac, among others. "I'm so proud of the Sound City film and beyond excited for the world to see what I've been working on for the past year," Grohl said, in a prepared statement. "Even before that, though, I'm grateful to SiriusXM for giving me the opportunity to share all this great music and to let people know what got me excited about Sound City in the first place."


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if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen...sociologists typically do not solve social problems, they just write about them, so it is to be expected that they will engage in all kinds of "we're not upper-middle class", "you should be so happy we let "coloreds" and "little women" into our fieldI just thought, rather than delete this or keep it only in the comments field, I would put it out here in the open so y'all would get to see the joys one gets to deal with when one allows anonymous comments. Perhaps one can also see why, by the time sociologists are five years out of graduate school, they commonly exhibit a certain dismissive weariness toward some of the "angrier" persons floating around the periphery of the enterprise. If this be smug and condescending, then Jeremy Freese: smug, condescending.
Regardless, I'm reluctant to turn anonymous comments off, because the majority of people who comment anonymously do not abuse the privilege, and I think I get many interesting and thoughtful anonymous comments I wouldn't otherwise get.
As I responded to the commenter, though: this is my house, and so I would rather this person leave my kitchen. If not, and they want to keep say provocative, albeit maniacal, things calling out myself and/or my profession, they should stop posting anonymously and use their real name, the way everything I say--which includes things other people don't like--goes out under my real name. Given the nitwitness of the person in question--for all I know it could be some 14-year-old dittohead who stumbled onto my blog and has decided to pull our collective chain, which would explain certain things about quality of the writing involved--I suspect to hear from her/him/it again.
Meanwhile: I am way too busy with urgent forthrushing deadlines to be wasting cognitive space on this. Anybody want to guest post for a few days?
Update: Reality check from a conversation with a friend just now on the phone. I'm turning anonymous comments off at least through my return from Dallas/Tulsa on 11/21. I invite reasonable people who presently comment anonymously to create Blogger accounts to comment. The sign-up screen can make it look like you need to set up a blog yourself to comment, but you don't.


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President Obama held nothing back in his return to the campaign trail on Thursday, ticking off Republican challenger Mitt Romney's policy proposals -- repealing health care reform, lowering tax rates, easing financial regulations -- and blasting each one at a rally in Green Bay, Wisc.
"Governor Romney has been using all his talents as a salesman to dress up these very same policies that failed our country so badly, the very same policies we've been cleaning up after for the past four years. And he's been offering them up as change," Obama said.
"Well let me tell you, Wisconsin, we know what change looks like, and what the governor's offering sure ain't change," the president added.
Obama canceled campaign events on the first three days of the week, focusing his attention on the government's response to Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged parts of New Jersey, New York City and other areas along the East Coast. The president toured the Jersey Shore on Wednesday with the state's Republican governor, Chris Christie, a vocal critic of Obama's leadership. Both men set politics aside and praised each other's efforts.
But with only five days before the election, Obama resumed his pitch for a second term as earnestly as ever on Thursday.
In an approach he has taken more frequently in one-on-one interviews, Obama also acknowledged the disenchantment of some of his backers, and he addressed those voters directly.
"You may not agree with every decision I've made. You may be frustrated at the pace of change," Obama said. "But you know what I believe. You know where I stand. You know I'm willing to make tough decisions, even when they're not politically convenient. And you know I'll fight for you and your families every single day, as hard as I know how."
Romney has painted Obama as a gifted speaker and well intentioned president who has not delivered on the promises of his original campaign for the White House. The national unemployment rate, 7.8 percent, remains more than two points higher than what Obama's economic advisers forecast before he took office. Obama's pledge to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term went unfulfilled.
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Do You Need to Conform to a Community mindset?
