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Petitions for rainforest protection
Your signature can make a real difference. Our petitions expose destructive projects and name the perpetrators. Together we can have an even greater impact!
NO to industrial gold mining in the forests of French Guiana!
The French government is quietly promoting the industrialization of the gold sector in French Guiana. The Montagne d'Or project, scheduled for 2018, would become the largest gold mine on French soil. Not only would it have serious human and environmental impacts, it would also open the floodgates for other mining multinationals!24,773 supporters
Keep Liberia's illegal timber out of the EU!49,265 supporters
The EU has signed a timber trade agreement with Liberia, but buying from its deeply corrupt logging industry is bad for the country's development and worse for its rainforest. Tell the EU to keep timber from Liberia's fundamentally illegal logging concessions out of Europe. Please join our protest and sign our petition to the EU.
Stop logging the Temiar people's ancestral forest!104,013 supporters
Loggers are destroying precious forests in the Malaysian province of Kelantan. The indigenous Temiar have built barricades to protect their land against further plunder, but the government is violently repressing their peaceful protest. Please show your solidarity with the Temiar by signing our petition.
Keep roads out of Sabah's elephant forest!186,344 supporters
Demand for ivory is a grave threat to Sabah's pygmy elephants. Yet Malaysia is building new roads deep into their habitat that will make life much easier for poachers, loggers and palm oil companies. Tell the Malaysian government to stop the construction NOW.
The last Sumatran elephants need your voice!51,309 supporters
Some of the last Sumatran elephants roam the forest of Sepintun – a habitat that is being trashed for oil palm, pulp and rubber plantations. Conservationists have now discovered the remains of poached elephants there. Tell the authorities to give the elephants' home the protection it deserves!
A cry for help from West Africa: save us from extinction!82,608 supporters
The future looks grim for the critically endangered western chimpanzee. Protected areas are urgently needed to stop their habitat from shrinking further. Please lend our closest kin your voice and tell the governments of West Africa to do everything they can to save them.
Kellogg's, Nestlé, Unilever: NO to child labor for palm oil!113,015 supporters
Instead of going to school, many children are forced to work on the oil palm plantations of the Wilmar Group and affiliated companies. According to Amnesty International, child labor taints the palm oil used by numerous household brands: Colgate-Palmolive, Kellogg's, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble and Unilever.
Save the Noah's Ark of the South Pacific!144,143 supporters
Makatea Atoll in French Polynesia is a veritable treasure trove of nature in the middle of the South Pacific. That may soon be history, however – an Australian company wants to mine the tiny island for phosphate to produce synthetic fertilizer. Please stand with the Makatea islanders against this looming ecological disaster.
Keep oil palm plantations out of this forest!182,818 supporters
New York-based investors are eyeing Cameroon's rainforests for industrial-scale oil palm plantations. U.S. diplomats strong-armed the Cameroonian government into pushing the project through against the will of the local people, who are fighting to keep the bulldozers at bay. Tell Cameroon to reject the project once and for all.
The trees are bleeding: stop the loggers NOW!134,411 supporters
Rosewood logs spattered with red sap – as if they were bleeding – are laid out by the roadside. "If a ban is not enforced immediately, there will be nothing left," warns conservationist Hazel Chapman. The loggers are not even stopping for Gashaka Gumti National Park. Tell Nigeria's environment minister to ban the export of rosewood.
Tell the EU to ban the ivory trade – NOW!278,138 supporters
The EU sees itself as a conservation leader, yet it has a blind spot for the ivory business. The trade in "antique" ivory remains legal in the EU – a convenient loophole to launder tons of freshly poached tusks and export them to Asia. Tell the EU to kill the trade – before the trade kills the last elephants!
Stop trashing the rainforest for Nespresso coffee pods!225,155 supporters
More and more coffee drinkers swear by single-cup pods – a booming business for Nespresso, Keurig and others. Pods are tough on the planet, however: bauxite mines are eating into rainforests for the needed aluminum, most of which ends up in landfills after use. Tell the coffee companies to put an end to this needless destruction.
Protect Leuser's iconic wildlife!191,290 supporters
Nothing compares to the Leuser Ecosystem on Sumatra. It's the last place on Earth where orangutans, tigers, elephants and rhinos share a habitat. That may soon be history – a new land use plan has stripped Leuser of its protection, leaving it wide open for roads, plantations and mining. Tell the government of Aceh to protect Leuser now!
Free forest guardian Clovis!103,678 supporters
The inhabitants of Madagascar are struggling to preserve what remains of their unique natural heritage. Last year, environmentalist Armand Marozafy spent five months behind bars for blowing the whistle on timber traffickers. Now his friend Clovis Razafimalala is being imprisoned on fabricated charges. Please call for Clovis' release!
Uganda: stop the destruction of Buvuma Island124,170 supporters
10,000 hectares of forest near Lake Victoria are about to be destroyed for oil palm plantations: the Ugandan government is awarding land on Buvuma Island to international investors. The island's inhabitants, however, want to protect their nature, homes and livelihoods. Please support their struggle with your signature.
Get carcinogenic refined palm oil out of our food!146,069 supporters
Food safety experts are warning of palm oil's health risks: the refined oil contains contaminants that can cause cancer and organ damage. Toddlers and children are especially vulnerable. Tell the EU to act on the findings and protect our health by banning palm oil.
Last chance to save the Ekuri people's rainforest in Nigeria!248,197 supporters
Spectacular trees reach for the sky in one of the last rainforests in densely-populated Nigeria. The forest – habitat of chimpanzees and forest elephants and home to the indigenous Ekuri – is about to be destroyed for a superhighway to nowhere. The Ekuri are standing up against the project and need international support – please sign!
