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Monday Presser Transcript 10-31-11: Brady Hoke
Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important information:
- Kovacs ran around last night. Hoke says he's day to day. Van Bergen said Kovacs is expected back for Iowa. Who knows.
- Barnum injured his other ankle and is now "day to day."
- Lewan practiced. Has a knee injury on top of the ankle injury. Might get fewer reps in practice this week.
- Fitz Toussaint is -- surprise -- the number one running back.
- Desmond Morgan would have played more earlier but had a hamstring injury at the beginning of the season.
- McColgan is healthy but has been surpassed by Hopkins at fullback for those of you who were wondering. (Just me probably.)
Press Conference
from file
Opening remarks: "Obviously we have a great challenge in going to Iowa City and play a very good Iowa team. Undefeated at home. That seems to be the way this conference is to some degree right now. They play awfully well and they're a very well coached football team and have been for many many years. It will be the most physical game to this point for us as a team. When you watch them, personnel wise you look at Coker and what he's done leading the league in rushing, and Vandenberg has done a tremendous job in there at quarterback. They have a great set of wideouts, but McNutt obviously gets a lot of the exposure because of what he's done out there on the field. It's going to be a great challenge for us and you play these last four, and when you get in November, you play for championships in the Big Ten conference, and that's kind of how it's been for many years. We look forward to it, we're going to have a great week of preparation, and it's going to be fun."
How did the defense respond to the coaching during the off week, and where do you think you are on that side of the ball? "I think they responded well. When you look at it and you grade it and you look at it position by position, I thought up front the gap integrity that goes along with playing team defense and the appraoch that the guys played with and the demeanor they played with -- Mike, no question, was a factor in the game, not just in the middle but with his making plays down the field and those kind of things. Linebacker wise I thought we played downhill. I thought Desmond really did a nice job. I thought Kenny, I could feel those guys out there. Jake Ryan made some plays. Sometimes they're unorthodox, but he's a football player. In the back end, the two corners -- J.T. had the one penalty late that hurt us a little bit on that last drive, which was disappointing for us, but I think those two guys are settling in. Courtney's done a nice job at nickel. Troy, for his first start back at the safety position, did some good things. I think there's more that we can get from him there. I thought Thomas Gordon played up from where he did two weeks ago."
What's the status of Jordan Kovacs? "Day to day. He ran around, did some stuff last night, so we'll see."
How much of an adjustment did you have to make without Kovacs? "We didn't do anything different without him to be honest with you. I think there's some leadership there that he brings. I think there's some football instinctiveness that he brings that is something that I don't know if you ever make up for, whoever's in there. He ran around and did things last night, so I was pleased with him."
(mehr nach dem Absprung.)
Monday Presser Transcript 10-24-11: Brady Hoke
[No coordinator or Wednesday presser this week, fyi]
News bullets and other important things:
- We might be seeing more of Frank Clark, Brennen Beyer, and Raymon Taylor.
- Woolfolk and Barnum seem to be better.
- Lewan had an ankle injury but is expected back on Saturday.
- With Barnum back, there also will be competition at right guard (currently Patrick Omameh).
Brady Hoke
Press Conference
from file
Opening remarks: "It was good in some ways to have a bye week. From a health standpoint, I think it always helps you a little bit, no matter where you're at in the season, to get a little more rested. I think our guys did a nice job with that. I thought our practices on Tuesday, Thursday, and yesterday were at a high tempo. I think there was a lot of good teaching that went on. When you look at the fundamentals of where we need to improve: blocking, tackling, all those things that go along with football, I think that was good. We've got five guaranteed opportunities left that we need to focus on, and obviously this week is Purdue."
Any new players cracking the depth chart? "Frank Clark [is] one that comes to mind. I think Blake [Countess] has been playing, but I think that helps. Raymon Taylor, when you look at it from that vantage point, that's good for them to get a little more work in."
When did you move on from Michigan State, and how fired up are you for Purdue? "Well, we did that on Tuesday. Tuesday was the first time we met together as a team. [We] went through the film, met after the film, went out and practiced, and moved forward."
You put a lot of emphasis on the trenches. How are they doing by your assessment? "I would say we are not where we need to be with the consistency of how we want to play on both groups. I think there's been times when, from an offensive standpoint, we blocked the line of scrimmage pretty well and created movement and the things that you want to do at the point of attack. And then I think there are times we haven't blocked it as well. I would say the same thing on defense. I think Mike's been very consistent. He's played better and better every week when you evaluate what he's done in the middle. I thought Will Heininger played a better football game a couple weeks ago. Maybe one of his better games. But the consistency of all four guys is something we need to keep striving for."
Greg Brown left the team. Why, and have you ever had guys leave in the middle of the season before? "Greg is no longer part of our team, and yes. I've had guys leave."
(more after the jump.)
Wednesday Presser Transcript 9-28-11: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important things:
- Troy Woolfolk is, once again, fine.
- Ricky Barnum didn't practice yesterday. He's questionable.
- Cam Gordon is practicing a lot better but still trying to work himself in.
- Brandon Herron is also fine.
- Team hasn't started tapering physicality of practices yet.
- No decision on Justice Hayes' redshirt yet.
- Hoke is being all weird about the punting situation, but Will Hagerup looks better in practice according to all observers named Angelique Chengelis.
Brady Hoke
"We got a new table. It's rusty --" Rustic. "It's rustic."
Opening remarks: "We had a very good practice yesterday. I thought both sides of the ball we had a lot of energy. I thought it was physical -- how we want to be physical during the course of competing against each other. I thought that was good. I thought game-plan wise I think they responded well to those different things that you do, so it was good."
Are you going to be less physical now than you were in camp to keep players healthy? "Not really. Not too much. Not right yet. As you get into the marathon that a season is, you may lighten up a little bit later, but this isn't the time for us to do that."
Was Troy Woolfolk able to do everything? "Yeah. I think I was asked Saturday, and Sunday he did everything. And he did eveything yesterday."
Ricky Barnum? "I'm not saying he's out, but he's trying to take care of that ankle." Is he practicing? "Not today. Er, not yesterday, let's put it that way."
How much is Cam Gordon practicing? "A lot. He's just working himself back into it. He did some good things yesterday. I think he feels better."
How difficult is it to stay intense and also pick up new schemes mid-season? "Well the schemes -- they're new to a standpoint of how you want to tweak your base things to take advantage of an offense. From a defensive standpoint, most of the offenses are different, but I think when you look at a guy like Cam. He had a pretty good spring. What he did during the summer was pretty good from what I can tell. Fall camp, until he got hurt, he was fine. He's a smart kid, so he's in tune with everything that's going on. Learns well. So for him it's maybe not as difficult as it is for someone else."
Brandon Herron? "He did everything. He's fine. He's 100%."
Thomas Gordon said Will Campbell needs to get lower. What does he have to do to take that next step? "I'm glad Thomas is coaching him up. I really am. Thomas is right. Will just has to -- and this happens with a lot of guys who are big guys, and they're big in high school where technique and fundamnetals are taught and they're important, but it's just one of those things where he's got to play lower. He's got to be more consistent with that part of it. His get-off the football is something he's got to be conscious about and make good habits with."
You say Mike Martin plays with great leverage. Is that what you want Will to do? "Well yeah. But Mike, when he has a bad play in there, it's usually because his knees start to lock out and they don't bring their feet with them. This is a good conversation because it's D-line play and that's what I like to talk about, so I can do this all day. But that part of it with Mike, I thought, last week he did his best job with it. Will did some real good things in there. And he's improving."
Craig Roh's good performance two weeks in a roh (do you see what I did there?), is that a better sign than just seeing it for only one week/flash in the pan? "Well I think you always have to be guarded, and you always have to make sure the consistency you want from your players is there. Craig takes it very seriously when he works and he prepares from the mental side of it to the physical stuff that we do."
Is it harder to build consistency with front four than with an individual when you're trying to get max effort? "Well it starts with that individual pride and ownership of who that guy is. We talk about that quite often. And then there's always a unit pride that you want to have. I always think, and we always think that kind of permeates through that unit."
Is this team better suited to play against a mobile quarterback because of Denard? "It probably helps. I think our team, facing Denard and Devin both, and Russell Bellomy -- I mean, he's a little slippery. So when you look at it that way, there's some familiarity with what we do, which is kind of a great thing because of what we do with the spread part of it and out of the gun to what we do with the I-back stuff. I think it really helps us as a team."
What do you tell your defensive linemen when you play against a running quarterback? "I think gap integrity is always important in part. The critical thing to me is you have to chase the rabbit. You have to stay after it through the whistle because you see a lot of those guys make plays on cutbacks and those kinds of things, and you have to be a part of the 11."
Are you going to look at other Big Ten games any differently now that divisions are in place? "You know, I was asked that once before. I don't think so. Maybe I need to go back and look at it. But within the framework of the divisional play and crossover play, I don't see much difference."
Depth is a concern, particularly in the trenches. How does that affect you during the year? "It affects you in practice. It does. Guys you have to bring up on both sides of the ball. Guys who might be fighting for two and three in there who are down. They have to go over, so you take a good look from your look teams. That's one reason we do so much against each other. I started doing that when I went to Ball State because of the competitive nature of going ones on ones, twos on twos, and the speed and all those things."
