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Dell EMC, Versa, and Wind River Bring Flexibility, Performance, and Reliability
Your customers look to you to provide routing, security, and SLA backed network connectivity at a competitive price. How you deploy those services (via central office or on premises) depends on the customer's needs. Now you can provide those services with the carrier grade reliability your customers depend on, and the flexibility and performance you need to drive new revenue streams while keeping your costs down.
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Automation and Distributed Computing
Aug 7 2018
4:30 pm
45 mins
Chris Simon, Director of the Service Provider and NFV Business Unit, Dorado Software
Innovation driven by cloud, NFV, IOT, video content and virtual reality is compelling the delivery of increasingly distributed computing options. These environments will need to support technical requirements such as latency, connectivity and power management while adhering to regulator factors such as HIPPA data security. Distributed computing will require a number of infrastructure form factors such as HCI, private cloud and embedded computing paired with a myriad of operational environments process such Nutanix, Azure and OpenStack. All these are delivered in diverse partnerships and business models.
In this presentation, we will discuss automation opportunities that allow all stakeholders to effectively deploy and monitor the underlying infrastructure while orchestrating and managing individual functions that make up the distributed computing services - all with minimal and often remote support staff.
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Getting to the Edge – Exploring 4G/5G Cloud-RAN Deployable Solutions
Jun 21 2018
3:00 pm
45 mins
Prakash Siva - Vice President, Technology & Strategy and Natasha Tamaskar – Vice President, Global Marketing / Sales Strategy
At a time when the telecommunications industry is in significant transition, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) and equipment manufacturers are turning to open source and multi-access edge computing (MEC) solutions.
These solutions are required to meet key infrastructure constraints such as cost efficiencies, deployment flexibility and deliver mission- critical services with high quality. Intel® with their Network Edge Virtualization (NEV) and FlexRAN initiatives is at the forefront of providing cutting edge platform and framework to build these solutions. These enable CSPs to accelerate and innovate their 4G/5G cloud RAN initiatives and ensure better user experience by moving compute intensive, latency-sensitive applications to the network edge.
Radisys is committed to ensuring that open telecom initiatives are not 'science projects' – but actual, deployable solutions that can be commercialized with faster time-to-market. This webinar will focus on:
•Key considerations required for rapid integration and deployment of mobile edge services using Intel-based Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) infrastructure
•Key considerations required for 4G and 5G Cloud-RAN implementations using Intel's FlexRAN development framework
•The role and purpose of multiple open initiatives such as: xRAN, TIP, ONAP, ONF in evolving the technology stack of service providers along with associated integration requirements and challenges
This webinar is best suited for technology innovation groups and product managers at service providers, system integrators and telecom equipment manufacturers.
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Universal CPE Management & Orchestration Made Easy
Jun 13 2018
5:00 pm
45 mins
Marc Bouteyre [Kapsch] Head of SDN/NFV Solution Management | Sebastian Grabski, [Cloudify] Director, Customer Solutions
Network functions virtualization (NFV) has matured to the point where the majority of network functions can be hosted on Intel architecture-based servers.
A single virtualized system hosting an NFV infrastructure (NFVI), network orchestration,and virtual network functions (VNF) can replace the multiple dedicated pieces of customer edge (CE) equipment needed for local and wide area networking.
In this webinar we will demonstrate how to deploy a fully-orchestrated universal CPE architecture, with closed loop automation.
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Nokia AirFrame Open Edge Server - Edge Cloud Data Center Solution for the 5G Era
Jun 5 2018
4:00 pm
60 mins
Antti Romppanen, Head of Product Management, Datacenter Infrastructure [ NOKIA ]
Technologies such as Cloud RAN will be key to deliver on the 5G promise of ultra-low latency and massive data throughput, and will need to be supported by a highly efficient cloud infrastructure solution.
Nokia AirFrame data center solution portfolio makes these edge deployments a reality. Designed in an ultra-compact size for deployment even at base station sites, the Nokia AirFrame open edge server will meet the most stringent end-customer data demands. Nokia's comprehensive portfolio of AirFrame data center solutions enables operators to optimize network resources and intelligently distribute workload across the network, based on the type of data traffic as well as latency and throughput needs.
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Intel® Powered AI Applications for Telco
May 30 2018
3:00 pm
45 mins
Tong Zhang, Principal Engineer and Chief Architect for AI and Analytics of the Network Platforms Group, Intel
Join this webinar to hear about the current landscape and typical use cases of Artificial Intelligence applications in the Telco domain.
Learn more about Intel's strategy and products for Network AI, including:
- focus areas
- hardware portfolio
- software stacks
- roadmaps
- case studies
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Embrace Central Office 2.0 with QCT NFV Platform
May 29 2018
11:00 pm
45 mins
Marco Huang [QCT] Amy Chang [QCT] Wei Yeang Toh [Intel]
Telco operators are looking for open source solutions to reduce vendor lock-in and to meet growing customer demand in transformation. In this session, we provide a glimpse of common NFVI inquiries from telco customers, and propose a modularized NFVI OpenStack Platform with flexible, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure:
○ OpenStack architecture design and network planning for NFVI. We will present how to plan a NFVI OpenStack environment from scratch.
○ Enhanced Platform Awareness (EPA) adoption and performance evaluation. We will introduce the network stack and provide detailed performance evaluation results.
○ Ansible based auto-deployment tool to accelerate the overall deployment process. We will present you how our streamlined auto-deployment tool saves your effort to build a well-integrated OpenStack
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Marco Huang – Open Infrastructure Engineering Team Leader. QCT
Amy Chang - Open Infrastructure Business Development Team Leader, QCT
Wei Yeang Toh - Marketing Development Director, Network Platform Datacenter Group, Intel Corporation
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Delivering Virtual Services to Enterprises from the Service Provider Cloud
May 22 2018
53 mins
Daniel Teichman,Sr Solutions Marketing Manager and Walter Kenrich, Director, Solutions Marketing [Ribbon Communications]
As the service provider adoption of network functions virtualization (NFV) continues, new business opportunities expand for Service Providers.
This webinar will explore the rationale, value, and implementation options of using NFV and uCPE/vCPE models to deliver session border control (SBC) as a service.
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Join the White-box Revolution
May 15 2018
56 mins
Paul Stevens Marketing Director, Advantech and Yann Rapaport VP of Product Management, 6WIND
This webinar will discuss how high performance networking software combined with commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) edge servers and open management can offer real alternatives to expensive networking equipment.
The webinar will cover:
• How white box server solutions based on Intel Architecture scale from Customer Edge to Provider Edge
• Physical constraints at the Edge and why location is so important
vRouter use-cases
• How to successfully replace Brocade Vyatta vRouters with 6WIND Turbo Router software appliances
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The Fastest path to SD-WAN Success for Service Providers
May 10 2018
60 mins
Misbah Mahmoodi [VMware] Kangwarn Chinthammit [VeloCloud] Chris Lewis [Dell EMC]
The software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market is booming and Service Providers are well positioned to take advantage of the robust demand. While SD-WAN can be a potential disruptor to a Service Providers' current business model, it can be also be transformative, differentiating, and significantly expand revenue streams. But it poses a series of questions: What impact will SD-WAN have on the network and the highly successful Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) services operators are offering today? How is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) laying the ground work to offer these new services, by taking advantage of automation in the network. This webinar is for Service Providers who want to differentiate their offerings to remain competitive in this new market landscape.
Learn how operators can increase revenue, deliver advanced services and improve network agility with an Integrated SD-WAN solution.
Together VMware, VeloCloud and Dell EMC will come together to discuss SD-WAN advancements and how Service Providers can monetize this emerging technology.
What will we cover:
•Market environment, emerging trends, and what is driving this shift.
•The impacts of Network Functions Virtualization.
•The intersect points with SD-WAN.
•Adaptations that need to be made by Service Providers.
•How Service Providers can grow revenue.
Presenter information:
- Misbah Mahmoodi, Director Product Marketing, Telco NFV, VMware
- Kangwarn Chinthammit, Director Solution Architecture, VeloCloud
- Chris Lewis, Senior Consultant, Product Management, Dell EMC
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Unified Testing and Assurance for All Stages of 5G Evolution: Why It's Critical
May 3 2018
58 mins
Steve Douglas, Strategic Marketing and Diego Lozano de Fournas, Technical Marketing [Spirent]
The next generation of mobile networks - commonly known as 5G - promises a revolution in cellular communications, enabling services such as massive IoT, Fixed Wireless Access and enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB). Based on a completely new radio access and core network design – including slicing, separation of control and user planes and distributed network functions – 5G supports massive density of devices of any kind, operating at increased speeds with minimum latency, while making an efficient use of network resources.
To ensure a successful adoption of this new technology, carriers and equipment manufacturers alike must define an evolution strategy from 4G extensions and 5G non-standalone to true native 5G, and ensure that the infrastructure can handle the requirements of this evolution. A unified approach to testing and assurance, that supports all 5G evolution stages, will be critical to the successful roll out of high quality 5G services.