I live where I live because I can afford it. The town doesn't influence how I think or what I do. It never did. - - - - - - I have a few sets of friends who I see socially for different reasons. Old childhood friends I am totally comfortable with, we don't think alike about marriage, divorce, politics, religion, and yet are somehow closer than my relatives. I have some single 'going out for fun' friends who are fun to be with but my life isn't like theirs so we see each other on occassion and we have good carefree times. My cultural friends and I go places and experience new things and they challenge me. Work friends are only those I see while working.- - - - - - - - - - The world isn't one like-thinking community. Don't we all need to know more about the way others live and interact and how others feel and love and think? - - - - - - - - I have neighbors that I live among. Many of us don't agree about politics, religion, landscaping, car choices, clothing options, but we live together side by side. I can't imagine life another way. My Jewish friend taught me that when asked about business, that I shouldn't say I was doing well. I should answer that business is so, so. That was important stuff he taught me about humility. He infuenced me to be better. I miss him..
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(continued from part one) When you choose your community, you choose your social pressure. There's going to be certain things in every community that's – whatever, little schtick, that you don't really relate to. There are certain things that we're gonna do just to get along, just for shalom, just for peace. Know you're doing it for that reason. Know that this is what I'm doing just to get along with people; it's just not worth standing up for. There are gonna be certain things that are worth standing up for. There's mistakes, and things that are hurting people, you're gonna take a stand. You have your good social pressure, you have the things you're going to go along with just for peace, and there are certain things you're going to take a stand for. Choose wisely, and choose the community that has the social pressure that you want to strive for and that you need.
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Because access for the deaf is important. Somebody was talking to me the other day, and they were saying there was so much social pressure community and it was really negative. They were really ready to move out. So I told her that every community has certain social pressure, and when you move into a community you choose your social pressure. But there's good social pressure and not so good social pressure. What is good social pressure? We chose a community where the social pressure is to get married, to work at your marriage, and to stay married. There's also a social pressure to be a good person: to be kind, to be giving, to be helpful. There's a social pressure not to gossip. In my community, if I were to say, "oh, I've got some great gossip for you," I would be a social pariah. It would be like I lit a cigarette in a closed elevator. People would go home and tell their spouses, "our children can't marry her children." That's good social pressure. Why? 'Cause it helps me to be a better person. All boats rise. When you're in a situation, when you're in a community you're around people who are really kind, giving, good, honest people, you rise up to that level. And the opposite: there are some communities where there's a social pressure to gossip – that if you don't gossip, you're the social pariah! Who does she think she is, if you say, you know what we shouldn't be talking about this? And in certain communities, there's a social pressure not to stay married, and not to even marry, and not to stay faithful. (continued)
(4) Rachel, August 4, 2011 2:57 PM
But how do you know when you haven't yet lived there?
My husband and I are starting to look toward the day when our children have left the nest -- and we are very concerned about where to go. We are presently in a great community, but anytime one moves to a place one doesn't know, one is taking a chance on what kind of environment it will be. I'm not talking about moving to a place with no Jewish life -- I'm talking about not knowing how one will be received in a new Jewish community. And some social pressure is also about things like the car one drives, the clothes and jewelry one wears, which charities one supports (and how openly), etc.
(3) David, August 3, 2011 7:56 PM
A little moderation is a good thing.
I completely agree that all communities exert social pressure, whether or not it is obvious or whether or not it is perceived by all members in that community. And just as you say there is good and bad social pressure, there are also good and bad ways to manifest that pressure. In the example you gave of gossiping, wouldn't a more constructive form of social pressure be for the other person to say 'hey, don't gossip, you know that is against our values", rather than to run home and say "guess what I heard, so and so wanted to gossip...her children can't marry ours..."? (The irony is intended). Yes, we can all improve our communities by applying positive pressure; and we can do so effectively by applying the pressure in a timely and proportionate way.


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Sourdough Switcharoo
As I mentioned in my previous post, last night I placed my new sourdough starter in the oven with just the light on to see if staying 80 degrees overnight would give it some pep. It did, having slightly over doubled in size by this morning.
I also started a poolish last night so I could do a standard French bread if my starter wasn't looking lively. It too was ready to go this morning.
"Hey," I thought, "Since I have both, why don't I try making a yeasted and a sourdough version of the same recipe and compare how they come out? That's a good idea, innit?"
It is if you can remember which is which, but I, alas, could not.
