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JOEL SIDER: Hi, everybody. Thanks for joining us. I'm Joel Sider. I'm a public relations manager here in Server & Tools. We're going to go ahead and get started.
We're here today to talk to you about several new Microsoft products and services, all of which demonstrate progress against Microsoft's Cloud OS vision.
Corporate vice president of Server & Tools Marketing Michael Park is going to lead off with a brief overview of the Cloud OS, and then our general manager Mike Schutz here in Server & Tools will talk through the new offerings and how they fit into the Cloud OS story for customers and partners.
And we're very fortunate to have with us Alan Bourassa, CIO of EmpireCLS, and Jess Coburn, CEO of hosting service provider Applied Innovations. You'll hear from them about how they're using Microsoft technologies in their businesses.
There will be an opportunity for Q&A, for question and answer, with the Lync messaging functionality at the end of the call.
Our press release, Michael's blog post, and links to additional resources are all available on Microsoft.com/newscenter.
We do ask that you keep your phone muted until the end.
So I think with that, we can get started with Michael Park.
MICHAEL PARK: Thanks, Joel.
Good morning, everyone. I want to thank you again for joining us for this announcement today.
You likely have heard us talk about the Cloud OS over the past few months behind the Windows Server 2012 launch that we did in September, and I think it's useful that we set the stage today to clarify and define what we're seeking to accomplish with our strategy for commercial IT as a whole.
At Microsoft we've built a very successful franchise on the concept of an OS. At its core, an operating system manages hardware drivers and provides an application platform for PCs, and we've been very successful in that domain in the past.
We think that the OS will play a much more important role in the era of the cloud, moving beyond PCs to an OS that can manage the underlying infrastructure and application platform across public clouds, private clouds, and hosting service provider clouds.
Our vision is to create and provide customers with one consistent platform for infrastructure, applications and data, spanning customer datacenters, hosting service provider datacenters and the Microsoft public cloud.
And the Cloud OS is what drives our product strategy and road map to help our customers embrace the transformational trends in IT that we're all familiar with, such as various cloud computing models, the consumerization of IT, the new generation of connected applications and big data.
So, more specifically, what does Cloud OS mean for IT organizations? IT organizations are going to be able to deliver and manage powerful modern applications that can help IT meet the demands of business in terms of speed, cost-effectiveness and flexibility of these applications.
They'll be able to give employees personalized experiences with apps and data on virtually any device by tackling the consumerization of IT and bring your own devices with what we call people-centric IT.
Further, it means that IT will manage data, both structured and unstructured, in a way that can help end users unlock insights with greater ease and end-user adoption than ever before.
It also means that IT can shift to more efficiently managing their datacenter resources across not just the servers but across networking, storage and compute, all as a singular resource pool instead of the quagmire of complexity that many of them live in today.
And furthermore, this extends beyond just the private cloud, their own datacenter resources, but out to the partner and the public clouds with a modern hybrid IT infrastructure.
So Microsoft's approach to this Cloud OS is unique, and it starts with our core platforms, Windows Server and Windows Azure, working together as a consistent platform across the three datacenters we've been talking about, with a consistent set of capabilities designed to make it easier for IT and developers to do their jobs.
You know, specifically, we're talking about differentiation in five key areas. One is to deliver flexible application development tools and languages, not just .NET but also open source in this world of heterogeneous application development.
Second is a single user identity across clouds through Active Directory and Windows Azure Active Directory.
Third is our unified management with System Center for a single control plane to manage IT resources across private, hosted and public clouds.
The fourth area is integrated virtualization built into Windows Server to virtualize not just the servers but also the network, storage and applications with portability across the different clouds.
And last but not least, a data platform powered by SQL to power mission-critical business applications and give end users BI solutions with a wide range of tools ranging from Excel all the way out through Hadoop.
These consistent five capabilities are what make the Microsoft approach to the Cloud OS unique.
Our knowledge is deeply informed by two vantage points. No. 1 is that we've got firsthand knowledge running over 200 cloud services for a billion plus customers and over 20 million businesses around the world from our own datacenters around the world. And second, we've also learned a lot from our customers by running more than 75 percent of the world's servers on-premises that support commercial IT infrastructure today.
We take all the learning from these services and servers into how we think about delivering the Cloud OS -- Windows Server and Windows Azure and beyond to SQL Server, System Center and Visual Studio, all of which customers and partners can then use to deliver cloud infrastructure and services of their own.
For example, Windows Server 2012 delivers capabilities taken from our public cloud datacenters, things like cluster-aware updates for lower downtime, the use of industry standard storage for resilient failover and support for multitenant, high-density websites. It's pretty cool stuff, and it's stuff that we're learning as we do in sharing that learning in the products we develop.
It's a virtuous cycle of development and an important reason why customers can really bet on Microsoft in the cloud era. Our breadth of experience across private, public and hybrid cloud is unmatched, whereas other vendors are tending to specialize in one or another area.
JOEL SIDER: Thanks, Michael.
So with that, we'd like to go ahead and bring in Mike Schutz into the conversation. As I said, Mike is a general manager here in Server & Tools for product marketing. He's going to talk about the new products and services and how they fit into the Cloud OS, including customer datacenters, the role hosting service providers play and also managing the consumerization of IT.
MIKE SCHUTZ: Thanks, Joel.
Welcome, everybody, and thank you for joining us.
Michael talked about one of the core tenets of the Cloud OS, which is helping customers on their own path to transform their datacenters.
By that we mean shifting from managing individual servers with CPUs, disk drives and network adapters to really managing and deploying their datacenter resources as a whole. It's about managing storage, network and compute holistically as a singular cloud infrastructure, and even extending their datacenters to hosted and public clouds, all with the scale and availability that they need to build and deploy applications to respond to the needs of their unique businesses.
As you know, we delivered Windows Server 2012 and released it last September. Windows Server 2012 represents the foundation of these capabilities, delivering hundreds of new advancements and enhancements in virtualization, in storage, in networking, as well as automation.
Windows Server 2012, as Michael pointed out, is a prime example of how we're bringing our public cloud lessons and investments to our products that our customers and partners deploy in their own datacenters.
Some examples of that are things that we learned around deploying multitenant services in our public cloud and to deliver network virtualization, which represents the foundation for software defined networking, updating a cluster of servers of up to 64 hosts and 8,000 virtual machines without having any service downtime, and so doing that with cluster level updating, as well as leveraging innovations and storage to deliver high-scale resilient storage to power the cloud infrastructure on industry standard hardware.
The customer response and industry response to Windows Server 2012 has just been incredible. For example, a recent Enterprise Strategy Group survey found that 90 percent, nine out of 10 customers, plan to deploy Windows Server 2012 in the next two years. We're really excited by the response we're hearing from our customers and partners around Windows Server 2012.
And now we're announcing the release of System Center 2012 SP1, service pack one. This is an update to System Center 2012 that brings the full range of System Center management capabilities that our customers have grown to know and love to Windows Server 2012 for private and hybrid clouds.
Things like multitenancy, storage virtualization, network virtualization, which provides the foundation for software-defined networking, and all of the great capabilities that Windows Server delivers are now brought to bear with System Center 2012 SP1, including the support for non-Windows operating systems and multi-hypervisor environments, so customers can leverage their existing infrastructure investments and still take advantage of all of the new capabilities that have been delivered.
System Center is a true hybrid cloud management solution. It provides a single tool to manage cloud-based applications and resources, whether they're running in our customers' datacenter, a hosted service provider's datacenter or in a Microsoft datacenter with Windows Azure.
Customers can use System Center to move virtual machines to Windows Azure and manage them within the System Center console that they use today.
They can also use System Center 2012 SP1 to backup servers to Windows Azure in a hybrid environment to protect against data loss and corruption.
