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Roundtree is a RS Senior this season, so his stats for next year are indeed hypothetical.
Extrapolating Team Gardner
ahhhhhh berlerve ir can fler (Upchurch)
Michigan sits at the end of the regular season with a lot better idea of what they'll do without Denard Robinson than they did before he got injured at Nebraska. This is what they call a silver lining. Yeah, the Cornspiracy is playing a 7-5 team they already beat to go to the Rose Bowl, but what are they doing at quarterback next year?
[offstage whisper]
It seems they are still playing Taylor Martinez. Screw them!
Anyway, Michigan's offense before and after the Gardner injury was vastly different, so let's take a look at some rough outlines.
Schedule Check
Gardner played games against Minnesota, Northwestern, Iowa, and Ohio State. These were the 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th defenses in the Big Ten in terms of yardage. In terms of pass efficiency D they were 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 10th. (Oddly, Minnesota is the top team in both those categories.) This is a slightly worse sample than a random one, but if we're projecting overall stats to next year that's fair-ish since Michigan will play three non-BCS teams in their four nonconference games. It's ballpark, but the ballpark should be in the ballpark.
Obviously this is all very rough. We're projecting season to date, so aiming for 12 games.
Hypothetical Individual Stats
Hypothetical Gardner:
171 completions on 270 attempts, 63% completions, 24 touchdowns, 12 interceptions, 3015 yards, 11.1 YPA(!). This would place him first in the Big Ten in passer efficiency by a mile and would in fact be #1 nationally. That's not happening, but if he can be in the top 20 that would be awesome.
Also he would have 105 rushes for 231 yards, which is depressed by sack yardage and Michigan avoiding called runs with him since the alternative seemed to be Jack Kennedy.
Hypothetical Receivers:
- Gallon: 66 catches for 1098 yards(!)
- Roundtree: 45 catches for 1134 yards(!)
- Drew Dileo: remains criminally underused
- Devin Funchess: 9 catches for 132 yards. Hmm, bad.
That seems swell. Except…
Hypothetical Tailbacks:
- Fitzgerald Toussaint: 34 carries for 191 yards, 5.6 YPC
- Thomas Rawls: 32 carries for 68 yards, 2.1 YPC.
- Vincent Smith: 8 carries for 21 yards, 2.6 YPC
Denard is of course the wildcard, as he averaged 8.2 yards a carry in conference and 7.6(!) overall, which is the best YPC season at Michigan since at least 1949 (minimum 100 carries). I mean:
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I left sacks on both QBs in, FWIW. Not that it matters. Denard averaged 9.3 YPC on 23 carries against Iowa and OSU but we don't really need to extrapolate with him, we have all the data. He was four yards per carry better than any other option available. Stupid elbow.
Hypothetical Team Stats
These are difficult to parse out because of the Denard complication. But, yeah, #1 in passer efficiency. In yards, an even 400, which would be 64th. Rush offense slides to 148 a game, which puts them below Michigan state, well into the 70s. Pass offense goes from 95th to 49th.
Michigan going so slow all the time hurts them in these raw stats, of course. The efficiency is extremely promising as long as they can run block at all. Which, maybe?
Here's hoping they practice that run block thingy before the bowl game.
Run Defense Texas A&M 39th Georgia 67th -- Iowa 64th
We should be able to run against probable bowl opponents.
Dont forget that Iowa is in a way shittier conference.
Two of your three counterpoints point to the Ohio State game where he went 11/20 for 171 yards with 1 TD and 1 INT. If those are the conditions that are to be more expected next year then it's hard not to think that Brian's hypothetical stats are wildly optimistic.
I don't think you can take into account four games played, one against a mediocre trending towards good defense and three against bad to very bad defenses (I don't care where Minnesota ranks in the Big Ten, you have to be bad to give up 31 to Iowa and 44 to Purdue), and then extrapolate to even come remotely close to what to expect next season. Gardner didn't play the best three defenses we faced this year. Saying that he also didn't face the non-conference cupcakes doesn't balance it out as you typically don't air it out against those types of teams where everything in your arsenal works. Gardner also didn't face a team that wasn't at the same time preparing for what Denard brings to the table, something that had to be a significant part of the prep work. These are advantages that won't be there for the entirety of next season.
Gardner showed promise, and I'm a lot more hopeful about the QB situation then I was after the Nebraska game, but lets not get ahead of ourself based on three games against bad defenses where a lot of things went right (hello, NW hail mary). I don't think being top 20 in passer efficiency is a proper baseline to be happy, I'd say top 40 and we will be generally happy with the performance of our QBs. Anything better than that and we'll be thrilled.
But we should also keep in mind that Gardner did all that after hardly playing at all at QB for two months. If he'd had the entire year to prep exclusively at QB, who knows what he could have done.
He's also still young (a RS sophomore if he gets the redshirt), was playing extensively for the first time in his career, and playing in an offense that was a bit of a clusterfuck between traditional WCO plays and stuff to let Denard run.
Next year the offense will be way more coherent (the line will practice the traditional run blocking stuff all the time instead of probably less than half), Gardner will have a whole offseason of practice/prep, and the schedule gets significantly easier.
With what should be a very good defense getting him the ball back, it also isn't like there will be ridiculous demands on the offense. Things should be okay enough to win a lot of games as is. If we can find another receiver to go with Gallon/Dileo/Funchess and maybe a second back to pair with a (hopefully) healthy Fitz things look downright fantastic.
I'm not discounting any of that. I just don't think we should take three good games against bad teams who were also busy preparing for Denard and set "top 20 national passer" as the barometer for what would make us happy.
Really? You're comparing Gardner after 4 starts to a group that collectively has over 300 career NFL starts? That is asinine.
Look, he can make all the throws. He was more accurate than I expected based on his previous play. But this was a guy, who in his third year as a college QB, didn't look very good when a team knew he was going to pass. Touting him with those types of accolades is absurd. He has the potential to be good. He could be very good. But again, extrapolating from stats produced in three good games against bad teams (plus one very bad safety play from OSU) isn't indicative of what we should expect.
I did watch him. He played well. I just think you have a little recency bias if you look at him and immediately think of all those great QBs that have played here before (excepting Navarre if you feel so inclined, though he did get at least one start in the NFL).
There is no inconsistency with my statement. We haven't seen him enough to say he's as skilled as those guys. At the same time, what we have seen is a guy who is in his third year as a QB, the point being he's not Chad Henne in games 1-4. Even if he spent one year in Rich Rod's offense and one year where he only saw the field in hybrid packages, he's still getting work in practice. He was a guy who at that point in his career, you should feel comfortable with as your starting QB. He'll obviously get better, but you shouldn't expect the vast improvements that you would expect out of a true freshman who spot started four games.
I think he can be good. He obviously is talented. But can we please dial back the expectations just a little bit? Looking at the offense next year there are questions at pretty much every position save Funchess and Gallon. Expecting him to be a top 20 QB, especially with all the Ok. State style offenses out there is unfairly setting him up to dissapoint, in my opinion. If he meets your expectations I'll be more than happy, I'll be thrilled.
I meant he's not Chad Henne in games 1-4 to mean that he's not a true freshman playing after being in college football for all of three weeks. I would expect a 3rd year QB (fine 2.5 year QB to be able to step in and do better than the true freshman in the first four games of the season.
For what it's worth, two of those three teams are bowl-bound, and one had a better overall record than we did. People are acting like Gardner faced three MAC opponents. Northwestern's actually pretty good and Minnesota is not as bad as people make them out to be.
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I think you mean the Robinson injury
Robinson Injury, not Gardner Injury.
Here's the problem. As of now I have no faith Borges will make the offense work, at least on the short term. We have weapons on our offense that Borges has seemed content to ignore in several games. As evidenced by his own quote after the MSU game, he has no interest in trying to out-scheme opponents. So basically this offense is going to have a ceiling we will encounter often until our WRs turn into Braylon or Manningham, and more importantly, our road-grading linemen mature with our RBs turning into Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown. But as you say, at least the QB position seems to be pretty well taken care of for next year and the year after hopefully.
"Borges has no interest in trying to outscheme the opponents."
I had to re-write that just to get my head around the statement a bit. I know it's true but to me it would be like if Mattison said "I have no interest in trying to stop the opponents from scoring".
I'm sorry but isnt "outscheming" exactly what A FUCKING OFFENSIVE FUCKING COORDINATOR IS PAID TO FUCKING DO??????????????
yeah it is, borges is pretty good at it though he seems hesitant to make drastic in game changes (MSU/IOWA last year). everybody is just still butthurt about ohio and all those inside runs that didnt work even though we played well in the first half. sometimes you get outschemed by the D coordinator.
don't bottle it in like that. It could become unhealthy.