My head was just not together this morning and I mixed up the two. What I knew was that I had two batches of my simple rustic bread: 14 oz. bread flour, 1 oz. rye flour, 1 oz. whole wheat flour, 1 tablespoon salt, 12 ounces water. One of the two had a teaspoon of instant yeast and a cup or so of poolish in it, the other had half a cup of sourdough starter.
For the life of me, I could tell them apart: I was certain the one that was rising fast was the sourdough. It smelled like sourdough. Or maybe that was just the rye flour?
In the end I figured out which was which, but by then I botched the shaping of one of the sourdough loaves. Against all odds, the other one came out well.
The poolish bread:
The sourdough round:
The two side-by-side (sourdough on left):
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The poolish bread was much lighter and had a much more evenly open crumb. The sourdough was somewhat dense and should have been allowed to rise another half hour or hour (and would have, if I'd remembered which one it was), but it still developed a beautifully irregular crumb and tasted marvelous. That it came out not only edible but excellent proves my assertion that even a dunderhead can bake a naturally leavened bread if they are willing to keep trying.
Next weekend I bake ONLY sourdoughs, or a sourdough and something that I couldn't possibly confuse it with, like a brioche or a challah.


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Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, Europe gets ready
ESA PR 50-2001. On Monday 15 October 2001, in Brussels, top representatives from ESA, the EU and other governmental organisations will participate in a Conference on GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) organised under the aegis of the Belgian EU Presidency.
The full day programme, articulated into three sessions, will see the presence of around 300 delegates. Registration will start at 08:30 hrs at the Palais de Congrès, Coudenberg, 3.
The goal of the GMES initiative is to establish a coherent, operational, long-term and user-dedicated information system that meets the specific needs for policy making and research in several fields such as environment, agriculture, regional development, security, and transport. The GMES initiative aims at supporting Europe's leading role in the monitoring of the global environment and provides support to policy makers in the fields of hazards and crisis management.
GMES is one of the two main pillars of the joint European strategy for space, developed by ESA and the EU and adopted in November 2000 by both the ESA Minister's Council and the EU Research Council. In addition, as part of the European Union strategy for Sustainable Development, the Gothenburg European Summit in June 2001 decided that the Community should contribute to establishing a European capacity for global monitoring for environment and security by 2008.
GMES will be geared to meeting a number of challenges: global change and its impact on our environment, including monitoring of treaty commitments; the strain on the environment caused by degradation; natural resource depletion and scarcity; and natural or man-made environmental disasters.
ESA is well placed to respond to these challenges: as of now with ERS, in the near future with Envisat and later on with the Earth Watch and Earth Explorer missions.
ESA can head the space contribution to GMES and be the Commission's natural partner in this initiative. By doing so, ESA follows the mandate given by the ESA and EU Ministers, according to which ESA acts as the implementing agency for the development and procurement of the space segment and the ground segment involved in the European Community's initiatives.
The Brussel's GMES Conference recommendations will serve as an input to the discussions on the implementation of the GMES Programme which will be discussed at the upcoming EU Research Council in October 2001 in Brussels and which will be tabled at the ESA Ministerial Council of 14-15 November 2001 in Edinburgh.
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Installing CAI on 98 Impreza RS
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I've never used a cold air intake...so I don't know.
Lemme know if this intake is any good.
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I wish i had a digital camera but I did find this while searching google (it has a picture of the engine)
Posted 20 August 2004 - 11:24 AM
I would advise against plugging any of the hoses. The PCV system keeps your oil healthy, by removing blowby from the crankcase.
Posted 20 August 2004 - 04:32 PM
i'll get ya 20% off... *lol*
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Here is a link to a page that has the intake
Posted 21 August 2004 - 04:31 PM
The resonator kills some of the intake noise by slowing the air flow and thereby creating a barrier for shock waves that result from intake valves snapping shut as air is still trying to get into the cumbustion chamber.
This slow moving air is a better feed for the PCV system, since the air pressure in the resonator will be higher and therefor easier to "suck" from.
If possible, keep the resonator in place. Fitting the open type filter and making sure it has access to cool air will improve things, the resonator won't get in the way most of the time - except at high engine speeds, where slowing the intake air flow is counter productive.
