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I've got to get on a plane shortly so shortly the links will go.
Brief thoughts on the first exhibition:
- Albrecht is an extremely wise pickup; if he can hit threes and break the press and get M's offense in motion he'll be at least a solid backup for four years. Michigan needed some stability at that PG spot and he looks like he'll provide it.
- Stauskas is going to be a lights out three point shooter and he has enough other game to contribute to the rest of the offense; D needs work.
- McGary's FTs will probably be fine, his stroke looks good. Hopefully that leg injury clears up and he gets that extra 10% athleticism that made him a huge prospect after his AAU season.
- GRIII is Branden Dawson-ish with more shooting and less rebounding but probably not much less rebounding.
- Hardaway played a much more complete game than we're used to seeing. Thumbs up.
- Know Your Foe from the MZone says "must resist making little Brown Jugs" joke at picture of hot woman in brown bikini, predicts 28-10.
- Who Are You And Why Do We Care exists, predicts on non-football factors, does so 38-13.
- Maize and Go Blue goes with 37-10.
- Maize and Blue Nation says 27-2, which I should have thought of.
- The Daily Gopher can't even find a jug picture where it's being held by a Minnesota player—RVB is the man—and goes with 31-13.
- I'm In Love With A Fringe Bowl Team has a mathematical model that says 33-23 and a non-gambler guy who picks Michigan to cover: "I would have loved to start this post recalling the last time the Gophers beat Michigan in Minnesota, but I don't remember it at all. This is mostly because it was five years before my birth."
Kovacs is a truthful dude. Post-Nebraska:
"A lot of it is the games we played," Kovacs said. "Air Force didn't necessarily throw the ball on us a lot, and Alabama didn't have to.
"There's some open receivers last game that (quarterback Taylor) Martinez didn't see. There were a couple blitzes we ran, and we had a guy running down the middle of the field wide open. Can't let that happen. We've been fortunate they haven't hit 'em yet."
So that means the secondary is playing at a high level, but maybe not its highest level?
"I don't know," Kovacs said. "I think we're playing all right. I think last game we didn't play well enough at all, specifically the defensive backs."
- Well, yeah. Gibbons:
"I really don't groom that much," Gibbons said, smiling.
Now he's going to bleed on you, Baumgardner. Or more likely whoever wrote this headline:
Michigan's Nik Stauskas and Matt Vogrich could finally give John Beilein a consistent deep threat in Ann Arbor
Zack Novak shot 41% from three last year, and whenever he gets back from wrecking Belgium he's going to be ANGAR. Elsewhere, Spike Albrecht is called "mini Steve Nash," which is definitely not getting ahead of ourselves and headline guy is definitely going to put a "got" in between the first two words of this one after a loss at some point this year:
Youth served: Michigan's talented freshmen five show ability, poise in college debut
Falk on Jug. Not like that.
Whatever that might mean.
Seriously, they can do this? Whenver M plays at Northern I think the exact same thing Yost Built does:
Unlike SOME SCHOOLS THAT I KNOW OF, Northern offers streaming video of their games for $7. You can also buy a season pass for $75, and if you're reading this blog, don't have season tickets, and claim that you wouldn't fork out that much for a Michigan version of the same thing, I will call you a damn liar. It's 2012 and this is Michigan fergodsakes. We shouldn't have less access to video of games than Northern Michigan fans. Just saying.
I've watched three or four games at NMU the past few years, and M hockey fans outside of the local area can't get one.
Meanwhile, MHN highlights the scheduling thing we'll hear all season:
The Mining Journal's Matt Wellens talked to NMU coach Walt Kyle about scheduling the Wolverines in the future. Kyle is open to the idea, however it must be on "fair terms." By that he means a basic home-and-home series where the Wolverines would travel to NMU one year and NMU would return the favor the next year. He is not open to two-for-ones and payout deals.
Honestly, good for NMU.
Etc.: Stuffing the Passer. Michigan expects lack of goalie ejections at Northern Michigan. Yost Built previews NMU. NCAA dooms Midwest regional to 20 people in stands for 13th year of 14 by giving it to Cincinnati, which has one program (Miami) within a four hour drive. Leitch should totally ditch the Knicks. Catching up with Hunwick.
Plinko Preview
2/17/2012 – Michigan 4, Northern Michigan 1 – 19-10-4, 13-8-4 Gongshow
2/18/2012 – Michigan 3, Northern Michigan 2 (OT) – 20-10-4, 14-8-4 Gongshow
Too many of these flags without a banner
Inevitably, Michigan's come down a bit from its dominating post-Merrill streak. After a month of games rarely competitive enough to require the opposition goalie to be pulled, Michigan's won two of the last four in overtime. A third they lost; the fourth was a one-goal game with five minutes to go before a power play goal gave Michigan room to breathe.
While they remain one of the hottest teams in the country—probably still the hottest team—it's just that… man, they are mortal. Very much so. Saturday confirmed that. Watching Mac Bennett cough up an unbelievable turnover gets that point halfway home; cowering after Jon Freakin' Merrill got ostentatiously walked for a goal drives it the rest of the way. And don't get me started on the third pairing.
It is easy to construct ways in which Michigan gets beaten in the tourney. Maybe it's better to know that going in, to not be regarding the NCAA tournament as anything other than sport's most terrifying random number generator, but dammit I've been watching Michigan play hockey for 13 years and every year my soul has ended up sobbing on the floor of a Steak 'n' Shake bathroom. I don't like reminders of the ways in which these things happen.
I'm getting plenty of those of late. Both overtime winners were plinko specials. A puck slides under a Michigan State defenseman despite that guy dropping to one knee and Michigan's fourth line sweeps one in from point blank range. Northern throws a puck up the boards that just happens to hit Glendening in the tape and he flings it cross-ice to Treais, who does what Treais does and fires a laser-guided missile into the net.
It's great to get wins like that, sure. You are either unfamiliar with college hockey or a great dirty liar if it doesn't make you nervous, though. In April this team is going to be going up against team after team like they have in the second half of the season. They'll never meet last year's North Dakota. There is no last year's North Dakota. This means however they lose, if they lose, will be brutal.
Michigan's looking good for a one seed but we've seen puck after puck that cares nothing for expectation and craves only chaos, and it's getting to be that time of year. Prepare the antacid and whiskey: playoff hockey is around the corner.
It's impossible to think things like the above and look at Michigan's RPI chart within minutes of each other without saying a little prayer of thanks that this…
…was not the season*. But now we're over it and have been talking about what Michigan needs to be a one seed for two months. Michigan has been as close to a dominant team as you can be for a long time now, and instead of being grateful to extend the tourney streak I'm steeling myself for the usual combination of anticipation and dread that accompanies single elimination hockey.
This is probably why I advised everyone to savor the final few games of basketball season. That team can be happy with being there. Hockey can't even if the above stretch threatened the tourney streak. Hockey has become a ghost-ridden thing over the past dozen years. Once recovery is in the rear view the tournament looms ahead, silent, red-haired, and wild-eyed. Loki is coming, and he has been kind recently. Be afraid.
*[How bizarre is that Ferris State sweep in retrospect? Ferris is going to win the league bar a sweep by Western and is in pretty good shape for a one-seed itself. Michigan destroyed them in the midst of their horrendous stretch.]
The latter does a great job of emphasizing how frequently Pateryn was annihilating various Wildcats.
HT: Michigan Hockey Net.
Michigan moved up to second on the weekend but still loses comparisons with two teams, BC and UMD. Thanks to Michigan's GLI win over the Eagles, passing BC is a simple matter of finishing ahead of them in RPI. Any other scenario that sees Michigan take the comparison also has M ahead in RPI, so that's easy enough.
UMD is a tougher, more annoying matter. They're getting significantly beat in RPI but win both COP (thanks to M's split against Western) and TUC. They're about a game in front there despite the RPI gap. Michigan will need them to limp down the stretch.
UMD is the only comparison it looks like Michigan can lose based on RPI right now thanks to BU's loss to BC in the Beanpot. That evened Michigan's COP with BU and there's nothing the Bulldogs can do about that except make it worse until the playoffs.
Playing BG is good and bad. They should be easy to beat but they provide no upside. A sweep barely budges Michigan's RPI; a split will see them drop.
Upshot for the people who don't care about the details: Michigan should finish at most one spot below their RPI ranking, which is currently second but could drop to fifth or sixth if they don't play well. If they take care of BGSU this weekend they will probably get a one seed as long as they reach and go 1-1 at the Joe. You hate Duluth and want them to die.
BONUS: Remember how I said Northern was on the bubble despite being ninth last week? At 16th they'd be out of the tournament if it started today. Do not look at bracketology columns. They are more pointless than college hockey polls.
Bullets That Could Go Anywhere
Revisiting Luke Glendening. After Glendening had a bad weekend in which he seemed at least partially responsible for three separate Notre Dame goals, I pointed out that he'd been dragging in +/- terms and scoring and that he'd have been exiled to the fourth line if he wasn't the captain.
This had the same effect as painting 1,181 across your hairless chest might. Since then he's had points in 5 of 6 games and has a 1-6-7 line as the second line has scored every night. Yeah, he's benefiting from AJ Treais's insane run of top shelf snipes, but he's getting Treais the puck in situations where he can unleash his shot. See: OT winner last night.
