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The NCAA has published its 2013 data submitted by member institutions for the purposes of Title IX compliance. You can download the spreadsheets from ope.ed.gov.
Politics refresher: Title IX is a gray area topic since it is political but affects college sports which this blog is about. This is a feel thing: it is logical to point out that a male wrestler's experience will be more similar to that of any female basketball player than Derrick Walton's, it is politics to label that "reverse discrimination."
Quinze, seize you: Generally BCS teams spent between 37% (Stanford) and 77% (Oklahoma State) less on the women's sports than the men's. Michigan spent about $7.00 on the fellas for every $3.00 on the gals, a ratio near the top. BCS schools, private schools (who didn't used to have to comply) and Southern schools tended to higher disparities; among the 15 lowest women-to-men expenditure ratios all but three (Minnesota, ND and Pitt) were in the Confederacy. The Dept. of Education doesn't regulate an annual expenditure ratio between men's and women's sports, but they look at them as part of the nebulous compliance system.
|Avg Expenditures by Conference
(in millions) 2012-13
|Big East
|Sun Belt
|Conf USA
|Big Ten
|Pac 12
|Big XII
Building Lies. Weirdly, expenses appear more normal than the revenues, which get downright weird. A few examples (for reference, Michigan's men's hockey team reported revenues of $3.2 million, the 4th-most in that sport):
- Stanford's women's basketball team, which was a 1 seed that lost in the Elite 8, reported $16.5 million. The next-highest is Baylor's ($5.9 million), Vandy ($5.6 M), Tennessee ($4.9 M) and UConn ($4.7M)
- Clemson's women's diving reported revenues of $406k. Only two other schools reported any revenue for that.
- TCU said they made $3.4 million from horseback riding and $416k from women's rifling.
- Southern's women's soccer team, which didn't make the tournament field, reported $3.1 million in revenue, which is more than their football team and almost as much as all of their men's sports combined.
- Robert Morris's women's hockey team reported more revenue ($1.1 M) than its men's team ($997k).
- Michigan's men's lacrosse team led the country in revenue: $2.4 million
- Wisconsin's women's ice hockey reported $7.6 million; their men's team reported just under $12 million (double what next-highest, Minnesota, made).
Michigan's the rare school that doesn't pretend its opulent escalator entrance was built for the women's gymnastics team. [MGoBlue.com]
Wisconsin's hockey numbers might be a clue as to how these schools are getting their numbers. The Badgers recently built a practice facility adjacent to the the Kohl Center with donated funds; the women's team plays their game there. Stanford got a massive donation' last year from its version of Ross and built a multi-sport athletic facility with his name on it. Michigan appears to have funneled some of their Big House improvement through lacrosse.
It appears what's happening is when a donation is put toward a building project the schools tend to split that between whichever teams use it. End result: teams that funded major construction projects ended up with the highest ratios of $$ spent on women versus men.
Biggest liars? There's no way to figure out the accounting for these things but it's obvious some programs play with the books more than others. TCU is pretending they built a $3.4 million storage shed for saddles and bridles that the football team just happens to use as an indoor practice facility. They also upgraded the ROTC rifling range, which they attributed to the women's team. They're a private school that
to be a women's college and is still 57% female [ED-S: apologies—you have no idea how many people I've repeated that factoid to over the years] that spent the last decade trying to become a BCS program, which explains the fiscal acrobatics.
[After the jump, comparing expenses to recruiting and performance]
Hokepoints Goes National
Last week I started playing with Lemming's recruiting information to see how national recruiting had changed over the last few decades. Too late for that article I realized I could actually take this study back more than a century using lists of historical lettermen published by various teams in their annual media guides. Using the same regional breakdown I tried to get data for the same six I used in the old decimated defense series—Michigan, MSU, Ohio State, Penn State, Notre Dame, and Alabama—but only three had accessible info.
These are based on letterwinners, not entire rosters, so scholarship freshmen on the scout team aren't counted. It still gives us a picture:
Vestibulum ut maior
First the goofy things. The breaks in Alabama's lines are 1919 and 1943, when the Tide didn't field teams because too many players were fighting World Wars I and II, respectively. That big spike for Bama right before WWII is because they were used as an officers training base just prior to the war. Michigan got this same temporary—by 1943 those officers had shipped overseas—bump, but not as many registered since most came from the Midwest (e.g. Elroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch from Wisconsin).
Second the obvious things. Notre Dame's claim to be a "national" program is defended by the data. From the 1920s through the '70s their teams were fielded from between 30% and 60% by players from outside of the Great Lakes States (plus Iowa). Since the '80s about 65% is the new normal. Michigan and Alabama tracked pretty similarly as major state schools who kept to their home regions up until Bo arrived. Beginning in 1969 Michigan began a trend upward that finally settled over 30% of players from outside their region. Alabama remained a predominantly regional program until Nick Saban arrived.
I zoomed in on the years since 1964 so we can better appreciate how coaching changes affected the programs:
Tangere facere magnum
Ewww don't touch me. I trust you know who Michigan's and Alabama's coaches were in 1964. The late '60s were the last time Michigan was as regional as Alabama. That now seems in danger of happening again. Last year Michigan dipped to 25.67% and Bama peaked at 25.33%.
Michigan graduated five players from outside the Midwest (Dileo, Gallon, Gibbons, Lewan, and Qwash), and two more (Ash and Furman) aren't returning for fifth years, but they brought in nine this year (Peppers, JBB, Winovich, Pallante, Watson, Speight, Mone, Cole and Canteen) so I expect their total to climb a little for 2014. It's too hard to say what Bama's number will be since they still need to cut 10 or 11 players before fall.
