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Spoiler Alert: This review is about what happened Sunday night on the series finale of "Breaking Bad." You've been warned.
Vince Gilligan's "Breaking Bad," in so many ways the ideal TV show, gave until the very end, until its lead character, Walter White, a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher who turned himself into a drug kingpin of the gritty Southwest, died on the floor of (most fittingly) a meth lab.
There was never a dull episode in the five seasons that "Breaking Bad" ran on AMC, including Sunday night's heart-poundingly satisfying finale. Walt (Bryan Cranston) had his revenge on nearly everyone, in one way or another — from confronting his former business partners in their mansion to poisoning the Stevia packet of the duplicitous Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser).
Up until Walt's jury-rigged machine gun started firing from the trunk of a car into the compound of the neo-Nazi meth-makers who stole Walt's money, it was a quiet and deliberate ballet of comeuppance, closure and very little in the way of moral recompense.
Since its first episode, the entire saga had been set for a slow burn but told in a manic, anxiety-filled style. It took forever to catch on, but once it did, if you were hooked, you had to have more.
Like all cultural triumphs nowadays, the show became something we tortured ourselves and one another over: Have you watched it? Are you watching it? Did you see it? ("Don't you want to know what happened to my friend Walt?" asked Aaron Paul during an Obamacare sketch on the opening of "Saturday Night Live" the other night, playing his "Breaking Bad" character. "No, no!" a gathered crowd shouted, terrified by the idea that the secret of the show's ending would somehow get out.)
Jesse Pinkman! He lives! Walt rescued Jesse, set him free. Jesse refused to kill Walt ("Do it yourself," he said) and then drove off in a blaze of . . . well, not quite glory, but as close to it as "Breaking Bad" ever gets.
(A beatific, Christ-like hallucination of Jesse as a carpenter, building what looked to me like a nice container for ashes — that had us worried. Some of us wanted nothing more from Sunday night than a happy-ish end for Jesse, whose bad fortune became a much-forwarded video montage last week by Slate.com.)
This eight-episode "second half" of Season 5 brought about some of "Breaking Bad's" finest moments: the full transformation of Skyler White (recent Emmy winner Anna Gunn) into a criminal accomplice who is willing to lie, blackmail and break family ties to get away with it all; Walter White's stare-down with his federal agent brother-in-law, Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), in Hank's garage; the "tableside guacamole" dinner during which Hank and his wife, Marie, confront Walt and Skyler about turning themselves in; the horrifying shootout at the To'hajiilee Indian reservation; Walt's phone call to Skyler after he took baby Holly (and later left the baby, unharmed, at a fire station) — in which, with police officer and feds listening in, he believed he was giving her a plausible chance at freedom.
Sunday night's best scene — in terms of writing and acting — came between Walt and Skyler. He tried once more to explain. Gunn positively smoldered when her character said: "If I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family — "
"I did it for me," Walt said, and there you have it: the dark pit of the soul of "Breaking Bad." Walt was never good. Walt chose evil. "I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really — " and here he paused. "I was alive."
It's remarkable to think back on all five seasons of "Breaking Bad" and see so many perfect notes like that, so much pit-stained anxiety, so much confidence in the story that it set out to tell, but also so much confidence on the part of Gilligan and his writers to let the story tell them where it wanted to go.
When you look back, what you don't see are the missteps and tangents that can often plague an ambitious and critically praised drama over time — usually somewhere in the later part of Season 2 or first part of Season 3. There just isn't a weak season of "Breaking Bad." There's just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon.
But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, "Breaking Bad" didn't quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year's episodes and Sunday night's conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.
We never got a full picture of what Skyler, Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte) and little Holly White's lives were like during all that time Walt was hiding in New Hampshire.
We never got to see how the DEA picked up where Hank Schrader's secret investigation left off and how they began sorting (with Marie Schrader's help, no doubt) through the tangled mess of the Heisenberg meth operation. As we saw in the Sept. 22 episode, when Walt's keeper arrives at the New Hampshire cabin with a month's worth of the Albuquerque Journal newspaper, Walt voraciously dives into the news with a narcissist's desperation, so he can read about the investigation and wallow in his failures; I daresay fans of "Breaking Bad" were just as eager as Walt to see how it went down — what the agents learned and still do not know — in those intervening months between the shootout and the finale.
And we certainly could have used (and Betsy Brandt was plenty up to the challenge of depicting) more of the depths of Marie's grief after Hank died. We had so much invested in all these characters and not nearly enough time for a payout; it was a shame, in these last few episodes, to always feel as if we were heading for the door too soon. I'm a sucker for fastidiously clean endings and the beauty of epilogue.
It seems almost silly to carp about the things we didn't see Sunday night — the aftermath of Walt's crime and death, the wake of his destruction, whether or not the Schwartzes opened that trust fund for Walt's kids — all of which "Breaking Bad's" fans would have happily stuck around another half-season to see.
Even though I never gave a second thought to what really happened to Tony Soprano, I think in some way I now understand the compulsion in certain fans to write their own fan fiction, to fantasize about the characters on TV shows that aren't on anymore. As a critic, I have to finally face the fact that my favorite series (possibly ever — I'd have to think long and hard about that) is now gone. And when trying to figure out why this show worked so well, so deeply for me, I keep coming back to one simple and not terribly profound idea: "Breaking Bad" was original.
In a hyper-media era in which so much is derivative of something else, we sometimes lose sight of the value of the completely original epic. "Breaking Bad" may have drawn from the greatest tools of dramatic tragedy, but it was not based on or adapted from anything that came before. This is a common thread among our finest TV shows: They are wholly new, sui generis (to get fancy about it).
"Breaking Bad" was born of Gilligan's initial and almost reductive desire to tell a story about a good man who turns bad. It was not a remake of something that came before it. It was not a Shakespearean update. It was not an imported vehicle, not previously a hit series from Britain or Sweden or Denmark. It was not optioned from a string of crime novels or a fancy comic book.
"Breaking Bad" was not trying to evoke something that it admired from before. It wasn't reaching for an era or a particular strain of nostalgia. Thanks to its sick sense of irony and the driest humor possible, it did not neatly fit into any one genre of modern drama. (Gilligan has said before that he considered it a "western.") And by setting its story in Albuquerque — by filming it there and inhabiting the city's character so fully — "Breaking Bad" deliberately chose uncharted territory, a "Land of Enchantment" in which the enchantment was entirely ours and not Walter's. Literally and figuratively, "Breaking Bad' went to a place hardly anyone ever goes.


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README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html Perl language for MPE Last updated January 12, 2006 @ 2100 UTC
This is a podified version of what used to be on the above-mentioned web page, podified by Jarkko Hietaniemi 2001-Jan-01.
January 12, 2006
Simplified the build process by using the MPEAUTOCONF functionality in Mark Klein's ld.
If you build this from scratch, make sure you have a version of ld which supports it. In the shell, type
ld --help and look for AUTOCONF or MPEAUTOCONF near the bottom or do this: ld --help 2>&1 | grep AUTOCONF
If you see don't see AUTOCONF or MPEAUTOCONF, make sure you get a new version.
You also do not have to use mpeix/relink after building, so the recommend sequence is:
./Configure -de # or ./Configure -de -Dusedevel # if you're building a development version make make test # if you run this in a job, do "make test_notty" make install
Be prepared for a wait. These take much longer on MPE/iX than on a Unix system, because of a slow forking, mostly. On a lightly-loaded HP3000 Series 979 running MPE/iX 7.5:
Configure: 1 hour make: 1 hour 15 minutes make test 1 hour 45 minutes
Various socket problems were fixed in mpeix.c.
Mark Klein provided a fixed sigsetjmp (that works with dynamic libraries) in mpeix_setjmp.c
June 1, 2000
and much much more hiding under /PERL/PUB/.cpan/
1. export FTP_PASSIVE=1 2. perl -MCPAN -e shell 3. Ignore any terminal I/O related complaints!
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This is the official home page for the HP e3000 MPE/iX ( http://www.hp.com/go/e3000 ) port of the Perl scripting language ( http://www.perl.com/ ) which gives you all of the power of C, awk, sed, and sh in a single language. Check here for the latest news, implemented functionality, known bugs, to-do list, etc. Status reports about major milestones will also be posted to the HP3000-L mailing list ( http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=HP3000-L&H=RAVEN.UTC.EDU ) and its associated gatewayed newsgroup comp.sys.hp.mpe.
I'm doing this port because I can't live without Perl on the Unix machines that I administer, and I want to have the same power available to me on MPE.
Please send your comments, questions, and bug reports directly to me, Mark Bixby ( http://www.bixby.org/mark/ ). Or just post them to HP3000-L.
The platform I'm using to do this port is an HP 3000 957RX running MPE/iX 6.0 and using the GNU gcc C compiler ( http://jazz.external.hp.com/src/gnu/gnuframe.html ).
The combined porting wisdom from all of my ports can be found in my MPE/iX Porting Guide (http://www.bixby.org/mark/porting.html).
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Yes, I do work for the HP CSY R&D lab, but ALL of the software you download from bixby.org is my personal freeware that is NOT supported by HP.
Download Perl using FTP.ARPA.SYS from your HP 3000 (the preferred method).....
:HELLO MANAGER.SYS :XEQ FTP.ARPA.SYS open ftp.bixby.org anonymous firstname.lastname@example.com bytestream cd /pub/mpe get perl-5.6.0-mpe.tar.Z /tmp/perl.tar.Z;disc=2147483647 exit
.....Or download using some other generic web or ftp client (the alternate method)
Download the following files (make sure that you use "binary mode" or whatever client feature that is 8-bit clean):
:CHDIR /tmp :XEQ TAR.HPBIN.SYS 'xvfopz /tmp/perl.tar.Z INSTALL'
Examine the accounting structure creation commands and modify if necessary (adding additional capabilities, choosing a non-system volume set, etc).
:XEQ VI.HPBIN.SYS /tmp/INSTALL
The accounting structure will be created and then all files will be extracted from the archive.
:XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS /tmp/INSTALL
You only have to do this ONCE on your MPE/iX 5.5 machine in order to convert /lib/lib*.a and /usr/lib/lib*.a libraries to their *.sl equivalents. This step should not be necessary on MPE/iX 6.0 or later machines because the 6.0 or later update process does it for you.
The file you're reading now.
Perl/iX Installation script.
Script to convert *.a system archive libraries to *.sl shared libraries.
Perl NMPRG executable. A version-numbered backup copy also exists. You might wish to "ln -s /PERL/PUB/PERL /usr/local/bin/perl".
Much add-on source code downloaded with the CPAN module.
Perl libraries, both core and add-on.
Perl man page documentation.
