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Video of a man who may be the person some people call the Fairfax County serial groper has been released by Fairfax County police.
The video is from a surveillance video taken around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the HomeGoods store in the Kingstowne Towne Center, where a possible 24th attack in the series of assaults was reported to police.
Fairfax County police are asking for the public's help in identifying the person in the video. Anyone with information should call 703-691-2131 or contact CrimeSolvers 866-411-TIPS.
Thursday's incident, along with the 23 other incidents reported since early September, are still under investigation.
Back in March, around 200 residents attended a community meeting hosted by the Franconia District Station to voice their concerns and discuss police efforts to catch the serial groper.
- See: More Than 200 Pack Serial Groper Meeting Thursday Night in Springfield
Captain Jim Baumstark, commander of the Franconia District Police Station, said FCPD is focusing their initiatives specifically in Springfield where he's targeting victims.
"He's targeting that area the most. When I look at the map, the attacks are all over the place and that let's me know that he knows the area well because we can't tell how he enters and exits the area of the incidents so fast," he said. "We're looking for one person among about 27,000 residents and we can't put it into a time frame because of the difference in time lapse between incidents."
See a map of the incidents here.
The dates and locations of the groping incidents are:
- Sept. 7 at approximately 8:30 a.m. around the 7200 block of Monticello Boulevard
- Sept. 9 or Sept. 13 at approximately 7:30 p.m. around Cumberland Drive and Dinwiddie Street
- Sept. 18 at approximately 2:45 p.m. around the 6700 block of Metropolitan Center Drive
- Sept. 19 around Hibbling Avenue and Exmore Street
- Sept. 27 at approximately 9 a.m. around the 5900 block of Erving Street
- Oct. 2 at approximately 7:15 p.m. around the Hibbling Avenue and Exmore Street
- Oct. 25 at approximately 9:30 a.m. around Lake Pleasant Drive and Edinburgh Drive
- Nov. 1 at approximately 4 p.m. around the 7200 block of Commerce Street
- Nov. 1 at approximately 4:30 p.m. around the 6000 block of Hibbling Avenue
- Nov. 19 at approximately 6 p.m. around the 7200 block of Commerce Street
- Nov. 21 at approximately 1:20 p.m. around Amherst Avenue and Cumberland Avenue
- Dec. 11 at approximately 10:28 a.m. around the Blarney Stone Drive near Omega Court
- Dec. 13 at approximately 9 a.m. on Floyd Avenue and Erving Street
- Dec. 13 at approximately 5:45 p.m. around the 6000 block of Hibbling Avenue
- Jan. 3, at approximately 5:45 p.m. around Patriot Court and Briarwood Court
- Jan. 30, at approximately 3:10 p.m. Dinwiddie Street near Dana Avenue
- Jan. 30, at approximately 3:35 p.m. Backlick Road and Cabin John Road/I-495 underpass
- Feb. 6, at approximately 5 p.m., 6600 block of Grey Fox Drive
- Feb. 26, around 6:30 p.m., Amherst Avenue near Cumberland Avenue
- Feb. 28, around 5 p.m., 5900 block of Dinwiddie Street
- March 1, around 11:45 a.m., Floyd Avenue near Hanover Street
- March 12, 7 p.m., 6400 block of Franconia Court
- March 14, 3 p.m., Bauer Road near Old Keene Mill Road
- March 28, around 3 p.m., 5900 block of Kingstowne Towne Center (in HomeGoods)

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Sometimes it takes an outsider's perspective to point out the best things about our region. A family from New Jersey who has been lured to Western New York has plenty of good things to say about our region's attributes, from the commutes, to the housing prices, to the active entertainment scene. It's refreshing to hear.
The energy drink business is an unusual one. The products are barely distinguishable beverages of sugar and caffeine, but they are targeted to very specific markets. Two Western New York firms are trying to muscle their way into the business using very different approaches. Vital Energy is going for the young male crowd with a funny guerrilla marketing campaign full of pranks, while Pure Energy is aiming for a more sophisticated market.
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WITH heavy rain forecast this weekend, drivers are reminded to take care on the roads.
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A current project under Ubuntu 10.04 has me pondering the proper way to satisfy the Java dependencies of an installable package that requires a JVM and officially supports only Sun's JVM, but appears to run just fine with Ubuntu's default OpenJDK 6 JVM. The question is then: How should one define the package's dependencies so that Sun's JVM is the preferred JVM, but the user still has the flexibility to use OpenJDK, albeit with a warning that what he's doing has no official support? And after some research, apparently, it can be done.
I haven't figured out all the details yet, but here's what I've gleaned so far.
