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Illinois game wrap (with pics!)
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"Play hard and play with great effort"
Immediately after the game, I was struggling to come up with a thru-line for what had just happened. But then Brian posted "Defensive Annhilation Muppets" and then the video of Mattison getting emotional surfaced. And for a moment I thought, 'you guys are over-reacting. Illinois does not have a good offense'. I like when coaches just give coachspeak. But then I thought about the last three years and yeah, it makes sense. The difference in emotion between Chip Kelly's comments and Mattison's are where you're starting from.
A couple of years from now, a win like this will only be notable for constructive criticism. There were a lot of bad plays that need to be corrected. But given the circumstances of where we were last year and what we were expected to be this year and the fact that we're 8-2 with a decent chance of picking up at least one more win and a very small chance of getting to 11 wins, emotional celebration is more than appropriate.
What a difference a week makes!
Al Borges didn't have a great game against Iowa, and I pointed that out. He had a much better gameplan this week. I don't know if he or anyone close to him reads blogs or not, but he responded to several very specific criticisms leveled here last week.
Holding the backside DE
I mentioned something about a lack of reverses.
Thanks Al! Odoms is coming from his slot position to take an end around fake. Not only did it hold the backside OLB and prevent the DE from crashing down on Denard, it also froze the MLB just enough for Fitz to run right by him.
But that wasn't the only trick up Al's sleeve. He pulled out another wrinkle from the Richrod days.
One of the problems with protecting Denard and limiting his carries is that the DE that you're optioning on the zone read doesn't have to respect the keep and is free to chase the TB. But here we see Koger coming from his H-back wing to block #9.
The O-line is getting good lateral movement and both Denard and Koger are eliminating defenders from the pursuit.
One caveat is that their safeties were pretty bad (someone mentioned they had backups in the game). #5 has badly misread this play, and he's too slow to catch Fitz anyway. Meanwhile, if you wonder how a guy can get over 100 yards in the first quarter, you can bet he's breaking tackles. This arm tackle didn't even slow him down.
This arm tackle slowed him down,
but it didn't stop him.
So Fitz had about 45 yards of YAC from the first arm tackle and then about another 15 yards of super YAC downfield.
The offense as a whole had a much better day (despite some derpiness in the 2nd and 3rd quarters). The O-line was doing a great job with the zone blocking in the first quarter and opened up some nice running lanes.
Here we've got Hopkins blocking the DE from his FB position instead of Koger, but the result is about the same. Gallon cracks down on his man and Omameh does a good job scraping off the double team and getting to the linebacker.
Huyge takes his man where he wants to go and it opens up a nice line.
On this next play, there's only 5 in the box because the OLB's are out on the slot receivers.
Molk does an excellent job of tracking down his man and we've got a hat on a hat.
The Zen of zone blocking is you just get on your man and take him away from the play using his own impetus. Of course you need a guy like Fitz back there who is patient enough and has good vision to see the hole developing.
Even though the OLB crashes down for contain, he's nowhere near Fitz and Denard has read him properly. If this were the pros Fitz would be owing five really large guys a nice dinner for this play.
The Numbers Game
We had some issues in the red zone last week. Part of that is due to Iowa's talent on the D-line and part of it is having Denard sitting in the pocket or handing off or otherwise not putting pressure on the defense to account for him.
If this were a normal pitch play or off-tackle dive, it would've been completely stuffed because they've got more defenders than we've got blockers on the playside. But when Denard keeps it, we've got an even matchup and Denard just has to pick his way through and find a hole.
But what really makes this play work is that Omameh gets a great cut block, upending his man. Now we've got 6 blockers against their 5 defenders and Denard with no one to track him down.
Omameh's block freed up Molk to get on the pursuing linebacker and the result is an easy touchdown for shoelace.
So what happened in the 2nd Quarter? Well let's compare to a play where we don't have a numbers advantage.
They've got 9 defenders in the box with both safeties playing up. If Denard has the freedom to audible (or we had gotten to the line with more than 8 seconds so that the coaches could call a check play #misshightempo), then he should be throwing a fade or "z out" to Roundtree at the bottom of the screen. We've got 9 in the box, but because we're in I form, the defense doesn't have to account for the QB (as his first 5 steps are backwards).
The play is a lead draw. The line shows pass blocking and then the center or whoever is free is supposed to head upfield after a couple beats. But this call means that Illinois has a lot of unblocked defenders. It doesn't help that Molk misreads the defense and doesn't scrape off to one of the linebackers. This means that Hopkins has three unblocked people he has to choose from. If Denard had been running, then both Hopkins and Fitz would have hit the MLBs so Denard would just have to juke the safety to get in the endzone.
Instead, Hopkins gets one LB and the other stuffs Fitz for a loss with both safeties racing up to make sure he doesn't fall forward.
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Purdue game wrap (with pics!)
Maybe it won't be like last time...
(edit: Embed fail http://youtu.be/Qpux-Drk6EY?t=37s)
And even if it is, maybe that's not such a bad thing. Ok? ... Ok.
There was something rather familiar about Saturdays' game against Purdue. For the first time in a long time, that felt like "Michigan fergodsakes!" There was just something about the way we dominated and put the game away. It brought back my idealized memories of how Michigan would roll over the rabble of the big ten in year's past.
I enrolled at Michigan in the fall of 1995, Lloyd Carr's first year. And of the 40 odd games that I've attended in person, all but 2 were under his direction.
This wasn't cupcake nonconference, this wasn't baby seal U, this wasn't even one of the worst Minnesota teams in the last half century. This was a normal, lower tier big ten team that was coming off a victory over a previously ranked team. And they had maybe 4 or 5 good plays against us all game. (the screen TD, Denard's INT, the transcontinental to Siller, and maybe you count the final TD and their QB scramble).
The game wasn't as close as the score. Take away their garbage time TD, and give us another 11 points if we execute a little better on the goal line and we're talking about a 40 point blow out.
But it's not just the score that made me reminisce on the Lloyd days. It was the way we did it; we just had better athletes. And we used that advantage to make the game boring. Even though the lead was only 3 possessions, by the middle of the 3rd quarter there was absolutely no drama left that we might blow the game. And it's been a long time since I've felt that way when we've played a bigten team. I guess the Minnesota game didn't make me feel that because they didn't feel like a bigten team, and we were still scoring points. By the time the 4th quarter started on Saturday, I was thinking we'd only get 2 more possessions since we were grinding the clock out so fast.
I actually fell asleep before the game finished, (granted that was about 4 am local time and my BAC was significant). When I woke up, I had the rest of the day to ponder, 'do I like boring old Michiganfergodsakes?'
Was it really so bad?
Towards the end of the Lloyd years, we had grown accustomed to 9 and 10 win seasons and a bowl loss. And frankly we were bored with them. We had become frustrated with having a roster full of NFL talent that would only call dive plays once we had a double digit lead. And then 7-5 came, and we called it "the year of infinite pain". Oh summer child, what did we know of pain? Little did we know that Richrod was coming.
After the Horror, it was pretty clear that Lloyd's retirement was somewhat of a mutual split between him and the fanbase. I freely admit that I was fed up, and wanted change. You can count me amongst those that wanted RR to succeed.
In a way, I loved Lloyd. I still think he's a great role model. If I ever have a son, I would point at Lloyd as someone he should look up to. But toward's the end, I thought that his risk aversion and gameday decision making was impairing our ability to win big games.
There's been a lot of harsh words directed at Lloyd in light of the revelations in John Bacon's book. I don't believe he acted maliciously. I hope not, anyway. I just think Lloyd was just being Lloyd. He never liked the spotlight, and he resented the media. This was apparent from his first news conference (which, if anyone has video of this, I'd love to see it again) in the wake of Moeller's firing.
I like to believe that he was just trying to be loyal to his players. From a program perspective, that might have been a mistake. Ok, it was definitely bad for the program. And the program needed someone to be like Bo, to be the face of the university, to force people to work things out. But that's not who Lloyd was, it just wasn't in his DNA.
The details seem to get lost in history. People forget that things started kinda shaky in '95 and '96. We lost 4 games both years (just one less than the 'year of infinite pain'). And then came the miracle year of 97, and Lloyd could never live up to that standard again. It's like when poor married couples go on an expensive, once in a lifetime honeymoon, all the sex after that just seems a little bit pale in comparison.
Do we really want to go down that road again?
I admit it, I wanted the hot young model. I think Jim Harbaugh would have been very successful as a head coach here. He would have been fiery, and dramatic, and when we finally score 48 points on OSU, he'd have gone for 2. But Harbaugh probably would have gotten bored with us and ran off to the pro's while he still had his looks. So maybe it's better this way. Maybe someday he'll get tired of that and be ready to settle into a comfy college job.
Until then we've got Hoke. Brady Hoke and his magical golden poop. (From top to bottom, I can't remember the bigten ever being weaker. Bigten teams are going to get smashed come bowl time.) Hoke fits like a comfortable old shoe. But he's not the old shoe. He's not kicking field goals on 4th and inches. He's like that old shoe, but back when it had fresh treads.
And then I realized, it's not about da shoes. The thing that changed was me. I'm ready to go back to 9-3 season's again. I'm willing to tolerate 8-4 years if they're balanced with 10-2. I might even be able to stomach the very infrequent 7-5 year if it's offset with a couple 11-1's and 12-0's. And I don't need last second comeback drives against Indiana to be entertained. Saturday's stomping of Purdue was boring, and entertaining, and filled with more satisfaction than I've felt in years.
Play it again, Sam.
So it's week 9, the 8th game of the year, and we're starting to develop some patterns. If you were to blindfold me and make me predict what's going to happen next week, I could just think about this week and rattle off:
- Mike Martin makes a big play
- Craig Roh makes a mistake, but then makes a big play
Kovacs makes a big play
- Jake Ryan has a mental breakdown and loses contain
- Jake Ryan blows someone up in the backfield
- A CB misses a tackle
- Molk makes a great block
- Denard has a sweet run
- Denard has a horrible interception
- XXXX receiver fights for a jump ball or adjusts to the under thrown bomb
- Vincent is wide open for a throwback screen.
- The defense causes a couple of flukeyish takeaways.
And you could probably run that against most of our games this year and not be very far off. The lack of a Vincent screen and a successful jumpball against MSU could easily be blamed for the score deficit of two weeks ago.
The major differences this week were the reverses and the excellent production from the Tailback position.
Let's see that again.
Bad Roh, Good Roh
I've been bitching about our lack of a bubblescreen, because it's a simple fucking play, that works. Especially if you get a favorable matchup with personnel.
On Purdue's first drive, they've got Craig Roh lined up against the slot man. Even though he's into the boundary, he's not going to win a footrace to the sideline.
They only need 3 yards for the first down, and with the Corner playing 8 yards off, the bubble screen is a nearly automatic 5 yards unless the man in Roh's position has a lot more speed in space than Craig.
He's thinking about his flat responsibility in the zone, but what he should be thinking is that he's got to get out to that 2nd man and ignore the blocker.
JT Floyd, doesn't use his hands well enough and lets the blocker get into his body, Roh is almost in position to make a play, but he's taking a bad angle.
Defensive snapshots where more than one defender is on the ground and the ball carrier is hopping past them, are never good for the defense. Morgan is also taking a bad angle and is barely there in time to escort the WR out of bounds after a huge gain.
But when Purdue tried to come back to it on their next drive, we played it much better.
Here's our first appearance of golden poop. We're futzing around with flip-flopping the D-line and Roh is getting a late start. But because he's still running to get in position when the ball is snapped, he's got momentum built up and quickly gets out on the receivers.
This time Floyd does a better job of taking on the blocker and forcing the play back inside.
With Roh in position and Floyd not getting knocked on his ass, the pursuit closes off any cutbacks and the ballcarrier has no place to go.
Mike Martin : Bruce Banner mode
The difference between a good athlete and a great football player is understanding the game. Mike Martin destroys this outside zone read because he recognizes the blocking assignments.
If you haven't watched the excellent (if somewhat corny) video by fishduck, you should check it out. The RB is next to QB so this should be an outside zone play. The O-line all slant to the wideside of the field. If the RB can get to the corner, he should get about 7-10 yards with good blocking as everyone is accounted for except the deep safety. Martin has seen this in practice about a zillion times from the Richrod days and beats his man to the spot and gets penetration. For Oregon, this is no problem, because the cutback is just as good as the designed play.
But Martin sees the cutback and tosses his man to the side so he can come back underneath and make the tackle. Our LB's are actually a little slow to react and would have been in trouble if the RB had continued to bounce it outside.
If it weren't for Martin, this play has a decent design to pick up lots of yards. The guards are scraping off their initial reach blocks and releasing to the 2nd level. Roh is unblocked because it's expected that the QB fake will hold him in position. If the center and left tackle had gotten better blocks, this play gets an easy first down. But Heimerdinger beats his block too.
So the three of them converge to make the gang tackle.
Mike Martin: Getting Angry...
On the safety, Martin had to fight through a hold to get the sack. (and a bit of facemask)
Mike Martin: Hulk Smash! mode
Before we even get to halftime its apparent that the Boiler's can't block Martin one on one, so they keep in the RB to help out.
Martin uses his hands so well. He does an outside move on the left guard and gets by him easily.
The RB sees him come free and moves to pick him up.
When you're a little guy, trying to block a much bigger man, they teach you to go low.
Because this is what happens if you don't go low.
You get sent airborne.
and knocked back 4 yards, (or more if those other guys hadn't been there)
This other angle shows how badly off balance this guy gets knocked back.
Bad Tackling, Good Tackling
Late in the 4th quarter, both starting cornerbacks were in the game when most other starters had left the field. You gotta think that's partly because of a lack of depth at DB, and partly because they both weren't very great at run support or tackling.
On the long screen for a TD, Countess was the only man with a chance to make the play, and he missed.
But I don't really blame him. We got caught in a blitz. This play was always going to be a touchdown unless one of the blockers completely whiffed.
Which almost happened. Blake does a good job to slip the block.
But the blocker had gotten just enough of him to prevent him from making the shoestring tackle. They say football is a game of inches. There's about 6 inches standing between a 5 yard gain and a 50 yard TD.
