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Mmm, can we have a piece of Hubba Bubba gum, too? One very famous actor Instagrammed this pic of the throwback gum today and now we want YOU to guess who it is. We'll give you a few hints:
He's from New York (and still rides the subways)
He has starred in films like The Fault in Our Stars
He started his entertainment career as a ballet dancer
Do you know who it is? Here's the answer: Ansel Elgort!


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Rally, a leader in Agile software development management, has acquired Flowdock, a social collaboration hub for teams. The acquisition will add unified communication and collaboration to Rally's Agile ALM platform to ensure teams perform at a high level by keeping them connected and making the status and progress of work transparent.
"Collaboration is fundamental to Agile software development. Flowdock represents a powerful way for teams to collaborate on projects directly from their usual workflow," said Tim Miller , Rally's CEO. "Flowdock introduces an innovative way for teams to chat so users can stay in context and in flow."In the October 2012 report, "The Forrester Wave™: Application Life-Cycle Management, Q4 2012," Forrester Research, Inc. says, "Many of the biggest ALM challenges, such as coordinating the work across geographically distributed teams, boil down to collaboration problems. Collaboration presents some extremely vexing puzzles for tools vendors, particularly given how idiosyncratically a specific set of people may collaborate with each other."With more than 35 integrations, Flowdock is an information aggregator that brings together activity from project management tools, version control systems, operations monitoring and customer feedback channels. Co-located and geographically distributed teams get an easily consumable flow of the information they care most about to stay up-to-date and react in real-time. "Rally's products provide a great high-level overview of teamwork, but teams need to have a higher-noise communication medium," said Otto Hilska , founder and CEO of Flowdock. "We've done lots of fine tuning based on direct feedback from software developers and are excited to integrate Flowdock's social collaboration capabilities with Rally's enterprise Agile ALM platform so teams can quickly discuss issues and collaborate on the most important work."The founders of Flowdock, Otto Hilska , Mikael Roos and Tuomas Silen , are experienced software developers and serial entrepreneurs who previously founded Nodeta and APIdock. Otto, Mikael, and Tuomas, along with the rest of the Flowdock team, join Rally's first international R&D facility, based in Helsinki, Finland.About Rally
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It seems like Microsoft is taking the SideShow products one step further with fully blown PDA's showing up online. The only downside is that they only work with Windows Vista.
The hardware specs aren't known as yet, but according to Texyt.com, they're powered by a 32-bit RISC CPU from Winbond. Two models have appeard, one with a 3.5in touch screen and a bigger model with a 5in screen and a keyboard.
Both devices feature USB for charging and synchronization, and both devices have Bluetooth built in. The estimated battery life is around 16h, which sounds pretty good.
The feature set is fairly basic, as these are more akin with older PDA's than today's Windows Mobile devices. You can synchronize your email, contacts and appointments as well as RSS feeds, documents and some other data.
Apparently the devices are also able to play music, some games and other types of media files, but due to the hardware specs, it's unlikely that you'll be able to play back video at any kind of quality.
You can find a few pictures of the prototypes as well as some more information here
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Stereoscopic 3D gaming hasn't really caught on, but it has certainly captured its share of headlines over the past 12 months. Now, one of the videogame industry's largest publishers says it expects the technology to break through into the mainstream within two years.
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot, in a recent earnings conference call, said he expects up to 50% of all games published to be 3D by 2012.
"The 3D games are going to come more and more with the TV screens that are available," he said. "We did 'Avatar' last year, and the experience was enhanced by the 3D experience. On 360, PS3 but also maybe on portable machines. So we can count on substantial growth on the 3D aspect just because it's more immersive."
Guillemot expects 15%-20% of 2011's games to be 3D, with an even bigger jump the subsequent year.
Ubisoft, so far, is the only company to push 3D on the console front. "Avatar" broke new ground with its stereoscopic 3D effects, but the game (which was also playable in 2D) was a sales disappointment — and had a hand in the company's e 60 million ($73.6 million) operating loss last fiscal year.
That's not stopping other pub- lishers from dipping their toes in the water, though. Electronic Arts chief operating officer John Schappert recently announced the company would "show a marquee title in breathtaking 3D" at the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo, the annual tradeshow of the videogame convention.
Also at E3, Nintendo will unveil its handheld gaming device — the 3DS, which the company says offers stereoscopic 3D images without the need for special glasses. Despite growing competition from Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch, Nintendo is still the leader in the handheld market, meaning it will likely have substantial support from third-party game publishers.
Even with the 3DS and Sony's recent update to the PlayStation 3 making it 3D capable, Guillemot's claim is a bold one. 3D TV sets are still new to the market. While the adoption rate has been a bit more enthusiastic than some manufacturers were expecting, there's still a lot of ground to cover before there is a notable installed base.
Microsoft, for its part, says the Xbox 360 is capable of 3D gaming, but it has not shown a lot of interest in enabling the system to showcase the feature.
It's not hard for developers to add stereoscopic 3D effects to titles, and the cost is relatively low. However, doing so cuts a game's frame rate in half, which detracts from the experience.
Many industry insiders say the real boom in stereoscopic 3D gaming will come with the next generation of consoles, which will be able to support the effect and still be able to boast 60 frames per second of gameplay.