Let it out...
I remain extremely (probably overly so) optimistic about Gardner next year. He's a former high 4 star recruit who is going into his 3rd year into a system with some experience under his belt. He has displayed the accuracy and arm strength to make almost every throw a college QB needs to make. The key to his development is improving in reading defenses. He has been slightly late on a good portion of his throws so far and while that worked fine against mediocre talent (Minneosta, Iowa), it was stifled a bit by OSU. I think he'll improve a lot in this area with an offseason/1st team reps and challenge Martinez/Miller for best QB in the B1G next year.
He was a 5* to Scout, but only a 4*(5.9) to Rivals, though he was ranked as the #1 Dual Threat QB there. He was also a 4* on ESPN and the #5 overall QB there. So I consider that a consensus high 4*. EIther way, if eveything breaks right for him, he's got the talent to not need that RS because he blows up next year. If that's en route to a Big Ten title, then I look forward to that and RS Fr/So Shane Morris in 2014.
How ironic would it be if he was awarded a redshirt, and declared after next season anyway?
Sure, Gardner will be better next year getting the majority of the snaps in bowl and spring practice. The problem next year is the offensive line. There will be 4 guys gone from this year's group, and this year was somwhat of a struggle as it was. I'm predicting Gardner running for his life all too often and being forced into throwing while pressured, thus causing unneeded INTs. It all starts with the big guys up front.
in looking at Gardner's stats for those games, is that none of those defenses (with the possible exception of OSU) had much of a chance to scout Gardner or prepare for him and whatever the offensive scheme would be with him as the only/primary QB. I would expect that as the season progresses next year there will be less mystery about his capabilities and weaknesses, as well as an increasing body of work to review when determining scheme and such that might make his stats trend downward.
That said, he will also be improving and gaining on the field experience and be working in a scheme more specifically designed around what he does best, so perhaps they offset?
EDIT: someone beat me to that comment above, carry on....
Those stats are an extrapolation of what we had THIS season from those three?
That is downright pathetic. No offense to those guys, obvious running QB attempts taking away their attempts are obvious, but even still. Wow just wow, man. I hope D. Green is seeing this.
- Thomas Rawls: 32 carries for 68 yards, 2.1 YPC
- Vincent Smith: 8 carries for 21 yards, 2.6 YPC
Those stats for Toussaint aren't an extrapolation. Those were his actual stats in the three Gardner-started games he played in (Minn, NW, Iowa) before he got hurt. Brian apparently forget to make the extrapolation for a 12-game season for Toussaint.
I for one am looking forward to having a more pro-style QB that can run when necessary in charge of the offense next year. Finally having a QB that has a throw first mentality. Not taking anything away from Denard (who I want to be returning kicks and/or punts in the bowl game), but it was ALWAYS easier for him to run than to throw. Now Michigan has a Dennis Dixon type QB (although not as fast), that can actually give legit teams fits because opposing defenses will have to respect his ability to throw an accurate deep pass. I was there when Dixon shredded our D, Devin can do the same! My biggest fear about next year is the O-line, not only will Michigan be young, we will also be w/o decent depth. I'm sure we all noticed what happened to Sparty when their lineman all got hurt.....
The 5.6 YPC for Toussaint isn't bad considering how bad the blocking for him was. I know we expected him to de better than last year, instead of worse, but 34 carries and 191 yards at 5.6 per are pretty good ground-and-pound wear the opponent down numbers for a game.
Fitz yards and TDs were slashed in half from 2011, but his carries were also cut by a third, he played against some tough DLines like ND, Sparty, Nebraska, and Purdue, had terrible blocking from the line, and honestly had a pretty poor passing threat to help the run game out. He took a step back, but he had alot of help getting there, too.
I also think that the OLine can only get better. Going from seniors to a few underclassmen we automatically imagine a step back, and possibly losing Lewan can easily fill fans with dread, but the 2013 line won't be overly young, and our interior was playing at or below an underclassmen level already. Schofield will be a 5th year senior playing Tackle, and Bryant and Miller will have been practicing at their positions for 2 1/2 years by the time they take the field. Kalis and Bryant should easily be an improvement in run blocking, and Miller has been a dedicated Center from the beginning. The only question mark is who the other tackle will be, and either choice is already a size mismatch for opponents with a ton of upside, and both are better runblockers than pass blockers. With FBs and 2 TE sets up front, plus a pass-first mobile qb scheme next year, things should be a bit more conventional, and open things up for the line and the backs.
Regardless we could have 2 of the top 10 Linemen in the country from 2012 stepping in next year, surrounded by upperclassmen, and Fitz could easily go off all over again.
Teams also played us very differently. When Denard's rushing production shoots up (2 ypc better than 2011) and Fitz's has a corresponding drop (1.8 ypc less), just saying "the line sucks" doesn't really explain things (like them blocking way better somehow when Denard keeps the ball).
Fitz was as much a victim of an enhanced reputation (defense's knew who he was this year) and an offense that could never develop an effective counter to the one read play we ever really ran (inverted veer) as anything.
Umm....I didn't just say "the line sucks" the end, I took into account quite a few factors, like our passing game taking a huge step back so our offense was one dimensional at times, our offensive line taking a huge step back, and our opponents defensive fronts improving. Not to mention not gameplanning to take advantage of defenses selling out against the run this year, and inexplicably running right at them instead. Just saying "fitz sucks" doesn't really counter any of that either. Saying Denard rushed for 2 more ypc this year because the line blocked way better means that this years line made improvements in run blocking over last years, and I just don't know what to say to that. Last year it was dominant at times, this year they got no push at all, and got manhandled up front regularly. All the running backs took big steps back this year. That's pretty much exclusively on the line, and on the scheme. Denard is just Denard.
While it's a little unfair to take out his best runs, consider Fitz's games against Minnesota and Northwestern if his longest run was capped at 20 yards:
Minnesota: 13 carries for 70 yards (long 41) becomes 13 carries for 49 yards
Northwestern: 18 carries for 92 yards (long 50) becomes 18 carries for 62 yards
Total: 31 carries for 162 yards (5.2 ypc) becomes 31 carries for 111 yards (3.6 ypc)
My interpretation of that is that Fitz was merely serviceable in those games. Considering the quality of defense, serviceable isn't very reassuring.
That's across the board, though, and shouldn't just be on Fitz. All the backs had pretty dismal years with defenses unconcerned about our passing threat, no push at the L.O.S., and occasional predictable playcalling. It was the same for LeVeon Bell at Staee. In his games where he had long runs of 40 yards or so his ypc was upp over 4, when he didn't have a breakaway run he had an average around or under 3, and while he's not the Heisman candidate people hyped him to be, he's still a good back. He only gained 4.2 against Northwestern, 3.9 against Central, and 3.3 against Indiana without adjusting. Only way he broke even 100 yards in a game was by getting around 30 carries, or having long breakaway runs. His bad games I wouldn't say were really his fault, but on the poor offensive line, and one dimensional offense allowing defenses to key on him. Just like with Fitz and co.
gardner has made me optimistic again.
i am feeling an undefeated season coming on next year.
also, the sun is shining outside today, perhaps this is influencing me.
Borges agrees.
I am not too worried about Gardner next year. He has shown enough that he will be an impact player at QB. The bigger problem will be the entire world focusing their defense on stopping him. As pointed out there is big uncertainty with the Oline and RB. If Lewan goes your posibly looking at a very young Oline. We also have question marks at WR as our top two in terms of experience are slot size.
So to run the Borges offense you need a massive talented offensive line, one or two super talented RB's, a great QB, and one or two talented big receivers. We have the QB covered. But everything else is a question mark. Ahh, if only Borges could add a wheelbarrow and a mourners cowl to mix. There is nothing he could not do. I for one would have him don it and have one of those big linemen trundle him about in the wheelbarrow. Just have him make priestly pronouncments of the advent of the Gulf Coast offense and defensive coordinators would run fleeing in abject terror before the game even began. :)
But it is a "holocaust cloak" not a mourner's cowl...
- TO margin
- Total defense
- Pass efficiency
Pass efficiency is also strongly correlated with rush yards per carry and 3rd down conversions.
Usually, if teams have two of the three and aren't horrendous at the third, they win most of their games.
