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This Jan. 2009 file photo shows film critic and author Roger Ebert, recipient of the Honorary Life Member Award, at the Directors Guild of America Awards in Los Angeles. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that its film critic Roger Ebert died on Thursday, April 4, 2013. He was 70. (Associated Press)
Few if any of the news stories on the death of popular film critic Roger Ebert have addressed his spiritual side. Turns out, his mother prayer he would be a Catholic priest and despite his self-description as a nonbeliever, he said in 2011 that "my social conscience and my liberalism were founded on the teachings of Jesus."
This and more interesting details about the religious life of one of the nation's most famous movie critics are in a Huffington Post blog by S. Brent Plate, visiting associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College.
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Note #24 3rd down. You will want to contact The U of M. I'm pretty sure the U does NOT allow student to carry.
This is a discussion on Carrying in Minnesota university campuses? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I was looking through some past posts and looked at the handgunlaw.us site and it appears that people with valid CCW can carry on campus. ...
I was looking through some past posts and looked at the handgunlaw.us site and it appears that people with valid CCW can carry on campus. Can anyone provide additional information on this?
I am thinking about going back to school for graduate work and this would change where I go to school.
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This site will answer some of you questions about Minnesota.
Permit to Carry Frequently Asked Questions
Note #24 3rd down. You will want to contact The U of M. I'm pretty sure the U does NOT allow student to carry.
It's legal; although, against school policy. Basically, you'd just get expelled if found.
Minnesota Statute 624.714:Subd. 18.Employers; public colleges and universities.
(a) An employer, whether public or private, may establish policies that restrict the carry or possession of firearms by its employees while acting in the course and scope of employment. Employment related civil sanctions may be invoked for a violation.
(b) A public postsecondary institution regulated under chapter 136F or 137 may establish policies that restrict the carry or possession of firearms by its students while on the institution's property. Academic sanctions may be invoked for a violation.
(c) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) and (b), an employer or a postsecondary institution may not prohibit the lawful carry or possession of firearms in a parking facility or parking area.
There are several errors on handgunlaw.us as I've stated in the past. Always check your state's website for accurate information or write your State Attorney Generals office. Handgunlaw.us is a private site and the information is not always current nor complete.
Hijack not intended, just wanted to help clarify your resource.
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government IS the problem". - Ronald Reagan 1981
Rudy is correct. Legal yes but the UofM would have non-legal means to make your life difficult so it is a choice.
I can since I don't work or go to school there any more
"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking" - George S. Patton.
My wife is a professor at another state University here in MN, so I did the research before we moved here. It is clearly NOT illegal for either students or university employees to carry on campus, but it is equally clear that students will be expelled, and employees will be fired if they are caught carrying.
Of course, as the spouse of a professor, I am neither a student nor an employee, so I am always carrying when visiting my wife on campus...
The one bright spot about MN law is that it explicitly states that parking lots are OK, so you are definitely alright carrying to & from campus, so long as you leave it in your car. Of course, you will probably still be in trouble if you are discovered in your car on campus with a firearm so I'd do your best to remain unseen even in your car. I assume you have neither the money nor the desire to spend time in court to get re-instated in school after being expelled for being seen with a gun in your car in the parking lot...
"It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had a right to choose: his own." - John Galt, from Atlas Shrugged
I am interested in any errors you know about on Handgunlaw.us. If there are errors I want to fix them. Please let me know what errors you know about.
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No hijack intended, but that is the way Oklahoma and Texas law reads so far as campus carry -- in a parked car is OK, which allows for carry to and from.
Anti-gunners seem to believe that if we just pass enough laws, we can have utopia. Unfortunately, utopia is NOT one of our choices.


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Harbaugh of the day.
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The man knows his rappists.
Also, Harbaugh interviewed during the 1992 Northwestern game:
Battle stuff. Tyus Battle has not committed to Syracuse as of this instant. There's been no news from his visit as the Battles go radio silent:
"Ty and I are not making any comments until we figure things out," Gary Battle wrote in a text message.
Insider chatter holds that Battle will also visit UConn and that distance is apparently a problem. Publicly stated reasons are rarely the actual reasons, so take that with a grain of salt.
Michigan is not sitting on its hands. Four-star OH SG Jarron Cumberland, #62 on the 247 composite, is on campus right now. He will likely get an offer, and may drop immediately. Steve Lorenz put in a Crystal Ball for Cumberland at 8 AM today. (Josh Langford is off the board after he committed to—sigh—Michigan State.) Michigan clearly does not think this Battle decommit is a momentary dalliance.
At least he's still in the vaguely-affiliated other Big Ten conference. Potential name of the year running back Toks Akinribade has committed to Iowa. Michigan wasn't in the market for another tailback after taking Kingston Davis and Matt Falcon (and athletes Chris Evans and Kiante Enis), I know, but shades of LEVITICUS PAYNE here and it still hurts.
There is another, though.
More Steve Patterson stuff. Texas blog Barking Carnival is terrific, so I wanted to check in on what they were saying about the Chip Brown article on Longhorn AD Steve Patterson. Sound familiar?
Aloof and petty aren't a good combination.
The I'm smarter than everyone in the room vibe only works when you demonstrably are.
His decision-making is being driven by considerations that appear to be more about self-elevation (my running joke is that he badly wants to land a TED Talk) rather than balancing the considerations (or illusions) that make college fans unique from pro fans. I have zero interest in attending a Texas football game in person any time soon and it has little to do with the product. I sat patiently through some real dogshit in the 80s and 90s.
The current game day environment demonstrably sucks. At least for anyone with my disposition. It's counterfeit. It's false. And the season ticket holders we're losing are some of the very best fans who are just tired of seeing their love of their school being exploited at every turn. Patterson wants to replace them with corporates and local transplants. Good luck with that, buddy.
Bottom line: he's creating a situation where he will sink or swim entirely on his hires. He doesn't have any good will banked.
That's a comment from Scipio Tex, one of the main authors at BC and one of the most incisive writers on the college football internet.
