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Ref to last night's South Park, wherein everything starts look (literally) like dookie.
On Being An Old Man With A Precious Lawn
Tomorrow at 8 PM Adidas and Michigan and Notre Dame will have an under-the-lights unveiling of the uniforms both will wear when the first night game in Michigan Stadium history goes down. That's odd: marketing 101 is "when you have bad news, release it on Friday at 5 PM." Michigan is treating their great unveiling like they're firing their coach for massive NCAA violations.
On the other hand, maybe it's not so odd. Yesterday the M-Den momentarily posted what looked like the official thing:
If that's what you're deploying, 8 PM isn't late enough. Broadcast the announcement from the Chinese factory where they'll be made at 4 AM Eastern.
The M-Den twitter feed later posted a three-part item expressing regret for the "mistake" that obviously failed to address whether or not those were the real McCoy. They likely are. Tom pointed out the close-up teaser image has the exact same M the mistakenly posted jersey does. If they're different, they're not much different.
Tomorrow we'll enter the ranks of schools that dress up like clowns for a little bit of money from a shoe company. Notre Dame will as well. I'll make some sarcastic comments, privately think anyone I see wearing one of the jerseys is a total sellout, and move on. This September we'll watch Clownz Faceoff 2011 and life will go on. It's not really a big deal. Everyone does it, and traditionalists sigh, and recruits say they're excited.
So why does this make me want to buy a shotgun, rocking chair, and lifetime supply of lawn fertilizer?
Well, there was a way to do this that would not give people hives. It did not require the assistance of a crack team of uniform designers, and it didn't have stripes conjured from one of their fever-dreams.
The numbers on the helmets (and the different wing pattern on them), block Ms on the socks and shoulders, and overall retro stylings of the mid-60s (like gray face-masks) would have provided a distinctive, historically accurate look. (Doctor Saturday pointed out that it would have been a look from an era when Michigan and Notre Dame were in one of their periodic snits, but whatever.)
It wouldn't have been much different. It would have been cool, though:
It would have been a genuine callback to another era of Michigan football. They could have brought out some former players, celebrated a Rose Bowl win, whatever. If they're going to do that in the Franken-uniforms they'll have to bring out a nighmarish assemblage of Horace Prettyman's arms and shoulders stapled to Bill Yearby's torso and head; the lower body will be a cyborg entity from 2211 that shoots postgame celebration laserz. The legs will stop at the knees because bony undead horror robots of 2211 come hovering or they don't come at all.
This bothers me because it makes it obvious that honoring the program's past doesn't crack the top several reasons they'll put the stripes on this fall, falling behind at least "money," "making Adidas happy," and "allowing Dave Brandon to 'create the future'." My money teat is easy to milk, but not that easy. I won't put on a Big Chill shirt with an Arby's logo on it and I'm not buying whatever that is above.
This makes me an old man but it also strikes me how stupid the corporate culture Dave Brandon comes from is. At a consumer-facing, mid-sized, publicly-traded corporation it's all about three months from now when you report your numbers and the stock price goes up or down and you're a hero or an idiot. Once companies go public they slowly lose the distinctive characteristics that made them successful in the first place and become a collection of generic suits*. The suits get paid exorbitant amounts of money to trade long-term goodwill for numbers that will allow another set of suits to increase the exorbitant amount of money they are getting paid.
The best example of how this doesn't have to happen is privately-owned Chik-Fil-A, which is still closed every Sunday for religious reasons and is so loved by Southerners that when the corporation bought the naming rights to the Peach Bowl it was generally regarded as an improvement. These are correlated factors.
These days a lot of tech companies are remaining private longer than they would have in the past—Facebook is the best example—in order to avoid the relentless make-your-numbers effect of being a public company. It seems like Michigan is announcing its IPO Friday night.
*[Once you get to the behemoth side of the scale you can maintain identity via monopoly: Google and Apple are distinctive entities that appear to have ethoses (ethii?) other than making money hand over fist; they can probably have these because they are making money hand over fist.]
(HT on the 60s uniform picks to "cutter," denizen of Michigan messageboards everywhere.)
Is there anything this fanbase won't complain about? Angelique Chengelis reported yesterday that the players liked the design, shouldn't that be important to us? Also, recruits are always eating up how Oregon has so many uniforms-those are f***** ugly-so who cares just accept it.
Don't tell me what to accept. Its great that the players like them. However, they aren't shelling out hundreds of dollars every year on tickets and clothing. A sh-tty design is a sh-tty design, regardless of how much the fan base complaints or not. Its a sh-tty design and is going to look stupid. Its a shame and its all corporate mentality driven, just like Brian points out. Its a sell-out and its sad.
Your right they aren't shelling out hundreds of dollars on tickets, they are dedicating hundreds of hours of their lives instead...hmmm..And its BS that we say the design is corporate mentality based-if the design was solely created to make money they would have designed the most radical yet LOVED design so every single fan had to own it.
Are they requiring you to buy a jersey? Are you somehow not getting a hundred dollars worth of entertainment when you buy a ticket because of the jerseys they wear? If its ugly, the accounting will show, but I don't see why people feel like they are losing financially with these new jerseys.
That's cool and all, but how do you explain Penn State still remaining successful with uniforms that haven't changed since about 1902 and a coach who was around to implement them? In fact, PSU's uniforms got even plainer for this season with the removal of the trim.
The claim that we need to do stuff like this to "attract recruits" and such, to enter into the Oregon arms race, is just silly. We're Michigan. We don't have Phil Knight in a box at Autzen listening to the playcalls on a headset, diagramming plays for his guests on a dry erase board. Plenty of schools do just fine without crazy WR gloves and space-age everything.
Really, Penn State got rid of the trim? That's a rather radical change, all things considered.
To add to your point, plenty of great players are also lining up to play for Nick Saban and his boring old-school uniforms.
Turns out the trim was only introduced because there were questions of whether they could get the trim in the exact same color as the rest of the jersey, as the trim was a different fabric and necessary for the way in which the jerseys were designed. They've since found they can do without the trim with advancements in fabric and design, so when given the option, PSU decided to ditch the trim.
Wow. It's been like 30 years with that design. Seems to me that the trim became the new "traditional look."
Of course, the only traditional thing about PSU is its uniforms. The Beaver Stadium experience is NFL-lite. PSU now plays the Zombie Nation song after TDs.
Bobby Knight.
Things change, this is just one thing changing for 1 game
The entire idea of a night game is crazy to old timers anyway, so why not double dip with a wacked out jersey
Its not the nickname, its not the fight song, its not the helmet, its just some goofy stuff on the arms
If youre for the night game, you cant really complain about this IMO. "Toe meets leather at noon". I dont recall Bo saying anything about uniforms.
People aren't pissed about the uniform change simply because the current look is the way we've always done things (or because they just don't like staying up late). Playing at night is about making your product (to use Brandon-speak) available to a wider audience (you're just going to reach more viewers in primetime). It is the same reason we played during the day for decades (most people can't see in the dark).
