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There are a lot of great ukulele builders making some of the finest instruments in the world. And, the Ko'olau Guitar & Ukulele Company makes the best high end ukes that are a work of art.
Ko'olau Guitar and Ukulele CompanyKo'olau Guitar and Ukulele Company
401 N.Cane St. A-10
Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786
tel: 808-622-1064
fax: 808-622-1646
Our family store, Funky Frets is an authorized dealer and carries the Ko'olau Guitar and Ukulele Company brand.
from the Ko'olau Guitar and Ukulele Company web site
Ko'olau Guitars and 'Ukuleles are professional quality, hand crafted instruments. The shop is located in Kaneohe, on the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, approximately fifteen minutes from Honolulu, at the foot of the the beautiful Ko'olau Mountains.
For many years Ko'olau Guitar and Ukulele has been building some of the finest quality ukes money can buy, allowing the customer to pick from many woods and decorative options. The company was founded and is still run by John Kitakis, whose career began as a furniture maker. He moved from the mainland US to Hawaii forty years ago, then for a period of time went back to the mainland doing warranty repair work for Martin, Taylor, Gibson, Guild and other guitar manufacturers, and in between built custom guitars and mandolins. Eventually he, his wife and children returned to Oahu to begin Ko'olau Guitar & Ukulele Company. All of John's children worked in the family business, from sorting screws to sweeping floors. His oldest son, Noa eventually chose to pursue stringed instrument making, and now manages all Ko'olau production. His youngest son, Andrew also joined the family doing repairs and assisting in Ko'olau construction and finishing, but eventually established his own retail guitar and 'ukulele business.
There are a lot of great ukulele builders making some of the finest instruments in the world. And, the Ko'olau Guitar & Ukulele Company makes the best high end ukes that are a work of art.
from the Black Bear Ukuleles web site
My name is Duane Heilman, and I am a luthier and owner of Black Bear Guitars and Ukuleles, a one man shop located in Yakima, Washington, in the U.S. I have been designing, building, and repairing stringed instruments since 1991, and creating ukuleles since 1998. My designs and construction techniques have grown out of years of study and observation of vintage and modern ukes. I try to incorporate my own artistic sense into each instrument as well, and sometimes the results can be quite different and full of surprises -- even to me!
1016 Seabright Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Shop Phone/Fax (831)479-3590
from the Graziano Ukuleles web site
Tony Graziano Ukuleles, Tony Graziano has been building musical instruments since 1969 and became interested in the Ukulele in 1978 , and then in 1995, after several years of building both guitars and Ukuleles, Tony began building Ukuleles almost exclusively. Tony likes to think of the ukulele as an instrument of the millennium. Its compact, easy to travel with, and brings joy to all who hear and play them. All Tony Graziano Ukes are built by Tony in his Santa Cruz shop using of the finest woods available. His is a page of information on the woods, with descriptions, used by Tony Graziano to build his fine ukuleles.
Joel Eckhaus, Luthier
12 Fairlawn Ave.
S. Portland, ME 04106
207 799-9788
from the Earnest Musical Instruments web site
EARNEST INSTRUMENTS are created for musicians who require functional, distinctive, high quality tools for making music. These are not your garden variety music store axes, but uncommon musical instruments designed to meet the needs of innovative players looking for something a little different. Rather than build reproductions of standard manufactured items, EARNEST combines time-tested styles and designs to create unique, original instruments with a classic appearance. Every effort is made to build the finest sounding and playing instruments. Their expense results from the quality of the materials and workmanship rather than unnecessary detail or excessive ornamentation. Materials are chosen for utility, tone, and appearance. Domestic and lesser known exotic tonewoods are favored over rare, overpriced, and often endangered species. Natural and manufactured materials are combined with appropriate adhesives and fasteners, at optimum humidity, to insure the stability and durability of the instruments. Earnest Instruments are built for a lifetime of music making!
Owen Holt
Road Toad Music
P.O. Box 51817
San Jose, CA 95151
ph: (408)223-8006
from the Road Toad Music web site
Road Toad Music produces quality handcrafted ukulele and bass instruments. Among the ukulele that Owen makes are a line of bass ukes. I played a few at the 2006 New York Ukulele Festival and they are amazing. You can believe the sound that comes from these. Owen also designed the Kala UBass.
1750 Kaahumanu Avenue
Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii 96793
Tel. 808.244.3938
Fax. 808.242.6566
from the Mele Ukulele web site
Mele Ukulele builds and sells fine ENTIRELY HAND MADE ukuleles and guitars at incredibly low prices. Our ukuleles feature great tone and playability, top quality Hawaiian koa and other fine SOLID tonewoods, and detailed inlay work. For nearly 20 years, Mele Ukulele continues to offer what can be considered among the best value in instruments today
Content is always being added and updated. So check-in often. Thanks, for visiting!!!
One of the largest collections of lessons, songs and TABS, archtop luthiers, ukulele builders, festival information, ukulele links on the web. I've been on the web since the early 90's and growing everyday. This site just never stops growing!!!


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this week in unintentionally grim-sounding recruiting headlines
tim beckman's terrible horrible no good very bad habit
Unverified Voracity Explores Combovers
- dave brandon
- denard robinson
- denard robinson NFL running back possibility
- devin gardner
- FREEDOM trophy
- gene keady
- gregg doyel
- illinois
- John Beilein
- larry foote
- marketing junk
- military tributes are often self-pleasing
- penn state awful thing
- tim beckman's terrible horrible no good very bad habit
- unverified voracity
Tonight! Or rather this afternoon. Evening? What is 5PM anyway? Ace is stopping by Tisch Hall to talk about his experience as a history major who made his way in the world. He's "ventured into the real world with remarkable success!" in fact.
Free dinner, too. And some other non-Ace persons you've never heard of like… uh… one of the co-founders of Zingerman's. Wow. Should have done history.
Gardner journey'd. It is bleakly appropriate that they took him to his now-closed high school.
The amazing true story of Gene Keady's combover. This is the best work Gregg Doyel has ever done: [UPDATE: now with link even]
"I had extensions," Keady tells me, at which point I put the phone down and started throwing up. OK, not really. But still. Extensions?
"Well sure," he says. "Men were just starting to get extensions, so why not?"
I've never known a man who had hair extensions.
"Now you do," Keady says.
Keady had twice-weekly appointments to keep is his 'do on the cutting edge of late night hair replacement commercials at $300 a pop. He is willing to admit this in a newspaper, so he is a better, more extended man than I.
Also, Keady's shotgun wedding sounds like it claimed all present, including said combover:
"Kelvin Sampson gave the bride away. The best man was Bruce Weber. He was the flower girl, too."
