text: = Announcing Kubuntu 5.04 = http://www.kubuntu.org/hoary-release.php The Kubuntu team is proud to bring you our first release hot on the heels of Ubuntu's Hoary Hedgehog. Kubuntu brings KDE to the Ubuntu world, creating a GNU/Linux distribution from the solid base of Ubuntu and the world leading K Desktop Environment. Kubuntu comes with the latest KDE 3.4 and the promise of 18 months support. "With Ubuntu we had the opportunity to make the distribution that KDE deserves, in Kubuntu we have now done that" said developer Jonathan Riddell Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth said "KDE is a profoundly important part of the open source world - it's popular with both end users and developers and is one of the key pieces in the battle for the future of the desktop. I'm very excited to support this community effort to get KDE into Ubuntu." == About Kubuntu == Kubuntu is the result of several months effort to get KDE 3.4 into Ubuntu's main repository and create the first major derived Ubuntu distribution. It is not a fork of Ubuntu but an official project of it, sharing the same package archive and infrastructure. It is possible to convert an Ubuntu system to Kubuntu or vice versa. Highlights of KDE 3.4 include the groupware manager Kontact 1.1, the multi-protocol instant messenger Kopete and the excellent KPDF reader. As well as official KDE applications Kubuntu also features the finest pick of leading Free Software desktop programmes. KDE's default settings have been tweaked to Ubuntu standards while remaining true to KDE. Changes include sudo support, an uncluttered desktop and a tidied K-Menu for applications. Kubuntu developers come from the KDE and Debian communities and improvements are sent back to the original projects. Kubuntu would like to thank the KDE developers and Debian KDE packagers for their excellent work. Features of Kubuntu 5.04: * KDE 3.4 * HAL support for removable devices * Ubuntu-powered out of the box hardware configuration * OpenOffice.org office suite * Gwenview image viewer * amaroK music player * K3b CD and DVD burner * Konversation IRC chat * Kaffeine video player * Also available as a live CD == How to get Kubuntu == Kubuntu comes in Live CD or Install CD versions available for x86, PowerPC and AMD64 platforms. It can be downloaded from: http://kubuntu.org/download.php Please download by Bittorrent if possible. Users with existing Kubuntu installations can upgrade to the final hoary with dist-upgrade. Existing Ubuntu users can install Kubuntu with the kubuntu-desktop package. == Feedback and Helping == We welcome feedback and help with making the next version of Kubuntu. Comments can be left on this wiki page https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuHoaryReleaseComments Any known problems can be found at https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/KubuntuHoaryReleaseKnownProblems Please report any problems through Bugzilla. http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/ If you have a question try asking on the #kubuntu IRC channel on freenode or the mailing list http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users Finally if you want to help improve Kubuntu please come and join us. https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HelpingKubuntu == Contact == For more information about Kubuntu visit our website: http://www.kubuntu.org Press contacts: Chris Halls <chris.halls at credativ.co.uk> (England), Andreas Mueller <amu at ubuntu.com> (Germany), Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> +44 (0)7941 938912 (Scotland)


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Strategic Plan
The legal market and practice of law have changed dramatically over the last five years. Fewer traditional jobs are available to new law school graduates. However, professional jobs in non-traditional legal fields are increasing. Some of these fields like electronic discovery, on-line legal services, and legal process outsourcing did not exist just a few years ago. At the same time technology has greatly changed the way attorneys conduct their practices, interact with clients, and provide legal services. These changes present substantial and formidable challenges to all law schools. Those that fail to adapt to these challenges will find it difficult to attract quality students and graduate lawyers who can succeed in the transformed 21st century legal marketplace.
In early 2013, Dean Camille Nelson created a strategic planning committee to assess the challenges, consider the Law School's strengths, and chart a course for the future. Over the spring semester and into the summer, the committee—composed of faculty, administrators, trustees, and a student—met regularly to discuss and debate the issues, while considering relevant data. Throughout the process the committee sought feedback from faculty, administrators, and staff, both through surveys and direct contact, and used this feedback to inform their deliberations.
The result is this Strategic Plan. As we undergo our transformation, Suffolk University Law School is poised to be an innovative leader in legal education. By leveraging the strengths of the Law School—its talented and diverse student body, exceptional faculty, committed alumni, dedicated administration, and Boston location— we will provide increased support to our students from all backgrounds, find innovative ways to prepare them to practice, and help them transition to become successful professionals. We will continue to promote the important scholarly work of the faculty while pioneering new ways for law students to acquire the knowledge and skills for success. And we will ensure that our students will be prepared to serve and lead in an increasingly diverse profession and society.


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The Eurail Benelux – Germany – Czech Republic Pass is the most comprehensive pass to visit Germany and Czech Republic as well as the three countries in the Benelux region. Indeed, with this rail pass, you can visit Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, countries which are commonly known as Benelux. Visit iconic cities like Prague, Berlin, Zurich, Amsterdam, Luxembourg and Brussels.
The Eurail Select Pass allows you unlimited travel with the freedom to hit the tracks whenever and wherever you want! You can take as many trains as you like and there is no limit on the distance you can travel within a travel day. All of this at a fixed price.
Hop on and off trains at any time according to your desires and encounters. Just show up at the nearest train station and get ready to go and explore a new destination. (See 'Things to know' for more information about seat reservations).
The Eurail Benelux – Germany – Czech Republic Pass is packed with bonuses to make your trip even more enjoyable. Hotel discounts, reduced museum fares and more are included in your pass.
It also comes with a Eurail travel pack (Travel map and user guide).
Whether you are the adventurous traveller or the avid planner the Eurail Select Pass is your pass to freedom and the key to an unforgettable trip!


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I have a huge heart for animals, which is why Randy Grimm is so important to me. He's dedicated his life to helping the stray animals in the St. Louis area. His shelter doesn't just accept the animals brought to their door - they go out into the city and bring these starving, injured, sick, forgotten animals in. They rehabilitate them - give them love and care and time - and then they find loving homes for them.
I've chosen Randy Grimm because he isn't someone who just talks about what he believes in, he lives it. He makes a difference in the world. He is the kind of person I want to be. Thank you for all you do, Randy!