Tinkering with some of the best uniforms in college football (Notre Dame is equally ridiculous for doing this) is about changing the product itself, a product loaded with meaning/identity/history for countless people. If Zingermann's opens a new location, that is a positive (or at least not a negative to anyone who isn't just bitching for the sake of bitching about the good old days). If they start selling McDonald's-quality burgers instead of their current fare, then people are (justifiably) going to be upset about it. The fact that these fashion abortions would make a dirty Big Mac look delicious only exacerbates the problem.
to take your example
if we can't stop the pass in awesome uniforms it doesn't matter if we can't stop the pass in good uniforms
What if the devil made you a deal. UofM wears these uniforms all season long and they win a MNC?
would you take it?
If they wear these uniforms and everyone here gets paid a million dollars? Of course we'd take it. But there's no correlation in either case. Are you trying to say we're a bunch of prostitutes and are simply haggling over price?
occurred about whatever virtue Apple retains by remaining private (to work there you now have to sign a promise you won't commit suicide); ask the kids picking up cancer as they pick through piles of discarded computer parts in various parts of Africa and India; ask those of us who suffered through two bouts of rampant motherboard failure with early maclappies (why we're not mcslappies); or--hell--ask Linus Torvalds, who says that when he met Steve Jobs the guy had no interest whatever in talking computing, programming, or innovation, just sales figures (Torvalds' conclusion--he's a flapping idiot).
This is about as cranky--and self-contradictory--as Brian gets. (Why were you happy when a corporate CEO was installed in the first place? That was the time to piss and moan, not when--predictably--he does what CEOs do.)
The Adidas design is much nicer than the utterly generic unis in the photos. Denard is gonna make it shine.
I will buy Brian on a lot of fronts but as fashion maven--not.
It's a publicly traded company. Symbol: AAPL
suicide rates are actually below the general population rates as noted here. When you have more employees than the population of Detroit, and you even provide the towns for the employees to live in, then you're likely to have all stories and problems that population can generate. I believe this is the company that you're trying to talk about with the "will not off oneself pledge" and yes, they are the contract manufacturer for some of Apple's most popular products, but they are not AAPL. Foxconn is secretive, but it is not a private company, traded on the Hong Kong and Taiwan exchanges. Not trying to let them off for some of their business practices and how they treat employees, but they really don't fit the example here.
Michigan is supposed to be different, but all too often we are the same. Like we need money to fuel good things, including expanding our number of varsity sports to include lacrosse. New revenue streams, like selling special jerseys, are helpful to that end. That means is not eggregious in and of itself. However, in this particular case, the execution is hideous.
We will forever wish to have celebrated this event in our traditional uniforms, with perhaps a tasteful and discrete commemorative patch, a la the 100th game vs tsio. That would have been cool. People would buy those and wear them proudly. If they sold jerseys with 100th game patches now, people would buy them.
Why is this not a win-win? Why wouldn't his make the athletic dept., adidas, and the fans all happy?
Kids are welcome to run on my lawn, but not to take a dump on it!
Do you like 'em?
When is legoman going to sport one?
At least the facemasks are gray
Thanks for the shout out, Brian. I largely agree with everything you have to say about not only the throwback jerseys, but also about some of the less then enviable workings of corporations everywhere.
I think one of the problems here is that there's a difference between a throwback uniform and a throwback jersey. The uniform includes everything from head to toe and as Brian points out, there were some distinctive features on the mid-60s uniform that would have made it a throwback to the teams of that era.
The problem is that you can't readily sell that entire look unless there's a major market out there for white socks with block M's on them or mini-helmets with numbers on them. The main item that Michigan, Adidas and M-Den will sell will be the jerseys and they have to look distinctive enough for the common fan (or more specifically, the demographic that buys these things) to be interested in purchasing. Quite frankly, a simple blue jersey with number on the front and back and no name probably doesn't meet that objective. Maybe adding a block M on the sleeves would do it, but that's evidentally not the direction the Athletic Department is going at this time.
I think that's unfortunate because one of the major marketing points about Michigan is tradition coupled with innovation. We certainly see that in the stadium renovations, and for those responsible for it (including David Brandon), I say congratulations--well done. But these uniforms--which look like a composite of a late 19th century look coupled with a varsity football "M" sweater--misses on both counts. While I will withhold final judgement until we actually see the entire "look" unveiled tomorrow, right now I have to say that they don't look very appealing.
When properly done, throwback uniforms can be pretty neat, but there's always an urge to tamper with what's classically good. I thought it would present a pretty fun (and easily marketable) narrative for both Michigan and Notre Dame to play this first night game in Ann Arbor in replica uniforms from the 60s--certainly both team's helmets would be different looking (different wings and numbers for Michigan, shamrock for Notre Dame). It appears to me that U-M is going in a different direction with this.
One final thought. David Brandon did say words to the effect that the version of the uniform first provided in the Detroit Free Press was inaccurate. In actuality, they do have a lot more in common than Brandon might have led us to think--and that's unfortunate on his part. By and large, I've agreed with most of the things he's done during his tenure and I applaude him for the way he handled the NCAA investigation into Michigan's football program (if you want to see how not to do it, cast your eyes to Columbus, Ohio). Later this month, he'll be publicly presenting the FY 2012 UM Athletic Department budget and he's stated in the papers that he'll be putting together a long-term strategic plan to grow Michigan athletics. It's a big responsibility and I wish hiim well on it. My only point is this--there's no need to get cute about some things, and that includes the throwbacks. When all else fails, go back to what works best--that's why UM hired Brady Hoke, isn't it?
I shall buy one. Might get laid in it, too.
I'll take a #1 with Chick-Fil-A sauce over that sh-tty "throwback" jersey every day.
P.S. I suspect that those of you that know what I mean likely agree whole-heartedly.
If you put Chick-Fil-A sauce on the Geico gecko (sitting just to the left as I type this), I'd eat the little green punk alive.
Amen. Chick-fil-a is one of the few positives of traveling to the south. I've never had the sauce though, I haven't been near a CFA in a few years though....
Amen. Chick-fil-a is one of the few positives of traveling to the south. I've never had the sauce though, I haven't been near a CFA in a few years though....
I don't think the throwbacks (or retros, if you prefer) are great, but I also don't share in the wailing and gnashing of teeth over them. Despite their apparent disconnection with Michigan history and their rugby styling, my Michigan degrees are not going to burst into flames because of them, nor are they going to cause people to point and laugh when I wear the rest of my Michigan gear. The brand and the tradition extend far beyond what the team wears for any one game (or say, our record over the last three seasons).
If you hate the jerseys, don't buy one. Flood DB's inbox with complaints. That is your right as fans and alumni. Since the concern is that DB is too corporate, do your part to make sure that the ROI on this project is underwhelming. At the same time, if people snap up the jerseys like crazy, and the recruits love them, then maybe we have to accept that not everybody shares our sense of nostalgia.
Just out of curiosity, did any of the get off my lawn folks ever own one of those starter jackets with 15 different Michigan logos on them?
Looking forward to your lawn party
Makes all the difference. And I seriously doubt that any of those stripes were highlighter yellow.
Are the block Ms shirts really "jerseys"? I think they're varsity sweaters - when they played they wore the leather vests (possibly over shirts with stripes!). Note that in the 1901 photo, the shirts with shoulder pads (presumably game wear) don't have a block M. In none of those photos do you see block M chest and sleeve stripes on the same man.
The night game jersey is an unfortunate conglomeration of the styles, I think. Just stripes or just the block M would look better (Plus there will be helmet numbers from the 60's too!) As it is, too busy.