There's better examples of DB's (mostly Floyd) not breaking down to make the tackle, or not coming up aggressively enough in run support. By I'd rather show them an example of what you're supposed to do.
On this kickoff, Morgan does a great job of taking on the blocker
And then he disengages to make the tackle.
He hits the ball carrier right in the midsection with perfect form and wraps up and holds on until help arrives.
I'll take "improved running game" for $100, Alex
So, it's just Purdue, but that's what I call manball. And it started with our first play from scrimmage.
Purdue has an alignment problem because they didn't pick up the unbalanced line. This might be the first time we've used it extensively this year.
The end is left unblocked because he has to respect Denard on the bootleg. This is fine as long as the guy isn't fast enough to tackle Denard before he can make the handoff (like what MSU did to TSIO). So we've got two pulling lineman and a fullback giving us a huge numbers advantage on the play side.
We get a good kickout block, and Molk does an excellent job of peeling back to get the linebacker. Hopkins is leading through the hole like any good fullback.
Fullback is a deceptively skilled position. You've got to be able to read the hole like a TB and then be both fast enough to get to the block, and big enough to make the block. Here, Hopkins has to choose which of the free men to block. If he picks the linebacker, that ensures a solid gain and puts Fitz one-on-one with the safety with room to make a move. If he thinks the LB won't make the play then he should block the safety which often leads to long TD runs.
He chooses to go after the safety, which I think is the right choice. But without eyes in the back of his head, he doesn't realize that Fitz is making a beeline towards the sideline.
So he ends up not blocking anybody.
And he knows he's got to hit SOMEBODY. That coulda been a TD.(probably not, as the WR didn't sustain his block).
To the house!
So, did Fitz and Shaw perform a Vulcan mind meld during the bye week? If so, it worked. Fitz was bouncing the play outside all day, and Shaw had what I think is his best run of the year by busting through the line. Someone mentioned that Purdue has a better than average interior D-line (i guess) which would explain some of the bouncing outside. But who told Shaw he could run through tackles?
On this Denard fake jetsweep counter pitch, the boilers are in good position to stop the play for a moderate gain. But they've got two guys who are jogging around waiting for the play to develop instead of attacking the LOS. *cough*JTFloyd*cough*. But look at Molk, He's not really designed to be in this play, he's just hustling to make a block.
Fitz is reading the play and sees the defenders over-run it, so he cuts back. . #3 is in pursuit and should close off the cutback. But Molk and now #75 are following the play.
Fitz sees the two unblocked defenders and breaks down to make a move.
It's just at that moment that Molk catches up and gets a twofer. Schofield is also making himself useful by getting in the way of the pursuit.
#2 is in good position to make the stop, but his momentum is in the wrong direction as Fitz is now running against the grain.
But here's the amazing part. When he sees the lane open up in the middle, he just turns on the jets.
This is the speed we haven't really seen from Fitz on the field. Maybe reports of him being dinged up were true and now he's finally healthy. (He should be after having 3 weeks off).
Shaw's TD came from some improvisation on a simple lead dive.
The boiler DT get's a good push up front to disrupt the play. Hopkins has to help block him instead of getting to the free linebacker. Odoms is coming around for the end around fake that will hold the unblocked end.
Shaw sees that the play side is clogged up, so he cuts back. So now he has to deal with an unblocked safety instead of an unblocked LB => more yards.
The right guard doesn't get the best of blocks and his man starts coming off of him to make the tackle. But Shaw sees just enough daylight to make him decide to accelerate through the hole.
Normally, this is where Shaw falls down for a minimal gain, but on this play he keeps his balance.
And he shows off a little leg strength to fight through the contact.
Then he does what he does best and shows off his top gear outracing the defender to the pylon.
I know I've been critical of him on this blog, but that's because he's very frustrating. Physically he's got all the tools to be a great back, ala Chris Perry. His vision might be half a notch down, and I haven't seen him much in the passing game. But he's got the speed, and if he learned how to harness his talents, he could be making runs like this on a regular basis. Anyway, this was a great run.
- The defense is playing so much better than last year. But the last two games have seen waaaaaay too many arm tackles. I'm not liking that.
- One game is not a season. Playcalling vs. Minnesota, Northwestern, and Purdue was great, creative, and effective. Playcalling vs. MSU, eh ... not so much. I hope this isn't establishing a trend where we have zany fun stuff against Iowa and Illinois and go into a shell against NE and TSIO.
- Rocketman! I didn't notice the helmet on the low quality streams
- The theme for homecoming was something about space, and the wavefield got some love on TV. That wavefield was like a 2nd home for me for 3 years.
- Obligatory.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, Hoke for tomorrow - WMU
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein
So here we are again at the beginning of a new era in Michigan Football, not nearly far enough removed from the last "beginning of a new era", and once again I find myself seated in front of the computer trying to sort out my feelings on the matter. In truth I had planned on not doing these this year. Most of my impetus for spilling my thoughts here for the past three seasons stemmed from the completely foreign sensation a Rich Rodriguez led Michigan team left me with on fall Saturdays – an out-of-sorts feeling of not really knowing what to expect going forward. While Bo/Mo/Carr teams had a character that evolved so slowly that year-to-year change was almost undetectable, Rich Rod's first tilt against Utah flipped my perceptions of Michigan completely and it seemed each successive game of the past three seasons distorted my outlook further. Michigan football went from being a solid thing I could count on and often take for granted, to a crapshoot of strangeness that forced me to question my unhealthy obsession with Michigan Football each and every week.
I thought Brady Hoke's hiring would make things easy again and give me that cock-sure attitude back that said "I don't need to worry about the details; I can just turn on the TV on Saturday and feel assured that Michigan will most probably win." My cousin who played DE as a walk on under Hoke assured me that there was no better hire to be had, and that the past would become the future. Hell, maybe it will eventually, but for now the trials of the past few seasons compel me to question what the future has in store.
Learn from yesterday…
What did the game against Western Michigan teach us, and what is left unclear?
· Just because your name is Greg doesn't mean you can't coordinate a defense. Seriously, raise your hand if the thought of starting out the season against a very-good, veteran QB didn't worry you a bit. After last year I was braced for the worst and Carder was every bit the accurate and composed passer he was advertised to be. He shredded our secondary at will until Greg Mattison made adjustments and started getting blitzers through. In truth our defense never truly broke; the longest play allowed was a 24 yard run and the longest reception only netted 20 yards for WMU. I waited all game for the play that would torch us, but the defense did a good enough job of keeping the play in front of them and got aggressive when it was well suited. The end result was something bordering on mediocrity, which felt like competency, and is a win for Mattison for sure. Two defensive touchdowns is a nice start to the season as well.
· Will the Al Borges offense work? Not enough data here really, what with Michigan's offense having only 6 meaningful drives to look at. The data we have is surely encouraging though. Michigan's first drive showed a degree of composure and demonstrated an ability to take control of the game tempo. The long runs seemed to be set up for success, especially coming practically back-to-back. We probably would have scored on 4 of 6 drives had the game not been halted, though the other two were 3andouts. Will it work for Denard? I am not so sure of this. The first offensive play from scrimmage looked very familiar indeed. In fact most of the first drive looked much like last year, right down to the amount of punishment Denard was being exposed to. If the defense hadn't spotted Michigan two touchdowns, I wonder if run-hard Denard would have continued to be the go-to play if the score had remained closer. Denard's comfort level overall was encouraging though, and he looked much better playing under center than last year.
· +3 on turnovers will make a fairly evenly matched game into a lopsided one. This is obviously true and was on full display in this game. Two of WMU's three were of the most back-breaking variety imaginable, while the third almost assuredly took points off the board for them. Even the most conservative estimate would have a 20 point swing from turnovers alone. We should all keep in mind that this could have easily been a dogfight to the finish.
Live for Today…
Several Michigan players should bask in the glow of their accomplishments:
1. Jordan Kovacs– KOVACS!!! KOVACS SMASH!!! KOVACS, KOVACS, KOVACS!!! (I had my four year old son chanting this with me. Kovacs is now the first Michigan player he knows by name.) Seriously, it is insane that this guy came from open tryouts. He is my favorite player.
2. Brandon Herron – Talk about johnny-on-the-spot! The best part though was that neither of those were gimmee TDs. Herron showed great agility and stamina to stay in bounds and truck 94 yards in that heat and scooping up the fumble instead of falling on it was a heady play as well.
3. Fitzgerald Toussaint and Mike Shaw – Big runs by these two led to the touchdown that finally blew the game wide open. If the damned commentator had been right, and the first of the two runs had indeed been Shaw, there wouldn't have been need of a second because Shaw == Fast. Fitz still looks somewhat slow, but manballed two TDs in from close which is admirable.
4. Kevin Koger – Koger
only had one grab but it had two receptions and one was a doozy. Stretched out and snagging the ball with his fingertips, he still managed to put a hurting on the safety that hit him with a full head of steam. Gets up like no prob, first down converted. Nails.
5. Denard Robinson – No particular statistics are amazing, but he seems to have handled the transition pretty well and had several encouraging plays. Of note: the pull-down-and-scramble move for 12 yards and a first down just prior to Michigan's third TD. Also the long pass completed on the money (I think at least, TV commentator be damned) to Hemingway. Denard probably doesn't need to be listed here as he is always awesome and steadfastly refuses to bask in his own glow (making him even more awesome of course).
Also of note was the play of Jeremy Gallon, Jake Ryan, Mike Martin, Courtney Avery, and Kenny Demens. Oh, and Woolfolk before his injury – here's to a speed recovery.
Hope for Tomorrow
Next week brings a matchup with a Notre Dame team that just choked on its season opener, losing to a South Florida team that it exactly doubled in total yardage in South Bend. The Irish seem to have settled back on the QB that led them to 4 straight victories to end last season, Tommy Rees. They also have Michael Floyd. After watching Carder to White shred us yesterday, it is safe to say that Rees/Floyd is going to be bad news indeed.
Then again, Rees did throw two picks, so maybe karma will continue to be on Michigan's side and we will score multiple defensive touchdowns, and Denard will gain 500+ yards of offense again, and all will be just swell. In reality though, ND is good and will be playing with a chip on their shoulder after losing and the game is in our house and we may even be favored despite not outplaying a MAC school by all that much. Add it up and history dictates a heart-wrenching loss. I continue to be braced for the worst.
PS - I realize that the quantity and quality of the posting on MGoBlog has increased by leaps and bounds the past three years, and that my posts tend to be more emo/rah-rah than actually, you know, useful. So if the obvious consensus is that my posts are no longer a welcome addition to the blog, then by all means let me know so that I can ride off into the sunset and trouble you all no more.
Lewan Showing Concussion Symptoms
Per Angelique Chengelis' Twitter:
"RR says Mouton and Martin practiced Tuesday. Doing better. Taylor Lewan & Shaw dealing with concussion-like symptoms."
"UM right tackle Dorrestein is fine. If Lewan can't go, Mark Huyge, who has started for Dorrestein, could start at LT."
I knew about Shaw but this is the first I have heard anything about Lewan. Let's hope they're both alright.
Running Back Usage
I haven't had a chance to rewatch the game, but my impression from the stands was that Mike Shaw barely saw the field when Denard was in, but was at least 50/50 if not the primary back once Forcier came in. Any coach types have any insight on that? My casual guess would be that it must have something to do with blocking on the designed QB runs. Is Smith that much better as a lead blocker on those plays? Obviously the straight QB runs are going to be much less frequent when Tate is in.
tailback questions for 2010 / pass game wishlist & predictions.
so, a couple of questions for all you guys, and then some ideas/thoughts for next season.
(1) What's the consensus in these parts on Mike Shaw as a go-to guy in the run game? I know he's shown some flashes in his first 2 seasons, but he's also looked a bit fragile and careless at times. With Vince Smith's knee injury and unknown timeline for recovery, it would seem Shaw's the guy for now.
(2) Who else do we expect to vie for playing time next fall? Mike Cox? Fitz Toussaint? Who else? Any of these guys have particular hype or immediate impact-potential?
(3) have we heard any hype/intel on the progress or potential impact of Je'Ron Stokes? Did he work as a slot or outside guy in practice?
(4) I know we've beaten this horse well into the ground, but what the hell do we do w/ denard?
=> I'll address this last question first with an idea... With a lot of unproven guys fighting for playing time in the backfield, I see D-Rob continuing to make a lot of appearances in the running game, whether it be as a 'wildcat' QB or on the field w/ Tate. We KNOW Denard can gain yards on the ground, even when the defense expects it, and he's our top returning rusher. With all the talk about how to handle the QB situation, it's funny to me that, IMO, nothing will change in how these guys are rotated in and out. Unless Denard magically connects his brain to his arm, he's not beating out Tate as the starting QB. On the other hand, unless Shaw has a monster off-season or Vince recovers unusually quickly, Denard will easily be our best returning run threat. In short, I think Rich has eeked out another year of dangling the QB carrot in front of Denard's nose before a real decision has to be made. This isn't to say that i think Denard won't be more effective. I could see him producing 1000 yards between running, throwing and maybe even receiving/returning.
=> IMO, this spring is the time for Rich Rod to get the pass game online. He's got a solid returning thrower in Tate, a 3rd year burner in Stonum who still has a lot of unrealized potential, a dependable minion slot guy in Odoms, a 3rd year receiving tight end in Koger, and the hot handed Roy Roundtree. These guys are going to have to produce early and often next year while we figure out who's going to step up in the running game. It's pretty exciting, actually, and I can only hope Rich really tries to build a scheme around the abilities of all these guys. I'm looking for a 50+ catch season from Roundtree, which you wouldn't think would be a stretch considering that's less than 5 catches a game.
some (potentially wishful) predictions:
*Tate shows some improvement, is handed the keys a little more often (especially early in the season), and throws for around 2500 yards, 21 TDs, 14 ints. he wins us a couple of games, and loses a couple as well.
*Denard, Shaw and Vince rush for nearly identical amounts of yardage (400-500 yards)
*Roundtree grabs 50+ balls for 600-800 yards and 6-8 touchdowns.
*Stonum has a breakthrough of sorts, catching 30-40 balls at over 15 ypc.
I actually think we are on the cusp of an explosive offensive year that should be enough to comfortably get us into the bowl season. Turnovers and the defense will keep us out of BCS contention, however.