Indonesia: ban the trade in wild birds!170,875 supporters
It's a scene out of a nightmare – thousands of birds are packed tightly into small cages in Indonesia's markets. Trappers supplying these markets are driving thirteen species to the brink of extinction and are having an incalculable impact on biodiversity. Tell the Indonesian government to ban the trade now.
Take pangolins off the menu now!282,783 supporters
Pangolins are nearly extinct in the wild. Yet in Vietnam and China, the animals are still considered a delicacy and their scales are in great demand for traditional "medicine". Call on the Chinese and Vietnamese governments to stop the pangolin from being hunted to oblivion.
A cry for help from the Amazon rainforest149,956 supporters
Brazil's indigenous Paiter Surui people are desperate for help: armed illegal loggers, gold and diamond miners are invading their ancestral land, felling trees, poisoning rivers and threatening the forest dwellers at gunpoint. Tell the Brazilian government to stop this unfolding environmental and humanitarian disaster NOW.
Don't trash the rainforest for "green" jet fuel!122,029 supporters
The international aviation industry wants to achieve "carbon-neutral growth" using biofuels. This would almost inevitably involve palm oil and the further destruction of rainforests for oil palm plantations in the name of "green" travel. Please join us in speaking out against the ICAO's misguided plan.
Stop a billion-dollar gift to the palm oil industry!259,254 supporters
Bad news for the rainforest and its inhabitants: Indonesia's President Widodo is planning a $1.35 billion biofuel subsidy that would dramatically speed up deforestation. Please speak out against this insanity!
Stop the sellout of Liberia's unique forest heritage!139,711 supporters
Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), a palm oil company, holds hundreds of thousands hectares of land as an agricultural concession. GVL is now pushing to permit logging for export in its concession. International environmentalists are calling for a ban on the export of such timber to prevent the further destruction of rainforests.
Tell the EU to stop aiding ivory traffickers!194,854 supporters
Poachers kill an African elephant every 15 minutes on average. Despite the desperate situation of these wildlife icons, the EU opposes a total ban on ivory sales that would be crucial to elephants' survival. Tell the EU not to make itself an accessory to criminal gangs of poachers and ivory traffickers.
Keep coal power plants out of tiger country!154,620 supporters
The Sundarbans – the world's largest mangrove forest and home to Bengal tigers and millions of villagers – has weathered cyclones and tsunamis. Now the UNESCO World Heritage Site faces a new threat: the planned Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh. Tell Exim Bank India to cancel the financing of this potentially disastrous project.
Eni: stop trashing the rainforest for "green" fuel!137,054 supporters
The Italian Eni energy group is selling a new, supposedly sustainable diesel fuel that contains 15% palm oil. Diesel+ has been available at 3,500 Eni service stations since mid-January. Yet the fuel is anything but "green" – the plantation industry that supplies Eni's palm oil is the worst driver of deforestation in Southeast Asia.
Stop financing cruel factory farms!151,692 supporters
European institutions are financing cruelty to animals on a staggering scale. In a recent example, Belarus egg producer Servolux applied for funds from the EBRD, a European development bank, to build a giant poultry factory with battery cages that would be illegal in the EU. Tell the EBRD not to approve public funds for factory farms!
Respite for Siberut's forest: biomass project stalled by protests184,275 supporters
An energy company wants to cut down rainforest to make way for 20,000 hectares of biomass plantations on Siberut, one of the most enchanting islands of Indonesia. The project was recently put on hold after vehement protests by the indigenous people and international community – let's make sure that it is scrapped once and for all!
Panama: don't evict Ngäbe families for the Barro Blanco dam121,861 supporters
For years, Panama's indigenous Ngäbe Buglé community has been locked in a struggle to keep its ancestral land: the Barro Blanco dam is a hydropower project that threatens to flood their homes and schools, as well as their religious, archaeological and cultural sites. Please sign our petition against their impending forced relocation.
NO to gold mining in Colombia's Yaigojé Apaporis National Park!126,189 supporters
Two North American companies want to dig for gold in a national park in Colombia's Amazonas Department. The miners are using the free trade agreement between Colombia and the U.S. to sue the country for $16.5 billion and bring the Colombian government to its knees. It's a foretaste of what we can expect under TPP and TTIP.
Tell the EU to ban Monsanto's glyphosate!185,237 supporters
Glyphosate is everywhere – the world's best-selling herbicide is slowly poisoning the environment and our food supply. The World Health Organization classified it as a probable carcinogen, but that's not stopping the EU from wanting to approve its use for another 15 years! Tell the EU and its member states to ban glyphosate in Europe.
How many more killings? stop the Agua Zarca dam!154,214 supporters
Environmentalists Berta Cáceres and Nelson García were murdered recently in Honduras. They led a campaign to stop the Agua Zarca dam, which would have a dramatic impact on nature and local communities. European backers dropped the project in the wake of the killings. Tell technology vendors Siemens and Voith to abandon it as well.
Serengeti must not die: save Kenya's Mau Forest152,593 supporters
Mau Forest is a critical source of water for the Mara River – the lifeblood of the Serengeti ecosystem and millions of people living downstream. Inexplicably, the Kenyan government has just authorized the cutting of 17,000 hectares of this forest. Tell them that this is a grave mistake.
Tell UNESCO to recognize great apes as Living World Heritage191,952 supporters
Bonobos, orangutans, chimpanzees and gorillas are facing extinction. Please support the Great Ape Project's call for UNESCO to recognize our closest relatives as a Living World Heritage before it's too late.
Get Stihl chainsaws out of the rainforest!130,081 supporters
German chainsaw manufacturer Stihl is making itself an accomplice to the illegal destruction of rainforests in Malaysia: the distribution of Stihl equipment there is handled by KTS Group, an opaque web of timber and palm oil companies notorious for running roughshod across the land of indigenous peoples.