Neither was ever the same.
This isn't about the here and now. This is about how it all happened. This is John Beilein. http://t.co/t40F3RBAXv pic.twitter.com/YQzpRz4i74
— Brendan F. Quinn (@BFQuinn) November 12, 2014
You can tell it's important because it has a screen-wide picture. Big ol' profile of John Beilein on MLive with most John Beilein thing about a big profile ever:
More than anything, he's one of the best college basketball coaches in America, creating a tug of war between the twilight of his days and the pinnacle of his career.
Here he is.
"So what is the point of all this?" Beilein asks, wondering why anyone would fuss to retrace his steps searching for who he actually is.
"Well, I just don't get it," he says. "I can't imagine why anyone would care."
I don't think we're getting memoir after he's done.
The amazing pfffffffttttt hahahaha. If this was true, Tim Beckman wouldn't have been allowed to coach the Illini at all.
Beckman says academic standards at Illinois are higher than other B1G schools. He says it's the biggest issue in recruiting for Illini.
— Dan Murphy (@DanMurphyESPN) November 11, 2014
"It took me two weeks to figure out how the door to my office works," continued Beckman. "That's how hard the academics are at Illinois."
a short play in one act
FAN examines DOOR. FAN turns to BECKMAN.
FAN: "This is a normal door."
BECKMAN: "Cleverly disguised as a trick door!"
BECKMAN: "Real tricky doors, too."
FAN: /burns degree
How you dismantle Michigan State. SBN's Ian Boyd takes a look at a clobberin' MSU hasn't experienced since… well, Oregon. But not for a long time before that. OSU used a similar playbook:
They attacked the Spartan outside linebackers for playing the edge against the run:
The announcers highlighted the route combination but ignored the play action component that made the play a one-on-one matchup, where a missed tackle meant total breakdown. With pop and play-action elements attached to basic run plays, the Buckeyes are able to make the passing game simple for Barrett.
The play of his receivers has been huge as well. He never had to make a read on that throw, staring down his intended target. The sam linebacker is sucked in by the run action, leaving the safety and corner to account for the two receivers without help. The slot receiver runs a post route that the safety follows, which leaves the corner on an island playing press coverage against the outside receiver. Michael Thomas beats the corner with the inside move, and that's all she wrote.
The Buckeyes ended up getting the ball again before halftime and once again dialed up play action off zone slice.
This time, Ohio State caught the Spartans in a blown coverage. MSU uncharacteristically mixed a single-deep safety coverage on a non-blitz, and free safety Kurtis Drummond failed to get over the top in time to stop the deep post to the speedy Devin Smith.
The result of all this was Ohio State gaining 89% of available yards. Against Michigan State. Without Braxton Miller, Carlos Hyde, and four of last year's OL.
Some people are so bad at being people. Like Spaghetti O's tweeting about Pearl Harbor, here comes the most generic trophy ever assembled:
There's not actually a gallery. Don't click unless you enjoy useless activities. Wait… you probably do.
Cloak yourselves in that flag, marketing geniuses. Dan Wetzel manages to say the thing about all this military stuff without touching the third rail:
The Freedom Trophy? What is that? Was there ever any doubt in the freedom of Wisconsin or Nebraska? Has anyone tried to invade either place and establish totalitarian rule – we're looking at you Iowa.
Big Ten marketing person No. 1: This is ham-fisted and meaningless. Fans are going to make fun of us.
Big Ten marketing person No. 2: Call it the Freedom Trophy and say it honors veterans. The trophy will consist of two massive football stadiums merged together with an enormous American flag coming out of it. They can't make fun of that.
You don't like freedom? You don't honor veterans? You don't like big stadiums and big flags? You Pac-12 commie.
A lot of the time it feels like Honoring Our Heroes is done to have some of that military mojo rub off on whoever's doing the honoring. It's a way to signify you're a good person in the safest way possible, and is thus the place please-everyone rubes run to when they don't have any ideas. No coincidence that as people started hating on Dave Brandon more and more that the military tributes became a literally every-game occurrence.
Hooray Denard. Denard Robinson is a legit NFL running back after a difficult first year, and he did it in the Denard way:
Early in the offseason, Robinson knocked on the door of head coach Gus Bradley.
"I don't want to go through another season like that one," he told him. "Tell me what I need to do to get on the field."
Bradley laid out a plan for Robinson. The Jaguars believed Robinson, who weighed 194 pounds when he first reported, had the frame to carry considerably more weight. The diet and training program he embraced resulted in him getting up to 215, his current weight.
Next, they wanted to enable him to make his new muscle functional. In the offseason, Richardson worked with Robinson on running violently. Robinson was naturally elusive. Richardson wanted him to be able to combine elusiveness with violence. "We worked on using a stiff arm or shoulder drop in combination with making cuts," Richardson said. "I call it use of weapons."
It helps to be unreasonably humble at all times.
I guess we'll say he's outspoken. The quotable Larry Foote:
Foote said, "They better change up their recruiting. They better get some eyes in there that can find some NFL talent. Michigan better go back to the hood (recruiting). They've got too many trust fund babies and they look like that when they're playing. They've got guys out there – they're just happy. They're happy they're playing at Michigan. But that's not Michigan football; the attitude has to change."
When Stanford, Notre Dame, and even Duke have significantly outperformed Michgian of late I don't buy that argument. It's about what happens after the recruits get to school, not before.
Backlash backlash backlash backlash. It's turtles all the way down in the Penn State case. I remember being uncomfortable at the time with Penn State's punishment, because having the NCAA step in on such a heinous thing was like giving Charles Manson a traffic ticket.
But they did, and then one of the lawsuits still pending against the NCAA showed that officials were uncertain if they had the power to do the thing that they did. A lot of people went LOL NCAA at this, but I'm with John Gasaway:
You'll also have to forgive me for not being troubled to find that NCAA staffers questioned whether they were doing the right thing. In fact I would feel far better about the process behind the Freeh Report, for example, if emails surfaced wherein investigators were fretting over whether they were really doing justice to Penn State president Graham Spanier. My worry is precisely that there are no such emails because there were no such qualms.
Whether it was a good idea or not, a bluff or not, Penn State signed the consent decree and took its steadily declining lumps. Was it PR to look like the NCAA doesn't accept the idea of harboring a Sandusky? Or was it the NCAA not accepting the idea of a Sandusky? They're the same thing.
Where are they now: Dave Brandon edition. A Domino's in Saginaw saw a tense standoff between a pissed-off customer and the manager devolve into a shouting match featuring these words from the manager:
Apparently a manager at the helm of this Saginaw, Michigan, Domino'scursed out a customer who confronted him over hanging up on her son. The kid reportedly complained after getting a lightly sauced pie instead of one with "white" sauce. Hence this exchange: "Did you come in for your money back? Because I really don't care about your opinion," the manager says.