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Picture Pages: Beating The Rail
After Michigan's first outing against Ohio State Zack Novak gave an interesting interview to UMHoops in which he described how the Buckeyes shut down Michigan's pick and roll game:
Well for the first 10 minutes of the game, it seemed like everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. Coach has referred to "locking the rails" in describing what OSU does to guard sideline ball screens, a huge staple of the offense. They do this better than anyone else. Many teams will take away a ball screen by having the defender on the ball play with his butt to the other sideline and bringing a big man in front of the ball handler. They take it to another level. They pretty much play the ball handler not to go to the opposite corner of mid court, essentially taking away any chance for the ball handler to still use the screen. This takes away all uncertainty a big man would have in playing in front of the ball handler.
In other words, big men usually hedge after a ball handler uses a ball screen. Even if the plan is to deny the ball handler from using it, the big still must be ready to hedge in the event the defender does not prevent the screen from being used. This uncertainty can cause big men to be just a fraction late, which in basketball is enough time for a good offensive player to exploit it.
In my eyes, it seemed like their big men were in position every time because they knew there was no chance the guard could use the screen.
Michigan sputtered to an 0.88 PPP outing, one of their worst of the season. In the offense-heavy rematch that moved up to 1.19, thanks in no small part to 58% shooting from three. But Burke also got free on a number of P&R possessions in the first half, with a rolling Mitch McGary the frequent beneficiary. Here's an example from early in the game; this is actually McGary's first offensive possession.
Michigan initiates the offense with a pass from GRIII to Burke and then flashes McGary to the top of the key.
By the time he gets there, Craft has set up shop such that there's no way for McGary to screen him.
This is "locking the rail." If Burke goes anywhere, it is right, and the big no longer has any hesitation.
McGary backs off, taking Williams with him, and then Burke attacks the basket, getting Craft outside of him with a crossover.
If Michigan acts quickly now, they can get the screen. McGary is waiting for this and Michigan successfully breaks the rail and gets the P&R.
Williams hedges hard as McGary rolls; Burke finds him.
Lenzelle Smith comes over in an attempt to pick up a charge. He may or may not get there in time, but we don't end up finding out because McGary's agility allows him to pull up short and avoid the contact as the arena is bathed in a mysterious rush of light.
A quick two for McGary enroute to 5/8 from the floor in the first half.
Things And Stuff
Burke shakes free. Burke needs help, but even if that drive doesn't get past Craft it necessarily puts him out of position when McGary re-establishes the pick and roll. It takes a little more work to set it up, is all. Burke was also able to shake Craft from the rail at times, like this late-clock move that puts Craft out of the picture and gets Ravenel on his heels, opening up the three:
With everyone on the floor staring down Burke this would be an opportune time for someone to dive to the rim, but oh well.
Planning ahead. Michigan executes a similar set with Hardaway on the next possession, but actually runs it too fast. Hardaway ends up trapped as Williams is much closer to the ball*, but the idea is the same. Next possession: same. Hardaway makes a token drive to the right and then comes back to a McGary screen; McGary gets a roll pass and misjudges how much room he has to attack, throwing up an awkward elbow jumper. After getting very little from the pick and roll in the first game, Michigan adapted, with moderate success inside the arc and Great Success outside.
*[Hardaway gets it to GRIII, who makes an excellent shot for himself against Thomas; Williams throws it back, whereupon Stauskas does his stepback swag in the corner that gets him gif'd.]
McGary skill level. Ohio State gets a defender over in position to take a charge; McGary pulls up short of him and puts up a lane floater that sneaks over the front of the rim. McGary has a high skill level for a 6'10" guy.
Almost inevitable offensive rebound. McGary also pounds Smith under the basket after the shot goes up; Amir Williams is hanging out with Burke well outside your picture, and GRIII has gotten good position on Thomas here. Note also that by the time Burke's three goes down, Craft is trying to box out Horford. That's one vs four, but a relatively high chance of an OREB anyway.
One of the problems against Wisconsin was a relative paucity of shots where offensive rebounds are on the table in the event of a miss.
Picture Pages: Everyday I'm Shuffling (And Chinning)
Ace pointed out a basketball coaching site yesterday that had a bunch of Beilein stuff and one thing led to another and this happened, because apparently this is just what I do.
Trying to see stuff in a basketball game was an interesting change of pace, since even with my Analytical Goggles on there's a lot of stuff that just seems to happen because players are good or not good. This aspect of football is obscured somewhat. A lot of coaches say The Expectation Is For The Position with a straight face—I don't think you've ever ever heard a basketball coach drop that.
The initial post Ace pointed out was a couple sections of Michigan's offense called "chin" and "shuffle" in which the center moves out to the free throw line and acts as a low-pressure fulcrum connecting two halves of the floor.
What struck me about chin/shuffle is how they use the center as a conduit, opening up space without putting undue pressure on what's usually the least skilled offensive player on the floor. Meanwhile, the other four positions rotate through a variety of spots, eventually becoming interchangeable parts looking for the half-step they need to attack or shoot instead of reset.
Michigan runs a variety of looks off of this, each of which probes the defense for an easy bucket before reverting to a high ball screen on which the guy receiving the screen has three options.
I set to watching the NC State game again to find examples of how this works, and came across an example of the two-post offense getting Morgan open underneath for two (eventually).
Setting The Offense
This is a bit of an oddity since it's a two-post lineup but the principles are the same; here the offense will work around the lack of a three-point threat from one of the wings thanks to a busted NC State defensive assignment.
The above is the on-court equivalent of this:
For reasons unexplained the document consistently calls the two-guard in this offense a "trailor" instead of a "trailer" or I guess a "tailor". Supposition: he is a trailer who is suppose to tailor some offense. YEAH
So here the post has "flashed" but McGary just kind of set up at the line as Burke brought the ball up the court. The things in the document are an idealized version of the real world, I find. For instance, in one of the ways the offense starts is by dumping the ball to the center and then having the point and "trailor" cut to the basket.
The document:
Once 5 catches the pass, 1 and 4 [ed: the "trailor" yes I will eventually have to either fix that or drop the quote marks] SPRINT backdoor to the block. 5 looks for either 1 or 4.
Real life is dang perfunctory relative to an all-caps exhortation to SPRINT. The document does admit a bit later that "It is not common for either player to be open of [sic] this cut" and asks the 2—Morgan in this play—not to be "robotic". On this play the initial movements of Burke and Hardaway are soft jogs to their spot.
On this play Michigan is running "shuffle" instead of chin. Shuffle looks like chin when they start the play, but starts like this:
dotted line is a pass
Once Morgan receives the pass, Burke and Hardaway jog to the spots they're supposed to get to…
…and McGary extends to the top of the key to receive a rote pass from Morgan. No one has made a decision yet.
Meanwhile, a conveniently-timed graphic notes that eight minutes into the game Hardaway has more points than the rest of Michigan combined. Naturally he is going to receive lots of defensive attention. The guy checking Hardaway is CHECKING HARDAWAY in his brain.
McGary now has a rote pass to make of his own, this one a swing to Stauskas.
"5 pops high, 3 reverses through the 5 to 2," sayeth document
Hardaway sets a "shuffle screen" on Morgan's man; Hardaway's man is looking at that graphic and going "oh man I better check Hardaway"; Morgan gets hand-wavingly wide open underneath the basket.
Stauskas dumps it down; Morgan misses, gets his own rebound, and finishes.
Meanwhile, Michigan has already executed the next part of the play with McGary screening whoever shows up on Hardaway.
If NC State had covered Morgan appropriately this was likely to be a quality three-point look for Hardaway.
"5 [McGary] sets the down screen for the 4 [Hardaway],
4 comes off the screen looking to shoot or curl it for a mid-range jumper.
2 [Stauskas] looks for 4.
After the screen 5 can look to slip to the basket or straight cut the FT line. 2 looks either for the lob[!] or at the elbow."
As it is, it's a layup for Morgan, eventually.
Things And Stuff
There aren't really many player takeaways on a short open layup that Morgan misses, gets back, and puts back. If we're trying to figure out some things about how Michigan runs offense, a lot of these broad early strokes are going to be off, as well. But…
A lot of the early movement in the offense is the process of getting into a play. On this play Michigan makes three passes and sends four players in motion before anyone has a decision to make. When Michigan dumps it to the center and then runs around and whatnot they're not really expecting to get a shot out of that, they're just moving into a variant of one of their standard looks.
Whoever is open is open. In half-court sets the guy who gets the ball is just going to be the guy who is open until nothing works and Burke has to create or die off a pick and roll.
Probe, reset, probe, reset. This is not a good example because Michigan just gets a quick easy bucket, but the document suggests the rhythm you can pick up watching Michigan play sometimes as situations happen over and over on the same possession as Michigan searches for the edge.
Hokepoints: The Key Plays
Last Saturday Michigan ran 51 offensive plays. Of those the Big Ten's best rushing quarterback ever participated in 19. Two of the sans-Robinson plays were on the goal line; here's how Michigan fared on the other 49:
|1st half*
|2nd half*
|In box
|As QB
|As RB
|On Sideline
Yards per attempt-adjusted (*) means I capped maximum gain or loss on a play at 20 yards so the outliers don't throw off the rest. It's not a quotable statistic but I think it provides a more accurate apples to apples comparison of the offense with Denard under center and without. It shows how Ohio State's defense seemed to have every part of Michigan's offense pretty much shut down except Denard running. Then they shut that down too.
Success rate is a thing they use at Football Outsiders at the start of their S&P+ calculations, and measures how much of the distance needed for a 1st down was achieved given the down. On 1st down you need to get 50% or more, on 2nd down 75% or more, on 3rd down or 4th down 100%. It doesn't account for the time of the game, so running for 8 yards on 1st and 10 from your own 25 with 75 seconds left in the half is considered "success" here. Here's the four quarters by success rating:
|1st Q
|2nd Q
|3rd Q
|4th Q
|As QB
|As RB
|On Sideline
For all the Borges carping from the 2nd half, Michigan's ability to get chunk yards with Denard's legs despite having to double Hankins and the entire world knowing what's coming was some Level 4 Rodriguez 2010 stuff. Then the bad guys did something at halftime to shut it down and it went to 2008 Rodriguez stuff and Denard Robinson's Big Ten career ended with 9 minutes left in the 4th quarter down 2 points.
A lot of folks have taken the "keying" quote to mean Meyer did something by alignment to take away what Michigan was doing until. I don't think this means what you think it means.
[See THE JUMP for a Picture Pages of the Keying]
Picture Pages: One Step
Saturday's game was a weird one in which virtually all of Iowa's relevant plays came on two back-to-back drives in the first half. They went three and out on their four other drives before it was 42-10.
The first of these drives was Iowa's only sustained success of the day. Iowa's second drive was a couple of chunk plays and then six straight unsuccessful ones; a terrible roughing the passer flag in the middle of that sequence got the Hawkeyes into chip-shot field goal territory.
I, like you, was a little worried about that touchdown drive and what it said about the defense; after looking at it I feel a bit better since one major reason was a bad matchup between James Ross and Mark Weisman. Ross would show up in the hole and Weisman would run him over, because he is a horsecow and Ross is a freshman.
There were a couple other subtle ways in which Ross showed his youth, like on this nine yard run. Iowa has picked up a first down and now has the ball first and ten nearing midfield. They come out in their 2TE ace set; Michigan responds with eight-ish in the box, sliding the linebackers to the field and bringing Kovacs down behind.
Iowa pops a TE up and moves one of the WRs to the line, then motions him.
Various Michigan defenders adjust in slight ways to this. Notably, two of the three linebackers step to the 2TE side; so does Kovacs. James Ross doesn't.
Each of these guys has slid essentially a person-width over, which makes sense because Iowa has moved their center of gravity a person-width over. Except Ross. Does this end up mattering?
I really need to find a better way to generate suspense in these posts.
Okay, snap. Inside zone because Iowa always always runs inside zone. I'm sure the playcalls have subtle variances; these escape me and are probably unknowable without actually being the playcaller. At our level of detail, all Iowa running plays are inside zone.
Key still explaining time:
1. Craig Roh on the backside hanging out unblocked. This is not what Michigan wants, I don't think. Earlier plays have seen Michigan split in the middle like they're doing on this play with a key difference:
There is no unblocked end as Iowa is running from a balanced formation. See Roh? Right above him is one guy moving to the second level and two LBs. Michigan has a free hitter—Ross again—and he'll hit, and Weisman will get one yard.
2. Brennen Beyer getting doubled. Ideally I think Iowa wants to seal him inside but if he goes outside too hard the back will cut inside and the interior OL will release.
3. Kovacs containing. He is the force guy, can't let anything outside of him, etc. By moving the TE over they get him blocked while still getting that double.
4 & 5. Ross and Demens running at the right spot. This time there are blockers for both, though, as long as Iowa can get Beyer effectively blocked.
They just barely do. Here Weisman is heading outside and Ross has gotten to the LOS so Iowa has run out of time to double Beyer. The outside guy pops off and Beyer is still not sealed:
Now this is where two things about James Ross combine to submarine Michigan. These are both basically "is a freshman." One is the the lack of response to the shift shown above. Take Ross in the above frame and move him a body-width to the outside. Now he's a step faster to this contact. He's outside, and his momentum is more downhill than it is here. With Beyer on the outside all he needs is a little bit of help…
Just a yard, just a hesitation, just any bit of delay. Beyer just needs one step. He doesn't get it, and then there's the other thing about being a freshman:
Sometimes you get picked up and dumped nine yards downfield.
Ross's lack of momentum when he meets the blocker is more apparent with the moving pictures.
Things And Stuff
This is something of an RPS play for Iowa. Beyer makes a nice play and may hold this down if he gets that step from Ross, but Weisman also has a cutback inside of that guy since Black goes straight upfield and Demens gets blocked. I don't think that's a problem with either of those guys since it seems like Michigan's strategy on the zone was to get aggressively upfield in gaps and let one of the two linebackers flow free:
would be a first down as Demens did not funnel back to Ross, may picture page later
On this play Michigan doesn't adjust and gets that unblocked backside guy they don't want. As a result someone has to beat a block to make a play; Beyer does and it is for naught.
Michigan still could have held it down. That one step Ross didn't take is probably the difference between two yards and nine; if he hits a little earlier, with a little more authority, Weisman slows and Beyer gets his cookie.
An older Ross could have made this mistake and still held it down. And then it's just getting carried. Of all the flaws to have this is the best one because it's obvious and not at all hard to fix; it was still a bit vexing on this drive.
Weisman was a bad matchup for Ross. Ross would show up in the right spot a lot and still get crunched back for significant YAC. On the third and five that set up Iowa's sneak, he did a great job to get to the hole on Yet Another Inside Zone and make contact with Weisman. Result:
That probably doesn't happen if Morgan's in the game. People stop when they meet Morgan. A guy like Weisman may pound out a yard or two; Iowa is still facing a fourth and three or four, and probably kicking except this is Ferentz we're talking about, the sandbagger.
Ross is still super instinctive. Once the ball is snapped Ross is almost certain to read quickly and get to the spot. While he still needs some work on zone drops, if he can put on 15-20 pounds and do that the sky is the limit for him. Of all the ways Iowa's rushing offense could have been better than expected "Weisman running over Ross" is the best one from a Michigan fan's perspective. Once Ross turns those twelve tackles into twelve tackles a yard closer to the LOS, with a yard less YAC, look out.
I came away from this game thinking that Ross was a major culprit in the admittedly limited success Iowa had on offense and that he was going to be really good possibly as soon as next year, if that makes any sense. The mistakes he makes are small, and given his high football IQ it seems certain he'll fix them by the time next fall rolls around. Add on the usual amount of mass and you've got my #1 pick for a breakout player on Michigan's 2013 D.
Picture Pages: Ending It, Part III
So. Michigan got a nice play from Will Campbell to turn second and three into third and one despite kind of conceding the first down, then saw Kenny Demens blow upfield as soon as he saw Venric Mark block a blitzing James Ross. He hewed down a Colter scramble in the backfield. Now it's fourth and two, and all the timeouts have been taken.
Michigan comes out in… this. I guess. Whatever this is. Weird is what it is.
Please note that Northwestern has also brought their share of weird to the party. They're in a two back set with all three WRs to the field, which means one of those slots is covered up. Michigan is seven on eight in the box, with a safety—Gordon—hanging out deep. If Northwestern can get guys blocked they should have a guy running free. As we'll see, they don't.
This has been mentioned before, but Michigan came out in this weird formation on fourth and two in an attempt to bait Northwestern into a handoff up the middle, which they successfully did.
As a bonus, the bait here is compounded by Northwestern confusion. It does not matter what Colter does here. They're dead.
Part The First: Black Surge
Jibreel Black is shaded playside of the center above and immediately shoots upfield of said center.
This is easy for him. Just go straight upfield. It does two things:
- Invites Colter to hand off. That looks dangerous to him because if he's forced to pitch early by a Black surge then Roh is likely to contain the back.
- Forces the dive back to the backside of the play, where there are two Northwestern OL and three Michigan defenders.
In the wider view you can see three Northwestern OL releasing, with the fourth dealing with Clark.
Part The Second: Handoff Away From Strength
That looks un-promising. But here's what they'll do:
The option provides blocking strength to the front side of the play because you're letting the end go to option him; on the backside you're blocking him. Here Northwestern burns that strength as two confused guys go after Ross. A third has to cut Ryan, and there's no one for three separate Michigan defenders.
At the mesh point Colter is looking at Roh on the edge and Black surging through, which seemingly puts acres of space between the NT and backside DE. There are acres, in fact.
Part The Third: Free Train With Purchase Of Handoff
Everyone run around and do things! Be happy! And then play the dog groomers song and kill everyone's buzz. But those first 5 seconds were rad.
Things And Stuff
This was dead in every way. If Colter decides to keep he is probably going to get pushed wide by Black, maybe even have a pitched forced by him a la Mike Martin last year. If he does not…
…it's Mike Trumpy in space against Jordan Kovacs with Roh pursuing from the inside-out. We've seen how that story ends, against this team even.
That was forth and inches, this is fourth and two. I'll take my chances there.
This play seems specifically designed to defeat the option. The Black surge is going to do one of two things. One option is what it did. The other is for the playside G to block Black, likely with help from the center, and leave one guy for Ross. If those guys can combo Black a keep meets the same fate you see in the frame on the last bullet. If those guys can combo Black and the C manages a release to the second level, then you are possibly in business as you hypothetically have enough guys to block the LBs.
I don't see how that happens though given what Black does here. No one is coming off that guy fast enough to be useful. The only option that gets yards is a check.
Nothing else? Just a check? The only other way in which this might eke out the first down is by letting the backside end go, too, and having that tackle hit Demens. This may or may not work and exposes the back to Clark coming down the line; at least if he's hit by Clark it's from behind. Really, though, there's nothing.
Demens! This isn't the hardest play in the world for a linebacker but even so you can't do it any better. There's no drama after this:
No spinning out or grinding forward or sliding off. The guy just goes down, backwards, game over. That's one of them form tackles.
Cat and mouse. This play followed a series of timeouts. Michigan showed the formation they ran before the first one:
Northwestern called TO, and came out with their covered slot formation. Michigan again showed the 3-3-5 alignment…
…until everyone in the front seven yelled at Ryan to get on the LOS…
Roh had to do a ton of pointing and talking to get this to happen
…and then Michigan called timeout before a false start. As a bonus, unless the slot receiver moved after the camera took him out of the picture, Northwestern only had six on the line of scrimmage and would have been hit with an illegal formation.
So they went to it, got a TO, showed it, got rid of it, called a TO, and then ran it. The dance of doom.
A gimmick defense for gimmick times. Yeah this could get gashed by stuff other than what Northwestern ran; Michigan knew their comfort zone and had a plan to blow it up. They had plenty of problems in this game, and I think Mattison is going to have to make some adjustments to slow the Wildcats down in future years, but at the end it was Michigan who got the last stab in after a knock-down, drag-out fight.
Picture Pages: Ending It, Part II
Last time on keeping Michigan's overtime record sterling, Will Campbell played both sides of a guy and turned second and three into third and one. Venric Mark gets dinged on that play, Mike Trumpy comes in, and it's time for third and short.
Northwestern comes out in a goal-line version of the pistol they just ran. They again flip the FB:
Michigan sets up in an over front, which was unusually prevalent for the second straight week. It won't matter much because this is going to be a pass, which third and one with Kain Colter and you throw—Michigan's defense puts the fear of God into you on short yardage.
Michigan sends James Ross; Gordon and Floyd back out into coverage. Both NW players are taken care of, leaving only the tight end on the backside, who is running a slant to the interior.
This is not Demens's guy, it's Taylor's. Michigan is in man, which you can tell because of this:
The instant Mark lowers his head to block Ross, Demens starts flying at the LOS. He's got the RB out of the backfield, and once that RB commits to a blitzer he is now in QB attack mode.
Here's a wider shot:
Demens is moving before Colter even completes his drop. By the time Colter has taken a single step, Demens is across the LOS and closing:
It's now fourth and the game.
Things And Stuff
Colter had the third guy in the pattern but did not have the patience. He decides to take off after seeing the first two reads covered. Demens's presence may dissuade him from trying the route, but that TE is well inside Taylor and Ryan if Colter waits another beat or two for Demens to fly up at him.
Those guys were pointing at each other before the snap, confused; I am not sure if it's on Ryan or Taylor. Either way those guys are going to have a little trouble covering this since they're both lined up outside of him.
Can't really blame Colter for going one-two-go in this situation, but it looks like Michigan was banking on that being the default reaction here given how aggressively Demens plays this. He was likely told that if the back stays in go get the QB. If it's third and five, maybe he waits for Colter to take off.
Ross and Washington give Demens the space. Washington's playing this like he would a goal line carry, submarining the OL with no other thought than moving the LOS backwards. Look at that still above: mission accomplished. Ross meanwhile has bashed the OL he blitzed into into that mess and is taking the Mark cut block. Colter is looking at two guys against one blocker, who is Venric Mark, and knows those odds—another reason he was all GTFO.


