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happier times with Heiko
Al Borges is gone from Michigan after three years. And I'm… relieved. Yes. I think that's right.
Not exactly happy, of course. A dude just got fired. This site had a bizarre frenemies relationship (see: all the tags on this post) with Borges that started with prodding about constraint plays from Heiko by my request. This developed into a press conference Odd Couple thing where Heiko would get crap from Borges and give a little bit of it back, all the while trying to gently ask about the latest debacle. The results were the most entertaining transcripts not involving Steve Spurrier ever.
Then last winter Heiko started agitating me about getting an interview with him. I thought it was a cockamamie idea that would never get past the gatekeepers. This take would have been accurate except for one thing: Borges wanted to do it. So Heiko eventually crept his way past the border guards, was promised 15 minutes, and got 45. The resulting interview ran on the site last summer and was a fantastic glimpse into the day to day experience of being Michigan's offensive coordinator.
Why is nobody else in mourning right now?
— Heiko Yang (@Heiko25) January 9, 2014
I also know that friend of the site Craig Ross did what he always does with Michigan coaches, which is badger them with paper until they are forced to respond. I don't know how he does this, but he does, and he dumped articles and questions on Borges until he eventually got a phone call one morning with Borges on the other end. A debate/harangue sort of thing occurred until Craig—Craig!—had to say goodbye because he had a mediation to oversee (the conversation made it into last year's book).
Personally, I took in Borges's session at the Glazier Clinic in Detroit a couple years ago and came away impressed by his command of the material and ability to communicate concepts.
Al Borges was not a bad guy, and helped us out. That he did so seemingly because Heiko's badgering amused him is the mark of a guy who can take some heat.
It's just that his goddamned offense didn't work.
THINGS STARTED INAUSPICIOUSLY, as Michigan found itself down 24-7 to Notre Dame three quarters into the first night game at Michigan Stadium. Michigan had 141 yards of offense nearing the end of the third quarter when the delirium kicked in. Robinson threw off his back foot just before getting sacked, Junior Hemingway skied for balls between two defenders, Gary Gray refused to acknowledge the existence of footballs, Jeremy Gallon engaged his cloaking device, and when the dust cleared Michigan had squeezed out one of the most bonkers wins in their history.
In the aftermath, things felt ramshackle, and I said as much. Michigan returned nine starters from Rich Rodriguez's final offense, the one that had seen Robinson set records, and this was not that:
This isn't to blame anyone—it seems that coaches are who they are and as much as I want to, you can't hire a guy based on the two years left you've got with Denard. But I hope I'm not the only one who felt a sense of foreboding in the midst of the joy and relief. We've seen this script the last two years, and never has it been as rickety.
Michigan has to fix some stuff—lots of stuff—by the Big Ten season. The stakes are only Denard's career, everyone's faith in the Ethical Les Miles theory of Hoke's success, and the very survival of pandas in the wild. I'll take the escape. I wonder what happens when the drugs wear off and real life reasserts itself.
The drugs did not really wear off for a while as the horseshoe stuck in Brady Hoke's posterior saw them through some rough spots.
Things only came to a screeching halt when Borges unleashed the first of his incredibly terrible gameplans at Michigan State. Faced with a howling maelstrom of trash and in possession of Denard Robinson, Borges featured a gameplan consisting mostly of deep throws as he alternated between Robinson and Devin Gardner. After a stirring opening drive, Michigan went nowhere. They did eat double A gap blitz after double A gap blitz thanks to the fact that their center was telling the entire world the exact moment he'd snap the ball, which he'd done the year before to similar effect. Had any of Michigan's new staff even watched the previous year's game?
Actually, here's a better question: were any of them watching this one?
For the game Michigan tried to pass at least 41 times*, averaging 2.8 yards per attempt and giving up a defensive touchdown.
Sorry. Sorry.
Michigan tried to run the ball 26 times and averaged… oh, Jesus… 5.2 yards per carry. Fitzgerald Toussaint got two carries, Denard twelve.
That was and is flabbergastingly stupid, but Borges managed to top that just a few weeks later when he ditched the spread entirely against Iowa, running a "pro-style" offense because that's what he wanted to do. This was tantamount to forfeiting.
When Iowa punched in their final touchdown on Saturday the clock read 10:42 and Michigan had acquired 166 yards of offense. Forced into a hurry-up shotgun on their final three drives, Michigan matched their production from the first 50 minutes in the last ten.
A chastened Borges went back to the spread for the duration of the season as Michigan scored 31, 45, and 40 to finish the regular season. The 40, against Ohio State, was amongst the best performances Michigan's ever had against the Buckeyes, with Robinson ripping off inverted veer runs for big gains, including the iconic touchdown run to open things.
Michigan had just gutted Ohio State for 300 rushing yards while throwing 17 times. They did this despite running the veer wrong, blocking the guy who teams that actually know how to run the spread would option. It didn't matter. All they had to do was put Robinson in space against the guy they should be blocking, and magic resulted. That, and only that, concealed the rapid erosion of Michigan's ability to run the football. And when the bowl game rolled around, Virginia Tech knew how to defend a half-ass spread. Michigan managed to win that game thanks to the horseshoe; the offense played no part, acquiring under 200 yards of offense for the first time in the Borges era.
It would not be the last time.
ROBINSON HAD SHED THE MANTLE OF INVINCIBILITY acquired over the course of 2010, when he crushed records as a still-raw true sophomore. His interception rate skyrocketed, he lost a half-yard per passing attempt and a whopping 1.3 yards per rushing attempt. That was nothing compared to what awaited the next year.
Setting aside the Alabama debacle as a game Michigan entered with no intention of winning, Borges again reverted to 1990s-style offense completely unsuited for his personnel on the infamous series of plays on which Robinson threw interception after interception.
This is where I deviate from old school hardliners who foist the blame for Robinson's panicked throws on the quarterback who'd been brilliant and efficient two years ago in that very stadium, running the stuff he was good at running. Borges had him run waggles on which not one but two Notre Dame defenders came roaring up at the 5'11" Robinson. He made the results as bad as possible; Borges created a range of results that went only from interception to second and twenty. By that point watching Borges try to utilize Denard Robinson was like watching an otter try to bash open a clam with a shoe.
Michigan did not throw a pass before third down on their two grinding second-half drives before the hurry-up was called for. Do that for the next eight games and run play action off plays you actually run and then Denard might get back to the things he was doing in an offense that was not trying to jam him into a hole he clearly does not fit. I thought maybe we'd learned that lesson after Iowa, but apparently not.
When stressed, people making decisions find it very hard to move away from habit. Everyone reverts to their comfort zone unless they are making a concerted effort to get away from it. Even then, you fall back into old patterns. Lloyd punted. Rodriguez installed a 3-3-5 defense. Borges starts calling plays from a long-ago offense helmed by a guy who was a better passer than runner. Denard throws the ball somewhere, anywhere.
Robinson would go down with his elbow injury midseason, paving the way for Devin Gardner's insertion. This went better than anyone expected—including the coaches who had privately all but given up on him as a quarterback—and eventually Denard returned to the lineup as a slash player, which worked really well for about a game and a half until Ohio State figured out that Robinson at QB always meant run and played like it.
If you've poked around the flaming wreckage of the Michigan internet in the aftermath of Saturday, you have undoubtedly heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth because of that. But the thing is so stark it has to be marveled at again: when Denard Robinson entered the game against Ohio State, every play but one was Denard Robinson doing something. Once it was fail to chip Ryan Shazier and try to get out for a screen; all other times it was run the ball, sometimes with a pitch included. The fakeout was a six-yard completion to Mike Kwiatkowski in the first quarter, and there ended any attempt at deception.
Devin Gardner was at quarterback for three of these plays. Michigan held up a sign that said RUN or PASS, and didn't even try the token fakeout where Robinson goes over the top when the safeties suck up. Gardner ran three times. Denard passed zero. Ohio State figured it out. Surprise!
Most of the time the two quarterbacks weren't even on the field together.
Have I mentioned that Michigan's non-Denard running game was so bad we assumed it couldn't possibly be worse this year?
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And then, this year. While the unacceptably stupid gameplans based around distaste for the only thing you can get your team to do right evaporated, that was only because Michigan could no longer do anything right at all. After the de rigueur exciting offensive performance against a Notre Dame team that got everyone's hopes high enough to crush Michigan settled into a pattern of ineptitude so vast as to be unbelievable.
