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Methodist Healthcare has recently aligned with a number of longtime family medicine physicians and nurse practitioners who were formerly with Family Physicians Group. Coming on board March 1, 2013 are: Mike Nollner, M.D., Lee McCallum, M.D. and Jeff Mullins, M.D. who recently formed MidSouth Family Medicine.
Starting April 1st, the following providers will join the practice: Tina Burns, M.D., Aparna Murti, M.D., Preston Givens, M.D., Barry Avent, FNP, Martha Evans, FNP, Suzanne Grooms, FNP and Debra Abston, FNP.
All three physicians starting March 1st are board-certified by the American Board of Family Practice and received medical degrees from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) in Memphis. Dr. Nollner is also a diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. McCallum has been named a Top Doctor in America by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Dr. Mullins is an associate professor at UTHSC.
"Methodist is delighted to partner with these longstanding physicians in the Memphis community," said Bill Breen, senior vice president of Physician Alignment with Methodist Healthcare. "These physicians are well-respected by their peers and trusted by their patients. They also bring a wealth of experience to the Methodist Healthcare family."
To reach these physicians or nurse practitioners, please call 901-752-2300.
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|Lee McCallum, M.D.
|Jeff Mullins, M.D.


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Latest Iowa figures point to bad flu season
January 8th, 2013 by Ric Hanson
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – More and more Iowa flu cases have been reported, and officials say the seasonal outbreak could get even worse now that children are back in school. The Des Moines Register reports that at least 151 people were hospitalized for flu complications in Iowa during the last week of December. The Iowa Department of Public Health says that during the last week of December 2011, public health officials didn't record any flu hospitalizations.
Department medical director Patricia Quinlisk said Monday that she doubts the tide of illnesses will ebb soon. Quinlisk says the flu incidences show "all the hallmarks of a relatively bad and prolonged flu season." She says people who traveled during the holidays were exposed to viruses that quickly could be spread by children who have resumed classes.


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DENVER — Colorado Senate Democrats selected Aurora Sen. Morgan Carroll as their new leader to replace former chamber President John Morse, who was ousted last month in a recall over new gun restrictions.
Carroll is only the second woman in state history to hold the position of Senate president. She was selected Wednesday morning.
Morse, of Colorado Springs, and Pueblo Democratic Sen. Angela Giron were voted out of office last month. They joined other Democrats this year in passing limits on the size of ammunition magazines and expanding background checks to private and online firearm sales.
Republicans gained two lawmakers in the Senate with the recalls, but Democrats still control the chamber by one vote.
Boulder Sen. Rollie Heath is the Democrats' new majority leader.


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Owner: Candi Ausman
Hometown: Fremont, CA
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Swan Lake Resort had such a great time with all of you for our Rhinestones and Blue Jeans New Year's Eve Bash last year that we decided let's do it again in 2014!! Mark your calendars to join us for the best New Year's Eve Party in Marshall County. We will be offering a Country Buffet Dinner, Live Entertainment featuring CrossRoads, Fun Zone Photo Booth and a Champagne Toast along with simulcast of NYC Ball Drop. Here are the details of this year's event.
Make your reservations and get your tickets today by calling (574) 935-5680 x760!! They will go fast!!
Tickets will be mailed for this year's event no earlier than November 1st.
Wednesday, December 31st, 2014
Event Timeline:
Doors Open at 6:30 PM
Country BBQ Buffet Dinner from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Crossroads Band from 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM
Champagne Toast and Ball Drop live from NYC at Midnight
$29 per person pre purchase (Includes Dinner, Live Entertainment and Champagne Toast at Midnight)
$35 per person at the door (Includes Dinner, Live Entertainment and Champagne Toast at Midnight)
$20 per person at the door after 9 PM (Includes Live Entertainment and Champagne Toast at Midnight)
Groups may request to be seated in the same area of ballroom at time of booking.
We cannot guarantee table placement in the ballroom (i.e on dance floor) as the placement will be dependent on group size.
Dinner Menu:
-BBQ Ribs and Chicken
-Mac and Cheese
-Baked Beans
Make a night of it and stay with us at Swan Lake Resort. As opposed to last year where we just had hotel rooms available, we will have all accommodations on property available for booking on NYE 2014. Your stay includes one night and a continental breakfast on the morning of January 1st.
Rates are as follows:
Deluxe Hotel Rooms - $109 + tax
Rooms have either 1 King Bed or 2 Queen Beds.
Standard King Suite - $149 + tax
Suite has 1 King Bed and Small Living Room Area with a pull out Queen Sofa Sleeper.
Cottages - $159 + tax
These units are across the street from the Conference Center. 3 of the 5 Units have 2 Queen Beds with a Living Room Area and the other two units have 1 Queen Bed with a set of Bunk Beds with a Living Room Area.
Presidential Suite - $209 + tax
The Presendential Suite is one our newest addiditions to the property located in the hotel. This Suite has a King Bed and a Living Room Area with a pull out Queen Sofa Sleeper.
Owner's Suite - $219 + tax
The Owners Suite is another new addition to the property located in the hotel. This Suite features 2 Queen Beds, a Living Room Area with a pull out Queen Sofa Sleeper and Kitchenette with Table.
Villas - $259 + tax
The Villas are located next to the Golf Shop. These units feature 4 Queen Beds.
Fairway House - $299 + tax
The Fairway House can sleep up to 12 and is located across the street from The Conference Center. There is one room with 4 Single Beds, Three Rooms with 2 Queen Beds.
Log Cabins - $299 + tax
Log Cabin 403 has 1 room with 2 Queen Beds and a Loft with 4 Single Beds. It also has a Full Kitchen with large table.
Log Cabins 401, 402 and 404 have 1 room with 2 Queen Beds, 1 Room with 2 Single Beds and a Loft with 4 Single Beds.


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2002-2003: Led the team in scoring with 20 goals and 19 assists for 39 points...Earned Second Team All-ECAC and All-Ivy Honorable Mention honors...Her 20 goals were tops on the team while her 19 assists ranked third...Her 1.75 points per game average in ECAC contests was fourth in the conference while her 1.06 assists per game average was tied for third...She led the league (tied) in short-handed points with three...Ranked in the top ten of six other categories in the ECAC...18th in the nation in goals per game...In just two seasons of play, ranks 24th on Brown's all-time scoring list...Scored two goals in four games...Named the ECAC Player of the Week on 1/14.
2001-2002: Named to ECAC All-Rookie Team...Ranked second on the team in total points, with 19-23-42...Earned Second Team All-Ivy honors...Named ECAC Rookie of the Week (Jan. 28)...Earned the Kate Silver Award at Brown Athletics All-Sports Banquet, recognizing her as the outstanding first year female varsity athlete at the University...Sakuma Award winner.
Before Brown: Two-year letterwinner in soccer and softball at Shenedehowa High School...Earned Second Team Suburban Council All-Star honors for soccer and softball...Played for the Syracuse Stars, who earned the U-19 National Championship (2001)...Recorded totals of 70-50-120 with the Stars.
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LANSING — Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has fallen 0.4 percentage points to 8.4 percent in the latest month as the workforce shrank while more held jobs.
The state Department of Technology, Management and Budget announced the December job figure today. It followed a 0.2-point drop in November.
Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell 0.3 percentage points in December to 6.7 percent.
Michigan's jobless rate is down 0.5 percentage points from one year earlier.
The state agency says Michigan seasonally adjusted civilian workforce fell by 13,000 in the latest month to 4.694 million from November to December. It says the number of people working rose by 7,000 to 4.3 million.
The state says total employment in Michigan is up by 73,000 since December, 2012.


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Fraudsters feast on credit card scam
Bogus gadget site funds takeaway fraud
Posted in The Channel, 17th May 2007 10:43 GMT
Fraudsters are dining out on the proceeds of a new credit card scam.
Con men are using credit card details harvested from a bogus (and now defunct) gadget website – called www.instant-av.co.uk – to fund huge restaurant orders.
One London restaurant alone lost £10,000 supplying food and drink against stolen card details traceable to the website, according to anti-fraud alert site Early Warning. Other takeaways and restaurants in the London area have also been hit by the scam.
