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Kelly Belly?
Minnesota's defense talked about in a section about opposition offense?
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Other stuff here: Ace FFFF!
|Michigan vs Nebraska
Michigan Stadium
Ann Arbor, MI
3:30 PM Eastern
November 9th, 2013
|sunny, low 50s, 0% chance of rain
Via Nebraska version of E3W, The Dailyer.
Liveblog: getting started around 3pm, presented by Marawatch. Former Mich. cornerback Brandon Williams will be present to talk about Go Blue Then And Now's latest efforts and what it's like to wear #12 for your entire career (since no starter has managed that since).
Take the Michigan ground game. Put it on the other side of the ball. This is the story of Nebraska's season: bogglingly utter ineptitude at stopping folks other than Purdue from running epic distances without much skill.
Now remove that team's starting quarterback but give them a Big Ten schedule reading Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota, Northwestern, and you have the Nebraska Cornhuskers: a good record against a terrible schedule and two uncompetitive losses to middling teams, with multiple close calls against bad ones.
Saturday is Michigan versus Funhouse Mirror Michigan, except Devin Gardner persists against all odds.
After brutal disappointment last week Michigan finds sweet sanctuary in the form of the Nebraska defense, which more often than not has been ground into paste this year, often by the start of the second quarter. The Huskers opened the year by giving up 600 yards of offense to Wyoming, 219 of it on the ground. Since then they've done well against… uh… Purdue.
|South Dakota State
(Omitted Southern Miss, FWIW, since USM is so bad I don't think games against them mean anything.)
Nebraska has been very good at getting to the QB, which somewhat obscures how bad they've been against actual rushes. I smashed some stats together from CFBStats to fix that issue. Here is the Big Ten against ground games:
|Michigan State
|Ohio State
|Penn State
Nebraska's been worse than Indiana over the course of this season, and basically equivalent to Purdue and Illinois. Moveable object, come on down.
Why is Nebraska so pliable on the ground? Ace:
their line got consistently pushed off the ball by Northwestern. The DEs weren't disciplined in containing the edge and the DTs couldn't get push. What this means for Michigan is a matter of considerable debate; if Borges decides it's time to go full spread-to-run, I think the Wolverines will have success getting Gardner and Toussaint to the edge. At the very least, this won't be a State-like massacre up front. …
The linebackers are a mess. This will be covered in more detail later—redshirt freshman MIKE Michael Rose made his first start against Northwestern and didn't fare well, getting out of his lane with regularity and eating blocks due to a lack of aggressiveness.
Ace highlighted a particular wow freshman experience on one of Green's rips up the middle:
A battle of blown assignments looms. That sounds pretty good to me after last week; when guys get out of lanes then it's more about seeing the opportunity and taking it more than anything else, and even if by this point Fitzgerald Toussaint would regard a gaping hole like a POW emerging into the sunlight after years of captivity, the second or third time he sees one he might do something other than gape open-mouthed in wonder.
But on the other hand. Michigan rushed for 23 yards on 20 carries against Michigan State, has struggled to put up mortal numbers against some very bad rushing defenses, and is currently spinning through interior linemen at an alarming rate. Nothing is working except murdering Devin Gardner.
I can't tell you I expect much better this week. Michigan was incapable of running from under center against the Hoosiers until a late breakthrough after the game was decided, and even then their YPC was solidly under Indiana's season average. Operating from the shotgun was effective, at least.
Michigan tends to cycle through several phases when they approach their rushing offense:
This is a prime candidate for manball reset, as Michigan's coming off a game where they couldn't run in any formation and can thus vaguely justify gravitating back towards their desires. That would be bad except Nebraska may just shatter anyway. But still probably bad.
Key Matchup: Michigan busts versus Nebraska busts. QUIEN ES MAS BUSTO
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If Michigan can't move the ball on the ground—50/50, really—and must focus on the passing game, things are going to get hairy. Nebraska's acquired 22 sacks this year—lots—and has been applying heavy pressure to the best teams on the schedule, which are… UCLA and… uh… well Minnesota, but Minnesota barely passed. And UCLA is starting at least two freshmen. So maybe Nebraska has had their numbers inflated by a parade of confused goobers who probably shouldn't be trying to pass protect before they're able to vote.
/checks Michigan's offensive line
Nebraska's sacks have come from everywhere, indicating a lot of blitzing being the source more so than #RIGHT2RUSH4, and that's what Ace saw:
The defense was pretty passive early on, and then they started sending safeties on run-blitzes and rushing five or six guys in obvious passing downs, and this worked quite well. Nebraska netted four sacks on 25 Northwestern dropbacks, and IIRC all of these came off the blitz.
Michigan got pickups against Indiana and generally did not against MSU; getting Gardner time to explore deep is very much in question. While Toussaint has been Poor Damn Toussaint on the ground, when he tries to pick up a blitz he's been a major contributor to Poor Damn Devin Gardner. Vincent Smith he's not.
The Nebraska secondary has been mostly good against a variety of terrible quarterbacks and a banged up Kain Colter:
Hundley gave them what for and Phillip Nelson got the same kind of YPA that service academies do because they never throw the ball; Scheelhaase, Etling, and NW's quarterbacks were boa-constrictored. Nebraska got at least three sacks in those three games, BTW.
Passing downs for Michigan figure to be variable. Nebraska's blitz packages have been effective; Michigan's pickups have not been. But no one on the Nebraska schedule has anything like Gallon/Funchess in their lineup save UCLA's deep, quality WR corps (familiar names include ND transfer Shaq Evans and on-and-off M recruit Jordan Payton), and that set of guys ripped Nebraska open.
Key matchup: Michigan's OL versus Devin Gardner's jersey. Clean. Clean-ish. Not black as Jim Tressel's soul. Please?
Abdullah is a jet
First things first: due to a Black Knight-style list of injuries, Taylor Martinez has been declared out for Saturday. Since this is Nebraska, this is very much worth mentioning in the run defense section. Also out are starting guards Spencer Long and Jake Cotton; Nebraska does get tight end Jake Long (not that Jake Long) back from a hamstring injury suffered against Illinois.
The injuries have forced Nebraska to scramble on the OL, moving center Cole Pensick to guard to play against the Wildcats and debating whether to insert a senior utility backup instead. The impact on Nebraska's run game: minimal. Abdullah went for 127 on 24 carries against Northwestern.
Are you done throwing socks at the cat? No.
Okay. Here we go.
Martinez's replacement has generally been Tommy Armstrong, Jr., a redshirt freshman out of Texas who brings the same dynamic running ability and erratic passing that Martinez does. At least hypothetically. Before Nebraska's Hail Mary win against Northwestern last week, Armstrong's three starts had not seen him acquire more than 38 yards in any particular game, or ten carries. That changed against the Wildcats with 17 carries, but Armstrong still hasn't broken a carry of more than 15 yards so far this season and is averaging 3.9 yards an attempt.