This webinar will cover the following topics:
• Overview of the evolution path to 5G
• Critical testing and assurance challenges / needs for each stage
• Best practices for testing and assurance based on Spirent's work with providers on the cutting edge of 5G evolution
• Case study: Service testing and assurance for 5G non-standalone sliced environments
More information about our presenters:
- Steve Douglas, Solutions & Technical Strategy Lead, Strategic Marketing, Spirent
- Diego Lozano de Fournas,Sr. Solutions Manager, Lifecycle Service Assurance, Spirent
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The Rise of the Edge Network and Multi-Cloud Strategy
May 2 2018
58 mins
James Greene and Ben McCahill [Network Products Group at Intel Corporation]
The binary choice of on-prem computing or shipping data and workloads to hyperscale cloud datacenters is now becoming an inhibitor to resource optimization, business innovation and compelling new use models. As a result, one area of intense focus of such innovation is on "edge computing".
Edge computing is the placement of data center or network-class compute and storage resources away from centralized hubs and closer to the endpoint devices in order to improve service capabilities, optimize TCO, comply with data locality requirements, and reduce application latency.
This session will provide an overview of the market dynamics driving the growing interest in edge computing models and concepts. It will cover some of the critical use models and attributes likely to drive the transition and it will highlight some of the core technologies and providers that will help open and enable the deployment of IT resources dynamically when and where they are needed—from core to edge to endpoint.
More about our speakers:
James Greene is the Sr Industry Marketing Manager, Network Products Group at Intel Corporation. James is co-author of the book: Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Servers: A Guide to More Secure Datacenters and contributed to the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) Interagency Report 7904 - Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: A Proof Of Concept Implementation.
He has been a speaker, panelist or presenter at a number of public venues, such as the International Forum on Cyber Security, SecureTech Canada, Intel Developer Forum, OpenStack Conference and Design Summit, InfoSec World 2011, vmworld, ENSA@Work, RSA in US and Europe, CSA Congress, HP Discover and other industry forums.
Ben McCahill is the Director of Strategy and Business Planning at Intel Corporation.
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Containers Networking - Experience Kits and Technology Overview
Apr 25 2018
42 mins
Ivan Coughlan, Cloud Orchestration Solutions Architect, Intel
Intel has been working with partners and with open source communities to address barriers to commercial containers-networking adoption and to deliver consumable capabilities concerning configuration, manageability, performance, service-assurance, and resilience. The container bare metal experience kits are a set of collateral introducing the newly developed open sourced consumable capabilities. The collection of all the container bare metal experience kits creates a library of best practice guidelines to address containers-bare-metal networking development and deploy-ability gaps. It includes a variety of documents and demonstrations targeting developers, product leads, and a sales and marketing audience.
In this talk, you will learn about the networking technologies delivered by Intel and partners, the experience kits that support these technologies and where you can go to download the collateral to support you.
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The Modern Telco is Open in the Era of Digital Disruption
Apr 19 2018
39 mins
Ian A. Hood, P. Eng Chief Technologist – Global Service Provider Red Hat Inc.
Technology innovations, the intensifying march of digitization, the laws of accelerating growth are redefining economics across all industries. Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, IoT, and 5G hold the key to adapting service provider networks to the digital ecosystem of the future. Creating business value is a key metric to digital transformation strategy and execution.
Join Red Hat and Intel to learn how Communication Service Providers' are leveraging open source technologies in their open telco transformation journey.
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Edge Convergence of Fixed and Mobile Network Services
Apr 17 2018
59 mins
Nazneen Shaikh - Founder and Director, Sanctum Networks and Murali Krishnan - Director Engineering, Sanctum Networks
The wide usage of Cloud Computing has hastened the convergence of Internet and Cloud Technologies. Increase in demand of 'Everything-as-a-Service' are creating tremendous pressure on conventional hardware based service gateways, that are finding it difficult to meet the demands of cloud scaling and convergence of services delivery. Additionally with the proliferation of OTT players, Telcos and DTH providers are feeling the heat of diminishing services revenues calling for solutions that could enable commercially viable service innovation and accelerate consumer adoption.
Increasing demand on service personalization and consistent multi-device experience is accelerating the demand on providers to seek ways to converge their disparate Access networks to meet this demand while staying profitable. This is only possible through extensive multi-dimension insight into the customers network and the ability to dynamically program the network as per user experience. In this webinar, we intend to share a few key factors that we believe could positively influence this seamless digital transformation like :
· How effectively can access/edge convergence help in orchestrating service delivery and creating uniform user experience
· How can Telcos and OTTs co exist without impacting their revenue plans
· How can DTH providers who are also ISPs make use of edge convergence and attain best of both worlds
· How could 5G be really about converged, interworking networks than today's "little bigger 4G"
· How could Network slicing be made more realistic for MSOs and VNOs
· How could today's pseudo SD-WAN deployments by Telcos be made more realistic
· How we make use of Intel's NEV stack to implement edge convergence gateway.
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5G – Moving from Lab to Real Life
Apr 10 2018
61 mins
Nicolas Bouthors, Enea Innovation and Erik Larsson, Enea Marketing
Edge software platforms will help shape the uCPE and 5G market. But building edge software platforms requires expertise to ensure high performance and optimized costs.
This webinar will provide technical guidelines on the following topics:
•Building a network edge optimized for low-latency
•Leveraging Intel NFV technology such as DPDK, QAT and SPDK
•Fat VNFs and high performance at the edge
•The role of VIM in Network Slicing
•Service Function Chaining (SFC) leveraging OpenStack networking-sfc API
•Management of end-to-end NFV Network Services: the key role of NETCONF
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Is your company protected from a VOIP DDoS attack?
Apr 5 2018
45 mins
Rami Neiman, Senior Software Engineer | Gilbert Gutierrez, Business Development Manager - Northforge Innovations
Today, with less expensive and more powerful processing power and bandwidth, plus the emergence of unsecure and unsupervised IOT devices, attackers can launch potent DDoS attacks at much lower cost. As a result, not only the "big players" (such as banking, trade platforms, subscription services and social media) are in danger of being attacked. The ease of launching a DDoS attack has put every business, no matter how large or small, in the risk zone. Denial of service attacks strike at the very heart of client-business interaction: the channel of communication. Businesses relying on IP telephony and VOIP services are just as much exposed to the threat as the ones delivering their services via the web.
With the growing number of DoS attacks launched against business infrastructure every year, no business can afford to pass on having an efficient solution to detect these attacks and mitigate their harmful effects. While large companies can afford to deploy high cost purpose-built network security equipment, smaller businesses can't always justify that kind of investment. For them, cost, ease of deployment and flexibility are major decision factors in choosing a security solution.
In this webinar, we will discuss how Northforge can address small business needs for cost-efficient, high performance and flexible VOIP DDoS protection solutions. We will demonstrate how, using Intel technologies, it's possible to achieve real time threat detection and reporting using minimal customer-provided computational resources and without additional equipment investments.
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Address capital constraints, improve QoE & deliver low-latency services with MEC
Apr 3 2018
61 mins
John Reister, VP Marketing and Product Management, Vasona Networks and Godfrey Tan, F5 Networks
Mobile operators face unprecedented mobile network performance challenges that cause poor customer experiences, user churn and flat revenue. Vasona Networks customers navigate these obstacles and pursue opportunities on the road to 5G with edge-based (MEC) solutions that offer real-time insight and control of mobile data traffic flowing through crowded cells. With Vasona, operators deliver better user experiences, make smarter use of network investments and save money. Capital constraints disappear, and operators make network investments that truly move the needle on customer QoE.
Vasona Networks provides an edge-computing solution for mobile operators to overcome network challenges and deliver a better end-user experience. In this webinar, Vasona will discuss how it can help operators to create a new paradigm for network monitoring, measurement and refinement that drives more impactful investment decisions.
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Flexible support for new protocol processing with DPDK using DDP
Mar 28 2018
39 mins
Brian Johnson, Solutions Architect, Intel Corporation
The Intel® Ethernet 700 Series was designed from the ground up to provide increased flexibility and move to a programmable pipeline allowing it to be customized to meet a wide variety of customer requirements.
To address this, a new capability has been enabled on the Intel Ethernet 700 Series network adapters: Dynamic Device Personalization (DDP). DDP allows a DPDK application to enable identification of new protocols, for example, GTP, PPPoE, QUIC, without changing the hardware. This session will provide details on how to take advantage of this new capability and a live demo will showcase a DPDK application identifying and spreading GTP and QUIC across multiple CPU cores.
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In-Building Mobility Reinvented
Mar 20 2018
60 mins
Kurt Jacobs, Director - Solutions, Gilberto Brizzi, Director - Product Management | JMA Wireless
As demand for mobile connectivity continues to grow for today's in-building business operations and high-density venues, traditional small cells and distributed antenna systems often fall short in offering the right solution. With the emergence of network function virtualization (NFV) on the edge, an entirely new method for in-building mobile connectivity is possible that fundamentally changes both deployment and economic models. This session will share how using an all software solution with off-the-shelf Intel processing platforms delivers a complete, scalable, and elastic cell system for mobile, public safety and IoT coverage and capacity ready for the 5G future
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An Integrated Testing approach to an NFV enabled SDN validated System
Mar 13 2018
55 mins
Jason Chandralal, GM & Head – SDN/NFV Testing, Happiest Minds Technologies, Arsalaan Kashif, Associate Director – Product
This webinar will bring you the practical and technical insights providing an overall approach to testing & validation of SDN and NFV based networks across different scenarios. We will focus on the key challenges, implementations and showcase how Happiest Minds uses modern day best practices to architect an integrated testing approach for creating validated systems based on Intel and other open technologies to power enterprises or telco clouds and help realize the maximum potential of Network Virtualization.
