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A fit, inform O'Grady would be a pretty difficult to beat this has got to be one of the more exciting Nationals in awhile.
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Porte and O'grady are already in Adelaide
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JONATHAN CANTWELL will defend his men's elite title against a strong field that features MARK RENSHAW, GreenEDGE star ROBBIE
McEWEN and team-mate BADEN COOKE.
Bay Series winner MELISSA HOSKINGS will lead a strong GreenEDGE-AIS contingent in the women's race, with CHLOE HOSKING
and ROCHELLE GILMORE also among the favourites.
Today's racing schedule will open with the men's under-23 criterium from 5.15pm AEDT.
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Giacoppo too good for Renshaw in Australian Criterium Championship
Anthony Giacoppo (centre) from Western Australia upstaged a crack field to win the National Men's Elite Criterium Championship in Ballarat.
Giacoppo (Genesys Wealth Advisers) has continued his run of form from the Jayco Bay Series Cycling Classic to win the Australian Criterium title in Ballarat on Thursday evening. Mark Renshaw (Rabobank) was second in the bunch sprint with the field coming together on the final corner, with Steele Von Hoff (Chipotle Development Team) third.
Under 23 men's criterium: Ballarat 33km
Law claims maiden national road title
Wollongong's Scott Law has claimed his first major Australian road title, the under 23 Australian Criterium Championship, the opening event of the Mars Cycling Australia Road National Championships at Ballarat.
Law, national omnium and scratch race champion prevailed over Jayco-AIS representative Jay McCarthy and defending champion, Tasmania's Ben Grenda. Jayco-HoneyShotz rider Mitchell Lovelock-Fay took out the Sprint Championship.
January 5, Elite/Under 23 women's criterium: Ballarat 33km
Rhodes, back from injury, wins fourth Australian Criterium Championship
Alexis Rhodes has celebrated her new contract with GreenEdge-AIS by winning the Australian Elite Women's Criterium Championship for the fourth time in her career. Teammate Melissa Hoskins took out the Under 23 title by crossing the line seven seconds in arrears, followed by Annette Edmondson.
Lauren Kitchen, wearing her new Rabobank kit, claimed the bronze medal in the Under 23 division.
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Postby im_no_pro » Mon Jan 09, 2012 12:16 am
foo on patrol wrote:I thought they said he pulled out, after his legs blew.
Don't know if they specifically said he pulled out, but he basically stopped when he popped. Highly doubt he finished. Was pretty confident gerro had the best shot with once Cam blew up, and thought he had it in the bag when sutton couldnt hold on. As Richie Porte said, that would have to be the slowest sprint for 2nd in the history of the nationals
Great race all up, the sky boys looked in with a chance for a bit there.
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Postby timbo » Mon Jan 09, 2012 8:17 am
Channel 9 will have to do a lot to show it can do it better than SBS at the TDU.
Good crowd watching around the course also. A few years ago it would have been a few family and friends and thats it.
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Race Results
1. Simon GERRANS (VIC) 4h07:38
2. Matthew LLOYD (VIC) +2
3. Richie PORTE (TAS) +2
4. Adam HANSEN (QLD) +1:05
5. William CLARKE (TAS) +1:09
6. Steele VON HOFF (VIC) +1:11
7. Christopher SUTTON (NSW) +1:11
8. Baden COOKE (VIC) +1:11
9. Anthony GIACOPPO (WA) +1:11
10. Bernard SULZBERGER (TAS) +1:11
11. Daniel MCCONNELL (VIC) +1:11
12. Mark O'BRIEN (VIC) +1:11
13. Ben DYBALL (NSW) +1:17
14. Zakkari DEMPSTER (VIC) +1:37
15. Luke ROBERTS (SA) +1:37
16. Jay BOURKE (VIC) +1:38
17. Michael ROGERS (ACT) +1:38
18. Mathew HAYMAN (NSW) +3:24
19. Jai CRAWFORD (TAS) +6:28
20. Neil VAN DER PLOEG (VIC) +11:32
21. Jason SPENCER (VIC) +11:32
dnf Jack BOBRIDGE (SA)
dnf Cameron MEYER (WA)
dnf Jonathan CANTWELL (QLD)
dnf Matthew GOSS (TAS)
dnf Robbie MCEWEN (QLD)
dnf Stuart O'GRADY (O/S)
dnf Matt WILSON (VIC)
dnf Travis MEYER (WA)
dnf Allan DAVIS (QLD)
dnf Heinrich HAUSSLER (NSW)
dnf Michael MATTHEWS (ACT)
dnf Mark RENSHAW (NSW)
dnf Nathan HAAS (ACT)
dnf Simon CLARKE (VIC)
dnf Luke DURBRIDGE (WA)
dnf Leigh HOWARD (VIC)
dnf Chris JONGEWAARD (SA)
dnf Joel PEARSON (VIC)
dnf Patrick SHAW (VIC)
dnf Wesley SULZBERGER (O/S)
dnf Johnnie WALKER (VIC)
dnf Chris JORY (NSW)
dnf Josh COLLINGWOOD (VIC)
dnf Dean WINDSOR (NSW)
dnf Michael HEPBURN (QLD)
dnf Mitchell DOCKER (VIC)
dnf Darren ROLFE (QLD)
dnf Damien TURNER (VIC)
dnf Nicholas SANDERSON (VIC)
dnf Andrew ROE (SA)
dnf Richard LANG (NSW)
dnf Phillip GRENFELL (NSW)
dnf Jonathan LOVELOCK (VIC)
dnf Brodie TALBOT (NSW)
dnf Benjamin JOHNSON (VIC)
dnf Samuel RIX (VIC)
dnf Correy EDMED (QLD)
dnf Nick BENSLEY (VIC)
dnf Jacob KAUFFMANN (NSW)
dnf Adnane BENHAMMOUCHE (SA)
