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Bond Duration & Convexity
by Wayne A. Thorp
The last two installments of Spreadsheet Corner provided templates on how to calculate bond prices, returns and price sensitivity to changes in interest rates and time to maturity (Fourth Quarter 2012 and First Quarter 2013 issues; available online at ComputerizedInvesting.com). These articles laid the groundwork for a discussion of more advanced, and accurate, measures of bond volatility.
As bond investors, we need to be aware of the impact that changing interest rates (yields) can have on the value of bonds. Volatility measures allow us to compare bonds of differing maturities and coupon rates to find the ones that fit our investment horizon and our forecast of future interest rates. Recall that there is an inverse relationship between yield and bond prices. If interest rates go up, the value of the fixed interest and principal payment you expect to receive from the bond goes down. Conversely, if interest rates fall, the value of bonds will increase. In other words, the bond market rallies when interest rates fall (and, conversely, it falls when interest rates rise).
Long-term bonds are much more sensitive to changes in yields than short-term bonds. A longer term to maturity means it takes longer for investors to recover their initial investment, so the market value of the bond is more sensitive to changes in interest rates. Recall, too, that the coupon rate is the interest rate on the bond that is established at the time the bond is issued. The higher the coupon rate, the less the value of the bond will change in response to interest rate changes. In contrast, the lower the coupon rate, the more the value of the bond will vary with changes in interest rates. Figure 1 from the Fourth Quarter 2012 Spreadsheet Corner article illustrated the relationship between market interest rates and bond prices. Since bond values change inversely to the change in interest rates, a long-term, low-coupon-rate bond will suffer a very great decrease in value when interest rates increase; a short-term, high-coupon-rate bond will change relatively little in value.
When considering different bonds, it is useful to have a measure of price sensitivity to interest rate changes that takes into account both maturity and coupon effects. One such measure is known as duration.
In a book written for the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1938, Frederick Macaulay first developed the concept of bond duration (although it wasn't until the 1970s that duration came into common use). Duration basically measures the weighted average amount of time it takes to receive the present value of all the cash flows from a bond, measured in years, such that:
DMac = [Σ tCt ÷ (1 + YTM)t] ÷ [Σ Ct ÷ (1 + YTM)t]
- t = the time period in which the cash payment is received
- Ct = the cash payment received at time t
- YTM = the per period (typically semiannual) yield to maturity
If the yield to maturity is semiannual, the duration we arrive at is actually the number of semiannual periods. So, in this case, we would divide the result by the payment frequency (two, for semiannual) to arrive at an annual figure.
The fractional term of the duration formula is the present value of each cash flow as a percentage of the bond's price, which serves as the weighting in the average, and t is the number of periods until each cash flow is received.
Generally speaking:
- Bond duration is less than term to maturity and will equal the final maturity if and only if there is a single payment at maturity (a zero-coupon bond);
- There is an inverse relationship between duration and coupon rate; and
- There is an inverse relationship between duration and yield to maturity.
Excel has a built-on function called DURATION:
Such that:
- Settlement is the bond's settlement date, which is the date after the issue date when the security is traded to the buyer;
- Maturity is the bond's maturity data;
- Coupon is the bond's annual coupon rate;
- Yld is the bond's annual yield;
- Frequency is the number of coupon payments per year—for annual payments, frequency = 1; for semiannual, frequency = 2; for quarterly, frequency = 4; and
- Basis is the type of day count basis to use (typically 0 for U.S. bonds).
If this function is not available in your version of Excel, and returns the #NAME? error, you can download and install the Analysis ToolPak add-in from the Microsoft Office website.
Figure 1 illustrates the Macaulay duration for two different bonds with the same time to maturity (20 years) and yield (5%), but differing coupon rates (4.0% for Bond 1 and 2.0% for Bond 2) and the impact of an increase in yield from 5% to 6%. For Bond 1, the duration formula entered in cell B19 is:
We then copied this formula to C19 to find the duration of Bond 2.
Duration works best only for small changes in yield, as we will discuss later, so in this example we are only using a 1% change from 5% to 6%. The duration of Bond 1 is 13.47 years, and for Bond 2 it is 15.42 years. Since Bond 2 has the longer duration, it should be more sensitive to interest rate changes than Bond 1. To verify this, we calculated the values of the bonds at yields of both 5% and 6% in cells B14:C15 using the PRICE function we've discussed in the two previous Spreadsheet Corner articles. Increasing the yield by 1% led to a 12.08% drop in price for Bond 1 and a 13.75% decline for Bond 2. So, Bond 2 is more sensitive to changes in yield, as its duration indicated. Using this template, you can see the impact on duration when changing the coupon rates and maturity dates.
Modified Duration
A variation on Macaulay's duration is modified duration, which is a price sensitivity measure that is the percentage derivative (rate of change) of price with respect to yield. Referring back to our previous example, we see that the Macaulay duration approximates the percentage change in the bond's price. Changing the yield from 5% to 6% caused a 12.08% price decline for Bond 1, whereas its duration is 13.47 years. Therefore, the Macaulay duration can be used to estimate the percentage change in the value of a bond for a 1% change in interest rates.
Because they affect yield, fluctuating interest rates will affect duration, so the modified duration shows how much the duration changes for each percentage change in yield.
The modified duration is calculated as follows:
DMod = DMac ÷ (1 + YTM ÷ m)
- DMac = the Macaulay duration
- YTM = yield to maturity
- m = the payment frequency (number of coupon payments per year)
Excel has a built-in function called MDURATION to calculate the modified duration:
Such that:
- Settlement is the bond's settlement date, which is the date after the issue date when the security is traded to the buyer;
- Maturity is the bond's maturity date;
- Coupon is the bond's annual coupon rate;
- Yld is the bond's annual yield;
- Frequency is the number of coupon payments per year—for annual payments, frequency = 1; for semiannual, frequency = 2; for quarterly, frequency = 4; and
- Basis is the type of day count basis to use (typically 0 for U.S. bonds).
If this function is not available, and returns the #NAME? error, you can download and install the Analysis ToolPak add-in from the Microsoft Office website.
Figure 1 also shows the modified duration calculations for Bonds 1 and 2, using the same inputs from our example for Macaulay duration. In cell B20 we entered the following formula for Bond 1:
We then copied this formula to C20 to find the modified duration of Bond 2.
In both cases, the modified duration is a bit closer to the percentage change figures in cells B17:C17. The modified duration for Bond 1 is 13.14 years and 15.05 years for Bond 2.
While the modified duration offers a closer measure of the percentage change in the bond's price for a change in yield, it is still only accurate for small changes in yield. This is because duration is a linear approximation to a nonlinear function (more on this a little later).
Using the modified duration, we can approximate the percentage change in a bond's price for a change in yield:
% Change in Price ≈ -DMod × ΔYTM
In Figure 2, we replicated this formula in cell B22, this time assuming that the yield increased from 5.0% to 5.1% (cells A14:A15):
For Bond 1, the predicted price change for this 0.1% increase in yield is a drop of 1.30% (cell B22, which equals the percentage change in cell B17). The same goes for Bond 2 when comparing cell C22 and cell C17.