This webinar, while showcasing Happiest Minds Testing capabilities, would also provide us with a great platform to showcase how Intel platforms and other open technologies can be the optimal choice to build network infrastructure, overcome challenges in testing and motivate end customers from the Network Builder group to engage with Intel and other technology partners for solution design and development.
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If an old-fashioned enthusiast wanted to take a trip back in time, the place to visit would be Starr Homeplace in Oak Ridge this Saturday.
If an old-fashioned enthusiast wanted to take a trip back in time, the place to visit would be Starr Homeplace in Oak Ridge this Saturday.
Homplace founder Joe Rolfe has been creating this old-fashioned plantation style settlement for the past 15 years for people to come and visit. These "Community Days" are on the second Saturday of designated months, April through October, with the exception of August.
Rolfe began the event 10 years ago in honor of his wife, Starr, who passed away from complications with diabetes.
"She was a fine artist and I was always surrounded by creativity," he said. "I started it as a memorial to her."
Fifteen years ago, Rolfe began moving buildings in from different areas in Oak Ridge. The Homeplace currently consists of one museum with 15 buildings on nine acres of land.
"The buildings are full of artifacts that I've collected through the years," he said. "I'm always collecting new things."
During the Community Day events, Rolfe invites people such as artisans, craftsmen, leather workers and woodworkers to come out and give demonstrations of their trades.
"This Saturday we'll have an engraver, a boat builder and a blacksmith," he said. "The engraver will be engraving on things like guns, the boat builder will be working on some type of wooden boat and the blacksmith will be making knives out of railroad spikes."
Rolfe said he's always open to new people coming out and giving demonstrations.
"We need other people to come and do a craft," he said. "Sometimes we have people who do needlecraft and woodwork. If we have musicians come out, we always encourage them to play."
Lunch will be served during the event Saturday for a small donation.
"We'll have ham and tomato sandwiches for lunch," he said. "It's that time of year."
Rolfe also invites people to visit upstairs in the barn to look at the selection of books that came from the Stone Bookstore, part of the old Twin City Mall in Monroe.
"We have several thousand books on sale as part of our fundraiser," he said. "They're 20 cents on the dollar which means they're 80 percent off. Almost all of them are hardback and almost all of them are non-fiction."
Rolfe wants to remind everyone that if it rains Saturday, people will be able to find shelter in one of the 19 buildings surrounding the museum.
"We always still have it [the event] if it rains," he said. "People can tip-toe from one building to the other."
Starr Homeplace will be from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 14. The Homeplace is located two miles north of Oak Ridge on La. 133. Admission is $5 and children 12 and under get in free.
To learn more or to get involved as a volunteer, call 244-5700, or visit the Starr Homeplace on Facebook and www.starrhomeplace.org.


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Muamba to present League Cup trophy
Fabrice Muamba is to present the Capital One Cup to the winning team after Sunday's final between Swansea and Bradford at Wembley.
• Preview: Bradford v Swansea
• Hanson's rags to riches story • Swans suffer Chico blow
Muamba, 24, who retired from football last year after suffering a cardiac arrest on the pitch during Bolton's FA Cup tie with Tottenham, will be the sponsor's guest of honour for the day. The former England Under-21 international will be introduced to the squads prior to the game before watching the match from the Royal Box.
The midfielder was playing in an FA Cup quarter-final at White Hart Lane last March when he collapsed on the pitch. Muamba's heart stopped beating for 78 minutes but he managed to survive due to the prompt treatment he received on the pitch.
He had hoped to resume his career after making a miraculous recovery but was advised against it by doctors and retired in August.
Capital One will be making a donation to the Hearts and Goals campaign, which is involved with aiming to raise awareness and give communities across the country access to defibrillators, as well as CPR and defibrillator training.
Muamba, who is involved with the charity, said: "It's been such an exciting tournament this year and it will be a great honour to be presenting the trophy to the winners. I know it will be a very special atmosphere on Sunday.''
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To belittle them?
And we have a winner, I never met a salesman(or woman) that wouldn't give up their first born for a sale...
and that's being polite...
You haven't met that many salesmen then...
Because sales guy wanted his commission and when the higher ups figured out who the booth had been sold to, they cancelled it.
The funny thing, though, is that the Pirate Party's name features prominently on Gamex' advertising in papers and in the subways. Did the advertising get approved without even a cursory examination by the bosses (or any other responsible person within the company)? And nobody discovered the mistake until a few days before the convention opened?
So their name was used on advertising, but they still had to pay for a booth and now they can't even attend? Wow. Time for a lawsuit to have their name removed, and for attendees to complain about false advertising.
Okay, the Swedes aren't very litigious (being Vikings they tend to settle disputes with their axe
I assume the Pirate Party got their fee back - I'm sure they'd have pointed it out if they didn't. They just lost some work and planning.
Still, I think the attention they got in the press is more than worth it. This makes the Pirate Party look like a more serious contender, and the anti-pirates look like jerks.
No, the Pirate Party did not win any seats in the Swedish parliament. They have two seats in the European parliament, however.
The SSU (Swedish Social Democratic Youth League) are still allowed to attend the event, and they support the decriminalization of non-commercial file sharing, so I don't buy the political exclusion claim.
This is the reason it's a story IMO. If they don't want political organizations there, that's fine. Allowing some political groups and not others is not so kosher. Of course it's a private event so they decide, but it makes it newsworthy.
The point is: why would they even try to invite them? It isn't like three months ago the public opinion of something named "PIRATE PARTY" would be any diferent.
The point is, even if they were banned, why would they not show up and occupy a booth anyway? I see much opportunity for hilarity here
The Pirate Party did show up outside the convention and handed out t-shirts. They also paid the entry fee for the 20 first people who went in with their t-shirt on.
The point is: why would they even try to invite them? It isn't like three months ago the public opinion of something named "PIRATE PARTY" would be any diferent.
The scuttlebutt is that they thought the Ninja Party would be there, too, but declined. All fell apart after that.
Yes, the Pirate party will not have to pay to attend since they got banned even though they was on the billboards in the subway on the events ads.
No, they had not had any big expenses from this.
Pirate Party youth section was there and gave away their t-shirts outside the doors, The ban meant alot of goodwill for the Pirate party and some good press.
So all in all this made the pirate party the talk of the event and got some good press.
Kinda strange that getting banned gave the pirate party more positive attention then attending the event would have.
Exhibition-grade booth displays and paraphernalia cost thousands of dollars (even tens of thousands for large booths), and if the Pirate Party invested money on materials specifically for this show, they may have just flushed a significant portion of their yearly budget.
If this assumption is true (that they spent a significant portion of their annual budget), then one of both of two things is true: 1) they're idiots for overspending, and 2) they're idiots for not have a reasonable operating budget.
Exhibition-grade booth displays and paraphernalia cost thousands of dollars
Are booth babes really that expensive?
Seriously, what trade show thought they would get away with a move that would piss off 90% of their exhibitors?
A tradeshow that wanted to appeal to 99% of the exhibitors customers? Or wait, make that 100%.
Publishers, not developers.
Best comment of the thread. Everyone else can stop posting now
they decided to book and pay for a booth
I don't see the article mentioning a refund, I'm hoping this wasn't just a huge ploy from the start to take their money.
Booths at these kinds of things usually aren't cheap...
> they decided to book and pay for a booth.
This is an example of either poor clipping, or intentionally inflammatory clipping. From having RTFA, the pirate party had called to get answers on a couple of practical issues, and the person they talked to sounded vague and extremely stressed out. THAT is what Troberg, as quoted in the actual article, thought strange.
I'm sure the organizers never wanted the pirate party there at all. But inviting them was a brilliant business move. For a whole host of reasons, from inflaming other exhibitors, getting those other exhibitors to spend more, encouraging another segment to exhibit, and impressing sponsors in the first place. Then, finally, supporting those that wanted the pirate party gone.
I'll bet it was the best period of business activity for the organizers. Welcome to playing one side against the other, and getting news-level advertising fory our show in the process.
Why is any of this surprising to anyone? It's just a gossip-tree and a rumour-mill at the business level.
Ooh, guess who's coming to dinner. Oh, sorry, they cancelled at the last minute.
You can make just about anything obvious if you decide to cherry-pick out the inconvenient possibilities. Consider this similar line of reasoning:
"What a stupid move by the organisers! Inviting the pirate party was always going to piss the exhibitors off. It would just attract the file-sharing crowd and make the event hostile towards big game studios. Basically, by inviting the pirate party, they would have jeopardised the exhibitors' contributing to this and all subsequent events, and irreparably damaged a
considering someone else's intentional choices as undesirable or stupid on their part is almost always incorrect.