So, if Gardner is top 10 in pass efficiency, Mattison continues to do his thing with a deeper, more talented roster, and we can get back to the plus side in TO margin, I believe this team is a sleeper for the BCS title game.
The key is going to be the OL being able to generate a good ypc and protect him in the pass game to put Devin in a higher probability of success.


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CONWAY - It's been six weeks since Abigail Hernandez was last seen walking home from her ninth-grade classes at Kennett High School.
Law enforcement officials say they still have no any hard evidence to support any direction or theory in the missing person case of the 15-year-old, whose last text - a heart symbol - to her boyfriend, Kennett High freshman Jimmy Campbell, at 2:52 p.m. on Oct. 9, marked the last time she has been heard from.
State and federal officers have heard that many students in town have been experiencing anxiety and other mental health problem since the teen disappeared, a fear they sought to ease Wednesday.
"We have nothing to indicate that there is any threat to the community from this case," said the FBI's Kieran Ramsey.
According to local counselors, some teens who walk home from school have expressed worry that they could similarly disappear.
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A landlord in Waynesville, Ohio is facing an assault charge for allegedly spanking a tenant four times on his butt with his belt.
53-year-old Ron Kronenberger pled not guilty Thursday in a Warren County courtroom and was ordered to stay away from the tenant.
The alleged incident took place on January 22nd.
The Waynesville police report states the alleged victim was $2,800 overdue on his rent payment. According to the report, the 29-year-old tenant went to visit Kronenberger at his grocery store when Kronenberger shut and locked his office door and told the man's wife to wait outside. The tenant says they discussed rent payment and a job search before Kronenberger left his office and returned with a belt.
The tenant says his landlord stated "If you're going to act like a child, I'm going to treat you like one" and told the man to bend over and place his hands on a chair. The report states the tenant complied and alleges Kronenberger then spanked him four times on the butt. Pictures taken show little marks allegedly the result of the incident.
When police asked the tenant why he agreed, he stated he "was scared and just wanted to get it over with."
According to the police report, Kronenberger admitted to whipping the man in his office due to the late rent payment.
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Hal Higdon
Art - Dale Nichols
The East Bound Freight
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, I'm not sure when I first became aware of the large oil painting that hung over a sofa in the living room of my parent's apartment. It was part of the furniture, like my mother's rocking chair, or the table my father used for his cigarettes and ale.
The painting was "The East Bound Freight" by Dale Nichols. (See above.) It showed a farmer, pitchfork in hand, standing beside his barn on a wintry day watching a train passing in the distance. As you gazed at the painting and fields covered with snow, you could almost feel the cold penetrate your bones.
I still own that painting (shown above and in detail below), although it is badly damaged. Presently, I am having it restored so I can donate it to Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, the school from which I graduated in 1953. Carleton currently is constructing a new art museum. Curator Laurel Bradley has agreed to welcome "The East Bound Freight" into the Carleton collection. Bradley also offered the names of several restorers in the Chicago area. I eventually selected Faye Wrubel, Paintings Conservator at the Art Institute of Chicago, who has a studio west of the Loop. Wrubel has agreed to restore "The East Bound Freight" to near how it looked when my father first acquired the painting from his friend Dale Nichols around 1938. "Ninety-five percent," she promises.
An American Regionalist
Dale Nichols was born 1904 in David City, Nebraska. He moved to Chicago in the 1920s, working as an illustrator, but also practicing what might be described as Fine Art. As an artist, Nichols fits into the school of Regional American Landscape artists, whose more famous practitioners included Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. "These artists," according to a biography of Wood on Artcult.com, "represented rural life in the U.S. in the tradition of European masters." Many of Nichols' paintings reproduced on greeting cards, and even playing cards, featured red barns.
An article in the September 18, 1939 issue of Time included this reference to Nichols: "Subjects he prefers are the prairie landscapes of his youth, usually snowed under. These famed smooth snow effects Artist Nichols gets by laying on his oils in a thin film with watercolor brushes."
One painting by Nichols titled "John Comes Home for Christmas" was used on a post card by the U.S. Postal Service as recently as 1995. A Web site describing the card says (somewhat ungrammatically): "A leader in the American Regionalist movement of the 1930s, Nichols' paintings depict rural scenes in a realistic fashion, defining objects with clean-edged precision." Three paintings by Nichols are listed in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney has four of his large oil paintings, along with four lithographs and four sketches. Wrubel said she thought the Union League Club in Chicago had two Nichols paintings. Union League curator Marianne Richter denied that was true, but said the Dayton Art Institute, where she previously worked, had one Nichols in its collection. One recent listing of five paintings by Dale Nichols sold on auction on Artfact.com shows prices between $6,725 and $33,460.
In addition to "The East Bound Freight," my own collection of Dale Nichols art includes another large painting (see below), a snowy landscape titled "The Trail to the Valley," minus any red barn. I also own several prints and watercolors. One gouache painting shows a horseman wearing a red cape, given to my wife Rose and I as a wedding present in 1958. Alas, by that date, Regionalist painting had become unfashionable, causing even Grant Wood to change his style and use a different name for some of his late art. Abstract Expressionism was the style favored by instructors Alfred Hyslop and Dean Warnholtz when I attended Carleton. Dale Nichols also abandoned the Regionalist style, moving to the Southwest and Central America, becoming influenced by the art he encountered there. One item in the collection of the Museum of Nebraska Art is a metagraph (a rubbing of Mayan ruins on fabric) done while he was living in Guatamala. In 1968, Nichols wrote a letter from Guatemala to his friend and fellow Chicago illustrator Elmer Jacobs. In the letter, now in the collection of the Chicago Historical Society, Nichols comments, "I am, at long last, making a living in fine art. This, from an artist whose paintings a decade after his death in 1995 now sells in the tens of thousands. Most valuable are the wintry landscape paintings he produced during the Depression. What fame Dale Nichols still possesses is because of red barns.
Hig's Artist
My father knew Dale Nichols--and Elmer Jacobs. He employed both as artists for the magazine he edited, the Phoenix Flame. My father's name was Harry J. Higdon, better known as "Hig." Although I go by the name of "Hal," the birth name used on my passport and other documents is Harry J. Higdon, Jr. Hig worked as advertising director for the Phoenix Metal Cap Company on the west side of Chicago, his main duty to produce for customers a monthly magazine called the Phoenix Flame. The Flame was a "house organ," and it won numerous awards because of its design featuring the illustrations of Nichols and Jacobs.
Nichols painted "The East-Bound Freight" in 1938 and either sold it or gave it to my father soon after that. Any artist who had a regular paying job as an illustrator during the Depression certainly would have been grateful to his benefactor. Nichols continued drawing covers and inside illustrations for the Flame into the 1940s until, possibly, his fame became too great for my father's little magazine. My father then employed Jacobs as an illustrator, although Nichols would resume working for my father in the late 1950s. When I married and my parents moved from our South Side apartment to one on the Near North Side, my father either commissioned or was given another large painting by Nichols. The artist continued working with Hig until my father died in 1962, the Phoenix Flame dying with him.
Soon after my father's death, my mother moved into a smaller apartment, their collection of Dale Nichols art coming into my possession. In 1964, my wife and I moved from Chicago to Long Beach, Indiana, an hour's drive around the bottom of Lake Michigan. We proudly hung "The East-Bound Freight" in our living room with its view of the lake. Alas, for that decision. Some years later, a storm swept across the lake, pummeling our house with sheets of rain. A massive leak developed in the roof over the living room, drenching the painting.
As curator Bradley or restorer Wrubel could tell you, moisture can be the death of an oil painting, shrinking the canvas, forming blisters in the paint, eventually causing the paint to peel. Helpless to stem the deterioration, I stored the painting in the attic, where it remained forgotten for too many years. At one point, I contacted the Art Institute of Chicago asking if it could provide some guidance to having the painting restored. I hoped maybe the Art Institute might acquire "The East Bound Freight" for its collection. The Institute never bothered to reply. (To the best of my knowledge, the Art Institute possesses no art by Dale Nichols.) A few years ago when squirrels invaded our attic, I discovered acorns crammed in the space between the back of the canvas and the frame! I felt guilty about allowing the painting to remain unrestored, unseen.
The day when "The East Bound Freight" can receive what actually may be its first public showing since 1938 is near at hand. My wife and I became friends with Laurel Bradley while attending an Alumni Adventure featuring Art & Jazz in Chicago sponsored by Carleton College in the spring of 2004. Not too coincidentally, I learned the College had plans for a new art museum and realized that the Dale Nichols painting might become an important addition to the College's art collection. Coincidentally, Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon recently acquired a gift of 120 illustrations by Elmer Jacobs and is planning an exhibit for the school year of 2006-2007.