Additionally, System Center 2012 SP1 includes support for a new Windows Azure-based service that we're announcing today called Global Service Monitor or GSM. GSM is a companion service, if you will, to System Center 2012 SP1 that helps customers monitor and boost the performance of Web applications.
GSM extends the application monitoring capabilities that are already in System Center 2012 SP1 with the Operations Manager component, and it uses Windows Azure locations around the globe to give customers a real true reflection of the end-user experience that users will have with the Web applications.
GSM is now available for trial, and we'll make that more broadly available in March.
JOEL SIDER: Thanks, Mike. So at this point, we're going to bring in Alan Bourassa. He's the CIO of EmpireCLS. He's going to tell us a little bit about how he's using Microsoft technologies, particularly Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1, to really transform his company's IT operations and the business overall. Welcome, Alan.
ALAN BOURASSA: Thank you. Thanks and good morning, everyone.
I'm Alan Bourassa, the CIO of EmpireCLS, and we are the second largest ground transport --
JOEL SIDER: Alan, I think we may have lost you for a minute. Are you there?
ALAN BOURASSA: Hello.
JOEL SIDER: Yes. I think we can hear you now, Alan. Go ahead.
ALAN BOURASSA: OK. I don't know where I left off.
We're the second largest ground transportation company in the world, and we operate in more than 650 cities worldwide. And we maintain three world-class datacenters worldwide. We actually just finished up doing the Golden Globes this past weekend.
Over the last several years, we have been transforming our business from just a luxury ground transportation company to a world-class hosting provider, targeting and specializing specifically in the ground transportation industry segment.
We now offer software as a service for our proprietary dispatch and reservation systems that we build and infrastructure as a service to those companies specializing in the ground transportation industry.
We took an existing software asset from our company and developed it and used it in a business model with our intellectual property and capital to make a public cloud offering and to build on that model for our cloud services to maximize our original software investment.
Today, more than 90 percent of our workloads are virtualized, and either run on our private, public cloud offering or on the Microsoft Azure platform.
We have also virtualized our entire mobile workforce and internal desktops are all provisioned and operate with cloud services.
With this, we've reduced our desktop problem resolution case by more than 75 percent; we've reduced our carbon footprint by more than 50 percent; we actually provide a carbon footprint to all of our customers to be as green as possible, which also helps us reduce our electrical costs and operating costs.
Empire has consolidated its datacenter footprint by more than 50 percent through HP server offerings, combined with Microsoft's strong virtualized performance improvements and coupled with the announcement today of System Center 2012 SP1 management platform in this release today.
So how has Empire been able to do this while maintaining and lowering our costs?
The answer for us was clearly System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012, and probably to use an overrated term, you know, the story is better together. We have been a Microsoft customer for the last several years, and before that we were a total UNIX shop. And now with the release today of System Center 2012 SP1, coupled with Windows Server 2012 features and functionality, we have now been able to transform our company from just a luxury ground transportation company to a world-class public cloud hosting provider.
We actually expect over the next several years that more than 50 percent of our total revenue is going to come from this new business transformation and venture.
Without Microsoft's total cloud vision and solution, we'd never have been able to have accomplished this. This has allowed us to expand our business model and to becoming a public hosting provider in the cloud while maintaining and controlling our costs with the use, you know, again of the System Center 2012 SP1 suite of products. And there are many in this suite, and I'll mention a few that have actually had a major impact on our business in relation to resiliency and our cloud offerings that have allowed us to expand our business and increase and maximize our revenues significantly.
So some of those examples are we're using in the suite Virtual Machine Manager, which is the Hypervisor 3 environment, to basically manage for us hundreds of hypervisor workloads through one pane of glass. You know, the saying now in our company is we don't build servers anymore; we build hypervisors and we build private and public clouds. This translates into many hypervisors and many clouds seen as one. It's all about simplicity of management. All of this is seen as one view into many hypervisors and workloads. This keeps our cost down, but we've actually been able to add more than 550 transportation vendors over the last year to this platform, again without increasing costs.
We're also using Data Protection Manager for all of our backup and recovery protection in this suite in both our private and public cloud and using Windows Azure backup services to augment and protect our data in the public Microsoft cloud offering.
And we're using System Center Operations Manager to alert us to any issues in our private, public and Microsoft Azure cloud platform services before the users or customers see any changes even in the environment. This has allowed us to maintain an uptime of seven 9s, which until now has been unheard of in the industry.
We're using System Center Service Manager for our user community and customers to submit tickets for new services, which then get provisioned automatically through System Center Orchestrator to reporting issues about services they need to help.
So clearly it's a whole suite of products, and I've only touched on a few. You know, with Microsoft's Hypervisor 3 and Windows Server 2012, we've moved even our communication platform of traditional PBX systems to Lync 2013 that now handles our voice, video and IM communications all 100 percent virtualized and in the cloud. We really only dreamed of doing this before; now it's a reality.
And with Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 we're also virtualizing workloads like SQL Server 2012 in a cloud virtualized environment. I personally would have never dreamed of virtualizing this type of workload before either. In fact, I was a staunch opponent for a long time of a SQL workload being virtualized. That dream has now come true with the new releases that you're hearing about today, and the release recently of Windows Server 2012.
Now, as evidence to support this, we now have more than 550 customers and vendors on our combined private, public and Microsoft Azure cloud services offering, and it's generating additional revenues for our company that were not possible before.
Microsoft has been able to make the cloud environment more robust while making the management of these complex environments simpler for the IT staff members to manage.
So you might ask at this point, you know, why did EmpireCLS pick Microsoft? We, of course, in our evaluation of platforms looked at many vendors. One that you will always compare against typically when you're talking about hypervisors is VMware. But in the final analysis though, VMware was a hypervisor virtualization play only and didn't have the depth and breadth of a total solution for cloud services end-to-end that all companies need. Microsoft from my point of view is clearly the innovator and thought leader in the total cloud sol, and clearly the thought leader and visionary for businesses that want and need total cloud services solutions.
Now, examples of this are that we are seamlessly moving virtualized workloads between our private, our public and Microsoft Azure cloud services offerings seamlessly. It's simple and it's through one pane of glass. It can't get simpler than that.
Of course, the discussion would not be complete also without mentioning some of the features that are enabling us or being enablers to be more competitive and help us transform our business model into a hosting provider offering. So I'll get a little technical. We're using some of the new features like software-defined networking that's been unheard of in the industry, and we're starting to embrace that, extensible network software switches, hypervisor replicas to maintain uptime and availability across datacenters, live storage and live virtual machine migration on shared nothing -- unheard of, virtual fiber switches, scale-out file servers, and software network isolation for our tenants, just to mention a few of the hundreds of new features and functionalities introduced today.
So for us, for EmpireCLS, so all in all, Microsoft is and will continue in our view to be the thought leader and visionary in the complete cloud services offering space, and EmpireCLS actually bet on Microsoft cloud technology end-to-end several years ago, and it was the best bet we ever made. We couldn't be happier being a customer, and more so treated by them as a partner in helping us to grow actually our business through their complete and strong cloud services offering, and the primary thought leader and visionary for the cloud transformation that is going to continue to revolutionize and commoditize the cloud services industry.
I want to thank Microsoft and thank everyone for listening today. Thank you.
JOEL SIDER: Thanks so much, Alan.
So we're going to take it back to Mike Schutz now. He's going to talk about hosting service providers in the Cloud OS, building on what Alan talked about, and we have some news in that area as well.
It really is inspiring to be able to work with customers like Alan and EmpireCLS, and watch how some of the technologies and products that we work on can play some small part in the business transformation.
So speaking of business transformation, we're seeing a huge shift to cloud computing, as well as how hosting service providers play a really key role in that.