I got AJ Treais all wrong. I called him a less dynamic TJ Hensick, but this is not right. Right now he's a less dynamic Mike Cammalleri. Cammalleri is the magic midget with the most lethal shot in MGoMemory, and Treais is a threat to water bottles all over the Gongshow at the moment.
Wait… what? A quick glimpse at Michigan's stats shows Lee Moffie at the top of the scoring charts with 6-23-29. That is a lot of points. He, too, has been on a mighty run the last three weekends, scoring three goals and assisting on six others. I say Michigan shortens its bench considerably in the playoffs and rides their top two pairings extensively.
Speaking of… Michigan tried to mitigate the issues with their third pairing by breaking Merrill and Moffie apart so that there was always at least one guy Red trusts on the ice at all times. This did not go so well. Chiasson had a couple of brutal turnovers, Merrill made some plays in his defensive zone that clearly indicated he had no faith in the freshman, and pairing Moffie with Serville was asking to die along the boards. Michigan eventually went back to their earlier plan and now seem stuck with it.
This seems like a situation where Michigan should go full Krug with their top four guys, no?
This can backfire. I remember a certain game against Maine back in the day—Comrie's last game, so 2000—during which Michigan rode five defenseman until the fifth got injured. They had only four and Bob Gassoff*—and by the end of that game Mike Komisarek could barely move. After Comrie got a half-breakaway and converted five-hole, Maine got Michigan stuck in their own zone and wore them down in the third period. The goals that followed felt inevitable.
So you have to get some shifts for the third pairing guys in, but offensive zone faceoffs only against guh opponents only, please.
*[Bob Gassoff is now a Navy Seal and could probably rip my head off with two fingers. So it is with some trepidation that I reveal that as a student I once cried out "WHY EVEN GIVE HIM A STICK?" when Red iced Gassoff at some point that year. He was a guy with no discernible skill except fighting people, which is discouraged. If you think this year's defense is frighteningly thin you have no idea. Just no idea at all.]
Third line. Still bupkis. They'll get something against BG, right? I mean, they have to one of these days.
CenterIce breaks down Michigan's goals. The Deblois semi-break:
I predicted that Jon Merrill would have a bounce back series after last weekends MSU fiasco. The thing that has always separated Merrill from others is his hockey I.Q. You either have it or you don't, things like this can't not be taught.
This play starts out as a regular clear for the Wildcats, nothing special just a puck sent out of the zone.
Head up the whole way Merrill gets the puck from Moffie and finds Deblois cutting through the middle.
The Northerners are all kinds of confused, obviously since the blueliner has closed his legs like he's in shot blocking position.
As you can see they are caught way out of position.
The only play left for NMU is to go for the hook, bring him down and try your luck on the PK. Deblois does a great job of keeping the puck and staying on his feet to finish the play off.
Whole thing highly recommended.
AnnArbor.com game recap. Pateryn:
"The way he's been putting the puck in the net, I kinda was a little premature on my celebration," Pateryn said. "My gloves weren't off, but hands went up. ... Thankfully, he put it in."
Press conference recaps from Friday and Saturday from Michigan Hockey Net. I was surprised that Berenson was so down on the Friday performance; I felt like they were mostly dominant 5x5 and got screwed on penalties. They got caught in their own zone three or four times and gave up scary chances but I don't think that's a matter of toughness; it's just that the third pairing is scary.
Matt Slovin on Hunwick's Hobey hopes. Tiny Jesus reference included. Daily recap.
Everything Muppets!
By the way, Michigan picked up CO OL Chris Fox sometime in the second half of the Ohio State game—he probably felt an impulse to run out on the floor and tackle Ted Valentine and knew his destiny at that point. That makes February 18th, 2012 the Best February Michigan Sports Day In Living Memory.
- Football picks up five(!) consensus four-star recruits: IL OL Kyle Bosch, CO OL Chris Fox, MI OL David Dawson, MI CB Jourdan Lewis, and MI RB/H-back/TE/DE Wyatt Shallman. They now have 4 of the top five in Michigan according to Rivals, four top 100 recruits, and 7 consensus four stars.
- For the second consecutive year, Michigan hockey's senior day ends with an OT winner. They rise to #2 in the PWR, at least at this instant.
- Basketball beats Big Ten leader OSU 56-51 and now has a real chance at its first Big Ten title since 1986.
Muppets? Damn right muppets.
And you can't have one without the other…
Puck Preview: Northern Michigan
The Essentials
|Northern Michigan at Michigan
|Yost Ice Arena
7:35 PM Friday
5:05 Saturday(!!!)
|College hockey lines, junkie?
Friday: BTN
Saturday: FSD
Northern Michigan
Record. 14-10-6, 9-9-6 CCHA. The Northerns, as Al Randall bizarrely calls them, are yet another basically .500 CCHA team. Even at this late juncture six of the eleven teams are within a game of .500. Northern has the worst goal differential of any of them at –5, FWIW.
NMU has been successful out of conference, going 5-1 against WCHA opponents St. Cloud State, Wisconsin, and Michigan Tech. That has seen them through to the good side of the tournament bubble. Yeah, the bubble: even though Northern is currently tied for ninth in the PWR the margins down there are incredibly slim and a Michigan sweep this weekend could bonk them out of the tourney entirely, if temporarily.
Previous meetings. Remember this?
Yeah… that. Shawn Hunwick got booted from the Friday night game for that. You can see why he was pissed:
This started the year-long Gongshow campaign in Hunwick's crease and as a result Michigan got only a tie out of the weekend, losing 5-3 in the punch game and eking out a 3-3 tie Saturday. On Friday Michigan fell behind 3-1; after Hyman and Travis Lynch tied it up Janecyk let in a soft one to let the game slip away. Shots were 32-27 Northern. Michigan outshot Northern 28-26 the next night.
Dangermen. I'll defer to Marquette native Jason Paul on this one:
Topping my list would be big 6-foot-4 senior forward Justin Florek. He was a beast last time around against the Wolverines, who struggled to defend him in front of the net, especially on the power play. Florek has 15 goals and 13 assists in 30 games. Eight of his goals have come with the man advantage. He only had one goal against Michigan earlier this season, but he was responsible for a pair of redirects in front of the net on the power play led to rebound goals. I expect to see U-M defenseman Jon Merrill matched up with his line. That'll definitely be the match up to watch on the power play.
Tyler Gron had 14-19-33 as well. Matt Thurber appears to be the other member of that line with an 8-15-23 line; past that there's an NMU version of Treias in sophomore Stephan Vigier (11-9-20) and a couple guys with seven goals before the dropoff into grinder territory.
Defense? I'm splitting defense and goalie because they are different things and putting a question mark after defense because let's be honest: it is impossible to scout college hockey opponents since they're never on television and honestly I don't know if I could figure anything meaningful out from a game or two anyway. Defensemen are especially vulnerable to misrepresentation.
So. Junior Kyle Follmer is the only NMU defenseman to make an impact offensively with 3-19-22. As a team, NMU is 21st in goals allowed per game but the guy in net has a huge impact on that, as we'll see…
Goalie. You may have noticed Jared Coreau's name pop up when this blog discusses how statistically impressive Shawn Hunwick is. That's generally to dismiss his candidacy for big-time awards because he's platooning, but a .935 save percentage is impressive even so. Paul notes that Coreau seems to have asserted himself as the man after starting the last three games. With senior Reid Ellington sporting a .905 and giving up almost an additional goal per game it's not hard to see why. The Wildcats are in crunch time and it's time to ride the hot guy.
This is how big a difference there has been between the two goalies: extrapolate Coreau's 2.03 GAA to a team GAA and NMU would be second nationally in goals allowed. Ellington's 2.92 would be 37th. As always, NCAA goalie sample sizes are extremely small, but they're all we've got.
Expect Coreau.
Special teams. Your power plays per game:
|PP For / G
|PP Ag / G
The above table hasn't been much help of late. Gongshow is gonna gongshow and Red has now uncharacteristically complained about the officiating for two straight weeks. But, yeah, Northern takes a ton of penalties and doesn't draw many.
When on special teams, the NMU power play is decent, converting at just under 20% and fielding only one shorthanded goal. Michigan is still languishing just over 15%. Northern is 7th nationally on the kill; while NMU can expect to be shorthanded more often than M they perform better on special teams; this can be considered a wash.
Michigan vs Those Guys
Don't have Hunwick freak out and nail some guy but good. This is self explanatory, but it would be nice if a Gongshow ref actually called contact on Hunwick.
Keep your cool in general. This series was ugly four months ago. The Hunwick thing came paired with a couple of fighting DQs and a Northern guy got a contact-to-the-head DQ Saturday night. Pair that with Michigan's Miami dustup and increasing frustration with Gongshow refereeing you can see the outlines of an ugly, penalty-filled series short on 5-on-5 play.
This would be a bad thing. Not only does NMU play better on special teams than Michigan does but they give up a ton of shots relative to the opponent (they're –202 in CCHA play). The bulk of that disparity is 5x5—1.1 power plays per game does not make that big of a difference. If Michigan can play some of the remarkably penalty-free games they've turned in thus far they'll be in good shape.
