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As exciting as spring is for anyone who appreciates leaves on a tree or green grass underfoot, for landscape architects it's a season with added thrills—with professional consequences. In their art form, the brushstrokes they make—the geographical and horticultural changes they make to a space—take years to fill in.
Taking in the work of these artists when all is in bloom can be edifying and can offer ideas you can take home with you. The Valley has a knack for producing fine landscape architects, and there are many well-appointed parks and town commons to enjoy.
If you want to take in the work of a master, Frederick Law Olmsted's landscapes abound in the Pioneer Valley and all around New England and New York. All but one of the area's major college campuses were designed by Olmsted or his staff. He consulted on the building of Forest Park in Springfield and did designs for several Holyoke residences and parks.
In the southeastern corner of Massachusetts, about equidistant from Boston and the Rhode Island border, the small town of North Easton has one of the most distinguished and architecturally significant downtowns of any in the country—regardless of size.
Most New England town centers have grown somewhat haphazardly over the centuries; they are a myriad of styles and tastes. North Easton, though, has the distinction of having been conceived and constructed by two of the nation's greatest 19-century builders—architect H. H. Richardson and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Long before Caterpiller, John Deere or Mack Trucks were household names in the construction business, the Ames Shovel Company took a lead role in providing the equipment that helped build America. The shovels, manufactured in North Easton, were used by the crews constructing the Union Pacific Railroad. They became known as a key instrument in opening up the West.
The Ames family made a fortune from their product. In the early 1870s, in addition to building themselves grand estates, they decided to re-imagine their small town. They sought to imbue their public architecture with a sort of royal magnificence seldom bestowed to the common folk. Only the best would do.
Richardson had just finished work on Trinity Church in Boston's Copley Square.
After a decade working mostly on the New York City park system, Olmsted was considering moving to Boston. He had recently ended a long and successful collaboration with Calvert Vaux.
On either side of the Civil War, they had built a system of parkways throughout the city—Olmsted did the park grounds, woods, waterway and pathways; Vaux did the buildings, bridges and other public structures. Playing off each other's rhythms and inventions, they created scenes that—in addition to being enjoyed by millions every year, they have become iconic, the backdrops for countless movies and photographs: the bow bridge stretching over the lake; a wide meadow snaking off into the distance; through the trees a slender granite archway; a tunnel made of boulders; an idyllic stream next to an Adirondack-style hut; a castle by a pond.
Vaux was a tough act to follow, but Richardson believed he was the man for the job. Physically, he was every bit Olmsted's opposite—a real-life Falstaff: large, barrel-chested, and given to dressing in a medieval monk's cloak and hood.
Before North Easton, he and Olmsted had already worked on a number of projects together, and they had become friendly. Early on, Richardson began urging him to quit the New York scene, move north and be his neighbor near Boston.
When the Ames family came calling, offering a chance for the two to work together on a plan that would include town hall, the library, a train station and a war memorial, it became an occasion for Richardson to strut his stuff and Olmsted to consider a new partner. The resulting duet has its awkward, over-exuberant missteps, but the sum total is daring and lavish. It has a fairy tale feel. Enchanting.
Local filmmakers Larry Hott and Diane Garey are currently at work on the documentary film Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America. It is a co-production with WNED-TV, the public station that serves Buffalo and Toronto.
Their last film, The War of 1812, featured elaborate historical reenactments and staged scenes with costumed actors and stuntmen. Things like artillery shooting at cavalry, bombs bursting in air, and a gunfight in the winter woods.
Hott told the Advocate that while there would be some reenactments of historic events in their Olmsted film, it wasn't always as easy to "find a way to show something actually happening."
Unlike that of America's early military conflict, the drama of the landscape architect's life happens in letters, conversations and architecture. There's no body count. At one point, Olmsted had a bad accident while riding, but otherwise, his life was a mix of art, horticulture, managing large-scale projects, and a heavy dose of endless wrangling with local, state and national politicians. He grew up in Hartford, and summered along the Connecticut River in Massachusetts. For breakfast, he liked pickles and coffee. Bruce Willis probably wouldn't be right for the role.
Garey said one approach they'd been exploring is describing Olmsted as precursor to Walt Disney. An interview subject had made the comparison, arguing that both men sought to build transporting, recreational environments for leisure-time America.
In addition to countless public parks and residential work he did across America, Olmsted also designed the grounds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In record time, a murky swamp was turned into a lagoon with gondolas and giant, gleaming white buildings. A midway with its own train system featured the world's first Ferris wheel. The new fangled electric lights lit the place up at night. The stories Elias Disney told his son Walt of this wonder land were his inspiration for his kingdom in a Florida swamp.
The comparison between their work is interesting, but the distinctions between them might be more significant.
Most of Olmsted's park work was to serve public, not private interests: there were no ticket takers at his gates. Instead being torn down or remodeled when obsolete like a Disney ride, Olmsted's landscapes are meant to improve with age. Unlike a Disney attraction, where visitors are passive participants moving along in a confined car on a set of rails, Olmsted's work is accessible from any direction and open for almost any use. You can only ride on Pirates of the Caribbean so many times before it's dull, and everyone's experience of the ride is pretty much the same. Talk to any lover of an Olmsted park, and they're likely to have dozens of different cherished memories of time spent there.
Most importantly, Olmsted trade techniques are ones that can work on any scale and are sustainable. You'll probably never recreate Disney's jungle safari in your backyard, but you might be able to find ways to turn an empty lawn or barren yard into something more inviting and private.
On the heels of the North Easton commission, Olmsted began work on the Boston park system, now known as the Emerald Necklace. For five years, he commuted between the site and his home and office in New York, until he finally moved to Brookline. His home became his design office. It was as short walk from Richardson's house and is now a National Historic Site with archives of his designs (http://www.nps.gov/frla/).
Haydenville landscape architect Tom Benjamin points to both the plantings around Olmsted's home in Brookline and the network of parks he designed around Boston as examples of advanced thinking for the 19th century planner.
"Part of Olmsted's house was covered in vines," he told the Advocate in a recent interview. "Now, we call those green walls"—used for improving a building's thermal insulation, acoustics and wildlife habitat. A wall of vines can be used as a screen for privacy or creating multiple spaces.
"A good deal of the Emerald Necklace is designed for storm water management," Benjamin said. Urban areas displace a lot of water. Whether for a backyard or a downtown park, the plan "must aggressively handle storm water, getting it away from buildings."
Benjamin, who teaches sustainable landscape design at both UMass and Greenfield Community College, said he admires Olmsted's "reformer ethic" and his belief that landscaping could create spaces that were beckoning and therapeutic.
His design for one such space, a rain garden outside a hospital in Rhode Island, was recently honored by the Environmental Protection Agency.
"The space I had to work with was a fraction of an acre," he said. "It had been part of their parking lot. It's on a promontory with a view of traffic and the hospital entrance."
Using deep-rooted grasses and perennials, Benjamin created an environment where the urban world was masked out and the water run off from adjacent pavement went to work feeding the hungry plants. Using creeping thyme and other fragrant plants, he turned parking spots into somewhere people wanted to congregate—a kind of "outdoor room."
Successful landscape design "addresses multiple problems and provides multiple solutions," Benjamin said. "You can bring the same sustainable design principles to play in a residential property."
But for Olmsted and Richardson's additions, downtown North Easton is a nondescript crossroads.
There's a wooded hill where the town hall sits and a wide stretch of lawn for the library, but there isn't a patch of green for a common. To create a greater sense of place and frame Richardson's impressive edifices, Olmsted designed a war memorial out of river boulders, rising like a crest at the center of town. There's a flagpole and lookout on top, and a tunnel runs underneath.
Across the road from the memorial, wide stairs climb up through the craggy rocks to a verandah lined with Gothic arches. The three-story castle was intended as the town hall. Woodland creatures are carved into the stonework and a mighty oak door stands at the end of the cloister.
Down the hill from the great hall (which residents never embraced as their seat of government—it's now rented out for functions), is the abbey-like library, stretched out on the grass with the authority of a Sphinx. Inside, the vaulted arches of the main reading room are like those found in a Celtic scriptorium. On a bright, beautiful May day, it was still packed with patrons.
Further down the hill is a river. If they follow it a short distance, visitors can find the mill buildings where the Ames shovels were manufactured. Across from the rows of factory windows is the town train station, its arms open wide. The tracks have fallen into disuse and are overgrown, but the building has recently been renovated for use as a town history museum.
When I visited about a year ago, the paint was still fresh on the train station, but volunteers welcomed the curious inside. The historic society members bubbled up with stories about their hometown and wanted to know where the visitors had visited and where they were going next.
"Heck, I'm going that way too, perhaps we could walk together?" one of the neighborhood histrorians asked.