For an individual making some kind of personal choice, maybe. For a group/committee/government, or anyone trying to organise an event, not even close. I have both organised events and been part of committees in the past (often at the same time), and making stupid decisions, or failing to correctly predict something important, is not just difficult to avoid, it's part and parcel to the job.
I think what most likely happened was that whatever committee is responsible decided to send out invitations to various
That's a good point. I agree with you.
Wow. I think you just made my day.
(: hey, it's a good argument, that you made, with organizations having corrective elements as a part of the job. I was thinking of the show organizers as an individual -- being an entrepreneur, I do that sometimes.
More like Gaming "Unfair", amirite folks?
Brings a new meaning to "con".
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I can't stop reading her name as Trollberg, the iceberg who sank the Titanic.
*A* party, so the party *has*.
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Hyderabad, Jan 26 (IANS) The Andhra Pradesh government has decided to take back 250 acres of land allotted to Brahmani Infratech Pvt. Ltd. on the outskirts of Hyderabad in 2006 for development of IT special economic zone.
The government decided to take back the land from the company for non-implementation of the project, an official statement said here Saturday.
A notice was issued to the company in April 2011 for non-implementation of the project. The firm, in which the Navabharat Group hold majority stake, came forward to surrender the land after the government refused to extend to 2021 the time limit to complete the project.
In 2006 that the then government of Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy allotted the land to the company at Ravirala village near the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport to develop the IT special economic zone (SEZ). The land was sold to the company at Rs.26 lakh per acre.
The opposition Telugu Desam Party had alleged that the government gifted away the land worth Rs.3,000 crore, and demanded the government take it back.
The company has come under the scanner of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the alleged illegal assets of Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, who is at present lodged in a jail here.
It is one of the companies suspected to have made investments in Jaganmohan Reddy's businesses in return for the favours they received from the government of his father and then chief minister Rajasekhara Reddy.
The government during last one year cancelled some land allotments made during Rajasekhara Reddy's tenure. These include 15,000 acres allotted for a steel plant proposed to be developed in Kadapa district by former Karnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy, who is currently in jail in illegal mining case.


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Mobile-gadget makers are starting to take advantage of software-defined radio, a new technology allowing a single device to receive signals from multiple sources, including TV stations and cell phone networks. But a new federal rule set to take effect Friday could mean that radios built on 'open-source elements' may encounter a more sluggish path to market - or, in the worst case scenario, be shut out altogether. U.S. regulators, it seems, believe the inherently public nature of open-source code makes it more vulnerable to hackers, leaving 'a high burden to demonstrate that it is sufficiently secure'.


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The JBI project, which is chaired by Sun, is being jointly developed through the Java community process (JCP) programme by over 22 prominent vendors.
The project is dedicated to developing an open standard for business integration on the Java platform. The specification extends the Java platform to incorporate standardised integration capabilities.
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#1 I love my son.10-02-2011, 09:21 PM
Spent all last month on mid shifts, so I got to spend very little time with him. So I made sure I got to spend some extra special time with him today.
A friend of mine rents a house on some farm land, it's got a ton of oak tree's on it, and I wanted to collect some acorns. I figured it would be a time to spend some time with my son so we went out there. We collected about 20lbs worth and then I let him watch the cows in their enclosure. He really enjoyed that.
About this time my friend got home. We went into the house and Daniel saw his Wii. He let him play some Big Game Hunters, and it was technically the first time he really got to "play" a video game. He had no clue what he was doing, but obviously had fun. We then went outside and he just ran around for a little while exploring. I then helped my friend get his bow sited in and Daniel got to see what shooting a bow was like for the first time.
He had so much fun that he passed out almost the second I got him into the car. Days like today make everything in life so worth it. Just seeing him so happy and having so much fun gives me everything I need to know my life is simply perfect.In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.
I grew up with a step dad but he was a boozer and a mean bastard when he was drunk. when i was old enough i went in the military. and they straightened my ass out and screwed my head on straight.Increase the peace
Daniel is a cutie, an extremely bright little guy who talks like he's at least 2 or 3 years older than he is. Glad that you had such quality time with him. He's a little guy you can be truly proud of.
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I have the same deep, selfless undying love for DeeAnna. Since I got the horses and she has fallen in love with them, she is completely unrecognizeable from the angry and troubled teen who showed up at my door. She works so hard at my spead that I doubt the place could run without her.
I can just sit and watch her work with the horses and it is almost magical how they respond to her.
10-03-2011, 06:18 PMDays like today make everything in life so worth it. Just seeing him so happy and having so much fun gives me everything I need to know my life is simply perfect.
It brought a lump to my throat.
You and your little son are both blessed to have each other.
Keep making those memories for him whenever you can ... they will become precious moments to the both of you.
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He'll always remember playing his first videogame with Dad. He'll probably remember gathering the acorns with you, too.
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Last night, the King's men took and (further) imprisoned a hostage from the Dornish Tower.
Shortly after dusk, a troop of goldcloaks, a maester, and four retainers of Viserys Targaryen, Hand of the King, made their way quietly into the Tower and the Fowler residence on the second floor. The men emerged barely a minute later with Damarya Allyrion in tow.
Outside of her apartments, Damarya's screams for Serion Uller echoed into the stairwell. She was not calling for help, however, but for the blind young man to come out and face her. In the words of one bystander, Damarya, stiff and shaking with rage, promised to "claw her way out of the grave to get him." Serion failed to appear, though, and since the goldcloaks were preparing to gag her if she continued, the one-eyed woman then shut her mouth and allowed them to escort her out in silence.
Returning a short time after, the goldcloaks proceeded to tear through the Fowler apartments under the supervision of a maester. During the search, the goldcloaks allowed no one entry besides a servant, who left shortly afterward with an armful of Damarya Allyrion's belongings. The sounds of terrified birds amidst the crashing furniture distressed Lanei Fowler in particular, and Damarya's former friend and caretaker spent much of her wait pacing the tower stairs.
Word has spread since daybreak that the goldcloaks hauled Damarya not to a motherhouse, but to an isolated cell within the Keep. There, a select few servants and maesters "will tend her as befits her station." The hostages may not see her, however, and with the authorities keeping such a tight lip about the affair, the Dornish can do no more than speculate about the arrest of one of their own. Prince Aemon Targaryen has been seen personally directing new guardsmen assigned to the Dornish tower, a number of them members of the Hand's own household. The Dragonknight has offered few remarks on the increased security.


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I'm glad to see that this solution seems to be working well. The aftermath, however, is going to be a freakin' political circus. I'm simultaneously excited and dreading it.
I'm looking forward to seeing BP get raked over the coals. Bastards. The way they attempted to cover up how bad the spill is is really disgusting. See http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
This is BP's Rules, Not Ours [mediabistro.com]
Well there you go.. BP runs the American government..
This is just step one of the top kill. It's just plugged with mud, which is still streaming out of the hole. Don't start celebrating until they actually top it with concrete.
I've got to wonder, if this does work is BP going to go ahead with their "relief well".
to control the flow of nonsense over the failed well, contractors will first pump T5000 cement into his mouth under pressure, then fit ankle weights, and send him to inspect the work personally in the Gulf.
So you hold the CEO personally responsible for this mishap? If that's the case, then I don't think anyone gets to complain about how much money CEOs make.
I mean, if I were the head of BP and every decision that was made pointed directly at me, then I'd for sure want a bajillion dollars a year.
That's a lot of pressure to be under.
I mean, what if that BP truck driver falls asleep at the wheel and kills a family of 4? That's on me, right?
That's what Officers and Directors indemnification insurance is for.....
First of all, that's now that the grandparent is saying at all. The GP is talking about what the CEO is saying, not the decisions made that caused this disaster. (And he's joking, at that. That much should have been obvious.)
So really, you're off on a tangent to grind your own ax, here.
There's a big difference between blaming someone and actually holding them to accounts. If the BP CEO is willing to pay for the cleanup and potentially go to prison for any malfeasance, then sure, he deserves the massive salary. However, past experience shows that this never actually happens and that the CEOs get a huge salary and take none of the real consequences. It's more likely the little guys with the low salaries who get canned, fined, or jailed.
Either way, I doubt that the GP can do anything against the CEO of BP, so again, you're sort of off on a tangent of your own making here.
if you had a policy which ignored industry and federal and state and local standards on driver hours per week or hours per day, and it was reasonable to conclude that your policy played a role in the driver falling asleep, then yes.
If, on the other hand, you had a policy which reinforced (or even outdid) the safety procedures, and despite quality employee and contractor screening, despite training, despite good policy, something bad still happened (individual negligence or simply bad luck), then no.
In short, management's role is reducing the likelihood of major disasters. Did they do their job? I don't know the answer, but I suspect that the next few years will include a number of investigations to figure that out.
Not responsible for the mishap, responsible for the inadequate response. Keeping officials away and not trying to solve the leak *period*, but trying to solve the leak by extracting the oil.
Actually - that's almost exactly it. Right there. If it is shown that this resulted from systemic faults or negligence on the part of BP management, and is something that results from decisions of the "Very High Up" - i.e. safety shortcuts, speed at the expense of safe(er) procedures, known faults with safety equipment and/or a culture of "get it done fast".
