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Captains have a huge influence in the limited-overs game as they need to take instinctive decisions and make Power Play calculations.
In an event like the Challenger Series, where the selectors are expected to double up as cricket managers and teams don't have coaches, captains M.S. Dhoni (India Blue), S. Badrinath (India Red) and Suresh Raina (India Green) are likely to have their hands full.
The opening fixture between India Blue and India Red at the floodlit VCA stadium will see Dhoni and Badrinath matching wits. S. Sreesanth, Siddharth Trivedi and Ashok Dinda offer Dhoni multiple new ball options and they will be supported by medium-pacer Abhishek Nayar and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh.
Golden opportunity
Sreesanth, fit and fast, troubled the Mumbai batsmen in the Irani Cup and considers the Challenger Series for the N.K.P. Salve Trophy as another golden opportunity.
"I look at the Challenger as a lottery, like the Irani Cup, to continue my Warwickshire form," said Sreesanth, now in a perfect frame of mind to startle the batsmen with control and movement.
"I have not played much cricket after the IPL and then picked up the back injury. The Challenger selection could not have come at a better time," Sreesanth added.
The Kerala bowler's ability to torment batsmen with late swing can work to India Blue's benefit if the nippy Trivedi or Dinda can keep up the pressure at the other end.
Trivedi was named the 'best player' in last year's Challenger final and Dinda has proved capable of rising to the occasion in first-class cricket. Nayar will prove an able foil with his controlled seam bowling.
Badrinath heads the list of explosive batsmen in the India Red line-up, followed by Ravindra Jadeja, Wriddhiman Saha, Sunny Sohal and Shikhar Dhawan who are all capable of destroying any bowling attack. The huge VCA stadium ground will be a big test of their power and timing.
Munaf Patel and Sudeep Tyagi are familiar with the venue, having featured in the victorious Rest of India squad. Ishant Sharma's wicket-taking ability will be under the scanner.
Interesting mix
India Green is an interesting mix of young batting and bowling talent in Ajinkya Rahane, S. Aniruddha and Dhawal Kulkarni under an untested captain, Raina. L. Balaji and Parthiv Patel will be the calming influence, thanks to their international experience.
The schedule: Oct. 8: India Blue v India Red; Oct. 9: India Green v India Red; Oct. 10: India Green v India Blue; Oct. 11: Final.
All matches start at 2.30 p.m.
Keywords: Challenger Series, India Blue, India Red, India Green, Dhoni, Raina, Badrinath

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Love Hurts
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I was walking a trail around Red Rock in Sedona, Arizona when i happened upon this cactus shaped like a heart. So many things can be said about something of this sort, but i call this photo "love hurts".
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Comment: New Yorker and open source (Score 3, Insightful) 214
I was pleasantly surprised by the New Yorker's coverage of the shift from "free software" to "open source", which while less detailed (unsurprisingly) than other sources such as Free as in Freedom 2.0 also presented it simply as a thing that has happened, rather than either of the extremes that are usually applied: it's the worst affront ever to software freedom, or as the liberation of programmers from the crazy extreme ideology of RMS.
Personally I'm more interested in free software than in open source: the source code is a means to an end, not an end in itself. But it's good to see that view handled as a view and the events (and responses to them) presented, without turning the story into a justification or rationalisation of the view.
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5 Developmental Milestones: 5 - 6 Years Old
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Kindergarten, A Special Time
Most 5 to 6 year olds enroll in kindergarten. For many children this is the first time leaving caregivers for long periods of time. These kids continue to: Discriminate make-believe from real-life. Become comfortable with gender. Make connections and distinctions between feelings, thoughts, and behaviors.
Physical Growth
Traits: Dresses and undresses. Independently cares for toileting needs. May prefer plain cooking but will sometimes try new foods. Hand-eye coordination problems may develop due to far-sightedness.
Advice for Parents: Allow for independent dressing. Get an eye examination if needed. Offer a variety of yummy foods. Don't force child to eat unwillingly.Cognitive Development
Traits: Knows colors, letters, and numbers. Identifies coins for their values. Prints letters. Follows instructions. Only tries what he knows he can do. May lisp. Can stutter when nervous.
Advice for Parents: Allow opportunities to print name or short words. Reinforce known skills. Encourage participation in new activities. Don't focus on language problems, as they may be temporary.Social Growth
Traits: Plays with boys and girls, but prefers playmates of the same sex. Plays in groups or one-on-one. Converses during meals. Interested where babies come from. Judges people who don't conform.
Advice for Parents: Allow group play. Encourage and respond to conversations started by child. Offer simple and accurate explanations to questions. Teach value of individual differences.Emotional Characteristics
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Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary (Raphael)
Artist | Raphael |
Year | 1514–1516 |
Type | Oil on panel transferred to canvas |
Dimensions | 318 cm × 229 cm (125 in × 90 in) |
Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary, also known as Lo Spasimo or Il Spasimo di Sicilia, is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, of circa 1514–16,[1] now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It is an important work for the development of his style.
