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"It's not about last year or who's here or who's isn't here," says your head coach. "It's about getting out here and competing and seeing who is here, and that's where we're gonna go."
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Sugar rush. Ryan Mundy refers to Mike Barwis as "a live wire." Uh... yeah (NSFW, but not in a naked way):
Talking. Orson interviewed yrs truly about the state of Big Ten recruiting; unfortunately a small part of the bit it on Michigan got cut off, though anyone who's followed this blog isn't going to learn anything shocking.
ALL HAIL LEMMING. At MGoBlog our policy on recruiting sites is simple: whichever one thinks the most highly of Michigan recruits wins. This year, Tom Lemming wins:
- #11 Sam McGuffie(!)
- #45 Brandon Smith
- #49 Boubacar Cissoko
- #59 Dann O'Neill
- #80 Daryl Stonum
- #93 Brandon Moore
All is forgiven, you oily, muscled ex-postal worker, you.
Check, check. Varsity Blue highlights a Pittsburgh article with this quote from Terrelle Pryor...
"Pitt's out, period. I won't go there, for sure," Pryor said. "I get false stuff said about me all the time. I'm used to it."Pryor already took an official visit to Ohio State and said he counts Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, Louisiana State, Oregon and Penn State among his finalists.
"I want to play in a college town, a facility that has 100,000 and is packed," Pryor said. "That's how I want to do it."
...then proceeds to dole out stadium capacities and fill percentages to eliminate non-Big Ten teams. VB then cuts OSU because of the college town thing to reach the inescapable "Pryor to Michigan... or, uh, PSU I guess!" conclusion.
Let's hope he places a strict limit of 200k on the town he decides to live in, but I think that was more a response to people quizzing him about Pitt. Pitt's in Pittsburgh, doncha know, and regularly packs its stadium to 50% of capacity. Pryor was expressing reasons he was not going somewhere; in context that quote is sadly without import.
Brian –
I need some positive encouragement from the you about the football team in 2008. While I think Rodriguez is a GREAT coach and can do amazing things for Michigan, my concern with his hiring was always the transition. While I'm excited about the new era of Michigan football, I need someone to convince me that we're not going to go 6-6 next year. My big fear is a John Beilein-like transition period. Here's the parallel:
1. New coach comes in with a radically different philosophy
2. A large and talented senior class leaves the roster inexperienced (Hart, Henne, Long, Kraus, Crable, Adams, Englemon) vs. (Sims, Petway, Harris, Abram)
3. A collection of other experienced contributors leaves by choice or otherwise (Manningham, Arrington, Mallet....others?) vs. (Baker, Morris, Price, Smith)
4. The team is now composed of talented but inexperienced players who are not a great fit for the type of scheme the coach wants
5. The coach somewhat writes off the season while he pushes his system in placeNow, I certainly realize that the basketball team was not in great shape regardless of the transition and that losing 8 contributors from basketball is far more drastic than losing 10 from football. However, the similarities are starting to worry me. Everyone will now assume that we're getting Pryor - but what if we don't? Tell me why we can win 8 or 9 games....or can we?
-Adam R Cole
Uh, well... next year looks pretty rough to me and your basketball analogy is terrifying. I hate your analogy so much.
The upside: even with the departures of Manningham and Arrington, that's only eleven contributors departing. Michigan was pretty young this year and returns its entire defensive line plus its top three corners.
The downside: Freshman quarterback of some variety, entirely new offensive system, one returning WR with appreciable experience, and wholly new safeties. Ugly kicker: More attrition is on its way, as Rodriguez has repeatedly stated he expects to sign a full class of 25 players. Ugly kicker x2: road games against Penn State and Ohio State and, uh, I guess Notre Dame. Who will still probably be bad, but... yeah. So will we, in all likelihood.
I'm not expecting anything great.
so, we know that coach rodriguez (i cannot do coach rod sounds like a bad porn moniker) wants a full recruiting class of 25, but i am curious as to what you are hearing vis a vis antonio bass.
the kid will likely never play again, but he has worked his ass off (from the little i read) and stayed in school. is there any chance that the road to 25 recruits will come on the back of guys like bass?
i think coach is a good honorable man, and denying a 'ship to someone like that would have profound affects, not mainly upon his psyche, but his life options as right now the UM degree, along with his perseverance, are two things that can greatly aid his future. it would also seemingly send the wrong message to players. no?
thought you might look into/weigh in on this.
Players who cannot continue because of medical hardship can be removed from the team but keep their scholarship without occupying one of the 85 slots. When Zia Combs was forced to retire because of a neck injury, he remained on scholarship. If Bass does not return, and despite hopeful noises from his father whenever they ask him about it that seems exceedingly likely, he will still be able to get his degree.
brain, [WORD -ed]
i was reading "West Fin'Jihad: Day II" today and i finally reached the
tipping point:
doesn't it seem like WVU must have some good reasons to be *this* pissed at
RR? i mean, coaches leave schools all the time and very rarely is the venom
this poisonous...and in this case from the university itself, not just the
now, i know one might say, "yeah WVU has 4 million reasons to be mad at RR"
but this seems over the top.
put that together with the comments from the crazy NC State player who used
to go to WVU about RR.
point is, are you at all worried that RR might be, well, someone who we will
be cursing in 4 years with adjectives like dirty, selfish, slimy, etc.?
(Nick refers to this post from Scout's message boards by one Sean Berton, late of WVU and NC State.) I don't lend Berton's post much credence, since he transferred immediately upon Rodriguez's arrival and has no personal knowledge of the guy except a couple meetings, during which he found Rodriguez to be the worst person ever... possibly because Berton was not wanted by the new staff. Berton compares and contrasts Rodriguez to Nehlen, painting the latter a saint and the former a devil, without mentioning that Nehlen was and is one of Rodriguez's biggest supporters. Sour grapes from a guy in no position to make credible accusations.
As to your larger point: there is obviously extreme animosity between Rodriguez and the WVU athletic department that goes both ways. WVU is bitter, suing Rodriguez pre-emptively and releasing this likely-spurious shredding garbage. Today WVU papers are filled with the shocking revelation that Rodriguez called Michigan recruits after being announced as Michigan's head coach. Rodriguez has made some relatively mild public comments about being disappointed in the reaction of his home state and made a dark comment about stuff "coming out" that was tinged with bitterness; he's also either enlisted WVU booster Ken Kendrick to tell his side of the story or, at the very least, not politely asked him to shut up. His quotes in the Blade today are the topper.
This is an ugly public spat on both sides. He and Ed Pastilong hate each others' guts, and their uneasy truce finally blew up in the aftermath of the Pitt loss. That's the only way, IMO, that Rodriguez was ever going to leave WVU: if he found the working environment intolerable. Now each has found their nemesis in the other.
What does this say about Rodriguez? Well, not everyone gets along with him. He can probably be a bit of a dick from time to time. And Ed Pastilong is his antipode. It doesn't mean much else. For all the talk about Rodriguez's horrible ethics, WVU hasn't had a hint of scandal in his tenure there. His major sin appears to be making do with a cast of dodgy characters like Pacman Jones, et cetera, because of the limitations imposed on him by West Virginia's status as a state entirely devoid of football talent.
