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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay
S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay.
The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us: it is like those repositories in animals that are filled with stores of food, on which they may ruminate when their present pasture fails.
Joseph Addison.
How are such an infinite number of things placed with such order in the memory, notwithstanding the tumult, marches, and countermarches of the animal spirits?
Jeremy Collier:
On Thought.
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; and there are many books that owe their success to two things: the good memory of those who write them and the bad memory of those who read them.
Charles Caleb Colton:
Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
Benjamin Franklin
First, soundly infix in thy mind what thou desirest to remember. What wonder is it if agitation of business jog that out of thy head which was there rather tacked than fastened? Whereas those notions which get in by violenta possessio will abide there till ejectio firma, sickness, or extreme age, dispossess them. It is best knocking in the nail over night, and clinching it the next morning.
Overburden not thy memory to make so faithful a servant a slave. Remember Atlas was weary. Have as much reason as a camel, to rise when thou hast thy full load. Memory, like a purse, if it be over full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it: take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
Thomas Fuller:
The Holy and the Profane State.
If memory be made by the easy motions of the spirits through the opened passages, images (without doubt) pass through the same apertures.
Joseph Glanvill.
Things are reserved in the memory by some corporeal exuviæ and material images which, having impinged on the common sense, rebound thence into some vacant cells of the brain.
Joseph Glanvill.
Some associations may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness.
Sir William Hamilton.
It is a fact well attested by experience, that the memory may be seriously injured by pressing upon it too hardly and continuously in early life. Whatever theory we hold as to this great function of our nature, it is certain that its powers are only gradually developed; and that if forced into premature exercise they are impaired by the effort. This is a maxim, indeed, of general import, applying to the condition and culture of every faculty of body and mind, but singularly to the one we are now considering, which forms, in one sense, the foundation of intellectual life. A regulated exercise, short of fatigue, is improving to it; but we are bound to refrain from goading it by constant and laborious efforts in early life, and before the instrument is strengthened to its work, or it decays under our hands.
Sir Henry Holland.
Strong and many are the claims made upon us by our mother Earth: the love of localitythe charm and attraction which some one homely landscape possesses to us, surpassing all stranger beauties, is a remarkable feature in the human heart. We who are not ethereal creatures, but of mixed and diverse nature; we who, when we look our clearest towards the skies, must still have our standing-ground of earth secureit is strange what relations of personal love we enter into with the scenes of this lower sphere. How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of realitya place, a country, a local habitation: how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! here is some sunny garden or summer lane beautified and canonized forever with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places, rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others, where distress or death came once, and since then dwells for evermore.
Washington Irving
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures. Indeed, almost all that we can be said to enjoy is past or future; the present is in perpetual motion, leaves us as soon as it arrives, ceases to be present before its presence is well perceived, and is only known to have existed by the effects which it leaves behind. The greatest part of our ideas arises, therefore, from the view before or behind us, and we are happy or miserable, according as we are affected by the survey of our life, or our prospect of future existence.
Dr. Samuel Johnson:
No. 41.
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona.
Dr. Samuel Johnson.
I can repeat whole books that I have read, and poems of some selected friends, which I have liked to charge my memory with.
Ben Jonson.
To love the little platoon we belong to in society is the germ of all public affections. True, most true! The innocent associations of childhood, the kind mother who taught us to whisper the first faint accents of prayer, and watched with anxious face over our slumbers, the ground on which our little feet first trod, the pew in which we first sat during public worship, the school in which our first rudiments were taught, the torn Virgil, the dog-eared Horace, the friends and companions of our young days, the authors who first told us the history of our country, the songs that first made our hearts throb with noble and generous emotions, the burying-place of our fathers, the cradles of our children, are surely the first objects which nature tells us to love. Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home. From this centre our sympathies may extend in an ever-extending circle.
Charles Lamb
Ideas quickly fade, and often vanish quite out of the understanding, leaving no more footsteps or remaining characters of themselves than shadows do flying over a field of corn . The memory of some men is very tenacious, even to a miracle; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kind of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.
John Locke
Pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, unless sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. How much the constitution of our bodies and the make of our animal spirits are concerned in this, and whether the temper of the brain make this difference, that in some it retains the characters drawn on it like marble, in others like freestone, and in others little better than sand, I shall not here inquire: though it may seem probable that the constitution of the body does sometimes influence the memory; since we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
John Locke
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
John Locke
Ideas are imprinted on the memory, some by an object affecting the senses only; others, that have more than once offered themselves, have yet been little taken notice of; the mind, intent only on one thing, not settling the stamp deep into itself.
John Locke
In viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the memory the mind is more than passive.
John Locke
By the assistance of this faculty we have all those ideas in our understandings which, though we do not actually contemplate, yet we can bring in sight and make appear again, and be the objects of our thoughts.
John Locke
That the soul in a sleeping man should be this moment busy thinking, and the next moment in a waking man not remember those thoughts, would need some better proof than bare assertion to make it be believed.
John Locke
The chiming of some particular words in the memory, and making a noise in the head, seldom happens but when the mind is lazy, or very loosely or negligently employed.
John Locke
It being granted that all our different perceptions are owing to changes happening in the fibres of the principal part of the brain, wherein the soul more immediately resides, the nature of the memory is obvious: for as the leaves of a tree that have been folded for some time in a certain manner preserve a facility of disposition to be folded again in the same manner, so the fibres of the brain, having once received certain impressions by the courses of the animal spirits, and by the action of objects, preserve for some time a facility to receive the same disposition. Now it is in this facility that memory consists; for we think the same things when the brain receives the same impressions.
Nicolas Malebranche.
In my country when they would decypher a man that has no sense, they say, such a one has no memory; and when I complain of mine, they seem not to believe I am in earnest, and presently reprove me, as tho I accusd myself for a fool, not discerning the difference between memory and understanding; wherein they are very wide of my intention, and do me wrong: experience rather daily shewing us the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
Michel de Montaigne:
Cottons 3d ed., ch. ix.
What can you expect from a man who has not talked these five days?who is withdrawing his thoughts, as far as he can, from all the present world, its customs, and its manners, to be fully possessed and
in the past?
Alexander Pope:
Memory is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Indeed, our first parents were not to be deprived of it.
Jean Paul F. Richter.
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard B. Sheridan.
No enjoyment, however inconsiderable, is confined to the present moment. A man is the happier for life from having made once an agreeable tour, or lived for any length of time with pleasant people, or enjoyed any considerable interval of innocent pleasure.
Rev. Sydney Smith.
A man by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages will be apt still to inculcate these sad memoirs to his conscience.
Robert South.
When a man shall be just about to quit the stage of this world, to put off his mortality, and to deliver up his last accounts to God, his memory shall serve him for little else but to terrify him with a frightful review of his past life.
Robert South.
It is commonly supposed that genius is seldom united with a very tenacious memory. So far, however, as my own observation has reached, I can scarcely recollect one person who possesses the former of these qualities, without a more than ordinary share of the latter. On a superficial view of the subject, indeed, the common opinion has some appearance of truth; for we are naturally led, in consequence of the topics about which conversation is usually employed, to estimate the extent of memory by the impression which trivial occurrences make upon it; and these in general escape the recollection of a man of ability, not because he is unable to retain them, but because he does not attend to them.
Dugald Stewart:
Elements of the Philos. of the Human Mind,
ch. vi.