It shows the common subject of Christ Carrying the Cross to his crucifixion, at the moment when he fell and his mother suffers a spasm of agony, the Swoon of the Virgin, or "Lo Spasimo".[2] All the emotion of the painting is densely crammed into the foreground and the background is similar to that of a stage set with distant groups of people and crosses. The man on the left in the foreground is similar to a figure in Raphael's painting "The Judgement of Solomon" in the Raphael Rooms in the Vatican Palace, except reversed. Simon of Cyrene lifts Christ's cross momentarily and looks sternly at the guards. The four Mary's are depicted on the right side of the painting and towering on either side of the composition are the guards.[3] The concept of, and devotion to, the "spasm" of the Virgin was fashionable, if somewhat controversial, in early 16th century Catholicism, although in this work the Virgin has only fallen to her kness, not collapsed or fainted, as is often shown.[4]
The panel was commissioned by the Sicilian monastery of Santa Maria dello Spasimo in Palermo. painted in Rome around 1517, it was shipped by sea, but the actual ship had a very troubled journey and finally sunk. This episode was narrated by Vasari:
...As it was being borne by sea to Palermo, a great tempest cast the ship upon a rock, and it was broken to pieces, and the crew lost, and all the cargo, except this picture, which was carried in its case by the sea to Genoa. Here being drawn to shore, it was seen to be a thing divine, and was taken care of, being found uninjured, even the winds and waves in their fury respecting the beauty of such a work.[5]
As the news of this was spread abroad, the Sicilian monks sought to regain the miraculous painting, but they had to ask for the Pope's intercession to retrieve it. It was carried safe to Sicily, and placed in Palermo, where it acquired a great fame.[6]
In 1622 the painting was created by the Spanish Viceroy Ferrando de Fonseca on behalf of King Philip IV, who wanted it placed on the main altarpiece of the Royal Alcazar of Madrid chapel. Then it stayed in Paris from 1813 to 1822, because it was one of the paintings Napoleon took as booty during his war campaigns, and while there the painting was transferred to canvas, a practice much adopted in France during those times. After Paris, the picture (unlike many) was returned and finally re-integrated into the Spanish royal collections, later transferred to the Prado.[7] Its present condition is not very good, mainly due to its change of support, and it is therefore not currently on display at the Museo del Prado.[8]
In the past its status as a work by the hand of Raphael has been disputed, but it is now generally accepted as not merely designed but in large part painted by Raphael himself, no doubt with the usual workshop assistance for the easier areas.
- ^ c. 1514 according to Penny and other sources, but the Prado say c. 1516
- ^ Penny, 25–28
- ^ P. Franzese, Raffaello, Mondadori Arte (2008), p.120.
- ^ Penny, 26
- ^ G. Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (in It. often shortened to Le Vite), 1568. Cf. full text online at STORIES FROM VASARI, "Raffaello", Ch. 183. The painting's Prado webpage states that, recently, questions have been raised as to the truthfulness of Vasari's narration of the shipwreck it suffered during its transportation. That story is considered too close to the miraculous circumstances surrounding the arrival of one of Sicily's most famous images —Trapani's Annunziata by Nino Pisano— during the Middle Ages [1]
- ^ Vasari, ibid., Ch. 183
- ^ P. De Vecchi, Raffaello, Rizzoli (1975), p.116.
- ^ See 'display status' at the Prado website
- De Vecchi, Pierluigi, Raffaello, Rizzoli, Milan (1975). (Italian)
- Franzese, Paolo, Raffaello, Mondadori Arte, Milan (2008). (Italian)
- Gherardi, Pompeo, Della Vita E Delle Opere Di Raffaello Sanzio Da Urbino (1874), Kessinger Publishing (2010). (Italian)
- Hoeniger, Cathleen, The Afterlife of Raphael's Paintings, Cambridge University Press (2010).
- Penny, Nicholas, National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume I, 2004, National Gallery Publications Ltd, ISBN 1-85709-908-7
External links[edit]
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- Lo Spasimo at the Prado
- Raphael at the Prado and other Museums
- Raphael's works on the Online Gallery of the Museo del Prado


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Republican senator Lindsey Graham's remark that there weren't enough "angry white guys" to bring Republicans to power seemed prophetic in the light of President Barack Obama's victory.
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"What (Michigan coaches) told me is that they're focusing on point guards right now, but if anything opens up, they'll definitely come back on and recruit me as hard as they were," said Towns
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Gone In 16 Hours
It's been just over a month since Mitch McGary announced his "decision" to go pro. The scare quotes are present because there was no decision to make if McGary were to act at all in his own self-interest.
This sucked. This sucked because Mitch McGary is a joy to watch on the basketball court, a 6'10" mace attached to a giant pendulum, swinging violently back and forth while pausing only to wreck shit. This sucked because he's equally fun off the court, with his unicycle and Bieber-crooning and invaluable coaching advice and generally making Michigan's bench seem like the best party on campus, even if McGary was the only one partying:
What sucked most of all, though, was the feeling that McGary had only scratched the surface of his potential, and factors almost entirely out of his control* limited our exposure to just 12 career starts. Mitch McGary's Michigan career lasted all of 966 minutes played. That's just over 16 hours. That's not nearly enough.
So while I had no trouble writing effusively about Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III after their departures, I've spent the last month struggling to put McGary's career into words. I try to analyze and am left instead with a whole lot of feelings. How does one discuss an athlete hyped to Webberian proportions before he ever enrolled who, apart from one brilliant six-game stretch, never produced as expected yet was beloved all the same?
Probably by ignoring all of that, sitting back, and watching him work, because again: when Mitch McGary was on the court, the only proper response was to drop everything and watch Mitch McGary. He didn't give you a choice in the matter. He grabbed your attention like so many entry passes:
McGary was a defensive force with impeccable timing. His steal rate as a freshman easily surpassed that of Trey Burke, Master of the Halfcourt Pickpocket. He protected the rim. He seemingly rebounded everything. Michigan's defense suffered mightily last season without McGary's interior presence and game-changing ability to erase opponent possessions.
He also boasted remarkable skill for a big man. Defensive boards turned into fast breaks in the time you could say "Unseld." Sometimes he'd eschew that route and just do everything himself. Occasionally he'd finish his coast-to-coast forays with a Rondo-esque fake behind-the-back pass. Speaking of point guard skills, he could thread multiple defenders without looking. Perhaps my favorite McGary play came in the Kansas game, when he hit a baseline turnaround right in Jeff Withey's face like it was routine, not a work-in-progress shot he'd rarely—if ever—utilized to that point.
He did these things while accepting a backup role until it was time to unleash him for the 2013 NCAA Tournament, playing in an offense that relied on him more as a garbageman than a creator, and being the team's #1 scholarship cheerleader and hype man.