What's the situation at nickel? Two weeks ago you had Raymon Taylor but then last game it was mostly Thomas Gordon. "We'll use both. Raymon's a young guy who's learning. Thomas is more of a veteran, obviously. We'll use both guys, though. I think they both are doing okay. Not quite what we need."
Are there any other freshmen that haven't played at all that still could? "Good question. I hate to count anybody out because you never know. You get guys twisted up and those kinds of things and you never know when that's going to happen."
Is it safe to say that Justice Hayes will redshirt? "I wouldn't say that yet."
What's punting situation? "What do you guys think?" Angelique only saw a couple yesterday. "I think they were both punting well yesterday." Would you say one has a leg up on the other? "Not yet. That's pretty good, I like that. You're giving him good material, Angelique."
Are you a stats guy? Mattison said yesterday he's not much of a stats guy. "Huh uh. Why?" Well Idunno … "No no no. I'm not asking you why. My point is … no. I mean, the only statistic that's important is the outcome and winning. So no."
Mattison also said he wasn't pleased with Jake Ryan down the stretch. Is that because there were some one-on-one situations he didn't win? "Oh, I think that's part of it. I think we have a high opinion of Jake, and at the same time we have to remember he's a redshirt freshman. He can do some good things. He can make plays, and part of that is he runs around the field and plays with good effort. He's always not doing exactly what Jake should do in the framework of the defense, but he has an opportunity, because he plays hard, to make up for those things. That's contagious, a little bit, and he's got to keep growing with everything that we do."
Have there not been enough carries for Thomas Rawls for you to properly evaluate him? "I think we gave him a pretty good look during the course of camp. And then he got banged up a little bit. Fred does a nice job of rotating those guys through, number one, to keep them healthy. Because we do compete against each other. I think the second part of it is trying to see where guys are at."
Are you resigned to the fact that Denard's your lead back? "You could say that probably. But he carries the ball. I know that. But I don't know if I'd consider him a back, personally."
Borges said if he has two backs running for over a hundred yards combined, he can live with that. Do you agree? "Sure. Sure. I'm fine with that. And again I go back to the statistic that counts: Winning."
Wednesday Presser Transcript 9-14-11: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other important items:
- Cam Gordon is healthy, but conditioning might be a problem at this point.
- Troy Woolfolk is fine, so stop asking.
- Fitz Toussaint will return for EMU.
- Ricky Barnum is clear starter at left guard.
- Will Campbell will get more playing time.
- Freshman RBs may play depending on how things go.
- Justice Hayes is lining up as a receiver on scout team at times.
- Brendan Gibbons is still primary placekicker, with Wile/Paulowski handling long FGs.
- No redshirting decisions made yet.
- Blake Countess looks likely to be a contributor at some point.
- Saturday is Hoke's 100th game as head coach, but it ain't no thang.
Brady Hoke
"Let's not be sticklers on what's morning and what's not."
Opening remarks: "We've got a lot of work, and I've said that before, and you guys say, 'Yeah, right,' but we have a lot of work to do as a football team. Tuesday, yesterday, was an okay day. I didn't think it was a great day. A lot of that was the mental things of game planning. It always seems to happen that way. Every Tuesday is not near as good as Wednesday and not near as good as Thursday, because you tweak your plan a little bit, and you've got to have something that your kids, number one, can execute and perform well, but at the same time, you want to take advantage of some things that you want to from your opponent.
"Eastern is a very good football team. I'm talking about how they play the game. You can tell Ron's done a great job in his footprint on that program. I've known Ron for a number of years, and his toughness that they want to have as a team is evident. If you look at 331 yards per game, I don't care who you're rushing the ball, if you're averaging that, that's pretty significant. So they're blocking pretty well up front. There's a number of guys that have spent time here in Ann Arbor on that staff who are very good coaches, and guys who understand and have a philosophy on how you play the game of football. We've got a lot of work ahead of us. We've got to play much better. We have to have some improvement as a team if we want to reach our goals, so believe me. We've got full attention on what Eastern Michigan does."
What's practice like during game week, re: position drills, scrimmaging, etc.? "Tuesday and Wednesday are big work days -- big physical days and we're going to compete against each other in some of the drills because of the speed and the look that you want. You break up part of practice to get a good switch of personnel so you can get a look at the plays that you have to defend and the defenses that you want to try and block. The kicking part of it – we do coverage teams on Tuesday, return teams on Wednesday, and do them both on Thursday. All those things, as you look at your opponent, you're trying to put the best plan together."
Does Eastern's emphasis on the run help you shore up things up front? "I don't know if it helps. I think they're very good with formations. I think they leverage defenses pretty well. I think they do a nice job in and out of personnels and formations to leverage a defense. It all goes back to the same thing on defense -- you have to play with your eyes, and you have to make sure you're honed in on what that key is -- that key at every position so you can react in the proper manner."
Has Cam practiced this week? "He practiced yesterday, ran around, did some things. My biggest concern right now for him is his conditioning level because he's missed a lot of time. I think we'll get through that, but right now he's available."
You've talked about improving from week one to week two. What did you do better against Notre Dame, and how do you plan on continuing that trend? "I think there's a lot of truth to that, and then you've got to continue to be championship teams, you've got to continue every week. A lot of that comes from the mental process of how you prepare, and that's what we as a team have to do a good job of -- the way we prepare every week.
"I think we did some good things on third downs in the second half from a defensive standpoint. I thought we adjusted well offensively at halftime. When you look at some of the runs Denard had, and how Al changed up some blocking offensively to expose it a little more and help it. So there was good reaction from what Notre Dame was doing. I thought that was a good part. I think kickoff coverage was good."
Do you expect to get Fitz back for Eastern? "Yeah he should be. He did everything yesterday, so we hope to."
Taylor Lewan got pissed off yesterday because someone told him that the running backs didn't really do much in the run game. What does O-line have to do to allow RBs some consistency? "You have to be better at the point of attack. You have to finish if you're combination blocking, make sure you get up to the next level, make sure you're getting the movement that you want on the line of scrimmage. There's multiple things, because there's perimeter people you have to count on harassing the guys from the secondary so your bigger plays can come from that. I think Taylor and all those guys have a lot of pride, and it's good to hear that."
Did you think Vincent Smith made a bigger difference in the passing game than rushing game? "I couldn't tell you that. I think we have to block better. That's where the game starts, so it's like everything else. It's all of us, coaches, players, and everybody."
What does Vince bring on third down? "He's tough. He knows what he's doing, he's tough, he's not afraid to put his face on somebody, and he's good out of the backfield. Catches the ball well. I like that little guy."
Is there ongoing competition at left guard (Barnum vs. Schofield)? "I think Ricky has probably cemented himself decently to some degree in there, but if he practices badly or plays badly, then it's nice to have a little bit of an option with Mike."
Have you given any thought to Saturday being your 100th game as a head coach? "No." Does it mean anything to you? "Not really."
You referenced improvement on third down stops. Overall number isn't very good yet, but is there a common theme in what worked on those plays? "I would think a couple things -- number one, we've got to challenge a little more in the back end. That would be first. We let some runs that were … I think there were one, two … three runs on third downs that broke because of one reason or another that we've got to execute better."
Mike Hart's going to be on the opposite sideline. What's your relationship with him like? "I know Mike. I wasn't here when Mike was here, but I have a lot of respect for Mike, and what he did for Michigan. I know him well enough. He's a good man, and I like the heck out of him."
If the opportunity arose, would you welcome him back to Michigan? "I think all of those guys are welcome back."
After you get done with a noon game, do you spend the rest of the night looking at other teams? "Well, I'll take the laptop home and first thing I'll do is watch what we did, and then there's usually next opponents on there gamewise, and may look at that a little bit."
Are you going to give Will Campbell more playing time? "Yeah, in fact I asked him -- I guess I'm a little naïve -- I said, 'Is that the most you've ever played?' and he said, 'Yes,' and I said, 'Really?' I guess I should have known that. He did some good things in there. I think he's gaining a little bit more confidence. He is a guy that can help us an awful lot if we can get the consistency and the improvement."
Has lack of PT lit a fire under him in practice? "I think he just is -- I think we all get to a point that he's settled in a position, number one, and I think that helps on a daily basis on what you do from a fundamentals and technique side. I think that part of it is real positive for our football team, and positive for him."
Just makin' sure … Is Troy limited at all in practice? "No. He did everything yesterday. I really like where he's at in a mental state right now."
Michael Floyd got his yards, but JT had him one-on-one and did a nice job considering it was against Michael Floyd. What did he do well? "I think JT's improved. I think he's got a long way to go, but I think he's done some things better. I think he has the confidence level you want to have as a corner, without being too cocky. I think that's an important part of it. There's a lot of plays in there where he's got to play a little better, too."
Can you talk about your depth at linebacker position? "I think with Mike Jones, and Hawthorne being healthy, Fitzgerald and Desmond being healthier than he was Week One, that helps. Brandin's still trying to get himself back. Cam, we've talked about, he's an outside linebacker. Kenny's done a pretty good job. I would say we're okay. We're not the deepest group anywhere, to be honest with you."