Things that management knew about, condoned, encouraged or "looked the other way", then I believe we should hold the CEO and entire personally responsible. That is (one of the many things) that is wrong with corporate culture in the world now. All the profits and percs of a "human" and none of the responsibility. I think if the CEO and board of corporations were held personally responsible then we'd see a lot less screwing of the public. I'm all for that and the "corporate death penalty".
If you were the CEO of said trucking company, and encouraged or looked the other way when your drivers were falsifying log books, driving extra hours, and ignoring the safety concerns of your maintenance contractor, and your tired driver plowed into a shopping mall with a tanker truck of propane because he was tired, then yes I DO hold you responsible. If that's not the case, and the guy was just an idiot or had too many tacos at lunch and got distracted, then no.
I generally consider myself to lean libertarian - but what we have now in the US is too many cases of privatizing profits and socializing losses/screwups - and that to me is the worst of all worlds.
I mean, what if that BP truck driver falls asleep at the wheel and kills a family of 4? That's on me, right?
Yes, it would be, but only if your negligent business decision made the event happen; like demanding an exceedingly long work day, crazy shift work, or revolving door employment.
So you hold the CEO personally responsible for this mishap? If that's the case, then I don't think anyone gets to complain about how much money CEOs make.
Well, uh, yes? Fact: CEO's make about a bajillion dollars a year, give or take a few million. The job is so cushy that they can run a company into the ground in 6 months, and still retire in luxury after getting fired. Right now, the risk is exclusively carried by worker bees who actually do stuff - they're the ones who get hauled in front of a jury when something goes wrong, regardless of what idiotic policies were put into place by the CEO.
I mean, what if that BP truck driver falls asleep at the wheel and kills a family of 4? That's on me, right?
If you put in a policy that mandates overtime, no break on overnig
to control the flow of nonsense over the failed well, contractors will first pump T5000 cement into his mouth under pressure, then fit ankle weights, and send him to inspect the work personally in the Gulf.
Typical. There's a flippin' crisis going on in the Gulf and the CEO is out getting fitted for his new fancy concrete shoes. What's next? Some exotic underwater hotel where he can sleep with the fishes? That is, if there are any fish left.
An interesting comparison between the 1979 Ixtoc oil disaster and the BP disaster. Note that indeed Transocean and Sedco merged in 1999.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=127_1274931222 [liveleak.com]
Rachael Maddow had a blurb on this yesterday. It showed how similar techniques (including "top kill") were used in attempt to plug the leak, then the leak was finally killed by another well drilled, with a devastating impact on the environment, about six months after the fact.
What lessons can we learn from this? First and foremost, this drives the point home that one of the first priorities is that oil should be relegated to plastic making, and not an energy source.
Nuclear technology may not be perfect, and the biggest problem with it is that it isn't goof-proof. If a group of drunk contractors pass out on the job when putting together a solar cell array, it likely won't affect much other than the head of the guy the cell array fell on. Nuclear plants need to be engineered to be as moron resistant as possible, because both Chernobyl and Three Mile Island were caused by "cockpit errors". Hopefully Gen III and Gen IV reactors will go a long way to address this.
This is not to say that other energy sources are not relevant, but until fusion gets able to be used on a production basis (as in multi-gigawatt reactors), the only real solution for dense areas without access to large amount of real estate is nuclear breeder reactors.
Of course, there are other ways to help with energy. I've seen some research on generators which turn water into hydrogen and pass the stuff down a pipeline to an electricity generation station nearby a metropolitan area where it is burned. This minimizes energy loss over long distances as opposed to power lines.
In any case, this BP disaster just further reinforces the point of getting off of oil and onto other energy sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor [wikipedia.org]
recent tech from germany, many generations technologically removed form the 1960s era tech all of our china syndrome fears are based on
air cooled, passive safety system. there is no failure that can cause an accident, because anything and everything can fail and nothing bad will happen: you can just walk away from a pebble bed reactor, they are foolproof
the only issue is terrorism (not as in bombing the plant, but as in stealing fissile material and placing it in times square), so you need a really good inventory security apparatus
nuclear+electric cars is obviously the solution to our environmental, energy, and geopolitical problems
Why didn't they just call the Little Dutch Boy?
He's somewhere in Amsterdam's red light district, sticking his finger in dykes.
Why didn't they call Aquaman? This is probably the only time where his superpower would actually be useful.
Well here in the UK petrol/gasoline is 1.20 GBP / litre, there are 3.79 litres to 1 US gallon = 4.55 GBP / gallon, x 1.45 (pounds to dollars) and we're at $6.60
The price of gasoline should go up to eight dollars a gallon, that should keep people from wasting it.
It might do, at that.
The current price for unleaded gasoline in Germany is about 1.40 euros per liter [aaireland.ie], and it was up to 1.57 euros in the summer of 2008. That makes the current price about $6.60 US per gallon, and the peak just over $9 per gallon.
Because of these horrendous fuel prices, the German people suffer terribly. They are forced to drive tiny, ugly, uncomfortable econoboxes with weak, underp
Sometimes we need to toughen up those pansy-ass dolphins, birds, and turtles. If we hadn't cuddled them for so long they wouldn't be going extinct. Adversity breeds strength.
And the same goes for you, Pandas. You're next! Oh, you'll be mating up a storm when we finish.
latest "live" thread with great insights in the comments: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6515 [theoildrum.com]
Relevant links to top kill procedure (scroll to comments in each, they're very good.)
Deepwater Oil Spill - Permissions and Concerns about Top Kill http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6513 [theoildrum.com]
Deep Water Spill - Waiting for Top Kill (more updated tech) http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6509 [theoildrum.com]
The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - the Top Kill Attempt (the technical aspect of what just happened) http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6505 [theoildrum.com]
The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill, barriers, flow rates, and top kill http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6501 [theoildrum.com]
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Now it's plugged with mud. With the flow much reduced, concrete can be put in.
One hurricane season and the mess will be gone. 8 to 14 hurricanes [rigzone.com] are expected in the Atlantic region by the end of the year.
Relief wells will be drilled; after all, there's definitely oil down there. The reservoir will be pumped out.
Everybody will be a lot more serious about blowout preventers.
More equipment for dealing with such problems will be on standby in some Gulf port for decades to come.
No big deal.
Relief wells will be drilled; after all, there's definitely oil down there. The reservoir will be pumped out.
Relief wells can't be used to get oil. The relief wells are used to "bottom kill" the well, which is still necessary - "top kill" is just a band-aid. The last step in said "bottom kill" is to pump concrete into the relief well, and it's really, really hard to pump oil out through concrete.
That being said, we can be pretty sure that a new production well will be drilled somewhere nearby.
The US needs to basically say "If you have the needed stuff and can give us a plan you get to keep any oil you recover" and then cut the spill area into grid squares and say okay you say you can clean XK gallons so you can use these grid squares and you have these squares ect.
BP of course can buy the oil from the various folks at whatever price or maybe have their own folks scooping up oil.
Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates.


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The Green Bay Packers have notoriously been a tough team to beat coming off of their bye for nearly two decades. A meeting with the underachieving Detroit Lions may just be icing on the cake.
The Packers visit the Lions this Sunday looking to record a fifth straight victory and extend their winning streak over NFC North opponents to nine games in a row.
After a slow start to the season, the Packers have not lost since Oct. 7 at the Indianapolis Colts. They followed up that setback with road wins over the Houston Texans and St. Louis Rams before home victories against the Jacksonville Jaguars and Arizona Cardinals.
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is tied for the NFL lead with 25 touchdown passes, connecting on four scoring strikes in Green Bay's 31-17 victory over the Cardinals on Nov. 4. He has been picked off just five times this season.
"I'm trying to be the best player I can be," noted Rodgers. "You've got to be self-motivated in this league to be successful. I've tried to learn from the people I've come in contact with and just continue to try to be a better player."
The extra rest usually does Green Bay some good as it has won 12 of its last 16 games after the week off. That includes a victory in each of the past three seasons, with the Packers outscoring their opponents 102-41. In that sample is a 26-0 victory over Detroit in 2009.
The bye came at a good time for Green Bay, which continues to play without safety Charles Woodson (collarbone), wide receiver Greg Jennings (abdominal) and running back Cedric Benson (foot), while linebacker Clay Matthews, wide receiver Jordy Nelson and right tackle Bryan Bulaga all suffered injuries against the Cardinals.
"You don't gain anything spending a whole lot of time talking about it," Packers head coach Mike McCarthy said of playing through the injuries. "Our team understands that. We've unfortunately had to deal with it in the past so we do have experience in these situations. You know, we're just trying to get our guys ready to do what we need to do to win this football game."
Nelson is likely to return this weekend from an ankle issue, but Matthews will miss some time due to a hamstring ailment while a hip injury landed Bulaga on injured reserve.
Still, Green Bay should be loaded with confidence heading into its first divisional matchup since a Week 2 win over the Chicago Bears extended their winning streak against divisional opponents to a club record-tying eight in a row.
The Packers haven't lost to a NFC North team since Dec. 12, 2010 at Detroit.