Sample feedback CGI form written in Perl.
Source code.
The summary test results from "cd t; ./perl -I../lib harness":
Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed --------------------------------------------------------------------------- io/fs.t 29 8 27.59% 2-5, 7-9, 11 io/openpid.t 10 1 10.00% 7 lib/io_sock.t 14 1 7.14% 13 lib/io_udp.t 7 2 28.57% 3, 5 lib/posix.t 27 1 3.70% 12 op/lex_assign.t 187 1 0.53% 13 op/stat.t 58 1 1.72% 3 15 tests and 94 subtests skipped. Failed 7/236 test scripts, 97.03% okay. 15/11306 subtests failed, 99.87% okay.
Create your Perl script files with "#!/PERL/PUB/perl" (or an equivalent symbolic link) as the first line. Use the chmod command to make sure that your script has execute permission. Run your script!
Be sure to take a look at the CPAN module list ( http://www.cpan.org/CPAN.html ). A wide variety of free Perl software is available. You can automatically download these packages by using the CPAN module ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN/ ).
There some minor functionality issues to be aware of when comparing Perl for Unix (Perl/UX) to Perl/iX:
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Noah Worthington let his slaves off at Christmas, until the Yule log burnt. The slaves became smart, and they started soaking the Yule log from October to December.
There were two Noahs: Devil Noah – he had raven black hair and plaited his whiskers. Gentleman Noah was driven by his nephew Devil Noah with his high spirited horses, when he became frightened he asked his hephew to slow down or stop. Devil Noah replied, "I'll drive these horses straight to —- if you don't give me $5,000. He received the $5,000.
- Senator Thomas Worthington under Thomas Jefferson in which he states in a letter to Jefferson in Washington 17 July 1793 – a plan for the capital.
- Judge William G.D. Worthington b. 1785 m. Eliza Jordon. Judge Worthington was appointed Territorial Governor of Florida by Andrew Jackson.
- William E. Worthington was the first clerk of the Court of Howard County, MD.
- According to Richardson "Side Lights of Md. History" p. 255, Captain John Worthington emigrated to Md. in company with his brother Samuel, in the year 1670. The latter settled in Somerset County and left numerous descendants. As of yet we can not document this information. We have the following in our files:
Samuel Worthington 1648 – 1715 married in 1685 Alice Elzey D/O John and Sarah Elzey of Southampton, England
– 1692 Samuel took the oath of sub-sheriff
– 1696 Samuel signed to address the province of Maryland to King William and Queen Mary as Military Officer and Official of Someret County.
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Huskers Take on Tough Temple Team Sunday
Nebraska Cornhuskers
(1-0, 0-0 Big Ten)
vs. Temple Owls
(1-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
Sunday, Nov. 11, 2:05 p.m.
Bob Devaney Sports Center (Lincoln, Neb.)
TV: None • Premium Internet
Video: BTN.com (subscription required)
Free Internet Audio: Huskers.com
Radio: IMG College Husker Sports Network
(PBP-Matt Coatney; Analyst-Jeff Griesch)
107.3 FM-KBBK (Lincoln); 93.3 FM-KFFF (Omaha)
Huskers Conclude Challenging Opening Weekend with Temple
The Nebraska women's basketball team wraps up its season-opening weekend by taking on traditional Atlantic 10 Conference power Temple on Sunday afternoon at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Tip-off between the Huskers (1-0) and Owls (1-0) is set for 2:05 p.m., with a live radio broadcast on the Husker Sports Network, including flagships B107.3 FM in Lincoln and 93.3 FM The Wolf in Omaha. Free live audio coverage also will be available world-wide on Huskers.com. A live video stream of Sunday's action will be provided for subscribers of BTN.com.
Nebraska will honor all members past and present of the armed serves on Military Appreciation Day at the Devaney Center. All current and former military members with valid military identification will receive free general admission seating to both the women's basketball game against Temple at 2:05 p.m., and the men's basketball game against Southern at 6 p.m.
As part of the day-night doubleheader at the Devaney Center, anyone with a men's basketball ticket for the Southern game will receive free general admission seating to the women's game.
Nebraska heads into Sunday's showdown with Temple after working its way to a 68-50 win over a talented and experienced North Carolina A&T squad. Senior All-America candidate Lindsey Moore led the Huskers with 15 points and three assists against the Aggies. Sophomore starters Hailie Sample and Brandi Jeffery each added 10 points. Sample's 10 points matched her career high, while she added six boards and three assists. Jeffery produced double figures in her first career start.
Temple comes to Lincoln after a hard-fought home win over perennial Big Sky Conference power Montana on Friday night at McGonigle Hall in Philadelphia. Senior center Victoria Macaulay dominated the game with 21 points and 16 rebounds in 39 minutes of work on the block. Macaulay is the lone returning starter from an Owl unit that went 23-10 overall and 13-1 in the A-10 last season, while advancing to the WNIT Sweet 16.
Nebraska Cornhuskers (1-0, 0-0 Big Ten)
3 - Hailie Sample - 6-1 - So. - F - 10.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg
23 - Emily Cady - 6-2 - So. - F - 7.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
35 - Jordan Hooper - 6-2 - Jr. - F - 7.0 ppg, 9.0 rpg
00 - Lindsey Moore - 5-9 - Sr. - G - 15.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
13 - Brandi Jeffery - 5-7 - So. - G - 10.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
Off the Bench
10 - Meghin Williams - 6-1 - Sr. - F - 6.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
21 - Sadie Murren - 5-8 - Fr. - G - 5.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
24 - Rachel Theriot - 6-0 - Fr. - G - 3.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
55 - Adrianna Maurer - 6-3 - Jr. - C - 3.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
14 - Katie Simon - 6-2 - So. - F - 2.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg
1 - Tear'a Laudermill - 5-9 - So. - G - 0.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
22 - Courtney Aitken - 5-9 - Fr. - G - 0.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg
Head Coach: Connie Yori (Creighton, 1986)
11th Season at NU (191-126); 23rd Season Overall (386-266)
Temple Owls (1-0, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
25 - Victoria Macaulay - 6-4 - Sr. - C - 21.0 ppg, 16.0 rpg
32 - Natasha Thames - 6-0 - Jr. - F - 0.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg
10 - Sally Kabengano - 5-10 - Fr. - F - 7.0 ppg, 9.0 rpg
23 - Tyonna Williams - 5-6 - So. - G - 4.0 ppg, 5.0 rpg
24 - May Dayan - 5-7 - Fr. - G - 8.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg
Off the Bench
3 - Rateska Brown - 5-6 - So. - G - 13.0 ppg, 3.0 rpg
1 - Erica Covile - 6-1 - Fr. - G - 2.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg
12 - Jacquilyn Jackson - 6-0 - Fr. - F - 0.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg
20 - Meghan Roxas - 5-8 - Fr. - G - 0.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg
34 - Leah Horton - 6-1 - Fr. - F - 0.0 ppg, 0.0 rpg
30 - Monaye Merritt - 5-6 - So. - G - Injured
Head Coach: Tonya Cardoza (Virginia, 1991)
Fifth Season at Temple (94-38); Fifth Season Overall (94-38)
Moore Set for 100th Straight Start in Husker Lineup
Senior All-America candidate Lindsey Moore is expected to make the 100th consecutive start of her Nebraska career Sunday against Temple at the Devaney Center. The 5-9 point guard from Covington, Wash., has started every game of her Husker career since leading the Huskers to a perfect 29-0 regular season record and the Big 12 title as a freshman in 2009-10.
Moore owns a 70-29 record as Nebraska's starting point guard and has guided the Huskers to a pair of NCAA Tournaments. She is nearing the top 10 in career starts at Nebraska. If Moore can get to 106, she will catch 1993 Wade Trophy winner Karen Jennings (1990-93) at No. 10. Kelsey Griffin, a 2010 first-team All-American and a teammate of Moore's in 2009-10, owns the NU career record with 127 starts.
Yori Shoots for Top of Husker Coaching Chart
Nebraska Coach Connie Yori needs one more victory to become the winningest women's basketball coach in school history. NU's win over North Carolina A&T on Friday night put Yori at 191 victories at the start of her 11th season at Nebraska. She tied former Husker Coach Angela Beck (1986-97) atop Nebraska's all-time win list. Beck posted a 191-128 record (.599) in 11 seasons at the helm of the Huskers.
The 2010 National Coach of the Year, Yori needs nine more wins to become the first women's coach in Nebraska history to reach the 200-victory mark.
On the men's side, only Danny Nee and Joe Cipriano have produced 200 basketball victories at Nebraska. Nee won 254 games in 14 seasons coaching the Huskers from 1987 to 2000. Cipriano earned 253 wins in 17 seasons from 1964 to 1980.
Huskers Have History of Home-Opening Success
Nebraska owns a history of season-opening success on the Huskers' homecourt at the Devaney Center. Nebraska improved to 37-2 all-time in home openers, including 35-2 at the Devaney Center, with its 68-50 victory over North Carolina A&T on Nov. 9, 2012.
From 1981-82 through 2004-05, Nebraska reeled off 24 straight home-opening wins before losing to South Dakota State on Nov. 19, 2005. NU's only other home-opening loss came to Kansas (88-56) on Nov. 21, 1980.
Nebraska has been strong in its first six home games every season. In fact, NU is 196-33 over the past 39 years in its first six home contests (.856 winning percentage), including 32-6 in the second game of the season. The Huskers stretched their Game No. 2 winning streak to 12 games with a 99-53 win over Mississippi Valley State on Nov. 15, 2011.
Game No. 3 has traditionally provided the toughest test among the first six home contests for the Huskers, but NU has won five straight in Game No. 3 after an impressive 68-50 run past No. 23 USC in Lincoln on Nov. 18, 2011. NU improved to 32-6 all-time in game No. 4 with a 70-50 win over Savannah State, and 34-4 all-time in Game No. 5 with a 65-27 over Texas-Pan American Dec. 4, 2011. The Huskers produced their 15th straight victory in Game No. 6 with a 66-55 win over Creighton on Dec. 8, 2011.
Scouting the Temple Owls
Temple travels to Lincoln for the first time to take on Nebraska on Sunday afternoon at the Devaney Center. The Owls bring a 1-0 record to the Devaney Center after opening the year with a 55-41 victory over perennial Big Sky Conference power Montana at McGonigle Hall in Philadelphia on Friday night.
Victoria Macaulay, a 6-4 senior center, provided a dominance performance for the always-tough Owls inside with career highs of 21 points and 16 rebounds in 39 minutes against the Lady Griz. Macaulay is the only returning starter from a 2011-12 Temple team that advanced to the Postseason WNIT Sweet 16 and finished with a 23-10 record. The Owls were the Atlantic 10 Conference runner-up with a 13-1 mark a year ago, and they are getting set for a move to the Big East next season.