Here's information on Watching Willow Watts:
For Willow Watts, life has settled into a predictably dull routine: days behind the counter at her father's antique shop and nights watching TV, as the pension-aged residents of Britain's Ugliest Village bed down for yet another early night. But everything changes when a YouTube video of Willow's epically embarrassing Marilyn Monroe impersonation gets millions of hits after a viewer spots Marilyn's ghostly image in a frame.
Instantly, Willow's town is overrun with fans flocking to see the 'new Marilyn'. Egged on by the villagers -- whose shops and businesses are cashing in -- Willow embraces her new identity, dying her hair platinum and ramming herself full of cakes to achieve Marilyn's legendary curves.
But when a former flame returns seeking the old Willow, Willow must decide: can she risk her stardom and her village's newfound fortune on love, or is being Marilyn her ticket to happiness?
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If you could be anyone in the world, who would it be?
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go hug my dog. :)


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If I edit an image file using some application like Gimp, Photoshop or MSPaint, while saving I will be asked to select the required file-format. There are different formats available, the common ones are jpg, png and bmp. Other less common options are gif and tiff.
So which option should I select? What are the merits and demerits of using a particular file format?


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Links/Roger Corman
-- Perfect timing given our recent discussions here: Adrian has an article on surrealism and cinema in The Australian this week.
-- In case you didn't get a chance to see it, the surrealism and cinema post led to an invigorating back-and-forth of ideas in the comments.
-- Bertrand Tavernier is keeping a DVD blog (en francais).
-- Two posts from David Bordwell: "Watching Movies Very, Very Slowly" and "Summer Camp for Cinephiles".
-- Michael Guillen transcribes for us an onstage interview with John Waters.
-- Craig Keller on Godard's A Few Remarks on the Direction and Production of the Film 'Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie)'.
-- Michael Sicinski on Frederick Wiseman's State Legislature.
-- Best wishes to Filmbrain and Aaron Hillis, who are now at the helm of a DVD distribution company, Benten Films.
-- Brian Darr interviews Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky.
-- Steven Shaviro on Guy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain!.
-- I wish I had Sandrine Marques's visual memory—check out these pairs of images: Van Sant/Raphael; Von Sternberg/Sofia Coppola; and De Sica/Fellini.
-- Thom Ryan has an erudite post on several 1938 films.
-- Peter Schjeldahl on Gustave Courbet in the New Yorker.
-- James Wolcott: "Who knew that an essay by David Denby could induce more than groggy nods from readers fortunate enough to make it across the finish line?"
I saw and liked Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat (1974) and I'm tempted to do a little immersion in the films of Roger Corman. I'm wondering if you had any recommendations of films he either produced or directed? Thank you.
A few Corman links: a profile-essay by Wheeler Winston Dixon at Senses of Cinema; two interviews with Corman at Bright Lights (one and two); and the "Corman at 80" blog-a-thon hosted by Tim Lucas.
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I just bought NBA LIVE 10 from EBAY, but the game is not automatic updated, i clicked Download Dynamic DNA but it doesn't download anything, it just printed 3 players of Atlanta.
How do i update the game?
Thank you.
BTW, i know that the game is not up to date because the overall of Kevin Durant is 85!!.


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Long time no see!
I've been super busy for the few months, plus with the added bonus of Hurricane Sandy destroying New Jersey... It's been rough. I lost my car to flooding and I work at a newspaper, so it's been really hectic. It's finally starting to slowly normalize, and for that I am grateful.
I've been getting the sweetest emails about this blog, and I have not forgotten it!
Materials needed: Elastics & a pair of scissors
Before I start, there are also a ton of great tutorials that can be found online.
These hair ties are ridiculously easy to make and pretty darn cheap, especially since they go for $12 for five at Anthro, and $9.50 for three at Aerie. Since I live close to NYC, I just popped on over to M&J, not knowing what I would find, just that I was looking for elastic trim.
I did not expect such a huge selection. In the garment district, I am a little kid in the candy store.
My wardrobe mostly consists of dark colors so I was drawn to their black section. More than likely I will keep the tie on my wrist since I usually have my hair down, so I wanted something subtle.
I picked the different trims based on aesthetics and... stretchiness. I was sitting on the floor pulling on the ends, testing the different strengths. There's no point if there is no give, right?
I ended up purchasing seven different patterns. Most of the trims were $1.98 per yard, averaging about 4-5 hair ties a yard. The velvet one was the most expensive.
Wrap the elastic around your wrist, leaving about an inch, inch and a half on either side. I like to wear my ties a little snug, and with use they send to stretch a bit.
Snip the ends at a diagonal. It seems less likely to fray this way, don't know why.
Super easy, make a knot and pull, pull, pull~
A quick tip, this velvet one had to be cut longer than the others:
1. It is thicker material
2. It is wider material
A couple tests of stretchiness:
A quick bracelet:
My attempt to photograph the tie in my hair. I recently dyed my hair burgundy.
I love that these don't leave marks on my wrists.
Thank you for reading!


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For the Turkey Osso Bucco: Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Pat the turkey with paper towels to dry and ensure even browning. Season the turkey with salt and pepper. Dredge the turkey in the flour to coat.
In a heavy roasting pan large enough to fit the turkey in a single layer, heat the oil over medium heat. Add the turkey and cook until brown on both sides, about 6 minutes per side. Transfer the turkey to a plate and reserve.
In the same pan, add the onion, carrot, and celery. Season vegetables with salt. Cook until the vegetables are tender, about 6 minutes. Stir in the tomato paste and cook for 1 minute. Stir in the wine and simmer until the liquid is reduced by half, about 3 minutes. Return the turkey to the pan. Add enough chicken broth to come 2/3 up the sides of the turkey. Add the herb sprigs, bay leaf, and cloves to the broth mixture. Bring the liquid to a boil over medium-high heat. Remove the pan from the heat. Cover the pan tightly with foil and transfer to the oven. Braise until the turkey is fork-tender, turning the turkey after 1 hour.
Meanwhile, for the Gremolata: Combine the chopped parsley, lemon zest, garlic, minced rosemary, and a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper in a bowl. Cover and reserve until serving the turkey.
To serve, transfer the turkey to shallow serving bowls. Season the sauce to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle the sauce over the meat. Sprinkle each piece of turkey with a large pinch of Gremolata. Serve immediately.