And as I mentioned earlier, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 enable hybrid IT across private, hosted, as well as public cloud.
Hosted service providers are a really key role in our Cloud OS strategy and help customers transform their datacenters. So, in that vein, they're a really important third cloud that Michael outlined earlier with respect to Cloud OS.
We already have an enormous ecosystem of hosting service providers that can participate in the Cloud OS. Over 14,000 use Windows Server today, over 8,500 use SQL Server, and over 5,500 use Exchange, and the list goes on.
So, for example, System Center 2012 SP1 delivers an API that we call Service Provider Foundation that hosting providers can use that helps integrate with a customer's on-premises datacenter solution and connects their service portals with customer management console. This is a great capability for enterprise customers because it gives them the datacenter elasticity where they can integrate a service provider's cloud capacity and management directly into their datacenter operations. This provides them more infrastructure scale.
It's also great for hosting service providers because of what they can offer to clients and how they can grow their businesses by acting as a seamless extension to a customer's datacenter.
So, with our solution, the story gets even better for hosting partners today with what we call Windows Azure Services on Windows Server. We initially previewed these capabilities last summer in Toronto, Canada, at the Worldwide Partner Conference, and now they're generally available.
These are high-scale websites and virtual machine hosting capabilities that we originally built for Windows Azure, and we're now taking those and making them available to our hosting service providers to run on their own Windows Server 2012 and System Center infrastructure.
These are specifically designed for easy incorporation into a service provider's existing services so that they can use them to differentiate their offerings and customize them without a lot of heavy lifting.
The Windows Azure services on Windows Server are a great example of the virtuous cycle of development that Michael spoke about earlier where we bring our learnings and investments in the public cloud and apply them to our products for customers and partners to deploy in their own datacenters and fulfill part of that three cloud vision that the Cloud OS is based on.
We're really excited about the opportunities that we have together with our hosting service providers, and the announcements today provide a big step forward in that model.
JOEL SIDER: Great. Yeah, again that was Mike Schutz, general manager here in Server & Tools at Microsoft.
With that, let's bring Jess in from Applied Innovations. Jess, tell us about Applied Innovations. Tell us how you're using Windows Server and System Center and the new technologies that Mike talked about.
Jess, have we got you there?
Bear with us.
JESS COBURN: I guess had myself muted. I apologize for that.
JOEL SIDER: Hey, no worries, appreciate it.
JESS COBURN: I am a technologist, believe it or not.
So Applied Innovations is a 14-year old Web hosting company based down here in Boca Raton, Florida. Traditionally, we've catered to developers, designers and agencies, and predominantly within the U.S. Today, we power more than 35,000 domains for 10,000 customers, and we operate over 2,500 server instances with 90 percent of that running on top of Hyper-V.
Back in 2009, we were one of the first hosts globally to launch Hyper-V and System Center, and at that time we really opted for Hyper-V because of the economics.
Back in 2009, there were really only two choices for us. So it was Hyper-V or it was VMware. And when looking at the two we looked at Hyper-V, and we went in that direction because, one, it was the overall cost, but more important than that was the fact that we could take our Windows Server admins, leverage their experience and expertise, and deliver this new offering with little pain to ourselves. And so that's the direction we went.
Now, fast forward to today, and it's four years later, and we're still deployed on top of Hyper-V.
And there's a wealth of different solutions out there for us from open source solutions like OpenStack all the way up to our friends at VMware, and we're still focused on Hyper-V. And the reason for that is really that it's this notion of one consistent platform and a Cloud OS, and that's what's kept us there, and we're really excited to see that come forward.
So with System Center 2012 SP1 and the new technology there it's really going to help our business. You know, the cloud is redefining our business and our industry. And when in the past we saw that we were deploying these Web workloads, and that's been a major focus of our business, now that we've started deploying cloud we're starting to see what our customers host transition from Web to more of enterprise-type workloads.
Last year, we acquired another company, and that company focused exclusively on building a channel business of partners that delivered managed services to small and medium businesses. And they're one of those businesses that deployed these enterprise IT workloads that were traditionally on-prem.
In the last three months, we've seen that business grow by 25 percent, and I believe by delivering more services that are exposed in Hyper-V and System Center we'll be able to grow that further.
So SP1 brings some of these new services to us, right? There's the ability to leverage Hyper-V Replica and offer disaster recovery services. There's network virtualization and allowing these customers to move workloads to and from the cloud seamlessly. And then there's the service provider foundation in SP1 that allows our customers to manage all their services directly within System Center.
Now they'll be able to leverage the same System Center tools they use today on-prem to manage their on-prem infrastructure and also manage their cloud hosted with us or with Azure from that one pane of glass. So, in one pane of glass, they'll be able to manage all their infrastructure, and for our managed Web business that's really key.
But there's also our shared hosting business, and over the last 14 years shared hosting really hasn't changed much. But when Microsoft announced Windows Azure services for Windows Server, that's really a big change in shared hosting. You know, Microsoft's taken a lot of their learnings from Azure and making it available to their partners. And because of this new service, we'll be able to stand up an elastically scalable cloud hosting environment that will allow our shared hosting customers to get that same benefit of the cloud that previously was only available to our managed cloud customers, and for us that's really exciting.
So I think it's pretty safe to say that the cloud has really changed our industry and changed our business, and by Microsoft taking the approach that this isn't just an OS but a Cloud OS and this one consistent platform, they're really changing it in a way that we're able to leverage it and build successful solutions to our partners and our customers in a way that's easy to understand and easy to deploy, and at the end of the day everybody wins.
JOEL SIDER: Jess, thanks so much.
So we're going to go back to Mike now to cover the kind of last part of the news and story today.
And again, as the last part of the announcement, we really want to focus on some of the trends that Michael Park mentioned earlier around the undeniable number of connected devices, the consumerization of IT and the bring-your-own-device trends that we're seeing in the market.
We all know this is a huge shift for IT organizations and brings with it a whole host of new challenges as end users bring new types of devices into the workplace and would like to work from those devices.
A core part of our Cloud OS vision is to help IT do what we talk about as a people-centric approach to these trends. What this means is we'd like to put the user first by delivering personalized experiences that give employees the productivity they need and have come to expect on the devices that they choose.
System Center 2012 SP1 plays a key role here of providing consistent management of not just the datacenter resources that I talked about previously but also PCs and devices that are used by employees across the company.
System Center 2012 SP1 and the new Windows Intune cloud-based service that's now available provide a unified PC and mobile device management solution. It's a comprehensive approach that lets IT use one management solution to provide users with access to corporate resources on the devices that they choose, and therefore represents a win for both users as well as IT. This solution provides management and software distribution with enterprise scale of up to 100,000 devices.
Windows Intune is now offered in 87 countries around the world, representing the majority of the world's population.
This combination of Windows Intune and System Center is really ideal for helping IT secure and manage the new generation of powerful Windows 8 PCs, Windows RT tablets, Windows Phone 8 smartphones, as well as all the diverse other platforms in today's modern enterprise, including Android and iOS. So this is a really exciting announcement for us to help bring together the management of PCs and devices to help IT and end users at the same time.
JOEL SIDER: Great. Thanks again, Mike.
So that really brings an end to the overview of the presentation and news. We'll open it up for Q&A. If you do have questions, you're welcome to communicate that through the instant messaging functionality on Lync.
As I mentioned at the top of the call, there is a press release, along with a blog post by Michael Park about the Cloud OS, and links to a whole set of other information. All that is on Microsoft.com/newscenter. You can also email questions to our PR team at email@example.com.
So we're getting a question from Timothy Prigget-Morgan (ph) asking about the release notes for System Center SP1, as well as Windows Azure services for Windows Server.