Meanwhile, consumers who forked out for goods such as iPods and consoles on offer through the bogus site are also being left out of pocket. None of the goods were ever delivered, while the credit card accounts of those ordering were being raided.
Only operational for a month and now shut down, instant-av.co.uk did not display the "padlock" security symbol that indicates credit card details are being transmitted across an encrypted link. Google has suspended payment facilities on sites believed to be associated with the scam, and London police have been notified.
London restaurants should be wary of any orders they may receive over the telephone where the customer wants to pay with more than one credit card, especially when punters say the order will be collected by taxi.
Early Warning managing director Andrew Goodwill said consumers should be wary of offers that seem too good to be true.
"There will always be internet fraud, and no doubt these fraudsters will be up and running again quickly, but there are simple ways to enjoy the benefits of shopping online. Firstly, always look for the padlock symbol that shows the site is secure. And never be blinkered by an apparent bargain – it could cost you dear," he said. ®


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Battling Bantams in the money
Bradford's historic appearance in the Capital One Cup final will earn the fourth-tier side around £1million in gate receipts and TV cash.
Last Updated: 23/01/13 2:39pm
Each finalist will receive 45% of the gate receipts from Wembley Stadium, the Football League has confirmed.
The players will split around £250,000 of that in bonuses, but the rest of the money will go toward helping the League Two club in their efforts to regain their former heights, according to joint chairman Mark Lawn.
"The money means that if we don't get promotion this year then hopefully we can keep this side together," said Lawn.
"Of course we are hoping to get promotion as well, and maybe getting to the final will instil some more belief into the players."
The income from the Cup run will also allow Bradford to go on a winter training break to Tenerife, a welcome change from their usual training ground at Apperley Bridge which is currently under two inches of snow. There will also be the reward of a trip to Las Vegas at the end of the season.
The Football League has confirmed that the winner will receive a place in the Europa League but, unlike the FA Cup, the runner-up will not benefit if the winner qualifies for Europe via the league.
Lawn insists he is not even considering the demands of applying for a UEFA licence, but says that whatever happens in the final, it has been an incredible journey for both the club and the city.
He added: "The money that will come into the club will mean so much - but it is important people know that there are outgoings as well. Around £250,000 will go on bonuses for the players.
"It is such a great achievement to get to Wembley, and not just for the club.
"I'm a proud Bradfordian and we have had a lot of bad press about the city.
"What this does is let people not just in England but all around the country who are down in dumps with the recession show that the underdogs can come through, and that dreams can happen."
Meanwhile, the wife of Lawn is insistent she will be at Wembley despite just having a major operation.
Yvonne Lawn has been having a long period of treatment for bowel cancer and was only discharged from hospital on Monday.
Her husband added: "She only came out of hospital on the eve of the game so it would not have been right for her to go to Aston Villa after a major operation - but she says she will be there at Wembley!"


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If you read my column in today's Daily Mail, you know I spent last night enjoying a fantastic night of wine, food, music and friends at Edgewood Country Club.
It was everything I expected in a nice evening out and more – and yet another feather in Festivall's cap.
But what you don't know is who won Charleston's first-ever Edgewood Become a Work of Art "Chopped"-style culinary throwdown, in which two amateur chefs (and their teams) competed against one another to prepare two different dishes for four judges using a "mystery box" of ingredients revealed just 15 minutes before the stoves were fired up.
So who won? Oh, we'll get to that.
First things first. What an AWESOME evening!
Held on Edgewood Country Club's patio overlooking the city of Charleston, more than a hundred guests mingled – listening to the awesome "Fort Hillbillies" band, socializing with friends, sipping wine – while two culinary teams battled it out over a hot grill. Local "Wine Boy" John Brown and Charleston doctor Stefan Maxwell led their teams to create a menu featuring at least three ingredients from the mystery box (actually a coffin-sized cooler) presented to them right as the competition began.
Among their choices … sea bass, ahi tuna, ribeye and a selection of fresh produce, herbs, grains and full use of Chef Jeremy Still's Edgewood Country Club pantry.
I immediately started plotting what I would make under the circumstances, but my ideas differed from what these fast-thinkers came up with on the fly. Chef Maxwell crafted a menu of a fire-grilled Caribbean Angus rib-eye roast with a rum-infused jerk reduction over warm potato salad. He paired that with a cored curried apple stuffed with goat cheese, figs and warm berry compote.
I loved the interplay of heat and sweat in his dish, but my steak was definitely overcooked compared to the plates I saw fellow judges enjoying on the left and right. Ah, consistency. But that sweet-savory-fruity apple dessert was one of the most ingenious, delicious I've had.
Chef Brown's team offered a summer salad medley – a single plate featuring small tastes of crab Louis, grilled asparagus and a Caprese salad of sliced tomatoes, Buffalo mozzarella and julienned basil. Those are three dishes I love individually, but never would've thought to pair them together on the same plate. But why not?
The Brown team's main course featured a Southwest-seared rib-eye, grilled broccolini and a farrow-stuffed grilled pepper. I dream of broccolini and farrow, so this was a winner in my book. The steak was cooked nicely, too, so there was little to find fault with here.
But that's what judges do, so we filled out our scorecards to name an ultimate winner. And in the spirit of the show that inspired it … "Chef Brown, you've been Chopped!"
Chef Maxwell's Caribbean-inspired menu won by the narrowest of margins, just 1.3 points out of a possible 60. So very close.
No matter, it was an awesome night – and yet another reason why West Virginia, Charleston and Festivall will forever hold a special place in my heart. (And belly.)


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Some of the members of the Fifth Grade Orchestra at the Kane Elementary School prepare to perform Tuesday at the Winter Concert. The group includes, left to right: Jeremiah Nolf, violin; Dominic O'Rourke, violin; Jacob Moore, violin; Henry Sobieski, orchestra director; Alyssa Oakes, violin; Heidi Johnson, violin; Madison Cressley, violin; and Kennedey Himes, violin. The orchestra played four songs.


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Jason is the best 'beat writer' out there.
As it becomes more and more apparent that John Idzik is going to get the opportunity to be the Jets General Manager, as first reported by our friend Brian Bassett, I wanted to look a little into how he does and how he does not fit in with business as we know it around the Jets. Of course if he doesnt get hired then I guess this is a bit of a waste of an article. Anyway by going outside the organization this is really a radical departure for the Jets and uncharted territory for Woody Johnson. Remember that Terry Bradway essentially set up the scouting department and Mike Tannenbaum the cap philosophies for the franchise many many years ago. Hiring Idzik likely means a shakeup in the front office with people being reassigned or moved out completely.
What Is the Same?
While Idzik has held prominent positions with three franchises my opinion is that, for a younger executive, it is usually the most recent job that carries the most weight, in this case it was working for the Seattle Seahawks. I could see four areas that really stood out in interviews with Johnson and three areas that mesh well with the current system.
First is that he is primarily a cap guy but also comes with a scouting background as his story is that he worked very hard around his former teams to get tutored in the scouting aspect of the game. Woody has been around Tannenbaum for a long time and I think believed in having that business side run the team, which has to be a reason why they brought in so many business people to interview for the job. Idzik is very similar in that regard. He is a cap guy first and foremost just like Mr. T, but he can also sell the fact that he understands more about the football side of it and knew early on he wanted to be a GM and the only way to do it was to improve his weak areas. Thats a perfect combo for Woody.
Secondly is that he comes from a trading organization. People seem to think the Jets are the only team in the NFL that trades players. Its not true. Since Mike Holmgren moved out they have been a trading organization and cap guys are always in the middle of these moves as they were attempting to reshape the franchise. It began in 2009 with a trade of Julian Peterson for Cory Redding. In 2010 they traded for Leon Washington, LenDale White, Charlie Whitehurst, Stacy Andrews, Kentwan Balmer. Chris Clemons and Marshawn Lynch. They traded away Daryl Tapp, Josh Wilson, Seneca Wallace, Lawrence Jackson, Rob Sims, and Deion Branch. In 2011 in came Clinton McDonald and out went Kelly Jennings and Aaron Curry, in one of the first real baseball style deals in the NFL. In 2012 it was Kellen Winslow, Jr coming to Seattle and Barrett Rudd, Tarvaris Jackson.