Macaulay was joined in Temple's starting five on Friday night by 6-0 junior forward Natasha Thames, who averaged 3.0 points and 4.3 rebounds in eight games a year ago before being knocked out of for the season with an injury. Thames did not score in 16 minutes against Montana, but she did pull down six rebounds. She was slowed by foul trouble in the game.
Coach Tonya Cardoza's team features a young backcourt, led by freshman May Dayan. The 5-7 guard from Ashdod, Israel scored eight points and had four boards in 35 minutes in her debut. Fellow freshman Sally Kabengano, a 5-10 forward from Stockholm, Sweden, added seven points, nine boards and three steals in 35 minutes of her own. Sophomore Tyonna Williams, a 5-6 guard from Fort Washington, Md., rounds out the starting five. She had four points, five rebounds and a team-high four assists in 30 minutes of work in the win over Montana.
Temple got a boost off the bench against the Lady Griz with 13 points, three rebounds and three assists from Rateska Brown. The 5-6 sophomore guard from Alvin, S.C., hit 4-of-8 shots, including 2-of-3 threes, against the Lady Griz. Last season, Brown averaged 3.9 points and 0.9 rebounds as the No. 2 returning scorer behind Macaulay on this year's club.
Erica Covile, a 6-1 freshman guard from Canton, Mich., added two points, two rebounds, three assists and two steals as the only other Owl to find the scoring column on Friday night. Freshmen Jacquilyn Jackson and Meghan Roxas also saw limited minutes against the Lady Griz, as the Temple roster features just 11 players and sophomore guard Monaye Merritt - the lone player from Philadelphia on the team - is out with an injury.
Temple posted a double-digit win over Montana despite hitting just 35.4 percent (17-48) of its shots from the field. The Owls did connect on 4-of-9 threes and hit 17-of-25 free throws. They held the Lady Griz to a chilly 26.3 percent (15-57) from the field, including a frigid 17.4 percent (4-23) from long range. Montana hit just 7-of-13 free throws and was dominated on the glass, 48-31. Temple's young backcourt did lose the turnover battle, 19-14, to the Lady Griz.
Nebraska vs. Temple Series History
Nebraska and Temple have squared off just once in school history. The Owls escaped from the first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament with a 64-61 win over the Huskers at the RBC Center in Raleigh, N.C., on March 18, 2007.
Three-time first-team All-Big 12 guard Kiera Hardy led the Huskers with 23 points while sophomore Kelsey Griffin added 11 points. Danielle Page added eight points, eight rebounds and five blocks before fouling out.
Fatima Maddox led Temple with 18 points and five assists, while Lady Comfort contributed 15 points and six boards. Kamesha Hairston gave the Owls three players in double figures with 12 points and six boards for former Temple Coach Dawn Staley's group.
Huskers Battle Past Aggies, 68-50 in Season Opener
Lindsey Moore scored a game-high 15 points to lead No. 18 Nebraska to a 68-50 win over North Carolina A&T on Friday night at the Devaney Center. The Huskers won their season opener for the eighth straight season and the 37th time in 39 all-time games.
Moore, a 5-9 senior point guard from Covington, Wash., hit 4-of-9 shots from the field, including 2-of-5 threes while adding 5-of-7 free throws. She also dished out three assists and grabbed three rebounds while adding two steals. Sophomore forward Hailie Sample added one of the best games of her career with 10 points, six rebounds and three assists. Fellow sophomore Brandi Jeffery added double figures of her own with 10 points, two rebounds and an assist in the first start of her career.
Nebraska got contributions across the board, as 10 Huskers scored in the game, including seven points, a game-high nine rebounds and a career-high four assists from junior Jordan Hooper. Sophomore forward Emily Cady added seven points, four rebounds, two assists, a game-high two blocks and a steal.
Senior forward Meghin Williams supplied big production off the bench with six points and four boards in just 10 minutes, while freshman Sadie Murren pitched in five points in the first game of her career. Fellow freshman Rachel Theriot added a three-pointer at the buzzer to close the first half.
JaQuayla Berry led North Carolina A&T with nine points and eight rebounds, while Ariel Bursey scored all nine of her points in the first half for the Aggies. A&T had nine players find the scoring column, but no one managed double figures for a team that featured five returning starters, including three who averaged double figures a year ago.
Nebraska jumped to an 11-4 lead in the first five minutes, before A&T rallied to tie the game at 14 off a jumper from Bursey with 11:23 left in the first half. Bursey capped a 9-0 A&T run with another jumper to give the Aggies an 18-14 edge with 8:45 left in the opening period.
A&T had their last lead of the game at 23-22 with just over four minutes left in the half, before Nebraska held the Aggies without a field goal the rest of the half. NU closed the half on a 13-2 surge, capped by Theriot's three off a pass from Moore to make it 35-25 at the break.
The Huskers pushed the lead to 14 early in the second half, before A&T rallied with a 7-0 run to cut NU's edge to 45-38 with 15:20 left. Nebraska responded with a 13-5 surge over the next seven minutes to increase its lead to 58-43 with 8:30 left on Murren's backdoor layup off an assist from Williams. Nebraska's lead grew to 19 points at 66-47 on an Adrianna Maurer free throw with 1:37 left, as the Huskers held the Aggies to just one field goal during an 11-minute stretch in the second half.
Nebraska Celebrates Final Basketball Season at Devaney Center
The Nebraska men's and women's basketball teams will celebrate their final season at the Bob Devaney Sports Center throughout the 2012-13 campaign. The Huskers will move into the new Pinnacle Bank Arena in downtown Lincoln in October of 2013. The arena, which is set for completion next fall, will become the new home of Husker men's and women's basketball in 2013-14.
As part of the festivities at the Devaney Center during 2012-13, the Huskers plan to highlight the greatest moments and greatest players in the 37-year history of the Devaney Center At each men's and women's basketball home game during the season, HuskerVision will produce a big screen feature showcasing one of the most memorable moments in men's and women's basketball history.
On the women's side, long-time Husker Sports Network basketball broadcasters Matt Coatney and Jeff Griesch compiled the list along with Mike Babcock, who researched and wrote a detailed history of Husker women's basketball in 2000. The women's basketball moments range from Jan Crouch's 27-point performance on opening night on Nov. 12, 1976 to Lindsey Moore's triple-double on Jan. 2, 2011. They include championship celebrations in 1988 and 2010 and historic victories throughout the decades, while recognizing Husker legends such as Karen Jennings, Maurtice Ivy, Kelsey Griffin, Anna DeForge, Amy Stephens and more.
During the season, fans also will be able to join the discussion through social media, offering their most memorable moments at the Devaney Center.
The Nebraska Athletic Department has created a special "Devaney Center Final Season" logo that will be displayed on giant banners draped outside above the north and south entrances of the Devaney Center.
Hooper, Moore Earn Spots on Wade, Naismith, Wooden Lists
Junior Jordan Hooper and senior Lindsey Moore are being mentioned among the top players in the nation in 2012-13, and are candidates for the Wade, Naismith and Wooden awards.
Hooper and Moore were among 25 college players named to the 2012-13 preseason Wade Watch List, announced by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) on Sept. 18. They joined each other on the Preseason Wooden Award Top 30 on Nov. 9. They appeared on their first national player-of-the-year watch list together last season, when they were both included in the Naismith Midseason 32.
Hooper and Moore are the first Husker teammates in history named to any of the three major national player-of-the-year watch lists at the same time.
In 2011-12, Hooper was an Associated Press Honorable-Mention All-American, while earning WBCA All-Region 6 honors. The 6-2 forward from Alliance, Neb., was also one of five first-team All-Big Ten selections, and a member of the Big Ten All-Tournament team after averaging 18.9 points and a Big Ten-best 9.3 rebounds per game.
Moore, a 5-9 point guard from Covington, Wash., was one of eight finalists for the 2012 Nancy Lieberman Award, which is presented annually to the nation's top point guard. Moore joined Hooper on the Big Ten All-Tournment Team and was a second-team All-Big Ten choice. Moore ranked No. 2 in the Big Ten in assists (5.1 apg), No. 5 in steals (2.2 spg) and No. 7 in scoring (15.7 ppg).
Former Nebraska All-American Karen Jennings won the Wade Trophy in 1993, while All-American Kelsey Griffin was a finalist for the Wade, Naismith and Wooden awards in 2010.
Hooper, Moore Earn Preseason All-Big Ten Honors
Nebraska's Jordan Hooper and Lindsey Moore captured All-Big Ten honors while the Huskers were picked to finish second in the conference, when preseason polls were announced by the Big Ten Oct. 25.
Hooper, a 6-2 junior forward from Alliance, Neb., was named to the preseason All-Big Ten team by both the conference coaches and media. In 2011-12, Hooper was one of five first-team All-Big Ten selections, while also earning Big Ten All-Tournament honors. She ranked third in the Big Ten in scoring (18.3 ppg), while leading the Big Ten in both rebounding (9.3 rpg) and double-doubles (14) last season.
Moore, a 5-9 senior point guard from Covington, Wash., was one of five preseason All-Big Ten picks by the conference media. Moore ranked No. 7 in the Big Ten in scoring (15.7 ppg), No. 2 in assists (5.1 apg) and No. 5 in steals (2.2 spg) in 2011-12. Moore earned second-team All-Big Ten honors as a junior, while joining Hooper on the Big Ten All-Tournament Team.
Defending regular-season champion Penn State was the choice of the coaches and the media to win the 2013 Big Ten title. The Huskers were picked second in both polls, while Purdue was the coaches' selection to finish third. Ohio State was the media's choice to finish third.
Huskers Return Ton of Production in 2012-13
Nebraska returns 85.4 percent of its points (2,013 of 2,356), 86.6 percent of its rebounding (1,209 of 1,396), 79.5 percent of its assists (348 or 438), 87.6 percent of its steals (248 of 283) and 94.1 percent of its blocked shots (95 of 101) from its 2011-12 team.
The 2011-12 Huskers ran to the school's 10th NCAA Tournament berth in school history while finishing with a 24-9 overall record.
Huskers Load Up 2012-13 Schedule
Nebraska's 31-game regular-season schedule features 18 games against 2012 postseason squads. NU's schedule is highlighted by 12 games against 2012 NCAA Tourament teams, including a matchup with Elite Eight qualifier Maryland and two games with NCAA Sweet 16 Penn State. The Huskers played three games against 2012 WNIT teams and three contests against WBI participants.