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imagine you are at a gas station filling your tank with gas. The function C(g) represents the cost C of filling up the gas tank with g gallons. Given the equation C(g)=3.03(g).
a)what does the number 3.03 represent
b) find C(2)
c) find C(9)
d) for the average motorist,name one value for g that would be inappropriate for this function's purpose. Explain why you chose that number
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Could someone help me to translate the frase "a bored-looking guy", or just "bored guy" or "bored man"?
I also tried to translate "man of the shadows" as "Kage no ninngen", but I'm not sure I did that right. Is my translation wrong?
I would be thankful a lot if you answer.
Help about the phrases
Could someone help me to translate the frase "a bored-looking guy", or just "bored guy" or "bored man"?
bored means annoying
Those are two completely different words, they don't have the same meaning.
it depends in what kind of a text it is used.
I'd like to see the text or a sentence to advise something.
Well Arhont wants to know the meaning of a bored looking guy/man in Japanese.
ok, all is clear now.
Sorry, I wish, I could help but don't know Japanese)
tsumaranasou otoko no hito
"Tsumaranai" is bored, so remove the "-i" and add "-sou" to have "bored-looking".
"Otoko no hito" or just "otoko" is man. You could use "男子/danshi" instead, which is more of a 'young guy'.
If you just want "bored guy" then "しょざいない男/shozainai otoko" is okay, probably.
As for 'kage no ningen', 'ningen' means more human and man in a broad general sense.
'Kage no otoko' is maybe better but I think it sounds a little strange. Just stylistically though, grammar should be fine.
Hope some of that helps!


