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i am a spread zealot no foolies
Hokepoints Has a Running Quarterback
read option [Fuller]
I am determined this spring to mine every possible stat for every possible insight. This week I delved into quarterback rushes. Not sacks. I wanted to know which offenses tended to have their quarterbacks take off, or planned runs for them into their game plans.
Baseline: here's Michigan and their opponents last year. Sacks and yardage lost to them are not counted, but I couldn't tell from scrambles and QB sneaks, or stuff like if he took off for 10 yards on 3rd and 15 that defenses are happy to give up:
|Season Avg
|vs Mich
|QB Rush
|QB Rush
|Central Michigan
|Notre Dame
|Penn State
|Michigan State
|Ohio State
|Kansas State
|NCAA Avg
Indiana, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, and Kansas State ran option games. Minnesota's offense was QB power running (thing it is like: Michigan's 2010 offense when Rodriguez gave up on trying to make Denard into a zone reader). According to the UFR database Minnesota quarterback running plays vs Michigan were as follows: 7 QB powers; 2 draws; 2 zone read keepers; a false zone arc sweep thing, a QB sneak, and 7 scrambles.
The stats can't tell the difference between this kind of offense and a dedicated Richrodigan spread 'n shred. There aren't many teams who run this as their base offense, as simple as it may be, but a lot of teams have a mobile change-of-pace quarterback and a small package built around him. Notable teams who deployed a second guy:
|Player (2014 Elig)
|% of Snaps
|% Will Pass
|Austin Boucher (graduated)
|Austin Gearing (So.)
|Drew Kummer (Jr.)
|Nate Sudfeld (Jr.)
|Tre Roberson (Jr.)
|C.J. Brown (11th year Sr.)
|Caleb Rowe (Jr.)
|Philip Nelson (transferred)
|Mitch Leidner (So.)
|Gary Nova (Sr.)
|Chas Dodd (graduated)
|Tommy Armstrong (So.)
|Ron Kellogg III (graduated)
|Taylor Martinez (graduated)
|Trevor Siemian (Sr.)
|Kain Colter (graduated)
|Braxton Miller (Sr.)
|Ohio State
|Kenny Guiton (graduated)
I included Rutgers to show Chas Dodd wasn't a Drew Henson-ian run threat except in comparison to Gary Nova.
[Jump: Okay spread zealots, do teams with running QBs have an advantage?]
Unverified Voracity Has Alligator Stadium
I wonder where fightin' bird guy is today. North Dakota may want to stop playing Frozen Four semifinals. First you've got the Life As A Vole Hunwick game…
…and then last night a Minnesota defenseman with zero goals on the season scored a shorthander with 0.6 seconds left to knock them out. Seriously.
North Dakota won their consolation game in the league playoffs to push Michigan out of the tournament, which I was mad about but maybe I should thank them because I would be waking up in a dumpster today if that had happened to Michigan. I would not feel well.
Minnesota plays Union for the title tomorrow at 7:30. Go Union, if only to see Mark Emmert's head explode. THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE, MARK.
I mean why would you want to do that. An excellent article on Fox Sports about Derek Mason, former Stanford DC and new guy at Vanderbilt discusses how Mason came to prominence thanks to his ability to adapt to the hurry-up spread offenses that are kind of a big deal when you're in the same division as Oregon. Mason lays out the four things that up tempo does for your offense, and while they're really only three things if you can divide it's a good framework for understand why the spread keeps spreading, Danielson be damned:
1) Defenses get stuck in one call
While defensive coordinators enter a game with a long list of plays, the defenders on the field are often forced to play the same call repeatedly when the ball is being snapped every 14-18 seconds. The middle linebacker often looks to the sideline only to see the defensive signal-caller frantically gesturing to repeat the last call.
2) Defenses don't get ready in time
Even when defensive players get their play call on time – some defenses will often call two or three plays in advance when facing an up-tempo team – you will often see the defenders unsuccessfully scurrying to get into their proper alignment before the ball is snapped.
3) One-on-one matchups
Tackling a skill player one-on-one in space is one of the most difficult tasks in football. Up-tempo offenses often operate out of a spread scheme that forces defenses to cover the entire width and length of the field, as Mason noted.
4) More snaps per game
I'm not clear on why more snaps are necessarily better, at least insofar as you get more snaps because you're moving faster. More snaps are obviously good because that means you didn't punt; outside of that the only thing I can think of there is that defenders tend to get tired more quickly than offensive players. Substitution patterns certainly indicate that's the case.
I would also add that a high tempo team is more flexible in its approach to the clock: for them slowing it down is a matter of hanging out at the line of scrimmage longer than they usually do. For a team that does not operate in a hurry-up environment, accelerating is considerably more difficult.
Mason's reacted to the above issues by having hybrid players who may not be the best at any one thing but can straddle the line between run support and pass coverage, having simple, quick playcalls, and training their defenders the way Oregon trains offense: relentless pace.
Anyway: Hoke talk about toughness is grating these days because he's content with an offense that doesn't try to make it tough on other people. Toughness is something Michigan has to have because things are being done to them. (It is also grating because Michigan finished dead last in tackles for loss allowed in year three of being a Tough Team that Runs Power.)
Excellent timing. You may find yourself suddenly more interested in this profile of Mark Donnal the Daily published five days ago. He's getting hype; let's hope it pans out.
Donnal's not sure when exactly it was, just that it came around the middle of the regular season, but he turned a corner. He'd found success against Morgan and Horford enough in practice that he knew he belonged.
"I started to pick up everything, and my game started to come back to me, and I'm getting in the flow of the college game," Donnal said.
If it wasn't for the redshirt, Morgan and Horford might have had to worry about their job security.
"He's becoming a force," Morgan said. "He's hard to guard down there in the post, and he's definitely come a long way.
"Over the past couple months, he's just become really good. Really dominates, shoots the ball well."
Donnal is still just 18—he's young, like Caris—and has upside yet to tap.
Brace yourself! Someone at Penn State has been in the photoshop doin' the shrooms.
ANIMORPHS RT @coachjfranklin: The LION has always been a part of me,waiting for the right time 2 show his face.. pic.twitter.com/YVz3wb9TKh"
— Matt Brown (@MattSBN) April 11, 2014
James Franklin being a great recruiter is a kids these days kind of thing.