Thats a ton of trades and if you are familiar with my work I do analyzing the Jets cap you know that the Jets are a roster filled with trade possibilities. The track record fits right in with what the Jets can do and he is going to be well aware of the teams around the NFL that are willing to deal such as the Lions and Seahawks as well as the idea of trading away overpaid talent to get out of a deal even if it means getting little back in return. Many of these moves were just trading long term messes for short term ones. Having an inside working knowledge of Seattle, who I think could be interested in Tim Tebow for Matt Flynn, is a huge help in this regard since they are a trading team. This is right up the Jets alley and far more in line with what Woody knows than say if they hired from the Steelers organization.
Positional cap distribution is a similarity. Using the cap estimates that I have from 2009-2011 you see similar spending patterns per position. The 3 year corner average is 9.34% of cap for the Seahawks and 9.6% for the Jets. RB is 9.5% to 9.03%. WR is 13.5% to 12.4%. The Jets LB spend and spend on punters and kickers was a bit higher but in general their roster building philosophy was the same. The reallocation would primarily come from shifting more money into the offensive line probably from the linebackers. Now my numbers Im sure are a little bit off since I dont have access to the real numbers but they should be ballpark accurate and again I think this was something that he could present very well to the Jets brass and explain how he can work with the current roster and tweak it to get more in line with what he wants. Its not an overhaul that would be necessary.
Finally you look at what he was a part of once Holmgren left in terms of coaching. First was Jim Mora, Jr. An outspoken players coach Mora was kind of handed to the Seahawk regime from Holmgren himself as Mora would later lobby for Holmgren to stay in a position of power with the team. Despite a large financial commitment made to Mora, a deal which Idzik likely was part of negotiating, they walked away. They followed that choice up with another outspoken players coach, this time with a defensive background, in Pete Carroll. It shows an ability to one accept Rex Ryan for at least a season and also that he can philosophically accept the type of coach Ryan is if he chooses to keep him around for more time.
What Doesnt Fit
From a philosophical standpoint the cap management is completely different. The Jets have been an organization that has limited signing bonuses and focused heavily on guaranteed salary. The Jets favor offseason roster and reporting bonuses which can be a both a blessing by helping avoid holdouts and a nightmare as you have to make really quick decisions to cut, trade or renegotiate players. The Jets have always believed in heavy workout participation and pay players well to report to the offseason program. Seattle does not do that. I think they have only three significant workout bonus players, two of whom are on old CBA style rookie contracts where you almost had to put them in, and two roster bonus players. In contrast the Jets have 6 players with roster/reporting bonuses and 15 workout bonus players, of whom only Kyle Wilson falls into the old CBA rookie category. This may not only mean changes but a desire to overhaul current deals.
Name value acquisitions are not a big thing out in Seattle. Since 2008 the Jets have been all about the splash and that was not just a Tannenbaum trait as it comes from the organization. Favre and Faneca and to a lesser extent Pace were all big splash moves in 2008. Bart Scott was the prize of the Jets 2009 recruiting class. You had Cromartie and Holmes in 2010. Burress in 2011 and Tebow in 2012, not to mention the Sanchez extension. There was also a serious push for Nnamdi Asomugha in 2011. The Jets like to make noise. Seattle didnt. Their big signings were names like Zach Miller and Sidney Rice. If fans were considering names like Mike Vick or Phil Rivers I dont see that kind of fit with Idzik.
The cap spend is a bit different. Now while I pointed out the fact that the positional spend is similar the way those positions are broken down is way different. Since 2009 the only players on the Seahawks that I believe ever carried a cap hit over $10 million were Marcus Trufant (2010, 2012, and 2013) and Sean Locklear. I think there have been 17 total over the $8 million total. The Jets have 7 players this season set to count for $10 million or more on the cap. Now in fairness those numbers are a bit inflated for the Jets and the over $8 million club is 22 which wont be that far away from the Seahawk total once the bloodletting begins this offseason, but Id still consider it a difference. What it boils down to is Idzik would likely not sign off on back to back offseasons where you give big money to Ferguson, Mangold, Revis, Harris, Holmes, Cromartie, etc He will draw a line somewhere and I guess the Jets did not do that in the last few years.
Other Thoughts
Im not sure what I think of how Seattle was run as being a model of success. I know that they are a hot team because of the success they had, but it was a very long process. The teardown of that franchise began in 2009 and it was pretty rough. The team won a grand total of 19 games in 3 years post Holmgren. They had the one trip to the playoffs with a 7-9 record. In Idziks time there the team was 44-52. Thats not to say that is his fault as he came into a team that had a really nice run and it was time to break it up. But I dont look at 11 wins as meaning anything. How many people anointed the Detroit Lions in 2011 as the next great thing? How did they finish in 2012? Right back where they came from. We were all ready to proclaim that the Jets had arrived after 2010 and they are right back where they began. Now Seattles QB looks like the real deal but you never know in this league.
Will the Jets fanbase be willing to suffer through three bad seasons to fix things? I know its easy in February for all of us to say break it down we need to rebuild, but come December when you are 3-10 that type of thought goes out the window. Now Idzik should have more financial resources in New York than they had in Seattle, but I dont know if that means that much in the NFL unless you are coming from the non-spending teams like the Chiefs and Bengals. Most teams are on a level playing field and its not like Seattle didnt spend.
On the plus side they have had some terrific draft picks which are really the backbone of the team up in Seattle. That has been a really bad area for the Jets and they desperately need improvement in that regard. That said its been their depth picks that have been great while their top picks have not panned out. Since 2007 you had Josh Wilson starting 24 games in 3 years before being traded. Lawrence Jackson was gone in two years. Aaron Curry was an epic bust. James Carpenter has started 16 games in two seasons and Bruce Irvin, picked in 2012, still has a ton of questions surrounding him. Russell Okung and Earl Thomas are both studs that were selected in the 2010 draft. No idea why they got it right there but in their other 5 tries all whiffed badly. Im not sure why its been so poor where their mid rounds have been spectacular, but that is a little worrisome.
In terms of free agency I dont see them being much more impressive than the Jets. The QB search has been awful before Wilson. Since 2009 starters included Matt Hasselbeck, Seneca Wallace, Charlie Whitehurst, Tarvaris Jackson, and in 2012 it was supposed to be Matt Flynn. The last three were handpicked guys to lead to Seahawks. Its bargain basement QB shopping and I dislike that idea in the NFL. They handed Sidney Rice a $41 million dollar deal with $15 million in guarantees and Zach Miller a $34 million dollar deal with $13 million in guarantees to which they have given the Seahawks 82/1232 and 63/629 respectively in two years with the team. While Marshawn Lynch did have a great season for the Seahawks they gave him $17 million in guarantees. I tend to think if this was the Jets we would have killed every one of those moves because they dont sound much different than what the team has done in the past.
So as I finish writing this I can definitely see why this hire was made. There are a lot of areas where Idzik fits in very well with this organization and roster as presently constituted. I think he has been in a position where he has had to help tear down a roster before and the coaching situation is one he has been involved in before as well. Hes not afraid to trade away sunk cost players. I think the draft a lot of players philosophy is one the Jets need to take and that will fit nicely in with the way the cap will likely be run here. Hopefully some of that mid round magic comes with him because that is the area that worries me with the hire. It seems as if free agency will be minimized now so you cant swing and miss in the draft. Hopefully he can hit a home run in his first draft with the team
Jason is the best 'beat writer' out there.
great article...as much as i like the hire and everything from ex-nfl to current nfl mgmt people hail the move ..its just a crapshoot in the end lets hope our luck has changed...
That is a great article and it did look at the pros and cons of the hire.
Where he did not like their approach to do ding a QB, I applaud the fact that they were aggressive and they kept at it until they got it right.
And not to nitpick, but he did undersell their 2012 draft. Irvin led all Rookies in sacks, Wagner (their 2nd rounder) led the team in tackles, and we all know about their 3rd pick, Russell Wilson.