Championships win defense. Carr's 1997 championship, Parseghian's 1966 one, and Saban's 2009 title were all followed by steep increases in national recruiting; of the 14 titles in that chart two (Holtz's in 1988 and Stallings's in 1992) were accompanied by drops in the % of roster made up of extra-regional players. Michigan's historical peak is 2000, three years after their only TV-era national championship and one year after their Orange Bowl victory. The great Hoke classes of the last two years were very local.
[After the jump, I test another culprit]
Hokepoints Doesn't See a Regional Trend
Yesterday Ace posted a link to the full Lemming recruiting rankings from 1990 to 2004. Just perusing the list is pretty interesting, since accessible recruiting data on a national scale otherwise only goes back as far as the Rivals and Scout databases. Since nobody likes to make their information easy to get at, it'll take some time for this all to be processed.
But for a first stab I did find something I can pull relatively easily from both Lemming's sheets and modern data: where players come from, and where they went. Lemming only had data on where recruits were from going back to 1999. Since it was easiest to grab a Top 400 from 247, I took theirs too, but they run out of rankings before 2008 so there's a gap. It won't matter for this. I broke the nation into regions that quasi-match the traditional conference footprints:
And here's the % of high school recruits that each contributed to Lemming's (on the left) and 247's (on the right) lists:
Who's been telling you that demographics are responsible for the SEC's rise? It's not there. The Big Ten's traditional footprint was providing 15% of the nation's talent in 1999 and the SEC was around 35%; today it's almost the exact same.
[After the jump: regional retention]
Dear Diary for Better or Worse
One Play. I got really into this piece by Brhino where he went over Michigan football seasons going back to the "Year of Infinite Pain" (i.e. 2005) to point out games where one play may have meant the difference. Interesting way to reassess how we view the seasons. For example this year's team was a couple things going right away from 11-1 and a BCS bid (MSU would have still have won the Bo Division, with BCS eligibility riding on that), and a couple of things going wrong away from 4-8. I chart:
Bicking makes it cligger.
Quibble: I may be stretching "one play" too far, but Football Armageddon had that late hit out of bounds by Crable on 3rd and 15. OSU scored on that drive to go up 10. Who knows if Michigan can drive the ball the same as they did on the next possession. NFL win probability calculator says OSU was 79% to win if Crable doesn't make that hit, and 91% after the call. Fan brain says Michigan would have drove for the victory, beaten essentially the same Florida team they played the following year, and cured cancer.
Trend Lines. If you're into seeing how the rest of the Big Ten progressed on offense as this season did, dnak followed up last week's Michigan chart with some for the rest of the field. MSU is a young offense slowly growing up, Michigan's is one coached by insane people.
Hypothesis: UConn was just a bad game and the coaches over-responded to it, putting themselves behind the 8-ball the rest of the season. I submit as a different model Penn State, which had more than a few personnel shortages but big talent in places and stuck with their scheme all year, seeing noticeable progression but no spikes until the last game.
Goals! The Corsi Charts have been shelved for the moment so MGoBlueline can do those goal analysis things I like much better anyway:
Compher wins the faceoff, which is huge. Even more important, however, is that DeBlois is able to tie his man up. This allows a clean tap across from Compher to Guptill…
The OSU weekend's tallies at the link.
Charity. Tomorrow is Adopt-a-Shelter and both sites still could use some volunteers. K.o.k.Law had a tailgate at the house next door to MGoPatio, the cause being to fix up the house of an 11-year-old with a terrible illness.
Weeklies. Turnover Analysis talked about the Countess interception, which had a negative result of half a point. I still would have taken it; I think Furman stood there amazed for a second while OSU's receivers recovered, and if he hadn't he was in the exact right spot to make a key block. Turnover margin has been steadily climbing to the good since UConn, though the offense going into a shell to make that happen might have negated the good that's done. Inside the Box Score. Best and Worst talks about Ben Gedeon. LSA's usual stuff.
Etc. All-B1G team. Wallpaper with hoops schedule.
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Dear Diary is a Cinderella Story
My quick submission in the thread asking for backgrounds. jonvalk stepped up.
I think I made this same chart in 2008 #1: Gulo Gulo Luscus is joining Off-Tackle Empire and other folk in looking back at recruiting and OL development time to explain why the problems. His method is to look at average age of the starters versus the performance of the unit as measured by YPA/RPI. Cool chart:
If you can't find Michigan it's because we're buried under the Gophers. TSS's response should be part of the read.
Ron Utah has the beginnings of his own UFR database. With Brian's permission I'll make mine available to anyone who asks for it—don't want to host it online but I'm willing to share copies if you say what you're going to do with it. Only concern there is those numbers are very much in context and the n's are quite small so it's easy to abuse. Anyway, Ron's thing tracked performance of different formations in the UConn game. Tiny sample sizes are going to hide most good info but we can whittle that down personnel instead of formation, since these two:
…have more in common with each other than either has with this:
. By personnel:
|Rush YPA
|Pass YPA
|Total YPA
|Empty TE (1TE, 4WR)
|Two TE
|Two Backs
|Big (2RB, 2TE)
|Goal Line (2RB, 3TE*)
* Michigan brings in an OT (Magnuson) instead of a third tight end
Still too small a sample size . I'll check in the next bye week and see what these look like when we're not just zooming in on Gardner's terrible awful no good very bad day. The ratios look normal but given the relative paucity of plays with a fullback (and many of those probably in short situations) it's hard to judge those at all.