Personnel issues contributed, but when the reaction to those issues was the looney-tunes decision to put Michigan's two best offensive linemen next to each other even if they both happened to be tackles, it was over. Michigan put it on film against Minnesota, wasted their bye week repping the never-before-seen tackle over offense, and proceeded to have their tailback rush for 27 yards on 27 carries. The tackle over was quickly dumped, but only after wasting three critical weeks of in-season development for a painfully young offensive line.
That that offensive line had been asked to run first the stretch and then a bunch of power before finally seeming to settle on inside zone—ie, run the full gamut of modern blocking schemes—compounded matters immensely. Borges treated a collection of pups barely out of high school like they were the 1998 Denver Broncos and reaped the whirlwind.
Except the Broncos did one thing and did it very well. Michigan did everything and in the in the end, Michigan did nothing. Two years after a broken version of the inverted veer performed well enough to put 40 points on Ohio State, Michigan had been forced away from it because the only play they could pair with it was a moderately successful QB counter. Not once in Borges's final two years could he run play action off that look, and teams eventually boa constrictored it out of the Michigan playbook.
That was emblematic of the offense as a whole: tiny unconnected packages unrelated to each other, all of which could have worked if Michigan would just execute that one thing they practiced three times last month. When things worked they worked briefly and then were held on to long after the opponent had adjusted, because Michigan never had enough in its arsenal to sustain a full game of production without its quarterback playing out of his mind.
As the tackles for loss mounted and the press conferences got shorter, "we didn't execute" became Borges's self-damning mantra. Michigan could not expect to execute. There is your firing in a sentence.
Upon Further Review 2013: Offense vs Notre Dame
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan was split close to evenly between shotgun/pistol/under center. Notre Dame, meanwhile, was in a ton of four-man fronts until late, when they went back to more of a 4-3 look. Here you can see Shembo with his hand down and a 1-3-5 technique split to the strongside of M's formation:
I know I've mentioned in the past that Notre Dame's defense is not really all that different from Michigan's, and this game was a good demonstration of that. ND prefers over fronts when they go to a four-man line since their SAM equivalent is Jaylon Smith, a fast light bugger. I guess that's kind of a big difference. The point is: ND runs a lot of four man fronts.
Here's ND's 3-4:
The DL are head up on the Michigan OL, with the SAM over the TEs and Smith is over the slot.
This is the pistol. Pew pew:
Another 4-3 over from ND.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: QB Gardner, RB Toussaint on almost every play. Derrick Green got in for two, I think, and M lined up Norfleet as a back once. The line was the starters the whole game, but when Lewan got poked in the eye, Michigan sent in Magnuson, not Braden. Lewan returned, so Magnuson didn't get a snap. He's your #3 tackle it appears.
Williams, Funchess, and Butt all played plenty; Williams went out with an injury, came back for a few plays, and then left permanently. At WR, Gallon (obvious) with Chesson and Jackson rotating more heavily than Reynolds, who may still be dinged. Excepting the Norfleet package early, the slot was always Dileo. Michigan never had more than two outside WRs in the game. On passing downs they filled out with Funchess and Dileo.
[After THE JUMP: slicing and dicing goes both ways.]
Hokepoints: Third Play Guy
Al Borges CMU press conference:
"He's a third play guy. You guys have heard me talk about the third play, right? He's a third play guy."
Devin Gardner's ridiculous redzone efficiency last year has gone to ludicrous this year. The standard answer we've been giving for this is "well his legs and size" but there's been more to it. I grabbed this one play from the ND game because it shows several things that Gardner and Borges have been doing to defeat what should have been one of their toughest redzone opponents.
The play:
What you saw: Michigan gets a 1st and goal from the 2 yard line after a pass interference. They line up in…is that an unbalanced formation? Then Devin checks out of it, runs what seems like an option play, then dives through the whole thing suddenly for the score. Afterward we learn Hoke was trying to call timeout.
Play the First: Ace 2TE Twins Unbalanced HB Dive:
It is unbalanced: Funchess (on the l.o.s. just outside the left hash) is covered by Reynolds, and Schofield
is an eligible receiver would be eligible if he had a non-OL number on. There's also some epic space between the end (Sheldon Day) and the linebacker to his side (Shembo).
The middle linebackers are seeing this and pointing. Let 'em; we're motioning to something else anyway.
[after the jump]
Shovel On A Little More Coal
9/7/2013 – Michigan 41, Notre Dame 30 – 2-0
Eric Upchurch
The media trend of the last ten years is a demonstration of the power of hope. There are now three national networks covering recruiting, plus ESPN, plus a cottage industry of who-dat bloggers who get picked up by these national networks far faster than actual journalism majors get picked up by, you know, newspapers. (Michigan has no journalism major, which explains why you can't throw a rock at a sports editor without causing him to hire a Daily grad.) This site alone saw two guys snapped up and almost hired a third who was snapped up just a bit later. Meanwhile, newspapers continue to give us Drew Sharp and wonder why they're withering on the vine.
Here's all you need to know about recruiting sites: they can charge for content on the internet. Hope, man. Hope.
Because the next guy is always going to be The Guy. The Guy will rescue us from the purgatory of not being Alabama and deliver us unto glory. He may be a defensive back, or a running back, or a quarterback, or a defensive lineman. He is going to be Woodson or Adrian Peterson or Andrew Luck or Jadeveon Clowney—except Clowney's defense just got torched for 41 points and lost.
Jadeveon Clowney! Indisputably The Guy, and somehow still not. If Jadeveon Clowney can't be the guy, well… there's always the recruiting sites. It's college football. The next arrival is always just around the corner.
Devin Gardner turned in what I can confidently state is the worst play in the history of organized football—I have watched all of it from Pop Warner on up—and was still awesome Saturday night. Awesome. I do not mean this in the Spots-gave-me-extra-wings way. I mean this in the light-from-the-sky, tremble-at-the-power, bow-down-lest-we-all-perish kind of way. If I could use the words "yea" and "lo" genuinely, I would deploy them now. The numbers are amazing. The numbers do not do it justice.
Here's the thing about Notre Dame's defense: it's going to be just fine. Gardner ate plenty of defensive lineman Saturday, usually after delivering a perfectly-placed dart. Notre Dame blitzed him almost two-thirds of the time and got the one huge mistake and nothing else. Notre Dame defensive backs were, with rare exceptions, in position to make a play on anything other than a perfectly-placed ball. They could not make plays without committing pass interference, called or not, because Devin Gardner was spitting hot death all night long.
If you happen to rewatch that game you'll see did-that-just-happen surgical strikes even more impressive the second time around.
On third and goal from the 14, Drew Dileo screwed up his route. He ran next to Gallon, bringing a third defender into the area. Gardner fired a ball in between all three guys that hit Gallon in the hands instead of the chest because KeiVarae Russell was riding him like a horse. Earlier in the drive he'd tossed up that back-shoulder throw that he might have been attempting against Central Michigan when he got hit, and Gallon plucked it out of the air. Russell was there. He just couldn't do anything about it.
By the fourth quarter, Gardner and Gallon had become so proficient at the back shoulder fade that Notre Dame was actually sitting on it, which I have never seen before. There were a lot of things last night that I haven't seen before in a winged helmet, that have traditionally been the province of passing specialists like Texas Tech. They tried to man up Crab, once, and Texas Tech beat the #1 team in the country without a running game or defense. Michigan has at least one of those.
In the aftermath, Michael Crabtree looked a lot like you did at some point last night:
Oh and Gardner led the team in rushing at 7.5 yards an attempt. He might be The Guy. Gardner hinted at this kind of thing over the last six games, and now he has delivered. You could feel it coming, maybe, but Michigan just graduated a guy who was The Guy, like Jadeveon Clowney is, and could not get over the hump, like Clowney. Even in the world where talent comes through it doesn't always end up steamrolling the opposition.
Devin Gardner just left Notre Dame a two-dimensional smudge in the rear view mirror, and now it's downhill for a while. Shovel on a little more coal, and let's watch old 98 roll.
Parkinggod has the Michigan stuff:
And Notre Dame has some things that Notre Dame did right:
Pressers are available from Maize and Blue News.
Gardner thing from Gameday:
Also a lady got hit real hard.
Brady Hoke Epic Double Point Of The Week. How does a guy who threw four touchdowns at nearly 10 YPA and ran for 90 additional yards split this award? Well, to get the award by himself he has to be a separate entity from guy who caught eight of his passes for 184 yards. This does not appear to be the case. DevinJeremy GardnerGallon, come on down.