Is it too much for me to hope that Carleton, or some other art museum, might some day plan an exhibit featuring the work of Dale Nichols, centered around "The East Bound Freight?" Although Dale Nichols painted his Midwest landscapes from his memories growing up in rural Nebraska, that freight train he painted certainly was headed toward Minnesota. It soon may get there.


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- Associated Press
- April 24, 2013 - 5:35 PM
BURNSVILLE, Minn. - Authorities have confirmed skeletal remains found in a Burnsville park are those of a 61-year-old man missing for a year.
The Hennepin County medical examiner identified the remains as those of Lorenzo Pacheco.
Pacheco also was known as Lorenzo Moreno-Pacheco or Lorenzo Pacheco Orozco.
A man walking his dog through Murphy Hanrahan Park found the remains on April 13.
Pacheco went missing from his home near the park on April 15, 2012. Burnsville police had investigated his disappearance and conducted multiple searches of the park without finding him.
The investigation has been closed.
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I had a buddy back in 94/95 who was constantly throwing OS/2 in my face. Hey, look at all the Windows I can have open, look at my clean interface, look at how much faster and more stable this runs that your Win 3.11, look at all these DOS sessions open simultaneously!
Windows 95 finally gave me the ability to rub his arrogant face right in my ass. And, for that, I say "Thank you, Bill Gates."
Yes, but OS/2 was still way better than Win95. Win95 was 32-bit "OS" bolted on DOS. OS/2 was 32-bit from the ground up. The Windows of today has more in common with OS/2 than it has with Windows 95.
>>>OS/2 didn't get "very few users". It was a very mainstream operating system at its peak.
Ha. The Commodore Amiga OS in the early 90s sold more units than IBM OS/2 during the same period, and yet nobody here would call the AmigaOS "mainstream". Both were minority OSes.
As for ease of use, I copy this from a website as example: "Take the process required to install and configure a printer. Under Windows it was a simple two step process. Under OS/2 1.2 it required the user to perform unnatural act
Study what makes an OS popular? It's already been done. Those exclusive contracts that Bill Gates got from all the vendors did it. One doesn't even need to look at any other of Gates unfair trade practices. There came a point where any vendor HAD to be able to offer MS - and Gates insisted that if they sold MS, they could ONLY sell MS.
A few other little tricks reinforced those exclusive contracts - like donating a few million computers to high schools and colleges, so that students were indoctrinated into the Microsoft way of doing things. But, those contracts are the numero uno prime reason for MS "popularity".
I was a big fan of OS/2 hence why I'm reading this. I worked in Waldensoftware in the early 90s and I have to tell you, when Windows 3.1 upgrade came up individuals lined up around the store to get it. The popularity of Microsoft is not just monopolistic contracts (though those helped a lot), the popularity is that other vendors don't want to support huge chunks of the market.
Apple doesn't want the corporate market
IBM couldn't even get it together with OS/2 but they didn't want the home market
Linux doesn'
>>>It's necessary to study what makes an OS popular to gather some more share from Microsoft.
Easy. The same thing that killed off the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and the Apple Macintosh (almost). Offices. They picked the IBM PC as their preferred platform in the early 80s, and it just continued steadily from there. And consumers of course bought what they had in the office, because it was familiar to them.
TRS-80 was the #1 selling computer in the late 70s. Atari 400/800 held the mantle in 1982, followed by the mass-produced Commodore 64 (30 million units sold). But by 1987 IBM PC was the #1 machine and nobody else could touch it. The competition was driven into bankruptcy by the mid-90s (or in the case of Apple - almost bankrupted).
And because IBM PC was successful, so too were PCDOS, MS-DOS and MS-windows, by default. See the chart for yourself:
http://media.arstechnica.com/articles/culture/total-share.media/marketshare.jpg [arstechnica.com]
True...but did OS/2 have Hover [wikipedia.org]?
Win95 was 32-bit "OS" bolted on DOS. OS/2 was 32-bit from the ground up.
Argh, not this again. Windows 95 used DOS basically as a bootloader and not much else.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2007/12/24/6849530.aspx [msdn.com] (Even references Slashdot bait, thanks to myths perpetuated on here).
Once in protected mode, the virtual device drivers did their magic. Among other things those drivers did was "suck the brains out of MS-DOS," transfer all that state to the 32-bit file system manager, and then shut off MS-DOS.
What was wrong with DOS as the bootloader? The upside is that single user DOS mode could be used as a recovery console, even allowing you to run DOS based applications without loading the full Windows.
It did, however, have a considerable amount of 16-bit code under the hood (to be fair, OS/2 was still running a 16-bit version of HPFS until version 4). Windows 95 was one big fat kludge, rushed out because MS was terrified that OS/2 was actually positioned to grab pack a substantial portion of the Windows market. It was an unstable monster, with horrible TCP/IP support. When they shipped Office 95, it too was basically a suite of 16-bit apps in a 32-bit wrapper, again, rushed out to keep WordPerfect and
Yes, but OS/2 was still way better than Win95. Win95 was 32-bit "OS" bolted on DOS. OS/2 was 32-bit from the ground up. The Windows of today has more in common with OS/2 than it has with Windows 95.
Windows 95: n.
32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/win2bit.html [monster-island.org]
From wikipedia:
"Official system requirements were an Intel 80386 DX CPU of any speed, 4 MB of system RAM, and 120 MB of hard drive space."
I have porn that wouldn't run on this computer (Blue rays take a lot of processing power). Which brings me to my next point, the code name of "Chicago" was prescient. Seriously, named for political blustering and needless posturing. The windy city by virtue of people at each other's throats because of their beliefs.
Yep. Perfect.
They'd dropped the codename because of all the "all blow and no go" jokes being made. It took Microsoft FOREVER to get the silly thing out and they rolled out a less stable product than the last RC they pushed out to the beta testers. And we won't go into the horrors they inflicted on the developer beta testers that got pre-betas... >;-D
I liked using Windows 95 over 98 because it rebooted much faster after bluescreening.
It's what most machines were shipping with in 1996 and 97, anyway. FAT32 support, no integrated MSIE crap, and a bit more stable than the original Win95 release.
I still have a pair of PPro gaming boxes running Win95 OSR2 (as well as various other OSes from the time period including BeOS 5 and versions of both Mandrake and Red Hat Linux.
Your buddy was right and you still are clueless.
OS/2 was a much better OS than Windows 95. It had a better UI, it was a lot more stable, and was really a very modern OS.
There are still some knowledgeable companies that are just now migrating the last of their systems off of OS/2
Windows 95 was cheap. That was it's only real benefit. I hate to say it but the terms arrogant and ass would seem to bet apply to you and not your friend.
That and Microsoft got the hardware manufactures to install it. Had IBM gotten everybody on board with OS/2 it would have one. In this case it was all marketing and you bought it.
I assume you were IBM back then. Then come on. OS/2 wasn't even available preloaded on your own computers. I bought an Ambra and I couldn't get OS/2 preloaded nor OS/2 support for the sound card on the Ambra motherboard. Your IBM resellers didn't carry or push OS/2. I had a bear of a time getting OS/2 1.3 until you had the direct order program. Also you wouldn't distribute in normal channels.
IBM was talking out of both sides of their mouth the whole time they were pushing OS/2. Sun and Microsoft both
If you followed the Microsoft anti-trust trial, you would know that at least part of the reason for this was the fact that Microsoft denied IBM a Windows 95 license until the very last minute because IBM wanted to load OS/2 on some of its boxes. At that point in time, Windows had a very strong presence in the market, and MS was able to apply a lot of pressure to PC makers
FWIW, OS/2 1.x was a Microsoft-branded product for most of its life, and was somewhat crippled with the dated desktop and D
You are right that OS/2 was way better than Win 95. However, IBM was always on board. It was Microsoft who sabotaged OS/2. You do know that Microsoft wrote the original versions of OS/2? But at the same time, they were working on Windows 3.0. When it was released and got popular, they basically bailed on OS/2. And left IBM to clean up the mess that Microsoft had created. IBM had mostly rewritten it by 1996 when OS/2 Warp 4 came out. But by then, it was too late.
Windows 95 was cheap. That was it's only real benefit.
Yeah, apart from the single most important one - it ran more things that people wanted to run.