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Packoderm wrote:I just hosed down 8 pieces of black mesh screen. I'm amazed how clean they come by just spraying water on them. They were filthy and smelled like playa dust. I laid one at a time on the lawn, sprayed it down, flipped it, sprayed it again going especially heavy on the seams, and then draped it over the lumber rack on my truck for a final spraying to get rid of the grass debris and then let them dry in the sun. They're like brand spanking new again.
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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — Calls for a bare bones budget was made repeatedly at the SAD60 district at the Board of Directors meeting Thursday evening.
Since the recent announcement of the $578,000 budget shortfall, every seat in the audience at the board meetings has been filled. Much like last week's meeting, parents stepped to the podium thanking the board for its diligence but also asking where things went wrong.
A music teacher who said she has a child in the school district said people want to be more part of the budget process.
"The meetings are public, come to them. We start our budget in January," a member of the board said.
A group of 20 parents formed a list of possibilities to help the budget crunch including: more cuts to administrative positions; students paying for parking; eliminating after-school help; eliminating sport transportation; having other schools pay for the use of shared facilities; students being put to work around the school while in detention.
A chemistry teacher in the district suggested cutting back on substitute teaching.
"I know I'm not going to make any friends here, but I feel that a substitute cannot do the job I do every day," he added.
Deliberation continued on where to spare any expenses and why programs like Excel — the program for gifted and talented student — and the elementary school bands are targeted.
"If you look at the total number of things, there aren't a lot of pockets that aren't being picked," said Superintendent Steven Connolly. "It's not about supplies or cutting back clay in art class. We're clearly past that point," he added.
Reductions are weighing in from every angle as the board has reduced school administration positions including the termination of a dean at the high school.
According Darcy Goulet, president of the Teachers Association, some teachers on maternity leave have taken a large portion of their leave unpaid.
"Our district is not alone in this financial scenario. In conversation with Suzan Beaudoin, School Funding and Governance Supervisor at the Maine Department of Education, she noted she has not seen financial situations across the state as bad as this since 1991. Regardless of the difficult nature of the actions facing Maine schools, we will continue to work to offer the most comprehensive, quality programming possible within the context of the fiscal reality," a statement reads on the SAD60 website.
Further actions to be taken to meet the shortfall includes: a central office and building administration furlough day, closing schools June 24-28, canceling spring intramurals, reducing ed tech hours to seven per day. These actions would total $96,000 in savings.
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Noted on the SAD60 website is explanation on how these cost cutbacks will impact how the district conducts business:
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"While these personnel reductions will be difficult to explain to parents and children, it will also be extremely hard for the impacted staff members to maintain a balance in their lives while facing significant financial and professional loss. We must be ready to support all as we work through this situation," states the SAD60 website.
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Some rednecks are cool, but there is a large subgroup of them which are part of an even larger collection of scumbags and idiots who breed like cockroaches and drag down any social progress our species attempts to make. I've always been under the impression that your state was infested with hillbillies and not necessarily rednecks. I don't have too much of a problem with hillbillies, despite their obvious lack of contribution to our collective development. They are mostly good folk who keep the breeding within the family and thus don't contaminate gene pool of the general population. Now maybe this is my perception, but don't most of those mountain people stay in the mountains? They don't draw on welfare or commit crimes...or has meth changed all of that?Originally Posted by NKySteeler
So are you biased against sheep as well......................... j/kOriginally Posted by Flasteel
My best game was the 2004 divisional playoffs against the Jets. I was sitting in the closed endzone when Doug Brien not only missed one field goal but two in less then 2 minutes. I thought for sure we were dead in that game and how we came away with a win after all the mistakes still amazes me.
My worst game was last year on Monday night against the Dolphins. I mean can it in rain any harder? I ended up watching the game on the jumbotron because the rain and wind in the upper deck was unbearable. And to make matters worse I took my brother-in-law and wifes nephew to their first NFL game. They live in Indiana and are Colts fans. Now that I think about it maybe it wasn't the worst game I have ever been too .
The sheep are just innocent victims. There is no bias...only pity.Originally Posted by NKySteeler
My best experience was last year's MNF game when we demolished the Ravens. Kids got to meet Rod Woodson & Carnell Lake. I literally got sloshed with Dwight White and got to walk around with a Superbowl XL ring from the Head of Security for the Steelers. Just one heck of a weekend well worth the $$$. My Dad came along and took care of my boys while me and my other boys (best friends) got sloshed Sat night, all Day Sunday, and Monday night!
My wost experience was the same game. I had a solid buzz going on as well as a few others around me. Each time the Steelers had a big play we were going nuts! Terrible Towels, slamming our beers, high fives, the whole bit. Sounds like a blast right? Typical for a Steelers fan right? NOPE had some yuppie bastards behind me telling me to sit down because they couldn't see the game! Man I was pissed but didn't say a word and tried to comply. After the 1st half I broke them off a bit in a professional manner. I told them I'm paying for 4 rooms for 3 days at the Hilton, plane tickets for 5 from California, and $565/ticket for 5 to sit at the 50 yard line 25 or so rows up so I have every right to enjoy my team just like everyone else. They just stared at me, my friends gave me a cheers and I slammed my beer. What pissed me off even more is that these wuss wads left in the 4th quarter when they felt cold. Why do a$$ clowns like this even go to games???
That's about it for me.
ours is not to wonder why just invert and multiply...
Best: 2002 stains game at home. Kordell got benched and in came TM to save the day. I thing Kemo blocked a game winning field goal with his head, we got a game winning field goal blocked, but recovered and then kicked the game winner. There was a Tommy chant all the way out of the stadium.
Worst: Again, the stains. This time in Cleveland around sometime early 90's (possibly the 50something - 0 route in '89?). My whole family, including my grandma who was in her 70's at the time, got beer thrown on us. Those people are idiots.
costanza, we had the same thing happen at last years seasparrows game. Only time we got up was situations which required it, yet some douche behind us was complaining. Those aren't real fans.
Great thread, NKy!
Best - Preseason game against the Jets at Heinz (2001 or 2002?). Sure, it was a meaningless game that I think we actually lost. But it was my first trip to Pittsburgh and I'll never forget it. Being in Pittsburgh, among my B&G brothers and sisters was an incredible feeling. And walking into Heinz Field was like a religious experience for me. I'll never forget it.
Worst - Also a Jets game. This time at Giants Stadium. This was the game when Kordell got his starting job back from Graham. (God I'm so thankful we have Ben ). Anyway, nothing directly happend to me and my wife, but there were so many fights it was getting ridiculous. A really bad fight just around the bend from us resulted in a fan being thrown down to the lower level and being severely injured. Just nuts. This past season wasn't too bad. The Nation basically took over Giants Stadium. It really made me proud. Unfortunately we lost so they got the last laugh
This is a cool topic:
My best: I think it would have to be my first game in the Burgh. It was 9-29-96 against the Oilers (wish they were still here, I still hate them). I just remember the boys jumping out to a big early lead and cruising the rest of the way, but I think the best part of the day was when Shayne Edge (who doesn't remember that name, lol) got into a fist fight with Blaine Bishop and kicked the **** out of him. It was great watching so no name punter beating up what was suppose to be one of the toughest Oilers on the team. I think the best feeling was when I acutally saw the gold end zones for the first time. I had waited my whole life to be in that position, it still gives me chills.
My worst: Losing to the Browns in '99. I was sitting in the end zone where P Dawson made that kick and I was so upset. I could not believe that we lost to a team that we had beat 43-0 just seven weeks earlier. What a terrible feeling! Not only that but I have to work in the frickin city so I had to hear about it all stinkin year. I think I kind of tried to black some of this stuff out but I do remember chargin the tunnel or above it there at old Three Rivers and calling Kordell every name in the book b/c I had to go back to Cleveland and listen to all that crap. It was a terrible day, got even worse when I had to make the 2 hour track back to Akron with a buzz (Dumba$$).
One other cool memory was from the Colts game on '02 on MNF, I just remember walkin into the hall around 8:30 and all that you could hear was the reverberating sounds of Steelers fans chanting....here we go Steelers, here we go.....that was flippin awesome.
I think it's great to see what sort of escapades many of us get into........