Unfortunately, Nebraska hasn't really needed their quarterbacks to produce a ton because Ameer Abdullah is tearing people into little tiny pieces of sadness. Let's call them Toussaints. To a Michigan fan, his stats are boggling: 157 carries for 1108 yards, 7.1 yards a pop. He's gone over 100 yards in every game this year save the loss against UCLA, when he had 98. He's a big play threat who rips off a 20 yarder every game, again save UCLA. Here's his entire outing against USM:
You are advised not to let him get the edge, advised that that is sometimes easier said than done against the option, and exhorted not to let him run unfettered at a safety. His position at Michigan would be third string slot receiver. On the other hand, he doesn't break many tackles and doesn't run over defenders.
Nebraska also features Imani Cross, a thudding sophomore who is the power half of their duo. He's still averaging over five yards a carry, though his carries are clustered heavily in Nebraska's easiest games. The last couple weeks he's only acquired seven attempts; it's been all Abdullah. He probably won't have a major role.
The Nebraska offense is spread 'n' shred oriented with more pure old-school option elements. They'll run all manner of things, as you well know, and tend to test the outside with option pitches while using traditional zone reads as a more interior option. With Abdullah the main guy they're better at the former than the latter.
Michigan's defense held up well against Michigan State until a late collapse that was part getting burned by playcalls, part fatigue, part desperate aggression backfiring. Before that they'd held MSU to 68 yards on the ground, with Willie Henry and Frank Clark emerging into pocket-pushing threats. That is half-relevant against the Huskers, which bring a nose-tackle demanding style but one in which loaded boxes will be rare and the secondary much more involved on the edge.
I don't know how that will go, as Michigan hasn't faced anything approximating Nebraska's offense since last year, when Michigan did pretty well against the Cornhuskers before a similar story kicked in after Russell Bellomy's second or third interception. Minnesota is the closest approximation; Michigan by in large shut the Gophers down aside from a number of frustrating Mitch Leidner scrambles. Abdullah brings a much bigger threat on the edge, though. Minnesota's offense is more of a slightly modified shotgun manball approach instead of a Northwestern/Nebraska pitch-heavy thing. Countess and Taylor will have their run support tested, not to mention Thomas Gordon and Jarrod Wilson.
Key Matchup: Wilson/Gordon versus Abdullah in space. It's going to happen, and a tackle here or there is going to save or cede 30 yards.
throwing motion less wack, at least?
For all the crap Martinez gets for his throwing motion, he was one of the Big Ten's most efficient quarterbacks last year, with a 7.8 YPA and 23 touchdowns, albeit against 12 interceptions. Armstrong has been a step down, mostly with his Gardnerian interception rate: 6 on 75 attempts. He started off with a quality YPA against South Dakota State and Illinois; his last two starts (Martinez played against Minnesota) have been not so much:
That latter game is 5.8 YPA with three picks and got him pulled for Ron Kellogg III and that's quite a bit better than his Purdue outing. Kellogg, a pocket passing senior walk-on, requires a near-complete departure from what Nebraska wants to do. Before last week he'd gotten only spot duty late in blowouts; against NW* he had 55 yards and an INT on 12 attempts before the Hail Mary. All four Northwestern interceptions where ugly it's-all-your-fault throws, and that figures to continue against a Michigan secondary that's verged on ballhawking this year.
The injury plague hits here, too, as starting receiver Jameel Turner has been ruled out for this one. Top WR Kenny Belly missed the Northwestern game but is expected to play this weekend, whether or not he's fully healthy. Nebraska does still have senior Quincy Enunwa, for various injury reasons Nebraska's leading WR, and freshman Jordan Westerkamp. Abdullah is also a frequent target out of the backfield.
Michigan hopes to see both quarterbacks since that'll probably mean Armstrong is struggling; either way expect Nebraska to be very conservative, keeping the ball away from the center of the field and being run heavy on non-passing downs.
Michigan will seek to put Nebraska in those passing downs, where they should be able to expect success. Coverage has been good-not-great and vulnerable to well-placed throws over the top, but Nebraska doesn't seem poised to make those what with backup quarterbacks and injured wideouts.
Pressure, a major bugaboo all year, is probably not coming without blitzes unless the rotating doors on Nebraska's line break down, but hey, they just might, and if there is an opportunity to blitz a guy this year it should be the freshman with six picks in his last two games.
Play action on standard downs will be a test. Nebraska's offense is very good about forcing your safeties to participate, and JT Floyd can attest that sometimes when you make a wrong read you get smoked over the top. Expect at least a couple incidents where option play action threatens to blow the defense to smithereens.
*[This blog awards "NU" to the winner of the NW-NU game, which is the UNL-NU game in the event of a NW victory.]
Key Matchup: Mattison versus Tommy Armstrong's brain. Every Michigan fan is pleading Mattison to fire up the blitzing against an inexperienced, turnover prone quarterback. Rattle the dude and the ball may become yours.
Nebraska always has a good kicker; they have a good kicker. Pat Smith is 7/8 on the year and was perfect on ten attempts last year. He does not have a big leg, with a career long of 46. Punter Sam Foltz is averaging 41 a pop and only eight of his kicks have been run back, for an average of seven yards.
There's nothing notable in Nebraska's kick return or coverage stats, but don't expect many opportunities for Norfleet: their KO guy is putting two thirds of his attempts in the end zone.
This probably shouldn't be a huge swing point unless suddenly-shaky Brendan Gibbons pops one off the wrong side of the upright instead of the right side.
Key Matchup: YOU PUT THE BALL THROUGH THE UPRIGHTS
Worry if...
Cackle with knowing glee if...
Fear/Paranoia Level: 5 (Baseline 5; +1 for Did You See That Last Week?, –1 for Which Thing, The Michigan Game Or The Hail Mary, –1 for Turnover Prone Backup QB Opponent, –1 for Injury Battered Offense In Other Ways As Well, +1 for Injury Battered NU OL Is Still Something I'd Swap For The Michigan OL In A Hot Second, +1 for Devin Gardner's Probably Going To Vomit Blood At Some Point This Year, –1 for Home Is Where The Lack Of Brutal Depression Is, +1 for Sort Of)
Desperate need to win level: 5 (Baseline 5; –1 for Ain't Winning Division, –1 for Ain't Going To Rose Bowl, –1 for Ain't Doing Any BCS Things And Lord Do You Even Want To, Really?, +1 for Soul Searching Mailbag Posts Are No Fun, +1 for It Would Be Nice To Actually Enjoy A Game This Year, +1 for Home Winning Streak)
Loss will cause me to... HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT NIK STAUSKAS SIR
Win will cause me to... pick through lava floes on Mount Pelini very carefully as I exit the stadium.