At least we're not alone. On the one hand, Ohio State has a real spring game with a player draft and opens practices to students, and this makes me sad because it's clear their athletic department doesn't have quite the contempt for their fans that Michigan's does. On the other, they're not immune from Creating The Future either.
Didn't know Ohio State was charging $20 for a scrimmage. Guessing the same dipshit there who tries to seize blog assets came up with that.
— Ramzy Nasrallah (@ramzy) April 11, 2014
On a third, mutant hand, imagine a version of the Michigan spring game that anyone, dipshit or not, could believe was worth 20 dollars. OSU knocked the price down to 5, apparently. I wonder if there are punting drills.
Okay bro. I'll take this shot from a fan of any program but two:
Here's a hard and round number for you: 10 years. That's how long its been since Michigan has won a Big Ten championship. To locate a gap that pronounced in Michigan's storied and (schadenfreude alert) oppressively self-congratulatory history, you have to hearken back to the pre-Schembechler era.
Those programs are Notre Dame and especially—especially—Penn State, which author Michael Weinreb is a fan of. Until Sandusky blew everything all to hell, Penn State was recruiting kids by noting that they'd never been on probation.
Their mantra of "Success With Honor" implies that most places having success don't have honor. Michigan's is just about winning football games. Penn State was stuck so far up its own butt smelling roses that they allowed the worst thing in the history of college football to happen. You might not want to claim Michigan's history is "oppressively self-congratulatory" in that context.
Ok, bro. Get The Picture finds this assertion in Northwestern's appeal to the national NLRB:
Contrary to the Regional Director's findings, Northwestern scholarship football student-athletes are not "initially sought out, recruited and ultimately granted scholarships because of their athletic prowess on the football field."
I would have believed this in the 1980s. Nowadays the only school that can claim that with a straight face is Purdue.
Wow. Bursaspor's new stadium is… it's this.
Orson says he'd trade the Swamp for this as long as the interior was searing orange, and… yeah, you'd have to do it. I await Spencer's longform piece on Turkish soccer with bated breath, and not just because I once pretend-managed a Turkish third-division team to the Champions League title despite Turkey's restrictive rules on foreign soccer players. Also because in Turkey things like this happen:
The club switched names with crosstown club Kayseri Erciyesspor in 2004.
YANKEES: "We're sick of being the Yankees. Would you like to be the Yankees?"
METS: "Jolly good. Here's Mr. Met and a legacy of crippling failure."
Also they have doner kebab. They are probably the origin of doner kebab. Go Turkey.
The usual. Kam Chatman is up to #38 on ESPN's final recruit rankings and draws mention as one of their top risers:
Kameron Chatman, Michigan: He's a classic late bloomer who has continued to improve at a rapid rate and yet very clearly still has his best basketball in front of him. A highly skilled southpaw with excellent size on the wing, Chatman's frame has now started to fill out at a much more rapid rate, giving him the versatility not just to splash 3s over contesting defenders but also to diversify his offensive game around the rim. He's also a deceptively good ball handler and very good passer, all of which will be utilized in Michigan's offensive system. The bottom line is that it was clear he was still trending up, so he jumped 13 spots.
A palpable fit.
Etc.: I'm here for the sex… ual misconduct investigation. Breaking down the best offenses of the Kenpom era. The 1995 Virginia game on the tubes. Basketball would like to add another quality home game to next year's schedule. Magnus on the spring game. Stapleton on Michigan's sophomores-to-be. The state of Michigan basketball.
Dear Diary is in the Zone
So we've got ourselves a new offensive coordinator. I guess there's no use hiding that I'm on the more ambivalent end of the spectrum of Michigan fans, but I'm a spread zealot, and I admit another gorram transition is just too painful a prospect right this moment. At the very least it was the kind of PR coup that resets the countdown clock on Hoke's tenure. These days you only get to play the "it was my offensive coordinator's fault" card once per Rose Bowl trip, but this was the right time to do so. I'm probably just a cynic who's been sold a bill of Mariucci over Mornhinwheg to believe in any apparent upgrade. Let's see if the readers can convince me otherwise.
Eye of the TIger tried. He found some quotes by an ex-Bama player on how Inside Zone is repped to insanity, which can be taken as evidence of philosophical thinking, or taken as the zone version of Hoke's "Power" philosophy which admittedly never materialized under Borges anyway.
|The thing about Barrett Jones is you don't have to make tough decisions about what your OL can and can't do.
Tiger pointed out that Alabama's riches in offensive lineman size allowed them to depart from the typical suite of complementary plays and players that limits you to. It's supposed to be this:
Inside Zone has another advantage--flexibility:
The majority of the time in a zone blocking scheme the tailback will follow the design of the play, but occasionally the tailback will perform a cutback and change direction during the run. A cutback is when the tailback changes direction and runs away from where the linebackers are flowing (the tailback can only do this once and must not hesitate). This cutback made by the tailback is what makes zone blocking so dangerous because of how easily a cutback can lead to a big play. The cutback exaggerates the advantages of the zone-blocking scheme.
Watch this video highlighting Texas' use of Inside Zone to see this point illustrated nicely, not only for cutbacks, but for alternate read options.
Major advantages: You can run an offense with less experienced OL and opens up a bigger growth curve for RBs, who become more effective the more comfortable they get at reading the holes and cutback lanes.
Major disadvantage: It's way harder to run play-action from a zone running look. Reason is nothing gets defenders thinking run like a good running MANBALL (or inverted veer) team pulling a guard. Second reason is the small, cut-rate scatbacks that zone lets you get away with don't typically make very good pass blockers. I probably don't have to tell this to 2013 Michigan fans.
At Alabama they overcame the disadvantage by having massive/quick OL who are naturally difficult obstacles to a pass rusher, and with 5-star running backs who can cut, block, slam, juke, and jet, all for three easy payments of $3,995.95, plus shipping and handler's fee (order now and we'll throw in a free safety). At Michigan, well, actually, we've got just those kinds of guys on campus now. Maybe?
Also there's this:
@michiganinsider I think people don't realize how handcuff Nuss was at Bama, he called the plays, but Nick was in control, handcuffs are off
— Theus DeShon Sears (@Theist313) January 10, 2014
And here I am a quarter way through UFRing an Alabama game. Anyone got Washington tapes?
P.S. I purposely stayed vague on the Song of Ice and Fire references; you're not off the hook from a season recap.