A Visual Representation
As we mentioned earlier, modified duration only works for small changes in the yield since it is a linear approximation to a nonlinear function. Modified duration is equal to the partial derivative of the price function with respect to the yield, divided by the price of the bond. The slope of any bond value/yield curve can be calculated by multiplying the modified duration by the price of the bond, such that:
Slope = DMod × P = Rise ÷ Run
Figure 3 illustrates the price/yield curve of Bond 1 from our previous examples. We arrived at this curve by calculating the value of Bond 1 across a range of yields to maturity, assuming a 20-year time to maturity, 4% coupon rate paid semiannually, 5% yield and $1,000 redemption value. From cell B11, Bond 1 has a current value of $874.49, which we calculate using the PRICE function we discussed in the previous two articles (indicated by the red horizontal dotted line on the chart) given its 5% yield (indicated by the green vertical dotted line on the chart). By constructing a line with the same slope that is tangent to the curve at the point representing the current price and yield, we can visualize the modified duration of the bond.
Figure 4 contains the data necessary to plot the blue tangent line in Figure 3. In cell I2 we calculate the slope of the line using the formula we provided earlier:
We then derive three points through which the line passes. The x values are simply the three yields in cells I3:I5. The midpoint is the current yield of Bond 1, 5%, and the others are arbitrarily set three percentage points above and below. In J3, we entered the formula for the slope-intercept straight line equation (y = mx + b) where m is the slope, x is the x-intercept and b is the y-intercept):
We then copied the formula down for cells J4:J5. This shows the prices on the line with the slope that was calculated in cell I2.
We now have a visual representation of modified duration, which we can change by altering the yield in cell B6. When the yield decreases, modified duration will increase, creating a steeper line. Increasing the yield will lead to a flatter line, which implies a lower modified duration.
As stated, using modified duration to calculate the change in price for a given change in yield only works for small changes in yield. Figure 3 helps explain this. The price/yield curve is just that: curved. To be specific, it is convex to the origin. Comparing the straight line to that of the price/yield function, we can see how the straight line departs from the price/yield function for large changes in yield. A measure of this curvature is called convexity, which we can use to improve the approximation of the change in price. Convexity can be calculated as:
= [1 ÷ (1 + YTM)2] × [Σ Ct (t2 + t) ÷ (1 + YTM)t]
- Ct = the cash payment received at time t
- t = the time period in which the cash payment is received
- YTM = the per period (typically semiannual) yield to maturity
As we had to do with the Macaulay duration, we must divide convexity by the payment frequency to convert it to an annual number.
Mathematically speaking, convexity is the second derivative of the price function with respect to the yield, divided by the price of the bond. In other words, you can think of it as the rate of change in a bond's duration. Simply put, however, it is the measure of the degree of curvature of the price/yield function presented in Figure 3. The higher the convexity, the more curved the function.
Unlike Macaulay duration and modified duration, there is not a convexity function built into Excel. However, we have been using the Famefncs.xlam add-in from Timothy R. Mayes, a professor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and co-author of "Financial Analysis with Microsoft Excel" (South-Western College Pub, 2011). After downloading this add-in to your PC, you can use its FAME_CONVEXITY function:
Such that:
- Settlement is the bond's settlement date, which is the date after the issue date when the security is traded to the buyer;
- Maturity is the bond's maturity date;
- FV is the face or redemption value of the bond;
- Coupon is the bond's annual coupon rate;
- Yld is the bond's annual yield; and
- Frequency is the number of coupon payments per year—for annual payments, frequency = 1; for semiannual, frequency = 2; for quarterly, frequency = 4.
Referring back to Figure 1, we entered this formula into cell B21:
We then copied this formula into cell C21 for Bond 2.
The convexity of Bond 1 is 226.61 and 275.49 for Bond 2. With these values, we can improve on the approximate percentage change in price, as it now accounts for the curvature of the price/yield function. Using convexity (C), the change in price is calculated as follows:
≈ -DMod × ΔYTM + 0.5C × ΔYTM2
We entered this formula into cell B22:
Comparing the Predicted % Change values in cells B22:C22 to the percentage change values in cells B17:C17, the difference is rather negligible and is more accurate for larger changes in the yield.
Beyond improving the predicted percentage change in bond prices, convexity is also useful for comparing bonds of equal durations and yields. In these instances, the more convex a bond is, the less it's affected by interest rates. Therefore, we would prefer a bond with more convexity.
Our series on bond analysis has examined how to calculate the price of a bond and its yield and how to judge its sensitivity to changes in interest rates. We have put these somewhat complex concepts into templates to aid in your bond analysis.
Click here to download the spreadsheet containing the calculations discussed here.
William Hutchinson from AZ posted over 5 years ago:
Interesting article, especially since even tho I have studied the SEC bond pricing publication,"Bond Pricing Calculations", and written formulas for pricing bonds, I had never heard of "duration", "modified duration", "convexity". However if these parameters appear in EXCEL, they must be in use. I have to say tho that the presentations in the first 2 articles giving price and YTM calculations are much more useful. I still don't understand why anyone cares about "duration". Maybe a discussion of the significance of this calculation relative to price and YTM would be useful.
The formulae for yield and price are available in many math reference sources. They are however easily derived from the present value formula,(1+r)^n and a rudimentary knowledge of series. A brief follow on for those with some math background might be of interest.
Joel Shwimer from Massachusetts posted over 5 years ago:
Rather than FAME_CONVEXITY, the spreadsheet in cells B21 and C21 contain DURATION as the function. What am I missing?
Michael Smith from TN posted over 4 years ago:
Downloaded spreadsheet uses external reference:
How do you acquire this function set?
Michael Smith from TN posted over 4 years ago:
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Soccer's not a real sport? Guess you don't consider running for 90 minutes while having to think worthy of being a sport. I believe he'd be considered a coach now, but does anyone have any pics of Russ Howard from Team Canada in curling?
Don Brown - Head Coach - UMass
Matt Ballard - Head Coach - Morehead State (I kid you not!)
awsome coatch .. so cool
umm 5 pages in this thread and no mention of urban meyer?
Bruce Arians - Offensive Coordinator - Pittsburgh Steelers
Bruce Bochy - SF Giants - MLB
most of the men in this thread make me leak.
I was watching an old movie last night on TV, "Major League". There was an actor in the film who I didn't recognize, playing the Coach. He had a few great shirtless scenes. I know its a longshot, but does anyone have any caps from this film of this guy?
How come nobody mentioned Tommy Tuberville? He is one of the sexiest men I have ever seen! A southern gentleman!
coaches dont have to be old and wrinkled do they???????????????????????????????????????????/
^ Ummmm........ did you not see the pictures of Steve Mariucci, or Urban Meyer, or half of the other guys in this thread?