As eager as he might be to get his picture taken with you, you've got to pay Mickey a much bigger ticket fee to get that kind of tour of his kingdom.


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Polk/Dallas County 4-H Day Camp 2013 (Session 1 of 4)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 9 a.m. to Friday, June 28, 2013, noon
4-H, Growing our Future !! Summer Day Camp - A camp planned especially for youth 5—10 years of age.Activities include science, games, art, cooking, snacks and more!
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June 24—28, Bolivar— Pizza from the garden
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Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (Session 3 of 10)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
A program for seniors to help build strength, flexability, and balance.
Third class
Register by calling the Stone County Extension Office 417-357-6812
Renette Wardlow, email@example.com Extension in Greene Countyphone: 417-881-8909
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (Cass) (Session 7 of 20)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy is 20 classes over 10 weeks strength training program for adults 60 years and older. The program's goal is to improve health and quality of life. The program incorporates warm-up exercises, strengthening exercises, and cool down stretches. Over the ten weeks participants learn exercises to improve strength and balance. The class meets twice weekly and all equipment is provided.
To register contact MU Extension @ 816.30.8460
$35.002nd person from same household is $15
Susan Mills-Gray, email@example.com and Exercise Physiology, MU Extensionphone: 816-506-3338
Canceled: Eat Well Be Well with Diabetes: St. Louis County Extension Center (Session 1 of 4)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (Session 8 of 11)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy is an eleven week program for middle-aged and older adults. The program's goal is to improve health and quality of life. We will be incorporating: warm-up exercises, simple strengthening exercises (with or without weights), and cool down stretches. Strength training can benefit you in many ways: Arthritis relief, improve balance, enhance flexibility, strengthen bones, weight control, lifts depression, stress reduction, reduce risks for heart disease, maintain healthy blood sugar levels, etc.
To register for this class please contact the Pulaski County MU Extension Office by:Calling: 573-774-6177Emailing: email@example.com (Sarah Traub, the instructor)Or stop by the office located in the Pulaski County Courthouse at 301 Historic 66 E, Suite 127, Waynesville, MO 65583
Sarah M. Traub, email@example.com Extension in Cooper Countyphone: 660-882-5661
Stay Strong. Stay Healthy. Advanced (Session 7 of 11)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
This class is for those who have completed a beginner Stay Strong, Stay Healthy class.
Please call the Camden County MU Extension Office at 573-346-2644 or email Melissa Bess at firstname.lastname@example.com
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy (Session 7 of 11)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Please call the Camden County MU Extension office at 573-346-2644 or email Melissa Bess at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Henry County Sharp Shooters 4-H Club (Session 8 of 12)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Monthly Club Meeting
Kim Hall, email@example.com Extension in Johnson Countyphone: 660-747-3193
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy - Bethany Jun-Jul, 2013 (Session 7 of 17)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Stay Strong, Stay Healthy is an eight-week strength training program for middle-aged and older adults. The program's goal is to improve health and quality of life. The class will meet twice a week. We will incorporate warm-up exercises; simple strengthening exercises, with or without weights; and cool down stretches. Weights are provided for the class. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Bring water bottle and towel.
Call Janet at the Harrison County Extension office 660-425-6434
$30.00If both this basic and the advanced class (on Tuesdays) is taken, the fee for both is $40.
Pulaski County Extension Council Meeting (Session 6 of 11)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
The Pulaski County Extension Council meets the last Monday of the month at 5:30pm in the Pulaski County Courthouse.
Greene County Extension Council Meeting (Session 5 of 25)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
The Greene County Extension Council is comprised of 16 publicly elected council members and 4 appointed members who work with MU Extension specialists to provide the county educational program, manage finances of local MU Extension operations, provide personnel to carry out MU Extension activities locally and organize the annual public election of MU Extension council members. more...
Specific items for this month's meeting are posted on the Greene County Extension Center website under council business. Meetings are held to approve bills, plan programs and vote on policy related to the local county extension office.
None. Meetings are open to the public and conducted in accordance with the Missouri Sunshine Law. Council agendas are posted online prior to each meeting.
David L. Burton, firstname.lastname@example.com Extension in Greene Countyphone: 417-881-8909
Healthy Lifestyle Initiative (Session 3 of 9)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
This program will focus on issues involving becoming over weight and obese. Safe ways to lose weight on a non medically supervised program. Techniques to control over eating and safe exercise programs will be the primarey topics. A walking session will be included with most sessions. The Warren County Health Department will be partnering in the program.
Each session will discuss a different technique to aid in personal weight control. Exercise and food intake will be discussed at each session. An opportunity to weigh and exercise will be available at all class meetings. Planning ahead for meals.
Contact the Warren County Extension Center (456-3444) or the Warren County Health Department (456-7474) to register.
$15.002.00 per session attended.
Preserving the Harvest Home Food Preservation Series (Session 2 of 5)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
This 5-session series will teach participants the basics of food preservation through hands-on experience in pressure canning, water bath canning, freezing, and dehyrdating fruits and vegetables.
Participants may register for individual workshops or all 5 workshops of the series. For more information, contact the Cole County Extension Center at 573-634-2824 or e-mail the instuctor.
$15.00$60 for all 5 sessions
Lynda Zimmerman, firstname.lastname@example.com Extension in Cole Countyphone: 573-634-2824
Food Preservation Workshops - Farmington (Session 1 of 3)
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Learn basic techniques for pressure canning, water bath canning, making jams and jellies and drying fruits, vegetables and jerky at home.June 24-- Canning Fruits and Vegetables. Topics include a water bath and pressure canning demonstration. Learn to select and care for canning equipment as well as prepare food for canning, process it correctly, and check for seals.July 8 --Preparing Jams and Jellies. Explore traditional ways to prepare jams and jellies, as well as alternative sweet spreads prepared with Splenda. Topics include sterilizing jars, water bath processing of jams and jellies, pectin products, freezer jams, and recipe sources for specialty jams.July 22 -- Drying Fruit, Vegetables, and Jerky. Learn safe methods to dry jerky, fruit leather, fruits, and vegetables despite humid conditions. more...
Canning Basics - Learn safe methods for canning both fruits and vegetables for home use. Topics include a water bath canning and pressure canning demonstration.
Contact University of Missouir Extension - St. Francois County: Phone 573-756-4539
$10.00$25 for all three sessions
Mary Schroepfer, email@example.com Extension in Franklin Countyphone: 636-583-5141
Corn Silage Production for Beef Cattle Operations - Part 2
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
High hay and grain supplement prices have made corn silage a more attractive energy supplement for beef cattle. Corn Silage Production for Beef Cattle Operations - Part 2 will discuss how to properly harvest, store, and feed corn silage to beef cattle.
Corn Silage Production for Beef Cattle Operations - Part 2 will focus on proper harvest, storage, and feeding techniques to more effectively utilize corn silage in beef cattle rations. The program will be held at Windsor Livestock Auction, Windsor, MO.
There is no fee for this program. More information may be obtained by contacting Gene Schmitz at the Benton County Extension Center at (660) 438-5012 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
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Canceled: Container Gardening
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Good Neighbors 4-H Club (Session 3 of 11)
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Master Gardener (Session 1 of 11)
The Macon/Shelby Master Gardeners meet the fourth Monday of every month for a business meeting and program. The meeting begins at 7:00 p.m.
Pasture Weed Walk
When: Monday, June 24, 2013, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Pasture Weed Walk Set for June 24 near Nevada Producers wanting to learn to identify pasture weeds and make control decisions are invited to attend a Pasture Weed Walk on June 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Don McCoy farm. The farm is located one-half mile north of the Highways 43 and 54 intersection, west of Nevada. A rain date is set for June 25. The address is 16462 South 1100 Road, Nevada. University of Missouri Extension Specialists, Pat Miller and Patrick Davis, will be there to identify weeds and answer grazing questions. Producers are encouraged to bring weed samples for identification. For more information, contact University of Missouri Extension Center in Vernon County at 417-448-2560.
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Jim Harbaugh wasn't too interested in talking about the Seattle Seahawks today, though I did try, I really did. And the 49ers are playing the Seahawks on Sunday–which is probably why Harbaugh went Seattle silent.
He had no interest adding to the build up.
But on other topics, most especially the back-and-forth between Packers linebacker Clay Matthews and 49ers Colin Kaepernick and Joe Staley–and the resulting penalties–Harbaugh was incredibly verbose and interesting.
And Verbose Harbs is Good Harbs, at least for a look into what motivates and energizes him and the 49ers as a whole.