I actually kind of like the photos with the wide striped sleeves and a padded leather vest with a block M above the left breast. That would be a good look I think - wide stripes on the shoulders with a block M above and to the left of the chest numbers, where the number is on the as-designed jersey. Basically, swap the numbers and the block M on the chest and make the stripes wider.
I'm not sure how representitive of the game jerseys those old team photos are. I'm not sure the tradition of being photographed in your game uniforms had taken hold yet.
Well, they are wearing padded knickers, cleats, and shoulder pads in many of the photos - I'm assuming those items were part of the uniform. But the block M turtleneck sweaters lack the features of "equipment" - no padded shoulders in the early 1900's photos, no vest in the 1890's photos (however in 1892 and on the guy in the top left corner of 1895, it does look like the block M is being worn over some degree of padding). I'd guess those were varsity sweaters. Then again I think "uniform" wasn't that uniform back then (e.g. different players may have worn different gear based on position / personal preference).
The main point I was making is that "large Block M on chest" and "rugby striped sleeves" have never appeared on the same uniform, and combining them looks lousy. I think one or the other would look a lot better.
in the 1901 photo, at least one of the players is wearing the M sweater over a padded shirt. I think it's possible they did wear the M as warmups, over the padding, etc.
We need some game photos from that era! Here's one from 1902:
Don't see any block Ms. The caption at Bentley is:
Michigan captain "Boss" Weeks about to stop Ohio for a short loss. 1902 game at Regents Field, Ann Arbor
Notice Ohio is wearing striped jerseys under the leather vests (like the Michigan captain in the 1899 team photo, see below) -- gotta think it was a common away-game look.
Interestingly, the mix of vests/sweaters seems a common theme in team photos from this era. Here is 1890 Harvard:
Stripes were also common. Here's John Heisman (YTH) in his 1891 uniform:
Michigan looks to be running the same play as Ohio in the above, just a lot more effectively:
Still no Ms visible. They are wearing them in the photos from the parade (before the game, I think), but not on the field. Kind of a "dress uniform," I guess.
Notice also the striped lines of stitching on the shoulder padding of the 501-0 (1901) team -- probably also part of the inspiration for the stripes.
To say that this is is unprecedented is simply accurate, because I don't see this jersery used in any of the pictures you posted. Sure, it has elements from previous uniforms, but this exact jersey hasn't been worn before. Therefore it's unprecedented.
I think if the jersey was an exact replica of one of the jerseys in your pictures, instead of kludging together multiple elements from multiple eras, you would have more people on your lawn.
I agree with you, it's just they did too much. If they insisted on having stripes and the block M, they should have gone with the vest look where only the sleeves had stripes and the rest was a solid Navy Blue, since the only era where we see striped sweaters coincided with players wearing vests.
That's not my point. I understand that they aren't going to wear turtlenecks and vests, my point was about kludging the design elements from different vests and turtlenecks. Precedented would be taking the design of one jersey worn by one person in one of those photos of one of those teams that won a shit ton of national and Big Ten/Western Conference championships and when the coach was FMFY, doing the best to fit it onto a modern jersey, and adding numbers. I think this would get more support than putting stripes on the sleeves like one team did (1920), but making them wide stripes other teams wore for an entire jersey (1884/1889), and then adding a block 'M' like other teams did (1891/1892/1895/1901).
If the players all grow mustaches like the ones in the pictures, and Hoke comes out in a suit and a bowler hat, then it would totally make the old-timey design elements worthwhile.
1). To those of you saying "It's just one game", I would politely counterpoint that many see "just one game" as a means of opening the pathway to a slippery slope.
2). I was pushing for 1957, Ron Kramer-era throwbacks, where the longsleeves could come from a compression shirt, grey facemasks, and numbers on the helmets, so the 1965 look is very close to that:
And if that doesn't work for you, how about 1940 Tom Harmon style throwbacks...
And lastly, if that doesn't work, further honor Desmond and the 20th Anniversary of the catch:
And for those of you thinking this is a lot of to do about uniforms, politely, uniforms are a critical common thread that links the three men above together. So if we're bent out of shape about it, maybe it's because symbols are imbued with meaning.
The fact that stripes have existed on Michigan uniforms in the past does not justify these abominations. They're ugly as sin, a pure money grab, and most notably, nothing like them has ever been worn by a Michigan football team.
If you want to justify them as no big deal, or they actually look great, or it'll pay for XYZ, that's certainly your right. I don't think it's something a team with iconic uniforms and our tradition should be doing, but that's just my opinion and it's far from gospel.
Just don't call them "retro" or "throwback" and justify them that way, because intermittent long-sleeve stripes of varying width doesn't make that true. This is RAWK MUSIC jersey design at its worst.
I know, I know I'm weird about this. As an historian and a uniform afficiando, I should be all over this. But I have an explanation. My four sports passions are Michigan football, Red Wings hockey, Tigers baseball, and Michigan hockey. Leaving aside the last one, which rolls through jersey styles like Italy went through post-war governments, the previous three all basically have had the same uniform since 1938. There are slight tweaks, but the Red Wings, Tigers, and Wolverines have all basically had the same uniform framework for nearly three quarters of a century* means that they have traditions largely unparalleled in American sport.
Honestly, if it were a genuine effort to move a real template of a Michigan jersey past on to a modern template, I'd be more likely to not care. But because this is clearly such a naked money grab, and so clearly an effort by adidas to sublimate their corportate symbol on to the MIchigan brand, I find it disturbing.
*--So is everyone looking forward to the 75 years of "our helmet has wings" celebration for the 2013 season?
If these are the unis, then they contradict all of the branding verbage that we've been hearing so much about since RR was fired.
They make me think of raccoon skin coats, straw boater hats, the charleston, ukeleles and a pending stock market crash.
They do not reinforce all of the michigan man, tradition, he gets it, man ball, toughness, finger pointing and podium thumping talk we've had to listen too since January.
There is nothing Michigan about them other than color. The crackly 'M' and striping are faux design. We've been Disneyfied.
Most likely the 1899 photo is the key used by the designer. The finished version combines three elements of the photo: [1] the classic block M jersey; [2] the striped jersey worn by the team captain in the photo (I'd like to see game photos, but this was likely worn for some games, maybe away?); [3] the stitching motif on the M is probably a reference to the stitched padding on the shoulders of some jerseys from that time (seen second from the right in the 1899 photo).
There is something to be said about being able to have throwbacks that go back over 100 years.


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I want to make sure everyone knows about the big event at The Texas Zoo this weekend. This Saturday is Gator Day featuring Gary Saurage of CMT's Gator 911!
Gary Saurage is co-owner of Gator Country as well as the head alligator handler featured on CMT's GATOR 911. Saurage settled in Beaumont, Texas after a tour in the US Air Force where he started an 18 year career in law enforcement. Saurage then started a successful alligator guide/hunting service, which in turn led him to becoming a a conservationist and champion for the American alligator.
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Samsung made a splash with its first commercial for the Note, which aired during this year's Super Bowl. But many predicted the device would be a flop, given its size and throwback input device. But the device has not flopped. Samsung said it sold more than 2 million units of the Note in its home country of Korea, and global sales have crossed the 5 million mark. See Super Bowl commercial here.