The Huskers also play seven games against six teams that won conference titles in 2012. Maryland headlines the list of conference champs after claiming the 2012 ACC Tournament title. The Terps finished with a 31-5 record at No. 6 in the AP poll. NU also faces Big Ten regular-season champ Penn State twice and Big Ten Tournament champ Purdue once. In non-conference play, the Huskers tangle with Big Sky Conference champ Idaho State, Missouri Valley Conference champ Creighton and Summit League Conference champ South Dakota State.
Husker Non-Conference Schedule Offers Quality, Depth
Nebraska expects to face one of the toughest regular-season schedules in school history in 2012-13. NU's Strength of Schedule has ranked among the top 30 nationally in four of the past five seasons, and the Huskers could face a top-20 schedule in 2012-13. Six of Nebraska's non-conference opponents won 20 or more games last season, led by Maryland's 31.
Perhaps an even stronger indicator of the depth of Nebraska's schedule is that the Huskers will play 20 games against teams that won 18 or more games, while 12 of the Huskers' 13 non-conference opponents won at least 14 games a year ago.
Huskers Return Talented Nucleus in 2012-13
Nebraska returns four of five starters and nine of its top 11 contributors on the court for the 2012-13 season. NU's talented group of four returning starters is headlined by 2013 All-America candidates Jordan Hooper (18.9 ppg, 9.3 rpg) and Lindsey Moore (15.7 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 5.1 apg, 2.2 spg), along with All-Big Ten candidate Emily Cady (9.9 ppg, 6.5 rpg).
Moore and Hooper will be joined by sophomores Cady and Hailie Sample as the returning nucleus to Nebraska's starting five. Meghin Williams, who played in all 33 games as a junior forward in 2011-12, will join Moore as the only seniors on the Huskers' 2012-13 roster.
Adrianna Maurer, the only center on NU's 2011-12 and 2012-13 rosters, also returns after having her sophomore season cut short by a back injury. The 6-3 Maurer played in just 10 games to open the 2011-12 season before undergoing season-ending back surgery.
In addition, sophomores Tear'a Laudermill, Brandi Jeffery and Katie Simon all played in at least 27 games as freshmen in 2011-12.
Nebraska only loses the services of 2011-12 senior starting guard Kaitlyn Burke (6.2 ppg, 2.4 rpg, 2.4 apg) and senior reserve forward Harleen Sidhu, who appeared in just three games and did not score last season before having her career cut short by a knee injury. Sophomore guard Rebecca Woodberry, who averaged 4.5 points and 3.3 rebounds in 31 games last season, was also removed from the Nebraska roster for violating team policies on Oct. 31.
Injuries Slow Down Huskers in Offseason
Nebraska's offseason has featured a laundry list of injuries up and down the roster. Nebraska's entire starting five played injured in the Huskers' NCAA Tournament loss to Kansas to end the 2011-12 season.
Emily Cady underwent offseason knee surgery, while Jordan Hooper and Hailie Sample each took extended rest to recover from stress reactions in their legs following NU's four games in four days at the Big Ten Tournament.
Cady enters the season as one of the healthiest Huskers, while Hooper and Sample have continued to be limited by injuries. Lindsey Moore has also been slowed by a reoccurring injury, while NU's lone center Adrianna Maurer continues to recover from major back surgery in January of 2012. Senior forward Meghin Williams has been limited in practice throughout her four-year career by foot injuries.
Freshman guard Rachel Theriot missed nearly three weeks of practice with a stress reaction in her foot, bringing the list of Huskers severely limited in practice to seven on a daily basis.
Nebraska's other freshmen, Courtney Aitken and Sadie Murren, and sophomores Brandi Jeffery, Tear'a Laudermill and Katie Simon have been healthy throughout fall practice.
Cady Leads Husker Sophomore Class
Emily Cady captured Nebraska's first-ever spot on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team by producing 9.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game to go along with a team-leading 28 blocked shots in 2011-12. The 6-2 forward from Seward, Neb., increased her production in Big Ten play by averaging 12.3 points and 6.3 rebounds in regular-season conference play.
Cady also earned a spot on the honorable-mention All-Big Ten team from the conference media. She became the first Husker freshman since Meggan Yedsena in 1991 to earn a spot on an overall all-conference team. Yedsena is the only Husker in history to earn four spots on all-conference teams. Yedsena claimed honorable-mention All-Big Eight accolades in 1991, before capturing three second-team awards in 1992, 1993 and 1994.
Husker Starting Five Solid for 33 Straight Games in 2011-12
Nebraska put the same starting five on the floor for 33 consecutive games in 2011-12, a miraculous feat considering the injuries the Huskers battled on their way to a 13-18 record in 2010-11, and during the final month of 2011-12. All five of Nebraska's starters played with leg injuries at some point in 2011-12, including Jordan Hooper and Hailie Sample, who did not practice in the week leading up to NU's appearance in the NCAA Tournament. In addition, Emily Cady played the final month of the season with a knee injury suffered against Wisconsin on Feb. 19, and Lindsey Moore battled through a bone bruise just under her knee suffered against Northwestern on Feb. 16. Senior Kaitlyn Burke, who was granted a medical redshirt after being knocked out with multiple injuries in 2009-10, dealt with foot and leg injuries throughout the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons.
Despite the injuries, Nebraska's top five battled to start every game, marking the third time in 10 seasons that Coach Connie Yori's Huskers have accomplished the feat. A consistent lineup throughout a full season is a rarity in college basketball. Nebraska, which was the only Big Ten team to feature the same starting five throughout 2011-12, was one of only three teams in the 2012 NCAA Tournament to start the same five for every game. Kansas State and BYU were the other two.
The 2006-07 Huskers featured the same starting five for 32 games on their way to a 22-10 season and the NCAA Tournament. Yori's 2003-04 Huskers also used the same starting five for 30 games on their way to an 18-12 season and a WNIT bid.
Moore, Hooper Climbing Nebraska Career Scoring List
Lindsey Moore and Jordan Hooper have flown up the Nebraska career scoring chart during their time as Huskers. Moore, a 5-9 senior guard from Covington, Wash., ranks No. 16 at Nebraska with 1,175 points. She needs just eight points to catch NU's first-ever 1,000-point scorer, Jan Crouch (1976-79), in 15th place.
Hooper, a 6-2 junior forward from Alliance, Neb., already ranks 22nd all-time on the Husker scoring list with 1,085 points. Hooper needs just 11 points to join the top 20 scorers in school history and just 32 points to jump all the way to 17th past Nafeesah Brown (1,089), Ann Halsne (1,096), Yvonne Turner (1,101), Dominique Kelley (1,107) and Meggan Yedsena (1,116). Last season, Hooper became NU's first sophomore to reach 1,000 career points, achieving the mark in her 60th career game.
Moore Becomes Third Husker with 1,000 Points, 500 Assists
Lindsey Moore is one of just three player in Nebraska history with 1,000 points and 500 assists, joining Meggan Yedsena (1991-94, 1,116 points, 696 assists) and Nicole Kubik (1997-00, 1,867 points, 563 assists).
Moore ranks No. 16 at Nebraska with 1,175 points and No. 4 in career assists with 507.
Hooper 12th Nebraska Native with 1,000 Points as Husker
Jordan Hooper is the most recent of 12 native Nebraskans among the the Huskers' 28 1,000-point scorers in school history. Hooper is also the second player from the town of Alliance, Neb., in NU's 1,000-point club, joining Amy Stephens (1,976, 1986-89).
Only two other towns in Nebraska have produced multiple 1,000-point scorers with Omaha supplying Maurtice Ivy (2,131, 1985-88), Janet Smith (1,284, 1979-82) and Yvonne Turner (1,101, 2007-10) and Lincoln providing Jan Crouch (1,183, 1976-79) and Dominique Kelley (1,107, 2008-11).
The other 1,000-point scorers from the state of Nebraska are: Nicole Kubik (Cambridge, 1,867, 1997-2000); Angie Miller (Clatonia, 1,541, 1984-87), Brooke Schwartz (Gering, 1,243, 1997-2000), Stacy Imming (Kearney, 1,036, 1984-87) and Charlie Rogers (South Sioux City, 1,001, 1997-2000).
Huskers Expect More Experience in 2012-13
Despite a 12-player roster that features five sophomores and three freshmen, Nebraska is still expected to showcase one of the Big Ten's most experienced starting lineups in 2012-13.
While featuring just one returning senior starter (Lindsey Moore) and one returning junior starter (Jordan Hooper), the Huskers expect to match Iowa for the third most returning starts with 228.
Only Penn State (303) and Northwestern (249) are expected to return more starts than Nebraska. While Nebraska will be more experienced, the Huskers match Northwestern and Michigan as the only schools in the Big Ten with just four players who have ever started a collegiate game. The other nine Big Ten schools all return at least five players with starting experience.
As a whole, the Big Ten is expected to be a more senior-dominated conference in 2012-13. The conference lost only seven seniors who earned all-conference honors in 2011-12, while returning 13 all-conference honorees. A total of 10 2011-12 juniors earned all-conference honors, and all five members of the Big Ten All-Defensive Team were drawn from the junior class.
Big Ten Returning Starts By School for 2012-13
1. Penn State (303) - Greene (98), Bentley (96), Nickson (59), Lucas (33), Edwards (9), Wolfe (8)
2. Northwestern (249) - Orban (99), Hackney (83), Diamant (38), Roser (29)
T3. Iowa (228) - Johnson (94), Printy (88), Logic (30), Taylor (8), Dixon (7), Nesbitt (1)
T3. Nebraska (228) - Moore (98), Hooper (64), Cady (33), Sample (33)
5. Illinois (203) - Penn (95), Moore (42), Magrum (32), Crawford (23), GodBold (11)
6. Michigan (202) - Ryan (96), Sheffer (62), Jordan (29), Elmblad (15)
7. Purdue (200) - Moses (64), Ostarello (38), Houser (37), Poston (24), Mingo (24), Williams (13)
8. Ohio State (185) - Hill (101), Adams (48), Stokes (33), Moore (2), Ferguson (1)
9. Indiana (162) - Sinclair (50), Chaplin (40), Newbauer (27), McGhee (23), Deloach (7), Rubene (7), McCurty (5)
10. Minnesota (149) - Loberg (53), Banham (34), Kellogg (30), Cotton (18), Noga (9), Riche (5)
11. Wisconsin (103) - Wurtz (59), Paige (36), Rochel (3), Smith (2), Stephen (2), Gulczynski (1)
12. Michigan State (99) - Thomas (34), Johnson (28), Schiffauer (17), Bell (11), Mills (9)
Hooper Hopes to Build Off Super Sophomore Campaign
Jordan Hooper became the first sophomore in school history to produce 600 points and 300 rebounds in the same season, finishing the 2011-12 campaign with 624 points and 306 boards. The 6-2 forward from Alliance, Neb., became just the fourth Husker ever to accomplish the feat.