text: Daniel Temkin's series Glitchometry straddles sound and imagery as well as data and art. The images in Glitchometry begin as a simple image of a square or circle such as the image below. The simple image is then imported into an audio editor. Various sound effects are applied to each of the images color channels. The file once again becomes an image, now visually altered by sonic means. Glitchometry underscores the often overlooked underlying structure of our multi-sensory online world: pure information.


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Here's one of the strongest feature film debuts in a long time, in any genre. Currently on demand and making its way into a few brave theaters, "The Babadook" comes from Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent, whose short film "Monster," made nearly a decade ago, inspired her full-length treatment of the same story.
That story deals in familiar tropes having to do with a troubled young boy, his widowed mother and a not-so-imaginary creature, sprung from a malevolent pop-up storybook. But Kent has taste, an eye and a knack for brisk, accelerated pacing. In the case of "The Babadook," familiarity breeds an eerily gratifying contentment.


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Are your children growing fast? Mine are! It often seems that the garments I bought yesterday are too small today. Especially trousers. I want to spend more time with my children and less shopping for new garments. And I want my kids to be comfortable in clothing that allows them to move. They can wear tight jeans in their teens!
--Bettina Lindblom, designer
ManyMonths™ trousers grow with your child. Start by folding the waist down and the cuffs up, in addition to adjusting the waist with button-hole elastic. The bottom area has a generous cut to accommodate cloth nappies and to be comfortable while babywearing.
Snap-on booties are available as an option, this avoids the cold ankles syndrome that many parents discover when their child is carried in slings!
The booties are made of two fabric layers to keep every small toe warm. All snaps are hand-sewn. Please open them gently, in a similar way as you would buttons. The snaps can be cut off when they are not needed any more.
The booties are large enough to be used the whole first year and have a practical non-slip suede sole. Choose from chocolate stripe, green stripe, persimmon/natural or retro wheel print. PLUS-size also available. Made of 100% SKAL certified organic cotton. Remember to reshape while damp. Click here for our size chart
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Dear ol' Graaff-Reinet
Why "dear ol'"? Because it's one of South Africa's oldest towns, after Cape Town, Stellenbosch and Swellendam. I didn't know … Continue reading Dear ol' Graaff-Reinet
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Let the pictures show how beautiful Castello di Amorosa is. The castle and winery is located in Napa Valley, off St. Helena Highway. Continue reading Napa Valley, CA
Not far from Pasadena is Glendale. The city is 13km away from both downtown Los Angeles and Pasadena. Continue reading Great Delight in Glendale
I like Hong Kong. Even better is the new Hong Kong. The airport is situated in Lantau Island and there is enough to see there. I didn't feel lost upon exiting the airport but that is mainly because there is a friendly face at the information desk who offer advice on transportation options with clear explanation on the choice. We felt quite comfortable taking the bus. Continue reading Hong Kong for kids (and parents)
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patschwieterman wrote (re stroking one's creativity):
David Tuggy wrote: ¶ An idiom blend is an eggcorn if the result of the blending (a) involves a reanalysis, substituting plausible new imagery for the imagery of the original (the acorn), (b) sounds/looks enough like the acorn that the difference is not highly noticeable (in either the spoken or the written mode) and© is standard for at least some speaker(s).
The problem for me is that this seems to work best in precisely those situations where one doesn't need to invoke a blend to explain a reshaping. Could this be a blend? Yes, I think so. Could it have arisen if "stroke your ego" didn't exist in the language but everything else did? Yes, absolutely. And nothing here proves to me that the speaker was thinking of "stroke one's ego" on any level.
And David, this sentence has me baffled: ¶ Idiom blending has to do with how one of these beautiful structures might arise; eggcornicity has to do with the result. ¶ Uh, uh….
Sorry to be baffling—that usually means I either don't really understand what I'm talking about as well as I think I do, or I haven't explained even what I understand well, or both. Let me try to say it in a different way.
Blending is a process by which new linguistic structures (words, phrases, what have you) are produced. It involves a language user combining aspects of two different structures to produce one new one. The nominalized form of the term, "a blend", refers either to that process or to the single structure that results.
An eggcorn is not a process (though we can probably verbalize the word and denote whatever process produced the eggcorn as "eggcorning"). It is a linguistic structure or configuration that can be brought about by any of several processes or a combination of them. Blending may produce it; metathesis (e.g. spoonerism) may occasionally produce it; the kind of mishearing that produces mondegreens may lay an eggcorn, or the attempt to reproduce something not wholly familiar that produces malapropisms.
By whatever process it arises, an eggcorn is a case where a standard linguistic structure (an acorn) is reanalyzed (has different imagery associated to it) in a way that permits it to be used easily in many or most of its normal contexts without strain (the overall meaning, and the sound/written form, remain quite similar), and this reanalyzed structure is standard for some who do not know that the acorn is standard.
If such a structure arises from blending, it will be a blend and an eggcorn. (E.g.: stroking one's creativity.) If it arises from mishearing, it will be a mondegreen and an eggcorn. (E.g. it takes two to tangle.) If it arises from the right kind of metathesis it will be a spoonerism and an eggcorn (e.g. flutterby); if it arises from unfamiliarity with the acorn it will be a malapropism and an eggcorn (most examples —the definition almost demands it).
Does that make sense?
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2008-10-08 10:38:07)
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David, I can't begin to answer you on a technical level. :-) I think that the way I responded to the stroke/stoke submission was simply responding in the manner to which I had been responded or seen others responding here on the forum. I have seen any number submissions responded to with, in essence, "Well, that's not really an eggcorn, it's an idiom blend." Or, "That's not an eggcorn, it's a malaprop." When I first joined the site, the definition of eggcorn seemed to be narrower than what you are proposing. The idea seemed to be filtering out most submissions (in a kindly way, of course) so that the ones that made it through the gauntlet, through the crucible of critical discussion, had proved their mettle. Now it almost seems the tide has turned and we are bent on finding the eggcornicity of most submissions: "It's a malaprop and an eggcorn!"
I am not meaning to be critical. I am just pointing out what seems to be a shift in the approach that some of us on the forum are taking, and explaining why I told our flutterby poster that it was a spoonerism and our stroke/stoke submitter that that was (I thought) an idiom blend.
Feeling quite combobulated.