Here's the transcript, and note: I moved many of the questions and answers to get the same topics together and I moved the entire Matthews-Staley soliloquy to the top even though it wasn't the first thing addressed…
—-JIM HARBAUGH presser transcript/
-Q: What's your reaction to the aftermath of the whole Clay Matthews hit and the off-setting personal fouls?
-HARBAUGH: I think there was a lot going on on that play, or series of plays. You had the third-down play where we got stopped short, would've brought up a fourth-and-1, we get called for an illegal formation, the Packers choose to take that penalty to make it third-and-6 when they could've had the fourth–and-1 right there.
Would've gone for it on the fourth-and-1 and maybe they anticipated that and that's why they backed us up.
Then Colin scrambles out of bounds and you get the personal foul, the play, the launching–you talk about launching, talk about a close line to the neck area when our quarterback's six, seven feet out of bounds…
I was standing there, I was kind of struck. It was like, 'You know, I've seen this play before.'
I thought Emlen Tunnell–you all know who he is, No. 45 of the Giants. I mean, back when that was legal, he could stand there in the middle of the field, wait for receivers to cross and close line them, and their legs, feet would fly up in the air and their backs would hit the ground…
I was struck. 'I'm seeing Emlen Tunnell here!'
And then Joe Staley jumps in and locks him up and then somehow Joe Staley gets a personal foul called on him. I looked at it with my own eyes I could see two punches thrown to Joe's head and well, one punch and one open slap…
Which… you know, that was just… if you're going to go to the face, come with some knuckles, you know? Not an open slap.
I think that young man works very hard on being a tough guy. He'll have some repairing to do to his image after the slap.
But then… you know Bill Leavy's crew is in my opinion one of the best in the NFL. Well, first of all, it should've never been off-setting penalties, in my opinion.
That being said, whether it should've been a fourth down, we would've gone for it anyway. The next play was a third down, we come back, we hit Anquan Boldin for the touchdown.
So all in all, there was a lot of things going on in that stretch. Another one was the entire Packers bench cleared, practice squad players, coaches, members of the Green Bay Packers are all out of their bench area, down along the goal line. That wasn't chosen to be… there was no repercussion for that, as well.
All in all, a lot of going on in that stretch of plays.
-Q: The league today said Staley shouldn't have been penalized.
-HARBAUGH: Staley should have been penalized?
-Q: Should not.
-HARBAUGH: Should not. That's the way I saw it.
-Q: Has the league told you that?
-HARBAUGH: Nobody's talked to me yet.
-Q: You said the week before that all the tough talk was tantamount to targeting Kaepernick. Does that hit bolster the sense that they had it in for him?
-HARBAUGH: You know, like I said last week, usually a man will tell you his bad intentions if you just listen. That certainly was a cheap shot, launching, close-lining to the head, neck area.
That was a bad play. Now in Emlen Tunnell's day, that was legal. In our day, that's not.
-Q: Staley and some other of your players said they still respect Matthews. Do you have the same respect for him?
-HARBAUGH: I don't really have any more comment about it. I mean, I've talked at length about it.
-Q: Kaepernick said after the game that if intimidation is your game plan, you'd better have something better. You like to hear that?
-HARBAUGH: Colin competes like a maniac. That's what I love about him. That was interesting the other night, somebody asked, can't remember who, what a steal we got in Anquan Boldin. And feel great about that acquisition.
Also feel great about Colin Kaepernick and drafting Colin Kaepernick. What a great thing for our team that is. Just everything about him. Talent, leadership, toughness, intelligence. Everything's A-plus-plus.
-Q: Staley said maybe he shouldn't have reacted like that. How do you coach that?
-HARBAUGH: Pretty much explained how we coach that. When guys are going at each other, and after the whistle, and looking to push and shove people… just lock up, protect yourself, you know?
They're not going to back down from it. They're not just going to get pushed all around after the whistle, when it's not being called, when the first offense isn't being called. Then you have to have a plan. And for us, it's not to go pushing and throwing punches, it's to lock up and protect yourself.
And Joe did that about as well as you could do it. That's about it. If you call somebody for that, then there'll be 30 flags 30 times. That's happening all the time in our league, after the whistle people pushing and grabbing each other. So that's the best I know how to tell them.
-Q: What did you see on the Bowman penalty on the Packers sideline?
-HARBAUGH: What I saw was Aaron Rodgers scrambling out of bounds, Bowman doesn't touch him, he goes out of bounds. But he chased him out of bounds.
And then he looked like he was four or five yards deep into the sideline there. And NaVorro's just trying to walk straight back onto the field, saw a player who wasn't even in the game jump in front of him, say something to him. And he got by him, then another one jumped in front of him.
And then he just kind of pushed him out of the way; two guys who weren't even in the game getting in Bo's face. He had to… shoved them out of the way.
Now that's a personal foul that resulted in 15 yards and some of the other stuff that was going on really didn't. So… that's what I saw.
-Q: And there was a play where Matthews seemed to engage in some taunting…
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, I mean I guess you could say it was. That happens a lot. I've seen that happen a lot. You'd have multiple flags on multiple plays. Like I said Bill Leavy's crew does a great job.
-Q: You were OK with that no-call?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, saw that going on other times. Their guys doing it, our guys doing it. Just…
-Q: As a player, did you ever throw a knuckle-punch at a helmet?
-HARBAUGH: Never. No. Or in practice.
-Q: Or did you slap-hit?
-HARBAUGH: I would never, ever.
-Q: Did you get in a fight like that? What was your tactic?
-HARBAUGH: I don't know. That's so long ago.
-Q: We've been talking about this Seattle game for a while. Now that it's here, how do you approach it? Is it bigger than some other games because of the recent rivalry?
-HARBAUGH: Well, we always look at the next game as the most important game of the year. Winning that game, whatever the next game is, is the most important game on the schedule.
-Q: When you go back to the two Seattle games–one loss up there, one win here–what do you take from them and how do they apply to this game?
-HARBAUGH: It's football, it's competition, it's winning… there's good football teams that we're playing right out of the blocks here. And Seattle's an outstanding football team and it'll be a great test for our team.
We know there are challenges ahead of us.
-Q: Is it too early to talk about playoff implications in Week 2?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah.
-Q: So we shouldn't?
-HARBAUGH: It's a free country, you can talk about whatever you want. (Laughs.)
-Q: What stands out about Seattle's safety duo?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, some of the finest secondary players in the league.
-Q: Do you like having a rivalry with somebody like maybe you have with Seattle?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, always have. I think it always raises the bar for both teams.
-Q: If you had a vote for NFC offensive player of the week, who would it be?
-HARBAUGH: Uhh. I'm partial, so it'd probably be a 49er player.
-Q: Going through it on tape, how do you evaluate the games that Kaepernick and Boldin had?
-HARBAUGH: I think they spoke for themselves, everything we saw yesterday and talked about after the game. It was A-plus-plus, Colin and Anquan.
Terrific wonderful wonderful game by both those men, and Vernon Davis. And the play of the offensive line. A lot of guys to highlight after yesterday's game.
-Q: What accounted for your struggles running the ball–was it something Green Bay's defense was focused on or were there issues on your offense's part?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, kind of some of the ways they were playing it was to stop the run, and we passed.
-Q: How do you assess Ian Williams' performance?
-HARBAUGH: I thought really the interior guys played very well, the four down linemen.
We were in nickel almost the entire day and they did a good job stopping the run, tackling, getting pressure on the quarterback. And they threw the ball very quickly. I thought all of our defensive linemen played well.
-Q: How did Nnamdi Asomugha play? He played quite a bit.
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, he had some fine plays. Also, just the thing that's been striking me about Nnamdi, from watching him all through training camp and the off-season, is just what a pro he is, how he works his hands, works his feet…
Really, the entire practice, even when he's not in there, constantly striving to improve. Never any horseplay or anything. He's all serious, he's all about business.
I thought he had some good plays in the game. A couple tackles maybe he would like to have back, but I feel good about Nnamdi.
-Q: Do the missed tackles have anything to do with his collar bone injury?
-HARBAUGH: No. I mean, as a group we weren't pleased with our tackling. We talked about it after the game. It's not what we've been accustomed to the last couple years with our defense.
We had a few too many missed tackles.
-Q: Do you attribute that to the first-teamers not getting a lot of snaps in the preseason?
-HARBAUGH: Well, I just attribute it to, it's an area we'll seek to improve in. And there's a lot of good tackles.
Eric Reid made some fine plays, open-field tackling, and also a real fine play in the special teams, a big play. Two good tackles there.
Something that we'll seek to improve.
-Q: What can you do to improve the issue you're having getting offensive plays in and beating the play clock?
-HARBAUGH: Another area we can improve, you know? And we'll seek to do that–get the play in faster, there's some things that happen.
