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Sis, cedera teruk tuh! adeehh!! Berdarah sampai bernanah, MCA tak sedar lagi..heeee
'M' dalam MCA itu Masochist
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liow la klu macam ini…
Yup, same thing happened during pesta tanglung. MCA is supposed to be the 'Chinese' party but yet for Chinese celebrations like the Lantern Festival and now CNY, The Star is sidelining the MCA functions in favour of associating DAP favourably with Chinese traditions.
e.g. NO COVERAGE in the paper for the 1Malaysia Mooncake and Lantern Festival on 30 Sept 2012 at SJK (C) Yuk Chai in Petaling Jaya featuring Chua Tee Yong but two articles the same weekend titled 'Lantern fest in Subang Jaya brings the community together' and 'Procession set to light up Subang Jaya'.
WHAT. IS. WRONG. WITH. THE. MCA?! putting up with these continual snubs by its own paper?
Wong Chun Wai, Wong Sai Wan & June Wong (incidentally their surnames are similar!!!) should be hauled up to explain why the Star is so DAP inclined. It is a well known fact that the Star don't take criticisms well. Don't believe me? Try emailing a letter to the editor. Better still, try emailing any of the big honchos above. The only one who will reply for certain will be June. The other two will ignore you.
Either last year or the year before (can't really remember), they even published an article from a columnist (who incidentally is also surnamed Wong) about Chin Peng. I know for a fact that the columnist was flown into Bangkok to assist Chin Peng in pleading for permission to be allowed to return. In publishing the piece, it shows a lack of sensitivity towards those who lived through the emergency as well as the feelings of the country's security forces.
Here's the link to the article I mentioned.
Aaah, the 3 Heavenly Kings (well, 2 Kings + 1 Queen).
The Star monitors this blog 24/7, that I know.
My Google Reader stats invariably goes up as well whenever Star/MCA are mentioned in my blog headline ('cos I usually link the two elements Scissors and Dinosaur together) in my write-up.
Well, let's follow up on the paper's contents later in the morning.
Aren't the people manning the BN nerve centre wondering when, if, ever, Warta Jerusubang will deign to run any critical stories about the evangelista pollies?
June's a nice person actually & pretty down to earth as I know her for over a decade now. Guess her hands are tied by her two big bosses & possibly some hidden hands.
I know for certain Wong Chun Wai (who I won't address by his titles which I believe he doesn't deserve) is an aloof personality. He don't like fraternizing with those "below" him. I actually find his columns amusing as he tries so hard to be a regular bloke with unbiased views & high morals. To those who know him & his ways, he comes across as a poser.
One other point I've noticed. It seems that Star is somewhat intent on playing rabble rouser. Don't believe me? Check out either their front or back pages. 2-3 times a week at least they'll have some inflammatory headlines. They know Malaysians are a passionate lot so they know which button to press to get incendiary responses. See their SMS columns in both the Letter to Editor & Sports column too. Same thing happening there.
I've overlooked the sms-es thus far.
Wink. More Jerusubang, eh? I wouldn't at all be surprised.
The SMSes seems to be a deliberate attempt to stoke some responses. It happens every day in the sports section. In the LtE column, whenever an issue crops up, check out the fiery SMSes they choose to publish. They probably get hundreds if not thousands of SMSes but their choice leaves a lot to be desired with.
BTW, as a Catholic, even I think the Virgin Mary supposed apparition to be over the top. Didn't mind Philip Golingai's piece but the daily coverage? Overkill…
A topic worth exploring: Agenda Setting
The general public think of The Star as MCA-owned. But it is not MCA party staff who are in control of the editorial room.
One standout difference: MCA's language orientation is Chinese. The Star worldview in Anglo, most evident in the entertainment stories (celebrities, Hollywood movies, pop singers coverage).
Completely missed by Helen Ang & her fanbois are the heaps of pro BN pro MCA propaganda-disguised-as-news on the Star's pages, not just today, but every day.
A classic case of taking one swallow bird to mean a summer.
You're kinda thick-skulled, aren't you Jonny? How many times have I replied you that The Star is bipolar, a split personality and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde?
If that's what the paper's "paying customers" (not unlike Malaysiakinisubscribers who are the portal's paying subscribers) want, then the paper has successfully delivered. I have never denied that The Star at the same time churns out the mandatory 1Malaysia stories putting Najib on the front page and you can expect to see photo of him tossing yee sang with CSL next week.
The point is whether the MCA as the paper's owners feel that the balance is satisfactory.
MCA has been hands off their paper's editorial, barring strategic occasions (on the eve of the CSL-LGE debate as I've mentioned before is one example) when orders were given.
Easiest test of logic: Drop by Menara Star and see who its reporters are. Are they MCA card-carrying members?
Just like if I were to drop by the Utusan headquarters. Would I find that the majority of Utusan reporters working in the building are Chinese-Christians who are DAP card-carrying members?
Anyone who doesn't agree & swallow your nonsensical ideas is labelled thick skulled, dapster, and whatelse.
To anyone who reads The Star anytime, they will find a truckload of pro BN articles & columns. Any unbiased mention of opposition will be just scraps & in the minority (but will be taken by Helen to push her bizzare theory, and repeatedly replayed like a broken vinyl record as the topic for the next 1000 blogposts).
Simple outlook: Majority pro BN, minority neutral to Pakatan. To the man on the street, Star is pro BN.
Have I disputed that the paper is pro-BN? No, right? I've maintained it is bipolar.
Now can you dispute that the paper is pro-DAP in those instances that I've recorded?
My theory allows room for both biases to co-exist, i.e. that when the political bosses crack the whip and explicit orders are handed down from the top, then The Star is pro-BN. But when the middle management and rank-and-file reporters are left to their own devices, then the Star stories slide to pro-Pakatan.
See (screenshot below) what happens when a Star reporter makes a list of political Twitter personalities. All the names, without any exception, are Pakatan.
>> Now can you dispute that the paper is pro-DAP in those instances that I've recorded?
Simple. Just look at the amount of news that are pro BN in today's edition, and also the past issues.
By doing a simple count and comparing, you'll find majority of stuff in that rag is pro BN, pro MCA. Simple standard 1 kid also know laa…
The Most Viewed articles in today's Star Online are:
(i) Malaysian journalist killed in freak accident while on holiday in Lebanon
(ii) Woman spurned by pub singer lover
(iii) Claudia's death latest in a series of misfortunes for family
(iv) Teen sisters fail to come home
(v) Wives for hire in comfort of home
* Stories (i) and (iii) refer to ex-Malaysiakini reporter Claudia
The Most E-mailed articles from today's Star Online are:
(vi) Do you dream of early retirement – when you are still young?
(vii) Lee: No hidden agenda, decision to terminate and refund in the best interest of CHGS investors
(viii) Japan's Dai Nippon Printing to invest RM170.5m in Johor plant
(ix) Student killed by lightning while playing football in school
(x) K-pop sensation Psy to perform at state BN open house
Got pro-BN meh in the 10 headlines above?
Except for maybe (x) but not directly so, unlike the alternative media articles screaming ABU, ABU, ABU and "why I will return home to vote for Pakatan", or like the Malaysiakini columnist who recently wrote about why he would be voting Pakatan.
If The Star had taken the trouble to challenge and counter the Firster rhetoric instead of the paper itself choosing to peddling the evangelista cult the last 5 years, MCA would not be in the doldrums that the party finds itself today.
Is MCA & Gerakan's failure due to the failure of The Star to sway the masses? Or perhaps its MCA & Gerakan's own failure to counter its bellicose partner acting like a taikor?
For once I agree with you on something.
Yes, Umno's behaviour
– such as Hisham waving the keris at 3 consecutive Umno assemblies, condoning BTN-like attitude and racial slurs (cowhead demo in Shah Lama) as well as the moral silence of Umno on Ibrahim Ali's bible-burning threat
– has
badhad a toxic effect on the fortunes of MCA and Gerakan. Pity MCA and the difficult position it finds itself in.