Look at the GIF at the top of the post, one more time. It's a 25-point blowout of Northwestern, and there's McGary, showing more effort in one play than some guys do in four years. Sure, he lost the ball out of bounds, but it's not like you can be mad about it; even if it didn't end well, that play brought life to a dull affair, and we were all better for having seen it.
That's how I'll choose to remember Mitch McGary. The flashes of brilliance. The occasional mistakes born from genuine enthusiasm that bordered on excessive. Most of all, the feeling, after everything, that I enjoyed my life just that much more thanks to a big kid from Indiana who seemed to enjoy everything.
*Yes, there's the weed thing. Read that David Roth piece, then think about the punishment for McGary's transgression versus one of another Michigan center—the football one, Graham Glasgow, suspended for part of spring practice and one should-be-a-cupcake non-conference game for drunk driving. I find one of these things far worse than the other, and it's the one that puts other people's lives in actual danger.
This Week's Obsession: Centerless
xkcd. it's funny because SCIENCE okay?
As the Rigelians informed us, basketball it turns out is the universe's favorite sport. Of the trillions of basketball leagues worthy of broadcast, the most incompetent is Lockeceles VI's "Internashunil Assosiation of Basketball Playig and Shoving Sharp Objects Into Our Eyes [sic]," [sic] best known for their ruling that the Targavian Turnips should have to play an entire season hopping on one leg and bent sideways after a local columnist accused the Turnips' frontcourt of not hustling. Fortunately for the players, Targavia was a city entirely made up of chiropractors, so nobody's life was ruined. The season was of course a disaster.
If the NCAA just claimed the refs were getting too expensive we would have believed it. |
The second most feckless basketball league in the universe is, of course, Earth's "National Collegiate Athletic Association," which recently challenged the IABPSSOIOE[sic]'s title by issuing a one-year (effectively life) suspension to an injured player who tested positive for a recreational, performance-reducing substance that everyone uses.
You may ask what were they smoking at the time, but that would appear rather obvious.
Alas, the burden of picking up the pieces shall fall upon the TV camera crews at Crisler, who must find a way to shoot the games without broadcasting all of those extended middle fingers, and the Michigan Wolverines Basketball team, who'll have to figure out how they're supposed to rebound anything. And it shall fall upon the MGoBloggers to inform you how that will go down:
The cagers are suddenly without a front court. Has Michigan slid back to pack for now or is this all just a setup for the Beilein Little Shooters Magnum Opus? What's your take on Donnal? Can we do this without becoming a study on Bielfeldt anatomy?
Dear Diary Needs to Stop Raining
I've got this dresser I'm painting to go with our bedroom furniture. A few weekends ago I got one coat on it. Then it rained and ruined half the second coat. So I took it out there again but it started to rain on and off and I had to hide it under the garage overhang. Every day I check to see if there will be six good hours of sunlight somewhere to stick the last coat on it, and every time there's a dollop of drizzle here, a sprinkle there, and at least one good pour per day.
It is as hopeless and infuriating as being a Michigan fan. I know we can't complain too hard because there are places like West Lafayette where it just rains all the time, or Champaign where the weatherman predicts sun so you'll be outside when the softball-sized hail comes.
Your April shower was Urban Meyer coming to piss on your attempt to add a grad-year transfer to the OL, and now May flowers with a boatload of puritan crap.
I'm still livid. For a second there it looked like at least one of Michigan's major sports was going to be sustainably great, so of course that's when the most insane decision yet by an organization best known for blithering stupid decisions knocks basketball from a likely 1-seed to something way less than that. McGary's mad too, but the NBA's not a terrible fallback plan. Michigan got screwed the most.
The last guy I could find to get the one-year ban was a role player at UNLV who lost his 5th year to it in 2010. We've been scouring Google to turn up polls and quotes to give you some idea of how ubiquitous pot-smoking is among college athletes. The NCAA's own study came back at 1 in 5:
I'm suddenly liking lacrosse more
So how is it, even if the draconian rule only applies to the playoffs, that the merciless league can only manage to tag one guy every four years? There's a synthetic version that regular pot-smoking athletes will use during the season to beat the tests. So when they do catch a guy with good ol'fashioned THC in his system, it's usually only because he's a total amateur. No pun intended.
Whence the leapers?
I know Jones is 10, but I keep getting Dukes (83) and York (81) confused.
The 2012 receiver class had a pair of high 4-star types with similar I-saved-my-family-from-a-terrible-place-in-Africa stories. The 2014 class had the guy who rewrote the in-state record books and what already looks like a gem in Freddy Canteen. Lost in the narrative have been the three large-and-leapy 2013 guys. What do we expect from C'sonte, Jaron and Da'Mario? That's a good question.
This year I expect depth. In addition to Gallon we also graduated Dileo and Jackson and Reynolds. If Nussmeier indeed goes 3-wide a lot more as we hope, then at least one of them ought to figure on the two-deep in 2014.
Jones is more "slot-like", i.e. thin, though he's not at all short. I think his upside is Roy Roundtree, and so long as they leave him in the slot that'll be just fine. Dukes and York represent a specific type of receiver who can simply muscle past the type of legal-unless-they-call-it press coverage en vogue these days, and simply out-leap the 5'8 buggers who won't have any trouble staying with them. They're development projects: it takes years to perfect off-the-snap and route techniques to make this work. Unfortunately, Michigan only bothered to get a redshirt on Dukes last year, which, given Mathlete's finding that receiver experience is a big deal, is infuriating. Mo Ways is in this vein too, FWIW.
Etc. Hoops previews of Illinois, Maryland, and…Iowa? Hmm. Prediction for the remainder: Michigan (we should be below Iowa), Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin. Photos from the Go Blue Bowl. The 2013-'14 cagers' contributions to the season's gifs. Lacrosse potentially could go green…I mean more green.