There are two current options for a JVM under Ubuntu 10.04:
and if your package has an absolute, non-negotiable requirement for one or the other, then you're pretty much done here. But if your package is prepared to be flexible, there's more you can do.
If you example the properties of those packages, you'll notice that both of them "provide" the functionality of a generic "java6-sdk" so if your package had no preference whatsoever, it need only specify a dependency of "java6-sdk" and you're good. But sometimes it's more complicated than that.
According to Florian Diesch on the Ubuntu users mailing list, you can specify a dependency of:
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Apparently, what the above means is that either of those choices will satisfy your package's installation dependency, but if neither exists on your system, the first choice ("sun-java6-sdk") will be installed, which is sort of what you want -- that either JVM is acceptable but, given a choice, you'll opt to install Sun's JVM.
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Obviously, on my system, I have both JVMs but I can only be running one and I can tell which one that is with:
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Obviously, I'm currently invoking the OpenJDK JVM.
If I want to "switch", I need only:
$ sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla-javaplugin.so. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla-javaplugin.so. update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for xulrunner-1.9-javaplugin.so. $ java -version java version "1.6.0_20" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode) $
Clearly, I'm now using Sun's JVM. And why does this matter?
It matters because, however you define your package's installation dependencies, the fact that you have merely installed a particular JVM doesn't mean that you're actually using it. It means, in a nutshell, that besides defining your package's JVM dependencies, you will probably have to invoke
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This is the part I'm still working on but, apparently, you can use Debian's "debconf" utility to do exactly what we're describing here. To get started:
$ sudo apt-get install debconf-doc $ man 7 debconf-devel
and that's as far as I've got here, but it seems clear that this will allow me to do exactly what I want -- prefer Sun's JVM but still allow the user the freedom to override that preference while generating a warning that makes it clear what he's doing has no official support.
And if working with OpenJDK goes badly wrong, the user can always just switch back to Sun's JVM and continue working. More details as I figure them out.
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This appendix lists string functions that you will use often while developing PHP programs. Not all of these are thread safe, and you should review the list before you choose how you will manipulate strings. As to the aliases, be careful which ones you use and be consistent in use. If you're going to use the chop() function because you like the Perl tone of it, then don't intermingle it with the PHP rtrim() function.
These functions let you create substrings, manipulate strings, or collect information to parse strings. The explode() and implode() functions are frequently found in example code accessing the MySQL database. Alternatives to using the explode() and implode() functions are found in Chapter 13. Table B-1 lists and describes the most common string functions, and it includes small example programs following the description and function.


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Today it is more important than ever to use water resources wisely and to irrigate intelligently. Consequently, many farmers have turned to drip irrigation and have enjoyed improved profitability by increasing crop yield and quality while at the same time reducing costs from water, energy, labor, chemical inputs and water runoff. Many landscapers have also enjoyed significant water and capital investment savings using drip irrigation, while simultaneously improving plant vigor by delivering water and nutrients directly to the plant roots and avoiding unnecessary wetting of plant leaves.
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Save the date! On September 28th between 11am and 2pm, the office of Study Abroad and Global Learning will have their bi-annual Study Abroad Fair at the Downing University Center (DUC). The events will be hosted outside on the lawn, if the weather permits us, and otherwise in the mezzanine. Come visit us, and our programs, between 11am and 2pm on September 28th, 2011!
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I cover payments, cryptography, and digital currencies.
As the Bitcoinica brokerage saga metastasizes yet again with the shocking revelation that no recent database backups exist, earlier security warnings to the company's founder are being reviewed. One observer suggested that "as the potential payoff of a hacker approaches $1 million, the likelihood of being hacked approaches 90%."
Over eight months ago, another reviewer posted:
I've worked on financial systems before. As others have stated, if you're dealing with real money, then you have a big bulls-eye painted on your forehead, and you need to make sure that your system is hardened. Make sure you understand attack vectors and protect against them — XSS, SQL Injection, man-in-the-middle, etc. Make sure your passwords are salted and hashed. Auditing. Can't emphasize this enough. Things will go wrong, and when they do, you need to be able to tell when, where, and why. In our case, we had shadow tables in our database where we logged changes, and then consolidated and exported that data into an auditing system. We could confirm that a user made X change at Y time from Z IP address.
Large financial system websites are some of the most lucrative online targets and bitcoin has the added dimension of a target-rich environment that rarely results in prosecution. Not only is it difficult to prosecute the individual or individuals responsible for the hack, it is difficult to prosecute the financial site itself for negligence due to the many disclaimers inherent in voluntary and unregulated service providers or due to complicated offshore circumstances (although New Zealand does offer a dispute resolution scheme for Bitcoinica retail clients). Additionally, there is always the possibility of an artificial hack staged by an insider. Therefore, self-regulation is the order of the day and in the sometimes jurisdiction-less environment of the Internet, bitcoin entities and their customers currently operate under their own brand of lex mercatoria to enforce accountability.