Goal line—6.7 YPA—we must be manballius!—looks great because of two Gardner boot-to-runs (it would be epically higher if he'd seen Funchess wide open downfield on one of them), but the other play from that formation was a near-crippling fumble-defensive TD.
On the other hand: 12 rushes for 8.3 YPA from three-wide is not a red herring: that is Gardner's rushing ability and the fact that Michigan is far better at getting linebackers out of the box by making them split out with a slot receiver than having a tight end forcibly remove him. Note when it counted on that late 4th and 2 they went with a 3-wide formation and let Gardner pick his spot.
Our Demographic. I made this to explain our numbers versus other media outlets to a potential advertiser:
She's probably on the phone with WTKA now.
Guess the Score, Win Stuff: Jayhawks, Red Legs, and Bushwhackers
There was a bit of trivia going around basketball circles last week that teams named after birds all won their first round games. That's true, but including Kansas makes that a bit of a factoid: a Jayhawk ain't no kind a' bird!
The veracity of this internet knowledge is unverified, but the term comes from just before the Civil War and one of many incredibly stupid compromises they tried to come up with over the great uncompromisable thing. When they couldn't decide whether Kansas would be entered as a free state or a slave state, Congress decided to leave that answer up to whoever could get more settlers in there (caveat: settlers must be alive enough to vote). In the most violent fan poll until the invention of the internet, people from both sides, but mostly northern anti-slavery folk (cause there was more of us) poured into Kansas.
The pro-slavery people, rather than graciously accept defeat, formed up bandit brigades along the Missouri border, hence the term "Border Ruffians," and tried to harass, rob, and murder their way to an electoral victory. In response, the new homesteaders formed up their own guerrilla groups. Possibly naming themselves after popular Revolutionary John Jay, these makeshift counter-terrorism bands became known as Jay-hawkers. They were celebrated across the freedom conference footprint, but quickly became just bandits for the other team instead of protectors.
Just as "Wolverines" became popularly associated with the hardy, stubborn, fierce Michigander regiments who took that as their mascot in the Civil War, the Kansas Union regulars popularized "Jayhawks" but real jayhawkers continued guerrilla attacks on rebel camps and Confederate homesteaders. The opposite were the "Bushwhackers," former border ruffians who robbed, burned and murdered under the rebel cause. And if you were an indiscriminate band of lawlessness in Kansas, you were a "Red Leg."
So what I'm saying is if there is some sort of ornithological protection spell over the 2013 NCAA Tournament, Kansas isn't under it.
How it works:
- I put up a winnable prize that consists of a desirable good.
- You guess the final scores of the designated game, and put it in the comments, preferably in the format of [M's Score]-[Opponent's Score]. First person to post a particular score has it.
- If you guess either game correctly, we contact you. If not, go to (5)
- The desirable good arrives at the address you give us.
- Non-winners can acquire the same desirable good by trading currency for it.
- Seriously, you don't have to actually guess a basketball score to get this shirt. You can buy it.
About Last Time:
How is it there's no footage on the internet of a Wolverine devouring a rabbit? Get on this David Attenborough. The Glove guessed 74-55, which is as close as anyone got to the 71-56 final score of the SDSU (NTSDSU nor TSDSU) game.
This Week's Game:
#4 seed Michigan versus #1 seed Kansas for a trip to the Elite 8.
And the Prize:
Stick around. We may learn something.
Fine print: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (make it easy on me and write your score in digits with a hyphen between them. Deadline for entries is sometime within 24 hours before the start of the game—whenever I can get online in that time and lock the thread. MGoEmployees and Moderators exempt from winning because you can change scores. We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm is not just a shooter. The algorithm always fouls Cody Zeller. The algorithm can't explain why Big Ten officials think it's their duty to help Bo Ryan. The algorithm spent 10 years as the Indiana of basketball, if that makes sense. This is not the algorithm. This is close.


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Silverlight , Mexico
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Rene Schulte
Windows Phone Development , Germany
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Samuel Blanchard
Windows Phone Development , France
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Office365 , Germany
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SharePoint Server , Spain
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Hui Li
Office System , China
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PowerPoint , Japan
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PowerPoint , Korea
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Access , United States
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SharePoint Server , Canada
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Windows Expert-Consumer , France
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- Seth Godin
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What's the overlooked gem, the book I haven't read that I must?
Every reader has at least one, that book that never caught on, or is out of print, but that resonates so much with people that they can't forget it. I still remember reading "The Republic of Tea" on the Sunday it came out years ago. And of course, Steve Pressfield's "The War of Art" which I've purchased and handed out a dozen times so far...
Mirik Smit
Feb 17 2011: Please read the engaging and beautiful novels by Kim Stanley Robinson on the progress of civilisation towards stability and peace by the quest for worship of nature and knowledge. Wish he would be given a chance to speak at TED and promote hs world view of science as the most self-critical, progressive, revisionist and peaceful 'religion' one could have:
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Kim Stanley Robinson:
The Years of Rice and Salt
Mars Trilogy
Galileo's Dream
(much more)
Please give his amazing work a chance, you will not be dissapointed.