Honorable Mention. Thomas Gordon and Jarrod Wilson (invisible all game in a good way), Drew Dileo (THROW IT TO DILEO), Brendan Gibbons (your record-holder for kicking consistency /2009 version of your head explodes), Blake Countess (drifted off his man for critical INT), Brian Kelly (thanks for not running the ball).
SPECIAL NEW RULE. Doubling points from this game because I can.
Epic Double Point Standings.
1.0: Devin Gardner (ND), Jeremy Gallon (ND)
0.5: Cam Gordon (CMU), Brennen Beyer (CMU)
Brady Hoke Epic Double Fist-Pump Of The Week. Since it featured Borges screwing with ND, an NFL dart from Gardner, a crazy spin move from Gallon, and Chesson The Destroyer reveling in the blood of the fallen, this is an easy pick:
Honorable mention: Countess's game-changing interception, Jeremy Jackson catching a long handoff for seven yards because ND is playing in the parking lot against Jeremy Jackson for some reason, Fitz Toussaint using a tackle attempt as an awesome juke to dart 20 yards when Michigan really needed something, either of Gardner's perfect back-shoulder throws to Gallon, Gardner nailing Gallon 40 yards downfield, and Gardner taking off on a zone read so open you'd think Stephen Threet was running it.
Epic Double Fist-Pumps Past.
8/31/2013: Dymonte Thomas introduces himself by blocking a punt.
9/7/2013: Jeremy Gallon spins through four Notre Dame defenders for a 61-yard touchdown.
[After THE JUMP: offense, defense, and everything in-between. Plus incredible chicken gif!]
Upon Further Review 2012: Offense vs Iowa
HAPPY THANKSGIVING. This will be the only post today, probably.
Formation notes: You make one offhand comment about how this notes section gets boring late in the year and Al Borges goes and does that. Okay, so. For the TE/WR/RB section I am classifying Gardner as a WR and Denard as a RB when they are not at QB.
Michigan had two different backfields featuring Denard behind Gardner with one or two lead blockers flanking him. I could have called this one "offset I three-wide" but it felt more correct to note it as a Fritz variant:
Fritz 3-wide
Since Michigan does have a declared strength here I tabbed the Iowa defense here an under. They also ran the two-FB version, which is just plain old Fritz.
The thing I used to call Denard Jet also re-emerged:
And then there was… this.
In keeping with this blog's tradition of naming weird things he hasn't seen after the nearest equivalent in NCAA Football X, this was dubbed "far twin TE."
Formation lingo may not match your local football talking guy and is merely present to help facilitate communicative acts.
Substitution notes: Line as per usual. Tight ends as per usual. Joe Reynolds got some burn at wide receiver on actual passing plays, catching a long handoff type thing that Gardner clearly aborted to—about which more later—and a hitch on which it looked like he ran a nice route, for all I know about route running. Other than that, WRs were as per usual including usual lack of focus on throwing to Dileo when not throwing to Gallon or Roundtree.
Toussaint went out early with his injury; after that it was all Rawls and Smith until very late; Justice Hayes did get in at fullback(!) on a play where Michigan ran an iso. Oh and that Denard guy played some.
[AFTER THE JUMP: TURKEY no just UFR]
Tuesday Presser Transcript 11-20-12: Al Borges
"Ah. How we doin'?"
"Got a full house today! Wonder why's that?"
You draw a crowd.
"I'm being Elvis."
Speaking of a full house … what is it that you call your formation with Denard in the backfield?
"We call it, 'Denard in the backfield.' How about the word of the day? We have to take care of that."
What's the word of the day? [Chantel Jennings would like to point out that this is not an MGoQuestion.]
"Resolve. Heiko, any technical questions?"
MGo: Uh …
"The finer points of attacking quarters coverage, maybe?"
MGo: Actually, yeah.
"That was stupid. That's the stupidest thing I could have said. Go ahead."
MGoQuestion: Virginia Tech's aggressive quarters coverage made it hard for you to run the quarterback last year. Do you see that as a problem against Ohio State?
"They play totally different than Virginia Tech. Their structure is different defense. Really is. Now they may take a little bit of the same mentality, but from an X and O perspective, it's a different."
MGoFollowup: But in terms of having aggressive opposing safeties, does that make you hesitant to run the QB at all?
"Nope. Nope. Nooo."
How many possibilities can there be having both Denard and Devin on the field?
"I don't know."
Legitimately you don't know? Or do you just not want to answer?
"I don't want to answer."


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To reduce indoor water consumption.
Option 1. Calculated Water Use
For the indoor plumbing fixtures and fittings listed in Table 1, reduce water consumption to or below the LEED v4 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance baseline, calculated assuming 100% of the building's indoor plumbing fixtures and fittings meet the flush and flow rates listed in Table 1.
The LEED v4 for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance water use baseline is set depending on the year of building's occupancy, as follows:
- For a building with a certificate of occupancy dated 1995 or later, the baseline is 120% of the water use that would result if all fixtures met the code requirements in Table 1.
- For a building with a certificate of occupancy dated before 1995, the baseline is 150% of the water use that would result if all fixtures met the code requirements in Table 1.
Table 1. Fixture and fitting code requirements
|Commercial Fixtures, Fittings, and Appliances
|Current Baseline (IP Units)
|Current Baseline (SI units)
|Water closets (toilets)*
|1.6 gallons per flush (gpf)
|6 liters per flush (lpf)
|1.0 (gpf)
|3.8 lpf
|Public lavatory (restroom) faucet
|0.5 gpm at 60 psi all others except private applications
|1.9 lpm at 415 kPa, all others except private applications
|Private lavatory faucet*
|2.2 gpm at 60 psi
|8.3 lpm at 415 kPa
|Kitchen faucet (excluding faucets used exclusively for filling operations)
|2.2 gpm at 60 psi
|8.3 lpm at 415 kPa
|2.5 gpm at 80 psi per shower stall
|9.5 lpm at 550 kPa per shower stall
|* WaterSense label available for this product type
gpf = gallons per flush
gpm = gallons per minute
psi = pounds per square inch
lpf = liters per flush
lpm = liters per minute
kPa = kilopascals
If indoor plumbing systems were renovated after initial occupancy of the building, set a whole-building average baseline by prorating the above limits, based on the proportion of plumbing fixtures installed during the plumbing renovations in each period. Pre-1995 buildings that have had only minor fixture retrofits (e.g., aerators, showerheads, flushing valves) but no plumbing renovations in or after 1995 may use the 150% baseline for the whole building.
Calculate fixture and fitting performance to compare the water use of the as-installed fixtures and fittings with the use of Uniform Plumbing Code or International Plumbing Code-compliant (baseline) fixtures and fittings.
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Implement a fixture and fitting replacement and retrofit policy specifying that all newly installed toilets, urinals, private lavatory faucets, and showerheads that are eligible for labeling be WaterSense labeled (or a local equivalent for projects outside the U.S.).
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|Commercial clothes washers
|CEE Tier 3A
|Residential dishwashers (standard and compact)
|ENERGY STAR or performance equivalent
|Prerinse spray valves
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|Ice machine
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gpm = gallons per minute
lpm = liters per minute
For building water use, confirm that calculations are up to date. Demonstrate that all applicable purchases made during the performance period meet the requirements of the fixture and fitting replacement and retrofit policy.
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The Cartel Cuiser is NOT a Chevrolet Avalanche because that was made in 2002 one year after GTA III was released and 3 Years after the events of GTA LCS so this is unlikely to be the basis for this truck. It says in the article that the car may be based on a 90's generic ford truck so I am trying to find out which one so I have made a list of ford trucks and I will try to find the right one.
Ford Ranger 1998-2001 No because theres no 4door option available.
Ford F-Series 1997-2004 Shape is similar and a 4 door version called the F250 so it's a possibility.
Ford Super Duty 1999-present No because it's too large and out of Canon with Gta events.
The headlights appear to be based on a Facelifted Range Rover P38here But the overall shape is based on a Ford F250 Crew Cab 1997-2004 Here It's missing bull bars but it does look similar. any comments?Andrew nicholson 17:09, July 22, 2010 (UTC)


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Burack Lecture to Examine United States as 'A Typical Latin American Country'
- 10-23-2013
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The Dan and Carole Burack President's Distinguished Lecture Series brings renowned historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto to Billings, North lounge on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 4 p.m. for a talk titled "A Typical Latin American Country – the United States: The Connected Histories of the Americas in Global Perspective."