[After the jump: why 2014 offense isn't 2011 defense, I enter the ranks of MGoBloggers who rant about Brandon]
Unverified Voracity Swings Really Hard At Tee Ball
I think it's really happening. Mike Babcock-to-Michigan rumors have just been turned up to 11:
Mike Babcock says not worried about negotiating for extension, will either remain coach of Red Wings or be assistant at U of M/ Berenson
— Helene St. James (@HeleneStJames) April 29, 2014
That is quite a statement: "eh, if I don't continue to coach one of the most storied franchises in the NHL I'll just go be Red's assistant." If Michigan sticks to the plan that would be a one-year apprenticeship before the job came open.
Oh really. Paging Captain Renault: Mitch McGary's drug test won't impact his draft stock.
"No, not really, because you know what, probably 70 percent of the league does that (smokes marijuana)," the scout told MLive, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
But what about the spirit of sport, NBA? What about the spirit of sport?
"Appropriate." Matt Hayes walks up to the unionization issue on a tee and takes a Casey-like swing:
So if we're going to do this; if we're going to call athletes employees (or whatever you want to call them) and expand benefits and increase their ability to market and make money off themselves, the consequences for violating rules must be swift and appropriate.
Gone are the days where Troy Smith can take $500 from a booster, sit out a bowl game, get reinstated and two years later finish his career by winning the Heisman Trophy.
If you take $500 from a booster now, you lose eligibility. Permanently.
Hayes, prone on the ground, cartoon birds circling his head. The tee, untouched.
The average Troy Smith is still going to get the money, but will not be punished. Ramping up penalties for infractions that 99% of offenders will not get caught for is like throwing people in jail for speeding.
I mean, who cares? Who cares that Troy Smith now has 500 dollars? Level playing field, you say?
Gone are the days of second, third and fourth chances as it relates to— take your pick— arrests (and convictions), academic failure, failed drug tests (performance enhancing or recreational), or any behavior that harms a university's reputation.
Let me just direct you to the quote above about Mitch McGary. Or, you know, society. The society in which those first time arrests and convictions generally result in probation or diversion so that people can have a second chance. If people were held to the standards Matt Hayes is advocating for newly professional-ish college athletes, unemployment would run around 50% and include Matt Hayes.
Let's goooooo. The News profiles now-critical Mark Donnal, collecting the various encouraging quotes about him that have been dropping in the past couple months:
"He's definitely displayed a couple of specific skill sets," Alexander said. "Mark is a tremendous passer, both in traffic and on the perimeter. His shooting range makes him a capable and reliable pick-and-pop jump shooter on the perimeter.
"He has a great face-up game in the post. The thing he discovered through added strength is the ability to rebound the ball in traffic."
With sufficient three-point range to drag posts out to the perimeter, Michigan's post guys are liable to find shotblockers absent when they get by their guys. It'll be interesting to see what happens Walton and LeVert's shooting percentage at the rim when Donnal is out there providing Beilein his first shooting five since his arrival in Ann Arbor. I'm more concerned about his defense and rebounding—by the end there, Jordan Morgan was in beast mode.
Bacari is at least making the right noises about where he's headed:
"The thing that really excites me as his position coach is that nasty edge that he brings to the table, as well."
He also has an interesting quote about how at Michigan "you are who you can guard," and the offense takes care of itself. Donnal will start at the five—out of necessity now—and has some ability to move out to the four as he "continues to improve his conditioning and lateral quickness." Given the composition of Michigan's roster the next couple years it doesn't seem like he'll be spending much, if any, time at the 4.
How much thing X irritates coaches, officially. Michigan's defensive grading system seems a little out of whack to me:
Like… forcing a fumble—hit the ballcarrier with enough force to make him drop the ball—is way harder than recovering one—get lucky, fall down. And what counts as a "missed tackle"? Missed tackles come in all shapes and sizes: you can let someone outside of you for a huge gain, which is super super bad, or you can not quite get a guy down but delay him enough that the cavalry rallies to stop him a yard after you would have. I'm guessing that latter probably counts as a tackle and the former gets a CRITICAL ERROR added to it.
Even so, it seems like "missed assignment" is the worst of all possible things. Missed assignments are touchdowns waiting to happen. When I do the UFRs some guy doing something that doesn't make any sense gets a serious downgrade and most of the coach types who have commented seem to agree with that assessment.
But being a coach is always a compromise between what you actually think in your head and what you think is the best way to get 85 guys doing a complicated thing well. See: the entire concept of "coachspeak." Or "Devin Gardner might start."
Just don't advertise it during games. Michigan Stadium is now open for prom:
Michigan Stadium is getting ready for prom season as part of a push to use the home of Wolverines football for more events during the offseason.
About 230 students from Durand High School, about 45 miles northwest of Ann Arbor, will take the field May 10 — the first time the Big House has hosted a prom, The Ann Arbor News reported (http://bit.ly/1mQvHXn ). And Dexter High School's prom is there May 17.
Hooray incremental revenue, as long as incremental revenue is not flogged at my ears during the games. See also: weddings, facebook, twitter, nonrevenue sports.
Everywhere, all the time. Ramzy on Ohio State's version of creating the future is worth your time:
Ohio State does not belong to you. You just happen to work there at this moment - you're stewards for a rich inheritance you're passing along to someone else that no one will ever cash. That's what Ohio State is. You did not build this brand. You can only damage or improve it.
And you should find as many ways as possible to give it away for free. Businesses do this all the time because it gives them a great return and it's terrific exposure for future buyers. Future buyers. This is where we talk about the children who don't have wealthy parents or opportunities to embark on a wallet-crushing fall Saturday in Ohio Stadium.
Also in this genre is a post from Get The Picture, a Georgia blog:
It's not like money is a problem in Athens. It's just that there seems to be little thought to spending it in a way that makes the fan base content. I think back to the shameful way North Campus was treated before Michael Adams had his hissy fit and essentially shut down the tailgate experience; much of that could have been resolved with better security, more restroom facilities and a reasonable amount of attention paid to trash removal. None of that is exactly back-breaking from a financial standpoint for a school with Georgia's resources. It's just that no one in a position to improve things could be bothered with it. And that's a story you could repeat in many other ways.