There's a high volume of plays. Sometimes there's a give-and-take there. So many, so much volume there that there's a few times where guys came out of the huddle and they didn't know where to line up. And that bled some seconds off the clock and we ended up having to take a time out.
But continue to strive to improve in that area.
-Q: Did you have to change any of the signals because Scott Tolzien was on the other sideline?
-HARBAUGH: We're changing things pretty constantly. You really have to these days–with the players that are mic'd up especially during the game.
The teams that you play next week, the week after, the week after, they get that TV copy and they hear your communication at the line of scrimmage, which is your snap count, certain audibles and calls. So there needs to be continuous change and there will be.
-Q: Did you call and thank your brother for sending Anquan over? Anything like that?
-HARBAUGH: Yes, I have done that.
-Q: This morning?
-HARBAUGH: No, not this morning or yesterday. But in the previous months, yeah. Just thrilled about Anquan Boldin.
A lot of our players have talked about it, our coaches have talked about what he brings to our team as a player, also a leader.
You talk about the analogy of the salesman out there who sell their product, they meet their quota. And then there's other salesmen who meet their quota and also coach up other salesmen and how to meet their quota.
It's a multiplying effect that guys like that have, that our leaders, and care about other guys doing well. Anquan Boldin is one of those types of guys.
-Q: How many plays did Greg Roman typically send into Kaepernick yesterday? Two, one, three?
-HARBAUGH: The volume that goes in? That's something we really don't discuss publicly.
-Q: When he sends them in, does he send in the full play? Lots of words, maybe that's what's delaying it?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, both–sometimes we send in the entire play, sometimes it's a coded number.
-Q: Justin Smith came out of the game a few times. Was that planned or did he need a breather as the game went along?
-HARBAUGH: It was a rotation in there. One thing I would like to highlight and compliment our guys on was their conditioning, their sustenance through the entire game. Mark Uyeyama, our strength coach, and Kevin Tolbert, do a great job–this off-season and in training camp.
It was a hot, hot day out there, there was a lot of plays, there was no-huddle, hurry-up offense, etc… And I thought our defense played at a high level the entire game.
Now there were points scored on us and drives mounted, but of the 13 drives they had, really count 12 because not counting the last drive… but five of those were three-and-outs and another three they only had one first down and then had to punt.
And that's something we take a look at–our defense can get off the field and get the ball back for our offense. That was a real positive. And I also thought our conditioning was a real positive for us.
-Q: What happens with Dobbs now?
-HARBAUGH: What will happen?
-Q: What will happen with him?
-HARBAUGH: He will come back and be at meetings tomorrow and practice this week.
-Q: So you'll have to make a roster move for him?
-HARBAUGH: Yes.
-Q: Do you know what that move will be?
-HARBAUGH: Well, not yet.
-Q: See the Super Bowl logo on your sweater. Is that the sweater you wore during the Super Bowl?
-HARBAUGH: Yeah, I think so.
-Q: You wear it all the time?
-HARBAUGH: It's in the rotation.
-Q: Any reason today?
-HARBAUGH: Just… five or six of them that hang there, I grab one each day.
-Q: There was a report that you had to switch your clothes at halftime, that you weren't wearing official NFL gear?
-HARBAUGH: That's correct.
-Q: You were wearing Reebok, had to change to Nike?
-HARBAUGH: Yes. It was a mistake. Grabbed the wrong one.
-Q: Are you getting fined?
-HARBAUGH: I might, I don't know. It was an honest mistake, there was no malice intended (smiles). It won't happen again.
-Q: What did you think Eric Reid played? How quickly has he picked things up?
-HARBAUGH: It's a great question. He's been really diligent on it from the time he got here. It's just the way he's wired. He's not an error-repeater.
He takes great pride in his own personal performance. And he's really smart. A lot of good qualities there that I really like about him.
Ever since he's been here he's picked things up extremely fast. Early on, we're not going to worry about Eric Reid in terms of picking up the defense, where his alignment should be, what his assignments are. He does a good job in that regard.
It was interesting, it was one of those moments, I was walking out the tunnel to start the game. I was walking behind Eric Reid and Justin Smith and the last thing Justin told him was, 'Stay back, stay the heck back. We'll take care of everything up front.' He was coaching right there 'til the end and he did a nice job.
He really did well. There was an open-field tackle that was missed. But he was back on the deep ball when we jumped offsides on third-and-20 which wasn't good football. He made the play, just didn't give them the touchdown there. And actually made an interception.
No doubt he belonged and he's going to get better and better.


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When it comes to climate change, the bad news pummels you the way Mike Tyson, in his prime, pummeled opponents into submission. The onslaught is so relentless that sometimes I just want to crumple into a heap and yell: Make it stop! The latest beat-down, for example, is news of the record ice shrinkage in the Arctic. That seems to have shaken up a lot of people.
But before everyone sinks into catatonic despair, I want to return to a recent piece of stunningly good news on the climate front. Perhaps you saw the headline several weeks ago: "U.S. carbon emissions drop to 20-year low."
Alas, there was a catch. The biggest reason for the decline, as the AP reported, "is that cheap and plentiful natural gas has led many power plant operators to switch from dirtier-burning coal."
If this isn't the definition of quandary, I don't know what is. Gas emits much less carbon than coal (probably between 25% and 50% less), which is a net plus on the global warming ledger. And shale gas, in case you hadn't heard, is entering a golden age; it is abundant and newly retrievable across the world, not just in the United States. It's the bridge fuel to a clean energy future that liberal think tanks and university researchers were touting just a few years ago. Given the political stalemate on climate change, one energy expert gushed in a recent NYT op-ed: "Shale gas to the rescue."
But a grassroots backlash to the relatively new technology (hydraulic fracturing) that unlocks shale gas has set in motion powerful forces opposed to this bridge getting built. Leading climate campaigners, citing concerns about industry practices and continued reliance on fossil fuels (even if less carbon intensive), are now a big part of the growing anti-fracking coalition. Mainstream environmentalists have also jumped on that bandwagon.
Thus the battle lines are drawn, with enviros and climate activists digging in their heels against a shale gas revolution that could pay big climate dividends. This is a story in of itself. Now a new twist promises to make it even more interesting. Earlier this week, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire philanthropist and New York City mayor, gave the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) a $6 million grant for its work "to minimize the environmental impacts of natural gas operations through hydraulic fracturing." The grant follows on the heels of a Washington Post op-ed that Bloomberg co-authored with a gas industry executive. In the piece, they champion the environmental and economic benefits of natural gas, while also calling for more stringent fracking rules and better industry practices.


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Discussion in 'General' started by eagle eyes, May 24, 2012.
How do i fix these?
Also what changes should i make to below for the server Xeon 5620.
These errors are no harm. The variables in modsec rules are not supported in LSWS and ignored.
You need to look at your modsec configuration as the message suggests.


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May 4, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Ashley Sloan, who led the Yale softball team in hits (46), runs scored (31) and stolen bases (12), has been elected captain of the 2009-10 Bulldogs. The announcement was made on Friday night at the annual post-season banquet.
"I'm honored and excited that I was elected by my teammates as captain," said Sloan, who was one of only three players to start all 44 games this spring. "I hope to bring energy and competitiveness that I know reflects the attitudes of every girl on our team and to serve as one of our many examples of a willingness to do anything for the person playing next to me."
Sloan, an Elk Grove Village, Ill., native, will enter her senior season needing 42 hits to become Yale's all-time leader. She also is currently fourth in school history in runs with 96, 39 shy of Kathy Ching's Yale record. Sloan has earned All-Ivy recognition in each of her first two seasons with the Bulldogs. The 2009 All-Ivy team will be announced soon.
Sloan will be joined by classmates Allie Canulli, Lauren Huddleston, Holly Gutterud and Kayla Kuretich in providing leadership for next year's team.
"The girls in my class are all great leaders and would each do an awesome job in the same position," Sloan said. "We have a lot of people who have stepped up on our team this past year, and I think it really says a lot about our dedication and passion for the game."
Sloan has learned a great deal from her three predecessors - Christina Guerland, Aracelis Torres and Enyeart.
"We've had three great captains since I've been a part of Yale Softball," Sloan said. "Each one brought something valuable to their role as a leader. I've learned leaders can be effective if they know their strengths and use them to the best of their ability."
Four team awards were presented at the banquet. Deanna DiBernardi received the Barbara Chou Leadership Award, was named the most improved player and shared the most valuable player award with Megan Enyeart.
DiBernardi enjoyed an outstanding senior season for the Bulldogs. She led the Yale pitching staff in ERA (2.05), wins (10) and opponent batting average (.225). In the final weekend of the season, she tossed a no-hitter against Brown, and then beat the Bears again the next day to earn Ivy League Pitcher of the Week honors.