That defeat is the lone for Green Bay against the Lions in 12 meetings since McCarthy took over as head coach prior to the 2006 season. The Packers have won 20 of the last 23 encounters overall and have outscored the Lions 180-109 in six games at Detroit's Ford Field under McCarthy, winning five of those.
Green Bay logged a 27-15 win at Detroit in a Thanksgiving Day matchup last season, the 11th victory of their franchise-record 13-game win streak to start that campaign. Rodgers threw for 307 yards and two touchdowns, including a 65- yard scoring strike to receiver James Jones.
Detroit quarterback Matthew Stafford was picked off three times in the loss, though he posted 520 passing yards and five touchdowns in a 45-41 defeat in Green Bay to conclude the regular season. He was, however, outdueled by then- Packers' backup quarterback Matt Flynn and his six TD passes.
The Lions are looking to turn things around after having a two-game win streak halted last Sunday with a 34-24 defeat at the Minnesota Vikings. Detroit fell a game under .500 and is now 0-3 against the division in 2012 despite getting a career-high 12 receptions for 207 yards with a touchdown catch by wideout Calvin Johnson.
At 4-5, the Lions are last in the NFC North and now face an uphill battle to make a second straight playoff appearance.
"I wouldn't call it either one of those - desperate or dire," Lions head coach Jim Schwartz said of the team's postseason hopes. "I think our word is urgent. We had six of our first nine on the road. We now have a stretch of three in a row at home. We have to do something with that. There's urgency to that. Our margins are a lot thinner. We don't have a whole lot of wiggle room for mistakes down the stretch. We have to play our best."
Detroit has another pair of tough home games on this residency coming up against the Texans on Thanksgiving followed by a visit from the Indianapolis Colts.
Injuries could certainly play a factor in this game and Matthews has already been ruled out.
Having had to overcome big losses of Jennings and Woodson, rookie linebacker Dezman Moses could be in line for a bigger role without Matthews, who leads Green Bay with nine sacks, one of 13 different players to record a sack this season for the Packers.
Green Bay has totaled 28 sacks through its first nine games, tied with the 2010 club for the most in that span since the '02 campaign.
Rodgers has been sacked a league-high 29 times this season, though he was taken down just once versus the Cardinals. He'll line up behind an offensive set this weekend that will see T.J. Lang slide over from left tackle to right to replace Bulaga. Evan Dietrich-Smith will get the call on the left side in place of Lang, who has the full confidence of Rodgers.
"T.J.'s been great for us. He's been a rock for us inside," said Rodgers. "Really happy for him and his progression and the way he conducts himself, the leadership that he exudes to the guys on our team, the way he encourages guys, gets on them. He's really become a leader on our offense, a guy you can really count on."
Nelson's injury may be the easiest one for the Packers to overcome and the depth featured with Jones, Randall Cobb, veteran Donald Driver and tight end Jermichael Finley will allow McCarthy to limit Nelson's role if he is less than 100 percent versus the Lions. The head coach did note this week that Nelson "looked like his normal self" in practice.
Detroit's defense is working through its own issues, especially in the secondary. Safety Amari Spievey is dealing with a concussion and Louis Delmas, the club's starter at free safety, has missed the past two games with a knee ailment.
Though cornerback Drayton Florence is nearing a return from a forearm injury, fellow defensive back Chris Houston suffered an ankle injury versus the Vikings, while defensive end Cliff Avril is questionable due to a head ailment.
Houston has been a solid defender for the Lions this season and has one of the team's five interceptions. Avril leads Detroit with 4 1/2 sacks.
Even with the injuries, Schwartz would like to see his team cut back on allowing big plays down the field.
"Unfortunately you don't get graded on the curve. You really can't say taking into account the injuries because injuries are what they are," he said.
Schwarz would also like to see his run defense improve after Vikings back Adrian Peterson torched the Lions for 171 yards last weekend, including a game-icing 61-yard TD run with 8:06 to play.
Injuries aren't just taking its their toll on the defense. Johnson turned in a superb effort despite lingering soreness that usually causes him to sit out practices on Wednesday. He has still managed to lead the NFL with 974 receiving yards, though he has scored just two touchdowns.
"He was better this week than he was last week," Schwartz said of Johnson. "There's not a player that's 100 percent right now. He was able to go out and effectively do his job. And not only do his job, but impact the game that way that he does. He's fighting through just like a lot of other guys are fighting through, but he's still able to be successful and he is getting better."
That's good news for Stafford, who with three touchdown passes versus the Vikings became just the third player in NFL history to reach the 70-touchown pass plateau in fewer than 40 career games. He has 71 scoring throws in 38 games, joining Hall of Famer Dan Marino and Kurt Warner.
The rest of the NFL couldn't wait to write-off the Packers after their 2-3 start.
Wishful thinking.
Rodgers has returned to MVP form and an improving defense has lowered its season average to 20.8 points per game, ninth-best in the NFL.
"Physically he's in great shape. He's on top of his game and more important, he's on top of everything that goes on with our offense," said McCarthy of his quarterback.
The Lions have the offense to compete in a shootout seeing as their 406.1 yards per game ranks second the league. But Detroit has struggled finishing off drives, coming in at the middle of the pack in scoring, and forcing turnovers.
Those factors against a rested Packers team will certainly leave Detroit singing the blues.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Packers 34, Lions 24


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Worldwide Hardware:
4: WiiU - 238,530 (-39%)
5: Wii - 202,795 (-39%)
Worldwide Software:
1: (X360) Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 447,173
2: (PS3) Call of Duty: Black Ops II - 433,305
3: (X360) Halo 4 - 357,019
4: (Wii) Just Dance 4 - 349,317
5: (X360) Far Cry 3 - 282,236
6: (3DS) New Super Mario Bros. 2 - 253,838
7: (PS3) FIFA Soccer 13 - 243,423
8: (PS3) Assassin's Creed III - 242,777
9: (X360) Kinect Adventures! - 216,358
10: (PS3) Far Cry 3 - 215,534
great numbers for the PS3! 599 US dolla *cough* 599 thousand consoles sold!
Shouldn't it be great rumored numbers for the PS3? It's nice to see the Vita above the DS and PSP for once in this rumored global charts.
The PS3 and 360 are holding up strong for the last week of 2012. I can't wait to see how they have done for the first week of 2013.
NPD should have those numbers out soon as well and MS & Sony afterwards.
These are the only numbers that matter, but unfortunately, post Christmas and for the rest of the year, they get very little traffic. It's a very good year for Sony, having outsold the 360 so far this year by 1.4 million (probably by 1.7 by March). It's also interesting to note that this weeks PS3 numbers have more than wiped out the last three weeks for the 360, and whilst the 360 usually outsells the PS3 by around 700,000 units for those 6 weeks, it only managed 200,000. It will probably be back to 1.6 in April.
I'm being very conservative here because I have no idea what sort or spikes the exclusives will bring. If they perform well, it could be around 1.2 in April. Don't bother with the maths, these numbers are 'thereabout-ish' :)
Godchild, you do know that VGChartz eventually figure in the NPD numbers, along with Media Create/Famitsu for Japan. They are guestimates based on certain retailers during the month though. The European numbers probably get adjusted when the numbers come on that Nintendo use... can't remember the name of the company responsible.
At the end of the day they're not that far out, but I do agree that they are only estimates most of the time. Hopefully they rectify the undertracking of PS3 and the overtracking of the 360 on Black Friday (going by official company numbers). They still haven't done that yet, but eh, I'm not going to gripe about that.
For those who wish to disagree, here is a breakdown of sales figures (after adjustments related to OFFICIAL information) yearly for that ever shrinking gap. Note How the 360 price drop in 2008 gave the 360 a 7,393,256 lead but was swallowed up the following year.
2006: 6,727,759
2007: 6,685,256
2008: 7,393,621
2009: 4,556,165
2010: 3,572,437
2011: 3,261,709
2012: 1,809,663 (not fiscal year)
This is why PS3 owners get frustrated when 360 owner keep on saying that gap has always been the same. The American and UK numbers won't inform you. Only the Worldwide numbers will. This is what PS3 owners have been saying for years. They haven't been saying it would catch up in [insert year] they've been saying 'it's catching up'.
At some point it WILL eventually catch up and this is probably the year. If not, the gap will be so minute it would be pointless to argue. Both consoles would have done remarkably well and it would then be a matter of which company keeps their promise of a ten year lifecycle (remember MS also said that for those who wish to say it doesn't matter because next gen is coming).
It clearly mattered to Microsoft so let's not call the race over when it suits you.
Race is over when next gen starts...and next gen started with the release of the WiiU.
lol at you both
this gen is over ..said who?!
wow so we have the new ps/xbox consoles now (the ones we have no idea what they are or if they will even come this year or next)?? and more important did they stop making ps3 and xbox360 ...did they stop making games for both maybe for xbox but ps3 have a long list of exclusives this year ??!!
and who's the public that ps3 lost in their eyes .. ?
and also you are still looking for vgchartes numbers as real numbers ? lolXD
you guys claim all you like both of you are wrong and live in your own bubble
Hey listsen, you can be as crafty as you want. but we all know your full of it, you earn those disagrees.