Save the habitat of 26,000 Humboldt penguins!226,801 supporters
Chile wants to build two industrial ports in the habitat of the Humboldt penguin, endangering 13,000 breeding pairs of this vulnerable species. The first planned port has already been approved by the authorities. Local environmentalists fighting the project need international support: please sign our petition to have it scrapped.
Gorillas in danger: save Kafuga Forest Reserve!208,318 supporters
Nearly half of Earth's remaining mountain gorillas – only around 400 animals – live deeply secluded in Uganda's Bwindi National Park. But now, tea planters want to clear-cut an adjoining buffer zone, Kafuga Pocket Forest Reserve. The destruction of the forest would push the critically endangered gorillas one step closer to extinction.
EU: ban the import of blood timber NOW!160,500 supporters
Lush rainforest covers much of the Central African Republic. Yet civil war and illegal logging are taking their toll, with brutal militias funding their operations by collecting protection money from criminal loggers. Most of the illicit timber is destined for Europe. Call on the EU to ban imports of blood timber from CAR.
Cameroon: NO to land grabbing for palm oil!110,989 supporters
6,000 small farmers and their families in Cameroon have had their livelihoods wiped out by Socfin, a Luxembourg-based company that grabbed their land for plantations. Please tell Socfin and major shareholder Bolloré to respect their rights and return their land.
Romania: stop the assault on Europe's last pristine wilderness123,179 supporters
Bears and wolves still prowl the ancient forests of the Carpathian Mountains. Yet their days are numbered: organized criminals are illegally clear-cutting entire hillsides to supply European timber companies. Tell the Romanian environmental ministry to put a stop to the destruction.
Deforestation for chocolate? No thanks!114,644 supporters
Illegal cocoa farms are eating away at protected forests in Côte d'Ivoire and destroying the habitat of primates. Chimpanzees and several monkey species have all but disappeared from the Dassioko Sud and Port Gauthier reserves. Please call on the Ivoirian government to set up a ranger program to police the protected areas effectively.
Nigeria: oil palms in gorilla habitat?128,310 supporters
Palm oil giant Wilmar's plantations are encroaching on protected Nigerian forests, including Cross River National Park, the home of critically endangered gorillas. Tell Wilmar and its major buyer Unilever – the manufacturer behind brands such as Dove, Becel, Flora and Hellmann's – to stop NOW.
Globalization gone mad: Stop the Nicaragua Canal!187,296 supporters
Nicaragua is planning a new canal for container ships and oil tankers. While the project is economically important for China – the apparent driving force behind the canal – it would mean clear-cutting rainforests, mass resettlement and destroying Lake Nicaragua's ecosystem. Please speak out against this looming environmental disaster.
Papua: "Surrendering our land would be suicide"175,983 supporters
Indonesia's President Widodo took office in 2014 promising to protect forests and respect the rights of indigenous people. Now he wants to turn 1.2 million hectares of rainforest and indigenous land in Papua into industrial plantations. Let's remind him of his election promise!
The death of the forest is the end of our people180,410 supporters
Brazilian indigenous peoples are currently locked in a fight for survival: Big Business is pushing to scrap the constitutional protection of their ancestral territories and clear even more rainforest for soy monocultures, cattle, hydropower and mining. Tell the Brazilian government to get its priorities right.
Finland: it's time to recognize the rights of indigenous people!27,713 supporters
The Saami of northern Europe are facing threats from all sides. Timber, pulp and mining companies are crowding into their ancestral land, clearing the boreal forests and destroying their livelihoods. Enough is enough: tell Finland to finally adopt the International Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (ILO 169).
Take a stand for South Africa's rhinos!128,823 supporters
South Africa's rhinos are on the brink – the government wants to legalize trade in rhino horn in an attempt to curb poaching. When this was tried in the past with ivory, a massacre ensued. Please tell the South African government to abandon this wildly misguided proposal.
Jaguars or cattle? Hands off the Los Chimalapas rainforest124,762 supporters
Los Chimalapas, one of Mexico's last rainforests, is the home of the indigenous Zoque people. They have a long history of defending their forest and its biodiversity against outsiders, but now loggers and cattle ranchers are crowding in while politicians turn a blind eye. Please tell the Mexican government that enough is enough.
Pygmy sloths: here today, extinct tomorrow?138,974 supporters
It's hard to imagine a more disarming creature than the pygmy sloth. About half the size of a cat and completely helpless against human predation, it is one of the world's most endangered mammals. Tell the Panamanian authorities to protect them NOW.
Stop the chainsaws: save the home of the Woodlark cuscus110,178 supporters
This charming creature is the Woodlark cuscus, a marsupial that lives on Woodlark Island, a small tropical paradise off Papua New Guinea. The cuscus' sole habitat is in grave danger – please speak out to stop their forests from being felled for lumber and patio furniture.
Stop deforestation for tar sand oil: Say no to CETA233,599 supporters
Vast swathes of land are being devastated and rivers polluted for Canadian tar sand crude – the world's dirtiest oil. While tar sand oil is currently banned in the EU, the oil industry will force open Europe's door if the CETA trade agreement is ratified. Speak out against CETA!
EU destroys 700,000 hectares of rainforest for biofuels299,336 supporters
The EU wants to save our climate with supposedly green biofuels and has deemed palm oil "sustainable". Yet on the other side of the globe, rainforests are being clear-cut to produce the 1.9 million tons of palm oil that end up in European fuel tanks every year. Tell EU legislators to put an end to this tragically misguided policy!


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Hamburg latest Navis solutions partner
Hamburg Port Consulting has joined Navis to support a worldwide rollout of its N4 terminal operating system
Technology provider, Navis, part of Cargotec Corporation, has announced that Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH (HPC) has signed on as Navis's newest implementation service partner, to assist with the worldwide rollout and optimisation of its N4 terminal operating system.