Hooper, an honorable-mention AP All-American and a first-team All-Big Ten pick, set the Nebraska sophomore single-season scoring record with 624 points. She eclipsed the 609 points scored by Kiera Hardy in 2004-05. Hooper's 306 rebounds marked the third-highest total in school history by a sophomore, trailing only 372 by Janet Smith in 40 games in 1979-80) and 314 by Carol Garey in 36 games in 1978-79. Hooper's 9.3 rebounds per game matched Smith's sophomore record.
To give Hooper's productivity some more perspective, only one other sophomore in school history - Kathy Hagerstrom (1980-81) managed to score 500 points and grab 250 rebounds.
Hooper's sophomore production was on a similar level to the two most productive seasons in school history. Karen Jennings, the 1993 Wade Trophy winner and a first-team All-American, produced 810 points and 319 rebounds in 32 games as a junior in 1991-92. Kelsey Griffin, a finalist for every national player-of-the-year award in 2010 and a first-team All-American, produced 685 points and 354 rebounds in 34 games as a senior.
Moore Threatening Top of Nebraska Career Assist List
Lindsey Moore has climbed into Nebraska's career top five in assists with 507 (4th) as a Husker. The 5-9 point guard from Covington, Wash., needs 56 assists to catch former Husker All-American Nicole Kubik (1997-2000) in third on the career list with 563. Moore is just 60 assists from joining Jina Johansen (2002-05) at No. 2 on the Husker all-time chart with 567.
The Nancy Lieberman Award candidate needs 189 assists as a senior to match Meggan Yedsena's school record of 696 assists from 1990-91 to 1993-94.
Last season, Moore dished out 167 assists in 33 games, while distributing 183 assists as a sophomore in 2010-11. She opened her career with 154 assists as a freshman in 2009-10.
Moore has produced a career-high 11 assists on four occasions (at Iowa, Jan. 8, 2012; Mississippi Valley State, Nov. 15, 2011; Florida A&M, Jan. 2, 2011; vs. UCLA, March 23, 2010).
Fastbreakers Announce Backboard Event Schedule
The Fastbreakers Booster Club has set the dates for three Backboard Events during the 2012-13 season. The events, which will be held in the northwest corner of the upper concourse at the Devaney Center, tip off on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 5:30 p.m., 90 minutes before Nebraska's game against Maryland in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
The second Backboard Event will be held prior to Nebraska's Big Ten clash with Purdue on Saturday, Jan. 5. Tip time is set for 1 p.m., while the banquet begins at 11:30 a.m. This season's Backboard Events conclude with a luncheon prior to Nebraska's Big Ten regular-season finale with Penn State on March 3. The start times of the luncheon and game will be announced at a later date, after the Big Ten Network makes its television picks for the final two games of the season across the conference.
Each event is scheduled to begin 90 minutes prior to tip-off of each game and will feature a speaker from the women's basketball staff. The cost of each event is $15 per person, and spots must be reserved no later than one week in advance of the event, either on-line at www.Huskers.com/donate (online registration available for current Fastbreakers Club members only), by calling the Huskers Athletic Fund at (402) 472-2367.
Fastbreakers Announce Plans for Three Bus Trips
Fastbreakers can follow the Huskers to their first road game of the season, when Nebraska takes on South Dakota State in Brookings, S.D., on Sunday, Nov. 18. The chartered bus will leave Lincoln at 7:30 a.m. on Nov. 18 and arrive in Brookings for Nebraska's 2 p.m. tip-off with the Jackrabbits. Cost of the trip is $60 and includes a sack lunch and beverages. Game tickets are not included in the price.
The Fastbreakers will also take a bus to Omaha for Nebraska's annual clash with Creighton on Wednesday, Dec. 5. The bus leaves Lincoln at 5 p.m. for the Huskers' 7:05 p.m. tip-off at Sokol Arena with the Jays. The cost of the trip is $20 per person, and the price does not include a game ticket.
The final road trip of the season is set for Nebraska's appearance at the Big Ten Tournament March 7-10 in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The Fastbreakers will leave Lincoln for the Chicago area on Wednesday, March 6 and will return following the Huskers' appearance at the tournament. The cost of bus ride is $170, and does not include game tickets. Beverages on the bus are included in the price, but no meals are included.
For more details on the 2012-13 Fastbreaker Bus Trips, contact Doug Fry at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (402) 617-7039. All trips must be booked and paid for two weeks prior to departure.
Hooper Puts Up Double-Doubles at Record Rate
Jordan Hooper led the Big Ten and ranked among the top 25 players nationally with 14 double-doubles in 2011-12. Hooper, who produced double figures in 32 of Nebraska's 33 games, produced 14 double-figure rebounding performances as a sophomore.
Hooper's 14 double-doubles ranked as the third-highest single-season total in school history, trailing only first-team All-American Kelsey Griffin's 20 in 2009-10, and Nafeesah Brown's 16 in 1993-94. Griffin and Brown were both seniors when they produced their impressive double-figure totals.
Hooper became just the fifth player in Nebraska history to post double-figure double-doubles in a season, joining Griffin (10, 2006-07, 20, 2009-10), Brown (16, 1993-94), Karen Jennings (13, 1990-91, 13, 1991-92), Maurtice Ivy (10, 1985-86) and Carol Garey (10, 1978-79).
With 17 double-doubles in the first 64 games of her career, Hooper already ranks eighth in school history in career double-doubles. She needs just one more to match two-time WNBA All-Star Anna DeForge in seventh on the Husker career chart with 18.
Hooper, a 6-2 junior forward from Alliance, Neb., has produced double-doubles in three of her last four games. She had 25 points and 10 rebounds in the Big Ten Championship Game loss to No. 21 Purdue on March 4. She added 21 points and 10 rebounds against No. 14 Ohio State in the Big Ten semifinals March 3, and 15 points and 10 boards in little more than a half against Iowa on March 2.
Her last regular-season double-double came with 19 points and a career-high 18 rebounds in Nebraska's win over Wisconsin Feb. 19. Hooper's 18 boards tied for the 12th-highest total in school history and were the most by a Husker since Charlie Rogers grabbed 20 against Drake on Dec. 2, 1999.
Hooper added back-to-back double-doubles with 22 points and 15 rebounds against Iowa Jan. 26, and 12 points and 16 rebounds at Illinois Jan. 29. She notched double-doubles in a personal-best four straight games from Dec. 18, 2011 to Jan. 5, 2012.
Huskers Earn Spots in Preseason Top 25 Polls
Nebraska earned mention in both major preseason top-25 polls released the final week of October. The Huskers open the 2012-13 campaign ranked No. 18 in the Associated Press Poll and No. 19 in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Top 25.
NU's appearance in the preseason AP poll marked the Huskers' 15th consecutive week in the AP rankings - the longest streak in school history - after closing 2011-12 at No. 17 in the final regular-season rankings. NU's previous longest stretch in the AP rankings came with 14 weeks in 2009-10. The Huskers returned to the coaches poll after just missing out in a final top-25 ranking in 2011-12. The Huskers earned the 26th-highest vote total in the final poll after being ranked for nine consecutive weeks to close the regular season.
Nebraska's 2012-13 schedule is littered with top competition receiving votes in the preseason AP poll. Maryland, which comes to the Devaney Center on Nov. 28 for the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, enters the 2012-13 campaign ranked No. 5 in both polls.
Preseason Big Ten favorite Penn State, which the Huskers play twice (Jan. 13, March 3) is ranked eighth in both preseason polls. Purdue, which played a total of five overtimes in two games against the Huskers last season, enters the season No. 21 in the AP and No. 18 in the USA Today/ESPN rankings. Ohio State, which the Huskers play two times (Jan. 31, Feb. 14) this season, is ranked No. 19 in the AP poll and No. 21 by the coaches.
In addition to those six games against preseason top-25 foes, the Huskers will play seven more games against teams that earned at least one preseason top-25 vote. Florida State, which journeys to the Devaney Center on Dec. 8, earned 12 votes, while non-conference foes Creighton (Dec. 5) and USC (Nov. 23) each earned one vote. Big Ten foes Michigan, Iowa and Michigan State all earned at least two preseason votes from the national media. Michigan and Iowa added votes in the coaches poll.
Nebraska's History of Success at Home
The Huskers produced a 13-3 record at the Bob Devaney Sports Center in 2011-12. Since the Devaney Center opened in 1976-77, the Huskers are 376-126 (.749) in games played in the arena, including 141-85 (.624) in conference games. Since 2003-04, NU is 112-30 (.789) at the Devaney Center.
NU has posted double-figure home victory totals in nine consecutive seasons, including a perfect 16-0 mark in 2009-10. NU was 11-4 at home in 2010-11.
Big Ten Network Providing Major Exposure for Huskers
For the second consecutive season, Nebraska expects to have every regular-season and postseason game available in video form for Husker fans to follow all the action.
For the first time in school history in 2011-12, all 33 games played by the Huskers were delivered by national television or live video streams to Husker fans. In 2012-13, Nebraska expects its highest level of national TV exposure in school history, while adding two outstanding alternative video streaming sources.
Overall, the Huskers expect to have a minimum of 10 regular-season games televised nationally, including seven by the Big Ten Network and BTN2Go.com. Nebraska's battle with Purdue will be televised nationally by CBS on Jan. 5, while the Huskers' clash with Penn State on Jan. 13 will be carried live on ESPN2. NU's non-conference road game at USC (Nov. 23) will be televised by the Pac-12 Network. Nebraska's final two games of the year at Wisconsin and at home against Penn State could also be picked up by the Big Ten Network.
The Big Ten Network also distribute at least nine other Nebraska women's basketball games through live video streams on BTN.com. For complete television and live-stream listings, visit Huskers.com. Fans can subscribe to BTN.com by visiting http://video.btn.com/allaccess. A yearly subscription for all Nebraska events on BTN.com is just $79.95. Fans can gain access to every Big Ten event stream for just $119.95 per year. Monthly subscriptions are also available.
HuskersNside also plans to provide Husker fans more video streaming opportunities on the Internet. Nebraska's premium site on Huskers.com will stream NU's exhibition finale against Nebraska-Kearney (Nov. 4), before streaming the season opener against North Carolina A&T (Nov. 9). Non-conference home games against Northern Arizona (Nov. 16), Idaho State (Dec. 1), Florida State (Dec. 8) and Grambling State (Dec. 29) also will be streamed through HuskersNside.