The strictures and conventions of sportswriting compel me to predict:
In the moveable object/resistible force battle I tend to favor having a bath and pretending something else is happening. Teams will trade ugly TFLs with ugly gaping holes that result in big plays, so that seems to be slight advantage Michigan.
If Gardner's seeing the open guys downfield on obligatory max protect PA events, Michigan could/should hit some big plays, but that seems in question since covering Gallon but not Funchess works out quite well (MSU) but not the reverse (Indiana). Rawness is ever-more apparent as the season goes deeper, and Nebraska's strength on D is aimed at (one of) Michigan's prime weaknesses, so along with various run TFL Gardner's probably going to eat a number of drive killing sacks. Stops and starts and a point total in the mid-20s.
On the other side of the ball, Nebraska's going to be rolling the dice hard every time they try to throw the ball and will seek to avoid that. Their run game is significantly less diverse with Armstrong at the helm and Kellogg isn't going anywhere, so it's all about containing Abudllah. Survey says… middling, like always with this particular edition of the Michigan defense. That should be enough to keep things comfortably in Michigan's favor; wacky turnover seem to be about even in this one.
Finally, three opportunities for me to look stupid Sunday:
Kelly Belly?
Minnesota's defense talked about in a section about opposition offense?
MGoBlog's editor must be sleeping.
That's what he gets for angering the Seth.
actually the editor (literally, the program I edit in) is broken and the editor (ie Brian) is probably literally sleeping as I try to contact him about it.
If they don't score more than 25 against that sorry D I will be livid.
Borges is nightmare fuel right now for your fandom, who knows what to expect? A win of any size is good enough at this point
What's our PPG with Borges at home? It's been pretty good these three years.
for said status = livid.
What if I told you we'd only score 9?
Nah, that would never happen against a Pelini-led Husker def- oh.
In Lincoln, when the starting QB goes down injured and the back-up is woefully unprepared. A little different than this season and this particular game, wouldn't you say?
Pelini cat pic kills me every single time.
Brian I feel like in the weather report that you should include the windspeed as it is likely to be very windy tomorrow (>20 mph). As a team that needs to pass the ball to move it I think that factor would affect us just as much as if it were raining. Especially since Michigan likes to throw vertically.
I have a feeling this is going to be a frustrating game on defense where Mattison sits back and lets whichever backup QB beat themselves.
At least I'll be drunk!
Let's insert a "what are/will you be drinking" post inside Brian's preview post. No one will suspect it. Here, I'll start:
I see you don't have a GFCI receptacle for a countertop outlet. Code violation!
Its grandfathered.
Can I come over? Say, around the end of the 3rd quarter?
I will probably just have a few of these as is gameday tradition:
I see that you decided to drink a lot of everthing last week rather than gallons of one thing. I applaud your desire to find a hang-over that would eclipse the pain of last Saturday. I congraduate you on (apparently) surviving.
I just can't get excited at the possibility of our running game putting together a solid performance and manballing its way to victory. I think we'll win, but it will be the DG-JG-DF show.
Man....I'm going to be there but my personal excito-meter is at about 2 out of 10. Honest question (and directed ONLY at fellow season ticket holders please).
Are you excited about going to the game tomorrow? If so, please tell me why so I can try and steal some of your mojo.
But I think Michigan is going to put up points against Nebraska, if that makes you any more intrigued for this game. IMO, all the match ups for Michigan's O compared to Nebraska's D heavily favor Michigan. This is a game where Michigan does more of what it wants because Nebraska can't take advantage to a high enough degree of Michigan's glaring, obvious weakness. And with that, the skill position guys are too much.
There will be points.
I agree - I think we'll win and candidly I think we'll win pretty easily. My question is simply directed at the people going, who like me, go every week. Is the general malaise I'm feeling unique to me or are others feeling it to?
One interesting note. I put two extra tickets on StubHub last Sunday at $200 each. I've dropped the price every day and now they're at $119/ticket (need to drop again it seems) and they're fantastic seats. Right on the 30 about 1/3 up and there is apparently zero interest right now as the number of tickets listed for sale is swelling rapidly.
I would love those seats. Sadly, funds are short.
I'm only going to be watching from TV but I'm guessing there's going to be a lot of empty seats. Maybe not that noticeable on TV, but in person I don't think people are going to be sardined in.
I don't think Husker fans are that excited for their team either so there's not going to be the huge amount of Husker fans travelling like there were 2 years ago.
since I prefer mustard. Hey-O!
But seriously, since Michigan looks like a different team at home -- let's pretend Akron didn't happen -- I'm having no problem looking forward to tomorrow's game. I'll save the doubts until Hoke actually loses a home game. Also, Nebraska at the Big House is still enough of a novelty that I'm reasonably excited to see this match-up.
I think your assumption is correct and enthusiasm is low (even though I think many fans think Michigan is going to win; people just aren't thrilled with the season). My guess is you won't be able to sell those tickets for more than $75/ticket, if that.
I've gotten multiple offers to go to the game in pretty good seats for $60/ticket, and I know if I waited I could buy them for less than that.
Sadly, the 3:30pm start kills it for me, as I have two events that start in late afternoon to go to, so I'm out. I'll just be watching from various points on the road.
At least it shouldn't rain.
Home game win streak, and I love the football team win or lose, so I'm going to make the 5 hour drive to watch, win or lose and no matter how soul crushingly bad it could be.
There's also a small part of me that feels like I've been lucky in games i've seen. I've only seen 2 Michigan losses in person, and they were the outback bowl vs south carolina and the NCAA championship game against louisville, and I felt like both of those losses were strong efforts even though we lost.
I'm excited for this game because I'm bringing my 5- and 6-year-old kids to their first U-M football game at the Big House. Weather looks decent...I'm psyched!
Because mature guys like us have loved our school and team for decades and we're not going to let a poor performance disrupt our love of Michigan.
I love M football games too much to not be excited. I get so happy from the moment I'm on the road heading toward the stadium. The losses always hurt a lot but before kickoff I'm always excited. Attending games is pretty much my favorite activity that I do in life.
This is how I feel too. Obviously winning is more fun than losing, but I've never not been excited to watch Michigan play. I don't watch Michigan football because they win, I watch Michigan football because I love Michigan football.
This ^^^^ a thousand fold.
Not excited AT ALL. Feels more like a chore but I'm going out of a sense of loyalty and obligation. Hopefully we'll have lots of sustained drives in which we go 80 yards and take 8 minutes off the clock each time. Not holding my breath on that.
but since Nebraska joined the B1G they seemed to have gotten softer and weaker. Nothing like playing to your level of competition. Michigan and Nebraska storied programs headed in the wrong direction.
I suspect Michigan will prevail between the battle of has beens.
"By in large"? What are you, a farmer?
Ah yes....the lesser known cousin of "for all intensive purposes" and "give him the reigns."