Lots o' guys playing at the WILL position during the last two games. How much of that is just rotating them, and how much is just trying to find a clear starter or two? "Some of that depends on what defense you're in. If you're in a nickel or dime package, who's out on the field, or if you're in our base package. So with what Western Michigan wanted to do, it was more of a nickel/dime kind of setup [with their four-wide formations]. But [with Eastern Michigan] rushing the ball for 331 yards a game out of two base personnel groups, you'll be a little more with your base defense."
Does it help having stability in the middle with Kenny Demens? "I always think it does. You have a guy who has experience, you have a guy who's pretty sharp when it comes to making the calls, setting the front, and adjusting at that level, so yeah. Kenny does a good job, and J.B. does a good job when he's in."
Will you consider playing your freshman RBs? "Maybe." What will that depend on? "It will always depend on how fast they learn, maturity-wise, and all those things." Have they caught up a little more? "I think they're okay. Depending on where we get, they may play."
What have you seen from them? "I think Rawls is a strong runner, he's got good vision and pretty good balance. He's got a pretty good burst. Justice is a guy who's got great quickness. Catches the ball well. He's doing a lot of things for us now on our look teams, sometimes lining up as a wideout, just because of numbers, and he's matured."
You're not Kirk Ferentz, so you're probably not going to take a knee on third down just to kick a field goal, but how important is it to get a couple attempts in the next couple games to get to the meat of the schedule? "I don't know if it's as important as we all may think. I think we're kicking everyday. [Gibbons] is going up to the stadium everyday. He's shown good consistency. We've come at him everyday. We put pressure on him, and I think right now he's hitting the ball pretty well."
Is that still one of those things where you don't really know how well he kicks until you get into a game situation? "It's like anything else in life. I don't know what's going to happen ten minutes from now. I don't worry about that."
It looked like Wile was taking a few practice kicks during the Notre Dame game when it looked like the FG attempt would be longer. Is Wile still handling long field goals? "I would say him or Paulowski. Either one of those two guys. They to have a little bit of a stronger leg."
How were the players mentally yesterday? "They were pretty good that way. I think your Tuesday, no matter what -- because of a couple wrinkles here or there, and they are students also -- they come in here and they have to focus on this part of it now, and some do a better job than others."
Any scholarships for walk-ons? "Bum. Bum bum. Bum. Um … I don't think so. I think we've renewed some that were given a year ago." No one new? "No."
Any redshirting decisions? "You know, not really. We're not going to be afraid to play freshmen, obviously. The best player's going to play. They're still learning to some degree, but from the fundamentals standpoints, if they're the best, they'll play."
How do you get more out of your return game? "Gotta block better. The punt return that Gallon had the other night was huge, when you look at field position, but on the kickoffs, we have to do a better job of picking guys up. I think our vision was okay back there as far as the return part of it. We just have to be more consistent staying on guys longer."
Is Countess putting himself in a position to contribute? "I think so. I think he will."
Preview 2011: Offensive Line
Previously: The story, the secondary, the linebackers, and the defensive line.
|Taylor Lewan
|Ricky Barnum
|David Molk
|Patrick Omameh
|Mark Huyge
|Chris Bryant
|Rocko Khoury
|Elliot Mealer
|Michael Schofield
Readers are advised to follow the same procedure as they might for the defensive line: look at the soothing, soothing starters and not the precarious dropoff—this time including a true freshman and non-entity "Dash Dash"—immediately after them.
Here the fainting should be kept to a minimum. Michigan returns four starters, inserts a well-regarded redshirt junior into the open slot, and ran for a crapton of yards last year. And the depth isn't all that bad. At various times new offensive line coach Darrell Funk has expressed a desire for seven or eight guys who are ready to play. That's how many they have: seven or eight, depending on which way the wind is blowing about Elliot Mealer today.
While not having a backup at left tackle looks ominous, in the event Lewan is forced off the field Michigan will just rearrange some guys and pull Schofield onto the field. The coaches have proclaimed their faith in both Schofield and Khoury, so Michigan won't get to serious collar-puling time until the third injury/suspension/abduction. Even that would likely bring a redshirt junior out of mothballs.
They'll be okay this year. The depth bomb hits next year as Khoury and Schofield draw into the starting lineup, leaving just Mealer and a horde of redshirt or true freshman behind the starters, including zero (0) backup tackles who won't be going to prom in a few months. At least those backups are backed by panting recruiting rankings. But that's for another season preview.
This season preview is concerned with the above offensive line and how well it will transition to MANBALL downhill running. It's not that they don't know how to do this. Here's the line doing this:
This is the third time I've pulled a different gap-blocked play from last year to claim they can pull, so… yeah, they can pull. (FWIW, that is not Power O but Down G.) If you don't believe me, believe Mark Huyge:
"Last year, our primary play was outside zone, and this year it's coming at you. Really, they're not that much different. We ran the power last year, so we knew the footwork already, basically. [Offensive line coach Darrell] Funk tweaked us here and there a little bit. But it's just doing it more often."
Taylor Lewan also dismisses the idea the new offense incorporated anything he wasn't being taught a year ago:
"We have the same plays … Instead of an outside zone we might run a lead zone."
The issue is what happens when power goes from a constraint play designed to keep the defense honest to the bread and butter designed to make the defense cheat. The conventional wisdom is that power requires massive road graders a la the Wisconsin offense while the zone game requires guys who, while big compared to civilians, are less likely to annihilate a tackle one-on-one than dance their way into an advantageous position. Boy howdy can these guys do that.
They can do the other stuff when opponents are expecting an outside zone. Can they make it the base? And can they pass protect well enough to open up a full pro-style route tree? Well, we just don't know, Dude.
Rating: 4 of 5
Taylor Lewan started getting hyped up as the next Jake Long as soon as he committed. That hype never waned until Lewan managed to start his RS freshman year on the bench behind Mark Huyge.
That dip was brief. Lewan forced his way into the starting lineup by the second half of the UMass game and quickly established himself as a man who perceives men in other football uniforms as donkeys and himself as the last survivor of a species destroyed by donkeys. Result:
|hates donkeys
|hate you, donkey
|donkeyed DT plus LB
|pancakes DT
|caves in Clayborn
|lol donkey
|Ogbu through endzone
|elite agility
|mobility matches Martez
|blocks safety(!)
|enjoy 0 tackles Clayborn
|part II
|goodbye PSU DE
|reads scrape, adjusts(!)
|not so good
|gets QB pwned
That was pretty exciting, and when he turned Adrian Clayborn off in the Iowa game the Jake Long hype hit fever pitch. Not even Long had started at left tackle as a freshman. Then Lewan took sixteen straight holding or false start penalties and harshed everyone's buzz good and proper.
This happened in the same game…
After the third Lewan penalty Michigan Stadium was ready to throttle the guy. It would have taken most of the stadium to do so, but the "AWWWWWWWWW" coming from the stands suggested it was possible.
…as this…
He's good. The Clayborn line: one solo tackle, two assists, a half sack on the last desperate Michigan drive. Last year Clayborn had 70 tackles, 20 for loss, and 11.5 sacks. Against Penn State earlier this year Clayborn had ten tackles, three TFLs, and a sack. He's a holy lock first-rounder, and Taylor Lewan all but erased him. …
That was a star-making performance. Lewan == Long has gone from optimistic ceiling to serious possibility.
…and Lewan established himself as the Mouton of the offense. He continued to sabotage Michigan drives with false starts and holds the rest of the year; when he wasn't doing that he was all but impenetrable.
He's not dumb. He knows he's got one big thing to work on:
"Last year, I had a lot of penalties and that's one of the main things I've tried to work on," he said. "My biggest problem was the penalties, absolutely. Everybody saw that. My biggest thing is to focus on that, stay onsides, stay aggressive between the whistles and not after.
"(But) I'm not trying to tone down the aggressiveness, because the offensive line, I feel, should be one of the most aggressive on the field. Have a defensive mentality on the offensive line."
The Mouton comparison is ominous since we just watched that guy start for three years without getting any better, but Lewan hasn't suffered at the hands of poor coaching yet and won't in the future. This should be the year he drops the crazy hot girl act and establishes himself as an All Big Ten left tackle. He'll still be a little penalty-prone but it will be worth it.
|decent downfield
|pancakes LB
|screen blockin'
|wipes out Lloyd
|could do better on S
|decent at POA
|washes scraper out
|again washes scraper out
|pulls a bit
|down G LB
|can't maintain block
Opposite Lewan, Mark Huyge is barely holding on for the third straight year. A who-dat recruit Michigan snatched away from the MAC in the first year of Mike DeBord's zone transition, Huyge's done well for himself to be a sort of kind of three year starter.
That hasn't prevented him from losing his job over and over. Two years ago it was a rotating cavalcade of missed blocks at right tackle as Huyge swapped with Perry Dorrestein and got sucked inside to play guard in David Molk's absence. Late in the year Patrick Omameh emerged at right guard and Huyge was finally exiled to the bench.