Though Jones and Chris Henry have proven themselves to be world-class jackasses, many other people in the WVU program have not. Pat White's a legendarily nice guy. Owen Schmitt is 250 pounds of awesome. WVU didn't score at all in the 2006 Fulmer Cup and had but 9 points in 2007, six less than Michigan. (I wonder if EDSBS ever anticipated the day when the Fulmer Cup would be used in a serious discussion of disciplinary issues. ) Nine points in the last two years is well within the bounds of reason.
Rich Rodriguez has a bad reputation, but for what?
One thing that might cause Michigan to regret the hiring of Rodriguez might be wild success followed by a big-bucks NFL departure. (I'll believe Michigan is not a terminal college job when I see it.) Personally, this would be okay with me since Rodriguez's name is built entirely around his NFL-unfriendly offense. Teams would be leery until he had a Spurrier-like run of ownage, and if Rodriguez does that... uh... okay.
Would such a departure be "selfish"? I guess in a technical sense, yes
. He would be doing something he wanted to do. But not really.
More in this vein:
For a guy who likes to come off like a real hard driving, critical blogger you either are displaying some incredible naivete or are just wearing maize-and-blue glasses regarding the destruction of records.
Rodriguez did do something in his office to some materials. Even the most venomous West Virginia, Rodriguez-hating fan can't make up all the details that have been provided.
At the very least what Rodriguez is accused of doing is petty and vindicative. Why in the world would he want to destroy player records? Was there something to hide? Or was he just pissed off at the nasty response to his leaving W. Va.?
At the very most Rodriguez performed a criminal act, ridding himself of personnel records, all of which are confidential and none of which he had a right to destroy. He works at a public university and I very seriously doubt that a UM coach, who if he/she had done the same thing would feel a nasty outcry.
I was a Rodriguez fan long before that eventful Friday afternoon when The Sporting News reported that Martin and Campbell were interviewing Rodriguez for the job.
His hiring sent me into an orgasmic ecstacy. I guess all orgasms are ecstatic.
This one was particularly powerful.
The fact is that at least some of the accusations will turn up to be true. Depending on how much is proven perhaps Fred Jackson will have "interim head coach" added to his resume.
Marvin and I are operating with different assumptions. His assumption is that there is enough smoke to assume Rodriguez did something wrong. My assumption is that Rodriguez has pissed off a group of people like no coach ever did before and they're out for blood. In clear terms: nothing the West Virginia athletic department claims can be trusted. Everyone from the governor on down is pissed and trying to nail Rodriguez on anything they possibly can. Witness the Rodriguez-phones-M-recruits thing from today.
If you're inclined to think Rodriguez is equally unreliable on this matter, fine. That leaves this situation at a he-said-they-said stalemate. Of the two scenarios -- Sacred Single Hard Copy and Insane Rednecks -- which seems more plausible? I know which one I've got.
West F-in' Jihad: Day III
Riposte. For those wishing Rodriguez himself would say anything, he has. The Toledo Blade, oddly, has the scoop:
"The things they are saying are not true," Rodriguez said. "It's a lie. How can you put out lies and think it's OK? They don't care what the truth is, they just want to smear Rich Rodriguez." [It don't matter to Jesus! -ed]
"The implication to me is slanderous," Rodriguez said. "What they are implying, to me, attacks my integrity, and that's why I'm so upset. This has gone too far.
"It's bad enough that they throw things out there, and my family gets harassed, my relatives get threatened, and they try and attack my credibility right in the middle of recruiting. And then to throw something out like this, with anonymous sources ...
"And how it becomes a story, and why it's become big news, to me, is just baffling."
"Every coach got a file when a kid missed a class. The academic people got it, and the athletic director got it. All this stuff about not having contact information or academic information on the kids, it's a lie, it's all a lie," Rodriguez said.
"They're painting a picture like I'm the only one that had those files, and I threw them all away. That's not the truth. They're painting a picture like I erased all the kids' files, and that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. And anyone with any common sense that's in a Division I athletic department or football program knows the same thing."
This is the crux of the matter: the accusations against Rodriguez are completely, wholly, and totally unbelievable. There is no way WVU does not have all the critical files the need backed up. This is a multi-million dollar operation. This is not 'Nam. Even if they did not follow basic procedures every small business in America manages, there is no way WVU would permit the announced coach of another school into the Sacred Single Hard Copy Room with a shredder, nor that "several" people would watch him shred Sacred Single Hard Copies and do nothing about it except let a single tear run down their cheek. Anything that only Rodriguez had was by definition a personal file.
More devastating allegations from WVU:
In the hours after telling his team he was leaving for the University of Michigan, former West Virginia football Coach Rich Rodriguez called at least two Wolverine recruits from his WVU cell phone, according to records obtained by the Daily Mail through the Freedom of Information Act.
The recruits in question are Boubacar Cissoko and Rocko Khoury, Wolverine commits from Michigan who never even looked at WVU. There is a third phone call that WVU thinks is Dann O'Neill, another Michigan commit from the state who wouldn't attend WVU if you held a gun to his mother's head, and others to places like Houston and Toledo that may or may not be to other Wolverine commits. This is a coach going to work at his new school after informing his old school of his decision, but doing it on the wrong phone.
Apparently either Dave Hickman or the WVU athletic department doesn't know anything about NCAA regulations, because this paragraph features in the article:
The NCAA recruiting calendar was also in a quiet and dead period when WVU believes some contact was made.
Dead periods and quiet periods have nothing whatsoever to do with phone contact -- coaches are allowed to call a recruit once per week. Instead they regulate in-person contact; a "dead" period means no in-person contact at all and a "quiet" period means no off-campus contact. The dead period regulation even has this disclaimer in it:
It remains permissible, however, for an institutional staff member to write or telephone prospective student-athletes during such a dead period.
Even an athletic department as addled as WVU's should know these things; throwing this in the article is an attempt to baselessly smear Rodriguez.
And it's one that appears to have worked. The Wizard of Odds frets that "the calls appear to have been placed during a recruiting dead period, meaning contact with recruits was forbidden, according to NCAA rules. This, of course, is an even bigger no-no." It is not a no-no. It is a yes-yes, but the dangerous assumption that something in a newspaper is correct causes memes like this to spread out of control. Reliable Spartan shill Mike Valenti got Hickman on his show yesterday and spent the time saying extremely balanced things like "he's [Rodriguez, not Hickman] being spiteful and really, really low about it." On PTI yesterday, Mike Wilbon called for Rodriguez's suspension until the matter's completion based on one anonymous source with no evidence but one hell of an axe to grind. Even Jim Carty, so skeptical at first, now claims that Rodriguez needs to "apologize and pay up". Apologize for what? Carty says that...
The first - and best - action the new coach could take is calling a press conference to announce he's paying West Virginia the $4 million buyout that was in the contract he signed.It's the right thing to do.
You signed the contract. Live with it.