It is an old saying, that we forget nothing, as people in fever begin suddenly to talk the language of their infancy; we are stricken by memory sometimes, and old affections rush back on us as vivid as in the time when they were our daily talk; when their presence gladdened our eyes; when their accents thrilled in our ears; when, with passionate tears and grief, we flung ourselves upon their hopeless corpses. Parting is death,at least as far as life is concerned. A passion comes to an end; it is carried off in a coffin, or weeping in a post-chaise; it drops out of life one way or the other, and the earth-clods close over it, and we see it no more. But it has been part of our souls, and it is eternal.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The memory hath no special part of the brain devoted to its own service, but uses all those parts which subserve our sensations, as well as our thinking powers.
William Walsh.
Tis memory alone that enriches the mind by preserving what our labour and industry daily collect.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
Use your memory; you will sensibly experience a gradual improvement while you take care not to overload it.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
If we would fix in the memory the discourses we hear, or what we design to speak, let us abstract them into brief compends, and review them often.
Dr. Isaac Watts:
Improvement of the Mind.
Use the most proper methods to retain the ideas you have acquired; for the mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless some pains be taken to fix them upon the memory.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
To impose on a child to get by heart a long scroll of phrases without any ideas is a practice fitter for a jackdaw than for anything that wears the shape of man.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
A mind which is ever crowding its memory with things which it learns, may cramp the invention itself.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
The case is with the memorial possessions of the greatest part of mankind: a few useful things mixed with many trifles fill up their memories.
Dr. Isaac Watts.
Many are saved by the deficiency of their memory from being spoiled by their education; for those who have no extraordinary memory are driven to supply its defects by
If they do not remember a mathematical demonstration, they are driven to devise one. If they do not exactly retain what Aristotle or Smith have said, they are driven to consider what they were
to have said, or ought to have said. And thus their faculties are invigorated by exercise.
Richard Whately:
Annot. on Bacons Essay, Of Studies.
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In an act of coaching foresight that might land Claude Julien a post-career job as a fortune teller, the Bruins' bench boss dressed rookie Tyler Seguin tonight in Columbus after consecutive healthy scratches.
The addition of the speedster to the lineup paid off after the Bruins and Blue Jackets couldn't decide the game after 65 minutes of play.
Seguin, who entered the game with a team-best 3-for-6 record in shootouts this season, scored as Boston's lead-off shooter and Tuukka Rask kept Columbus' three shooters from finding the back of the net to lift the Bruins to a 3-2 win on the road and snap their four-game winless stretch (0-2-2).
The Bruins won the shootout 1-0 and improved their shootout record to just 2-5.
Replacing Michael Ryder in the lineup, Seguin skated just 11 shifts for 9:57 of ice time on a line with Chris Kelly and Mark Recchi. But after Rask stopped Rick Nash to start the shootout, Seguin beat Steve Mason with a forehand inside the right post.
Here's a look at the rest of the box score:
•Rask shook off a slow start and a bad first goal by Columbus to make several spectacular stops among his 34 to earn the win and bounce back after he was blown away in Montreal a week ago.
•Rich Peverley scored the game-tying goal shorthanded with just 5:36 left in regulation. It was the Bruins' first shorthanded goal since Brad Marchand scored against Colorado Jan. 22. It was Peverley's second shorthanded goal of the season and highlighted a 6-for-6 night by the penalty kill.
•It was great to see two Bruins that had every reason to tone down their physical games throw their weight around tonight. Zdeno Chara, who maybe lost some of his edge since the hit on Max Pacioretty last week, got into a shoving match with Derek Dorsett before a faceoff and was active around the Bruins' net.
Marchand, who was benched last game for some bad penalties, was also pesky again, as he had a hit on R.J. Umberger in the neutral zone and then set off a little net-front scrum seconds later.


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No quarter, no hope, no doubt: The Chicago Blackhawks vaporized the Wild and escaped the first round of the postseason for the first time in three years.
There was the small issue of Minnesota's history of rebounding from massive playoff deficits, but it was no issue at all in a 5-1 demolition by the Hawks in Game 5 at the United Center, making it a 4-1 series win and a second-round date with the Sharks or the Red Wings beginning next week.
Marian Hossa scored twice and Marcus Kruger, Andrew Shaw and Patrick Sharp added one goal apiece in an emphatic performance that never permitted the Wild much hope at all of extending to a Game 6. The Hawks had been here before, too, having failed to close out a series on home ice during their Stanley Cup run in 2010, but that bit of history wouldn't repeat itself Thursday.


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The kids visit the Big Pond to attend the Biome Block Party. While attempting to win the leaf-necklace contest, Keenan Chirostemotes claims the Pteranodon sibs can't compete for the prize for "dinosaur" with the most leaves because they are not dinosaurs. This launches the kids into a song called "That's Not a Dinosaur", as all the non-dinosaurs sing their piece. In the end, the game rules are changed to include all creatures, even non-dinosaurs, in all the contests! The Nature Trackers go on a visit to the Big Pond, where Tiny hopes to see her favorite flowers. The Conductor tells her that if the kids gather seeds at the pond, they can bring them home and plant a garden full of those same flowers at the family nest! The kids all get into it, gathering seeds and bringing them home, where they plant a garden, and meet its new inhabitants, including Sammy, a friendly slug, who explains that slugs, spiders, and butterflies all help to make a garden complete.
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GROTON -- At times it felt more like the Academy Awards than a graduation ceremony, but regardless, eighth-graders at the Groton-Dunstable Regional Middle School were given a vigorous send off at what was termed a "promotional" event as they prepared for the next step in their education.
"This was a great class with a lot of talent," said Principal Steve Silverman who, at times during the ceremony, made it difficult to tell whether he was a member of the school's administration or the master of ceremonies at a Hollywood function. "I see them all going on to bigger and better things providing that they respect themselves, make good choices, and believe in themselves."
The graduating class boasted 220 students who made it hard to fit all of the family and friends that packed the Middle School's performing arts center on the evening of June 18.
"I think this class was the best because we were all really connected to each other," observed class speaker Jordan Wynn. "We all treated each other well and got along with everyone else."
Wynn managed to give those attending her graduation a sense of that connectedness when she asked everyone to stand and "thumb wrestle" with the person next to them, an activity she said she and classmates participated in since kindergarten.
"For 60 seconds, all of us were connected, working toward some goal," said Wynn after the laughter had died down and everyone had resumed their seats.
"We were all just people," said a modest Mark De Binder who, like Wynn, was named as one of the class' "scholar leaders." "The kids in this class were funny and nice too."
"We had a lot of good athletes in the class," added Dunstable student Eddie Hastings. "No one was ever sad or depressed. No one ever gave any trouble."
"Everyone in the class was friendly and helpful," confirmed mathematics teacher Steve Humphrey. "They liked to clean the classrooms before leaving and we were thrilled when they did it even on their last days. We're just so proud of them. I think they're ready for ninth grade."
"It's hard to believe the year has gone by so fast," mused science teacher Dorothy Dwyer. "They were all very nice kids who always said please and thank you. They were a great class. They all got along together."
"This crew was kind to each other and encouraged each other," said English teacher Emma Blydenburgh. "I can't wait to see how they do in high school."
Family and friends were warmed up for the main event with a slide show before graduates entered the theater to cheers and a hundred glowing smart phone screens as proud parents stood and strained to get good pictures.
Songs were sung by the eighth grade chorus as seventh grade MCs walked through some phony dialogue and canned musical snippets just as it was done at any award show seen on TV.
"What you do next is what counts," Silverman then told graduates in his welcoming address. "How you go about those things determines the person you will become.
"Stick to the real you," continued Silverman and not waste time "looking over your shoulder" at what the other person is doing.