Etc. A CoFoPoff refresher, Hockey poll update (Michigan is 8th), more on Mary Sue Coleman's heir (I vote Ken Whisenhunt for all openings).
[After the jump: the board goes Borges for Nuss]
Unverified Voracity Bids Crystal Adieu
It's over. Hooray?
And lo, it ended. It ended for us before the new year, and now it's all over, all of it: the season, the BCS, the goofy bowl scheduling. Next year, there are three large games on New Year's Eve and three large games on New Year's Day, two of which are national semifinals leading to a final the next week.
The BCS itself was sent off with a grander finale than it deserved, a taut back-and-forth affair between Florida State and pretty-much-arbitrarily-chosen Auburn that worked out, unlike near-arbitrary matchups that ended up in one sided blowouts with another team with a near-identical resume looked on in disgust. With the playoff these outrages have been reduced in intensity and spread over a greater number of teams, which seems like progress.
How long this holds before expansion and realignment kicks in, I don't know. I tend to think we'll end up with an eight-team playoff sooner rather than later, and from there who knows what happens. Someone will say "but we can get more money," probably, and then things spiral on and on.
At the very least, a bunch of bad ideas have ceased to impact college football, like
- Coaches voting on teams they haven't seen and have a huge conflict of interest about
- Retired coaches voting based on what Oklahoma was like in 1975
- Computer polls that can't take margin of victory or anything else into account
- Richard Billingsley
Whether the new ideas are better is yet to be seen; they almost can't be worse.
OH GOOD. Penn State may have been an incestuous mockery of an athletic department for years, but by God did they turn that around quickly. Bill O'Brien goes so well that an NFL team scoops him up after two years and their sanction-riddled mess of a program heading for a crater is about hire away…
#Vandy coach James Franklin has emerged as the clear frontrunner for the vacancy at #PennState, per source
— Bruce Feldman (@BFeldmanCBS) January 7, 2014
...the guy who turned Vanderbilt from a 2-10 type outfit into a consistent bowl participant and all-around thorn in the side of the SEC. Ace and I are trying to come up with the last Big Ten coach to have 1) a job at the time of his hire and 2) a resume better than Franklin's, and, well…
[12:22 PM] Ace: is it bad that kevin wilson was the first name that came to mind?
[12:22 PM] Brian Cook: #ImitateAdam_Jacobi
…we're having some difficulty. Ace throws out Dantonio, but Dantonio's record in three years at Cincinnati was 18-17. Best we've got is Gary Andersen at Wisconsin, who implemented a hugely impressive build at Utah State. But I dunno man, Vandy is coming off back to back 9-4 years. Vandy. Which is in the SEC.
Not sure how good of a cultural fit the fiery, weird Franklin (remember that thing about how he only hires guys with hot wives?) will be at Penn State, but for a team in their situation to poach the hot up and coming SEC guy is impressive.
Unless this is all agents getting their dude a raise, but there's a lot of smoke here indicating he's the guy. Which will mean Michigan is in a division with Urban, Dantonio, and Franklin. Plus Randy Edsall. It's not all bad, I guess.
That was awesome, do it more. Twitter was agog about the ESPN News section of ESPN's BCS overkill broadcast, as it featured coaches (and Chris Spielman and Matt Millen) with instant off the cuff reactions to what was going on. I was with Twitter. Spielman's fervor for assignments came through clearly as he steamed about Auburn's screen touchdown, and then Kevin Sumlin jumped in to say that is what Auburn does, they put the eye candy in front of you for just those reasons, and everything was just terrific.
A few suggestions:
- Everyone do this all the time. Seriously, I would watch Glen Mason in a room just dying in disgust as he tries to watch Michigan run the ball. This may qualify as torture under the Geneva Convention; if it doesn't, do it.
- The game is the most important bit, so make it the whole screen, with the coaches popping in with small PIP boxes. The All-22 camera angle combined with the smaller box for the actual game was problematic, and I have a huge TV. Maximize the game size; no need to cut to visuals of Spielman, et al., when I can hear them talking.
- Cut two guys. One guy to run things, one D guy, one O guy, and Spielman.
- Send small electric shocks to anyone who talks in platitudes, like Paul Chryst did much of the night.
Thumbs up.
What I have been trying to express all year. Smart Football profiles Gus Malzahn for Grantland. This is the core of the offensive philosophy that brought Auburn from 0-8 in the SEC to the precipice of the national title in one year with a converted cornerback at QB:
Malzahn had never been in charge of an offense before. Searching for help, he turned to a book famous in coaching circles, The Delaware Wing-T: An Order of Football, by Harold "Tubby" Raymond, and followed it "word-for-word."
The genius of Raymond's book is that it's not merely a collection of football plays, though there's still plenty of that. Instead, it's primarily a treatise on how to think about offensive football. "The Wing-T is more than a formation," Raymond wrote. "It is sequence football." The animating idea behind Raymond's "Delaware" wing-T was his belief that the best offenses were built around a tightly wound collection of plays that fit together so that defenses effectively dictated the next play; each time a team tries to stop one thing, it opens itself up to something else. Beginning in the 1950s and lasting into the early 2000s — first as an assistant under wing-T innovator David Nelson, then as head coach from the mid-1960s on — Raymond fielded teams that devastated defenses. If the opposition tried to stop his base plays, Raymond had counters to his counters, counters to his counters to his counters, and so on. He amplified this "sequential" approach by "utilizing the misdirection theme to its fullest." With a dizzying array of motions, backfield actions, and fakes, Raymond correctly determined that defenses wouldn't be able to stop his offense if they couldn't find the ball.
Auburn's offense is a modernized version of that. It's like Fritz Crisler, basically, except not as wacky. Michigan does not have a tightly wound collection of plays, partially because they can't execute basic runs and partially because that's just not how Al Borges rolls. Borges does have sets of plays that are interrelated, but instead of piling wrinkle on wrinkle like Malzahn does—his thing this year was double arc blocks…
…Borges goes to a different package once his previous stuff has been figured out. And they dispense with the frippery. To me that's a philosophical thing on par with huddling.
