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NCAA tournament
Cheering for Duke or WVA? And why?
I think this match up poses some interesting issues for a Michigan fan. For me, before the RichRod hire, I'd certainly be pulling for WVA (because they're the underdog, not a perennial power, at a recruiting disadvantage, etc.). Plus, for a long time I hated Duke, although I recently started questioning that sentiment (because they run a clean program, play solid team basketball, eschew 1 and dones - some admirable qualities for a school in my opinion). Also, until this year, it had been a while since they've been the powerhouse they used to be. Anyway, I think I've downgraded my Duke "hate" to "dislike."
Then, there is the RichRod thing. Should we as a fan base be obligated to dislike a fan base that HATES us so much? Normally, I'd say no, but I think the way the school dragged our coach through the mud deserves some animosity.
So, after my internal debate, I feel that I dislike both schools about equally and I'll just be hoping for an entertaining game. Beyond that, the only team that I'd be happy to see cutting down the nets next week is Butler. I know I'm not the only one hoping for that.
Anyway, will you be cheering for Duke or WVA and why?
Hockey - we're in the Midwest Region(!)
We're the #3 seed in the Midwest Region, we play Bemidji State who is the #2 seed.
Miami is the #1 seed who will be playing #4 UA-Huntsville.
Our game is Saturday nite at 7:30.
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Since the yahoo bracket pick 'em mentioned on the front page is full, I decided to start a second one.
Group ID# 162000
Password mgoblog2
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Haven't seen an update on the board in a while.
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OT - Big XII Hoops
As I try to fill out my bracket, I keep coming across Big XII teams that seem to be seeded / ranked higher than my impression of them. Anyone out there watch much Big XII hoops this year? I'm inclined to think that a lot of them are over rated. I want to pick KSU to go down in the second round to BYU, A&M to go down to Utah State and I don't really believe in Baylor. Problem with picking A&M to lose is that Purdue is the 4 in that bracket and they are obviously mortally wounded. Am I about to kill my bracket?
Baseball Preview: Breaking Down the BigTen
Continuing the baseball previews in a build up to opening day this Friday, I'll look at how the conference stacks up. Previous preview posts: Initial Schedule Reaction, Maloney Podcast, A Look Back, Pitching, The Infield, The Catchers and Outfield.
First, a couple of special notes as news tricked in today:
- 19 hours until first pitch on opening day. Weather in Lubbock was beautiful for our first outdoor practice of the season today.
- Michigan great George Sisler (follow link to my mini-bio) will be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame this year. He will be the fourth Wolverine inducted, following Rickey Branch, Jim Abbott, and Barry Larkin. Sisler was the greatest player or his time at Michigan, twice earning All-American status.
- And the DetNews has their token post up for the season. I'm not expecting too much more for the next month from them.
The Coaches Non-Poll
The BigTen is one of the weird conferences that chooses not to have preseason polls or preseason All-Conference teams. I've yet to figure out why the coaches, athletic departments, whoever it is that makes such a decision votes not to have the poll, but such is life. What we do have is 8 coaches voting on the team to beat, and the majority says Ohio State. We also have a Baseball America preview that supposedly polled the coaches for their results. I say supposedly as BA doesn't mention that coaches were involved from what I've found. The findings:
- Ohio State, making the NCAA tourney
- Minnesota, making the NCAA tourney
- Michigan, making the NCAA tourney
- Illinois
- Michigan State
- Indiana
- Purdue
- Iowa
- Penn State
- Northwestern
This looks pretty consistent, at least across the top four or five teams at quite a few different sites. Michigan is tournament cusp in most projections, being included in the Baseball America tourney prediction ($, 3 seed) and out of the CollegeBaseballBlog prediction. We have a solid shot of being included, but I can understand being left off after last season.
The Leader
Ohio State has a stacked lineup coming back this year, at least offensively. The Buckeyes return 8 players from last year's explosive offense, including 5 seniors that hit over .340 each. Ryan Dew was the team leader last year with a .388 batting average and a .429 on base percentage.
The Buckeyes also return two of the top players in the Big Ten with battery mates Dan Burkhart and Alex Wimmers. Burkhart is widely considered to be one of the top three catchers nationally. He hit .354 last year with a slugging percentage of .589. That's tremendous for a catcher. He's also very solid behind the plate defensively, allowing only 3 passed balls over the season.
On the mound, OSU is lead by someone most Wolverine fans would like to forget: Alex Wimmers. For those of you lucky enough to suffer from short term memory, Wimmers was the pitcher to throw the no-hitter against the Wolverines on the BTN last year. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the first college no-hitter on television in the last 20 years.
Wimmers will most likely be a first round draft pick this year with a ++ curveball, a upper 80s/low 90s fastball, and a changeup voted top in the BigTen. He occasionally has a little bit of a command problem, but that's not the case when he faces off with Michigan.
After Wimmers, though, is a huge question for Ohio State. Last year's team was an offensive juggernaut and had to be. The Buckeyes were dead last in the BigTen in ERA (6.39), hits (30 behind the next team), balks, walks, doubles, and home runs.