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ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Nelson Cruz picked a great time to hit his first homer of the season.
Cruz's solo shot with one out in the ninth inning gave the Texas Rangers a 7-6 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday.
The slumping Cruz, who started the day with a .190 average, took advantage of wind blowing out to right field when he knocked an 0-1 slider from Scot Shields (0-2) into the Texas bullpen.
"I needed it for my confidence, but the most important thing was that it helped the team win a game," Cruz said.
The Rangers beat the Angels for the first time this year after five straight losses. Los Angeles has won 37 of the last 53 meetings with its AL West rival.
"Nobody wants to go 0-6 against a team you're chasing in your division," Mark Teixeira said. "Hopefully, this will pick us up."
Eric Gagne (1-0) worked a scoreless ninth for his first win since June 10, 2005, with the Los Angeles Dodgers against Minnesota. Ian Kinsler, Hank Blalock and Brad Wilkerson also homered for the Rangers.
Gary Matthews Jr. went 3-for-4 with two homers and four RBIs for the Angels against his former team. He connected from both sides of the plate.
Shea Hillenbrand and Mike Napoli hit consecutive homers in the fourth for Los Angeles, and Casey Kotchman also had three hits. Vladimir Guerrero went 2-for-4 and has hit safely in 56 of 60 career games against Texas.
Angels reliever Hector Carrasco and manager Mike Scioscia were ejected by plate umpire Alfonso Marquez with the score tied at 6 in the seventh after Carrasco hit Kinsler in the helmet with a slow curve.
Carrasco called the ejection "unbelievable."
"It was a breaking pitch. I'm not going to hit somebody in the head in that situation. If I'm going to hit him, I'd hit him in the leg or the arm," Carrasco said. "But he said I hit (Kinsler) on purpose. I still don't understand why he threw me out. What a bad call he made. When he sees the replay, he'll know he made a bad decision."
But Marquez said that when a player is hit in the head by a pitch, action must be taken.
"Where do you draw the line and say, well, I think it just slipped? I don't know that," Marquez said.
After several beanballs, the teams had a brawl last season. Carrasco said Sunday's ejections might have stemmed from last year's trouble.
"We had a fight with them last year, that probably had something to do with it," Carrasco said.
Scioscia was tossed for the second time this season and 18th in his career after running onto the field to argue with Marquez over Carrasco's ejection.
Rangers reliever Joaquin Benoit had plunked Matthews in the hip area in the top of the seventh. Matthews glared at his former teammate before going to first base.
Marquez did not issue a warning to the dugouts after Matthews was hit.
"To not find intent with Benoit and then find it with Carrasco on a 70-something mph breaking ball that slipped out of his hand is ridiculous," Scioscia said.
Matthews, who revived his career with the Rangers the past three seasons before signing a free-agent deal with the Angels last November, hit two-run homers in the first and fifth.
The Angels jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first against Mike Wood on Matthews' first homer of the day.
In the third, Kinsler snapped an 0-for-15 slide with his 10th homer, a two-run shot, and Teixeira added an RBI double to give Texas a 3-2 advantage. Teixeira stretched his hitting streak to 11 games, the longest by a Rangers player this season.
Teixeira also surpassed Alex Rodriguez's club record by playing in his 483rd straight game.
Hillenbrand hit his first homer in the fourth and Napoli followed with his second to put the Angels in front 4-3.
Blalock's solo drive off starter Ervin Santana in the fourth -- his third -- tied it at 4.
In the fifth, Guerrero reached on shortstop Michael Young's throwing error, and after the Rangers brought in lefty C.J. Wilson, Matthews hit his sixth homer to give Los Angeles a 6-4 edge.
Wilkerson's two-run shot in the sixth -- his fifth -- tied it at 6.
Wood allowed five runs and seven hits in four innings. Santana gave up six runs and eight hits in six innings.
The Angels loaded the bases with none out in the seventh against Benoit, but he retired the next three batters on two popups and a groundout to keep the game tied at 6.
Teixeira has the second-longest active streak in the major leagues behind Baltimore shortstop Miguel Tejada, who played in his 1,118th straight game Sunday. ... Matthews had his second career multihomer game. Each time he's gone deep from both sides of the plate. ... The Angels turned a rare double play in the second. With Sammy Sosa on first and one out, Wilkerson hit a fly ball to deep center that was caught by Matthews. Sosa tagged up and went to second, but was called out for leaving first base too soon. ... Reggie Willits of the Angels has hit safely in 18 of his last 19 games. ... For the second straight day, fans in the upper deck were told to move to lower seating areas because of the threat of lightning from storm clouds. But as was the case on Saturday, rain never fell.