How do you run the ball in college football? The top 25 teams in yards per carry this year, with offense type appended (note: distinction between spread to run teams and passing spread teams largely based on how many yards the QB had. Generally spread to run teams had 500+ QB rushing yards, and usually 700+).
|Ohio State
|Spread to run
|Northern Illinois
|Spread to run
|Spread to run
|Spread to run
|New Mexico
|Spread to run
|Passing spread
|Spread to run
|Florida State
|Passing spread
|Georgia Tech
|Passing spread
|Spread to run
|Passing spread
|Boston College
|Spread to run
|Spread to run
|Texas A&M
|Spread to run
|Spread to run
|Passing spread
|Passing spread
|Western Kentucky
Yeah, it's possible to have a good running game by going under center and grinding it out, but is it likely? Four of the top 25 teams are pro-style outfits, one of which is Alabama and their overwhelming talent. Is Michigan going to be Wisconsin? I hope so, because that's the only way we get on this list.
Dolla dolla bill. We have money. Some of it comes from the only incompetent Germans.
According to a study done by the Portland Business Journal, Michigan's contract with Adidas (which is currently set to expire in 2016) is the most lucrative apparel deal in the country. Yes, more than Oregon's flashy contractual arrangement with Nike.
Per the study, Michigan currently receives a total of $8.2 million annually from Adidas stemming from the contract signed in 2007 between the two parties.
Michigan receives $4.4 million in equipment and apparel, and $3.8 million in cash. That's more than twice as much as the next-highest school in the Big Ten, Nebraska, which makes a total of $4 million from Adidas.
Part of that is the fact that Michigan has so many sports, which drives up the equipment and apparel bit. I wonder what will happen in 2016; that Most Favored Nation status Martin acquired has long driven ND crazy and Michigan's national appeal has… uh… suffered in recent years. The brand, if you will. Maybe we'll run an ad campaign about how we know our football is terrible so we changed our football sauce.
Etc.: Noah Spence got suspended for… ecstasy? See you at DEMF, bro. Bring your glowsticks. Here are the twitter jokes about this you need to read. Jake Butt makes Leno. Congrats? HAIL SPIELMAN.
This Week's Obsession: The Borges Leap
Oh boy.
Our roundtable's obsession this bye: what to do if you're Borges. The cast:
Scott Bakula as Brian Cook, a quantum physicist who becomes trapped on the internet following an experiment with trying to understand zone stretch plays.
Dean Stockwell as Seth Fisher, a cavalier, cigar-smoking hologram sidekick who's always playing with his doohicky smartphone thing.
Deb Pratt as Mathlete, a super hybrid computer that runs Project Points Above Normal.
Dennis Wolfberg as Heiko, a programmer and doctor described as short and annoying.
|Having Dileo in the slot blocks a SAM more effectively than asking Funchess to block that guy. [Upchurch]
Okay I'm out of Quantum Leap characters. Next person to respond gets to be the chimpanzee. That question:
By an extraordinary string of events that in no way represents unauthorized usage of the MGoBlog credit card, I have managed to procure for us one (1) trip via the Quantum Leap machine into the mind of Al Borges. We may send just one person--totally undetected--to control the mind of Borges from now until Minnesota kickoff, and must use it to fix Michigan's offense. Remember, once you are out of his head Borges takes over again. What would you do, implement, change, practice, and rep if this was you?
Heiko: Well I actually succeeded in doing this and it resulted in the last two weeks so I am staying away now.
[After the jump: Brian's 8-step program.]
The Worst Part Of It
9/14/2013 – Michigan 28, Akron 24 – 3-0
Bryan Fuller
What was the worst thing about the events that took place in Michigan Stadium on Saturday? There are dozens of candidates vying for the crown. A selection:
That moment when Taylor Lewan was down. Almost picked up the very cute small child in front of me and threw it onto the field. Hey, don't judge me. It could have popped on an Akron helmet and stopped Fitzgerald Toussaint for a one-yard loss. It would have been in no danger of anything except padding its stats.
Small children stopping Fitzgerald Toussaint for one-yard losses. Akron's line consists of a six-year-old, ten-year-old, a guy named Bob who they found walking into the game, and an actual scholarship athlete who chose Akron and is therefore so crazy he insists everyone calls him "Pope Licentiousness III." Fitzgerald Toussaint averaged under four yards a carry against them, and about 80% of his first down runs resulted in second and eleven.
That pick-six. Not digging that M starts every game in an 0-7 hole.
All of it. An obvious contender.
The ruination of an entire Saturday of college football. Don't know about you, but that sapped me so much that I could barely remain awake after it and looked at the other games dully before falling asleep just into the second half of Purdue-Notre Dame. I missed the Wisconsin-Arizona State madness as a result. Never has a win felt so much like a loss.
The severe correction in season expectations. Michigan plays Akron straight up; Notre Dame executes a stirring fourth-quarter comeback to top a team that beat Indiana State thanks to a trick kickoff return on the first play of the day. I liked it better when Michigan had solidly defeated a team obviously headed for ten wins because of its overwhelming talent, and was not the equal of one of the worst teams in college football.
The repudiation of the idea that events follow from other events and can be projected with any certainty. Just because something happened before does not mean it is likely to happen again. Devin Gardner can beat Notre Dame nearly singlehandedly and lose to Akron nearly singlehandedly. Michigan can look like the best team in the Big Ten for two weeks and play a dead-even game with a team that has gone 1-11 the past three seasons and hasn't beaten a I-A opponent since November of 2010. At any moment the laws of physics that bind our component molecules together could catastrophically alter themselves, turning us all into rapidly disintegrating collections of atoms that suddenly hate each other. (IE, how you felt in the fourth quarter.)
My adorable nine-year old niece experiencing her first Michigan game one seat away from me. Sometimes it is nice to take the pressure building inside your head and throw some of it into the atmosphere via colorful expectoration of words. In this manner, you vent dangerous levels of pressure to the atmosphere. When the best you can muster is an under-your-breath "Jesus Christ," your inner control panels look like Chernobyl instead of Fukushima, and you can hear the BEEP BLORP BEEP BLORP as you try not to fall over.
MGoNiece reports that the game was "fun" and "exciting," and not "three hours during which I learned many new words that make my mom cry and that Uncle Brian is possessed by Satan." MGoNiece remains as pure as the driven snow, at all costs.
How familiar it all felt. The first time I thought "this can't be happening" in Michigan Stadium, Michigan was losing to Northwestern. That Northwestern outfit would win en route to their first Rose Bowl in forever, but they walked in overrated pretenders to my 15-year-old self. They were not. Over the course of the game my attitude shifted from annoyance to disappointment to concern to chest-clenching-panic. Back then I kept thinking "how can this happen?"