Instead, we're offered enhanced wi-fi, ever more intrusive piped in music and goofy sideshows like yesterday's mascot abomination as a solution. But I don't weigh the prospect of live attendance on the basis of my short-term attention span. The home experience is about greater comfort and convenience. I don't wait to go to the kitchen for a drink, my bathroom smells nice and I can always find a place to park. This is the lesson I'm afraid McGarity and his AD peers are missing. I want what I got yesterday – a feeling that the money I'm shelling out is somehow being spent to benefit my experience in a way that gives me what I have at home, while making me feel glad I came.
I also recommend the comments, this one in particular:
UGA AA for so long thought that buying a ticket was the only way to gt a good view. Then 27 inch crt color television gave ay to 60′ HD home theaters and the Butts-Mehre suits haven't yet figured out how to compete without creating something to sell.
Georgia fans are basically the Michigan fans of the SEC and they're experiencing the same things, albeit with less of a swoon with their football program. The comparison they're making here is to the Masters, which is a fantastic example of an organization successfully creating a culture of otherness that makes it in fact special. While that comes with costs—see women and minority membership—they're holding onto their fanbase because they make it feel good to be a fan. I can't say I remember the last thing Michigan did that was a step in that direction.
That reminds me of a thing I think I failed to relate when it happened: before the Nebraska game this year I was walking to my family's tailgate. As I neared the stadium the jumbotron was showing me the previous week's game… against Michigan State. Devin Gardner got annihilated and intercepted and I was like "feels bad, man."
It was the previous week's Not Michigan Replay, it turned out, and I just thought to myself "is there literally no one in the athletic department with the common sense to not show Michigan fans highlights of a game in which they rushed for –48 yards?" People are just in charge of things for no reason.
The ultimate Pandora's Box question. Oh, man. As scaremongering anti-union/reform questions go, this is the best/worst:
Could boosters treat recruiting like the Wild West?
oh no what would that look like
Etc.: Why the O'Bannon case is a duel to the death. At least everyone hates the way the McGary thing went down. More evidence that Michigan's upper reaches are inappropriately secretive. Jordan Morgan report card. Talking with Ricky Doyle. The Big Ten basketball powerhouse.
Mitch McGary To NBA
Exit. [Fuller]
Well, dammit. McGary's out the door and in the end there wasn't even a decision to make:
The Michigan sophomore who turned down a prime opportunity to enter last year's NBA draft and paid a price has decided to declare for the 2014 draft, admitting that he failed an NCAA-administered drug test in March and faced a one-year suspension from college basketball.
The drug test he failed was for pot, which seems ludicrous. Since when does the NCAA even test for pot, let alone levy year-long suspensions? Especially of a player who didn't even play? The situation here is insane. If Michigan issues the test, they get to decide the punishment. If the NCAA does, it's pretty much a death penalty for your career:
By failing a test administered by the NCAA, rather than his school, McGary was subject to the draconian Bylaw 126.96.36.199.1, which calls for a player to be "ineligible for a minimum of one calendar year." A second offense, even for just marijuana, results in permanent banishment.
"If it had been a Michigan test, I would've been suspended three games and possibly thought about coming back," McGary said. "I don't have the greatest circumstances to leave right now [due to the injury]. I feel I'm ready, but this pushed it overboard.
"I don't think the penalty fits the crime. I think one year is overdoing it a little bit."
Michigan agreed, McGary said, and appealed the decision to the NCAA in early April. It was denied, however. Neither the university nor the NCAA would comment directly on the case or the appeal.
The NCAA is the worst organization in the world (that isn't FIFA). They just changed the penalty to a half-season—still ludicrously punitive for a substance that is heading towards legalization within a decade—and would still not relent, because think of the NCAA like a marching band full of assholes. Good on McGary for just talking about it. At least one party in this situation comes off like an adult.
Michigan's situation at the five is now pretty alarming. They've got true freshman Ricky Doyle and, now out of necessity, redshirt freshman Mark Donnal. Transfer Cole Huff now has a scholarship slot, though he would not be available next year.
Unverified Voracity Announces Decisions
- al borges
- al borges i don't even know
- basketball timeouts are awful
- chad lindsay
- glenn robinson iii
- jon horford
- lolbcs
- mitch mcgary
- muhammad ali abdur-rahkman
- nba draft
- nba draft makes me forever alone
- nightmare fuel
- nik stauskas
- rappists
- the michigan difference
- the only good mascot is a terrifying mascot
- unverified voracity
The day has (mostly) come. Expect a post at about 3:35 today, as Michigan has called a press conference featuring Nik Stauskas and Glenn Robinson III at 3:30 wherein they will either announce their NBA draft futures or talk about their favorite things to put on hamburgers. Here's hoping it's the latter.
I don't think there's a huge amount of suspense with either of those two guys. Michigan is bringing in Muhammed Ali Abdur-Rahkman for an official this weekend, and now there are multiple reports that Robinson has signed with an agent or hasn't signed but is entering the draft anyway.
The suspense is with Mitch McGary, who is not announcing:
McGary's father, Tim McGary, told MLive on Monday night that his son has no intentions to partake in the press conference and is still undecided on whether he return to U-M or not.
"He's still back and forth on it," Tim McGary said.
So he's not gone; neither is he necessarily back. He has until the 27th to make that decision; the NCAA's deadline is an entirely artificial one.
The fact that he's still debating things is obviously good. It is not as good as McGary being ready to announce a return would be; it is still good. Scout's Brian Snow has reported a shift of opinion($) in the Indiana recruiting circles he pings regularly that is positive for Michigan, so there's that. Sam Webb confirmed, insofar as it is possible to confirm an opinion on a decision that clearly hasn't been made yet.