What kind of backwards world is this where the paid professional writers don't have the talent to produce something like that, but a hobbyist does and can and people love it.
That's just about the best, most measured analysis I've read on the jets in a while. Nate Silver also started out as a freelancer until the Times recognized his talent and gave him a more official vehicle for his posts. They'd be wise to do the same with Jason.
This is a FANTaSTIC read ... Can't believe this guy does not work for TDN or TP ... So much better than their dribble.
Jason...what would we do without your breath of fresh air perspectives of our NYJ. Probably stuck with a nose clip attachment...as we smell the coffee brewing from the Cimini-Manish manure of crapfest journalism.
"Watcha working on Jason?"
" I'm doing an in depth roster analysis over the Tannenbaum era and comparing it to successful franchises to see areas where the Jets can do things differently. what about you?."
"I'm making of list of positive and negative titles I could use this year using Idzik's name. Check out this one for the draft
Idzik a bird? Idzik a plane? Itdzik a bust!"
(Farts and leaves room)
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But not just with the sports psychologist.
Oh, and Burke, 2013 version.
2/8/2012 – Michigan 64, Nebraska 46 – 18-7, 8-4 Big Ten
First half, second half
I cannot pretend that last night's game inspired soaring emotions in me. It was (eventually) a routine blowout of a very bad basketball team and the most interesting bit was the three minutes at the beginning of the second half when Michigan pushed the lead out to an insurmountable margin.
While it's nice to be irritated about a seven-point halftime lead and despondent at what the late flurry did to Michigan's Kenpom rankings, let's just hit the bullets/analysis section posthaste.
Always Hardaway first. Hardaway was 0/7 in the first half with five of those from three; in the second half he was 3/4 with the miss also from three and added three assists. He's still not rebounding much, though a single-game sample there is not reliable. Bad shots were significantly reduced. Most of his missed threes were good looks, and if there was a frustrating long two there was only one.
Progress or just playing Nebraska? We'll call the second half progress if only because the preceding 60 minutes were such poo. The nice thing about that half was the way Hardaway was used in the offense: catching off screens and diving to the basket without having to rely on his handle to beat a defender.
That should be a primary component of the offense going forward. Hardaway finished at the rim on a couple of those and hit Morgan for easy buckets on a couple others; the catch off the screen limits the time opponents have to sag off three point shooters and rake at Hardaway's dribble. Defenses will of course adjust to this, and then Michigan will have to move to something else in the cat and mouse game, but they'll be able to.
As for the shooting, I don't know. On WTKA this morning Craig Ross was advocating hypnosis, Ira was saying he needs to hook up with the hockey team's sports psychologist, and I declared Hardaway needed to commit a spine-shattering charge before being allowed to take a three. Then we decided all three should be implemented.
Beilein's offense is constructed such that Hardaway is going to have to take his share of threes, and as long as they're within the context of the offense that's fine. Eventually, one will go down.
Measuring the difference between Morris and Burke. Theory: Jordan Morgan usage is highly correlated with shot generation in general and especially by the point guard. Morgan's shooting percentage is unnaturally high because the vast bulk of his attempts are GRAAAA thunderdunks generated by the point guard (and Morgan's movement) or Morgan's ability to run the floor.
I was thinking about this during the game because the correlation between Morgan shot attempts and the efficiency of Michigan's offense was glaring. First half: one Morgan shot attempt (missed). Second half: four (all makes). Morgan usage is not only a sign of GRAAAA thunderdunks but an offense that is generating shots off of movement and penetration; it seems like it is correlated with increased eFG% from the rest of the team.
Anyway, Morgan-Morris-Burke survey says:
[OREB rate and TORate included because it seems like he should get more putbacks this year and that Morris apparently got him touches less likely to end up as turnovers.]
Burke has a ways to go before he's as Morris-level freakish shot-generating machine. He may never get there, which is okay since he's a much better shooter. This section primarily designed to wonder at what a meteor of a college player Morris was, and to shake a fist at his early departure.
Burke, though. Efficient day with 12 points on 7 shots and a 5-2 assist to TO ratio. If he improves as much as Morris did from freshman to sophomore year he will be a twenty-foot tall robot who shoots 130% from three.
Stu Douglass, Zack Novak, the usual. Between them: 5/9 from three, 5/7 from two, 5 assists, five steals, 0 turnovers, three fouls, and a partridge in a pear tree. The senior leadership here is damned tangible.
Anyone still talking crap about Douglass is an inveterate complainer. He has been okay to good on the offensive end of the floor and a great perimeter defender on the other end. Bo Spencer went 4 of 12, 1 of 6 from three.
As for Novak, he's hitting 43% from three and in the top 50 of various Kenpom stats; he's also providing the usual torrent of grit. Quality players who will be missed.
Vogrich. Daddy needs a new pair of shoes. Let it ride. Please, please, please let that be a sign that Vogrich can be a useful role player down the stretch. Going six deep is asking for it.
Paging Smotrycz to aisle things that exist. The only things separating Smotrycz from a 13-minute trillion were:
Not so good, there. Remember when we were complaining about Smotrycz's tendency towards silly fouls because Michigan was crippled without him on the court? Yeah… long time ago. Just as long as "oh God, the hockey tourney streak is dead."
Playing at the five is clearly uncomfortable but Michigan has few other options with Horford sidelined. I actually think they should roll with McLimans a bit more in situations where opposing bigs can't shoot free throws, if only for the defensive rebounding. Smotrycz was ripping them down as a 4 and things have fallen off considerably now that most of his minutes are backing up Morgan.
Even that's not much of a solution. Michigan's just going to have to suck it up and pray that Morgan doesn't get inappropriately handsy in the wrong game. He's been doing a much better job of staying on the floor of late, FWIW. His fouls per 40 is down to 4.0.
This should get a lot better next year with no departures and McGary, Horford, and Bielfeldt all suddenly available for post minutes. It's actually going to be hard to find minutes for everyone next year. And they'll be tall. It's going to be weird.
Trillion watch. Colton Christian picked up a two trillion; Bartelstein and Person were missed FGAs away from the same.
UMHoops photo gallery. AnnArbor.com version. Baumgardner article.
But not just with the sports psychologist.
Oh, and Burke, 2013 version.
...of Bartelstein's miss? Highlight of the year for me. I think he missed wide right and it glanced the bottom of the backboard. Bench was cracking up. Best part was that he backpedaled down the floor after he shot it, like he had it all the way.
That was one of the ugliest misses I've ever seen (aside from halfcourt prayers, shotclock heaves, etc.).
when watching games alone. Usually a blown foul/penalty call will get me to raise my voice. I involuntarily yelled "BRICK" at that shot. It was that bad.
LOL! I thought the same thing . Good god that was one of the ugliest shots I had ever seen.
Is Horford really not going to play this year? This team has a chance to do something special. The Sweet 16 (or even Elite Eight) is not out of the question. I'm not sure that I understand the rationale for passing that up.
Obviously, he's missed a lot of games....but those are just games. The whole reason that you play the season is to:
1. Win The Big Ten (not out of reach)
2. Make a splash at the Tourney
I'm wish him well in whatever he decides to do but it certainly would be nice to see some additional depth out there.
I wonder if, even after he "recovered," his explosiveness was so hampered by the injury that he really couldn't contribute. He's one guy that, if he can't get off the floor, is not going to be effective because he's so slight.
ESPN recently ran a piece on this topic. Basically says that he still has pain, and as of last week he still wasn't cleared to play, despite dressing for games.
Did he lose all the weight he put on in the offseason? He's listed at 250. Not what I would call slight.
But it represents almost a quarter of his playing career.
Horford played in the first nine games. If he played in the last six, that would have represented half a season. When you add on the B1G Tourney and the NCAA Tournament, you're talking about 1/8 or 1/9 or a college career.
Kenpom rankins are not considered by the Tournament Selection Committee, are they?
As for next year, it is indeed going to be strange when Michigan has four guys who are 6'10" or better.
EDIT: Morgan isn't 6'10", but he's Morgan.
Not officially, but it was an explanation offered for why the committee loved the Big Ten so much seed wise last year. But they also gave I think Utah State like a 12 despite being #18 in Kenpom.