All well and good if Rodriguez is the only one in violation of the contract; he obviously does not think so. Neither do a whole bunch of pissed off WVU boosters. Was John Beilein supposed to "apologize and pay up" when he got his buyout reduced? Everyone regarded that little standoff as a matter for the lawyers and an obvious move by both sides that would end in a settlement -- these punitive buyout clauses are often regarded as unenforceable. Not so here. Why?
Look, if Rodriguez really did shred a bunch of critical WVU documents that had no duplicates elsewhere that's a serious problem. If these allegations turn out to be true it will seriously darken my opinion of this hire. But the accusations leveled are so improbable that what's far more likely is that some very bitter people in West Virginia just can't handle Rodriguez's departure.
I'm sure Dave Hickman is getting great information from someone high placed in the WVU AD, as he claims. But he appears to be regurgitating the information provided without applying a critical eye to it. Thus the "dead and quiet" period comment, and the remarkably gullible publishing of WVU's ludicrous claims they had no idea who was even on the team in the wake of Rodriguez's exit.
"We think there was a guy named Pat something," say West Virginia officials. "And maybe a 'Noel,' though that girl must be a kicker."
Do not believe everything you read in the paper.
Expect more articles with quotes like this:
University spokeswoman Amy Neil said the WVU Office of Admissions and Records maintains grade and attendance records in a separate location, so no student-athlete's academic career is at risk.
"We're not sure what records are missing, but all student records, including those of the football team, are kept within the Office of Admissions and Records," she said. "Those records are secure."
Really. I'm shocked.
The Joy Of Retraction
Orson Swindle: The BHGP post was completely in jest
Though, as always, that's an impressive shotgunning there.Brian: ???
i considered that, i really didOrson Swindle: They're completely f***ing around.
Brian: aw f***
are you sure?Orson Swindle: Pretty sure.
But their response could be worth waiting for.Brian: aw, goddammit
I, uh, well... yeah. Hawkeye State emailed me something one line and to the effect of "you knew I was joking, right?"
Aw... goddammit. I didn't, actually, except for the Ayatollah bit. I did consider it, as mentioned in the header, but eventually fell on the side of "real" because everything else I have seen multiple times on various blogs and message boards. Even though everything in it was really stupid it seemed plausible. I should have known better, as rampant stupidity is most certainly not a part of BHGP's usual repertoire.
I am the stupidest.
West Fin'Jihad: Day II
The latest on the fatwa. Rodriguez's agent has some responses:
The report has "a lot of misinformation and untruthful statements," Brown said.
Brown denied Rodriguez kept a personal file on each player and that a strength coordinator took photos of them. Every time players were tested, he added, "those records were given to the head coach and every assistant coach."
That means current head coach Bill Stewart should have copies.
"Regarding the class attendance records, I sure hope that West Virginia's compliance and academic office keeps those records because if they don't, they have serious institutional control problems," he said.
Brown said the university also should have any records involving the finances of the summer camps it ran.
He declined to answer questions about whether Rodriguez removed or destroyed documents.
Another quote, this one from an AANews article (all the articles about his agent's press conference or whatever have slightly different versions of the quotes, but no one has provided the entire thing verbatim -- frustrating):
"As any employee leaving a job, he's going to throw stuff in the trash," Brown said. "Personal information, personal letters from other coaches, his own game plans. Things like that he wanted to throw away, and at the same time didn't need to be found in the dumpster."
A dossier of the things Rodriguez is accused of shredding and their status:
Item | Agent? | Plausibility | Legality/Ethicality |
Contact info | No mention | Ludicrous. Look them up in the U directory. Or join Facebook. | N/A |
Scholarship money awarded | No mention. | Even more ludicrous. WVU has no records of scholarship money distributed to their players save those on hardcopy in Rich Rodriguez's office? | N/A |
Class attendance records | Sarcastic mention of compliance issues. | Similarly ludicrous. Unless Rodriguez and Rodriguez alone checked in on class attendance, someone else has these records, and if they don't the NCAA should pay WVU a nasty visit. | N/A |
Personal conduct & community service | Refuted. | Not completely ludicrous, but it's still pretty doubtful that Rodriguez has the only copies of various things the players did, good or bad. Brown:"Rich never kept any players' personal files," Brown said, adding that the computers in the coach's office and at a secretary's desk at the Puskar Center kept many of the same files. |
Would be sketchy, if Rodriguez knew he had the only copies. |
Summer Camp financials | Refuted. | Right, Rodriguez has an apache box with Drupal on it and runs an online store that completely covers his summer camp financials. Ludicrous. | N/A |
Booster data | No mention. | Right, WVU has no records of who gave the AD money. Ken Kendrick has to buy endzone tickets. | N/A |
S&C files | Said that all assistants got copies and Stewart should have them. | A plausible thing for only Barwis to have the nitty-gritty details of; directly contradicted by Brown, who also denied any pictures, sexy or otherwise, were taken. | If the agent's version of the story is true Rodriguez was well within the bounds of reason to shred his copies. |
Recruiting info | No mention | Totally plausible. | Possibly sketchy. |
This is a tempest in a teapot at worst. Of the recruits who decommited from WVU, one (Josh Jenkins) is visiting WVU, so they must have figured out his phone number again, and two (Taylor Hill and DJ Woods) are likely going to sign with Rodriguez and weren't going to go to WVU anyway without his presence.
MVictors got in touch with his local law-talking guy, who had this to say:
Coach Rod is certainly allowed to destroy his own personal stuff, but what exactly did he destroy and who owns it? From another related legal angle, there are intellectual property laws that come into play in the employment setting — i.e., whether the records he creates in connection with his employment are the property of his employer.
You might have had to sign an "inventions assignment" agreement (sometimes called a proprietary rights agreement) in your field, and many companies make that a standard part of their employee handbook and hiring practices.
More at MVictors; the upshot is skeptical.
Tick tock, you don't stop. A source indicates that WVU has been badgering the NCAA about potential violations committed by Rodriguez from the moment he accepted the Michigan job. Foremost among these is the infamous call to Terrelle Pryor before Rodriguez had been officially hired; there are supposedly like incidents. How WVU would ever prove Rodriguez said anything other than "Recruit X, I am going to be the head coach at Michigan," I don't know, but hell hath no fury like a West Fin' Jihadist.
Furthermore, WVU is attempting to insinuate to the NCAA that the shredded documents contained evidence of major violations committed by Rodriguez which the WVU athletic department of course knew nothing about. Yes, they are essentially saying "we have no idea whatsoever was on those documents, but we're pretty sure they were large huge big NCAA violations."
The comparison to end all comparisons. I may have to enter the blogger protection program after this, but... I swear to God this is exactly like that episode of "A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila." You know, the one in which the lovable but functionally retarded* West Virginian gets booted by the hot property, then proceeds to lose his shit in spectacular fashion, leaving everyone feeling dirty in the aftermath? You know, this one?
Yeah. This reminds me of that.
*(not meant to impugn the entire state, just the WVU athletic department.)
You'll See What You Want
Update: Don't read this. Read this. I am full of fail.
Swearin! Keep the kids away!