Next up was scholar leader De Binder who told fellow classmates to find their particular talents and figure out what to do with them.
It was a message echoed by keynote speaker Matt Ciccone who graduated from the district's Middle School in 2008 just as the graduates were doing that night.
Ciccone told the eighth graders to take advantage of their upcoming high school years to explore all the opportunities it will have to offer and to seek out and nurture their own talents. The speaker then went on to describe his own journey of self discovery as he joined the school's chamber choir and realized singing was something he liked and could do well. But to succeed, he first had to fail, then try harder until he achieved his goal.
Following jokes by Silverman and gifts raffled off to a pair of surprised members of the audience as well as the principal's award being given to graduate Trevor Kelly, "certificates of promotion" were finally handed out to the eager graduates.
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March 20, 2007 > Bye Bye Birdie, a tri-school effort
Bye Bye Birdie, the story of rock and roll superstar Conrad Birdie and his agent, Albert Peterson, is the Tri-School production put on by Mercy Burlingame, Notre Dame Belmont and Junipero Serra. After rigorous rehearsals, the cast kicked off their performance schedule with a half-time show at a Serra basketball game and a teaser at Hillsdale mall. Performances will be at the Carl Gellert Theater, Junipero Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo, on March 16, 17, 18 (matinee) and March 23, 24. Call (650) 345-8207 ext. 560 or visit www.serahs.com.Shown (l - r) Kimberly Lauber, Olivia Henry, Carolyn Giannini, Adriana Echandi. Adriana Echandi is the daughter of Ronald and Grettel of Union City.


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If you don't know what Monty Python is, you probably shouldn't be here.
What of the three monty python films is the best The Life of Brian,The Meaning of life,and The Holy Grail.
"In the game of thrones you win or you die."
"can we call it a draw?"
Holy Grail
I don't know what I'm doing
Easily the Holy Grail. Although Life of Brian is a close second for me.
I have to go with Holy Grail but its like Holy grail is 100 and life of brian is a 99.
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The Holy Grail most certainly, but like you guys said, The Life of Brian was amazing too.
I also liked the Meaning of life. But it wasn't the best
Are you sure those were the only movies? I thought that there were more... Anyway, I'd have to go with the Holy Grail. So hilarious.


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One of my favorite quotations is from the astronomer Carl Sagan. "Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known." I hope you will find something incredible in the HMNS book list for April, featuring books about astronomy.
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Gazing at the sky, both during the day and at night, can provide endless hours of entertainment and awe. Who has not lain on their back in the summer grass and watched the changing cloud formations? The constantly moving shapes provide each person the chance to use their imagination. "Do you see that tree?" "What tree? I see a bear." But at night things are different, as the sky is full of stars with patterns of their own.
A beautiful book about the night sky is Zoo in the Sky, a Book of Animal Constellations, by Jacqueline Mitton and illustrated by Christina Balit. This exquisite book begins:
"When the sun sets, darkness falls. The stars appear one by one. Then the sky turns
to a picture puzzle. What is hiding in the patterns of the stars? Some people say they
only see squares and squiggles, lines and loops. But imagine hard, and the sky comes
to life."
Are you hooked? I was. Ms. Balit's colorful illustrations are incredible, and Ms. Mitton's words provide the explanations. Leo the Lionis pictured on the cover. Ms. Mitton explains the constellation:
"Leo the Lion is king of the beasts and lord of the sky. In February and March he looks
down from a throne high up the heavens. Stars in his mane shine like jewels in a crown."
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You will also meet The Great Bear, the Little Bear, the Swan, the Fox, the Scorpion, the Wolf, the Bull, the Great Dog, the Hare, the Goldfish and the Flying Fish, the Whale, various birds and the Dragon.
Ms. Mitton has written numerous books on astronomy, but three other books similar to Zoo in the Sky are Once Upon a Starry Night: A Book of Constellations, Kingdom Of The Sun: A Book About the Planets, and Zodiac: Celestial Circle of the Sun, all beautifully illustrated by Ms. Balit. Do yourself a favor and pick up one of these books—you might even decide to share it with children!
A totally different look at the heavens is provided by Tish Rabe who has written There's No Place Like Space!, a Cat in the Hat Learning Library book. Ms. Rabe begins in the style so familiar to all Dr. Seuss fans:
"I'm the Cat in the Hat,
and we're off to have fun.
We'll visit the planets,
the stars, and the sun!
Sound familiar? The Cat, his two willing passengers and Thing One and Thing Two visit all the planets, and you learn an interesting fact about each one.
"Travel to Jupiter
and you will find
it is bigger than all
other planets combined."
You also learn a nonsense sentence to help remember the names of the planets in order:
"Mallory, Valerie, Emily, Meetzah just served us nine hundred ninety-nine pizzas!"
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto) The book also contains a glossary and table of contents, and is a cute way to introduce the youngest astronomy fans to the wonders of the universe.
No trip to outer space could be more fun than a field trip with Ms. Frizzle's class on the Magic School Bus. In The Magic School Bus Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole, the class is attempting to visit the planetarium – which is closed for repairs. As the bus is returning to school it tilts back and the roar of rockets is heard. "'Oh dear,' said Ms. Frizzle. 'We seem to be blasting off!'" and another adventure begins. Besides learning about weightlessness, the reader learns facts about the planets, sun and moon. For example:
"Earth's clouds are white because they are made of water vapor.
Venus' clouds are made mostly of a deadly yellow poison called sulfuric acid.
Mars looks red because there is a lot of rusty iron in its soil.
The sky looks pinkish because of red dust in the air."
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Although a wayward asteroid cuts Ms. Frizzle's tether and the Magic School Bus zooms away with the children, the students and teacher are eventually reunited for the return to school. Later, the class prepares a chart of planets listing the name, size, length of rotation, length of a year, how far from the sun, how many known moons and whether or not there are rings. Although listed as a planet in There's No Place Like Space, Pluto is not on the students' chart because Pluto is explained as a plutoid, not a planet.
Like all Magic School Bus books, this needs to be read carefully with attention paid to each illustration. For example, a student holding a ball and walking around a lamp illustrates a planet rotating around the sun. Or a student standing on a scale shows the difference between weight on
Earth and weight on other planets. (If you weigh 85 on Earth, you weigh 215 on Jupiter or 14 on the Moon.)
And remember, day or night, your imagination can enable you to travel to the planets—and beyond where "something incredible is waiting to be known."


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Industrial Production Firms Up In September - October 16, 2012
It seems as though--to use an old refrain that is familiar to music lovers--the hits keep coming. Specifically, one day after the U.S. Commerce Department issued much better-than-expected results for September retail sales, this same government agency issued favorable metrics on industrial production and capacity utilization.
For example, after plunging by a downwardly revised 1.4% in August (initially estimated as a decline of 1.2%), the government reported that industrial production had advanced by a modest, but better-than-expected, 0.4% in September. That was twice the nominal 0.2% increase that had been widely forecast by economists for the latest month.
Broken down, the latest data showed that manufacturing (the largest component in the overall mix) rose, but by just 0.2% in the most recent month. At the same time, two lesser proportionate components, mining and utilities, gained more impressively, rising by 0.9% and 1.5%, respectively, last month. These are more volatile contributors than manufacturing. To wit, utility usage, up the aforementioned 1.5% in September, had plunged by an outsized 4.3% in August. Mining use, up as noted by 0.9% last month, had fallen by 1.6% in the prior month. Hurricane Isaac, which struck the Gulf Coast in August, and exacted a major toll on that region, was a big factor in the poor showing that month.