In one of its first projects as a Navis partner, HPC will support the implementation of N4 at all three Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG container terminals.
Henning Kinkhorst, managing director of HPC, said: "The collaboration with Navis for the rollout of the N4 terminal operating system in ports and handling companies worldwide complements our strongly expanding strategic IT consulting business unit."
"We are able to contribute our extensive knowledge of ports to this collaboration, where we benefit in particular form our many years of experience with the integration of processes at the interface between people, machines and IT systems," he added.
To prepare for the rollout, IT experts at HPC underwent a specialised certification programme with an emphasis on customer requirements and training.

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On the edge of Canon City; this 4 mile round trip hike was perfect. After a short steep climb the trail levels out and follows the river upstream for two miles. You'll pass...
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On the edge of Canon City; this 4 mile round trip hike was perfect. After a short steep climb the trail levels out and follows the river upstream for two miles. You'll pass through a few old rail tunnels; hence the name. The views up and down the river valley are splendid. Highly recommend.
great fun for the family. the kids enjoy running and shouting through the tunnels but it wasn't too stressful for anyone who wants to hike it.
Loved the views. Wore the teenagers out . Will go back many times for sure. Took some amazing pictures
From the parking area is an uphill climb along a paved path that will make you huff and puff. Take your time and stick it out. Once you round the corner at the top then it's all easy and you'll be rewarded by walking through three tunnels - the longest more like a cave as it gets pretty dark. Once...
We finally took friends' advice and walked this trail one sunny afternoon. (We're grateful we brought water.) Spectacular scenery for this hike included the canyon, the river (we saw rafters), the railroad tracks (we saw the Royal Gorge train), three tunnels, and two wooden bridges. Mile markers every quarter-mile encouraged us to keep going the full two-mile distance to the...
Easy walk after the first little bit of steep incline. Beautiful around every turn and bend. You walk along the Arkansas river way up high. We were lucky enough to see the train leaving and coming back. Took us a couple of hours but we didn't get in any hurry.
Beautiful walk or bike way. It's a lovely way to see the panorama of the west part of the railway, river and city.
Great opportunity to do a hike and saw some sweet tunnels. We wished there would have been a few more tunnels but did not effect our beautiful view of the Arakansaw River.
We found this short 1.5+mile hike on Trip Advisor and sought it out to hike while on a camping trip last week. We arrived there shortly after lunch on a warm 85 degree afternoon. We had our 4 yr old Black Lab with us and packed plenty of water. The trail is very warm and dusty and water is essential....
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Dear Diary Is Highly Spooked
On the nature of Hoke, life, the universe, and everything. Upcoming Christopher Nolan movie Interstellar went to great lengths to produce the above image, the best yet of what a black hole looks like based on the mathematics of relativity—not just the lensing of space behind it but the surprising twisting of the accretion disc around it due to the warping of space where it's formed.
What's spooky about it is the thing you're seeing isn't the thing that exists. What exists is a disc around a spinning supermass, like Saturn's rings. What you're seeing however is space itself getting so warped by that mass that you can see it in 4D, bending space like a piece of paper.
Best and Worst posted a trailer for Interstellar and raved about the "our place in the dirt" quote while neglecting to mention the one in there by Dylan Thomas:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
This is how I want Michigan to finish the season: certain of its own mortality, fighting anyway. Last year's blowout to MSU was an apocalypse, but at that moment I was profoundly mad, not embarrassed. I was embarrassed when they went out flat and uncaring against Mississippi State in the Gator Bowl. Whenever I wonder if we were right to can Rodriguez when we did, I remember that act of cowardice. Whenever I wonder if we're being too hard on Brady, I think on how he gives up without looking like giving up. Bronx had a different explanation:
This might be semantics, but I don't think Hoke is a quitter. He's (sadly) calling the game the same way in the 1st quarter as he is in the 4th quarter. He's like the worst movie version of artificial intelligence.
So he's a robot who faces adversity by going back to his safe place, i.e. the way Lloyd Carr would coach a 1st quarter. I'm not buying it. I think he closes up shop when he thinks it's hopeless, and believes we're not smart enough to notice it.
Ron Utah nevertheless argues that at least that Brady is an essentially good man. I subscribe to the DFW method of rating people: their expectations of other people tend to be the greatest insight into how they themselves think. For example the dude on the board who thinks everything is about political warfare is just a really partisan dude. Brandon's emails were relevant not because they explain how he alienated fans—if he wrote 300 of these that's still a thousandth of the 300k waiting list his policies expunged. Rather they showed us how arrogant Brandon thinks his critics are, thus how truly arrogant Brandon is.
Hoke's goodness is best exemplified, perhaps, in his weaknesses as a coach. He doesn't ever seem prepared for enemies who want to gut him, because he doesn't have that killer instinct. Perhaps he doesn't push his players hard enough—maybe that comes from not expecting other coaches to be doing so. His players seem stunned when there's a cheap shot against them—we look at that like "where's your spirit?!"" but it could just be they're not the type of dudes who expect the other team is trying to scramble their brains.
It is a mistake to see the obvious flaws in Hoke and assume we would make better head coaches. It is not a mistake to see these flaws and assume more successful head coaches would make better head coaches. Perhaps it was our own naivety to think Michigan's particular advantages could compensate for the weakness of goodness.
This football program is as doomed as matter in an accretion disc. Some of the players in it won't be here (Peppers at least said he will be the last to leave), and there's no guarantee that the next step will take us to the dark core of the black hole or shooting out into space to form a new star. Michigan looks headed to 4-8 by Massey estimates, which LSA matrixcised.
This is mathematical reality. The above is how the universe is arranged. But what separates life from every other arrangement of matter is how we approach our doom. Life doesn't just ride the mathematics arc until it spirals into nothingness. Life rages.