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With so many marriages ending in divorce today, some people wonder if the legal definition of marriage needs updating. One lawyer, Paul Rampell, says maybe it's time to consider 'leasing' your marriage - with the option to renew. Guest host Celeste Headlee talks to Rampell about his idea.
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Newcastle United defender Steven Taylor has revealed he is learning French to adapt to the influx of French players that joined the Magpies in January.
Mathieu Debuchy, Moussa Sissoko, Yoan Gouffran, Massadio Haidara and Mapou Yanga-M'Biwa all moved to St. James Park during last month's transfer window, and although Taylor welcomes the competition in the squad he is now adjusting by trying to learn French.
After seeing teammate Yohan Cabaye learn English by listening to CD's in his car, Taylor will do likewise and told the Daily Mirror: "I'm talking all the time, probably with a terrible accent, but I'm trying. Thumbs up means good. I got a Spanish GCSE, not French. It will be nice to learn a bit of French, just in case," said Taylor.
The defender is also excited by the fact that the new players will help the club in their bid to avoid a relegation dogfight.
"Since I was 17, Newcastle were always signing new players. I always saw it as a challenge. New players coming in freshens the squad up and you've just got to rise to the challenge. You've got to better yourself, not sulk," Taylor added.
"You're at a massive club, deal with it. It's part and parcel of professional football. When you get the chance, you've got to perform.
"There have been players here the last few months who have got too comfortable, they've been too settled in their position."
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Even Deron Williams was surprised when Nets general manager Billy King first informed his star player of plans to bring Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett to Brooklyn. "I knew [Billy] was trying to get Paul and I thought that was done" Williams said Thursday. "Then he called me and was like 'I'm trying to get KG too' and I told him there was no way you can do it. "That's what I said. … I almost hung up on him. There's no way you can get both of them but he did it." The megatrade which also brought Jason Terry to the Nets was one of several big moves King pulled off this summer. By the time he was done revamping the Nets – who will have a payroll of over $100 million this season in addition to nearly $90 million in luxury-tax payments – he had assembled a team Williams said was deeper than any he's played on including his Jazz squad that made one trip to the Western Conference Finals. "A lot of the teams in Utah were good but I don't think they were as deep as this" Williams said. "I think that might have been a little bit of our problem and we weren't as big you know? "We kept running into the Lakers and we just had no answer for them inside to their length. [Carlos Boozer] was only 6-8 … I'll give him a couple inches" Williams added with a smile. "This team is definitely … I'm excited. I'm excited. I feel like we have a chance. Nothing is going to be given to us and we're going to go in and work hard and stay together as a team and we'll be fine." One of the biggest moves the Nets made was convincing Andrei Kirilenko – one of the linchpins of those Utah teams alongside Williams and Boozer – to sign for one year at the mini-midlevel exception giving the Nets one of the league's most versatile players as well as an excellent perimeter defender. Having Kirilenko will allow coach Jason Kidd to deploy all kinds of different and creative lineup combinations. And Williams who has remained friendly with Kirilenko since being traded from the Jazz in 2011 did his part to recruit his old running mate to Brooklyn.
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South Elgin senior Kara Rodriguez did not have much success in her first two at-bats against Elgin junior standout Jennah Perryman Thursday, striking out both times.
But with the game on the line, South Elgin's Female Athlete of the Year showed the determination of a champion and won the game for her team.
Rodriguez lined a clean single up the middle to score Paige Allen from third base with the game-winning run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Storm beat the Maroons 4-3 in the semifinals of the Class 4A St. Charles North regional. South Elgin beat St. Charles North 4-1 early in the season.
"I just thought, 'This is it. This is where I want to be. This is my spot. It's now or never," said Rodriguez. "I just had to clear my head."
The win sends the second-seeded Storm (18-14) to the 11 a.m. Saturday championship game against the host and top-seeded North Stars (22-5). The winner advances to next week's St. Charles East sectional to play the winner of the Schaumburg regional, either Glenbard North or Schaumburg.
South Elgin roared out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of Thursday's game, junior Alyssa Buddle cranking a 3-run home run to right-center field after Rodriguez had walked and Cassidy Westlund singled against Elgin freshman Jessica Rago, who was pressed into starting duty when Perryman was held out of the starting lineup by Maroons' coach Chad Dahlman for what he called, "disciplinary reasons."