I appreciate the fact that Brandon was trying to lessen the financial blow of his buyout by getting outside work, but maybe next time get a job that doesn't involve customer service.
Etc.: Saturday doesn't look any prettier in advanced stats. Jack Kennedy talks to the Big House Report about Saturday and Hoke's status. Sounds reasonable. Les Miles on… economics! Fired Domino's manager says some bad stuff at customer including "I really don't care about your opinion."
MVictors on Willie Heston.
Unverified Voracity Is Wearing Grandpa's Jacket
Pelini forever. The day that Bo Pelini ceases being a Big Ten coach is going to be a sad one.
He screams like a lunatic, he makes jokes about his cat, he wears… that… and looks like he believes the camera is taking a piece of his soul with it. Joke's on you, camera! Ain't got no soul, he thinks. Oh and his offense is kind of a looney tunes spread triple option thing that is both modern and very Nebraska. I only wish he was still in our football conference.
Always the best thing out of media days. Mike Spath's anonymous chatter articles are quality as always and the defense one is free. An opponent on the tao of Countess:
"I thought Blake Countess was tough to play against. He's not real physical but he's one of those guys that knows what he does well and what he doesn't. And he sort of lulled us to sleep. We kept thinking that we could go at him and I think that's what he wanted because he stepped in front of two balls, picked one, and we didn't throw at him very much after that."
Countess had INTs against Minnesota, Iowa, and OSU last year, FWIW. The offense is paywalled, but I have to quote this bit:
"They were one of those teams that were tough to prepare for and not tough at the same time because they did so many different things. We had a lot of guys watching a lot more film the week before because they could run 75 different plays in the same game, but I think what stood out was that they didn't have an identity and they never had go-to plays so if you just played sound, technique-strong football, you were OK."
And that had a lot to do with Michigan's ups and downs. OSU did not play anything approximating sound football in their secondary last year and Michigan ate them up; Iowa is nothing but sound cover two and Michigan could do nothing.
The overall theme of that latter one is that opposing teams have a hell of a lot of respect for Devin Gardner since he did not die last year.
You could knock me down with a feather right now. Shock and alarm at unexpected news:
"Going in (to camp, there will be competition between Devin Gardner and Shane Morris)," Hoke said during his appearance on "Numbers Never Lie." "We've got great competition. (But) if we opened the season today, Devin would start for the Wolverines."
I will personally fight anyone* who sends me an email about whether Morris should start.
*[Offer not valid unless you are Ellen Degeneres.]
Ready to go. Ondre Pipkins is cleared and even more importantly, is apparently fit.
"He's done a nice job, he's made a lot of progress and he's passed the conditioning test and all those things," Michigan coach Brady Hoke said this week. "We'll probably be smart with him as we move forward, you know, especially on two-a-days.
"We'll (watch his) reps and those things. But he's cleared and ready to go."
Figuratively and literally massive for the defense. Article notes that Willie Henry is slated to compete with Pipkins at nose, but I'm hoping they figure out that they can start both those guys. We'll see.
'96 Colorado. I missed this game; remember sitting in a car listening to the end of it just terrified about the Hail Mary.
Well, no. No we do not. Hoke on the opener:
Brady Hoke says he gets some grief from alumni about having App State on the schedule. No one wants to see those highlights, he says
— Nick Baumgardner (@nickbaumgardner) July 31, 2014
He didn't do it.
LEMON UPDATE. Aw man I am going to have to find like a video crew and a roaring fireplace.
Junior linebacker Joe Bolden was named the 2014 Meyer Morton Award winner. The Morton Award is given to the player who "shows the greatest development and most promise as a result of the annual spring practice."
Jarrod Wilson and Chris Wormley also pulled in awards.
The plan. After experimenting with Graham Glasgow at tackle it seems like Michigan is going to leave him at center:
When fall camp opens Sunday, though, Hoke says Glasgow -- who is suspended for the season-opener against Appalachian State due to an offseason drunken driving arrest -- will begin where he ended last year. At center, and likely with the first team.
"I would say he could (be with the starters at center) early in camp but then you've got to develop others," Hoke said this week at Big Ten media days in Chicago. "This is why, when you make decisions that don't help the team, you find out how you hurt the team."
If Glasgow does move that says more about Ben Braden than anyone else. That is an outcome I don't want to see, as that would be a major strike against a player who was hyped up as a physical marvel by many people a year ago.
It also sounds like the current plan is to leave Cole at left tackle for this year to provide a backup there. Tuley-Tillman and Fox are both likely to need another year before putting them on the field would be anything other than a major problem.
The rehab. Ondre Pipkins is cleared to practice at the start of fall camp
It could be worse, everyone! Man, Illinois fans are grasping at straws:
Tim Beckman came into this morning's press conference after a long bowl game-less winter and a 4-8 season record with only one conference win. But something was noticeably different about his speech this time. He finally seemed comfortable and confident at the podium.
… he hardly pauses or stumbles for the right words. His "uhs" and "ums" are fewer and farther between than in the past. He came off as a true leader and respectable speaker.
Well, I know that our coach starts every sentence with "well" and is not exactly Steve Spurrier. But there's going to be a post this year on an Illinois blog that says "we may have lost by sixty points but it seems like Tim Beckmann's dressing himself these days, so things are really coming along for us."
Unfortunate for Northwestern. Projected starting corner Daniel Jones is forced to retire thanks to injuries. Corner being the Wildcats' achilles heel since it ceased being "the whole team," that bodes unwell for the Wildcats and better for Michigan. Jones was lost for the year in the opener, so this is more Northwestern not getting that guy back than anything else.
The Daily makes the Daily show. You gotta put it in your click hole, nerds.
The most correct thing. This isn't relevant to anything but it is the most correct thing that's ever been said:
I spent five days in Las Vegas by myself earlier this month. If that sounds like your idea of paradise, let me stop you right there, because you're wrong. Even though I know nothing about you, I'm fairly certain that five days alone in Vegas is enough to make anybody rethink their life. Five days in Vegas with friends or family is still probably four days too many, but being alone in Vegas is like finding out halfway through a party that you were invited by mistake. Everyone is having the time of their lives around you, and even though you were excited when you arrived, you're just off to the side wondering what you're doing there.
As someone who spent a week in Vegas by myself*, this is so accurate. I eventually just spent the money for wifi (this was back when wifi still cost money at hotels) and sat in my hotel room because being alone by yourself is so much more tolerable than being alone around everyone. Vegas by yourself: horrible.