By looking at the U.S. from a Hispanic perspective and in a global context, Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will challenge cherished assumptions about where and how the history of the country began; what, if anything, is exceptional in the story; what part immigrants have played in it; and how and why it has diverged from the histories of other parts of the Americas. Drawn from his forthcoming book All Right in America, his talk will illustrate how this view allows one to see U.S. history in a light that has been neglected in schools.
Fernández-Armesto is the author or editor of 34 books on a wide variety of topics relating to world history, focusing in the areas of exploration and colonization, environmentalism, and the transmission across vast spaces of peoples, commodities, and ideas. He spent most of his career at University of Oxford before becoming chair of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary College, University of London, in 2000, and the Prince of Asturias Chair at Tufts University in 2005. He's won multiple book awards, including the World History Association Book Prize in 2007, and has had many distinguished visiting appointments including a Fellowship oft the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. He also writes regular columns in the British and Spanish press and is the longest-serving presenter of BBC radio's flagship current affairs program, "Analysis."
The lecture is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by College of Arts and Sciences; College of Education and Social Services; College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Honors College; Center for Cultural Pluralism; Department of History; UVM's Chief Diversity Officer; Kappa Delta Pi; Phi Alpha Theta; and Pi Gamma Mu.


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A lifesaving meningitis B vaccine is set to be licensed for use in the UK in a move that could save thousands of lives.
The disease, which is the most common and deadliest form of meningitis in the country, affects some 1,870 people each year, many of them children, and results in death for one in 10 sufferers.
The approval of the new 4CMenB vaccine, which has been developed by pharmaceutical company Novartis, has been hailed by the charity Meningitis UK as the "biggest leap forward in the field" in three decades.
The vaccine received a "positive opinion" verdict from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Friday, meaning that the vaccine is considered safe and effective.
It will be the first meningitis B vaccine approved for use in the UK, which has one of the highest incidence rates in the world.
One in four sufferers is left with life changing after-effects, such as brain damage and limb loss, with children under five most at risk from the disease.
The charity said the next stage will be to give the vaccine - which has the trade name Bexsero - a marketing licence. It is expected to receive its UK licence early next year.
Meningitis UK wants the vaccine to be introduced into the Government's routine immunisation schedule as soon as possible, so it will be automatically given to children. The jab is recommended for those aged two months and older.
Meningitis UK founder Steve Dayman, who lost his baby son to meningitis and septicaemia in 1982, said: "This is a landmark moment in the fight against meningitis - I have waited three decades to hear this.
"It is vital that the vaccine is introduced in the UK immunisation schedule as soon as possible. It will save countless lives and prevent many people enduring the suffering caused by this devastating disease.
"We will be campaigning hard to make the Government introduce it."
The decision on whether to introduce the vaccine to the immunisation schedule will be made by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), who advise the Government on vaccination.
There are a large number of meningitis B strains in the UK - more than in many other countries - which makes producing a vaccine very difficult. Meningitis B accounts for about 90% of cases in the UK.
The new vaccine is described as a real breakthrough as studies have shown it should protect against 73% of strains which cause the disease in the UK.
Scientists have been attempting to develop a broad-ranging Meningitis B vaccine for years and have used a revolutionary new approach called reverse vaccinology to create it.
This involved sequencing the genome of the bacteria and identifying proteins that provoke an immune response against a broad range of strains.


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At some point in our lives, we have all witnessed the truth in the saying, misery loves company. When you break up with your boyfriend, your girls are at your side. When you complain about hating your job, the other side of the bar chimes in agreement. When astrologists try to change the pattern of the zodiac signs, all of the star-following people of the world protest with you.
What if you could challenge all this? Maybe it is not misery that loves company after all. Maybe people just enjoy being around each other.
Modern day fine artist, Rachel Tribble, is single handedly disproving that misery is what draws the masses together. As the featured artist at the 18th Annual Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival in Orlando, Florida, Rachel is spreading happiness to thousands of people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, and income levels. "Being the featured artist is so much fun," explains Rachel. "It's happy and it is such an honor because Disney is such a special place."
Rachel's paintings and artwork are praised for their unique use of light and vibrant color. "It's bright and filled with light and color," she explains. Flowers, butterflies, and the beauties of nature come to life on her canvases, bringing smiles and hope to the faces of her audience. "It's a weird feeling to have so many genuine fans," Rachel describes. "I can not tell you how many people have come up to me and told me stories about how having my art in their home makes them feel happy, even during a bad time in their life. When life is at its darkest, my art makes them happy. They take a piece of me home with them to feel safe." Her inherent desire to use her art to extract positive emotions from her viewers attracts a very broad audience. With fans ranging from children to the baby-boomer generation, Rachel's use of vivid imagery is something that can appeal to everyone. "It is my goal to make people feel better after seeing my art. But all I do is just birth it and hope for the best."
Although a painter all her life, Rachel started her career as a designer and producer of live performance art for rock nightclubs and rave productions. "I am a failed musician," she jokes "But I am a huge fan and deeply influenced by music. I was a club girl and my transition from the avant-garde art I was used to was not planned. However, bright became my rebellion out of the dark of the night clubs."
In addition to finding influence from music, Rachel is most deeply inspired by her own personal emotions and mother Earth. "I'm like an isolated being. I live in my own little world. I am enamored by the sun, the ocean, and the force of nature- I am in awe of it all." Through the use of her emotions and appreciation of nature, Rachel has become a true legend in the world of fine art.
What is next for Rachel? Painting is something she will continue to do forever. It is her way of maintaining balancing through that fleeting moment when the force of creation is channeling through her into her artwork. "Right now I am watching the Earth inhale. I like to believe that Mother Earth is nurturing. But we are just species and we need to respect her and take care of her. She's taking an inhale right now and I have no idea what the exhale will be like."


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Odds are, someone is performing "The Importance of Being Earnest" somewhere in the world every day — and inadequately. Oscar Wilde's alien world of studied artifice, so reliant on verbal felicity and subtle attitude, perennially tempts artists to substitute excess for, well, earnestness. Warner Shook's handsome revival at South Coast Rep, livelier than most, falls into the usual trap of tarting up the exquisite comedy — ranked as the 14th greatest play of all time in Daniel Burt's recent "The Drama 100" — with forced, tired biz out of a Ray Cooney farce. Chuckling audiences can be forgiven for wondering, "What's so great about this old chestnut?"
Fundamental mistrust of the material is typified by Michael Gotch's over-the-top Algernon, the professional wastrel whose mischievous interference in the romance of best friend Jack (Tommy Schrider) provides the thin plot engine.
Languid Algy, who could spend an entire afternoon deciding how to lift his pinky, is set to flouncing and leaping about Michael Olich's sparely elegant sets like a seal in heat. Playing frankly to the house, Gotch's Algy gears up for each of Wilde's epigrams and punches them out. Small wonder they rarely land as they should.
Cast is prone to heavy-handed italicizing of script's sallies, contrary to the rules of the Wildean universe, in which bon mots and paradoxes are employed as readily as breathing; indeed, verbal wit is the justification for breathing at all. Just as musical comedy actors sing because spoken words no longer suffice, Wilde's characters feel an inner need for witticisms that must waft effortlessly if they are to enthrall.
"Effortless," however, is the last adjective one would apply here. Pains taken to choreograph simultaneous sits and head snaps, or turn a casual whistle into a ghastly interpolated ukulele number, would have been better applied to sharpening the rapier wit or shaping breath control. Lines that have inspired hilarity for over a century are met with silence, the actors working strenuously to earn laughter through full-body physical reactions and broad takes.
Schrider, though possessing the proper air of the chartered accountant in contrast with Algy's dandy, is particularly mushy and overwrought as the character whose sangfroid is most tested and hence needs to be most preserved. (That his British vowels are largely off doesn't help, nor that his and Gotch's intonations are virtually identical.)
Of the young ladies, Elise Hunt's fetchingly pre-Raphaelite Cecily remains lightly droll, though Christine Marie Brown's Gwendolyn gilds the lily with too many quotation marks around her quotations.
The older generation has a better go of it. Kandis Chappell delivers Lady Bracknell's ironic, topsy-turvy pronouncements on society largely for her own delectation — that's what makes her so piercingly funny — and it's difficult to imagine any Bracknell delivering a more fearsomely imperious "Prism! Where is that baby?"
Speaking of Prism, Amelia White exudes a welcome coltish sensuality unusual in the stock dotty governess role, and Richard Doyle is dryly effective as her inamorato Canon Chasuble whenever he resists a racing case of the cutes.