Sambutan Hari Raya oleh Karajan Negeri Pulau Pinang dan DAP tempoh hari berlangsung selama berapa hari, ya? Aku rasa kalau pakatan berjaya ke Putrajaya amalan memberi priority kepada hal-hal cina akan diteruskan. Nicky nanti kata tak apa kerana Islam tak pentingkan perayaan tapi kalau agama lain tak apa. Sambutan hari krismas pula kerajaan Pusat pakatan rakyat akan buat di gereja di Putrajaya sama seperti yang dilakukan di Selangor baru-baru ini. Untuk tujuan itu mungkin mereka akan dirikan se buah Gereja Negara di Putrajaya. Maklumlah DAP sebenarnya didominasi golongan evangelist. Nicky akan bawa kek sebagai tanda hormat.
Ucapan Selamat Hari Natal (yang bergambarkan lambang hati warna merah jambu dan Rudolph the Teddy Bear Reindeer yang saya dok bising-bising tu) terpampang di laman rasmi MCA selama sebulan genap, sampai masuk bulan satu tahun 2013.
Dapster sekarang bukan lagi sosialis yang dulu. Dapster sekarang adalah dikelilingi hartawan dari atas sampai bawah…dari hujung rambut sampai hujung jari kaki.
Pastinya sambutan TBC kali ini akan menyaksikan Dapster akan jadi cukup pemurah dengan Ang Pau pelbagai warna dan ungkapan berbagai gaya.
Sesungguhnya, kita tidak pasti sama ada rumah terbuka ala Dapster ini diamalkan di negara Tembok Mega tetapi apa yang pasti ia dimulakan oleh kerajaan negeri terdahulu.
Apapun kita tetap berbangga kerana akhirnya kerajaan LGE tidak menolak untuk meneruskan tradisi yang dimulakan oleh seteru politik mereka.
Mungkin ini permulaan untuk parti LGE kembali berpijak atas bumi yang nyata dan seterusnya tunduk pada realiti politik yakni untuk terus memerintah, perkara baik yang dimulakan oleh pihak terdahulu harus diteruskan.
32 (!!) Rumah Terbuka DAP hanya di P. Pinang sahaja, beb.
Sebagai perbandingan, sambutan yang dirancang MCA langsung tidak diberi liputan. Hanya dalam Facebook. Ciput…
Kalau dikatakan MCA mendapat tamparan kerana rasa-rasanya sambutan CNY parti tersebut tiada ooomph, tapi yang memberi tamparan itu perkakas MCA sendiri juga. Oh Dunia.
Hell, you need a life. You should take a break and look at the rubbish you dish out with high frequency. And oh yes, try and use your brain if you have one. The Star is not a free publication. Did it ever occur to you that they try to cater to their paying customers? Umno really screwed up with their scum selection.
fff is telling us that The Star has sold itself – body and soul – to the Dapsters who are the ones buying (i.e. paying for) the paper.
The DAP 2.0 supporters today (Jerusubangites who think of themselves as "high class") are unlike the DAP supporters of yesterday (Ah Pek, Ah Soh hawkers whom the evangelistas consider "low class").
Being urban, high class and moneyed, they can afford to buy The Star which has Ubah its dress to please and "cater to their paying customer" (phrase within quote marks is what fff said above).
Compare the purchasing power of the well-heeled evangelista "paying customers" who forked out RM150 per ticket to attend the Hannah Yeoh dinner at a (photo) 4-star hotel in Subang Jaya, with those who turned up for the MCA free meals served under a makeshift tent (photo) and who then insulted the host by walking out when Dr Chua starts speaking.
Since The Star is not free and since the paper wants money from paying customers (and Bangsar advertisers) and since it is Dapsters who the paying customers, hence The Star has become what it is today. Pro-DAP.
The kind of stories (screenshot below) that The Star readers most prefer. No wonder its readership base – the Dapsters – behave so violently, like gangsters.
Well, PAS got a full page, ok, closer to 3/4 page today over the Valentine's Day hoo-haa. CSL got a mere half page, even then the adverts from Tesco, Giant, Jusco, Maxis etc takes precedent over his news. He ended up on page 12….
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________LOL. The Prez is less important than grocery ads. LOL (yes, I actually did, splurted from my nose) again. — Helen
Eeeewwwwww… To be fair, CSL could have taken the editorial to the rafters but he has not done so. As for Star being a commercial venture with its' customers' wants to pander to, it is still considered trash by opposition fanatics. Even His Holiness St Muru-Guan of Penang recently issued a heavenly decree that responses to the Star will no longer be oral but instead, written to avoid him.being "misquoted". Btw, if the fanatics hate Star so much, why do they continue to pollute their mind with all the trash in it anyway?
Anyways, are you aware that in the industry, Star pays its' contributors the lowest rates? Also, it takes 3-5 months for a claim to be paid out. That from a daily that reaches out to over 5million.
Lord "Muru-Guan". The Tokong wants to corner every religious market.
a man is known for the company he keeps. people are known for the company they keep. the staff of The Star, we are already familiar with their antics and shenanigans.
violence attracts violence. no surprise really. the only language they know is violence.
just look at their twitter tweets. go to their social media sites. violence all over the place. they need a dose of violence daily to get their lives going.
I too read The Star mind you, but I read The Star for a different reason. I read The Star to get to know their psychology. to fight this mob, we must understand their psychology, the way they think, the way they act, the way they conduct themselves.
You mean The Star Facebook? — Helen
yes but also the tweets of their staff.
The Star Facebook is just as bad as their website and their print edition. news on rapists, violent crimes, the latest is the case of young William etc.
they are also obsessed with entertainment, K pop, those from America etc. no wonder the urban youth, especially those from English speaking background, are so into this bling bling culture. the Chinese youth are no better. most of them are in a state of trance with k pop and anything to do with Korean culture.
What is your evidence that Star readers are DAP supporters? Most DAP supporters I know don't even bother reading it.
Even Lowyat forummers are labelled as DAP supporters (to their amusement) because of one topic where they rubbished your blog.
Working on the law of averages lah. What is the evidence that Utusan readers are Umno supporters?
(1) Going with the assumption that 80-85 percent of Chinese support DAP, and they make up the most number of Star readers (the Star staff for sure are majority Chinese and this reflected in the editors where 2 out of 30 are Malay which is disproportionate to the general population)
(2) The paper's content which it is tailored to suit its paying customers
e.g. if a magazine content is about golf, cars or handphones, then the natural assumption is that its readers are golfers and those who drive (rather than those who do not have a driving licence), who are phone-obsessed etc
Will you deny that Loyat forummers are pro-opposition? After all, they themselves accuse the Cari forummers as pro-Umno.
Those Lowyat forummers screenshot behave like Dapsters. A Dapster is as a Dapster does, e.g. the comment "u can suck my dick biatch"
Thats a ridiculous "Assumption" (your word, not mine). So you say that since 80% of Chinese are pro Opposition, and Chinese comprise a majority readership of MCA-owned Star, therefore Chinese Star readers are pro DAP.
This simplistic assumption is no more logical than claiming since 80% Chinese are sympathetic to opposition, and MCA is entirely Chinese, therefore MCA members are pro-DAP.
Don't forget that the Indian & Malay readership of The Star is also significant
The funny thing is that on Cari, pro opposition Malays are a strong faction there, and snide remarks about Umno & Perkasa are common. As for the lowyat-forummers, some of them expressed amusement on their forums when they were accused by you of being pro DAP.
If I'm not mistaken, I said they're essentially Dapsters (which they take at face value to mean pro-DAP).
However in a post-Lowyat posting (the one I did on the hounding of Anas by the Dapsters, and querying the word 'Umnoputra'), I attempted to define the Dapster terminology.
Dapsterism = gangsterism.
My original posting that caught the Lowyat eye was titled, that their trolls should be "taught the Bung Moktar lesson".
The lesson they need to be taught is to have some manners even if it means confronting their mengganas attitude.
It's not to prevent anyone from voting DAP. After all, practically every Chinese I know will be voting oppo.
The leadership by example of Papa and Mama Dapster fosters the gangster attitude among their followers. That's where I make the connection.
Kak Helen,
Pernah terfikir tak kebarangkalian tauke-tauke The Star dalam MCA sendiri adalah gunting dalam lipatan BN. Mungkin mereka sokong DAP dan ingin mensabotaj BN dari dalam dan "jump ship" kalau Pakatan menang.
Ini satu kemungkinan juga sebab orang Cina sudah nyata kemaruk kuasa politik pula selepas berjaya membolot kekayaan di bumi bertuah ini.