As to the capacity utilization component, it rose to 78.3% in September, three-tenths of a percentage point ahead of the 78.0% reading recorded in August. That was also slightly better than the 78.2% that had been estimated. This figure, meantime, remains a bit below the 1972-2011 average of just above 80%.
For the third quarter as a whole, industrial production fell by 0.4%, a clearly disappointing showing for this critical business sector, and underscores the likelihood that third-quarter GDP growth, albeit now looking as though it was a tad greater than the 1.5% that we had been expecting, may not be materially better than that. Breaking the industrial production figure down a little further, we find that manufacturing fell by 0.9% in the quarter, the first such setback since the second three months of 2009. Year over year, manufacturing output was up 3.2% for the past 12 months.
Taken as a whole, this was a reasonably good report, but in truth, this sector continues to exhibit an uneven overall growth pattern, which is unfortunate given that the nation is this far into an expansion.
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Sept. 26, 2008
NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - It took five sets on Friday evening for UC Santa Barbara to beat Cal State Northridge in the two team's Big West Conference opener at the Matadome. The Gauchos defeated the Matadors, 25-27, 25-16, 28-26, 22-25, 15-12, to jump out to a 1-0 start in conference play for the first time since the 2004 season.
With the win, UCSB improves to 5-7 overall while Northridge falls to 5-8 overall and 0-1 in conference.
Several Gauchos pitched in their best efforts so far this season with senior Lauren McLaughlin leading the charge with her third double-double of the year. The outside hitter tallied a season-high 20 kills along with 12 digs and also added a service ace and four block assists for the Gauchos. She hit .258 on the match committing just four errors during her 62 attacks.
Sophomore Charlene DeHoog also had a double-double showing, tallying 12 kills and 12 digs in the win. DeHoog's classmate Kasey Kipp rounded out the double-digit kill performances for UCSB with 10 kills in the match. The middle blocker tied her career-high of nine block assists and also pitched in a pair of solo blocks.
Sophomore setters Dana Vargas and Jessica Welch pitched in 27 and 19 assists, respectively. Vargas added nine digs and an ace to her showing while Welch added an ace and four digs to her performance. Senior libero Leigh Stephenson led the squad with 22 digs.
Freshman Lily Lopez also turned in a solid showing as she tallied three kills, a team-high four service aces, five digs, and four total blocks, including one solo.
For the Matadors, Val Kepler led the attack with 15 kills on 26 attempts with two errors for a .500 clip. She also tallied a total of eight blocks, as did Lynda Morales, who was tied for second on the team with 13 kills. Angela Hupp posted a double-double with 13 kills and 14 digs in the loss.
Sam Orlandini led all players with 54 assists while Kelly Hanson tied Stephenson with a match-high 22 digs.
The Gauchos and Matadors battled through 11 ties and seven lead changes in the first set. UCSB reached set-point first on a kill by Kipp, but Northridge's Kepler and Hupp rallied off two consecutive kills to tie the set at 24-24. Vargas gave the Gauchos' a one-point lead with her lone kill of the night, but Northridge tied the set up on another Kepler kill before a Gaucho attack error sealed the win for the Matadors at 27-25.
In the second set, UCSB quickly climbed out to a 5-0 advantage forcing a Matador timeout. The break only momentarily paused the Gaucho momentum. The second set belonged to UCSB, as it never relinquished the lead and easily took the frame, 25-16, tying the match at one set apiece.
Set three was another see-saw battle as the two teams were tied on 15 occasions during the frame. The Gauchos broke free from a 21-21 tie on a block by Kipp and freshman Whittany Radcliffe and then reached set point with a Welch ace and a kill by McLaughlin. The Matadors were able to climb back into the set with two consecutive points. For each of the next two Gaucho points, Northridge had a response, but with the set tied 26-26, UCSB was finally able to break away on a Matador service error. Santa Barbara sealed the set victory at 28-26 with a McLaughlin kill.
Trailing by one set, Northridge posted its best showing in the fourth frame as it hit .405 collectively, posting 19 kills and four errors during its 37 attempts. The Matadors broke free from a 12-12 tie in the middle of the set and held the upper hand the rest of the way through as they took the 25-22 win and deadlocked the match at two games apiece.
The fifth and final set featured seven ties and four lead changes, the last coming when UCSB broke free of a 12-12 tie with a block by Rebecca Saraceno and Kipp. Back-to-back kills by McLaughlin put the final pair of nails in the coffin as the Gauchos took the 15-12 set victory and the 3-2 match win.
The Gauchos will continue Big West action on Saturday when they head to Cal State Fullerton for a 7:00 p.m. match-up with the Titans.


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California's former chief political law and ethics watchdog has gone to work for one of the state's most prominent gaming tribes, succeeding someone fired in connection with a fraud scandal.
Roman Porter, former executive director of the Fair Political Practices Commission, is now tribal administrator for the United Auburn Indian Community, where he'll oversee a tribal government staff of 115 administering services for tribe members; the community's elementary school; and cultural resources and environmental protection programs.
United Auburn owns Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln.
"Roman brings with him extensive experience in governmental ethics," United Auburn Chairman David Keyser said in a news release. "We welcome Roman as a member of our team, where he will implement consistent ethical standards while ensuring that all aspects of our tribal programs continue to run smoothly."
The Sacramento Bee last month reported United Auburn had fired tribal administrator Greg Baker, who was named in an IRS court affidavit as being involved in a construction-overbilling scheme that defrauded the tribe of $18.6 million; no charges have been filed.
Porter, 39, said in the tribe's news release that he's honored to take the new job. "I look forward to working with the dedicated staff of the UAIC to help ensure the continued economic prosperity of the Tribe and the delivery of high quality government services to its members."
Porter rose rapidly through the FPPC's ranks, starting as an intern in the early 2000s and later being promoted from communications director to executive director. He announced late last summer that he would leave to seek other opportunities; his LinkedIn profile indicates that since then he has worked with Mobile Commons to identify opportunities to expand that company's text, cell and mobile web platforms into California, predominately focusing on the political and government arena.
Earlier in his career, Porter had worked at the California Medical Association and as a legislative aide to state Sen. Joe Dunn.


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As a subculture of traditional ground dwelling backpackers, we hangers tend to be pretty obsessed and extremely proud of our hammock set-ups (me included!) Notice you never ever see a ground-dweller with an avatar pic of their tent right? And I never see pics of people proudly "showing off" their tents. So I wondered if I could conduct a very non-scientific survey and poll everyone here to see how bad this bug really is.
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Hi I am anxious. I used to take steroid, i never shared needles, all the needles were packeged from cvs new and i used to swap the injection site with alcohole. But i shared the vial of Steroid (testosterone 400). Can i catch Hiv or hepatitis from it? The guy that i shared the vial with him said he never used same needle when he put it in the vial!!!!,,,
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- Abigail Thernstrom: President Obama's 2012 statement on case was a mistake
- She says Obama wrongly emphasized role of race in the case
- Presidents should be above the stance of those who seek to stir racial tension, she says
- Thernstrom: Federal charges vs. Zimmerman would exacerbate the race issue
Every American can make their own judgment about whether justice was served by the verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial but one thing we should all recognize: President Obama's interference in a local law enforcement matter was unprecedented and inappropriate, and he comes away from the case looking badly tarnished by his poor judgment.
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," the president said when asked about the case in the Rose Garden on March 23, 2012, after many had called for Zimmerman's arrest but several weeks before he was charged. "When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids."
In fact, if the president had a son, he would have been born to extraordinary privilege and raised with all the advantages of two very affluent and highly educated parents. He would have gone to tony private schools. His path in life would have been almost as dissimilar from Trayvon's as one could imagine.