Making the crispest and most hilarious choices, albeit on the periphery, is John-David Keller pulling double valet duty. Endowing Algy's manservant Lane with a thin smirk, subtly conveying a world of meaning about his self-delight and opinion of the upper classes, he later ages 20 years to make every entrance count as the fussy, put-upon Merriman. Embodying high style is everything in Wilde, and in this production, as in so many murder mysteries of the era, the butler did it.


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SHEFFIELD — Mitchell A. "Mick" DeFauw, 83, of Sheffield died Monday, March 11, 2013, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.
Mick was born April 8, 1929, in Kewanee, the son of Alois and Henrietta (Brate) DeFauw. He graduated from Mineral High School in 1947. Mick married Dorothy Beyn on July 2, 1949, in Sheffield. She died on April 28, 2009. Mick had worked for DeFauw-Beyn Produce, Sheffield Brick Yard, in the Coal Mines in Laura, Ill., Barcol Overdoor in Sheffield and at I. H. Harvester Works in East Moline until retiring in 1983.
He was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Sheffield, Knights of Columbus, Sheffield Homecoming Association, Sheffield Rolle Bolle Club and Hidden Lake Men's Golf League. Mick enjoyed playing cards, especially bieden, and golfing, where he was a member of the Hole in One Club. He enjoyed watching sports, especially basketball. He loved time with his family, especially the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a 30-year cancer survivor.
Surviving are his children and their spouses, Rick DeFauw of Carlyle, Robert (Patsy) DeFauw of Annawan, Karen (David) Taylor of Sheffield and Randy (Luci) DeFauw of Watseka. Other survivors include nine grandchildren, Lindsay, Casey (Sondra) and Grady DeFauw, Anita (Daniel) Rakestraw, Robbie DeFauw, Brooke (Matthew) Allen, Erika Taylor, and Jake and Dylan DeFauw; and seven great-grandchildren, MacKenzie, Jordyn, Laynie, Hannah, Maddison, Matthew and Anmarie.
His parents and wife preceded him in death.
A funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Sheffield, with the Rev. Mark Miller officiating. Private inurnment will be held at later date at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Sheffield.
Visitation will be from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Stackhouse-Moore Funeral Services, Sheffield, with a parish rosary at 5 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Rescue Unit, American Cancer Society or the Sheffield Playground Equipment Fund.
A video tribute may be viewed and condolences expressed by visiting Mick's obituary at www.stackhousemoore.com.
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SHEFFIELD — Mitchell A. "Mick" DeFauw, 83, of Sheffield died Monday, March 11, 2013, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton.


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Delta Scorpii
Delta Scorpii is a bright variable of the gamma Cassiopeiae type. The gamma Cas stars are a class of Be stars, which are young, hot, massive stars believed to be rapidly rotating and losing mass. While Be stars undergo small amplitude variations, the gamma Cas variables also undergo occasional outbursts. Delta Sco underwent such an outburst in mid-2000, an event that was recorded for the first time by a visual observer, Sebastian Otero. He was observing delta Sco as part of a project to understand the relationship between his visual observations and the Johnson V bandpass, and alerted the astronomical community to this unique event. Since then, observers around the world have tracked delta Scorpii's variations, both large and small.
You can read more about delta Scorpii and its discovery as a variable in Sebastian Otero's Variable Star of the Season article (English/Español).


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Pastor and author James Choung, who has worked in campus ministries for nearly two decades, is bringing a four-part message about discipleship to Palm Beach Atlantic University students this week.
The author of the books "True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In" and "Real Life: A Christianity Worth Living Out" began his talks on Tuesday evening in the DeSantis Family Chapel with a message on the topic, "What is the Gospel?"
"We're all designed and wired to share good news," said Choung, who serves as InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's national director of evangelism and also leads a missional community called the Vineyard Underground.
"Why is it then that when it comes to sharing the core message of our faith … we get all nervous?"
Choung theorized that it is because of one of two reasons: Either Christians don't really believe the news they have to share is good, or that they're afraid that others won't receive it as good news, he said.
He noted that often there is a heavy emphasis on the afterlife. "If our Gospel is only about where you go when you die," then why worry about discipleship, he asked.
In fact, Jesus is inviting everyone to be a part of His kingdom today, Choung said. From that perspective, the objective isn't the afterlife but rather the mission-life, he said.
Then "your lives will no longer be about yourselves, but about loving others" in the name of Jesus, he said.
To help people explain the story of God to nonbelievers — "the Big Story," as he calls it — Choung offered a set of diagrams that he outlines in his book "True Story."
The diagrams, which can be drawn using circles to represent the world and stick figures to represent people, show that God wants good things for us, he said. Humans are the ones who damaged the world, but through Jesus, people of faith are able to work together to make the world better, he explained.
During Wednesday's lecture at the chapel hour, Choung spoke about developing a vision for discipleship that allows followers to take the next step, something he addresses in his book "Real Life."
The "Real-Life Continuum" lays out how Christians can help individuals move from being skeptics to becoming world-changers, he said.
Once skeptics understand the Big Story, they become seekers, he said. In order to help seekers grow, he said, they must be challenged.
One way to do that might be to "invite them to hear God's voice for themselves," he said, adding that God speaks to Christians as well as non-believers.
"In love and humility, we challenge and help them think about the next steps."
Next, they become followers, and then they become leaders, he said. To become a leader, a person must be granted both power and authority, as Jesus does with the disciples in the book of Luke, he said.
Finally, once people become leaders within the church, the can begin directing their energy outward. "Our discipleship should flow out into the world," he said.
He also noted that the combination of gifts plus passion can lead individuals to their calling. Although not everyone is called to full-time ministry, everyone can use their talents to benefit the kingdom of God, he said.
Choung will speak again at 7 p.m. today in the chapel, where he will discuss what it means to be a follower. He concludes his series at 11 a.m. tomorrow with a discussion about making disciples. The lectures are free and open to the public, and copies of his books will be available for sale.


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Polanco Injured; ESPN Writer Loses His Mind
In the 3rd inning of today's Phillies-Pirates match-up in Bradenton, FL, Placido Polanco tripped on the pitcher's mound trying to catch a pop-up. He limped off the field and is said to have a right knee strain. Initial reports are that it is not serious and Polly should be back in action in 3 or 4 days. This is first real injury for the Phillies in camp thus far and we hope it is the last.
Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
The other interesting news came from Buster Olney of ESPN this week; he claims that his "sources" had reported that the Phillies were talking about swapping 1st baseman with the Cardinals.
That's right, in Olney's alternate universe, Ryan Howard and Albert Pujols would trade places. Perhaps Olney's "sources" were aliens from Mars? Or maybe it was just the little voices inside his head who yearn to see Olney locked up in a padded room?
The odds of this sort of swap happening are astronomical; it is not even a fair trade. No offense to Howard, but clearly Pujols is the better overall player. Yes, Howard is from St. Louis, but this is no reason for the Cards to think they would get him cheap. And the Phillies could never afford Pujols. GM Ruben Amaro Jr. was so perturbed at the news, he flat out called Olney a liar. "It's ridiculous," Amaro said. "It's unequivocally false. It's unfair to Ryan. It's unfair to the organization to have to answer the questions."
Halladay Human
Despite all the drama, the Phillies went on to win today by a score of 5-1. Roy Halladay gave up his first run of Spring and also walked two batters; all this means is we now have proof that the man is not a robot. I think we can all live with the 1.00 ERA.
Languishing Lefties
While the starting pitching looks good, some of the relievers do not. JC Romero will not be ready for Opening Day so one of the young lefties will need to step up to fill the void. However, neither Antonio Bastardo, Sergio Escalona or Mike Zagurski have looked ready to do so thus far. Bastardo has allowed 3 runs over 2 innings of work; Escalona has 5 runs allowed in 3 innings; and Zagurski only made 1 appearance. He is still trying to get back in the groove after Tommy John surgery. One of these three lefties will need to show that they can do the job and right now, it does not look good.
Pet Peeve of The Week
So many MLB teams these days have radio and TV announcers that leave a lot to be desired. Realizing that Philly fans were spoiled for decades with the great Harry Kalas, it may be an unfair comparison. However, during the Phillies-Pirates match-up today, a Pirates announcer took "unprofessional" to a new level. Tim Neverett, hired in December 2008, does play-by-play for the Bucos. And today, he did not win any brownie points from Philly fans.
In the middle of the 4th inning, Neverett began praising the team's mascot, the Pirate Parrot and mentioned how he was harassing Philly fans in the stands. He went on to say, "I think the Parrot likes this. There's no better group of fans to tease than the Philadelphia fans…(pause)…Because there's no worse fans. The same people who boo Santa Claus are now getting it from the Pirate Parrot."