Wrote "by enlarge" in an all-office email.
of reading the comments on a Detroit News article years ago. Someone wrote "every buddy knows" to (presumably) mean "everybody knows". I was horrified.
"a parade of confused goobers who probably shouldn't be trying to pass protect before they're able to vote."
Sounds to me like Nebraska gets to see another one of those kinds of teams this weekend.


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Act One -- and the entirety of the play -- is set in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was settled by Governor John Winthrop and around seven hundred Puritans in 1639. Though the play takes place in 1692, the year in which the historic and infamous Salem Witch Trials began, this Puritan community would be largely unchanged. They left England because they did not feel that the Church of England had done enough to distance itself from the Catholic church (which they viewed as incredibly corrupt); they felt that they had a responsibility to guide the rest of the world out of spiritual darkness, to be a model for the perfect community in which ecclesiastical law and the civil law were one and the same. The Puritans of the 1690s were an incredibly superstitious people; they believed in witches, obviously, but they also thought that the Devil could be lurking behind any tree, within any person, at any time. Thus, it was a time of intense paranoia. This paranoia helps to explain how it was so easy to ignite a hysteria that gained a momentum of its own.
The setting of Act I of The Crucible is the home of Reverend Parris. He is standing over his young daughter, Betty's bed. She lies very still, Abigail tells the reader that the Doctor can find nothing wrong with Betty.
All the action takes place in that upstairs room. Before long, other members of the community arrive, including Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor, Anne Putnam and Reverend Hale, who has been called to Salem by Reverend Parris. Hale is an authority on witchcraft and on helping the bewitched.
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Ask an Academic: Pedro Castillo
In this install ment of "ask an academic," we sit down with Pedro Castillo, CNRS Researcher at Sorbonne Universites to discuss his work and research.
- What is your particular area of expertise?
Automatic control, particularly for robotic systems as aerial vehicles.
- How would you explain your current work to a stranger on a bus?
I try to help others making autonomous robots for different tasks, especially dangerous tasks where the human life can be in danger.
- Where do you carry out most of your work?
In the tests laboratory, where we validate our ideas.
- What first inspired you to study automatic control in robotic systems?
When I was young, robotic autonomous systems were being developed. They were big and only a few could buy them for how expensive they were. Robots were considered only in fiction science (films) and I asked myself, will it be too difficult to conceive one? What would happen if this kind of technology were available for all people, to help us with everyday tasks? And because of my engineering studies, I liked to open a system to know it and why not improve it.
- What's the most exciting part of your job?
When we are tested experimentally for the first time the algorithms and the results are so good causing you shout 'et voila'.
- What keeps you awake at night?
Negative persons that do not believe that some things are possible (conservative people) or they are afraid for new changes. They can stop scientific developments.
- What false preconceptions do people have about your job?
That our developments or researches realized are too basic and have no direct civil applications. Nothing could be further from the truth, our researches are thinking in helping people in dangerous tasks. We observe needed from firefighters, farmers, builders, art restorers and more to derive interesting ideas for improving or conceiving new algorithms.
- What's the most interesting thing you've learned this week?
To perceive the enormous range of possibilities that exists to realize more things after having had good results. That sometimes, it is only a question of changing the perspective.
- What do you think will be the next big discovery or development in your field?
We are working to improve maneuverability, speed, robustness and precision in aerial drones, as well as they can cooperate between them to perform different tasks. Several collaborations are being developing with good researchers to create a network where we can exchange/share results, develop similar platforms, etc., then new big results are coming.
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Starting a new model rocket company
I am curious, if you were to start your own model rocket company, what would you do? Who would be on your board of directors ? Who would be your department heads?
In today marketplace, in what direction would you take your new company.
Keeping in mind, this has nothing to do with any past or present companies, this is a totally new company, of your own, in the 21st century.
How much money do you think we have, to start a company with a board of directors and department heads in place at the very beginning?
I don't think even the larger hobbyist-oriented model rocket companies have all of those positions.
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I'm not sure even how to begin to answer this question without further information.
The most important piece being how much capital do I have to work with and is it all cash-on-hand or is it in the form of a credit line.
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Yes, there is such a thing as NORMAL, if you have to ask, you probably aren't !
Well, everything would start with a good business plan and model for the company you wish to start. Business plans are not easy since a good part of it, especially the "financials" are sometime based on speculation and ideal business conditions. Entering the rocket market could be difficult, but if you have a good plan in place with some cool, different designs and other different product offerings then it could be possible. Also, you wouldn't have to have all of the capital start up money - with a good plan it is possible to find potential investors to help offset costs in the beginning, including startup costs.
Marketing would take a BIG chunk of your fund in the beginning. Surveys and other information gathering would have to take place in order to see if a new rocket company would be worth starting up. I dont' think that you would need a board or anything for such a small company, but I would have the minimum of a President, VP-marketing and sales, VP-operations, office manager, administrative staff, and warehousing/shipping. Design engineers and manufacturing could be handled in-house or contracted out, especially the manufacturing.
There are numerous other things to consider but these are the top things I could think of off the top of my head.......
What I am curious about is, if anyone, wanted to start a new venture in this 21st centruy, how would you go about it, who would you have and what would your objectives be.
None of the above, actually. The first course of action is to seek out a niche within a given market, where there is a measure of demand but no one filling that demand. Figure out what is required to fill that need. Determine what portion(s) you can easily handle, as well as what you still need to "farm out". Seek out suppliers and pricing schedules for a "ballpark figure" on regular per-unit costs. Also seek out whatever capital equipment you will need to produce any special parts to get your "one-time" investments. Add into this mix the costs for legal work, accounting, shipping, advertising, and "contengency funds" (having enough money in reserve to cover the first months of operation, before you start to see real sales). Now you can start working out your "business plan" to take to the bank (or other SBA lender). There may be additional things that are needed before you can get funding.
Listen to the lender for any suggestions to smooth out the process, and to avoid the pitfalls that other would-be SBOs have fallen into...
The first big mistake is in trying to fill too many niches at one time. The second big mistake is trying to become a big business before you become a small business.
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I agree with that but...none of the niches in this hobby are large enough for you to make a decent living.
Possible niche catagories;
Scale models
Super Scale (very accurate very expensive)
Futuristic Sci-Fi. There's a niche with a lot of existing players.
School market (everybody does that. BMS, SEMROC, Flis, Estes...)
Competition engines, Man, that will take a conciderable investment with little return.
Big box stores (Wal-mart, K-Mart) good luck getting in that door with a start up company.
Export market...forget that, too much paperwork! No big profit there.
Competition models. How many NAR members compete compared to the total membership. Face it, when you are talking competition you are talking NAR. No other organization has a rocketry competition.
Sorry, I can't see any niche large enough to justify a corperate structure.
Four cheifs and one or two minimum wage indians stuffing kits in bags.
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What do you think the future of the hobby will be, maybe that would be a better approach. Will the market be there to support a new venture?