Yes, Obama's hypothetical son and Trayvon would have shared the same brown skin color. Would that have made them interchangeable? Not unless all brown-skinned boys are the same. Does the president really believe that?
The president's remarks created a clear impression that he was motivated by one of two factors, and we can only guess as to which, or what combination of the two, was at work here. One possibility is that this is merely another manifestation of the president's well-known narcissism: No matter what the situation may be, it's all about him.
The other, more troubling possibility is that the president surrendered to his political instincts. He wants disadvantaged Americans to believe that he and his family are one of them -- despite their life of unparalleled privilege -- and he wanted the prosecutors, judge and jury to believe that this was a case about race where justice demanded a guilty verdict.
If that was his motivation -- and we cannot know, but reasonable people certainly may suspect -- then Obama should be ashamed of his effort to stir America's turbulent, dangerous racial waters. The president's role is not to be a racial agitator, and the mark of a great civil rights leader has been a determination to reject the temptations of that approach. And not that long ago -- in 2008, in Philadelphia -- candidate Obama distanced himself from such agitators.
People such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson see white racism as endemic and elevate what's wrong with America over all that is remarkably right. In his 2008 Philadelphia speech, Obama separated himself from activists of their ilk: the very people who today still hope to punish George Zimmerman.
On the campaign trail, Obama understood the sensibilities of the American people on these questions; in office, Obama seems to have lost that touch.
On Sunday, the president did once again separate himself from the voices of anger. "We are a nation of laws and the jury has spoken," he said. But if his Justice Department brings civil rights charges against Zimmerman, as the NAACP has urged and which it is reportedly still considering, the ugly racial politics of this prosecution will be undeniable.
Let us hope it never comes to that, for at that point a double tragedy will have occurred. Trayvon Martin will be dead, and our hopes for a president whose judgment is unaffected by his race will have been thoroughly and irreparably dashed.
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One of the most vocal critics of the countywide school board's $1.18 billion budget proposal says the schools merger is imposing a failed education formula on legacy Shelby County Schools.
"Why is it that Shelby County Schools can provide more teachers, better salaries for their principals and so forth – they can provide more of that than Memphis (City Schools) can with more money?" Shelby County Commissioner Wyatt Bunker asked. "That is the failure of the school board that Tomeka (Hart) served on to do what needed to be done years and years and years ago."
And the school board member who first suggested a schools merger in 2010 says county schools were on borrowed time and money with an unsustainable richer staffing model without the merger.
"If we were not merging, guess what? Shelby County Schools would be in deeper trouble than they are in right now," Hart said. "This merger is actually saving Shelby County because we are trying our best to not have to gut their system. They cannot afford their system."
The extraordinary exchange between Bunker and Hart came on the WKNO-TV program "Behind The Headlines," which also included school board Chairman Billy Orgel and County Commission Chairman Mike Ritz.
The program, hosted by Eric Barnes, publisher of The Daily News, will be posted Wednesday, May 29, on The Daily News Video, www.memphisdailynews.com.
Hart said Bunker's question is "ridiculous."
"I'm so tired of us and them," she added.
"While we appreciate y'all's thoughtful rescue," Bunker replied, "we would prefer to be a part of our own system."
The discussion was taped the day after the school board presented its $1.18 billion budget proposal to the Shelby County Commission. The Thursday, May 23, taping was also the last day of the final school year for the two separate school systems. When classes resume Aug. 5 for the new school year, the two school systems will be one.
Bunker, a former Shelby County Schools board member, said he cannot vote for a county property tax increase to fund the consolidated schools system budget, which has a $30 million gap. He believes the merged school system is too heavy with administrators, an attribute he believes has applied to Memphis City Schools for some time.
He pointed to the $159,000 annual salary of schools security director Gerald Darling, which is more than Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong makes.
"I saw that as a sign that they need to review maybe some of their salaries," Bunker said. "Their focus has been if we cut anymore, we are going to have to cut in the classroom. I have a hard time believing they have to cut in the classroom when they have a security guard that's being paid $159,000.
Orgel said taking the former Shelby County Schools to the city schools staffing levels with more students per teacher and fewer teachers is "the only place left to cut other than $50,000 here or $100,000 there, which will never add up to $30 million."
"I challenge all of the elected officials on other bodies in this community to go take on the unions, to go cut salaries, to cut benefits and to cut their budget," Orgel added. "I haven't seen that being done anywhere but the school board."
Bunker also accused the countywide school system of only reporting and allocating half of an unexpected increase in state Basic Education Program funding that trimmed about $5 million from the funding gap.
"I heard it was $10 million and your cut was $5 million," Bunker said.
Hart and Orgel said Bunker is confusing the BEP funding with $9 million in state funding that was a cost-of-living raise for teachers that the state gave the school system a waiver on to level teacher and principal pay levels in the merger.
"There are a lot of things going around in the community about the state money," Ritz said. "You could look at that thing any way you wanted to look at it and say anything you wanted to about it. It's very confusing."
Ritz said the schools budget is "reasonable" but doesn't have a nine-vote, two-thirds majority on the commission if a property tax hike is used to bridge all of the $30 million gap.
But the proposed 6-cent property tax hike above a 30-cent increase in the tax rate to produce the same amount of revenue in a recertified tax rate proposed by Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell would only take a simple majority of seven votes. That would require the school board to either use $10 million of its reserves or a combination of some reserve money and cutting a few items low on its budget priority list to get the rest of the way there.


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Michigan vs. Michigan State Basketball Open Thread
Can't dirty up Izzo's spotless record...
Don't let them get an easy win, that's all i ask
Big Ten refs are total garbage
This should be broadcast at the top of every game thread: There is no such thing as Big 10 baskeball officials.
College basketball officials are not confined to or employed by particular conferences.
with 11 min to go I think these kids are gonna find a way to win.
He was stepping on the line are you serious?
a dude a foot shorter than you got that rebound.
How many times can you shuffle your feet on the baseline without getting called for a travel?
As many times as you want as its only one foot. Let's not irrationally start blaming the refs for our deficit. We ain't hitting shots.
grab a seat. you are horrible today.
Excellent series by Smotrycz...
what the fuck kinda defense was that Smotrycz?! And then you airball
there we go in the bonus now
It's okay, because, well, they are Spartans, and as I look through the crowd in that arena, I know damn well that i will be significantly more successfull than any of them. They can have this win.
For being as useless as a poopy flavored lolly pop.
Smotrycz is simply brutal from behind the arc. Infuriating.
Remember when Smot could shoot well? That was a nice time
Are they going to mention Michigan's bench scoring? Oh wait, there is none.
THe announcers keep making a huge deal aout our turnovers even though they have as many as we do, and our lack of bench points even though we never get some anyway
I dont understand how that is foul if he is straight up and down
Watch it again. Morgan obviously had his arm extended and whacked him. Easy foul call.
bad call
Would somebody box out??? Christ!
Would somebody box out??? Christ!
The refs are actually giving us a lot of calls today for being on the road. I bet MSU is rebounding 60-75% of their misses.
Would somebody box out??? Christ!
can. not. rebound.
Ha, it's laughable how much bigger Payne is than our entire team.
and more laughable how a non-factor he is. our 3* guy is outplaying payne; a 5*. both sophs.
State should just shoot threes every trip down the floor if Michigan can't grab a rebound
For TREY!
Wow, Burke
Burke is a beast. I hope he stays here forever.