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Featuring the region's top weapons manufacturers, gear and equipment retailers, sellers, firearms experts and more, the Cowboy State Firearms Show is the one firearms show that every enthusiast MUST attend. Seminars showcasing the talent and experience of Wyoming's firearms experts are not to be missed!
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Daily Look: Blooming Blouse
Blouse: Asos // Pants: Zara // Shoes, Sunglasses, & Earrings: Target // Ring: Vintage
I am so thrilled for spring that I just had to pull out some florals. This loose silk blouse is perfect for the warm weather, but still gives some waist definition with a bowed back. I can't believe how perfectly these three dollar shoes match with my blouse, and I get to show off my pedicure while wearing closed toed shoes!
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- unexpected moments said...
I'm absolutely adoring the patterns you and Lauren have been wearing. So cute!
- March 28, 2012 at 9:33 AM
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Thank you! I haven't wanted to wear anything but bright colors and patterns since the weather changed!
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Love this one! You look super cool.
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that color looks great with your hair!
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A Grand Junction woman charged for her involvement in a fatal accident back in August of 2005 was in court today to receive her sentence.
Thirty-nine–year old Christy Buesher was sentenced today after pleading guilty, about a week ago, to vehicular homicide and careless driving resulting in death.
Back in August of 2005 Buesher ran a red light near Patterson and 28 road, where she collided with a vehicle killing the driver, 27–year–old Stanna Lindholm.
An investigation showed that Buesher had cocaine and opiates in her car at the time of the crash.
Today Buesher was sentenced to a year in jail and 10 years of probation. After putting in 6 months of jail time, Buesher will then go to the work release program for 2 years. She will also have to pay fines, costs and restitution which add up to be nearly 18 thousand dollars.
Buesher is not allowed to drive during her 10 year probation period. She also must sell her car immediately and the money will go to Lindholm's family trust.