Here we are again, following up a Notre Dame win with a severe expectations check that bodes unwell for the season. In 2010, a 42-37 win over UMass was an early indicator that Michigan had the worst defense in the history of the program. This one promises a year of quarterbacks given time to complete PhDs in the pocket and far too many "my bad" blocks.
Now our best hope is that contender a little farther up the page: that causation has failed and we're just coasting along on the universe's sufferance. Michigan will come out against UConn and turn them into gray paste, because that's what the random number generator says next Saturday. That's the ticket.
I don't think "how can this happen" anymore. Not after 10-7 over Utah or 24-21 over SDSU or that Ball State game or The Horror or Toledo. I think "not again." I thought I was done thinking "not again" for a while. Apparently not. I'll be over here, trying to keep all my molecules from fleeing into space.
This is Akron's perspective:
At 1:40 you can see that the pick intended for Gallon is just a horrible read; with the corner sinking the crossing route to Funchess is the obvious throw. The deciding play from the first row of the student section.
He's going to have to start putting some good things that happen to the other team if he can only get up to seven minutes by including Akron not executing the snap correctly.
[After THE JUMP: a first-ever for Epic Double Point, and a lot of complaining.]


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condition at Children's Hospital in Birmingham after he was shot by a
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According to
the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, an 11-year-old boy was shot and
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The suspect, a 13-year-old,
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Little flash in transactions from 2009-10 season
Keith from LetsGoAmerks! with a great piece on where things stand in Rochester, along with predictions for a number of current organizational assets.
From The Oswegonian: "At 6'2" 210lbs, Selleck gives both the Panthers and Americans a physical presence in the line up. Selleck is known for his physical play, accumulating 137 penalty minutes in 53 games in the 2006-07 season and a team-leading 120 penalty minutes in 49 games in the 2007-08 season with the Lumber Kings. Upon arriving at Oswego State, Selleck accumulated 45 penalty minutes in 26 games in his freshman year and 48 penalty minutes in 28 games during his sophomore year." And it's not limited to the physical stuff. Read on above.
There's been nothing official from the organization or SUNY Oswego's website, but in case the decorated 22-year old forward indeed signed - which CapGeek.com claims has happened last week - a bit of background can be found at the link above. It may be Division III, but check out those numbers regardless. Averaging 1.96 points per game? Worth a look.
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Oct 21, 2013, 10:44 #1
How to pass parameter to function with unequal arguments
I know how to pass parameters between functions, but I want to pass around parameters between functions with unequal arguments like an example below:
function a(i) { return(i); c(i); } function b(j) { return(j); c(j); } function c(i,j) { return(i+j); }
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If you mean you want to pass variable numbers of parameters, then JavaScript allows that anyway.
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Oct 21, 2013, 11:15 #3
Thank for your help,
So you are suggesting that if there is only function a is working at the time, function c will do it job anyway. I want variable i from function a always the first argument in c and not j from function b.


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Covering 28,000 square miles of wilderness, with grassy plains, open woodland, mountains and forests, the Selous Game Reserve, named after the great explorer and hunter, Frederick Courtney Selous, is Africa's largest game reserve. It's about three times the size of South Africa's Kruger National Park, and twice the size of the Serengeti National Park. In a fitting tribute, it's also one of Tanzania's three World Heritage Sites. Sand Rivers has a wonderful position deep inside the Selous Game Reserve, overlooking a wide curve in the Rufiji River. It has a long-standing reputation as one of Tanzania's best camps, with luxurious accommodation, pleasant views and generally excellent guiding. Life at Sand Rivers is relaxed, with each day planned specifically for each individual guest as desired. The staff has a great love and knowledge of the game reserve and want each guest to experience the best the area has to offer. The lounge and dining area are situated in an open-sided thatched boma on the edge of the Rufiji River. The mix of white-washed and stone walls, carved wooden furniture, luxurious soft furnishings and African decorations, the result is a rustic yet homely and relaxed atmosphere. A curved swimming pool is located adjacent to the lounge area with panoramic views of the river and wilderness beyond. Sand Rivers also has a small curio shop which sells a variety of items. Sand Rivers Selous' accommodations are comprised of eight open-fronted cottages made of stone and thatch and raised on platforms overlooking the river. All rooms have king-sized beds covered by delicately draped mosquito netting and earth tone fabrics, as well as a ceiling fan. Plug sockets are dispersed throughout the cottage for recharging batteries. En-suite bathrooms are open-fronted with white stone floors and great views provide hot and cold running water, flush toilets and powerful showers. At Sand Rivers, numerous activities are included with your accommodation. Game driving in 4x4 vehicles are a great way to cover a bit of distance to get the best views, access and photographic opportunities. Walking safaris provide a sense of spontaneity and adventure, enabling guests and guides to participate in the environment without affecting the game's movements. In contrast, boating safaris on the Rufiji River provide spectacular surprises, as the game comes to you.
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The good: The comfortable and sturdy Able Planet NC1100B noise-canceling headphones offer effective noise-canceling circuitry, fold for compact storage in an included carrying case, have a volume control integrated into the cord, and are usable without turning on noise cancellation.
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Disappointing Performance if compared to Bose QC15.
by mackdelarocha on December 8, 2011
Pros: Good looking. Seem to be built well. Comfortable (even when wearing glasses). Ability to use them even without batteries. Sound quality is OK. In-line volume control. I got them at a discounted price.
Cons: Sound quality is just OK. FAR too expensive retail pricing. Noise cancelling is VERY, VERY disappointing. Able Planet customer service is lacking in responsiveness and courtesy, and therefore "customer service".
Summary: I first heard about this product through a Groupon. By the time I did a little bit of research on Able Planet, the Groupon had sold out. I contacted Able ...
Summary: I first heard about this product through a Groupon. By the time I did a little bit of research on Able Planet, the Groupon had sold out. I contacted Able Planet's customer service to inquire about any future discounts. What I received was less than satisfying, to say the least. The email response was short, offered no apology, suggestion, or any semblance of a solution, and to top it all off, there wasn't even a signature line. (Maybe I'm too sensitive but this response was not acceptable for a potential customer that might spend upwards of $300 on product. To their defense, the rep explained that they were a small company and had been swamped by the Groupon offering, thus the short response.) After raising a complaint, I was offered the Clear Harmony at the rate of $100, plus shipping. (The Groupon was $79 total.)Several delays in shipping later, I received my headphones.