The best place to start is Microsoft.com/systemcenter, which will take you to the more detailed documentation if you're interested in that.
There's also a more detailed blog post on what's called the server cloud blog. If you go to the News Center site, you'll find links to all of this.
Well, good. So I think we'll go ahead and wrap up. Again, please let us know your questions, take a look at the information up on News Center, and with that we'll go ahead and close today's call. Really appreciate everyone tuning in.
Press Releases:
Microsoft Advances the Cloud OS With New Management Solutions - Jan. 15, 2013
Blog Posts:
What Is the Cloud OS? - Jan. 15, 2013
The Cloud OS: New Solutions Available Today Advance Microsoft's Vision - Jan. 15, 2013
Transform Your Datacenter With System Center 2012 SP1 - Jan. 15, 2013
Delivering Unified Device Management With Windows Intune and System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 - Jan. 15, 2013
Modern Lifecycle on the Cloud OS - Jan. 15, 2013
Microsoft Resources:
Cloud Computing Newsroom
Servers & Infrastructure Newsroom


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Women's Basketball
Spartans Travel to Minnesota for Monday Night Showdown
Feb. 1, 2009
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Date: Monday, Feb. 2
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Statistically Savvy (Big Ten Edition)
Junior Allyssa DeHaan is second in the Big Ten in blocks with 3.14, and also sixth with a 47.3 field goal percentage. Also in the conference's top-10 is redshirt freshman Lykendra Johnson (sixth in free throw percentage - 78.9%) and sophomore Kalisha Keane (sixth with 1.95 steals per game).
Stepping It Up in Conference Play
As a team, MSU leads in field goal percentage defense (35.5%), 3-point field goal percentage defense (25.4%), rebound margin (+7.4), rebounds (42.3) and offensive rebounds (15.50).
Statistically Savvy (NCAA Edition)
Individually, junior Allyssa DeHaan is tied for sixth in the country in blocked shots with 3.2 per game.
Keys to MSU Success
Keeping Them Under 60
Spartans' Dynamic Duo
DeHaan's scoring has shown to be a deciding factor in most Spartan games. When she reaches double-digits, Michigan State is 13-0 this season and are 49-14 in her career. Also, when she leads the team in scoring, MSU is 31-4, including a 8-0 record this season. Meanwhile, MSU is 27-11 when Jefferson tallies double-figures, including a 8-4 mark in 2008-09.
Crashing the Glass
By contrast, the Spartans have allowed only 12.9 offensive rebounds per game and have allowed the opposition to grab only 31.4% of their possible offensive rebounds.
Holding Down the Opposition (First Half Edition)
MSU allowed only 12 points in the first half against Delaware State on Dec. 18 and 13 points to Detroit on Nov. 19. The 12 points against the Lady Hornets tied the previous school record for a first half, set on Jan. 16, 2003 against Indiana.
Welcome Back
Limiting the Mistakes
Road Warriors
Success in the Classroom
Defense in the Post...
...And on the Arc
Spartan Efficiency Per 40 Minutes
Jefferson is third in scoring averaging 20.2 points per 40 minutes (trailing only Ohio State's Jantel Lavender - 25.5 and Penn State's Tyra Grant - 23.7). Also, classmate Lauren Aitch is fifth at 18.6 and DeHaan is eighth at 18.0. In regard to rebounding, redshirt freshman Lykendra Johnson is third with 11.5 boards per 40 minutes (behind the Ohio State duo of Lavender - 13.1 and Star Allen - 12.4), while DeHaan is eighth (11.0) and Aitch is 13th (10.2).
In conference games, DeHaan's production per 40 minutes has increased to 19.5 points and 10.9 rebounds.
Taking Advantage of Freebies
During the six-game winning streak, the Spartans have been going to the line more often. In the six games, MSU has attempted 22.8 free throws per game, in comparison, in the first four conference games, they went to the line an average of 14.0 times per game. For the season, Michigan State has attempted 20.5 per game, most in the Big Ten.
Multiple Spartans have increased their success from the free throw line of late. DeHaan is 20 of her last 24 from the stripe (83.3%) over her last six games, Thomas is 13-of-14 (92.9%) over the last four and Aisha Jefferson is 7-of-8 (87.5%) during the last two contests. In addition, Johnson had a streak of 15-in-a-row snapped on Sunday, but has hit 32 of her last 39 (82.1%) and Keane is 29-of-33 for the season (87.9%).
Among Big Ten Freshmen
Among fellow freshmen in the conference, both Johnson and Schiffauer rank in the top-10 almost every statistical category. Johnson leads in blocked shots, is second in rebounds, fifth in field goal percentage, free throw percentage and steals, sixth in assists and seventh in scoring. In Big Ten games, Johnson leads in rebounding, is third in scoring, assists, blocks and free throw percentage, and fourth in field goal percentage.
Meanwhile, Schiffauer is tied for first in field goal percentage, sixth in rebounding and eighth in scoring. Classmate Porsche Poole is seventh in assists and eighth in steals in overall games, but fourth in steals in conference games.
DeHaan Reaches Milestone...
...And Approaches Another
On this Date
New Heights
RPI Watch
About Minnesota
Three Gophers average in double-figures and rank in the top-20 in the Big Ten, led by senior Emily Fox (12.5 ppg). Fox is also third in the league with 4.20 assists, fifth with 2.25 steals and leads with a 1.62 assist-to-turnover ratio. Junior Ashley Ellis-Milan is second on the team with 11.6 points and leads the team with 8.4 rebounds, good for seventh in the conference. Classmate Katie Ohm is the third in double-digits, averaging 11.1. Ohm leads the Big Ten with 2.8 3-point field goals made and is fourth with a 43.4 3-point field goal percentage.
Against the Gophers
Michigan State to Host NCAA First and Second Rounds
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DIY Insulation: Best Method?
We've got big plans for this fourth of July weekend: installing some form of additional insulation in our attic. We live in Texas and our AC that was built for less square feet than we have struggles to keep our house cool and is running non-stop.
In an effort to reduce our energy usage, the strain on our air conditioner and increase the level of comfort in our home, my husband and I have researched several different options:
1. Radiant barrier (Enerflex sheets or Reflectix rolls). Specifically, we've been looking at this Home Depot radiant barrier product.
2. Fiberglass insulation (blown-in)
3. Fiberglass insulation (rolls)
4. Additional ventilation (attic vents, soffits, whirlybirds)
Or a combination of the above. Now here's where I turn to our wonderful Apartment Therapy community for advice: Have you installed any of the above insulation solutions? What do you think will be the most efficient option?
Check back next week to see the results of this weekends home improvement endeavors!
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I don't know about fiberglass, but both the recyled newspaper and the foam insulation, both blow in work great. The foam especially is amazing good.
cutting a hole in your roof to install a powered (turbine) exhaust fan is frightening, but well-within most home owners' skill sets. The only hard part is going to be sitting on your roof in july for an hour or two making sure everything is water-tight. ;)
We just had our home insulated (attics) and used blown-in cellulose (Cocoon). It's eco-friendly and fire resistant. We insulated for help in COLD weather more than hot, but it made a MAJOR difference in our comfort levels (and heating oil consumption)... and that's just from an upgrade in insulation depth. We did have insulation existing, it just wasn't enough.
Notably, if you use someone who is getting bulk discounts on their materials, it's often not any more expensive to have a pro do your install. We priced out all options, and ended up having a insulation contractor do our job. Much less headache for us, and nearly no difference in total cost.
Have used a radiant barrier in a small closet to insulate (as every other insulation option would take away much needed space). Works ok, but as with any insulation, all cracks & air leaks need to be caulked and/or plugged.
I wouldn't blow in recycled newspaper cuz of the fire hazard. Plus the fireproof treatment of it's carcinogenic.