It seems that I can (and have, to the apparent consternation of some regular posters) agree with both Jon and David's suggestions.
One one hand, filtering out malaprops, spoonerisms, etc. that don't feature new semantic imagery or are not thought of as standard by some users both strengthens the concept of the eggcorn and adds to our appreciation or understanding of those eggcorns that, as Jon says, prove their mettle.
On the other hand, many eggcorns are also blends or classical malaprops or what have you. To me, the definition of "eggcorn" hinges on the creation of new, comprehensible semantic understanding, as well as use of the eggcorn in place of the original acorn. If that is the case, then the process by which the eggcorn is perpetrated or created is not essential.
While I'm at it, let me express a disagreement with Mark Liberman.
It's not a folk etymology, because this is the usage of one person rather than an entire speech community.
It's not a malapropism, because "egg corn" and "acorn" are really homonyms (at least in casual pronunciation), while pairs like "allegory" for "alligator," "oracular" for "vernacular" and "fortuitous" for "fortunate" are merely similar in sound (and may also share some aspects of spelling and morphemic content).
It's not a mondegreen because the mis-construal is not part of a song or poem or similar performance.
Liberman's "it", of course, is what would soon come to be called "an eggcorn".
David has addressed the relationship to malapropism and mondegreen. I think, in a similar way, we need not exclude folk etymology from eggcornicity. In fact, the Database includes a "nearly mainstream" tag. The difference between folk etymology and eggcorn is, like the other differences David describes, one of the analyst's focus, rather than any essential characteristic of the form. That is, if we focus on the "ethno-etymology"—where people think a form came from—we may regard a form as a folk etymology. If, instead, we regard the relationship between form and meaning, we might call the same form an eggcorn.
(Lord, but I do go on.)
You may disagree with Liberman, but I'm not sure he (or anyone on this forum, for that matter) would disagree with you. Almost exactly a yearafter he wrote that post that launched a thousand posts, he also wrote:
The term "eggcorn", meaning a nonce or sporadic folk etymology, was coined by Geoff Pullum almost exactly one year ago—September 30, 2004.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/language … 01493.html
Here he calls eggcorns fe's rather than calling fe's eggcorns, but I think it's pretty clear that he too sees them as essentially one thing differentiated largely by the analyst's focus. I do find his distinction useful however—to most people, what MYL calls fe's and what he calls eggcorns seem like very different things.
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The idea for Point Blank came from Islanders President Chris Dey about a month or so after I left the organization last May 5. The team and the sport was in need of more coverage. Fans hungered for non-stop reporting on the Islanders and Dey wanted to deliver it to them. I was available! It was Dey who understood that it would only work if the blog was run independently of the team. For the record, Dey has stood by his end of the bargain, and I applaud him and am thankful to him for it.
The New York Islanders are the primary sponsor of Point Blank. Newsday refers to PB as the "team-sponsored blog" - as opposed to the Rangers-sponsored newspaper - and I've never hid from that.
Some facts: the Islanders have never asked me to write a story or not write a story. The first time Islanders management sees a post is the same as you: when it's published on the site. I've never been asked to take down a reader Comment about members of the organization, and there have been plenty of vicious ones.
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My Background: Other than knowing I worked for the team for a while, understandably most of you don't know my background and how it relates to the blog. So here's a bit about my career in the game.
sleep 5In my senior year in college, I worked full-time for the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1986-87 season, the year they went to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. Along the way, the Flyers defeated the Rangers, Islanders (right after the Easter Epic) and Montreal before Wayne Gretzky took over in the final period of the deciding game in the Final. I did not get a Cup ring, but I made countless friends and contacts with the Flyers and around the league, most of them still in the business.
Six months later, I was hired by the Islanders to edit a monthly newspaper, Islander News. Among those on my first Islanders team: Trottier, Bossy, Denis Potvin, LaFontaine, Brent Sutter, Morrow, Flatley, Billy Smith and Kelly Hrudey. Along the way, I managed the team's publications, sold group tickets and even served as radio color commentator for a year and a half after Bob Nystrom left the job (yup, it was a major step down in the booth, but I tried). I went into PR fulltime in the mid-90s, was named VP in 1999 and stayed in that position for 9 years.
sleep 5So many of the players and coaches on those early Islanders teams are spread out around the league as scouts, coaches and broadcasters and remain good friends and invaluable contacts. On the 1992-93 team alone, former players are now near the top of directories with NHL teams and the Players Association. My favorite time was working for Al Arbour and the '92-93 team, the second was the mini-revival in 2001-02 under Peter Laviolette and watching the Coliseum come alive again.
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The really good news is that the stats in April barely dropped off. Lottery day was a good one, but it was so gratifying to see all the new readers we picked up in March seem to be sticking around.
When you consider the Islanders did not play an important game for the purposes of playoff contention since the holidays, the numbers have been remarkable. The credit goes to you for your dedication to this team and for spreading the word about the blog.
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If many of you believe I'm a nut about moderating the Comments space, I take the hit but also have no regrets. We have all seen how the blogs of many talented writers have been almost destroyed by the nonsense that goes on in the Comments. I refuse to let that happen. For everyone I've ticked off, I still believe the Comment Guidelines are a vital reason why the site tends to get at least 100 legitimate, passionate, insightful Comments (and often a lot more) after each story. I want as many readers as possible to feel like they can share their opinions.
On criticism of my work, I have no problem when a reader disagrees with me, tears me apart or even plays the ever-popular shill card. (The son of a friend of mine posted from his college dorm a while ago that I was still Garth's boy). I love that stuff.
To be candid, the only ones I find personally annoying are the ones that say something like, "I don't care about this subject" or "Don't you have anything better to write about"? One of my favorites was when I broke the news the Islanders had signed third round pick Mark Katic and a regular reader of an Islanders blog said he didn't care and it was just "fodder."
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sleep 5The Year in Review: After working for the team for so long, I was more comfortable transitioning to the media side than I expected. It probably helped that there was a new head coach and some key players (including Doug Weight) that I had never worked with.
Scott Gordon and I didn't have much to do with each other for about two months mid-season. He didn't like some stuff I wrote. I didn't like the way he handled it, so I passed on many of his media scrums because he wasn't saying much. In the final 4-6 weeks of the season, the working relationship improved. I stubbornly believe Scott has a few things he needs to work on. He stubbornly thinks I'm wrong and everything is okay. Scott works his tail off, is extremely bright and is a very talented coach. Time will tell how it works out.