Have the console manufacturers actually released official numbers for 2012 yet though? We're only a week into the new year, seem like we'd get those later. Yearly numbers can't usually be figured until you see quarterly sales, and I haven't seen the last quarter released yet. I believe MS is still in their last quarter for their fiscal year, while Sony just started it's last quarter.
now Vgchartz is not Lying..
That's the problem. Who knows? Without any legitimate data to compare it to, how on earth do we know if these numbers are accurate or not? We don't even know how VGChartz comes up with these numbers or when, if ever, they're adjusted and against what. That's the problem, and VGChartz in their own terms states that they don't stand behind their own data.
Historically, VChartz has proven grossly inaccurate when compared to NPD numbers or official data released by each company, especially when it comes to figures outside of the US and software figures are all over the map. But they're a fan run site run by an ex neogaffer who was banned for forcing his BS numbers down everyone's throats. What should we expect? I have no doubt the PS3 is ahead again, but that's looking at the official data that's been released so far. I don't need VGChartz to tell me that. It doesn't matter if they say the 360 is ahead, the WiiU is ahead, or the PS3. You just can't trust them.
And before some joker posts a link to that one time I posted an article from VGChartz and calls me a hypocrite, read the article. It was news related to EEDAR analysts talking NPD sales data and had nothing to do with VGChartz guesstimates. I don't simply condone data from this site when it suits my purpose and my posting history will attest to that. VGChartz is not a reliable source for sales data, it doesn't matter what they say.
why people still buying 360 i dont get it????
nothing is free harddrive,online service,batteries for controller.
ps3 all of that is FREE!!!!!!!! PLUS BLU-RAY free!!
He just means that you've got yourself a game console and a blu-ray player in one.
I don't think that is what he is saying. Saying something is 'free' and 'all in one' are completely different things.
You have to realise that nothing in the world is free.
Both will sell over 80m with ease.
Hopefully one day, one/both of them will get past the wii's numbers.
Taking them Considerably longer to reach that number....
Now with Wii-U out, I'm not seeing how the Wii will be relevant in a couple of months, meanwhile PS360 will have price-cuts to make room for the new consoles from Sony+MS
Think of the PS2 situation after the PS3 launched
What else choices do gamers have to pick from. Please don't say wii u.
The Vita is slowwwwwwwwwly making its way up the list. Lol. Just a little bit more every week.
The PS3 has smoked every other console, when it comes to revenue invested by users -- great numbers, at a greater price, from day 1. Pretty astounding job by Sony, getting people to buy premium hardware like it was discount stuff.
Now if only they could turn that into profit! I expect next gen will be a good turnaround for them, even if the next PS isn't the mightiest hardware.
Just a shame all that revenue has yet to translate to an actual overall profit for SONY.
Interesting tidbit, according to vgchartz archives, when the PS3 launched, the xbox 360 had only sold 18 million games. Today vgchartz have that game at 94 million units.
If the ps3 truly has more unique users due to xbox 360's high failure and replacement rate, those users buy far less games than their 360 counterparts. . .According to vgchartz of course.
You have to remember that alot of people buy a ps3 just for a bluray player/media streamer...that's one of the biggest reasons why it shows less game purchases for ps3. And just the fact it has a bluray player and no yearly fee to access Netflix like xbox...the ps3 will outsell the 360 soon and continue to do so.
Why would someone disagree with what I said? I know some people arnt fond of logic but cmon..alot of non gamers buy ps3 for blu ray and Netflix.. Also alot of gamers buy it just for exclusives...360 is mainly bought by gamers for just games..So of course the ps3 will surpass it in sales.. But game sales?...they're gonna be lagging behind the 360. Think logical people.
That may have been true for the first couple years of it's life-cycle when it was just cheaper, and actually better, than a standalone player. However, for the past 3-4 years stand alone Blu-ray players have been significantly cheaper, and often better, than a PS3(even after price cuts). Currently the average Blu-ray player is between $60-150.
Also Netflix, along with almost every streaming media service, is commonplace in current stand-alone players. It's plastered all over the box, and on shelf displays. Even the most basic models provide some sort of streaming and Smart TV service integrated into the machine.
Attach rates in 2010 for PS3 were 8.1. For 360 they were 8.8. I don't have data for 2011. In 2010 there were significantly more 360's sold through than the PS3. Because the attach rates were roughly equal, it means that more software was sold for 360 due to there being more systems out there (disregarding any other issues of multiple purchases by RROD, or whatever).
I haven't been able to confirm that PS3 attach rates have surpassed 360 ones, like some sites were claiming in 2011, so I won't discuss those.
The point is though, that roughly the same percentage of people that use these systems buy roughly the same percentage of software for those systems, rendering your argument invalid.
i would love to see the Wii U dominating the charts
Won't happen not until they drop the price or they release a good game. ;)
Yet again I am baffled as to how the console which is repeatedly said to have no games, manages to outsell every other console on the list in terms of software sales. Heck this same game-less console is the only one with an exclusive title (2 actually) in the top 10 worldwide! How is this possible N4G?
Also, Gribble, how many times are you going to tell us that the Europe numbers are the least popular or worldwide numbers don't matter the rest of the year when ps3 is ahead or blah blah blah? You say the same stuff at almost every vgchartz article, we got it, thank you. You can chime down about it now.
360 is a more popular console for children so generally does better in the christmas season. Ps3 sells better the rest of the year.
This is just vgchartz though and they could be way off especially when it comes to software.
Kinda Hypocrittical thing to say since the ps3 and the 3ds sold more this christmas, lol!
The last 3 weeks leading up to christmas the 360 has outsold the ps3. Now that christmas is over and people are done buying presents for children the ps3 rises to the top of the home console market again.
All year the ps3 sells significantly more hardware and software then the 360 then the 360 sells better during the holidays. How would you explain the big boost in sales the 360 gets this time of year?
No need to troll.
Good numbers all round for the end of the year.
WOW, according to Vgchartz the PS3 sold ~4.8 million consoles in a little under 2 months.. WW Sales of PS3 according to Vgchartz on November 10, 2012 = 68,313,471.
According to Sony, PS3 reached the 70 million mark on November 4th, 2012. Would like to see what Sony's official numbers are. My investment in Sony at $9.70 back in early December is looking mighty good!!
LOL please tell me you did not put money in Sony stock? Playstation is only a small part of Sony. Infact its one of the only profitable parts too. To bad Moblie, and TV departments are sucking away those profits like a fat girl sucks down cake.
That money is gone...
Please you don't read a lot huh Sony mobile is currently #3 ww for phone behind Samsung n apple these are the big 3 phone company's that actually make money and also # 3 in TV which are very diffecult to make money for anyone but are very close between lg in sales n ps3 is currently at #2 sales world wide in sales So i guess u didnt get the memo
Guess you did not get the memo, sales dont matter for shit if your profits are in the dump. It does not matter that they sell, they dont make profit. Look up how poor Sony stock has been since the recession. Im not doing it for you. Its tanking and fast, but there is no bright future For Sony. Leagon of fanyboys or not.
These sales from ps3 and 360 are stalling next gen from releasing. I'm not complaining, but MS and Sony keep moving units like crazy.
False numbers... again. As of now, both ps3 and 360 is 70 millions.When both microsoft and sony announce their numbers, they will be official. until then this is roumor.
hope the 360 enjoyed beeing above the ps3 for the few weeks, since that wont happen until next years black friday.
How is this not top of the page already? It's vgachartz people...
Ohhh wait its not North America numbers that's why...
Cough Nintendo cough
What about them? 3DS doing great, Wii U in desperate need of a price drop.
so selling nearly 3 mill already means it needs a price drop? what kind of logic is that. only console that sold faster than that at launch is the Wii


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big ten basketball
Tom Crean Dismisses Sophomore Emmit Holt
Alcohol related offense -- apparantly tried to conceal a bottle of alcohol. Interestingly enough, Yogi Ferrell was also cited for underage drinking and attempting to enter a bar with a fake ID, but he didn't get kicked off.
Figured I'd get this in early in the morning, it'll just get buried by REAL FOOTBALL CONTENT.
He looks like Eminem in that halftime interview,,,
Why We Watch B1G Hoops: Part II
From Part I of this brief mini-series:
After a while, I decided to focus on ten of the most intriguing, good, talented, enigmatic, compelling, or otherwise notable players in the Big Ten and write about, well, what I think of them, what I think when I watch them play, and (to a certain extent) what they mean to me and the conference at-large. Basketball can be boiled down to numbers, but it should be an affective experience as well. So here's that side of things. Don't read it if you're blinded by hatred for the enemy; don't read it if you're just gonna skim for Michigan players because there aren't any (though Caris would be on here if he wasn't hurt and oh, the sadness, it's back).
The first five players – Branden Dawson, Melo Trimble, Denzel Valentine, D.J. Newbill, and Frank Kaminsky – are in the post linked above. Here are the next five (again, in no particular order):
Nebraska's Champion
Champion: "a knight who fought in single combat on behalf of the monarch."
Back in the day (as far as I know), armies lined up across each other from far away, sent out their best fighter, and watched as the two fought in lieu of a full-blown battle. My best versus your best, and the gods will decide who's better. In that way, I visualize Nebraska's offensive strategy as an attempt to rekindle that ancient strategy; they send out Terran Petteway holding a sword and a shield, decked out in armor, to battle the opponent.