Gary Kubiak - Houston Texans - NFL
When sexy meets handsome .... ahhhh! I really have a thing for Jeff Fisher ;-)
my babe, Jeff Fisher ;-) minicamp update....
rafael benitez and carlo anceloti please
with naked pics
they are hot daddy
Ooooh.... I love their headsets.... XD
Is it just me or is Jeff Fisher looking even better than normal tonight? Definitely the hottest coach in the world.
And I liked the quote the announcers relayed from Fisher -
"We didn't come here to kiss their rings."
Jeff Fisher really does drive me crazy
ahhh that hairy chest
Mike Scioscia
Very handsome daddy!
one hundred percent agree with you
Tommy is without a doubt the sexiest man on this thread!
^<3 for Tommy Tuberville!
More of Ron Gardenhire...
Russ Grimm - Assistant Coach - Arizona Cardinals
I've had a thing for coaches ever since high school... I was walking out of the locker rooms one day and happened to look up and see my coach walking out of the restroom in his office shirtless (oh MAN was he hairy! He was Mexican, about 45-ish, a little husky, had a mustache, hairy legs, and chest hair was thick.) I jerked off twice after I got home that day. I had complained to this coach later on in the year that some of other guys in that P.E. class were constantly picking on me, so he gave me the privilege of allowing me to change in his office from that point on. Man was that HOT!
During that same year, another coach walked out of the office in just boxers because two guys were going to get in a fight, so he went to break it up. He had blond hair ALL over his chest and stomach, some on his back, and had hairy legs. The following year, I got him as a math teacher. I used to try not to get hard when I was in the office changing next to him.
Mike Scioscia... so damn adorable, and a nice bulge.
just 'cause i'm shallow doesn't mean that i'm heartless
just 'cause i'm heartless doesn't mean that i'm mean
i would love to suck him off
Mike Smith - Atlanta Falcons
Houston Nutt - Ole Miss
dont know how to do pictures but Todd Graham - Tulsa football coach what you think?
This is my favorite thread ever! Keep it up!
Here you go caddy .....
Todd Graham - Tulsa


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Rear diff swap?
Posted 17 April 2006 - 03:06 PM
Posted 17 April 2006 - 04:03 PM
if you were doing a prerunner sort of deal, IFS would be pretty cool. you may run into issues with teh diff having an offset to it, one side will have a long extension coming out of the diff to cross over the center line of the truck, transfer cases are usually offset.
with the IFS, you could get HUGE brakes too.
there is also the Jaguar IRS which is very easy crossmember setup and common to put in stuff like hotrods.
Posted 17 April 2006 - 05:32 PM
Posted 17 April 2006 - 05:48 PM
maybe in principle independent is better, but in practicality solid axles have some definite advantages especially in slow speed situations where each wheel does not have to react fast individually to uneven bumps. it is possible to have a independent suspension that flexes well, but pretty costly to do so. just depends on what you want it to do. from what I can tell, for slow speed stuff the ruggedness, aftermarket, and articulation of solid axles is a better option than subaru IFS, especially given the low budgets most of us have. just my 2c. I dont have a subaru wheeler but if I build one it will have a transfer case and toyota axles. (flame suit on) everybody do what they want, okay?
but, I'm sure that this debate is
Posted 17 April 2006 - 07:23 PM
Posted 17 April 2006 - 09:52 PM
Posted 17 April 2006 - 10:15 PM
Hummer sucks, I've seen 'em in action. Subaru is way superior.
naaah they dont suck they just too damn big... anyways stop highjacking this thread.
question was about what diff could be used in the rear, NOT about solid axle vs independant
probably heard this before, nissan differantials(like the r200 I think) have some after market and you can get lockers for them.
Posted 17 April 2006 - 10:43 PM
Posted 18 April 2006 - 01:04 AM
Hummer sucks, I've seen 'em in action. Subaru is way superior.
based on what?!? so you've seen them in action, but ever followed one down a trail?
neither solid, nor independant is superior in everything. they both have their advantages, and disadvantages.
but back on topic. yes, roundeye, it's been discussed. but usually with toyota IFS stuff, not chevy. AdamNDJ was in the process of making an adapter to mate the toyota front knuckles to the trailing arm in the rear of the subaru, so the diff, and axles could be used. until he got called to duty....search for it.
Posted 18 April 2006 - 02:06 AM
never driven a 142 with a decent suspension setup and tires have you?
rwd volvo's handle well?!? compared to what? a fullsize chevy with 17" of lift and 49" tires?
stick to what you *think* you know about.
totally agree. but it seems like many around here have some vendetta against anything with a solid axle and live in a dream world where lifted/way stiff subaru independent suspension/maxed out CV angles is somehow better than everything else.
neither solid, nor independent is superior in everything. they both have their advantages and disadvantages.
sure buddy, whatever you say. in no way are you going to get decent travel out of a bug without stuff like extended trailing arms, 930 CV's, etc. 30" of travel is trophy truck territory. and solid axles going away? funny. independent suspension for a rock crawler is BIG $$$$ simply because capable production parts arent availabe. ever price a custom machined high angle high strength CV joint? there have been what, 2 independent suspension rock buggies, and one has been scrapped and destroyed. its just not cost effective stuff.
the VW Baja community has been running 28 - 30" of travel in the rear of bugs for years. And that's with stock components.
for speed over rough terrain, independent suspension is way superior. I'm actually trying to figure out how I can get more wheel travel out of my legacy.
just remember that everything has its place.
car IRS like a SVT cobra would be good because there arent any issues with pinion rotation, the diff and axles are damn strong, and its readily available from SVT owners who SWAP IN A SOLID AXLE. hahahah
jaguar IRS is heavily used in hot rods, and would be easy to customize to whatever length you need it. anyone who has seen one knows what I mean. oh yeah, it uses a D44 diff. that have enough locker and gear options for yah?
Posted 18 April 2006 - 04:17 AM
Posted 18 April 2006 - 05:36 PM
I only see one hard part to your idea, and you said it would be easy, and that is making the drive shafts that would fit. How would you make them? I would be interested.
For the axle shafts:
1.Cut the Subaru rear axles in half.
2. Cut the Chevy/Toyota/whatever axles in half that fit the front/rearend you are using.
3. Turn down (on a lathe) the larger diameter of the 2 halfs you have. (OR build up a sleeve for the smaller one)
4. fit (sleeve) them into a piece of 4130 chromoly DOM tubing and weld together.
5. PRESTO! : You have an axle that has a Subaru outer CV/fitting with a (insert your favorite chunk name here) inner CV/fitting.
For the drive shaft: (input)
1. Cut off Subaru end of rear Subaru shaft.
2. Cut off rear of (whatever) shaft.
3. Weld on (whatever) end on Subaru shaft at correct length. This one is critical if you don't want your teeth rattled out whilst driving. And good machine shop can do this and get it true. Balancing would be in order too.