Pros: the Clear Harmony's are good looking, well built, lightweight and relatively compact. The case is of manageable size and seems as if it will protect the contents against normal use. Trying them on, they fit snuggly yet comfortably, and felt secure. They seal nicely around the ears and muffle outside sound simply by sealing well. I wear glasses and even after an hour or so of use, they remained quite comfy. The inline volume control is nice, though when very carefully adjusting, you find "jumps" in the volume. The ability to use them even with the power turned off is a HUGE plus, for occasions when you're fresh out of batteries.
Cons: The noise cancelling is poor. The main reason that I purchased these was for air travel and the ability to shut out engine (and people) noise, even when not listening to music. I am greatly disappointed in the performance of this feature. Strange as it may sound (no pun intended), the noise cancelling feature actually seems to have the opposite effect when turned on. There is a slight echo or hollow sound with the headphones on your ears and the power off but when the power is switched on, it merely "deadens" the echo thus making outside sounds almost sound clearer. It's hard to explain what's lacking and with no frame of reference, you likely wouldn't know what to expect. However, I have tried a friends' Bose QC15s on a plane and they are really quite amazing. When the Bose are on your ears with the power off, they have the same basic feel and sound as these but the second you turn the power on, it's almost like you have earplugs in. They are that impressive. The Clear Harmony's really shouldn't even be mentioned in the same discussion. These are two totally separate classes. The reason that I even mention the Bose here is that they retail at the same price point. I honestly don't know what Able Planet's reasoning is for this. I'll just say that if you are considering spending $300 on noise cancelling headphones, buy the Bose. The Clear Harmony don't even come close in performance. Another let down is in the sound quality. While not bad, some tracks sound muddy and weighed down with too much bass. You don't get that crisp, balanced sound. But as mentioned, I bought these with noise cancelling in mind and would personally qualify the sound quality as acceptable. It should be noted, however, that when the noise cancelling is turned off, the sound quality suffers greatly and you'll find that the volume needs to be increased significantly in order to hear.
In conclusion, the Able Planet Clear Harmony headphones are a decent value if you can get them at a significantly discounted price. My thought is that I paid $100 for them and they're worth that. However, if you are looking for the best of the best and are willing to pay roughly $300, go with the Bose, hands down.
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There is a defect in the electronics that is not fixed.
by Reviewer999 on November 1, 2013
Pros: They're pretty comfortable. The defect is only evident if the music device is plugged into ac power like a charger.
Cons: The biggest issue is that if you plug these into a music device (phone, iPod, iPad, mp3 player, computer speakers) that is plugged into AC power, there is an awful ground loop hum. Makes these useless at low volume. 4 in 2 years and all hum.
Summary: There was supposed to be a new version with a new chip set and a new manufacturer and I waited many months for them to arrive. I shipped back the ...
Summary: There was supposed to be a new version with a new chip set and a new manufacturer and I waited many months for them to arrive. I shipped back the third set I received over a year ago and received a refurb on Nov. 1, 2013 (how can they have refurbs or open boxes if they just got in the new design????) and guess what??? This pair has the ground loop hum just like the others. Either they sent me another OLD set or the new design doesn't fix the problem at all.
I've been begging for a pair that don't hum for 2 years. This is just unbelievable. Don't waste your time or money. Get something else.
Look impressive but lack prodcut quality control
by GregRein on August 17, 2012
Pros: When arriving they have the have all the appearances and trappings of other brands but that is where it ends. I'm going on my third pair in three weeks.
great design, fit well. not as heavy as others.
Customer service was great!
Cons: First pair was delivered broken with highly distorted, unusable.
Second pair improved sound,able to use without noise cancelling but Bass was overly pronounced. Ear piece broke off within 5 days.
Waiting on the third
Summary: Ableplanet has a good looking product and they need to work on their quality control in manufacturing. Yes i didn't pay the Bose price but I expected better sound ...
Summary: Ableplanet has a good looking product and they need to work on their quality control in manufacturing. Yes i didn't pay the Bose price but I expected better sound quality.
Ableplanet for the price, look, and feel they are worth it but none of us have spare cash hanging around to waste and headphones are meant to be activity worn daily.
At the usual discounted price these phones do the job.
by jordanmarx on April 19, 2012
Pros: At the usual discounted groupon price that you can usually find them for, the noise cancelling amplified headphones sound amazing at the price point I purchased them at (70 bucks). Better than paying 299 for the bose brand.
Cons: -sometimes fragile. Able Planet has a bag log of customer service issues.
Summary: Great for the price (i.e. not paying 299)
Summary: Great for the price (i.e. not paying 299)
Worst experience I've ever had with a purchase
by coco223 on January 21, 2012
Pros: Honestly...none!
Cons: -Product stopped working after 2 weeks of light use
-Horrible customer service
Summary: I purchased a pair of headphones from Ableplanet because of a great deal on Groupon. I had never before heard of this company but after some light research it seemed ...
Summary: I purchased a pair of headphones from Ableplanet because of a great deal on Groupon. I had never before heard of this company but after some light research it seemed to be reported as "award-winning" and reputable so I decided to take a chance. What a mistake that was!
I happily received my new headphones and got great use out of them for 2 WEEKS until they inexplicably started distorting all sound beyond recognition! They no longer worked with my computer, iPod, or any other device. Seeing that I had taken perfect care of my pricey headphones I was very disappointed with their IMMEDIATE breakage. After calling a few numbers from their website, I spoke to a young woman who, without any apology or explanation, instructed me to send back the malfunctioning product and they would send me a new pair. I sent them back the same day as instructed. Now here I sit, OVER A MONTH LATER, never having heard anything back from them! Deciding to stop giving them the benefit of the doubt, I sent them an angry email and called numerous times - and received no replies whatsoever. Today I finally received an email from FedEx saying that they have shipped a new pair to me, but considering that it has taken them over a month and their awful product breaks after two weeks, I don't even want the new headphones anymore. This is the WORST experience I've ever had with an online buy. No matter what deal they may offer, NEVER do business with Ableplanet! For Heaven's sake, buy from Bose instead!