Enyeart started 43 games at first base and led the team in doubles (11), RBI (30) and slugging percentage (.500) and shared the team lead in home runs (3). Her 40 career doubles are a school record and she finished her career second all-time at Yale with 90 RBI.
Freshman Chelsea Janes was the recipient of the Andy Van Etten Coaches Award, which is bestowed upon the player who represents the ideals of Yale Softball that go beyond statistics. Janes appeared in 19 games for the Bulldogs.
Yale finished the season with a 22-22 overall record, the fourth straight with at least 20 wins. The Bulldogs were 11-9 in Ivy play, their first winning league mark since 2003. Seven starters and 11 letterwinners will return for the 2010 season.
"I hope to keep that improvement going over the next year together with my teammates, who are driven and motivated to work harder than ever," Sloan said. "I can't wait to get started."
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The good-time southern state known for Cajun food, Mardi Gras celebrations and its unique brand of politics, may not have as many electoral votes up for grabs as more populous states, but it doesn't make Louisiana any less interesting. The boot-shaped state went to George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004, but prior to that, it helped put Bill Clinton in office, siding with the former Arkansas governor in 1992 and in 1998.
In February, Sen. Barack Obama bested Sen. Hillary Clinton when he grabbed a win, and Sen. John McCain came in second in Louisiana to Mike Huckabee during the primary season. Today, the self-billed Sportsman's Paradise is a GOP stronghold in the 2008 election, helped, in part, by its Republican up-and-comer Gov. Bobby Jindal.


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The search for two missing climbers continues on Mount Hood in Oregon. The body of a third climber in their group was found Sunday inside a snow cave, it was 48-year-old Kelly James from Texas. Searchers will comb descent routes on lower levels of the mountain just in case the two missing climbers made it down that far.
Thousands of dollars have been spent on the search and is raising questions like; should the public bear the cost- both financial and human, to rescue people who choose to put themselves in potentially dangerous situations? And should mountain climbers and others be required to buy insurance policies to pay for part of the cost of rescue efforts?
In Colorado search and rescue cards, or COSAR cards are available for outdoor enthusiasts. When a card is purchased money is put into a fund that local search and rescue teams can tap into. If you have a hunting license or a off highway vehicle license you already have a COSAR card.
Search and rescue missions typically cost anywhere from $200 to $5,000 in Mesa County. One of the more expensive efforts to take place in the county was for missing cross county skier Dan Walker last January.


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Issue Type: Bug Created: 2009-01-27T09:54:45.000+0000 Last Updated: 2009-05-22T01:04:34.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.7.7 (16/Mar/09)
Reporter: Kyle Mizell (pimpinonline) Assignee: Ben Scholzen (dasprid) Tags: - Zend_Config_Writer
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If you try to create an XML config using a multidimensional array ( say from a database select ), and the keys are numeric, it generates an XML config that cannot be read into Zend_Config_Xml ( because it has illegal nodes ).
I believe a fix could be as such:
protected function addBranch(Zend_Config $config, SimpleXMLElement $xml) { foreach ($config as $key => $value) { if ($value instanceof Zend_Config) { if (is_numeric($key)) { $child = $xml->addChild('node' . $key); } else { $child = $xml->addChild($key); } $this->_addBranch($value, $child); } else { $xml->addChild($key, (string) $value); } } }
Posted by Ben Scholzen (dasprid) on 2009-03-09T03:47:18.000+0000
Adding prefixes is not a good solution, as the user doesn't expect it.
Actually, Zend_Config supports numeric arrays with any key-order, thus it allows you to fill in the database result without any problem. Zend_Config_Xml now supports numeric arrays as well, not with any key-order by repeating an element multiple times, which will result in an numeric array starting from 0 to X.
So we have those two options:
a) Zend_Config_Writer_Xml sees a numeric key and throws an exception. b) Zend_Config_Writer_Xml looks up the current array, and if it finds a numeric key, it ignores the key value itself and just creates the numeric array in XML, so that Zend_Config_Xml can read it. Tho this will loose the numeric indexes.
Any suggestions? Personally I'd use case b).
Posted by Christoph, René Pardon (renepardon) on 2009-05-22T00:41:53.000+0000
I get the same error as described above:
Catchable fatal error: Object of class Zend_Config could not be converted to string in /usr/share/php/Zend/Config/Writer/Xml.php on line 182
I tried to overwrite my config.xml file with multidimensional array included like:
This is the code i used:
$pathtoconfig = realpath(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../../');
$config = new Zend_Config_Xml($pathtoconfig . '/config.xml', null, array('skipExtends' => true, 'allowModifications' => true));
// $configarray = $config->toArray(); // $config = new Zend_Config($configarray,true); $config->newtry = array();
$config->setExtend('newtry', 'default');
$config->newtry->templateid = 2;
$config->newtry->layout = 'lachmichwech';
$config->newtry->sendmail = array();
$config->newtry->sendmail->reseller = array();
$config->newtry->sendmail->reseller->adress = array('name' => 'firstname lastname, 'mail' => 'firstname.lastname@example.com');
$writer = new Zend_Config_Writer_Xml();
$writer->setFilename($pathtoconfig . '/test.xml');
Thank you for your help.
Posted by Christoph, René Pardon (renepardon) on 2009-05-22T01:04:34.000+0000
Hello again,
we (our company) has fixed the problem now. Here is the solution:
// FIXME Zend/Config/Writer/Xml.php line (182) $child = $parent->addChild($branchName -,(string) $value-);
Now it's possible to write childs with numeric keys and array values.
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2009 Track and Field
Ashley Smith and Jason Fisher dominate at Dick Small Invite
By: Evan Miller, sports information assistant
March 21, 2009
Men's results I Women's results
DEFIANCE, Ohio - The Bluffton University men's and women's track and field teams traveled to Defiance College on March 21, 2009, for the Dick Small Invitational. The women's team placed sixth of seven and the men's team placed fourth out of nine teams.
Freshman Heather Smith (Elkhart, Ind/Concord) placed ninth, one short of scoring points for the Beavers in the 1500 meter run with a time of 5:35.09. Ashley Smith (Delta/Pike-Delta-York) scored 10 points for Bluffton in the long jump, as she finished in first place with a jump of 15-05.50. Smith added another first place finish and 10 more points in the 800 meter run with a time of 2:28.92. Also scoring for the women's team was Kayla Pickering (Jamestown/Greenview) who took eighth in the javelin with a throw of 84-04 feet.
Robert Johnson (Columbus/Marion-Franklin) ran a time of 11.19 in the 100 meter dash which was good for second place and eight points. Johnson also ran in the 200 meter dash, finishing third with a time of 22.94. Michael Timpe (Swanton) placed eighth in the 800 meter run, which was good for one point with a time of 2:10.47. Michael Timpe finished in fifth place in the triple jump, scoring four points with a distance of 36-05.75. Bluffton's 4x400 squad finished seventh with a time of 3:43.92. The relay team, consisting of Andrew Chaffee (Clarkston, Mich.), Michael Timpe, Brian Timpe (Wauseon/Pike-Delta-York) and Kevin Hickman (Centerburg) scored three points for their efforts.
Junior Jason Fisher (Rockford/Parkway) had another strong day in the throws. Fisher placed fifth in the hammer throw, scoring four points with a throw of 154-11. In the discus Fisher finished in first place with a toss of 137-04. Both Jason Fisher and Bryan Heckathorn (Hartville/Lake) placed in the shot put. Heckathorn took fifth with a throw of 37-10.00, while Fisher picked up his second first place finish with a throw of 47-03.75.
The Beavers return to action on Saturday, March 28, when Bluffton travels to Cedarville for the Yellow Jacket Open.


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Can't edit above, so allow me to add here that it occurs to me that the stitched-padding motif is probably also (indeed, primarily) a reference to the pants of that era...
On Being An Old Man With A Precious Lawn
Tomorrow at 8 PM Adidas and Michigan and Notre Dame will have an under-the-lights unveiling of the uniforms both will wear when the first night game in Michigan Stadium history goes down. That's odd: marketing 101 is "when you have bad news, release it on Friday at 5 PM." Michigan is treating their great unveiling like they're firing their coach for massive NCAA violations.
On the other hand, maybe it's not so odd. Yesterday the M-Den momentarily posted what looked like the official thing:
If that's what you're deploying, 8 PM isn't late enough. Broadcast the announcement from the Chinese factory where they'll be made at 4 AM Eastern.
The M-Den twitter feed later posted a three-part item expressing regret for the "mistake" that obviously failed to address whether or not those were the real McCoy. They likely are. Tom pointed out the close-up teaser image has the exact same M the mistakenly posted jersey does. If they're different, they're not much different.