It is both sad and reassuring that Michigan isn't the only school having these problems as the old guard of school-oriented athletic directors gets invaded by a wave of spreadsheet people. (FWIW, Hackett doesn't fall in that category for me: a guy who is CEO at the same place for 20 years is not just looking to make a spreadsheet look nice and cash out.) If and when Hackett decides to go back into retirement, it's imperative that Michigan actually taps the network of high-profile athletic department employees they've seeded across the country.
Not so much, Boilers. 1985 Purdue-Michigan was a slaughter:
Apparel contract decision soon. Hackett:
"We're on our target to make our decision this summer and look for an answer soon," Hackett told gathered media after Thursday's regularly scheduled Regents meeting, adding, "We're still in the middle of that discussion."
Most rumblings indicate that Adidas is in a bad spot and is unlikely to retain the contract. Sam Webb has plenty of details($) at Scout; the upshot is that it's likely to be Nike. I had a mild preference for Under Armour, but it seems like most of the athletes have a strong one for the swoosh so whatever. The gap between the offers—reported to be significant—has apparently come down somewhat, so may as well "spend" some of the oodles of cash you bring in on making people happy.
My main reservation with going back to Nike is their tendency towards uniformz. They've been at least as demanding in that department as Adidas, and they also run the play where a bunch of their schools all have the same dubious design element at the same time. I do think a strong AD can push back against those kind of things—see Indiana basketball, Penn State, Alabama, Texas, etc.—and hopefully we've got one of those now.
A potential replacement. I haven't seen anything about this officially, but Chris Dilks is pretty plugged in and he notes that Michigan hockey does have an option to fill the holes in the roster created by early NHL departures:
[Cooper] Marody was on the edge between returning to Sioux Falls for another season of junior hockey and enrolling at the University of Michigan, but with Dylan Larkin deciding to sign with the Detroit Red Wings and opening up a spot on Michigan's roster, it looks like Marody will be playing for the Wolverines next season.
Marody had a 22-36-58 line in 52 games and should go off the board in the third or fourth round of the draft. He won't be Larkin; he should be a solid player as a freshman.
Etc.: Gasaway on shot clock overreactions. Maize and Blue Nation on how nice it is that Harbaugh is around. More budget stuff. Hyman to Toronto after forcing a trade away from the Panthers. Toronto's doing a lot of smart stuff lately. Tickets are moving like hotcakes. Mitch McGary is SNAKE GOD. Daily alum Ryan Kartje on satellite camps.
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- dave brandon creates empty seats
- full cost of attendance scholarships
- hail to the victors: the book
- jim harbaugh
- jim harbaugh is a football dude
- kirk ferentz
- people in charge of things are just in charge of them for no reason
- satellite camps
- steve patterson is dave brandon 2.0
- tyus battle
- unverified voracity
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More Battle. Apparently this is serious:
Would be more surprised if Tyus Battle doesn't commit to Syracuse by weekend's end than if he does commit.
— Jerry Meyer (@jerrymeyer247) June 19, 2015
It is difficult to imagine that Syracuse is suddenly the choice since they have a coach who's already announced he's retiring and are stung by NCAA sanctions, but that's basketball recruiting for you. If Battle does indeed defect and this head-fake costs Michigan Josh Langford I'm going to be pretty pretty annoyed.
Sounds like work. Kirk Ferentz is the first—only?—Big Ten coach to come out against satellite camps.
"What it really gets down to is just how you want to use your time. Me personally, I'm hopeful — and the NCAA will probably react — my personal preference is I'd like to see camps probably be limited to campus. On top of that, I would support not allowing any outsiders coming to work your camp."
Iowa has actually done two or three of them already, but…
"We did three this year, and I don't think we made the news for any of them. We don't really broadcast it."
The noise you are hearing is an Iowa fan snapping a pencil with his mind.
Cost of attendance calculations. The NCAA's "Power 5" conferences adopted legislation to extend scholarship benefits to cover the full cost of attendance. What does that mean? There is a number that schools maintain called "cost of attendance" that has nothing to do with sports. It's for calculating financial aid, that sort of thing. Now that it's been dragged into a realm it doesn't really belong, people are noticing that the numbers vary a lot—and not very sensibly. Massive rent areas like Palo Alto or Ann Arbor often have nearby universities with low COA numbers; meanwhile Auburn has one of the highest numbers in the country.
How did they come to that conclusion? A lengthy Montgomery Advertiser article explains why. It has essentially been indexed to inflation from a large number determined a long time ago:
Reynolds, who has worked for Auburn for 16 years, said he inherited a cost of attendance figure when he began working for the university and has routinely increased the tuition, board, and personal figures in accordance with the Consumer Price Index, as calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with transportation being increased in accordance with the CPI inflation rate, and room being the average cost of all available on-campus housing, currently 4,539 beds.
"This is a financial aid budget," he said. "This isn't an athletic scholarship budget."
The $5,586 in Auburn's cost of attendance is divided into $2,728 for personal expenses and $2,858 for transportation, according to the budget Reynolds provided to theAdvertiser, and remains unchanged from a year ago.
At some point the Power 5 is going to have to come together and figure this out, because there's no way they're going to let a four-year gap of up to ten thousand dollars stand.
A nation of Joe Tillers. Back in the day, (probably) Joe Tiller used to bomb his colleagues behind their backs in entertainingly catty anonymous Athlon articles. It hasn't been the same since he retired to wherever walruses fade away, but the re-emergence of Jim Harbaugh in college has revitalized the genre. ESPN's Travis Haney interviewed a dozen or so coaches, offering anonymity in exchange for salt($). He got some. Bret Bielema asked to be identified and said Harbaugh was rad:
"I have had great respect for Coach Harbaugh for what he built at Stanford and as a man who isn't afraid to speak his mind," said Arkansas coach Bret Bielema, who specifically asked to be identified on the record. "Too many people in today's world love to voice opinions and beliefs when convenient. Few represent who they are and what they believe daily."
And… I developed respect for Bret Bielema? Odd day.