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Ducks Lane fire
A FIRE in Ducks Lane, Run 'O Waters estate, on December 17 is believed to have been started by a piece of wire becoming entangled in a slasher, which caused sparks and caught fire with the grass, police said.
The fire, which started at about 6.45pm, destroyed a heavy vehicle trailer which was parked at the location at the time.
The estimated cost of the damage is believed to be around $20,000.
The cause of the fire is being treated by police as accidental.
High range PCA
AT around 8pm on December 19 a 58-year-old male driver was stopped in Tallong for the purpose of a random breath test, which returned a positive result to alcohol.
The driver was conveyed to Goulburn police where he was subjected to a breath analysis which returned a high range reading of .170.
The driver requested a doctor take a blood sample for testing.
Police conveyed the driver to Goulburn Base Hospital where a doctor took the blood sample for analysis.
He was charged with high range PCA and had his licence suspended.
He will appear before Goulburn Local Court at a later time.
Drunk and disorderly
AT about 10.40pm on December 22 a 19-year-old male person was asked to leave the Goulburn Workers Club for being intoxicated and argumentative. The male left and a short time later returned and was again asked to leave by security.
The male left and about 10 minutes later he returned.
Security called police who escorted the male from the licensed premises and issued the male with a $550.00 ticket for excluded person re-enter premises.