Last year it was Lewan bursting onto the scene. Huyge popped up from time to time when Lewan's penalties were too infuriating for Rodriguez and when Dorrestein's back injuries cropped up again. He was okay, his pass blocking issues covered up by the offense and Denard, his rushing numbers usually a little bit above zero.
This year he's in another "dogfight," this one with redshirt sophomore Michael Schofield and, oddly, Omameh. Funk:
"Mark's played all over the place, been a starter at three different positions. He's set himself up to have a great senior year," Funk said. "He's a great kid, great with the young kids. He defers to Dave [Molk] in the leadership role, but they are both seniors who are always both counted on to be leaders. He's playing right guard and right tackle, has that flexibility that he could play left tackle if we need him.
"I'm happy with how Mark is doing. It's a little dogfight between him and Patrick [Omameh] and Michael Schofield, who is doing a nice job."
I hope that's just a motivational device for Omameh, who needs to get better against elite DTs but… well… more on him later.
Huyge has the lead for now, so he goes here. I wouldn't be surprised if some pass blocking issues crop up and give Schofield a shot at the job—Huyge has never been able to hold off elite rushers. The difference between him and Lewan in that Iowa game was stark:
…the Huyge/Lewan battle [was] resolved in the exact same way the Demens/Ezeh battle was: by some Iowa guy running over the backup. In Ezeh's case this was Iowa OL Julian Vandevelde. In Huyge's it was Adrian Clayborn.
Huyge wasn't terrible but when you play a third of a game and you don't get a single +/- on the run chart you're being avoided to some extent and just doing okay at when you're not. He got a –4 in pass protection; Lewan has a –3 in twice the time. Lewan was +7 on the ground, tied with Denard for the best score.
He'll be better, and he'll be needed unless the line miraculously skates through the season without injury. I'm just not sure he'll be the first choice at tackle when the Big Ten schedule rolls around, because...
Schofield and… Schofield
The aforementioned Michael Schofield is it, man. Jake Fisher's post-firing defection to Oregon and Tony Posada's instant exit leave Schofield the only scholarship tackle on the roster who's not, like, starting, man. That's not good.
At least Schofield was a consensus four star who picked Michigan over Notre Dame back when all our OL recruits belonged to Weis. He's spent a couple years bulking up and is now the obvious #6 offensive lineman:
"Schofield would be a top back-up if we started today ... but he could easily be a starter. He's playing most days at a starter level. His big deal is he's inconsistent, and that's the whole group. We've got go make sure we're consistently good."
Huyge's flexibility will allow Michigan to flip Schofield onto the field if anyone other than Molk goes down. He's likely to start a few games in preparation for a full time role in 2011… unless he rips the job away from Huyge right now.
Given the way Huyge's career has gone and the general vibe coming from camp chatter and Funk's public statements, that's a strong possibility. Huyge's never been much of a pass blocker and Michigan's offense is going to require quite a bit more of that as Robinson starts making more and more five and seven step drops.
There's no one else thanks to Rodriguez's failures in the 2010 class and The Process. A discussion of the walk-on options would be pointless since in the event two tackles explode Michigan will flip Barnum (who played LT last year on the second team) or Omameh (who was widely regarded as the tackle of the future before he was needed as the guard of the present) outside and bring in Khoury.
Interior Line
Rating: 4.5 of 5.
This would be a five if Rich Rodriguez was still around. I've been badgering people about how awesome David Molk is since he was a redshirt freshman; Patrick Omameh's full-season debut was not quite spectacular but promised it right quick; Ricky Barnum is a touted recruit who's hitting the field as a redshirt junior. All were prepped to reach-block the living daylights out of opponents this year.
Now I'm not so sure. I think they'll still be pretty good, but worry that their strength is not their strength, if you know what I mean. I think they'll end up running a lot of zone blocking, whether it's by choice or hard lesson.
Your starting center for the fourth straight year is MGoBlog fave-rave David Molk. He drops f-bombs in press conferences, openly disdains stupid questions, and frequently makes the toughest block in football look easy. I love David Molk. This is what he does:
That was against freshman Akeem Spence but here's one of a few ass-kickings he handed veteran Penn State DT Ollie Ogbu:
|reach destroys you
|a tough seal
|reaches Spence
|reaches Purdue
|combo blockin'
|a classic stretch
|"that's six"
|execute the scoop
|another textbook scoop
|lewanesque donkey hating
|latches onto the NT
|second level
|MLB thump
|devastating cut
Sometimes he joins Taylor Lewan in his donkey hating campaigns. He's getting a little All-America hype, and I think he could deserve more: CBS has him on the second team behind OSU's Mike Brewster. If my OSU blog interpretation is correct I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a Buckeye fan who wouldn't complain about the frustrating lack of dominance from their OL.
Molk is the perfect spread 'n' shred center, a major reason Michigan put up an unprecedented-this-millennium 5.6 YPC last year. If he's got weaknesses they apply to the transition he may or may not have to make.
While it's usually guards who end up pulling in gap-blocked rushing attacks, having a center who can do likewise is an asset. It opens up extra possibilities. Molk has the agility for that sort of thing but it seems like the act of pulling right after you've snapped the ball is one of those things you have to practice a ton to get right. Molk's spent his time doing other things. Additionally, when Molk takes on a DT with the intent of blowing him off the ball he's almost always doubling with an intent to peel off after a scoop. If he's asked to go one-on-one with bigger guys that might not go so well.
That is admittedly me trying to find a concern. David Molk is great. You can never tell which interior linemen are going to be up for postseason awards but I'll be incensed if he's not All Big Ten after a healthy year. I think he'll be a Rimington finalist.
in space, where he belongs
Returning next to Molk is redshirt junior Patrick Omameh. Omameh broke into the stating lineup at the tail end of his freshman year and immediately displayed an agility I'd never seen in a Michigan guard before. Last year he built on that. You know what I am about to embed, but are you sick of it? No, you are not sick of it.
|Engage turbo.
|completely plows Te'o
|finishes the job
|flashes strength
|seals and pancakes the DT
|controls, then destroys DE
|kicks out Reyes
|dominates the playside DT
|second level
|combo onto LB
|Smith seeya
|Clayborn in space
|Te'os a PSU LB
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That was no fluke. He did the same thing to the same epic linebacker later in the game, did it to Penn State, did it to Adrian Clayborn, did it to a lot of people. If you get Patrick Omameh to the second level he is liable to turn an opposing linebacker into a safety-destroying club.
His weakness was a lot more obvious than Molk's, though: he had a lot of trouble with beefy, high quality DTs. He actually picked up a negative in the opener against UConn due to his struggles with Kendall Reyes…
He didn't exactly lose out, but as the only guy on the line anywhere near even he stood out as a sophomore. UConn's Kendall Reyes was a problem all day, bursting into the backfield on the Shaw ten-yard loss and causing most of the bounce-outs. Sometimes this just happens. I remember Eastern Michigan's Jason Jones doing a lot of damage, pointing out how good he was, and hoping this was true both for credibility and what it said about Michigan's offensive line. Jones eventually went in the second round of the NFL draft. I both think and hope Reyes is really good, headed for All Big East recognition. If not, Omameh has a lot of work to do.
…and had a rough day against Corey Liuget ("when he did get Liuget he struggled … Many times Schilling or Omameh had not been able to keep pace with that spring into the backfield [that Molk did.]")
There are worse things. Reyes did end up first team All Big East. Liuget was a first-round pick over the summer and Reyes may be one next year. A lot of players have bad days against them. But that is a downside that will be relevant this year when Michigan sees Jared Crick and John Simon roll into town. It'll help out immensely if Omameh can stand up to them mano-a-mano. I'm not sure if that will happen unless the zero extra pounds he's credited with is gamesmanship, which has been rumored. That seems like an obvious rationalization to me.
Omameh's lack of out-and-out POWER to run POWER, his agility, and Lewan's donkey-hating ways mean that when Michigan does use POWER to run POWER they are going to be heavily left-handed. Remember when the first play of every game was zone left over Jake Long for two yards? I'm hoping Borges isn't as predictable as Mike "The Avalanche" DeBord, but the breakdown of left-right might be similar to 2007.
As for Omameh's performance, he should get towards the fringe of All Big Ten. They spread these things out amongst linemen and Lewan and Molk are ahead in the pecking order so he probably won't get it; I don't think he'll necessarily deserve it but he won't be far off.
Ricky Barnum is the line's only newcomer. He'll fill in for the departed Steve Schilling. As a backup offensive lineman we don't know much about him; his only appearances on the field to date have been in uncharted garbage time. We do know he was a touted recruit who backed out of a Florida commitment to follow Rich Rodriguez north—which, wow, dude, that's a hell of a decommit.
He's gotten good reviews from insidery types for the bulk of his career, and these have spread to his coaches and teammates as he prepares for the big stage:
Barnum, a junior, however has received rave reviews from Funk and his teammates. Funk described him as most improved from last spring, and Lewan said he's been playing like an experienced, fifth-year senior.
In classic offensive lineman form, Barnum laughed off the praise and spoke about the big picture.
"It's not what I've done," Barnum said. "It's what we do as a team. We worked really hard in the offseason, and we're dedicated. We want to get better as a group."