Others did not think Harbaugh was rad:
"I think he's nuts. He loves to stir the pot. He'll have a very short shelf life – but he's a very good football guy. I will be interested to see how he does there," a Pac-12 coach said. "[Former 49ers and current Bills offensive coordinator] Greg Roman has always been the brains behind the operation. [Harbaugh] has been at private schools before so I'm interested to see how he does at a public school. There's a huge difference in how things are handled."
Greg Roman, Brains Behind The Operation. No offense to Greg Roman but all you have to do to dispel that is look at Harbaugh's coaching tree, which is already more impressive than most.
Others refer to Harbaugh as "Rain Man-ish," which… okay, accurate. Whole thing is insider but worth it.
Speaking of Rain Man-ish. Former 49ers tight end Delanie Walker:
"He dressed up in full gear and practiced the whole practice – pads, helmets, everything on. He had the whole uniform on,'' Walker said of Harbaugh. "We came out and said, "Who is that dude out there? And it was Jim Harbaugh. He had some old high top cleats on.
"He did pretty good. He just couldn't throw the deep, deep pass."
Walker thinks Greg Roman is not the brains behind the operation:
"I think he is going to be great (at Michigan),'' Walker said. "People buy into his philosophy. Every team he has ever been on has been good, right? So you tell me what he is going to do. Young kids love to have a coach who is crazy."
Also fans.
Just like Domino's clap clap clapclapclap. The Michigan athletic department's annual budget shows a shortfall for the first time since Tom Goss was athletic director:
Michigan's athletic department had a deficit of nearly $8 million this year, marking the first time in about a decade it operated with a loss, according to interim athletic director Jim Hackett, but he assured the budget for 2016 will be balanced.
Since Goss was working without PSLs or the Big Ten Network, that is truly impressive. Hackett explained why there was such a big shortfall:
"The result of football ticket sales being down (and) added compensation for settlements this past year caused us to have a deficit of about $7.9 million. We covered that with operating reserves, but we've got a balanced budget proposed for next year."
Michigan had to give away almost 20,000 tickets for the Maryland game, then pay Brady Hoke after they fired him, then continue paying Brandon his 100% guaranteed contract, then gather up every nickel in a five-state radius to present to Jim Harbaugh. The first three are Dave Brandon's fault. The last is a pretty good idea:
"We can tell you today, season ticket sales, which are just a portion of the stadium, will probably hit an eight-year high. We just started selling our packets, with combined games (Wednesday) online, (and) we've had almost 18,000 tickets that were sold for some of the single games. We're very optimistic about our fall and what promises there."
Michigan should get out of paying much or all of what it owed Brandon, as well. That dude somehow scoring a CEO job that should pay him more than he was getting as AD means that Michigan won't have to compensate him unless he gets fired from that gig too.
Which… well…
He's worse! /checks coaching hires… He's not good! Chip Brown lays the wood to Texas athletic director Steve Patterson in a 5,000 word piece with startling revelations like:
Steve Hank, chief revenue officer of Texas athletics, told HornsDigest.com the 6 percent average increase (actually 5.7 percent, he said, but it was rounded up) was based on a formula that involved the value of each seat "spread across" the entire, 100,119-seat capacity of Royal-Memorial Stadium.
But when comparing exactly what football season ticket holders paid in 2014, including their contribution to the Longhorn Foundation to retain those tickets, to what they are paying in 2015, season tickets were increased an average of 21.5 percent.
Sources said football coach Charlie Strong, who saw his and his coaching staff's personal ticket allotment cut from eight to four last year, fought to increase the salaries of his eight quality control coaches from $24,000 to $50,000 after last season.
Texas has the lowest salaries in the Big 12 for its quality control coaches – even behind last-place football finisher Kansas ($45,000).
Strong's request was denied by Patterson, and six of Texas' eight quality control coaches who had built relationships with the rest of the staff, left to find better paying jobs, the sources said.
But he did hire Charlie Strong and Shaka Smart. Despite being quite evidently an idiot. People in charge of things are just in charge of them.
Etc.: Nick Boka draft preview. Hiring Les Miles was never a good idea. Denard After Dentist game at 8 tonight on BTN. The Mack Brown-Matthew McConaughey connection.
Unverified Voracity Constantly Hustling
[Bill Rapai]
Today in Jim Harbaugh fire quotes. Michigan's having a camp on its own campus for a change, which provides a platform for [fire emoji dot jpeg] x 7:
"In my America, you're allowed to cross the state borders," Harbaugh says. "That's the America I know."
Sounds like a man who has recently watched Hunt For Red October. Or been on a whirlwind tour of half the country. Or both.
And then there's this:
"I don't know what that means, a brand," he says, saying instead it was about "sharing a love for football."
While I don't think that Harbaugh is quite the naïve waif he portrays himself as in that quote, an exhausted Sam Webb returned from the Summer Swarm tour reporting that 1) that was bonkers and he's not doing all of it again next year and 2) Harbaugh was rueful when it ended and wanted to do three weeks of camps next year($). It's not just about finding recruits. It is also about Sincerely Yours In Football.
He's got everyone who isn't an SEC coach on his side on this one, and it's been fun. Remember fun? Fun is good.
Speaking of. All of Jim Harbaugh's tweets can be looked at as Jim Harbaugh in a nutshell because that is what happens when you are constantly YOURSELF AT MAXIMUM VOLUME. This one may be even more definitive than most:
Day 82: Hustle! Constant Hustle! Hustling at All Times! #ExposureU pic.twitter.com/lsS4HrEq1P
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) June 17, 2015
DAY 79: Still lost. Estevez feverish. Food supplies gone, eating anything vaguely caloric on the forest floor. Intestinal issues severe.
DAY 81: Estevez has died. We sit around his corpse, wondering if we will die by ignoring it… or die by consuming it.
DAY 83: Feel quite a bit better after encountering Harbaugh's Amazonian football camp. Estevez wearing jaunty hats. Does not seem particularly dead. Says he is "on that grind" far too much, though.
Site issues. Had a rough couple days there. Long story short, some search engine or someone else started loading very obscure pages deep in the site. These were so obscure that nobody had bothered loading them before. They were extraordinarily inefficient for Drupal reasons. And there were a lot of them—the "tracker" used to have 2683 pages. It now has one cached one.