Third line: make something pay off. The Sparks-Moffatt-Hyman line seems like it should be putting some pucks in the net but hasn't in a long, long time. AJ Treais can't keep his smoking hot shooting up forever. Unless Travis Lynch is going to start scoring against teams not named Michigan State, at some point Michigan is going to need these guys to step up.
First line: get your mojo back. Sans Brown the top line got smoked on Friday vs State and they didn't score on Saturday, which was the seemingly first time since its invention that it had not. As a huge driver of Michigan's success in the post-swoon era it will be reassuring if they get back on track.
The Big Picture
The CCHA title is likely gone. If Ferris biffs their layup against BGSU this weekend the door cracks open. That's not likely. That out of the way, Michigan can certainly aim for second and will strive to finish in the top four to get the bye and second-round home series. A split would likely assure the latter, again assuming Michigan doesn't totally blow their BGSU layup.
As far as the Pairwise goes, it's like I've been saying for a long time: Michigan can tread water with a split but to make headway they will have to do better than that. Splitting hurts slightly and will see them continue to hang out in the 2-seed band they currently occupy. Sweeping likely takes them past a team or two—they would definitely pass Ferris, for one, by becoming the #1 team in RPI. Probably, anyway. It's hard to predict exactly what will happen.
Aforementioned Michigan Hockey Net preview.
AP Bio
2/25/2010 – Michigan 3, NMU 2 – 22-9-4, 19-7-1 CCHA
2/26/2010 – Michigan 5, NMU 0 – 23-9-4, 20-7-1 CCHA – Champions
My AP Biology teachers were not very good at anticipating how much minutia an average high school student could write down in 54 minutes. They consistently wrote tests that were ten minutes too long. This compounded itself over the course of a day, so when we showed up for the last hour there was always a class full of frantic scribblers occupying our seats forever. Forced to wait, definitely not making any bus, and unbound by anyone showing up after us, my class would dribble out of the room anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes after the official end of the school day.
Except for me. Pointless memorization was my jam, man. I blew through the tests in a half hour, then waited outside for a friend who would need a ride. I'm sure this privately infuriated my teachers since most of my time in their class was spent asleep. If I'd failed a test or even not done so well they could have swooped in with Life Lessons, maybe even called my mom to describe what a terrible student I was. But as long as I was the only guy finishing their insane tests on time they were powerless.
Michigan has not been a particularly entertaining hockey team this year. They've been gritty and frustrating and occasionally elegant but only from the back end; Hagelin has been fast and Hunwick surprisingly effective. They split with an awful MSU team and didn't look like they even belonged on the same ice as Miami. They blew leads to tie seemingly all of their nonconference games. They didn't score much in the way they were trying to. It's been jarring.
Even this weekend they spent the first 90 minutes asleep. On Friday, Shawn Hunwick and some emergency defending saw them scrape a win they didn't seem to deserve. On Saturday it was looking like they were going to do the same after the first 26 minutes saw 12 shots total, one of them an attempted pass by Hagelin that a Wildcat deflected into his own net. Since I was watching the internet feed on my computer my melodramatic twitter feed features an existential crisis, incredible frustration, and the phrase "awful, awful, awful."
After the existential crisis the previous class shuffled out and Michigan got down to business. There was a humorous scene in which they wrote so fast smoke rose from the paper. When it cleared no one was even mad two goals had been waved off because four others had stood.
What was that? Was that something that's been there all along but isn't unearthed on the regular, or was it just like Michigan starting the Minnesota basketball game off 6 of 6 from three, a statistical fluke? Should we call Michigan's mother to tell on him?
I'm not sure we can. The test is in and it says "A":
No matter how deeply suspicious we are or are not, the test says "A". Michigan may have gotten blown out of Oxford but Miami won four fewer games in the league. On Saturday Notre Dame had three goals disallowed and scored none against Western Michigan. They did not put a knuckling puck through the Bronco goalie with 40 seconds left, then flick one into the top corner with two left. They allowed twelve more goals than Michigan and scored only three more. I'm still not sure how that's true but it is. Last year Michigan finished seventh in the league, and this year they won it.
Now we come to the knee-buckling section of the schedule. Last year Michigan reached this point down their starting goalie, playing a first-round series for the first time in forever and staring down the barrel of Michigan State, Miami, and someone else if they were going to extend their tourney streak. They did, and then they were robbed of a Frozen Four bid in one of the program's all-time classic games. They died like Vikings, turning their league D into a B.
This year they've got a much easier road. They've guaranteed themselves an at large and won't face either of the CCHA's other elite teams until the final. Hold serve and you're one game away from a one seed and a friendly bracket.
I don't know what to think. Maybe the subtler qualities really do exist and this series of narrow victories is just what happens when you're a really good defensive team that lacks magic midgets. I've never deeply cared about a team like this. Maybe this is what life is like when you've got six good to great defenders and Scooter Vaughn is vying to be your second-leading scorer. Or maybe the Miami series was a dark preview of what will happen whenever Michigan meets an elite opponent.
I'll know in the next month. They've got an A so far, but the only thing that matters in this class is the final. This is not fair. It is, however, college hockey.
The usual extreme detail from mfan_in_ohio.
Somewhat briefer: for a moment on Friday night Michigan had fallen to tenth despite their win against NMU, but when the dust cleared from the weekend Michigan moved up into a tie for fourth(!) despite losing OSU's record and gaining MSU's in their TUC category. Then a butterfly flapped its wings, sending MSU below .500 RPI. Voila:
Bracketology stuff usually has Michigan playing RPI/CC in the first round and getting the winner of Union/UMD in the second if they get there. Stop the season right now. I want to get off.
How did this happen?
Merrimack blew up. The lead people including myself thought was unassailable evaporated in a single weekend as meh Maine (14-10-6 before the weekend) swept. I think we PWR watchers underestimate how quickly teams high up in the RPI can backslide if they get swept. Merrimack has terrible Providence this weekend and can only lose ground—sweeping leaves their RPI basically where it is now.
WCHA teams did too. UMD only got one point out of their weekend with CC, and UNO split with Denver—the exact result Michigan wanted.
CCHA playoffs rooting guide:
- In the first round you want Alaska over MSU, NMU over BGSU, and OSU over LSSU. NMU [M: 2-0 against them] can approach the cutoff with a sweep and OSU [3-1] can get over the hump with one. MSU [2-2] is thousandths away from the cutoff and if they don't lose things could get ugly. OTOH, this might not be so bad. Unless BGSU pulls a massive upset MSU would then play Michigan in the second round. Michigan could put them right back under .500. Even if they didn't the record would then be 4-2, which whatever.
- Second round assuming no upsets: Michigan, obvs, over OSU or LSSU. NMU over Miami, as that would make them a TUC. Ferris-WMU doesn't really matter since it appears the Bulldogs are locked in as a TUC, and neither would ND-Alaska.
- At the Joe it probably won't matter as long as Michigan wins.
The most important other thing: Die, Denver. You die and go to hell. Also, pull hard for UNH against BC this weekend.
Non-Bullets Of Silverware
Wat. If you were one of the dedicated few ripping the NMU radio guy a new one on twitter as you watched the B2E feed you might have wondered what the hell Michigan players were doing after the game, unless you were also one of the many who played NHL 94 incessantly. Michigan Hockey Net digs up a junior team doing the same thing. I'm impressed guys who were about three when '94 came out have even heard of it.
Feed BTW. It probably wasn't worth seven bucks if we're talking about a random midseason series. With the title on the line, though, I shelled out both nights and was relatively impressed. Negatives: the quality is not super high and you aren't getting replays. Positive: the feed was very smooth. I missed maybe a minute of game time total to internet hiccups.
The quality wasn't good enough for me to be able to say much about specific players, however. It was tough for me to figure out who was who most of the time.
One exception. Hunwick bounced back huge on Friday night after a disappointing series against Western. He stole that game. On Saturday he had very little to do, so points to the team defense there.
Highlights. HT to Michigan Hockey Net for digging up highlights from Friday and Saturday. Friday:
That post from MHN has a bunch of other stuff including Andrew Cogliano fighting someone much bigger than him.
Locker room Celebration footage from MGoBlue. Daily recap features Burlon's game saving… uh… save:
"You're instincts take over on a play like that," Burlon said after Friday's game. "(Hunwick) was the goalie on that one, but then, I've got to play goalie. You do anything for the team to get the win and that was just one of those plays."
Yost Built hasn't updated. Frowns.
Puck Preview: Northern Michigan
The Essentials
|Michigan @ NMU
|Berry Events Center
Marquette, MI
|7:35 PM Fri/Sat
|College hockey lines, junkie?
|Online streaming only ($7)
Northern Michigan
Record. 14-15-5, 12-11-3 CCHA. Northern Michigan is miraculously fifth in the league despite having a –20 goal differential. They're +0 (-0?) in their nonconference schedule. Math thus requires a bunch of humiliating blowouts and indeed Northern's schedule features a 9-1 loss to Miami, an 8-1 loss to Notre Dame, a 6-1 loss to Western Michigan, and several other large margins of defeat coupled with narrow victories.
In six games against the league's upper tier (Miami and Notre Dame) the Wildcats are 1-5. There were the two massive blowouts plus a 4-0 loss to Miami, 5-2 and 3-1 losses to Notre Dame, and a single 3-2 win against the Irish in which Northern was outshot 53-15(!).