Btw, I just watched Teresa Kok's CNY shorts (short videos). The shorts were pretty well made with dialogues (laced with political message), OMG. Those shorts are now shared all over Facebook; DAP folks are damn media savvy. When CSL, WKS, JL et al gonna make one soon??? :-D
They got the Star Switch.Up TV what.
with The Fifth Column deep inside The Star, don't hold your breath.
32 sambutan CNY di Pulau Pinang sahaja? Nampak gayanya memang hendak digunakan bagi tujuan meraih undi bagi PRU13 nanti kan? Sambil menyelam minum air @ Hitting 2 birds with one stone. Pandai… :)
You're right. CNY for the final push (shaking hands/glad-handling, kissing babies, distributing goodie bags) meeting the crowd.
Imagine if BN did the same thing, wonder what will they scream? "Misuse of public money for the benefit of your corrupted party!", I would imagine.
Did anyone pointing out this? Not that I can find.
How I long for politics in the 70s. As my late grandfather said, "we as the opposition shall pointing out the wrong doings of the government but we shall praise when they did it right!". Well, I haven't been born yet during that time but if the opposition can be like that (not politicing everything including good stuff by the govt), we shall have a pretty good country where politic is just once every 5 years and work together for the rest. Ustaz Nasha did that but he has been left alone in his struggle. Pity.
Harap-harap orang Islam yang hadir majlis itu berhati-hati sedikit. Takut-takut kalau dihidangkan dengan daging, ayam atau kambing yang tidak disembelih mengikut hukum syarak. [Edited]
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's first aircraft carrier has successfully finished a series of tests during a training mission in the disputed South China Sea and has returned to port, state media reported.
Last month's drills off the coast of Hainan Island marked not only the first time China has sent a carrier into the South China Sea but the first time it has maneuvered with the kind of strike group of escort ships U.S. carriers deploy, according to regional military officers and analysts.
After two decades of double-digit increases in the military budget, China's admirals plan to develop a full blue-water navy capable of defending growing economic interests as well as disputed territory in the South and East China Seas.
The aircraft carrier Liaoning carried out more than 100 tests, including of its combat systems, and has now docked at port in the northern city of Qingdao, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Wednesday.
"The aircraft carrier underwent a comprehensive test of its combat system and conducted a formation practice during its 37-day voyage," Xinhua said, citing an unnamed naval source as saying.
The tests "attained the anticipated objectives", the report added. "All tests and training programs went well as scheduled."
The carrier was escorted by two destroyers and two frigates, and aircraft and submarines also participated in the drills.
The Liaoning - a Soviet-era ship bought from Ukraine in 1998 and re-fitted in a Chinese shipyard - has long been a symbol of China's naval build-up.
Carrier strike groups sit at the core of China's naval ambitions and successfully operating the 60,000-tonne Liaoning is the first step in what state media and some military experts believe will be the deployment of locally built carriers by 2020.
Friction over the South China Sea has surged as China uses its growing naval might to assert a vast claim over the oil-and-gas-rich area, raising fears of a clash between it and other countries in the region, including the Philippines and Vietnam.
The USS Cowpens narrowly avoided colliding with a Chinese warship escorting the Liaoning while operating in international waters on December 5, the U.S. Navy has said.
Xinhua said the Cowpens was "warned" by the carrier task force, adding the U.S. vessel was "intentionally" putting the Liaoning under surveillance.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Michael Perry)

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We are pulling for Rosberg after he achieved a victory for Mercedes earlier this year. Mercedes looks much improved and we would be lying if we did not want to see Schumacher show his vintage self. The major news from qualifying is that Lewis Hamilton took the pole only to be excluded when his car was found to have less than the allowable minimum fuel amount. Hamilton loses the pole and will be starting instead from the back of the pack. Maldonado is moved up to the pole from second below.
Spanish Grand Prix 2012: Starting grid
1 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 1min 21.707secs (DISQUALIFIED FROM POLE)
2 Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams 1:22.285
3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:22.302
4 Romain Grosjean (Swi) Lotus F1 Team 1:22.424
5 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus F1 Team 1:22.487
6 Sergio Perez (Mex) Sauber-Ferrari 1:22.533
7 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:23.005
8 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull no time
9 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP no time
10 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari no time
11 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 1:22.944
12 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:22.977
13 Paul di Resta (Gbr) Force India 1:23.125
14 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India 1:23.177
15 Jean-Eric Vergne (Fra) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:23.265
16 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:23.442
17 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:23.444
18 Bruno Senna (Bra) Williams 1:24.981
19 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Caterham 1:25.277
20 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Caterham 1:25.507
21 Charles Pic (Fra) Marussia 1:26.582
22 Timo Glock (Ger) Marussia 1:27.032
23 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) HRT-F1 1:27.555
24 Narain Karthikeyan (Ind) HRT-F1 1:31.122
Formula 1 2012 - Rosberg and Schumacher qualify in 7th and 9th for Spanish GP in Bareclona, Hamilton disqualified from pole


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DELAWARE, Ohio - Bowdoin sophomore Jacob Ellis (Brattleboro, Vt.) collected his second All-American award of the year by placing third in the 800 meter finals at the NCAA Division III Championship Saturday at Ohio Wesleyan.
Ellis was with the lead group for the entire race and it came to the final stretch, as the top three runners were less than 3/4 of a second apart. Ellis, who finished in 1:51.37, was edged at the line by Andrew Carey of Johns Hopkins (1:50.62) and Mitchell Black of Tufts (1:51.30).
It is the highest finish in a nationals race for Ellis, who also earned All-American honors in the winter when he finished fifth in the indoor 800 meter race at NCAA's. This spring's result is also an improvement on last year's race when he finished fifth in the 800 at outdoor NCAA's.
Bowdoin's other male qualifier for NCAA's, Kevin Hoose, posted a time of 9:21.27 in the preliminaries of the 3000 meter steeplechase on Thursday. He recorded the 16th-best time and just missed out on qualifying for the finals (top-14) in the event.
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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.33 / 5.00 6,360 ViewsAncient chinese story time
Great story.
The voice really works for the story. Maybe it would be better in the audio portal, but whatever, it works.
Great classic story but just one problem...
I'm giving the story a passing grade on the merits of the story alone but I would recommend that if you follow this up with another that you work on having a realistic voice tell the story.
I'm not sure if CATS (from Zero Wing) or someone from Anonymous is telling it but it doesn't work well and makes the story being told very hard to understand.
I don't know about this one. The voice is kinda distracting, and of course the stationary picture kinda ruins the otherwise entertaining story.
Not much here
I gave it 1/1 because it had some kind of funny parts, but otherwise there is nothing to look at here. It is just a picture of The Great Wall with a poor voice over. Try adding a little more to this so there is more to look at than just a stationary picture.


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ST. LOUIS, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Accelus) - Exchanges that have facilitated trade in a fledgling digital currency known as Bitcoins are offering to help U.S. law enforcement track suspect transactions, after two senators charged that the operations aided drug traffickers and money launderers.
Japan-based Mt Gox Bitcoin Exchange handles the vast majority of Bitcoin trades. Like the seven other Bitcoin exchanges that operate in London, Poland and elsewhere, it matches buy and sell orders and uses a bank account to receive and send related payments.
These exchanges are unregulated and their obligations to report suspicious activity to authorities, as other financial institutions must, are nebulous.
Mark Karpeles, the chief executive of Tibanne Co of Tokyo, which operates Mt Gox, told Thomson Reuters that the company was not averse to cooperating with authorities. "As a company handling Bitcoins, it is not our intention of doing anything illegal," Karpeles said via email on Tuesday. "We sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration to address this issue."
He declined to release a copy of the letter, but said, "Basically we explain what Bitcoin is, and the fact it's much more traceable than what the media has been saying. We do not want Bitcoin to be misunderstood."
Karpeles wrote the agency in response to a letter which Democratic senators Charles Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin of West Virginia had written earlier this month to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Michele Leonhart, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
That letter expressed concerns about the underground Web site Silk Road and the use of "untraceable" Bitcoins to make purchases there. The senators cited media reports that some tech-savvy individuals were using an "anonymizing network" known as Tor to gain clandestine access to Silk Road and buy illegal drugs with Bitcoins.
Bitcoins, a two-year old digital currency, were initially traded among a small group of tech-savvy enthusiasts, generally in exchange for services such as Web support, but they can now be purchased at exchanges by anyone with real-world funds. A Bitcoin has recently been worth roughly $10 to $20, but the rate is volatile. According to traders, more than 300,000 Bitcoins have been sold each day during the past month.