Nebraska's road games at South Dakota State (Nov. 18), Creighton (Dec. 5) and South Florida (Dec. 16) will be streamed by the opposing schools to their premium websites. All three schools share the same Internet partner - NeuLion - as the Huskers, which could allow those streams to become part of the HuskersNside women's basketball package for the season.
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Huskers Smashed School Three-Point Record Again in 2011-12
The 2011-12 Huskers produced another record-setting three-point season, connecting on 230 threes on a record 759 attempts. Nebraska led the Big Ten with 7.0 made threes per game, matching the school-record the Huskers set in 2010-11.
Nebraska's 230 threes surpassed the 225 the 2009-10 Huskers hit. NU's 759 attempts shattered the previous school recored of 661 also set in 2009-10.
The Huskers hit seven or more threes in 17 of 33 games in 2011-12 (UAPB-9, MVSU-14, at Florida State-9, UTPA-7, Northern Arizona-10, Vermont-8, South Dakota State-8, at Iowa-10, Penn State-7, at Ohio State-7, Minnesota-8; at Purdue-13; Michigan-9; Minnesota-8; Northwestern (Big Ten)-9; Iowa (Big Ten)-7; Ohio State (Big Ten)-9).
NU hit a season-best 14 three-pointers on 26 attempts against Mississippi Valley State, which marked the second-highest total in school history. It trailed only the 17 threes the Huskers hit against Vermont (17-33) to open the 2010-11 season. They added the third-best mark by draining 13-of-34 threes on the road in an epic 93-89 triple-overtime victory at No. 15 Purdue on Feb. 2. Nebraska also connected on 10-of-19 threes in a win at Iowa on Jan. 8, after hitting 10-of-22 threes at Northern Arizona on Dec. 10. Nebraska attempted a school-record 37 threes in the loss to Michigan Feb. 9, while connecting on 9. NU went 8-for-22 in the second half against the Wolverines.
Prior to 2009-10, the school-record for three-pointers made in a season was 173. Coach Connie Yori's Husker teams own the top nine three-point shooting seasons in school history. Before Yori's arrival, no Husker team had hit more than 132 threes in a season, or attempted more than 437.
Hooper Leads Assault on Husker Three-Point Records
In addition to her impressive scoring and rebounding numbers, Jordan Hooper has hit three-pointers at a record-breaking rate since her arrival at Nebraska.
The 6-2 forward shattered the NU single-season freshman record with 67 threes (67-184, 36.4 percent) in 2010-11, and drained 67 more threes in 2011-12, which is the second-best total by a sophomore in Nebraska history. Hooper's 2011-12 season total trailed only Kiera Hardy's school-record total of 85 set during her sophomore campaign in 2004-05.
In 65 career games, Hooper has hit 135 three-pointers to rank fifth on the Nebraska career list. She needs 10 more to catch Kate Galligan (1993-96) in fourth on the school career chart. Hooper is more than halfway to Kiera Hardy's NU career mark of 267.
In 2010-11, Hooper tied the Nebraska single-game record with seven three-pointers at Missouri on Feb. 2, 2011. She scored 31 points against the Tigers, including 28 on six threes in the second half alone.
Hooper Plays Beast on Boards
Jordan Hooper led the Big Ten and ranked among the nation's top rebounders with 9.3 boards per game as a sophomore in 2011-12.
Her 18-rebound effort in a win over Wisconsin on Feb. 19 put her in rare company in the Nebraska record books, tying for the 12th-highest single-game total in school history. It also marked the best rebound total by a player in Coach Connie Yori's first 10 seasons at Nebraska. It was also the highest total by a Husker since Charlie Rogers grabbed 20 rebounds against Drake on Dec. 2, 1999.
Hooper's 18-board performance represented her third time in seven games with 15 or more rebounds. She became just the seventh player in Husker history to grab 15 or more rebounds three times in a career. and just the sixth Husker to pull down 15 or more boards three times in a season, joining Janet Smith, Carol Garey, Nafeesah Brown, Pyra Aarden and most recently, Keasha Cannon-Johnson (2001-02).
In back-to-back games last season, Hooper grabbed 15 rebounds in a win over Iowa (Jan. 26), before ripping down 16 boards in a victory at Illinois (Jan. 29). She joined Smith and Aarden as the only Huskers to pull down 15 or more boards in back-to-back games.
Sample Joined Cady as Freshmen in 2011-12 Starting Five
Hailie Sample joined Emily Cady as freshman forwards in Nebraska's starting five for all 33 games in 2011-12. Cady and Sample became the first Husker freshman tandem in history to start every game together in a season. In fact, only seven freshmen in school history prior to 2011-12 had ever started every game in a season for NU, including current Husker senior Lindsey Moore (school-record 34 starts, 2009-10) and junior Jordan Hooper (31 starts, 2010-11).
Two other freshmen have started every game under Coach Connie Yori, including forward Kelsey Griffin (32 starts, 2005-06) and guard Dominique Kelley (33 starts, 2007-08). The only other freshmen in NU history to start every game were Meggan Yedsena (28 starts, 1990-91), Angie Miller (28 starts, 1983-84) and Jan Crouch (31 starts, 1975-76).
Pinnacle Bank Arena to Provide New Home to Huskers in 2013-14
Nebraska continues preparations to move into its new home for men's and women's basketball - Pinnacle Bank Arena - next season. Construction on the $179 million arena has marched ahead of schedule with favorable building conditions for more than a year.
The Huskers will continue to call the new Hendricks Training Complex home for practice, while the Nebraska volleyball, wrestling and gymnastics team will call the Devaney Center home for competition.
The arena project was approved by voters in May 2010. Pinnacle Bank Arena is expected to open in the fall of 2013. Nebraska men's and women's basketball teams will be the primary tenants of the 470,400-square-foot facility, which can hold nearly 15,000 fans for Husker hoops.
As the exclusive sponsor of the arena and arena site, the new arena website will be PinnacleBankArena.com. The agreement also calls for Pinnacle Bank to receive: three exterior signs; the Pinnacle Bank Arena logo on the center-hung scoreboard, public exterior doors and adjacent light pole banners; signs on the main and upper concourses; use of a center court suite and use of the arena for two days per year; and three locations for ATM machines in the arena.
Huskers Made New Home at Hendricks Complex in 2011-12
The Nebraska men's and women's basketball and wrestling programs moved into their new homes at the Hendricks Training Complex in October of 2011.
The 80,000-square foot facility adjacent to the Bob Devaney Sports Center includes separate practice courts for the men's and women's basketball programs, as well as expanded locker rooms, player lounges, team rooms and offices.
The $18.7 million facility includes a 5,000-square foot weight room, a completely renovated athletic training area that tripled the size of the previous area at the Devaney Center, and a nutrition station similar to the one in the Osborne Complex.
The building is named for Tom and Mary Hendricks of Pipe Creek, Texas, and their children, Jennifer and Brandon, as they provided the lead gift in this project to benefit Husker student-athletes for years to come.
Throughout the facility, efforts have been made to give student-athletes the best training environment to succeed. Both the men's and women's basketball practice gyms are a court-and-a-half with six baskets, allowing additional work while the main floor is being used. The courts themselves are made with premium maple flooring with sleeper cushions that absorb shock to minimize injury. Both gyms have advanced acoustics as well as 103-inch plasma screens.
The amenities inside the facility are top-of-the-line, as the main entrance features a two-story abstract net sculpture, as well as a granite fountain imported from China. The facility also features two video walls and 63 TVs. The women's lounge features three 65-inch televisions and a unique LED bubble wall. The Huskers have a custom locker room with iPads built into the lockers, as well as custom back-lit displays.
The Hendricks Training Complex is the first project completed in the Expand Their Experience Campaign. For more information on the other facility projects, visit www.ExpandTheirExperience.com.
Yori's Huskers Own Success Against Top 25 Foes
Nebraska has made a habit of knocking off top-25 opponents during Connie Yori's 10 seasons at the helm. In fact, the Huskers' final win last season over No. 14 Ohio State (March 3, 2012) marked Nebraska's 25th win over an AP Top 25 foe under Yori
The Huskers also defeated No. 8 Ohio State (Feb. 26), which marked NU's sixth victory over a top-10 foe under Yori. Prior to Yori's arrival at Nebraska in 2002-03, the Huskers owned just one win over a top 10 opponent in school history.
NU produced five wins over AP Top 25 teams (at game time) last season, including a 93-89 triple overtime win at No. 15 Purdue (Feb. 2). The Huskers also knocked off No. 16 Penn State (Dec. 30) on the road in their first-ever Big Ten Conference game, while defeating No. 23 USC (Nov. 18) at the Devaney Center.
In 2009-10, the Huskers set the school single-season mark with eight wins over top-25 teams. NU's top-25 wins that season came against No. 5 LSU, No. 9 Baylor, No. 10 Oklahoma State, No. 11 Oklahoma, No. 12 Texas A&M, No. 13 Iowa State, No. 16 Iowa State, No. 22 UCLA. The win over No. 9 Baylor and freshman Brittney Griner, was Nebraska's first-ever road win over a top-10 team. The Huskers' three wins over top-10 foes in 2009-10, matched Nebraska's previous total from the previous 35 seasons.
The highest-ranked team Nebraska has ever defeated was the 2004-05 Baylor team that went on to win the national title. NU outlasted No. 2 BU, 103-99 in triple overtime on Jan. 12, 2005. The Huskers' 21-point win over No. 10 OSU on Feb. 3, 2010, marked NU's largest victory margin ever over a top-10 team. Nebraska's 29-point win over No. 14 Iowa State in 2005 was NU's largest victory margin in history over a top-25 foe. Nebraska's 56-45 win over No. 15 Texas at the Devaney Center in 2008 also marked the lowest point total ever allowed by the Huskers against a ranked opponent.
Before Yori's arrival at Nebraska in 2002-03, the Huskers had not defeated a top-10 team since a 73-67 win over No. 9 Iowa on Dec. 8, 1996, and had never beaten a top-five opponent.
Huskers Worked Overtime for Wins in 2011-12
Nebraska went 2-1 in overtime in 2011-12, and the three extra-long games went a combined seven overtimes. The seven overtimes were the most the Huskers played in a single season in school history, and marked the first time that NU played multiple multi-overtime games in the same season.
The Huskers' 93-89 3OT win at No. 15 Purdue on Feb. 2, was the first road triple-overtime game in school history and marked the second overall 3OT game (NU 103, Baylor 99 3OT, Jan. 12, 2005). Nebraska added a 74-70 double-overtime loss against the Boilermakers in the championship game of the Big Ten Tournament on March 4 in Indianapolis, Ind.
Nebraska notched a 97-88 double-overtime win at Northern Arizona on Dec. 10. The wins at NAU and Purdue marked the first time in school history that Nebraska won two true road overtime games in the same season.