The Wildcats come in hot… sort of. The good: they've gone 3-0-1 in their last four and those were all on the road. The bad: they were against the worst two teams in the league and they come out of their series against awful BGSU with a tie and a 3-2 win. They'd lost their last four before that.
FWIW, it's spring break this weekend so the crowd will be relatively muted.
Dangermen. According to NMU head coach Kyle Walt via some guy on USCHO, NMU leading scorer Tyler Gron will miss his second consecutive weekend. That hurts, as he was on a PPG pace and the next guy is well back of that. In his absence Northern's main threats are juniors Justin Florek (12-14-26) and Andrew Cherniwchan (7-13-20) and seniors Phil Fox (11-7-18) and Greger Hanson (5-15-20).
This is not exactly going up against Miami here. NMU is 46th in scoring even and is missing their top guy. Chances are goals will come off of Michigan mistakes, of which there will be a few.
Defense and goalie and whatnot. Junior Reid Ellingson and freshman Jared Coreau have split time. Ellingson gets about two-thirds of it and has a significantly better GAA and save percentage, so chances are Michigan sees him both nights unless Northern gets bombed Friday.
Northern's defense corps is young. They've got two seniors taking a regular shift and then it's sophomores and freshmen. NMU is better defensively than they are offensively but they're still giving up exactly three goals per game.
Special teams. Your power plays per game:
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That's a huge gap for NMU, one that helps explain that goal differential. NMU gets penalties from all over but they're concentrated in the defense: only senior Andrew Fernandez has fewer than 35 PIMs and freshman CJ Ludwig has 78. It may even be worse than the PP numbers suggest since by the looks of it Northern is taking a lot of penalties longer than two minutes.
As to what happens when the specialty units get on the ice, NMU's power play is pretty effective at 18.8 percent (21st), but their penalty kill is very bad: they're 50th of 58th at 78.7 percent. They take a ton of penalties and don't kill them well, which is a recipe for getting bombed by Miami and their #5 PP.
Meanwhile, Michigan is mediocre at both, slightly worse than NMU on the on the power play but better killing penalties and less likely to end up with a deficit in power plays.
Michigan Vs Those Guys
Don't give up two pure breakaways against a 5'7" goalie. Just sayin'. More to the point: like Michigan's series against Alaska earlier in the year it looks like this opponent isn't going to generate much you don't give them. No hockey team can go a game without making mistakes that lead to scoring issues but Michigan's had more issues than they're comfortable with lately; reducing those is kind of important.
Get a bounce-back from Hunwick. A rough outing here and there happens to the best; a second consecutive would be an ominous sign as Michigan hits the playoffs.
Demote everyone to fourth-line center. Then they'll be Kevin Lynch and imbued with super powers.
Let the Sparks fly. Hurr durr hurr! But seriously folks, Sparks has verve. He has panache. He has extra savior faire. I know defense and all that but frankly before Lynch blew up that fourth line has been a liability that gets stuck in its zone more often than not.
BONUS: "The Northerns." If you're listening to this on the radio be sure to listen for one of the most bizarre verbal ticks you'll ever hear: PBP guy Al Randall will call Michigan's opponent this weekend "The Northerns." It never fails to amuse and slightly alarm.
The Big Picture
The CCHA is simple. Michigan wins the league if they get one more point than Notre Dame does this weekend. They have a home and home with a reeling Western Michigan team. ND will get the Broncos' best shot: despite their four-game losing streak WMU is still hanging on to the last at-large bid*.
As far as the Pairwise, it is a fickle beast and Michigan will probably lose ground no matter what this weekend. You want the following results:
- Denver to lose to Nebraska-Omaha
- Nebraska-Omaha to lose to Denver
- Minnesota-Duluth to lose to CC
- Boston College to lose to UMass
- Ferris State to beat OSU
- OSU to beat Ferris State
Ferris and OSU skated to 2-2 tie yesterday so you probably want OSU to win the remaining game.
Obviously some of those are direct contradictions; even with a sweep there are several sets of results that will see Michigan give back the ground it somewhat illicitly staked thanks to OSU getting into the TUC category. Looking at the comparisons, it's going to be hard for Michigan to stay in front of UNO if they sweep, so you probably want splits in both the DU/UNO and OSU/Ferris series and now we're proscribing very specific sets of results and you can see why Michigan's probably locked into about where they are now even if they end the year on a ten-game win streak.
Losing is bad for many reasons, one of which is that losing to NMU will give them a good shot at being a TUC at the end of the year with a record Michigan would rather not have featured, but it also doesn't matter a whole lot because Michigan's almost certainly going to be a two or three. What does matter is the conference race—the winner gets to avoid Miami in the league semifinal.
*[assuming that no one outside the top 16 snags an autobid, which is a dodgy assumption.]
Michigan Hockey Net will be at the games and needs some liveblog help; Yost Built previews the weekend. MHN also talked to Tyler Motte's coach:
On Motte's character: "He was voted captain by the boys and basically that's a result of not only his hard work on the ice but off the ice. He's just a pure leader. There's not much bad I can talk about Tyler."
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If Peyton Moore could have scripted his last weekend of life, it might have gone like this:
He would win first place in javelin and shot put in a regional track meet. He would rank first in both for the state.
He would play water balloons in the rain with his buddies.
He would kiss his mama good night.
He would tuck his head beneath his blanket while his dad read him "Eragon." When his dad slipped out, he'd call: I love you, Daddy.
And his dad would say, "I love you too, buddy."
Which is exactly what happened during Peyton Moore's last weekend, before he went to sleep two weeks ago and never woke up again.
Peyton was just 9 years old. Yet, he'd already saved his father's life.
Noah Moore, director of juvenile diversion programs for the 9th Circuit Solicitor's Office, topped 265 pounds in 2003 when his wife was pregnant.
And at 5 feet, 6 inches, Noah isn't a tall man.
Then, when Peyton was 2, Noah's dad died after years of living an unhealthy lifestyle. On some level, Noah always figured he'd be like his father.
Then Noah's wife, Jennifer, videotaped him playing football with Peyton in their Mount Pleasant yard. The toddler blew by Noah.
"I realized I wasn't going to be able to keep up with him or do these things with him," Noah recalls.
He decided to make changes.
At first, he improved his diet, then walked and jogged with his boy in a jogging stroller. He joined MUSC's Weight Management Center.
In time, he and Peyton worked up to running. He and Jennifer joined MUSC's Boot Camp program, run by Marines.
By early 2008, when Peyton was 4, Noah had lost 100 pounds.
The next year, he ran the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, D.C., while Jennifer ran the 10K and Peyton ran the kids' mile.
"Peyton was the catalyst, the reason Noah lost so much weight," Jennifer says.
Noah ran marathons and ultra-marathons and became a certified running coach. He launched Moore On Running, a popular blog about running.
Noah finally felt he'd become a role model for his only child.
And he had.
Peyton ran his first 5K when he was 5 and raced on from there. He even raced to raise money for a Marines' Semper Fi fund, which has raised $15,000.
"Marines need help, too," he told his parents.
Father and son started their own Couch to 5K, a group for new runners.
And in April, the two ran the Cooper River Bridge Run — Peyton's first 10K.
They had become a father-son face of athletic motivation.
"Peyton was the inspiration for that from the beginning," says Greg Shore, Noah's running coach and close friend.
Peyton would introduce himself to competition with statements like, "I'm going to beat you."
Like many young boys, tact wasn't always his strong suit, recalls Michael Flournoy, his javelin coach with the Mount Pleasant Track Club.
But Peyton kept his word.
On his last Saturday, Peyton placed first in javelin and shot put at a large regional meet. That sent him ranked first in both events going into the state meet, being held this weekend.
The track club's coaches had just chosen Peyton their Athlete of the Week.
Today, track club members are wearing red bracelets that say: Running for Peyton. Their season is dedicated to him.
In December, Peyton's grandparents, who live in Mount Pleasant, witnessed his first seizure — at least the first one anyone knew about.
He was diagnosed with benign rolandic epilepsy.
This form of epilepsy is diagnosed in childhood, around 6 to 8 years old, and is characterized by mild, infrequent seizures. They can occur during sleep and often don't require medication. In nearly all cases, they cease by a child's mid-teens.
Peyton's doctor suggested a wait-and-watch approach.
Peyton suffered several more mild seizures after that. The last was in February, at least that anyone knew of.
On the last Monday of fourth grade, Peyton wasn't awake for school on time. A straight-A student, Peyton loved school.
Noah opened the bedroom door. Peyton was not breathing.
Noah performed CPR. Jennifer called 911.
Hospital staff revived Peyton. But after going without oxygen for too long, most of Peyton already was gone.
His doctors said he likely suffered a seizure in his sleep.
At MUSC the next day, on June 4, with his family around him, Peyton's life support was removed.
Noah leaned over his son and whispered: "Buddy, you saved my life. Thank you."
It is the first sunny day, a vast blue-with-cotton-balls sky, after a week of rain. As cars jam roads to local beaches and fishermen line the bridges, mourners arrive for a funeral.
Hundreds of them move in quiet waves down the streets leading to St. Andrew's Church in Mount Pleasant not far from the Moore's home.
As seats fill and people overflow into the foyer, nearly 1,000 mourners in all, the church's large screens show pictures of Peyton living life as he liked it.