- Frigid Canadian
Have you looked into recycled denim insulation? You can get them in rolls or blown in. It costs a little bit more but no skin irritants, formaldehyde, VOCs, and denim is denser than fiberglass. You also might be able to get an additional tax rebate for installing it.
The foam is expensive if DIY because the you can't really buy a massive 50-gallon drums that the contractor's can.
We caulked and plugged every single hole we could find and it has helped a lot. I have no idea how the previous owners afforded to heat and cool this place with all the darn holes left open!
Air seal all the holes first. Lot's of people skip that step. I used r38 fiberglass bats and it has worked great. I noticed a big difference on my heating bill. Sometimes you can get gift cards if you buy a bunch of it at Lowes. The plus is that you can easily move it out of the way if you need to do some wiring/repairs (important if you have an old home with "character").
We're in Kansas (and today it's going to be 105!) and we used the blow in cellulose from Lowe's (GreenFiber) and it works great. We also installed an attic fan, which is nice, but we want to eventually do a whole house fan. The attic fan just isn't quite enough for how hot it gets here...and we don't have central air upstairs, which is where the bedrooms are in our house.
Foam is the best, imho. However, it's not a good DIY project because cost. You'll spend about the same as having a contractor come do it. That said, my parents have built two homes with spray foam insulation and their energy bills in a Texas summer with AC are about $120. And that's in a 2000sqft+ home.
We went from having zero insulation in our Chicago house to "let's see how much insulation we can get in this sucker."
You can get the smaller spray foam tanks for single rooms/smaller projects. However - you must know the ridiculous that is (closed cell, rigid) spray foam. Here, too
You name the insulation, we've probably done it. We just did did denim , too.
(We are insulation crazy).
I had cellulose insulation blown into my Louisiana attic and it's made a world of difference, effectively halving my winter gas bill. My insulation guy told me that what little insulation was left in my attic before this project basically wasn't doing anything. Mine wasn't DIY, but it could definitely be done with the right machine.
I would say that the radiant barrier looks like a good product for the underside of your roof. I am going to assume that you have an unfinished attic and access to the floor joists. If that is the case, I would go with rolls of fiberglass insulation. First fill the space between the floor joists and then install another layer perpendicular to the joists (over all of the joists). This will give you the best and most consistent R-value (be careful around any light fixtures as recessed lights are not always rated for insulation). I also recommend using spray foam (in a can) around any plumbing vents and cracks to make sure that they are sealed.
Ventilation can also help, but the type depends on the configuration of your attic space. You need to be able to get ventilation at both the lower eaves/soffit and at the peak to make it worthwhile. The best situation is to install a continious or "puck" ventilators (in between each joist) along the soffit and a continous roof vent at the ridge (this is installed from the outside).
Foam and loose blown insulation aren't DIY's - They require extensive machinery to install.
Roll insulation is the only way to go for a DIY - but you need to know what you're doing, and have protective gear otherwise you'll have glass fibers stuck in your hands and arms - and without appropriate venting and vapor barriers, it won't do you any good.
IMO - Insulating is best done by a contractor who knows what they're doing.
I don't agree that newspaper is a fire hazard, and I don't think that boron, which is what it's treated with, is carcinogenic, frigid canadian. What makes for fire hazard is unimpeded air channels, so anything blown in to the proper density is WAY less of a fire hazard than fiberglass. Often people mistakenly compare the cost of fiberglass to the cost of one of the other types, when they should be comparing the cost of EFFECTIVE R-VALUE across types. It's surprisingly difficult to do fiberglass right. For the best final word on this, see the Energy and Environmental Building Association, whose annual national conference is coming up, or Taunton Press's book by Bruce Harley,
"Insulate and Weatherize," or anything out of the U.S. DOE's Building Technologies' group, or the newest (not the earlier ones) recommendations from EPA's Energy Star for Homes. They actually make recommendations based on what has worked and what is known to have led to building failure (i.e., leads to mold or bad indoor air quality) after decades of research.
We ripped out the drywall of the exterior walls in the entire top level of our 4 level split. Then we hired a company to put in spray foam insulation, and it was only to be a few inches but they filled to the end of the studs. Then we had another company come in and blow insulation in our two attics. It made a huge difference in the efficiency of our home and no more getting pillows frozen to the wall in the winter. Spray foam is amazing as it will never mold, no air can get through from outside and no vapour barrier is needed. Originally we had an energy audit so perhaps you might have that done and the company who does the audit will suggest the best forms of insulation that will work with your home. After our improvements we had another energy audit done and used this information for tax rebates.
I second the recommendation for an energy audit. I had a certified contractor do an audit, and then he presented me with options, stating cost and estimated payback period. My state had a program which gave me a rebate of ~10% of any improvements I made from those options, and on top of that I got $400 back from my utility to cover the air sealing. I paid about $400 for the audit itself, and of course now NY state has a program running where you can get an audit for $50. If your state offers these programs, take advantage! I had my contractor do the blown in cellulose insulation into my attic and the second story walls (the walls were completely un-insulated), and it has made a huge difference. In the winter, the second story was just not liveable. Now, there is only ~5 deg difference between first and second floors.
That picture looks like the dormer attic with windows on each end in my renovation house.
I had spray installed to keep as much head space as possible. Then I had an unexpected requirement to sheet rock the space before I could get the occupancy permit. The crew that did the sheetrock went at it like they were in a marathon race and tore up the insulation quite a bit. It was supposed to already be trimmed and ready for sheetrock, but they hacked out big chunks. I plan to put some rolls down in the floor under the eaves to compensate.
We put a similar radiant barrier in our attic a few years ago. Honestly we never noticed a difference but our attic did look like we were afraid of the government's TV rays getting to our brains. The roof was just replaced courtesy of the insurance company with radiant barrier on the decking and additional ventilation. We are about to replace our much compressed blown-in fiberglass with blown-in cellulose. What I gleaned from talking to the insulation contractors is that blown-in insulates better than mats. The cellulose is treated with a flame retardant but it's boric acid. The cellulose also doesn't lose its insulating ability due to compression like the fiberglass does. Fiberglass sometimes also contains formaldehyde.
We looked into the spray foam and were almost sold on it until I started finding stories of people driven out of their homes by long-lingering fumes. In fact our roofer had friends living at his house temporarily for that very reason. Apparently a lot rides on the ability of the crew applying the product and the chemicals are dangerous. All living things have to be out of the house for 24 hours. I don't think that is a DIY project.
When we were initially convinced foam was the way to go, part of the job was going to be removal of all the old fiberglass in the attic. To save $1200 my husband and I did it ourselves - in the summer, in Houston. That was enough DIY for me for a while. It's time for the pros to come and make it snow up there. Good luck and stay safe.
We recently insulated our new house with foam and were disappointed at the amount of waste that was generated when the excess was shaved off. Since then I came across info on Roxul batt insulation which is made from lava rock (I believe). We would have seriously considered this option had We known about it sooner. Here is a list of its pros, from the Roxul website: http://www.roxul.com/residential/products/roxul+comfortbatt%E2%84%A2
Easily cut
Excellent sound absorbency
Does not rot, or sustain vermin
Does not promote growth of fungi or mildew
Low moisture sorption
Chemically inert; non-corrosive
Water resistant
CFC - and - HCFC free, product and process
Made from natural & recycled materials
Earns LEED® points
Check with your power company to see if they are offering any rebates. Progress energy in Florida will occasionally offer free energy audits and rebates for additional insulation. I was able to get my attic insulated for about 300 bucks. This was about 10 ago though.
Also if you have gable vents consider adding a gable fan. The have a thermostat and kick on when temperature exceeds setting. No need to cut hole in roof it this is an option.