I'm still trying to figure out whether or not this Black Heart, Gold Pants post is entirely in jest or not, because the options here are either 1) it's really poorly phrased satire or 2) it's epically dumb. Neither of these things are expected from BHGP, even if the guy writing the piece is the one who flung Hawaii in the top ten of BHGP's blogpoll ballot for most of the year. How did that work out? About as well as Jake Christensen oh snap.
I think I've settled on 2 with a side of 1 when it comes to the accusations of islamo-fascism. If there are any islamo-facists in this kerfuffle, they're the jihadists from Morgantown. So, then, I have been Called Out and it is time to Throw Down because when you Mess With The MGoBlog You Get The Virtual Horns.
Step to it. Fisk style.
For the record, we were cautiously terrified of Rich Rodriguez to Michigan. But we made that calculation back when we thought Rodriguez was a football coach and not, well, a sleazebag.
I'm sure there will be plenty of awesome reasons to back up this "sleazebag" assertion.
First, RichRod bolts out of Morgantown in the dead of night like the bastard stepson of Art Modell.
(All these links point to MGoBlog posts, btw.) Yes, in West Virginia "the dead of night" is somewhere between 7 and 9 PM. The entire state, wreathed in a deadly black cloud of coal dust, gets three hours of sunlight a day and generally resembles Mordor. The departure was so secretive that fatwa-bearing jihadists who, judging from their message board posts, take three hours to read a road sign were there to chant O-H-I-O at him and take blurry pictures to post at Fatwa Central.
This accusation boils down to "took the Michigan job... and decided to go to Michigan to do so."
Then RichRod goes on Jim Rome (yeah, I know) and slams Ryan Mallett because the kid had the audacity to consider transferring out of a system that relies on a running quarterback and is actively pursuing Terrelle Pryor.
This is the "slam" of Ryan Mallett contained within that post:
"I believe he's going to transfer," Rodriguez said. "He has not told me specifically and he's told other folks in the program. I talked to him a couple times, again, before the bowl game and once after the bowl game and gave him our spiel. But, again, if he chooses to leave, he's going to make a choice that's best for him, and we'll be OK."
"I talked to him and all the quarterbacks about how our system can adapt to the quarterback because we've had throwing quarterbacks in this system that have had great careers and gone on to the NFL and all that," Rodriguez said. "But I did it a couple times (with Mallett.) I recruited him once, I recruited him twice and after the third call, I'm thinking okay, three calls is enough for me. It's a great institution and if somebody doesn't want to be here that's already here, you wish them well and move on."
"He's going to make a choice that's best for him!" "If somebody doesn't want to be here that's already here, you wish him well and move on!" What an asshole!
Obviously something is seriously wrong with Iowa. If this qualifies as a "slam," Hawkeye State will keel over dead upon reading this post. We should probably just eject the state and all its testosterone-free girl-men into space, where they can suffocate like the prancing nancies they are.
Those moves really just make you a dick.
Indeed. Going to the place where you are employed and wishing a departing player well: total 100% dickitude.
But we aren't done; apparently, on his way out of Morgantown, RichRod did his best Arthur Andersen impersonation: [long excerpt from the WVU article highlighted yesterday excised]This is specious to say the least. Recruiting and summer camp notes? Financial records? Booster rolls? Training schedules and results? The training notes are especially intriguing, given Michigan's new S&C coach and his love of "bioenergetics":
"The science of bioenergetics is the basis of our conditioning program. It's all designed scientifically to meet the end needs of an athlete who plays in a given position under Rich Rodriguez."
Sure thing, Victor Conte.
Bold words from a fan of a team that pumped Robert Gallery so full of testosterone you could shove him into Roger Clemens' ass. (They probably extracted it from the general public; this explains the fainting belles that comprise the rest of the state's purported male population.) And yes, it's "specious" if, in fact, the allegations are entirely true and not 90% made up by lunatic jihadists from the Black Lands. Which they so obviously are, you daiquiri-sipping pansy. Sure, there are no computers and no copies of these critical files. Sure, there's no backup system whatsoever. Sure, completely awesome head coach Bill Stewart who totally deserves the head coaching job has no idea how to "log up". Sure, all these ludicrously implausible things put forth by insane rednecks are obviously true.
While the rest of the football world gave a collective "Whawhawhaaaa?", MGoBlog,* not exactly a rock of journalistic integrity, spent most of the day on other Rich Rodriguez matters.
For the record, those links have between them 459 words of non-quote content, an average of 115 each. MGoBlog more than doubled that.
As for the shredding, Brian is curious but hardly worried:
Why would Rodriguez shred all this stuff?...Michigan fans: because he knew crazy WVU officials/FOIA-toting fans would go over the documents with a fine-toothed comb and attempt to nail him on every piddling recruiting violation like "called five minutes late."
Yeah, or he wanted to destroy all evidence of a continuing scheme under which Rodriguez would take booster (read: Arab oil) money, funnel those funds through tax-free municipal bonds, then send the now-clean cash to trainer Brian McNamee so WVU players could spend their offseasons getting "the Roger Clemens treatment."
You prick. You ballet-dancing, View-watching, Sara Jessica Parker-adoring skirt. I have been mostly joking in this post, but this is a complete misrepresentation of that portion of my post. Here it is in full:
Why would Rodriguez shred all this stuff? (Ohio State fans: because he's a dirty cheater covering his tracks. West Virginia fans: because his one goal in life is to destroy us. Michigan fans: because he knew crazy WVU officials/FOIA-toting fans would go over the documents with a fine-toothed comb and attempt to nail him on every piddling recruiting violation like "called five minutes late.")
What is obviously being communicated: different fanbases will leap to different conclusions because of their inhere
nt biases. What the snipped version communicates: MGoBlog is hopelessly biased.
We ... had the audacity to ... dick ... Arthur Andersen.
Whoops! Bad snippage. My bad. Although this obviously proves Black Heart, Gold Pants is gay for Arthur Andersen.
The kicker, IMO, is that the post is titled "You Can't Spell "Myopic" Without "Michigan Wolverine Football... Yup"; this aggression will not stand coming from a fan of a program who's coach makes six quintillion dollars a year but still places his kid -- already on football scholarship! -- in federally-subsidized low-income housing. Oh, and:
Ten percent of Ferentz's team was arrested for Serious Business this year, and the Hawkeyes have suffered a 44% attrition rate (hey, what do you know: a link that actually points to a post that says what you imply it says) since 2002. Myopic? Myopic? Look in the mirror. You'll see tears and smeared mascara, but only very vaguely because you have astigmatism all up in your ass.


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rejon said on 2014-06-09 12:52:01
Seems like the clarinet is not connected to the bear, right?
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This paper examines the concept of research undertaken by children and the methodological and theoretical issues this raises. It begins with a rationale of research by children and sets this within a context or participation and empowerment, acknowledging the importance of child perspective and voice and valuing the original contribution that child researchers can make to our understanding of childhood and children's lives. It traces the historical and philosophical precedents that have led to this point and explores the question of whether research by children can be accommodated within existing research parameters or whether it requires a new approach even a new research paradigm? The paper also addresses issues of ethics, policy and power relations along with a discussion of the extent to which child research can be free of adult filters and adult influences. It draws on data from a 3-year ation research study empowering children as active researchers and features examples of children's original projects.