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I'm going to go against the grain a little. Obviously if your friend was "furious", then she approached it totally the wrong way. That said, I also think that barring health emergencies and the like, a grown woman in her 30s ought to be able to go a few days without needing to check in with her mother, especially when she's visiting someone else at the time who she presumably doesn't get to see as often as said mother. So, although she approached it wrong, I can see her frustration, to a degree in a "wait, would she rather be with them instead of here?" kind of way.It also depends on, as PPs have said, how often you made the calls and how long they were. You say she felt like "every time you had downtime", you called them - well, if it was really that often and literally every time you broke from an activity, I could easily see how it might get annoying.
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Introducing Monty
Meet Monty, a 1.5 year old black and white male who possesses a friendly, confident demeanor, despite his position as a Bangkok stray dog. Some might expect a dog that finds himself at the bottom of the social ladder would withdraw into a shell, or become bitter and angry, but Monty's not that type of dog. He's an upbeat fellow with a spirit of social awareness and activism, the type of character whose energy is positively contagious.
Recently, city officials investigated Bangkok's Pata Zoo after reports that the animals were being kept in less than acceptable conditions. Although the zoo passed the inspection, Monty was upset over the possibility that his animal brethren could be suffering.
So, he rounded up a bunch of other Bangkok strays, organized an effort to collect scraps of mango and other fine fruits sold at the Klong Toey market, and brought them to the animals in the zoo after closing one night. That's just the kind of guy he is.
Monty is also a big fan of the London-based World Society for the Protection of Animals, which announced plans in September to set up its Asian headquarters in Bangkok.
Monty isn't the kind of activist who carries the world on his shoulders, however. He believes that meaningful change as it applies to improving the lives of his fellow Bangkok street dogs doesn't necessarily have to happen quickly to be effective. But he does think it should be steady.


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With high gas prices and nice weather outside, you may be looking for ways to save. Ron Schull with Ross Auto and Muffler gave us some tips to keep your gas costs down. He says there is no magical solution for getting better gas mileage, its all about routine maintenance. He says a routine tune up can keep you car in shape. Spark plugs need to be replaced, and fuel filters that are restrictive need to be replaced as well. Schull says tune-ups don't need to be done as often as they were in the past.
New spark plugs last much longer than the old ones, so tune-ups don't need to be done every year. He says some simple things like making sure your tires are fully inflated will save money on gas as well.


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December 10, 2009
The John T. Huston-Dr. John D. Brumbaugh Nature Center will be holding a Holiday Decoration Workshop on Sunday, December 13 from 2 to 4 p.m.
Participants will have the opportunity to create holiday decorations from natural and recycled materials to garnish their home.
No registration is required. The Nature Center is located six miles south of Mount Union College on Daniel Street, just off Route 183. For more information, contact the Nature Center at (330) 823-7487.


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Tamara Norris and Cyndie Flores are insulin pump users who started their own business selling pump accesories. In talking with DIABETES HEALTH, Tamara and Cyndie discuss their first experiences using the insulin pump, and their decision to go into business.
DIABETES HEALTH: Tell us what happened when you found out you had diabetes.
Tamara: I was diagnosed 5 months after my seventeenth birthday. My mom took me to the doctor because I could hardly move, breathing was very difficult, and I was thirsty. I had never really heard of diabetes, but figured it was similar to cancer or leukemia. I just thought I would be dying soon.
Cyndie: I was diagnosed with diabetes two weeks before my sixteenth birthday. After returning from a two week visit with my grandmother, my mother took me to the doctor because I was very sick and had lost 30 lbs. When the doctor told me that I had diabetes, the seriousness of the disease didn't click until I looked at my mothers face and she was crying. Then I figured it was probably fatal. It was the most frightening time of my life.
Diabetes Health: What led up to your decision to go on the pump?
Tamara: I always thought the pump was implanted in your body and you had to have a real bad case of diabetes, or take 3 to 5 shots a day to even get one. That is until I met a girl with a pump. She seemed normal and excited about life. She wasn't sick, in fact she looked pretty good and had a lot of energy. I wanted to have energy too!
Cyndie: I always tried very hard to keep my diabetes in control. When my doctor said that using an insulin pump could make living with diabetes easier, I started giving it some serious thought. He recommended that I attend a pump support group to find out for myself the pros and cons of insulin pump therapy. I went to the support group convinced the pump wasn't for me. After meeting and talking with people at the group and seeing everyone's enthusiasm for the pump, I was totally convinced the pump was for me!
Diabetes Health: Was it difficult adjusting to the pump?
Tamara: My doctor put me in the hospital for two days just to monitor my blood sugars and set my basal rates (meaning my hourly insulin requirement). After my very first meal, I knew I would keep it forever! My blood sugars were more level – no ups and downs. Since the pump only uses regular insulin, you get a certain amount each hour just like a regular pancreas. In fact, I feel like the pump is my pancreas, the only difference is I wear mine on the outside!
Cyndie: Unlike Tamara, I started on the insulin pump as an outpatient. My nurse educator walked me through the process step by step. And although I stayed in constant phone contact with her for some time, it did not affect my normal work schedule. I adjusted to it even better than I had expected. And like Tamara, I too feel that the pump is my pancreas.
Diabetes Health: What made it a success for you?
Tamara & Cyndie: Definitely meeting other diabetics on pumps! They helped us adjust to the changes by confirming that we are not alone in our experiences. We recommend that everyone with diabetes find a good support group. Your local hospital or ADA office should be able to point you in the right direction.
Diabetes Health: How did you get interested in designing and carrying products for insulin pumps?
Tamara & Cyndie: We decided to get more involved when we knew the pump was the greatest thing that ever happened to us, and we would never go back to shots! We decided to figure out ways to make wearing the pump more comfortable and practical. Then, it seemed natural to attend support groups and share our ideas with other people with diabetes. We had such a positive response that we started making them for everybody to use.
Diabetes Health: What motivates you?
Tamara & Cyndie: We think that the pump is like a cure for diabetes. If we can make people feel comfortable wearing the pump and keep them wearing it, it will improve the quality of their lives. Our goal is for people with diabetes to be fully informed about all the resources and products available on the market. We no longer have to give up, there are alternatives for diabetics.
Diabetes Health: What do you do for a living?
Tamara: Besides being a full time "Crusader for Diabetes," I manufacture a product for male dogs called "Designer Doggie Diapers." It is for small male dogs who lift their legs everywhere and you can't stop them. The Doggie Diaper will stop them from ruining your carpet, furniture, and your life. It's also great when visiting friends. You can stop wondering where your dog is and what he's doing. Every time he lifts his leg it goes into a pad and not on the floor!
Cyndie: I have been a Dental Office Manager for thirteen years. I have always loved working with people. This is why I spend so much of my recreational time volunteering to help other diabetics realize that diabetes doesn't have to be a negative experience. I find the more time I put into my volunteer work the easier it is for me to deal with my own disease.
Diabetes Health: Why haven't more people tried using insulin pumps?
Tamara &amnp; Cyndie: First of all, you have to hear about it. If your doctor doesn't know anything about it, you won't either. Second, most people think it requires major surgery to have a pump. They don't know you wear it externally. Third, people think you have to be taking more than 2 or 3 shots a day or have a "bad case" of diabetes (if there is such a thing) to justify it. The pump not only controls your diabetes, but it will give you freedom as well. You can't imagine how many times we've heard, "but I don't mind taking shots." We guarantee you, once you go on a pump you will never go back to shots!
Diabetes Health: What message would you like to leave with our readers?
Diabetes doesn't have to be bad. For us it takes having friends that are diabetic to keep us motivated. We love meeting diabetics who are lost and guiding them in the right direction. We love to help them go from feeling tired and having no energy, to feeling great for the first time in their life! When people ask us what we do for a living, we usually say we're "Diabetic Crusaders!"
They always wonder how we can have so much fun being diabetic. Our response is: Thanks to the insulin pump we love life! We think every diabetic should find out as much as they can about the complications of the disease and do what ever they can to avoid them. No diabetic is perfect, and sure, we all fall off the wagon once in a while. But the important thing is to get back on that wagon and keep going forward! Please people, you don't have to go blind, lose your feet, have kidney failure, or God forbid, die! There are great things happening in diabetes today. Be informed! Join your local ADA and subscribe to publications that will keep you informed with up-to-date information, such as DIABETES HEALTH. Also, be sure to wear your Medic-Alert Bracelet, it could save your life!