First of all, the Santa Claus incident was in 1968 at an Eagles football game. Get over it. Secondly, there are "no worse fans?" Seriously? Apparently, Mr. Neverett must be a world traveler who has first-hand knowledge of such things. While I am not going to waste time comparing Philly fans to experiences I have had elsewhere, I will say that such a general statement is both ignorant and rude.
A small segment of fans of ANY team are bound to be obnoxious and disruptive. That is human nature. You expect to hear this sort of prejudice from those obnoxious fans, not from the radio announcer who is being paid to be objective and professional. You want rude? Ok then, BOO YOU Mr. Neverett! You should be ashamed.
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Max Eliot is one of 12 players on the Harvard roster that hails from the state of California (Photo courtesy: Justine Agaloos).
After seeing its nine-game winning streak come to an end Sunday, the men's water polo team will head west for five games in three days in the Golden State. The first four games of the weekend are part of the Gary Troyer Tournament. The Crimson then concludes the weekend with a non-conference game against UC Santa Barbara.
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Click here to visit the official tournament home page for the Gary Troyer Tournament.
Last Time Out
The Crimson went 3-1 at the Bison Invitational over the weekend. Harvard knocked off Navy's B team, 15-11, Johns Hopkins, 9-8, and the University of Toronto, 16-8, before falling to Bucknell for the second time this season, 10-8, in the finale. Harvard is now 12-6 on the season and 4-0 in the CWPA Northern Division.
Nine In A Row
After losing to Bucknell in the opening round of the North-South Challenge, the Crimson reeled off nine straight wins before falling to Bucknell again in the final game of the Bison Invitational. During the span, which is tied for the second longest win streak in program history and one off the all-time mark established in 2001, Harvard averaged 13.4 goals per game, while only giving up 8.8 per contest. Defense was the key to the unbeaten streak as the Crimson averaged 12.4 steals and 10.1 saves per contest in the nine contests.
Best Starts In Program History
At 12-6, Harvard is off to its best 18-game start to a season since 2002 when the team opened up 14-4, and the ninth best start in program annals. The Crimson's best start came in 1981 – the second year of men's varsity water polo - when the team began the season 16-2 en route to the program's top mark for wins with 22.
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Freshmen Phenoms
Freshmen lead Harvard in all three major statistical categories. Rookie Ben Zepfel has taken over sole possession of the team lead in goals after tallying 13 goals in four games over the weekend to increase his season total to 43. Classmate Blake Lee, who had led the team in scoring prior to the Bison Invitational, is second with 37 goals. The California native still leads the team in assists with 28 and is tied with fellow rookie Noah Harrison for the top spot in steals with 35. Harrison also ranks third on the team in both goals (30) and assists (19). Classmate Robbie Fluegge has also made an impact on both sides of the pool with nine goals, eight assists and 15 steals, while Colin Woolway has made 71 saves in goal. As a group, the freshmen have accounted for 62.6 percent of the goals (122/195), 52.3 percent of the assists (68/130), 57.7 percent of the steals (113/196) and 42.5 percent of the saves (71/167).
Rookies of the Week
Three different Crimson players have been honored as the CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Week. Blake Lee is the latest to join the crowd after scoring seven goals, making eight assists and recording 12 steals in four conference games over the weekend to get the nod for the week of Sept. 24. Ben Zepfel won Sept. 17 after netting 11 goals and four steals in the North-South Challenge, and Noah Harrison received the honor Sept. 3 for contributing six goals, one assist and five steals at the Labor Day Invite.
Defensive Player of the Week
Junior goalkeeper Jimmy Field became the first non-freshmen to be honored by the CWPA this season, earning the Northern Division Defensive Player of the Week award for Sept. 24. In eight quarters over the weekend, the Hawaii native made 24 saves and one steal to earn the first player of the week honor of his career.
Top Plays
In a new feature on GoCrimson.com, the Office of Athletic Communications will select the top 10 plays from each month. Watch the video below to see where water polo ranked on the list for September.
No. 10 Long Beach State
The 49ers head into the Claremont Convergence/Gary Troyer Tournament ranked 10th in the country with a 12-3 record after going 3-2 last week. Long Beach State is led by junior Dan Matulis (43 goals) and senior Spencer White (36 goals). LBSU is also strong defensively with Balint Meszaros in net. The sophomore is making 10.81 saves per game and allowing just 7.70 goals. This is the first meeting between the two schools.
The Sagehens enter the weekend at 1-11 overall; however, that record is deceiving as all 11 losses have come to ranked opponents, including two to No. 1 USC and one to then-No. 2 UCLA. Pomona-Pitzer did pick up its first win of the season, defeating La Verne, 12-7, Oct. 3 to remain ranked No. 1 in the Division III polls. Junior Ryan Higgins is tops on the squad with 18 goals, and senior Mark Hudnall is second with 12 tallies. Junior goalkeeper Tyler Hill has made 59 saves while allowing 95 goals. Harvard trails the all-time series, 2-6, with the Sagehens winning the last four meetings, including a 10-9 win in 2010.
No. 9 Loyola Marymount
After going 3-1 at the SoCal Tournament, the Lions moved up to No. 9 in the country with a 7-6 record. In the four games, junior John Mikuzis led the way with 11 goals, four assists, four steals and four field blocks. He is now second on the team with 23 goals behind freshman Milutin Mitrovis, who has found the back of the net 32 times. The matchup will be just the second between the two schools after the Lions beat Harvard, 19-4, in their only previous meeting in 2008.
After finishing last season atop the Division III polls, the Stags are 2-12 overall. The squad just ended a 10-game skid by defeating Chapman, 13-8, Wednesday night. The Crimson and Stags have one common opponent thus far in 2012 – California Lutheran. Harvard defeated the Kingsmen, 13-5, at the Princeton Invitational, while Claremont-M-S lost in overtime to them, 12-11, at the Aggie Invite. In the all-time series, Harvard trails, 3-2, after dropping their last meeting, 13-6, in 2010.
No. 2 UC Santa Barbara
The Gauchos are the highest ranked opponent on Harvard's schedule thus far in 2012, coming in ranked No. 2 with a 12-3 mark. The Gauchos are riding high after climbing four spots in the poll, following an 11-10 upset of previous No. 2 and 2011 national runner-up UCLA. Matt Gronow has paced the offense with 28 goals and 13 assists for 41 points on the year, while Evan Dellinger has contributed 23 goals and 11 assists. Myles Christian has played the majority of the minutes in goal for the Gauchos, making 72 saves and allowing just 41 goals in 6.75 games played. UCSB leads the all-time series 2-0, including an 11-3 win in their last meeting back in 2002.
Up Next
Harvard returns to conference play with a first-place showdown with Brown Oct. 11 at Blodgett Pool. If the Crimson wins, it will lock up the number one seed for the CWPA Northern Tournament and give the team an automatic berth to the CWPA Eastern Tournament.


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Do you plan on releasing any/all of the Wave Glider code under any sort of open source or not-for-profit license?
What would be the point? It isn't a word processor or some other standalone PC application. It's a tightly bound hardware controller - half of the "code" isn't in bits and bytes, it's out in the actuators and sensors. (Not that a tenth of the OSS community would even understand the problem domain.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages [wikipedia.org]
I'm a huge fan of checked exceptions (that is, exceptions that must be caught, or the method must specify that they can be thrown). My anecdotal experience is that checked exceptions have made my code more robust by helping me avoid mistakes, they are partially self documenting, and even save me time because I don't have to constantly check the documentation to see which exceptions are thrown.
However, I see a lot of hate for checked exceptions in the programming community. With the benefit of hindsight, what's your opinion on checked vs. unchecked exceptions? If you could do it all again, would you still put checked exceptions in Java?
Also, thank you for inventing the programming language I use all day every day. It's not perfect, of course, but I still consider it one of the best balanced programming languages out there.
Aaand you *completely* (and deliberately) miss the point.
Yes, a Michael Schumacher can get fast to point B even in a Trabant. That doesn't mean that a better car is not a good idea!
In fact, your logic is stupid, because why deliberately give yourself a idiotic handicap? If you are good without checked exceptions, you are BETTER with them.
I bet you also prefer to write shell scripts in C... no wait, Assember... no wait, a set of morse switches hot-wired to the bus. BECAUSE HAXORZ.
It's not boolean. It's a flo
Actually in java you don't know if the code can throw an exception.