Could knock it out in an afternoon.
TO ALL: To clarify, I am talking about using just a diff out of an IFS or IRS setup that has locker avail. for it. Not a solid axle or any other complete rear end setup. Why? What I am looking at doing can be done without too much work and for not much $$$ with little downtime. Plus I just like 4-wheel independent suspension.
And yes, solid axles are on the way out as technology improves on independent systems. Why? One definition of the word independent is: "without influence from another". Just because one tire is on an obstacle, why should the opposite one be tweaked as well? Each of the 4 tires should have it's own suspension to deal with obstacles independently.
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Posted 18 April 2006 - 05:58 PM
the big reason independant suspension has gotten such a bad name in the offroad community is because typically IFS/IRS is introduced for handling in consumer vehicles, not for off-road performance. As a result, the systems are typically underbuilt for serious thrashing. This is mistaken as being an inherent weakness in the design. However, there is a reason that militaries all over the world are building off-road transports with IFS/IRS. It does perform better in most conditions. The hummer is a bad example because its so damn big and heavy, but hummer suspension on a lighter chassis would rock hard.
True that. One undisputeable thing remains: A Hummer would be less capable with solid axles. Two words: Ground Clearance. Have you ever looked under one? Damn.
Another example: My Subie has a couple inches more ground clearance than my Jeep Wrangler and my Jeep Cherokee had. They both had lift (which gets you no more ground clearance) and 31x10.50 tires.
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Emily Lauten of the women's tennis team and Garrett Hehn of the men's swimming and diving team were this year's winners of the Skelton Award for Academic Excellence in Athletics, arguably the top honor handed out within the athletics department and presented each year at the AD's Honors Breakfast. The Skelton Award is named for Dr. Bill and Peggy Skelton. Dr. Skelton served as a dean at Tech and had a 70-year affiliation with the university before passing away in late August of 2008, and Peggy Skelton is an emeritus member of the Virginia Tech faculty who, along with her husband, served as a charter member of the Ut Prosim Society and its President's Circle, the university's highest distinction for donors.
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Monet Tellier (Strength and Conditioning)
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Josh Larrick (Strength and Conditioning)
Taylor Lavery (Strength and Conditioning)
Amber Ding (Coaches)
Scott Moran (Coaches)
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Amanda Moore (MVP)
Frances Dowd (All-Academic Team)
Alexandra Watt (All-Academic Team)
Courtney Dobbs (Coaches)
Sarah Rapp (Rookie)
Madalyn Nuckols (MVP)
Jason Cusack (All-Academic Team)
Michael Hammond (Coaches)
Thomas Curtin (Rookie)
Will Mulherin (MVP)
Mikey Moyers (All-Academic Team)
Marc MacDonald (Strength and Conditioning)
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Brittany Popko (MVP)
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Carol Kahoun (Rookie)
Shannon Betts (MVP)
Martha Blakely (MVP)
Alexander Ziegler (All-Academic Team)
Joe Davis (Strength and Conditioning)
Hasheem Halim (Coaches)
Thomas Curtin (Rookie)
Men's Outdoor Track & Field team (MVP – ACC Champions)
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Jennifer Wiker (MVP)
Devin Carter (All-Academic Team)
David Marone (Strength and Conditioning)
Chris Moon (Coaches)
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nordle wrote:Alot of this country is too small for dedicated cycle lanes!
M-Saunders wrote:"I'm sorry to announce that the 19:05 to Glasgow Central is running approximately 45 minutes late. This is due to shoddy planning, cheaply built trains, hilariously mismanaged privatisation, lack of TOC communication and unworkable layers of bureaucracy."
towy71 wrote: And finally the top weight for trucks should be 10 tonnes and two axles.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:I think you are just blaming cyclists for the fact that most cars these days are wider, heavier and less fuel efficient in real terms than they were 5 yrs ago.
Considering that we have problems with congestion, fuel supply, and pollution, it makes no sense that SUV sales are up, most current car models are larger than their predecessors, and consume more fuel.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:You probably hate caravans as well.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:Have you ever thought that those cyclists maybe can't afford to buy the 1/2 ton liability that you drive?
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:Get a life and stop complaining about people who avoid the Chelsea tractor.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:Not all cyclists choose to ride a bike ( unless you count walking 5 miles to the nearest train station as on option), ALL car drivers choose to use one.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:I have driven up to 300 miles a day as part of my working life for the last 20-odd years, on motorways, country lanes and city streets, and it never ceases to amaze me how people always see minor problems as major, rant,rant..
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:Another common one is "why are there lorries on the motorway? we should ban them" the answer is of course is "because that's why the motorway is there, stupid, maybe we should ban private cars" or perhaps you would prefer your local supermarket to only have fresh tomatoes once a week?
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:The real problem with roads is that there are too many vehicles for them, and the way we live continues to make it worse.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:Plus, where I live, country homes cost far more than city ones. I would love to move to a village, I just can't afford it, unless I want to downsize to a shoebox.
wyliecoyoteuk wrote:By the way, my latest car is smaller than my last, but disappointingly only marginally more fuel efficient, because of it's lower emissions.
I would just like to not here all the time from the media how bloody marvelous cyclists are, and how they are saving the environment. Its never that black and white is it.
shifty_ben wrote:I would just like to not here all the time from the media how bloody marvelous cyclists are, and how they are saving the environment. Its never that black and white is it.
Hear Hear! Although I think they work more on the argument IF everyone cycled then the environment...... which to be fair is true. I rode an AR125 which had pretty incredible fuel consumption, yet it was less than half that of my fathers car.
shifty_ben wrote:Cyclists (especially the younger variety ) can be and are a liability. Half the kids out there don't even have working brakes, now if you took your car out in that fashion and had an accident what would happen? Having said that SUVs are rediculous, I used to live on a road with a primary school at the end, and the number of mothers who would park/drive badly down my road was unbelievable. Its one thing to live somewhere you NEED something like an SUV but in my old area it was inexscusable to have such a large car. Problem is it was (and to an extent) still is fashionable in that age group
jjmac wrote:but apparently crazy culture has been around for so long that it's considered normal. And when ever it takes on the status of becoming a tradition ... then the hope for change becomes well nigh impossible in the direction.
jjmac wrote:Over here (N.S.W) Victorias completely different. Smooth roads, no lumps or patch evidence. So -=-=-=- "it is possible" !
nordle wrote:Some are, some are not eg
1.9 Escort 34MPG
2.0 Focus 34MPG
nordle wrote:You must have known I was being a little tongue in cheek right.
nordle wrote:Absolutely, we need more roads (ensuring they are wider) and cyclists to pay road tax for their use
nordle wrote:I rent a room in shared accomodation, its £75 pw, not to mention cheaper council tax. They are just building some starter homes for £90k for 1 bed flats, in town these are currently £145k!
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USA Today picked the Yankees to come in dead-last in the AL East this season.