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Licensing and Use
A sprinkle of flour keeps dough from sticking to the counter as Heather Luse, co-manager and executive pastry chef, prepares to roll out fruit tart shells. The Penn State Bakery provides cookies, cakes, breads and other baked goods to the HUB, all University Park residence halls, the Creamery and both Penn State hotels. Special orders also are available at the facility. Go to www.hfs.psu.edu/cookies for more information.


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WTC info sessions
contributed….LA CROSSE, Wis. – Western Technical College offers a Supervisory Management program that allows students to customize classes to fit work schedules. Information about the program will be presented as a free video conference on Thursday, Jan. 24, from 6:00-7:00 p.m. at Western's locations in La Crosse, Black River Falls, Independence, Mauston, Sparta, Tomah, and Viroqua. The La Crosse session will be held in Room 204 of the Coleman Center, 304 6th St. N.
The Supervisory Management program is designed for current and aspiring supervisors to enhance interpersonal and management skills while strengthening knowledge of diversity, legal issues, and team building. There are three optional formats for completing the program: online, face-to-face, or blended ITV. Students can choose to take their entire degree in an online format with instructors from business and industry. The face-to-face format utilizes accelerated learning techniques that enable students to meet one evening per week for their core courses. The blended option combines online with the face-to-face format via Interactive Television (ITV). For details, contact Brandee Ortery at email@example.com or at 608.374.7700 option 6. For information about additional programs and services at Western, call 608.785.9200 or visit the website at www.westerntc.edu.
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Kimberly Dale McAninch, 52, formerly of Murray, died Aug. 15, 2013, at Pathways Hospice in Loveland, Colo.
A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, at Murray Church of Christ. Burial will be in Murray Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to Clarke County Animal Shelter, 125 E. Ayers St., Osceola, IA 50213.
Kim grew up in Murray.
Kim attended four years at Iowa State University, where she received her teaching degree.
Kim moved to Fort Collins, Colo., where she taught elementary school for more than 25 years before retiring.
She received a Teacher of the Year award during her career.
Kim is survived by her father Dale McAninch and stepmother Bonnie McAninch of Murray; sister Kristily (John) Houge of Melcher-Dallas; nephews, David and Eric Downey of Afton; special friend Sgt. Roylee W. Meadows; many other relatives and friends.
Kim was preceded in death by her mother Shirley McAninch.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/14/oft_restricts_use_of_insurance_tool/
OFT restricts use of insurance tool
Credit reference tool could lead to illegal price 'co-ordination'
Posted in Software, 14th January 2011 09:53 GMT
Competition watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has reached agreement for limiting the use of a tool produced by credit reference company Experian over fears that it could lead to illegal price co-ordination.
Seven insurers and two IT companies have agreed to limit the information they share and the OFT has warned that the use of the tool could have even wider implications in the insurance industry.
An OFT statement said that it had carried out an investigation "which identified an increased risk of price coordination among motor insurers using a specialist market analysis tool by Experian called Whatif? Private Motor".
OFT said: "The tool allowed insurers to access not only the pricing information they themselves provided to brokers but also pricing information supplied by other competing insurers," said the statement. "The OFT warned the firms that the information exchanged through WhatIf? Private Motor raised competition law concerns."
The competition watchdog said that the monthly updates about prices charged for insuring certain people in certain vehicles with certain insurers could theoretically have been achieved by receiving individual quotes, but that because of the amount of data involved this would have been "almost impossible".
"The nine companies under investigation are proposing to address the OFT's concerns by giving formal commitments that will result in the insurers no longer being able to access each other's individual pricing information through Whatif? Private Motor," said the OFT statement. "Instead, they propose to exchange pricing information through the analysis tool only if that information meets certain principles agreed with the OFT. These would require the pricing information to be anonymised, aggregated across at least five insurers and already 'live' in broker-sold policies."
The OFT said that though it hopes to resolve formally the issue with the nine companies involved soon, use of the product could even now be causing more widespread problems.
"The OFT limited the scope of its investigation to a small number of parties with a view to achieving a swift and effective outcome," its statement said. "However, the investigation potentially has wider implications as the Experian tool is just one of a number of similar products used throughout the insurance industry."
The competition watchdog said: "Active competition between firms drives better value for consumers and growth for the economy, and anything that potentially dampens that is a cause for concern," said OFT executive director Clive Maxwell. "The OFT treats possible breaches of competition law very seriously, but we believe that formal commitments in this case would be a proportionate way of resolving our concerns.
"We are aware that similar market analysis tools exist both in motor and other insurance markets and we urge companies using them to ensure that they are complying with competition law," OFT said.
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January Subscriptions – Pick or Skip Reminder!
Since there are quite a few subscriptions that allow you to pick your box/item or skip that month, I thought it would be helpful to do a reminder post at the beginning of the month just so you aren't charged your monthly fee if you forget to skip.
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General Community > Site Comments, Issues and Concerns
Little Topic Solved improvement
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--- Quote from: Arantor on May 03, 2012, 08:53:47 PM ---The one here IIRC is a modified version of Sinan's.
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Right. Might check for a quick edit for that mod tomorrow/today (it's 3:00 AM here), I'm pretty tired now.
Any progress on how to showing the Solved topics in green Yoshi2889 ;)
Just don´t know how to add this line in Message index.pp
--- Quote from: French on May 11, 2012, 12:21:28 PM ---Any progress on how to showing the Solved topics in green Yoshi2889 ;)
Just don´t know how to add this line in Message index.pp
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Woops, totally forgot about this.
I'll check on this later today or tomorrow :)
Is it possible to add a line this is an example elseif ($topic['is_solved']) $color_class = 'solvedbg'; The same way as Sticky topics
Just don't know how you determined the color green
--- Code: --- foreach ($context['topics'] as $topic)
// Is this topic pending approval, or does it have any posts pending approval?
if ($context['can_approve_posts'] && $topic['unapproved_posts'])
$color_class = !$topic['approved'] ? 'approvetbg' : 'approvebg';
// We start with locked and sticky topics.
elseif ($topic['is_sticky'] && $topic['is_locked'])
$color_class = 'stickybg locked_sticky';
// Sticky topics should get a different color, too.
elseif ($topic['is_sticky'])
$color_class = 'stickybg';
// Locked topics get special treatment as well.
elseif ($topic['is_locked'])
$color_class = 'lockedbg';
// Last, but not least: regular topics.
$color_class = 'windowbg';
// Some columns require a different shade of the color class.
$alternate_class = $color_class . '2';
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Oh, thanks for looking into this French :)
In index.css define this:
--- Code: ---.solvedbg
background-color: rgb(205, 233, 199);
background-color: rgb(205, 233, 199);
--- End code ---
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BOSTON, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Boston today announced that Fenway Sports Management has selected the nationally ranked UMass Boston men's ice hockey team to compete in the 2014 Citi Frozen Fenway showcase.
The Beacons, who closed out the 2012-13 season with one of the best showings in program history, will face the Vikings of Salem State University, of the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 at 4 p.m.
"Playing outdoor hockey at Fenway Park is a rare and exciting opportunity for our athletes," Chancellor J. Keith Motley said. "This event is kicking off a very exciting year for us as we celebrate UMass Boston's 50th anniversary. We're thrilled to be participating in the Citi Frozen Fenway, and we know our alumni and fans share our excitement."
Fenway Park served as the site for the NHL's third Winter Classic in 2010 and featured teams at all levels from across New England. The Boston Bruins went on to defeat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-1 in overtime in perhaps one of the most exciting Winter Classic games to date. Two years later the showcase returned and once again featured some of the top college teams in both the city of Boston and in all of New England.
The meeting between UMass Boston and Salem State University will mark the first time that the two programs have faced off since the 2008-09 season. That season the Vikings defeated the Beacons 4-3 in overtime.
"The opportunity to play on such an amazing stage means the world to my players, the university, and me. We are extremely honored to have been selected to compete at Citi Frozen Fenway and will be counting down the days," said head coach Peter Belisle, who has named the 2013 ECAC East and DII/DIII New England Hockey Writers Association Coach of the Year.
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With a growing reputation for innovative research addressing complex issues, the University of Massachusetts Boston, metropolitan Boston's only public university, offers its diverse student population both an intimate learning environment and the rich experience of a great American city. UMass Boston's ten colleges and graduate schools serve 16,000 students while engaging local, national, and international constituents through academic programs, research centers, and public service activities. To learn more about UMass Boston, visit www.umb.edu.
Men's Ice Hockey Selected for 2014 Citi Frozen Fenway Showcase
BOSTON, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Boston today announced that Fenway Sports Management has selected the nationally ranked UMass Boston men's ice hockey team to compete in the 2014 Citi Frozen Fenway showcase.


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Bob, do you really look like you do in Mike's comic, or are you an obese african-american women with a ringworm for a head?
And now I set my month-long egg timer, and wait...