I've been monitoring the logs for anything else that causes the database to fall over and die and haven't seen anything. So we should be good.
Ufer. Here is a Ufer thing from Steve Sapardanis. I put this in a draft a month ago and forgot about it, so all I know about it now is that I put "Ufer" in bold before it, so it could be about some other Ufer but probably not.
I hope that was entertaining or informative or both. I have no idea if it was.
1991 Indiana. Wolverine Historian:
Harbaugh needs an organizer. So they're hiring one:
The title: "Director of Internal Communications and Operations for the Head Football Coach."
The job, posted Tuesday on U-M's careers website, is most summarily to "assist the football coach in all areas, including day-to-day operations, communications, office management and administration."
Sounds like they're addressing a weak spot.
Etc.: Coaching lessons of the Golden Girls. James Light on another Durkin coverage, this one "Cover 1 Rat." Early signing period? Nevermind for this year.
Unverified Voracity Collects Tattoos
Mark The Nomad still wins by a million. In what is inevitably going to be a successful trolling of Michigan State message boards across the state, MLive asked their readers for pictures of their badass Michigan tattoos. None approach the glory of Mark the Nomad's Harbaugh on Saved by the Bell masterpiece, but there's no shame in coming second in this competition.
This is my favorite:
"I need a wolverine, but I don't want it to be generic."
"I could make him look like he just walked in on his parents having sex."
"Make it so, number one."
-"Jean-Luc Picard's many tattoos: a memoir," by Jonathan Frakes
Second place goes to the guy who went full entrails.
The owner of this tattoo helpfully points out that the heart in the wolverine's hand comes from the pile of rotting gristle that used to be an Ohio State player below. Sports: we are reasonable about it!
A blessed man indeed. Jim Harbaugh has never heard of Paul Finebaum.
A coach approaches, fixes his collar and tells him he was the talk of the Paul Finebaum Show that day. Finebaum, whose show is nationally syndicated and televised on the SEC Network, discussed Harbaugh's appearance in Alabama with his legions of dedicated callers.
Harbaugh looks confused and shakes his head. He doesn't know who Paul Finebaum is.
The coach continues, "He's a radio show host."
Again, nothing from Harbaugh.
"He's a big deal down here in SEC country," another coach chimes in.
For just about anyone else involved with college football I would assume that is a put-on. Harbaugh is constitutionally incapable of being anything other than HIMSELF AT MAXIMUM VOLUME, though.
I assume that Harbaugh's knowledge of things is a sine wave of infinite amplitude. He can tell you the exact order of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II and the order of elimination of every Bachelor contestant in history; he's never heard of popcorn and thinks marsupials are horses. He regularly knits shawls with his teeth; every damned time his wife turns the faucet on he goggles and exclaims "WHAT IN TARNATION IS THAT?" Etc.
Mmm shade. Nick Baumgardner:
INDIANAPOLIS -- Someone forgot to tell Jim Harbaugh he's supposed to hate this stuff.
"The Raiders are still in play" is played out right now but if we keep saying it it'll be funny again in a few years. The Letterman approach.
Baumgardner quotes Harbaugh at his Sincerely Yours In Football best:
"This is the greatest sport ever invented," Harbaugh says. "Nobody will ever play four years of high school football and look back and say 'I wish I hadn't played football.' You ever hear anybody say that?
"It just doesn't get said. Because it doesn't happen. Football is darn good for you. Darn good for you."
SEC honks who are cheesed off about these satellite camps downplay this aspect of Harbaugh's personality, but it seems real to me. Harbaugh is a football evangelist in an era when people are muttering about the long-term future of the game. He's also a guy looking for recruits. It can be both.
Less of a big deal right now. Michigan's summer basketball camp came and went in the middle of this swarm business with hardly a mention. That's partially Harbaugh sucking up the offseason oxygen—something Beilein is probably happy about—and partially the fact that Michigan doesn't seem on the verge of offering blue-chip 2017 guys who are talking like they will commit. Last year Tyus Battle and Derryck Thornton were in attendance—one out of two ain't bad.
This year, 2017 NV SF Greg Floyd, a top 75 guy but not a five-star, was the most notable (uncommitted) name participating. Austin Davis and Jon Teske were there; Cassius Winston was present but sat out with his broken wrist. The rest of the notables are younger kids that may or may not end up on the radar in the next couple years.
Speaking of Winston, his visit for the camp follows one in May. Both Scout and Rivals seem to be incrementally more optimistic with each one. The vibe now is that Michigan probably tentatively leads; before it was that they maybe tentatively lead.
Okay. The basketball rules changes that were proposed have officially been instantiated.
OFFICIAL! 30-sec shot clock, 4-foot arc, reduction in time outs among changes coming to men's basketball next season. pic.twitter.com/qgLqt0BS6D
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) June 8, 2015
I don't think the clock change will impact Michigan—or anyone—disproportionately. Michigan does get dinged by the larger arc, as they've always been a team that tries to take a charge instead of block a shot. Teske is arriving at the right time, at least.
And thank God for small timeout murders. Put the rest in a sack and throw them in the river, please.
In Texas. A slice of life from the Houston stop:
"OK, you gotta run, speed up, throw a catchable ball," he said, jogging in a loop and throwing the ball to a camper 10 yards away, always moving. "Throw a catchable ball. That's not a catchable ball. A catchable ball is right there. Shoulders, one foot in front of the number.
"Not there.
While observing, the former San Francisco 49ers coach offered: "No one likes watching incompletions. They really don't."
I imagine a couple of projectors got broken in there.
Another reason we're doing well at Paramus. Blake Costanzo is a former San Francisco 49er who's now an assistant at Paramus Catholic. His take on Harbaugh is a bit different than the few 49ers who have not already retired:
"Awesome," Costanzo said. "You want to play for a guy who's been through it, been to practices, grinded, knows what it's like to be in a locker room. To have a guy that knows what you are going through is huge." …
"Everywhere is Michigan country now. They've been all over the country," Costanzo said. "They are just good people. I know a lot of the coaching staff and they are just good people. I promote good people no matter where they are."