It probably won't change anything, but the players on this doomed team plan to rage against that probability. It almost certainly won't change anything, but most fans have chosen to march back to the Big House, and the other home field in Evanston, and even down to the darkest place in the universe, and rage against the dying of the light.
If you'd like to do so and don't have tickets, head to this thread before 3pm today and tell us about the crazy thing you've done. I'm now up to 8 tickets to give away.
[Jump for metaphysical beings—ghouls, goblins, zombies, etc.]
Dear Diary Wants Somme More
The running game is going forward again; just another 490 miles to Berlin.
Not with you in charge, sir, no. So we continue to continue to pretend our problems will ever end. Alum96 showed that Power 5 coaches don't tend to last very long, and Yeoman wrote that just 3/43 guys who had a losing season in their first five at a school lost their job for it. The thing: it depends what your historic expectations are. A guy who did a research project on this stuff sent me his paper and is trying to get the data from his old school; we'll address this again.
Wish lists. Ron Utah and Eye of the Tiger both posted what they're looking for in coaching candidates. Both are pretty much in favor of guys who run modern offenses, which is everybody but Shaw at this point.
More candidates. Bud Foster and Georgia DC Jeremy Pruitt were Ron's latest profiles. I don't think either would come anyway. Foster at least has had commensurate offers for five years and never jumped on them.
A more interesting one: Padog got into Doc Holliday (of Marshall) in case a WVU guy wants another shot at mentioning Don Nehlan's Bo connection at his intro (and position himself as the Bo to Urban's Woody). This one's a bit of a reach; his head coaching experience is Marshall, which was 7-6 the year before he arrived and went 5-7, 7-6, 5-7, 10-4 since. He's currently 7-0 and hasn't scored less than 42 points in a game, but his most impressive victory in all of that time was last week at FIU. I plugged him into my matrix and came up with a 42: more attractive than Hoke but more of a gamble than Bo was.
Etc. Padog is also doing the bottom to top hoops preview redux (he was at it way early this year). First up is Rutgers. Wolverines in the NFL.
Best of the Board
Brian covered the painting of the Diag's block 'M':
If you're wondering where was that one frat (Theta Xi) whose couch vigil usually prevents this sort of thing, they asked a university admin to go out Tuesday and were told to wait until Thursday. Please boo the next person you see on campus wearing a corduroy jacket (if it's not the admin it's probably a hipster who will appreciate the whimsy of your non-sequitur).
As to catching these slightly academically inferior criminals [a fake account representing] the UGLI apparently can identify the perpetrators in court:
We should've seen the vandalization of the Diag M coming. Last night some State students came in and asked our librarians how to spell 'MSU'
— Shapiro Undergrad (@UMichUGLI) October 22, 2014
Police are stationed outside all MSU bluebook exams, and questioning anyone who fails.
I've heard they got the rock too, which: whatevers. I painted the rock 8 or 10 times in college (the building behind it was my fraternity's historic building and our crests are still on the gates), and every time we went to do so, it was various stages of still wet from the last paint job; half the time it was painted over again before the weekend was out.
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Dear Diary is 1183 and We're All Barbarians
SUCH a good movie. You chivalric fool; as if the way one fell down mattered. On Wednesday this week I had to put our family dog down—he was 14 and been slowing down since we lost my dad, and he had a stroke during the night, and it was sad but undeniably the best way and best time to go. Afterwards I was supposed to collect my daughter, get the roundtable posted, then get to the facility that's trying to get my Mom able to walk again within the impossibly small window her insurance company will pay for it. I didn't want to engage the sympathy choir, nor was I ready to go fixing things or move on. Instead I wandered into a breakfast place and ordered a coffee, and stared at texts of things people say when your heretofore ridiculously fortunate family is going through the mother of all mean regressions.
SUCH a good movie.
You chivalric fool; as if the way one fell down mattered. On Wednesday this week I had to put our family dog down—he was 14 and been slowing down since we lost my dad, and he had a stroke during the night, and it was sad but undeniably the best way and best time to go. Afterwards I was supposed to collect my daughter, get the roundtable posted, then get to the facility that's trying to get my Mom able to walk again within the impossibly small window her insurance company will pay for it. I didn't want to engage the sympathy choir, nor was I ready to go fixing things or move on. Instead I wandered into a breakfast place and ordered a coffee, and stared at texts of things people say when your heretofore ridiculously fortunate family is going through the mother of all mean regressions.
After a time I struck up a conversation with an older dude who from his Michigan hat I identified with the super Michigan-stickered car outside. He was, of course, a current player's dad, and other than his kid who's the best player in the entire world, he had a lot to say about the darkness hanging over this program that twinkling lights could only temporarily keep at bay.
He echoed a lot of what another player's brother said in a diary earlier in the week:
The program is in shambles. Bo is not coming back and it's time to move on. The cult like adherence to tradition and "this is Michigan" is the very reason we are plummeting towards rock bottom. We don't need another Bo or another Michigan Man, we need a competent, forward thinking administration who will take advantage of the massive institutional advantages Michigan provides.
The players are acknowledging reality while doing everything they can to make sure there's a team tomorrow. We got a glimpse of this from Gardner's aneurism of leadership
…and another from a letter to the players by their senior punter:
"Play for the guys in your class who you texted the day you committed, and live in the dorms with. Play for the elementary kids back home whom you've never even met, but know who you are and where you play. Play for your high school coaches, the guys you've met at combines, your family, your friends. Finally, play for yourself. Pride in yourself means that, win or lose, you worked and competed as hard as you possibly could until the schedule provided no more games to play."
When the fall is all that is, it matters.
[After the jump, I know. You know I know. I know you know I know. We know Henry knows, and Henry knows we know it. We're a knowledgeable family.]