Abdur-Rahkman, 40 in white
ha no but man wouldn't that be something
he's the guy with the ball
not that I had to tell you that
Meanwhile, MAAR. If Michigan does settle on Abdur-Rahkman as a spring take I'll be satisfied; Beilein and company have proved they can ID a diamond in the rough and, like… MAAR for four years. Misspelled Smiths tie in acronym: yes please.
MAAR currently has a slate of mid-major offers after a senior season in which he averaged nearly 24 points a game for Central Catholic. Joe Stapleton's article linked above indicates the seriousness of Michigan's interest—Beilein calls him "at least three times a week"*—despite the fact that he is not just a shooter because he's not, in fact, a shooter:
Abdur-Rahkman would be a slight departure from the prototypical Michigan recruit in that he isn't known for his shooting. In fact, the graduating senior said that while his shot has improved, he made his living getting to the rim and playing great man-to-man defense.
A defensive stopper type would be welcome, and shooting can develop. If Michigan was to offer it doesn't seem like it'll take a whole lot of thought from MAAR:
"(Michigan is) definitely the top school."
Abdur-Rahkman also deviates from the Beilein model in that he's old for his class. In fact, he is literally as old as you can be and still play high school basketball in Pennsylvania:
Abdur-Rahkman turned 16 on Sept. 1 at the start of his freshman year, which means, of course, he turned 19 on Sept. 1 of this past year. The cutoff date for meeting the PIAA's age requirement is Sept. 1, meaning that had Muhammad been born on Aug. 31, he would have had to be part of the 2013 graduating class.
He'll be 20 by the time he arrives on campus. Good for immediate readiness, bad for upside. Kind of like grabbing a hockey player after a couple years of JUCO.
*[They deregulated phone calls in men's basketball, if that sounds like a violation to you. Kelvin Sampson sighs heavily at home about this.]
WELP. Here's this draft evaluation of Taylor Lewan from SBNation that discusses Taylor Lewan, who is of interest to us as a Michigan alum who is likely to go in the top half of the first round of the draft.
What a shitty offense
Uh… what?
So I wanted to focus this breakdown on Taylor Lewan, not the severe annoyance I had with the way Michigan used him. But since it was the one thing that stood out to me the most while watching Lewan play, I am going to go ahead and address it right off the bat.
Now look, I don't profess to be some kind of expert on offenses, but some things about football I just feel like should be common sense. For instance, if you have a superior blocker at left tackle, most of your help from tight ends and running backs, whether it be run blocking or pass blocking, should go to the other four guys. It should also allow you to design plays built around his athleticism to help get your skill position players free out in space. Stuff like smoke screens (WR takes one step forward then one step back to catch the ball while his blockers lead up in front of him) or really any kind of screens, counter plays (where you pull the offensive guard and tackle from one side of the center to the other side of the center) and any number of sweep plays (runs designed to get wide outside of the offensive tackle).
I didn't see much of that in the five games that I watched. Furthermore, why in the HELL did Michigan keep a tight end to Lewan's side so damn much? He obviously didn't need the help. The quarterback was right handed anyway (with bootlegs you like for the tight end to be lined up to the side of the quarterback's throwing hand), and they could have potentially had a wide receiver there instead of a tight end. It would've increased the chances of success on passing downs as well as run downs if you get the opposing defenses spread themselves out. But is that what Michigan did?
This very long blockquote is not the end of former NFL DE Stephen White's evisceration of last year's Michigan offense, despite it being a very long blockquote. I expect that White will be getting some very stern comments from the folks around here who fought the rearguard action for Team Borges with such heroic ferocity last season when I made statements like "this is stupid," "this makes no sense," and "it is bad when your tailbacks run 27 times for 27 yards."
Michigan protected Taylor Lewan with a tight end so often that it made it hard for this draft evaluator to, you know, evaluate Taylor Lewan. Meanwhile, the interior of the line was a highway to Devin Gardner's ribs. And the kicker is: the tight ends couldn't even block. Michigan was tossing away its main advantage on the line—dang good tackles—because of their philosophy about manballin' it. That's alarming, because that seems like it comes from the top. It's all well and good to be Stanford or Alabama if you can be that, but when you're on your way to dead last TFLs… probably not.
We'll see. Rubber hits the road in September.
Oh, good. Putting Chad Lindsay on 27 tickets turns out to be premature, as the Alabama transfer is getting his woo on. After his visit to Michigan he hit up Louisville and Oklahoma; this week he's headed to Cal and… Ohio State. Oh goody.
OSU lost four seniors off last year's line and can pitch Lindsay playing time, and you know there's nothing in the world Urban would like more than grabbing Lindsay away from Michigan even if he ends up sitting on the bench the whole year. Especially if he ends up sitting on the bench the whole year.
Get out of there while you still can, Chad.
This will help you feel better about the previous section. Someone's really into Amir Williams saying coach be all over his di—
For pants sake, lady, can you see a camera without reflexively extending your tongue and squinting? I submit that you cannot.
Mascot of the week. The El Paso Chihuahuas' Chico has been hanging with Eight Ball the Tiger:
Mascots should be as frightening as possible. I approve.
YUP. It's almost like arguments against a college football playoff weren't particularly good ones.
40 bowl games next year. Man, I am old enough to remember when the worthless suits who run CFB said a playoff would kill all the bowl games
— jamie mac (@justcoverblog) April 15, 2014
Our worthless suit overlords think so little of us they kept the guy who was issuing these proclamations around to issue the exact opposite proclamations.
The Michigan Difference. Michigan PhD grad makes joke about Darren Rovell on twitter.
@PFTCommenter OK, but @darrenrovell would tell you that a swastika is just a way to build your brand ppl forget that.
— neilla (@_neillam) April 8, 2014
Darren Rovell, being Darren Rovell, reports this comment to some guy at Michigan. Michigan's "informal response":
1) "Wait, so who is this guy? Is
@darrenrovell actually famous?"2) "What did he think we were going to do? Take away your diploma?"