dnf Matthew WARNER-SMITH (NSW)
dnf David PELL (VIC)
dnf Luke AGGETT (VIC)
dnf Andrew ARUNDEL (ACT)
dnf Andrew BLAIR (NSW)
dnf Etienne BLUMSTEIN-JONES (ACT)
dnf Nicholas BRAIN (NSW)
dnf Cal BRITTEN (VIC)
dnf Hayden BROOKS (QLD)
dnf Fabio CALABRIA (ACT)
dnf Joshua CARLSON (NSW)
dnf Kel CHAFFEY-JONES (VIC)
dnf Jason CHALKER (ACT)
dnf Dane CRAWFORD (NSW)
dnf Andrew CRAWLEY (NSW)
dnf Conan DALEY (VIC)
dnf Anthony DIMOTROVSKI (NSW)
dnf Benjamin DOUGLAS (VIC)
dnf Peter ENGLISH (VIC)
dnf Sean FINNING (VIC)
dnf Joel FINUCANE (NSW)
dnf Mitchell FLYNN (ACT)
dnf Travis FRISBY (SA)
dnf John GROVES (VIC)
dnf James HENRY (VIC)
dnf James HEPBURN (QLD)
dnf Adrian JACKSON (VIC)
dnf Mark JAMESION (QLD)
dnf Kris JOHNSTON (ACT)
dnf Caleb JONES (NSW)
dnf Brenton KAITLER (VIC)
dnf John KENT (VIC)
dnf Jason KRUGER (VIC)
dnf Peter LADD (VIC)
dnf Darren LAPTHORNE (VIC)
dnf William LIND (NSW)
dnf Jake MAGEE (NSW)
dnf James MCDULLING (NSW)
dnf Johnathan MILLINGTON (NSW)
dnf Nicholas MITCHELL (VIC)
dnf Justin MORRIS (NSW)
dnf Jamie NIGHTINGALE (VIC)
dnf Lachlan NORRIS (VIC)
dnf Travers NUTTALL (VIC)
dnf Ryan OBST (SA)
dnf Chris PESCOTT (VIC)
dnf Cameron PETERSON (NSW)
dnf Oliver PHILLIPS (VIC)
dnf Rhys POLLOCK (NSW)
dnf James QUINTON (ACT)
dnf Jeremy ROSS (ACT)
dnf Malcolm RUDOLPH (QLD)
dnf Sam RUTHERFORD (NSW)
dnf Graham RUTTER (NSW)
dnf Dean SANFILIPPO (VIC)
dnf Dale SCARFE (NSW)
dnf Adam SEMPLE (WA)
dnf Stuart SHAW (ACT)
dnf Peter SMITH (VIC)
dnf Michael SMITH (TAS)
dnf Alexander SMYTH (VIC)
dnf Nicholas SQUILLARI (VIC)
dnf Reece STEPHENS (VIC)
dnf Sam STOW (VIC)
dnf Tomas SZOLLOSI (QLD)
dnf Peter THOMPSON (QLD)
dnf Adam TREWIN (VIC)
dnf Michael TROY (NSW)
dnf Paul VAN DER PLOEG (VIC)
dnf Steven WAITE (VIC)
dnf Will WETTENHALL (VIC)
dnf Edward WHITE (NSW)
dnf Graeme BROWN (WA)
dnf Shaun MCCARTHY (VIC)
dnf Marc WILLIAMS (ACT)
dnf Blair WINDSOR (NSW)
dnf Sam WITMITZ (VIC)
dnf Tony GAUDRY (ACT)
dnf Simon BENNETT (VIC)
dns Kane WALKER (VIC)
dns Jack ANDERSON (QLD)
dns Ben MATHER (TAS)
dns Reece-Emerson VAN BEEK (VIC)
dns Rowan DEVER (VIC)
dns Shaun LEWIS (ACT)
dns Peter MALCOLM (VIC)
dns Brock ROBERTS (NSW)
dns Peter HERZIG (QLD)
Average speed of the winner: 39.54 km/h
Number of starters: 140
Riders abandoning the race: 119
Sprint Competition
1. William CLARKE (TAS) 5 pt
2. Mathew HAYMAN (NSW) 2
3. Michael ROGERS (ACT) 1
dnf Cameron MEYER (WA) 14
dnf Matt WILSON (VIC) 12
dnf Luke DURBRIDGE (WA) 11
dnf Stuart O'GRADY (O/S) 10
dnf Wesley SULZBERGER (O/S) 9
dnf Heinrich HAUSSLER (NSW) 8
dnf Sam WITMITZ (VIC) 4
dnf Mark RENSHAW (NSW) 3
dnf Patrick SHAW (VIC) 3
dnf Josh COLLINGWOOD (VIC) 2
Hill Climb Competition
1. Simon GERRANS (VIC) 5 pt
2. Matthew LLOYD (VIC) 5
3. William CLARKE (TAS) 4
4. Richie PORTE (TAS) 2
5. Bernard SULZBERGER (TAS) 1
6. Jay BOURKE (VIC) 1
dnf Cameron MEYER (WA) 14
dnf Luke DURBRIDGE (WA) 13
dnf Stuart O'GRADY (O/S) 11
dnf Matt WILSON (VIC) 6
dnf Jack BOBRIDGE (SA) 5
dnf Patrick SHAW (VIC) 5
dnf Wesley SULZBERGER (O/S) 5
dnf Heinrich HAUSSLER (NSW) 4
dnf Mark RENSHAW (NSW) 2
dnf Nathan HAAS (ACT) 1
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Re: Australian Road Champs
Postby Ross » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:04 am
@mickrogers I would personally like 2 thank the member of the VIC Police that called me a stupid f@#king bike rider after the finish. Silly constable
@mickrogers Considering Mr Constable was probably paid a considerable sum of $ by CA and John Craven to protect the race/riders! Not acceptable!
@Mark_Renshaw So I still stand by my comments. Cycling Aus and John Craven change the bloody course! With the riders Aus have now we deserve variation?
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Re: Australian Road Champs
Postby JV911 » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:28 am
Ross wrote:A couple of Twitter quotes...@mickrogers I would personally like 2 thank the member of the VIC Police that called me a stupid f@#king bike rider after the finish. Silly constable
wonder what happened there
and at the cop
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Ross wrote:@mickrogers .. Silly constable
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Re: Australian Road Champs
Postby Parrott » Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:14 pm
Taryn Heather for the women's tt she has been working hard and is a machine
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Re: Australian Road Champs
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Parrott wrote:Cam Meyer for the tt win after watching him in the road race before he bonked.
he fired a lot of his ammo there though
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Terre D'Hermes (Perfume).......simply stunning!......but far too stunning to wear as a 'daily' fragrance!
Guerlain Vetiver
Terre d'Hermes
Which one do you prefer as daily fragrance?
Terre D'Hermes (Perfume).......simply stunning!......but far too stunning to wear as a 'daily' fragrance!