Garth Snow was irritated with me for a few weeks, primarily because I wrote my 8-year old twins did a better job of staying on the same page as the Islanders were on the Rick DiPietro injury stuff. The Islanders stood by their version of the story. Over time, we moved on. As I wrote when I was in timeout, I do not need complete access to write the blog. When you shut out the media, it usually hurts the team more - especially when that team does not boast bountiful coverage. Felt the same way when I was the PR director.
I especially want to mention youngsters Josh Bailey and Kyle Okposo for their professionalism during a difficult season. Think about Bailey. He knew about the immediate fan and press reaction when the team went from 5 to 7 to 9 and drafted him. I wrote that he should go to juniors, and then to the World Junior Championships. Yet through it all, he answered the questions and handled himself like a 15-year pro. My experience tells me that's a good sign.
All of the veterans were very good with the press, most notably for me Weight, Brendan Witt and Richard Park. The team's PR staff - Seth Sylvan, Corey Witt and young Josh Bernstein - are good men and made me feel comfortable in my new gig. I thank them for that.
Other than a few hours one Sunday early on when we battled over the "team-sponsored" thing, Greg Logan and I got along really well. He is a friend, and I have learned a lot from him. The days when Dan Martin of the Post and Peter Botte of the Daily News attend practice are always good days.
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In the world outside the Islanders, thank you to Don La Greca for guiding this novice on ESPN Radio. Thank you to Hofstra University for the opportunity to see if I can teach. Thank you to Stan Bratskeir for his PR guru-ness.
Thank you to Kevin Schultz of Barry Melrose Rocks for getting behind the Gran Torino when I had to step away. Thank you to B.D. Gallof for his help in the early days and best of luck with his new venture. Whatever happened in between, I wish him well in doing his best to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Future: As of this date, there's a commitment to write this blog until the NHL Draft in late June. After that, I do not have any guarantees. It is my sincere wish to run Point Blank for at least another year and hopefully a lot more beyond that. I hope to know in the next few weeks if I'll be around past June. For now, please click the heck out of any sponsor ads you may see.
One thing is certain: the only way I will ever do this blog is if I'm provided the opportunity to cover the Islanders 24/7/365. From time to time readers suggest that if I move into another full-time career that I pop in and write once or twice a week. This franchise has been my life's work and a bit of an obsession now for 21 years. When I worked for the Islanders, I thought about my responsibilities every hour for two decades. It's impossible for me to picture doing this blog half-way. In fact, I'm sure I will never do it that way.
One more time, thank you to all of the Point Blank readers for checking out the site, sharing your insight, passing along your knowledge and keeping me in line. Here's hoping we can keep this going for a long time.
Since I went long, the 100-word limit is waived for this Comments section - as long as you stay on topic!
I need to take a personal day, maybe two, so I will miss the U.S.-Russia game on Friday morning. Unless there is any breaking Islanders news, I'll be off the laptop. I'm sure Greg and the Times blog, among other sites, will be on the Worlds.
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Made2Manage Systems, a Tier III ERP vendor, is acquiring Encompix, an even smaller player focused on engineer-to-order manufacturers. The deal shows once again how difficult it is for small enterprise system vendors to remain independent these days.
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There are only a few ERP systems that do this well. Baan (now owned by SSA and renamed ERP LN) is one. Glovia is another. Oracle can do it, but its functionality in this area is relatively new and evolving. Encompix is another, and one of the smallest. As I understand it, it originated in the early 1990s as a joint venture of several ETO manufacturers in the Midwest that were unhappy with the lack of attention being given to their requirements.
Made2Manage has been turning out to be an aggregator of small niche vendors over the past two years. What all of its acquisitions have in common is that they serve very narrow industry segments. The acquisitions include DTR Software (ERP for plastics manufacturers), ADS (a former M2M reseller and developer of M2M extensions), Cimnet (ERP for PCB manufacturers), and AXIS (ERP for manufacturers of "rolled products," such as cable and wire).
I like the narrow industry focus of M2M's strategy, but I'm not sure how easily it will make money doing it. Some of these acquisitions are on entirely different technology platforms: M2M's original system is Microsoft .NET-based, while Encompix and AXIS are Progress-based. This limits the economies of scale that can be achieved in product development. Operating each of these products as separate business units also limits sharing of administration, management, and sales resources.
Update, Apr. 13: For an extended discussion and clarification on the strategy of M2M, see my post on April 13, "Making money in software with a niche-industry strategy."
A press release on the Encompix deal is on the M2M website. Managing Automation has an article discussing M2M's previous acquisition of AXIS, with more details on who is putting the money behind M2M's acquisition program.by Frank Scavo, 3/31/2006 06:15:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Microsoft pushes out the goal line for business apps convergence
Microsoft Dynamics (formerly Microsoft Business Solutions, or MBS) is holding its annual Convergence conference this week in Dallas, and it is now shooting for a 2009 date to introduce the successor product to its five enterprise applications products.
Four of the existing Dynamics products--formerly known as Great Plains, Axapta, Navision, Solomon--came through acquisitions Microsoft made over the past five years. The fifth, Microsoft CRM, was built from scratch by Microsoft.
Microsoft's convergence plan, once known as "Project Green," has suffered a series of setbacks and redefinitions over the past two years. The most recent definition was that the converged product would be introduced in waves, the first wave being the introduction of "role-based user interfaces" to the existing products, which Microsoft is now introducing incrementally.
But the goal line for migration to a single code base is moving farther away. According to an article in Managing Automation,Specifically, [MBS] officials said this week, they no longer feel it is feasible to build a converged product line on top of a single, common data model.Five "differents"--sounds like different products to me, which is what Microsoft has today--not a converged product.
It may be necessary, according to Mike Ehrenberg, architect for Microsoft's MBS products, for the software giant to use different data models and different tools for different implementations of the converged enterprise application product to suit customers at different-sized companies with different levels of experience.