/sings fight song, waves tiny block M flag
I am always very careful about how I mis-state the word rapper. Ace informs me that this gentleman with Devin Gardner is noted rappist "Two Chains," but I say balderdash, I say!
COUNT THE CHAINS, "TWO CHAINS." His real name is Excessive Watches IV. He goes home and takes off all of that, sits down with a Forbes, and looks exactly like Carlton. Fact. E-fact. Also his rap song just cannot compete with the Charleston.
This has been Brian pretends he's more out of touch than he is to forestall accusations of being out of touch theater. Thank you.
Thanks, bro. Horford opens up about his decision to leave to MLive; it turns out his zen does not extend to the rest of his family:
"(Transferring) is something that my family has been trying to persuade me to do for four years," Horford said. "So I guess naturally it's always been inevitable -- when people are telling you something all the time."
I get the feeling that Horford's support system regards Horford's abilities with… uh… enthusiasm not necessarily in line with reality. The reason his playing time dropped late in the season is that he wasn't playing well. I mean… when Morgan went out I was always like WHEN CAN WE GET MORGAN BACK IN. Play better and you get more time. Or wait for Morgan to graduate and go get it like he did.
Please please please let me get what I want (fewer timeouts) this time. Timeouts are a scourge upon basketball, not only turning 60 seconds of clock time into a writhing eternity of nothingness but also reducing the chaos factor that a trailing team attempts to insert into the game late. On four seconds trying to inbound the ball? Timeout. Trapped in the corner? Timeout. Want to get your defense set? Timeout. Timeouts are used to prevent turnovers, keep the leading team in the lead, and let over-coaching guys in suits maintain as much control as possible. They result in two and a half hour games that mean you have to stream the first ten minutes of your game on ESPN3. They are miserable and should be almost entirely removed.
They won't be, but at least the misery of them is a thing that has reached the people who can do something about it:
Everyone agreed that one of the biggest detractions of the current game is the eternity it takes to end a close one. That is largely due to the number of timeouts granted to each team, both officially (five per team per game) and unofficially (coaches are given a minute to substitute when a player fouls out). Replay reviews are viewed as a necessary evil in the quest for the right calls, but they also add to the length of an endgame situation. Coaches cherish their control of the game and thus will be loath to surrender timeouts, but fans everywhere would embrace fewer stoppages in play – especially late in a game. The NCAA said it will begin tracking the length of games next year, as it does in football.
"Length is becoming a concern," said David Worlock, NCAA associate director of men's basketball.
You're going to begin tracking games? And you don't think there's anything wrong with the current replay setup? Argh. But yes, please, shoot timeouts into the sun. One per team per game.
An elimination of live-ball timeouts, or at least limiting those calls to players instead of coaches. This would be a move toward FIBA international rules, which allow no live-ball timeouts.
But no:
Reducing the shot clock to either 30 or 24 seconds. Brey said he is in favor, and there seems to be fairly wide support for a reduction of some kind – although there also is a concern about college hoops becoming an NBA copycat league. (Interestingly, Byrd said his Belmont team occasionally uses a 12-second shot clock in practice to force tempo and enhance conditioning.)
With zone defenses viable and the skill level generally reduced, shortening the shot clock just results in more ugly shots. 45 to 35 was necessary, but in college 35 is fine.
Etc.: Sam Mikulak in repose. PSU-M is at 7 PM on ESPN or ESPN 2. Frighentingly quick MAAR scouting video from UMHoops.


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Hertwig's epithelial root sheath (HERS) cells were isolated and recombined with ectomesenchymal cells in vitro utilizing extracellular matrix components as substrate. After 14 days in culture, HERS cells were differentiated and exhibited a stratified organization. These features resembled those observed in vivo as epithelial rests of Malassez. A mineralization process was also present in HERS cells, in which calcium salts were deposited. This mineralization was correlated with the strong immunoexpression of osteopontin by HERS. The results obtained add support to the possible role of HERS in the secretion of hypocalcified material on the root during early cementogenesis. |
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Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Saturday dismissed the allegation of Pattali Makkal Katchi founder S. Ramadoss that there was no transparency in the selection in the implementing agency for the Kalaignar Insurance Scheme for Life Saving Treatments.
In a statement, the Chief Minister said that a transparent tender system was followed, in which most of the insurance companies in the country, both in the government and private sectors participated. It was through this process that premium amount was fixed for the scheme. A team of doctors of the Public Health department and the Health Systems Project had selected 51 diseases covered under the insurance scheme.
He also said that when the government came to know the Andhra Pradesh's Rajiv Arogyasri health insurance scheme, it sent a team of officials belonging to the Tamil Nadu Health Systems Project to the neighbouring State in December last year. After considering the salient features of the Andhra Pradesh scheme and examining the State's requirements and health infrastructure, the Kalaignar Insurance Scheme was formulated.
Referring to Dr. Ramadoss' observation that the funds earmarked for the insurance scheme could have been used for providing treatment at the government college hospitals, Mr Karunanidhi replied that in practice, it would be extremely difficult to give treatment at the government hospitals for most of the diseases covered under the scheme. It was not possible to ensure the availability of medical experts and facilities in most parts of the State and provide treatment continuously. "In any part of the world, tertiary public health care is provided not just through government hospitals. Both government and the private sector join together and provide it," he said. This was why the scheme had envisaged that government hospitals would provide to the poor such treatment that was required to be given on a daily basis and private hospitals and select government hospitals would handle other cases.
The Chief Minister also rejected Dr. Ramadoss' criticism of the government's decision on equitable standard education and said there was no truth in it.
Cabinet reshuffle
At a press meet, Mr. Karunanidhi told reporters that the Cabinet reshuffle would be made, depending upon the situation.
To a query whether the State government would order release of convicts on the occasion of conclusion of centenary celebration of former Chief Minister C.N. Annadurai, he said that at the beginning of the celebration, about 1,400 persons were released. Petitions for the release of some had been received but considering their crime and sentence given to such persons, there was no power for the State government to act unilaterally. The Union government had been approached in this regard, the Chief Minister said.