The rest of this article is an entertaining Mark Titus piece on attending an NBA scout "school" and finding out just how horrible that job is. So it's sports! On topic! (Not on topic.)
*[Qualified for the WSOP during the heyday of online poker and couldn't hector any of my friends into railbirding me. WSOP was very large that year so there were four separate Day 1s for a quarter of the field and two Day 2s.]
Etc.: Arian Foster gives classic 'Sheed interview. 1985 Big Ten commercial might as well be from 1685. BHGP sent a horse to Big Ten Media Days. This is legit you guys. Hooray Michelle Beadle. Michigan unranked in opening coaches' poll.
Big Ten coaches really like the word "think." Derrick Walton transitioning away from being just a shooter. I found the only Penn State fan that doesn't loathe us with the fury of a thousand suns.
The John Bacon Q&A: College Football At A Crossroads
Hey kids. John's answered your questions in an extensive post below. I know his points hit close to home as we approach the last time Michigan Stadium will host Notre Dame for the foreseeable future. The book is Fourth and Long, and it's available now.
See also: John fields questions from MVictors and talks with the PostGame. Also he was on Olbermann!
Is there a way of putting the genie back in the bottle, or have the aggressive, business-oriented strategies of highlighted in the book (and there are MANY instances therein) put Michigan on an irreversible, faulty trajectory?
[My question is in his estimation, where is that "tipping point" for Michigan, and what happens when we reach it?]
Great question, and one I've examined from as many angles as possible for this book. Really, for Michigan fans – and fans of college football generally – it is the central question.
Michigan happens to make a great case study, on two fronts: the loyalty of its fans, and the department's profitably, both of which are virtually unequaled in college football.
First, the good news, from the book:
"Brandon's style might not please everyone he deals with, but he delivers what he promises. Under Brandon, the department increased its operating surplus to $15.3 million in fiscal year 2012, 72 percent higher than the previous fiscal year. In 2012, the Michigan football team alone generated $61.6 million in profits, second only to the University of Texas, which has the considerable advantage of its exclusive twenty-year, $300 million TV deal with ESPN.
Brandon has delivered more than dollars, too. After hiring Brady Hoke in 2011, the Michigan football team beat Notre Dame on the last play of the Big House's first night game, defeated Ohio State for the first time since 2003, and won a thrilling overtime game over eleventh-ranked Virginia Tech in the Sugar Bowl, Michigan's first BCS bowl victory since a young man named Tom Brady beat Alabama in the January 1, 2000, Orange Bowl.
In the 2011–12 school year, the hockey team earned a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament; the men's basketball team won a share of its first Big Ten title since 1986; and the following fall, Michigan's other twenty-nine sports combined to run a close second behind Stanford, and ahead of such perennial all-sport powers as Texas and UCLA, in the Directors' Cup, which Michigan has never won.
If the Michigan athletic department had issued a 2012 annual report to its shareholders, it would have been the shiniest publication in college sports, packed with enough good news to make the competition envious. By those measures, its creator could be considered an all-American athletic director.
The Wolverines are not alone in spending millions, of course, engaged as they are in an arms race with the Buckeyes and the Southeastern Conference that shows no signs of slowing down. In Brandon's speeches to alumni clubs, service groups, and the press, he has been unabashed in laying out a simple equation: if you want titles, this is what it takes.
But it can come with some unexpected prices."
One of them, of course, was the initial decision to leave the Marching Band in Ann Arbor for the Alabama game in Dallas – about which former band director Scott Boerma was willing to clarify several misconceptions in our interviews.
But the bigger price might be the disaffection of thousands of loyal fans, some of whom have dropped their tickets. At Michigan, as of this writing, those numbers don't seem to be too great, and the Big House still attracts over 100,000 passionate fans each game. But just down the road at Penn State, whose fans are every bit as rabid as Michigan's, driving an average of four hours to see their team play in State College, you can see the effects of squeezing your supporters too hard.
The scoreboard scroller at Penn State's third game, against Navy, announced the game's attendance at ninety-eight thousand. As I write: "This would have brought heartbreak to the Michigan crowd, which had never dipped below one hundred thousand since 1975. But the Lions' six-year streak had already been broken at the opening game of the 2011 season, months before Sandusky was arrested, thanks to the overpricing of tickets through a misguided and ill-timed seat-license plan called the "Step Program." This had caused attendance to drop by about three thousand a game in 2010, when the program was introduced, again in 2011, and would again in 2012."
My sources tell me the trend is likely to continue in 2013, and this brings us to a central issue for meccas like Beaver Stadium, the Horseshoe and the Big House: faith. From the book:
College football fandom depends on the same force that buoys our nation's currency: faith. Since the United States left the gold standard, the US dollar has value only because billions of people around the world think it does. When a critical mass of people stop thinking that, our dollars will be worth no more than Confederate scrip—without the eBay memorabilia value.
College football isn't nearly as important, of course, nor as serious. But the ecosystem works the same way. Going to a football game at Michigan, Ohio State, or Penn State is great largely because over one hundred thousand people at each stadium think it is. If the sellouts stop and the empty seats increase, the fans start questioning why they're paying such incredible fees for a "wow experience" that cannot attract a sellout.
One friend calculated that taking her husband and two kids to the games—without dinners or hotel rooms—costs about $500 per Saturday, more than a day at Disney World. And Mickey never loses or snows on you.
"Just because you can charge them more," Bill Martin told me, "doesn't mean you should. You're not there to ring up the cash to the nth degree. It's a nonprofit model!
"Look into how much is spent on marketing, then look at how effective it is," he said. "Look at the increase in men's basketball attendance this year," he added. Michigan's top-10 men's team played twenty games at home, attracting capacity crowds of 12,693 for fifteen of those games, with only two under 10,000. "That would happen if you didn't spend one penny on marketing. You don't have to do marketing at Michigan. We have the fans. We have the support. We have a great reputation. All you have to do is win. If you win, they will come. You just need to make it as affordable as possible for your fans."
For all these reasons, my friends—who developed what they thought were lifelong habits of attendance as kids—have found themselves in the last few years rarely going to the stadium anymore.
The straw man of the hour was Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon. Brandon talks a lot about "brand loyalty," but that combines two words that, to a college football fan, aren't related. College football fans are fiercely loyal, but their loyalty is to something they most definitely do not see as a brand, rather something much deeper. If Michigan football ever lost loyal fans like my friends in the living room, who were raised on Michigan football, could it win them back?
Clearly, Brandon was betting that the endless branding would keep them in the fold. And perhaps if not, other fans could replace them."
Both those questions, I believe, will be answered in the near future. And they will be answered by you, the loyal fans, who will vote with your feet, and your credit card.