No one, but from this list - Terre.
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Guerlain, because it was the first FB I bought when embarking on my scented journey; it's one of the all-time classics and one I keep coming back to again and again (it's my SOTD for today, as a matter of fact). I like Terre d'Hermes as well, but don't love it.
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Vintage (yellow juice) Vetiver. Then Terre D´Hermes. I reaaly can´t stand new Vetiver, I think it is the Tobacco thet ruins it for me.
"Wonderfully wild, eminently civilized" - Derby by Guerlain
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I'll take Terre d"Hermes!!!
TdH of these two, but there are several other vetivers I'd take over TdH, such as Grey Vetiver.
It just happens I don't like Guerlain Vetiver.
"It's not what you look like when you're doing what you're doing; it's what you're doing when you're doing what you look like you're doing."
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Daily? I can't wear the same scent for more than a week max. I wore Miel de Bois in Marrakesh for 7 consecutive days and that was the longest span I spent with one scent in my WHOLE life. If your budget is THAT tight, then go with TdH. The vetiver one is too calssic for you, I guess.
Terre D´Hermes Pure Perfume
I don't much like either but I think Guerlain Vetiver would be far easier to wear day after day, so I'll vote for it.
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Gotta go with Guerlain Vetiver.
Guerlain Vetiver, of course. Terre d'Hermese is everywhere. And I can't stand it.
I think that if you wear GV a lot you'll keep discovering more layers to it. Terre is very nice, but will get a little boring after a while IMO.
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I prefer Guerlain Vetiver
Guerlan's Vetiver is exquisite. One of my top 5. It's mother? Guerlain's Djedi. Sample it and I bet you'll agree.
"It's not the scent that recalls the person; it's the person who recalls the scent"
Toss up to me. Don't smell a lot alike, but similar "personalities."
Go with your nose.
Guerlain,I simply think it is the best there is.
Guerlain Vetiver
Vetiver. Terre d'Hermès is far from bad, but I find it boring and almost annoying after 1-2 hours.
And now it's a tie.
Terre d'Hermes by far!!!
Today I test both and I don't like Guerlain Vetiver
TdH EDT, the perfume version is just too much.
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Not a big fan of either.
Terre is an occasional for me on account of its mega strength
Gotta go with TdH. Both are among my faves but TdH is the more modern, fashion-forward and unique of the two. There are a ton of Vetivers out there, some that are arguably as good as or better than GV. Givenchy, Tom Ford and Frederic Malle to name a few.
Guerlain vertiver over TdH for me. I like my vertiver with some tobacco
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Counterfeit Cashier's Checks of Valley National Bank, Wayne, NJ
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The Holocaust has long been a deep and disquieting source of material for filmmakers, especially documentarians. As firsthand accounts of World War II naturally dwindle, though, cinematic inquiries on the subject have been shifting into more personal territory, where the focus isn't factual findings but far less quantifiable matters.
A growing body of work looks beyond the war's extremes of darkness and spiritual triumph to the legacy for succeeding generations — specifically, the children and grandchildren of Jewish prisoners and descendants of Nazi officers.
Two recent films tackle the legacy that some descendants of Nazis still wrestle with, and the way it tears some families apart.
In the February release "Lore," a potent drama based on a novel and set in the weeks after the Allied victory, the title character is a German teen leading her young siblings through the ravaged landscape. Australian director Cate Shortland's feature tracks the painful loss of innocence for a girl who was raised to revere the Führer and awakens, after considerable resistance, to a shattering truth.
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Grown-up versions of Lore figure in "Hitler's Children," a documentary just out on DVD. Through fascinating interviews with five of the progeny of the Nazi regime's chief architects, Israeli filmmaker Chanoch Ze'evi spotlights disparate responses to a very particular sort of shame, one often tangled with filial devotion.
These films join a number of unconventional family sagas of recent vintage, each addressing complicated emotions that descendants of the Third Reich face — or refuse to face. (Not all of these titles are readily accessible for stateside rental, but they are available from the Media Lounge lending library at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.)
The Nazi-era filmmaker Veit Harlan is at the center of a number of these films, beginning with his son Thomas' 1984 experimental feature "Wundkanal" (English title is "Gun Wound"). Thomas Harlan, who died in 2010 and who condemned his father's involvement with the Third Reich, cast an actual Nazi war criminal (Alfred Filbert) in the role of a kidnapped war criminal.
A fascinating companion film — "Our Nazi," Robert Kramer's 1985 documentary about the making of "Wundkanal" — makes clear the transgressive, personal nature of the undertaking. The documentary shows Thomas Harlan enacting a surrogate father-son scenario, with a reversal for art's sake. The younger man is the one in charge, feeding a stream of murmured directions, via earpiece, to his obedient actor.
In works like "Wundkanal" and in more explicit denouncements, Thomas Harlan was, according to one of his sisters, "attacking our poor father." She voices the complaint in Felix Moeller's 2008 documentary, "Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss." It's a gripping look at the particular relationship between movies and the political machinery of the Third Reich but also reveals a family divided by their views of their forebear's work.
At the center of their dispute is Veit Harlan's notorious 1940 feature "The Jew Süss," a work of anti-Semitic propaganda commissioned by Joseph Goebbels and which Heinrich Himmler considered a must-see for all members of the SS and police.
In Moeller's film, Veit Harlan's children and grandchildren offer a range of opinions on how much he understood the Nazi cause or whether he was tragically blinded by ambition. Did he know, one of them wonders in an especially haunting moment, that the Jewish extras in his movie were doomed? (In a strange but true footnote, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick married Harlan's niece; in the documentary, his widow remembers that the Jewish boy from the Bronx was shaken upon meeting her family.)
There are strong parallels between the family debate in "Harlan" and the one in "2 or 3 Things I Know About Him," a 2005 documentary by Malte Ludin, whose father was executed for war crimes as the Third Reich's ambassador to Slovakia. The filmmaker's three surviving siblings have arrived at different perspectives on their father's military career. One sister insists, "It's my right to see my father the way I want to see him." And she doesn't want to see him as a perpetrator of crimes.
Viewing history from a decidedly different vantage point — one of avowal rather than denial — is the new nonfiction feature "Numbered." Directors Dana Doron and Uriel Sinai profile former Auschwitz prisoners talking about — and displaying — the tattooed serial numbers on their left arms that were used to identify them in the camps. One of the remarkable elements of the film is the survivors' sometimes exuberant refusal to submit to shame. "I don't see it as a scar," one interviewee says of his tattoo. "For me, it's a medal."