"I knew Jennah would be coming in to pitch and we had seen (Rago) before so we knew we needed to get ahead early," said Buddle. "I was just looking for my pitch and to get a hit."
Elgin (14-15) got back into the game after leaving 5 runners on base through four innings against Allen. Perryman hit a solo shot to left with two outs in the fifth, then seniors Monica Stockman and Caroline Sobeski jacked back-to-back solo homers in the sixth to tie the game at 3-3.
Meanwhile, the Storm could do nothing against Perryman, who took over for Rago in the circle in the third. She struck out 10 of the first 12 batters she faced before South Elgin finally made contact with three groundouts in the seventh.
But the Maroons' bats also went silent against South Elgin sophomore Rachel Ziemba, who came on for Allen after the 2 homers in the sixth. Ziemba, who had pitched just 5 varsity innings coming into the game, set the Maroons down 1-2-3 after the homers tied the game and allowed just a walk in the top of the seventh before Stockman reached on an error to lead off the eighth and Storm coach Jason Schaal, who is stepping down after the season, turned to Taylor Rees, who earned the win, to take over. Elgin used a fielder's choice on Sobeski's bunt and another fielder's choice to load the bases with one out but Ziemba induced two grounders to escape the inning.
"It was a tough call," said Schaal of the pitching change. "They were starting to catch up with Paige a little and Rachel came in and did very well for someone with five innings of varsity experience. And then Taylor comes in and does a nice job getting groundball after groundball."
With one out in the bottom of the eighth, Allen lined a single to left and took second on an error. Victoria Watt then bunted Allen over to third and with a 2-2 count, Rodriguez lined a Perryman pitch straight up the middle to end the game and send the Storm to its fifth regional championship game in the seven varsity seasons of the program.
"(Perryman) is amazing," Rodriguez said. "She's so good. I just wanted to put the ball in play."
Which, despite the previous two at-bats, Schaal had every belief Rodriguez would.
"She's a four-year varsity player and I couldn't be happier for any young lady on this team as I am for her," Schaal said. "What a great job. I just looked at her and said 'clear head, full heart.' She struggled a little but she never gave up. She always believes in herself and her team and that's what a leader does."
Sobeski had 2 hits for the Maroons, who will be looking for a new coach for next season.
"This game is how our season has been," said Dahlman, who revealed after the game he is stepping down after four seasons. "We have not been able to get the big hits with people on base. I'm proud of our girls for fighting back after being down 3-0 and I'm proud of my three seniors."


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Meridian, Miss. The head of the Meridian City Council is responding to concerns from Mayor Percy Bland about what the mayor calls a lack of respect. Mayor Bland tells Newscenter 11 that he felt disrespected by some council members during Tuesday's city council meeting. However, the president for the council says that was not the case.
"There was no disrespect. We asked questions and we expected answers," says Councilman George Thomas.
Many of the questions that city council members asked Mayor Bland Tuesday night referred to bills that were listed on a claims docket.
"It's not to delegate or micromanage every purchase that the mayor makes, it's just to get an understanding," says Meridian City Council Vice-President Dustin Markham.
One of the items that the council questioned was an additional $16,000 that the city's attorney billed the city during one month of service.
"Here we are getting a bill for $22,000 for reviewing handbooks, and for reviewing contracts, and a lot of this appears to fall up under what's considered as his routine duties for the city of Meridian," said Ward 4 Councilwoman Kim Houston.
Meanwhile, Thomas says the council's questions about several bills needed to be answered.
"You have to understand that the city council is personally responsible for any money spent by the city of Meridian," says Thomas. "So, anytime a claims docket comes forward, if it is not a legal expenditure, the city council members are responsible, not the mayor, not anyone else. We approve the claims docket and we want to make sure that everything that is spent is legitimate."
"It's a new day, and we're taking out time to really look at the information that is given to us," says Councilwoman Houston.
'We just want to make sure that the money is appropriately spent, and if it's appropriately spent then there is no problem with that," says Thomas. "We just want to make sure, and I think that the public is asking for more open city government, and one of the ways to open up city government is to have the discussions at a council meeting."