"Ricky keeps making tremendous strides," Huyge said. "The kid works really hard. I know in spring ball, he took a lot of reps, and that helps, and he's come a long way, as well."
Borges makes him sound a lot like the guy on the other side of the line:
On Barnum: "Ricky is as athletic as anyone on our line. Ricky is a tough guy." Biggest problem is that he's a little underweight, but he's gotten stronger, doesn't get pushed around, and "looks like a back out there sometimes when he runs."
"Underweight" in this case is 292; "looks like a back out there sometimes" is like looking in the Omameh mirror. File this under yet more evidence they're going to have to remain a primarily zone team the next couple years.
The only issue with his acquisition of the starting job is that he didn't have to fight too hard for it. Rocko Khoury and Elliot Mealer are the only plausible alternatives. While Khoury did an admirable job against Iowa, he's primarily a center. Beating out just one guy means you're necessarily more of a risk than someone who emerged from a thicket of a depth chart with a machete in his teeth.
The one thing that might hold him back early is injury. As of a couple weeks ago he was held out of the punting demo because of a knee issue. He still dressed, so it can't be too serious. He seems to have dumped the brace in recent photos; he'll probably be just fine.
Khoury against Iowa; Elliott with brother Brock
|played iowa
|doubles w/ Schilling
|more doubles
|shoves on DT
|not quite omameh
|shed on second level
There are only two before you get down to walk-ons and freshmen. Rocko Khoury is the only one who won't cause some hyperventilation. When Molk was knocked out for the Iowa game last year he stepped in and performed ably. Most of the clips at right are Khoury doubling DTs with Schilling, which isn't the toughest job in the world. He does display a bit of ability on the second level; he does not reach someone into oblivion.
If Khoury draws in it will be a downgrade since he's not likely to do any of the exciting Molkomamehwan things I embedded above. It won't be a disaster. Michigan averaged 4.5 YPC in his start against the #6 rush defense in the country, almost a yard and a half better than Iowa gave up against the rest of their schedule. They'll live if he plays.
Redshirt junior Elliot Mealer is the sole other non-freshman option. That qualifier is probably unnecessary since the freshmen are either 340 or 270 pounds—he's the last line of defense between Michigan and someone totally unprepared to play in the Big Ten. The coaches clearly have him behind Khoury and Schofield and while they do make encouraging noises about him from time to time…
Elliott Mealer and Rocko Khoury are vying for back-up positions on the interior line, 'right on the cusp' but depth guys right now, Funk added.
…the overall impression is that they'd like to avoid having him on the field just yet. He's still much better than the alternatives.
Those alternatives are Chris Bryant, the 340-pounder, and Jack Miller, the 270-pounder. They are freshman OL. It would be best if they did not see the field.
Saturday Punting Demo Bits
So the open practice on Saturday was not much use. They spent most of the day punting or kicking or running kneel-down drills. By the tenth kneel-down the boredom was crippling and I wished they weren't having it at all. I'd be surprised if it returned for a third year. I kind of hope it doesn't since I have to be there if it exists.
They did run about ten minutes of two-minute drill at the end. Impressions follow.
Ricky Barnum is injured. He dressed but did not participate; he's got a big ol' brace on his left knee. He was out there so it's probably not too serious. He might miss a week or two. In his stead Schofield drew in at guard. They initially played him at RG, moving Omameh to the left. The two Gs swapped positions late.
Raymon Taylor was also banged up and held out.
New numbers are confusing. That is all.
I don't think Isaiah Bell was out there. There was no 34 in white (defense). Unless he's just switched to a new number that would be a sign he might not be on the roster much longer. Either that or he's hurt, but Hoke just said they were basically healthy.
Woolfolk did position drills but did not play in the two-minute drill, FWIW. Bellomy didn't take any snaps.
The defense has a three-man-line rush package. We're going to see a Shafer-style okie package on passing downs with three linemen, four or five linebackers and DBs hovering over the opposing OL. The D zone-blitzed like mad from that unit, often dropping guys like Mike Martin into zones. The O did a pretty decent job of picking the blitzes up but Roh got in for a touch sack and Denard had to scramble around a bit.
Denard had a hard time finding receivers. A few crisp rhythm throws, a lot of ball-patting, scrambling, and difficult sideline improv throws. Not sure if that's on him or the WRs. Gallon twice ran comebacks that the quarterbacks expected to be fly routes, so they've got some pro-style sight reading in the O. Not functional sight reading, but sight reading nonetheless.
There was only one running play, a QB draw on the first snap that went for eight or so yards and would have gone for more if they weren't playing touch.
Non-Hagerup punters are C- types. It's not going to kill Michigan to have Hagerup out; the punting will be sub-average until he returns.
Gibbons hit a 42-yard field goal to finish. The crowd went wild.
Under center: not so much. There was no under center. Part of that is the two minute drill, but the passing skeleton was a 3x1 four-wide shotgun set as well.
Gallon didn't do anything horrible returning punts. So we've got that going for us. I still think Dileo should get a shot.
There are some weird players on the special teams units. Gunners included Vincent Smith and Fitzgerald Toussaint; Hopkins and Shaw were on the kickoff team. Junior Hemingway was one of the upbacks on the punt team. That's all of our fragile offensive skill players save Denard.


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Solution Preparation of Two-Dimensional Covalently Linked Networks by Polymerization of 1,3,5-Tri(4-iodophenyl)benzene on Au(111)
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The polymerization of 1,3,5-tri(4-iodophenyl)benzene (TIPB) on Au(111) through covalent arylaryl coupling is accomplished using a solution-based approach and investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy. Drop-casting of the TIPB monomer onto Au(111) at room temperature results in poorly ordered noncovalent arrangements of molecules and partial dehalogenation. However, drop-casting on a preheated Au(111) substrate yields various topologically distinct covalent aggregates and networks. Interestingly, some of these covalent nanostructures do not adsorb directly on the Au(111) surface, but are loosely bound to a disordered layer of a mixture of chemisorbed iodine and molecules, a conclusion that is drawn from STM data and supported by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. We argue that the gold surface becomes covered by a strongly chemisorbed iodine monolayer which eventually inhibits further polymerization.


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|2006-04-30, 00:30
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Least favorite fight
I find topic after topic of, what is your favorite fight and why, yet none of the least favorite.
For me it would me Lee vs Raiga. Simply because the Anime crew did such a poor job with it, When Lee took off his weights in any other fight his speed was unmatched, except for by Sasuke when he faught Garaa. Yet in that fight, when he removed them, he was a slow moving, bad taijutsu fighter, His cartwheels were horrible and he got beat way to quickly. Now that was just a filler episode and if I were to pick one from the 'Cannon' it would have to be, Naruto vs Neji, Naruto only used one main technique, the Kage bushin, an overly used one at that. But the reason I pick that is because after being beaten over and over Naruto knocked Neji down with one uppercut, and that was it, I don't think that's the way it should have gone down, Neji faught Lee many times, and even though Neji always evaded Lee's attacks, he still wouldn't have been ended by one hit. I would love to hear anyone elses opinion on any of the fights.
And on a side note, if you want to list a fight from the manga please use spoiler tags for those who don't read it.
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Ino+Sakura fight:
Total rubbish we didn't get to see anything special and even the mind switch bit was lame but I like the sound effect XD
Save the jokes for outside the serious fights.
The only saving grace was Naruto Rendan even if it was ripped off.
U-ZU-MA-KI... Naruto Rendan!
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I liked that fight, cause it was the first time you saw, that hinata is able to do something.
And also you saw how awesome Byakugan really is.
my least favourite fight:
chouji vs jiroubu
Just pure power, no great technique...
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I'd say Sakura vs Kakashi [bell test] i mean she was just pathetic. Where both Naruto and Sasuke put up decent efforts. (Actually that wasnt a real fight but besides that i'd say)
Naruto vs Ebisu...that was pathetic aswell..
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For Hyuuga Hinata to face (previous number 1 rookie) Neji is simply a dead end for everyone.
At that point only Gaara or Rock Lee would stand a chance. All others would surely lose. Also i'd say she did very well against Hyuuga's greatest genius.
If Temari (strongest girl at the exam) were to engage Hinata with close combat...she'd surely lose. If you ask me that fight was pretty tense and great. Since she almost had him....almost ..just after the point Neji hit her..it was pretty much over.
Dont forget that (probably for safety reasons, Juuken Style) pretty much every Konoha Jounin stopped him.
[Gai, Kakashi, Kurenai & Hayate...the top jounins of Konoha...only Asuma was to lazy to go out there]
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In the exam hinata was the strongest female ninja (besides temari perhaps). And to have these 2 siblings fight each is a very interesting point of view of the anime.
To see her fight against a genius is quite interesting. Besides both of them are from the strongest clan of konoha and are fighting with the same technique.
I liked the fight because you saw, that hinata can fight and see how hard her youth must have been.
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But it also showed she could fight, maybe not with neji since his skills are way superior to hers (or so it seems), but among all the females she is between the best, and probably a contender for one or two males.