WAIT NO LONGER!!!
There used to be an actual image of me up from a few years ago, and I'd post it again, but I don't have it handy, and I don't really care to for no general reason. I'm sure it's still floating around somewhere out there. But yes, I am a morbidly obese African-American woman. No ringworm, though.
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NY Times Hides the Iranian Threat to Israel – AgainFeb 5, 2012 at 11:45:16 PM
The New York Times reports:
In Tehran, the speech by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made during Friday Prayer and broadcast live to the nation, came amid deepening American concern about a possible military strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment sites by Israel, whose leaders delivered blunt new warnings on Thursday about what they called the need to stop Iran's nuclear program. Israel considers a nuclear-armed Iran a threat to its existence. (Robert F. Worth and David E. Sanger, "U.N. Nuclear Inspectors' Visit to Iran Is a Failure, West Says," New York Times, February 3, 2012.)
Now why, pray tell, might Israel "consider" a nuclear-armed Iran a threat to its existence?
The Times doesn't get into specifics, and indeed leaves out a key part of Khamenei's speech, reported by the Ahlul Bayt ("Holy Household") Islamic News Agency:
"The Zionist regime is truly a cancerous tumor in the region and it must be, and will be, cut off."
Why did the Times leave out that key statement, and present this very real threat to Israel as a mere concern?
This is just another one of the many, many patterns of bias the New York Times is perpetrating against Israel. In reporting on Ahmadinejad's horrific threat that Israel "must be wiped off the map," the Times has cleverly re-translated the original Farsi into the far milder wish that Israel should "vanish from the pages of time." (Ethan Bronner, "Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel?", New York Times, June 11, 2006)
Of course, the Times' mistranslation ignores the fact that the Iranian government has erected billboards with the phrase "Israel should be wiped out of the face of the world" in plain English, and the slogan is painted on Iranian ballistic missiles.
The English section of Ahmadinejad's own website quotes him as saying that Israel "will be wiped off the map." ("President Says Zionist Regime of Israel Faces Deadend," June 3, 2008) And Dariush Rezaiinejad, chief commander of Iran's Basij militia, has stated clearly: "We have no option but to have the Zionist regime wiped off the map." ("IRGC Basij: No Choice But to Wipe Out Israel," Home Daily News - Iran, July 27, 2011)
All this is documented in my book, David & Goliath. And it's all been erased from the New York Times, the increasingly-questionable "newspaper of record."


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Rent-A-Center Manager Jason Mays and his five-person sales team are pleased to offer residents of College Station an additional option when it comes to acquiring ownership of high-quality furniture, appliances, electronics and computers. "I think it's going to be a great business to put in College Station to cater to the college students who are attending Texas A&M," said Mays. "It will be a wonderful opportunity for us to serve the public." The new Rent-A-Center is located at 2404 S. Texas Avenue, Suite B. Members of the community will welcome Rent-A-Center to the neighborhood at a grand opening celebration on Monday, November 12, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Rent-A-Center is contributing $1,000 to Bryan/College Station Habitat for Humanity. Rachel D. Stalcup, director of development for the organization, expressed her appreciation for the contribution. "Corporate partners like Rent-A-Center are vital to achieving Habitat for Humanity's mission in Bryan/College Station," said Stalcup. "We are so excited that this new store has chosen to donate to our affiliate so that a local family's dream of homeownership can come true." In conjunction with the grand opening ceremony, the store will also hold a drawing for a 42" TV. To enter, simply visit the store. No purchase is necessary. Rent-A-Center operates 278 locations in the state of Texas. The College Station location is open from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Rent-A-Center (NASDAQ: RCII), headquartered in Plano, Texas, operates more than 3,000 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico. The Company employs over 18,900 coworkers. Learn more at www.rentacenter.com.
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When the first Spanish explorers set sail with Columbus in 1492, they provisioned their ships with olive oil, dried peas, wine, pork and fish-the foods that made up the Mediterranean diet of the time. As the explorers returned to Spain, they brought with them tomatoes, potatoes, hot peppers, and beans. When all these foods are taken together you have today's Mediterranean diet, which has become the most popular gastronomic tradition in America. This program looks at the history of the foods of the Mediterranean and how they have affected people in Europe and the Americas.
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There's an old saying, "You are what you eat." When I hear people say that, I often visualize people walking around resembling McDonald's hamburgers, Twinkies or bunches of broccoli. But when anthropologists say it, they mean that one can learn a lot about a civilization's culture by looking at how it procures its food.
There's an old saying, "You are what you eat." When I hear people say that, I often visualize people walking around resembling McDonald's hamburgers, Twinkies or bunches of broccoli. But when anthropologists say it, they mean that one can learn a lot about a civilization's culture by looking at how it procures its food.
It wasn't until relatively recently that all humans were foragers or hunters/gatherers. Foragers tended to be shamanistic animists, or in English, people with a deep appreciation for nonhuman life, and a belief that humans are intimately bound into the natural world. Of course, this makes sense since hunting, gathering, fishing and all other forms of foraging required an in-depth knowledge of what you're foraging for and an understanding of how the natural world interrelates with yourself. This is why foragers tended to see the world from a "web of life" perspective rather than believing humans were the center of everything.
Recent research indicates that, looking back at all the known history of man, the forager era might have been the healthiest time in human history, given the varied diet we ate then. Of course, that didn't mean you didn't die early due to weather, disease or hungry animals.
Yehudi Cohen, a leading anthropologist, saw human development of food production over the past 10 to 15 millennia in four different stages: horticulture, agriculture, pastoralism and industrialism.
Horticulture was the first type of food production practiced. At its most basic, horticulture was nothing more than using techniques that helped regrow favored plants. Given that this was very low-intensity work, it provided significant returns in the amount of energy invested.
The societal makeup of horticulturists was typically on the tribe level with a larger, denser population. Many cultures using this approach to food production were egalitarian in nature. However, horticulturalists tended to not produce all of their food but continued to rely on foraging to supplement their diet. Maintaining an ample wilderness remained an important issue for them.
According to Cohen, the next stage of food production, agriculture, began the law of diminishing returns. After a certain point, simply applying more labor yielded less and less benefit. Even in agrarian societies, it takes more calories of work to farm a field than is returned in calories of product.
This didn't mean that larger farms didn't produce more food, it just meant that this shortfall of efficiency needed to be made up with the use of tools and animals. In our modern world, fossil fuels make up the shortfall. Oil powers not only tractors but also the fertilizer, packaging and fuel for transportation. Current research indicates that we burn between four and 10 calories — mostly in fossil fuels — for every one calorie of agricultural product we produce.
I think it's fair to say the early settlers of Western North Carolina were in the horticultural stage of food development, which continued up until a generation or two ago. Most people who lived here grew their own food and were hunters as well. This kind of life offered a diet of decent quality and allowed people who were isolated from major cities to thrive without the use of oil, shipments from China or advanced technology.
Today our approach to food production, whether in the country or the city, is industrialism. Industrialism allows for incredible population growth but also results in ecological devastation due to the consequences of industrial farming techniques, mass production and energy production such as coal extraction. Although we now live longer than our forager and horticultural-based ancestors, we tend to suffer from "affluent malnutrition," which one naturalist characterizes as "overfed and malnourished" since many of us die from preventable diseases caused by inactive lifestyles and the consumption of synthetic foods that our bodies were not designed to consume.
At ECO, we encourage the community to look at the example offered by the ancestors of this area who were models of sustainable living, which promoted good health and left a small footprint. You, too, can carry on the traditions of our forefathers and foremothers by starting the year off with a heritage apple tree, a hybrid American chestnut tree or another fruit or nut tree available through ECO's annual Heritage Tree Sale. This year, the sale offers heritage and disease-free apple trees, native azaleas, hybrid chestnuts, blueberries and persimmons. Order online at www.eco-wnc.org. We are running out of many of our trees, so please order now.
ECO also offers some hands-on workshops to help local residents turn their yards into edible gardens similar to those of Henderson County's original horticulturists. Upcoming sustainable living workshops include Winter Vegetable Gardening by master gardener John Murphy, on Jan. 23, Creating Your Own Edible Garden by permaculture expert Chuck March on March 19, and a Wild Plant Walk by local naturalist Michele Skeele on May 4.
For more information on these and other ECO programs, go online at www.eco-wnc.org or call us at (828) 692-0385.


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For more than four decades later, the Kennedy-King Memorial College Scholarship Fund, started by Walnut Creek attorney Ed Regalia, has helped send more than 600 Contra Costa community college students to four-year universities, raising more than $3.5 million.
It sent Mark Jackson '94 to San Francisco State University, and then to UC Hastings College of the Law.
Now an Alameda County deputy district attorney, Jackson, who is black, received an undergraduate scholarship in 1988 as a Contra Costa College undergraduate, and it allowed him to finish his degree at San Francisco State. He won the scholarship again in 1991 as he tackled his law degree at UC in San Francisco.
As a college student, Jackson struggled to earn enough money to attend college.
"The scholarship was very helpful in enabling me, in conjunction with working two jobs and with my family's help, in graduating college without any student loan debt," Jackson said. "These students need every dollar they can get from this program."
Jackson, now 45, has since served on the scholarship's board and started a pre-law program at Contra Costa College.
Read the full tribute to Ed Regalia in the Contra Costa Times here.