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Mayak, a nuclear facility, has several nuclear reactors and is a storage site for radioactive waste.
Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process has been carried out. Some is "low-level" waste, such as objects that have touched the radioactive tracers used in certain medical tests. Other waste may be "high-level," such as the material left in a nuclear reactor after the fuel has been consumed.
Note: There has been public debate over the safest means of storing the waste, which can remain dangerously radioactive for up to hundreds of thousands of years. Present practice calls for encasing the waste in metal, concrete, and ceramic containers and burying the containers deep underground in geologically stable locations.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures fell Monday, pulling back after a two-session climb as traders kept an eye on Greece and the Middle East for cues on demand and supplies, respectively. January crude oil CLF3, +0.00% fell 54 cents, or 0.6%, to settle at $87.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after trading in a tight range of just over $1. December natural gas ngz12 dropped 4.4%, or 17 cents, to $3.73 per million British thermal units, pressured by warmer-than-usual weather forecasts and ahead of the contract's expiration at the close of Nymex trading Wednesday.
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This includes 35% who consider it a Very Serious problem and seven percent (7%) who view it as Not At All Serious....Support for voter ID laws has increased over the years. It was 72% in June 2006 (as opposed to 82% today). The notion that these laws are discriminatory is losing ground. Last month, 67% said the laws don't discriminate, and 73% say that now.
Eighty-two percent (82%) believe all voters should be required to prove their identity before being allowed to vote. Only 14% oppose such a requirement.
Just 21% think laws requiring photo identification at the polls discriminate against some voters. Seventy-three percent (73%) disagree and feel that such laws do not discriminate.
Most voters across partisan lines express confidence in election results, but Democrats are more confident than the others. A plurality (49%) of voters in President Obama's party consider voter fraud a serious problem in America today, but that compares to 84% of Republicans and 58% of voters not affiliated with either of the major parties.What accounts for that split? Do people feel more confident that the voting is accurate if they think the fraudulent votes, if any, are coming in on their side? (And conversely, that people worry about fraud when they picture the bad votes counting for the other side?)
Will this poll make Democrats think they should abandon their attacks on voter ID laws? I don't think so. Whatever people think consciously when asked these poll questions, the issue works as a way to keep massaging brains with the message that racial discrimination is ever out there, ready to burst forth, unless constant vigilance is maintained, and only the Democratic Party will maintain that vigilance for you. After all, they keep talking about these terrible voter ID laws.


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Nestle Quik Flipbook Ad On DC Metro Walls Is Kinda Magical
As the DC red line train I rode last week shot through a tunnel, a happy brown bunny jumped up and down on the walls, lofting up a bottle of Nestle Quik. It wasn't a video, it was a series of back-illuminated panels, each one a successive frame in the animated cartoon. It was like running through flipbook in real life. I found a clip of it on YouTube, posted inside, the cartoon starts at 15 seconds in.
The image isn't great but it gives you an idea of the effect. Who's got the backstory on who made this ad and how it came to be? We bemoan the intrusion of advertising into every living surface, but it's cool to see a little piece of magic like this in an otherwise boring situation.
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Reviewed By Richard L (Knoxville, TN) Reviewed for a 2003 Chevy Corvette —12/15/2015 3:42 PM
I've only driven the car about 5 miles since I installed the brakes. What I did notice in that short drive, I'm going to really enjoy these brakes. I've tried other brands of brakes and haven't been pleased with any of them.


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12 U.S. Code § 3715 - Computation of time
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Computation of time
Periods of time provided for in this chapter shall be calculated in consecutive calendar days including the day or days on which the actions or events occur or are to occur for which the period of time is provided and including the day on which an event occurs or is to occur from which the period is to be calculated.
(Pub. L. 97–35, title III, § 369G, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 431.)
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Produced as part of the Florida Museum of Natural History's " Expedition Florida" project, the programs reveal the natural wonders of Florida's past and present with the hope of preserving them for the future. Shot on-location in High Definition throughout the state, EXPEDITION FLORIDA is designed to extend the work of the museum beyond the traditional boundaries of its walls.
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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 07062860 | Dated June 27, 2007
June 27, 2007
Dear Senator,
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to vote "yes" on SA 1486 sponsored by Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and Sam Brownback (R-KS), concerning the "treatment of certain nationals of Iraq." This amendment takes a good first step toward safeguarding some of the most vulnerable of Iraq's refugee population and ensuring that their precarious situation is not overlooked.
Since 2003, over 2 million Iraqis have fled their country, most seeking refuge in Syria and Jordan. In addition, it is estimated that 2 million are internally displaced. A large majority of those forced to flee have been persecuted for their religious beliefs. In a recent study, more than half of the 250,000 Chaldean Christians sampled reported that either they or a close family member had been a victim of violence or torture, including kidnapping, attempted extortion, and destruction of their home or business.
At this time, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security are not even considering applications for resettlement from religious minority refugees who fled Iraq unless they were referred by the overwhelmed and under-funded United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This applies to Christian refugees who have fled religious persecution, many of whom have relatives in the United States and some of whom worked for or alongside the United States government in Iraq. Here in the United States, many Christians and other religious minorities that fled religious persecution in Iraq have been denied asylum by immigration judges on the basis of improved country conditions since the fall of Saddam Hussein. While country conditions have indeed "changed," it has become increasingly clear that even today Iraqi Christians and other religious minorities cannot safely return to Iraq.
The Levin-Brownback Amendment would alleviate this situation in two essential ways. First, this amendment would give refugees that fled Iraq to escape religious-based persecution the ability to apply for resettlement in the U.S. directly with the U.S. government. Second, it would allow Iraqi asylum seekers who have been denied asylum on the basis of changed country conditions a new hearing before an immigration judge, who will reconsider whether or not the asylum seeker can safely return to Iraq.
The U.S. Senate has an opportunity to show leadership in the protection of Iraqi refugees, particularly those religious minorities - including the Christians, the Mandaeans, and the Jews - who have no hope of imminent return to Iraq. We thus urge you to vote "yes" on the Levin-Brownback amendment.
Respectfully,American Immigration Lawyers Association
Cite as AILA Doc. No. 07062860.
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Legendary TWISTED SISTER vocalist Dee Snider has posted via his official website about his daughter Cheyenne's search for her lost kittens in the midst of a snowstorm:
When 17-year-old Cheyenne Snider didn't see her two black kitties around the house on a recent Sunday she figured they were hiding in a corner or under a piece of furniture, as cats are known to do.
But the daughter of Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame soon found that the duo, Luna and Chibi, were gone from the house and would be missing in the midst of a major snowstorm.
The cats are about 6 months old now, Snider said, and she had been their adoptive mother since they were about 2 weeks old, when she bottle-fed them. She and her mother, Suzette, had adopted them — Luna for Cheyenne and Chibi for Suzette — from The Groomery in Stony Brook, where Cheyenne works.
"I taught them everything; they're like my babies," she said.
So she gathered friends, classmates and neighbors to help her look for the little ones in her Setauket neighborhood, hoping to find them before her parents returned home from a vacation.
She looked for days, and five days after they had gone missing, looking on her street "I hear the littlest, littlest meow," she said.
Soon she narrowed down the search to a storm drain. In the dark of the drain she couldn't see their little, black bodies: "All I could see was their eyes."
She and her brother tried to pry the heavy grate off the drain but had no luck.
"I started to freak out because I thought, 'How do I get these cats out of here?'" she said.
A call to the Setauket Fire Department yielded a group of firefighters, headed by 2nd Assistant Chief Bill Rohr, and within 25 minutes, the crew had the shaken cats out.
"Literally, like 15 guys showed up," Snider said. "They ripped the sewers up. It was crazy."
She was so grateful to the fire department and specifically to Rohr, whom she recognized as a customer of The Groomery.
Rohr said the fire department's policy is they don't automatically respond to animal requests but the chief officer decides whether or not to respond, depending on the crew available and the specific situation.
"I happen to be an animal lover," he said. "I would do it myself because I [wouldn't] ask someone to do something too dangerous."
Rohr said they sent a firefighter into the sewer drain after an air-monitoring test revealed no methane or other harmful chemicals were present.
Melissa Van Horn, owner of The Groomery, called Rohr a hero on a Facebook post about the rescue and said in a phone interview, "He is so good. He's my go-to guy for anything animal-related."
The assistant chief said while the first cat was easy to get out, the second was scared and cowering in the back of the drain so the rescue team opened up the other side of the drain and coaxed her out.
"It's nothing heroic about it; it's just helping somebody out," he said. "It all worked out. I'm glad it was a happy ending."
Van Horn and Snider know Rohr from his interaction with The Groomery, which has given the fire department small animal oxygen masks for pets that have inhaled smoke in fires.
Van Horn runs a charity called O2 For Pets Too and donates the oxygen masks to fire departments. The Setauket Fire Department was the first to get these masks when the group was started.
Rohr said there was a small fire last February and the fire department used those pet oxygen masks.
"They definitely worked, they definitely saved them," he said.
The next day after rescuing her lost kitties, Snider headed to The Groomery to buy collars and tracking devices for the cats so they're never lost again.
She is thankful for the crew who came to her aid and was especially happy to see a familiar, animal-loving face in Rohr.
"If he didn't come I wouldn't have been able to get those cats out," she said.