Tomorrow we'll enter the ranks of schools that dress up like clowns for a little bit of money from a shoe company. Notre Dame will as well. I'll make some sarcastic comments, privately think anyone I see wearing one of the jerseys is a total sellout, and move on. This September we'll watch Clownz Faceoff 2011 and life will go on. It's not really a big deal. Everyone does it, and traditionalists sigh, and recruits say they're excited.
So why does this make me want to buy a shotgun, rocking chair, and lifetime supply of lawn fertilizer?
Well, there was a way to do this that would not give people hives. It did not require the assistance of a crack team of uniform designers, and it didn't have stripes conjured from one of their fever-dreams.
The numbers on the helmets (and the different wing pattern on them), block Ms on the socks and shoulders, and overall retro stylings of the mid-60s (like gray face-masks) would have provided a distinctive, historically accurate look. (Doctor Saturday pointed out that it would have been a look from an era when Michigan and Notre Dame were in one of their periodic snits, but whatever.)
It wouldn't have been much different. It would have been cool, though:
It would have been a genuine callback to another era of Michigan football. They could have brought out some former players, celebrated a Rose Bowl win, whatever. If they're going to do that in the Franken-uniforms they'll have to bring out a nighmarish assemblage of Horace Prettyman's arms and shoulders stapled to Bill Yearby's torso and head; the lower body will be a cyborg entity from 2211 that shoots postgame celebration laserz. The legs will stop at the knees because bony undead horror robots of 2211 come hovering or they don't come at all.
This bothers me because it makes it obvious that honoring the program's past doesn't crack the top several reasons they'll put the stripes on this fall, falling behind at least "money," "making Adidas happy," and "allowing Dave Brandon to 'create the future'." My money teat is easy to milk, but not that easy. I won't put on a Big Chill shirt with an Arby's logo on it and I'm not buying whatever that is above.
This makes me an old man but it also strikes me how stupid the corporate culture Dave Brandon comes from is. At a consumer-facing, mid-sized, publicly-traded corporation it's all about three months from now when you report your numbers and the stock price goes up or down and you're a hero or an idiot. Once companies go public they slowly lose the distinctive characteristics that made them successful in the first place and become a collection of generic suits*. The suits get paid exorbitant amounts of money to trade long-term goodwill for numbers that will allow another set of suits to increase the exorbitant amount of money they are getting paid.
The best example of how this doesn't have to happen is privately-owned Chik-Fil-A, which is still closed every Sunday for religious reasons and is so loved by Southerners that when the corporation bought the naming rights to the Peach Bowl it was generally regarded as an improvement. These are correlated factors.
These days a lot of tech companies are remaining private longer than they would have in the past—Facebook is the best example—in order to avoid the relentless make-your-numbers effect of being a public company. It seems like Michigan is announcing its IPO Friday night.
*[Once you get to the behemoth side of the scale you can maintain identity via monopoly: Google and Apple are distinctive entities that appear to have ethoses (ethii?) other than making money hand over fist; they can probably have these because they are making money hand over fist.]
(HT on the 60s uniform picks to "cutter," denizen of Michigan messageboards everywhere.)
What they should have done is gone with a classic
look we could all feel proud of.
Something that brought back memories of what
it is to be a Michigan football player.
Something that honors the past players instead
of making the current ones look like clowns.
What they should have done is created the
Rob Lytle throwback helmet, something that looked
like this:
How awesome would that have been?
Thanks to Markusr2007 for the link to the pic...
ND better have have tie dyed deep fried dog shit that matted with Ronald McDonald looking uniforms. Screw you guys...I'm going home.
Can I get a quick breakdown on what the purpose of this is? This appears to be a total cash grab. Is the only money to be made off this jersey sales? If this is true could a boycott of the jersey sales end this fad once and for all at Michigan? I have never seen one Buckeye rocking his retro jersey. Do they actually sell that well?
Anybody involved in this business have any idea of the money were talking about here? So it's retro jersey sales less the lost sales of the current jersey sales(I'm assuming a certain segment of the population would only buy 1 jersey forcing a choice between the two)* Michigan profit share from.= $$$$ yo.
Are we talking $50,000? 1,000,000?
Just trying to see if this is in anyway worth it.
I'm shifting attention.
ND unis.
This is the retro "I just tripped ballz all weekend" 60's ND game jerseys.
from bad uni's to rawk muzak to create the future to "Corporations are lame, man."
The uniforms are awful and unnecessary for the event, but often a change is good - even for traditional entities. And it's only 1 night. Rawk muzak - many fans see this as natural, part of today's game (though I also prefer the band only). Create the future - what did you expect him to do, sit at his desk and read mgoblog?
These are 3 things you don't like, but the last isn't really a thing. And the other 2 aren't enough to indict DB on this level. Which leads me to believe you're still ANGAR about Hoke (or your dislike for DBs political worldview is starting to seep through).
Unfortunately what you say especially about corporate America being focused on the bottom line and short term results is all too true. But for all of you that support a playoff system in football you are begging for college athletics to become even more focused on "what have you done for me lately". A playoff system will help push college sports even closer to the short term focus that corporate America has. How sad would buckeyes and trojan fans be today if their had been a playoff system the last eight years that allowed them to compete every year for a National Championship? How much pressure will their be every time a team goes 3 or 4 years of missing the playoffs before the fan base yells for the coach's head?
So if Brandon is going corporate maybe it is just a necessary step on the one winner per sport every year mind set.
P.S. I really do hate the striped jerseys.
This is becoming the new RR endless stupid fucking pointless debate.
Just like everyone else on this site, I will state my opinion and move on. My opinion is that people are being a bunch of whiney bitches over something that does not deserve this much thought. Like it, or don't. Buy it, or don't. We aren't sellouts for trying something that has proven extremely popular at other programs.
At least the Wal-Mart wolverines (which vastly outnumber the cheese and wine crowd who seem to care the most) will probably like it.
Jeebus, don't we have better things to talk about?
"Jeebus, don't we have better things to talk about?"
I don't know. Did another Buckeye get thrown off the team for rules violations?
Wait for tomorrow morning. Its "Senior Crawl" down here (I may head out to take advantage of the specials, even with the masses of bucknuts), maybe we will see one or two arrested for drunk and disorderl conduct.
If they end up looking like that on the players, I'm okay with this (though I think solid blue shoulders would have made it awesome).
Whether or not these jerseys are well-received will ultimately come down to the game's outcome. If we win, the misty watercolor memory of that first night game will cause everyone to find the jerseys growing on them. If we lose, they're banished to the attic forever.
As for the 1965 uniforms, it's pretty clear why they weren't chosen - they're not distinctive enough from the current jerseys. Yes, hardcore freaks like us know they're different (M on the shoulders! Numbers on the helmet!), but 99% of the country would have no idea what the difference is. If you're going to go throwback, you have to go whole hog and do something that looks totally different.
Would you touch your keyboard to it over miles and miles and miles of cables?
Well, to be honest they are growing on me. The fundamental problem M has re: throwbacks is that we haven't significantly altered the look since Crisler arrived in '38. Everything before that was a mis-mash of stripes/rugby/baseballish unis that sometimes had an M, sometimes didn't and the M changed from player to player in the same season.
So, I don't mind this amalgam of multiple looks that describe aspecs of M football uniforms from 1880-1935 or so. I'm sure this will be covered at the PC tomorrow night.
The other thing is that it's pretty clear to me that DB is towing the line between branding M in a modern way & marketing the program in the 21st century to young people (eg, night games & throwback unis scoreboards)..... and staying within tradition (not touching the helmets, no ads for football, Hoke Uber Allies). I'm not sure what else you could expect from him.
I'm not convinced that DB is actually "towing the line" between making Michigan relevant in the modern world, and honoring the unique traditions that define us.
What scares me is that the only thing that may be keeping DB from going completely over the schlock-tradition edge is that the opportunity hasn't presented itself yet. I'm not convinced that he has any kind of internal compass that will know when too far is too far.
I think he'd change the wings on the helmets to buckeye leaves if he thought he could raise gross margin by half a point this quarter.
I don't think that's a fair assessment. Brandon isn't just some random ex-CEO. He's a former Michigan football player. He was part of this program. He played for Bo. I can't imagine that wouln't have rubbed off him to some degree.
Damn. I'm not a Brandon fan by any stretch, but that was over the top.
1)That's getting dangerously close to a political topic, and
2)That's a hilariously inaccurate representation of the kerfuffle.
Excellent post.
I'm a young person not a lawn protector, and these uniforms are friggin retarded.
If they're gonna depart from tradition they should do it for a jersey that should actually look cool. These jerseys suck. I've heard it mentioned that, "Well, at least recruits will like these." Recruits won't like these. They're not fashionable, they look like really, really bad soccer jerseys. They're a disaster in every way.