1. Blue Jays
2. Rays
3. Red Sox
4. Orioles
5. Yankees
A two-year, $13.9MM contract for a guy needed until May.
Only the Yankees do this
Yankees Acquire Vernon Wells
A player with a supposedly untradeable contract has been dealt for a second time, as the Yankees acquired outfielder Vernon Wells from the Angels on a salary dump deal. The trade was announced officially today, and the Halos received a couple of token minor leaguers in outfielder Exicardo Cayones and lefty reliever Kramer Sneed. The big benefit for the Angels was salary relief, as the Yankees will reportedly assume a surprising $13.9MM of the $42MM owed to Wells for 2013-14, of which they'll pay $11.5MM this year to avoid a luxury tax hit in 2014. Wells was happy to waive his no-trade clause and escape a likely fate of being buried on the Angels' bench.
Wells, 34, was acquired to serve as the Yankees' everyday left fielder until Curtis Granderson returns to the lineup in May from a broken wrist. Signed to a seven-year, $126MM extension by the Blue Jays in 2006, Wells posted a solid year in 2010 that allowed Toronto to unload most of his remaining $86MM on the Angels, which also cost the Halos Mike Napoli and cost GM Tony Reagins his job. Wells performed terribly after the trade, hitting .222/.258/.409 in 791 plate appearances. It was surprising to see the Yankees essentially give a two-year, $13.9MM contract to a player most teams would consider a fourth outfielder at best. By comparison, the Cubs signed Scott Hairston this offseason for two years and $5MM. The trade is a big win for Angels GM Jerry Dipoto, who unloads a player he didn't need and avoids the Competitive Balance Tax.
Cayones, 21, was acquired by the Yankees from the Pirates in the A.J. Burnett trade in February of last year, so he's again attached to a salary dump. He hit .228/.374/.291 in 200 Low-A plate appearances last year, playing mostly right field. Sneed, 24, posted a 5.37 ERA, 6.9 K/9, 5.7 BB/9, and 0.71 HR/9 in 63 2/3 High-A innings last year. Neither is considered much of a prospect, which makes sense with the Yankees assuming so much of Wells' contract.
Yahoo's Jeff Passan first broke the story on Sunday, with Jim Bowden, Mike DiGiovanna, Alden Gonzalez, Jon Heyman, Buster Olney, Joel Sherman, and Mark Feinsand also contributing along the way. Photo courtesy of USA Today Sports Images.
USA Today picked the Yankees to come in dead-last in the AL East this season.
1. Blue Jays
2. Rays
3. Red Sox
4. Orioles
5. Yankees
Just read that the Yankes acquisition of Wells has ballooned their payroll to $229mm for this year, surpassing the Dodgers, who are at $216mm. The next closest is the Phillies at $159mm.
What a joke.
It's terribly sad for you that you all care so much about this.
What they seem to forget is that the Yanks dont own a printing press for cash, they spend what they earn, unlike the WIlpons who earn little and keep as much of it for themselves as they can.
DOnt hate the playa, hate the game, fellas.
You simply......got the wrong playa.


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Is there no iSpellchecker on the iPhone?
iThere iis, ibut iit iputs ian i"i" iin ifront iof ieach iword. iIt's ipretty uficking iannoying.
(Okay, kidding about the last 3)
Daniel Webster? I suppose the Devil's in the details, eh?
Being Canadian I have a fondness for British spellings of words over American (in most cases), but the elitest attitude towards American spelling found in most English speaking countries only shows an ignorance to the history of the English language. During the 18th century and earlier, there was no such thing as a correct spelling, and many words had multiple recognized spellings. Attempts to standardize spellings began only a few decades before the US declared independence, and were not truly complete till well after. Contrary to popular belief American spellings were not dreamed up out of thin air, but were spellings that had been considered correct for centuries. Yes, American spellings were picked precisely because they were not the ones being made standard in Britian, but my point remains that Americans did not invent said spellings and don't deseve all the critism they get for them.
Apparently you missed the part of the study that says that messages sent from iPhones have more errors than messages sent from other phones. So while there may be more tolerance for bad spelling in our society, that has nothing to do with the observation that iPhones lead to more typos.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that you're going to have more errors with an interface with no tactile response. The Atari 400 was a decent computer back in the early 80's but was generally scoffed at because of its mesh-type keyboard that offered very little tactile response and made touch typing very difficult. The iPhone is the same, but worse, because there is no tactile response.
I have a hard time believing I ever would get a phone that has no tactile buttons. I have a Treo and while I can dial phone numbers by tapping the screen and can use a virtual keyboard that would require me typing on the touchscreen, I almost always use the tactile keys instead. With the iPhone, that wouldn't be an option.
Seriously, though, Apple have always been touted for their interface design, and it seems strange to me that iPhone text entry should be so error prone.
Perhaps they were so eager to launch the product that this aspect of the interface received limited testing?
Surprisingly, the study found that iPhone texters don't improve with experience. The researchers also asked users in the other groups to send text messages using the iPhone. These novice iPhone users made mistakes at the same rate as people who have owned iPhones for at least one month, the study found.
hu kars so lng as u cn reed it? Seriously, I've been seeing typing like this appear in blogs recently.
Time for an Internet meme (source unconfirmed):
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
I've tried the qwerty keyboards on a Nokia E61 and an iPod Touch. The iPod Touch keyboard is far superior, in my opinion. The E61 keys are lined up in a grid and not like a real qwerty keyboard, they're smaller and closer together and they have to be pushed quite hard for them to register (in comparison, the iPod Touch only requires the lightest touch). It's also difficult to see at a glance which key is which, because it's cluttered up with symbols and numbers (as you can't switch keyboards like you can on the iPod Touch).
For business emails, I'd expect the sender to proof-read before hitting send, no matter what type of keyboard they used.
If it's an important business e-mail, you should be proofreading it anyway. No interface is immune to typos, and even with a spell-check, you can still get the wrong word. Like "it's" and "its", "their" and "there", or "whole" and "hole".
If you don't proofread important documents and communications, then you're going to look like a moron. The input device doesn't matter.
Seems like the slide-out keyboard on the upcoming Nokia N810 pretty much takes care of that. Not to mention the 800x480 screen that fits in your pocket. With no expensive data plan included... the list goes on. I'm glad your happy with the iPhone, but I'll be waiting for the N810 to come out.Apple made a conscious decision to use an all touch-screen face, and the reasons are pretty obvious. A physical keyboard takes away from screen space and/or thickness.
The little article I saw about this said they measured people for a month with three keyboards: QWERTY (i.e. blackberry), numeric (i.e. RAZR), and iPhone. They said the iPhone people typed faster, but had more errors.
I wonder if this was fair. The people they found had no experience with the iPhone I'm guessing. But had they used the other two before? Or were these people who never did any kind of text messaging before on the other kinds of phones, or had they used them just a little? That could make a difference.
Does anyone know? This article doesn't seem to mention this either.