The movie also touches on the way the children and grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors are further transmuting that attitude, proudly wearing the same tattooed numbers as their relatives. According to Meir Fenigstein, founder and executive director of the Israel Film Festival, this is a recent trend among second- and third-generation survivors in Israel.
"Numbered" will screen Sunday at the Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino as part of the festival, which runs through May 2.
Fenigstein, who has a personal connection to "Numbered" as someone whose parents were imprisoned in concentration camps, notes a generational shift in the discussion of the Holocaust, in day-to-day life as well as in films. "It's opened up a lot more," he says.
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"Love isn't love until you give it away." ~ Michael W. Smith
If the world ever needed your love, it needs it now. The hurting, the lost, and the lonely need your love right now. The people you pass on your way to work, the single mother, and the homeless man need your love right now. Your children, your husband, your wife, and your partner need your love right now.
The world grows darker when we don't make time for love's light to shine. Pour down your love and witness the world become a little brighter.
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I took Saturday off. Aside from checking email over morning coffee, I closed my laptop and opened myself up to a day of rest. The past few weeks have been a grind. Between releasing my book, and the redesign of this blog, there's been little time for me to take care of me.
On Saturday, Mary Beth, Emily and I went to the City Market for lunch and fresh produce. The warm sunshine was welcoming, like hearing from an old friend, as we selected the ripest tomatoes, the brightest strawberries and the most tempting lemons and limes.
It felt good to be in the presence of nature's gifts. It felt good to pour down love from the inside.
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Saturday was a good reminder that the small ways we love can often have the biggest impact. It doesn't matter the velocity of the love we pour down; all that matters is we send it down:
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Sometimes the simple path to pouring down your love begins with realizing you can light up the world with your amazing love – no matter the size of the drops.
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|2011-08-17, 16:09
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Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Well , you'll see later that Full Tank like Shen/Malph/Rammus/Galio... aren't really essential in a team.
Cuz of the Offtank like Irelia/Jarvan/Lee sin/Morde.... they are strong even with tanky stuff. Trinity + WarAtma work like a wonder for some AD offtank.
There's a big difference to a Full Tank who is fed and an offtank who is too.
The full tank will just have tanky stuff faster but still no important damage. Just don't focus him.
The offtank will become more deadly and a threat for the opponent. Even if you don't focus him , he'll rush your carry & kill him then next.
Currently the more viable compo is Top = Offtank , Mid = Carry AP , Bot = Carry AD + Support Jungle = Offtank AD/AP , "Fiddle" and Amumu who is the best tank in jungle.
As they'll nerf support heals , dunno if the support + AD will still greatly works.
|2011-08-17, 16:46
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Talon's skills :
Well , wait at least 2 weeks to see if he's viable , cuz lately Riot tend to make underpow champs or at least not good enough to compete the viable champ.
|2011-08-17, 20:38
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Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
You think people don't like to tank? Once you get to 30 where the advantages of jungling really becomse apparent, it's actually much worse. Heaven forbid no one picked tank and jungler lols.
Why do you think I got so proficient at jungle and tanking? I'm more of an AP carry myself (back from Tides of Blood days), but like 75% of my games I have to go either or both jungle and tank that I just got good at it. XD
|2011-08-17, 20:47
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A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
Age: 31
@Skane: If you are on SEA server, then add me, DSveno
Btw, if you are playing normal game, don't bother with tanker. It's an unappreciated job. You jumped in, no one follow, and it's your fault. You don't jump in, your carry die, and it's your fault. You jumped in, and your team lost the combat, it's also your fault. I tend to avoid tanker in Normal games unless I'm playing with friends or someone I know (thank god that most of my games aren't solo).
Tips: use lv 1 rune. They are cheap, and half as effective the lv 3 one, while is at about 1/5 to 1/10 the price.
Btw, Garen isn't a tank, so don't pick him while looking for a tank . I'm saving IP to buy Garen, though. Tried him out while he was free and I kinda like him, although he's one of those "weaksauce" melee champion without gap closing skill and can't really tank.
|2011-08-18, 02:48
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Yuri µ'serator
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
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Guess I'll be back to playing ranged-AD carries again until I find something else I like . And cancel my plan to buy Sona until the next patch .
|2011-08-18, 07:42
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Just watched it lol
Looks really fun to play ^^ News summoners (Promotion is back) , news items , unavailable items to balance , new buffs , more fun !
It'll change to 5v5 or 3v3
Yes 5 millions shared for all season 2 tournaments. So for S2 ending , maybe the prize will be 1million.
|2011-08-18, 09:06
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Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
So sad that the best parody song didn't win in Songs of the Summoned 2 because of legal issues.
Some other decent and/or amusing songs that didn't get a mention...
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|2011-08-18, 10:34
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 35
|2011-08-18, 12:46
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Age: 30
One thing I see is that the map favors tanky/disruptive champions, but you get %-based penetration for every landmark you capture, although I'm not sure how it all adds up. That was quite the game, red team came very close to winning...guess 20 mins is truly a lot of time for this type of game.
|2011-08-18, 13:24
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|2011-08-22, 09:23
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Yeah that was an awesome match, HotshotGG's definitely MVP imo. How the hell did he and RainMan farm like, 400 creeps each!? Also surprised at Ezreal's display of skill during the guys vs gals late dominion match. Ofc I suppose that was to be expected by the man who designed both the champion and the map...
|2011-08-25, 01:16
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Osana-Najimi Shipper
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Mt. Ordeals
Gold now being 1520, it was much easier to achieve my goal. Here I was being lazy when I stopped at 1500 because I can't play more than 2-3 match a day without forcing myself as I get bored easily. But with the new thresholds, I just needed 2 wins and I got them lols. Thanks Riot for Jarvan skin. ^_^
Now can't wait till dominion, for a change of pace as jungler/tank mains due to force of necessity, because jungling is nonexistent while I don't think pure tanks are going to be that useful in that map.
|2011-08-27, 05:03
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Location: FL, USA
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|2011-08-27, 05:37
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Lux is a safe champ, always sitting behind everyone else, has a slow, a root and a shield, pretty balanced support. Item-wise, I always build RoA, sorc boots, Arc staff, deathcap, morello's evil tome, void staff, getting some pretty high stats in HP,MP,AP,Mpen and CDR. Imo that's all you're ever gonna need as a caster
Currently playing some ranked games, had a very unexpected win yesterday, mainly due to our team comp (Alistar,Galio,Lux,Morganna, Xin Zhao) versus an actually balanced team (Amumu, Kata, Kennen, Garen, Irelia). Although Alistar failed as a tank, and Kata got fed (3/0/0 or so at first TF), I picked up a lot of kills as Galio and managed to carry the team a few towers in.