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on Sep 22, 2006 at 4:35 pm
I think they're part of either a partial wireless (WiFi) install, or technical test, for "first responder" (police, fire, etc.). A friend of mine has noticed that "police" and fire" access points show up on his computer as access points. He can't use them, because they're password protected.
I've heard that they *may* also eventually be used for comunity wireless access, but I have no confirmation on that.
In any case, they're WiFi antennae.
on Sep 22, 2006 at 9:27 pm
They are detectors put in place by Palo Alto's elite in order to monitor residential activities. These detectors will alow the upper division to see if you doing non conforming activities such as drinking budweiser, watching NASCAR, acting all 'Sacto' with a tank top on and gelled hair, etc.
on Sep 22, 2006 at 10:00 pm
"to see if you doing non conforming activities such as ..."
Its about time.
My neighbor has been watching Wrestlemania with his curtains open.
Talk about social decay, I need some of those detectors over here.
on Sep 23, 2006 at 9:38 am
You pencil necks better quit looking in my window while I watch wrastlin' or I'll put the smackdown on ya.
P.S. All the moon walks were filmed at a studio in Burbank.
on Sep 23, 2006 at 7:54 pm
And I didn't think people in Palo Alto had a sense of humor.
on Sep 23, 2006 at 10:19 pm
in fact, I heard that these WiFi antennas emit radiation that interferes with the "complaining" neurons in the brain. Have you noticed how things have been real quiet in CT lately, except for a few bozos down the street watching wrestlemania in nightgowns.
alo, notice that no one is complaining about the antennas - you heard it here, first
on Sep 24, 2006 at 2:23 am
Yes, probably part of a WiFi network being tested by the city for emergency services. San Mateo has (or had) a network like this for municipal use. Possibly commercially-made mesh networking equipment like that made by Tropos:
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Light poles are an ideal place to put these radio boxes, and the city just happens to own them, unlike in PG&E territory.
I sure wish the city was planning to use this network to provide WiFi internet access for the residents. But for now it appears that the city-owned WiFi network will remain inaccessible to the poor downtrodden slum-dwelling bottom-feeding filth of College Terrace, just like the city-owned fiber ring (which also runs through College Terrace). Let them eat dial-up.
Either that, or the city is planning to turn it into an open network later, but if so it hasn't been saying much about it. At city hall they are still stuck on fiber to the home.
Oh, and by the way, maybe it's not so password protected after all. :)
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on Sep 25, 2006 at 12:50 pm
We asked a friend who works at the city - he said they were for wireless meter reading (of your electrical meter).
on Sep 25, 2006 at 1:19 pm
That makes sense. The City put in a new gas meter at my house last week. Just connecting the dots....
However, I hope there is dual use technology at play. I want the authorities to know which teenagers are listening to hip hop music. If they arrest them, and send them to rehab, it might decrease the crime rate around here! Well, maybe not, but one week of listening to Kate Smith and Frank Sinatra and a little sleep deprivation (as those kids do to me), would be poetic justice. Save the waterboarding for the recalcitrants.
on Sep 25, 2006 at 2:06 pm
I think most of the wireless antennas you see hanging from the street lights are from the old Ricochet wireless service that went bankrupt in 2001.
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on Sep 25, 2006 at 4:24 pm
"However, I hope there is dual use technology at play. I want the authorities to know which teenagers are listening to hip hop music. If they arrest them, and send them to rehab, it might decrease the crime rate around here! Well, maybe not, but one week of listening to Kate Smith and Frank Sinatra and a little sleep deprivation (as those kids do to me), would be poetic justice. Save the waterboarding for the recalcitrants."
You need to move to our neighborhood where all the kids watch wrastlin' and are A students. We've installed equipment that scans all audio devices, including iPods, for hip hop and rap music. If any offending music is detected a Class IV laser will automatically fuse the audio device into a pile of slag.
Vince McMann for president!!
on Oct 24, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Those white boxes with the upside down antenna are for the "Richochet" wifi which is now defunct. Remote Electrical meters "digital" are not part of them.
on Nov 27, 2009 at 11:40 am
They are found All over the city of Los angeles usually located next to cameras.
on Dec 5, 2013 at 5:14 pm
I've noticed these too and have read all the comments & ideas but none of them really make sense. I've seen them along major highways so its not for reading meters! They are not wifi hot spots. I have an idea, I am a defense contractor and heard that the government has a system for tracking nuclear emitting objects along highways and this really does make sense to me more than any of the other ideas I've read.
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PLATTSBURGH — John F. Kennedy is one of 32 World War II veterans scheduled to fly to out Saturday as part of the latest North Country Honor Flight.
The Plattsburgh man, who bears almost the same name as the 35th U.S. president, actually met him aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter USS Eagle in 1962, where he served as master chief boatswain's mate.
Kennedy, whose middle name is Francis, said that the president was very easy to talk with, since they were both World War II veterans.
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Kennedy, 88, who served on a light cruiser in the South Pacific during World War II, fought in the critical battles of Leyte Gulf and Luzon, among others.
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We are a Team
Tim Smith - Editorial Director
Tim Smith is a man of many talents - none of them involve being any
good at video games playing. This, however, has not stopped from him
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Mark Johnson - Senior Writer & Content Researcher
Occasionally known as 'Young Mark' (because he is under 50) or Mr Wonderful (for reasons unknown), when Mark is not writing about video games he is getting his one hour and 43 minutes a day of sleep. Once a month he is allowed to leave his chair for a toilet break. He is what you might call a tank. His favourite game is usually the last one he played or whatever in the office has the darkest picture, enabling him to best see his face reflected in the screen. He is partial to comics and inclined towards throwing himself off mountains with a piece of hardwood and fibreglass attached to his feet.
Michael Fox - Staff WriterMichael not only co-hosts the UK's best gaming podcast - Joypod - he is also responsible for running the world's best boardgame site and podcast in LittleMetalDog. While not doing these ultra-gaming things, he writes news and features for SPOnG.com.
Greg Platt - Staff Writer
Shunned from society for having a fourth eye protruding from the small of his back, Greg has taken up residence in a small shack in the woods just outside the Los Angeles borders. While technically labeled as a 'Mercan, Greg has chosen to eschew democracy and has formed his own country, Quadroctica, from which he submits game reviews via carrier pigeon.