Peyton on the beach. Peyton in football gear. Peyton at a track meet. Peyton grinning at a pancake with a whipped cream smile.
And up front, the urn. It is covered in a white sheet.
Marines in dress blue uniforms proceed down the aisle. Then, Jennifer's parents, Stewart and Paula Johnson.
Jennifer and Noah come last, clinging to one another. A wide black hat shields her face and the sorrow she hauls forward with each step.
They sit up front, leaning in as if they've collapsed onto one another.
Peyton's "unofficial godfather," attorney Richard Hricik, steps forward.
He reminds Jennifer of suffering severe back pain after a major car wreck.
He reminds Noah of being obese.
With Peyton, for Peyton, they overcame these things.
"The child became the teacher. He taught us lessons we wouldn't have learned otherwise," Hricik says. "Peyton changed lives."
Finally, Noah rises.
Peyton loved to watch his dad speak to groups. And Noah loved looking into a crowd to see that giant grin that said, I want to be just like you when I grow up.
For that boy, Noah steps to a podium. He looks out to the crying eyes of hundreds. He and Jennifer were blessed with Peyton for nine years.
What a gift.
"And we were so happy we got a chance to share him with you," Noah says. "He lived life to the absolute fullest."
After the Rev. Rob Sturdy commands Peyton to God's care, after candles are snuffed, after a bagpiper plays "Amazing Grace," Noah and Jennifer rise.
Jennifer walks up the aisle hunched over at the waist, clutching a white cloth against her stomach. The wide black hat shields her face.
In the procession, the black hat passes Mount Pleasant Academy. Peyton's school sits empty for the summer.
Noah said at his son's funeral: "Peyton loved his mama."
Peyton especially loved to talk with her. They'd sit on the couch for hours, sometimes with her head in his lap, and talk. And talk.
Because Peyton also loved to talk. And Jennifer loved to listen.
You see, Peyton saved his mom's life, too.
When he was little, Jennifer was in a car wreck that left her with such severe back injuries she was bedridden for a year and had an artificial disc inserted.
And she smoked. She tried to hide it from Peyton.
But one day he spotted her and in his little boy voice said: "No more 'mokin', Mama."
"I was so embarrassed," Jennifer says.
So she quit.
On Peyton's last Saturday, he left his mom a carefully wrapped package.
It was a ceramic heart he'd made for her.
Peyton loved to run in the rain.
The day after he was buried, rain clouds furrow overhead. Throngs of people flow down Old Village streets like an incoming tide.
At 7 a.m. every Sunday, Peyton and Noah would meet their Couch to 5K group here. But on this day, the group is joined by elite and intermediate runners from Charleston's running community.
Others tell Jennifer and Noah things like: We came out to start running. For Peyton.
Nearly 300 people soon surround the couple.
Noah tells the group how Peyton would sense when new runners were struggling. He would head straight for them.
"He's gonna be here, in somebody, and tell you that you can do this," Noah tells the group.
But really, as the masses take off running, Peyton's legacy is encouraging them all.
Reach Jennifer Hawes at 937-5563, follow her on Twitter at @JenBerryHawes or subscribe to her at facebook.com/jennifer.b.hawes.

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Gordon Strachan should go for it when Soctland host Wales, says Andy Walker
Andy Walker calls on Gordon Strachan to adopt an attacking approach against Wales at Hampden.
Last Updated: 20/03/13 6:28pm
It's a great pity for every Scotland fan that our chances of taking part in next year's World Cup in Brazil are all but gone but it's still important for the new manager to get back to winning ways and give the supporters hope for the future.
Strachan only had a few training sessions with his players before last month's friendly victory over Estonia at Pittodrie so it will be interesting to see how quickly he can make his own mark with a group of players who have under-achieved in the national jersey.
Being in charge of Scotland has clearly given Strachan a fresh impetus. It's not often you hear a manager with his playing and coaching experience speak so openly about how nervous, emotional and excited he was during his debut match.
What it tells you is that Strachan certainly wants to give the fans some hope that we can improve.
My hope is that we'll be very attack-minded in front of a crowd desperate for something to cheer. We're not capable of playing like Spain or Brazil but with so many of the squad plying their trade in Scotland and England's top flight and a few with Champions League experience, I think the Tartan Army would appreciate a more attack-minded mentality against teams like Wales, especially at Hampden.
Under Craig Levein we were renowned for being overly cautious. A new era gives us a chance to establish a more exciting brand of football at home.
Wales edged it 2-1 against us in Cardiff when Gareth Bale scored a stunning winner and he's one of a number of players capable of scoring a goal out of nothing.
Most of the players on view ply their trade in Britain so the mentality will be much the same and I don't expect to see a great difference in how both sides will play.
Like all sides, we need our top players to perform but Darren Fletcher and Scott Brown are both missing with injury and illness meaning some new names have come to the fore.
Liam Bridcutt plays as a holding midfield player for Brighton in the Championship and he's been given the recognition his play deserves. Gary Mackay-Steven is another who has excelled at Dundee United with the type of skill and ability that fans love.
Peterborough's George Boyd, on loan at Hull also gets into the squad. New faces like his are always a pleasant surprise and all must hope of a chance to play to kick-start their international careers.
Following the game against Wales, we travel to Serbia for a very difficult away fixture where we won't need to be so open and adventurous.
But a rousing debut performance from Gordon Strachan's men at Hampden will hopefully start with a victory to get the supporters believing that we can win games again.


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The classic.
The Black Diamond Alpine Bod Harness had been around for about 100 years for a reason. It's simple, lightweight, and extremely versatile. Two gear loops hold just enough gear for an alpine climb, and the diaper-style design can be put on and taken off even when you're wearing skis.
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Simple and Light
Use this for ski mountaineering, works great, not a ton of features but that's to be expected.
Super simple!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I've used this harness last summer on a trip up Rainier. As a newb to glacier travel I found this harness easy to use and the price is on point! I look forward to using on more glacier trips and ski mountaineering. I have a 34 to 36 inch waist and went with the size L.
Does the Job
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This Harness works great, I know it is not designed for all of these I have used it for Mountaineering, Climbing, Caving and Canyoning. It's simple it's light, and relatively comfortable and it's super easy to put on.
Only downfall is that you have to clip/tie in though two loops and this can be a bit of a pain especially harness is on tight.
A classic
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Simple, easy and perfect for ski mountaineering. Simple and easy to put on and take off. Has all you need and packs up so small it takes up very little space.
No muss. No fuss
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Great for ski mountaineering trips and really anything where you have a layer or two of clothes that can act as padding. Good amount of loops and attachment point for carrying gear.
Minimal and light.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This harness is great for skiing and ski mountaineering. Super light and minimal, no unnecessary stuff. No padding yes but no need when your using it for glacier travel or an alpine assault. Easy to take on and off even with boots and crampons on.
Light, Fast, Great Mountaineering Choice
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
When you have a love for mountaineering you'll most likely find this harness in your bag. Yea, there is no padding but you'll not be setting much on the side of a mountain in this. It's fast to slip into with no need to take off your skis, boots or crampons.
I've been using this harness for a few years and there's many more left. Picking up another just to have for friends who are without gear.
would you recommend the bod for rappelli...
would you recommend the bod for rappelling?
yes, this harness would work well for rappelling. However it is intended as a lightweight harness for mountaineering so it's pretty bare bones. There is no padding.
Does the job
This is my harness that I use for glacier travel and splitboard mountaineering. It is fairly light, inexpensive, and is super easy to get in and out of with your gear on. The sizing is pretty consistent with the size chart but that size chart is more based off of a boyish figure in my opinion. I would say if you have a feminine figure and are on the cusp between two sizes to go with the larger one.
The classic alpine harness
I have used this harness so many times in so many different situations and it has never let me down. However, since I now use it exclusively for ski mountaineering, I replaced it for the Black Diamond Couloir Harness.
Joshua, I am wondering how you would rate the couloir harness against this Alpine Bod Harness now that you have both. I have been considering the couloir and almost purchased it but pulled back at the last moment wondering if it is as user friendly as the Bod. It occurred to me that the Belay loop on the couloir poses a bit of a dilemma when you want to add or subtract a pant layer and might require that you take the harness off completely to do so, which would require that you also remove your ski's or crampons. I would love to get your (or anyone else's) feedback on that. Thanks in advance.
Is tri axial loading the carabiner an issue...
Is tri axial loading the carabiner an issue with this harness? I feel like the lack of a belay loop encourages this and I am concerned about the safety aspect.
Yes, and for that reason, many gyms won't let you use it. This harness is designed for tying into directly, and not intended for multiple falls and prolonged loading. It's more suited to ski mountaineering and other light uses where you're not likely to take a full factor fall.
If you're looking for an inexpensive harness with a belay loop, look at the BD Momentum AL. I've had mine a little over a year and I love it. Very comfortable and safe.
Easy and Light
This harness is perfect for alpine climbing. Easy to put on and remove. It packs fairly small due to its simple construction and is light to carry. Even though it doesn't have any padding it is actually comfortable to wear. I would recommend this for any mountaineer.
Simple. Light.
I got this harness for alpine climbing and just light weight endevours. It works perfectly for that. No frills, no padding, just simple webbing with some gear loops...its all ya need!! I recommend this to everyone.