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Traditional dodol will always be one of the main dishes during Hari Raya. This sweet sticky toffee-like candy is equally popular in other parts of the world such as Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines (especially in the Luzon and Mindanao), Sri Lanka and Myanmar where it is called "mont kalama".
Whatever its name, the technique to making dodol is often similar, with coconut milk, brown sugar or gula melaka and rice flour as its ingredients.
Gone are the days when family members gathered around a huge wok, taking turns to stir the dodol mixture until it thickens.
Besides the common brownish dodol, there are many other flavours available. The most popular is the durian-flavoured dodol called lempuk. This is yellow in colour and is popular in Thailand, Kelantan and Terengganu. Durian dodol is also popular in Medan and other Sumatran cities.
In Goa, dodol is eaten during Christmas. Dodol is called halwa in India and Zanzibar. Halwa is usually made with sugar, milk and plain flour, whole wheat flour, semolina and even cornflour. In Bali, dodol is sold in dried corn leaves. This traditional delight has also made its way to Middle Eastern countries.
The Indonesians are the most adventurous and creative in concocting dodol. There are interesting varieties such as dodol garut, dodol kacang hijau, dodol bengkoang, dodol nangka, dodol ubi talam, dodol sirsak (soursop), dodol tomat, dodol tape, dodol apel malang, dodol salak, dodol rumput laut, dodol pisang, dodol nenas, dodol mangga and dodol lidah buaya. Then there is dodol betawi, which takes a bit more effort to make as it utilises white and black glutinous rice.
There is a place called Pangalengan in Bandung, which is famous for its dodol susu while dodol cina is a Chinese version of sweet nian gao, which is made of rich coconut milk and sugar.
Dodol is available commercially all year round in Malaysia, with dodol pilah being one of the most popular, which can be found at the R&R Jemapoh along the Jalan Kuala Pilah-Bahau in Negri Sembilan.
Siblings, Othman Daud and Normawatti Daud, have been making dodol pilah and running their dodol business for the last 10 years.
Dodol pilah is much sought after because of its secret formula, which uses the authentic gula enau.
"Our dodol has a unique, sweet flavour and creamy taste of fresh coconut milk. It's the gula enau that makes all the difference.
"People always ask me what makes a good dodol. For me, the most important thing is you should never stinge on the ingredients.
"The basic ingredients are the same everywhere — coconut milk, rice flour and gula melaka. But we only use gula enau or gula kabung," said the 56-year-old Othman who makes more than 600 kg of dodol every year during Ramadan.
Othman takes great pride in using only gula enau for his dodol, and not gula melaka even though gula enau is not easy to come by.
"There's a lot of difference between these two, which acts as the main ingredient.
"Even the process of making them is different.
"The sugary sap of the nipah tree is called gula enau and these can only be found deep in the jungle and is sold in solid paste. Unlike gula enau, gula melaka is taken from the bud of a coconut palm and is more commercialised. We get our gula enau from our regular supplier," said Othman.
Gula kabung or gula enau is derived from the sap of the Arenga palm (Arenga pinnata) and mangrove palm (Nypa fruticans).
With the help from his sister Normawatti and other family members, Othman usually tries to complete orders during the second week of fasting month.
"At times, we have more orders than we can cope but I'm glad we are able to meet all orders. It normally takes up to seven hours to cook the dodol.
"During the entire cooking process, the dodol must be constantly stirred in a big wok. If you are to pause in between, it might cause it to burn, and will spoil the taste and aroma," said Normawatti who prefers to call dodol as penganan.
The invention of the dodol mixer machine, which they got a grant to buy, has helped them save time making the delicacy.
"We used to enjoy the kacau dodol session, as it was also a time to get together as we took turns to stir the dodol.
"However, even with the dodol mixer, you still have to be on guard to make sure you get the right consistency of the dodol," said Normawatti who also sells burger and other traditional cookies at the R&R.
Irrespective of whether one uses a dodol mixer or stirs it manually, both methods are time consuming.
The process is quite tedious and has to be systematic with proper timing. The first stage is to extract the coconut milk.
"The coconuts have to be of the ripe age because they have more coconut milk. Coconut milk is extracted by grinding the coconut with warm water for maximum output.
"The rice flour is added to the coconut milk and you have to keep on stirring the mixture on low heat. Chopped gula enau is later added to the mixture and all these ingredients are cooked until the mixture is dense. Once done, the cooked liquid is poured in a container and left to cool," said the 48-year-old Normawatti.
Normawatti said the dodol was completely cooked when it was thick and firm, and does not stick to one's fingers when touched.
"The best time to prepare it is a few weeks before Hari Raya. However, some people prefer the fresh taste of soft dodol while others like it slightly firmer.
"It is all personal preferences," said Othman who feels dodol should be enjoyed in moderation as it is really rich in flavour and high in calories.
In the olden days, dodol was packaged and wrapped in different ways like in a coconut shell, upih (made of tree bark) or weaved-mengkuang (pandanus leaves) and daun palas (from the Palas tree).
But the most authentic to store dodol is in a coconut shell, which is normally left to dangle from one of the beams in the kitchen. You have to savour it in small bits. Once the dodol is finished, the coconut shell can be used as a cup to drink coffee.
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Square Enix has revealed new merchandise on the Japanese Square Enix e-store for the latest in everybody's favourite JRPG series; Final Fantasy XIII-2. Now in addition to the Episode I novella available for preordering with Game or EB Games, fan's will soon be able to get their hands on a postcard book and the additional novella Final Fantasy XIII-2 Fragments Before.
First up the postcard book will be set for ¥1,260 which is around A$15.60 (although if it ever retails in Australia you can count on it being much higher). It will include 8 pages of character introductions, as well as 24 post cards featuring CG illustrations of the game's characters.