At least not in practice.
So I would rather have declaring throwing as optional and catching as optional... since in reality they are.
As you're known as the father of Java, has that been problematic when trying to figure out your career path? Did you feel as if you have to always use Java or be the main proponent behind its architecture? Or simply having that on your resume, restricted you to a certain level of project either within Sun or when exploring new opportunities such as your current job with Liquid Robotics?
The official platform libraries provided by Oracle seem to be much more comprehensive in scope than, let's say, the C++ standard library. Is control by one company of such a vast swatch of library development a hindrance to innovation in Java?
You're thrown into a gladiatorial ring. An audience of thousands watches your every move, eager for blood. Across the ring, Richard Stallman advances toward you, katana poised to attack. To your left you see a rack full of medieval weapons.
What weapon do you choose? Whose blood will be spilled upon the sand?
Your post was highly insightful and on-topic, until you got to the part where you asked more than one question in a single post.
As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.
Thats not a katana in Stallmans hand dummy, its his dick.
How big is this ring? Is there a loaded crossbow on that rack? Or even a normal bow, already strung? A chu ko nu, if loaded, would be ideal. Never bring a sword to an archery duel.
In terms of code development, it is a long way to look back to the days of Pascal and VAX. Someday we likely will look back at JAVA in the same way. Have the limits of JAVA been reached and do you see that day of obsolescence as being sooner than later?
Additionally, looking at C# language features today I realized that Java is turning into the next COBOL. Is this a fair assessment?
Why stop at one? James, it's been nearly 20 years since Java was publicly released (I first heard about it at a conference in Dec 94). Can you tell us the top 5 to 10 things that you think could have been better done and wish future programming language designers will get right?
If he has any smarts, he'll rattle a long list: heck no language is perfect, and over the years one learns many things. If he doesn't he'll circle the wagons and answer "nothing".
Standard question, I know, but is there anything you would change about Java in hindsight? For example, don't you think that there would be no harm in having both a garbage collector and a free() function?
Are you serious? Just null out your variables if you're really that worried about it. Introducing a free() function is a great way to give developers a boot to deliver the garbage collector a swift kick in the nuts. It's like interrupting someone to ask if they are done yet.
public void dearMrGoslingHello()
justWantedtoTakeTheTime toSayhiAnd letYouKnow iUseYourLanguageLikeEveryDay. iReallyLike theCrossPlatformDevelopmentParadigmOfWriteOnceRunAnywhere(seriouslyItsTheBestAndThanks);
It occurs to me that a small autonomous vessel would make a great "drug submarine". I'm not hanging that possibility on you. Someone will/has surely thought of it already. Do you see use of similar tech for "evil" being a problem in the near future?
What are you thoughts on JavaFX2, especially towards its competition with HTML5?
These free roaming autonmous world exploring robots are out in the wild and not confined to protected lab space.
The potential for crashing into sensitive reefs, fouling nets, bumping ships or people, all across national and international ocean space, seems to carry a liability issue that is hightened by the uncontrolled nature of the robot.
What liability issues are considered when releasing a robot and are there any control systems in place to avoid accidents that might lead to liability issues.
Do you ever regret the choice to implement the java runtime in C++ given the many security problems this has caused for Java ?
What alternative to C++ would you have suggested?
What do you think of Oracle's stewardship of Java so far?
when I say "Click click whistle click whistle whistle. Hail King Gosling!" Translated to Human "I for one welcome our new oceanic robot overlords. Hail King Gosling!"
Having had to read through some of your older code recently, StreamTokenizer.java [kickjava.com], it smacks of a terse 'C' style of coding. I love the way it uses byte arrays and bit masks to do it's tokenizing very efficiently. It's wonderfully subtle, but a PITA the read compared to more recent Java coding styles, that use longer more readable variable names etc. At times I wondered if it was the result of an all nighter/quick hack. I'm curious if you like/influenced the way Java's coding style has developed over the y
I know you've gone on record supporting closures in Java and have apparently supported them for a very long time.
I apologize then for being unfamiliar with the history behind Java closures, as it is badly documented on the internet (or my Google-Fu is weak, I don't know which).
So why do you think Java didn't originally have closures, why weren't they added instead of anonymous inner classes in Java 1.1, and what were the other roadblocks to Sun adding closures in the past.
Back around the year 2000 people repeatedly asked you to make Java open source. Given what has happened since the Oracle acquisition do you regret not doing so back then?
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Doesn't it always seem more inherently interesting to visit a restaurant that has been around longer than many of its customers? Especially a place that visitors can rely on to remain consistent year after year, decade after decade?
Doesn't it always seem more inherently interesting to visit a restaurant that has been around longer than many of its customers? Especially a place that visitors can rely on to remain consistent year after year, decade after decade?
Kelly's Steak House is that type of place, standing the test of time and certainly an icon in the Upstate, counting as its regulars folks from Greenville to Charlotte.
The tiny town of Blacksburg in Cherokee County may seem an unlikely spot for a steak house but Kelly's is located just 10 minutes from Interstate 85. The wooded residential area that surrounds it adds to its charm.
For almost 53 years a member of the Kelly family has stood behind the grill, serving up steaks and more. Today, Ann Kelly Tadlock, along with her husband, Michael, run the restaurant. Just like her father, original owner Charles Kelly, you can find Tadlock grilling the steaks that some say are so tender you can cut them with a butter knife.
For Tadlock, Kelly's is a part of her. She grew up a short walk from the restaurant and often tagged along behind her dad as he worked. Soon, she was peeling potatoes and, as a seven-year-old, stayed busy bussing tables while wearing her Sunday-best dresses.
"I don't know how much help I was, but I loved coming here with my dad," Tadlock said. "Back then, when my dad first opened Kelly's, he was working two jobs, one in Gaffney during the day and here at night. This was a fun, special place to come with him."
Kelly's opened in February of 1960 in a farmhouse that had less than 1,000 square feet. The restaurant is still located on the same property, in the same building, but is now three times the size. Tadlock's dad added onto the three-room house as the restaurant's popularity increased. Customers are seated in one of several dining areas; some were once rooms in the farmhouse. On the wall of the hallway leading to the bar hang pennants from customers. Michigan, Limestone, the University of South Carolina, Oklahoma City University and dozens of other schools share equal billing and provide a contrast to the tables covered in crisp white linens with tiny candles in the center.
A front glass enclosure, which surrounds the entrance and bar, also was added to the restaurant. An awning spans the front. Clear twinkle lights line the split rail wooden fence which is surrounded by mature oak trees. No doubt it is rural but that's part of the experience.
"We really aren't as far out as we seem," Tadlock said. "And we have people who make it a point to visit with family and friends here. Someone will live in one city with family/friends in another and they meet up here as a halfway point."
Of course the draw is the thick and flavorful steaks, which are handcut by Tadlock and her brother, Tom Kelly. The filet is a favorite but then all the steaks, the New York strip, T-bones and rib eyes, are bestsellers. But there's more than steak. The restaurant grinds its own ground beef for burgers. Tadlock is picky about the seafood and searches out the best. Her homemade Maryland-style crab cakes are legendary.
Kelly's also serves chicken, pasta and recently added ribs to the menu. The ribs started as a nightly special but quickly grew to be a customer favorite.
While Tadlock mans the grill, her husband handles the saut�s and makes the Alfredo sauce. The Tadlocks pride themselves on making as much as possible from scratch including their tomato sauce. Even when it's not homemade, the Tadlocks put their twist on it – such as the sour cream. Sure, it's store-bought but the extras they add-in make it much requested.
Tadlock fell in love with cooking at an early age and enjoys experimenting with new dishes. Her homemade pimento cheese, served atop a filet, is another specialty. A favorite side is the tasty saut�ed mushrooms and onions.
"People often order extra of the mushrooms and onions to take home," Tadlock said. "They are just as good the next day and can be used in so many other dishes."'
Tadlock's homemade desserts are another favorite. Depending on the night, Kelly's has cupcakes, chocolate cake, cheesecakes and pies.
"We used to buy them but then one day it just hit me that I could bake them. I like to bake," Tadlock said.
Of course a restaurant that has been around for decades has seen its share of celebrities. Tadlock vividly remembers the night actor Larry Hagman strolled into the kitchen, calling out her name. When baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle stopped in, it was the men in the restaurant who stopped eating to catch a glimpse of the New York Yankees star. Actors Ed Harris, Andie MacDowell and David Nelson also have found their way to Kelly's throughout the years.