Schumer has sharply criticized Bitcoins. "It's an online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who's both selling and buying the drug," Schumer said.
The Gawker blog reported that Silk Road sellers mailed illegal drugs after receiving payment in Bitcoins. The transactions were believed to leave no traditional money trail for investigators to follow.
The DEA has expressed concerned about Bitcoins and other anonymous digital currencies.
Karpeles said Bitcoin transactions were in fact traceable. He said that while the system had been built to be anonymous, it was "really easy to track Bitcoins across the network."
He added that since most Bitcoin transactions flowed through Mt Gox, it was "much easier to see how the funds were cashed out, and locate the final target if there was need."
"We have no opinion for or against Silk Road because we don't feel we are associated in any way. However, if we are required to track payments coming in or out of Silk Road, we will comply, as we all want to see Bitcoin successful in the future."
He added that Bitcoins were not intended as a criminal tool. He said they were bought and sold by investors, libertarians who wanted "pure freedom," geeks who liked "tech stuff" and saw Bitcoin as a new toy, and others who engaged in online commerce and did not want to pay substantial fees.
Amir Taaki, the founder of the Britcoin exchange based in London said he has already approached British regulators in an effort to obtain "legalized, regulated status."
"We want to make Bitcoin legal, not have it outlawed," he said. He said Britcoin also would be willing to help root out criminal activity, and was keeping account records.
Donald Norman, the co-founder of a London-based consultancy that serves Bitcoin exchanges, said that a data file existed which reflected the complete history of Bitcoin transactions, so that "the ownership of every single coin is completely known and traceable."
He added that the exchanges were struggling to establish relationships with regulators, in part because the currency was so novel. "There is nothing on the law books about Bitcoins," he said.
(Editing by Randall Mikkelsen)
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Roller coaster
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The roller coaster (some people say the simple form coaster) is a kind of amusement park ride. A roller coaster is usually a small train. It has a number of carriages that travel on a track. This track has hills that go up and valleys that go down. Sometimes it has other features that will turn the train upside-down. The track can be made from wood or steel. Some roller coasters are made for children, so they do not travel very fast. Other roller coasters are made very tall and they travel very fast. Riders are generally held in place with a bar, a belt, or something similar.
Scientifically, a roller coaster works because of gravity, a force that pulls things down to the ground. Most roller coaster trains are pulled to the top of a hill with a machine. The train will slide down the track, which has a number of hills and valleys. As it slides downhill it goes faster, and it slows down when climbing.
History[change | change source]
In the United States, LaMarcus Adna Thompson patented the first roller coaster on January 20, 1865. He named his ride the "Switchback Railway," and workers pulled the carriage to the top of the track. The first modern steel roller coaster was the Matterhorn Bobsleds at Disneyland. It opened in 1959.
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Roller coaster rails may be wooden, or made of steel.
Steel roller coasters can be separated into many more types. In some roller coasters riders stand up or lie down. Some roller coasters sit riders below the rails or beside them instead of above the rails. Some roller coaters spin riders.
In the 20th century only steel roller coasters could turn riders upside down. Now both steel and wooden roller coasters can turn riders upside down. This is called an inversion. The Smiler has the world record for the most inversions.
Famous roller coasters[change | change source]
Name | Park | Record |
Kingda Ka | Six Flags Great Adventure | The tallest roller coaster in the world. |
Formula Rossa | Ferrari World Abu Dhabi | The fastest roller coaster in the world. |
Steel Dragon 2000 | Nagashima Spa Land | The longest roller coaster in the world. |
Takabisha | Fuji-Q Highland | The steepest roller coaster in the world. |
The Smiler | Alton Towers | The most turnovers |
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Given the historical success of undrafted quarterbacks in the NFL, Tony Romo might as well be a national treasure. We look at the impact of developmental leagues on undrafted quarterbacks, and just how many players have tried to break through in a recent season.
02 Dec 2009
by Brian Fremeau
The field at Stanford Stadium Saturday night was littered with offensive firepower. Notre Dame's Jimmy Clausen was 23 of 30 for 340 yards and five touchdowns, completing one of the most prolific seasons in Fighting Irish quarterback history. Golden Tate chipped in three touchdowns and 200 yards receiving, wrapping up the most electric highlight-reel season for the Irish since Rocket Ismail donned a gold helmet. And in the end, it wasn't enough.
Heisman-hopeful Toby Gerhart pounded the Irish defense down the stretch, tossed a halfback touchdown pass, and chewed up enough time in the game-clinching drives to stave off any possible heroics for Clausen, Tate, and Co. Gerhart didn't single-handedly usher Charlie Weis out of South Bend, but he perfectly encapsulated his demise. Notre Dame was an offensive juggernaut this year, faced no truly elite opposition, and still limped home with its second-straight 6-6 record.
The defense didn't measure up to the offense in any way, shape, or form in 2009. But the Notre Dame offense is to blame as well -- it was incapable of killing clock at critical times. Against Stanford and Connecticut in each of the final two games, the Irish had the ball and the lead late in the fourth quarter but surrendered it due to an inability to run the ball and an unwillingness to keep slinging it around the field.
There were epic red zone failures as well. Notre Dame ranked No. 10 nationally in yards per game, but only No. 40 in points per game. The Irish only converted 56 percent of their red zone trips into touchdowns in 2009, due to vanilla play calling and costly turnovers. Five failed red zone trips against Navy doomed what likely would have been a comfortable victory into a two-point loss. According to athletic director Jack Swarbrick, that game was the tipping point game in the decision to end Weis' tenure.
Ten games were decided by a touchdown or less, and the Irish came up victors in only four of them. Based on our raw offensive efficiency (OE) metric, which calibrates offensive scoring rates by starting field position, Notre Dame outperformed its opponent nine times this season, including in the losses to Michigan, Connecticut, and Stanford. The Wolverines and Huskies each chipped in a kick return touchdown. Gerhart was a one-man wrecking ball Saturday night, but Irish special teams gave Stanford enviable starting field position throughout the game -- six Stanford drives began on 65-yard fields or shorter. Notre Dame had to overcome field position deficits in four of its six victories this season.
Under Weis, Notre Dame made winning harder on itself than any other team in college football this year. Only two other teams -- Georgia and Buffalo -- had a combined seven games in which in which they either outperformed the opponent offensive in a loss (three) or won a game in which they had to overcome a field position deficit (four). And neither the Bulldogs nor the Bulls had a lethal combination like Clausen and Tate at their disposal all season. It wouldn't have taken much to tip a few more games in his favor, and Weis had all the arsenal he needed to keep his job. Whether those weapons remain on campus for the next to-be-named general remains to be seen.
The principles of the Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) can be found here. Like DVOA, FEI rewards playing well against good teams, win or lose, and punishes losing to poor teams more harshly than it rewards defeating poor teams. Unlike DVOA, it is drive-based, not play-by-play based, and it is specifically engineered to measure the college game.
FEI is the opponent-adjusted value of Game Efficiency (GE), a measurement of the success rate of a team scoring and preventing opponent scoring throughout the non-garbage-time possessions of a game. Like DVOA, it represents a team's efficiency value over average. Strength of Schedule (SOS) is calculated as the likelihood that an elite team would win every game on the given team's schedule to date. SOS listed here does not include future games scheduled.
Only games between FBS teams are considered in the FEI calculations. Preseason projections are not a factor in the current calculations. Current FEI ratings are a function of results of games played through Nov. 21st.
FEI ratings for all 120 FBS teams are now listed in the stats page section of FootballOutsiders.com. Click here for current ratings; the pull-down menu in the stats section directs you to 2007 and 2008 ratings.