OTOH, lost a game thanks to a terrible kog feeder (0/7/1 and FB) who wouldn't mid against Ezreal...sometimes I really wonder if 4v5 is better than 5v5 w/feeder on the team.
EDIT: Speaking of builds, how is this for Shen?
Spoiler for build:
I've also tried AP tank, but didn't work out so well...
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|2011-08-27, 15:49
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Somewhere between heaven and hell !
Take Aegis , Randuin, Thornmail or banshee instead of Warmog/Atma/Frozen.
Shen isn't a good farmer , Warmog is useless & it costs a lot and + you are the tank.
Atma/Frozen useless items , he doesn't need it. You hit too slow + you are the tank.
Better help your team to give them a good buff -Aegis- & disable the opponent -Randuin- + taunt the carry AD -Thornmail- or AP -FoN/Banshee-
AP Tank = AP , forgive the tank part , you die like a carry. Stun Focus Instant Kill.
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2012-13: Competed in five regattas as a skipper and recorded one solo performance...helped the B Division boat finish 12th at the ICSA Dinghy National Championship as MIT ranked 14th overall (5/30)...finished sixth in the B Division of the ICSA Western Semifinal (4/28)...helped MIT rank 11th at the New England Team Race Championship (5/5)...captured fourth place in the C Division of the Boston Dinghy Club Challenge Cup (3/24)...in his only solo outing of the year he was sixth in the C Division of the Truxton Umstead Trophy (3/17).
2011-12: Competed in four regattas as a skipper and registered two solo performances...skipper of C Division boat that captured sixth place at the Hatch Brown Trophy (9/18) and the Navy Fall Intersectional (10/16)...skipper of seventh-place B Division boat at the Hood Trophy (9/25)...was sixth of 22 entries at the Men's New England Singlehanded Championship (10/9)...skipper of B Division boat that ranked fourth at the Oberg Trophy (10/23)...captured 12th place in the A Division as a skipper at the Atlantic Coast Championship (11/13).
2010-11: Competed in seven regattas as a skipper and recorded four solo performances...skipper of A Division boat that finished second at the Commonwealth Series (9/26)...placed fifth at the Singlehanded New England Qualifier (10/9)...finished eighth competing as an individual in the C Division of the Navy Fall Intersectional (10/17)...skipper of B Division boat that finished fourth at the Oberg Trophy (10/24)...skipper of boat that placed fifth at the Hap Moore Team Race (11/7)...skipper of B Division boat that ranked 14th at the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship (11/13)...skipper of boat that finished first at the Mendelblatt Team Race (3/19)...skipper of C Division boat that finished ninth in the Boston Dinghy Cup (3/26).
On Dry Land at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering with a concentration in economics...teaching assistant for the physics department...active participant in MIT's intramural sports program.
High School: A 2009 graduate of St. John's School...two-time Puerto Rican champion in Laser Radial...2008 Atlantic Coast Champion...placed 13th at the North American championship in 2009...Antonio Ortiz Medal...regional Science Bowl winner...honorable mention for the Ihero-American Physics Olympiad.


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Taken 2 (US - BD RA)
Gabe reviews the latest in the never-ending line of Luc Besson mediocrities...
The original Taken was a surprise hit for writer/producer Luc Besson and star Liam Neeson, who used the film as a springboard into more mindless action films, like The A-Team, Unknown, and Battleship. Good for Neeson, as he continued challenging himself between easy paydays with stuff like The Grey, but bad for Besson, whose name used to mean something back when he was still directing films, like La Femme Nikitia and Leon: The Professional. Besson has been co-writing and producing interchangeable, bland money-makers for over a decade now and sometimes he negates the need to defend the interchangeability of these films by making an unneeded sequel. Following the events of the first film, angst-ridden, one-man killing machine Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is joined in Istanbul by his rescued daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) and estranged ex-wife Lenore (Famke Janssen), where they intend on enjoying a peaceful period away from violence. But before you can say ' Die Hard 2: Die Harder,' Murad (Rade Serbedzija), the guy that hired all the guys Bryan killed saving his daughter last time around (including Murad's own son), sics another gang of culturally undeterminable thugs on the family. From here, Besson and co-writer Robert Mark Kamen throw every conceivable action thriller sequel and divorced family drama cliché imaginable at the screen. Somewhere there is an alternate script where Neeson's overbearing character is entirely to blame for everything that goes wrong in the film and thus a sort of accidental villain. Apparently, a subversive approach is too much to ask for, so we're left with an inadvertently funny replay of many of the first film's moments.
The problem I keep running into when I review these films is that there are simply so many other similar films I'd rather be watching. Even though Taken 2 is well-made and acted, it simply festers as a larger budget version of a Steven Seagal quickie from two decades ago. I understand that younger viewers and viewers that don't spend nearly as much of their free time engulfed in vintage B-action films can still enjoy a retread such as this, and that stuff like Taken 2 is really just the heir to the throne of the Dirty Harry and Die Hard franchises (though it appears Die Hard will continue to soldier on, despite entirely losing its way during the last entry). In this regard, Taken 2 is not made for me, but for someone either new to B-action that doesn't care to educate themselves in decades worth of (usually bad) movies or someone so fond of B-action that they need to continue absorbing it, lest they die of lack of explosive schlock. What I hope to get out of something like Taken 2 is a 'bigger' experience. I know I'm not going to get an interesting story and I know that the actors are going to do much more than slide through the motions, so I expect more elaborate and violent action set-pieces. Of course, a major problem I had with the original Taken was that it was supposed to be a brutal experience, but was hampered by a larger-audience-friendly PG-13 rating. Even the unrated video release version was pretty weak, equating a very soft R-rating at best.