Actually pretty comfy
Bought this puppy for do it all duty and it has not disappointed. I use it primarily for ski mountaineering and alpine climbing. Plenty of gear loops to hold your rack and solid feeling buckles and straps to add security. I've even used it for sport climbing. I think it's pretty comfortable, but maybe I don't know what I'm missing with a nice padded harness.
Nice and simple
Bought a couple of these for my son and I to do the via ferrata down in Telluride and used them on the glaciers of Mt. Rainier. Packs light and small.
Good for what it is, NOT A SPORT HARNESS
I bought mine several years ago for use in adventure races (carry it in a pack all day, put it on for one rappel, put it back in the pack). This would be an ideal use, along with mountaineering where you need to rope up but don't expect to fall or weight the rope often. For these types of activities it's perfect as it's light weight, packable, and goes on and off quickly.
For the beginner out there, please keep in mind that this is NOT comfortable to sport climb or toprope, and lots of gyms won't be comfortable with you using it there (they may even have a policy against any harness lacking a belay loop). For a more general purpose inexpensive harness, see Black Diamond Momentum AL.
Good harness to have
Very easy to put on. Not to heavy and packs well. Not the harness you want to me hanging in for a long time though. So if you plan to be hanging a lot - find another one. Great for glacier travelling or ski mountaineering because of how easy it is to put on.
What are the waist sizes that go w?ith the...
What are the waist sizes that go w?ith the XS, S, M. L. XL, etc provided in the options for orders
I have a 34" waist but the Medium was definitely the best fit, the sizing chart is close but may be best to try one before you order if you are at the cusp.
Fish or Foul?
Thsi is an old design that has been around awhile. There are lighter harnesses that are easier to use for the same customer now. Still few harnesses at this price point.
I'm glad I have it.
I'd never wear this harness myself, but I'm always glad I have it in my kit. I use this to get new climbers comfortable with putting on their own gear (it's pretty idiot-proof, easy to put on, and all the attachment points are easy to see) and for top-roping.
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The calendar was first published in 2001 and has been a perennial favorite of residents ever since. Avedisian, noting that the calendar contains important information about trash and recycling collection, is asking residents to keep the calendar in a convenient location throughout the year, and to be certain to recycle the 2011 calendar.
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The Belvidere Police department received funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation to hire-off duty officers from December 17, 2012- January 1, 2013. Officers conducted 39 traffic stops that resulted in 39 tickets or arrests:
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Belvidere officers will continue with targeted traffic enforcement in the coming months. Please buckle up and drive carefully.


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- Kevin Baldridge 03:31, 30 January 2013 (EST):If anyone has any suggestions or links, it's a really new topic to me so I'd be glad of the tips. Thanks!
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 10:43, 1 February 2013 (EST):Here are some ideas to get started:
- CLOTHO is what I hear the most about, but it seems very buggy when I try to use it on my Mac, so I haven't been able to do anything with it.
- TinkerCell has a neat interface and some simulation functions, but I don't think it is supported any more.
- TeselaGen is a company with a Beta of a synthetic biology tool going on right now. You can register and play with it for free, I believe.
- The iGEM team usually ends up using Geneious to design their constructs, but it doesn't have any real CAD functions except for editing sequences with annotations and drawing nice pictures.
- Also, check out the software division of iGEM. It has a lot of "Best-X-tool" prizes, which must mean that X is a synthetic biology CAD framework.
- Kevin Baldridge 14:33, 2 February 2013 (EST):Thanks, these are all great leads and better than most of what I was able to find with a quick google search. I'll flesh this out more today
- Gabriel Wu 15:13, 4 February 2013 (EST): j5 is a program coming from Nathan Hillson at the Joint Bioenergy Institute at Berkeley (JBEI). It automatically designs oligonucleotides for gene assembly for Gibson and Gibson-like synthesis.
- Gabriel Wu 16:56, 4 February 2013 (EST): I think for the Basic Features, things like VectorNTI (commercial), geneious, amplify (virtual PCR), and maybe even sequence aligners like BLAST might be considered CAD at this basic level.
- Gabriel Wu 17:07, 4 February 2013 (EST): I don't think it belongs here, but there are lots of biological modeling projects going on these days. These systems are too complex to engineer de novo, but I think understanding these things or trying to will aid in engineering simpler systems. Maybe this belongs more in a future directions section. Here's fun list
- Gabriel Wu: Oh, how about flux balance analysis (FBA)? Does this have a role here at all?
- Gabriel Wu 17:26, 4 February 2013 (EST): What are the killer apps for synthetic biology?


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- 1/3 cup brewed coffee
- 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon baking cocoa
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 12 wooden lollipop or craft sticks
- Plastic wrap
- Red and green ribbons
- In a large heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, coffee, corn syrup, cocoa and cinnamon. Cook over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved, stirring constantly. Cook over medium heat, without stirring, until a candy thermometer reads 290° (soft-crack stage), about 7 minutes. Remove from the heat.
- Immediately stir in vanilla, then pour into a greased 2-cup heat-proof glass measuring cup. Working quickly, pour tablespoonfuls into circles on a greased baking sheet and lay a stick in each circle. Allow to cool until hardened. When cooled, wrap with plastic wrap and tie with ribbon. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 1 dozen.
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The family of the elderly Vallejo women who died as a result of a hit and run is seeking more information that will lead to the suspect.
Clementina Funes, 88, of Vallejo, was described as optimistic and friendly by granddaughter Krystal Canotal.
"She was so positive," Canotal said Saturday. "To this day I haven't met anyone who is as positive as her."
Canotal, her mother and Funes lived in a house near the crime scene on Alameda and Virginia streets. The woman moved with her family from San Francisco in 1992, Canotal said.
"She thought Vallejo would be a safer place to bring up her family," she added.
Canotal told the Times-Herald that her grandmother would often walk to a nearby convenience store on Georgia and El Dorado streets.
"We never thought anything like that would happen," she said.
Funes was crossing Alameda at Virginia streets in the crosswalk at about 5:20 p.m. on Nov. 16 when she was struck by what police said was a silver four-door 2001 to 2003 Mazda Protege.
Police said the car should have significant front driver's side damage, including a broken left headlight, and possible windshield damage. The car was last seen heading east on Tennessee at Amador streets.
The driver sped off and left Funes on the road. Paramedics took the Vallejo woman to John Muir Medical Center, Walnut Creek, where she died five days later.
Canotal said Funes, who was in good health, sustained broken wrists, leg, pelvis and nose, and facial fractures.
The family has since been distributing flyers to urge anyone with information to contact police.
Although no one has come forward with more information, Canotal said the support the family received has been very positive.
"A lot of people knew her. We've had neighbors come to drop off flowers and notes," Canotal said.
Funes left behind five children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
"We are coping with it differently," Canotal said. "We are having a hard time, she was the structure base of the family."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Vallejo police Officer George Simpson at 648-4014 or 552-3285.
A $10,000 reward is also offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.


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"This report confirms that these interventions are not like vaccines," said Harry Wilson, associate commissioner of the Family and Youth Services Bureau at the federal Administration for Children and Families. "You can't expect one dose in middle school, or a small dose, to be protective all throughout the youth's high school career."Yeah, but the federal government has been spending $176 million a year on this!
Damn it! That reminds me I still need to finish my taxes. Was the report released this week for maximum effect?
But why is the federal government spending any money on propaganda aimed at American kids? Well, obviously, it's a sop to social conservatives. But can we stop now?
Wilson's idea is that the lack of results shows why we ought to be spending even more money and absorbing even more of kids' time telling them what to do with their lives. Why not spend the money on teaching them how to read, research independently, analyze, and critique? That would be real education, that would justify taking up their time, and that would put them in a position to think for themselves about what is the right way to live. And maybe, just maybe, it actually is to be abstinent until marriage.
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A body-builder who launched a brutal baseball bat attack on his partner after she asked him for a contribution to their anniversary meal has been jailed for more than six years.
Luke Artis, then 20, lashed out at 41-year-old Tina Gillian in the bedroom of her Queensbury home and a judge told him today that he could have ended up killing her.
Bradford Crown Court heard how Miss Gillian asked Artis if he was going to contribute to the meal and he replied:''You're only bothered about money.''
Prosecutor Robert Galley said Artis, who had drunk about eight pints and taken painkillers, then picked up the bat which was in the room and hit Miss Gillian on the forehead causing a wound which later needed five stitches.
The complainant fell to the floor and curled up in a ball as Artis then rained down at least five further blows with the bat.
Mr Galley said she suffered an open fracture to her left elbow and a broken finger as well as a black eye, bruising to her legs, ribs and back.
The court heard that Miss Gillian had to undergo an operation to wire up her damaged elbow and the attack in March had left her suffering anxiety, sleeplessness and flashbacks.
In her victim impact statement she described how the incident had left her feeling like ''a shell of her former self''.
After his arrest Artis admitted that he had ''flipped'' when he had been asked for the money and described the incident as ''a flash of rage''.
Artis, who had no previous convictions, left the house after the attack, but he later surrendered himself to police and pleaded guilty at his first appearance before the crown court to a charge of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
He told police he had ''flipped'' after being asked for the money and the incident was ''a flash of rage''.
Barrister Nadim Bashir, for Artis, said although the couple's relationship had its ups and downs there was no hint of any previous violence and he submitted that attack had been the result of a sudden loss of temper and control.