Rank | Team | FBS W-L |
FEI | Last Wk |
GE | GE Rk |
SOS | SOS Rk |
OE | OE Rk |
Off FEI |
OFEI Rk |
DE | DE Rk |
Def FEI |
DFEI Rk |
FPA | FPA Rk |
1 | Alabama | 11-0 | .302 | 1 | .278 | 6 | .201 | 34 | .126 | 37 | .340 | 16 | -.685 | 1 | -.684 | 1 | .532 | 25 |
2 | Florida | 11-0 | .292 | 2 | .337 | 4 | .274 | 54 | .390 | 14 | .358 | 14 | -.659 | 3 | -.634 | 3 | .546 | 14 |
3 | Texas | 12-0 | .242 | 3 | .376 | 1 | .497 | 98 | .499 | 8 | .418 | 8 | -.637 | 6 | -.442 | 11 | .567 | 5 |
4 | Virginia Tech | 9-3 | .239 | 7 | .204 | 11 | .148 | 23 | .205 | 30 | .319 | 19 | -.444 | 13 | -.422 | 14 | .558 | 8 |
5 | Oregon | 9-2 | .235 | 9 | .199 | 12 | .165 | 25 | .368 | 16 | .492 | 6 | -.374 | 17 | -.362 | 20 | .508 | 50 |
6 | Cincinnati | 10-0 | .234 | 6 | .287 | 5 | .449 | 88 | .966 | 1 | .534 | 5 | -.142 | 38 | -.195 | 35 | .510 | 47 |
8 | Ohio State | 10-2 | .211 | 10 | .217 | 7 | .296 | 58 | -.010 | 58 | .161 | 37 | -.650 | 4 | -.565 | 5 | .558 | 10 |
9 | Georgia Tech | 9-2 | .207 | 5 | .110 | 26 | .175 | 28 | .479 | 10 | .659 | 2 | .202 | 89 | -.002 | 61 | .506 | 55 |
10 | Miami | 8-3 | .205 | 12 | .100 | 29 | .150 | 24 | .181 | 32 | .353 | 15 | -.158 | 35 | -.340 | 21 | .516 | 36 |
11 | Iowa | 9-2 | .197 | 13 | .118 | 24 | .200 | 33 | -.167 | 84 | .045 | 55 | -.541 | 8 | -.599 | 4 | .512 | 43 |
12 | Oregon State | 7-3 | .194 | 15 | .146 | 18 | .222 | 43 | .357 | 17 | .326 | 18 | .026 | 61 | -.071 | 50 | .546 | 13 |
Rank | Team | FBS W-L |
FEI | Last Wk |
GE | GE Rk |
SOS | SOS Rk |
OE | OE Rk |
Off FEI |
OFEI Rk |
DE | DE Rk |
Def FEI |
DFEI Rk |
FPA | FPA Rk |
13 | Stanford | 8-4 | .193 | 18 | .132 | 21 | .141 | 19 | .541 | 7 | .678 | 1 | .363 | 106 | .236 | 91 | .562 | 6 |
14 | Boise State | 11-0 | .188 | 17 | .372 | 2 | .625 | 117 | .492 | 9 | .074 | 48 | -.399 | 15 | -.403 | 17 | .585 | 2 |
15 | Arizona | 6-4 | .179 | 19 | .089 | 31 | .143 | 21 | .075 | 43 | .219 | 28 | -.188 | 33 | -.278 | 24 | .529 | 26 |
16 | Pittsburgh | 8-2 | .179 | 14 | .186 | 14 | .516 | 102 | .343 | 19 | .237 | 26 | -.139 | 39 | -.256 | 27 | .539 | 18 |
17 | Penn State | 9-2 | .178 | 16 | .215 | 8 | .398 | 77 | .258 | 28 | .186 | 31 | -.639 | 5 | -.528 | 7 | .512 | 44 |
19 | Clemson | 7-4 | .177 | 8 | .113 | 25 | .175 | 29 | -.142 | 81 | .052 | 53 | -.316 | 24 | -.478 | 9 | .553 | 12 |
21 | Texas Tech | 7-4 | .161 | 22 | .169 | 15 | .231 | 44 | .324 | 22 | .376 | 12 | -.372 | 18 | -.211 | 31 | .512 | 42 |
22 | Oklahoma | 6-5 | .149 | 28 | .130 | 22 | .205 | 36 | .030 | 51 | .037 | 56 | -.525 | 9 | -.547 | 6 | .507 | 53 |
23 | Arkansas | 6-5 | .138 | 33 | .089 | 32 | .052 | 1 | .416 | 13 | .398 | 10 | .016 | 59 | -.143 | 41 | .519 | 34 |
24 | North Carolina | 6-4 | .132 | 11 | .028 | 50 | .134 | 18 | -.269 | 95 | .006 | 62 | -.355 | 20 | -.522 | 8 | .481 | 85 |
25 | Connecticut | 5-5 | .123 | 25 | .058 | 42 | .183 | 31 | .097 | 40 | .171 | 33 | .179 | 86 | .032 | 68 | .558 | 9 |
22 comments, Last at 03 Dec 2009, 3:10pm by Jeff Fogle
OK, 3 days before the biggest game of the season in college football, the biggest game in the history of the SECCG, one of the biggest games of the decade which isn't the BCS game, and you talk about a coach and team which went 6-6 with a fairly easy schedule and crappy defense?
He will talk about it next week. Just respect Brian Fremeau's hurt golden heart for now...
This lack of Florida/Bama coverage in the media is astounding. It's like they don't even know it exists!
I'm less interested in what "the media" has to say than I am smart guys like Brian. I'd been looking forward to his thoughts in paticular, which is why I'm disappointed he ran with a topic which is not time sensitive over one that is. But of course it is his column, and he can talk about the #1 vs. #2 teams according to his rankings, or not, however he chooses.
Thanks for the compliment, and sorry to disappoint. I've been using the FEI column this year mostly to look back instead of look forward, especially since our other FO college football content (SDA, ESPN Insider, and Bill's Varsity Numbers) usually focuses more on what's to come. I'll definitely focus on the Alabama/Florida outcome next week.
One thing I will say is that I can hardly remember a year in which the top teams met so infrequently. If the ACC teams in the FEI top-10 don't belong there (and perhaps they don't), then Alabama/Florida would be the first game of the season between top-10 teams.
Yeah, the really top-end teams are spread around to what seems to be an unusual degree this year - the SEC is the only conference with two, and by a quirk of scheduling even they didn't meet in the regular season. This has always been a nightmare scenario for a "smallest possible playoff bracket" system like the BCS... the only saving grace for the men in suits is that two of the possible five unbeatens will come from the top two conferences in public perception, and the others from the bottom three (among the eight that have put teams into BCS bowls - C-USA hasn't quite made the jump into the conversation, and the MAC and Sun Belt might never do it.)
Now, if Nebraska springs the upset...
Looks like this last weekend finally knocked the ACC down a peg in the FEI Ratings. And deservedly so, of course.
It's his column, so he can speak to what he wants, but I'd b curious about some explanations of the following:
1. The new FEI has knocked TCU down from #4 to #7. Why? SOS? This also puts them below Cincinnati (who still have a game against Pitt). This seems... dunno.... interesting?
2. ACC might have moved down overall, but having Va Tch at 4 is a travesty. Hell, having any ACC team in the top 10 is a travesty. Having three in your top ten? Something's wrong with your model. See GaTech/Ga, see also Clemson/SCarolina. If your conference champs can't beat the bottom feeders of the SEC, your teams have no business being in the top 10.
3. Upcoming weekend looks promising, with 1v2 (Alabama v. Fla- go gators), 5 v 12 (Oregon v. Oregon State, in the battle of horrendous mascots/unis), and 6 v. 16 (Sins City v. Mustaches). In other news, Texas will be beating up on the champs of the Our Ladies of Mercy Conference. With all this- Notre Dame? Really? To tell us that Weis did a poor coaching job? Oh well.
Personally, I think that both the Ducks and Beavers are superb mascots/team names. The unis, not so much, but the nicknames are unique and classic.
TCU's best win according to FEI came against Clemson. Clemson falls, so does TCU.
ACC teams did take a hit, and I also noticed that some didn't fall as much as I expected. But your example of good conference teams vs. other conference bottom feeders benefits the ACC, too. NC State knocked off Pitt -- does the Big East have no business being in the top 10? Wake Forest knocked off Stanford -- does the Pac 10 have no business being in the top 10?
The ACC has 9 wins against other BCS conferences and Notre Dame, more than the Big 12 (4), Big Ten (5), Pac 10 (8). (The Big East has 9, the SEC has 10). Additionally, the ACC has played fewer games against the worst conferences, which helps their overall strength of schedule. The ACC played the most FCS teams (14), but those results are ignored. Still,
% of non-conf games played (including FCS) against BCS conferences or ND:
50.0% Pac 10
40.0% Big East
33.3% Big Ten
22.9% Big 12
I still think its worth examining whether FEI weights all this data appropriately or not, but the reasons for FEI's affinity for the ACC is in there.