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SANTA YNEZ, CALIF. (June 10, 2011) Lateef Power Kayode and Chris The Hitman Avalos each recorded impressive 10-round unanimous decision victories while Art Lionheart Hovhannisyan pulled off an equally impressive knockout upset against previously unbeaten Archie Ray Marquez on an exciting night of fights on ShoBox: The New Generation on SHOWTIME®. The unbeaten cruiserweight Kayode (17-0, 14 KOs) proved too much for a game Matt Too Smooth Godfrey (20-3, 14 KOs) Friday night at the Chumash Resort Casino. Kayode controlled the entire fight and sent Godfrey to the canvas a total of three times, eventually winning by scores of 98-90, 97-90, 98-89. With Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach in his corner, Kayode has officially graduated from ShoBox, according to ShoBox color commentator and boxing expert Steve Farhood. Kayode is what he is, Farhood said. Boxers are always going to give him trouble, but he graduated tonight. And now he can aim for bigger things than ShoBox, which is a compliment. Kayode, of Hollywood, Calif., by way of Lagos, Nigeria, knocked Godfrey to the floor in rounds one, five and nine with a devastating display of body shots and power punches to the head of Godfrey. I thought we would finish (Godfrey) off earlier, but he took some good shots, Roach said. Its OK we went the distance. (Kayode) needs rounds. Overall I thought it was a good performance. Added Kayode, who won for the fifth time at Chumash and the third time in a row: We said we were going to cut off the ring and thats what we did. People here know what I can do now. Theyve seen what I can do. Now its on to bigger things. In an all-action super bantamweight tilt, Avalos (19-1, 15 KOs) took down the previously-unbeaten Khabir Suleymanov (11-1, 5 KOs) of Hollywood, Calif., by way of Chelybinsk, Russia. The three judges scored it 95-92, 96-91, and 97-90 while Farhood had it 98-91 for Avalos, of Lancaster, Calif., who fought an aggressive, come-forward fight scoring a knockdown in the first round and overcoming a point deduction in a wild third round for hitting Suleymanov when he was down. He came at me with exactly what I expected, said Avalos, who bloodied Suleymanovs nose. But we stuck with our game plan and it worked. I hurt him with my straight right several times. Whats next for Avalos, who suffered his first loss on ShoBox last August? Whoever wants it, he said. Whoever wants it. He didnt hurt me, Suleymanov said afterward. I feel fine. In a lightweight co-feature that opened the telecast, Hovhannisyan (14-0, 8 KOs) sent Marquez (11-1, 1 NC, 7 KOs) of Albuquerque, N.M., down in the first round just the like other winners on the night and again in rounds three and five. But it was a devastating left hook that sent Marquez to his first defeat at 1:03 of the sixth round. I was just very confident I would win this fight, said Hovhannisyan, of Glendale, Calif. Hes good and he has speed but I never thought Id lose. Hes undefeated but so am I. Im ready now for any fight. Im ready for anyone. Added Farhood: Hovhannisyan fought a very smart fight tonight. He sucked Marquez in and he drew him right into his web. Fridays fights will be available On Demand beginning Monday, June 13 and ending Sunday, June 26. Curt Meneffe called the ShoBox action from ringside with Farhood serving as expert analyst. Gordon Hall was the executive producer of ShoBox with Richard Gaughan producing and Rick Phillips directing. For information on SHOWTIME Sports Programming, including exclusive behind-the-scenes video and photo galleries, complete telecast information and more, please go the new SHOWTIME Sports website at http://www.sho.com/sports. RESULTS FROM FRIDAY'S "SÓLO BOXEO TECATE" FROM ALBUQUERQUE Albuquerque, NM (June 10, 2011) - Earlier tonight, Golden Boy Promotions, Don Chargin Productions and Fresquez Productions, presented a seven-fight event at the Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. If you missed the live action or TeleFutura "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" broadcast, below is a summary of the results: Holly Holm UD 10 Victoria Cisneros Elco Garcia UD 8 Joaquin Zamora Willie Villanueva SD 6 David Proa Fidel Maldonado Jr TKO 4 Eddie Ramirez Antonio Garcia UD 4 Martin Gonzales Mark Salser UD 4 Joel Varqas Next week the "Sólo Boxeo Tecate" broadcast will feature undefeated rising star Omar "Panterita" Figueroa of Weslaco, Texas in an eight-round lightweight main event against Puerto Rico's Eric Cruz and Capitol Heights, Maryland's Gary Russell Jr. against Antonio Meza of Mexicali in the eight-round co-feature. The TeleFutura broadcast begins at 11:30 pm ET/PT (10:30pm CT). Holm vs. Mathis for World Dominance Announced Dec. 2 at Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque ALBUQUERQUE, NM (June 11, 2011) Right after she registered her 30th career victory last night, promoter Lenny Fresquez announced that Holly The Preachers Daughter Holm will take on Anne Sophie Mathis -- the top two pound-for-pound female boxers in the world -- December 2 for World Dominance, at the Route 66 Casino Hotel in Albuquerque. Holm dominated all 10-rounds en route to unanimous decision (100-90 X 3) victory last night against aggressive Victoria Cisneros at Route 66 Casino Hotel. Holm (30-1-3, 9 KOs) will try to regain her IBA Welterweight title and WBAN Championship Belt in the 10-round main event against Mathis (23-1, 20 KOs), the WBO European Welterweight Champion from France. Holm-Mathis, presented by Fresquez Productions, is a modern day match-up between the consummate boxer, southpaw Holm, and knockout specialist, Mathis, who will be fighting outside of Europe for the first time. This has all the makings of an instant classic, potentially one of the greatest fights in womens boxing history, Fresquez said. Holly has exhausted all of her competitive options in the U.S., fighting just about every legitimate title challenger 11 world champions and now she wants to test herself against the best European fighter, Ann Sophie Mathis. It promises to be a memorable night for boxing fans all over the world, not just womens boxing fans. Holms only loss was in 2004 and shes won 23 of 24 fights since with one draw. A multiple world champion in three different divisions (light welterweight, welterweight and light middleweight), Holly has defeated all of the significant names in womens boxing from the 140 through 154-pound classes, including Christy Martin, Mary Jo Sanders, Mia St. John, Jane Couch, Duda Yankovich and Chevelle Hallback (twice). Mathis is riding a 22-fight win streak, dating back to 1995 when she lost in her second pro fight, and shes a two-time world light welterweight champion. December 2nd will mark the fifth anniversary of her first world title victory, in which she stopped previously unbeaten Myriam Lamare (13-0) for the WBA crown as well as the vacant EBU championship. Ann Sophies victims also include Couch, Yankovich, Ana Pascal and Nathalie Toro. For more information about World Dominance: Holm vs. Mathis go on line to www.FresquezProductions.com.
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of Plant and Soil Sciences
Laboratory Safety Committee Meeting Minutes Fall
2002 September 11, 2002 PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES SAFETY COMMITTEE MEETING
MINUTES Attendees:Jerry Hendricks
(Chair), Maria Pautler, Robin Elliot (OHS), Kurt Williamson, Yan Jin,
David McNear, Leslie York-Hubbard, Cindy Barnett. Old Business New Business The following have
not: Jane Davey, Louisa Santamaria, Kirsten Staats and 6 Longwood students.
Emails have gone out
to the students letting them know of the Web CT option. A user number
is required to access this web site. "Right to Know Training"
is also now available on this web page as well as 3 other fall classes.
These programs contain 6 quizzes and they can be taken any amount of times,
but you must get 100% to complete. Improvements are still being discussed
to update the system. OHS Announcements
by Robin Elliott Robin has a first
aid video that is available to anyone to borrow; however, you will not
receive certification by viewing it.
Absent: Caroline Golt (excused).
The minutes were taken by Cindy Barnett.
The meeting was called to order at 1:05 PM.
Since the walkway from Worrilow and Townsend Hall has been removed, furniture
has been ordered. The first floor will have cabinets and coat hooks. The
second floor will have a round table and chairs. The area in front of
Dr. Sparks' office will eventually have a waiting room as well.
Maria questioned about the sidewalk and it will be fixed but there is
no date as of yet.
GFI outlets – everything has been completed.