Meanwhile, as for concerns about billing for the city's attorney, Councilman Thomas says that has been an issue for many years. To save money he says some council members have talked about exploring the option of hiring a full-time attorney for the city.
The next time that the Meridian City Council will meet will be Thursday, October 24th at 9 AM for a work session. That will be held inside the conference room on the third floor of city hall.


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Mark Selby has been backed to win multiple Crucible titles after stunning Ronnie O'Sullivan to land his maiden triumph at the World Championship.
On a night when emotions were running high, Selby dedicated the remarkable victory to his late father.
The 30 year-old Leicester cueman's tenacity and sheer appetite for the task was rewarded as he triumphed 18-14 and finished with a flourish.
The great 'Grinder' of the sport, Canada's Cliff Thorburn, was on hand to see Selby wear down the man who was chasing a third successive world title and sixth of his career.
O'Sullivan remarked on Selby's likeness to the 1980 world champion, and had no complaints about his loss in a match he led 8-3 and 10-5.
"If you sign up to be a top snooker player you accept the losses with the wins. You can't have it all your own way all the time," O'Sullivan said.
"I'll have to come back and try to go one better next time."
Reflecting on where it went wrong, O'Sullivan added: "There were lots of long safety bouts and I got dragged into it.
"I was finding it hard to get momentum together.
"At times I felt numb out there because I was in my chair for long periods of time.
"With Mark, you can never count him out. He's certainly got the game to win many more world titles if he wants to."
Selby had looked primed to become another O'Sullivan victim in Sheffield but crucially took the last two frames of Sunday evening's session, and hit the front for the first time when sweeping all four before the interval on Monday afternoon.
Victory was clinched with an exceptional clearance of the colours, Selby holding his nerve as though it was he who had won this title five times in the past.
He punched the air in delight, the man who goes to world number one after his win laying his hands on the trophy for the first time.
"My father died of cancer when I was 16, two months before turning professional, and his last words to me were, 'I want you to be world champion'. That's for him," Selby said.
"There's no better feeling. Whether you win it once or more than once, no-one can take it away from me.
"It's amazing really. I'm over the moon."
When it came down to a slightly tricky black for the title, Selby recalled: "I was just telling myself, 'Trust yourself, do all the basics right' and I managed to pot it."
O'Sullivan had won 14 matches in a row at the Crucible, taking the 2012 and 2013 titles and charging to another final this year.
But where he had won each of his previous five finals, in Selby he struck upon an opponent who importantly believed he could - and would - succeed where John Higgins, Graeme Dott, Ali Carter - twice - and Barry Hawkins fell short.


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pics of my wee 1974 DL 1400
Posted 12 November 2008 - 05:28 AM
Then thought I why not get some good pics of it.
So here they are.... :cool:
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don't try to tell us those marks on the street were not from you lol
Posted 12 November 2008 - 06:48 PM
beautiful car my friend.
don't try to tell us those marks on the street were not from you lol
lol i parked it in the right place
ive got it up for sale at the moment.
im selling due to needing money to semi restore my GSR Coupe :-p
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my camera is an sony dsc-f828
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That would be the ultimate sleeper with an EJ20 turbo swap in it. As awful as it would be to do that to the car what fun it would be. And leave the original thin tires on it too. And the brakes! SUICIDE!
im like to do that to my butchered GL coupe. problem is trying to find out if the motor fits. and it would cost alot of monney to do :-\
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BURLINGTON CITY — While the 25-2 records of the Burlington City and Bound Brook boys basketball teams may have made them seem identical on paper, on the court at Burr Gymnasium Saturday, the clubs were far from that.
Using stifling defensive pressure to ignite an equally impressive fastbreak, the third-seeded Crusaders opened a 14-point lead in the first quarter and never looked back in racing to an 85-62 win over their second-seeded hosts in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group I Tournament.
"They are an extremely talented team," Blue Devils head coach Paul Collins said. "I was concerned when I saw they'd scored 99 points vs. South River their last game because South River (which handed City one of its losses) was good. This was by far the best defensive game I've seen them play. They were able to get us out of character."