Mr Bashir said ''the red mist'' had descended on his client and he accepted that Miss Gillian's request for some money towards the meal appeared to be the catalyst.
He said Artis, now 21, of Calder Banks, Queensbury, realised that he faced a substantial prison sentence when he entered his guilty plea and he had prepared himself for that.
Today Judge Jonathan Rose jailed Artis for 80 months and also imposed an indefinite restraining order which bans him from having any contact with Miss Gillian.
The judge accepted that Artis had led a blame-free life up to the time of the offence, but he said he had also shown a propensity towards abusing alcohol.
Judge Rose dismissed any suggestion that Miss Gillian had driven Artis to commit the offence and he criticised the defendant for the suggestion in his pre-sentence report that Miss Gillian had broken her own arm after he left the property.
''For you to suggest after pleading guilty that the victim of this brutal crime caused one of the most serious injuries herself is truly unforgivable and demonstrates, far from you being remorseful for what you have done, you are more concerned with the outcome for yourself,'' said Judge Rose.
The judge accepted that Miss Gillian may have been kicking out at Artis as he continued the attack, but he added:''Perhaps she was (kicking you). So desperate was she to save her own life because Luke Artis what you did that night could so easily have killed her.
''This court will never accept the use of violence by a man against a woman in any way, shape or form. That is the starting point.
''The use of a weapon against a woman takes this into a whole different league.''
Judge Rose said after Miss Gillian was incapacitated by the blow to the head she had curled up on the floor in a desperate attempt to protect herself from Artis' onslaught.
''You know that this was, putting it very shortly, unprovoked, vicious, brutal, sustained and wholly without a shred of justification whatsoever,'' the judge told Artis.
''There is no blame on her. There is only blame on you.''


text: UMW News BureauOn Feb. 19, 2010, the University of Montana Western women's basketball team will be playing in the "Pink Zone" to help raise awareness for breast cancer as part of the nationwide Pink Zone campaign. By Wally Feldt On Feb. 19, 2010, the University of Montana Western women's basketball team will be playing in the "Pink Zone" to help raise awareness for breast cancer as part of the nationwide Pink Zone campaign. The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) initiated the Pink Zone in 2007 to raise breast cancer awareness globally in women's basketball. Last year's national event raised funding for 5.28 mammographies and included campus club-sponsored activities, prize give-aways and community donations and support. This year, Montana Western's Pink Zone weekend will include both Friday and Saturday night games. The Bulldogs will take on Montana State University-Northern on Friday night and the University of Great Falls on Saturday night. Bulldog women's team members will wear pink to show their support of the Pink Zone and the fight against breast cancer. Montana Western's Catholic Campus Ministries will be at both the women's and men's games on Friday night. The campus group is organizing door prizes and raffle tickets to benefit breast cancer research and mammographies. There will be halftime games for fans as well as recognition of breast cancer survivors. Also on Saturday night, the Montana Western Ambassador's Club will be handing out pink ribbons to all those in attendance at both the men's and women's games. Montana Western Residence Life staff will also host halftime activities for the Saturday night games. The Associated Student Union of Montana Western Student Senators (ASUMW) are hosting a Pink Zone tie-dying party on Thursday prior to the weekend games. The all-day party starts at 10 a.m. and will be held in the Student Union Building on the UMW campus. Students are invited to bring a T-shirt to tie-dye. A limited number of shirts will also be available to dye for a small donation. Those wearing their shirts to the Saturday night games will be able to enter for a prize drawing. In 2009, the WBCA stated the Pink Zone raised over $1.3 million, bringing together more than 1,600 teams and organizations as well as 912,000 fans in support of breast cancer research and awareness. Nearly 60 schools broke attendance records for their Pink Zone events. On both Friday and Saturday nights the women tip off at 5:30 p.m. and the men at 7:30 p.m.


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As the U.S. economy continues a slow and uneven recovery from the severe recession, government and business leaders are keenly focused on the need to spur faster growth in the years ahead. Independent studies by The Conference Board and the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) both show that if the United States is to regain the GDP growth of the last two decades, it needs to accelerate labor productivity growth to a rate not seen since the 1960s. Join this webcast for an analysis of U.S. productivity performance relative to that of other major economies, advanced and emerging. The discussion will also explore the opportunities for U.S. companies to implement existing best practices and emerging business and technology innovations. Finally, we will explore how to build an effective business-government agenda that addresses the broad issues standing in the way of fully capturing America's productivity and growth potential.
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I've never had a problem with actual conservatives ... But I've got a big problem with Jesusland. If you want to worship the ghost of a jew from the Roman Empire, that's cool. Enjoy it! But when you people and your bizarre mystery cult claim the goddamned president as your prime convert who rules by the voices in his head, I call bullshit.That's Ken, not me. I add some commentary that may or may not have relevance to present-day politics.
Bonus: Ben Folds sings "Jesusland." A nicely done video, which I'm linking rather than embedding because it starts with a commercial. I'm not sure what I think about that song. Something about a young guy looking judgmentally at his society seems pretentious and annoying... but isn't it that what Jesus did?


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Hello, I am new here except that I have been coming here since about 2008 when my son introduced me to Twilght. I joined the forum but had technical issues, so never really posted. Recently I discovered that 50 Shades of Gray was written by a fanfic writer, influenced by Twilight, so I was motivated to follow through on posting.
So, I am the mother of 4 kids, a now 16 year old son and 13 year old triplets. My son introduced me to Twight when he was in middle school. His sisters read the books when they were in fifth grade (with permission). The leader of the triplets insisted on reading the rest of the books and we struggled with that. A friend convinced me that when you are fighting with a kid to not read a book, it's time to let that kid read that book, so she read Breaking Dawn when I thought she was too young.
I always loved reading but Harry Potter turned me around. I have read every book over and over in English, Spanish, and British. The Twilight series I have read over and over and in English and Spanish. Midnight Sun, though, I believe is what really sold me on the series. When I found Midnight Sun, I tried to print it page by page because I just wanted to "hold" that book. I await anxiously, its release!
I live in the Northeast of the USA and am mostly a stay at home mom although I work as a substitute teacher. I look forward to so extended discussions.


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Celebrating Unsung Heroes
Do you know a Champion of Change? Yesterday, I had the honor of celebrating thirteen Let's Move Champions of Change at the White House. All of the champions are working to improve physical activity in kids; helping to solve childhood obesity one community at a time.
First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off the event by describing her childhood. Like many of us over the age of thirty, the First Lady spent much of her free time playing outside. She recalled how EVERY kid in her neighborhood knew how to play double dutch. Mrs. Obama shares many of our concerns:
- Kids are sitting in front of a screen for 7.5 hours a day
- Recess and Physical Education are being eliminated in schools across the country
- Many neighborhoods just aren't safe enough for kids to run around and play
The Champions of Change honored at the White House yesterday are all working hard in their communities to address these problems. For example, Dr. Richard Kozoll from Cuba, New Mexico, is building partnerships on the ground to establish sidewalks, trails and walkways that connect people to their public lands. Robert Castaneda is establishing safe play areas and using sports to change the lives of kids in a Chicago neighborhood that has lost far too many children and youth to gun violence in recent years. Melissa Stockwell, an injured Servicewoman, is showing disabled kids that they can "Dare to Try," teaching them the skills they need to run, cycle and swim.
During the event, I was reflecting on some unsung heroes who weren't at the White House, but are making real and lasting change in the health and wellbeing of kids in their communities.
- Rucker Alex volunteers her time to take teenagers, primarily from Latino neighborhoods, on day and weekend trips into the outdoors in collaboration with the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center's Let's Get Movin' program. Rucker is the chair of Sierra Club's Boston Inner City Outings group.
- Andrew Jenkins take refugees of all ages – primarily from Bhutan, Iraq, and Africa – on outings to help them rebuild their lives in a new environment. Andrew works with the International Rescue Committee and is a leader with Sierra Club's Tucson Inner City Outings group.
- Gwen Miller takes Chicago area kids on nature-based outings. Gwen was abused as a child and found strength in nature. She is now working to ensure that more people can overcome life's challenges by studying to be a wilderness therapist. Gwen is a leader with Sierra Club's Chicago Inner City Outings group.
I could go on. Since last year, when Sierra Club established Mission Outdoors, which brings together a variety of unique programs working to reconnect people with the outdoors, I have been humbled and inspired by the passion and commitment of our volunteers across the country working to ensure that all people have opportunities to get outdoors and get healthy. Sierra Club volunteers – you are all Champions of Change!
Jacqueline Ostfeld; Sierra Club's National Youth Representative


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Comfort Suite's Shady "Energy Surcharge" Costs You $144
Reader ds143 wrote in with a reminder to ask hotels about added fees before reserving a room. He booked a six-night stay at the Comfort Suites in the Bahamas for his family of four without realizing that the hotel levied a $6 per person, per night "energy surcharge." The financial sucker punch set ds143 back $144.
I know you already did a piece on strange hotel charges a little while ago, but I was in the Bahamas at the Comfort Suites in Atlantis and I thought this was so misleading I took a picture of it.