They do have a second solid starter in sophomore Dean Wolosianski who earned Freshman All-American status last year, but his numbers aren't nearly as impressive as Wimmers. Depending on how much he improves this year will make or break the Buckeye's hopes of winning the BigTen.
The third spot in the rotation is a question mark right now for the Buckeyes as they have a couple pitchers still nursing injuries from the off season, most notably, last year's starter Eric Best.
In the closer role, OSU will have to replace Jake Hale who saved 18 games on the year with a 1.31 ERA. That duty will fall on the shoulders of Drew Rucinski, the only pure reliever on the Buckeye staff to log enough innings to have him listed as a starter. Over 36 games last season, he threw 74.2 innings and had 62 Ks and 32 walks. It doesn't sound that intimidating just yet, but he has been talked up quite a bit this season.
The Buckeyes have a fairly light schedule compared to several of the other teams in the BigTen, which isn't that unusual. Boyd's World has their intended schedule strength listed at 151 out of 301, with a non-conference slate ranked 179. The Buckeyes will be tested pretty strongly in the Big Ten/ Big East Challenge with games against South Florida and Notre Dame, as well as in state opponent Cincinnati. Their other major tournament will happen at Tennessee where they will face the volunteers and a Connecticut team that is supposed to be really good this year.
The two biggest non-conference games will be a midweek pair while hosting Louisville. The Cardinals are still a baseball power from their Conference USA days and are a big boost to OSU's RPI if they can win.
The Other Contender(s)
The other two teams under serious consideration for the top spot are Minnesota and Michigan. Since we've obviously given ample coverage of Michigan's team, we'll just look at Minnesota here.
Minnesota is another perennial baseball power in the Big Ten that just came off a solid rebuilding year where a very young team managed to finish the season ranked in the top 25. They do lose their top two weekend starters and their top two outfielders (including Eric Decker due to his football injury), and BigTen MVP-runner up Derrek McCallum, but they do return Seth Rosin, who most consider to be the second best starter in the league. Rosin posted a 4.21 ERA over 15 starts
They also bring back a very solid bullpen, something most teams in the Big Ten just don't have. Closer Scott Matyas returns after posting a 2.22 ERA in 23 outings including 15 saves. Matyas struck out an astounding 45 in just 28.1 innings, making him the man to beat when it comes to BigTen closers. Setting him up will be Cullen Sexton. Sexton is a solid reliever that won't over power you, but he has very good command. After that, the rest of their pen is average for a BigTen team, no one overpowering and a couple you'll hardly see throw on a weekend.
Offensively, the Gophers are still a young team, but they've got plenty of experience coming back. Junior Mike Kvasnicka is one of the best players in the conference,
The junior from Lakeville finished last season with a Big Ten rank of 3rd in doubles, 3rd in RBIs, 4th in hits and 5th in total bases. He is considered the third best pro prospect in the conference and should be the offensive leader for the Gophers in 2010. He will anchor down right field and get some innings at catcher when needed.
He's definitely a player to watch in the race with Ryan LaMarre for player of the year. Also, that article is a great preview by TheDailyGopher. For a full team rundown, it's one of your best options.
Minnesota also has a pair of sophomores in Petterson and O'Shea returning with Freshman All-American honors. Shortstop AJ Petterson is probably the best shortstop in the league, and he is very good about getting on base in front of the two big hitters on the team. First baseman Nick O'Shea is one of those big hitters. His 11 home runs will be a big part of protecting Kvasnicka, especially if he can raise his batting average a little bit.
The Gophers do have some holes still to fill, mainly in left and at second base. It sounds to be a platoon system until someone can solidify their place in the lineup.
The schedule for the Gophers is comparable to that of Ohio State, ranked one position ahead at 150. Minnesota will start the season will first be tested at the BigTen/BigEast challenge against a up and coming UCONN, then turn around and play #13 Louisville in the Sunday closer. That should test their back end of the rotation more than thoroughly.
After the Challenge, they return home for 2 week homestand at the Metrodome. Here, they'll hose Oklahoma State and Creighton among a bunch of tomato cans. The real excitement comes March 16th as they play a pair of mid week games at Alabama.
During the conference season, Minnesota will also play a pair of games at Kansas State, which are definitely winnable and should boost their RPI points they will lose by pounding North and South Dakota State into the ground repeatedly.
The Dark Horses
After the top three, it's a guessing game on who the flavor of the week, or in this case, year, will be in the BigTen. Most people are pointing towards either Illinois or Michigan State.
Illinois is a tough squad to gauge this year. The Illini are a great offensive team, but their pitching is extremely suspect. The Illini return six players from their lineup last year, including on base machine Pete Cappetta who hit .384 last season. Cappetta had a .543 slugging percentage and an on base percentage of .475, which makes him one hell of a batter. He'll be moving from right field to second base, his natural position, this season.
Along with Cappetta, three other returning Illini hit over .333 last season. Willie Argo, a Freshman All-American last season, will also be back. He hit .355 with 47 RBIs and a team leading 12 homeruns.