About the meeting Union Minister of State for Planning, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture V. Narayanasamy and Puducherry Chief Minister V. Vaithilingam had with him earlier in the day, Mr Karunanidhi said they wanted him to participate in the valedictory of the centenary celebration of Annadurai in the Union Territory and use his good offices with the Centre in getting statehood for Puducherry.
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Comparing how different countries deal with juvenile offenders is equally challenging. Countries differ in the ages of young people considered legal juveniles, in how juvenile courts are organized, and in the types of institution used to sanction juvenile offenders. As Table 1-1 shows, the minimum age for being considered criminally responsible varies from 7 years (in Switzerland and the Australian state of Tasmania) to 16 (in Belgium and Russia). The age of full criminal responsibility (i.e., the age at which an offender is automatically handled as an adult) is 18 in most of the countries studied by Weitekamp et al. (1999), but is as low as 16 in some Australian states and is 20 in Japan. In the United States, both minimum and maximum ages of juvenile court jurisdiction vary by state, with most states having no minimum age (although in practice, children younger than 10 are seldom seen in juvenile courts). The maximum age of juvenile court jurisdiction is younger in many U.S. states than in the other countries studied, with 3 states having a maximum age of 15, 10 of 16, and the remaining states having a maximum age of 17.
At the same time that states and the federal government in the United States have been moving toward treating juvenile offenders more like adult criminals, many other countries retain a strong rehabilitative stance. The 1988 Youth Court Law of Austria, for example, describes juvenile offending as a normal step in development for which restorative justice, not punishment, is the appropriate response. The Belgium Youth Court Protection Act specifies that the only measures that can be imposed on a juvenile are for his or her care, protection, and education. In New Zealand, since 1989, Family Group Conferences have been used to replace or supplement youth courts for most of the serious criminal cases. In the early 1980s, England and Wales moved toward community-based sanctions for young offenders and away from institutional placements. This trend was reversed in the 1990s, however, when England and Wales reacted to the upswing in juvenile violence in a manner similar to the United States, focusing on the offense, rather than the offender. The U.K. Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 made it easier to place offenders younger than 15 years in juvenile correctional facilities and extended the maximum length of allowable sentences. The U.K. Crime and Disorder Act of 1998 moved the English juvenile justice system even further toward a punitive, offense-based model.


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Greg Moore has a severe case of wanderlust. And he's not a guy who lets obstacles get in his way — not the unknown, not fear of strangers and certainly not his wheelchair.
Laura Casselli is a 28-year-old web designer who approaches Caribbean scuba diving, bungee jumping in British Columbia and touring European museums with equal zeal.
You could say the two are a match made in highway heaven. The Kitchener residents first met Wednesday evening when Casselli responded to an online ad posted by Moore that caught her fancy.
"Do you have the 'road trip gene'?" begins the entertaining 550-word post.
Moore, 42, is seeking two daring souls to join him on a drive from Kitchener to Los Angeles and back leaving in September. He'll pay $25 a day and cover food and lodgings on the two-month expedition. In return, his travelling companions will take the wheel of his three-year-old Honda Odyssey minivan, and help with his personal care, tasks like lifting him into and out of bed.
"I'm ready to do something different," says Moore, who has been in a wheelchair since a motorcycle accident at age 18 left him a quadriplegic. "I love my family but this is a purposeful journey with people I don't know."
In his quest, he turned to the first place many Internet-savvy folks go to hitch rides or set up car-sharing arrangements: the website kijiji.ca.
The response has been overwhelming. The ad has generated more than 2,100 hits, 150 emails and at least 20 firm offers to join Moore on the trip since it was posted July 29.
Casselli, who heard about the gig through a mutual friend with Moore, couldn't wait to apply. "The timing literally couldn't be more perfect," says Casselli, who is between jobs and was looking for an adventure.
The lineup of potential candidates includes retired couples, fun-seeking university students, and a middle-aged man and wife. Moore interviewed one young woman earlier this week, but it turns out her parents didn't want her to go. Casselli, who visited Moore Thursday afternoon, is the second candidate he's met in person. She's keeping her fingers crossed.
Moore lives on his own, with the help of attendants who come in mornings and evenings. He got the travel bug at age 10 while driving across America in the family station wagon. Like most car trips before the era of Game Boys and portable DVD players, this trip involved countless hours staring out the window, playing games involving licence plate numbers and scrapping with his three siblings. As an adult, Moore has visited other parts of the U.S., Mexico and Cuba and been on a few cruises.
But his plans to lightin' out for the territories will be a new experience. Travels with Greg will require an appreciation of the quirkier side of small-town America. This is a man who won't settle for watching the world go by through the car window.
Instead, he wants to weave his way through the back roads, seeing not just California beaches and the Grand Canyon, but every kitschy small-town attraction he comes across, from some village's giant ball of wool to the southwest's biggest marshmallow.
"Want to pick corn in Nebraska? We're doin it!" says the ad. "Want to recreate the "nice butt" scene from Dumb and Dumber in 'Aspin', We're doin it!"
In return, he's looking for someone who "isn't going to push me into the Grand Canyon and steal my van," he says in his kijiji ad.
Nerves of steel are also required. Moore's ad was so engaging that it led Casselli to conclude "this is a cool guy." But it also indicated he doesn't rule out getting into a kayak or a helicopter or maybe wrangling a bison.
Casselli loves the idea of getting off the interstate and sticking to the back roads. "And how could I say no to a bison?"
Either way, she's happy she applied.
"Regardless of what happens, I'm glad he considered me and that I met him. I would give him all the best wishes on his journey because it will be fantastic."
Moore feels pretty sure of that.
He plans to document his journey on his new blog Rolling Journey (RollingJourney.com).
Considering the reaction to his ad, all he's waiting for now is a call from a reality TV show.
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