I don't own an iPhone, I've only touched one a handful of times.
Emphasis mine.Surprisingly, the study found that iPhone texters don't improve with experience. The researchers also asked users in the other groups to send text messages using the iPhone. These novice iPhone users made mistakes at the same rate as people who have owned iPhones for at least one month, the study found.
Thanks for that, I hadn't caught it. But people could only be used to the iPhone for 2-3 months at this point. You could have been using a QWERTY or numeric phone keypad for text entry for years. So it's still possible that it's not a fair comparison. I'd just like to know more before I believe it better. If this was done a year from now I'd be more apt to believe it... but the iPhone is just so new compared to the other solutions.
You've used a QWERTY keyboard. You've used a calculator. Combine the two and
Yeah, but my IPhone has gotten me laid, can you say that about your blackberry?
I'm sure that blackberries can also be used to place calls to escort services.
In spite of it's shortcomings, it is still more than sufficient for typing search keywords, web urls, quick messages and replies, but if you are a mobile email addict and actually send lots of email, you are probably better off with a blackberry.
First, consider the methodology of this study. The sample size was 20 people, per device type. Who knows what the error bars on that look like? Next, nowhere do they list what they define as an error. Do common SMS abbreviations count against a user?
Another thing to consider is the target market of the iPhone. The main appeal of the iPhone is that it makes tasks easy for users, thus opening up the smartphone market to people who have never tried using advanced phone features before. The majority of the pe
The upshot of all that is avoid the iphone for long documents. If you can connect a bluetooth keyboard to it, that would help a lot. Must look into that
Laptops are the way they are, BIG, because they keyboard needs to be big. If you ever have been forced to use a small keyboard, or even one of those horrible flat ones without physical keys you will know why. Our fingers just ain't that accurate while typing. I can blind type fairly but my fingers still depend heavily on the shape of the keys to press the right one.
That is the reason keys on your keybaord are tapered like / \ that so that two keys next to each other
Keys are also slightly curved inwards for even better guidance of your fingers. Work with a keyboard that doesn't have this and watch your accuracy drop.
This has always been a weakness with touchscreens. For display stands the keyboard is a necesarry evil, while you could do LOTS of intresting things with a touch screen as the input method, the simple fact is that if you want people to start typing, they want/need/expect a traditional keyboard with properly shaped and spaced keys. If people only have to make the most basic inputs, a touch screen will do, and can in many ways help avoid wrong inputs. (Experiment, Prompt the user to enter Y/N, and record what keys they actually press. WARNING: you will loose all fate in humanity when you see the results. Intresting side note, once had a display that at one point asked the user to touch the screen to continue. Should have known better then to use this for a display at a household show. The women touched the screen alright, the sides, the top, the bottom, everything BUT the screen. Granted this was some time ago)
The iPhones touch screen is in many ways totally crap, no tactile feedback on where your fingers are (no homekeys), no tactile feedback on a keypress/release. Way too closely spaced. The "advantage" it has is that physical keyboards at that size are little better, and very prone to breaking.
Why do you think over all these years we still have keyboards with physical keys that are still the same shape as they were on typewriters from before the war? They work.
If graphics hackers are so smart, why can't they get the bugs out of fresh paint?


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There would be awkward feelings all around if the Indianapolis Colts don't wind up selecting Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck with the top overall pick in this month's draft.
Colts owner Jim Irsay, however, hasn't guaranteed a thing. He reminded his Twitter followers Saturday the team continues to evaluate the No. 1 pick:
"Colts Fans, roster reshaping exciting n producing a very physical MONSTER! Things have always pointed toward #12 but eval process is Open Minded"
- Jim Irsay (@JimIrsay) April 7, 2012
The steady rise of Robert Griffin III prompted the Washington Redskins to sell the farm for the Rams' No. 2 selection. They believe that will lead to RG3, who spent last Saturday signing his name to Redskins merchandise in the Washington, D.C. area.
The Baylor QB turned down a chance to work out for the Colts -- but NFL Network's Albert Breer reported RG3 decided not to participate in any private workouts.
As we close in on April 26, Indy holds the cards.
In 1998, they chose wisely, selecting Peyton Manning over Ryan Leaf with the top pick. By all accounts, both Luck and RG3 appear primed for successful NFL careers, but the Colts -- with a new coaching staff in place and an eye toward rebuilding for tomorrow -- are simply going through the process. For Jim Irsay, who prepares to tie himself financially to another lucrative quarterback contract, there is no rush.
Part of the "healthy conversation" Irsay and his men are sitting down to this month might address the already-in-progress union between the Redskins and RG3, but when you pick first in the draft, you decide the relationship -- you map out the future.Â
Everyone else sits and waits.


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At the end of the broadcast, AmyG talked to Brian Wilson and complimented him on his beard. He called it "The Beard of Zeus." That's the sort of thing it took tonight--divine intervention. Matt Cain pitched six top-notch major-league innings and one piece-of-shit inning, and the 4-0 pasting looked permanent until Buster Posey boomed a big one off Ted Lilly leading off the 7th inning. Edgar Renteria, who had looked like a resuscitated drowning victim at shortstop, led off the 8th inning with a solo bomb off Lilly, and the Dodgers went to the bullpen. Pat Burrell, pinch-hitting for Cain, launched a space probe off Octavio Dotel and all of a sudden the torture reached a new level. Would we fall short most agonizingly? Were we really mounting a comeback? Is this just another tease? Anguish, I tell you, anguish! Hong-Chih Kuo dashed some hopes by finishing off Huff and Posey, and you knew Jonathan Broxton was coming in for the final three outs. Broxton is pretty impressive, but he's had his share of struggles, too, so the idea of scratching out the tying run wasn't completely insane. Sure, I was down, and I thought the gig was up, but Cody Ross then legged out an impossible infield single with one out. The Giants had a pulse--just barely--but a pulse nonetheless. Juan Uribe stepped up next and delivered the biggest hit of the year, a no-doubter, a massive blast to straightaway center to make it 5-4 San Francisco. Brian Wilson scared the crap out of us all by putting two guys on in the 9th, but with the tying run at 3rd base he got the next two guys for the save. The Giants hit FOUR HOME RUNS and score five times to beat the Dodgers in an epic pennant race clash. With San Diego losing their 9th straight, the good guys find themselves two back in the West.
Make the proper sacrifices, lads, the gods are petty and cruel. Do whatever it takes to keep rolling!
p.s. Final line on Cain: 7 IP, 7 hits, 4 runs, 1 walk, 6 strikeouts, 28 batters, 100 pitches, Game Score 52
p.p.s.Wilson's 125th save ties Greg "Moon Man" Minton.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Great Beard of Zeus, Giants win!
Starting pitcher: M.C. O'Connor
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- Brother Bob said...
Now that was a game worth watching, although it was hard going until Posey's homer. That really felt like an infusion of hope. I love the way Posey's shown a willingness to pounce on a first pitch, although he's already demonstrated the discipline to wait for "his" pitch. He's truly special.