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Aside from the president's actions, House and Senate appropriators are supporting substantial funding increases for NSF's STEM education programs this budget season, he said. The funding would go partly toward a math and science professional development program that produced measurable improvements in student proficiency at the elementary, middle- and high-school levels over a three-year period.
And Brown said it looks possible that the House and Senate will reach an agreement on major competitiveness legislation this summer, which would bring "a badly needed shot in the arm" to the NSF programs. Also looming over the horizon is reauthorization of the signature 2002 education law known as the No Child Left Behind Act.
Despite many promising developments in Washington, students and teachers are still struggling in the STEM fields, according to Brown. "I am hopeful that these positive actions in Congress will soon be translated into real progress on the ground," he said.
Betty Shanahan, executive director and CEO of the Society of Women Engineers, said she is optimistic that recent grants awarded by the Education Department will assist under-represented members of the population in pursuing STEM careers.
On June 29, the department awarded $22 million in grants to universities, state and local educational agencies, and nonprofits to devise strategies for tapping highly qualified individuals who do not have teaching credentials to teach core subjects, such as math, science and special education in high-need school districts.
That same day, the department gave 25 predominantly minority universities $3.5 million to better prepare ethnic minorities, especially minority women, for jobs in science and technology.
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Brr ... it's too cold and snowy to do much out in the garden, but it's a great time to do some garden planning. Many gardening magazines and organizations that promote plants have come out with their "best of" or new introductions for the year. Our own local Plant Select program is a good example. It has just released its list of 2013 introductions.
For 2013 PlantSelect is featuring new eight plants that will thrive in a wide range of garden situations in our naturally semi-arid climate. I'm excited to add some of these to the Broomfield Xeriscape Demonstration Garden this spring. We have just the open, sunny spot for some curly leaf sea kale (Crambe maritima). Its large waxy, blue-green leaves provide a great foil to grasses and plants with finer textured foliage. From experience I can tell you it has a hefty taproot that doesn't transplant easily, but that's what makes it so tough and drought resistant. Huge umbels of white flowers make it one of the most dramatic plants in the spring garden.
Also on the list is Narbonne blue flax, Linum narbonense. This plant hales from the Mediterranean area. Compared to our native species, it grows into a fuller, more long-lived plant. With deep sky blue flowers that bloom for months, it is a wonderful addition to a wildflower garden or border.
Tennessee purple coneflower; Turquoise Tails blue sedum; Chieftain manzanita; a diminutive Heuchera called Sandia coralbells; a small mounding clematis, Scotts' sugarbowls, and Oxslip primrose round out the list for 2013. Examples of many of these exciting plants will find a home this spring in the Broomfield Xeriscape Demonstration Garden at the George Di Ciero City and County Building, 1 DesCombes Drive.
PlantSelect is a nonprofit collaboration that identifies and promotes plants that are well adapted to our environmental conditions. It is made up of horticulturists from Colorado State University, the Denver Botanic Gardens and from nurseries and the green industry throughout the Rocky Mountain region.
For more information on the plants discussed above and the Plant Select program, visit plantselect.org or your favorite garden center or nursery.
These cold, winter days will go by quickly, and it won't be long before gardeners all along the Front Range will be able to get back into the garden. In the meantime, it's back to dreaming about all the cool new plants I need for the garden and shoveling a bit of snow.
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Submission + - No Patent Infringement Found in Oracle vs. Google (cnet.com)
sl4shd0rk writes: Today, the jury in the Oracle vs. Google trial found Google innocent on infringement claims. The jury deliberated about 30 minutes to reach the verdict bringing an end to the second phase of the trial, and a beginning to the damage phase which may be very little of what Oracle orginally asked for. Still no word on API copyright issues. Judge Alsup will be ruling on that in the near future and certainly have an impact on the dev community.


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-- Beginning in October, the American Society of Landscape Architects will open a 12-month trial enrollment period in insurance plans offered by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Trust to its members. ASLA has provided insurance options as a membership benefit for a number of years, and partnering with the AIA Trust provides the opportunity to enhance and expand the programs currently available.
"Collaborative practice is a familiar concept to landscape architects, and this new partnership suits the needs of ASLA members," said Len Hopper, FASLA, President of ASLA. "Currently we are not able to expand the coverage of ASLA's existing insurance plans due to the small number of members participating. The new arrangement allows us to utilize the strength of the AIA Trust and improve an important ASLA membership benefit."
Members with existing policies through Wohlers/Seabury & Smith, ASLA's previously endorsed insurance provider, will retain their coverage on a "non-sponsored" basis. However, members with existing policies are encouraged to review the options available through the "Trust" which they may find to be more beneficial.
The "Trust" insurance and financial programs include life, disability and business overhead for ASLA members. All plans are administered by JLT Services Corp., a subsidiary of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, one of the largest insurance brokers in the world. For health coverage, JLT Services will search the marketplace to provide ASLA members with competitive quotations. All services will be identical to those the AIA Trust offers to AIA members. To enroll or to get more information about the "Trust" insurance options for ASLA members, contact Wil Loeber, JLT Services, toll-free at 1-800-544-2672, extension 1108 or visit the AIA Trust online at
Market research indicates that many ASLA members aren't just landscape architects. They own and operate their own firms, making them business owners affected by issues like overhead costs and staff benefits. This fact is one reason ASLA membership services are chosen with an eye towards making landscape architecture offices, especially small shops, run more efficiently.
Additional "Trust" programs include LegalLine, the legal information service, which is available right now by contacting 1-800-688-9780. Property and casualty products will be offered to ASLA members at a later date.
Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional association representing landscape architects. From 11 original members, ASLA has grown to more than 13,500 members and 48 chapters, in all 50 states, the U.S. territories and 42 countries around the world. ASLA promotes the landscape architecture profession and advances the practice through advocacy, education, communication and networking.
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In the world of suave accoutrements, the lighter is towards the very top (above the lozenge and the umbrella, but just below the comforting handkerchief). Even as smokers have become scarce, the true gentleman is always prepared. Unfortunately it's pretty hard to improve on the classic sleek and stainless Zippo, which has been classic for long enough to risk becoming boring.
This year's model comes from Zippo's new butane-powered Zippo Blu line, a technical change that has inspired a bevy of redesigns. This one is our favorite, with a vaguely cell-phone-ish shape and a set of four fleurs de lys that actually fit into the design.
The patterns flirt with gaudiness, but it's to be expected in reaction to the typical featureless Zippo. As a result, the lighter looks more like a trinket than a tool. But there's nothing wrong with trinkets.
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Women, Water, and Wells
On 1 June 2012, H. E. Mr David Killion, US Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO and Gretchen Kalonji, Assistant Director General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO, opened an exhibition of photographs of West Africa by Gil Garcetti organized in celebration of the 20th session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme.
Women, Water, and Wells reveals the challenges, hopes, and successes experienced by people throughout West Africa—particularly women—who are faced with the daily task of providing safe water for their families and communities. Featuring images by photographer Gil Garcetti, the exhibition commences with landscapes from Niger, Ghana, Mali, and Burkina Faso. It then chronicles the important work of non-governmental organizations in the struggle to provide healthy drinking water and to eradicate a variety of diseases linked to unsafe water. Later sections show the joy that results from locating safe water sources and the ways that they benefit people through sanitation and health, education, economic ventures, and new agricultural possibilities. The project is envisioned as a catalyst to ensure financial support and to engage people and organizations in efforts to provide West African communities with sustainable access to safe water.