Burke is obviously your one guard, and Morgan/McGary/Horford/McLimans are obviously fours and fives. Hardaway can play the two or the three, but who plays the other position? Does Vogrich start at the two? Brundidge? Does Robinson, a true freshman, start at the three? I don't think there are any easy answers there...As much as we're looking forward to McGary, I think Robinson may be more important than him next year.
John Beilein's offense is predicated on having a 4 man who can spread the floor with his shooting ability. That's one of the reasons we've seen Zach Novak grit his way through so many nights at PF, and why Horford and Morgan have never been on the floor at the same time. McGary isn't a perimeter shooter (and neither is Morgan, obviously) and I think that, for that reason, we'll see Smotz starting at the 4 spot next year. Everyone assumes that Morgan and McGary will be starters next season, but that wouldn't work within the framework of John Beilein's offense. I agree that the 2/3 postitions will be the most interesting to watch in terms of who Beilein decidres to go with, but I think we'll see Burke at PG, Smotz at PF, Hardaway Jr. at SG, either Morgan or McGary at C, and either Robinson III or Stauskas (who I think is still underrated) at SF.
Makes me wish Smotrcyz was looking like he could handle major minutes all the more...I will say - and we may be just using the words differently - that McGary looks like he has a good outside shot in the clips I've seen.
very apprehensive of next year for this very reason. Most don't seem to appreciate how much of a utility Stu Douglas is and how much his versatility in the backcourt will be missed. The absence of Brundrige from meaningful minutes this years has been a sore spot with me. With him not traveling with the team the last couple of games, I am even starting to become concerned about what exactly is going on with him. The 2 spot is going to be an adventure next year, but JB's offense seems very adaptable to personnel, assuming you are not Manny Harris.
Brundidge didn't travel with the team the last two games because he's been under the weather, dealing with complications from asthma. From an annarbor.com article:
Beilein said Brundidge did not practice with the team Monday, and will continue to be monitored.
"He tried some light shooting but did not feel very good, so getting well is the No. 1 objective," Beilein said. "I don't know enough about asthma and I'm not qualified to (get into detail about it), all I know is it's a very scary situation when you can't catch your breath."
Also, he's just a freshman. Not all freshmen—no matter how highly they're ranked—are ready to contibute right away, especially when they need to learn a system as complicated as Beilein's.
from asthma and "a very scary situation" would qualify as things that could make me worry about exactly what is going on with him, right?
on the court at the same time generally, with Horford backing up one of them at least. Also, Stauskas might be a good backup to Hardaway Jr.. Robinson will be tough to keep off the floor as a starter, at least later in the season.
"we'll see Smotz starting at the 4 spot next year."
I don't know how you can confidently connect those two statements in a logical sequence. He has completely disappeared since the start of the conference schedule. Right now, he's contributing as much as Horford is.
Smotz been playing at the 5 since Horford's injury where he's not as comfortable. When he was mostly playing the 4 he was putting together double double's. And as the season wears on he's losing confidence.
Right now, even with the shooting slump he's been struggling through, Smotz is shooting 41% from 3. He's a good shooter that can stretch the floor, even taking into account the slump he's currently in. You also have to remember that he's only a Sophomore, and if he improves as much in the upcoming offseason as he did in the previous one then we could be looking at one heck of a player.
shot, maybe not a 3 point threat, but he can shoot it. If Smotrycz doesn't find his stroke by next year, McGary will be a better option at the 4. Personally, I would love to see him and Morgan together banging the boards and playing post defense.
I think we see Stauskas at the 2 (better outside shooter than THJr and a better passer and ball handler). Robinson backs up Tim at the 3. Brundidge backs up Trey and also plays some 2 (like Stu does). This gives us a line-up that can shoot from outside, take it to the hole as well as score inside and rebound. But, even with all of that talent, we are really going to miss Zack and Stu (more than we missed Morris or Harris).
GRIII will start - dude's the real deal Holyfield.
I'm just always leery of relying on freshman.
on Evander Holyfield.
He will be the best athlete on the floor from day one. Along with his game getting better as he gets older, he continues to grow. When all the rankings came out he was a skinny 6'5 kid. He is closer to 6'7 now and has added 30 pounds of muscle since his JR year. He also has a 38 inch vertical.
I am just amazed how this team keeps on winning when arguably its best player (THJ) and main contributor (Smots) are playing so badly.
How is that even possible?
You might want to read this article for an answer: Just call him Beilein the Builder.
Because Burke is now the best player and main contributer.
have picked up the slack.
Can someone explain the trillion thing to me?
Box score: minute(s) played with nothing tangible done on the court - no points, shots, rebounds, etc.
OSU bench player who wrote (writes?) a blog called Club Trillion.
Former Piston player Scott Hastings coined the "trillion" term/phenomenon years ago . . . .
Props to Scott Hastings in 1990.
ROFLMAO @ Damon Jones 12(!!!) trillion.
I was wondering the same thing. Thank you to the two that responded.
I am intruged by 20-foot tall, robot Burke. I assume, being twenty feet tall and all that his wingspan will almost be such that he can reach out and drop the ball in the hoop and have it still be counted as a three. Our efficiency numbers next year may be unheard of...
Well, let's see. If he's 20 feet tall, his wingspan should be about 20 feet, unless it's one o' those orangutan robots I see in my dreams after drinking too much absinthe...
So if you remove, say, 3 feet of body width, his one-armed reach would be about 8.5 feet. So while I don't think he'll be able to drop the ball in from three, he should be able to do some other damage on the court.
Douglas and Novak have taken more responsibility on offense and are playing better with Burke as PG and Morris in the NBA. I don't think it is a coincidence. Morris put up mad stats last year but often dribbled the life out of movement in the offense. I am not sure how much of THJ's struggles are attributable to playing with Burke instead of Morris but I think it is slight.
Overall, I think this years team is better than last years. Certainly more diversified on offense and certainly a better defensive team.
Fellow fans,
This dull road blowout represents progress. We didn't do this the first four years of Beilein ball because we just weren't good enough yet. But the beauty of what's happening is easy to miss.
Michigan is 3rd in the Big Ten (top conference RPI in the country) and it's reasonable to predict that's where they'll finish the year. That would be one slot higher than last year, but probably a whole standard deviation better than last year. Remember that last year's Big Ten was 3 teams at the top (OSU, MSU, PU) and 4 teams in the middle (MICH, ILL, MSU, PSU), all of which went 9-9. We are presently 8-3 in conference. [EDIT: ... having played KenPom's #3 toughest schedule in the nation thus far].
They are accomplishing this with seemingly unglamorous wins. They are accopmlishing this while going only 6-8 guys deep most games, 3 of whom are in the midst of major shooting slumps: Hardaway, Smotrycz, and (until last night, perhaps) Vogrich.
We have just three 4-star players on our current roster (Smotrycz, Burke, and Brundidge), only one of whom is getting substantial and productive playing time.
And it looks like this team will make a Sweet 16 run. Let that sink in again. THIS team will make a SWEET 16 run. We last witnessed that in 1994, friends.
This is a great year of Michigan basketball. It's the last year of Zack Novak and Stu Douglass, who both unexpectedly took big steps forward in their individual games (I guess staying for 4 years DOES make a difference). It's a year in which we don't/shouldn't have wildly high expectations for what the team will accomplish, which makes it fun to root for them because we aren't constantly disappointed that they didn't win by 40.
So enjoy this year, fellow Wolverines. This is a great year of Michigan basketball. And we can look forward to even greater things when next year rolls around ... but that's next year. Let's savor this moment.
I think we are 8-4 and MSU can't be in both the top 3 and middle group last year (I think you meant Wisconsin).
No offense to basketball fans, but I just don't know enough about it nor am I interested in analyzing what I don't know enough to follow most basketball reviews.
This, though, is a perfect example of what keeps me reading Brian's post-game writeups:
"If he improves as much as Morris did from freshman to sophomore year he will be a twenty-foot tall robot who shoots 130% from three."
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Twenty-five years ago, Betty had a massive stroke and was dependent on her children and eventually care in a nursing home. She was strong, she was content, and she fought to live.