Taken 2, which I only took the time to watch in its apparently more brutal unrated version, not its supposedly censored theatrical cut, is generally more of the same. Sure, it's violent – there is an enhanced interrogation that features a lot of punching and an off-camera leg stabbing, there are a few nominally bloody gunshot squibs (a dude has his foot demolished), Neeson stabs a dude in the neck and throws some guys down a stairwell, and Serbedzija does threatening things with scissors to Famke Janssen. Among this vague viscera, most of the gore is left to our imagination and, when we're measuring a movie's success in terms of violent action, this is disappointing. I'm not saying I'd be particularly comfortable allowing a child to watch Taken 2 either, so I'm not sure who exactly is benefiting from this middle-ground treatment of violence. For lack of a more mature word, I'd like to refer to it as 'lame.' Not that it really matters, since the whole film is shot so badly that we wouldn't be able to discern a gore effect, anyway.
Director Olivier Megaton has become Besson's go-to guy for unnecessary sequels when Louis Leterrier left the Transporter series at two. Leterrier was likely the most talented of Besson's repertory company and Pierre Morel ( District 13, the original Taken) was moved up from B to A position. Megaton's only non-sequel for Besson was among the producer's most generic films – last year's Colombiana (which started its life as a sequel to Leon: The Professional). It appears that Megaton hates the human eye, because he and editors Camille Delamarre and Vincent Tabaillon refuse to let any shot linger long enough for the human ocular nerves to focus. It also appears he shot every scene, even the simplest character-to-character discussion, with at least three cameras. It's sort of like he's doing an impression of Michael Bay, but he just isn't quite sure how to recreate Bay's occasionally weighted sense of movement. I will admit that this ants-in-the-pants approach to editing keeps the monotonous storyline moving, but can find no excuse for Megaton's unattractive misuse of shaky-cam and crash-zoom techniques. The fisticuffs are left a choppy blur of colour and noise that I can't believe anyone considers exciting or entertaining to watch.
Taken 2 was shot on Super 35mm (open matte, according to the framing on the deleted scenes) using Arri cameras and this 2.40:1, 1080p transfer does a nice job showing off the high contrast and rich textures. The film's overall look is relatively consistent and made up of a whole lot of fine foreground detail, relatively complex, but usually slightly out of focus backdrops (location establishing shots being a very sharp exception), and a fine, consistent sheen of film grain. There's a lot of deep, dark blackness utilized as a shortcut to 'moody' and, had it not been for the overall clarity, I assume much of the action would turn to mud. The sharp highlights and fine, gritty facial textures are rarely lost in the heavy shadows and the lines created against these crushed blacks rarely feature more than a hint of edge enhancement. This brings us to the colour palette, which is ridiculous. There's nothing natural about the consistent hues Megaton and cinematographer Romain Lacourbas utilize to create their weirdly saturated compositions. It seems that the orange and teal is becoming old hat already – the new normal is yellow and cyan! Clearly, I missed the subtext that explained why every character has jaundice and why they dyed their hair blue. This goofy pallet does cut very nicely, includes some surprisingly subtle yellow-to-cyan blends, and the occasionally poppy red element (equally and unnaturally consistent, of course) are quite vibrant without a lot of bleeding.
Besson half-asses these scripts and his directors often seem unsure of their motives, but someone is always on point when it comes to an audio mix. It appears that a gentleman named Frederic Dubois is responsible for the sound editing on most of these films and as is the one continuously successful element in these mostly worthless Besson productions. The over-cut, badly shot fight sequences benefit heavily from the punchy sounds of swishing and connecting weapons/fists. The car/foot-chases and shootouts tend to stand out as the most aggressive aural moments, but the bits where Neeson locates his prison via aural cues is the most creative and directionally impressive pieces of sound design. The one issue I have with the track is that the dialogue volume tends to be a bit inconsistent, especially where location noise reduction is concerned. Neeson's voice is quite often the loudest thing on the entire soundtrack. Nathaniel Méchaly's music is mostly made up of non-melodic string swells, heavy drum hits, and abstract bass pumps. It makes a decent ambient showing and fills out the channels during the quieter moments, including some decent directional involvement to the more electronic instrumentations. Source music is treated similarly and often starts a sequence with a nice stereo whirl.
The extras begin with a Black Ops Field Manual in-film option (available for the unrated version only). This is a pop-up mode that includes various factoids about the CIA and terrorist cells, technical specs on the characters, a running list of miles/kilometers traveled by the main character, and a running tally of the people he's killed and injured. The same thing was included as part of the Blu-ray release of the original film as well. Sam's Tools of the Trade continues this experience with a virtual weapons/tech case. It includes a 'play all' option (3:30, HD) and a click and listen option. Other extras include five deleted/extended scenes (7:00, HD), and an alternate ending (totaling 25:00 because of structural changes in the lead-up, HD), FX Movie Channel Presents: In Character with Liam Neeson featurette (5:00, SD), and trailers.
Taken 2 can be entirely defined by the car chase sequence that kicks off the third act. Here, Neeson lifelessly berates his daughter to 'c'mon, go faster, you can do it, don't stop.' It's a microcosm sample of the film's insistence on existing, despite no one involved really caring either way. Assuming you're among the apparently millions of people that liked both this and the previous film, you are in for a very nice Blu-ray treatment, including a very crisp 1080p transfer and a loud DTS-HD MA soundtrack. The extras are a bit thin, but do feature a lot of alternate footage.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
leigh1975 Contributor Join Date: October 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 318
i quite liked the first one, but this film was abysmal. It was already a struggle to watch, but as soon as Neeson asked his daughter "is there a safe place you can throw a grenade?", I checked out completely.
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i too very much liked the first movie and i admit i don't hate/dislike this sequel. it's ok. average (although i love seeing goddess Famke Janssen in anything...yes, that will include HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS on Friday! LOL).
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
I loved Taken, but I do agree the sequel was found very lacking except some good action moments. my favorite film by Megaton is Red Siren which has some great action stuff in it that is better than anything the films he directs for Besson.
felipe-11 Member Join Date: July 2009 Location: United States Posts: 418
Taken 1 was already mediocre but still entertaining (thanks only to Liam Neeson) and shot well enough to watch. This unwanted mess of a sequel is exactly the type of movie people fear when the hear the word "sequel".
I just hope these type of movies don't suck Liam Neeson into the "Nicolas Cage black hole".
I just hope these type of movies don't suck Liam Neeson into the "Nicolas Cage black hole".