I think these happened as a result of confusion at Adidas... Someone said, "Create and alternate football jersey for Michigan," and since Adidas is a "football" (soccer) company, a "football" (soccer) jersey got created.
Are you guys the same people that yell at me to sit down during games?
I'm just curious what they'd do for Penn State throwbacks.
You can count on the fact that they would miss the obvious answer right under their noses.
WTF? Is mary sue alowing her man hating EMU president special friend to pick this stuff out?
This is the worst thing to happen in A2 since Leo Kelly!
Brian hit the nail on the head.
Dave Brandon is a corporate guy with a strong background in cheese; first in a company whose claim to fame was cheesy coupons, and second in a company whose main product IS mainly cheese.
I'd point out that Domino's cheese isn't actually very good cheese, but I probably don't need to. The goodness of the Domino product wasn't the issue. The salability of the product was the only concern. Obviously.
Steve Jobs is a marketing genius. Dave Brandon is a numbers man. Steve Jobs' selection of jersey would be amazing and come in a box you wouldn't want to throw away because it would be as nice or nicer than the garment. Brandon doesn't care about the design, as long as it generates numbers. Maybe he also has bad taste, though I don't think that matters.
The joy for a guy like DB comes in looking at mass markets (read, "lowest common denominator"), and not at whether a particular football jersey actually, you know, belongs on a Michigan football player's torso.
To expect a Dave Brandon to lead Michigan in any direction other than midwest-corporate-mediocre-sucky when it comes to "branding" the athletic department is wishful thinking. This is a corporate coupon man, not a visionary.
If Brandon designed a car, it would be a station wagon or a minivan. It would sell well. It would be boring as hell to drive, but he would get much acclaim for creating it, and either way, he'd be rolling in coin.
What sticks in my craw is that the University of Michigan is a respected institution of higher learning. That is what gives its so-called "brand" value.
The athletic department's "brand value" has been its success on the field. Without that, the winged helmet and all the other bullshit wouldn't mean a damned thing.
Michigan is not a corporation selling a product. It is a school offering something far more meaningful. The team unis stand for Michigan the Institution, and not Michigan, the cheesy T-shirt manufacturer.
I hope Brandon can get that through his egocentric skull at some point.
I respectfully disagree. I think, like it or not, the Michigan football brand has some rebuilding to do after a few really really terrible events (poor onfield performance, the HORROR, etc).
He is a former Bo player and obviously a very successful business man. Jobs is also a very successful business man. You don't think Jobs plays to the lowest common denominator? Sure, a lot of people can't afford what Jobs is selling, but if you know a thing or two about technology you know that it is nothing spectacular outside of its shell, but that is what builds the spanning desire to have it. Jobs creates a run of the mill PB&J, but covers it in gold flakes so everyone has to have it (eh, terrible analogy, but whatevs).
It is that core where Michigan excels. Inside the shell, the academics and tradition, is pure gold. I kind of like that DB is bringing a little new age pizazz to a time old tradition. That doesn't change the core, it just decorates the outside to build some excitement around it. Sure, Michigan is a recognizeable institution and program, but what is wrong with bringing in some fresh fans? The old farts at the game yelling at people to sit down may hate it, but hey the stone age routine has to be fazed out eventually.
My opinion may not be popular, but I think it is a good thing in building a highly valuable and marketable brand, so long as it does not change who and what Michigan isat their core.
A jersey change for one game does not represent a dramatic shift of Michigan ideals.
You're probably right. Sometimes I get a little carried away.
It's a shirt.
So, what happened to the all the Brandon's "Pimp-Hand" posts from last fall? Looks like he is using both hands to grab money. I wonder what corporate sponsor's logo he'll put on the jersey or if he'll save that for the helmet?
Nice post Brian. I am resigned to seeing this kind of crap more and more. And make no mistake - it is pure crap. I also bet that this will back fire on him big time. Most fans have no idea this is happening. I hope Ann Arbor Torch and Pitch Fork offers a senior discount.
I can only hope that NDs look worse - but that is not possible.
Isn't using both hands to grab money what pimps truly do?
I'll say it again--Michigan was proud to get the former CEO of a pizza company whose immediate ad campaign under new leadership was 'Our product is the worst in the country, but we're working on it.."
That's a great picture of Mel Anthony's long TD run in the Rose Bowl. I had never seen that before.
Skip ahead to 1:18 to see the actual play...
Assuming that the jersey Michigan will be unveiling tonight is the one pictured in MGoBlog and other sources, then I have a recommendation for tonight's presentaiton.
I think we're all largely agreed that the jersey being shown is a composite of a look for the late 1800s/early 1900s along with a Michigan varsity sweater. All these uniforms, etc. were the inspiration for the design.
What I'd like to see is one or more of the players dressed up as "reenactors" wearing the uniforms that inspired the thowback look Michigan will be wearing against Notre Dame next Septemer. You put that inviduals or other indivduals next to (I assume) Denard Robinson (and others), who will be modelling the throwback uniform.
I think the majority reaction to the jersey right now is negative. By showing the old uniforms right next to the new ones, at least people would have an easy and strong visual that puts together the old and the new. It would certainly be more effective in terms of promoting the jerseys and the "look" than showing, for example, the pictures from the past teams that we've posted here.
David Brandon and his marketing team have had months to plan this. I imagine it would take awhile to reproduce the older uniforms, but I have very little doubt that there are actual samples in the university's archives, that could be used as a pattern and would provide information on the materials actually used, etc. It would take a little planning and research, but it could certainly be done.
One final thought about the use of reenactors. Even though their uniform doesn't look like the throwback, I'd have put someone in the uniform used by the Michigan football team in 1887 to remind everyone that it was the Wolverines who taught Notre Dame how to play football. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1887_Michigan_Wolverines_football_team for background information. It would be a great way to highlight the very simple fact that Michigan's football tradition spans a longer time than Notre Dame's and that the Wolverines taught the Fighting Irish how to play the game in the first place.
Looks like the football jersey version of the doo doo bird.
I don't get it. What competitive advantage does playing in one's jammies hold?
it is a night game, but still...
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The Atlantic Hockey Association coaches have voted who they believe will take home the regular season crown for the 10th season of Atlantic Hockey. Last year's regular season and tournament champions, Air Force is the top pick in this year's pre-season poll. The Falcons collected eight (8) first place votes en route to 112 total points.
Niagara was selected second by the coaches, as the Purple Eagles collected three (3) first place votes and totaled 101 points. Mercyhurst follows in third with 89 points, while Bentley and RIT tied for fourth with 87 points. Holy Cross rounds out the top six with 74 points.
In seventh place, Connecticut collected with 65 points, while Robert Morris is eighth with 61 points and the final first place vote. Canisius was chosen ninth with 38, while Army trails them for tenth with 30 points. Rounding out the rest of the poll are American International in 11th (20 points) and Sacred Heart in 12th (19 points).
Niagara will open the regular season hosting Bowling Green on Saturday, October 6 at 4:00 pm. The other games on the slate for the opening weekend will be exhibition contests. Holy Cross will host St. Thomas at 3:00 pm, Mercyhurst will take on Wilfrid Laurier and RIT will host Ottawa both at 7:05 pm. Canisius will take on Ottawa in an exhibition contest Sunday, while Sacred Heart and Robert Morris will face St. Thomas and Wilfrid Laurier, respectively. Air Force will host British Columbia in an exhibition contest on Monday, October 7.
The 2013 Atlantic Hockey Tournament will feature the same format from last year. The top four teams receive a bye into the Quarterfinals with seeds 5-8 hosting seeds 9-12 in a best two-out-of-three First Round series starting Friday, March 8. The First Round winners will then be re-seeded and travel to the top four seeds for a best-two-out-of-three Quarterfinal series, which will begin on Friday, March 15. The four winners will then travel to the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, N.Y. with the highest remaining seed facing the lowest remaining seed in the first semifinal, with the other two remaining seeds facing off in the second semifinal on Friday, March 22. The two semifinal winners will then face-off in the Championship game on Saturday, March 23 with the NCAA automatic berth on the line.
The Atlantic Hockey Association arose when nine institutions joined together on June 30, 2003, to form a new Division-I men's ice hockey conference. The league currently consists of twelve members: Air Force Academy, American International College, Army, Bentley University, Canisius College, the University of Connecticut, the College of the Holy Cross, Mercyhurst University, Niagara University, Robert Morris University, Rochester Institute of Technology and Sacred Heart University.


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But welcome to Madison, everybody. It really is beautiful... and a great place to study. Open your minds. Open your books. And step away from the politics.