Also the following writers have taught me a great deal about the world and being human:
Peter Singer (Animal Liberation, How to Eat, The Life You can Save)
Jared Diamons (Collapse, Guns, Germs and Stee, Guns, Germs and Steel, The Third Chimpanzee letc)
Richard Dawkins (Unweaving the Rainbow, River out of Eden, The Selfish Gene)
Sam Harris (The Moral Landscape)
Jeremy Rifkin (Entropy, Empathy)
Richard Wiseman (59 Seconds, Quirkology)
Noam Chomsky (Rogue States, Hegemony of Survival)
Malcolm Gladwell (Blink, Outliers, etc.)
Daniel Dennett (Consciousness Explained, Freedom Evolves, etc)
Steven Pinker (The Blank Slate, How the Mind Works, etc)
Barry Schwartz (The Paradox of Choice)
Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational)
Stephen J. Gould (Life's Grandeur)
A.C. Grayling (What is Good, etc.)
Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist)
As for fiction:
Kim Stanley Robinson (Years of Rice and Salt, Galileo's Dream, Mars Trilogy)
Peter Watts (Blindsight)
Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Thirteen/Black Man)
Paulo Bacigalupi (Windup Girl)
Anthony Huso (The Last Page)
Dan Simmons (Hyperion)
I mostly enjoy science-fiction. But that is literature (if you read the right kind) that says the most about the world, our past and our future,if you ask me. It discovers humanity or how to attain it.
Feb 17 2011: Robinson's Mars trilogy stands as some of the best science fiction I've ever read. Delving into extremely complex scientific methods and questions surrounding the terraforming of Mars, mega projects such as a space elevator, and genetic engineering. All of these scientific themes are played out with the social consequences of each affecting the characters and the world at large. Questions of politics, romance , and philosophy abound. I found it very easy to imagine that this would be a plausible window to our future, and how actual settlement on Mars might unfold. All of this unfolds with a compelling story that rolls forward throughout the trilogy. A great read, which I return to again and again through the years.
Mirik Smit
Feb 19 2011: Perfect summary, sir. Feel the same, it has such a 'It could darn well happen exactly like this'-feeling to it. Plausability level infinite.Feb 17 2011: Mirik:
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Great calls on your fiction list.
Given your taste, if you haven't read the following, you should definitely check them out:
China Mieville: Perdido St. Station (and all of his other works!)
Charles Stross: Again, everything, but definitely check out Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise to start, then Glasshouse.
Peter F. Hamilton: the Night's Dawn Trilogy
Mirik Smit
Feb 19 2011: Thanks sir, Mieville is on my to read list. So many good sci-fi writers, hard to know where to start and what is the best...Feb 17 2011: Great call with KSR. The Memory of Whiteness may be his best, though out of print. Red Mars is a grand place to start.
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And as good as that is, yes, Dan Simmons' Hyperion is even better.
Feb 17 2011: China Melville rocks. City in the City is magic with all its 'unseeing' but he's also the nicest man you'll ever meet. Which is important to me, but suspect will be of no importance to everyone else ;O)Feb 20 2011: Thank you sir, I have The Memory of Whiteness, but did not read that yet (so much to read, so little time!) Also look forward to his "Sience in the Capital" trilogy.
And to Louise; you just fancy him, admit it! :-) Noone will blame you, he IS quite the erudite, intelligent and handsome manly man that does write brilliant books (from what I heard)!
Feb 22 2011: I would definitely recommend prioritizing Memory of Whiteness above the Science trilogy. I wish I could go back and read that anew.
Enjoy!Feb 19 2011: Certainly these are the seminal works and required reading for all who belong to the Church of Scientific Materialism. As a religion however, it is weak, angry and reactionary. If you have to belong to a club and don't like thinking for yourself, I can think of more positive religions. But of course if you want tenure or need to belong to the intellectual establishment then this is the stuff for you.
Mirik Smit
Feb 20 2011: Please read your own reply while pondering the question of who here, is actually expressing any form of anger. :-)
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I regret to bring offence, but I fail to see how I have addressed the issues you deal with or caused you to feel to need to express your cynicism. As you see I use 'religion' rather broadly as a form of world view, not in the dogmatic sense we all know it as today.
To me it has been tremendously positive, falling from one into the other amazing discovery via science and the enjoying the beauty and nifty workings of nature. It has not been a cause for anger to witness how a bumblebee flies, or to explore the almost artistic complexity of the mind boggling Large Hadron Collider.
Please answer me how the worship of knowledge and nature represents an 'angry and reactionary' world view, I would be interested to see your point of view. Much thanks, next time with some more concise arguments and less angry randomness, I would beg of you, sir!
It's possible other people would find more traction for discussion in your words when you actually pretend they can't read your mind and just put forth the arguments you wish to present and don't just put their contribution down without an apparent valid (or even relevant) basis.
Also, please reccomend us a book (after all, what this is about).
Alex Gilbert
Feb 24 2011: Mirik, a fantastic humanist reading selection. Guns, Germs & Steel one of the all-time best. I'd also suggest Bryson's Short History, Jacoby's Age of American Unreason, Taverne's March of Unreason and prety much anything by Hitchens or Stenger
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Mark Poling
Feb 17 2011: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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No knowledge of physics is required. If you appreciate intellect and science you will reread this book many times.
Feb 17 2011: If you are curious about life, you will reread this book many times. It's a real gem - beautifully simple.Feb 17 2011: I agree, a thoroughly enbjoyable book. I bought a copy just to lend it to people.Feb 16 2011: Le Petit Prince. Yes - a children's book - but one full of philosophical grandeurs, simplified. Every time I read this book I get a new takeaway that resonates with the current events of my life.
"Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."Feb 17 2011: In 1971 I found a copy of The Universal Traveler (http://www.amazon.com/Crisp-Universal-Traveler-Don-Koberg/dp/1560526793/ref=dp_ob_title_bk) that I marked up and is dog-earred from so much use. I recently brought it out in a discussion with a speaker we had at our TEDxAmericanRiviera event. Seems that my friend had taken a class in 1970 with Don at Cal Poly while the book was being written - he didn't know that anyone had ever read it. If you are a problem solver and are looking for new ways to think about how you do your work, this is an amazing book.
Feb 18 2011: Wow! And Thanks!
Totally forgotten about this one until you jogged the memory.... I'll have to do a search to see if I can locate it in the stacks for a re-read; as I do recall its a completeley different approach to that taken in many of today's pablum consistency offerings.Feb 16 2011: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig helped to place for me Quality and Caring (2 sides of the same coin) at the core of my life. Over the years since first reading that book when it was initially published I have occasionally noticed how what seems to be the default way I look at and interpret things turns out, on reflection, to have been rooted in my reading of, and responses to, that modern masterpiece.
Feb 17 2011: Great book!Feb 17 2011: reading the third time, i actually understood it.Feb 15 2011: Mihail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", Dostoevski's "Idiot".
Feb 16 2011: I just stated reading that Dostoevski's! thanks! now I'm psyched.
Marc Brandl
Feb 18 2011: Yeah - The Master and Margarita is excellent - What Happens when the Devil and his entourage comes to 1920s Moscow combined with a Passion Play - fantastical and amazing.
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Two other early 20th century Russian novels I'd add:
St. Petersburg by Andrei Biely - super modern prose about a Father and Son in revolutionary times.
Hadji Murad by Tolstoy - I believe the last piece of prose he wrote - beautifully written and is basically 'War and Peace' in 122 pages.Feb 21 2011: I have a question for Seth Godin. This thread has been enriched with more than 300 posts. Which of the books mentioned are you tempted to actually read in the near future?Feb 17 2011: Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything'
Feb 17 2011: I totally second this. While most of the facts this book covers are heard here and there, Bill Bryson has managed very effectively to herd them together and in very clear structure. Not to mention the smart, humoristic text style, the brand of Bryson. Absolutely a must for every modern individual who wants to be updated about what science is today, and what it is not.
Tony Yet
Feb 17 2011: For me, it is Henry David Thourea's Walden. I stumbled upon it seven years ago in a bookstore, bought it, read it and it has since changed my life.
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Feb 17 2011: My favourite book all time..what better read is there in this time of too much work, too much connectivity and too much stress. Everyone should read this.
Ramzi Jaber
Feb 13 2011: A diverse set of titles, but these have affected me and the paradigms I use for different part of life
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Man's search for meaning
Viktor Frankl
In the name of Identity
Amin Maalouf
Seven Day Weekend
Ricardo Semler
Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood
A.S. Neill
Feb 17 2011: wow! I am so glad to see a book by A. S. Neill on this list! His books have been inspiring me since I was 15 and they are still useful as I think of my children's education. He was an incredible education visionary.Feb 12 2011: "I am a Strange Loop" Douglas Hofstadter.
Feb 18 2011: This is the book I was going to mention. It changed my outlook on what "I" am, and what all these others are as well - and giving the best scientific basis for compassion and consciousness I've ever encountered.
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Feb 15 2011: It's worth reading, promise.Feb 19 2011: Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics and The turning Point
Stanislav Grof - Beyond the Brain, The cosmic Game and The ultimate Journey
and of course, Aldous Huxley, all of them, specially brave new world, the island and perennial philosophy
Feb 21 2011: I recommended Grof's Beyond the Brain to someone just today, in the context of explaining Grof's proposition that there exist "basic perinatal matrices" -- womb experiences of distinct character -- which influence later, post-natal experience.
I got quite a bit out of the compendia edited by Peter Titelman on Bowen Family Systems Theory, especially the volume entitled Emotional Cutoff.
I also quite enjoyed Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, which was not only a great read, but also a book which freed me up to trust my own, rapidly apprehended, intuition about many things.
I found a valuable read Kathryn Schultz's recent book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.
Also recommended: The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power, by Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad. A series of interconnected, essays, pre-web hypertext, if you like, on various subjects including a very insightful power analysis of cults.Feb 17 2011: Definitely the Black Swan! If you have not read it you are missing out! But books are personal taste. After I read this book I completely changed my life!
Robert Diehl
Feb 16 2011: As a teenager, "Ecce Homo" by Friedrich Nietzsche - it opened my eyes to living a life as the liver sees fit to and accepting the consequences good and bad.
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As a 20-something, "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - which opened my eyes to living a human life in inhuman circumstances, the power of the spirit.
As a 50-something, "The Invisible Dragon, Essays on Beauty" by Dave Hickey - for reminding me that art is revolutionary, and this is why the instituion of art has become so boring during my lifetime.
Hedia Balkhi
Feb 16 2011: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
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Feb 16 2011: I just got this, heard it was very inspiring. Looking forward to it.Feb 16 2011: Definitely an inspiring book. Plus, it's about a mountaineer! Always a plus.Feb 15 2011: maybe not that overlooked, but certainly less than optimal people read: fahrenheit 451
for those who like philosophy: ludwig von mises - theory and history
Shlomo Adam
Feb 15 2011: ashamed to say that only recently i started No Logo (2000) by Naomi Klein. Before that i read hers The Shock Doctrine (2007). i guess u must've read them, but right now i can't think of any other books that are more important to our world & future.