The Giants lineup was sick-inducing, playing Rowand and Renteria both. But Rowand led off with a nice double, so I had to take back some of the awful things I was saying about him. Then Renteria came up big later, so good for both of them.
- Sun Sep 05, 09:14:00 AM PDT
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Game Dates: Monday, Feb. 11 2013
Opponent: Howard Bison
Site: Burr Gymnasium, Washington, D.C.
Game Time: 7:30 p.m.
Record: MSU 7-13 (4-5); HU 6-18 (3-7)
MSU Coach: Todd Bozeman (116-98 – 7th yr)
Morgan State will face Beltway rival Howard on Monday night at the Burr Gymnasium is set for 7:30 p.m. (ET). The Bears will enter the game coming off of an 80-51 blowout victory at Coppin State on Saturday. Justin Black led the Bears with a career-high 23 points and DeWayne Jackson added 16 points. Howard won its second straight following a 63-44 win against Md-Eastern Shore on Saturday night at The Burr. Mike Phillips led the Bison with 21 points. The meeting with Howard will be the 100th all-time between the schools, with the Bears leading the head-to-head series, 58-41.
Bear Bits:
• Coach Todd Bozeman has directed the Bears to the most regular-season conference wins with 99.
• After opening the season with a 71 point effort in a win against UTSA, the Bears have gone 7-13 while averaging 67 points and 43 percent shooting.
• Morgan State, who shot 67.6 percent from the line last season, continues to have hard times from the stripe … through the first 20 games the Bears are ranked last in the conference by shooting 57.7 percent (280-485 FT).
• The Bears, who held Coppin State to 3 of 19 from 3-point range, have allowed an average of 70 points and opponents are shooting 30 percent from 3-point territory.
• Morgan State shot a season-high 53.3 percent against South Carolina State and a season best 65.0 percent from the stripe, with 11 steals versus the South Carolina Gamecocks.
• DeWayne Jackson has scored 290 points in 20 games and ranks among the MEAC's scoring leaders ranked No. 4 (14.5 ppg).
• Justin Black was just shy of posting a triple-double at Liberty. The junior guard finished with a career-high 12 rebounds to go along with nine points and nine assists … he has been the Bears leading scorer in 7 of the last 12 games and ranks No. 8 in the MEAC in scoring at 14.0 ppg.
• DeWayne Jackson is ranked among the top theft artists in school history. Jackson has collected 158 steals with the Bears and currently ranks No. 1 (No. 1 in the MEAC). The school record for career steals is held by Terrence Wright (1992-96) with 186 career steals … Jackson is 29 steals away from becoming the school's new leader.
• Shaquille Duncan leads the Bears in blocked shots. The sophomore ranks T-No. 4 (36) in the MEAC by averaging 2.3 blocks per game.
• The combination of DeWayne Jackson, Anthony Hubbard and Justin Black have provided almost 60 percent of the scoring for the Bears so far this season.
• The Bears' first 10 games of the 2012-13 season were on the road where they finished 3-7.
• The Bears used seven different lineups this season, but Coach Bozeman used a lineup eight times this season that puts DeWayne Jackson at forward with Justin Black, Blake Bozeman, Anthony Hubbard and Ian Chiles.
• Redshirt junior Ian Chiles, who stands at 7-foot-2, 270-pounds, enters Saturday's contest with 448 career points and 78 blocked shots … he's currently averaging 8.9 ppg and 5.4 rpg.
February, 6, 2012 — The Bears lost their shooting touch in the second half. Morgan State made only three field goals out of 20 attempts in the last 20 minutes and Howard pulled away late in a 54-46 victory over the Bears at Hill Field House. Howard started fast, going up 6-1 on a couple of Samuel Frazier three-point baskets with 18:02 remaining. Then Morgan got it going later on with the three-point shooting of DeWayne Jackson, who led Morgan State with 10 points. Jackson hit two straight to pull the Bears within 8-7 with 16:44 remaining. The Bears would go ahead 11-10 on a Kevin Thompson lay-up with 13:32 remaining.
The Bison welcome back 10 veterans, including four starters, from a squad that posted a 10-21 overall record, finished 10th in the MEAC with a 6-10 ledger. Mike Phillips leads the Bison in scoring and rebounding by averaging 12.0 points and 6.9 rebounds per game. Calvin Thompson (11.2 ppg) is the only other player averaging double-figures for the Bison. Head coach Kevin Nicklebery (Virginia Wesleyan '86) enters his third season as the Bison's head coach and he currently holds a 26-66 (.513) record.
Morgan State was picked to finish third in the 2012-13 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference men's basketball preseason poll behind Savannah State and Delaware State.
Morgan State senior DeWayne Jackson was selected to the Preseason All-MEAC First Team by the conference head coaches and sports information directors. Junior center Ian Chiles was selected to the Second Team.
Morgan State will face six teams this season that the program has never met in its basketball history. The first time opponents are: UTSA, Old Dominion, Holy Cross, South Carolina, Illinois State and San Diego. The Bears do not see a familiar foe until the Nov. 29 matchup at Liberty (MSU leads, 1-0), their fifth game of the season. The other five opponents MSU previously has played are University of Virginia (trails, 0-1), Loyola Marymount (leads, 2-0), and Saint Joseph's (trails, 0-1).
DeWayne Jackson is the lone returning senior who saw action for Morgan State last year. There are seven (7) juniors, four (4) sophomores and two (2) freshmen on the Bears roster.
The Bears will look to rebound from last year's dismal season in which the Bears recorded a 9-20 finish. It marked Todd Bozeman's worst season as a head coach, and it was Morgan State's worst season since going 4-26 in 2005-06.
Morgan State senior DeWayne Jackson was selected to the Preseason All-MEAC First Team by the conference head coaches and sports information directors. Junior center Ian Chiles was selected to the Second Team.
DeWayne Jackson (1,446, 493 rebs., 157 asts) needs 55 points to surpass Harry Johnson (1,500 points – 1958-62) to become the school's No. 8 all-time leading scorer. Jackson is one of three Bears on MSU's all-time scoring list who have been coached by Todd Bozeman. Kevin Thompson(2009-12) ranks No. 9 (1,487 points) and Reggie Holmes (2007-10) is the school's all-time scoring leader with 2,051 points.
Morgan State has eight players from the Metropolitan-D.C. area, including one from Baltimore. Senior DeWayne Jackson (Bowie High) and sophomore Blake Bozeman (Solebury Prep) are both from Bowie. Transfer guard Daryl Traynham is from Melwood (Wise High), walk-on Daon Riley is from Severn (Old Mill High), and Cedric Blossom is from Columbia (Montrose Christian). Anthony Hubbard is a product of Woodbridge (Va.), while junior Justin Black attended DeMatha High, Willis Turnipseed played at City High, and Donte Pretlow was a standout at Dunbar High in Baltimore.