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garaa vs rock lee, favourite fight and yet least favourite fight.
the match up was just awful, lee at that time could've easily beaten anyone except maybe the sand siblings, shino, and neji. To think that someone of lee's quality (at that time) missing out of the knockout stages, its just too painful too watch
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Here is a low carb favorite of mine.. All this lowcarb talk. I have been low carbing for almost a year now. I swear by it!! So I have TONS of low carb recipes, another forum that I frequent is actually a Low Carb one.. But, I love to cook food of all kinds, for entertaining and giving to others.
anyway here is my low carb Poppers recipe, we have it with Steak on the Grill at camp atleast once a week, have yet to meet a person who has not added it to recipe box.
15-20 Jalapeno Peppers, Various Hot Peppers
6 oz Cream cheese
4 oz Cheddar cheese, shredded
In a bowl, mix cream cheese and cheddar cheese.
Put on latex gloves. Cut peppers in halves, clean out inside seeds and rinse well. Stuff peppers with cheese mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes.
Let cool a few minutes. Enjoy! Yum!
Nutritional Info for entire recipe (w/20 jalapenos): 1083 calories, 93 g fat, 41 g protein, 26 g carb, 8 g fiber = 18 g net carbs
Per 5 whole peppers (10 halves): 270 calories, 23 g fat, 10 g protein, 6.5 g carb, 2 g fiber = 4.5 g net carbs


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I think if you don't like a gift, that should only be discussed in private to a trusted confidant and certainly not at the venue where it was recieved with others who could overhear. Microphone or not, I doubt she was out of earshot of most people.
I love hydrangeas and that deep purple bloom was adorable. She couldn't hold her remark until later in private? But then, she was never one to keep her opinions to herself or care what other people think or feel.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2034262/Madonna-impressed-floral-gift-fan-I-absolutely-loathe-hydrangeas.htmlMadonna was doing a press conference. Before the conference but after the mics were turned on, a fan gave her a hydrangea. She responded by thanking the person, putting the flower under the table, and said to the person beside her, "I absolutely loathe hydrangeas. He obviously doesn't know that." First of all, when will people learn that whenever you are near a microphone, ASSUME IT IS ON. Seriously! Second, some are saying that she was simply making a comment to the person beside her and not slamming the gift (which, let's face it, still isn't particularly polite when the person is right there and the mic is on). Personally, I don't buy it and think she was incredibly rude, but I figured I'd ask y'all. If she was just saying it as a comment to the person beside her and thought the giver couldn't hear her, was she rude?
Oh, Madonna. Pretty ironic considering she wrote a children's book about being nice to other people Her fake British accent still makes me snicker
Madonna was the first person I ever seriously considered that might eat her young. She is quite clueless and classless.
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The "Field of Fireweed" is more important than being just a pretty field to look at as commuters and tour buses speed down Egan Drive in mid-summer.
Scientists, experts and local naturalists say this field — and the nearby Miller-Honsinger Pond — is part of a larger wetlands ecosystem that supports a diverse array of bird and animal species. In fact, the connections between the fireweed, the birds that live there and the water that flows through nearby tributaries and streams, the same ones that support fish species such as capelin, herring and sand lance, as well as young salmon species, can be traced to the humpback whales which provide viewing opportunities for tourists and locals alike. It's in those estuary nurseries that food for the whales is reared and protected. Furthermore, the large numbers of birds counted on the wetlands, even in the darkness of December, has also been well documented.
But let's step back for a minute. Historically, this area — the land that now supports the Juneau International Airport, the Mendenhall Golf Club and a host of other nearby businesses and operations — was once exclusively an upland marsh transition zone, an area between intertidal and forest. That was before it was a gravel pit.
Today, according to experts, much of that transition zone has been lost to development. There are some who even say we've reached a tipping point and additional development will cause damage to the ecosystem past the point of productivity in this globally recognized important bird area.
That's likely part of the reason it was initially zoned as rural reserve — a zone dedicated to our community and our recreational opportunities. Not as a combination of industrial and light commercial, as is currently being sought.
Since the time of the area's days as a gravel pit, fireweed (a native plant in Alaska) has flourished and enhanced the view, a view that helps bolster Juneau's image as a place where the natural world and the developed one meet in harmony.
To pave over those 82 acres will remove not only the view, but it will also eliminate the role those wetlands play in our local ecosystem. It's a step that cannot be undone.
And so we ask the question: Is it worth it? Can those same buildings be built in a place like Lemon Creek, where industrial everything abounds?
While an entity has every right to do what they desire with the land they own, in this case the rural reserve zone should remain intact. Because of the ecological importance of the area, warehouses have no place on this land.
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The Great Awakening
By Jim Wallis (HarperOne, 2008) [1]
Jim Wallis' prayers seem to have been answered. In 2005 the founding editor of Sojourners magazine decried the state of religious and political discourse in his bestselling book, God's Politics [2] (HarperOne), admonishing both ends of the political spectrum with the subtitle "Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It." Three years and another presidential campaign later, he's a lot more optimistic.
The Religious Right, which has dominated the Republican Party for too long, is being upstaged by so-called "progressive evangelicals" who care as much about the earth's right to life as an unborn child's. The Democratic Party, which for too long has ignored people of faith, is reaching out to liberals and moderates whose political views are grounded in the teachings of Jesus. Time magazine called it a "leveling of the praying field." Wallis calls it the next "Great Awakening."
Like the three previous Great Awakenings, this new revival will apply spiritual power to social change, Wallis predicts. "Faith may indeed be making a comeback as the catalyst that could provide the tipping point in finding solutions to the biggest and most significant moral and social crises of our world today," he writes.
Although Wallis comments primarily on Protestant evangelicals, he also notes a similar trend among Catholics, especially younger ones who are more likely to be incensed about poverty than contraception or gay marriage. In his final chapters, Wallis addresses that new generation as well as those who may not embrace organized religion but who still heed the words of Jesus.
Those twin hungers for spirituality and social justice ultimately lead to a third one: for a new kind of politics, based on hope rather than fear. In a word, those millions of Americans who don't feel represented by the Religious Right or the secular left are looking for change. In this presidential election, they may just get it. A "Great Awakening," indeed.


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Hockey In Southern California Would Be A Shell Of Its Current Self Without Dr. Jerry Buss
February 20, 2013 2 Comments
Buss was 80 years old.
"Dr. Buss was our partner, our mentor and our friend," said President and Chief Executive Officer of the Anschutz Entertainment Group Tim Leiweke, who also serves as Governor of the Los Angeles Kings. "He was kind enough to allow us into his world, and much of the success we enjoyed at Staples Center and LA Live is directly attributed to him. I do not believe we will ever find anyone quite like him. Our prayers and thoughts are with Jeanie and the entire Buss family."


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Fulfillment — it comes in many forms at a 1-million-square-foot building on John Dodd Road in Spartanburg.
Fulfillment — it comes in many forms at a 1-million-square-foot building on John Dodd Road.
From kayaks, Barbies, wine corks, stuffed plush ponies, bird feeders, diapers, comforters, bicycle tires, lawnmowers and 60-inch TVs to rawhide dog treats, Spartanburg's Amazon Fulfillment Center is all about fulfilling a customer's online wish, packing it up and shipping it out.
The center, a $50 million investment by Amazon, began filling orders for the online retail giant on Sept. 19 with a modest wireless printer, as celebrated by signs at the front entrance. County leaders will celebrate the grand opening of the center today beginning at 10 a.m. Speakers for the event include Spartanburg County Council Chairman Jeff Horton, Mayor Junie White, S.C. House Rep. Mike Forrester, Tony Allen from the S.C. Department of Commerce, and Mike Roth, vice president of Amazon's North American Fulfillment Network.
"The goal is to just have fun, have some refreshments and open the site for the community," said Kelly Cheeseman, Amazon corporate communications manager.
About 100 employees worked filling orders at the facility Sunday. Products enter the building at one end, and are stocked either by pallets on shelves or in the facility's "library" — rows and rows of shelves with bar codes. The company software tracks each item.
"The software will guide employees where they need to go to pick the product," said Greg Phillips, general manager of the Spartanburg fulfillment center.
Phillips couldn't give an exact number, but said there are "tens of thousands" of items inside the Spartanburg fulfillment at any given time. Seeing the floor-to-ceiling shelves packed full of pallets and shelf upon shelf of smaller items catalogued neatly in the library is awe-inspiring.
Employees cruise along in quiet electric equipment designed to lift and carry pallets or larger items. Some are assigned to an area where they pack multiple items for orders and send the boxes along a conveyor system. Bar codes on the boxes prepared for shipment are scanned along the conveyor system, automatically stamped with address labels and advanced down the conveyor to the shipping area where they'll be loaded onto trucks to be sent off, mostly around the United States.
Spartanburg's fulfillment center specializes in larger items, while Columbia's ships smaller items like DVDs, CDs and books, Cheeseman said. There is about a mile of conveyor in Spartanburg's facility, while Columbia's has miles of it, needed for moving smaller items.
During the holiday season, the conveyor will be loaded with brown boxes headed for shipment, but on Sunday, boxes of all shapes and sizes were more sporadic. Phillips said the local center set records for peak volume last year, contributing its part to the 306 products ordered per second company-wide on Nov. 26, Cyber Monday.