The prospects for any new model rocket company depend on the growth the hobby is seeing. That may really be the first question to ask: Is this hobby growing, shrinking, or stagnant?
If it is growing, it means there is an increasing customer base to sell to. Find what a large enough fraction of the whole wants, but is not getting, from the established companies, and serve that need. As more people join the hobby, you'll likely have more customers over time.
If it is stagnant, then with each new company, you have smaller and smaller slices of a fixed-size pie. You have to do what no one else wants to do to get a larger slice. This is also when you need to determine if starting a rocket company is worth the effort. Can you, as an individual, stimulate growth in the hobby when the "big box companies" cannot?
If it is shrinking, it may simply be time to cut bait. If the "big box companies" cannot hold on to an existing customer base, let alone generate new customers, you almost certainly won't, either.
Which makes the above question more important. Are we in a shrinking hobby, with fewer potential customers each month? Are we in a stagnant hobby, and would we be trying to fight for a smaller share of this pie instead of just offering something unique? Are we seeing growth in the numbers of first-timers?
Does anyone have good numbers to show?
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One key problem with the boutique motor market is longevity. Given the present supplier base - essentially Estes and Held - a vendor has to order a significant quantity, then sit on the inventory for years until it's low enough to re-order. And this is done under the threat of having the motors declared OOP since they're not actually being produced, but merely being warehoused.
A key to protecting the investment is for the motors to be certified for a much longer period of time. The NAR seems to be moving in the right direction in this regard. The window has been extended to 5 years past end of production, up from the previous 3 years, as I understand it. And they have a program to study the feasibility of certifying OOP motors. Both these measures would protect the makers and users of boutique motors.
I'd buy a crate of B14-0's (hypothetical example) if I knew I could fly them at club launches for years to come. Knowing this, a potential supplier of those should be more willing to make them. So fringe motors - high thrust, low thrust, long delay, etc - would be made more viable by these longer cert periods.
In a nutshell, certification policies seem to be a key to us getting niche motors.
As for competition, a similar situation exists - small volumes and fringe characteristics. But the added requirement of ready availability will not be met, except during the period right after a production run.
Nevertheless, I'm hopeful that the slowly evolving OOP rules will ultimately enable us to get motors that aren't otherwise available.
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"Lies, lies, lies, ye-eah!
(They're gonna get ya!)
Lies, lies, lies, ye-eah!
Lies, lies, lies, ye-eah!"
-- Thompson Twins, "Lies"
Promises, dedication, -- and betrayal. Love? My 80s nostalgia kicking in? No, I'm talking about politicians, and the lies politicians tell.
This weekend, we're going to explore the lies of Barack Obama. Not just differences of interpretation, but palpable, proven lies. Swamper Eric Blair pointed out one obvious lie by Obama, put into the news by the Associated Stenographers, er, Associated Press, and noted by the National Review. Obama lied that the Republican National Convention hasn't discussed economics. (I'll post some examples later this weekend where it did).
No doubt Obama supporters would call this a non-story, a molehill that doesn't relate to policy issues. Any manipulation to divert attention from the fact that Obama blatantly lied about a fact that can be easily determined. But an impartial search for truth shouldn't be intimidated by propagandists who want you to focus only on the candidates they oppose.
So as part of my look at political lying in this season's crop of candidates, let's see more examples of blatant Obama lying. Post your nominations in the comments, and let's have at them.
Here is my take on the Obama lie Eric Blair pointed out. First, the lie, bold text mine:
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republicans at their national convention are attacking him to avoid talking about the sagging economy and housing problems.
"You're hearing an awfully lot about me — most of which is not true — but you're not hearing a lot about you," Obama said. "You haven't heard a word about how we're going to deal with any aspect of the economy that is affecting you and your pocketbook day-to-day. Haven't heard a word about it. I'm not exaggerating. Literally, two nights, they have not said a word about it."
Now, the debunking.
Remember, Obama can't be excused on the grounds of being rhetorical. Obama said he was not exaggerating.
As the convention speech transcripts show, considerably more than a word was said about how to deal with the economy.
From Sarah Palin's convention speech Wednesday: Bold test that shows the Obama lie mine:
When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.
To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.
And take it from a gal who knows the North Slope of Alaska: we've got lots of both.
Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America's energy problems - as if we all didn't know that already.
But the fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we're going to lay more pipelines ... build more new-clear plants ... create jobs with clean coal ... and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources.We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers.
Now from Rudy Giuliani's speech Wednesday night, again, bold that proves the Obama lie is mine:
John McCain will lower taxes so our economy can grow. He'll reduce government to strengthen our dollar. He'll expand free trade so we can be more competitive. And he will lead us to energy independence so we can be free of foreign oil. And -- and he'll do it with an all-of-the-above approach, including nuclear power and, yes, offshore oil drilling. . .
This and a lot more is the kind of change that will create growth, jobs and prosperity, not what they want to do: tax us more, increase the size of government, increase tariffs, hurt jobs, send jobs elsewhere.
Fred "Mr. Excitement" Thompson, on Tuesday:
We need a president who understands that you don't make citizens prosperous by making Washington richer -- and you don't -- and you don't lift an economic downturn by imposing one of the largest tax increases in American history.
Now, our opponents tell us not to worry about their tax increases. They tell you they're not going to tax your family. No, they're just going to tax "businesses." So, unless you buy something from a business, like groceries or clothes or gasoline --or unless you get a paycheck from a business, a big business or a small business, don't worry, it's not going to affect you! They say they're not going to take any water out of your side of the bucket, just the other side of the bucket! That's their idea of tax reform.
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Obama could and will argue that the Republicans' ideas on the economy are wrong. But they were discussed in the convention, with far more than a word.
Stubborn facts don't matter much to politicians like Obama, when they get in the way of a good story.
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What if someone told you that the price of a good, young, NHL ready defenceman is… David Desharnais? With the Edmonton Oilers backed into a corner and knowing that they could not protect him from the expansion draft, they took on the contract of someone that will not pose such a problem. Yes, they took on 80% of the cap hit on Desharnais' deal and they sacrificed 6'2 and 210 pounds of Brandon Davidson to take on the diminutive center.
Metrics might not speak glowingly of the kid but what would there be to not like about Brandon Davidson? He bears top 4 potential, he has survived through cancer and on any given night in Edmonton he has shown capabilities of being their best back end guy on the ice. The only downside with him is that he is still relatively green and will make mistakes but such is the life of a young defenceman and such is how he must learn.
Davidson can move the puck and that brings immediate appeal in terms of announced team needs. He brings speed to the table and he will use it to get in position to block shots. Where Davidson generally lacks is puck control as he has been found to be easily stripped of possession; so this will likely be one area in which the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Brandon Davidson comes to the Canadiens with a salary cap hit of $1,425,000 on a deal that runs until July 1st, 2018.