Initially, the programs that each was able to run weren't that dissimilar. There wasn't that much real 32-bit software, so most used the Win32S extensions, and OS/2 did a fairly good job of keeping up with Microsoft's constant changing of that library for some time. I think OS/2 ended up stopping support with Win32S 1.25a or something
OS/2 came with a copy (or could use an existing copy) of Windows as its WinOS2 subsystem,
Windows 95 finally gave me the ability to rub his arrogant face right in my ass. And, for that, I say "Thank you, Bill Gates."
No, it didn't.
Windows 95 ran concurrent win 3.1 and DOS apps like shit. But I guess you forgot that.
You don't need to capitalise your errors, we can spot them without your help.
Are we specifically referring to dos, or just the concept of cli file manager? Because frankly, to this day I run most of my linux boxes without a gui.
I'm not quite sure Archaic is the right word for something as useful as the cli.
Are we specifically referring to dos, or just the concept of cli file manager?
No. File Manager was a GUI program included with Windows 3.x (and still included as EXE only up to Windows Me).
They're referring to File Manager, the Windows GUI that preceded Explorer.
winfile.exe, it ran fast and light and I was bummed when they took it out. It worked a lot better than explorer.exe for a lot of tasks.
Must be all about the memory, I had it running on a DX33 with 8Mb. It was fine but I remeber having a terrible time with a driver for the Avance Logic graphics card that it had fitted. Things like the clock (when you double clicked the time) as the hand swept round the screen wasn't redrawn.
Strangest thing was that the card worked fine in Slackware.
It's amazing how relatively expensive computer hardware was back then. Or maybe we all got richer...
I remember getting caught up in the hype and putting it on a 486 DX2 66 with 4 MB. Damn but that was slower than molasses running uphill in January. Suffered with that computer for nearly 2 years before I saved up enough for a replacement (poor college student at the time).
God, 4MB of RAM for Windows '95??? That must have been brutal.
In '92 or '93 my girlfriend bought a similar machine with 4MB of RAM, and that was only Windows 3.11. On the second day she had it we watched Word thrash the machine within a
What, you didn't like the butterfly commercial? Where do you want to go today?
We got a kick out of the networked "Microsoft Hover" game: http://www.johnlamansky.com/blog/the-legend-of-microsoft-hover/
Still available on Microsoft's FTP here: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS/Hover.exe [microsoft.com]
I don't know who Roberto Sparese is [facebook.com], but I'm sure he'll get a few more hits to his Facebook account as other readers also wonder whether that was actually a little-known word and not just a typo.
P.S. Cute kitty, Roberto!
While I could imagine using this sort of anthropomorphisation for a product that was still active, I think Windows 95 is dead.
Windows 95 was a trully innovative operating system. It allowed the convenience of use normally afforded only to those who had bought a Mac since 1986.
You misuse "innovative".
— adj
using or showing new methods, ideas, etc
Innovative was the MacOS environment.
Innovative was PalmOS when it first came out.
Of note:
not original; secondary.
Windows 95 was derivative . It didn't really bring "new" concepts and methods to the table- save for Microsoft product users. Which, you have to admit, is the very thing you stated.
I've used 98lite [litepc.com] back then. The full version can also remove other unwanted stuff.
after doing a quick google search i think this app is nowhere to be found
After doing my own quick google search I found a mirror of it on the first page of results here [easycommander.com].
I was using Norton Desktop on my Windows 3.1 box before Windows 95 came out. Nice clean interface and I didn't have to have a bunch of windows open. When 95 came out, it removed the need for Norton as it incorporated many of the features into the Windows shell.
I do know that Windows 95 killed my desire to muck with the system. With Windows 3.1 I was researching performance techniques and improving my config. I had a friend with a faster system however my Windows install was faster than his (he ranted a bit about it
But Windows 3.1 killed my desire to program until I got into Unix. I spent a lot of time reading the Petzold books and I understood how to write code for Windows but it was more complicated than I wanted to deal with for the hobby stuff I was doing.
After so many years of Windows giving me an assfucking, now it's finally legal to... oh wait, one more year. Mustn't make that mistake again!
If Microsoft had to re-imburse businesses for all the hours lost and wasted dealing with the steaming pile of crap (aka Windows 95) they would have been bankrupted years ago.
Of course if you were alive then, you've probably seen the commercials.
You don't honestly think that slashdot is in any way relevant to kids 15 and under, do you? If we even said "old enough to remember seeing the commercials" and graciously said that someone 5 years old at the time might remember them, that would mean you expect slashdot to have relevance to the 20-and-under set.
Although I honestly don't remember the commercials, and Windows 95 was the first OS I bought (or pirated? I don't remember now) on CD. I do recall that 95 was the first windows release that actually required you to enter a registration key at installation; 3.1 would graciously let you "enter it later".
Seriously? You don't remember the commercials with the Rolling Stones 'Start Me Up' playing while someone clicked on the start button?
Surely you at least remember the jokes that the second verse would have been more appropriate. (You, you, you make a grown man cry.)
I think Windows 95 is greatly under-appreciated. I remember one of the biggest jokes was "Oh, its more Mac Like!". People who made that claim seem to not remember the horrors that was MacOS 7, 8 or 9. I did not become familer with Linux until 1997, so I cannot compare, but, as far as I can remember, the only thing even in the same league with Windows '95 OS/2, which Microsoft wrote a good deal of the code for, if I remember right. It pretty much standardized Plug N Play on the PC platform (granted, it was b
It might be time to look into running a virtual machine for that legacy tool. You also can get modern motherboards with serial ports, or even USB to serial port adapters.
...is the Win95's ease of copying and piracy really established their dominance in the PC market.
OS2 was a better system, but iirc much harder to pirate.
The fact that sneaker-net distribution meant EVERYONE grew up with a system running Win95 ended up making Gates a bajillionaire.
Win 95 was disgusting. I hated that OS and Win 98 was awful as well. The only thing those OSs ever did was get me to use Linux!
I know someone who took a drink everytime W95 blue-screened. He died of liver damage in 97.
It was shoddy product and ridiculously unreliable.
What it did contribute, though, was that it showed the Apple Menu to the whole world. Mac OS has now moved away from that, but pretty much everyone else is now using some sort of logo, in the upper or lower left corner of the screen, to access a menu of applications and/or OS settings. And I think Windows 95 (not MacOS) really gets the credit for that. If they hadn't used the idea, I really just can't help but wonder if anyone would be doing it anymore.
I was at Boeing back then. Everyone in engineering had Macs but the fix was in with Microsoft. W3.1 was judged unsuitable for use, so only a few poor suckers were stuck with that. We had a number of PCs running DOS. Great for lab use, as numerous ISA cards were avaiilable, or easily cobbled up by our technicians.
One day, the IT folks showed up and dropped a Dell 166 on my desk (between my Mac and X terminal). It only had a DOS command prompt, but the hardware guys assured me that the Windows guys would follow shortly with their install disks.
About 3 months later, this pig was still sitting there with nothing but a DOS command prompt staring back at me. The story was that initial W95 installs were proving to be a disaster and IT was in the process of staffing up to levels needed to support the platform. I went to my boss and told him, "While I'm waiting, there's this other system available now that I can load and try out. Its called Linux."
He said, "OK" and I've never looked back. Thank you Mr. Gates.
I started with Linux in 1995, too. It was Yggdrasil, took twenty minutes to boot on a 386/33 MHz machine. To make it boot faster one had to configure it to look only for the available hardware, otherwise it would look for everything it had drivers for and wait for timeout.
Then I learned about Slackware and never looked back.
Yeah... It would be 15 years old today if it were still alive.
(Coincidentally, 15 years is roughly 95 in IT years.)
At the time may career as a NetWare sysadmin was just taking off, so it was another six years before I made the switch to Linux, but for me Win95 marked the beginning of the end of my belief in proprietary software.
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PITTSBURGH, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL) today announced the pricing of a private placement of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 3.125% Senior Notes due 2023 at an issue price of 99.793%. Mylan intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to repay amounts borrowed under its revolving credit facility and accounts receivable securitization facility, including borrowings used or to be used to support the previously announced repurchase of up to $500 million of its common stock in the open market and through other methods, and for general corporate purposes. Subject to customary closing conditions, the sale of the notes is expected to close on or about Dec. 21, 2012.
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Pictures from a camera mounted on the front of a derailed freight train show that the train went off the tracks after it struck a garbage truck that crossed the tracks while the train's horn was blasting warnings.
Fifteen cars of the CSX train crashed to the ground in an industrial area of White Marsh, Md., on Tuesday. The derailment caused an explosion so strong that several nearby buildings collapsed or were damaged.