1. The new FEI has knocked TCU down from #4 to #7. Why? SOS?
That, and they didn't dominate against a 1-win team as much as they should have.
It's really interesting to see the strength of the Pac-10 there. While there's only one team in the top10, there are 5 Pac-10 teams in the top 20. It really was a good year for Pac-10 teams.
Also interesting to see how good Oregon's offense and defense have been, and how bad their field position has been. Sigh. Short fields from turnovers on offense + bad returns on kicking this year. But that's better than the alternatives.
A few things...
*I don't think it's the end of the world for the ACC that GT and Clemson lost in relatively meaningless games last week. Both played hard considering that virtually nothing other than rivalry pride was at stake. No reason to have a peak performance the week before you REALLY NEED a peak performance in the ACC championship game. It would have spoke well of the two teams had they won. And, using "cellar dwellers" to describe bowl caliber SEC teams is a bit much. That was a very competitive league this year, with 8 of the 12 teams finishing 4-4 or 3-5 within the league. Next to last place was 3-5. Clemson and GT weren't losing to stiffs. They lost to rivalry foes with nothing to lose, while they themselves had nothing to gain.
*I think it's dangerous not counting FCS games in the mix when a team getting rated LOSES to an FCS team. That's a huge negative. I'm all for excluding the blowouts against the patsies. I think it would give a better read to include any losses to teams like Richmond or William & Mary though.
*It's true that the ACC won 9 games vs. the BCS and ND...but they lost 11 games, which becomes 12 if you make it ND and Navy (why exclude Navy if you're looking at independents...Navy beat ND on the road for goodness sake). If you include the Mountain West, that's a 1-2 record with FSU's win at BYU but the two losses to TCU. The defenses of the ACC in these discussions tend to cherrypick the positives. That's not in the spirit of science! (wouldn't it be cool if analysts could be called football scientists?)
Wake Forest beat Stanford, but lost to Baylor and Navy. NC State upset Pittsburgh, but lost at home to SC (and, I'm all for the Big East and the Big 10 not being allowed in the top ten until they win a big game in a BCS bowl! lol).
I could see Virginia Tech ranking 4th with a 9-3 record if the three losses were to Florida, Alabama, and Texas. That would make sense. One was to Alabama, but they got annihilated in the stats. The others were to Georgia Tech (outgained, down double digits twice in the fourth quarter, 2 of 8 on third downs, two picks in just 14 passes...vs. a GT defense that's not great this year), and North Carolina (outgained, only led 9 minutes out of 60 at home as a 14-point favorite).
Mentioned last week that Tech's only non-conference games vs. BCS conference teams were the poor result vs. Alabama, and the last second home win vs. Nebraska where they were outgained and fortunate to get a win. Don't they fit the profile of a 12-20 team rather than a top 5 team?
Are you thinking about tinkering with the program Brian? Or, are you just going to live with the frustration of what's been happening with the ACC this year and last. Gotta be some way to swirl things around a little...
"why exclude Navy if you're looking at independents...Navy beat ND on the road for goodness sake"
Can't read the man's mind, but I would think he's comparing records against BCS automatic qualifiers, which are the Big Six + Notre Dame.
First of all, good discussion. I appreciate the feedback, and it only helps clarify the process and ratings.
I'm not trying to cherry pick stats in blind defense of the ACC. I'm trying to identify the data that might best explain what's going on. And if the formula needs to be tweaked, tinkered with or swirled around, I'll definitely do so. But I'll need to consider not just 2008 and 2009, but every other year of data to see where the common issues might be.
One of the things you mentioned was for me to not overlook that yes, Wake beat Stanford, but lost to Baylor and Navy. Consider that 1-2 mark against Nos. 13, 41 and 88 teams. Then consider Kentucky going 3-0 out of conference against No. 86 Louisville, No. 106 Miami (OH), and No. 110 LA-Monroe. Both teams whipped an FCS opponent as well.
Is it cut and dry to say that Kentucky had a better non-conference season than Wake Forest? Not trying to put words in your mouth, but I think that would be a common default position: Kentucky's 7-5 and plays in the mighty SEC. Wake is 5-7 and plays in the weak ACC. Kentucky > Wake. Definitively true?
Developing and tweaking the formula requires careful consideration of these kinds of questions -- is 1-2 in close games against a decent schedule better or worse than 3-0 in blowouts against patsies? I'm not trying to say that FEI definitely has it right, but I'm not sure its all that far off, either.
Thanks! I took it to mean including quality independents with the BCS. Haven't thought of ND as a BCS qualifier for a few years. Have them linked with Navy in my mind because they're independents and ND lost to Navy at home the last two times. With Wake losing to Navy...struck me as odd that would be excluded in trying to figure out where the ACC stands overall. Makes sense in that light, if it's a standard evaluation thing to look at BCS+ND. Maybe it's time to include Navy give the recent form of the programs! Thanks again...
Enjoying the discussion too.
Not sure what you're driving at with Wake/Kentucky. FEI has Kentucky over Wake this week (44th to 45th), and FEI has Kentucky playing the tougher schedule (17th to 22nd). So...FEI gives Kentucky an edge for going 7-5 while playing conference games in the SEC, while Wake went 5-7 with conference games in the ACC.
Went to compare that to Sagarin at USA Today:
Kentucky: 37th in the nation (vs. the 36th strength of schedule)
Wake Forest: 59th in the nation (vs. the 21st strength of schedule).
So, as an outsider looking at the two systems from afar, you guys disagree about strength of schedule on one hand, but team quality on the other.
For me, I think the SEC is tougher than the ACC...and both teams went 3-5 in the league. So, I'd be a bit fonder of Kentucky. But...I watched some of the Louisville game on TV so I wouldn't be extremely fond (lol). Tough to rate the non-conference schedules. Truly apples and oranges in terms of toughness, particularly since Baylor had a healthy QB at the time and was much better then than their current rating. Can't say anyone's discovered the ideal way to determine how 3-0 vs. weaklings compares to 1-2 vs. toughlings.
For the season:
Wake Forest: 44th in total offense, 73rd in total defense
Kentucky: 91st in total offense, 60th in total defense
Wake has a better composite. If you assume tough schedules for both (and Kentucky had to play both Florida and Alabama), I think I'd see them as about even the way FEI does, and not nearly as far apart as Sagarin has them.
For now I'm at a loss as to why there's ACC inflation. I don't see when looking at the totality of their non-conference performance why they would be seen as superior to other conferences. Maybe we can start by trying to figure why Virginia Tech is 4th.
Lost to #1, getting utterly squashed in all the key stats
Lost to #9, without looking good in the process
Beat #10 impressively
Lost to #24 at home
Beat #32 impressively
Beat #33 at home on the last play of the game, losing stats
How would a methodology get #4 out of that? The offense ranks 56th in the nation in total offense and has little idea how to throw downfield. The other strengths are so overwhelming they get cranked up to #4? They were light years behind #1 on a neutral field. The impressive wins over 10 and 32 would have trouble trumping losses to 9-24-33 in a way that would crank things up to #4. They go ahead of the teams playing for their own conference title? They win the Pac 10?
Maybe that's a starting point we can use. Or North Carolina, being 6th in the final rankings last year and what was it, 11th last week before the NC State game? What's driving those finishes?
Gotta go blog about the NBA for an hour...be back in a bit...
The problem is that you could make a list of sketchy stats and questionable wins and losses for virtually every other team outside of the big 3 (and perhaps within the big 3 too). Tech's losses have been by a combined 18 points with 10 of those to the #2 team in the country. That's certainly respectable, even with the inexplicable loss to NC. It's not great by any means, but who really deserves it more?
And that's the crux of the problem. Who would you put in there instead of VT? TCU and VT share a common opponent in Virginia and VT had a better game. The only other comparison that can be made is through Clemson and Miami and that would seem to weigh in VT's favor as well. Cincinnati doesn't lend itself to comparisons to VT but looking at what Cincinnati did against a weaker schedule doesn't make me believe that Cincinnati is unquestionably better. And that goes all the way through basically #4 to #35 or so; I can not say that VT is really better than any of those teams but it is entirely possible that they are. This year is just a giant mesh of 3 dominant but slightly suspect powers and about 30 mediocre teams with glaring issues that get them into trouble at times but that they can generally overcome.