Robin will check into the Lab Management program to start getting it fully
will be adding a Hazard Class section to the program.
Jerry has sent out notices for the next lab inspections.
All new signs for the labs have a yellow icon on the bottom. Everyone
will need to put a flammable sign where it is necessary. Leslie told everyone
that new signs have been made, they all have not be put up – but
will be in the next couple of weeks
There have been no accidents to report since the last safety meeting.
The fire drill on July 10 was a success. The only concern was the northwest
exit on the first floor of Worrilow Hall. There is not enough clearance
outside because of the garden. This should not be used as a fire exit
and will be announced.
The following new graduate students have completed student orientation:
Travis Frey, Amy Sprinkle, Amy Shober, James Hyde, Kris Paul and Jodie
The biological inventory was due on 9/10/02 and everyone in the department
has completed them on time.
Fire extinguisher training is up for consideration. Jerry will look into
this and let everyone know.
Laundry for the lab coats is no longer available. We are looking into
other alternatives for this service.
Labs need to generate SOP's on their own. One should exist for every
room that contains materials and the SOP's should only be used as
a guide.
Chemmatch program: this is available for mailing of certain materials/chemicals.
It is the most specific and accurate information and should be accessed
for all such mailings. There are 3 options on the screen – MSDS,
Mini MSDS and MSDS plus. These options are located on the left hand side.
First aid kits and spill kits are now available on UD Mart. Complete kits
will not be replaced, but items in these kits can be replaced, free of
charge, when needed to be replaced. Also available on UD Mart is a place
to list unused lab equipment so others in the college may wish to have
the items instead of disposing of them.
Lab inspections are completed. Leslie will participate at the trouble
spots only. Committee members will inspect in the spring. Graduate students
do self-inspections. All inspections need to be done every quarter.
The next meeting is scheduled for December 4, 2002 at 1:00 PM in 156 Townsend
This meeting was adjourned at 1:45 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
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Ive NEVER said "Fire Palmer" . He's done a pretty good job of bringing DC along step by step , not throwing the whole playbook at him at once and overwhelming him , same can be said of the way he's dealt with AJ .
My main point is I'd like to see more than an avg of 3.3 ypc on running plays . The easiest way to do that is force the D NOT to put 8 or more in the box . Or use some mis-direction to get the D moving one way and the ball the other . I cant think of a single team who can run the ball effectively against a stacked line.
The only reason no-one is complaining about the 2.7 ypc this week against the Titanics is that they won the game . The 4 turnovers played a big part in that even if they failed to score a single point off them. Take away those turnovers and this is quite likely a different game .
Screen play's keep the Outside LB's honest as well as the safety . or any running play to the outside for that matter . The DE and OLB are generaly responsible for outside contain on plays of that nature .
The use of the TE across the middle or on post patterns is the responsibility of the ILB and or Safery depending on the coverage package . A steady diet of the TE across the middle forces the Safety / ILB to be just as concerned with the pass as the run and relieves some of the pressure on the outside recievers when the safety cant play over the top .
Once again let me state ... NO I DONT WANNA SEE DC DROP BACK AND FIRE AWAY 45 TIMES A GAME ...... he'd be beat up like Drew Bledsoe physically as well as mentally
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In Reply to: Re: Complete protein? posted by Keith on September 12, 2006 at 8:03 am:
I was going to mention that about the B-12 being on plants which are not over-washed, over-sprayed, etc. Keith should ask his doctor where cows get B-12, they don't eat meat. Hmmmm, I wonder? Just an example of how incredibly ignorant many doctors are on nutrition, the idea of "complete" protein is so behind the times it's unbelievable. I think its been about 30 years since that idea was debunked. Keith, you might want to print out some info on vegetarian diets from the ADA website, mainstream information seems to help the most with mainstream-thinking people.


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Bleeding Cool has been told by our lovely new Warners source (who has been so useful this morning) that "the pilot script for GOTHAM has Detective Jim Gordon trying to solve a very famous double homicide."
Would it be that reckless for me to quote Gordon from the end of Batman Begins; "Armed robbery, double homicide, has a taste for the theatrical, like you. Leaves a calling card."
The Joker?
UPDATE: Sigh, yes, of course, it's the Waynes, what was I thinking…
And coming for Arrow, a teaser that starts with Solomon Grundy:
"Born on a Monday…"
Someone else survived the island.
Amanda makes an offer.
A better use for that clocktower.
What is the question you should have asked?
Ollie is not the first vigilante.
Not all hoods are green.
A blank expression.
UPDATE: And yes, that does sound like The Question coming to Arrow as well… and Red Hood?


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Oil output has doubled in the state since the start of 2010, from 160,000 to 320,000 barrels per day, primarily due to fracking for tight oil.[1]
Oklahoma is part of the Caney and Woodford Shales, which are sites of drilling and fracking. The state also has thousands of injection and disposal wells,[2] which have been linked to a 5.7 earthquake in the state in 2011.[3]
Drilling wells
Click here for an interactive map of oil and gas wells.
In 2009, the state had more than 32,000 oil wells, almost 9 percent of the U.S. total.[4]
Continental Resources, the leading tight oil producer in the Williston Basin beneath North Dakota and Montana, revealed in 2012 that its next big target for development is an area southeast of the Cana play it has called the South Central Oklahoma Oil Province (SCOOP).[4]
Shale plays
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there are three prospective shale plays in the state: the Ardmore, Arkoma and Cana basins, all of which contain parts of the Woodford formation. The Mississippian is also a tight oil formation.[4]
Caney Shale, Oklahoma
The Caney Shale in the Arkoma Basin is the stratigraphic equivalent of the Barnett Shale in the Ft. Worth Basin. The formation has become a gas producer since the large success of the Barnett play.
- Bill Grieser: Caney Shale, Oklahoma's shale challenge, PDF file, retrieved 25 February 2009.
Woodford Shale, Oklahoma
The Devonian Woodford Shale in Oklahoma is from 50 to 300 feet (15 – 91 m) thick. Although the first gas production was recorded in 1939, by late 2004, there were only 24 Woodford Shale gas wells. By early 2008, there were more than 750 Woodford gas wells.[5][1] Like many shale gas plays, the Woodford started with vertical wells, then became dominantly a play of horizontal wells. The play is mostly in the Arkoma Basin of southeast Oklahoma, but some drilling has extended the play west into the Anadarko Basin and south into the Ardmore Basin.[6] The largest gas producer from the Woodford is Newfield Exploration; other operators include Devon Energy, Chesapeake Energy, Cimarex Energy, Antero Resources, St. Mary Land and Exploration, XTO Energy, Pablo Energy, Petroquest Energy, Continental Resources, and Range Resources. Production from the Woodford Shale has peaked and is now in decline, however.[7]
- Oklahoma Geological Survey: Map of Woodford shale wells, accessed 25 February 2009.
- Brian J. Cardott: Overview of Woodford gas-shale play in Oklahoma, 2008 update, PDF file, retrieved 25 February 2009.
Disposal wells
Click here for an interactive map of disposal wells.