The article continues.Also, Ehrenberg said, prior to the release of a converged enterprise application product, Microsoft has decided not to spend time and resources on tightly integrating its Microsoft CRM product with the current Dynamics AX (Axapta) and Dynamics NV (Navision) ERP suites. Those products, Ehrenberg noted during a general session, already have built-in CRM functionality. Forcing current customers to switch, he said, "would be seen as a take-away."One associate of mine, commenting in an email regarding Microsoft's announcement, had this to say:
Microsoft is still determined to get to a single, converged ERP product operating on a converged code base. "But," Ehrenberg said, "we have a significant amount of work to do."
To be fair, I think my associate's assessment is a bit harsh. The four products that Microsoft acquired were good systems in the past, and they continue to be good choices backed by the deep pockets of Microsoft. They aren't going away, in contrast to some other small vendors whose viability is questionable.
- Microsoft finally realized and admitted they have a problem with not understanding how enterprise applications (and data models) are designed, purchased and used. It is much different then shrink wrapped apps.
- Microsoft has little experience in major upgrades to enterprise apps, so they have no migration experience. Anyone buying Dynamics now will be faced with a traumatic and complete new implementation ahead, in about 3-5 years.
- Microsoft is not focusing on improving the functionality of the current product line. They are just doing the minimum to look like they care.
- To shift focus from the above three points, Microsoft is aiming the marketing and product plan at "productivity" instead of "functionality," pushing "mashed up" applications that have lots of stuff (email, video, etc.) integrated. Nice marketing plan for the Tier 1's but don't think it will sell to the majority of the SMB's. I'm waiting to see the first RFP that requests a RSS feed into accounting or manufacturing.
Nevertheless, organizations that are considering these systems should be buying them based on the functionality that they offer today and not pinning hopes on some set of features or functions planned for the future. As seen this week in Dallas, the goal line keeps moving out farther and farther.
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Microsoft: selling enterprise software is a "humbling experience"by Frank Scavo, 3/30/2006 01:52:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Friday, March 24, 2006
Software vendor growth not in software
The ever-provocative Josh Greenbaum takes a cynical view of enterprise software vendors' push towards software on-demand (software-as-a-service) and service-oriented architectures (SOA).
Josh points to a Merrill-Lynch study that puts the market for enterprise applications at only $21-23 billion a year, while the market for consulting and services is "a whopping $550 billion." He argues that with IT spending growing weakly, enterprise software vendors are looking to expand beyond software. This, he explains, is what's really behind vendors' interest in software-as-a-service and SOA.
In an article in Managing Automation, he writes,With overall growth shrinking, applications companies like SAP and Oracle have to fund their double-digit growth plans by grabbing IT dollars from the consultants. From the applications vendors' perspective, companies are wasting a tremendous amount of IT budget on custom integration and applications development services, money that could be more effectively spent on packaged applications that deliver out-of-the-box innovation without requiring a hefty service fee.Our research at Computer Economics confirms the slow growth in IT spending. We find that the median IT budget in the U.S. and Canada has only risen at a 1.5% average annual percentage rate over the past three years. Furthermore, corporate revenues are rising faster than IT spending, meaning that on a percentage-of-revenue basis, IT budgets are actually shrinking, slightly, at least over the past three years (although the 10 year trend is up).
The services companies are taking one of two possible tacks. Some are postulating that the perpetual license model for applications software, and the requirement to staff an IT department with systems and applications administrators, is vulnerable to a potentially more cost-effective model such as on-demand and software as a service. Others -- IBM Global Services in particular -- are saying that innovation can no longer come from a packaged software solution, and that custom consulting is the way to go.
Furthermore, application software currently consumes less than 10% of the typical IT budget, according to our 2005/2006 IT Spending Study. Therefore, as Josh points out, if software vendors want to grow, they either have to buy other vendors or do something besides sell software.
To be sure, software-as-a-service and SOA are hot topics--among software vendors. But preliminary results from our next year's survey, currently in progress, show that nearly half of IT organizations report "no activity" in either of these hot topics--they're not even researching them.
Software-as-a-service and SOA may still be the path to growth for software vendors. But the slow uptake of these technologies by end-user organizations means that significant growth is still at least several years away.by Frank Scavo, 3/24/2006 07:13:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Software industry increases bounty for license non-compliance tips
Get ready for more calls from the software police. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is increasing its maximum finders-fee for software piracy leads to $200,000.
The BSA is a software industry association (i.e. a special interest group) whose mission is to promote the business of commercial software vendors. One key objective is to cut down on software piracy, which it accomplishes by following up on tips about companies that are running non-licensed commercial software. According to its website, BSA members include Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, Borland, Internet Security Systems, Microsoft, McAfee, SolidWorks, Sybase, Symantec, and VERITAS Software.
In an interview with Computerworld, attorney Robert Scott said that BSA is upping the finders-fee in order to drive more fines against software users, which it keeps for itself.I think the basic problem is that in order to generate revenue for its own operations, BSA is driving more enforcement money.... BSA keeps all of the money it generates from enforcement. None of the money goes back to the members.Few would disagree that software piracy is wrong. But according to Scott, the increased bounty money will probably result in a greater number of false reports to BSA.Basic economics suggest that when you put these types of incentives in place, a rise in legitimate and illegitimate leads will increase. For the salaries that these IT folks make, $200,000 is a lot of money.Scott predicts that the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the other major software special-interest group, will probably follow BSA's lead and increase its own finders-fee.
That's why I think there's a huge potential for abuse. My clients tell me that the very people they thought were handling compliance for them were the same people they're sure turned them in.
So, how should IT organizations respond to the increased risk of being caught in a BSA enforcement action? A periodic desktop audit program for software license compliance is now more important than ever.
Unfortunately, according to our research at Computer Economics, 67% of companies do not conduct such periodic software audits. Many companies, therefore, are probably over-buying software licenses to ensure that they are compliant.
The business case for a comprehensive software asset-management program just got better.by Frank Scavo, 3/08/2006 12:38:00 PM | permalink | e-mail this!
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
SAP's Apotheker trying to out-Ellison Ellison
What is it about software executives that encourages verbal abuse of competitors? Oracle's CEO, Larry Ellison, has always been known for his outspokedness. Not far behind are Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff, and former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway. Scott McNealy at Sun is also be a contender. The list goes on.
Lately SAP's COO, Leo Apotheker has entered the ring. At the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit, he was asked whether SAP might try to acquire Salesforce.com.