My impression is that while the FEI might need a little tweaking I wouldn't do it based on the results of this year because this year has been completely unpredictable and, frankly, kinda crappy overall. Yeah, it seems like there is a slight ACC bias but in a year where UTEP can score nearly as many points (58) as OkSt and TxTech combined did against Houston in their upset bid a mere week after the Miners gained 53 total yards against Texas I have to just throw up my hands and defer to a computer formula because I have no idea what I think I'm seeing on the field anymore.
Yup, can't disagree much with that Muldrake. A blob of teams that's hard to differentiate beneath the top 3. Maybe I should say that VT's stat performances are inconsistent with the profile of a team that ranks that high. Tough within that blob to say anybody's absolutely, positively far and away better than the others...and somebody's got to be #4.
I guess I'd say it this way. If you took the blob at 4-35 and had a round robin schedule against each other, I'm skeptical that Virginia Tech would win the league based on their performances vs. other teams in that blob, and based on how other teams in that blob did in total yardage against Alabama. Maybe I'm putting too much weight on the monster yardage deficit. I think the final score was very misleading compared to the actual flow of the game...so I believe it's dangerous to use that score or things that DON'T talk about yardage as a positive for VT.
Also, I caught a lot of VT vs. Alabama, Nebraska, GT, and NC on TV...and didn't see much of their other action (where they had dominant performances vs. lesser teams). That may be polluting my view. They don't strike me as a team that would win that blob, and FEI says they'd win it. The FEI says they'd win the Pac 10! They weren't demonstrably superior to Nebraska/GT/NC as a collective, and were arguably a little worse since 2 of the 3 were at home.
It is a tough year to evaluate. Agree with that completely. I don't think last week's ratings that had 5 ACC teams in the top dozen was accurately reflecting the season to that point. Some ACC teams helped the cause by posting poor results just in the nick of time.
Okay, let's look at this.
North Carolina last year...finishes 6th in FEI with a 7-5 record, and they didn't lose to the five teams in front of them (I always think of that poker joke...the guy was the 8th best 5-card stud player in the world, but he always sat at the same table as the top 7). That's not the case here. NC didn't go 7-5 with five losses to the teams in front of them. Yet, FEI still still had them 6th. North Carolina ranked 92nd in the nation in total offense, and 65th in total defense...but ranks 6th in FEI. Quite a conundrum.
Notable about NC in non-conference games last year
*Beat Rutgers despite getting outgained 383-278, with the help of an interception return TD (though they were very efficient otherwise too).
*Beat Connecticut despite getting outgained 378-263, with the help of a punt return TD and an interception return TD.
*Beat Notre Dame despite getting outgained 472-322, with the help of an interception return TD.
*Beat McNeese State in an unimpressive game that apparently isn't counted in FEI because that class of opponent isn't included. NC was outgained by McNeese (!) 391-384, but won with the help of a punt return TD.
Is it possible that the ACC last year, and to a lesser extent this year, had an unusually high number of non-offensive scores in non-league play? A pick six impacts both sides of the ball because the offense gets a TD without a possession (I'm guessing), and the defense forces an empty possession on an opponent.
Let's say the ACC has a knack for this against equal or lesser non-conference opponents (inspired by Beamer ball) who are more mistake-prone because it's early in the season...and it influences much of the conference out of league play. NC is getting defensive scores. Clemson is returning punts. VT is doing it all. That creates some very strong efficiencies in September, which keep multiplying themselves over when the ACC plays close games against each other during the season. They're playing close games with efficient teams, so the strength of schedules and efficiencies magnify each other in a way that makes the ACC favored (by FEI) in nine of their 10 bowl games even though they're only destined to go 4-6.
In the bowls, opponents are much sharper because they've played together all year and have had plenty of time to prepare. Those non-offensive points aren't as common (particularly against quality), so the ACC underachieves the perceptions created by September in non-conference action.
Maybe it's not about the wins and losses...it's about the impact non-offensive scores are having on how efficiency is measured in your model. I was struck that you remembered Virginia Tech having possession efficiency against Alabama, when I remembered the stat slaughter.
This year Virginia Tech is the anomoly.
*Tech had a kickoff return against Alabama
*Tech had a punt return TD vs. Marshall
*Tech only scored 16 points apiece on Nebraska and East Carolina though, so it's not like it carried through the whole way.
But, if other ACC teams had some easy points, then Tech would get boosted credit for beating them.
I don't know...just an idea. I'm thinking there may be something within possession efficiency that's the monkey wrench. Seems from a distance that ACC plays at a slower tempo than the other leagues (certainly last year) in terms of possessions per game. Is that true or a trick of my eyeball because I watched so many Big 12 shootouts? More non-offensive points in a league with fewer possessions might be one of the influences...particularly, as you pointed out, if the teams play a lot of close games against each other within the league.
So, we get:
*Beamer ball style influencing the league's approach to non-conference play
*Which exploits September opponents because they haven't had much practice in terms of efficiency even if nothing obvious jumps out in wins and losses.
*Which sets a high baseline in strength of schedule efficiency measures
*Which is followed by competitive games against each other
*But ends with kind of a bowl debacle where teams with higher FEI ratings in 9 of 10 matchups only go 4-6 straight up because late season opponents are less prone to high impact mistakes.
*Something similar happens this year, but not to the same degree
Possible? Or have I misunderstood how the pieces fit together? Not sure how else North Carolina could finish at 6th in the nation last year, or VT could register at fourth right now...
Actually, I think you're close to the mark on digging deep with the FEI process. I agree that North Carolina last season and Virginia Tech this season played strong in non-offensive possession efficiency (kick returns, blocked punts), and that that data is what jibes least with "standard" statistical results.
I've had it in my mind to run a variety of tests and isolate that part of possession efficiency to see if it is helping or harming both retrodictive and predictive FEI outputs. Its going to have to be an off-season project though.
On your premise that a 9-3 team should only be No. 4 if they played and lost to 1,2,and 3, however, I don't fully agree. A 9-3 team that played and lost to 1,2, and 3 in close games might actually have an argument for being No. 1 - it kind of depends on what each of the four teams did in their other games. Its also worth noting that Virginia Tech's rating is more valuable information than its ordinal ranking. "No. 4" might seem way too close to No. 1 for the way the Bama-VT went down. But the Hokies rating is closer to No. 19 Clemson than No. 1 Alabama, and I think that's instructive and shouldn't be overlooked.
Would be interested to see what happened if you took out non-offensive scores, or reduced their impact by half or something. That would probably end up hurting the Beamer-ball type approach and under-rating them though. Don't think Tech is as bad as 56th on total offense and 13th on total defense would suggest. But, I don't think adding in their non-offensive points would lift them to fourth best...unless they can arrange to definitely get those in all of their biggest games (yes vs. Alabama and Miami this year, no in Nebraska/GT/NC).
Hokies are closer to #19 than #1 Alabama...but they're only .003 behind Texas for #3. Texas is a 14-point neutral field favorite over Nebraska. VT was -6 at home (-3 neutral equivalent), and barely won the game on a last second play.
And, we can save "why is Alabama higher than Florida (-5)" for another day (lol). Glad there are so many good games to look forward to this week.


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Chicago Tribune reporter Jason Meisner on the recent arrest of Kenneth Conley, a convicted bank robber who escaped from federal jail in December. (Posted on: Jan. 4, 2013.)
The second inmate who made a daring escape last month from a high-rise federal jail in the South Loop was captured today in south suburban Palos Hills, according to FBI officials.
Kenneth Conley, a convicted bank robber, was awaiting sentencing when he and cellmate Joseph "Jose" Banks scaled about 15 floors down the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Dec. 18 with a rope fashioned from bedsheets.
FBI Spokeswoman Joan Hyde said Conley was apprehended at an apartment complex at about 4 p.m. by Palos Hills police.
Palos Hills Police Deputy Chief James Boie said officers apprehended Conley with the help of two maintenance men working at an apartment complex in the 10200 block of South 86th Terrace, who called police at about 3:30 p.m. to report a "suspicious person.''
In 2004, Conley used to live on another street of the Scenic Tree complex where police were initially called, Boie said.
At least two officers who had been checking out the complaint were talking with the building maintenance workers in the basement of the building on 86th Terrace but did not find Conley.