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Feb 15 2011: huh..
I am totally agains Naomi Klein... She is using those data that are in favour of her view and neglecting all the others... (eg. from FT)Feb 15 2011: Robert Pirsig: "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values"
Michel Houellebecq: "Atomised" and "Platform"
Brian Brown
Feb 18 2011: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofsteader. One of the best books (iMHO) ever written.
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Al Blanco
Feb 18 2011: The Man Who Had N Idea - Thomas M Disch. Have yet to see such skill in prose elsewhere. Science-fiction in the loosest of definitions.
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steve shaw
Feb 18 2011: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This one will live a very long life.
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Martin Funes
Feb 17 2011: If you haven't read anything by Borges yet, that'd be an overlooked Author.
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His poems are great, his conferences and talks could easily be TEDs, his essays and short stories more often than not are mind blowing.
Feb 21 2011: Borges' short stories are exquisite. So magical, so dense with meaning, one dare not skip a word. The collection titled Labyrinths is extraordinary. Some have argued that his fantastical concepts, such as the encyclopedia that continually changed itself, was actualized in the form of wikipedia, and the internet generally. See "Borges and the Foreseeable Future," www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/books/06cohenintro.html.Feb 22 2011: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is the first I'd recommend. The title actually says it all.
Feb 22 2011: "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is part of the Labyrinths collection.Feb 23 2011: I totally agree with you guys. I like all his works but I'd recommend "Death and the Compass" and since he uses lot of underlying connections to this other short story I'd also recommend "The Garden of Forking Paths".Feb 17 2011: Interaction Ritual Chains by Randall Collins
-- Everything runs on Emotional Energy. How is it created? Through Interaction Rituals. Fascinating stuff. Eminently readable.
Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin
-- Focusing is seeing what is truly at the root of what swims through our mind, especially issues that nag, wear us down, and affect us without our ever substantively knowing what they are.
The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos by Gaston Bachelard
-- Reverie is the dream awake, oneirism that lingers, and something to not only cherish but build upon.
Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren
-- A vision of the world as a sprout emerging from a stone. First the stone had to be split. As L Cohen said: 'there's a crack, a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in'.
The Tao of Zen by Ray Grigg
-- A masterful historical linking of the two truly timeless eastern genres of thought. Delicate and thoughtful.
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
-- 500 little pieces that argue for a new vision of artistic construction.
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
-- Games aren't just out on the playing field. The truly infinite games are forever ongoing around us.
Metaphysics of Natural Complexes by Justus Buchler
-- Builds on the idea that there are no 'simples', only 'complexes', with elements spread across many orders in the universe (imaginary, real, past, present, future, accessible, queryable).
Gitanjali: Offerings of Song and Art by Rabindranath Tagore
-- Tagore's masterwork of poetic companionship with the ever-elusive, ever-arriving, ever-departing You.
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change by Randall Collins
-- The grand tour of philosophies throughout time -- why they appeared, thrived, inspired later schools (or didn't), disappeared, and remain eternal.
Feb 19 2011: Focusing by Gendlin and another book on focusing by Ann Weiser Cornell are excellent. If you don't know about focusing already, find out!
Grigg's Tao book is also excellent
Feb 22 2011: Had no idea about the Cornell book, thank you!Feb 17 2011: The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling. Niche, yes. Out of print, yes. Despite focusing on events in the late 80's/early 90's provides an allegory and nine lessons for modern times, yes. Everyone with a passing interest in digital should read it. If you can get a copy of it, I think it's in e-book format...somewhere.
Noah Ullmann
Feb 17 2011: Cory Doctorow did a podcast of the book in several dozen installments over at his website: http://craphound.com/?p=1854Feb 17 2011: I've recently finished Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, and it is one of the most iconoclastic books I've read, while remaining very clear and understandable - I had to get the following book, The Story of B, immediately, and I'm reading it now.
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Feb 17 2011: I read Ismael, followed by My Ishmael and The Story of B as young adult many years ago. Until this day I'm sure that this trilogy changed my life profoundly. Back then it was the first really different way of seeing and thinking about the world I have encountered. Now, many years later, these books still hold a place of honour in my living room as they remind me that there are always differnt ways to look at the world. This is a recommended read for adults and kids as well.
Jeffrey Thal
Feb 17 2011: A slight twist: a terribly overlooked book that I've read a hundred times, but that everyone should--must read, at least once a year is Strunk & White's The Elements of Style. Regardless of who you are, no matter how good a writer I think I am, I reread this book. Again and again. To remind myself that I am not nearly as good a writer as I think I am.Feb 16 2011: Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and Presence, Peter Senge, Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers - these books give me inspiration when I need one.
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Feb 17 2011: Christina, I like and LOVE all these authors and books as well, esp. Flow & the whole Presencing Theory & books. We DO have quite in common s I can see. Happy to meet you virtually, may be some day in person!
Feb 17 2011: Thanks, Darina! you are right that there is a whole constellation of books related to these. I have read a lot of the books referenced in Presence. Happy to meet you and yes, I hope we will have the chance to meet in person.