I think maybe if Beilein wants more work ethic out of the guys he should ramp up the pregame speeches a bit. They're not exactly from the Vince Lombardi handbook to say the least. It might help us to not come out so flat if he would inject a bit of emotion into the locker room.
That's 5-17 on 3's, which is actually better eFG% than our 2's.
We have to be one of the worst rebounding teams in the country
You act like this is some kind of surprise.
We've been getting dominated inside for 15 years.
278th to be exact...
damn, they make the toughest shots
common hardaway, nice pass by douglas
In what world is falling down not a walk?
As long as you don't slide on the ground or move your feet around it's usually not called. He picked up his feet so it wasn't called.
Wow... I don't think it's our night. Great defense, better offense.
Get this to 5 and watch how tight MSU's nuts get.
Dunk that in there face. Nice hustle though.
In just one play? That "lay-up" was ridiculous.
man, Burke playing with a fire, that's what I like to see
How Green didn't matter because he doesn't have good games against Novak.
Man up on D
Pretty sure if a guy falls down with the ball it's a travel. Side note: I don't think I've ever watched a basketball game and said afterwards "Those officials called a good game." I will not be saying it today either.
Has anyone seen Tim Hardaway JR?
Not since last March
He definitely hasn't reacted well to the emergence of Burke
Finally Trey is pressing hard. Hopefully it's not too late
I have little respect for Draymond Green but damn he has made some tough shots today.
Michigan leads MSU in the series right? How can MSU think their domination is the natural order
Saw that the arty bigs were tangle uped. Push the ball and drew the whistle...heady play.
The alltime series is 94-74 in Michigan's favor.
After they just showed all of THJ's shots...I noticed he is leaning back on every single one of them. Not neccessarily a fadeaway, but he's not going straight up. Therefor, most of his shots are extremely short.
Stu wide open three... take it
Stu's gotta shoot the 3 in the corner
Yep, just not our day
we turned down numerous open jumpers there
For a game in which we've gotten few good looks I think we passed up about 4 of them that last possession
why didnt you take the wide open 3; either time. show some senior leadership man.
You're down by nine.
That was such an ugly possession. Why are we turning down open shots? Novak got into the paint and just kept going. Turn and gun
I think we can stop complaining about the officiating after they just let Trey Burke handcheck 7 times in 5 seconds. Not that it mattered.
Yeah, I don't know why people are complaining about the refs. I thought it was pretty even. The only thing that bugged me was the T on Beilein but they evened that up, eventually. No one can possibly believe we lost because of the refs.
If Timmy followed his shots, he would have a lot of rebounds...
of the day...
"That's the kind of shot you have to continue to shoot if you're THJ." Now I know where he's been getting it from.
Okay, who's got the THJ voodoo doll? It's not funny anymore.
Or does THJ look like he just doesn't want to play anymore?
(I don't mean the shooting, I mean when he doesn't have the ball, everything looks half-hearted at best, like he'd rather be somewhere else)
Looks like it. Honestly his attitude has never been that great. I question his bball IQ too, just makes a lot of dumb plays.
Maybe he has Roundtree problems. Get that kid an eye test
Have to hit those damn FT's
Timmy where are you? What has happened to him??
just like that the lead is back to 13
uh travel
whatever remember that we have an easier schedule from here on out. We will probably still have a better BTT seed.
Izzo bought that blocking call. Unreal.
let the obvious nix travel to then call a block on a blatant charge.
Thought it was a block too. Went back and watched it in slo-mo and I think they got it right. At the moment the State player left the floor (which when the defensive player must have position by), Zack was still sliding over. Zack didn't really complain either, which he usually will when he thinks he had it.
Need a easy basket!
Draymond Green is outrebounding us 15-14............
The bright side is that THJ has to be realizing that he isn't anywhere near a pro prospect yet....three year plan just became a four year plan
he also better realize he may lose his starting job by big 10 season next year, if he keeps playing like this. another nba player's son may take it.
Some competition would be good to get rid of this sense of entitlement from THJ....that is for sure
Or he's pulled a Manny and has checked out.
It's tough when you have a six-man rotation and two of those six are completely in a funk. We could survive with one struggling, but two makes it really, really tough.
This is one of those games where you look in the mirror afterwards and simply say "Wow, we played like straight up dog poo." They aren't going to win, but if they did, Sparty would have to wonder what the f happened.
Can't shoot. Can't rebound. Hardaway couldn't hit one of those fisher price hoops with a ping pong ball. Douglas seems overwhelmed. Smotrcyz is useless. At least Burke, Novak, and Morgan seem like they give a crap.
Our university is fine. You have a personal issue. Have fun in therapy, retard.
-22 in rebounding. I wonder what the win% is for teams outrebounded by 20+...
way to box out THJ
Next year they lose Green, and we get McGary so we should be doing pretty good inside.
A Smot three. Impecable timing
Smotrcyzhyzhg just needs us to be down by 20 to hit a three....
To little to late Smot! Where the fuck has that been all year
Figures Evan would wait until garbage time to finally hit a three.
who was the guy that wrote "I think THJ is gona have his best game of the year". Thanks for that jinx big guy
For the love of god, will somebody acknowledge that we are the least physically imposing team in America (outside the Ivy League)? There are high school teams with way better size and toughness.
This just means there will be plenty of rebounds available for McGary to grab next year
coming in he will be the tallest player on the team when he comes in at 6'11". Maybe McLimans (sp?) but whos really counting him.
I aknowledge that. Let's hope McGary can change that.
Can't blame anyone but the TEAM this time... Refs actually seemed to be inn our favor.
they are not even running for long rebounds. It doesn't look like there is any emotion.
Is it just me or does it seem like Tommy Amaker was coaching this game today.....
You're my only hope.
smotz should have taken that charge instead of fouling
seriously. you can't straight up block a layup by a 6' guard coming right at you?
What are rebounds?
Oh noes, we play Illinois on CBS...
They just beat them physically and emotionally today! Looks like the whole team just checked out in the 2nd.
gotta like it. still playing hard. don't give up that shit!
that kid never quits. I won't miss Douglass and his shaningans (ie making one shot and shooting 10 other horrible shots because you think your good). Novak has the heart.
Fuck Michigan State and their classless group of asshats
You are clearly demonstrating how much classier the UM fan is with this post. Way to go!
I don't go for oops when up by double digits and 2 minutes remaining. Nor do I go over to other teams blogs and troll cause I have nothing better to do with my life
Is it me or did it seem like Tommy Amaker was coaching today....
Overthetop is another Spartan troll.
We need Horford bad if we want to get deep into the tourney, redshirt be damned.
A just like football chant? Clever. Not.
Next chant will be little sister
Well that was a serious ass kicking...I hate those fuckers
How frustrating that we can't hit a shot to save our lives until it is too late.
What is frustrating is that two of our players, THJ and Smotz, play like mice for the biggest game of the year. We didn't need that, but a win would have done so much for us in the short- and long term. THJ didn't move or play like he wanted to win. Evan doesn't know what a box out is and on the offensive end, decided that not moving was done best beyond the arc...frustrating
We're gonna miss Novack and Douglas more than you think.
You really should learn how to spell their names. 0-for-2 there.
Who gives a fat rats ass about spelling, you, you got anything better to do?
for sure. stauskus should easily replace douglass, imo.
Novak had another efficient day - 14 points on not many shots. He needs more looks.
I know that we were playing with house money today (lower-ranked, on the road, already beat them in AA), but the way that we lost was disappointing. We had a chance to make a run if we had hit ANY big shots, but we shot and rebounded so poorly that we let Sparty win with a mediocre performance on their part.