According to Line56,Apotheker specifically denied any rumor that SAP might acquire Salesforce.com. "If the question is are we going to buy someone that begins with 'S' and has a big mouth...the answer is no," was his comment.Apotheker also dismissed Oracle's propects for overtaking SAP in the enterprise software market.
It wasn't clear whether, in referring to Salesforce.com's "big mouth," Apotheker was referring to the CRM company's ongoing "No Software" marketing push or, more personally, to outspoken CEO Marc Benioff, who has never been shy about criticizing the licensed model that is SAP's bread and butter.When asked to weigh the competitive prospects against Oracle, Apotheker said that "I believe China has more potent competitive potential than Oracle." Despite the admitted fact that there is currently no e-business software company of truly global scope to come from China, Apotheker gave that country more of a chance to incubate and field such a company ("in five years") than he did to Oracle.Read more at Line56.
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Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Biometric ID systems face hurdles
Ziff-Davis has a long article on the difficulties that biometric identification systems are having, especially in the retail industry. The article starts with a particularly interesting anecodote on the problems that Piggly Wiggly has encountered with getting grocery customers to sign up for its Pay-by-Touch fingerprint checkout system.Bolt [an IT executive at Piggy Wiggly] said she didn't appreciate how emotionally intense some of the opposition was until she visited a store and saw a 70-year-old woman literally throw a Bible at an employee trying to enroll people in the program.Apart from religious objections, biometrics systems are not the panacea that some technophiles believe they are.
"She told him that God was going to rain hellfire on him and that he was promoting the devil's work," Bolt said, adding that she took that to mean the customer was not interested in enrolling....
The 70-year-old customer was reacting to the concern of some in the religious community that RFID (radio-frequency identification) and biometric programs are similar to a Bible story known as "the mark of the beast." The story from Revelation speaks of limits to sales or purchases "save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Read the whole article to get a view of some of the more significant problems with biometrics.
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Buccaneer athletics to team up with Second Harvest Food Bank to collect donated food, and offer half-price tickets to game with the Mocs
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 16, 2008) - Off to its best start since the 2003-04 season, the ETSU men's basketball team welcomes an old rival Wednesday night, as the Buccaneers return home for the first time in nearly a month to take on former Southern Conference foe Chattanooga at 7 p.m. inside Memorial Center.
The Bucs (6-3) and Mocs (1-6) have met 73 times over the last 80-plus years, with Chattanooga leading the back-and-forth series 41-32. ETSU won the last meeting inside Memorial Center thanks to a last-second 3-pointer by guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) back in 2006, but the Mocs returned the favor by coming back from a 13-point halftime deficit to beat the Bucs 82-78 last season in Chattanooga.
Wednesday's game will be highlighted by a special ticket promotion, as the ETSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee are teaming up to collect donated food for the needy. Any fans wishing to participate can receive a general admission ticket for half price - just $5 - when they bring TWO cans of food to the gate. The specific items requested include: cereal, peanut butter, canned meats, canned soups, canned fruits & vegetables, boxed meals and macaroni & cheese.
Fans planning to participate in tomorrow night's discounted ticket should bring can goods to Memorial Center's west auxiliary gym closest to State of Franklin to purchase their half-price ticket. Fans will not be able to purchase the half-price ticket at the ticket booths in front of Memorial Center. ETSU is also encouraging all season ticket holders and fans to bring can goods to help Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee and to "Can Chatt!"
For more information on ETSU men's basketball, visit ETSUBucs.com and click on the men's basketball link.
The series against Chattanooga
In what is widely considered the longest and most heated rivalry in ETSU basketball history, the Bucs and Mocs have met 73 times with ETSU trailing the all-time series 32 to 41 ... The two teams shared the same conference from 1979 to 2005, spending several years battling in the Southern Conference ... The Bucs lost the last meeting a year ago, 82-78 ... That game is just one of many dramatic moments in this series, which includes wins by ETSU in the 1991, 1992, 2003 and 2004 Southern Conference Tournament championship game.
Last time against Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Nov. 28, 2007) - Committing 30 fouls, giving up 31 points at the free throw line and getting out-rebounded 56-33, the ETSU men's basketball team relinquished a 13-point halftime lead to former Southern Conference rival Chattanooga in an 80-76 non-conference loss at the McKenzie Arena ... The Buccaneers, who led 40-27 at the half, could not keep the momentum in the second 20 minutes, as Chattanooga scored 55 points after the break. Overlooked in the loss was a major accomplishment by junior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis), who reached the 1,000-point plateau with a basket at the 17:52 mark of the first half ... Indeed, the Bucs have been frustrated on the road, losing by four at Dayton in the season opener, by one in overtime at Marshall, and now by four at rival Chattanooga. In all three games, the Bucs have held double digit leads only to see their opponents rally back from the foul line and with offensive rebounds. This game was no different ... Leading by as many as 16 points with just over three minutes left in the first half, ETSU eventually led 40-27 at the break. However, Chattanooga came out in the second half and took advantage of ETSU's fouling issues, as the Mocs were in the bonus by the first media time out with 15:50 left in the game. Ultimately, UTC's defensive stops, foul shots and rebounding would get them to a tie game at 56-56 with just over nine minutes left in the game ... A Pigram 3-pointer made it 59-56 ETSU, but from there the Mocs regained the lead thanks to five straight points from guard Stephon McDowell and never gave up the advantage for the final eight minutes ... Chattanooga out-rebounded the Bucs 56-33 and the Mocs were 31-of-44 from the foul line compared to ETSU's 17-of-23 clip from the line. More disturbing for ETSU was the fact that the Mocs shot just 37 percent from the floor for the game ... The Bucs were led by 20 points from junior Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.), while Pigram had 19. Senior guard Travis Strong (Memphis) had 12 points, while senior forward Andrew Reed (Port Richey, Fla.). For Chattanooga, Nicchaeus Doaks had a double-double with 20 points and 10 rebounds, while McDowell pitched in 19 points, and Kevin Goffney had 15.