He is currently accepting applications for various positions of the Quadroctican parliament as well as someone to man the counter at the Starbucks.
Joseph Mitchell Chagan - Staff Writer
Jo is about the craziest person on SPOnG's staff, and that's saying something! He's also a hardcore gamer, and a prolific writer. Better to have him on your side, if you know what we mean!
JoMitch (as he would doubtlessly be known if he was a Walton) is another 'Mercan. Can we see a pattern developing here? What is this? You let one foreigner come work for your company, and before you know it they are bringing their friends, relatives, and complete strangers with a similar accent to the party. Soon, their pets will be walking round the office stinking up the place leaving their little "presents" in the corner behind the pot-plants (that's plants in pots, we don't grow pot in the office, for God's sake, this is a place of work).
Svend Joscelyne - Senior Staff Writer
When Svend wakes up in the morning, he likes to think about how much he can further emphasise his Viking heritage. Thankfully this has yet to result in any pillaging of villages or sacrificing annoying clerks from the local Co-op. He usually gives up by lunchtime and instead covers press events for SPOnG, along with quizzing developers about their new releases.
He is a massive Sonic the Hedgehog fan, and runs a website to showcase this. The rest of SPOnG still aren't sure how to react to that.
Rory Joscelyne - Photographer
Rory can be a crafty one - his acting skills means he can take the form of many different personalities and evade capture from the SPOnG Team when they come asking for that fiver back that he owes.
He is rather dandy with a camera however, resulting in his position as SPOnG Photographer. And a fine one he is too.
Marcus Dyson - Chief Executive Officer
One of the old-skool wild men of gaming, Dyson paid his dues editing the magazine/doorstep that was Amiga Format - in the days before editorial values flew the coop.
He then spent time hardening his liver at Team17 Software, where he first thought up SPOnG. He used to claim to have started SPOnG to prevent him ever having to wear a suit again - but more recently, in acknowledgement of the increasing corporatisation of gaming (and all the awards ceremonies he is forced to attend) he has actually bought some rather nice bespoke suits, which make his big scary bald self look somewhat like a bouncer.
Dyson likes snowboarding, skateboarding, mountain biking, Harley Davidsons and AC Cobras, and loud music with guitars. He's quite scary.
Gareth Edwards - Chief Technology Officer
Gareth was standing close to Marcus when he thought up this whole monstrous thing. Instead of discouraging him, Gareth encouraged him, and even took a share of the company. The fool!
Aside from "doing the back-end" (ahem) and trafficking (adverts, that is), Gareth is especially responsible for testing the vehicle deformation dynamics for screenshots of driving games, and is a world grand master at GTA3, Vice City & San Andreas. His fastest GTA:SA "speed run" comes in at under 3 minutes 37 seconds. He's taken to measuring the playability of the "real world" by spinning cars at high speed at busy intersections, driving toward oncoming traffic, and watching how people react to his drive-by shooting antics.
Gavin Dodds - Technology Consultant
Gavin was also standing nearby, and being a games freak of the highest order, and some sort of registered computer genius, he wanted a piece of the action too. Gavin does the bits that are very very hard, and technical. He is a wizard who knows about Unix!
Amanda Cook - Art and Design
We thought we could do this all in wurdz, but it luckt bad, so we had to get an experienced crayon wielder in to draw some pictures. Amanda used to do the pictures on Mega! Magazine, Amiga Power, GamesMaster and some others, probably.


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You can do this by splitting the face with either a circle or rectangle and placing your force there.
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You need to create a sketch on the desired surface and then create a closed loop then exit the sketch. Select the Split Tool command, then the sketch (closed profile) and finally the surface in question.
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While the loss of life in Oklahoma is devastating, losing a family pet can be tragic as well.
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A collection of my grandmother's recipes. My grandmother was a midwest housewife, and she took pride in the dishes she prepared. This book includes recipes ranging from the 1940's through the present. Also included are Norwegian heritage recipes.
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- The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
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- New Women's Voices Poetry Prize, 2006
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It is that time of year, to celebrate the end of the year. Unfortunately, that means police have to be out in full force, on DUI patrol.
Jimmy Murphy has been behind a bar almost his whole life, and even he has his doubts about December 31.
"I wouldn't say nervous. Excited, apprehensive," said Murphy.
The Flathead Sheriff's Department says New Years eve is one of the biggest nights for drinking all year.
"Last year, we had just opened in November, but still we had a packed house," remembered Murphy.
That means you will see double the number of these that you would usually see out at night, just watching the roads for anyone with a blood alcohol concentration at or above 0.08.
"We will have beefed up patrols tonight. It's a busy night for us," said Chuck Curry, the Flathead County Sheriff.
Curry says he would call New Years eve a success if they did not make one DUI arrest, but he admits the odds of that happening are slim, but improving.
"Our numbers have gone down from years past. They still fluctuate," said Curry.
Last December, Kalispell police made ten DUI arrests, but not a single DUI arrest happened to fall on New Years eve, due, in part, Curry says to the services available during the holiday. Even without a designated driver, you can still avoid the fines, classes, and possible jail time by taking Tipsy Tow home, rather than getting behind the wheel yourself.
"It can be fun. You gotta watch your p's and q's," said Murphy.
Murphy says he tries to get people to switch to non-alcoholic drinks and eat some food if he sees "slurred words, dropping your drink, yelling, and screaming, you know, the basic things," in his own words.
Extra officers are not always enough. Sheriff Curry asks if you see someone on the road who might be driving drunk, to call 911.
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Kempsey care home wins national accolade (From Evesham Journal)
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Kempsey care home wins national accolade
10:48am Monday 3rd February 2014 in News
A NURSING home in Kempsey has won a prestigious accolade for the quality of its care.
The Lawns Nursing Home in Main Road has been commended in the Gold Standards Framework (GSF), joining more than 400 homes across the country recognised for providing compassionate and high-quality care to residents as they reach the end of their lives.
The awards assess a number of areas including bringing down hospital admissions by providing residents with the care they need in-house as well as levels of family satisfaction and savings for the NHS
The homes manager Carol Harris said she was "delighted" to have received the award.
"We have always prided ourselves on the excellent care we provide our residents," she said.
"GSF has helped us formalise this and take out care to the next level, ensuring that residents enjoy their lives receiving the high quality care they want in their chosen place right up to the end."
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