About 400 people are employed at Spartanburg's facility, and company officials say there is room for growth. More workers are hired on a temporary basis for the holiday season.
The local center involves its employees in giving back to the community through charities such as Goodwill and Good Fellows, Hope Center for Children and also with the Spartanburg School for the Deaf and the Blind, Phillips said.
Giving back is almost as fun as working with thousands of products every day, from Lego sets and stuffed animals to coffee makers. Cheeseman said she met an Amazon worker who keeps a small notebook attached to her company ID badge, and writes down interesting book titles to check out later.
"Our associates are incredibly talented, and it's a lot of fun for them to be able to work with the system and interact with the product," Phillips said.


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top three most expensive things I have ever purchased...
this bike!
I have owned a number of cars before the Honda Element
not one of them cost me as much as this bike
I have owned a number motorcycles... the 4 four beater bikes I owned did not have a cumulative cost to equal the cost of this bike
this bike is essentially a motorcycle lacking the engine
which makes me the engine
would love to blog about my wonderful purchase experience with The Family Bike Shop
would love to blog about the crash I suffered on my first off road ride on this machine
but... I am thinking riding makes more sense than blogging
I can blog when the sun sets!
The Family Bike Shop
Niner: Rip 9
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Sweet rig! Jonathan came along with me on my inaugural ride on my Niner EMD on Friday at Rosaryville. I was all over the trail trying to adjust to the new position. Much lighter and quicker steering than my Monkey. By the end I was pretty dialed in though. A birthday present for the decade for me! Hope that you're liking the new bike and maybe we can all get the Niners out soon on the next FBS jam.
- 8/16/2008
- gwadzilla said...
I have been drooling over the Niners over the past few years...
lots of fast guys on single speeds riding em... jonathan included
my Rip 9 retires my geared monkey as a race bike
the geared monkey was never a race bike
that said... it served me well
we had many great rides and great races together
it will still be ridden
as is my rigid monkey
- 8/16/2008


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Visitor Comments: 48
(36) Yisraelr2, October 6, 2014 9:43 PM
(35) Bobby5000, July 14, 2014 2:35 AM
Peace, Oslo Worked, does this?
In the 1990's things were better, the Palestinian Authority had a semblance of government, Clinton was a capable mediator, and tensions were reduced. That is about all that can be expected. A 2012 Ceasefire was a good idea. Some sort of interim deal should have come about in the last year, but Obama unreasonably insisted on a complete return to pre 1967 borders and Israel proposed little.
Now is this going to succeed. There are 1,000 murders a year in Chicago; why did this have to degenerate into an all out war. It seems like World War 1 where a series of miscalculations caused a prolonged and sad war.
There should be some type of ceasefire and work towards some type of interim agreement. Right lies somewhere between give up all the land and go back to 19676 and nothing will work but constant war. Mediation is needed to reduce conflict, tension, and loss of human life. Relative calm should not have been so easy to break.
Shoshana -Jerusalem, July 14, 2014 7:24 PM
Are you for real?
You must be kidding. Almost 2,000 Jews died because of the Oslo agreement. Clinton capable? Of what?
The Arabs don't want peace. Their charter calls for the complete destruction of Israel, G-d forbid.
If you are already on this web cite, so read the articles about Hamas. Yes, the Arabs wants "piece" - a piece of Jerususem, a piece of Haifa, of Tel Aviv, etc.
Ben, July 24, 2014 10:51 PM
No, Oslo did not work
NONE of the hopes for Oslo came to pass.
ALL of the predictions of Oslo's critics and protestors came to pass.
NONE of Oslo's supporters have admitted it.
Israel and their enemies have irreconcilable differences.
Israel has nothing to offer Hamas, and the PA for that matter that they want.
Hamas and the PA have nothing to offer that Israel wants.
Any cease-fire or truce that is less than permanent is a waste of time.
What is needed is to utterly defeat the enemy so that they permanently lose hope. As long as they hope of defeating Israel this thing will never end. Anyone who truly cares about the Arabs will try to convince them of this before they hurt more of their helpless people trying. Because the big brave masked shooters and chanters won't fight like men; they are busy hiding behind skirts and teddy bears.
(34) joan, July 13, 2014 4:27 PM
Shalom, to all the god chosen people let peace still, god is for you,he is withyou, I speak peace,protection,over every one of you,god will protect you as he said,no nation or anything will destroy your nation, those wicked people are trying to destroy you but they don't know the God of and for the Jewish nation, he is going to revenge them for cruelness they are doing you, you are in my prayers,shalom.


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Or you could get ready now, so when they flip the switch you're good to go.
Too much could change between now and then (then probably being in about a decade or so).
I'm with OP, when my ISP gives me one.. i'll deal with it.
As I type this in a Starbucks on an AT&T wifi node, DHCP issues both a v4 AND a v6 address.. I've tried to connect to some of the test places via v6, but as of this moment, no joy.. Now if I could just get my home isp to make the jump (Cox)....
"Now if I could just get my home isp to make the jump (Cox)...."
Even if the cable companies switchover...will it make any difference to the general home user..their cable modem gets the Ipv6 connection, likely goes to a wireless rounter ipv6...but with everything already NAT'ed...people's stuff on internal networks won't really need to change anything....will they?
ISPs won't support it until customers demand it. This requires government action: use stimulus money to make free porno available to all over IPv6 only. And not just any porno: the kinkiest, highest-resolution, full-length nastiness the Feds can commission.
Your U-Verse box will have a v6 address within a week.
And not just any porno: the kinkiest, highest-resolution, full-length nastiness the Feds can commission.
Have you ever plumbed the depths of usenet? Or
I don't think having people gouging out their eyes with grapefruit spoons is the best way to handle this.
It's been done: http://www.ipv6experiment.com/ (NSFW). Didn't work, unfortunately.
My captcha: "banged"
Yea, I'm waiting for my ISP to offer it too, so I can start experimenting with it. I won't use any of the tunneling services because I have a fast connection, so routing the packets trough a longer path than necessary (and this is what would hapen if my Pc decided to use IPv6 instead of v4 to connect to a server that supports both) will reduce my bandwidth, also, I doubt that any of those tunneling services would offer me 80mbps up/down for free.
Also, my ISP said that they will not be taking the public v4 a
I'd rather have NAT for v6 too
There are always so many people saying they want NAT, but if addresses are plentiful then it serves absolutely no purpose. I think that most people who see it as necessary are confusing its function with a firewall. You do not need NAT to do the same things your home router does today. You can still block all incoming connections to a computer and allow all outgoing connections. You can still allow specific ports to be opened to specific machines.
Using a public address on your internal network doesn't automatically mean that you need to just allow any traffic in. Use a firewall to "stealth" every port and there will continue to be no evidence that you have a computer there.
The amount of *new* networking kit and software that still doesn't support IPv6 is frankly depressing. Microsoft's Forefront TMG (Their ISA replacement), for example, requires Server 2008/2008 R2 (which have full IPv6 support out of the box) but doesn't actually support IPv6 routing itself and it's only ~1 year old.
There are *many* 6 year old Cisco routers and switches out there that are still covered under support contracts that won't be getting IPv6 support as they have been End-of-Life'd
Wait... if they are EOLed, how are they under support contracts?
Isn't that kind of like an anti-tautology?
Maybe I'm way off base here*, in which case please do enlighten me... but does EOLing mean that no support is offered?
*3rd-party support being the only exception I can think of.
You're right. Unless you are a business that is offering internet based services, you can probably ignore IPv6.
So really no big deal then?
No big deal if an equivalent amount of timely effort is put into it. In other words, It'll be what Y2K would have been had we done nothing.
No big deal if an equivalent amount of timely effort is put into it.
Nonsense. Plenty of companies did absolutely nothing to prepare for Y2K. Entire swaths of the third world budgeted $0 for Y2K. They had little or no problems when the time came.
A massive undertaking by programmers worldwide in order to prevent a catastrophic meltdown. Completed just in time in a way that's transparent to the rest of the world, making it seem like no big deal.
Yeah, actually it'll probably be quite a lot like Y2K in that sense.
I really wouldn't go into board rooms and mention Y2K. The general public seems to think that there was nothing there and it was just a big hoax. I'm sure all of you have encountered this recently too. A few times recently I had to correct people who said something like "That Y2K thing was no big deal". My answer to them was "It was no big deal because people worked for 5-10 years to fix it, otherwise it would have been a big deal". But you all know that.
But if you want to be dismissed as a panic monger, bring up Y2K, otherwise, don't.
Not so fast:
Yep, it's a mess. But migration is still critical. The fact its a mess just means that it's that much harder to do right. Maybe if people hadn't been putting their fingers in their ears and shouting "NAT NAT NAT!" for the past 5 years, it wouldn't be such a mess now.
You don't get it - IPv6 itself is a misengineered piece of crap.
You don't get it - IPv6 itself is a misengineered piece of crap.
Well, that's a position I've never heard. The messiness of the transition is, well, yes a mess, but that does mean that more techies will make more money to fix it all up. It will get all fixed up one way or another, but it will cost a hell of a lot more.