What can be said about Desharnais as he makes his way out the door? Well, perhaps thanks are in order. Thanks for being a favorite of the boys in the room, thanks for putting up with constant criticism, thanks for your occasional clutch plays and thanks most of all for one that forever stands out in tying the game against the Ottawa Senators with 0.3 seconds to go in regulation time.
It was 4-1…
This gives an extra left hand shot in the back end to Montreal. Does this spell the end for a left handed defenceman already with the team? It certainly provides a whole new tangible within the thought process as we approach trade deadline. If this is the standard in terms of trade value, what does this mean? Emelin straight up for Duchene?
Okay, okay, we can take the dream caps off now.
The fun has just begun. Heaven only knows what Wednesday has in store for us as we approach 3:00 EST.
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The end of the season press conference has come and gone. Marc Bergevin and Geoff Molson came to address the usual group of individuals from the media and while a fresh note or two was played at this proverbial concert, this presser has –in essence– only made things worse. Marc and Geoff preach a […]


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This is perhaps the most poorly thought-out symbolic attack plan I have seen for two extremely obvious reasons:
- Rock salt is not used to melt snow, it's used to melt ice. You use shovels to remove snow. If you're trying to be clever in your protest you need to at least get the symbolism correct.
- Maine, like Michigan, will likely use a lot of rock salt this winter. So go ahead, buy and send a ton of rock salt to her. I'm sure she'll be happy to give away the free bags to her constituents or use the dozen or so bags she'll probably get to keep the sidewalks around her office clear.
Hopefully they will decide to protest me next. I could use the rock salt.
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California Fall Color has two new posts today. Here are the highlights
Keddie Wye, Plumas County orange-colored peaking black oak in the forest surrounding the wye are just as attractive to color spotters, as Dennis Hayes demonstrates in his vibrant photograph.
Keddie Wye, Plumas County – Peak (75-100%) GO NOW!
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Sanborn County Park The Santa Cruz Mountains have lovely pockets of fall color: at Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge RR in Felton, at Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek and along Skyline Drive.
Sanborn County Park (Santa Clara County Parks District) is an oft-overlooked location to spot bucolic color. It's found by taking Skyline Blvd./Hwy 35 from Patchen Pass to Saratoga Gap.
You'll drive through some fantastic sections of yellow and orange bigleaf maples. The bigleafs are the best they have been in years after slightly above normal precipitation last winter (bigleafs like water)."
Black oak is also peaking with California hazelnut providing some extra color in the understory. At this location the peak should continue for another week or so… until the next winds blow through.
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Sinisa Mihajlovic insists AC Milan can still catch the sides above them in the race for Champions League qualification.
Roma's win against Carpi on Friday has left Milan seven points adrift of the top three but, with Fiorentina and Inter meeting on Sunday, the sixth-placed Rossoneri can close the gap on the sides immediately above them should they defeat Genoa.
Mihajlovic's side are unbeaten in their last six Serie A matches and the coach is confident they can still qualify for Europe if they marry their improved defending with a better finishing.
"We're not finishing off the chances we create and we have to stop being wasteful," he said on Saturday. "We cannot always blame bad luck, but rather, we need to be more ruthless and clinical in front of goal.
"However, I cannot say a bad word against the payers in terms of their performances and commitment, but if we are not always able to win, the fault lies with us.
"Top teams always manage to come away with the win. From the seven matches with Genoa, Atalanta, Bologna, Verona, Empoli, Carpi and Udinese, we picked up just five points from a possible 21.
"I believe we can finish ahead of some of the sides currently ahead of us in the table. To do this we need consistency in our results. Over the course of the season, I feel we will make up ground on the teams above us."
Milan president Silvio Berlusconi celebrates 30 years in charge at San Siro this month, and Mihajlovic was keen to praise the legacy he has established during that period.
"It's an incredible achievement. He has been at the helm for 30 years. There is no one like him or who has won as many trophies at home and abroad," he added.
"The gift we all want to give him is of taking Milan back to where it deserves to be."
Jeremy Menez is closing in on a return after having being sidelined since August with a back problem, but Mihajlovic is wary of rushing the French forward back into action.
"We'll use him when I see the right intensity," he added. "We can't wait for him to come back, but right now he's a long way from the best condition.
"He has so much quality and can make a difference, but only if he is physically fit."
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We had St Patricks Day dinner last Sunday at Moms; we didn't have it in on St Patricks Day because it was on Tuesday and the kids wanted to go to Punky's anyway.
Well Rich called and said he had gotten hung up and was going to be late, so we started eating without him. We had finished except for dessert when he showed up with Melissa! John, Mom and I were so surprised! Siobhan knew she was coming, but I didn't have a clue! She's been here for the past week; she goes home tonight.
I've been pretty busy all week.I spent time with Melissa, although she spent time visting friends in the city while she's been here. Chris was off last Monday and John took the day off so we went to Braidwood where we caught several small catfish. Every one out there was catching them; there were a couple of people fishing for walleye, but I didn't see anyone catch any. I think we are going again tomorrow, or we might try LaSalle.
Melissa, Sio and I went with Carla and saw Jimmy play with his band the The Telepaths last night. I had never seem them before, and I really had a good time. They do some of their own material and a little other stuff. I really liked a song they wrote called Area 51, that was the last one they did and it was pretty good. A lot of the original music was commentary on current issues and I liked that. I've never seen Jimmy play his electric guitar before. The whole band was pretty enthusiastic; it was the last night their drummer was going to play with them. Carla said he was leaving because he was getting married. I'm guessing he'll be asking to come back after a few months if that's his reason. You can't repress your creativity just because you are getting married.
On another musical note, I went to the Rampant Lion in Villa Park yesterday and bought Dervish Decade. It is excellent, and I love Kathy Jordan. For anyone who reads this post regularly, the Rampant Lion is THE place to go for Irish music.
I also worked a very nice piece of shisha embroidery which I am going to turn into a top today. Once it's finished I'll post pictures. Things seem to have picked up a bit on Etsy, Sio had 2 sales in the past couple of days.


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Two sure signs of the increasing importance of investing in stem cells
"I don't want any other person's parents going through what my parents went through," says Charlotte Desbiens, a remarkable little girl who underwent three heart surgeries before age three.
Charlotte, with a sense of compassion well beyond her years, tells her story in a powerful video announcing a $130-million gift to create the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Disease. The unprecedented donation will allow researchers to explore "the mechanism of what goes wrong in heart function," says Dr. Janet Rossant, Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children. Hers is one of the three Toronto-based organizations partnering to create the Centre.
Stem cell research and development is a major component of the work the Centre will undertake. While SickKids will focus on harnessing the genomics to decode the genetic foundations of cardiac disease and the University Health Network (UHN) will target the translation of research discoveries into the delivery of care for patients, the University of Toronto (U of T) will combine stem cell technology with new approaches in cellular and tissue engineering to find ways to regenerate heart muscle, coronary vessels, and heart valves.