Kelly's also has seen its share of wedding engagements and special occasions. Earlier this fall, a man planned a special engagement, inviting his family and reserving a dining room where he popped the big question. Throughout the years Tadlock has had many requests to hide engagement rings in dishes, especially desserts.
"I wish I would have kept a book, a listing of everyone who has gotten engaged here," Tadlock said. "The engagements are fun but we like to remind people that you don't have to have a special occasion to come to Kelly's. Sure, we'll be happy to help you plan a special surprise or an event but you can also come in your jeans. We have lots of folks come on their way home from (college) football games."
A lifetime spent in the restaurant business isn't easy and Tadlock doesn't sugarcoat it when she talks about the challenges of owning Kelly's. She follows the advice of her late father who said if she wanted it done right, she had to do it herself.
She's not complaining. This has always been the place she wanted to work and she grew up pulling up a chair to the stove to make her own recipes in her family's kitchen. She still lives close enough that she walks to work.
"It is lots of long nights and hard work," Tadlock said. "I can't imagine doing anything else. This is my baby."


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Well done, Mr Crawford, and thank you
MR Vivian Crawford, the tireless and always smiling executive director of the Institute of Jamaica, has retired after serving for 11 years during which he has led the perpetually underfunded Institute with dedication and an infectious joie de vivre.
Not many Jamaicans are aware of the fact that the Institute of Jamaica has responsibility for a complex group of entities, among them the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank, the Jamaica Music Museum, the Junior Centres (Programmes Co-ordination), the Natural History Museum of Jamaica, the Museums of History and Ethnography and the National Gallery of Jamaica.
In addition, the Institute of Jamaica has been publishing the highly respected Jamaica Journal since its inception in 1896.
Surprisingly, Mr Crawford's professional training is not in the arts. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the University of the West Indies and a Master's degree in business administration from Nova South-East University.
His involvement in the arts and culture has not been confined to administration of the Institute of Jamaica, as he is a renowned organist whose musical skills are in great demand. Indeed, such is his talent that he is one of only eight people authorised to play the magnificent organ in the chapel at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus.
Mr Crawford was born in Moore Town, Portland on May 4, 1940 and attended Moore Town Primary School. Later, he distinguished himself at Mico Teachers' College where in addition to his scholastic achievements he was awarded the Chairman's Prize for outstanding contributions to the venerable institution and the Nathan Brissett Prize for Music. Similarly, while studying at UWI he was the recipient of the Max Henry Kiwanis Memorial Prize for Music.
A deeply religious man with a passion for education, he has given voluntary service to numerous causes and institutions. He has been resident organist for three churches and has guided several choirs, including that at Unity of Jamaica. Having lost his father at three months old, he values the mentoring of youth, many of whom do not have the benefit of male role models.
He has taught Sunday School at St Barnabas on Love Lane and St Matthew's in Allman Town and has taught music at Boys' Town. He has also been treasurer of the Ward Theatre Foundation and serves on several boards such as the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts.
That Vivian Crawford is a patriot who has sought to promote the development of Jamaica is not in doubt. Indeed, the Institute of Jamaica was more than a job for him; it was his calling. Thankfully, his invaluable contribution to the arts, culture, music and the preservation of Jamaica's heritage has been duly recognised as he is the recipient of several awards, including the Governor General's Achievement Award for St Andrew in 1998.
We want to add our word of gratitude and assure him that there is widespread appreciation for his many years of service to Jamaica. We say to Mr Vivian Crawford, well done and thank you on behalf of the Jamaican people.
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Less than a year ago, area farmers were attending a 'dry-weather' meeting about the possible impact the summer's heat will have on crops and cattle.
On Tuesday, approximately 30 crop producers and others associated with farming attended a meeting about late planting and replanting options due to a very wet spring.
Paul Kassel, SU Extension agronomist from Spencer, provided information on yield loss and moisture content at harvest.
In a handout and a presentation from Kassel, attendees learned that a late June corn planting compared to the average May planting date reduces corn yields by 25 percent or 45 bushels per acre. Grain moisture at harvest also increases by 15 points.
The risk of frost before black layer is 100 percent when planted June 25 or later.
The positives of planting in early June is there is usually less corn rootworm.
Kassel pointed out the obvious that nitrogen losses have occurred. However, it is difficult to know how much has been lost even with a late spring nitrogen test.
He said farmers should consider an in-season application of 30 to 40 pounds per acre of additional nitrogen.
Concerning soybeans, Kassel said producers could usually expect a 25 percent yield reduction with a planting date of June 20. The actual soybean yields may be 350 to 40 bushels an acre. Kassel suggests using an early group II variety from June 15-20 or a late group I variety of soybeans from June 15 to July 1.
Nicole Tifft, from Farm Credit Services of America, talked about crop insurance options.
With final plant days of May 31 for corn and June 15 for soybeans, the late plant period is considered 25 days after the final plant date-June 25 for corn and July 10 for soybeans.
Tifft said crop planted during the late plant period loses 1 percent of the guarantee for each day late. However you only lose the guarantee on the portion of field planted during the late plant period.
If planted after the late plant period, the guarantee is reduced to 60 percent of the original guarantee.
"If you know you're not going to plant, it's best to let the insurer know right away," she said.
Larry Lago, Farm Service Agency director for Emmet and Dickinson counties noted the final field crop report date is July 15. While producers can file after that date, there is a fee for late filing.


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2006-07 Women's Basketball
Bluffton 53, Hanover 35
Beavers dominate Hanover, 53-35, in 2006-07 finale
February 17, 2007
HANOVER, Ind. - The Bluffton University women's basketball team used its best defensive effort of the season in picking up a convincing 53-35 victory at Hanover in the regular season finale on Saturday, February 17, 2007. The Beavers limited the Panthers to 13 points in the first half and used a 19-3 run over the final 7:20 of the game to improve to 6-19 overall and 4-12 in the Heartland Conference. The Panthers fell to 3-21, 1-15 HCAC. Bluffton's 6-19 finish is the best for the women's program since 2000-01 when the Beavers ended the season 12-14 overall and 5-7 in the HCAC. It is also the first year since 2000-01 that Bluffton has not finished last in the Heartland Conference.
The second half was defined by changes in momentum. Hanover came out of the gate quickly, trimming the Beavers advantage to one point, 21-20, early in the second period thanks to four points from Angie Thieman and a Chloe Wonnell triple.
An old-fashioned three-point play by Vicki Auer (Cincinnati/Roger Bacon) capped a 7-0 Bluffton spurt which pushed the Beavers' lead back up to eight points, 28-20, less than six minutes into the second half.
Hanover responded with seven consecutive points before Angie Lee (Mt. Blanchard/Vanlue) keyed a 25-8 jag over the final 10 minutes with 14 points, including a pair of deep triples, during a six-minute span.
Despite limiting Hanover to five baskets in the first half, Bluffton led by only six points, 19-13, at the break. Both teams struggled to control the ball as the Panthers and Beavers were plagued by turnovers and poor shooting.
Senior point guard Tanya Rickenberg (Paulding/Paulding) put Bluffton on the scoreboard first when she drilled a triple two minutes into the game. Vicki Auer (Cincinnati/Roger Bacon) pushed the lead to five before Angie Thieman hit a pair of free throws to make the score 5-2 early in the contest.
Amanda Bell (Napoleon/Liberty Center) found the range from outside the arc and Sarah Bruner (Wauseon/Pettisville) and Rickenberg both hit 1-of-2 from the charity stripe before the Panthers Kim Hardesty scored Hanover's first basket of the game with 11:00 to play in the half.
A Hardesty hoop and consecutive Rachel Walters baskets trimmed the deficit to two points, 10-8, at the 8:21 mark.
Lindsay Bush (Howard/East Knox), who sat much of the first half with foul trouble, found the basket for back-to-back scores and Angie Lee hit consecutive buckets late in the first half as the Beavers built a 19-13 lead at the end of the first stanza.
Angie Lee provided the offensive spark for the Beavers off the bench, finishing with a game-high 18 points. Tanya Rickenberg scored seven, bringing her career scoring mark to 1,241 points. Freshman Vicki Auer also knocked in seven points for the Beavers. Amanda Bell and Lindsay Ebbeskotte both chipped in with six points in the victory. Freshman Ginny Buckingham (Bluffton/Bluffton) led the Beavers with eight rebounds. Ebbeskotte and Bush hauled in seven boards each while Bush swatted away five Panther shots on the night.
With the victory, the Beavers finished their 2006-07 season with a 6-19 record, including a 4-12 mark in Heartland Conference action.