The Huskers have played 35 overtime games in school history, but just six multi-overtime games, with three of those coming in 2011-12. NU is 5-1 all-time in multi-overtime games, and 18-17 overall in OT. The Huskers are 5-3 in OT in Coach Connie Yori's 10 seasons at NU. The last time Nebraska won two overtime games in the same season was 1995-96, when the Huskers went 2-1, including a double-overtime win against Colorado. NU went 3-0 in overtime games in 1975-76, with all three of those games coming against non-Division I teams on neutral courts.
Hooper, Moore Make History at Northern Arizona
Jordan Hooper (32) and Lindsey Moore (31) became the first teammates in school history to each score 30 points in the same game when Nebraska ran to a 97-88 double-overtime victory at Northern Arizona on Dec. 10, 2011.
Each Husker scored 25 points after halftime, as Hooper produced a career-high 32 points and Moore finished with 31 points - just two points shy of her career high. For both players, it was the second 30-point scoring performances of their careers. Moore produced a career-high 33 at Kansas in 2010-11, while Hooper scored 31 at Missouri (Feb. 2, 2011) before adding her third 30-point effort with 30 points in a win over South Dakota State (Dec. 21, 2011). Hooper pumped in 31 points Dec. 30, 2011, at No. 16 Penn State to give her three 30-point efforts in four games.
Hooper's 32 points at NAU tied for the 27th-best scoring effort in school history, while Moore's 31 tied Hooper's previous best for 37th. Overall, Nebraska has had 68 30-point scoring efforts in history.
Moore and Hooper are just the ninth and 10th Huskers to produce multiple 30-point efforts in their careers. Karen Jennings, the 1993 Wade Trophy winner, produced 12 30-point games.
Husker Sports Network, Huskers.com Carries NU World-Wide
The Husker Sports Network and Nebraska women's basketball have teamed up for well over a decade to take every game, home and away, around the world for free on Huskers.com.
In addition to carrying every women's basketball free on Huskers.com, the Husker Sports Network flagship stations B107.3 FM-KBBK (Lincoln) and The Wolf 93.3 FM-KFFF (Omaha) provide strong FM signals for Husker women's basketball and volleyball. 880-AM-KRVN (Lexington) also provides a huge AM signal statewide in central Nebraska, while more than 20 stations have joined the Husker Sports Network's women's basketball coverage across the state.
The Husker Sports Network is in its 18th season of producing and marketing the live broadcasts of Nebraska women's basketball in 2011-12. Women's basketball play-by-play announcer Matt Coatney and color commentator Jeff Griesch are in their 12th year together as the Huskers' broadcast team.
Catch Coach Yori's Radio Show on the Husker Sports Network
Nebraska Coach Connie Yori will appear on the Husker Sports Network regularly throughout the season with host Matt Coatney for the Connie Yori Radio Show. The show will begin with one appearance in November, before becoming a regular, one-hour segment on the popular Sports Nightly Radio Show in December. The first show is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. (CST). The show will air regularly on either Monday or Tuesday nights at either 7 or 8 p.m., depending on conflicts with other live events on the network. A tentative schedule for the show can be found below.
Date - Upcoming Opponents - Time
November - One Show - TBA
Monday, Dec. 10 - at South Florida (Dec. 16) - 8 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 17 - Oral Roberts (Dec. 20) - 8 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 24 - Grambling State (Dec. 29) - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 8 - at Indiana (Jan. 10) / at Penn State (Jan. 13) - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 15 - Illinois (Jan. 17) / at Minnesota (Jan. 20) - 7 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 21 - Michigan State (Jan. 24) - 8 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 28 - at Ohio State (Jan. 31) / Minnesota (Feb. 3) - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 5 - at Northwestern (Feb. 7) / at Iowa (Feb. 11) - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 12 - Ohio State (Feb. 14) - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 19 - at Michigan (Feb. 21) / Iowa (Feb. 24) - 7 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 25 - at Wisconsin (Feb. 28) / Penn State (March 3) - 8 p.m.
Tuesday, March 5 - at Big Ten Tournament (March 7-10) - 7 p.m.
Tuesday, March 12 - Season Review/Postseason Preview - 7 p.m.
Monday, March 18 - Postseason Preview (NCAA Selection 6 p.m.) - 7 p.m.
Bank of the West Coach Connie Yori Show
The Bank of the West Coach Connie Yori Show is back for its 11th season in 2012-13, providing in-depth analysis and outstanding features in the year-long coverage of Nebraska women's basketball. Coach Yori and host Jeff Griesch will discuss the highlights, which begins in November and continues throughout the season. The show will be available on Time Warner Cable On-Demand this season, and also will be available free world-wide on Huskers.com.
My TV (10.2/11.2) will distribute the show in Lincoln and Grand Island, while Huskers.com will have new shows available on Tuesdays during the season.
Spencer Municipal Utilities in Spencer, Iowa, will also carry the show on SMU-3, each Thursday at 10 a.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 10 p.m. each week.
The first Connie Yori Show will be available on Huskers.com on Thursday, Nov. 8. Shows throughout the season will be available on Huskers.com on Nov. 27, Dec. 4, Dec. 11, Dec. 25, Jan. 8, Jan. 15, Jan. 22, Jan. 29, Feb. 5, Feb. 19, Feb. 26, March 5 and either March 12 or March 19.
There will be no show on Dec. 18, Jan. 1 or Feb. 12.


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Whether jumping wildly to West African drums or spinning on the floor to a hip hop beat, students in the Broomfield Heights Middle School DANCE club are using their feet to send a message of love and acceptance.
The student group, which includes more than 20 children, teaches dance moves from different cultures while integrating lessons of acceptance, exploration, perseverance and respect. DANCE stands for Diversity and New Cultural Education.
"It's a dance club, but it's not just about dance," said eighth-grader Solstice Jensen. "It's about experiencing new things."
The students got a chance to show off their skills at annual performances Thursday and Friday, in which dances ranged from Irish step dancing, hip hop, break dancing, ballet, lyrical and swing.
Using the theme of "heart," the students wove together diverse dances to illustrate how humanity can use love to rise above life's obstacles.
At a dress rehearsal the night before the big show, students smiled and hugged each other as they described how the DANCE club has helped them overcome obstacles of their own. Many students call the club their second family.
Jensen, for example, said she came to the school just a month ago and didn't have any friends.
After joining the club, though, things changed.
"I made so many friends this way," she said.
Another enthusiastic dancer, Marie Axalan, said the club broadened her horizons to things she didn't think were possible.
"I thought. hip hop? No way. I'm never, ever doing that," she said, sporting a flat-brimmed hat as she practiced a few hip hop moves she learned from the club. "Now I just love it."
Paula Coffman, a social studies teacher and professional dancer who leads the club, said she shed a few inspired tears while watching her students run through their dress rehearsal. The club has been around for 15 years and has proven itself as a solid way to help children to use dance to express themselves and open doors to their future, she said.
"It doesn't matter what their strengths or challenges are. They all blend in when they're on stage," she said.
During the performance, students got to take a little bit of creative license and contribute their own choreography to some of the dances. In one piece, three friends acted out a scene at a sleepover. They used pillows and pictures of their "boyfriends" as props while they jumped, spun and tangled together. The style of dance is meant to be improvisational and change with each performance.
"You just never know what they will come up with," Coffman said. "It looks really good."
While the dances themselves showcase diverse cultures and styles, Coffman said the club draws a diverse group of students who speak different languages and come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, different grades and different dance abilities.
Tamara Kissinger, a parent volunteer, said the club has done wonders for her son, Daniel Wire. Wire, who is autistic, found that music would calm him when he became frustrated or overstimulated. After joining the group, his mother found she could play the club's CD of practice music, and he would dance out his frustrations.
"It's a place he feels he belongs. He's just a totally new kid," she said, watching her son smile as we walked onto the stage.
Jack Tanklefsky, another dance student, said group members are accepting of each other's backgrounds and are eager to stand up for one another if something goes wrong.
In a Hawaiian dance, for example, Tanklefsky wears a costume "that looks like kind of a dress," but said he isn't afraid of people making fun of him.
"Respecting others is a big part of the dance club. We want to take that beyond the stage and into the school."


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[Update: Sorry, I completely forgot to add Friend of Friend info in the original post. I have added that information in now, just look for the blue header instead of green.]
Time for the hot topic of the year as far as the WoW blogosphere goes: Real ID. Cataclysm is big, but if you want to talk about heavily debated, then this is where it's at. A lot of people have concerns about it, a lot of others couldn't wait to dive right in, and of course there are others couldn't possibly care less one way or another.
I'm not here to convince you to use it or to not, I'm just here to show you a bit more about how it works just in case you don't have access to it yet or in case you were a bit curious or skeptical and so didn't get far enough in to test it out for yourself.
I'll have some screenshots here showing some of my Real ID friends, but I'm going to hide their last names since I haven't asked any of them for permission. While I couldn't possibly care less if people know that my name is Jason Griffith, I realize and respect that fact that there are other people who would rather not have their names out there even if nobody would have a clue who they are.
What Is Real ID
Real ID is a social communication tool built into Blizzard games to expand your ability to chat with your friends online while they are playing Blizzard games that are included in the Real ID system. At this time (June 2010) the only games included in Real ID are World of Warcraft and Starcraft II. Real ID is completely voluntary and optional, and it offers no in-game benefits or rewards, except being able to talk to other players that you previously were not able to talk to.
Real ID allows you to connect with friends who also have battle.net accounts and have Real ID access (see below) regardless of which server they are playing on or which game they are playing.
Communicating with your friends can take place in multiple ways. You can have conversations with individuals which work similar to whispers, you can have an actual whispered conversation with them, you can Broadcast a message that is sent to all of your Real ID friends at once, or you can have a Conversation with multiple friends which is a separate chat window that allows all of the friends you invited to the Conversation in a single window where everyone sees everyone else's comments in the discussion. More details on some of those down below.
Who Can Use Real ID
Not everyone can use Real ID, at least not right away. As my wife and I found out last night, Real ID is by default disabled for everybody who has ever used the Parental Controls options. Last year we decided that in order to limit our play time we would set up PC's on each other's account so that it would kick us off of the game at certain times of the day. Since you often lose track of time it was easier to stick to our guns by forcing ourselves than relying on our clock checking skills.
So, the only people who "can't" use Real ID are those that do not have them activated in Parental Controls. If you've never used PC before, then you don't have to worry as they'll be turned on by default. If you have used it before, then they are turned off by default and you'll have to turn them on yourself.