As of 2012, there are an estimated 11,000 private and commercial injection and disposal wells in Oklahoma. Each year those wells are injected with billions of gallons of oil and gas wastewater, according to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission -- 8.8 billion gallons of wastewater in the last two years. The Corporation Commission says they have not tallied the amount of water injected through private wells.[2]
Oklahoma has seen a sharp rise in the number of earthquakes in the last few years. In August 2011, the Oklahoma Geological Survey examined a cluster of earthquakes in Oklahoma and found "that shortly after hydraulic fracturing began small earthquakes started occurring, and more than 50 were identified, of which 43 were large enough to be located. Most of these earthquakes occurred within a 24 hour period after hydraulic fracturing operations had ceased."[8]
On April 18, 2012, University of Memphis scientist Stephen Horton released his findings that a 5.7 quake in November 2011 was "possibly triggered" by injection wells near the fault that ruptured. Horton found that 63 percent of earthquakes have occurred within 10 kilometers (about 6 miles) of a deep injection well, compared to a 31 percent chance of a random, natural earthquake happening within 10 kilometers of a deep injection well. He did note that the correlation between the location of the quake centers and the wells was complicated by the fact that some of the nearby injection wells had been in operation for 10 years, and the amount of fluid being injected has reportedly been on the decline for the last five years.[9]
In July 2012 it was reported that Oklahoma officials ignored advice about injecting water into faults, to maintain production of oil and natural gas.[10]
A 2013 study published in Geology linked Oklahoma's 5.7 earthquake to underground injection of wastewater, saying a decades-long time lag between injection and tremors is possible. Geologists placed seismometers in the area after the initial quake and were able to track fault rupture areas, which showed close proximity to disposal wells. According to the researchers: "we interpret that a net fluid volume increase after 18 yr of injection lowered effective stress on reservoir-bounding faults. Significantly, this case indicates that decades-long lags between the commencement of fluid injection and the onset of induced earthquakes are possible."[11]
In October 2013 a drilling wastewater operator ceased injections at Oklahoma's Love County Disposal Well after a series of earthquakes. Injection began Sept. 3 and the earthquakes started Sept. 17 in the area near the Texas border, about 100 miles north of Dallas. The strongest was magnitude 3.4.[12]
In March 2015 it was reported that Oklahoma geologists were pressured by oil industry not to push on with their assessments of possible links between earthquakes in the state fracking.[13]
Spills and accidents
Click here for an interactive map of spills, leaks, and other drilling incidents.
A 2009 and 2010 report from the EPA Water Quality Protection Division lists concerns the agency has with the state's injection well program, including inaccurately reported data and operators injecting for years without valid permits. Ultimately the report recommends the Corporation Commission in Oklahoma take immediate actions to fix "critical problems."[2]
Worker deaths and injuries
Between October and June 2012, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Oklahoma City reported nine work-related deaths in the oil/gas industries and three people who were injured in a drilling rig fire. In response, OSHA, the state Department of Labor, and the Mid-Continent Exploration & Safety Production Network asked Oklahoma's oil and gas exploration and production companies to stand down and stop operations for a meeting on safety issues.[14]
Legislative issues and regulations
In July 2011 the Oklahoma Corporation Commission was established to regulate hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells as a well completion operation. The Commission's environmental protection rules were set up to address various aspects of well completion, and compliance with the rules is assured through inspection, reporting, investigation, and enforcement mechanisms.[15]
Chemical disclosure
In May 2012 it was voted that Oklahoma oil and natural gas producers would to forced to disclose the chemicals used in their hydraulic fracturing operations under new rules set to go into effect July 1, 2012. Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin signed off on the rules, which were approved by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Companies will report directly to the commission or use FracFocus.org.[16]
As of January 2014, operators of all oil and gas wells in the state must report the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing either directly to the website FracFocus.org or to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which will add the information to the FracFocus database.[17]
Federal lands
In September 2013 it was reported that the Oklahoman government would join Alabama, Montana and Alaska in protesting Bureau of Land Management plans to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal land.[18]
Citizen activism
Citizen groups
Industry groups
Fracking and earthquakes
A 2011 United States Geological Survey (USGS) report, Examination of Possibly Induced Seismicity from Hydraulic Fracturing in the Eola Field, Garvin County, Oklahoma," links a series of earthquakes in Oklahoma in January 2011 to a fracking operation underway there. The USGS found that, overall, some 50 small earthquakes had been registered in the region, ranging in magnitude from 1.0 to 2.8. The bulk occurred within 2.1 miles of Eola Field, a fracking operation in southern Garvin County. The USGS determined that "the character of the seismic recordings indicate that they are both shallow and unique."
- ↑ John Kemp, "Oklahoma is next destination for shale revolution," Reuters, Oct 21, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jennifer Loren, "Oklahoma Oil And Gas Injection Regulations Come Under Fire," Oklahoma Six, Feb. 21, 2012.
- ↑ Katie M. Keranen, Heather M. Savage, Geoffrey A. Abers, and Elizabeth S. Cochran, "Potentially induced earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA: Links between wastewater injection and the 2011 Mw 5.7 earthquake sequence," Geology, January 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 John Kemp, "Oklahoma is next destination for shale revolution," Reuters, Oct 21, 2013.
- ↑ Travis Vulgamore and others, "Hydraulic fracturing diagnostics help optimize stimulations of Woodford Shale horizontals," American Oil and Gas Reporter, Mar. 2008, p.66-79.
- ↑ David Brown, "Big potential boosts Woodford," AAPG Explorer, July 2008, p.12-16.
- ↑ Woodford Shale production, 2005-2011, The Oil Drum
- ↑ Austin Holland, "Examination of Possibly Induced Seismicity from Hydraulic Fracturing in the Eola Field, Garvin County, Oklahoma," Oklahoma Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2011.
- ↑ Mike Soraghan, "EARTHQUAKES: Drilling waste disposal risks another damaging Okla. quake, scientist warns," E&E reporter, April 19, 2012.
- ↑ [Okla. officials ignore advice about injecting into faults] E&E, July 25, 2012.
- ↑ Katie M. Keranen, Heather M. Savage, Geoffrey A. Abers, and Elizabeth S. Cochran, "Potentially induced earthquakes in Oklahoma, USA: Links between wastewater injection and the 2011 Mw 5.7 earthquake sequence," Geology, January 2013.
- ↑ Mike Soraghan, "Okla. disposal well shuts down after tremors," E&E, October 2, 2013.
- ↑ "Oil & gas execs 'pressured' Oklahoma geologists not to reveal fracking-quakes link" Russia Today, March 5, 2015.
- ↑ "Safety groups ask for Okla. oil, gas stand downs," AP, June 19, 2012.
- ↑ "Regulations" GroundWork, accessed April 24, 2012.
- ↑ "Oklahoma approves fracking disclosure rules" Jay F. Marks, NewsOk, May 29, 2012.
- ↑ Adam Wilmoth, "New disclosure rules target chemicals used in fracking," NewsOK, January 1, 2014.
- ↑ "Montana joins 3 other states in protesting fracking rules" Associated Press, August 29, 2013.
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