The Centre is named after Edward Samuel "Ted" Rogers, Jr., the telecommunications pioneer and President and CEO of Rogers Communications Inc. until his death in 2008. According to the UHN press release, the Rogers family's donation is the largest monetary gift ever made to a Canadian health care initiative. It will be matched with $139 million funds from SickKids, UHN, and U of T for a total investment of $269 million.
The Nov. 20th Rogers Centre announcement was one of two significant endorsements of stem cell R&D in recent days. On Tuesday, the Government of Ontario awarded $3.1 million to the Ontario Stem Cell Initiative (OSCI) and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) to establish the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM).
OIRM will focus on translating stem cell research into new cures and treatments for degenerative diseases. Specific "disease challenge" teams have been identified: Dr. Valerie Wallace at the U of T leads a team tackling age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the developed world; Dr. Gordon Keller, also at the U of T, is focusing efforts on treatments for ventricular fibrillation, the leading cause of cardiac arrest; and Dr. Mick Bhatia at McMaster University will advance the use stem cells to get the immune system to destroy tumours. The announcement was covered in the Globe and Mail.
The key takeaway from both these announcements is that it will take a concerted effort from many different players to tackle diseases that have baffled medical science for too long. And it will take time. As noted in the Globe piece, OIRM's $3.1 million only covers the awarded projects for a single year. "In comparison, California has invested $3 billion in regenerative medicine in the past decade and has several promising treatments now in clinical trials."
As the newspaper reports, the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation, representing a coalition of scientists, medical professionals, health charities, industry experts and philanthropists, "called on the federal government in October to commit half a billion dollars over a decade to boost stem cell research and development in Canada."
The Canadian Stem Cell Strategy & Action Plan is a 10-year plan to accelerate the safe translation of research discoveries into new cell-based therapies, products and technologies. Just as the Rogers Centre for Heart Disease has set specific goals — to reduce hospitalization for heart failure by 50% in the next 10 years — the Canadian Stem Cell Strategy keeps an eye on the prize: it's an aggressive Action Plan for Canada to lead the way in bringing up to 10 breakthrough therapies to the clinic by 2025. It will mean Canadians will have access to effective new treatments and will reduce the burden of disease on caregivers. It will also create jobs, enhance productivity and strengthen our economy.
Find out more about the Strategy here.
Because, ultimately, it is all about finding ways to cure diseases so that wonderful little girls like Charlotte live long and happy lives. And so that parents don't have to worry.


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Neural Stimulation of Release of Renin
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Increased vasomotor discharge induced by bleeding caused renal release of renin in anesthetized dogs whether or not there was measurable change in either arterial pressure or total renal blood flow. Release of renin was prevented by ganglion blockade or local anesthesia of the renal nerves. Hemorrhage-induced release of renin occurred more consistently in dogs fed a low-sodium diet than in those fed a standard kennel diet. Stimulation of sympathetic vasomotor discharge by occlusion of the common carotid arteries, while renal perfusion pressure was kept constant, also caused release of renin, as did infusions of norepinephrine, tyramine, or DMPP. Isoproterenol, angiotensin, vasopressin, serotonin, or acetylcholine infused into the renal artery did not cause release of renin. It is concluded that neural stimuli are capable of causing release of renin in the absence of gross change in renal perfusion pressure or flow.
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Since I have to go back to work on Monday after 6 weeks off I decided to go back in style, This is my new lunch bag. I really love the drawstring top. It makes it so easy to get into
this is the mug rug I made to use at work. I think I am totally addicted to making these. They are so quick and fun. I also love the fact that I have fabric around me even when I can't sew. I call it fabric therapy.
and of course I just had to make snack bags to go with my lunch bag.These are all from the Lunch Bag Book. They even have a pattern for a crocheted apple wrap so that your apple doesn't get bruised in your lunch bag. Too cute.
This is my new bow tucks purse. Yeah I know its a little loud but I'm really tired of winter for some reason this year and I wanted something bright and funky. Hubby said he would still be seen in public with me just to not ask him to hold it.
this is the inside . I just love all of the room and all of the pockets. Since I was the only one who would see it I practiced my FMQ in the inside.
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The membership $ goes to the Voces Headquarters where these fees tend to cover things like busing to actions, promotions, dreamer drives, DACA Applications, and lawyers. Membership
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Benefits are givenat which you receive many great discounts including free busing Speakout Event with OMSA
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What is the dreamact and why it's vital for undocumented immigrants on the passage of it What ideas do you have that will you see succeed in the fight...for the right? Congrats!!! Alfredo Sandoval Flores Jose Antonio Vargas Pulitzer Prize Award Winning Journalist Give a voice to the voiceless Voting gives the voter the satisfaction of knowing they have voiced their
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Went to Divisoria with in-laws the other day. We went to look for my little girl birthday dress co'z her party is in the third week of this month. I haven't given away any invitation though but I'm hoping that it would be soon and I hoping too the people I would be invited would come.
We bought a some dress (barbie princess) inspired, some shoes and a boots. It was fun buying clothes for my baby Z. I wish to buy more but my wallet screams.. stop! I haven not bought anything for myself aside from the fruits I brought home and still spent more than a thousand. whew!


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So, those of you who do have BTN, have you watched it since the end of basketball season?
Flipping one night, I caught Iowa-Purdue football 2002. WHAT A FABULOUS GAME!!!! I was there and wrote about it and I'm sure I didn't do it justice. Wow, wow, wow.
Other than that, I haven't tuned in. I'm not a track, softball or college baseball guy.
They need a weekly, year-round football show. It's doable. It was take some time and planning and a really great producer, but it's doable. And it'd be a peg the BTN could rest on. They have Big Ten football and access. The others don't.
Maybe this will pull you in . . .
Big Ten Network Celebrates Iowa Day on June 4
Network to air 24 consecutive hours of Hawkeye programming
CHICAGO – On Wednesday, June 4, the Big Ten Network says "Go Hawks!" with 24 consecutive hours of Iowa programming.
The day will include some of Iowa's best performances in 2007-08, including the Big Ten Wrestling Championship, the softball team's upset of Michigan, a victory against Michigan State in the Big Ten Field Hockey semifinals and the women's basketball team's thriller over Minnesota.
At 9 PM ET, the Big Ten Network will present a special edition of Big Ten Tonight, the Iowa Year in Review. The show will recap all the great Hawkeye moments of the past 12 months.
In addition to the most recent triumphs, the network will also re-air two Iowa victories from the series, Big Ten's Greatest Games, including the men's basketball game against Connecticut (1995) and the football game against Michigan (1990).