Last time out
BOONE, N.C. (Dec. 13, 2008) - ETSU's three-headed monster of Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.), Courtney Pigram (Memphis) and Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) left Appalachian State searching for a place to hide inside the Holmes Center ... Renewing a longtime rivalry that dates back to the 1920s, the Buccaneers continued their masterful play on the road, overcoming a two-point halftime deficit to simply dismantle the Mountaineers with a 54-point second half, winning 89-70 in non-conference action. The Bucs were led by Tiggs, who matched his career high with a game-high 31 points, while Pigram posted 29 and Smith pitched in 18. No player on the ASU side of the floor matched any of the Big Three in scoring on the night ... A big key for the Bucs in the game came at the foul line, where they went 23-of-26 for an 89 percent clip. Meanwhile, defensively ETSU forced 21 Appalachian State turnovers on 13 steals, and the Bucs held their own on the glass against a powerful inside game for the Mountaineers, being out-rebounded just 41-35 on the glass ... For the third game in a row, the Buccaneers got off to a strong start offensively, with Tiggs picking up three early dunks and a pair of 3-pointers from Pigram powering the Bucs to a 19-12 lead with 11:46 left in the first half. However, the Mountaineers answered by outscoring the Bucs 23-10 over the next nine minutes to build a 35-29 lead at the 2:39 mark, but ETSU managed to cut into the advantage thanks to four straight free throws from Smith and Tiggs in the final seconds, making the score 37-35 in favor of ASU at the break ... The second half began with a flurry for the Bucs, who shot out with a quick 7-0 run to lead by five at 42-37. ASU responded to tie the game at 42, but another 8-0 ETSU run powered by a Tiggs' bucket and foul shot, along with a 3-pointer from Pigram made it 50-42 and forced an ASU timeout with 16:09 left in the game. With the game standing at 58-52 with 10:47 left, the Bucs blitzed out with a 12-0 run that was eventually highlighted by a technical foul on ASU head coach Houston Fancher, which left the Bucs up 70-52 with 8:18 remaining ... ETSU kept the pressure on over the next four minutes, building the lead to 21 at 80-59 on a layup by Pigram with 4:24 left, and ultimately cruising to the win.
Best start for Bucs since 2003-04
ETSU's 6-3 start may be a good omen for the team ... The start is the best for ETSU since the 2003-04 season, when that team opened the year at 7-2 through nine games ... The Bucs' three non-conference road wins this season (Tn. Tech, Marshall and Appalachian), also fall just one win shy of the 2003-04 season in which the Bucs won four non-conference road games (Houston, UNC-A, Tn. Tech and Fresno State) ... That 2003-04 squad ultimately finished with 27 wins, a SoCon regular season and tournament title, and a trip to the NCAAs.
Bucs currently 22nd in national RPI ranking
According to RealtimeRPI.com, the Buccaneers are ranked 22nd in the country with the nation's 10th toughest strength of schedule (SOS)... Helping the Bucs numbers in the RPI are road wins at Tennessee Tech, Marshall, Mercer and Appalachian State ... And with Mercer's wins over SEC foes Auburn and Alabma, and a near upset over Georgia Tech, ETSU's 20-point win on the Bears' home floor helped boost the Bucs ranking ... In addition, Temple -- which played ETSU earlier this season -- enjoyed a blowout win over No. 8 Tennessee last weekend, also boosting the Bucs' numbers.
Tiggs currently ranked among nation's best scorers
Having scored 83 points in just the last three games, ETSU senior Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) currently ranks 22nd in the country in scoring with 20.9 points per game ... Tiggs leads the Atlantic Sun Conference in points, while senior teammate Courtney Pigram (Memphis) is just behind in second place at 18.4 a contest.
Non-conference home win streak at 18
Over the last five seasons, the Bucs have fared well against non-conference opponents within the confines of Memorial Center ... In fact, the Bucs have won 18 straight non-conference home games since losing a 90-73 contest to Fresno State back on Nov. 27, 2004 ... ETSU has wins over teams such as Marshall (twice), Tennessee Tech (twice), Chattanooga, Central Michigan, Morehead State, UNC Asheville, Eastern Kentucky, Radford and Appalachian State during that time frame.
Home Sweet Dome
Since the 1996-97 season, the Buccaneers are an amazing 119-38 inside Memorial Center, good for a winning percentage of 76 percent ... The Bucs had won five straight at Memorial Center during the 2006-07 season before a loss to Belmont (1/2) ... The Bucs then rattled off 10 straight at home to stand at 15-1 on the Memorial Center floor that season, but fell to Belmont in the championship of the A-Sun Tourney... In 2007-08, the Bucs were 11-2 at Memorial Center.
ETSU picked among nation's best
"Prestige" programs
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (July 22, 2008) - Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball - marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 - the ETSU men's basketball program ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to a new "Prestige" ranking released by ESPN.com ... The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed six NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, seven 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU was ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. The Bucs also were placed ahead of every current member of the Colonial Athletic Association with the exception of Old Dominion ... In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other major programs such as Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.
Pigram makes history with triple-double
With his 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against Wingate (11/20), senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) became just the second ETSU player to record a triple-double and the first to reach that special feat in NCAA Division I play this season ... He joins former Buc Tim Smith (Newport News, Va.) on that exclusive list at ETSU ... In Atlantic Sun Conference play, Pigram is just the sixth player to accomplish that feat since 1996-97, and he is the first to post a triple-double against a non-conference opponent ... A full list of those players can be found below:
A-Sun Triple Doubles
Since 1996-97
Player School Date Opp Pt-Rb-Ast
Courtney Pigram ETSU 11/20/08 Wingate 21-10-10
Tim Smith ETSU 1/25/06 KSU 21-10-10
Damitrius Coleman Mercer 2/27/05 JU 13-14-14
Damitrius Coleman Mercer 1/03/05 FAU 14-12-11
Kingsley Edwards UCF 1/16/05 Troy 10-10-14
Dexter Lyons UCF 1/11/03 Troy 14-13-10
Bartow reaches 100th victory at ETSU;
recently eclipsed 200 career wins with Wingate victory
ETSU head coach Murry Bartow reached 100 wins at ETSU with the Buccaneers 81-61 win over Mercer (12/5), a milestone which comes after just having reached 200 career coaching wins as the Buccaneers defeated Wingate (11/20) ... Bartow is now 203-146 for his career, a 59 percent winning percentage ... Bartow, the son of legendary coach Gene Bartow, is also 100-64 (.610) at ETSU, which gives him the best winning percentage in school history ... In his previous five seasons at ETSU, Bartow has averaged 19 wins a year.