If you don't want to participate in Real ID and never want to even see the friend requests, or more importantly you want to remain completely hidden even from those that do have your email address, you can set up your own Parental Controls and simply turn off Real ID. By doing that even if people do have your email address for some reason, if they type it in to send you a request they'll get a message back that says "Player not found." and that's it. If you change your mind later you can always reactivate Real ID at any time by going back to PC and checking the box to allow it.
An easy way to tell whether you have it turned on or off is whether or not the "Pending" tab shows up when you bring up your Friends List screen in the game. If you have a Pending tab then it's turned on, if you don't, then it's turned off. Parental Controls completely removes everything related to Real ID from your interface if the feature is turned off.
Real ID Options
There are some options and customizations that you can do to Real ID once you are in the game. You access those options as you would other Interface options, by pulling up your Options window and clicking the Interface button.
In the pop-up window you need to select the "Battle.net" option which should have a golden exclamation (!) mark next to it indicating that there are new options in that section. Once you have selected Battle.net you will see the following Real ID options:
All of these options, when selected, will trigger a pop-up from the Toast Window (see below) if it is activated. All messages and alerts are sent by a Battle.net Message, as they call it, which is a chat message that shows up in your regular chat windows with a special icon to the left and is by default a light teal/aqua color. (Don't quote me on the color, to me blue is blue no matter what fancy label you stick on it.)
Online Friends: This option will play a sound every time one of your Real ID friends logs in, and display in your chat window who they are and that they have logged in.
Offline Friends: This option works the same as Online Friends, except that it alerts you when your Real ID friends log off.
Broadcast Updates: Displays any Broadcast messages that your friends send out into your chat log.
Real ID Friend Requests: Alerts you via sound and chat message that a friend has requested to use Real ID with you.
Conversation Notifications: Alerts you when a friend sends a conversation request or message.
Show Toast Window: When selected, any of the above Real ID options will display some of their information in a small pop-up window that appears for a period of time above the top-left corner of your chat window. The duration of the Toast Window is set by the slider bar that is below the Show Toast Window check box. You can mouse-over this window to see information about the alerts that triggered it.
Play around with these options a bit if you're going to use Real ID and decide which ones you like or dislike. I did a lot of back and forth on all of them after taking that screenshot, but in the end I decided to leave everything on. I might go ahead and drop the Toast Window, but I haven't decided yet for sure. The more friends I get, the more I consider turning off the Online/Offline options, but I found in testing them that I actually prefer them to be on.
Requesting Real ID Friends
Before you can use Real ID you have to find yourself some friends. In order to get friends, you have to either give them your email address or have them give you their email address. You add Real ID friends the same way you do other friends, but clicking the Add Friend button in your Friends List window, but instead of typing a character name you instead type their email address.
If you type a character name then it will add friends from your local server as it has done previously. If you type in an email address instead, then it will extend the pop-up window allowing you to also include a message that will be sent to that friend.
When sending a request to a person that may or may not know my real name or isn't expecting me, I make sure I include a message to let them know who I am or how they know me. "Hey Jeff, it's Jason. You know? Your brother…?"
That notification is then sent to the person and they can accept it, deny it, ignore you, or report you for spamming. They can also choose to select no option for right now and just leave it in their Pending window as shown here:
As you can see, I have the same options for my buddy Jerry's request in the Pending window, allowing me to accept, reject, ignore, or report for spam. If I choose to reject, ignore, or report Jerry he will not be notified, though I would assume that if I ignore/report him that if he tried again he would be informed that I have him on ignore. I haven't tested that though, so it's just a guess.
Friends of Friends
There's another way to add friends besides having their email address, which is to request to be friends with your friends' friends. To do this you right-click your Real ID friend in the Friends List and click to view their friends. A list will then pop up showing you the First and Last Name of all of their friends as well as a little note at the end to designate ones that are mutual friends or ones that you have already send a request to that is still pending. Those friends of friends (or FoF's) will also have their names grayed out to indicate that they're already your friend or already requested to be one.
The friends you do not have in common will have their names listed in gold, and their names are all that you see. You can select a name and then send the request along with a message telling them who you are, but that's all you see. You do not see character information or email addresses for FoF's, only their names.
(screen shot will be added later when I have one)
Real ID Features
Now that we've got the options out of the way, lets get down to the good stuff and talk about what you can actually do with this wonderful new feature. We've already discussed the fact that it's a tool for socializing and communicating with your friends, so we're going to talk about the specific features found in the windows and how to actually use it.
Once you've managed to get at least one friend you'll be able to see how they're shown in the Friends List. You can see the friend's real name, which is how you'll know them now, and you can see when they were last online. You'll also see their Broadcast message, if they have one and have not deleted it. You can see in this screen shot that my GM, Chris Schwalm (who doesn't mind his name being known), has set his broadcast to "I am playing wow.", Jenny has set hers to "Goodnight!", Kris is "pants optional", and so on.
You are able to send out your own Broadcast messages from your Friends List window. In my case, I let everyone know I was going to do some low level PvP.
When you mouse-over a Real ID friend you get a little more information as is the case with Sheri's message. You see the full broadcast (since hers was long), how long ago that broadcast was sent out (8 hours), and how long ago she was last logged in. You may also notice for the following screenshot that my Pending tab is flashing with an amber/yellow color letting me know that I have a request pending.
In the screenshot above here you don't really catch the status setting because all of my friends were logged out when the shot was taken. However, there are also three status settings that you can choose from that will change the small sphere to the left of each friend a different color based on their status. You can set your own status at the top of your Friends List window to Available, Away, or Busy which are color coded in typical traffic light style:
Psynister's Thoughts on Real ID
I'm a social guy, so being able to chat with my friends is always a good thing. I have multiple blogs, multiple email accounts, multiple twitter accounts, so on and so on. I like chatting with people and I like doing it in a lot of different ways. I'm not necessarily talkative, I just like being able to hang out and chat whenever I feel like it. Because of that, I knew going into this thing that I was going to give it a shot and that I would most likely enjoy it.
I've got a lot of really great friends that play this game, most of which I've met on Twitter or in the blogging community. Being able to chat with my buddy on a completely different server that I never get to play with was really cool. I run a dual monitor setup at home so that I can have twitter on the left monitor while I play on the center/front monitor and I can be social in both settings, but not everybody can do that. Having to alt+tab (I'm a PC, can you tell?) to look at twitter every time you get an update gets old fast, so people without multiple monitors aren't as likely to use social apps like Twitter while they play. And now, they don't have to.
When I first started setting up friends I was a little bit annoyed by the notifications of people logging in an out. Of all the complaints, that was the only one I had. After turning the notifications off though I actually missed having them there because I no longer knew who was coming and going. So I turned them back on and soon after it just became another part of the game that doesn't bother now. It was annoying because it was different and it didn't belong in my game, but it's all good now.
Being able to chat with friends of the opposite faction was great. Chatting with friends on another server completely out of my battle group and on the opposite faction was even cooler. Better yet, I knew their character's name, class, level, and location within the game which, while seeming somewhat stalker-like, was really cool.
My guild has both an Alliance and Horde guild on our server and during raid times we always have one person relog to the other faction to call people over for raid time, but with this tool we can just chat away with a Real ID friend on that faction and have them send out the message in guild chat for others that aren't our RIDF's.
At this point I can't say that there's anything that I don't like about it. I can say that I am not a fan of the new default chat windows so I'll be sticking with Chatter for a while yet, but Real ID itself is just full of win. I absolutely love this new feature and fully recommend it to anyone and everyone who plays the game(s).


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BETHEL, Vt. (AP) -- The tanks that are normally swarming with fish at the national hatchery in Bethel are empty, but the repairs needed after Tropical Storm Irene flooding inundated the facility are almost done and officials say biologists should be able to start raising fish there again this spring.
The tanks that hold the fish, both inside and out, have been scrubbed and disinfected, the electrical system is mostly repaired, the wells that supply the fresh water for the facility have been cleaned and the pumps are being rebuilt. The layout of the hatchery has been changed in a way that experts hope will make it less prone to damage from future flooding.
"We'd be ready to turn on the pumps, as some of the stock-car racing fans may say, kick the tires and light the fires sometime by March or April," said Wade Jodun, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's operations manager for the Northeast.
When Irene hit in August 2011, the White River overflowed its banks and left a trail of destruction. A number of communities up and downstream from the hatchery were devastated and it washed out several miles of Route 107 just upstream.
Floodwaters swept into some of the hatchery's outdoor holding tanks, flushing thousands of hatchery-raised Atlantic salmon and other fish into the river. The flood also exposed the hatchery to invasive species such as rock snot, a non-native form of algae that can overwhelm rivers and streams.
The Fish and Wildlife Service closed the hatchery for repairs. Thousands of large Atlantic salmon brood stock were donated to Native American groups for use in ritual ceremonies while nearly half a million lake trout that had been intended for Lake Ontario and other locations were destroyed rather than risk that they could spread contamination. Some staffers were moved to other locations.
All told, the flood caused more than $5 million damage to the hatchery, just above the White River off state route 107. Given the complexities of funding and engineering the needed repairs, it could have taken up to five years to get it operating again, Jodun said.
The Fish and Wildlife Service found almost $3 million to help pay for the repairs, and repairing what was needed to get the fish operations moving again was made a priority over damage to roads, fences and other infrastructure.
"The stars just really aligned for us," said Jodun.
Biologists still haven't decided what kind of fish will be raised in the hatchery, but the topic will be discussed this month at a meeting at the hatchery that will also deal with other issues, said Dave Tilton, the manager of the service's western New England fisheries operations.
"What to do with it is still developing. It's developing based on lots of conservations with our partners with the states of Vermont and New York," Tilton said.
Among possibilities for the hatchery are raising lake trout and landlocked salmon for stocking in Lake Champlain or housing brood stock from state hatcheries, said Eric Palmer, the fisheries director for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. No final decisions have been made, he said.
"It's just been conceptual discussion about what the partner states see as the value for that facility," Palmer said.
Before Irene, Fish and Wildlife raised many of the more than 100 million Atlantic salmon stocked in Connecticut River tributaries in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont over the past several decades in hopes of restoring the fish to the watershed. But last summer, the federal government abandoned that project because not enough salmon were living to adulthood and returning to the Connecticut River to justify the expense. The loss of the Bethel hatchery helped prompt the decision.
Jodun said the Bethel hatchery should be able to get back to about 75 or 80 percent of its capacity this year. It's not expected to be back to 100 percent capacity until 2014.
Repairing the facility had kept the remaining staff busy and it has given them an opportunity to do things that had been needed for some time, hatchery manager Ken Gillette said.
"We'd like to see things get going, but we've got to do it and do it properly," Gillette said. "We're all looking forward to it."