Michigan looks set to rake in a number of New Jersey commits this cycle.
Can't stop, won't stop. Old Dominion announces a 2016 satellite camp stop for the sisterhood of the travelling football. No doubt it will be the first of many.
MLB draft fallout. Baseball saw a number players drafted. CF Jackson Glines, a senior, went in the 10th round. Junior 2B/closer Jacob Croenenworth went in the 7th; he's a junior but Bakich is not holding out hope he'll return. 3B Travis Maezes went in the 13th; Bakich says they might get him back.
Michigan's recruits went late if they went at all, so they should arrive on campus.
Etc.: Compher as captain profiled. OSU QB run concepts; Durkin pattern-matching against trips.
Unverified Voracity Buzz Buzz Buzz
Decent turnout in Indy [Mike Spath]
All the Harbaugh. We haven't had any, you know, games yet but so far the Harbaugh era has absolutely lived up to its promise.
CFB Twitter's hottest weekend topics: Fri.: Harbaugh shirtless Sat.: Harbaugh recruiting material Sun.: Harbaugh camp helps charity
— Jerry Hinnen (@JerryHinnen) June 8, 2015
As Ace has documented in cripplingly long recruiting roundups, the Summer Swarm tour is piquing the interest of dozens of high level recruits in this class and the next three. Michigan's nailed down a number of commitments already; there's a wave of guys naming Michigan their leader and/or plugged in gents making Crystal Ball predictions for Michigan.
While it's been a lot of under the radar types to date, 1) Harbaugh's first two recruiting classes at Stanford were generic three stars and Andrew Luck and 2) the wave of guys Michigan is thought to lead for has a lot of big timers in it.
Doesn't that mean… yes, it does. Michigan currently has 14 or 15 spots in its recruiting class. There are a few guys who will have fifth year options but don't project to be contributors; that still leaves Michigan at around 18 spots for a class that it feels like will hit 25. There is going to be some attrition before February.
If a couple of these medical hardships that are poorly kept secrets finally get announced in the near future that number looks pretty reasonable; I don't think we're ever going to see the near zero attrition Michigan had under Brady Hoke. Harbaugh drives people too hard for that.
Headlines. The Montgomery Advertiser:
That's today, three days after Michigan's Alabama stop. The last time I took a screenshot of a media organization days after something happened it was Sports Illustrated bombing Michigan dang near a week after the Shane Morris incident. Harbaugh has changed the script a little bit here.
See also Gregg Doyel, who spent the weekend following Harbaugh into Indianapolis bathrooms and firing off hot takes in Michigan's favor:
Eliminating satellite camps? That makes a recruit's life harder. It would make a kid like Jovan Swann, a big-time defensive tackle recruit from Center Grove High, drive almost 300 miles to attend the Michigan football camp in Ann Arbor. Swann, whose brother Mario is a defensive back at Indiana, is interested in the Wolverines. He has a scholarship offer from Michigan State (and Indiana and Iowa and more), but not from Michigan.
"As a parent, I decided I'm going to take (Jovan) to any school that he has an interest in," said his father, Mario Swann Sr. "I would have taken him to Michigan this summer, but now I don't have to."
And this is wrong? This is not wrong.
The spectacle of millionaires complaining about their vacation days is not winning over hearts and minds here. Harbaugh, shirtless, weird Jim Harbaugh, is.
That charity camp BTW. Details:
Harbaugh said he found somebody to follow on Sunday.
"I got a new one. I got Lauren Loose now. I'm going to follow her," Harbaugh said. "I'm going to follow her example. Fighter, courageous, happy, spiritual. She's got what I'm looking for. I'm going to follow her. Find somebody. Find somebody every day. You know who's doing right. Go be a good follower. Learn how to do that."
Loose is the daughter of former Lafayette defensive coordinator and current Army defensive coach John Loose. She is a pediatric brain tumor survivor and the one who the football camp is named for. The event raises funds for brain tumor research and cancer services through the Lauren's First and Goal Foundation.
Sunday's event raised $101,800 and the total for the year is $132,787.
Michigan is keeping this on the up-and-up—they're travelling with a compliance person to make sure they don't rack up minor violations—and they're doing a lot of good for the kids who come out, the causes they're helping out, and themselves. You'd have to be a sociopath to be against such a thing, but we are talking about football coaches.
Also. Detroit will get an extended version of the satellite camps:
Harbaugh, his Michigan coaching staff and the team's sophomore football players will work with the United States Marine Corps to "teach life skills, football, language arts and STEM-based curriculum" to 100 Detroit-area boys from grades 6-8 from July 6-18.
Former NFL player Riki Ellison founded the program nine years ago, and runs similar efforts at Stanford, Northwestern and West Point. He'll assist Michigan with its own version of the program.
People were concerned when Michigan canceled its fantasy camps. They've more than made up for that karmic loss.
There will be no apology. You know me: I approve of anything short of a stabbing that makes a college football game spicier. Harbaugh is amping up damn near everybody, whether it's Saban in Alabama or a bit closer to home:
OSU's WR coach took this about as well as perpetually aggrieved DJ Byrnes takes a harmless tweet from a teenager, throwing a twitter shit fit that has since been deleted. Michigan has not scheduled a contrite press conference in the aftermath. Hail Hackett.
Speaking of the man. Random old This Is Sportscenter commercial featuring Harbs:
"This Is Sportscenter" has been around forever.
Just a rando with a story. Take it with a grain of salt:
Source: midway thru 2014, York walked into meeting Harbaugh was holding w/ players, & Harbaugh told Jed that the meeting was for "men only"
— Kyle McLorg (@Kyle_McLorgBASG) June 8, 2015
This is probably not a good move if you would like to continue your employment no matter how accurate it may be. Again, just some rando with SOURCES on twitter.
UNC details. Local paper with some excerpts from internal UNC emails:
"Occasionally when we have a number of people with special issues we can put them together in a special section but we never ever put an athlete into a special section alone – just too many red flags and we have a little bit of academic credibility to try to uphold," Crowder wrote back. "All of that being said, talk to me and we'll see if there are any creative options."