Go with blow in insulation if you don't need a lot of access to what is under the insulation after it's done. I've done both batts (fiberglass) and blown in (green fiber), both are easy to do.
However, batts have a bad rap amongst greenies because if you don't install it right, you can end up with gaps that leak air and compressed spots that don't insulate as well as they should due to conduction. Both problems are easy to accidentally do because you're cutting it, moving it, etc.
Blown-in, on the other hand, is simple. Shoot it in until it's the desired thickness. :)
I am renting a one bedroom house in North Texas that doesn't have insulation and my landlord is reluctant to instal any. My mother heard of a program designed for homes without insulation for people that are considered low income or people who are renting that helps with the cost or does it cost-free. Have anyone heard of this program?
You may want to contact Master Pack they are a local Southern California company that specializes in spray foam insulation. They offer a wide range of solutions and are friendly to the DIY crowd, www.masterpkg.com


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Misfire: Gun-permit Controversy Leads to Flawed Legislation
NASHVILLE — When The Journal News, a suburban New York newspaper, published the names of gun-permit holders late last month, the backlash was immediate.
"This is CRAZY!! Why in the world would you post every licensed gun owner information?? What do you hope to accomplish by doing this. This is the type of thing you do for sex offenders not law abiding gun owners. What next? should i hang a flag outside my house that says I own a gun? I am canceling my subscription with your paper today!!!" one of hundreds of online commenters said, according to ABC News.
I was the editor of The Journal News in the early '90s and know the market well. Publishing the names was a gutsy move and a significant risk. I'm sure it wasn't done lightly.
In The Journal News's defense, these were public records, authorized for release by state law. In the wake of the nearby Newtown, Conn., shootings, every community wonders about gun use and availability in its own neighborhoods.
On the other hand, the release of hundreds of individual names and addresses raises the question of whether the same story could have been told in the aggregate, tallying permits by town and neighborhood to show where gun ownership is greatest, and how that might correlate with statistics about gun violence or crime.
Although we can debate the merits of the journalism, there is no question about the paper's First Amendment protection. It had every right to publish this public information.
That's why an announcement by a delegate in the Maryland State legislature was so baffling.
Delegate Pat McDonough announced last week that he would introduce legislation to "prohibit newspapers and other publications from printing personal or private information about firearm owners," according to the Baltimore City Paper.
"The bill is going to prohibit publications from printing private information of gun owners," he said. "This is really a response to the paper in New York which claimed what they were doing was for the public good, but what it really is is a massive editorial taking up two pages of the newspaper reflecting the position of the newspaper. It's really dishonest to not say it is an editorial," he told the Baltimore newspaper.
"You know yourself that there are regulations on the First Amendment. You know there are laws against scandal [sic] or things that are harmful," McDonough continued.
Clearly McDonough hasn't done a lot of research on the bill. Exceptions to the free-press clause of the First Amendment are few and narrow; avoiding scandal or a general perception of harm is not among them.
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The 75-year-old Faulkner Trail connects the Woodstock Trail system with Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
The Homestead-Horton neighborhood mirrored the fortunes of the Estey organ factory, which employed many of its residents.
Restoring this fire damaged historic building brought affordable housing and renewal to Hardwick's Main Street.
A former armory shows the evolution of precision machine tools.
An elaborate mansion rests among some of Vermont's most beautiful landscape at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park.
These numbers are just a sample of the National Park Service's work. Figures are for the fiscal year that ended 9/30/13.
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A Clay County teen makes an appearance in Federal Court yesterday.
19 year old Nathaniel Meskimen is accused of pulling a gun on multiple people at the skate park in Brazil.
Meskimen told police he stole the gun from his cousin who lives in Terre Haute and planned to use it to shoot two males at the skate park.
He also told police that he was part of the MS-13 gang in Indianapolis.
That is a group that is well known to police across the U.S. Meskiman could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if convicted.


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The College of Central Florida is ranked No. 13 in affordability in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Education. CF tuition and fees for 2012-2013 were 66 percent below the national average of $7,407 for public four-year or above institutions.
They're everywhere: parades, ballgames, community events and holiday celebrations.
"They" are the members of the Williston High School JROTC honor guard and their fellow cadets, who for the first time in a long time, are finding themselves short on funding.
Capt. Frank Clegg, the group's commanding officer, recently appeared before Williston City Council to ask council members to remember the JROTC when fundraising efforts come about.
If the walls could talk, they would tell stories of romance, tales of adventure, fears of the unknown, unspeakable sorrows and dreams of the future.
For more than 80 years, the walls of Williston High School have heard just about everything–most things repeated many times over.
Since June they've heard a new story–one that's not been told before and causes smiles, laughter and sometimes even giddiness. It is a story that will be repeated over and over for the next two years.
A red tide bloom in the Gulf has killed thousands of fish in the last two weeks, according to state officials, but Cedar Key is proving unaffected.
Leslie Sturmer, a University of Florida aquaculture specialist in Cedar Key, said Monday that test samples for red tide toxins in the area's shellfish have yielded good results.
"There are zero cells in the samples, as we suspected," she said, adding that 5,000 or more cells per liter in a sample would cause shellfish operations to close shop.
The Suwannee River Eagles 4520 are hosting a bike poker run, concert, serving food by Big Rick and a live auction on Saturday, Aug. 9, starting at 11 a.m.
The public is welcome to attend. Proceeds will benefit the group's projects.
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Victim Advocate Mallory Hartley, center, was honored on her last day at the Levy County Sheriff's Office by her co-workers.
She is pursuing another job opportunity.
The Levy County Sheriff's Office reports the following arrests:
• Aug. 2, Joey Berry, 26, Trenton, open container, possession of drug equipment. Bond $1,000.
• July 30, Dany Noa Betancourt, 28, Cape Coral, out of county warrant.
• July 29, Wilbur Dwight Bilyou, 32, Williston, non support of spouse or children. Bond $820.
• Aug. 3, LW Brown, 19, Bronson, no DL, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Cedar Key and Levy County will get a high profile boost with tourists along Interstate 75 in Gainesville during what is typically a slow season.
Carol McQueen has been in negotiations to design billboards that tout the county's attractions to people traveling through Gainesville.
Kate Boulos is one of two Levy County residents to receive a County Alliance for Responsible Environmental Stewardship (CARES) award this year for the work she's done in managing Watermelon Pond Plantation.
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This local inspiration combines some excellent ideas. Hopefully, there is synergy in the combination and their vision can be achieved.
However, the Valhalla "movement" appears high on marketing, youth, style and organic weed. When I contacted them to offer my services to help teach them Aquaponics (something people in the U.S. are paying me to do), I received a polite, "Thanks, but no thanks. We got that covered."
So much for the "come join the movement" hype.
Every generation believes that it holds the answers to our societal ills and that they are uniquely modern and equipped with new technology to solve our pressing environmental and social problems. This is one of the benefits of youth.
Ideas spring with great life force when we are young. But ideas are a dime a dozen, we eventually learn. And execution is what separates the dreamers from the real sustainable builders of the future who are able to create replicable models to be used by others.
I hope their enthusiasm and idealism can carry the day, but history tells a different story about communes, outside of the Kibutz model in Israel which was born out war and the need to defend land.
The 1960′s communes taught us that the real world of life is socially complex and needs more than just the fantasy of new technology creating a better life without conflict or injustice. Further, it has to be rooted in the here and and now rather than built on the hopes of a new tomorrow.
Our lives will be transformed, I firmly believe, on the existing infrastructure and built environment of today. The world does not need to be re-built, but rather retro-fitted to our new ideas and values that reflect cooperation and sustainability.