Lex mercatoria is Latin for "merchant law" and it is the body of commercial law used by merchants throughout Europe during the medieval period emphasizing contractual freedom and alienability of property. Like an air guitar, bitcoin is arguably the ultimate form of intangible alienable property. The difference being, of course, that air guitar transactions are not publicly recorded on a distributed and enforced ledger.
Merchants relied on this legal system developed and administered by them while shunning legal technicalities and deciding cases ex aequo et bono. We are actually in the midst of such a case right now as the leading Bitcoinica parties attempt to sort out the claims process to the best of their abilities with limited account records. There is no court. There is no judge. Bitcoin is not defined as legal property. Deliberation is currently focused on the most fair and just method of separating the legitimate claims from the fake claims. But this is new ground for a bitcoin-related settlement and undoubtedly it will set an early benchmark for future cases. The prior hack involving Linode servers was settled in full via Bitcoinica customer reimbursements.
As for the attacking hacker, it will most likely go unprosecuted since fungible bitcoins possess many of the characteristics of physical cash and even if the attacker had been sloppy, the amount involved does not really justify expensive network traffic analysis that would potentially link an IP or bitcoin address to a real-world identity.
The investment adviser for the transfer of Bitcoinica LP, Tihan Seale, posted that "Bitcoin Consultancy was first retained to perform a comprehensive security audit on March 27th and they became owners and operators of Bitcoinica LP on April 24th." This latest security breach at Bitcoinica occurred on May 11th. In a separate email, Seale reiterated, "I'm responsible for deal selection and due diligence for the fund that invested in Bitcoinica. I expect the Bitcoin Consultancy members will continue to operate the business going forward. They have expressed their commitment to seeing things through, and they have my respect for this."
Whatever becomes of the Bitcoinica margin trading entity in the future, it is clear that a sort of 'digital' lex mercatoria is emerging — one that recognizes the complete voluntarist nature of the bitcoin protocol in commerce. We don't have to imagine The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State because we are living through it now.
Self-regulation may be the only available option as authorities are in a quandry. Specifically regulating bitcoin imbues it with legally-recognized value and that is something that the State will resist for as long as possible. So, happily we continue to trade our air guitars.
To the bitcoin detractors, these various security breaches are not a fault of the peer-reviewed bitcoin cryptographic protocol but a lapse of security experience and poor judgment by the respective administering companies. The beatings will continue until security improves. Trust in the overall connected infrastructure may have been fractured temporarily, but just as the guild structure flourished the improved lex mercatoria that evolves as a result will strengthen bitcoin in the end.
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Great article. Bitcoin is fascinating in many ways, but one of the most prominent is that it's achieving and demonstrating "spontaneous order" under a laissez-faire. Free-market advocates often speak of this phenomenon in theory, because markets around the world are so incessantly regulated, but now they can see it actually happening in practise. Why the Mises Institute hasn't taken a keener interest in Bitcoin is beyond me.
Many in Austrian school of thought reject the possibility of Bitcoin acting in a monetary capacity based on Mises' regression theorem, despite its obvious empirical behavior. They point to the assumption that money must arise from a commodity instead of a social contract, and go on to note that bitcoins are not commodities.
I find that the regression theorem itself is valid, though there are certain assumptions used that may be too restrictive for inclusion of Bitcoin. The system may be so difficult to grasp from a traditional economic view partly because it crosses so many disciplines and classifications, effectively forming a hybrid broader in scope than a lot of experts and specialists can grasp outside of their own fields of study.
Yup, we're not in Kansas anymore!
I wonder how these Austrians come to the conclusion that bitcoin definitely can't be a commodity. I think it makes perfect sense that this is how it started: before bitcoin actually became a medium of exchange, people bought it solely because they thought it might become so in the future. Thus, demand for bitcoins started out as an investment into something that was not valuable, but might become so in the future.
It's interesting to see that Austrians too become victims of theoretical dogma. Mises even warns about this in The Theory of Money and Credit, and yet, it seems very hard for people to escape the confines of concepts and actually see that bitcoin is being used as a currency, right now. So either Mises was wrong on his regression theorem, or we are interpreting it the wrong way.
From Wikipedia:
"Bitcoin shares characteristics of both commodity money and fiat money, but does not fit properly in either category. Bitcoin supersedes commodity money in value density, recognizability and divisibility and it also matches fiat money as medium of exchange. It also resembles commodity money in the fact that, at least during the expansion of the Bitcoin base, its value, assuming competing suppliers, is equal to its marginal cost of production. On the other hand, fiat money commands a value far higher than its costs of production, which raises the risk of severe mismanagement by their monopolistic suppliers. For some of the reasons above, and for the fact that commodities are 'naturally' scarce, while Bitcoin is scarce in a contrived way, and not subject to supply shocks in the usually understood sense, economist George Selgin classifies Bitcoin as Quasi-Commodity money."