Madison's long tradition of student activists included thousands rallying in the spring, during protests over the collective bargaining bill and the state budget. UW students will continue to be active, said Ben Manski of WisconsinWave.org.Be wary of the grasp of the Manski! Consider majoring in science. Real science. Not the social kind. Develop your rational mind and learn some hard, useful stuff. Don't indulge what these politicos will flatter you to call idealism.
"Students are still idealistic, and they should be," he said. "More of us should be. So, they provide inspiration for older folks to try to do things that we may have given up on."


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The Trillium Center at Baptist Regional Medical Center is where troubled teens go to get help. But last spring police say a 14-year-old started a closer than normal relationship with her nurse, Barbara Pielack.
Police say once the teenager's treatment was done, Pielack took the young girl home with her. That's when the 57-year-old woman and her 64-year-old live in boyfriend, James Thornton allegedly sexually abused the young girl at least 12 times from May to August.
Neighbor Arthur Shephard says he first thought Pielack brought the girl home as part of her treatment.
"Never spoke of either one doing anything to her; I talked to the girl, my sons talked to the girl," says Shephard.
Police say once the pair learned they were under investigation they headed for Georgia and once they got there, Pielack got another job at a hospital again as a nurse.
That was in November. They were indicted in December and police spent four months trying to find them.
"Sometimes it takes awhile to find these people when they (run) from jurisdiction and it took from December to February to locate their whereabouts," says State Police Trooper Don Trosper.
The pair is only accused of abusing one teenager, but court records say that Pielack allegedly used her role as nurse to recruit children for her sexual pleasure.


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The Anaheim Ducks try to move closer to a Pacific Division title on Saturday night as they battle the rival Los Angeles Kings for the fourth and final time this regular season.
The Ducks lead the division with 59 points, nine ahead of the Kings with seven games to play for both clubs. The San Jose Sharks sit third in the Pacific with 49 pints and have eight games to go.
Anaheim is also just seven points behind the Western Conference-leading Chicago Blackhawks, but have played one more game.
The Ducks needed just a point on Wednesday versus the Colorado Avalanche to officially clinch a playoff spot, but instead suffered a 4-1 setback. However, they still claimed a postseason spot on Friday despite being idle due to the Detroit Red Wings' loss to the Blackhawks.
The Ducks yielded three goals in the second period against the Avs and only managed Teemu Selanne's goal in the frame. Jonas Hiller made 12 saves on 16 shots faced before being replaced at the start of the third by Viktor Fasth, who stopped all 12 shots he faced in relief.
"We had no push back for them today," Anaheim head coach Bruce Boudreau said.
The lone good thing to come out of the game for the Ducks, who had won four of their previous five, was the captain Ryan Getzlaf made a successful return from a lower body injury that held him out of the previous three games.
However, defenseman Cam Fowler left early with an upper body ailment and his status for this game is unknown.
The Kings may have an impossible hill to climb to win the division, but the defending champions do sit fourth in the West and are seven points up on a trio of teams tied for ninth.
Los Angeles snapped a two-game slide with Thursday's shootout win over the Avalanche.
The Kings' trio of Jeff Carter, Dustin Brown and Anze Kopitar were a perfect 3-for-3 in the shootout against Colorado goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere, while Jonathan Quick made 26 saves through overtime and stopped 1-of-2 skaters in the shootout.
Carter and Mike Richards scored 1:47 apart in the first period, but Colorado battled back.
"The first (period) was good. We came out strong, outshot them in the first by quite a bit and sat back a little bit, which is not the best thing to do obviously and they came back," Kopitar said. "But at the end of the day, we got the two points and that's the most important thing for us."
Carter is tied for third in the NHL with 24 goals, while Richards has six points in his last five games. The Kings are 6-2-2 in their last 10.
The Kings have won six of their last nine versus the Ducks even though Anaheim won a 4-3 shootout decision at home last Sunday. Los Angeles has won four straight as the host in this series.


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This is a problem I've been dealing with for a while now. I have a Lexmark printer which I've bought without checking for compatibility with Linux (I bought it when I was still using Windows), and as it turns out, this printer is not supported in Linux. I switched to Linux on my main desktop full-time late last year, so instead of to my desktop, I hooked this printer up to my bedroom Windows 7 media server/HTPC, and whenever I need to print, I just drop the file in question on this machine, and print form there. I need a better solution. Update: As it turns out, Lexmark has recently started releasing Linux drivers (good stuff). Still, the problem at hand stands, as there might still be other printers that suffer from the same problem.
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This site is usually seen as a news site. If you have problems you generally go to the forums of the distro you have on your computer to post them there. But this is really funny because you have already succeeded in posting here and yet you don't take the chance to post the question at hand instead of asking something else totally unrelated.
What make/model of printer and what distro and version of linux?
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Sterling's loss could very well be Rock Falls' gain.
We speak of last week's resignation of Sterling Alderwoman-at-large Linda Marley, who recently married a Rock Falls man and announced that she would move to Rock Falls.
Sporting a new surname, Linda Marley Pennell said she wants to become involved in other interests and may someday seek elective office again.
Pennell served 4 years on the Sterling City Council and said she learned a lot from the experience.
Mayor Skip Lee praised her willingness to listen, her interest in her constituents, and her efforts to make the city a better place.
Oh, and she was always asking questions, Lee said.
Good for her, we say.
Asking questions is how you learn things. Questions are a good tool to use to supervise the taxpayers' dollars. Ask enough of them, and maybe you'll stop foolish expenditures, on the one hand, or outright fraud, on the other.
Pennell used to live in Rock Falls, so she's familiar with the community. In addition, she is the secretary for Golden Meals in Rock Falls.
In the event that a city council opening comes up in her new ward, she certainly would be worthy of consideration, not only for her experience but for her gender.
As we have pointed out previously, the Rock Falls City Council has no women. Eight men represent the four wards.
The gender imbalance is not likely to change soon. Current council members Mark Vandersnick, Brian Snow, Jim Schuneman and John Watts, representing Wards 1-4 respectively, are each unopposed for re-election on April 9.
Gender diversity brings more points of view to the table when important decisions must be made. Those decisions, we believe, are more likely to reflect the wants and needs of the community at large.
If called once more to public service, Pennell could bring an interesting perspective to the table.
Along with her service on the Sterling council, Pennell's life experiences include a successful battle against systemic lupus. The disease has been in remission for nearly 30 years.
We salute Pennell's dedicated service to the citizens of Sterling.
If Rock Falls residents find a way to put Pennell's experience to work for them, Sterling's loss could be their gain.


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Recent high-profile security problems with Internet Explorer have done little to dent its market share - or maybe not, according to conflicting reports on web browser use. Web analytics firm OneStat.com reckons that IE's global usage share is 85.85 per cent, an increase of 2.8 per cent since July 2006. Mozilla Firefox's open source browser claims second place with a share of 11.49 per cent, a decrease of 1.44 per cent since July 2006. Apple's Safari claimed 1.61 per cent (down 0.23 per cent), and Opera held 0.69 per cent of the market. However, statistics from websites tools firm Net Applications, cited by Ars Technica, paint a contrasting picture.


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Chevy Chase, MD For women enduring hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, a new model could better estimate the timing of the final menstrual period, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) developed a formula using the levels of two hormones to estimate when the final menstrual period would occur. The calculation relies on changing levels of estradiol, a hormone present in the ovary, and follicle stimulating hormone, a hormone in the brain that gives instructions to the ovary. As women go through menopause, follicle stimulating hormone levels rise and estradiol levels dip.
Currently, physicians monitor bleeding patterns to determine the menopause transition stage. However, the menopause transition stage is a very imprecise predictor of when the final menstrual period will take place. More than 60 percent of women who are classified as early perimenopausal meaning that their periods are less predictable but they have no big gaps in cycles become postmenopausal without any additional clinical bleeding signal.
"We need a better way to answer women's questions about when to expect the final menstrual period." said lead author Gail Greendale, M.D., of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. "If further research bears out our approach, it could be the first step to developing web-based calculators and other tools women can use to estimate where they are in the menopause transition and how far away their final period is."
The researchers analyzed longitudinal data from 554 women taking part in the National Institutes of Health's Study of Women's Health Across the Nation to develop the model.
Being able to predict the final menstrual period could have broader implications for women's health, Greendale said. In the year leading up to the final menstrual period, women face accelerated bone loss and increased cardiovascular risk.
"For example, some researchers have proposed that an intervention begun one or two years before the final menstrual period would greatly decrease future fracture risk by preventing the very rapid bone loss that occurs in the few years before and few years after the final menses," Greendale said. "But before ideas such as this can be tested, we need to accurately predict where a woman is in her timeline to menopause."
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