Adversity had not been a problem for City most of the season. Close road losses to South River and Clearview were the only blemishes Collins' troops had incurred heading into the sectional semifinal.
The Crusaders used 11 points from forward Hamilton Capellan in the first quarter to jump to a 21-7 lead. From there, Bound Brook's backcourt of JD Rodriguez and Ricky Holliday took control.
Rodriguez spearheaded the defense with 10 steals, plus scored 12 of his game-high 26 points in the second quarter to help the visitors open a 42-19 halftime edge. Holliday was steady throughout, scoring 14 points, while adding eight assists and five steals.
"They came out aggressive and never let up," Blue Devils senior point guard Josh Young said. "They kept the pressure on us all game. Their guards were always switching. When they double-teamed us, we knew there was a man open, but we couldn't get it to him."
Young did all he could to try to get Burlington City back in the game. By scoring 20 of his 22 points in the second half, he helped the home team get as close as 18 points (44-26) after a 7-0 run opened the second half.
Then after Bound Brook twice extended its lead to 30 points, Young helped City get back to 74-54 midway through the fourth quarter.
But on this day, even 11 more points from Jelani Glaze were not enough to save the Blue Devils against the very athletic Crusaders.
Welti 3-6-13, Holliday 5-4-14, Capellan 5-3-15, Rodriguez 10-5-26, LJohnson 3-2-8, IWilliams 3-0-6, RHayes 0-0-0, Romero 0-1-1, NaWilliams 0-0-0, Daniel 0-0-0, Foster 0-0-0, Pacheco 0-0-0, Dawkins 1-0-2. Totals: 30-21-85.
Singletary 2-1-5, Ford 0-0-0, Wright 3-1-8, Glaze 5-0-11, Young 9-4-22, Hilton 2-0-6, Freeman 1-2-4, Griner 2-0-4, Haynes 0-2-2, Wajda 0-0-0, Myers-Bradley 0-0-0. Totals: 24-10-62.
Bound Brook (26-2) 21 21 22 21 — 85
Burlington City (25-3) 7 12 19 24 — 62
3-point goals-BB: Welti, Capellan 2, Rodriguez; BC: Wright, Glaze, Hilton 2.


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The University of Delaware men's soccer program announced the addition of former Blue Hen standout Matt Haney to its staff as an assistant coach on May 13, 2008. Haney begins his sixth season on the Delaware coaching staff under head coach Ian Hennessy in 2013.
Haney starred in the Blue Hen backfield from 2003 through 2006, building an impressive resume on and off the field. A four-year starter, Haney scored four goals and dished out one assist for nine points in 70 career games.
The Newark, Del. native also made his mark in the classroom, where he was the consumate student-athlete. He earned first-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 2005 and 2006 as well as a third-team selection as a sophomore in 2004. He was a three-time first-team ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA District 2 All-Academic pick and was twice named the Colonial Athletic Association's Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's soccer.
"I think Matt has a tremendous future in coaching," said Delaware head coach Ian Hennessy in making the announcement. "Matt has many of the qualities of great teachers, and in the end, a large part of coaching is teaching. In his time here at Delaware, (Matt) was one of the most decorated student-athletes in the history of the program. I expect that he will have an awful lot to offer future leaders in our locker room by way of example."
Haney graduated from Delaware in 2006 with a degree in biological sciences.
A 2003 graduate of St. Elizabeth High School in Wilmington, Haney was a three-time all-state selection and a four-time all-conference pick for the Vikings.


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For Steelers backup quarterback Gradkowski, it's good to be home
August 15, 2013
by Ed Bouchette
The boomerang that was Bruce Gradkowski's under-30 NFL career reads like a US Airways flight schedule since it pulled its hub out of Pittsburgh:
Tampa to St. Louis to Cleveland to Oakland to Cincinnati. Finally, after five teams and seven years, his travels brought him back home at age 30.
"I think my time in the NFL has been special," said Gradkowski, a Dormont native who played at Seton-LaSalle High School. "I got to see a bunch of cities, live in different places, meet a lot of people, learn a lot of offenses. That's special stuff there. But, of course, it would be nice to be somewhere for a long period of time."