The programming schedule also contains four episodes of campus programming produced by Iowa University, including James Van Allen: Flights of Discovery, Lasansky: Inside the Image, and the debuts of The Making of Dance Gala and Iowa Caucuses.
Throughout the month of June, the Big Ten Network will air university-themed programming for a full 24 hours devoted to each of the Big Ten member institutions, including Purdue (June 2), Iowa (June 4), Michigan (June 5), Illinois (June 9), Indiana (June 11), Northwestern (June 12), Ohio State (June 16), Penn State (June 18), Wisconsin (June 19), Minnesota (June 23) and Michigan State (June 25).
Iowa Day Schedule – June 4
All times Central
5am Big Ten Women's Basketball
Iowa 72, Minnesota 69 (2/17/08)
Wendy Ausdemore scored 17 first-half points as Iowa appeared poised
to run away from Minnesota. But the Gophers rallied and took the lead
in the second half. A pair of late buckets by Krista VandeVenter sealed
the win for Iowa.
7am Campus Programming
Lasansky: Inside the Image
8am Campus Programming
James Van Allen: Flights of Discovery
9am Big Ten's Greatest Games
Men's Basketball: Iowa 101, Connecticut 95 (OT) (11/24/95)
Chris Kingsbury, who scored a team-high 30 points, buried a spectacular
three-pointer with a minute left in regulation. The Hawkeyes dominated
the overtime period to upset Ray Allen and sixth-ranked Connecticut.
11am Campus Programming
The Making of Dance Gala
12pm Campus Programming
Iowa Caucuses
1pm Big Ten Field Hockey Semifinal
Iowa 3, Michigan State 2 (11/2/07)
The Hawkeyes erased a 2-1 deficit in the second half with goals from
Adrienne Dybus and Caroline Blaum Iowa avenged its regular season
loss to Michigan State and advanced to the Big Ten Tournament final.
3pm Big Ten Softball
Iowa 2, Michigan 1 (4/4/08)
Colleen McGlaughlin hit a two-run home run in the first inning to give
Iowa a 2-1, upset win over fifth-ranked Michigan. The Hawkeye victory
spoiled Michigan's home opener and snapped their seven-game win streak.
5pm Big Ten Wrestling Championship
Iowa captures 2008 Big Ten wrestling title
Sophomore Brent Metcalf was named Outstanding Wrestler and the
Hawkeyes won their 32nd Big Ten team title. Iowa scored 127 points,
while runner-up Minnesota tallied 112.5.
8pm Big Ten Tonight
Iowa Year-In-Review
8:30pm Big Ten Tonight
Iowa Year-In-Review
9pm Big Ten's Greatest Games
Football: Iowa 24, Michigan 23 (10/20/90)
The Hawkeyes remained undefeated in the Big Ten with a 24-23 victory
in Ann Arbor. Trailing 23-17 with less than five minutes to go, Matt
Rodgers marched Iowa 85 yards for the go-ahead score. It was Michigan's
first Homecoming loss in 22 years.
11pm Big Ten Tonight
Iowa Year-In-Review
11:30pm Big Ten Tonight
Iowa Year-In-Review
12am Big Ten Wrestling Championship
Iowa captures 2008 Big Ten wrestling title
Sophomore Brent Metcalf was named Outstanding Wrestler and the
Hawkeyes won their 32nd Big Ten team title. Iowa scored 127 points,
while runner-up Minnesota tallied 112.5.
3am Campus Programming
Iowa Caucuses
4am Big Ten Tonight
Iowa Year-In-Review
4:30am Big Ten Tonight
Iowa Year-In-Review
About the Big Ten Network: The Big Ten Network is dedicated to covering the Big Ten Conference and its 11 member institutions. The Big Ten Network provides unprecedented access to an extensive schedule of conference sports events and shows; original programs in academics, the arts and sciences; campus activities; and associated personalities. Sports programming includes live coverage of more major men's and women's events than ever before, along with news, highlights and analysis, all complemented by hours of university-produced campus programming. The network is available to all cable and satellite carriers and television distributors nationwide, with most programs offered in stunning high-definition television (HDTV). The Big Ten Network is a joint venture between subsidiaries of the Big Ten Conference and Fox Cable Networks. For more information regarding the Big Ten Network, visit www.BigTenNetwork.com.


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ResearchOur research lies at the interface between computer vision and machine learning. We solve computer vision problems using learning methods, and we develop learning techniques that are inspired by, but not limited to, problems that occur in computer vision. We aim for principled solutions over heuristic ones, always trying to understand the conceptual potential as well as limitations of the method we develop in addition to evaluating their practical usefulness.
Specific topics that we target are transfer learning as well as structured prediction and learning. We apply the techniques we develop to problems such as object recognition and localization in natural images and semantic image representations.
Ongoing projects
Lifelong learning for visual
scene understanding
Our goal in the project is to develop and analyse algorithms for continuous, open-ended machine learning as well as their applications to visual data (images and videos).
The underlying hypothesis is that we can only significantly improve the state of the art in computer vision algorithms by giving them access to background and contextual knowledge about the visual world, and that the most feasible way to obtain such knowledge is by extracting it (semi-)automatically from incoming visual stimuli.
Theoretic foundations
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We are interested in developing a theoretic understanding of machine learning in situations where information is transfered between different learning tasks, e.g. multi-task learning, domain adaptation and, in particular, lifelong learning. Fundamental questions in this area are "Which information from previously learned tasks can be used for solving new tasks and how?", "What are good performance measures for judging the success of transfer learning algorithms?", and "Can we establish (upper or lower) bounds how useful the transfer of information between tasks will be?". We try to answer these questions using techniques from statistical machine learning, in particular PAC-Bayesian theory, and from online learning.
Structured prediction learning
with weak supervision
Structured prediction models have revolutionized the way in which researchers in computer vision and other application areas can tackle the task of predicting complex object with many interconnected parts. Training these models, however, requires annotated data, and creating such structured annotations is usually a tedious process that requires a lot of effort from human experts. In the project, we develop methods for training structured prediction models based on weak forms of annotation, e.g. only per-image labels instead of hand-drawn object segmentation masks. We are also interested in the aspect of large-scale training of structured prediction model.
Sequential Learning
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Sequential decision tasks are ubiquitous for real-world applications of machine learning, e.g. when a robot interacts with its environment, a smartphone app interacts with its owner, or a surveillance cameras analyses video footage. These settings have in common that subsequent situations and decisions are not statistically independent of each other. In this project we study the implications of this phenomenon for machine learning and decision making. Exemplary results are algorithms that adapt their decision to a non-stationary data distribution or that learn optimal predictors with respect to the conditional distribution of an underlying stochastic process instead of the marginal one.


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Brain Awareness Week 2017 takes place from the 6th – 12th of March. National Brain Awareness Week is an annual initiative co-ordinated by the Neurological Alliance of Ireland (NAI) aimed at increasing public awareness of neurological conditions.
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