Betty Jane is survived by her daughters, Jackie (Bob)?Seeds and Shelly (Jim) Walenga; and her son, Russell (Rose)?Cooper; grandchildren, Jason (Sharon)?Walenga, Dale (Kelly)?Walenga, Kristin (Nathan)?Cooper/Harte and Karla Cooper; and great grandchildren, Zachary Walenga, Tyler Walenga and Bradley Walenga.
Also surviving is her sister, Barbara McCain of Emmetsburg; and sisters-in- law, Shirley Lauck, Wini-fred Schoenewe, Cynthia Baxter and Clara Feaster.
Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Leo; a grandson, Nicholas; her parents, Albert and May Feaster; sisters, Violet "Brownie" Brown and Alberta Loveland and brothers, Harold and Daryl Feaster; and her in-laws, Lynn and Loretta Cooper.
Grave site service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at Lone Tree Cemetery in Everly with Pastor Dan Mayes officiating. A reception will follow at First Christian Church, 701 East 18th Street, Spencer.


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Book Review: Core HTML5 Canvas 72
|Core HTML5 Canvas
|David Geary
|Prentice Hal
|An introduction to game development in HTML5's canvas that brings the developer all the way up to graphics, animation and basic game development.
I have very few negative things to say about this text – many of which may be attributed to personal preferences. This book is code heavy. It starts off with a sweet spot ratio for me. I found I spent about twenty to thirty percent of my time scanning over HTML and JavaScript snippets inserted occasionally into passages. However, by the last chapters, I found myself poring over lengthier and lengthier listings that made me feel like I was spending sixty to seventy percent of my time analyzing the JavaScript code. To be fair, the author does do a good job of simply referencing back to concepts learned in other chapters but I wouldn't mind a re-explanation of those topics or a more in depth analysis of how those concepts interoperate. I also feel that it is risky to put so much code into print as that greatly impacts the shelf life of an unchanging book. The book itself warns on page 51 that toBlob() was a new specification added to HTML5 between writing the book and the book being published. I feel like this would warrant much more English explaining what you're accomplishing and why so that the book does not age as much from being tightly coupled to a snapshot of the specifications.
The code listings in this book are wonderfully colored to indicate quickly to the eye what part of the JavaScript language each piece is. I'm not sure how many copies suffer from this but my book happened to have a problem on some of the pages whereby the comprising colors did not line up. Here is a good example and a bad example just a few pages apart.
About a year ago, I started a hobby project to develop a framework for playing cards in the browser on all platforms. The canvas element would be the obvious tool of choice for accomplishing this goal. Unfortunately I began development using a very HTML4 attitude with (what I now recognize) was laughable resource management. This book really helped me further along in getting that hobby project to a more useable state.
The first chapter of the book introduces the reader to the basics of HTML5 and the canvas element. The author covers things like using clientX and clientY for mouse events instead of x and y. A simple clock is built and shows how to correctly use the basic drawing parts of the HTML5 specification. For readers unfamiliar with graphics applications, a lot of ground is covered on how you programmatically start by constructing an invisible path that will not be visually rendered until stroke() or fill() is called. The chapter also covers the basic event/listener paradigm employed by almost anything accepting user input. Geary explains how to properly save and restore the surface instead of trying to graphically undo what was just done.
An important theme through this book is how to use HTML elements alongside a canvas. This was one of the first follies of my "everything goes in canvas" attitude. If you want a control box in your application, don't reinvent the partially transparent box with paths and fills followed by mouse event handling over your canvas (actually covered in Chapter 10) – simply use an HTML div and CSS to position it over your canvas. Geary shows how to do this and would have saved me a lot of time. Geary discusses and shows how to manage off-screen canvases (invisible canvases) in the browser which comes in mighty handy when boosting performance in HTML5. The final parts of Chapter One focus on remedial math and how to correctly handle units of measure when working in the browser.
Chapter Two shows the reader how to build a rudimentary paint application with basic capabilities. It does a great job of showing how to expand on the basic functions provided by HTML5 and covers a little bit of the logic behind the behavior. Geary goes so far as to show the reader how to extend some of the core components of HTML5 like CanvasRenderingContext2D with an additional function. He also cautions that this can lead to pitfalls in JavaScript. This chapter does an excellent job of exploiting and enumerating core drawing functionality to achieve the next level in using these lines and objects for a desired user effect. Prior to reading this chapter, I hadn't viewed clip() in the correct light and Geary demonstrates the beginnings of its importance in building graphics. In Chapter Three, text gets the same extensive treatment that the basic drawing elements did in Chapter Two. In reading this chapter, it became apparent hat HTML5 has a lot of tips and tricks (perhaps that comes with the territory of what it's trying to achieve) like you have to replace the entire canvas to erase text. Being a novice, I'm not sure if the author covered all of such things but I was certainly appreciative for those included.
Chapter Four was an eye opener on images, video and their manipulation in canvas. The first revelation was that drawImage() can also render another canvas or even a video frame into the current canvas. The API name was not indicative to me but after reading this chapter, it became apparent that if I sat down and created a layout of my game's surface, I could render groups of images into one off-screen canvas and then continually insert that canvas into view with drawImage(). This saved me from considerable rerendering calls. The author also included some drag and drop sugar in this chapter. The book helped me understand that sometimes there are both legacy calls to old ways of doing things and also multiple new ways to accomplish the same goal. When you're trying to develop something as heavy as a game, there are a lot of pitfalls.
Chapter Five concentrates on animations in HTML5 and first and foremost identifies a problem I had struggled with in writing a game: don't use setInterval() or setTimeout() for animations. These are imprecise and instead the book guides the reader with instructions on letting the browser select the frame rate. Being a novice, the underlying concepts of requestAnimationFrame() had eluded me prior to reading this book. Geary's treatment of discussing each browser's nuances with this method may someday be dated text but helped me understand why the API call is so vital. It also helps you build workarounds for each browser if you need them. Blitting was also a new concept to me as was the tactic of double buffering (which the browser already does to canvas). This chapter is heavy on the hidden caveats to animation in the browser and builds on these to implement parallax and a stopwatch. The end of this chapter has a number of particularly useful "best practices" that I now see as crucial in HTML5 game development.
Chapter Six details sprites and sprite sheets. Here the author gives us a brief introduction to design patterns (notably Strategy, Command and Flyweight) but it's curious that this isn't persisted throughout the text. This chapter covers painters in good detail and again how to implement motion and timed animation via sprites with requestNextAnimationFrame(). This chapter does a great job of showing how to quickly animate a spritesheet.
Chapter Seven gives the user a brief introduction to implementing simple physics in a game engine like gravity and friction. It's actually just enough to move forward with the upcoming games but the most useful section of this chapter to me was how to warp time. While this motion looks intuitive, it was refreshing to see the math behind ease-in or ease-out effects. These simple touches look beautiful in canvas applications and critical, of course, in modeling realistic motion.
Naturally the next thing needed for a game is collision detection and Chapter Eight scratches the surface just enough to build our simple games. A lot of fundamental concepts are discussed like collision detection before or after the collision happens. Geary does a nice job of biting off just enough to chew from the strategies of ray casting, the separating axis theorem (SAT) and minimum translation vector algorithms for detecting collisions. Being a novice to collision detection, SAT was a new concept to me and I enjoyed Geary's illustrations of the lines perpendicular to the normal vectors on polygons. This chapter did a great job of visualizing what the code was achieving. The last thing this chapter tackles is how to react or bounce off during a collision. It provided enough for the games but it seemed like an afterthought to collision detection. Isn't there a possibility of spin on the object that could influence a bounce? These sort of questions didn't appear in the text.
And Chapter Nine gets to the main focus of this book: writing the actual game with all our prior accumulated knowledge. Geary calls this light game engine "the ungame" and adds things like multitrack sound, keyboard event handling and how to implement a heads-up display to our repertoire. This chapter is very code heavy and it confuses me why Geary prints comments inlined in the code when he has a full book format to publish his words in. The ungame was called as such because it put together a lot of elements of the game but it was still sort of missing the basic play elements. Geary then starts in on implementing a pinball game. It may sound overly complicated for a learning text but as each piece of the puzzle is broken down, the author manages to describe and explain it fairly concisely. While this section could use more description, it is basically just bringing together and applying our prior concepts like emulating physics and implementing realistic motion. The pinball board is merely polygons and our code there to detect collisions with the circle that is the ball. It was surprisingly how quickly a pinball game came together.