It would be nice to be the next Charlie Batch, who was a backup quarterback for his hometown Steelers the past 11 seasons. In that time, Batch was among the most popular players and had his own radio shows. The Steelers signed Gradkowski to take his place mainly because they wanted to get younger behind Ben Roethlisberger.
"Everyone loves Charlie Batch," Gradkowski said. "I'm not trying to come in and take anyone's place or be anyone else. Even my mom and them say, 'We love Charlie.
Charlie is a great guy, I asked him for advice in the past. He's a guy to lean on."
Batch also is only a phone call and a few miles away should anything such as injuries happen to Steelers quarterbacks. Gradkowski knows about them, too, because he feels they kept him from establishing himself as a starter rather than an NFL nomad.
He experienced two of those injuries after his best moment in the NFL. At Heinz Field Dec. 6, 2009, Gradkowski led the underdog Oakland Raiders to a huge upset of the reigning Super Bowl champs in front of many family and friends. He completed 20 of 33 passes for 308 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions and a 121.8 passer rating. He led the Raiders on a 10-play, 88-yard drive in the final two minutes and tossed an 11-yard touchdown pass to Louis Murphy with nine seconds left for a 27-24 Oakland victory.
"It was a great night, probably my best game I've played so far," Gradkowski said. "I had my family there for it. It was cool. That was the year I really felt I was coming into my own and understanding football more and more in the NFL. That was a special night."
It was his third consecutive start in place of the ineffective JaMarcus Russell, and he was establishing something until it all ended the next game in Oakland against the Washington Redskins.
"After we beat the Steelers, the next week I tore both of my MCLs, I was out the rest of the year," Gradkowski said.
"That was tough. And the next year I separated my right shoulder."
He signed with Cincinnati as a free agent in 2011 and played briefly in four games over two seasons before signing a three-year contract with the Steelers this year.
That came a month after his younger brother, Gino, earned a Super Bowl ring as a backup rookie guard/center with the Baltimore Ravens. That should make those two Steelers-Ravens games a test of loyalties for the Gradkowski family (With Matt Birk's retirement, Gino is competing with former Steelers draft pick, A.Q. Shipley, a Moon native, to start at center for the Ravens).
"Now, it's my turn," Bruce said. "He has a ring already."
The Steelers, of course, hope Gradkowski does not play much once the preseason ends, unless he is mopping up for Roethlisberger in runaway victories. But Roethlisberger missed three games in 2012 with shoulder and rib injuries, missed one game and was hobbled in a few others by a sprained ankle in 2011 and has played just one full 16-game schedule.
Gradkowski is the next quarterback up.
"This league is all about perseverance," Gradkowski said. "You're going to have ups, you're going to have downs. It's how you persevere, handle it and push through it. I love this game, any way to be a part of it and help a team do it, I'll do that."


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Brazil star Neymar has blamed an "unstable" pitch for his horrific penalty miss in the 1-1 international friendly draw with Colombia earlier this week.
The 20-year-old forward was guilty of one of the worst spot-kick failures in recent history when he blasted miles over the bar, and into row Z, with the set-piece bearing more resemblance to an American field goal or rugby conversion.
The highly-rated Santos striker scored Brazil's equalising goal on Wednesday evening, but spurned a chance to clock up the World Cup 2014 hosts' seventh consecutive victory, with his 80th-minute miss, following Dani Alves' theatrical fall under pressure from Colombia's Pablo Armero.
"The penalty was horrible but you probably noticed the state the pitch was in, it didn't have any stability," he told the media after the game. "I tried to take it slowly but it didn't work out...these things happen."
"I was happy for playing a good part in the game. The team performed well."
Brazil coach Mano Menezes was quick to jump to the defence of Neymar, backing up his comments about the poor quality of the playing surface, and insisting the front-man will bounce back from the error that tarnished slightly what should have been a celebratory fixture, marking the country's landmark 1000th international.
"The pitch had an influence. It made the match more difficult for the whole 90 minutes," he said. "It's an atypical situation which doesn't even mention a comment. He will get over this."
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