To create a new way of living and a new world does not call for breaking away from the existing world. Quite the opposite, it requires a deepening involvement with the world as it is, no matter how flawed. Because if they succeed, they have transformed the lives of only the people who manage to move and live there. What about the millions of other people who are stuck in the old cities, stuck in the old buildings, stuck in the old jobs? What is to come of them?
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Group will be picked up in a clean bus and will meet a City of Chicago certified tour guide at Wrigley Field.Participants will have a chance to walk around and get a sense of the park, the statues, and the bleachers on top of the neighborhood buildings.
Leaving Wrigley, the group heads east on Addison to get a look across Lake Shore Drive at the Kraft Totem Pole in Lincoln Park.
Next it is south on the Inner Drive to Belmont towards the statue of General Phillip Sheridan. Heading south on Sheridan Road, the group merges into Lincoln Park at Diversey. Here is a great view of the large statue in honor of Goethe and a statue of Alexander Hamilton in the north end of the park.Tour members will drive past the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Peggy Notebart Nature Museum, Lincoln Park Zoo (we go right past the Farm in the Zoo), and onto Lake Shore Drive down around North Avenue.
Driving south on Lake Shore Drive,the group will exit at Michigan Avenue. This takes the tour past the John Hancock Building and past the Chicago Water Tower. Continuing south on Michigan Avenue, the group goes over the Chicago River and heads west on Wacker Drive for a great view of Marina City and the Merchandise Mart (the largest commercial building in the world).
The tour then makes its way to the Thompson Center for a visit to the building and the plaza with the Jean Dubuffet statue. Bathroom break!
Leaving the Thompson Center, the group will head west on Madison Street to go past the Ogilvie Transportation Center and past the Social Security Building with Claus Oldenberg's "Batcolumn" in front. Making their way past Union Station, the group will stop at the plaza and lobby of Sears Tower. Tour participants will be able to see the Alexander Calder mobile in the lobby and look up at this amazing building.
Getting back on the bus, the group will make theirway to Washington Street and go east past Daley Plaza (the Picasso) and the Joan Miro statue just across the street - heading to the south loop and past the large Calder stabile in the Federal Plaza on Dearborn.
We make our bus driver a bit crazy as we do some more doubling back in order to get the group to Michigan Avenue for a drive past the Art Institute to see the famous lions. This drive takes the group north on Michigan Avenue to Randolph where the driver will let the group off for a visit to Millennium Park. Here the group will see Cloud Gate ("The Bean"), Crown Fountain, the Pritzker Pavilion, and take a walk across the Frank Gehry bridge that spans Columbus Drive. Bathroom Break!This is where the group will have a chance to eat in the park. A picnic in Millennium Park - classic! Lunch can be provided for an additional fee - most groups pack their own meals.
During the drive, the City of Chicago certified tour guide will discuss the Water Tower and the Great Chicago Fire, the reversal of the Chicago River and the bridges, the Chicago 'L' system and whatever else comes to mind! The stops all allow for participants to get off the bus without them having to cross any streets.


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The NRA held a stunning press conference this morning in which the gun owners' association blamed everything from videogames to "gun free zones" in schools as the cause behind Adam Lanza's rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I think most of us, when we saw the NRA break its silence with the statement that "the NRA is prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again," we maybe imagined they would finally concede that semi-automatic weapons being obtained so easily weren't such a hot idea. But neeeeeeoooope. The NRA didn't bring that up. Instead, its solution is MORE guns in schools. Yeeeeeeep. Take a listen.
NRA President Wayne LaPierre said the group wants to sponsor a program that will bring guns into every school. They want to see "armed, trained qualified security school personnel" in every school, but give no details on whether they would fund that training. He also sees "dads who volunteer their time to patrol playgrounds." Yeeeahhh, sounds like a great idea, Wayne. You clearly don't read the news stories about crazy dads that I do every day. Not all dads are qualified to be roaming playgrounds with guns!
LaPierre also went on to blame everything from the media to videogames to HURRICANES (??) for the Sandy Hook shootings.
He said: "Will you at least admit it is possible that 26 little kids -- that 26 innocent lives might have been spared that day?"
Sure, Wayne. As soon as YOU admit that 26 little kids might have been saved that day if Adam Lanza hadn't been able to get a hold of a semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle. Also, no one has yet to explain how a guard armed with a pistol was going to take out a guy with three guns and a bulletproof vest. My guess is he would have just shot the guard. So you're going to have an armed guard with a machine gun at the front door of every school in America? Sounds like a recipe for something and it's not good times.
Anyway, I think we can all go back to reality now. For a moment, we thought the NRA might have come to its senses, but it's just as deluded as ever. If the NRA didn't stand to make a good deal of money from its little plan of arming everyone to the teeth, maybe I could take this a tad more seriously. But I can't. The NRA has helped get this country into the trouble it's in -- we can't allow it to get us deeper in.
I also find it interesting that of the parents and children of Newtown we've heard from so far -- none of them are calling for more guns in schools. In fact, they are all calling for less guns on the streets.
Here's some video of an anti-gun activist -- one of two who interrupted the conference.
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jagamama0710December 21, 2012 at 12:12 PM
While I don't have a problem with guns and responsible gun ownership in general, the NRA is a bunch of lunatics.
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momof030404December 21, 2012 at 12:26 PM
Unarmed principal runs at ARMED gunman and is gunned down and man continues down the hall killing more babies. Thought....ARMED prinicipal runs down hall KILLS man lives AND saved many innocent lives. Yeah. NRA is nuts....
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Doomy234December 21, 2012 at 12:32 PMFirst of all... *clears throat*....*proceeds to laugh ass off* Now if you wonder why I am laughing my ass off please read the blog in which this topic was first brought up.
Now, by now most of you already know where I stand on this issue. So I wont go into its entirety. To answer the question of how to take down someone in a bullet proof vest; shoot them in the head. Duh? Even if they are wearing a helmet, some part of their head will be less protected than others, most likely the face. Secondly, just because one wears a bullet proof vest does not make someone invicible. A bullet proof vest only prevents penetration of a bullet, but you can still feel the force. Its kind of like taking a baseball bat to someones chest while they are wearing a phone book. You might not feel all the force of being struck, BUT YOU WILL FEEL IT and if you hit them repeatedly in the chest they will have all the wind knocked out of them. Tell me thats not enough time to apprehend someone?
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The NRA is actually a marketing and lobby organization run by the gun manufacturers. The members think their purpose is to represent them but in reality their purpose is to market to them.
Most of the assault weapon gun deaths are criminals killing criminals (drugs/gang crap). Are they going to confiscate their guns? That's a question for the democrats since it's mostly their constituents!
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kelticmomDecember 21, 2012 at 12:35 PMSo their suggestion is to turn our elementary schools into veritable fortresses? You know what other institutions have armed guards patrolling the halls and grounds? Prisons. I agree with maybe an armed officer at the door, but this "giving every teacher a gun" mania I have being seeing everywhere makes me nervous.
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momof030404December 21, 2012 at 12:47 PM
No omne is saying give every teacher a gun. But there is a school in TX where teachers ARE allowed to conceal and carry. They won't say how many teachers. Now be COMPLETELY honest. If a criminal is looking at two schools/homes/businesses ect and one he KNOWS has people with concealed weapons and one where they dont which one do you think he is heading for? You can't UNring a bell. This IS hapenning. Schools ARE getting shot up. No one is saying gaurds walking the halls with Oozies but have trained teachers/staff with guns is NOT a bad idea!
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the4muttsDecember 21, 2012 at 12:49 PMKeticmom- I agree that arming EVERY teacher sounds insane. however, I believe that if a teacher already posesses a CCW, that they should be allowed, and even advised, to take extra training courses, and be allowed to bring their guns on campus. I have never heard of a law-abiding citizen, with proper training, and legally obtained, legally concealed firearms, shooting up a school.