Chapter Ten takes a look at making custom controls (as mentioned earlier about trying to use HTML when possible). From progress bars to image panners, this chapter was interesting and I really enjoyed the way the author showed how to componentize and reuse these controls and their parts. There's really not a lot to say about this chapter, as you may imagine a lot of already covered components are implemented in achieving these controls and effects.
Geary recognizes HTML5's alluring potential of being a common platform for developing applications and games across desktops and mobile devices. In the final chapter of the book, he covers briefly the ins and outs of developing for mobile — hopefully without having to force your users to a completely different experience. I did not realize that native looking apps could be achieved on mobile devices with HTML5 but even with that trick up its sleeve, it's hard to imagine it becoming the de facto standard for all applications. Geary appears to be hopeful and does a good job of getting the developer thinking about the viewport and how the components of their canvas are going to be viewed from each device. Most importantly, it's discussed how to handle different kinds of input or even display a touch keyboard above your game for alphabetic input.
This was a delightful book that will help readers understand the finer points of developing games in HTML5's canvas element. While it doesn't get you to the point of developing three dimensional blockbuster games inside the browser, it does bite off a very manageable chunk for most readers. And, if you're a developer looking to get into HTML5 game design, I heavily recommend this text as an introduction.
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Ryan Johansen's goal late in regulation lifted the Columbus Blue Jackets over San Jose, 4-3, at HP Pavilion.
Mark Letestu tallied twice and Vinny Prospal once for the Blue Jackets, who pulled into a tie for seventh place in the Western Conference alongside Minnesota. The Wild lost to Calgary earlier on Sunday.
"If we are forechecking hard and we're after pucks and using our speed and our size that's playing to our strengths," Blue Jackets head coach Todd Richards said.
Sergei Bobrovsky remained strong in net, stopping 32 pucks.
Andrew Desjardins and Joe Pavelski scored to erase a two-goal, third-period deficit for the Sharks, whose three-game win streak came to an end.
Martin Havlat scored, while Antti Niemi made only 18 saves for San Jose, which could have locked up a playoff berth with at least one point.
"It's our game that will get us there or won't get us there. Forget about the clinch part," San Jose head coach Todd McLellan said.
Desjardins pulled San Jose within 3-2 at 6:34 of the third period, by chasing down a lead pass, snaking his way from the right circle into the slot by a sliding Blue Jackets defender and shooting past a fooled Bobrovsky.
Pavelski then tied the game on the power play when he one-timed a Gomez feed home inside the right post with 5:03 on the clock.
Yet Columbus emerged victorious, gaining the winner at 18:23. R.J. Umberger's forechecking pressure managed to tip the puck away from Sharks defenseman Justin Braun near the blue line, and Johansen did the rest, beating Niemi from between the circles for a 4-3 game.
Letestu scored at 16:53 of the first period, redirecting a centering feed by Jack Johnson from the slot.
Prospal put the visitors up by two just shy of 4 1/2 minutes played in the second when he cruised in alone and bested Niemi.
Havlat's marker with 7:14 gone put the hosts on the board, but Letestu's second of the game on the advantage gave Columbus a 3-1 edge at 12:42.
Game Notes
Letestu added an assists for a career-best three-point effort ... Columbus swept the season series and has won four in a row over San Jose, while winning in the Bay Area for just the third time since entering the league in 2000 ... Matt Irwin picked up two assists for the Sharks.


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Airlines and aviation companies are hungry for the 787 Dreamliner, with 60 customers around the world snapping up 873 planes, making it the fastest-selling wide-body airplane in aviation history, Boeing says.
The fuel-efficient aircraft allows airlines to operate long-distance flights that don't attract enough passengers to make them economically feasible on other planes and opens new routes such as Boston to Tokyo on Japan Airlines, the first US route to use the 787. Japan Airlines, which has ordered 45 Dreamliners, will also fly the jet between Tokyo and San Diego, starting in December, and will use it for flights from Tokyo to Beijing, Moscow, Singapore, and New Delhi.
There are two Dreamliner models, the 787-8 selling for $194 million and the 787-9 selling for $228 million. The plane makes the most sense for long-haul international flights because of its range and ability to cut fuel and other costs on the most expensive routes to fly. But analysts said it could eventually be used for transcontinental US flights as well.
All Nippon Airways flies the 787 on several domestic routes in Japan, as well as from Tokyo to Frankfurt, and is planning routes from Tokyo to Seattle and San Jose, Calif.
Among US carriers, United Airlines plans to start flying the first of its 50 787s later this year; one of its first routes will be between Houston and Auckland, New Zealand. Delta Air Lines has signed up for 18 planes, but doesn't plan to launch them for a few years.
The biggest order so far has come from International Lease Finance Corp., an aircraft leasing company, which requested 74 planes. Icelandair and Air Niugini, the national airline of Papa New Guinea, have each ordered one.
Other airlines going with the 787 include Air Canada, Air France, British Airways, Singapore Airlines, and Saudi Arabian Airlines. Uzbekistan Airways and Azerbaijan Airlines have ordered two apiece, and the Republic of Iraq is expecting 10. So far, Japan Airlines is the only carrier to announce plans to fly the 787 out of Logan International Airport.


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Telus Classic tips off the high school basketball season
VANCOUVER - It gained prominence on the B.C. high school basketball scene as the HSBC Classic and, since a title sponsorship change last year, it's now the Telus Classic.
Different name, same format, and same man at the top: B.C. Sports Hall of Famer Howard Kelsey.
The 13th version of the tournament kicks into high gear Wednesday with the showcase senior high school boys and girls divisions beginning four days of competition at eight different locations. The event concludes Saturday at UBC's War Memorial Gym.
"It's been a format that's been well received," said Kelsey, who was in Mexico City last week where he received the Governor General's Visit Medallion for contributions to Canadian-Mexican relations. "We've had a few changes over the years but, generally, the major portions remain the same – the high school boys and girls, and the cheerleading and dance.
"We don't want to get away from our roots, which is to be inclusive, to give scholarships and, obviously, to give a huge kickoff to the season."
One of the features of the Telus Classic is that every player on every team must see the floor in every game. Another is that at least one player on each team is eligible for a $1,000 scholarship to a post-secondary institution, either a university, college or trade school.
"It was something we always wanted to do but we couldn't in the beginning because we had to get the number of scholarships in line with the number of schools that participated," Kelsey explained. "Now we have enough money for 32 schools and each has an opportunity at a scholarship providing they apply and meet all the criteria."
There are other awards available as well, Kelsey added, including two full four-year scholarships to a B.C. institution, one for a male player and the other for a female player. Over the life of the tournament, he says more than $700,000 in scholarships have been given out.
"We're in a financially large league for high schools in our country," noted Kelsey. "We have a pretty good contribution to elite and inclusive basketball for both boys and girls."
The boys side of the tournament will feature some of the province's top-ranked teams, among them the Kitsilano Blue Demons, White Rock Christian Academy Warriors, St. George's Saints, Winston Churchill Bulldogs, Pitt Meadows Marauders and defending Telus champion Kelowna Owls.
One player to watch this season is Kitsilano's Grade 12 post Luka Zaharijevic. According to Blue Demons coach Randy Coutts, Zaharijevic is now 6-8 and weighs 260 pounds. Luka is also known as The Bazooka.
"He's a load to handle," Coutts said. "He's really worked on his game the last two years and become a real dominant post player in the province. The chemistry on our team is getting a lot better but our defence is one thing that we need to work on in terms of getting our game to the next level. That's something we're focusing on for this tournament."
Kitsilano opens plays on its home court in a Wednesday matinee, 1:45, versus St. Thomas Aquinas, followed by Burnaby South against R.C. Palmer at 3:30. It's one of eight sites for games Wednesday and Thursday before the scene shifts to the Winston Churchill gym for semi-finals on Friday.