Dear Diary Says Show Up Anyway
From left #3, #24, #23. [Fuller]
Come tailgate, support kids. A reminder that you can join us and former players tomorrow at the Go Blue Bowl Tailgate organized by Marlin Jackson's organization (specifically through the efforts of an extraordinary lady named Kat Mills). This is for charity so suggested minimum donation of $5 if you're just coming for the Q&A and more if you plan to drink beer and hang for awhile.
A couple of Marlin's high donors deserve recognition: Huron Valley Financial, the Bank of Ann Arbor, and MDen. Christians Catering is bringing food, and the Beer Grotto in Dexter is providing the beer. Full details at the link.
If you ask me, it's better to go. Everyone wants to do something to demonstrate that Michigan fans are fed up with a director who treats this program like his personal play toy, and that the public who do own this public institution are sick of it being hoarded, and its name besmirched by dishonesty and obfuscation (Best & Worst).
But for the record, I'm not in favor of boycotts, walkouts, late arrivals, or any other form of protest in which the protestors miss a snap, because I think it misses the target while undermining the one thing we all care about the most.
I know after the Minnesota game that Brian called for a boycott of Maryland if Brandon and Hoke were still here, and I know what name's on my paychecks. I know the players aren't made of glass, and that they're well aware that the vitriol toward the people in charge is not directed at them, although they generally take attacks on their coaches personally (they chose them after all).
But I didn't know until fairly recently why it's so important to them that fans show up: To a player, fans equal energy. Human brains are not wired to grant conscious access to the body's full capacity. Put a hungry lion behind the 20th fastest man on the planet and Usain Bolt will be left in his dust. Whatever our expectations for athletes we paid massive sums to see, they cannot escape their own psychology.
CSG president Bobby Dishell's heart is in the right place, but he's wrong: you're not hurting the players; you're hurting their performance.
Athletes draw motivation from the crowd. Michigan Stadium's size is a huge recruiting tool because an athlete brain understands intuitively that 109,000 shouting faces will get more out of him than 84,000. The number gets in their heads, but empty seats do as well. Go watch September baseball at a bad team's venue long after they've been eliminated: it's crap. Every play that your seat is empty contributes a tiny bit to Michigan (and, coincidentally, their opponent) playing a bit worse.
Weigh that against the maximum that you will realistically move the decision of Mark Schlissel. Your empty seat speaks, but you can also be in that seat screaming "Go!" at Blue to the furthest extent of your vocal capacity whenever they take the field or need a boost, and screaming "Fire Brandon!" whenever he starts trying to blast you. I think we can get that message across while taking a cue from old blue, and using this weekend to show the players we haven't checked out on them. You can make a statement with where you choose to put your ass, but that's hardly the most effective communicative tool in your anatomical package.
Here's what I suggest we do tomorrow: From the moment the band finishes marching off until kickoff chant "Let's Go Blue!" as loud as you fucking can. At the end of the the game, win or lose, stand in your seat and chant "Let's Go Blue!" AS LOUD. AS. YOU. FUCKING. CAN. In between, scream your head off on Penn State 3rd downs, boo the attendance lie, and sprinkle in "Fire Brandon!" as necessary.
Let's leave Hoke alone, since it does us no good if he loses the team now, and his fate is sealed to his record (Ron Utah with some candidate grades) so any more dogging from us is superfluous. ST3 made the case that the coaching staff has cost Michigan perhaps three wins with strategic errors: dumb-punting vs. Utah, starting Shane, and giving Rutgers that end-of-1st-half drive. I think it's more accurate to say that these coaching errors put Michigan at a small strategic disadvantage, and that the team is not so good that it can win without every scrap of advantage it can get.
Yes, showing up and laying off the coach is what Dave Brandon wants you to do. Fuck him; we come to root for Michigan.
[Jump: clans, coaches, etc.]
Dear Diary is the Problem With Michigan
I'm taking down the office now. [Fuller]
Open letters to people who don't read them isn't exactly productive, but it's useful in a snowflakey kind of way. The MGoPostal service delivered a few of note: JeepinBen gives the next coach the correct answers to the Michigan questions. A guy emailed Schlissel our complaint list about Dave Brandon. A wealthy alum says to Schlissel or whoever that hubris is the problem.
You can read a form reply from the president's office here.
Brandon at least had the courtesy to provide a personal response to a lady canceling her long-held season tickets [UPDATED: this was apparently sent last December].
How to have a happy life. A few diarists looked a the qualities that seem to lead to success in a head coaching change. That first is a look at the coaching histories of Michigan, OSU, Bama, ND and USC with particular attention paid to whether guys with connections to the university had more success (they didn't).
The second starts by making a comparison of Bo to Stoops and goes on to sort out some common threads in other coaching changes. He came upon the same thing I did when trying to identify common threads in successful transitions: whatever side of the ball you don't know, just keep the coordinator from the old regime.
I would have been dead set against it at the time but in retrospect RR perhaps could have saved himself a lot of problems with the old guard by retaining Ron English. Or that could have led to an even bigger explosion when he fired English instead of Shafer for not running a 3-3-5 or getting along with Gibson. But imagine Michigan right now if Hoke had retained Calvin Magee, which we were VERY MUCH hoping for.
[After the jump, profiles of guys for Hoke's job; why head trauma is a thing and wasn't before]
Dear Diary Lights the Tires and Kicks the Fires
Devin, I'm sorry about Funchess. Everybody liked him. I'm sorry.
Red or Blue. A week after a program-shattering loss turns fandom into an election year, with wins taking the place of electoral votes. This year's ballot has close races in quarterback, head coach, and AD, as well as referendums on blocking style, tempo, and punt formations.
On Saturday night those races appeared decided when everybody departed with eight minutes left of a two-score game against an opponent Michigan was outgaining. They'd seen the jewel of Rich Rodriguez's recruiting wasting an NCAA gift of a senior year in a new offense that still treated him like Tom Brady, so shell-shocked by years of abuse that any peripheral motion triggered desperation.