I emailed with about a dozen of Austrian economists. Most of them are not interested in Bitcoin because it's too complicated, and they don't know much about it apart from the sensational media stories. The dogmatics who deny empirical data are not economists, they are random bloggers and trolls. Then there are some which did a bit of research, but are, in my opinion, genuinely mistaken (e.g. Nielsio), but that's rare.
Also, the Austrian school is split with respect to the regression theorem. Some argue that money must start as a commodity, some argue that other origins are possible (e.g. Hülsmann, Kinsella, Bagus, Selgin). Murphy in a youtube video concludes that empirically, Bitcoin is a medium of exchange, so the "harder" interpretation of the regression theorem is wrong.
Based on my research (soon to be published), I propose a slight modification to the regression theorem. Instead of "a prospective money must have been originally traded as a regular good in barter" (direct quote from an email by professor Hoppe), I propose "a prospective money must originally be liquid". This stays true to the concept of liquidity (or saleability as they call it) as presented by Menger and Mises, while being compatible with the empirical data created through Bitcoin. In fact I think Menger (both in Principles of Economics and On The Origin of Money) understood liquidity better than Mises or Hoppe.
Furthermore, the Austrian school leads to the conclusion that Bitcoin is not property. As explained by Kinsella in Against Intellectual Property, it is impossible to apply property rights in abstract things without applying them to physical objects. With respect to Bitcoin, if the media storing the keypairs (e.g. hard drives) and the infrastructure providing Bitcoin (e.g. computers, network cables) are private property, property rights to Bitcoin are either redundant or contradict those rights. This could create additional confusion, even though for the purpose of Bitcoin users, it's almost entirely the "redundant" option.
I thought after learning various concepts like elliptic curves, field programmable gate arrays, asymptotes and arbitrage that I had learned about as much one needs to learn to really have a good grasp of Bitcoin.
And then I read another Matonis article and realize there are even more areas where Bitcoin begins to disrupt.
I've seen at least one service pop up already to begin addressing dispute resolution in this interesting new world of ours, www.judge.me. The organizers appear explicitly ancap in their philosophy, but rely nevertheless on the certification process of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in signing up practitioners. More and more such services seem likely to emerge as the volume of commerce in Bitcoin space increases. Heck, last year I even registered bitcoincourt.com, and then promptly failed to do anything with it.
Arguably, events like the Bitcoinica breach aren't going to be well addressed by drive-through type services along the lines of judge.me, especially given the number of claims likely to arise from an attack against a big exchange. Hedging properly against that is going to require community-trusted auditors, for a start.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for recommending my arbitration service. Please note that I will soon launch arbitrator profiles which would allow me to loosen up on the CIArb requirements. We had some great attorneys apply with tons of experience but no CIArb certification.
Judge.me could arbitrate Bitcoinica type events but both parties would have to agree to it. If the bitcoin community wants they can all appoint one representative to arbitrate with a Bitcoinica representative on the other side. This would keep things simple with total arbitration cost being only $299.


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Configuring RAS Retries and Timers
I am reading in the Cisco IOS H.323 Configuration guide this morning. Yes, it's exhilarating to read at 5:00am (NOT!). Since I'm nodding off to sleep, I am writing another post to pass on the next bit of knowledge – configuring RAS retries and timers.
Normally, you would never need to touch this piece of H.323 gateways, but we're not dealing with "normal," real-world experience. We're dealing with the psychotic CCIE voice lab. You need to know everything.
RAS Configuration Options
The ras timeout command configures the number of seconds for the gateway to wait before resending a RAS message to a gatekeeper.
The ras retry command configures the number of times to resend the RAS message after the timeout period expires.
The ras rrq ttl command configures the number of seconds that the gateway should be considered active by the gatekeeper. The gateway transmits this value in the RRQ message to the gatekeeper. The margin time keyword and argument allow the gateway to transmit an early RRQ to the gatekeeper before the time-to-live value advertised to the gatekeeper.
The default values for timeouts and retries are acceptable in most networks. You can use these commands if you are experiencing problems in RAS message transmission between gateways and gatekeepers.