In 2001 Gil Garcetti traveled to West Africa for the first of what would be several visits to the continent. Drawn to the land and the people, he became deeply committed to raising awareness of, and funds for, safe water in the region. Thus was born Women, Water, and Wells, a selection of sixty-two striking photographs from his book, Water is Key (Balcony Press). Garcetti's rich black-and-white photographs reveal the critical link between water and health in West Africa, as well as the dramatic economic and public health outcomes that can be achieved when safe water is delivered to communities.
Known for his long career as a prosecutor and a Los Angeles District Attorney, Gil Garcetti has spent more than forty years as an urban photographer. In 2006 his work was exhibited at the Fowler Museum in the exhibition Dance in Cuba: Photographs by Gil Garcetti. His photography books Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Frozen Music have received critical praise in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Oregonian, the Washington Post, and other publications.
Women, Water and Wells was organized by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and was made possible through the support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Manus, the support group of the Fowler Museum.
The Permanent Delegation of the United States of America to UNESCO is pleased to present the exhibit at UNESCO Headquarters in collaboration with the International Hydrological Programme, and with the support of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. All works have been lent by the photographer.
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I lost one of my best friends last week. Laura Crawford, beloved teacher, children's book author, daughter, sister, aunt and funny, feisty friend to so many, died last week after a five-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Only 46, she wasn't ready to die.
"I don't have time for this. It's not supposed to be this way," she volunteered a few weeks before she passed, when we discussed the possibility of her death. "I've got more books to write, more kids to teach. What time is it?" She asked, as she glanced at the clock on the wall of her hospital room. "Right now I'd be telling little Johnny (name changed) to … " she reflected, her voice trailing off.
A reading specialist and literacy coach at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School, Laura wasn't well enough to return to her classroom this fall. But oh, how she wanted to. Teachers are a special breed, but this one didn't stop working with "her kids" when the bell rang.
At her wake, her dad, Jim Crawford, recalled a story about a child Laura tutored over the summer, whose mother's checks she quietly refused to cash. That doesn't surprise me at all. An educator for 20 years, she's the kind of teacher that students came back to thank many years later when they graduated from high school. Sometimes Laura and her former students even met for lunch. She didn't stop loving and teaching them just because they left her classroom.
But the kids she most adored were the children of her dear sisters, Linda Fogg and Maureen Walrath.
Laura was like a second mom to Madilynn, Lauren and Brooke Walrath; and Jack and Riley Fogg. They were the light of her life and she talked about them constantly. When Maddie played soccer (she played on my daughter's team, which her dad, George, helped to coach) Laura and I got to watch a few games together. These days Maddie is a rising star on the cross-country team at Rotolo Middle School in Batavia and Lauren plays soccer. Laura was so proud of their efforts.
I happened to be at the hospital one afternoon when the girls arrived to tell their aunt about their latest endeavors. Lauren was looking forward to another soccer game that weekend and Maddie shared that she had just done well at a cross country meet.
"And what do you do?" Laura asked, turning her attention to me. Realizing that she was momentarily confused, I played along.
"Oh, well, I don't run, Laura. Bad things happen when I run," I said, laughing, but Laura knew that.
When she was well, we walked. Along the Fox River on the bike path, and, later, when that became too taxing, around my neighborhood. We walked and we talked. About everything. She was thoughtful, generous and strong. Boy, was she strong. Writing teachers often say, "Write what you know," and she did.
A longtime member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and a network representative for the Geneva network – which I joined when we met eight years ago – she'd already published seven nonfiction picture books, including "Benjamin Franklin from A to Z," "Postcards from Chicago" and "In Arctic Waters" – my daughter's favorite.
She'd also written manuscripts about strong women with pivotal roles in our country's early years. Laura knew all about strength. In fact, she never did give up her fight against cancer. Miss Maddie must come by her endurance quite naturally, as her devoted aunt, who wanted so badly to stay and watch her and the others grow up, fought to outrun cancer right up until the very moment it took her.
An inspiring cheerleader to the end, Laura never gave up working on her own and others' "book stuff," either.
For example, when I described how much I enjoyed swimming with the sea turtles during my family's recent trip to Hawaii, she said, "There's a book there."
"You're amazing, Laura. Here you are, stuck in this bed, and you're still lighting a fire under me!"
"I see books everywhere," she whispered.
"You'll be happy to know that Holly and I were just at the library and picked up a pile of books about sea turtles," I said.
She smiled.
She loved research. She'd also be happy to know that I also already returned those books, and before their due date, too. (I'm pretty sure "Wanted" posters bearing our names are hanging in libraries throughout the county.)
I also mentioned our award-winning writer friend Lori's latest manuscript.
"You know how some of her stories are about animals?" I asked. "So yeah, there's a farm and these turkeys, and, you know, something about acorns. Acorn pie. Yeah, that's it," I added, shaking my head. I'd just read the dang thing the night before but for the life of me, weary and worried, I just couldn't conjure it. "Well, just take my word for it," I said, exasperated, "It's AWESOME." Laura smiled.
"Cute," she said, closing her eyes against the fatigue. "We could get together here [in the hospital] and [critique]," she immediately suggested, no doubt wanting to help poor Lori with her apparently messed-up book. We never did get to do that.
The night she died, I called Southwest to change a flight I'd had planned so I wouldn't miss her funeral. Someone named "Laura" took the call and didn't charge me for changing the flight. Several hours after the funeral, when everyone finally stood up to get off the plane, I realized that out of the hundreds of seats available, I'd picked the one directly behind a guy wearing a jersey bearing the name "Crawford."
Laura's still with us, I think, and will live on in her books and in our memories. In an effort to keep them alive for her nieces and nephew, Laura's family is compiling a book of notes written by those who will never forget her.
Since some of Laura's books were written in postcard format, the Geneva Public Library is helping with this effort by making postcards available at the Youth Services desk through Oct. 18, which will be forwarded to the family. People can also send feedback about her books or recollections of Laura, a.k.a. "Miss Crawford," to email@example.com.
Well done, dear friend. Rest in peace.
• Jennifer DuBose lives in Batavia with her husband, Todd, and their two children, Noah and Holly. Contact her at email@example.com.
Tales from the Motherhood: Friend loses battle with cancer; memory lives on
I lost one of my best friends last week. Laura Crawford, beloved teacher, children's book author, daughter, sister, aunt and funny, feisty friend to so many, died last week after a five-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Only 46, she wasn't ready to die.


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IT companies generate lots of headlines when they go public: Witness all the fanfare last year when Facebook went public (and we know how well that turned out). Or even when a less visible company hits the stock exchange, such as both business analytics software vendor Tableau Software and marketing automation application developer Marketo did last week.
But sometimes companies attempt to undo their IPO and take a business private. It can happen when private investors see a bargain and shareholders see a deal they can't refuse. Or, it's a founder who was sidelined when his/her creation went public and s/he wants to reassert control.
Here are five recent bids to take public IT companies private and how those efforts turned out.


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Perimeter Institute (PI) is pleased to announce the appointment of two new Associate Faculty members, Itay Yavin and Avery Broderick.