An overturned garbage truck could be seen at the scene and the driver was injured, according to the Baltimore County Police and Fire Department.
The truck driver has been identified as John Alban Jr., 50, a retired Baltimore County firefighter and current volunteer firefighter for the Hyde Park Volunteer Fire Department. Alban was taken to a hospital where he is in serious but stable condition, authorities said.
Inspectors from the National Transportation Safety Board viewed the video from the train's camera as well as surveillance recordings from a nearby business.
"Using those pieces of data, I'll paint a picture for you," said NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt at a news conference today.
"Seventeen seconds before collision, [the] train horn blasts begin... We are able to hear the three blasts going up to the point of impact," Sumwalt said.
"Five seconds prior to the collision, we see the front of the truck coming into the picture. Three seconds prior to the impact, the front of the truck enters the track and at impact the train strikes the right rear tandem axel of the truck," he said.
A camera from a nearby business captured video of the first hints of smoke 33 seconds after the impact.
Sumwalt said the train, which had been traveling at 49 mph before the crash, traveled more than 4,000 feet after its emergency brakes were applied.
Despite the video evidence, Sumwalt said, "We will not be determining cause while we're on the scene and we will not speculate about what may have caused the accident."
He said the crossing had stop signs on each side, but did not have gates, lights or bells.
CSX official Kristin Seay said earlier that "Four cars contained terephthalic acid. One car contained fluorosilicic acid. That rail car was empty, but CSX lists it as a 'residue car' because the car may still contain traces of the product."
Long-term exposure to terephthalic acid can cause respiratory problems, authorities said, citing a state of New Jersey report.
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Sheffield United boss Danny Wilson is keen to keep Nick Blackman after confirming one bid has been rejected.
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Blackman was the Blades' best player by far in the 4-0 FA Cup fourth round defeat to Reading, causing the Royals back line all sorts of trouble thanks to his pace and power.
Championship side Palace have made a bid to sign the 23-year-old former Blackburn man, but Wilson wants him to stay.
"We have had a bid for him, but he is still our player," Wilson said. "Whether that will change before Thursday, I don't know.
"I would like him to stay but obviously circumstances will prevail. He is a very good player."
Wilson saw his side eliminated after a brace from Noel Hunt, with former Blades player Mikele Leigertwood and Garath McCleary also on target.
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"We are disappointed," Wilson added.
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If you're new to SQL Server's OLAP Services, you might not be familiar with Multidimensional Expression (MDX) language. MDX is to multidimensional cubes as SQL is to relational tables, so OLAP Services uses MDX as its query language. MDX is a nontrivial language, but creating simple queries in MDX is no more difficult than creating basic queries with SQL. However, when you want a query to return values derived from the values in your cube, MDX becomes significantly more complex. Writing and understanding MDX formulas is more complicated than performing similar tasks in SQL because a cube is n-dimensional. Add the fact that each dimension is hierarchical, not linear, and wrapping your mind around the problem can take a while.
I've discovered multiple levels to understanding MDX. The first level is basic data retrieval. Here, you want to query your OLAP cube and return simple 1- or 2-dimensional results of information in rows and columns. The values you want to display are stored in the cube. To retrieve the data, you must know the keywords, punctuation, and basic syntax rules of MDX. If you've worked with another query language, such as SQL, learning these rules isn't difficult because basic MDX queries avoid the complexities of the data's multidimensional structure. With this first level of understanding, I estimate that you can harness about 10 percent of MDX's power. Here's an example of a level-one query that retrieves sales information for two quarters in 1997 for the USA and Canada:
SELECT \{\[USA\], \[Canada\]\} ON COLUMNS, \{\[1997\].\[Q1\], \[1997\].\[Q2\]\} ON ROWS FROM Sales
The second level of understanding MDX enables you to create MDX formulas. In MDX terminology, these formulas create calculated members. The result of an MDX query is n-dimensional, with columns and rows as the first two dimensions. Within the MDX query, each dimension is an axis. When you formulate an MDX query, each position (coordinate) on a resulting axis must contain a dimension member. If you want one of the columns or rows in your result to be a derived number, you need to create a new dimension member to use in your query. For example, if you want to retrieve the difference between the sales for first quarter 1998 and first quarter 1997 (year-to-year growth), create a new dimension member with a name and a formula, as in the following query:
WITH MEMBER \[Time\].\[1998\].\[Q1 Change\] as '\[1998\].\[Q1\] \[1997\].\[Q1\]' SELECT \{\[USA\], \[Canada\]\} ON COLUMNS, \{\[Q1 Change\]\} ON ROWS FROM Sales WHERE (\[Unit Sales\])
This query works if you're designing a report to run against OLAP data. Of course, after adding 1999 data to the cube, you'll need to change the query if you want it to return the difference between 1999 and 1998 sales, but the change is as simple as substituting the updated years. With an understanding of the available MDX functions and how to create calculated members, you can tap into most of MDX's power (at least 60 percent). Level-two MDX lets you retrieve a specific value from a cube, which might generate online information to replace a hard-copy report that your company has been generating for the past 20 years.
I believe you progress to the third level of MDX understanding when you feel comfortable with the n-dimensional structure of a cube and you design your MDX formulas for use in an OLAP browsing environment. Truly useful MDX formulas let users view familiar business-analysis calculations without reinventing the formula for every query. In other words, level-three MDX formulas are useful for viewing a large percentage of the cube data, not just for generating one particular query. OLAP is about online, interactive browsing of information. Level-three MDX can help you and your users find relevant trends and exceptions in your business data.
An analogy of the difference between levels two and three is the difference between programming and software engineering. Pro-gramming without software engineering focuses on near-term objectives and doesn't allow for known or unknown future plans. Software engineering teaches that code maintenance, architecture, and reuse are important, as is the idea of abstraction. One objective in software engineering is to build and use a collection of software modules that let the programmer deal with the programming problem at the level of the problem. The basic building blocks must match the terminology of the problem. For example, if you're implementing an automobile traffic simulation, you want the basic building blocks to be vehicles, traffic lights, and intersections. You don't want to start with numbers and alphanumeric strings. Level-three MDX builds on level two by adding reuse and abstraction.
Listing 1 contains an example of a level-three query. This query has a reusable formula for the annual growth of unit sales. The formula is reusable because it returns annual growth for any member of the Time dimension. It is abstract because it returns annual sales growth, a value used frequently in financial analysis. If you were analyzing medical treatments in a hospital, you might want a formula for bed days of care. If you were analyzing products in a retail business, you might want to find sales per square foot or profit per square foot. Good MDX formulas raise the level of data abstraction to the level of the business problem your users are analyzing. Herein lies the Zen of MDX. Create a cube with useful calculated members such as these, and you'll be an MDX Zen master! I estimate that this third level of understanding gives you access to 90 percent of MDX's power. I'm leaving out 10 percent because a fourth level of understanding might exist. As soon as I discover it, I'll be sure to write about it.
Master the Techniques
A closer inspection of the Unit Sales Annual Growth formula (in Listing 1) reveals three MDX techniques that make the formula reusable. First, the growth formula in the Measures dimension gives you the most flexibility to combine the growth formula with members of other dimensions. Second, conditional logic changes the formula when you select Time dimension members at the year level. Third, the ParallelPeriod function generically handles all Time dimension members at levels below year.
The first technique is an important one. You can choose any dimension to put the calculated member in. For example, I could have created a new member in the Time dimension, as in the level-two query example, instead of in the Measures dimension. In deciding which dimension to use, consider the flexibility trade-offs. When you create the member in the Time dimension, you have the freedom to change which measure you select in the query. Without changing the member definition, you can retrieve annual growth for Unit Sales and for Store Cost or any other measure, just by changing the measure in the WHERE clause.
In Listing 1, I chose to create the new member in the Measures dimension. Doing so locked the formula into using the Unit Sales measure, but you can change the query to display any member in the Time dimension without changing the formula. In this example, I think the level-three formula is more flexible because the FoodMart Sales cube has relatively few measures and many Time dimension members. An even more flexible solution might be to create an empty dimension and add several calculated members to it for the growth measure variations you want to use (e.g., Year-To-Year Absolute Change, Year-To-Year Percent Change, Year-To-Year YTD Absolute Change). With the definitions in another dimension, you could match these definitions with any combination of a measure and a Time dimension member.