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|1 year 39 weeks ago
|Speaking of high
What, exactly, are you smoking? The team doctor specifically said that there were no fractures or broken bones, and didn't say anything more than there were injuries to several ligaments. At this moment, there is absolutely no reason to think he can't recover and play football again at a high level.
|1 year 41 weeks ago
|Umm, no
Preparing these young men for life after Michigan is significantly more important than a game. If a player is willing to sacrifice their long term future, they can, but that is THEIR choice. If they want to stick to a certain position because that is the best thing for them at the next level, the coaches damn well better respect that.
|1 year 41 weeks ago
|Take your pick
He had 31 passing attempts and 69 rushes the entire season. It's not like it'd be difficult to find somebody to take his place. How about Tate Forcier, who was starting ahead of Denard anyway.
|1 year 42 weeks ago
|Braxton is on pace for 1,526
Braxton is on pace for 1,526 yards this year. He probably finishes in the 1300's somewhere(I haven't looked at their schedule), which would leave him in the neighborhood of 2000-2100, which is about where Denard was after two seasons. And he'll probably be running more in his last two than Denard has, since he won't have the coaching change that Denard did. If Braxton stays healthy, he'll have a very good shot at Denard's records.
|1 year 43 weeks ago
|And why does it look like a
And why does it look like a painting?
|1 year 44 weeks ago
|Umm, what?
What the hell are you talking about? Who said ADD isn't a learning diability? It was said that ADD is over diagnosed, which is true, and that most people who are diagnosed with ADD do not actually have learning disabilities - BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE ADD! In fact, ADHD was directly called a "terrible disability" - for those who actually have it.I don't know what part of that you misunderstood, but please be more careful about such things in the future.
|1 year 44 weeks ago
|Worse? No. I'd be lying if I
Worse? No. I'd be lying if I said quarterbacks of color got "worse" criticism, just as you are lying when you say it.
Obviously the two quotes you gave were disgusting. But those same people would still be ripping Henne or Navarre or any other white quarterback. They'd just be saying they couldn't hit the broad side of a barn, couldn't hit water from a boat, etc.
Let's not confuse the issue. Denard's criticism may sometimes be directed at his race, but that is a far cry from criticizing him because of his race. The distinction does not matter when you're discussing what kind of sorry excuse for a human being would say such things, but it is very important in the discussion here.
Agreed on the player choker whose name I will not type. The less he's mentioned around here, the better.
|1 year 44 weeks ago
|Indeed, he was quite the
Indeed, he was quite the opposite, having been BENCHED at Maryland.
I'm glad Wiscy is struggling, perhaps karma for the Wilson not-cheating-but-it-feels-like-cheating last year, but I actually don't mind guys like O'Brien using this loophole. He wasn't going to play at Maryland, why not reward him for graduating in three years and let him go somewhere he can play. I know there's no way to legislate against the Wilson types while allowing the O'Brien types, but there should be.
|1 year 45 weeks ago
|I imagine Sweetwaters is less
I imagine Sweetwaters is less local because they're better, more successful, and like you mentioned there's more than one. Gives them a chain-restaurant feel for those that don't know any better. Sad, but true. Oh well, they're the ones missing out on vastly superior coffee.
|1 year 45 weeks ago
|I would
Dish has definitely lost the benefit of the doubt. We've seen them lose other networks recently, while BTN has not left any other providers as far as I know. I have a hard time imagining Viacom and BTN conspiring to screw Dish in favor of every other company in the country.
This is unquestionably on Dish.
|1 year 46 weeks ago
What part of "today's game" did you have trouble with? In case you're unaware, it's no longer the 70s. Ergo, what happened in the 70s no longer qualifies as relevant to a discussion about today's game.
|1 year 46 weeks ago
|That's true, but the point
That's true, but the point was that this offense doesn't prepare you for the NFL. That means most players that have NFL aspirations aren't going to want to play in it. And this is a valid point, even if guys manage to develop enough to get to the NFL despite playing in that offense.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|This is correct. That kid
This is correct. That kid didn't deserve to be treated the way he was just because his dad killed five hookers.
The correct end to "And this is the same school that..." is "...hired Bobby Knight."
Which makes this story significantly less surprising, though no less disgusting.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|Outrage! Anger! Dismay! wait, why?
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what the problem here is. I've seen a lot of people use the argument that because of this, if Ohio or Penn State wins the division title but the second place team goes to Indy and wins the conference, it means a team will win the conference without winning the division...but that's true either way, obviously.
If Ohio is 7-1 and Wisconsin is 6-2, Wisconsin is the 2nd place team in the division. If they win the conference championship game, that means a 2nd place team won the conference championship game. Why is this acceptable if Wisconsin is given a phony division title, but not acceptable is Ohio is given the division title? The standings will remain the same - Ohio one, Wisconsin two. (At least until Ohio inevitably vacates all wins.)