[After THE JUMP: is college football worth saving? Does Bill O'Brien want to strangle Tim Beckman? What does the U stand for?]
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The great coach smackdown of 2013. Sound Mind, Sound Body—an offseason camp that is set up such that college coaches can go—is too good to be true and will flame out in the near future when sixty other camps imitate it and the NCAA closes the loophole. But for now, we get things like Michigan coaches doing drills right next to Ohio State coaches that can be bothered to show up.
This is the setup for an uncomfortably hilarious moment. Mike Vrabel gets done with his drill segment early, badgers Mattison about finishing his bit when there's still time on the clock before the next rotation, and Mattison Is Not Having That. Via Sam Webb($):
"How about you coach them as hard as you can for as long as you have them?" Mattison yelled back tersely. "YOU GIVE THEM EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!!"
Mattison then donned his swag glasses and told Lawrence Marshall "that's why you don't go to Ohio State, Lawrence."
There's a great Greg Robinson story behind that paywall still.
Run, don't walk. Outside of paywall is a terrific article by Mike Rothstein on the basketball program's unique approach to recruiting, in which Michigan offers only after June 15th of a prospect's junior year and maintains a sedulous respect for the process of getting to know kids.
"I'll throw this at people," Jordan said. "'What's your mom's name?' Because there's a curiosity of why haven't you offered. 'How many brothers? How many sisters? What's your family like? Have you considered the fact that we don't really know each other, but there is a desire for a scholarship offer?'
"So now it's like, 'OK.' It's the education."
It does seem like the Michigan offer is now something that means something, unlike a number of other schools.
There's another, almost unintentional, byproduct. By having prospects wait for an offer and go through myriad steps, Michigan has created more perceived value around an offer from the school. Instead of just another scholarship offer on a list, it is one the player had to work for.
"To see that they still wanted to offer me, it meant a lot after recruiting me for a year and seeing how well I developed and saw how much potential I had," Irvin said. "That was really special to me."
Rothstein noticed that Beilein often goes after kids who are young for their grade—Caris LeVert is a recent prominent example—and got shot down when he asked the coaches about it. So he's on to something there.
Brady Hoke problems. ESPN gives Maurice Ways a fourth star, which means the list of current commits eligible for this site's Sleeper of the Year designation reads:
- Michigan State commits
If I have to I'll open it up to kids who got just one four-star ranking, which opens the door to a whopping three guys at the moment: Ways, Chase Winovich, and Wilton Speight.
ESPN also moved Drake Harris up 25 spots to 71st; the rest of Michigan's commits had insignificant drops of a spot or two.
Sense. And sensibility. And zombies. This bowl news is trickling out so gradually it begins to remind me of the Big Ten's realignment, which was announced weekly for two months. But I think one of the priorities fans had was being able to you know, watch the Big Ten's bowl lineup and Delany has confirmed that is something on the docket:
"I think what you'll see is a truly national slate of bowls," Delany said. "I think you'll see us probably stronger on the West Coast than we've been. You'll see us as strong in Florida as we've been, but probably not as much on New Year's [Day]. I think you'll see us in Texas, and you'll see us with some games in our region, some games on the East Coast. I think it's going to be a great slate. We've made a lot of progress."
Also, the league is about to force bowls to take at least five different teams over the next six years, so no Yet Another Orlando Trip. I'm a little leery of that. The impulse behind the idea is a good one but that threatens to screw with bowl matchups.
Finally, a chorus of angels sounds from above!
"We've been trying to create a model that's more realistic," Delany said. "We'll take fewer, better tickets. If that means the payouts have to come down some, that's OK. Because it makes no sense to overpay on tickets, over-commit and find out you're really subsidizing the bowls, financing your own game."
I'm going on six years of bitching about this. No more. Freedom! (Have I told you how terrible the scholarship model is?).
Could make the West more… nahhh. Tim Beckman picks up Oklahoma State transfer Wes Lunt, who started six games as a true freshman for the Cowboys. Michigan won't see him unless Illinois rotates onto the schedule in 2016, but the addition of a quality quarterback could make the Illini the scariest 4-8 team in college football.
The one time when a coach really could claim to block a player's transfer for their own good, and Gundy doesn't. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ –edsbs
Just once, Illinois, you could try looking at a photograph of the guy you're hiring before doing so. Then you would not hire the people you hire. I challenge anyone to find a picture of Tim Beckmann that does not beg to be captioned "derp" or "hurrrr durrrr" or "is what how can do?"
Okay guy. It must be brutal to write something for a newspaper in June, but uh.
Freep Guest Column: Alternate jerseys and helmets continue to impress recruits
I don't think it's working. Next time put actual fireworks in the helmets?
Gant move confirmed. Brady Hoke confirmed that Allen Gant was now at SAM, stating thusly:
"He's a rangy guy and he's got length to him," Hoke said last week. "His body has the opportunity to put weight on, the structure and the genetics of the body.
"I think that's the biggest part of it."
If he tops out at 230, think Stevie Brown rather than Jake Ryan.
We missed this, but it's a little explosion-y so let's just do it now. Sam Webb puts out a Da'Shawn Hand article about two seconds after I do a final scan through my RSS feed for the recruiting roundup. Well played.
Most of it is stuff you've heard before about Professor Needs A Raise and how the Michigan staff is his favorite staff. But while I think a version of this quote was in a video somewhere this is the first time it's in text:
"My goal is try to make a decision before December," Hand reported. "At first I was going to stretch it out, but then after talking with my pop -- we kind of had a heart to heart -- I kind of have to make up my mind. It's a big decision, but at the same time I kind of have a gist of knowing where I'm going, but I ain't gonna say that."
Etc.: Books to read from Smart Football. MC79 on data versus feelingsball.
Fee Fi Foe Film: Illinois
Illinois took the field at Camp Randall Stadium last weekend hoping that a game against a struggling Wisconsin squad was just what they needed to turn around a nightmare season. After keeping it close through three quarters in which neither team could move the ball, they gave up 21 fourth-quarter points en route to a 31-14 loss. The Badgers, which entered the game averaging just 309 yards of total offense, put up 427 on 7.4 yards per play; the Illini could muster just 284 yards of their own.
As you can see, first-year head coach Tim Beckman couldn't bear to take in such a performance without putting in a lip-full of dip. Like pretty much every other decision made by Tim Beckman this year, this was stupid:
Illinois self-reported a level 2 secondary violation to the Big Ten Conference after coach Tim Beckman was seen chewing tobacco during Saturday's game against Wisconsin.
The NCAA prohibits the use of chewing tobacco for coaches, game officials and players during practice and games.
"It's a bad habit, and one that definitely will be corrected," Beckman said on Tuesday.