Todd Bozeman, now in his seventh season as head coach of the Bears, has an overall win percentage of .544 (117-98) after 215 games at Morgan State. That winning mean is the second highest among 15 head coaches in the history of the Morgan State men's basketball program. Nathaniel Frazier's winning percentage of .578 (166-121) is the highest percentage in Morgan State history.
During his tenure in Baltimore, Todd Bozeman has coached seven (7) different players to All-Conference honors, including four Players of the Year selections: Ron Timus (2007 2nd Team), Boubacar Coly (2008 Defensive POTY, 1st Team), Jamar Smith (2008 Offensive POTY, 1st Team), Marquise Kately (2008 & 2009 2nd Team), Reggie Holmes (2007 All-Rookie, 2008 2nd Team, 2009 Offensive POTY, 2009 & 2010 1st Team), Kevin Thompson (2009 All-Rookie, 2010 Defensive POTY, 2010 1st Team, 2011 2nd Team), DeWayne Jackson (Rookie of the Year, 2011 1st Team).
In the first 19 games of the season, three Bears average more than 12 points a game DeWayne Jackson leads with 14.5 points per game, whileJustin Black is averaging 14.0 ppg. Anthony Hubbard is averaging 12.4 points and 7.1 rebounds on the boards.
Senior DeWayne Jackson is filling the stat sheet this season, averaging 14.5 points (ranked No. 4), 5.4 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 2.1 steals (ranked No. 2) per game. Jackson has also registered 15 blocks. He has recorded 19 double-digit scoring games, including a season-high 32-point effort at Virginia (Dec. 19).
Morgan State ranks No. 1 in the MEAC averaging 15 offensive rebounds per game and has recorded double-digit offensive boards in 17 of 20 games. MSU averaged 12.1 offensive rebounds per game last season.


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Sept. 15, 2008
NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA - University of Massachusetts Boston men's soccer player Henry Marin (Pereira, Colombia/Haverhill (MA) H.S.) has been named Little East Conference Men's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for his play during the week of September 8-14, it was announced today by the conference.
Marin tallied five points on a goal and three assists in three matches for the Beacons, while helping them to a 2-1-0 mark for the week. The senior assisted on a pair of goals in UMass Boston's 4-0 victory over Suffolk University on September 9 and netted his first goal of the season and added an assist to help the Beacons to a 4-1 win at Eastern Nazarene College on September 11. The defender was a key on the defensive side of the field as well, helping UMass Boston hold its opponents to just three goals in as many matches.
A Co-captain, Marin made the switch from forward to the backfield this season and is currently tied for the LEC lead with three assists on the season and is also tied for tops on the team in points (five) and assists, while starting all five matches. He is the only player on the team to have two or more points in two different contests this season.
The Haverhill High School product has played in 48 matches for his career, while making 27 starts and ranks eighth on the Beacons' all-time goals scored list with 18 and 14th on the school's career points ladder with 40. Marin has also tallied three or more points in five matches for his career. The senior burst onto the college scene as a freshman, netting 10 goals to place eighth in the league, while ranking third with four game-winning scores.
UMass Boston is 2-3-0 on the season and will be in action again on Tuesday, September 16 when it travels to Buzzards Bay, MA to take on Massachusetts Maritime Academy at 3:30 p.m.


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2010-11 Women's Basketball
Bluffton 87, Mount St. Joseph 78
Bluffton hits 63 percent from the field in 87-78 win over MSJ
January 26, 2011
By: Josh Bruner, sports information assistant
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's basketball team hosted The College of Mount St. Joseph on Wednesday, January 26 in Founders Hall. The Beavers made their mark on the scoreboard quickly, parlaying a13-0 start into a 41-25 advantage at the break. The Lions found their offensive rhythm in the second half, but the comeback was too late as Bluffton held on for the 87-78 victory. The win moves the Beavers to 8-10 overall, including a 5-6 record in the Heartland Conference. The Lions fell to 4-13 and 4-7 in the HCAC.
Benzinger led the Lions comeback attempt with 25 points, including 20 in the second half. Holt and Gonzales each added 14 for the Lions.
The Bluffton University women's basketball team will be back in action when they host Franklin on Saturday, January 29. The Hall of Fame Day contest with the Grizzlies is slated for 2 p.m. in Founders Hall.


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PLANO – Trailing by 15 points at the end of the first quarter, many teams would lose faith, but the Kaneland boys basketball isn't one of them.
"One thing that [Coach Brian] Johnson preaches at practice is to never give up. We respect the guy. Obviously we didn't give up – we wanted to win," senior forward John Pruett said. "We just wanted to stack a couple of wins and get on a winning streak."
The Knight erased that 15-point deficit, took their first lead of the game with 1:32 left in the game. A Pruett free throw proved to be the difference as Kaneland escaped with a 65-64 victory over Mendota on Saturday afternoon in consolation play in the Plano Christmas Classic.
"Obviously, we struggled in the first half. Then we came out and coach just told us that we need to play," said Pruett, who finished with 7 second-half points. "We just needed to come out strong and do what we do best."
Johnson wasted no time changing personnel after his starters were struggling in the first half.
Entering the second half, Kaneland trailed, 45-35. The Knights started the half on an 11-4 run to get back into the contest. Tyler Carlson's six points sparked the run. Kaneland closed the gap to three twice in the quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Kaneland (6-3) finally got over the hump and tied the game at 61 after Drew David hit a long jumper from the corner. The Knights' first lead (63-62) came after David hit two free throws.
Mendota's Joe Lashonse hit two free throws to give the Trojans the lead again at 64-63.
Pruett hit one of two free throws on Kaneland's next possession to tie the game.
A foul put Jake Rod on the line with a chance to give Mendota a lead, but Rod missed both foul shots and the Knights had a chance to win the game.
Johnson called a timeout.
"We were just kind of looking to get a back door play – a little misdirection. We were lucky that John got fouled and made his first free throw," Johnson said. "We had a couple plays ready. One was for a zone and one for a man-to-man. We were able to capitalize."
David found Pruett on a back-door cut and Pruett drew the foul as he was drving to the basket with two seconds left. Pruett hit one-of-two from the free throw line to give the Knights the win.
Kaneland had to deal with Mendota's James Carroll all game, who finished with a then-tournament record 42 points Friday afternoon. Carroll scored 28 points in this game, but only scored five points in the second half – all on free throws.
"We put a longer kid (Pruett) on [Carroll] and tried to face guard him a little bit, but if he wasn't in foul trouble, he may have put another 40 on us," Johnson said. "It took away his aggressiveness a little bit. We were able to do some things defensively much better in the second half."
Ryan David led the way for Kaneland with 16 points and eight rebounds; 13 of those points came in the first half to keep the game close. Drew David finished with 15 points and Carlson recorded a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
Kaneland will play Dixon at 12:45 p.m. today for ninth place.