I mean, who got the Pac 12 South Division Title last year? USC or UCLA? Does anybody care? I know I don't. It's not going to change the fact that the second best team in that division played in the conference championship game, even if UCLA was given a paper division title. Does the Pac 12 even award "Division Titles"? Why does the B1G award Division Titles?
Either way, to me it makes the most sense that the Division Title is given to the team that has the best record in the regular season. It's a regular season thing. The Conference Championship is a postseason game, so they're ineligible for that. When the Division Champion is ineligible, they send the second place team instead. Miami (YTM) was given a Big East Co-Championship despite being ineligible for postseason play(I looked up the first banned team winning a conference that I could think of off the top of my head. I'm sure there are others, and it's entirely possible that others were not given an official Conference Championship).
This is just my opinion, but if you have the best record, you're the Division Champion, even if you're ineligible to play in the postseason. That's not "rewarding" them for cheating any more than allowing them to win games when they score more points than their opponent, even though they're ineligible to play in the postseason.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|So a 6-6 UCLA team playing
So a 6-6 UCLA team playing against Oregon and getting smoked is acceptable, only if UCLA is given the title????
This changes NOTHING. If Ohio or Penn State has the best record in the division, the second (or, theoretically, third if Oho & Penn State finish first and second) is going to the B1G Championship game. Who cares if the "division title" goes to the ineligible school in first place or the eligible school in second/third???
I just don't get your point about UCLA, at all. I don't even know if the Pac 12 gave the title to USC or UCLA, and it doesn't matter. UCLA was going to play in the title game regardless. And it's the same this year with Ohio & Penn State.
So, why, again, doesn't it make sense?
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|Drats! Conflabit.
Drats! Conflabit.
I was hoping to name a team that nobody else has said. 2001 Tennessee fell early, as did 75-76 Oklahoma, and 07 Oregon. (Oregon is the most underrated team in this discussion - as somebody else said, if Dixon stays healthy he wins the Heisman Trophy in a landslide on his way to a National Championshp. And that was a GOOD Michigan team they embarrassed in the Big House, The Horror aside.)
But yes, that 2002 Iowa team. That's the one I thought would slip through the cracks here. They beat Michigan 34-9 in the Big House. At the time, that was the bigget loss Michigan ever suffered in the Big House. Bigger than FSU in 91. (It was since surpassed by the aforementioned 07 Oregon team.) They did lose to Iowa State, inexplicably. But they went undefeated in the Big Ten, because due to scheduling they didn't play the eventual National Champion Ohio. (Compared to Iowa's 34-9 beatdown in AA, Ohio beat Michigan 14-9 in Columbus that year.) Also, Iowa played in the Orange Bowl because Ohio had the Big Ten's automatic bid (both were 8-0, Ohio was better in the non conference) and played in the National Championship game. That left Iowa as an at large, and the Orange Bowl got to pick before the Rose Bowl. (Since they lost Miami, which was the #1 team in the title game.) That was when they added the rule that's still in place, stipulating that when a bowl loses a team to the title game they get first shot at any other team from the same conference. (I defend the BCS more than most, but they're definitely reactive as opposed to proactive. That rule should've already been in place.)
Anywho, this is a tough question to quantify. This seems to have turned into a "Most Dominating Performance Against Michigan" question, which isn't necessarily the same thing as "best team" they've played. And there's also the issue of weighing what they did against Michigan compared to what they did that entire season(which holds back the 2006-07 USC team, as they lost games they shouldn't have that year, and also the Iowa team I mentioned)...and even bigger picture, what the players did in the NFL has been brought up several times. But that's an issue of "most talented" vs "best" team, which also aren't necessarily the same thing. If you're just talking about the most talented, one team that will (rightfully) never get mentioned is the 2007-08 Florida Gators. They were talented as hell - they won the National Championship the year before AND the year after and had loads of NFL talent. But they disappointed that year during the season and, of course, lost to Michigan. But there's no denying the talent on that team.
For me, it's 1991 Washington or 2003 USC. Both were loaded with talent, had the dominating seasons the talent suggested they should have(ironically, they both only won a split National Championship - although USC's split was only on a technicality, one poll was obligated to vote for LSU), and both convincingly beat very good Michigan teams. I might go with Washington just because they were undefeated(USC lost to an average Cal team in OT) and probably looked a little better against Michigan.
EDIT: A team that nobody named? 1984 BYU. They won the National Championship, FFS!
(Yes, I'm kidding.)
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|I lol'd. Well played,
I lol'd. Well played, sir.
I'd say the most likely reason is a disciplinary issue, but team rules as opposed to a legal thing. Being late for curfew is a good guess. The best guess, of course, is that we won't find out from Hoke.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|The point isn't incorrect,
The point isn't incorrect, you just missed the point, I believe.