It's an old – read: obsolete – basketball strategy too: get this guy the ball, the rest of you just play defense and rebound. Allen Iverson's 76ers took this to its logical extreme and, with efficiency prized as a valuable stat, it's hard to believe that giving a guy 20 or more field goal attempts in a game to get maybe 25 points from him is a sound strategy… unless you're Nebraska!
"Terran, go do something" is the Huskers' modus operandi offensively (unless Shavon Shields wants in on the action every so often), and, unsurprisingly, Petteway has the highest usage rate in the league this season. He's put up some gaudy point numbers; he's put up a ton of shots. A few nights ago, he put up 21 points against Wisconsin on 27.5 shot equivalents. With Nebraska in catch-up mode – due to their stagnant offense early on – and the offense devolved into hoping that Petteway would do something (which, to be fair, sort of worked better than their regular offense did).
It's a high variance strategy; sometimes he pours in an efficient 32 (like he did against Michigan State), sometimes he puts up 18 shots and only makes five (like he did against Rhode Island). It's a nightly adventure – is Petteway on or not? To be clear, he gets buckets – if sometimes inefficiently – and he's a good basketball player on the whole: Petteway does have an eye for distributing the ball; he's great attacking the rim and getting to the free throw line; he's a passable outside shooter, especially since a lot of his attempts are of the pull-up variety; and the most underrated part of his game is that, like every other Husker, he's a very good defender.
Sending Terran Petteway, Champion of Nebraska, Noble Warrior of the Corn to fight mano a mano with the other team's champion simply isn't feasible. The rules of engagement have changed. Still, he gets buckets. For that reason and that reason alone, he's always compelling – good, bad or neutral. And since he's going to put up a ton of points one way or another, he'll be rewarded with a spot on the First- or Second-Team All-Big Ten team.
[after the jump: odes to Hammons, Rod Williams, Yogi, and Russell]
The Monday Ten Goes on Vacation
College basketball starts in earnest this week with a series of early-season holiday tournaments, where some Big Ten teams will face their staunchest tests so far this season. The destinations – Maui, NYC, Cancun, the Bahamas, Vegas – add an element of quirkiness that is singular to college basketball; fanbases from various corners of the country get to watch their teams play a few games in a unique environment over the span of a few days. It serves multiple purposes: teams get to go on vacation, often add quality opponents to their non-conference schedule, and practice quick turnarounds that they'll later see in conference tournaments (and possibly the NCAA Tournament).
This week's ten:
- First-round opponents
- Projecting second- and third-round opponents
- Five possible games I'd love to see
- James Blackmon, Jr. to the rescue
- Indiana wins a battle of extremes against SMU
- Tough opponents and expected losses
- Somebody rushes the court against Nebraska
- Penn State (barely) goes 2-1 in Charleston
- Chucker Watch
- Saluting Shannon Scott
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1. First-round opponents
In an (admittedly arbitrary) order from most- to least-intriguing games. Rankings are via kenpom.com from late Sunday night.
- 17. Michigan vs. 30. Oregon (11-24, 9:30, ESPN3)
- 26. Maryland vs. 68. Arizona St. (11-24, 7:00, ESPNU)
- 38. Purdue vs. 55. Kansas St. (11-24, 2:30, ESPN2)
- 34. Minnesota vs. 47. St. John's (11-26, 7:00, ESPNU)
- 40. Illinois vs. 144. Indiana St. (11-28, 5:00, FS1)
- 128. Rutgers vs. 86 Vanderbilt (11-28, 7:00, NBCSN)
- 101. Northwestern vs. 248 Miami (OH) (11-25, 9:30, CBSSN)
- 4. Wisconsin vs. 203. UAB (11-26, 7:00, AXS.tv)
- 14. Michigan St. vs. 198. Rider (11-28, 6:30, ESPN2)
Monday features some of the best early matchups, as Michigan, Maryland, and Purdue each face their first real tests of the season. The Boilermakers face former Illinois coach, Bruce Weber, and Kansas State to kick off the Maui invitational: the Wildcats are coming off of an upset loss at Long Beach State. Maryland draws Arizona St.; neither team has been seriously tested by weak schedules thus far and both teams are featuring plenty of new faces all over the court. Michigan plays the late game against Oregon – a team that's replacing nearly everyone from last season.
2. Projecting second- and third-round opponents
By using Ken Pomeroy's Pythagorean value for each of the teams in a log5 simulation, I found the probability that a given team would face a certain opponent in the second and third rounds of their tournaments.
3. Five possible games I'd love to see
- Michigan St. vs. Kansas – Even though this matchup would likely require both teams to win their first two games, there's still a very good chance due to the overall weakness of the rest of the field (outside of perhaps Tennessee). Both teams lost in the Champions Classic this past week – MSU fell to Duke and Kansas was obliterated by Kentucky – and could use an early-season win over a blue-blood as a morale boost.
- Wisconsin vs. Florida – Wisconsin will almost certainly beat UAB, so a favored Florida team needs to beat Georgetown. This would be the third meeting in the past three years between the Badgers and the Gators: in the 2012 season, Florida ran Wisconsin out of the gym in Gainesville and Wisconsin replied with the boa-constrictor treatment on the return trip. This would be Wisconsin's first big challenge of the young season.
- Michigan vs. Villanova – Regardless of the first-round outcomes in the Legends Classic, Michigan will find itself facing a formidable opponent the night after a contest with Oregon. Villanova gets the slight nod as a preferable opponent here because Michigan recently faced VCU (and the superb 2012 team dominated) and because Villanova lost just four games last year – two of which came in the form of blowouts at the hands of Creighton, a three-point happy team like Michigan.
- Illinois vs. Baylor – I'm high on the Illini and a matchup between backcourt transfers Ahmad Starks and Aaron Cosby against Baylor's diminutive guard tandem would be fun. Illinois would need to prove that its presumably resurgent three-point shooting can hold up against Baylor's bizarre sort of matchup zone that only makes sense to Scott Drew. Illinois would get open looks, and we'd see if they can hit them. Plus we get a rematch of this game.
- Purdue vs. Arizona – If nothing else, this would be an excellent measuring stick for A.J. Hammons and Isaac Haas; Purdue's big men – particularly the frustrating and inconsistent Hammons – could have a great chance to prove themselves against one of the nastiest frontcourts in college basketball. A loss here would be expected (and not at all harmful), while a win would be the type of resume-builder that could propel the Boilermakers into the tournament come March.
[AFTER THE JUMP: running down the week that was in the Big Ten]
Discussion: Nebraska upsets 13 Indiana 70-69; Good or Bad?
Oh how the tide has turned for Indiana. What does mean for the B1G in general? Is the B1G beating up on itself hurting us? Is this good or bad for us(since we lost to IU), or WHO CARES 3 IN A ROW VS SPARTY!!?
UPDATE: NW passes on all-purple court
You might recall a few weeks back when we addressed the four proposals that fans could vote for on Facebook and touched upon the one rods-and-cones-scarring possibility that the court would end up looking like this. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and the least awful option was selected.
Below is sample illustrating how the stained floor will actually look upon completion:
That's actually not too shabby. You know what? Democracy: sometimes, it actually works!
Big Ten B-Ball Craziness
So with recent wins by Northwestern and Minnesota, there is the possibility that FIVE teams in the Big Ten will finish 9-9 in the conference. Each of these five teams has one game left in regular conference play. This will happen if:
- Michigan beats Minnesota
- Northwestern beats OSU
- Indiana beats Wisconsin
Obviously, the last one (Indiana over Wisconsin) is really unlikely to happen. But still, we could easily have Michigan, Minnesota, OSU and Northwestern all at 9-9. I know this affects seedings for the Big Ten Tournament, but can anyone hazard a guess at what the implications are for the NCAA tourney?
The good thing is that, if this scenario (four teams at 9-9) occurs, Michigan will have a head-to-head advantage over Northwestern and Minnesota (but not OSU). The bad thing is that, even if this happens, Michigan will still place 7th in the conference, not counting the Big Ten Tournament of course.


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POTTSTOWN — Pottstown High School Business Technology students showcased their talents recently at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Annual Computer Fair.
Students, under the direction of instructor Dennis Arms, competed with more than 60 other schools in Montgomery County.
Juniors Gio Maldonado and Tom Viscuso and senior Matt Tessier placed First in the Website Design category.
Also placing First, and qualifying for the Pennsylvania State Computer Competition held at Dickinson College, were Zach Davis and Josh Metzger in the category of Graphic Design.
The Graphic Design category saw almost a clean sweep by Pottstown students as Emily Overdorf, Andrea Moses, and Nate Flickinger placed Third.
The day-long competition challenges students' technological skills and ability to be creative and imaginative.
Arms said, "I am proud of our students for their accomplishments. This type of event takes a great deal of patience and teamwork to create a project that advances to the state competition."
"To have two of our teams moving on is a credit to their abilities, skills, and perseverance," Arms said.
This article first appeared as a post in The Digital Notebook blog.