In making the announcement, PI's Director Neil Turok said, "We are very pleased to welcome these very talented young scientists to Perimeter. Dr. Broderick is an outstanding astrophysicist who recently produced the first conclusive evidence for the existence of the event horizon of the black hole in the centre of our galaxy, and obtained evidence that it is spinning. Dr. Yavin is a leader in confronting particle physics theories with experimental data, an area brimming with possibility as new data come flooding in from the Large Hadron Collider."
Avery Broderick will join Perimeter as an Associate Faculty member in theoretical astrophysics, and will hold a joint appointment with the University of Waterloo. Dr. Broderick completed his PhD at Caltech in 2004, under the supervision of Prof. Roger Blandford. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 2004-2007, and then a Senior Research Associate at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) from 2007-2011.
Dr. Broderick has broad interests in astrophysics, ranging from how stars form to the extreme physics in the vicinity of white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. He has recently been part of an international effort to produce and interpret horizon-resolving images of a handful of supermassive black holes. With these, Dr. Broderick and his collaborators study how black holes accrete matter, launch the ultra-relativistic outflows observed, and probe the nature of gravity in their vicinity.
Itay Yavin will join Perimeter as an Associate Faculty member in particle physics, and will hold a joint appointment with McMaster University in Hamilton. Dr. Yavin completed his PhD in 2006 at Harvard University under the supervision of Nima Arkani-Hamed, who is a PI Distinguished Research Chair. After completing his PhD, he was a Research Associate in the Department of Physics at Princeton University from 2006-2009. Prior to coming to PI, Dr. Yavin was a James Arthur Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Physics at New York University.
Dr. Yavin's research focuses on particle physics and the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. In particular, he is interested in the origin of electroweak symmetry breaking and the nature of dark matter. Most recently he has worked on interpreting puzzling data coming from experiments looking for dark matter in the lab.
Both Dr. Broderick and Dr. Yavin will join the Institute in September 2011.


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There is something hard and uncompromising about the personality of Ishmon Bracey, something challenging and direct. It is evident in the known photographs of him when he was in his late Twenties, staring fixedly at the photographer. In one shot his expression is steady, even sullen; in the more familiar cut from an old Victor catalogue he struggled a mirthless and unfriendly smile. Dressed in a suit, with collar and tie, in each case he was carefully up-to-date. "A rare combination of braggart, entertainer, musician, showman and eventually an ordained minister" is how Gayle Dean Wardlow, who interviewed him many times, chose to describe him in Blues Unlimited (No. 142). By Ishmon Bracey's own account to Dave Evans, he was a fighter too, "mixing it" with Saturday night drunks and the jealous lovers who came after his friend Tommy Johnson. Continued...
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That's one...
This week, possibly in response to Mitch McGary's fabulous work on Instagram, the football team pretty much decided to made the un-moving pictures their donkey. And per Brian's instructions, we begin once again with Dr. Hamlet III:
And since I've been making an effort to be more informative and less snarky, this presents an opportunity to analyze the…
Before that, though, several members of the offense took last week's ManBearCrombie to the next level, and presented us with an overload of OMG Shirtless:
NOT PICTURED: weakness of any kind
Most of you have probably heard of a young man from Grand Rapids named Drake Harris. Mr. Harris said a while back that he would spend a few years at Michigan State playing kicky-throwy ball AND dribbly-shooty ball, but then he changed his mind about the dribbly-shooty part and decided to play his kicky-throwy ball at Michigan. This did not go over well in East Lansing, and elicited a pile of the usual Twitter crap. But that was six weeks ago, so the iron has cooled considerably.
But don't tell that to the creator of what is almost certainly the worst parody account in the history of mimicry:
Yep, it's an account dedicated to Drake Harris's Ego, which Sparty* believes to be a thing. Setting aside the fact that this guy created an account mocking a kid, this is just a terrible account. First, I don't think he knows what "ego" means. But more importantly, he failed to meet the first (and really the only) rule of parody accounts: they are supposed to be funny. I mean, objectively speaking, who is going to find that funny?
Oh, hey there one time Michigan State commit and current UCLA Bruin offensive lineman Caleb Benenoch. To summarize: a guy who decommitted from State loves that there is an account dedicated to the ego demonstrated by a guy who decommitted from State. I can't even begin to unwrap the Spartyness of this tweet. It's like a mobius strip of Spartyfreude; it just folds back into itself until you don't know where you started but god this thing is nifty.
*And yes, this was the doing of Sparty. A confirmed State fan created the account, and then allegedly turned over control to someone else. I won't out the creator, but mostly because I don't feel like chasing down the details because I don't much care.
In related Drake Harris news, he continues to catch crap on Twitter for choosing a college, including a concerted effort from one guy in particular who doesn't seem to understand the concept of "boundaries." Harris finally called him on it:
Sure enough, I looked through Doug E. Fresh's Tweets, and an uncomfortable percentage of them are to Drake Harris. Add in the alleged Facebook stalking, and we've got ourselves a Stage 5 Clinger. And then there's the text of the message itself, in which this guy blames Harris for all of the hate he's receiving because he's "living with the consequences" of his decisions. It's your classic "he was asking for it" defense, except here the "asking for it" was in the form of "selected an institution of higher education."
This should serve as a reminder to the scores of you who still contact recruits through social media that it is a terrible, terrible idea, and not just because of the creepiness factor. They might see your comments, call you out, and make you look like a maroon in front of the whole internet. This guy is a real estate agent who uses his name and business information in his Twitter profile. And I will remind you that Michigan fans buy houses in west Michigan, as do people who don't like being creeped the hell out by awkward people. So, congratulations, Mr. Ditmar, I dub thee TWITTER CREEPER OF THE YEAR OF THE WEEK.**
**This name probably won't stick. Also this probably won't be a regular thing.
[ED:BiSB - The purpose of this section was not to encourage people to seek retribution. People should not attempt to contact or further escalate the situation. Let the Universe unfold of its own accord.]
I don't want to talk about this. But I think you have to see it, so… here it is. Warning: it's slightly Not Safe For Breakfast.
(H/T @LandGrant33, and by H/T I mean Y U HATE MY EYES?)
Bucknuts. That is all.
NCAA rules are dumb. But until now, we didn't know just how dumb:
Yup, a University had to report a secondary violation because an athlete washed her car with University water. According to Lost Lettermen, the full story is about as dumb as you would expect:
A WCC school self-reported an extra benefits violation to the NCAA when university officials caught one of their women's golfers washing her car on campus, according to the source. The NCAA ruled a secondary violation had occurred because the water was not available to regular students and demanded the golfer pay back $20, which was deemed to be the value of the water and use of the hose."
It was a violation because the USE OF A HOSE WAS AN IMPERMISSIBLE BENEFIT. And she had to PAY $20 because the hose wasn't available to the general student body. In other words, this thing that is generally unavailable to the general student body is fine:
Ross Academic Center
And this will lead us slouching to SMU:
Once again, fine:
Save us Obi-Wan KenO'Bannon. You're our only hope.