Dale Giera
Feb 16 2011: THE VARIETIES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE by Carl Sagan (edited by his wife Ann Druyan) has provided me with a phenomenal level of insight from the mind of unbounded genius. Carl's clarity and generosity of spirit shines through his writing, speaking, and especially his interaction with those participating in the audience at The Gifford Lectures. I have passed this book on to a dozen friends. Please enjoy the EXPERIENCE.Feb 16 2011: I'm always amazed when someone hasn't hear of Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. It's a most profound and simple tale and it's the book that changed my life. Whenever I'm struggling in my life, it's the book that reminds me that we're all just vulnerable souls on a journey to discover ourselves.
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Feb 16 2011: I love this book. Utterly beautiful. Give me goosebumps to think about it.Feb 16 2011: Karen, I am reading it right now. How cool is that? I'm 70% into it so far and I have already learned a lot.Feb 16 2011: It is a fantastic book! I got so much from it! Really inspiring
Lee Coursey
Feb 16 2011: NON-FICTION:
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- The Social Contract by Rousseau
- Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
- The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon
- At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity by Stuart Kauffman
- The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
- Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- Cryptonomicon / The Diamond Age / Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- Cruel Shoes by Steve Martin
- Without Feathers / Side Effects / Getting Even by Woody Allen
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
V K Madhavan
Feb 14 2011: Two books.
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1. "Dibs in Search of Self" by Virginia Axline - the first book that I read that made me aware of children with special needs.
2. "Gandhi is Gone. Who will guide us now?" - Minutes of a meeting held in March 1948. The meeting was planned by Mahatma Gandhi who unfortunately did not live to attend it. Nearly every major national leader attended the meeting. Many of the issues remain relevant today but more importantly, the quality of informed discussion and debate is outstanding and rarely seen anywhere today. For Indophiles or anyone interested in parliamentary democracy and social change.


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Hyper IgE syndrome
Other Names for this Disease
- Hyper-IgE recurrent infection syndrome
- Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome
- Job syndrome
- Job's syndrome
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primary immune deficiencies characterized by elevated serum IgE, skin inflammation (dermatitis) and recurrent skin and lung infections. There are two forms of HIES, which have the above characteristics in common but otherwise have distinct presentations, courses and outcomes: autosomal dominant HIES (AD-HIES) and autosomal recessive HIES (AR-HIES).[1] Individuals with AD-HIES may also have varying degrees of connective tissue, skeletal, and dental abnormalities as well as a distinctive facial appearance. This form is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner and is caused by mutations in the STAT3 gene in about 70% of cases.[2] Unique characteristics of AR-HIES include extreme hypereosinophilia; susceptibility to viral infections such as Herpes simplex and Molluscum contagiosum; central nervous system involvement; T-cell defects; and a high death rate. AR-HIES is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner and is often caused by mutations in the DOCK8 gene.[3]Hyper IgE syndromes (HIES) are rare
Last updated: 10/10/2012
- Alexandra F Freeman and Steven M Holland. The Hyper IgE Syndromes. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. May 2008; 28(2):277.
- Bodo Grimbacher and Cristina Woellner. Autosomal dominant hyper IgE syndrome. Orphanet. June 2012; http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=EN&Expert=2314. Accessed 10/10/2012.
- Bodo Grimbacher and Cristina Woellner. Autosomal recessive hyper IgE syndrome. Orphanet. June 2012; http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=EN&Expert=169446. Accessed 10/10/2012.
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- DermNet NZ is an online resource about skin diseases developed by the New Zealand Dermatological Society Incorporated. DermNet NZ provides information about this condition.
- Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Hyper IgE syndrome. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- MedlinePlus was designed by the National Library of Medicine to help you research your health questions, and it provides more information about this topic.
- The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library provides information on this condition for patients and caregivers.
- The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) supports scientists developing better ways to diagnose, treat, and prevent the many infectious, immunologic, and allergic diseases that afflict people worldwide. Click on the link to view information on this topic.
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Autosomal dominant hyper IgE syndrome
Autosomal recessive hyper IgE syndrome
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Other Names for this Disease
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He and his girlfriend had been dating for several months when things started to get a bit shaky. Thinking that the only way to keep her around was to get her pregnant, he poked holes in the condoms. And it worked- he got her pregnant.
A text message from November 6th of 2006 read: "I wanted a baby with you so bad, I sabotaged the condoms."
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Dancers in Depot Park in Rutland join in a flash mob dance Thursday as part of One Billion Rising, an event to show worldwide solidarity for womens equality and safety.It was hard not to get caught up in the music and the message behind the choreographed dance routine that broke out in downtown Rutland on Thursday.
Wearing red and black ensembles many bearing the slogan Got Consent? about 50 dancers conducted a choreographed routine in Depot Park to a song about ending domestic violence.
Most of the dancers were women, but a handful of men joined them as well. Some were victims of domestic or sexual violence, but many were students and professors from local colleges, including Castleton State College. Police from the city, Brandon and troopers with the Vermont State Police also stood with the dancers in a show of support.
Its about spreading awareness and trying to get everyone on board, said event coordinator Marianne Kennedy, who is also executive director of the Rutland County Womens Network and Shelter.
People think of Vermont as a quaint place with cows but I dont think people realize the severity of the problems we have, she said.
In 2011 alone, Kennedys organization sheltered 26 women and 46 children a number that represented only a fraction of the need since the shelter had to turn away 89 housing requests. The group also worked with 215 sexual assault victims and provided direct services to 2,115 women that year.
Those are big numbers, but not nearly as big as the number attached to the dance routine that played out in Rutland and other communities all over the world on Valentines Day. Dubbed One Billion Rising, the event was intended to show worldwide solidarity for womens equality and safety.