How do their professors still have eligibility?
It wasn't our day.
It happens. Even in places like this.
Seriously they are 1-3 over the last 4 and couldn't be happier!
What? Hockey...Great, we have beaten them at a fringe sport, which more than makes up for the loss today and the ass-kicking they have given us on teh football field the last four years! I just hope there is sarcasm there.
No need to stoop to rationalizations and THEN insult them, lol. Hockey? OHHHH BOY! Since when does GoBlog explode over hockey coverage? They're up right now, that's all.
"It will end in 2012!"
and 2009.
Its called a rivalry. Winless all year except at OSU marks a successful season for me in football
this game is followed by the "waste management open"
talk about coperate greed...Whats next...The Deja Vu classic?
Can anyone try to convince me of one reason Beilein shouldn't bench THJ? Seriously.
i'm sure he looks down his bench and says "shit". no so much next year.
yeah, but not getting that starting position just because of his daddy may make him play with some earnest instead of entitlement...1/10 is downright juvenile...
I would be less concerned about it if THJ would play some fucking defense, but his bad shooting has led to very lazy defense. He can't contribute on either end right now. Tom Crean benched Wofford to start the 2nd half. Why can't coach B do the same thing??
Uh lack of a better option? Which is sad really, with how poor he is playing that there is no one who can step up and take it from him.
i really thought we would see improvement out of smot and vogrich which would provide some great depth. uh, not so much. very disappointing. their minutes may disappear next year with the incoming frosh.
No arguement here, although he needs more work with the coacheshe forces to many bad shotswhen he's nothitting.
I've been thinking the same thing for the past 5 or 6 games. I think he needs to earn his spot back, he has been just rotten in all phases of the game.
He's been awful lately. He's been shooting 17% for the past couple of months. I hope he gets his mojo back, because he should probably be otherwis riding the bench.
Who would start over him? Vogrich?
Given our extremely thin bench, it's probably better to just keep playing THJ and hope he can get through it.
Their plan was to stop Burke today and they did it, hats off to them.
but THJ was clearly the biggest culprit. dawson had a better game and he only played 17 minutes. he outscored thj 10-4 in those minutes.
much different game if thj does anything - on either end of the court.
A tough loss, but not unexpected. I am not inclined to say players gave up - MSU is a very good defensive club at home, and they basically shut down UM from inside and forced them to shoot a bunch of jumpers. MSU did exactly what they needed to do, and this team (as currently constructed) is going to be worked over by larger teams. It happens.
Still, the team is moving toward the postseason and will learn from this game. Illinois and Nebraska are next, and those need to be wins before OSU comes to town. But right now, considering how relatively young and inexperienced this team is at certain positions, I'm comfortable with the direction of the team.
Just a Michigan St. domination. Eh, it happens though. I'm still not sure how we managed to hang around the 10 pt. defecit mark the whole game though. The fact that, once again, Michigan hung around enough that if they were to have hit a few crucial shots at crucial times, they could have made a run to get within ~5 pts (and chip away from there). But once again they missed shots they needed to make to win, and THJ looked like sh*t. It happens. Give Izzo and MSU credit, they played a great game and were prepared/had a great gameplan (offensively and defensively).
An adequate symbol of today's game.
Annoying game. The terrible first-half effort really did us in. I thought we competed better in the second half but just couldn't string together a run. Every time we looked like we might have it in us, we'd miss a layup and then Green would drill a fadeaway at the other end. Kudos to Green - he backed up his words with probably the best game he's ever played against Michigan.
Oh well - I'll take the season split.
We didn't even come close in this one. The first 5 minutes dictated the pace of the game. We were sluggish on offense and nonchalant on defense. No intensity whatsover.
I think I'd still give the nod to Iowa. I'm scratching my head as to how we lost to those guys by 16. We've just had a hard time keeping up our intensity on the road, especially in the first half of games.
i think we may have overlooked them a bit. their bigs (especially that frosh) played pretty well in the first half. then they started hitting 3s in the second half and blew it open.
you obviously didn't watch the iowa or virginia games? state just poses a difficult match-up for us with all their size, and it showed with the rebounding edge. it's a credit we won 3 in a row against them.
outside of a couple layups, i thought the D was pretty good overall. green hit 3 or 4 15 ft turnarounds. there's nothing you can do to stop that. he missed those in past games.
They have a good basketball team, we have a good basketball team, and we split the series this year. We both should get good tournament seeds, and, as always, we're better people.
Worse things happen.
What a waste of time. Got teased when M got back to within 8. Wish we didn't spend the entire first half outside of the 3 point line. Need moar dishes to Jordan Morgan on pick and rolls.
The Puppy Bowl?
Those people on here that think this is still a Sweet Sixteen team I hope you see now that we have a large hill to climb for that to be possible. Rebounding is about effort and hustle and I did not see either today. I know we were on the road, blah... blah..... blah, but with THJ and Smortz. playing the way they are and having no bech rotation both tournaments are going to be tough.
we lost to the #9 team on the road right?
look at the teams ranked 10-20 and ask yourself if we can't beat them on a neutral court; despite thj. i say yes. and i say we can beat the top 10 teams, if thj gets his act together.
Winning road games in the B1G is tough. Winning in Breslin in tough. Winning against the #9 team, on the road, in Breslin, is really tough. (wish we would have given it a better effort, but my head is held high)
Here are some teams from last year who made the Sweet 16:
- Marquette - 20-14
- Richmond - 27-7 (A10 conference, though)
All of those teams had flaws at least as bad as UM's lack of size, yet all found a way to get hot for at least one weekend and beat a couple of teams. So no, I'm not going to freak out about a tough loss against the #9 team in the country, on the road, in the Big 10. This team isn't a FF squad, but this was a bad game, not some harbinger of a lost season.
I think this team is still making strides to show improvement for this program. I just do not feel that the team is playing well enough to cover up major flaws it has and they will be exposed in the tournament.
I am simply respomding to commentsmade last week in a discusion about the sweet 16 after the Ohio loss. Do not accuse me of trolling. What a buch of crap.
if a lot of other things would happen first.
If you can't get into college go to state clap clap.
This game was painful to watch. THJ is absolutely awful and forces so many unnecessary shots it is unreal. It is hard to bench him though just because we have no one else to step in. He is terrible on defense as well. Does anyone else seem him as being kind of like a cancer to this team? I honestly think Belien needs to not start him against Nebraska just to let him know that he isn't invincible and is capable of losing his starting spot. I don't care if he comes in right after the first T.V. timeout. I just think he needs a wake up call because he just seems like he only cares about getting points and when he doesn't get his touches/points he just loses all focus in the game. I am just frustrated watching this team right now. I figured we would lose to state but didn't think we would play this poorly. I think the only players that ever play with any heart on this team are Burke, Novack, Morgan, and Stu and I don't even think Morgan and Stu are any good lol....It is going to be sad when Novack leaves because this team lacks any leadership outside of him. I think Burke will eventually take this roll but it is so hard for a young guy to be a leader. Just hope we can finish strong and make it into the tourney and hopefully make a sweet 16.
to MSU. They had a better game-plan and executed much better than us today. Greene was playing on half a leg and Appling seemed to have his head on straight after many games of playing poorly.
Congrats Sparty, Congrats. Today is your turn in the sun. Enjoy it while it lasts. You certainly deserve all the credit and praise today.
Picked a bad time to have the worst game of his career. Don't know what has happened to his shot but the dude can't hit *anything*. Confidence? Technique? Focus? I dunno, I hope he can power through whatever the problem is in time for the tourney. Yeesh
THJ is now 7 for 40 from deep in his last 7 games. I don't know what to do about it though because I don't want Akunne out on the court...