Then Shane, and the interception came, followed by the rain, and you could count the Hoke supporters by picking out the few hundred dots of blue or yellow between the blob of red. Everybody else looked at the scoreboard, looked at the radar, and recalled Michigan huddling—huddling!!!!—and calculated the obvious move. The 98,000 empty seats were a consensus: Hoke probably has to go, and Dave Brandon absolutely has to go first. The moment was stark, but it couldn't last, because stupid hope and the will to support your team is stronger than your brain's ability to store information it doesn't want.
The fanbase needs to have this conversation, and the diaries did just that. ST3 posted a curtailed Inside the Boxscore wherein his kid's quotes provided the subheads:
"Another huddle? Really?"
* Seriously, my son actually said that. I don't think he reads MGoBlog, and I hadn't said anything about tempo or huddling. So if a 9-year old can watch Utah succeeding with pace, watch Michigan plodding along, and gets exasperated at the huddling, why can't Brady figure this out?
Jhackney got home and thought about spiritual cleansings and what kind of coach doesn't wear a headset:
Dave Brandon is a whiz at marketing and salesmanship and Hoke is a whiz at clapping his hands while keeping his ears the same color tan of his face and running a clean program. There needs to be a coach that is involved in at least one side of the ball. Saban would mutilate your skull with his championship rings if you tried taking his head set away.
Every coach has inherent flaws—Nick Saban is an offensive dinosaur and doesn't care about his players beyond what they can do for him. It's whether the good things overcome those flaws. Hoke makes his program worse by willfully ignoring fundamental developments like the spread offense, tempo, the shield punt, and game theory. He and Mattison make it better by running it clean, recruiting excellent players and people, and building a strong defense. Like with political candidates, everybody's flawed; it's whether their angels or demons will come out ahead.
Best and Worst saw the fruit of Hoke's demonic seeds:
No, what killed my optimism about this team and this staff, about this program as it is currently stumbling through another shitty year, is how absolutely true-to-form it is to the dreams of the men in charge.
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Ron Utah made the obvious comparison: we are experiencing a reverse Rich Rod. I'll add Bill Martin reversed to Dave Brandon and liken it to the classic two-party problem. Martin and Rodriguez alienated the crucial top of the fan pyramid with their Whiggish football ways, an inability to commit to a defensive faith resulting in total bedlam. Brandon went the other way; his Tory pandering alienated the students (SaddestTailgateEver on another little hoarded thing) and entitled alumni (dnak438 on his noodle exchange with Brandon) while Hoke's offense and special teams have repeatedly been derailed by dogma trumping sense.
Given most of the week to calm down, jmdblue wrote that he'd rather give Brady one more term to work things out while the upstarts drown themselves in their own corruptions. Unless someone can convince Colin Powell to run.
Etc. Alum96 reviewed the 2012 recruiting class to see if there was a development issue. If you don't compare against other schools though it means nothing, since most recruits don't play to their star rankings. Average size of each B1G team's offensive line starters. GIF about punting. Regular stats make M look good (see: outgained ND and Utah).


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Thanks for the applause on my first posting I thought it was time I started
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tall it had fallen over and was laying on the ground after a rain and I
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Curtis Thompson may always be Nick and Lexi Thompson's brother, but he might not be "Nick and Lexi's brother" in conversation much longer.
Curtis Thompson understands that after her impressive victory last April in the Kraft Nabisco Championship -- becoming the second-youngest woman to win a major -- his 19-year-old sister Lexi might have a bit more of the spotlight than a guy who announced three months later he was leaving LSU to pursue a professional career.
"I'm used to it, for now," Curtis Thompson said of having a famous pair of siblings. "That's just the way it's been for a while."
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But based on the way he handled himself on the Cobra Puma Golf range Tuesday at the PGA Show Outdoor Demo Day at Orange County National Golf Center, it might not be that long before the roles are reversed. Curtis Thompson teed up five balls in a driving exhibition against his long-hitting sister, and wound up winning with a longest drive of 316 yards. Lexi's longest was 285.
Attendees then had the opportunity to see if they could exceed either drive, with the first one to do so winning a new Cobra Fly-Z driver.
It was Curtis' first time at a public Cobra Puma event, but he signed autographs and posed for photos with fans like he had been doing it all his life. The Coral Springs, Fla., native hopes to make it a habit.
And as far as outdriving his sister?
"Well, I do have an advantage," Curtis Thompson said.
With that kind of power -- and winning genetics -- it might not be long before Curtis Thompson can place a trophy or two on the family mantle as somebody more than "Nick and Lexi's brother."
It's a hybrid between a golf push cart and a skateboard, and it was one of the more unusual hands-on displays Tuesday at the PGA Show Outdoor Demo Day.
So what's it like to ride the GolfBoard? We asked some of the people who braved it to give their honest opinion -- and they unanimously agreed it was fun and easier to control than they expected.
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Penny Holden, Pittsburgh: "It was easier than I thought to turn. I'd like to try it with a golf bag on to see if you could actually maneuever it as well. I really like that it stopped when you let off (the accelerator). You weren't afraid to fall forward, because it did come to a stop. To turn, you have to shift your weight -- and I felt like I had to make a wide arc, but I'm guessing the more you get used to it, the more you figure out how to manuever it better."
Brian Skena, Winter Garden, Fla.: "I'm a surfer/snowboarder, and first getting on it, you have to trust that it's going to carve. But as soon as you figure out that you can lean into it and carve, it rides similarly. Hanging onto the stability bar, I'd be interested in trying it without it. That almost puts a little stress on the forearm. You can lean into it really hard. I tried to make a tight turn and didn't make it, but it might have been because I didn't trust myself and not run over somebody's tent. As soon as you let off the throttle, it slows down. You're not going to run over anybody."