The WILL or JACK linebacker is, for all intents and purposes, the end in a 3-4 defense. When the QB reads him, he's not reading anybody else. Which was the point that you seem to have missed: the QB is reading one player, not two.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|No, he's right. The QB reads
No, he's right. The QB reads the DE and the DE only. The LB doesn't enter into the equation until after the QB makes his decision. This is as simple as I can make it:
The end has two choices, take the RB or the QB. The QB has two options, keep it or give it to the RB via handoff or pitch. As you can see, each of the QB's options are directly linked to one of the end's choices. The QB reads the end, and makes the decision to keep it or handoff/pitch it. Nothing the LB does would alter that decision, because the ball can't end up in the hands of whoever the end is going after. And most of the time, the LB is going to be reacting to what the QB does anyway, so obviously the QB can't read someone who's reading him.
Running the ball is pretty much always a one read and go, for RBs too. You don't have time to do anything more than that if you're going to gain any yards. Passing the ball is where youmake multiple reads. Even then, for some mobile QBs(like Vick when he was at VT), you read one receiver and if he's covered you run.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|No redshirts at service
No redshirts at service academies, no. (They each have a prep school where some students will go for a year if they're not ready to play.) Four years to play four years, and then they're off to serve our country for another four years.
Really a shame this young man got hurt. I can't even imagine how much he and his family were looking forward to playing in the Big House.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|Just speaking for the B1G,
Just speaking for the B1G, like many others said, it's been one week. Let's calm down a little. Plus, at the end of the day, all but 2 won. One team lost to the best team in the country and the other had the most chaotic offseason in the history of athletics, including losing 10 of their best players in the frees leading up to the season. Yes, some of the other games were close. That's because the talent gap across college football of closing, which brings me to the second point.
Before I can answer where the B1G stands among other conferences, I would need to see how the other conferences did. I know many teams struggled. Pittsburgh lost to Youngstown State(by 14). Maryland nearly lost to William & Mary, as did Wake Forest to Liberty. Stanford barely beat San Jose State, Cal did lose to Nevada and Colorado did lose to Colorado State.
I think this would be a better conversation to have after all the non conference games are played, and we look at all conferences instead of just one.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|Yeah, but no
"argument is beyond weak. Every single team in the B10 (save NU maybe, I honestly don't know) has the same standards for football players as the SEC: pass the NCAA clearinghouse and you are in, with very few exceptions. I guess it's harder for us to get JUCO transfers but that's about it."
No truth here whatsoever. Except for maybe Vanderbilt, every SEC school is easier to get into than every B1G school. I'm not saying this to defend the B1G or say that's why they're struggling, I'm just saying it because it's the truth. The same goes for the PAC 12 and nobody says they're struggling. There is a big gap between the B1G/PAC 12/ACC at the top and the Big XII/Big East. Then there's an even bigger gap between those two and the SEC.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|In defense of all the
In defense of all the potential whiners, it's not whining given that it's completely valid. There's no excuse for putting him in that situation. None.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|If you had read that - any of
If you had read that - any of it - you would know that it didn't sound like that.
Of course, that assumes an ability to understand what you read.....
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|Fact stating =/= excuse
Fact stating =/= excuse making.
First of all, read the OP again. Well, not so much "again" since you probably didn't read it entirely in the first place, but you get my point. Nowhere does it state that Michigan lost to Alabama because they're a bunch of cheating cheaters who couldn't get out of a paper bag without cheating. In fact, quite the opposite, it says exactly what you did - Alabama won because they're the better team. The stuff about Alabama playing fast and loose with the rules was simply stating that Michigan will not be Alabama because they're not going to do that.
And secondly, Alabama pushes every boundary and tests every rule that the NCAA has. There's plenty of proof of that. And the fact is that every school/team/coach/player/person in the world - college sports, pro sports, and every day life - who pushes every boundary and tests every rule...is also breaking rules left and right without yet getting caught. Alabama has been caught several times in the past, and they will again. To say it's not happening because "there's no proof" is just naive.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|You must be either blind as a
You must be either blind as a bat or the most naive person on this board.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|I received simliar texts. My
I received simliar texts. My response was always the same: 49-7
That was the final score of the 2011 Capital One Bowl, Alabama vs. Michigan State.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|We could definitely play
We could definitely play Arizona(supposedly they promised Rich Rod a game against Michigan in the near future when they hired him), but that's not a replacement for Notre Dame, and it'd probably be a one time game in Ann Arbor instead of a home and home.
If they're going to add Arizona, I'd rather it be sooner than 2018 to increase the likelihood that Rich Rod is still there. (My guess is he's either fired or leaves for a better job by then.)