The second technique uses conditional logic to change the formula based on the dimension member's level in the dimension. This technique is common, particularly when you're dealing with time series functions. If you want a calculated member to return YTD values, you might include special handling for a formula with a year selected. In the Unit Sales Annual Growth measure, I used Time.Current-Member.Level.Ordinal to determine whether the currently selected member in the Time dimension was at the year level. The level's ordinal is a zero-based number that starts at the top of the hierarchy and increases as you descend. The year is the topmost level in the Sales cube's Time dimension, so the year's ordinal is zero. Another way to conditionally check levels is to compare against the level name. For example:
iif( Time.CurrentMember.Level.Name = "Year",
, )
The third technique of reusability uses the ParallelPeriod function to generically handle Time members at different levels of the Time dimension. The ParallelPeriod function calculates the distance from the year level and finds the matching parallel period at the same relative depth in the hierarchy. The Cousin function has the same kind of functionality but isn't specific to the Time dimension.
Many MDX functions handle boundary conditions well and don't require special conditional logic. In this example:
Descendants(Time.CurrentMember, \[Month\])
the Descendants function works as you would expect for all three levels of the Time dimension. It returns the corresponding months for the current member even if the current Time member is a month. If Time.CurrentMember is at the Month level, the Descendants function returns Time.CurrentMember.
Remember that the most valuable calculated members are those that enable the business analyst to use the calculated members intuitively in various situations. Designing a cube and the calculated members to go with it is similar to design work in other disciplines; you want the result to be forward-thinking, flexible, and easy to maintain. And most of all, you want the names and business meaning of your formulas to be familiar to your users. When you have harnessed this level of MDX, you will have transcended to the next plane of existence and reached the Zen of MDX! (For answers to the March MDX puzzle, see "March MDX Puzzle Solution Revealed." For the April puzzle, see "MDX Puzzle.")


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Maybe you can't read Japanese, but you don't have to in order to appreciate anime or to hang out here. Talk with others about your favorite manga, movies, and artists.
Shinji form bleach is #1 for me
Cloud kid
you lost points for posting shinji.
nah hmm
I'm a Legendary GI member.
hahahaha sorry had to get it out there....hes pretty cool to me though
I have lots of ideas of who the best anime characters are.....
@ Fallen Samurai yea i did too but for some reason shinji is just a beast
nah shinji is horrible. lol he helped to the stabbing of momo lol.
Only the coolest dude ever, even if he is irrational and stupid at times.
Fearless to a fault, plus he's like half an inspirational speaker. He's got to be the most perfect hero character.
Suda51 Group
I like gash bell he overcame a lot to became the mammodo king.
Man that manga had better be amazing compared to the anime.
The story is great and builds up greatly toward the end.
Few pics to show some gash bell love
talk about epic power
luffy.... and kamina :D
Kenpachi Zaraki! He's just a beast! His love of fighting is just very cool to me.
Luffy, Zoro, Mihawk, and Rayleigh (R.I.P. Ace) from OP
Musashi from Vagabond,
Spike, Jet, Ed, and Ein (I shouldn't have to say where from),
Oga from beelzebub (funny stuff),
Guts from Berserk,
either Ippo or Takamura from Hajime no Ippo,
Kenichi and all his masters from History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi,
Goomoonryong from The Breaker and Gildartz from Fairy Tail (Just Because)


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North West. The alleged name of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's newborn daughter, which has been reported in all the most reputable celebrity gossip sources (Us Weekly, People, TMZ), is everything we could have hoped for and more. By combining the first name "North" with the last name "West," Kim and Kanye have given their baby a moniker that doubles as a piece of advice for anyone driving to Seattle. And they lived up to widespread speculation that the tabloid-friendly couple would find something utterly ridiculous to name their child. North West may, in fact, be the craziest celebrity baby name in history.
But with so many legitimate contenders for the "celebrity baby name" throne, could North West really be the craziest celebrity baby name of all time? What about Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter Apple? Nicolas Cage's son Kal-El? Frank Zappa's daughter Moon Unit?
We had to know for sure. Using the latest advances in celebrity-baby-naming mathematics, we devised a complex algorithm to weigh the craziness of a celebrity baby's name with the fame of that baby's parents. Is North West the craziest celebrity baby name in history? Judge for yourself with our exhaustively researched visual guide, and read our scale below:
North West
(daughter of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian)
Celebrity: 10
Craziness: 9
Harper Seven Beckham
(daughter of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham)
Celebrity: 10
Craziness: 6
Blue Ivy Carter
(daughter of Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles)
Celebrity: 10
Craziness: 5
Suri Cruise
(daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes)
Celebrity: 10
Craziness: 4
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt
(daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt)
Celebrity: 10
Craziness: 2
Apple Blythe Alison Martin
(daughter of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin)
Celebrity: 9
Craziness: 6
Sean Federline
(son of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline)
Celebrity: 9
Craziness: 1
Violet Anne Affleck
(daughter of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner)
Celebrity: 9
Craziness: 2
Rumer Glenn Willis
(daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore)
Celebrity: 8
Craziness: 5
Everly Tatum
(daughter of Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum)
Celebrity: 8
Craziness: 4
Kal-El Coppola Cage
(son of Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim)
Celebrity: 7
Craziness: 7
Rosalind Arush Arkadina Altalune Florence Thurman-Busson
(daughter of Uma Thurman and Arpad Busson)
Celebrity: 6
Craziness: 8
Zowie Bowie
(son of David Bowie and Angela Bowie)
Celebrity: 6
Craziness: 6
Moxie CrimeFighter Jillette
(daughter of Penn Jillette and Emily Zolten)
Celebrity: 4
Craziness: 10
Pilot Inspektor Riesgraf-Lee
(son of Jason Lee and Beth Riesgraf)
Celebrity: 4
Craziness: 10
Speck Wildhorse Mellencamp
(son of John Cougar Mellencamp and Elaine Irwin)
Celebrity: 4
Craziness: 7
Moon Unit Zappa
(daughter of Frank Zappa and Gail Zappa)
Celebrity: 3
Craziness: 10
Audio Science Clayton
(son of Shannyn Sossaman and Dallas Clayton)
Celebrity: 3
Craziness: 9
Disagree with any of our picks? Or did we miss some of your favorite crazy celebrity baby names? Weigh in in the comments...


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Baby Elephants On a Beach — Thanks, I Needed a Smile Today [VIDEO]
I really needed a smile today, and this did it!
The first video in the list below the jump surfaced this week, and with a little digging, we've turned up a slew more. It's unherd of cuteness. A trunk full of adorable. Keep the puns going in the comments.


text: R House The Good and Bad of 2013 RI General Assembly By Scott MacKay • Jul 5, 2013 Rhode Island's 2013 General Assembly made history by legalizing gay marriage. RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay wonders why lawmakers don't handle other issues in the same manner. After a vigorous debate, the Assembly made history in April when it approved same gender marriage, making Rhode Island the 12th American state to sanction gay unions.


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Chance of release for indefinitely detainedBy Sally Brooks
One of two men who have been held in Alice Springs Prison for years after being found unfit to plead in court may be released into community care in the future.
Kerry Doolan is in prison because there was nowhere else to accommodate him, after he was charged with an assault but not tried for the offence because of his illness.
A new secure care facility was built next to Alice Springs prison, and Doolan is one of the first people to be cared for at the unit.
The Supreme Court today heard Doolan was ordered into full-time secure care in April, and is under going 12 months of therapeutic treatment with a view to preparing him to live outside the facility.
The Judge said after that time she would like to assess if he can move into a community model of care.
The court heard there are plans for another mentally ill man, Christopher Leo, to start living in secure care from late June.


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All ADRL officials will be wearing custom designed uniforms provided by ProThings beginning at the Hardee's Georgia Drags VII April 13 - 14 at South Georgia Motorsports Park. Perhaps the most exciting component of the partnership however is that ProThings will provide all ADRL world champions in each of their nine professional and sportsman categories with custom leather jackets and outfit them and their entire crew in custom designed uniforms for the following season.
"We are constantly looking for ways to give back to our race teams for their loyalty and support," said ADRL President Kenny Nowling. "ProThings has gone above and beyond by providing all of our world champions with not only amazing custom leather jackets, but also providing them and their team with custom designed uniforms. They have provided us with hands down the best looking and most comfortable uniforms we have ever had."
"We were very excited when Kenny called and invited us to Rockingham for the 2013 ADRL season opening event last month," said ProThings owner Jason Allen. "From the time we walked through the gates we were completely blown away. The event was, without a doubt, one of the most professional and well run events we had ever been to. The incredible racing on the track and the huge crowds both days made for a memorable weekend for ProThings. We are looking forward to working with the ADRL and their great race teams for years to come."