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With the Falklanders' right to self-determination at stake, the time has come for the Left to raise its voice.
Almost 30 years after the invasion of the Falkland Islands it is simply laughable that Argentina's president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, has accused the UK of 'militarisation' of the South Atlantic.
Argentina must realise that the right to self-determination of those that live on the Falklands (many for nine generations) is the overriding principle in deciding their future.
It also continues to disappoint me that, for the most part, this important factor is neglected by some on the left.
Defending the islanders' freedom from interference and invasion should not be seen as rightwing; it was the same important principles that underpinned opposition to the Iraq War.
It is clear that Argentina's claim to the Falklands is tenuous at best. The Falklands were discovered and rediscovered by Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Great Britain and Spain at various points and it was only from 1833 that continuous occupation of the originally uninhabited islands began by the British.
Having never fully inhabited the islands the Argentine claim is based almost solely on its own colonial history –much of it on the basis of Spain's ostensible imperial ownership.
Our own colonial history is hardly glowing, but Argentina is in no position to lecture us on imperialism, particularly given their continued suppression of indigenous rights at the very time they invaded the Falklands.
Their own 100 peso bill commemorates the 'Conquest of the Desert' – a bloody campaign that seized Patagonia from the native population, a milestone in their history of repression of the indigenous population.
With 86 per cent of Argentines being of colonialist European origin it seems odd that they are so keen to play the 'coloniser' card against us. The closest thing the originally empty Falkland Islands has to a native population is the current inhabitants, a people whose rights Argentina is happy to ignore.
While international and historical lawyers can legalistically nitpick on the competing claims, surely the most important issue, and the one that the left should identify with the most, is the right to self-determination.
The United Nations was founded on the principle of self-determination and should rightly throw Argentina's claim to the wayside.
An article in the Guardian recently highlighted the huge cultural gulf between Argentina and the Falkland Islands and this is compounded by the fact that consistently the islanders have voiced their desire to remain British.
Pre-war negotiations failed because the inhabitants had no desire for joint-sovereignty. Nonetheless in 1971 an airlink was set up and Argentina's YPF was granted a monopoly over the energy needs of the Falklands.
A peaceful and mutually beneficial outcome was scuppered by a dictatorial junta's invasion of free islands while it waged its own 'dirty war' of repression at home.
Like Michael Foot, I too am grateful for the sacrifice of our forces in securing the liberty of the Falklands. Thatcher revelled in the militarism despite the fact her own defence incompetence had lain the islands open to invasion.
Her association with the war and its tactics go a long way to explaining why many see a pro-Falklands position as rightwing but one cannot brush over the rights of a people simply out of dislike for Thatcher. The regrettable sinking of the Belgrano cannot justify ignoring the obvious need to let the Falklands decide their own fate.
Given that, to this day, the Islanders overwhelmingly desire to remain British, how can anyone (particularly those on the left) overrule this most basic right in favour of Argentina's dodgy historical claims and history of militarism?
The idea that their distance from the UK makes the island more Argentine than British is an infantile one and is easily refuted by meeting anyone from the Falklands or comparing Stanley to Buenos Aires.
Just as the left can stand up for Kosovo and the Kurds so too must we be consistent in affirming the right of the Falkland Islands to remain British.
As we approach the war's 30th anniversary and with the memory of the illegal invasion refreshed, I implore all on the left to stand with the Falkland Islanders. How can Argentina ignore their voices and claim that we are the imperialists?
The Falkland Islanders desire only peace and the right to remain British. Who is Argentina to deny this, and how can we?
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• Is Francois Hollande the next President of France? – Jack Storry, February 9th 2012
• As order breaks down in Syria, its Christians suffer the consequences – Ed Jacobs, February 7th 2012
• Alexander: All Cameron's 'phantom veto' did was undermine British influence – Shamik Das , January 31st 2012
• Occupy and its Indian sister movement are fighting the same battles – Kailash Chand OBE, January 20th 2012


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viernes, 10 de mayo de 2013
Beatles-Focused Show Coming to Broadway
The Beatles anthology production 'Let It Be' is making the leap from London's West End to the St. James Theatre on Broadway. Rather than focus on the Fab's bitter-end finale, however, the show includes songs from throughout their career.
Billboard reports that the show combines performances by live musicians with new projection technology, 'Let It Be' will bring to life more than 40 familiar songs from the Fab Four — including 'Hey Jude,' 'Come Together,' 'Yesterday' and the title song, among others.
This new production follows a string of earlier box office successes that have mined fans' lingering passion for John, Paul, George and Ringo, going all the way back to the aptly titled late-1970s revue 'Beatlemania.' More recently, Broadway has been home to a musical focusing on the group's early days called 'Backbeat,' and the Cirque du Soleil tribute "Love" is still running strong at the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
'Let It Be' will be produced for Broadway through December 29 by Jeff Parry of Annerin Productions, which also presented the concert-style Beatles-focused show "Rain" during the 2010-11 season. Advance performances begin on July 16, with an official opening to follow on July 24. The cast has yet to be announced.
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The Citizens Bank, located on 335 Willow Avenue Honesdale, was robbed.
HONESDALE — The Citizens Savings Bank on Route 6 in Honesdale was robbed on Wednesday afternoon.
It appears a lone person robbed the bank but police were still investigating the case at press time.
The incident took place at around 1:50 p.m., according to reports on police airwaves.
An eyewitness at the scene said she was sitting in her vehicle waiting on her husband to come out of the bank. After quite some time, she said she was about to go into the bank to check on her husband when the suspect ran out of the bank and down Route 6.
She described the robber as someone who was short, wearing blue jeans and a black, hooded sweatshirt. She said he did not have a mask. She said he appeared to be young but did not get a good look at his face.
According to the police radio traffic, the suspect was carrying a green grocery bag as he left the bank. He was said to be a white male.
The witness was told by police that nobody inside the bank was harmed in the incident.
The witness did not see any weapon though police said over the airwaves the suspect was considered armed and dangerous.
Police vehicles were seen in the area of the bank as well as along Old Willow Avenue near the Rent-E-Quip building. At one point, the police said the suspect might be in that area.
At around 2:30 p.m., police airwaves indicated a suspect was possibly in the area of Buck's Cove Road.
At the scene of the incident, an officer from the Pennsylvania State Police was on the scene as was a unit from the Honesdale Borough Police Department.
Police tape had been strung across the main entrance of the bank as well as in front of the bank. A state trooper was taking fingerprints from the front door of the bank.
The witness said she was stunned by what happened. She said they had simply stopped at the bank to get a little cash in order to go pick up her vehicle from a local garage.
Police told the woman her husband was being interviewed inside the bank, apparently along with bank employees.
We will have more information on this story as it becomes available.


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