There are hundreds of these emails, many of them heavily redacted. It's clear that the athletic department specialized in keeping kids eligible with non-classes. If anything will rouse the sleeping bear that is NCAA enforcement, this is it.
I suppose. A dozen people sent this to me and more yelled at me on twitter about it, so yes there was an embarrassing fluff piece on Dave Brandon in the Detroit News. It reads more like a People profile of Eva Longoria—"the couple intends to experience daily life in the Big Apple", etc—than something written by a person with self-respect. It thus says everything you need to know about its author, Daniel Howes, without me chipping in.
Just one thing:
Brandon sounds like a man pleased to be back on the familiar ground of corporate America. There he'll be tackling marketing and operational challenges, building (or repairing) a brand buffeted by changing technology and changing consumer tastes. (All of which, by the way, applied at Michigan, as much as the die-hards refuse to acknowledge it.)
Brandon's most important single act as athletic director was hiring Brady Hoke, a man whose main qualification was having been an assistant at Michigan during the 90s. Hoke was dead set against the changing technology of college football; his hire was anything but "innovating the space." All other gestures towards modernity are frippery around a fusty core.
Anyone who still believes Brandon is some sort of visionary after years of ham-handed missteps followed by lies probably contributed to the $607 United Passions brought in at the box office this weekend. But someone's got to believe the Emperor's new clothes are amazing.
Etc.: Michigan MLB draft primer from user Raoul. Summer Swarm tweet recap. Northwestern's "#funbad" game of the year is so obvious you don't need to click through. "#funbad" is such a Northwestern concept, and I mean that affectionately.
Unverified Voracity Drops The Hammer?
[Patrick Barron]
Max out. Max Bielfeldt heads to Indiana unless he gets cut before the season starts, which is about 50/50 given Tom Crean's roster ADHD.
It'll be interesting to see how that works out for both teams: Michigan knows exactly what went down in practice and did not ask Bielfeldt back even after it became clear they had an open scholarship slot. Since Bielfeldt was out-performing Donnal late last year (Doyle was almost always the first option when he was not sick as a dog), the confidence expressed by that decision seems to be about newly-strapping DJ Wilson. Wilson is certainly going to be more of a defensive presence than the ground-bound Bielfeldt.
Rebounding? Eh… leave it to Walton. I may actually be serious about that. In any case, rebounding is the most replaceable skill.
Why Michigan was willing to let him go. UMHoops has an item on Michigan's pick and roll offense that highlights the production of their big men when they get the ball on the roll:
That is a frequently-injured, pre-Sanderson, freshman Doyle outperforming everything with reasonable sample size except senior Jordan Morgan. (Donnal's numbers should be taken in context: there were a half-dozen roll attempts last year that looked good on which Donnal didn't even attempt a shot, kicking back to the perimeter instead of opting for what should be one of the most efficient shots in basketball.) Bielfeld had 12 pick-and-pop possessions, FWIW—on actual rolls to the basket he was at 23 points on 21 buckets. That's 1.09 PPP.
Doyle was on par or better than Bielfeldt at just about everything you can do on a court other than grab defensive rebounds. He should improve a great deal as he ages, and then you've got Wilson and Donnal… minutes are going to be scarce.
Speaking of Walton. Any fears you may have had that his foot thing was going to be a problem this fall should be put to rest:
My man D-Walt gettin his bounce right!! @CampSanderson @DerrickWalton10 pic.twitter.com/BzeKy8Yw9C
— spike albrecht (@SpikeAlbrecht) May 22, 2015
Walton joins a Camp Sanderson field that includes almost the entire team plus guys like Nik Stauskas and Tim Hardaway Jr. Word is that one of the most impressive guys there is… Aubrey Dawkins. Going to be a good year.
Meanwhile, Spike's projected return:
Beilein also offered an update on Albrecht on Monday, saying that both of the guard's offseason hip surgeries were successful. Albrecht is still on crutches, but projects to a having a full return by the fall.
"In September, yeah, there's no question," Beilein said.
He should be ready for the season no problem.
A smart guy. Beilein on what the rules changes might mean:
Most focus on the offensive impact of the shot clock change, but the reverberation will reach the other end of the floor. Beilein noted that defenses will likely be more prone to shift from man-to-man to zone defense late in shot clocks.
"I think you'll see more teams flipping stuff and going zone later on because the ballscreen becomes so prevalent at that time," he said.
That would be interesting.
A litmus test. The NCAA just about gave up on serious punishments for anything short of child rape negligence after they threw the book at USC. OSU took a bowl ban and had to get rid of Jim Tressel after Tressel repeatedly lied to the NCAA, but they were spared the kind of scholarship restrictions that put a serious long-term dent in a program. Other than that it's been a series of wrist-slaps.
If anything is going to upset the current "do whatever it's fine" state of affairs, it is the situation at North Carolina. The NCAA at first decided to ignore it, but when forced to revisit the issue they seem to have done so with force. The notice of allegations has just been released, and it contains five separate "severe" violations, most of which are backed up by assertions of dozens of different incidents they encompass.
This will be the first truly major case since the NCAA moved away from calling everything from SMU to stretchgate "major" violations and implemented a four-level system. North Carolina is likely to admit lots and lots of "severe breach of conduct." The penalty guidelines for level 1 violations include:
- 1-2 years of postseason ban
- loss of 12.5% to 25% of scholarships
- up to a half-year ban on a head coach
If the violations are deemed to have induced "aggravation" those penalties can double, and if they stack… hoo boy. The NCAA would be well within its rights to bomb UNC's major sports into the stone age.
Will they? I doubt it.
I'm not really paying attention to this any more. Phil Steele's All Big Ten teams are… well, there's a lot of them. They don't seem that accurate:
The Wolverines did have a few All-Big Ten honorees, however, led by senior linebacker Joe Bolden. Bolden, who broke the 100-tackle mark last season, is a second-team All-Big Ten pick, per Steele.
Linebacker Desmond Morgan (third), offensive guard Kyle Kalis (third), wide receiver Amara Darboh (fourth), defensive back Jabrill Peppers (fourth) and punter Blake O'Neill (fourth) also received mention.