For additional information about ProThings visit their official website, www.prothings.com.


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Fox was held by Charlotte doctors for further observation and testing. Depending on the results of the testing, there is a possibility Fox may have to undergo a procedure. Doctors have ruled out a heart attack.
When Fox will be cleared to travel from Charlotte back to Denver has yet to be determined. Broncos players and Fox's coaching staff are to have a full-squad meeting at 8:05 a.m. Monday in preparation for their next game, Nov. 10 at San Diego.
"Coach Fox is in our prayers right now," said Broncos' tight end Joel Dreessen. "He's our leader. We love him. If you know anything about him, you know he'll be just fine."
With the Broncos having a bye this week, Fox, 58, was in Charlotte this weekend visiting with family who continue to live in the area and where he has an offseason home.
He was on the golf course when he started feeling dizzy. According to team sources, Fox did not want to seek medical attention for his symptoms, but his golf partners insisted.
Doctors in Charlotte have been in contact with the Broncos' medical team regarding Fox's condition. If doctors recommend Fox take a few days of rest before resuming his coaching duties with the Broncos, the team is expected to have their three coordinators -- Jack Del Rio (defense), Adam Gase (offense) and Jeff Rodgers (special teams) -- split Fox's duties.
"Our only focus at this time is the health and well-being of Coach Fox," said Patrick Smyth, the Broncos' director of media relations.
If a point man to team Fox is needed, Del Rio would be the logical choice. Aside from Fox, Del Rio has the most NFL head coaching experience on the Broncos' staff. Del Rio led the Jacksonville Jaguars from 2003-2011, posting a73-63 record.
Still, it would be a blow to the Broncos if Fox is unable to coach next Sunday.
Fox has been the Broncos' head coach for three years, inheriting a team that went 4-12 in 2010 under Josh McDaniels. Fox led the Broncos to the AFC West Division championship and second round of the playoffs in his first two seasons, and is 7-1 halfway through his third.
The Broncos have gone 28-12 in the regular season with Fox as coach.
"I am doing fine," Fox wrote in a text to the Broncos on Saturday afternoon. "We are just running some tests and will know more in a few hours."
A few hours later, doctors decided they needed Fox to stay over for more testing.
Del Rio is the Broncos' defensive coordinator whose unit is 24th in total defense (380.6 yards) and 26th in points allowed (27.3).
However, Denver's D was greatly improved in its previous game against Washington as it had star pass-rusher Von Miller, who was suspended from the first six games, and middle linebacker Wesley Woodyard, who missed two games with a neck injury, play in the same game for the first time.
In 2012, Del Rio's Denver defense ranked No. 2 in total defense and No. 4 in points allowed.


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We finally received our Stitch 'n Pitch tickets on Tuesday, which is a lucky thing for the Pirates, let me tell you. Little do they know that I was planning on calling them up first thing yesterday morning to harass them until they told me where my tickets were and what was taking them so gosh-darn long to cash my check!
(The funny thing is, yesterday afternoon I checked the mail and found an envelope from the Buccos. I couldn't imagine what else they were sending me. Would you believe they're doing a wedding expo along with a game later this month? Oy.)
Is anyone else planning on going to the game on Sunday for the Stitch 'n Pitch festivities? I will be pulling out my Lorna's Laces Bee Stripe (purchased on the trip to D.C. in April) to get started on my black and gold socks, the goal being to have them done in time for football season.
I am so close to being done with Adamas that it's killing me. I have five more rows to knit -- five more, people! I am going to try to get them done tonight. Blocking party this weekend!
Sorry no pictures. Not much to show you right now anyway. I promise something better over the weekend.
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Play Ball!
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- Jenn said...
Nope, we're going to be out of town this weekend, Tom wants to go play golf at his favorite golf course, which happens to be 2 miles from my parents house. Hope you guys have fun, though!
We ordered tickets for a game through Duquesne Light last month, and I swear, the Pirates actually cashed our check AFTER the game. We had our tickets in plenty of time, but the check thing was weird.
- Carrie K said...
Five rows? So close!
Have fun at Stitch & Pitch.
- carrie said...
oh, i wish they had stitch n pitch up here! have fun.
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Jobs bill would lure companies with 95 percent tax break
Pennsylvania Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, a Republican representing Centre and Mifflin counties, has proposed a jobs bill that would allow relocating companies to keep 95 percent of the state personal income tax revenue they withhold on behalf of employees.
House Bill 2626, also known as Promoting Employment Across Pennsylvania, is modeled after a similar program in Kansas, according to a fact sheet from Benninghoff's office. The state would keep the remaining 5 percent of PIT taxes and would see a state revenue increase due to the businesses locating in Pennsylvania, he said.
"By giving up one source of revenue, we will be gaining many more," Benninghoff said in a statement. "We have nothing now, so we have nothing to lose and everything to gain. This bill would allow employers to keep, spend and invest more of their own money in our communities."
Relocating companies would pay all other applicable taxes, including sales and use taxes, corporate net income, local property taxes and local PIT taxes, according to the bill.
Other provisions of the bill include:
• Employers would be required to hire minimum numbers of people between five and 15 depending on the county where they relocate.
• Wages paid to employees compared with average wages of the county where they hire would determine the number of years a company is eligible for the incentive.
• The state Department of Community and Economic Development would have authority to review and approve incentive applications.
• Eligibility would require a for-profit entity relocating a facility, office, department or other operation.
• The company must provide health insurance to full-time employees with the company paying 50 percent of the premium.
Retail stores, public administration and education services, utility companies, food-service companies, entities filing or intending to file for bankruptcy, and any company delinquent in federal, state or local taxes would not be eligible, according to the bill.


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Student or Learner
The only one way to reduce the amount of traffic in cities today is by
reducing the need for people to travel from home to work, education or
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Cities traffic brings many problems both men and local governments.
That fact is car using now is eventual facility for people mobility.
It makes easer getting to the job, school, markets and etc.
Unfortunately, when cars become many in the cities it occurs many
problems, such as traffic jams, many road accidents, air pollution.
Nevertheless, there are few ways to reduce the amount of traffic
without restricting peoples freedom.
First of all, cities governments should make social transport more
attractive and preferable for citizens than using a car. Whereas
people buy cars with goal to be more independent of buses, trams or
subways, due their low quality comport and low speed, meanwhile you
can sit in your car any time and get target place in comport and very
fast. Therefore social transport needs to be improved.
Second way to reduce traffic is bicycle. Many people all around the
world uses that facility to travel for instance from home to work, to
market and so on. Such approach of moving is very useful for health,
keep money for transport and mainly reduce traffic.
Another way to reduce traffic is rising the taxes for air pollutions
of cars. Albeit such changes can be met aggressively by citizens and
human rights organization and on other hand it can be supported by
ecological movements. Moreover such approach leads to make air
cleaner, ecology better and perhaps enforce people to use social
transports or bicycles.
So, in conclusion, I think described ways of reducing traffic has many
benefits such as reducing air pollution, rising income for governments
of using social transport, do not restrict people in their movements
and improve health.


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In Round 8 of our Three-Minute Fiction contest, listeners were given this challenge: Begin a story with this sentence: "She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally decided to walk through the door." And, as always, the story must be 600 words or less. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET Sunday.
Three-Minute Fiction: The Deadline Approaches
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Engwall Florist, Greenhouse and Garden Centers
Engwalls is an established company with an enthusiastic, young spirit…interested in you the customer!
Our company's outlook is positive and we are continually challenged to meet the needs of our present and future customers! We have a fantastic team of people who bring skill, experience, and caring to serve you, our customer…the reason why we exist.
Our mission as a company is to enhance the quality of life for our customers and friends with products and services that will express beauty in their lives. We've been working on that mission for over 100 years. In fact, our beginning, goes back to 1868 when Grandpa Peter Hanson walked from St. Paul to homestead the land where Engwall's Greenhouse, Main Store and Garden Center is today. One of Peter Hanson's daughters married William Engwall and the Engwall tradition began with William and his wife when they took over the family farm and business in the late 1800's. The Engwall family operated the Hermantown location until 1970, when Clarence Engwall (grandson of Peter Hanson) sold the business to three friends: Bud Renning, Don Rosacker and Marv Saline. In 1974, Marv Saline's son , Rod, joined the business and became a partner in 1987. In 1991, the ownership changed to Marv and Rod Saline, carrying the business forward into the new century!
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