Also, how do people feel about J Mo getting more touches? I feel like he is actually a decent post player offensively, but I don't think he gets the ball down there enough. Also, as some of you may have seen me post before, I want Jon back more and more every game, anybody know his status? I mean, I realize he is dressing and traveling now, but whats the plan for the future? It's a shame he can't redshirt, he only played in 4 games that meant anything at all.


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Frederic Stephens Jr., 20, of East Hampton was shot in the right arm last Thursday night at a house on Springs-Fireplace Road, leading to what East Hampton Village Police Chief Gerald Larsen termed a "dangerous" and "reckless" car chase along Montauk Highway to Southampton Hospital.
The driver of the car, a woman identified yesterday as Kimberly M. Delrio, 22, of Springs, is facing arraignment on three charges, including reckless endangerment, a felony.
A village officer first spotted the speeding vehicle on Newtown Lane and followed it along Gingerbread Lane toward Montauk Highway. It was the first night of the long Memorial Day weekend.
The officer radioed for backup and began to pursue the car, catching up to it at the American gas station on Toilsome Lane. The driver had pulled off the road, trying to jockey past the dense traffic by driving through the station, only to become trapped by cars pulling away from the pumps.
"Stephens got out and said, 'I've been shot, I've been shot!' " Det. Lt. Anthony Long said on Tuesday. While the officer radioed for an ambulance, however, Mr. Stephens got back in the car and it sped away.
"There were two village officers trying to stop the car," Detective Long continued. Not knowing whether the occupants were armed, he said, they had to proceed with caution.
"It is unbelievable how reckless the driver was," Detective Long said. "It's important the public understands that yes, there is someone injured in the car, but this was an awful dangerous way to get to the hospital." The detective has watched the videotape of the pursuit and found it extremely disturbing. "Thank God nobody got killed," he said.
There was a second couple in the car that night whom police have not yet identified. The investigation is ongoing, according to Det. Lieut. Christopher Anderson of the town police.
The officers following the speeding car radioed ahead, allowing Southampton police to clear a path for it as best they could. Once at the hospital, after Mr. Stephens was admitted, village police detained Ms. Delrio. She was turned over to town police when it became clear that the shooting had occurred in their jurisdiction.
Earlier this month, Mr. Stephens pleaded guilty to a first-time offense of driving while intoxicated. His father, also Frederic Stephens, was convicted of multiple drug-related felonies in 2009 and is currently serving time in Franklin Correctional Facility in Monroe, N.Y. He will be eligible for parole in October 2014. East Hampton Town police said at the time that the Sept. 5, 2008, arrest of the elder Mr. Stephens was deemed to have made a major dent in drugs in the East Hampton area.
Sometimes people just need to chill and deal with training situations as they come because a high speed chase is not worth all the bad that can happen.


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The Morning Heresy 5/17/12: Un-liked
May 17, 2012
Your daily digest of relevant news and links from Paul Fidalgo
First things first. As our Facebook followers know, we uploaded a bunch of photos yesterday from the Castles along the Rhine cruise ("It went well, thanks," reported our boss), and while this usually is a non-event where all the images happily snuggle together in one fell swoop in a photo album, something went terribly pear-shaped with our program, and every single photo went into folks' news feeds individually, littering people's Facebook homepages with pleasant-yet-relentless images of happy secularists and scenic European vistas.
Naturally, this cheesed a lot of folks off, and I don't blame them. I posted a bevy of apologies for the mistake, and they are sincere. Again: sorry about that.
But it also looks like as a knee-jerk response to the perceived spamming, we lost a lot of "likes" on our Facebook page. I'm here to say, folks, come back. It was an unintentional screwup with a piece of software, not an example of our heartlessness or ineptitude, and we'll find another way to put up photo albums in the future. We care a lot about our Facebook presence, it's the center of so much activity for CFI, and we'd hate to think that one mistake was enough for folks to turn their noses up at us from here on out.
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That is all. On to the news.
Despite our efforts and those of others, the House GOP succeeded in passing its watered-down version of the Violence Against Women Act, one which removes protections for all manner of victims based on their nationality, religion, and sexual orientation. I find it mind-boggling even for this crop of conservative zealots, and then Right Wing Watch informs us that opposition to the real version of the bill was pushed by a guy who is himself a convicted domestic abuser. There really is no reasoning with these people.
Brianne Bilyeau at Biodork has ten reasons why the Women in Secularism conference this weekend will "rawk"
Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review sees a double standard in Obama's use of religious justifications for his policies.
Coincidentally, this is exactly what I cover in my latest Friendly Atheist piece on whether Obama's same-sex mariage position is an "imposition" of his religion
Point of Inquiry's Chris Mooney checks the fact-checkers in The Nation
Weekly Standard cover story criticizes the "psychopundit," folks like Chris Mooney (singled out in this piece) who use science to understand partisan leanings. Dylan Otto Krider rebuts.
Rick Santorum, who can make anything sound dirty, tells Romney to wield the "potent weapon" of sex and gay marriage. Ed Brayton says:
Yes, you should do what Santorum did. Because it worked so well for him. In related news, the New England Patriots say the New York Giants would be better off playing like they did in the Super Bowl that they lost.
Also from Brayton: Obama just can't win - now he's pissed off his fellow Evil Kenyan Muslims
Glenn Beck's The Blaze seems to think it's important that its readers know that Jessica "Evil Little Thing" Ahlquist supports removing the Woonsocket cross. It also reminds its readers, unrelatedly, that she's received threats in the past. I'm sure they have nothing but good intentions.
Christian Post notices that the Secular Coalition for America's presidential candidate scorecard gives Romney a better grade than Obama in one area: Whether a candidate thinks God is speaking to him
Conservative outlet CNSNews: Interior Department opposes adding FDR prayer to WWII memorial
Zuhdi Jasser and Lantos Swett serve of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom write that the spike in anti-blasphemy activity threatens the Arab Spring
Sussex County Council in Delaware ordered by a judge to suspend opening meetings with prayers
Taslima Nasreen posts a haunting video of Jeremy Irons on opposition to the death penalty
Traditional marriage = 700 wives.
SecDef Panetta is being lobbied to grant amnesty to servicemembers who report UFO sightings
So what are you doing in August? That's right, you're going to Eugene, Oregon to fill your Skeptic's Toolbox
Pakistani president Zardari: We won't misuse the blasphemy law. Well, that's a relief.
Pliosaurs may have suffered from arthritis in their jaws (I bet they also ground their teeth in their sleep like I do)
Daily Mail: UK MPs uniting to stop legislation that would ban insults
CSI's Joe Nickell reviews Cusack's Poe, finds the production wanting
Nigerian "natural health expert" touts his "herbal vaccine" against malaria
Don Swaim looks at the impact of Ingersoll on Ambrose Bierce
Most depressing lede of the day:
A 23 year-old female cancer patient died in Yemen after checking into an alternative health clinic run by a prominent cleric and wanted terrorist.
Quote of the Day
Op-ed by high school science teacher A.J. Fields in the Charleston Gazette:
Scientific theories are not "just theories." They are the end product of years of research, experimentation, hard work and much debate. Literally thousands of scientists working around the world agree that the world is getting warmer and humans are the cause. This idea does not become controversial because some commentator on Fox News or some conservative think tank disagrees. That is not a debate among equals. If 10 doctors tell you that you have cancer and need chemotherapy, but the guy at the health food store tells you to take vitamins instead, what would you do?
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