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|The 2003 game wasn't as ugly
The 2003 game wasn't as ugly as the 2007 game, but the 2007 game is just one of those games you try to pretend never happened. The 2003 game still haunts me. Such a frustrating game, from barely having the ball in the first half before the second half comeback, actually recovering an onside kick with 2 minutes left, but come up just short. They could have and should have won that game...and if they did, they probably play Oklahoma for the National Championship that year instead of LSU. They may have even been ahead of USC in the human polls and could've prevented a split title with a win.
|1 year 47 weeks ago
|In his defense, he never came
In his defense, he never came close to offering the job to Harbaugh or Miles. And the thing you claim we're "pretending" is actually, you know, the truth. You make it sound like he had hundreds of choices, got turned down by all of them, and ended up with Hoke by default. Nobody knows where Hoke was on the list(he certainly was ahead of Harbaugh and Miles since, again, you're lying to yourself if you think they got offers), but if he wasn't at the top he wasn't far from it either. He chose him, he didn't back into him.
But go ahead and keep telling yourself DB is horrible if it helps you sleep at night. I look forward to the nonsense that gets pinned on him, like when he was called cheap for not sending the Banner to Dallas....despite the fact that it would both be cheap and be unprecedented for Michigan as they don't take the banner to road games. Yes, I am aware that these people were just mad that DB robbed them of the chance to rant and scream about how he's destroying Michigan's traditions by taking the Banner on the road.


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Trading clicks for turns, clarity for static ... and really loving it
It starts with a high-pitched squeal followed by a burst of static.
I sit bathed in an eerie purplish light, straining to hear a ghostly voice that grows in volume and then fades. I'm in the basement, hunkered over an ancient shortwave receiver. The light from its tubes — no transistors or solid-state electronics here — makes the room seem as mysterious as a Jules Verne submarine. Upstairs there are computers, HDTVs and the modern world. But down here I am 13 years old and at the controls of a magical device.
My secret is revealed: I'm an analog guy in a digital world. Shortwave listening, once the drug of choice for nerds, is an unlikely hobby nowadays. After all, that distant station I'm straining to hear probably is also available as a crystal clear audio stream somewhere on the Internet.
So how can I stand before you today, with no fingers crossed, and tell you that you may find both education and joy through shortwave listening? I'll do my best. But keep in mind that there really is an element of magic here, something to be experienced more than explained.
Maybe we'll start with this. We're living in the richest time the world has ever known when it comes to the availability of information from around the globe. But much of it arrives filtered – downsized into sound bites and a few seconds of video carefully selected and massaged by an editor. Almost everything you see and read has been interpreted and edited by professionals.
But when I spin the dial on my shortwave I travel to the source. Perhaps it's the voice of an airline captain over the Atlantic reporting his position to an operator in New York. Or I may happen on music from a country I couldn't even begin to spell. At other times I'll come across news broadcasts from around the world — news that is told with the built-in biases and prejudices of the originating country. It's all unfiltered, all coming to me as it happens. It's such a random smorgasbord of information that there would be no way to duplicate it with a television or computer.
Unlike TV or the Web, shortwave listening is a lot like fishing. You never know what you'll catch. Those who try it for the first time often find satisfaction and even excitement as they troll these waters and make their own catches for the first time.
The good thing, if you'd like to try it, is that you can do it with equipment that's up-to-date and easy to use. There's no need to hunt down the antique tube-type shortwave receiver I own. It's as big as a suitcase and cluttered with meters and control knobs. You'll do just as well, maybe better, with modern battery-powered shortwave receivers that range in size. The range of prices also is wide. You can dip your toe in for $100 or so, or join me in grander style at $500 or a lot more. This website, http://www.hamuniverse.com/shortwave.html, takes a deeper look at shortwave listening. It also offers reviews and specific recommendations for receivers, including an excellent one that sells for not much more than $100.
I limit shortwave listening columns to just one every year or two. The first time I tried writing about shortwave I was scared it would be an odd jolt to readers and editors alike. Boy, was I wrong. Each time I've received notes from readers who gave it a try and discovered the magic for themselves. But it would be silly for me to think that shortwave listening will hit the right notes with everyone.
So here's the great part. Even if you pop $100 or so for a receiver and find it's not for you, your money hasn't been wasted. These tiny battery-powered shortwave receivers do a fine job of tuning in regular AM and FM broadcasts. That means they can tune in local news during weather emergencies when the power is out. Even during times when the power is working, they provide a good way to enjoy music or sports while in the backyard.
Despite messing with shortwave as both a listener and an amateur radio operator since I was 13, I have never come up with a good way of knowing in advance the types of people who will like it. So all I can do is gently whisper that it's possible you'll find it fits with the ease and comfort of a old cotton sweater.
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