Illinois football, ladies and gentlemen!
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Team: Ilion Golden Bombers
Sport: Bowling
Age: 17
Year in school: Senior
Team: Dallas Cowboys
Athlete: Didier Drogba
Class in school: Math
Movie: Happy Gilmore
TV show: I Shouldn't Be Alive
Actor: Jim Carrey
Musician: Jay Sean
Song: "War"
Food: Steak
Explain what you enjoy most about your sport and athletics.
I like playing the sport and when I am the best at it, whether it be for that day or in a tournament. There's nothing better than walking out of a bowling alley knowing you just won the whole tournament.
What is your most memorable athletic moment?
When I scored two upper 90 soccer goals in the second half of our game vs. Mohawk and was the top play that Monday for WKTV's Top 6 Plays at 6.
Tell us about someone who inspires you in sports and why.
It would have to be my brother, Ryan. He has always given me confidence when I need it the most, he has bowled in all the tournaments that I have and has always set a high standard for me to reach or get past, and he is always there for me when I need someone to look to or for an answer on the lanes. I couldn't ask for a better brother.
What are your greatest challenges balancing academics and sports?
Just doing homework and trying to work 25 hours a week while I'm concentrating on my sports.
What are your plans after graduating from high school?
Most likely, I will be attending Herkimer County Community College to team up and bowl with my brother, Ryan.
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Mass Effect 3's main menu. I had no expectations of making it a habit. Like many people, when the multiplayer component was announced, I thought it sounded completely extraneous. Once I started playing, though, I fell for it, and have been putting more time into the multiplayer than the campaign.
Arguments about whether Mass Effect 3 is a role-playing game or not have existed since the first game's release. Regardless of which side you take in those, Mass Effect does include many components of role-playing games, two of which are essential to the multiplayer's success: world-building and character development mechanics. Of course, there are simple gameplay reasons to enjoy the co-operative gameplay of Mass Effect 3 online. The levels are well designed for dynamic changes within matches, and waves of enemies seem ideal for both difficulty and time. But those things aren't what make it special.
It's also pleasing to see the various races and styles working together. I'm invested in the Mass Effect universe. When I see a krogan, I think of Urdnot Wrex, the best-developed party member in the original Mass Effect, who would eventually become the leader of his people. I think of krogan history, the best-developed part of Mass Effect's universe, uplifted for their skills in war, then punished for applying those skills to the races who were once their allies. I think of what it took to bring them into the alliance against the Reapers, in the fantastic Tuchanka sequence early in Mass Effect 3. I don't mean that I ponder these things. I mean that seeing the simple visual of a krogan immediately makes me understand the complex narrative meaning.
There's meaning behind seeing a krogan in Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, just as there is seeing a drell or salarian or asari, or fighting off reapers or Cerberus. That meaning comes specifically from the world-building that's only done in role-playing games.
That's not just intellectual meaning. To see a quarian infiltrator with an asari adept, krogan vanguard, and a human sentinel, all working together, is to see something that feels right at a gut level. The colorful aesthetics work with the emotions, which work with the story. All this comes at a single glance. Many games use shortcuts to achieve this affect: real-world history, or attachments to major media like Star Wars. Mass Effect worked for it.
In addition to the RPG world-building, Mass Effect also allows for several different character types to be built for the player's Commander Shepard. With six different classes, each of which has different customizable skills and weapons, the player is unlikely to use most, let alone all, of the different permutations. I've only played as a vanguard, through all three Mass Effect titles. Multiplayer's dozens of different characters makes it easy to see all those different classes, and especially the different weapons.
Going through each of the different combinations is delightfully fun. I'm not sure I'd ever have the patience to play as an engineer with paper-thin shields, but having the chance to play a few games as a salarian engineer let me happily indulge my curiosity.
These characters are all weaker than the single-player's increasingly godlike heroes. Commander Shepard has more skills available, and more levels through which to progress. With only 20 levels, and five skills, the multiplayer characters have more constraints, and none of them can be totally self-sufficient. In the campaign, the player is stuck with Shepard, but can call on her companions to supplement her skills with a quick button press. In the multiplayer, the players are forced to co-operate because of those limitations.
It's not its own segment of the game, like many multiplayer modes attached to single-player campaigns are. That's part of what makes it great. A random gamer, starting Mass Effect 3 as their first of the series, isn't going to select the multiplayer option and have the same experience as a veteran of the series. They'll probably see the quality of the design, and maybe enjoy the presentation, but it won't have the same meaning. Multiplayer Mass Effect 3 derives its power from the role-playing roots of its single-player experience.
Rowan Kaiser is a freelance writer currently living the Bay Area, who also writes for The A.V. Club, and has been published at Salon, Gamasutra, Kotaku, and more. He still occasionally finds Ultima VI Moongate maps and mantra notes when he visits his parents' house. Follow him on Twitter @rowankaiser.
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The idea of the clip is to clip it on your hat and shirt or other garment you are wearing. If the wind gets too strong and knocks your hat off, then it will be caught by the clips. While camping, my friend found that the clips made a great hat holder by slinging the parachord it over the makeshift clothes line that was running down the length of the tent and attaching both clips to the hat. Removing and reattaching one end allowed a quick hang of the hat.
Step 1: Items needed
Rounded needle nose pliers (or regular needle nose, but the rounded ones make a nice rounded loop)
Wire cutter - not shown as one is attached to my pliers
Small strips of paracord - 6 inches or longer
Lighter (or matches to burn the ends of the chord)
Clips (this example uses clips found at a hobby store, though similar clips are sold attached to rings to hold shower curtains) - Item shown is Darice Dangler Clips Nickel BV item 1969-99. Alligator Clips can be used, but I was not able to find ones I liked that were small enough yet had a strong spring.
Step 2: Take a clip and remove excess wire
Step 3: Curl the remaining wire on the end of the clip.
Step 4: Tie a overhand knot at the end of both ends of the paracord.
Tie an overhand knot in each end of the cord. The knot should be very close at the cord.
Step 5: Slip the cord into the curl of the clips and crimp
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The plan passed by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday morning after an all-night session includes a $650 million income tax cut, expands private school vouchers statewide and rejects a federal Medicaid expansion.
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It will be taken up first by the Republican-controlled Assembly in two weeks, then go to the Senate.
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Overall leader Christopher Froome, with yellow helmet, trains with his teammates on Mondays rest day at the Tour de France in La Baule, France.SAINT-NAZAIRE, France The manager of Chris Froomes team promises that his star rider will never again be left exposed in his bid to win the Tour de France.
Froome kept the yellow jersey on a ferociously tough mountain stage Sunday. The British rider will wear it when the race resumes Tuesday with Stage 10 following Mondays rest day.