And I think our schools need more protection, period. Whether it be trained, retired vets, armed guards, or more campus officers, we need more for our kids.
Not directed at you, just in general:
I find it hypocritical that the president has armd guard swarming his house, 24/7, with high powered assault rifles included in those numbers, and now wants to re-institute a ban on high powered rifles. Yeah dude, the NRA are the crazy ones, and the president is the one with the right idea *extreme sarcasm*
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SamDecember 21, 2012 at 12:49 PM@momof030404 - just as realistic a scenario - armed principal runs after armed gunman, shoots, misses and kills a student. Just as plausible as yours just less "Hollywood movie hero".
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kelticmomDecember 21, 2012 at 12:56 PMActually, I have heard/read on Facebook, Twitter, this site, my work, etc - people suggesting every teacher trained and issued a weapon, having armed guards in the halls, retired vets on the playgrounds patrolling, etc. I don't pretend to know the answers, but I think the "ban all guns" and "arm teachers" crowds are both knee-jerk reactions and obviously not feasible. We need to find a reasonable mixture of better gun laws, better school security, better resources for mental health care to make a difference. And 4mutts, the Secret Service is a branch of law enforcement and not exclusive to Obama, so it's hardly hypocritical.
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kelticmomDecember 21, 2012 at 12:58 PMAnd the "shoot them the head if they are wearing a bulletproof vest" argument? Yes. Because when a shooter is firing multiple rounds at you per second with a semi automatic and you have a handgun, your odds of hitting them square in the head are so good.


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i sketched 2 characters to give me some directions of where i want to go...i´m into this tribal theme now so i guess my character will have a bit of this tribal hunter attitude...uhm...any comment suggestions is welcome!
I´m not sure they even fit in the fantasy theme actually...a bit too futurstic maybe?
and thats my character
Nice characters guys!
ChaoticKnight - Looking good so far. Can't wait to see more.
DefiledVisions - Awesome character, really reminds me of the Warhammer Lizard Men.
Jason Rainville - Nice concept, I like the design of the mask and the sword, it's very roman gladiatorish.
Gorgoleon - Nice cat man. Maybe a bit more armour would make him a bit more intressting, imo.
pepps - Cool concept, but as you said, they do look a bit too futuristic. Maybe if you give them less gadgets and so. Just a suggestion.
kingkostas - Really great dwarf, I digg his shield especially much.
This is my leviathan - an elemental of the forrest. I'm not so sure if it will be this big or not (guy in his hand), maybe I'll make it a bit smaller. I think the concept is done, now I just have to put it in a pose and fighting some dudes.
Thnx LORD M .
So now we have to make a scene(presenting characters working toghether to beat the elemental leviathan beast?)
Wow man its really enjoying way to practice to imagine and have fun
Nice characters all!!!Lets kill the beast
good work so far, updated player list +wip tags + player ranks.
still adding people to the player inventory lists, but i tend to wait until they post a wip image before they get in.
also yoitisi is now the first of 3 knights templar ranks - awarded for excelent pieces throuout the whole of the crusade-
Super quick WIP
go go yotisi! lead the army of the darkness! xD
Hey guys, I'm new to this forum, and also to this crusade thing. I was interested in the idea so i decided to join up.
I have a question about this contest though.
I want to know whether there are any time constraints to this theme, basically can one draw modern character designs and settings?
(Edit) never mind, i checked out some of the rules in the other topics. I'll have to sign up before anything.
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DVD-1-one: The signing-up part is pretty informal, usually posting a Work In Progress and/or final piece in here grants you a place in the lists. Just make clear which side (light or dark) you're on This activity is in a fantasy setting, so modern characters and technology are not really allowed I'm afraid.
Ok i will post a WIP now of my ideas.Also i think i will draw some other characters(of you guys) to place them in the battlefield cause we are all against one beast this time
I will think about it and see if i can do it.
I think i will choose the one with the close-up of the creature cause it makes it seem more epic.
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wow all these look killer cant wait to see the finished projects, my first time doing anything like this.
Here is my design. According to magic the gathering a cyclops lifespan is 10,000. so I think he could fit into the medievalish times. I have a lot of work to do on my leviathan, went for a rock one. Its tough to make a rock snake like creature thanks to pokemon, so I made him kind of bullish/lizardy. maybe it will be like 4 times bigger. I'm attempting to set up a scene now.
Great work guys! And congrats, yoitsi.
Elemental update. Gonna have the characters climbing on its sholders, much like in Shadow of the Colossus.
updated player lists.
long time no see, art crusade!
i am BACK! and i shall have at thee with ... with...
oh blast. im just bored, okay!?
so lets see what i sketch up to this thing, eh?
I still believe
Its Admar Using his magic Axe to kill the beast
Ok i think i am done with this .I have several versions but i think i will stay in the last one(but i will still present all the others in all in one version).Nice works all of you.Lets see who does the most damage now lol
First i will present the all in one
Secondly a small version and then a larger(adjusted to be able to see easily) if you want a bigger version tell me and i already have it
Nice one, kingkostas. I like the design of your beast and how the axe of Admar sparks with lightning, reminds me a lot of Thor's hammer Mjölnir.
Thnx Lord .I think i still need to fix leviathans tale that needs to disappear due to atmospheric perspective(forscience)make me see it as i was focused on colors.
kingkostas, I think that moving Admar away from the center would help making the scene more dynamic. Having elements slightly off center increases the tension, cause when there's some element in the center our eyes tend to be drawn to it and just rest there. Its obviously not a rule, there's a lot of great paintings with the main element in the center, but I think that in this case, it would improve the relationship between Admar and the leviathan with the tension created by having both of them slightly off center
Some WIP shots of my entry
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KingKostas: I'm liking where your piece is heading, but if you don't mind me suggesting, add some detail to the lightining cracking off of his axe. Maybe some little whisps and crackles. Also, the background (where the stars are) looks a tiny bit plain.
To really push this one the furthest, I'd suggest to off center the main character and maybe give him a sort of 3/4's angle. That way it really adds a bit of tension between the viewer, the subject and the final enemy of the main guy. Remember that typically the eye follows a circular pattern around your whole piece coming in from a corner and ending near the opposite corner.
Anyway, keep pushing it I say, the deadline is no time soon.
I dunno, just a suggestion I suppose.
c@s I'm liking how this one is shaping up... I can't wait to see all the lighting take effect off the beast. Really push the values there and this piece will be amazing. Light will definitely be your main draw! Keep going with it and you'll have an amazing piece there.
Lord M: I like the sketch alot more so far than the colored piece.
I don't know if I'm looking at it right at the moment, but the way the hand is turned almost looks like the character's other arm is coming out of his chest. Even though I know from previous sketch that he is just looking over his shoulder.
Either way though, it'll be interesting to see what happens on this one.
I'll be getting started on mine very shortly... I'm still in the process of trying to figure out what kind of character I'd like to do.
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Thnx for the critiques guys they are precious .I will try to do them if i find the right mood, cause i have some other things to finish now
I like your work c@s and i think it will be great.A scene of a massive battle, nice!!!
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Cool guys! this is going to be so awesome!
I had a dream this morning lol - half asleep.. like just when you wake up and is like "daaaamn 10 more minutes" .. I saw my Leaviathan haha.
The theme is an elemental Leviathan, but are we restricted to one elemental only? In my dream it was a mixture of fire, water and air..
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Wip image so far. Was thinking of cramming in as many other crusade characters i could but im not so sure if i'l procced with this.
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Alright, its a bit different from the character I had in mind, but here's my guy. I'm also not liking the approach of my composition wip, I'm feeling too dainty about it. Might try to be violent with it.
I'm in this too! Just sketched out what I want to do, I'll draw my character on Saturday
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