In other boys opening matches Wednesday: at Vancouver College, Port Moody visits the host Fighting Irish at 2:30, followed by Panorama Ridge and Churchill at 4:15; at Sir Charles Tupper, Kelowna visits the host Tigers at 2:30, followed by St. George's versus Elphinstone at 4:15; and at Pitt Meadows, Sardis takes on the host Marauders at 1:30, followed by WRCA and Archbishop Carney at 3:15.
In girls matches Wednesday: at York House, Archbishop Carney meets the host Tigers at 1:45, followed by Rick Hansen and Handsworth at 3:30; at Argyle, Centennial visits the host Pipers at 2:30, followed by West Vancouver and Fleetwood Park at 4:15; at Riverside, Collingwood takes on the host Rapids at 3:30, followed by St. Thomas Aquinas versus Britannia at 5:00; and at Steveston-London, Burnaby South meets the host Sharks at 2:30; followed by Brookswood and Vancouver Tech at 4:15.
Friday's semi-finals at Churchill begin at 2:15 while Saturday's finals at UBC are scheduled to tip-off at 5:30 (girls) and 7:15 (boys).
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Then here's to the City of Boston,The home of the bean and the cod,Where the Lodges speak only to the Cabots,And the Cabots speak only to God.
The people who have come together to share this site with you have been through a unique experience in American politics: they were moderators and volunteers of John Kerry's blog, the first presidential general election campaign blog that was open for comment from the public…We had hoped to be working on these problems under a Kerry presidency. But within days of the election, we agreed that we wanted to keep fighting, and to take what we had learned to others on the net.25
When Teresa Heinz-Kerry arrived, she handed me a pin that read in the center: "Asses of Evil" with "Bush", "Cheney", "Rumsfeld" and "Ashcroft" surrounding it. She met, greeted and talked to a jam-packed room of Kerry supporters and others who came for the MoveOn documentary [Uncovered, featuring serial liar Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson]…Thanks to Teresa, we kept the party going on, and she helped us here at East Bay for Kerry, throw the Mother of All House Parties.28
On July 18, 2007, CDF Freedom Schools® sites across the country participated in the CDF Freedom Schools Social Action Day. The social action and civic engagement component of the CDF Freedom Schools model teaches youth to engage in community service and social justice advocacy. This year, with Congress considering funding reauthorization for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), CDF Freedom Schools participants urged their elected officials to provide health coverage for all children through a variety of actions including visiting their elected officials, writing letters to elected officials, joining together for marches and rallies and leading awareness activities. More than 8,000 youth from CDF Freedom Schools sites across the country participated in the Social Action Day.68 (Emphasis in original.)
Earth Force believes that engaging students in authentic civic action is the most effective way to give them the knowledge, skills, and predispositions they need to participate in public life. By authentic, we mean two things: students address issues that matter to them, and projects involve genuine efforts to affect the issue through either policy advocacy or community education. Discussing issues, taking and defending positions, and talking about policy change are necessary but not sufficient; students need to try to effect changes in existing policies and community habits. (Emphases added.)
Edelman's great insight was to put children squarely in front of almost every domestic policy debate. This is central to the CDF's mission and a marvelous marketing tool...The CDF has browbeaten lawmakers for such programs as Head Start or the nutrition program for Women, Infants and Children, as well as expanding welfare and public housing programs, guaranteed employment, and higher minimum wages...When critics argued that America's welfare program was subsidizing illegitimacy and creating a culture of government-dependent poverty and victimhood, the CDF counteredthat any attempt to reduce the welfare state was a direct assault on children.87
Dream Fund grantees are developing new communication tools and messages, creating a body of knowledge on the impact of anti-affirmative action initiatives and creating new, innovative approaches to continuing diversity. With Dream Fund support, Firelight Media developed an affirmative action digital toolkit (www.affirmativeactionadvocacy.com) which serves as a resource for grantees and activists in the field. Arise, a documentary exploring the consequences of the California ban on affirmative action and the value of race and gender diversity in national life, is also available on the website.103
Cuba offers much to love. The pesky signs of commercialism don't exist. Only placards celebrating Revolution punctuate the landscape. Everywhere the uplifted face of Ché Guevara gazes into the island's future. But there is little romance in poverty. If the U.S. embargo were lifted today, would Cubans embrace our life? Would they stop meeting in public squares and watch TV? ...Would kids demand name-brand toys? Would farmers spray their crops with chemicals?120
Iraqis have a right to resist the violence and brutality directed against them. When they have protested peacefully they have been arrested, tortured, fired upon, and killed. The Iraqis have increasingly begun to use whatever means exist at their disposal to resist, including force. This would be true of any people subjected to these circumstances.On a global scale, the force most effectively preventing the United States government from achieving its imperial aims is the armed resistance in Iraq…The most powerful military machine in human history has been checked – and even more death and destruction has been prevented – because a large number of Iraqis have chosen to fight the occupation of their country.
She [Annabelle] aggressively makes her move in class, dissecting e.e. cummings' poetry of sexual innuendos and sending Simone's heart fluttering. The teacher desperately tries to conceal her lust not only because she is an educator, but also because she is suppressing her lesbian past! On a holiday weekend, the student and teacher are the only two remaining on campus. This time they cannot stop their wildest desires. In one moment their sweltering, uninhibited passion illuminates the screen…[The actresses'] chemistry is mesmerizing, expressing their characters' deepening attraction with stolen glances and the subsequent revelations of their relationship's emotional consequences.227
A landmark of both experimental and gay cinema, Kenneth Anger's film is a bizarre, disturbing dreamscape of violation, rape, and homoerotic sadomasochism. The film opens with Anger awaking from a troubled dream and leaving his house to go on a stroll. He is confronted by a band of buff sailors who proceed to beat, manhandle, and molest him.230
The film narrates the filmmaker's encounter with each of them, on the street or in parks, his offer to film them jerking off. They all consented…and the six intermingled episodes/vignettes of the film are built from the resultant posing and sex sessions in McDowell's studio. Suddenly spectators find themselves embarrassed voyeurs both of McDowell's tricks with the six men, and of the men's tricks with the camera. The men strut about defensively, as if taunting the camera, or they lie back invitingly, staring vulnerably, trustingly into the lens. They undress and caress themselves, or allow the filmmaker to help. The camera sometimes embodies McDowell's point of view, crawling across the floor in submission for the blow, trembling as if in echo of the spectators excitation. Or else it remains aloof on its tripod for a breather with the pretense of immediacy temporarily dropped. At other times when McDowell needs both hands, one of the subjects holds the camera, adding the frisson of subjective angle to the palpability of micro-closeups of flesh. This is participatory camera taken as far as it will go, filmmaking as fellatio.231
The movie does have a lot of man-on-man action, that's certainly the major attraction. No doubt…The movie is always making fun of the ex-gay movement. "Who would Jesus do?" reads one post just outside one of the ex-gay meetings…Two of the hottest guys go full frontal…And you'll be glad they did.236
This colonial war with Iraq is a racist war, a war that depends on a president who lied about the reason for war and does not admit that he lied. This president has killed many more children than were killed in Columbine and is not being held responsible. They're Iraqi children. One of the horrors of American politics is that this kindof colonial war has become acceptable.
"No life is completely useless. It can always serve as a bad example." – Anonymous.


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Writing Retreat "Annual"January 18, 9:30am - 2:00pm
Windward Campus, Hale 'Ākoakoa 107/109
"Our Writing Retreat is not exactly a class but is an opportunity to meet and write in company with other beginning and experienced writers. Here we tap into our mutual creative energy. After introductions, we collect ideas in response to a starter prompt, then each person begins to draft a story, poem, memoir, argument or whatever. In small groups we read these diverse pieces and give each other non-critical reader responses.
Anyone over 16 is welcome to attend. Bring writing materials, a sack lunch, and perhaps a mug for coffee or tea. A food contribution for the morning snack table is welcome, but it is not necessary.
Classes meet on Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Call early to register with your credit card information; course may close due to large enrollment!
Instructor: Lillian Cunningham
Course Code: ENR7017-005
Course Fee: $85
Dates: Saturdays, January 18 to November 22, 2014
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
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