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
TAKEN 2 is still a kajillion billion times better than the abomination that is BOURNE LEGACY. just sayin'.
U2psycho Member Join Date: October 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 341
Please no Taken 3.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
djblack1313 wrote: TAKEN 2 is still a kajillion billion times better than the abomination that is BOURNE LEGACY. just sayin'.
Let's just agree that they both suck.
Let's just agree that they both suck.
jp orestes Senior Member Join Date: April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,081
I enjoyed it but not as much as the first so I guess I'm one of the millions! I think the biggest complaints when I watched this were how it was shot although I've seen worse so it wasn't that much of a problem and the major plot point of blaming Mills for everything but I threw my brain out the window and was entertained.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
'It wasn't as badly shot as some other terrible movies' should be the pullquote on the poster.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 15th January 2013
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English Descriptive Audio, French, and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Black Ops Field Manual Mode, Sam's Tools of the Trade, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Alternate Ending, FX Movie Channel Presents: In Character with Liam Neeson, Tralers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy, UltraViolet Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Olivier Megaton
Cast: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Rade Šerbedžija
Genre: Action and Drama
Length: 91 minutes
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Boston: A friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of removing evidence from Tsarnaev`s dormitory room, has agreed to plead guilty to charges of obstructing the investigation into the blasts, his attorney said on Wednesday.
Dias Kadyrbayev, a Kazakh national, is one of three college friends of Tsarnaev charged with hampering the probe into the blasts, which killed three people and injured more than 260 near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
His attorney, Robert Stahl, wrote in an email on Wednesday that Kadyrbayev "will plead tomorrow," but that the details had not yet been made public.
He wrote that he will provide further details on Thursday, when a previously scheduled hearing will be held at federal court in Boston.
Kadyrbayev had entered a not guilty plea to the charges a year ago.
Last month, a U.S. jury found Kadyrbayev`s roommate, Azamat Tazhayakov, guilty of obstructing the investigation by removing a backpack containing empty fireworks casings from the suspect`s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
The jury found Tazhayakov not guilty of similar charges involving a laptop computer.
Tazhayakov could face up to 20 years in prison on the obstruction of justice count and up to five years on the conspiracy count. He will be sentenced on Oct. 16, U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said earlier.
Like Tazhayakov, Kadyrbayev faces conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges, which carry a penalty of up to 25 years in prison.
A third man, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, Massachusetts, faces a less serious charge of lying to investigators, which could mean a possible 16-year sentence.


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Obama in History (9 of 11)
March 19, 2009 - H. W. Brands, historian and biographer of presidents, spoke on "Obama in History" at an event co-hosted by Grand Valley State University's Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies and the Gerald R. Ford Museum.His eloquence has been compared to Ronald Reagan's and John Kennedy's. His task - in the face of an economic crisis of historic proportions and two ongoing wars - has been compared to Franklin Roosevelt's. He took the oath of office with his hand on Abraham Lincoln's Bible; compared his cabinet to Lincoln's "team of rivals"; and in his inaugural address, linked today's challenges to those faced by George Washington and his men at Valley Forge. At the end of his second month in office, President Obama had attracted lofty comparisons to the most revered of his forty-two predecessors. Are such lofty comparisons justified? Who better to put President Obama in context than an award-winning historian and biographer of presidents?H. W. Brands, professor of history at the University of Texas, has won numerous awards for his teaching and writing. He is author of two dozen books, including biographies of Presidents Andrew Jackson (2005), Woodrow Wilson (2003), Theodore Roosevelt (1997), and Lyndon Johnson (1995). His most recent book, "Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt," was released on Election Day 2008.
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Jefferson County residents were given the go-ahead to attend a public hearing on May 23 to offer opinions on a proposed fire fee ordinance. Despite the efforts of one commissioner, the hearing was approved to move ahead as scheduled.
Commissioner Patsy Noland provided an "alternate plan" which drew fire from members of the Jefferson County Emergency Services Agency (JCRSA), firefighters and Emergency Medical providers and others within the county.
Scores of individuals spoke during the public comment session of last Thursday's commission meeting, dragging the normally allotted 10 minute time frame over several hours. The majority of opinions given were in opposition to the "Noland proposal" which calls for the dismantling of the JCESA. That dismantling, according to the plan, "could drastically reduce the administrative cost that consumes a large portion of the proposed fees to be collected from our citizens."
Those speaking out against Noland's plan claimed that its adoption would reduce services to the county and jeopardize the public safety. Noland adamantly maintained that her proposal did not cut services.
"Absolutely nothing in the plan calls for cutting service at any time," she said after being met with accusations that her plan shuts down services from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
"My plan is to cut overhead costs and put people in fire houses to better provide service," she said.
JCESA Deputy Director Ed Hannon addressed Noland's proposal asking questions such as who, if the ESA was disbanded, would work with the fire companies to schedule coverage, provide back up assistance, be responsible for ordering supplies for ambulances including drugs, and who would deal with the DEA when there are potential controlled substance violations. All of these responsibilities currently fall under staffing at the JCESA.
Commissioner Lyn Widmyer said that she approved going ahead with the planned public hearing and she sees any move to eliminate the ESA as eliminating service. '
"It will take an oversight agency to move ahead to this new model [offering supplemental paid fire service in addition to the already established paid EMS service]. I am not surprised that there are growing pains," Widmyer said.
The commissioners ultimately agreed to move ahead with the hearing scheduled to allow the public to comment on the proposed Emergency Service Fee Ordinance. Noland was the only one to vote against moving forward.
As proposed in the draft ordinance, fees will be based on square footage of residential and commercial structures. The fee for residential units would be $55 for buildings up to 1,600 square feet up to $85 for buildings of 3,000 square feet or more. Commercial rates range from $115 for a building up to 2,500 square feet to $2,200 for those up to 100,000 square feet with 30 cents added for every square foot beyond that.
A final target date to implement the fees, according to the draft ordinance, is June 30, 2013.


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Unverified Voracity Discovers The Axe Effect
Unverified Voracity Discovers The Axe Effect
The weekend. Via MGoVideo:
The Axe effect. Remember these guys?
Since they executed the above, Michigan is 18-7 in the Big Ten. Thanks Axe guys! Thanks, Tony Gerdeman! (Attention Tony: please don't do that again in the next couple weeks. Ace's blood will be on your hands.)