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Registration and Title Bulletin - 036–13
To: All County Tax Assessor-Collectors
Subject: New Certified Lienholders Approved for Electronic Lien Title (ELT) Program
Texas Certified Lienholder List
These documents contain text of correspondence sent by TxDMV to the county tax assessor-collectors, statutory agents who provide vehicle registration and titling services for citizens in Texas. This information is provided to apprise the general public of issues affecting the state's vehicle titling and registration process.
The department has approved several new certified lienholders to participate in the ELT program effective August 31, 2013. Please see the attached document for the complete list of new lienholders with the latest revision date at the bottom of each page.
A current certified lienholder list is available on the TxDMV's website from the Lienholder Portal at http://www.txdmv.gov/lienholders. The link to the certified lienholder list is in the Toolbox on the right side of the page. Newly certified lienholders appear on the list soon after approval.
REMINDER NOTE: Electronic liens recorded on Texas motor vehicle records must be released electronically by the lender at the time a lien is paid in full, as specified in the Electronic Lien Title Specifications Document. If a third party pays off the lien, the lender must release the lien electronically and request a paper title to be printed and mailed to the third party.
CONTACTIf you have any questions, please contact your local TxDMV Regional Service Center.


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This review comes after McFarlane reorganized the Operations Division in November and created a new Maintenance Division to provide greater focus and accountability on vehicle and rail system reliability.
"I am taking this action because I want to improve rail reliability issues and on-time performance. We need a better understanding of what is necessary to reach a more consistent, better level of service," said McFarlane. "I believe our customers will soon begin to notice our progress."
The agency has hired LTK Engineering Services to lead the outside review. LTK will assess the state of repair of all vehicles and trackway, perform spot checks of selected equipment and review maintenance records and service reliability data. A full report is expected in six months but McFarlane will provide monthly progress updates to the board of directors. The final report will include recommendations on maintenance procedures, training programs, staffing levels, systems repairs and upgrades.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Housing Administration has exhausted its capital reserves and is currently running at a deficit of $13.5 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday, citing an independent audit. The FHA, which is expected to release the audit on Friday, is the arm of the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures home mortgages. The audit is expected to show the FHA's reserves were not enough to cover losses on $1.1 trillion in guaranteed loans, and that the agency will need taxpayer funding for the first time in 78 years, according to the Journal.
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One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is an annual citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time and then discuss it in book groups and at events throughout the City. By building bridges between communities and generations through the reading and most importantly the discussion of – one book, we hope to help to make reading a lifelong pursuit and to build a more literate society.
Sponsors for One City One Book include the San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. The program is also supported by many bookstore partners, program partners and media sponsors.
Find out more about the Selection Criteria & Committee.
- 2016 - Beautiful Chaos
- 2015 - Season of the Witch
- 2014 - Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
- 2013 - Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
- 2012 - Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
- 2011 - Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- 2010 - Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
- 2009 - Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst
- 2008 - West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary
- 2007 - Cane River by Lalita Tademy
- 2006 - The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Urrea
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When I was only 8 my mom gave birth to the 4th of the 5 kids in our family. Within a yr. #5 came along. By the time she and my Dad were expecting # 5 they discovered that my baby brother (born on my 8th birthday) was very ill with a very rare and devastating illness. Dr's immediately said to "put him in a home" as he will never live to see age 5. Docs said institutionalize him. My loving parents said "no way" to that. It was hard and took a great toll on us all, but of course no one more than my Mom. It was also a beautiful and awesome life having him in it.
My mother Laura always the Christian lady, kind and considerate, sweet and charming. Her smile, a bit crooked- nonetheless; adorable. Momma loved her flower garden and took great pride in her home. She was the neighborhood candy maker during Christmas holidays. Christmas was her favorite time of year as shown by the lights, glitter and garland with which she decorted inside and out. She enjoyed so much having the family gather at her home for Christmas dinner.
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! The Good Guys Win! Even though there is never any doubt that Wade Mc Nabb with the help of Kate Stewart will triumph over the political and... Read More
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"American Idol" finalist Jena Irene Asciutto flew back home from the bright lights of stage stardom to the comfort of her hometown where she got ready for every high school girls' dream night — prom.
Asciutto did not come back home alone. She brought her experiences, her fame, her dreams in hand and her new best friend, "American Idol" winner Caleb Johnson, who escorted her into the Dearborn Inn on Wednesday, May 28.
"He is an awesome date," said Asciutto. "We have been best friends for a couple months now."
Although the pair seemed to be going as just a "friendly" couple, the love and never-ending support one has for the other is clearly evident. Before walking in, Asciutto said she was excited to dance. Her date, Johnson, then broke out in song and dance to the hit song and dance "the wobble."
Asciutto said that she was excited to see her friends since she had not seen them in four months.
"I am excited to just chill, hang out with my friends and watch NetFlix," joked Asciutto.
Asciutto's best friend, Nikki Wald, said that it means a lot to her to have her best friend celebrate prom with her.
"We've been friends since sixth grade," said Wald. "In a way, it's closure to all that we have accomplished this year."
Though her hometown cheered her on as she sang her way to the final round, she fell short in the last vote to rocker Johnson, a 23-year-old North Carolina resident.
Despite coming up just short, Aschiutto told The Oakland Press that she is pleased with her finish, calling it an "awesome start" to her career. She also said she knew he would win and said he deserved the victory.


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Zachary Levine's Camp-opening story has a little quote from J.A. Happ, who is obviously ready to put 2011 behind him:
"We're anxious to put last year behind us and start on a new foot. I think everyone knows we're better than the way we ended up last year."
I'm not so sure that's right. The Astros were bad, historically bad. They finished in the bottom four in the NL in: runs scored, homers, walks, SLG, OPS. And on the pitching side? ERA, complete games, saves, hits allowed, runs allowed, earned runs allowed, and walks allowed.
So nope, I'm pretty sure the Astros were appropriately rated - especially on a Major-League level, in 2011.
Monday, February 20, 2012
And here's where I would disagree with J.A. Happ
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Well the Astros did underperform their pythag by 6 wins, their 2nd order wins by 7 wins, and their 3rd order wins by 8 wins, so math would agree with Happ.
Funny enough, this website where I found the data had the Astros outperforming the Pirates according to 3rd order wins. 16 games!!
- February 20, 2012 at 10:43 AM
- Reuben said...
What the heck are 2nd- and 3rd-order wins??
- February 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM
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At St. Oswald Church in Grasmere Are The Wordsworth Graves: Just as Stratford-upon-Avon is Shakespeare country, Grasmere and the Lake District is Wordsworth country. Born in the Lake District in 1770, William Wordsworth described the area as 'the loveliest spot that man hath ever found'. A … [Read more...]
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The IMS bid for three straight state tournament appearances fell short Saturday night at Benton Community as they fell to North Tama of Traer 55-46. Early on IMS struggled to stop the size of the Redhawks inside as North Tama leading scorer Mitch Boerm posted 15 first half points on his way to a game high 22 and center Nolan Hefty finished the game with 19. Despite the size disadvantage IMS trailed just 25-18 at the half. The Redhawks continued to pound away inside in the third quarter outscoring IMS 17-6 and capping the period with a three pointer from Jacob Wrage to lead by 18. IMS put together 13-1 run to start the fourth quarter and get back in it with 3 pointers from Peyton Thompson, Dallas Nye and Justin Boller. After the game Head Coach Dwight Gingerich talked about his teams work to get back in the game.
"We were running some set plays every time we were going down the floor we had a series that we were going through, we got a couple of things off of our press, which we switched to a full court zone pressure which wasn't effective earlier but now it was," Gingerich said. "At times different things work at different times we got some things off of that, we just got a couple of nice little rallies there."
In the end it wasn't enough as North Tama got back to their work inside and hit free throws down the stretch to seal it. IMS was led by 13 points from Dallas Nye, Peyton Thompson had 12. With the loss IMS ends their season at 22-3.