As they were leaving, they saw their lieutenant outside on the street about a half a block away, involved in a dispute with Conley, who'd been walking eastbound, Boie said.
Conley was dressed in an overcoat, pretending to use a cane and was wearing glasses. He had a dark hat pulled down low over his head and appeared to be trying to look older than he actually was, Boie said.
"Our officers stopped to talk to him and he said he was just visiting," Boie said. "He gave them a phony name, and while they're trying to run the information, he got wise that they were going to figure it out and he pushed one of the officers down and took off running."
Before fleeing, Conley slugged the lieutenant, a 30-year department veteran, and the lieutenant had injuries including a possible torn hamstring. Boie said the lieutenant was taken to Palos Community Hospital for treatment.
Boie said two additional officers responding to the scene caught the man -- later identified as Conley -- about a block away as he was trying to force his way into an apartment at the complex.
He was wrestled down but did not offer any other resistance. Conley was also taken to Palos Community Hospital for observation, according to Boie.
When police were called about the suspicious person, the lieutenant, a sergeant and an officer initially went to check it out, said police Chief Paul J. Madigan.
When Conley could not provide identification the struggle broke out, with Conley taking a swing at one of the officers before fleeing into one of the buildings, Madigan said.
Conley was finally apprehended when he tried to break into someone's apartment, Madigan said.
Conley told police he injured his arm during the struggle. He remains in the custody of federal authorities, Madigan said.
The multi-unit complex is made up of clusters of 2-story, brick buildings, with a wooded area behind it.
Police found a BB pistol in Conley's pocket. He had no money, ID or other weapons, Boie said.
Boie said that U.S. Marshals had been in the area days earlier after getting a tip that Conley had knocked on the door of a former acquaintance.
Boie said Conley was known to the police because he'd had multiple resisting and obstructing arrests in 2004. Even still, they were surprised when they realized who they'd just arrested.
"I'm sure they were a little surprised that they had the guy standing in front of them,'' Boie said.
As far as what happens next, Boie said it was not up to their department.
"It's been turned over to the FBI and I'm sure the next move is theirs,'' Boie said.
Boie said Conley was charged with two misdemeanor counts of battery and resisting arrest for today's incident.
Conley's mother, Sandra, answered the phone at her Tinley Park home this evening and said she had heard of her son's arrest but had no details or comment.
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The NSA's social media snooping
In testimony this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the director of the National Security Agency assured lawmakers that the agency does not secretly monitor Americans on social media.
The remarks by Gen. Keith Alexander contradicted a report published Saturday that revealed that, since 2010, NSA has secretly created "sophisticated graphs of some Americans' social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information."
Though Gen. Alexander insists the Times report was "inaccurate and wrong," we find the paper's report more persuasive. Not the least because it directly quoted an NSA memorandum, dated January 2011, which said the general's agency was authorized to conduct "large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata" on persons of interest. That metadata includes Facebook profiles.
Gen. Alexander confirmed that his agency collects data from social networks as part of building dossiers on foreign terror suspects. But he denies that the NSA maintains files on Americans.
But, again, there's the January 2011 NSA memo, which stated that the large-scale graph analysis was authorized "without having to check foreigness" of persons being monitored.
That authorization effectively allowed NSA analysis of "enrichment" data on American citizens that previously had been permitted only in the cases of foreign nationals.
Meanwhile, Gen. Alexander also acknowledged this week that, in 2010-11, NSA tested whether it could track Americans' cellphone locations. "This may be something that is a future requirement for the country," he said. "But it is not right now."
Well, the American people are to be forgiven if they found Gen. Alexander's congressional testimony troubling.
While the NSA may not be secretly monitoring each and every American on social media, it is, indeed, monitoring some unspecified number, some of whom may be directly linked to terrorists, and many of which, we suspect, may not.
And while the NSA doesn't currently use the capability to track Americans by their cellphones, the general hints that such secret surveillance may soon become part of the agency's standard operating procedure.
Congress currently is considering changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. At the very least, we believe, it should include stronger protection of privacy rights so that the NSA doesn't have license to monitor innocent Americans on social media and follow their movements by tracking their phones.
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this week USF plays host to all kinds of interesting and exciting events. here are some:
monday, november 17th at 7:15 pm
come see filmmaker and activist kevin epps discuss and show clips from his film straight outta hunters point. this event takes place in lone mountain 100, is sponsored by pedro arrupe hall, and is hosted by USF student and filmmaker kevin kunze. for more info, see the facebook page. free.
tuesday, november 18th at 7 pm
why did san francisco get rid of nearly all of its graveyards and how did they do it? learn how and why by attending an outdoor screening of trina lopez's film a second final rest: the history of san francisco's lost cemeteries. this is, i think, the first event taking place in kalmanavitz hall's nearly completed outdoor amphitheater! the outdoor screening is sponsored by the thacher gallery, film studies, and media studies. free.
thursday, november 20th at 5 pm
do you ever wonder what a sustainable society would look like? author ernest callenbach offers one vision in ecotopia, published in 1975 and frighteningly and inspiringly relevant today. callenbach's talk is part of, i believe, professor steve zavestoski's global environments/societies class and takes place in lone mountain 100. free.
Monday, November 17, 2008
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If you missed the Trina Lopez film, we have it at Gleeson Library.
I wish I'd read this sooner, sorry to have missed Callenbach. - 4:52 PM, January 16, 2009
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The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), in the case of Cox v Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS), has upheld a decision that even though Mr Cox told his employer that he was suffering from bipolar disorder, because ECFRS asked for a definitive doctor's diagnosis, which Mr Cox withheld, ECFRS was not reasonably expected to know (from a legal perspective) that Mr Cox was disabled.
As a result, ECFRS did not have to make any reasonable disability adjustments for Mr Cox and his claims for disability discrimination, as well as unfair and wrongful dismissal, failed. An employer is only under a legal duty to make reasonable adjustments for an employee if it either knows or can be reasonably expected to know of the disability in question. Previous cases have shown that this threshold would be met when an employer receives a doctor's report about the disability.
In this case, Mr Cox told ECFRS in a pre-medical questionnaire that he was taking antidepressants for mild depression, but had answered 'no' to the question 'do you have any health condition or disability that affects your ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities?' …
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The changing structural chemistry of lithium anilide on solvation by pyridine, 4-methylpyridine or 4-tert-butylpyridine
Clegg, W and Horsburgh, L and Liddle, S T and Mackenzie, F M and Mulvey, Robert and Robertson, A (2000) The changing structural chemistry of lithium anilide on solvation by pyridine, 4-methylpyridine or 4-tert-butylpyridine. Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 7. pp. 1225-1231. ISSN 0300-9246
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A family of crystalline lithium anilide solvates, [{PhN(H)Li .(pyr)(2)}(2)] 1, [{PhN(H)Li .(4-Me-pyr)(2)}(2)] 2 and [{PhN(H)Li}(4).(4-Bu-t-pyr)(6)] 3 has been synthesised by reacting the aromatic primary amide with two molar equivalents of the appropriate pyridine-based solvent (pyridine, 4-methylpyridine and 4-tert-butylpyridine, respectively) in hexane-toluene solution. X-Ray crystallographic studies have revealed three contrasting structures: 1 adopts a dinuclear, dimeric [(anilido)N-Li](2) ring arrangement with a transoid (anti) conformation of amido substituents; 2 adopts a similar arrangement but with a cisoid (syn) conformation of amido substituents; and 3 adopts a novel tetranuclear arrangement with a central [(anilido)N-Li](2) transoid ring, separating two mixed ligand [(anilido)N-Li-(pyr)N-Li] rings, made possible by the unusual mu-bonding of a 4-tert-butylpyridine ligand. A combination of H-1, Li-7 and C-13 NMR spectroscopic studies at 300 K suggests similar environments exist for corresponding atoms in [H-2(8)]-toluene solutions of 1, 2 or 3. Further examination of the solution of 3 over the temperature window (300-193 K) has detected a fluxional structure involving the intramolecular exchange of two distinct types of anilido ligand, consistent with those present in the molecular structure of crystalline 3.
Item type: | Article |
ID code: | 38358 |
Keywords: | amide ladder structures, crystal structures, adducts, dimers, Chemistry |
Subjects: | Science > Chemistry |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 09 Mar 2012 13:46 |
Last modified: | 22 Mar 2017 12:02 |
URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/38358 |
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