A brief digression into faulty math. By the way, Gerdeman, your numbers are horsecrap since they include a bunch of players who list offers from Michigan who Michigan had ceased recruiting. No one buys your head fake about Tommy Schutt when you include a guy (Pittman) who tried to commit to M and was rebuffed plus a bunch of OL Michigan had moved on from by the time Meyer was hired. 2012 head to head Meyer wins: Armani Reeves. End of list.
Of course, the head to head thing is beside the point. Ohio State is always going to win most of its recruting battles with Michigan because most of them will be for Ohio kids. This has not prevented Michigan from being good at football.
And this will be the future. Via WH, the future of the M-MSU rivalry if recruiting keeps going like this:
Look at the mauling on the line. Also cough cough infinite Desmond Howard bubble screens.
The bracket of storyline. Lunardi's latest has Michigan on the three line playing the Drexel Dragons in the first round. After that, the bracket is all storylines:
- If high seeds win the second round opponent would be Notre Dame
- Hypothetical Sweet 16 matchups would be against Duke (played earlier, semi-rival), San Diego State (Steve Fisher), or Alabama (footbaw matchup).
He's got us in Nashville right now; Marquette is the protected seed in the other Columbus pod. I'd hope we land either there or Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, Northwestern fans are pointing at tomorrow's game as perhaps their make-or-break moment for a first-ever NCAA bid. Bill Carmody is scoffing at the idea this is the biggest game in program history. Welsh-Ryan will be hyped.
Five star bump. Glenn Robinson is getting one. He's #1 on a recent Rivals list of the top ten players likely to move up when Rivals releases its final 2012 basketball rankings:
1. Glenn Robinson III
School: St. John (Ind.) Lake Central
The Buzz: The 6-foot-7 wing was knocking on the door of five-star status coming out of the summer. This winter, he appears to be well on his way to busting that door down. He has size, a complete game and high level athleticism that all translates at a high level. His impact at Michigan should be immediate and sizable.
Someone learned their lesson about John Beilein's talent evaluation skills after dropping Burke in their final rankings last year.
Brief position paper on "chink in the armor." ESPN fired the staffer who wrote the headline and suspended the anchor that spoke it aloud, causing some folks to question the inconsistency. I think it's the right call: a headline is something that is written down and considered. More importantly, it is also a place where double meanings and puns are crammed in as often as possible. A headline invites you to read it in all ways possible. If the staffer is too dumb to know this, he should be fired. If he's not, he should be fired.
The anchor probably should have gotten off with nothing other than a clarification that he was using the "chink in the armor" idiom in a way that is completely natural. They're talking about a big hole (turnovers) in Jeremy Lin's game. The idiom fits that conversation like a glove. These days a lot of folk use "unfortunate" to mean "awful" but in this case it is appropriate: the anchor's choice of words was unfortunate but not offensive.
How they do it. This Sporting News article on a mock bracket selection various members of the media went through is a fascinating insight into how the sausage gets made:
They stressed, time and time again, that there must be a way to organize the data — a true, valid point — and the RPI is just the way they chose. The relationship with the RPI dates back to 1981, when it was first used to provide "supplemental data" for the evaluation of potential at-large teams. As individuals, committee members have access to whatever ratings are available — including but not limited to the Pomeroy ratings, the Sagarin ratings and the LRMC results. But, the fact of the matter is everything dealing with ratings that was provided to the media members in the mock exercise was filtered through the RPI. The team sheets showed records vs. RPI top-50 teams, vs. teams ranked 51-100 in the RPI and so on. The RPI isn't the gold standard and it might not even necessarily be the preferred ranking, but it's the way the NCAA chooses to organize the information, so it's definitely the most front-and-center data.
I think the committee generally does a good job at picking out serious RPI outliers; at points where they disagree with Kenpom seriously I tend to side with the committee. That Wisconsin bank shot last year was devastating because the committee mostly considers wins and losses. If it was just an infinitesimal hit to Michigan's defensive rating a lot of the drama gets sucked out of the season. Kenpom is designed to be predictive, which is not necessarily the best model for making a bracket that makes the sport entertaining.
Kovacs! Jordan Kovacs headlines Andy Staples's all-two-star (and under) team:
S Jordan Kovacs, Sr., Michigan (Zero stars in Class of 2008): Kovacs, another walk-on who came out of nowhere, joins Whaley as a co-captain. I first wrote about Kovacs in 2009 after he filled in admirably during the Wolverines' win against Notre Dame. Since then, Kovacs has developed into one of the Big Ten's best safeties. The kid who made the team from a student-body tryout has started 33 games, and he still has one more season to play.
Patrick Omameh and Nathan Brink also feature. Get your fill of this stuff now, because Michigan is about to be a rumor to this annual exercise.
Also let's keep the RR walk-on program going strong, yes? Even in a year where Michigan has a lot of guys on the line a Heininger would have ended up being a useful rotation piece. Kovacs starts on damn near every Michigan D in the past 20 years.
In your head. Michigan's weekend got not one but two coaching-type guys on the OSU staff to indirectly reference it. First someone who seems like their Singletary equivalent:
Slow and steady wins the race
And then:
Old coach told me one time... Don't trust false enthusiasm. Don't worry, I'm not. I trust
Again with the "these guys don't really mean to commit to Michigan." I'm sure it's an accident, yes. Don't forget "long way to signing day."
Program culture. Beilein on his seniors and the baseline they've established:
"I think in recruiting, people don't understand the part about those four years, how much better they'll get if they have really good work habits. Their work habits have not only made them better, it's made the rest of our team better. Trey Burke comes into the gym and he sees Stu or Zack working extra before or working extra afterwards, he then realizes well, that's what I'm supposed to do, and he's always done that. But if he came in and saw two seniors that were late for practice or complaining about practice or didn't work in the off-season, he may go more toward that way. They've helped us create a culture here that I hope is everlasting."
I cut the evaluators a break there because that's impossible to judge. Also it's not like a bunch of colleges were banging down Douglass's and Novak's doors. In any case, the point about the work ethic of the program is one that looms large in the aftermath of the Lee/Merritt departures blowing up the program. I think Burke will be a guy who helps keep that around this time. Morgan, too.
Etc.: SI declares the Big Ten the best conference in college basketball. DGDestroys has a miraculously-still-relevant recruiting post from before the weekend about the WR recruiting landscape. Surprise: Gordon Gee says something dumb.