That Froome had to defend the jersey alone in the ninth stage because all his Sky teammates had been left behind offers hope to rivals like two-time champion Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck. If they can again isolate Froome later in the race, perhaps he will be too tired to respond.
Weve learnt some lessons, valuable lessons, to take into the rest of the race, Sky manager Dave Brailsford said Monday. But Im not going to spell it out. Im not going to go into the details of the changes were going to make.
Froomes key teammate is Richie Porte, an Australian who won the Paris-Nice stage race in March. He was unable to help Froome on Stage 9 and wants to make amends.
Am I going to have another bad day like that? I hope not, he said.
Contador, the Tour winner in 2007 and `09 who was stripped of his title the following year for doping, is looking forward to getting another shot at Froome in the mountains Sunday.
I will try and do something, Contador said. If you dont think you can succeed then you never will. So we have to take a few risks.
Sundays 15th stage is the next big climbing trek and features a 12.9-mile ascent to Mont Ventoux. A few days later, riders face three straight days of arduous mountain climbing in the high Alps.
Throughout my career Ive found my best form in the third week, Contador said.
The 30-year-old Spaniard takes heart from winning the Spanish Vuelta last year, a race in which Froome finished about 10 minutes behind in fourth place.
People can speculate and look at my previous performances however they like, but I look at that Vuelta in that I was running on fumes. I was in survival mode, Froome said. If people want to make comparisons thats up to them, but I dont feel I was at my best.
Tuesdays stage is a 122-mile route from Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo and is made for sprinters. On Wednesday, Contador could face trouble in the 20.5-mile time trial.
Its a very flat time trial and that is a disadvantage for me, he said.
Froome finished second to Tour winner Bradley Wiggins in the time trial last year and is considerably faster than Contador. The Spaniard may be able to limit the time gaps this time because the dash from Avranches to Mont-Saint-Michel is relatively short.
Given the way Froome is riding, he can take a big step toward winning the Tour if he extends his overall advantage after the time trial.
Spains Alejandro Valverde is 1 minute, 25 seconds behind Froome. Contador is 1:51 behind in sixth, while Schleck is four minutes back in 15th place, and Evans trails by 4:36 in 16th place.
None will be consoled by last years race. Valverde was a massive 7:20 slower than Froome in last years 33.2-mile time trial; Evans was 4:28 slower. They again face the prospect of losing significant time to Froome.
This is the 100th edition of the Tour and the first since Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven straight titles from 1999-2005 for serial doping.
Froome has said twice during the race that he is riding clean. Contador again repeated that he has never doped, even though he tested positive for the banned drug clenbuterol.
Naturally people are going to ask questions in cycling, Froome said. Whenever there are great performances they have been linked to doping in the past, so naturally now were bearing the brunt of a lot of those questions.
Contador, who lost his 2010 title to Schleck, has always denied doping.
You can believe what you want, he said. But the only thing that I can tell you is that I have always practiced cycling clean.
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Update 7:44: Crackdown begins on Muslim Brotherhood (via Al Jazeera).
Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper reported that arrest warrants had been issued for 300 Brotherhood members, and the security forces were preparing to clear a pro-Mursi rally near Cairo University.
The state news agency MENA reported that the police were continuing its efforts to arrest "a number of members of the Muslim Brotherhood who are accused of inciting violence and disturbing general security and peace."
Update 7:17: President Obama has made a statement on the coup in Egypt.
As I have said since the Egyptian Revolution, the United States supports a set of core principles, including opposition to violence, protection of universal human rights, and reform that meets the legitimate aspirations of the people. The United States does not support particular individuals or political parties, but we are committed to the democratic process and respect for the rule of law. Since the current unrest in Egypt began, we have called on all parties to work together to address the legitimate grievances of the Egyptian people, in accordance with the democratic process, and without recourse to violence or the use of force.
The United States is monitoring the very fluid situation in Egypt, and we believe that ultimately the future of Egypt can only be determined by the Egyptian people. Nevertheless, we are deeply concerned by the decision of the Egyptian Armed Forces to remove President Morsy and suspend the Egyptian constitution. I now call on the Egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible through an inclusive and transparent process, and to avoid any arbitrary arrests of President Morsy and his supporters. Given today's developments, I have also directed the relevant departments and agencies to review the implications under U.S. law for our assistance to the Government of Egypt.
The United States continues to believe firmly that the best foundation for lasting stability in Egypt is a democratic political order with participation from all sides and all political parties —secular and religious, civilian and military. During this uncertain period, we expect the military to ensure that the rights of all Egyptian men and women are protected, including the right to peaceful assembly, due process, and free and fair trials in civilian courts. Moreover, the goal of any political process should be a government that respects the rights of all people, majority and minority; that institutionalizes the checks and balances upon which democracy depends; and that places the interests of the people above party or faction. The voices of all those who have protested peacefully must be heard – including those who welcomed today's developments, and those who have supported President Morsy. In the interim, I urge all sides to avoid violence and come together to ensure the lasting restoration of Egypt's democracy.
No transition to democracy comes without difficulty, but in the end it must stay true to the will of the people. An honest, capable and representative government is what ordinary Egyptians seek and what they deserve. The longstanding partnership between the United States and Egypt is based on shared interests and values, and we will continue to work with the Egyptian people to ensure that Egypt's transition to democracy succeeds.
Update 7:01: Egypt's New Interim President is Adly Mansour
Update 6:40: Details of Road Map.
Speaking on state television, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi detailed a roadmap for a return to democratic rule after the government failed to yield to protests.
It outlined the following:
* The temporary suspension of the constitution.
* Formation of a committee including all sections of society and experts to review proposed amendments to the constitution.
* The head of the Supreme Constitutional Court, Adli al-Mansour, will be sworn in as the state's new interim ruler.
* Early presidential elections, with the head of the constitutional court managing the affairs of the country during the interim period, until a new president is elected.
* The head of the constitutional court will have powers to issue constitutional decrees during the interim period.
* The formation of a national technocrat government that will enjoy full powers to manage the transition period.
* Implementation of a media code of ethics to ensure freedom of the media.
* Executive measures to be taken to enable young people to be involved in the institutions of the state.
* Constitutional court urged to quickly approve the draft parliamentary election law and start preparing for parliamentary elections.
* Formation of a national reconciliation committee.
* Egyptian people urged to stay peaceful in protests.
Update 6:23: Al Jazeera has claimed that its live Egypt service have been taken off air along with several other TV channels.
Reports from our correspondents say this happened during a live broadcast when security forces stormed the building and arrested the presenter, guests and producers.