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Big-time con-man Lawrence Jameson's livelihood is threatened by the arrival of small-time con-man Freddie Benson in the swanky French coastal town of Beaumont sur Mer. After a spot of 'getting to know you', the duo join forces and set about their shared practice of fleecing wealthy society ladies by spinning them hard-luck tales. Lawrence is by far the more experienced, and Freddy forces him to share his knowledge so that he can get a bigger bite of the cherry. When the time eventually comes to bid adieu, Freddy decides to stay a bit longer in Beaumont sur Mer, but it quickly becomes apparent that this town ain't big enough for the both of them. Celebrated Broadway and West End director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell brings the most anticipated musical event of 2014, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, to the Savoy Theatre. Based on the classic movie comedy starring Steve Martin and Michael Caine, David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane's musical won 10 Tony Awards and 10 Drama Desk Awards for its original Broadway run in 2005, including Best Musical and Outstanding Musical respectively. It stars Robert Lindsay, 3-times winner of Olivier and Tony Awards for his highly acclaimed performances in Me And My Girl, Becket and Oliver! Recently most visible as the star of smash hit BBC sitcom My Family, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels marks his long-awaited return to musical theatre. Playing opposite him is gifted comic actor Rufus Hound, star of the National Theatre's production of One Man, Two Guvnors.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota fired Tubby Smith, cutting ties with the veteran coach one day after the Golden Gophers lost to Florida in the NCAA tournament.
Athletics director Norwood Teague announced the decision and said it was time for a "fresh set of eyes" on the program.
Smith was 124-81 (.610) in six seasons at Minnesota, helping to bring the program back to respectability and ramping up expectations for a team hit hard by an academic cheating scandal.
Smith won 20 games five times. But he went just 46-62 in Big Ten play and never finished higher than sixth in the conference. The Gophers made three NCAA tournament appearances under Smith. They beat UCLA this year before losing on Sunday.


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As some of my replies to Jersey Mike's essays take weeks to compose, I always do those off-line. As for learning the British Broadcasting Corporation ode, I sometimes cheat by copy-pasting from the forum to the draft, though most of the odes are quite simple anyway.
Most of my problems of losing work disappeared when I realised that I could scroll down to the recent messages bit below the reply, select a bit of text there, and "quote" it straight into the reply.


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Well, it has been interesting, and it has a only been a few days since we arrived in Salt Lake.
We had issues with dogs and dog pens and campground owners. Now, don't get me wrong, it is a very nice campground, but they have some bizarre rules here, covering all kinds of issues.
They ask for a credit check and a background check if you want to stay for a month. Well, that is a new one. We believed we passed, as they have not told us otherwise, guess we are still upstanding citizens with passing credit scores.
They ask you how old your unit is. They obviously let in rigs older than what the rules state. They say they will waive those rules, and, yep, they do, some units are falling apart, so why bother asking the questions?? We are even more confused.
Another rule that really irritates is the "no dog pen rule". I use a pen to protect my dogs from other dogs that are not on a leash or not controlled. Pens not allowed here, because, "they become unsightly". Please refer to paragraph above (LOL).
Last night Man and Becky had Mr. G out on a leash because we cannot put out our dog pen. And it happened again, some young man (maybe all of 10 to 12 years of age) was walking a dog he could not control, and the dog attacked Mr. G. Yepper, it happened again! Mr. G was not hurt, but he sure squealed loud and long, and shook for hours after the encounter of an ugly kind. Man jumped into the fray, ripped his jeans, but did not get nipped. Every one was upset.
After some renegotiations, we have now been granted a waiver to put up our dog pen for the duration. The entire episode is silly and sad. Confusing, silly and sad.
Even though there is still a LOT of snow in the mountains around here, it is almost Memorial Day, the campground is filling up. Families with kids, riding toys left in the streets, little shrieks from little bodies and voices are filling up the campground.
This n that, life goes on, hiccup here and there. Tomorrow is a new day, it is what it is.
Onward - -
* Graphic of puppy thanks to http://www.wpclipart.com/
** The campground assistant manager came down to look at our dog pen, at the request of Man. When she arrived, she took one look, asked something like, "that's it??" and immediately granted the waiver. All this drama for what?? Color us confused.
*** And, now, ole Carol is gonna go finish that second glass of wine, NOT WHINE, wine, a nice blush. Yum!


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In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness.
But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced some immediate and less lofty challenges: potentially bruising battles over employee salaries, police overtime pay and how to reverse cuts to ambulance staffing, sidewalk repairs and other basic city services.
On Thursday, the City Council — a body that Garcetti will remain part of until June 30 — is set to decide whether and how to pay for a scheduled 5.5% raise for many city workers, a payout portrayed by the city's top financial advisor as a long-term budget buster.
And by the end of the year, Garcetti and the council's leadership must launch new contract talks with unions representing police officers, firefighters, clerks, tree trimmers and workers at the Department of Water and Power — all of whom worked furiously to deny him the job of mayor.


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Actually, I'm offended by the whole notion. It reminds me of an exhibit of Nazi propoganda I saw at the Anne Frank House a while back -- pseudo-scientific explanations of why a particular face was "criminal."
But those pictures are from a BBC report of a study done at Liverpool University:
Researchers in the university's School of Biological Sciences showed their subjects, all of whom were in long-term relationships, a series of 66 pictures of two facial types - dominant and submissive.The study apparently assumed what constitutes a "dominant face" and a "submissive face," and only inquires into whether having a girlfriend who's ovulating heightens a man's perception of male threats. Count me skeptical... and disgusted.
They were then asked to rate the pictures for dominance, with a dominant person being defined as someone who "appeared as if they could get what they wanted".
Those with partners in the most fertile stage of their menstrual cycle were more able to spot classic masculine face types - ie men with strong jaw lines, thinner lips and smaller eyes.
But those with partners who were not at risk of getting pregnant at that particular time were not.


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Probing Question: How are we affected by light pollution?
It has been one of Homo sapiens' most ancient activities: sitting around a fire and gazing with wonder at the stars spread across the dark night sky. These days, if you've had this awe-inspiring experience, you're one of the lucky ones, says Christopher Palma, senior lecturer in Penn State's astronomy & astrophysics department. "Did you know that from many locations in the United States you can't see the whole Little Dipper anymore?" he asks.


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Get a free PS Vita... by buying a Scion iQ
Looking to get a Vita, but can't afford its $250 asking price? Don't worry, car manufacturer Scion has got your back. Starting today, the company has launched a promo where purchasing or leasing the iQ will net you Sony's handheld for free.
Starting at $16K MSRP, the iQ is described as "the world's smallest 4-seater," and the "most portable car." So why is it offering a free Vita with purchase? Because Sony's handheld is "the most portable gaming system." Clearly, they have not seen how big this machine is.
This isn't the first time Sony and Scion have partnered up. In fact, MotorStorm RC was given away as a freebie to Vita owners, thanks to a Scion promotion.
While one can't complain about receiving freebies, do note that buying a car isn't exactly the best way to get your hands on Sony's new console. According to the promotion details, it will take 10-12 weeks for the system to ship after mailing in the necessary paperwork.


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A Jackson County Jail nurse is being charged with taking drugs from the jail's pharmacy. The nurse was arrested Monday afternoon. She had been put on administrative leave prior to an investigation by the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff investigators say Jackson County Jail nurse Stacy Neel took several bottles of prescription drugs from the jail's pharmacy. She was arrested just a few hours ago.
The allegations against jail nurse Stacy Neel involve more than one instance. Investigators say they are aware of several missing non-narcotic drugs and at least one controlled substance. The drugs apparently went missing the last eight months of 2003.
"The other medications are something that, while it's not alright to do, I think it's not as serious as we're talking about with the hydrocodone, which is very addictive," says Chief Lou Roberts of the Marianna Police Department.
"When you have prescription drugs or anything that says drugs itself and then you're talking about law enforcement, corrections, that's a big, big no, no."
Stacy Neel faces one count of possession of prescription medication and a felony count for possession of the controlled narcotic, hydrocodone. She will likely make her first appearance in court in the next two days.
This is the second investigation this year involving county employees. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office is also looking into some missing county a/c units and wiring equipment believed to have been taken by county employees.


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2010-11: Rex talks too much; he's a jackass.
2013: Rex clams up; he deserves to be fired.
Oh and FYI. Serby pressed charges against Todd. The DA refused to prosecute -- He knew Serby was a whiny b!tch back in 1981. Why is JI 32 years behind the curve about this clown?


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