I just think it's outrageous-if it wasn't bad for the Earth, I might as well be leaving on all my lights when I leave the room, just to get my money's worth! I was with a family of 4, and we booked the hotel because it was cheap. However, they did not include this 24 dollar a night tax! We stayed for 6 nights-they jipped us of $144!
Hidden fees usually have little to do with actual consumption. If you spot them on your bill, it is worth speaking with the manager and asking to have them removed.
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ForumsQuestionsHow to best model a repeating ORDERED SEQUENCE of tasks
How to best model a repeating ORDERED SEQUENCE of tasks
I am curious if someone has a good way of modelling a sequence of tasks, which is repeatable on completion date.
For example I may want to have a simple practice schedule for music
day 1: rhythms
day 2: harmony
similarly at work it might be a project at work where
1: prepare meeting agenda
2: meeting set time and place
3: prepare and distribute post meeting steps...
Similarly for my workout schedule, etc there are in fact many applications for this...
The problem is there is no simple way to model this neatly. In particular for these types of task I would only like
1. ONLY the 1st item in the sequence which is not marked complete to appear in the hotlist
2. an easy way for the sequence to start again (repeat when I have completed the last task)
The closest solution I have come up with is to have a template tagged task with subtasks. When I label everything as complete, I then clone to create a new task, based on the template, but this is far from a clean solution ( no automated repeat, no proper imposing of the sequence, and clutter in the hotlist).
Note that a simple repeatable task with subtasks does not work, because as we label the subtasks complete, they disappear. So that when the parent is labelled complete the subtasks are NOT repeated with the parent.
As I use Toodledo more and more, I am finding that the repeatable tasks are creating clutter in the hotlist, and the main reason is that I have no way to easily hide all but the "current" item of the sequence.
There are many cases where only the current item is useful (examples above of music practice, repetitive actions at work, workout plan etc), so I think a clean solution would help improve the app and GTD in general...
Actually there is no specific feature request here... mostly my brainstorming, the feature may already exist and I may not know how to exploit it!
thanks for any help!
just as a followup to my own question, I think what is needed is some kind of event driven task creation.
This is in fact a generalization of the repeating of a task. In this case the completion of the task triggers the event to create the same task again. This could be extended so that on completion of the task, the creation of another task is triggered.
This would allow modelling a sequence of tasks cleanly. Some tasks would not in fact be tasks at all, but just templates which are created automatically on some event (here the completion of a given task).
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Event driven task creation is an interesting idea. You could do it via our API, but it would require some work and programming knowledge. It is unlikely that we will implement something like this, but I'll put it on our todo list.
You may also be able to get by with CSV imports whenever you need to make a batch of tasks.
Jake: thanks for the response, in fact I am a software developer so will look into the API, I checked the doc and it really looks quite powerful!
I also noted your other post on how you use Outlines to tick of a sequence of steps to perform testing of a new feature... This is quite similar to what I need, and I think Outlines will do the trick.
For a full solution, the outline would have to link somehow to a task and ideally have some IOS support, but I know these are upcoming, so the solution basically exists.
NOTE: for this to work it would require that when a task with an outline repeats, the outline should (optionally/configurably) be cloned on repeat. So that we can start ticking off the outline steps from a new blank outline.
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North Dakota State College of Science has been admitted to the NASA Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP) Professional Development Network, a select group of high-quality professional development providers invited to collaborate with NASA Education. NDSCS will work to design and deliver ongoing professional development activities that will improve both teaching and learning in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
NDSCS will be given the highest priority for adding NASA resources to their professional development courses. For example, NDSCS will be able to have a NASA educational specialist available to provide hands-on sessions in the annual summer teaching academy.
NDSCS Applied Science and Technologies has been given this designation because of excellent past collaborations with NASA Education, including:
- NDSCS faculty presentation at nanoscience technology workshop sponsored by the NASA Space Foundation
- NASA Space Foundation training at NDSCS Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS, (miniaturized mechanical and electro-mechanical elements) workshop
- A partnership with the National Science Foundation on a grant written to enhance GUESS (girls understanding and exploring STEM science) program
- NDSCS faculty presentation at Space Exploration Educators Conference
As a network member, NDSCS will help identify STEM professional development needs for teachers in the area, work with an AESP Education Specialist to develop workshops that align with local STEM needs, recruit teachers who match the professional development event's targeted audience and provide workshop facilities that are conducive to teacher learning, with adequate classroom space and functioning educational technologies.
Each state is allowed three entities to become part of the professional development network. To date, NDSCS is the only North Dakota member.


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Roy Hodgson has recently complained about the number of Englishman playing in the Premier League.
Only 75 of the 220 players that opened this season's league campaign were English. However I've come to prove that it's not all doom and gloom for England, compiling an English first XI from the 12/13 season.
Goalkeeper: Ben Foster
West Brom's goalkeeper is arguable one of the most improved Premier League footballers in recent years. He's been central to West Brom's successful campaign, and such has his form been, he's even returned from International retirement to challenge Joe Hart for that no.1 spot.
In 27 appearances this season, he's made a credible 97 saves, as well as an impressive 7 clean sheets, so it's clear to see why he's made the no.1 position his own in the English 1st XI.
Right-back: Carl Jenkinson
Though the latter part of the season Jenkinson has played second fiddle to Bacary Sagna, I've been incredibly impressed whenever seeing him play. He possesses great pace, stamina and loves getting forward, supplying a dangerous cross when needed.
As well as this, he's an assured defender, exemplified by his performance against Bayern Munich- keeping the likes of Robben, Ribery and Muller quiet for 90 mins in Germany. In only his first season in the Premier League since signing from Charlton, he every bit deserves his place in this team.
Centre-back: Rio Ferdinand
In a difficult campaign last season for Rio, having to support his brother off the field, and losing the title to their close rivals, Ferdinand has bounced back this season in exemplary fashion.
Ferdinand has been the ever-present in a rotating Man Utd side this season, making some important blocks and match-winning tackles. He's also been the chief organiser in Utd's defence- conceding a mere 36 goals in 35 matches, helping his Man Utd side regain the Premier League title from their neighbours across the road.
Centre-back: Phil Jagielka
Jagielka is the old-fashioned 'hard man' in my team. Putting his head in where it hurts to defend his goal.
He's been at the forefront of his Everton team in what has been a remarkable season for them, as they continue flirt with Champions League qualification. Although not the quickest he's fantastic in the air and a solid tackler. Jagielka has made 33 appearances this season, scoring twice and getting one assist.
Left-back: Leighton Baines
This position could have gone to either Ashley Cole or Luke Shaw, but Leighton Baines just nicked it. Perhaps the most consistent player in the Premier League, he regularly finds himself on the opponents by-line and delivers a delicious cross. He's equally as competent in his defensive third, never ducking a strong challenge. He's also a set-piece expert, making 35 league appearances this season, scoring 5 goals.
Defensive-midfield: Frank Lampard
Perhaps not his preferred position, but due to Chelsea's summer imports, Lampard has found himself playing in this more withdrawn position.
Lampard is a proven pin-point passer, and is also a determined tackler so this position suits him down to a T. Playing more defensively hasn't altered his impressive goalscoring record either, scoring 13 league goals.
Central-midfield: Michael Carrick
Recently there's been a case for Carrick being the underrated man of English football, but people are finally beginning to appreciate his talent. Mr Reliable, rarely (if ever), gives possession away, making him the first name on my team-sheet.
Although rarely getting on the scoresheet himself, he keeps the clock ticking in Man Utd's midfield, making himself pivotal in their success this season.
Central-midfield: Jack Wilshere
Wilshere has arguably been Arsenal's brightest spark this season. The only player who generates genuine excitement every time he's on the ball.
He beats opponents with apparent ease, drawing challenges and making himself a disaster to play against. Combine that with his passion and you have the perfect midfielder.
Attacking-midfield: Wayne Rooney
Sir Alex implemented his genius once more this season by playing Rooney in a deeper role. Rooney's passing, ability to find spaces in comparatively congested areas, and his natural instinct in front of goal make him the perfect attacking midfielder.
Although he'd prefer to be playing alongside Robin van Persie up front, playing just behind the Dutchman has made them a nightmare for opposition defenders. Rooney has also mustered up 12 goals and 10 assists from 26 appearances this season.
Striker: Rickie Lambert
Probably the smallest name in my First XI, but nobody is more deserving than Rickie Lambert. Doing it the hard way, Lambert has made his way up from League 1, to the Championship, before taking like a duck to water in the Premier League.
In what has been a relatively successful season for the Saints, Lambert has been at the forefront of their attack. His large build makes him dangerous in the air, but he's also a tidy finisher in front of goal. Even surprising a few with a 30 yard free-kick against Chelsea. Lambert has scored 14 goals in 32 league appearances this season.
Striker: Theo Walcott
Although Arsene Wenger insists on playing Walcott in a wide position, I think it's clear he's best suited as a striker, especially playing alongside a target man like Lambert. He has blistering pace, makes clever runs and is a fine finisher- scoring 12 goals, some coming in big matches verses the likes of Man Utd and Chelsea.
He only occasionally plays up-front these days, but after showing what he's capable of whilst playing there (cup hat-trick against Reading), I'd be more than happy to have him leading the line for my English First XI.
So there you are, my first XI compiled from Englishman only. Feel free to disagree on numerous positions, but I believe every one of those players deserve their place on the team-sheet.
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