Just from a Michigan perspective, no Jourdan Lewis, no Jarrod Wilson, and Kalis over Glasgow make me wonder if Steele does much more than look at stats and recruiting rankings and guess. (He also does the irritating thing where he throws corners and safeties into the same bucket of defensive backs.)
Ratings up. If softball seems like a bigger deal than it did a few years ago, you aren't alone:
ESPN saw record viewership for the 2015 Women's College World Series, notching its top two most-viewed Women's College World Series bracket round games ever this past weekend. LSU/Michigan on Sunday averaged 1,950,000 viewers for the company while UCLA/Auburn on Saturday drew 1,612,000 viewers. Overall, the 2015 Women's College World Series bracket round (May 28-31) averaged 1,055,000 viewers. Meanwhile, the 2015 Women's College World Series Championship Finals Game 1 on Monday drew a 1.0 overnight rating, which is tied for the highest-rated WCWS Championship Finals Game 1 on record (since 2007) and a 43% increase (0.7 overnight) from 2014 WCWS Championship Finals Game 1.
The final two games may have beat that admittedly short-lived record.
Bracing? ISS has its final draft rankings out:
Final @ISShockey rankings for upcoming NHL draft: U-M D Zach Werenski is No.11 and F Kyle Connor (U-M commit) is No.13.
— George Sipple (@GeorgeSipple) June 2, 2015
Hopefully neither of those guys ends up in the wrong place. IE: The Kings or a like organization that doesn't want their guys to play college.
Etc.: In expected news, JT Compher is your hockey captain. Incoming forward Brendan Warren profiled. I could describe a great deal of commentators as "continual boofheads." AFC Ann Arbor origin story. You can chat with Stauskas and Beilein, get autographs and the like, for #chadtough.


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I would highly recommend this dog house. This dog house was very easy to assemble. It is also portable and very large. My dog is at least a hundred pound dog. It fit great. This dog house comes in more than one size make sure to order the "large" dog house. I would also suggest getting the dog house delivered to your home. It comes in two parts the base and roof. I first tried getting it shipped site to store had problems finally ended up having to get it home delivered.
We love this Dog House because is easy to put it together and the material is pretty good and our dog loves it.
Have had the dog house for well over 3 weeks, and our dog loves it. She keeps warm during the cold, and covered when it rains. Big enough for her, 62 pound pit. I'm not sure how plastic will hold up over time in the weather we have here in Dallas, but I'm hoping it will last for some years, not sure. Easy to put together, pointed the house to the east so no wind or rain gets in. Have some pillows and a blanket in there as well. Overall I would recommend this to anyone seeking a dog house. Not sure the price is worth the plastic, BUT if it holds up over the years, then I take that statement back. Very pleased so far with the product.
I got this dog house for my 55 pound pitbull. It has a lot of room. He didn't want to get in at first but I placed his blanket inside then he was okay.
I am truly happy with this dog house. Our dog weighs 70lbs. and is able to fit comfortably, and with the elevated base it keeps water from entering his domain. He chews everything in sight but his Tuff and Rugged Dog House has not been affected.
My German Shepherd fits very comfortable in her new house.
However, the same day I put her new home outside, she started to biting the edge of the roof. Her teeth marks are there/present/to stay. The material for the roof is soft, and needs to be made more durable.
I have no regrets on this purchase. It's washable, easy to assemble, and she likes it.
I purchased this dog house to prevent her from getting wet in the up coming rainy season. So that will be the true test of this purchase.
Walmart delivered very quickly, as well.
Dog-house has ample room, it's easy to assemble, and should be easy to keep clean. I'm curious to see if it's water-tight in the rain. The only problem I have with it is the roof seems flimsy for what you are paying for this. You would think they would have used more plastic in the roof deck and made it stronger. Only time will tell if it holds up.
We really like the dog house; however, the plastic is very thin and it does not to be as tuff & rugged as it claims. We do love how cool it stays on hot days and how it does a great job of keeping wind out on cool days!
Came in 2 pieces. Roof and house base. Very spacious durable dog house. Fits a 53 pound Siberian Husky and theres still room for one more dog. It's just a bit pricey.
Very easy to assemble . Very strong and sturdy dog house & roof .
Good but flimsy
It's good that I have a coverd porch. I wouldn't recomend it for the yard.
It's just the perfect size for my dog. Easy to put together. No tools needed.
I am happy and satisfied that I bought it.
very please with the house. it will be easy to clean. so far it has stayed dry inside and the price was very reasonable seeing that the house will be around for awhile. has been through a few storms and stays in place. great for 40lb but to small for my 80lb dog. overall very please. would like to see a house made in a size for the 80lb dog.
Very easy to put together. Sturdy. Attractive.
It's a good dog house, looks sturdy not cheap or like it will fall apart. Just got to find a way to have my puppy active sleep in it.


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ARLINGTON – Texas A&M freshman Shelbi Vaughan improved upon her Aggie discus school record with a winning effort of 188 feet, 8 inches at the UT-Arlington Bobby Lane Invitational on Saturday.
Last week on her first discus throw as a collegian, Vaughan broke the 10-year-old Aggie school record with a mark of 185-0. She managed to added three feet and eight inches to her school record on her second attempt of the UTA competition.
The series for Vaughan opened with a foul prior to her winning mark of 188-8 (57.50) and then another foul followed in round three. Vaughan produced throws of 167-8 (51.10), 161-1 (49.11) and 180-10 (55.12) in the final three stanzas.
Runner-up to Vaughan was a 165-1 (50.33) by TCU's Megan Smith while A&M's Jill Hydrick finished seventh in the event with a 141-4 (43.07).
Dalton Rowan won the men's discus by nearly five feet with a toss of 179-2 (54.61), earning his best mark in the second round as well. Ben Skrla finished seventh with a 164-2 (50.03). Casey Strong placed sixth in the men's shot put with a 51-4.25 (15.65).
Vaughan also placed third in the shot put with a mark of 48-7.25 (14.81) while teammates Brea Garrett (48-1.75 / 14.67) and Jennifer Edwards (44-9.75 / 13.66) finished fourth and fifth. Vaughan moves to No. 8 on the Aggie all-time list in the shot put.