Not so fast:
I don't agree at all with this article. The author claims that IPv6 should have been designed as an extension to IPv4 so that IPv4 and IPv6 hosts can communicate with each other directly. This is fundamentally impossible. The IPv4 host can only send packets to IP addresses with 32 bit. Any longer number is not understood by the IPv4 host. In order to make this work, the IP stack of every IPv4 host would need to be updated. Guess what has to be done to have IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack? The IP stack of every IPv4 host needs to be updated!
Agreed in principle, however NAT64 enables *precisely* what djb complains about. An IPv6 only host can now meaningfully participate in an internet filled with v4-only servers.
There is a trivial mapping between IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, very similar to the one you propose. Bernstein's attack is against a strawman version of IPv6 that doesn't contain this feature.
if IPv6 is "a board-level risk management concern", then I certainly can safely ignore it, and so can pretty well every Slashdot reader.
It'd barely make any difference as you need contiguous blocks and the rate at which we're using them means that even reclaiming whole
Sigh. Once again:
Why should Ford, Apple, HP, Halliburton, etc be forced to give up their legacy blocks when AT&T and Level 3 get to not only keep theirs but resell the address space?
Do we really need to have 3 ipv6 article a week on slashdot. I believe every single slashdotter knows and understands what the problem is about. So I suggest the editors to skip all the articles about "how my god we need to move to ipv6 FAST",
"Just wait until "ipv6 conversion specialists" are charging you $450 an hour to make sure your business is not floundering because you ignored the problem until it was an emergency."
That doesn't argue for warning PHBs. It argues for becoming a Conversion Specialist!
VRF for an IPv4 Internet Part Two anyone??????
Behold the formation of the InterNAT!
I finally found the group responsible for IPv6 at my company, and asked about our readiness. now keep in mind, we don't need to wait for an upstream provider as we are the upstream provider, with many peering agreements in place.
The answer I got back basically amounted to two things:
1) nobody else is ready, so we don't need to be either.
2) it's not legally mandated, so it's not important.
I'm so glad we pride ourselves on our ability to innovate...
For competition in our area there is one other large company, their publicly stated IPv6 policies are actually worse than ours (which is quite the feat to be honest!) and a handful of small ISPs reselling our lines and using us as an upstream provider... they don't have much choice in the matter.
So about that "competitive advantage" you were talking about...
is when desperate (or "innovating") ISPs decide to jack up the rates on static blocks. Companies that have a static
I've got a block of 8 myself (5 usable naturally) so I think I'm safe from the vultures for awhil
Qwest has taken care of the IPv4 exhaust issue for our residential customers at the ISP level. We are implementing the capability to communicate with contacts at both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. This transition will be transparent to Qwest residential and business customers.
I'm not sure if the transition can actually be transparent since at a minimum I'll have to do something with my TCP/IP so it knows that IP6 is there, and from the looks of it my Modem doesn't support it ether without maybe a firmware upgrade.
What they said translates to "We are putting you behind a carrier grade NAT, you will no longer have a public IP unless you pay us extra for it."
I can double the number of IPv4 addressable machines.
UDP and TCP ports 1-512 will now be one machine, and ports 513 and higher will be another machine.
IP has no concept of "ports". Aside from the fact that you didn't split the port space evenly, you clearly have no concept of how IP and networking works. And even if this is a serious suggestion, and could possibly be implemented, it would be at least as much (if not more) work than implementing IPv6 *anyway*.
Oh my god, did somebody just invent NAT?
Apparently an economist opinion about computer technology is just as good as an economist opinion on the economy.
Yes we know.
Major ISP's are just now getting the ball rolling. Client software is still being perfected. The bridges for early adopters are known to be flakey. Talk to the people working on that stuff (oh, wait, you don't need to, they're already underway).
Most readers here will move along when the infrastructure is ready. We know the address space is effectively out but there's little reason to do much at this point, and anybody trying to push people to adopt IPv6 before the tools are robust is kidding themselves.
At least before home users can care, is a good 4 to 6 translation system. What I mean is let's say your ISP goes IPv6 and your cable modem gets just an IPv6 address. If you have a newer computer (Vista or newer, newer OS-X releases, etc) it'll just work. It can have its own public IPv6 address and everything is great.
However, what do you do about older stuff? I'm not just talking older computers, which possibly could be upgraded, but I'm talking older devices, which can't. My AV receiver is a networked devi
That's called NAT-PT and I've just had a huge flamewar about it on the last IPv6 article. Basically, all the v6 geeks here hate NAT and think nobody should be allowed to have such a thing. Hence, the RFC has been deprecated and nobody is even trying to implement it.
> How many isps or carriers now are giving ipv6 as an option?
Comcast, for one.
Nothing helps drive a wedge between people and their money than a fear incessantly pounded into their brain like a rusty nail.
IPv6 caper should help pay off the mortgage. Then 2038 should set me up quite comfortably for retirement.
The big mistake was not making mobile IP devices IPv6 from the beginning. Even if they had to go through a NAT at the telco. Most of the growth is in mobile devices.
Fortunately, most mobile devices respond to updates pushed from the carrier. So mobile carriers need to be encouraged to implement that transition. Carriers are in a good position for this, since they control both ends of the air link. Some of this must be happening already.
Facebook, 4chan, digg, slashdot, reddit, and redtube make their sites accessible by ipv6 only (and not through v4 to v6 tunnels.)
They take a hit in traffic for a little while, two weeks later, every ISP is giving out ipv6 addresses and every ancient router and pc is upgraded.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. - Deep below the surface in areas from the northern tier to western Pennsylvania, a geological formation more than 380 million years old is garnering the attention of people from the oil industry, government agencies, universities and local communities.
The Marcellus Shale, which contains perhaps the largest concentration of natural gas in the continental United States, stands to bring in millions in state revenue and create thousands of jobs. But questions about the impact of natural gas drilling and the legacy of coal mining in Pennsylvania have raised concerns about potential costs to the environment and long-term effects on the economy when the supply is depleted.
Leading experts will discuss the boom of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale and possible environmental, social, political and economic impacts at a symposium April 16-17 at Bucknell University. Sponsored by the Bucknell Institute for Public Policy, the symposium, "The Marcellus Shale: Development, Environment, and Community," will feature a screening of the documentary film, "Haynesville: A Nation's Hunt for Energy," keynote speeches and several panel discussions. All events are free and open to the public. || See full schedule
"The Bucknell Institute for Public Policy is interested in providing a forum for discussion of timely issues related to public policy," said Abe Feuerstein, associate dean of faculty in the University's College of Arts and Sciences. "This symposium is an opportunity to explore this issue and understand it not just from an environmental and scientific point of view but also from a social, political and economic perspective."
Spanning many states
Named for the New York town where it was first described, the Marcellus Shale extends across several states including Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia. In Pennsylvania, it spans from the northern tier of the state and sweeps down in an arc toward Pittsburgh, said Carl Kirby, a professor of geology at Bucknell who will participate in one of the panel discussions.
Shale is a dark-colored, fine-grained sedimentary rock that breaks into flat pieces, Kirby said. The dark color denotes the remains of 380 million-year-old marine organisms that are the source of the natural gas. In some places, the shale is more than a mile deep, making it both a source and a reservoir for natural gas.
"This is one of the biggest environmental or economic questions of our time in Pennsylvania and our region," Kirby said. "It also has been a challenge to obtain reliable information about it. The symposium is an opportunity to discuss the issue with people from the industry, regulatory agencies and academics."
Documentary kicks off events
The symposium will begin with the showing of the documentary "Haynesville," at 3 p.m. Friday, April 16, at the Campus Theatre on Market Street in Lewisburg. The film focuses on the Haynesville Shale discovery in Louisiana, which has some parallels with the discovery of the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania. Filmmaker Gregory Kallenberg will introduce the film and answer questions after the showing.
Also Friday, John Quigley, acting secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, will give the keynote address in the Trout Auditorium of the Vaughan Literature Building on campus. A second keynote address by John Hanger, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will take place on Saturday afternoon.
Panel discussions
The program on Saturday will feature a number of panel discussions. The first, "Setting the Stage: The Marcellus Shale - Geology, Energy, and Development," will feature Bucknell geology senior Molly Pritz, who has researched and presented on the formation; Bucknell alumna Kathryn Z. Klaber, Class of '88 and president of the Marcellus Shale Coalition; and state Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalstock Township, who represents District 23, which includes Union County.
A second panel discussion will focus on the environmental impacts of the projects. Speakers will include John Dawes, executive director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds; Kirby, the professor of geology at Bucknell; and Jim Richenderfer, acting chief of the Water Resources Management Division at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
After Hanger's address in the afternoon, a third panel will focus on economic development and the potential community impact of the project. Speakers will include Charles Abdalla, a professor of agricultural and environmental economics at Pennsylvania State University; Will Delavan, an assistant professor of economics at Lebanon Valley College; Teri Ooms, executive director of the Institute for Public Policy and Economic Development in Wilkes-Barre; and Simona Perry a postdoctoral scholar in GIS and community studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa.
For a full schedule of events, see www.bucknell.edu/MarcellusShale.
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