(NOTE: the second violation, while less funny, is probably worse. How can someone make some kind of impermissible contact with a recruit when he doesn't know who he is talking to? We lawyer types call that "mens rea." Everyone else calls it "holy itchy Gold Bond balls, use some common sense you ridiculous tools")
The University of Cincinnati baseball team had a rough year, finishing just 6-18 in Big East play, which is probably because baseball isn't any of the players' first loves. They were born to be swimmers:
medieval jousters;
or explorers, Roman emperors, big game hunters, or… well, swimmers again. These gentlemen will be going professional in something other than sports. Unless that swimming thing works out, in which case that'd be sports.
Look, Amanda, you seem like a nice girl and all, certain amazing but somewhat NSFW headlines notwithstanding. But this is about the point in your life when you are going to want to reconsider some stuff.
That's one...
But I can't because it is all amazing. Great work, BiSB!
Pryor with the bucket.
Lewan looks a little Chippendale-esque to me with that choker, but never mind. The Sparty geezer hassling Drake Harris, Pryor+bucket, the videobombing Bearcats...sublime.
would go that far with the Drake Harris thing, but still pretty pathetic nonetheless.
I googled Douglas Ditmar and requested info. If he ever emails me I'll tell hiim I have a lot of family and friends in GR who have all been told not to use him or any of his agents when buying or selling a house.
He can learn to live with consequences as well.
Real world trolling is far more acceptable than interweb trollin, eh?
Technically, mine is still on the interweb, but we are both adults. If Doug wanted to tweet at Brady Hoke, I wouldn't take issue with it. Once he puts himself out there, I don't think sending him an email is out of line.
I know Doug Ditmar personally. He is a giant piece of shit. He is an absolutely clueless fuck that has no idea what he's doing, and he trolls on the internet regularly. Both Doug and I would be considered "GR Christian insiders" to a certain extent. Obviously he is a huge Sparty homer, but also a massive douchnozzle. Other people in the GR Christian community are now talking about him because of this crap and some other crap. The dude needs to figure it out and shut the fuck up.
I'm speaking angrily about him, but please don't interpret Doug as a reflection of the Grand Rapids Christian community. Its really a bunch of wonderful people, except for Doug.
I'm have trouble gleaning how you feel about Doug Ditmar. Would you please expound your position re: Mr. Ditmar?
("I know Doug Ditmar personally. He is a giant piece of shit." will live in my memory as one of the funniest opening lines in an MGoPost. Well done, sir. Well done.)
"I KNOW Doug Ditmar, and you Sir are NO Doug Ditmar."
No late-80s vice presidential politics.
EDIT: Although just for comedy's sake it would have been a lot funnier if Bentsen had said "Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're a giant piece of shit."
I think Dougie is going to lose his "GR Christian insider" status. Stalking high school kids can't go over very well in that community.
YESSSS. This is the stuff the internet is for!
You should create a word of the day calendar. We will start with that word.
Reading between the lines of his bio, his achievements in life are:
1. Ran family business into the ground and closed it, despite what he indicates is his natural affinity for being a salesmen
2. Decided he wanted to leverage his natural affinity for sales and now sells houses instead
A sparty success story if ever there were one.
Thanks for the idea.
That Cinncinati team is amazing.
to lose, they might as well have fun doing it. And they look like they're having a ball!
What is the going rate of a pig these days? Just wondering how much all the guys pitched in for the purchase.
I just hope they fill its water bowl from sources that are available to all students.
but I hope they don't choose to fatten up DHIII with cream cheese, but stick to one of the approved spreads.
Hong Kong poopaccino:
Well done. This deserves more than 5 MGoPoints.
I can vouch that regular students are not premitted. I decided to test the waters when it opened to use its printers. That's a big no bueno
I looked up Douglas Ditmar's facebook, and he has a lot of Drake Harris stuff on his wall, the most recent being him retweeting (but on facebook) Harris's tweet congrtatulating Tommy Doles for committing to NW. And then he quotes bible versus. I wonder is Jesus was down with stalking and bothering high school kids.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who decommits from Michigan State to enter the kingdom of God." Matthew 19:24 (via Douglas Ditmar)
See above - Doug Ditmar absolutely sucks.
I am very, very close to putting his address on here but I'm holding back out of not wanting to get myself in trouble. #goodjudgment
You sound like a real treat too.
That's fair. I have my moments.
I'd say that's a bit over the line
...not that it would be hard to find it out anyway
And I will remind you that Michigan fans buy houses in west Michigan
From Douglas C. Ditmar? After this little bit of Twitter bravado, I doubt it.
For those of you looking to buy or sell a home in West Michigan, my brother, Ryan Schmuldt, is a real estate agent and Michigan fan, and he is an adequate Doug Ditmar substitute.
(Shameless plug).
Given what we've learned about Mr. Ditmar, you must not have much of an opinion of your brother.
I'll give him 0.5% commission. Deal?
He's pretty new, so probably.
like that reminds me of Animal House...
Douglas C. Neidermeyer. Sgt at Arms. Killed by his own troops.
These linemen have a much more forgiving landlord than I had in Ann Arbor. They can have a pig. I couldn't have a fish.
Their landlord isn't more forgiving, but are YOU going to tell Taylor Lewan he can't have a pig named Dr. Hamlet III?
I have never contacted a recruit by any means.
That said, why do recruiting analysts and other mdeia types constantly alert their followers to recruits' Twitter accounts? It seems counter-productive to the Don't Contact Recruits Directive.
This is where common sense needs to come in. "Don't contact recruits at all" is like telling your kids they can't go in the backyard at all to make sure they don't fall into the pool. If you have a kid who is able to be around a pool without risk of falling in, it's fine that he go in the backyard, but with a mixed group of kids, it's best to play it safe and make the whole backyard off limits.
Recruits like to be followed and many of them like to interact with fans because it's the first time in their lives they've had a huge following. They don't want to be bothered though, like any of us. This is like the sexy-dressed girl at the bar who wants you to flirt with her and dance with her but not stick your hand up her skirt. The line is usually pretty clear. Tweeting a recruit to congratulate him on something or to say Go Blue is almost always fine. Acosting a rival recruit is never ever OK.
Mike Vrabel is right, OSU alumn or not.
If you have tried it you wouldn't be knocking it. True story.
Been a GB man since grade 8. Even more so now that I am a "southerner."
this week was short on laughs, until Dr. Hamlet III delivered twitter gold that is. i don't know where to start. seriously though, GB is quite soothing. i'm almost inclined to overlook the ohio part of vrabel's resume. everyone makes mistakes. embracing the medicated powder certainly isn't one of them.
a travel sized bottle in my golf bag for refreshment on the course, in addition to the one in my bathroom. Like an alpine breeze.
This was in no way to belittle the fine work done by the good people at Gold Bond. Theirs is a wonderful product.
My focus was more on the publicity granted to Mike Vrabel's nether-regions vis-a-vis said product.
Is it at all possible that he was using it on his feet and liked the tingly sensation, you know, on his feet? Hence the footprints? Or is the idea that he dumps a cannister on his meat and two veg and then it cascades to the floor and then he walks around in it and leaves footprints?
There's an image for you.
You know the old GB saying - once you go sack, you never go back.
Do you think it would be okay with my wife if I used that OMG Shirtless pic as my desktop background?
It's not weird, right?


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — A bequest from the estate of Henry Martin, who graduated from Bucknell University in 1939, will be used to fund a scholarship for students in the Hazleton Area School District.