Jerry Stenstrom, Kalamazoo, Mich.: "You have to go back to skateboarding a little bit. It'll take you back to your youth. But it was a lot of fun. I think we'd get out there and have more fun surfing around on this than we would playing golf. I don't know that we'd use it at our course, but it is new."
Phil Allen, Oak Brook, Ill.: "At first, it was a little scary. But after you got the hang of it, it was a lot of fun. We were talking about it -- we're on the board of our club and that's why we're down here. We're trying to get golf rounds up and this might be one of those ways to get the young guys out. It's somewhere in between a little motorbike and a skateboard. It takes just a little time to get used to the acceleration, but once you do, it's pretty nice. Anybody could do it."
Christopher Johnson, Vail, Colo.: "I think it would be perfect for us, with so many snowboarders and skiers and people willing to try outdoor activities. It was similar to skateboarding in a way -- a little scary on the hills -- but it was fun, it was a blast. I'd say you'd be used to it within a few holes. There was a learning curve, even in the 20 seconds I rode it. I got more comfortable, for sure."
The Bend, Ore.-based company won the 2014 PGA Merchandise Show award for best new product. The company claims the GolfBoard speeds up the game, reduces turf wear and attracts a younger audience.
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LA QUINTA, Calif. (AP) -- Robert Allenby has withdrawn from the Humana Challenge while he recovers from a beating and robbery last week in Honolulu.
Allenby said Tuesday he is skipping the tournament on the advice of his doctor. He wants to make sure he is fully recovered before returning to competition.
Allenby says he was beaten and robbed Friday night. He doesn't recall many details except being thrown out of a car in a downtown park in Honolulu. He posted photos of his face with a bloodied scrape on the forehead and nose, and a left eye that was swollen and badly bruised.
Police are investigating.
Greg Norman has celebrated some of the greatest victories in the game of golf, and he's suffered some of the greatest defeats. But in both cases, Norman said he learned something he could use to deal with life's ups and downs.
And on Monday at the PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit, Norman credited Jack Nicklaus with instilling that disposition, both from reading his books and knocking on his front door.
Norman first picked up the game as a teenager in Australia, after playing other sports growing up.
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"When I started the game of golf, I was a 27-handicapper and wanted to figure out how I could get better fast, so I read his books," Norman told the audience of more than 900 PGA Professionals. "'Golf My Way' was one of them, and I just absorbed myself in it. I was breaking down and compartmentalizing the process that he had."
In less than two years, Norman became a scratch golfer and began a journey that would take him to the PGA Tour. He burst onto the scene in 1980 with a victory in the Australian Open, then finished fourth in the 1981 Masters. The leading money-winner on the European Tour in 1982, Norman decided to try his hand in America, eventually settling in Orlando, then moving to North Palm Beach.
"I was fortunate enough to move down farther south to Jack's neighborhood," Norman said. "I never had a problem going up and knocking on Jack's door and saying 'Jack, I'm new to your neighborhood. Do you mind if I come over and pick your brain every now and then?'
"And there would be times when we'd be standing there in his driveway, talking about the game and life and it'd be pouring down rain. And Barbara Nicklaus would come out and say, 'Do you realize it's raining right now?' And we'd look at each other and say, 'No.' Because we were so engrossed in our conversation."
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One of Norman's most famous defeats came in the 1986 Masters, when he rallied to tie Nicklaus with one hole remaining, only to bogey the 18th and miss out on a sudden-death playoff. The other came at Augusta in 1996, when Nick Faldo overcame a six-shot deficit on the final day.
Again, Norman learned from both experiences -- and it was Nicklaus who offered guidance.
"Jack taught me to be a great winner," Norman said. "To be a great winner means you're very humble about it. And once you become a great winner, you learn to be an excellent loser. You're going to lose more than you win, and if you think about it, if you just relate it to the game of golf, you're definitely going to lose more than you win.
"If you can learn to become a great winner and excellent loser, you'll become pretty much a well-rounded individual, and that resonates through your life in general."
That's more than just what happens on the golf course, Norman said. It involves not only your private life, but other ventures as well.
"When you go through these ups and downs in life, and you're under the microscope and everybody reports on every little mistake you make, it's no different in business," he said. "We make mistakes in business, too. Just that they're private and nobody sees it or reads about it. So there's no question about it. Jack was a huge influence on me and about my attitude and how I've dealt with things in life."
According to Bubba Watson, his father wanted him to become a professional baseball player. Of course, Watson stuck to golf, which in turn has turned him into a part owner of a baseball team.
Watson took to Twitter on Monday to announce that he is now a part owner of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, the AA affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds.
It's official...part owner of @BlueWahoosBBall Love my hometown #GoWahoos
— bubba watson (@bubbawatson) January 19, 2015
Go wahoos! @bubbawatson is now a co-owner for the blue wahoos!!! Go bubba! pic.twitter.com/B59O7D3v3W
— Kenli (@kadams23) January 19, 2015
Welcome @bubbawatson to the Blue Wahoos organization, joining @quint_studer and wife, Rishy, as owners! #WahoosLife pic.twitter.com/LNm4ATQAK8
— PensacolaBlueWahoos (@BlueWahoosBBall) January 19, 2015
Watson has been involed with the team before recently buying a share. Last August, he reportedly took batting practice at the stadium during a trip to his home.
Watson grew up in Bagdad, Florida, which is about 20 miles from where the Blue Wahoos play their home games.
It's been a busy week for Watson. Last week, he sold a car for $410,000 at a charity auction. He is also scheduled to make a few appearances at the PGA Show in Orlando, starting on Wednesday.


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Figure 2. Numbers of bluefin and yellowfin tuna per longline set. Histograms show the number of (A) bluefin and (B) yellowfin tuna caught in each longline set.
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