Krystyn Bradley led the Aggie javelin crew with a third-place effort of 144-10 (44.15). Kendall Munoz placed fourth with a 136-7 (41.64), Jean Deason was seventh at 131-9 (40.16), and Kelly Czumble placed ninth with a 124-1 (37.82).


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The American Men's Studies Association's Twenty-Fifth Conference on Men and Masculinities returns to Ann Arbor, Michigan and the University of Michigan's School of Social Work, the home of AMSA, March 31 through April 2, 2017.
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Green Salad With Tortilla Strips and Queso Fresco
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- 1⁄4 cup sherry wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon lime zest
- 1 serrano chili, seeded, chopped
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1⁄2 cup olive oil
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- 1 (5 ounce) bag mixed baby greens
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Chromeo's Dave1 and P-Thugg finally come to Minneapolis
Chromeo and their sing-along electro kitsch have only been around since 2004, but it's hard to imagine the dance floor without them. Throw "Fancy Footwork" or "Needy Girl" on at a party and watch the vibe suddenly morph into something much more playful—it's as if Chromeo's the inside joke we all get. Dance music's odd couple—lanky Dave 1 (David Macklovitch) on smooth-guy vocals and beefy P-Thugg (Patrick Gemayel) on keys and talk box—will come to the Twin Cities for the first time this weekend to promote their third release, Business Casual, so we called up the Montreal-based P-Thugg to find out what to expect and why they've stayed away.
City Pages: Why deprive Minneapolis of the funk for so long? We're a funky town.
P-Thugg: I promise it was nothing intentional. I just think it was a matter of timing and logistics.
CP: Fair enough. Are you excited to play First Avenue?
P-Thugg: Yeah! I've seen Purple Rain, a long time ago, but I think I need to watch it again before we get there to refresh my memory.
CP: Chromeo has a very distinct sound. Did you try anything new on Business Casual?
P-Thugg: It's basically a continuation of Fancy Footwork but has a bit more balance in there. We put a lot of work into making it a bit more musical, working on song structure, chord progression, and pushing Dave to sing more harmonies. And we added a string section on a couple of songs, which is a big departure for us. But at the same time, we don't want to alienate our fans and people who like us for our Fancy Footwork vibe.
CP: Would you say that's the song that really gets at the heart of Chromeo, the title track?
P-Thugg: It's pretty representative of us—it's fun and has that atomic kind of funk people connect with. We don't want to lose that but we have to grow musically. In the end, we have to find a balance between that and, say, doing a free-jazz record.
CP: Speaking of new and different, we heard you did an Eagles cover in D.C. a few weeks ago. Any other bands you'd want to cover?
P-Thugg: It would be cool to do Fleetwood, but I think that's already been done.
CP: Have you thought about doing a Prince cover?
P-Thugg: If you really think about it, all of our songs are basically covers of funk songs and Prince songs, so we try to keep away from that because it would be redundant for us to cover something that we already copy! [Laughs] We want to reach out to our other influences—like, we're huge fans of '70s classic rock. I love Steely Dan.
CP: "Business casual" is an office reference, so tell me about your last "regular" job and the weirdest job you ever had.
P-Thugg: My last regular job was an accountant for a music store in Montreal. My weirdest job? Well, I was like a jack of all trades so I kind of did everything. I used to sell gold fronts.
CP: No way.
P-Thugg: Yeah, it was back in the late '90s and it was still not really back in fashion. I stopped selling them in the early 2000s. Man, I've done a lot of random stuff trying to be an entrepreneur.
CP: Chromeo touches a lot on casual relationships. What was your dating life like before Chromeo?
P-Thugg: Nothing's really changed. I've been dating on and off for years, and if I find a nice girl I'll stick with her for a year or two and then I get tired and go back to dating. It's the same scenario, except it's easier to meet girls when you're on tour. And you don't have to convince her how cool you are. She already knows.
CP: Do you read your reviews?
P-Thugg: Yes, and I don't like the bad ones.
CP: Understandable. What's one gig you'll really remember decades down the road?
P-Thugg: There was this one gig we did years ago in Santa Barbara when we were totally unknown and we were supposed to open for the Chippendales, the male dancers. We were driving there and got a call that one of them died. We were like, what the fuck, what's happening? Are we still coming? The promoter was a fan so he told us just to come anyway and "just see who shows up." We needed the money so we went, and the club was completely empty but we decided just to do the show. There were three drunk bartenders in front, dancing, a sound guy in the back, and a few security guards. It started feeling awkward and there was mic feedback, and we were like, "We're not the Chippendales." And someone in the back screamed, "THE CHIPPENDALES ARE DEAD!" It was crazy.
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"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941)
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A thing that many young fellows don't seem to realism at first is that success depends on oneself and not on a kindly fate, nor on the interest of powerful friends.
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This world that we're a' livin' in Is mighty hard to beat: Of course there's thorns in every rose, But ain't the roses sweet !
Source: Quoting Frank L. Stanton in Lessons from the Varsity of Life
Always do I recall the parting words uttered by my old governor: "My boy, never . . ." I won't set 'em down. I disregarded them fool-like and paid, and paid; had I a son I'd hand 'em on and ram 'em home. What fools we be when young. We fancy we be wise, forgetting that the old boys have graduated in the 'varsity of the world, the greatest 'varsity of all, and each day we should learn from they.
Source: quoting Janes in the Fishing Gazette in Baden-Powell's Lessons from the varsity of life
In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.
Commemorative stone in the floor of the Chapel of St. George in Westminster Abbey, London, dedicated in 1947: TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT BADEN-POWELL CHIEF SCOUT OF THE WORLD 1857-1941 Upon one side of the stone was the badge of the Boy Scouts, the arrow-head to point the true way as it had pointed the way for sailors and navigators from the time of the earliest maps; and on the other the badge of the Girl Guides-the three-leafed clover.
Source: Hilary Saint George Saunders, The Left Handshake, London, 1948. Chapter II
As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.
I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.
Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.
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