Martin, who gave more than $300,000 to establish the scholarship, died May 20, 2009. A 1935 graduate of Hazleton High School, he worked for PPL in Allentown and Harrisburg for 32 years, in the engineering and right-of-way departments, before retiring in 1974. He also worked for Bethlehem Steel for several years.
"This scholarship is a great opportunity for our Hazleton Area students to attend Bucknell University, who otherwise would not be able to attend such a highly prestigious school," said Sam Marolo, superintendent of the Hazleton Area School District. "I'd like to express our gratitude for the great generosity of the Martin family."
Martin was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the Bison Club, the Bucknell Emeritus Club, the 'Ray Bucknell Society, and the Bucknell Gold Society. He was an active member of the PPL LiveWires Club of Harrisburg, PPL Retirees, Hershey Bears Booster Club and the Millersburg, Pa., Ferry Boat Association.
He was born in Hazleton on Aug. 5, 1917, the son of Arthur and Bertha Dietrich Martin. Preceding him in death, in addition to his parents, was his wife of almost 50 years, Kathryn Martini Martin, in 2002. Martin is survived by a cousin and several nieces and nephews.
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Notebooks Guide
Benchmarking and Performance
Benchmarking and Performance
We pitted the ASUS G74SX, which retails for S$2998, against competing gaming notebooks at around the same price range. Samsung's Series 7 700G7A retails at S$2899, and uses the same processor, but has a higher performing AMD graphics module. Toshiba's Qosmio X770 retails at S$3299, and uses a slightly slower processor, but the same GPU as ASUS, but with half the video memory.
|Specifications / Notebook
|Samsung Series 7 700G7A
|Toshiba Qosmio X770
|Intel Core i7-2670QM
(2.2GHz quad-core)
|Intel Core i7-2670QM
(2.2GHz quad-core)
|Intel Core i7-2630QM
(2.0GHz quad-core)
|Intel HM65
|Intel HM65
|Intel HM65
|1TB (2 x 500GB) Hybrid Solid State Drive
|1.5TB (2 x 750GB SATA) 7200 RPM
|1.5TB (2 x 750GB SATA) 7200 RPM
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M (3GB VRAM)
|AMD Radeon HD 6970M (2GB VRAM)
|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M (1.5GB VRAM)
PCMark Vantage
PCMark Vantage tests the overall performance of a system. The G74SX scored surprisingly well, winning in every category and notably achieving a massive 11904 score in the Gaming Suite. So while the numbers look great, the important point here is to understand what the benchmark does to derive these scores.
The Gaming Suite score weighs heavily on loading times from the unit's hard drive, so the hybrid drives found in the G74SX with their built-in 4GB SSD cache may be the secret to the G74SX's success here. If you look at the System Storage score, you'll also see that the G74SX easily outperformed both of its competitors. In reality however, the advantage of the hybrid drives weren't really as apparent, other than loading applications.
While speedy loading is a good thing, this advantage is only had for momentary periods like these and it's not like normal disk drive based machines are unbearably slow either. True gamers would really prefer a competent graphics crunching machine and you'll see that's where the ASUS doesn't quite live up to expectations in the following benchmarks.
3DMark 06
3Dmark06 tests a unit's GPU (and involved some aspects of the CPU too). While the NVIDIA GTX 560M found in the G74SX has a whopping 3GB of VRAM, it only slightly outperformed the 1.5GB VRAM in the X770, proving the age-old understanding that VRAM doesn't actually make that much of a difference to a system's performance. In fact, the differential is mostly due to the X770's slower CPU. The high-end AMD Radeon HD 6970M GPU with 2GB VRAM on the Samsung machine attained a much higher score than either NVIDIA models.
Far Cry 2
We were interested in seeing if the ASUS G74SX's superior system benchmark scores, thanks to its hybrid drives, would translate into better in-game performance, despite its mid-range graphics card.
Unfortunately, in terms of actual in-game frame rates, the hybrid drives' advantage was hardly felt and the G74SX scored only a nary better than the X770 by virtue of a speedier CPU. It goes without saying that the Samsung 700G7A was ahead of the compared machines. When comparing game play on the ASUS machine against the Samsung, on Very High settings, there was a small but noticeable decrease in frame rates between the two, although having said that, frame rates were still well above acceptable for game play.
Far Cry 2 with 3D
With 3D Vision turned on, we did see the G74SX pull ahead of the X770, with a significant performance difference on both Medium and Very High settings. We found Medium settings to be playable with only minor frame rate drops during very intensive scenes. However on Very High settings, it was a different story, with frame rates dropping as low as 7 - definitely unplayable. The Samsung Series 7 700G7A was a much better choice for 3D gaming, with frame rates remaining acceptable even at Very High settings.


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As our final weekend together, FITSA held 2 events for everyone's last goodbye 🙁 On Friday night, we went to an aperitivo @ Caffe Letterario, which used to be a prison. The location was perfect and the food was amazing. They had vegetarian, and gluten free options which gave options for everyone 🙂 With live music every night, it was the perfect ambiance for a relaxed night to see everyone one last time.
{Cute interior @ Caffe Letterario}
{drinks & food}
{all smiles after eating}
{IFD2 girls}
{IFMM girls}
{good food & great company}
After a successful aperitivo on Friday night, FITSA held our final get together at Casine Park with a catered picnic. Thanks to Panino Tondo for catering our lunch with little lunch baggies for everyone! It was the perfect Saturday afternoon spent under the sun 🙂
{Casine Park}
{Ashley & Rachel}
{IFMM ladies 🙂 Codi, Victoria, Felicia, Gab, Shannon}
{Jessica, Elisa, Brianne, Chohye, Ekaterina}
{girlfriends- Golden twins, Hilary, Cho, Victoria}
{jumping for joy :D}
Now, it's all over…Ah I can't believe it's already time to go home! The past 10 months flew by, and I can say that this past year was definitely the most memorable year of my life. Florence, you will always have my heart <3


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The fuller sentence would be:
First graders have been seen to be willing
With 'watched' the collocation would be something like:
First graders have been watched as they worked on...
This changes the meaning, from how the children 'were willing to work...'
2. 'illiterate': unable to read or write
So - practically illiterate means almost, nearly unable to read and write.
They are most probably not as bad as that, but their level of vocabulary and so understanding of the words in newspapers; and being able to comprehend the meaning of what they are reading is so poor, that in terms of when they are asked to perform the tasks of "reading a newspaper, filling out a job application or balancing a checkbook", they function very poorly - hence, functionally illiterate.
For example, if an application form had a blank for "Gender' they may be blank as to what they need to write there!
Student or Learner


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In a rebroadcast from December 2, 2012, Daniel & Ben talk to poet Kim Addonizio, author of "Lucifer at the Starlite." She talks about her love of teaching poetry, and why she deliberately chose not to pursue an academic career at a university. Addonizio also talks about the instructional poetry book she co-wrote with Dorianne Laux, "A Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry," and her own instruction guide, "Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within." www.kimaddonizio.com
Kim Addonizio reads this week's Poem of the Week, "Another Day on Earth" from "Lucifer at the Starlight." The poem was written after the tragic 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
This week's Poetic License comes from Blake Nemec, a 3rd year MFA candidate at the University of Texas at El Paso, Creative Writing Department. His Poetic License is entitled "How the Cyprus Trees Stand on the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez Border."
Aired August 4, 2013.