Update 4:01: Reports are that Egyptian military working to put civilian government in place. Worth noting that it is illegal under U.S. law to give aid to countries under rule of those who came to power with a military coup.
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A significant portion of the amount made available to carry out this subsection for a fiscal year shall be for the purchase of defense articles, defense services, and military education and training for activities relating to counterinsurgency and counterterrorism operations in Pakistan.
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Update 3:32: State Media has confirmed Morsi is out as NY Times looks at what's next for Egypt.
Egypt's military moved forcefully to seize power from President Mohamed Morsi on Wednesday, deploying tanks and troops in Cairo and other cities, restricting his travel and convening an emergency meeting of top civilian and religious leaders to devise an interim government and lay the groundwork for new elections…
State radio said that the emergency meeting, which included Mohamed ElBaradei, a prominent Egyptian statesman who has emerged as a leading critic of Mr. Morsi, along with top Muslim and Christian leaders, had adjourned after several hours and a "road map" for a post-Morsi government would be announced later.
Update 3:12: Morsi Overthrown
Update 3:08: Military Coup includes plan to suspend Constitution.
Egypt's army would suspend the constitution and dissolve the parliament under a draft political road-map to be pursued if President Mohamed Morsi and the liberal opposition fail to agree by Wednesday, military sources told Reuters.
Sources in the military told Reuters on Tuesday that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) was still discussing the details of the draft plan and said that it could be changed based on ongoing political developments and consultations.
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What would be worse then suddenly losing the love of your life plus your free ticket on any super yacht in the Northern Hemisphere? How about having all that happen, then having both of your parents talk to Vanity Fair about it? Elisabetta Canalis break-up from George Clooney came two years after they started dating, and according to Elisabetta Canalis' mom Bruna, her bambina "is very down in the dumps" about the split. As Mama Canalis tells Italian Vanity Fair. "I've spoken to her, and she is very sad, but these things happen." Sometimes George Clooney dumps you, sometimes your mother tells the planet how you're moping around your room in a filthy old bathrobe. These things happen.
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HCM City plans to improve health care technology and treatment
Municipal authorities here plan to increase investment in technology and training to improve the quality of local hospitals and health care centres.
Nguyen The Dung, director of the HCM City Health Department said the city will begin a campaign to aggressively raise funds from different sources including taking loans. Dung pointed to a recently built cancer treatment centre as an example of the city's commitment to modernising local health facilities.
The centre, built at a cost of 100 billion dong (US$6.3 million) offers a quality of care comparable with the best hospitals in the region, said Nguyen Thanh Tai deputy chair of the HCM City People's Committee.
Dung stressed that facilities alone would not improve health care and the government needs to invest more in the education and training of physicians and other health care professionals.
He said five city hospitals have started a project to build a 42 hectare hi-tech health care centre in Binh Tan District The new centre will cost an estimated 400 billion dong (US$25.3 million).
Cu Chi Commune authorities have announced a plan to build medical schools and research institutions across a l00 hectare area to train medical workers and treat patients, Dung said.
He said the facility would be the biggest of its kind in Southeast Asia and is part of a city approved strategy towards improving health care on the outskirts of the city.
Since the introduction of non-state-owned health service providers in the 1990s, HCM City's health sector has consistently grown with the building of 18 private hospitals, 30 general clinics (including foreign-invested clinics) and 5,406 specialised clinics.
These private hospitals and clinics have eased some of the burden of the city's overwhelmed state-run hospitals. Many private hospitals and clinics specialise in specific treatments including the International Obstetric Hospital and the Vietnam-South Korea Ophthalmologic Hospital.
Annual investment in the city's health sector increased 15% over by 2004, local authorities said.
Nguyen Thanh Hai, chair of the HCM City People's Committee said the government needed to offer special incentives to attract investment in hospitals and ensure the health of the city's residents and visitors.
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What would you call a deep-sea worm that lives off the rotting carcass of a whale? Whatever your imagination comes up with, bring your suggestions along to the Science Uncovered event tonight at the Natural History Museum and get the chance to name a worm.
What name would you give this deep-sea worm?
There are 5 new species of deep-sea worm that need scientific names. Visitors to tonight's Science Uncovered can see them and meet the scientists who discovered them as well as submit their name ideas.
Museum zoologist Adrian Glover, who is one of the scientists who discovered the deep-sea bone-eating snot-flower worm in 2005, and who will be on the Zoology Station, explains, 'The name of a species is very important as it connects all the information that is known about it and is unique.'
'This is a very exciting, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for visitors to Science Uncovered to name a new species.'
Bone-eating snot-flower worms, Osedax mucofloris, living off decaying whale bones on the seabed
The worms will be at the Zoology Station, which is one of 19 science stations where Museum scientists reveal their research and favourite specimens, in the Museum's largest ever late night event.
Scientists look at things like the shape, patterns or where an organism lives for inspiration when naming new species.
However, there are rules to follow, and these include having 2 words, one for the genus and one specific to the species. This unique name must also be Greek or Latin. So for example in Homo sapiens, Homo is the genus and sapiens is the species within that genus.
Close up of the head of one of the unnamed deep sea worms
The genus for these unnamed worms is Ophryotrocha so it will be the second part of the name that visitors to Science Uncovered will be able to suggest.
Glover adds, 'Our goal is to show that taxonomy, the scientific discipline of naming new species, is interesting, fun and crucial to the advancement of science. It gives names to new species linked to actual specimens held in museums, which means we can continue to develop the database of biodiversity on Earth.'
The unnamed worms were found on the sea floor in the Antarctic. The deep sea is both the largest and least explored ecosystem on the planet. These worms are among several thousand new marine species scientifically described each year by marine taxonomists.
They were found in a variety of marine habitats, including hydrothermal vents, rotting carcasses of dead whales and areas of polluted by humans, such as underneath fish farm cages and in some harbours.
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The worms are from a group called annelids that includes the familiar earthworm. In the deep sea, annelids are very diverse and scientists believe they perform vital recycling of nutrients on the seabed.
Science Uncovered is part of the European Researchers' Night, which sees events taking place in 300 cities.
As well as the science stations, the Museum's Science Uncovered event also has behind-the-scenes tours, films, a natural history roadshow, soapboxes, science fight clubs, debates, food and drink and more.
Adrian Glover is taking part in the public debate, Losing Our Principles? at 8:30pm with other speakers including David de Rothschild. They will be discussing whether we are losing our principles because of our global appetite for natural resources.
If you can't come to the Museum today but still want to take part and suggest a name for a worm, you can do so by using #nameaworm #SU2011 on Twitter. To keep in touch with what's going on follow the Museum's Twitter feed @NHM_London.
Science Uncovered is on from 4pm to 11pm in the Natural History Museum.