The billion in the events name is based on the estimate that one in three women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime, Kennedy said.
Part of the song they dance to is about breaking the silence to stop the violence, she said. Thats what were trying to do because this kind of violence can really stay hidden in a community.
A woman named Karis, who was one of the dancers, said she understood all too well the silence that surrounds abuse that is as much about control as it is physical violence.
The 42-year-old woman, who asked that her full name not be used because the man who abused her is still at large, said it took multiple attempts to leave the relationship despite deplorable conditions.
I was completely controlled, Karis said. I lived where he told me to live. We had no running water or working bathrooms. I wasnt allowed to leave the property. I felt jailed but I was afraid to do anything that he wouldnt approve of.
It wasnt until the man she was with began abusing her 1-year-old child that Karis said she found the strength to leave.
That was 12 years ago. Nowadays, she doesnt consider herself a victim. Like many who escape abusive relationships, she considers herself a survivor.
When Karis danced Thursday alongside other domestic advocates and survivors, she said she no longer felt like a victim.
It felt good, she said. I felt very empowered.
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Most import guys have already traded in their Hondas and baggy pants for PlayStation 3s and vintage Pokemon cards, but fear not, their influence lives on in the custom truck scene. While both camps hail from vastly different sectors of the enthusiast circle, the passion with which they scrape body panels on pavement and marvel in repugnant paint schemes is remarkably similar. More traditional hot rodders have always wondered if it's even possible to cure their aversion for wheel gap and acceleration with a good ol' dose of horsepower. As custom truck builder Cory Scott will attest, it turns out you can do just that. All it takes is a hot motor wrapped in voluptuous sheetmetal; a formula that's executed perfectly by the fifth-gen Camaro.
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Bed-less transportation just seemed so uninterestingly ordinary to Cory until he caught a glimpse of the fifth-gen Camaro concept car. "When I first saw the new Camaro at the 2006 SEMA show, I knew that I had to get one. Having been around trucks my entire life, I've never really had a fast car before, and I was itching to get my first taste of some real power," he admits. "When GM announced that they were bringing the Camaro back into production, I sold two of my show trucks to come up with the money to buy one. I placed my order for an Inferno Orange 2010 Chevy Camaro SS the first day they went on sale. Even though I've never been into cars, I absolutely love the new Camaro."
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You ever use wrist rests?
I have to start by saying that I don't have carpal tunnel and tennis elbow and I don't know much about either condition. But I know what pain is and it must be awful for you to feel it whenever you use your PC. Is there not any surgery or physiotherapy you could have to help?
You seem to like Logitech Hardware. I have the same mouse as you which I personally find comfortable when used with a good desk and mouse mat. I also have the Logitech K350 Wireless Keyboard (http://www.logitech....rd-k350?crid=26). I personally find this very comfortable with a cushioned palm rest and a 'wave' ergonomic design.
You should also have a look at Microsoft's hardware. The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 seems to be Microsoft's current ergonomic offering (http://www.microsoft...c-keyboard-4000). On the web page it mentions the following: "According to some studies, ergonomic keyboard designs, such as the Microsoft Natural line, have been associated with significant reduction of carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms."
+1 for MS 4000 but if you are serious check this out, the keyboards without the number pad really seem to make sense as keyboard-mouse movement is a major reason for the pain. Also that mouse is quite heavy, I've tried it and unless you have gigantic hands its too much work for the wrist to move. http://www.gizmag.co...ce-crown/16684/
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During halftime of the Wilson College versus Gallaudet University soccer match Wednesday afternoon, The Wilson College athletic department will be recognizing the Wilson softball team for their achievements during the 2012 season.
Last season, the Phoenix rode a 23 game unbeaten streak on their course to becoming the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) South regular season champions. For their efforts during the season, Leigh Roche (Hanover, Pa./ New Oxford) was named NEAC South Pitcher of the Year, and Tara Field (Berryville, Va./ Clark County), NEAC South Player of the Year. Head coach, Brett Cline was honored as Coach of the Year after leading the Phoenix to their second straight NEAC South Division regular season championship, and fourth consecutive NEAC Championship Tournament appearance. Wilson finished the season 26-5 overall and undefeated at 20-0 in the NEAC South.
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I am a 26 yr old bloke that bought his 1st KoRn album at age 9 "LIFE IS PEACHY". While i know i am not the oldest fan, the beats that hit me then still hit me as hard today and i am proud to wear my KoRn tatt with pride. Though call me old fashioned or just a winging cunt but KoRn means to me all 5 original members. In Australia if u have a problem with your mate you take it outside and beat...
I am a mom to be and can not wait. I have been a Korn fan for as long as I can remember . I am having a little boy going to name him Conner Draven Peterson. Since I found out that I was finally going to have a baby after years of being told I was not going to be able to have any is amazing, I am starting to show a lot and when I listen to Korn on my MP3 or iPod I put my head set up to my belly...
Though many run to paradise records, Im sorry Jazzie hasnt called them yet, they had a calling about 6 years ago on another turn, but by the time everyone sits, and talks about what THEY are going to get, their way back and so forth, people sorta loose life. -- they're a great band to be -- hopefully in all faces before long :) https://www.facebook.com/spitfaceusa
Path of totality is a great album....i love all of Korns albums i always refer to korn if im having hard times in life......right now my gf......isnt talking...to me...idk even know if i should even call her that now..i call she doest pick up...she doesnt call or text anymore......and i honestly dont know why...i probably do but dont need to get into that......so lately i just been back at my...