Last year's second baseman Josh Parr will be sliding over to short stop this season. He hit .337 last season with a team high 13 stolen bases. The final big hitter returning is catcher Aaron Johnson who owned a .941 OPS. He was second on the team with 10 home runs.
The Illini still have their ace in Will Strack, now a sophomore, as their Friday starter, but after that, it's not a lot of proven options. Strack isn't so much of a power pitcher as he is finesse. He will make an opposing team ground out plenty.
Of the other main starters last season, Ben Reeser graduated and Phil Haig was dismissed from the team, leaving a void in the back end of the rotation. Bryan Roberts will most likely be the Saturday starter, but he struggled quite a bit in his 10 starts. His 5-4 record and 6.72 ERA are indicative of the struggles he had, mainly with his command.
The Illini bullpen is also a mixed bag. They lost their top reliever in Aaron Martin, but they do return quite a few other players with at least 20 innings of work. None of them have been impressive.
On the whole, Illinois has the opportunity to try and out slug several teams, but they have couple new faces that are totally untested both in the lineup and in the starting rotation. I'm less inclined to see them compete for the top three slots, but if one of their other pitchers gets hot, they'll be a tough team.
Michigan State is also a tough team to gauge this season, but for the opposite reason as Illinois – no offense, great pitching and defense. The return their entire outfield and two infielders, but none of those players are huge offensive threats. Eli Boike is as close to a offensive force, hitting just .310 last year with a .480 slugging percentage. That slugging percentage is second best of the returners, and his .420 on base percentage is the best on the team. His 8 homeruns was a Spartan team high in 2009.
The other hitter to keep an eye on for MSU is Seth Williams, who will take over the every day catching duties. Williams had a team best .525 slugging percentage, but only a .328 on base percentage in limited playing time.
The anemic offense last year by the Spartans was balanced out by an outstanding pitching staff. While Nolan Moody has moved on to the minors, junior AJ Achter and sophomore Tony Bucciferro both return to the rotation. Achter is a very good pitcher who was struck by quite a bit of bad luck last season. His 3.76 ERA was 7th best in the BigTen last season, but he only had a 3-6 record to show for it (14 starts). Most of that had to do with MSU's offense than his own effort.
Bucciferro was a bit luckier when it came to run support, but he was no slouch. He actually had a better ERA than Achter at 3.55. Bucciferro ended up going 5-2 and earning Freshman All-BigTen honors.
The combination of these two pitchers probably makes MSU's starting rotation the strongest in league to start the season, even if they don't have a solid third starter set yet.
The bullpen in East Lansing is also pretty deep. Like Michigan, they too have four or five guys capable of taking the third starting job, and the others will make a solid bullpen.
Overall, I don't think the Spartans have what it takes yet to win the BigTen, but if Jake Boss can get his kids hitting the ball, MSU is definitely capable of taking 2 of every 3 games every weekend.
It's also worth noting that Michigan will not play MSU in the actual conference season. Each BigTen team misses one team per season, and this year MSU rotates off our schedule. We will play them twice during the midweek, which should help the Wolverines who have more pitching depth.
The Dangerous Not-So-Rans
Two players from last year that seem to have dropped quite a ways this year are the two schools from Indiana, Indiana and Purdue.
Indiana is on the border of being a dark horse candidate this season, but they lost so much of their team, especially on the mound, that it's hard to give them that extra push. The only two players that particularly stand out in their lineup are Freshman All-American phenom Alex Dickerson and Jerrud Sabourin.
Sophomore outfielder Dickerson had a great year with a .370 batting average and 1.044 OPS. He was so good as a freshman that he was invited to the Cape Cod League in the summer where he continued to shine. He's going to be a force this year and next before he gets drafted and leaves early.
Sabourin at first base will be protecting Dickerson in the lineup. Sabourin had an OPS of 893 last season, with 6 homers and 15 doubles. He'll be one of the upperclassmen leaders to put the team on his shoulders.
The only starter returning for the Hoosiers is Matt Bashore. Bashore started 16 games for IU last year with a 7-5 record and a 4.07 ERA. Matt is more of a strikeout pitcher, recording 108 punch outs in only 95 innings pitched. After him, the consensus is that Matt Igel will take the second starting role. Igel started one game last season and had 13 relief appearances. In 23.2 innings pitched, he walked 17 and struck out 18 with a 6.46 ERA.
Hoosier coach Tracy Smith has hinted that he may be starting true freshmen in the rotation just due to a lack of depth. That doesn't bode well for fans in Bloomington.
Purdue might have a brighter outlook, just due to their starting rotation. They do return all three starters from last year, including ace Matt Bischoff. But like Illinois, none of those starters were particularly dominate last year. They combined for a 14-16 record and a 6.54 ERA.
The lineup will have two huge holes to fill this season in Brandon Haveman and Dan Black. Haveman won the batting crown last season with a .422 batting average, and Dan Black, the keystone of Purdue's offense the last few years, knocking in 51 RBI with 15 homers. Both were slugging well over .600. Replacing that won't be easy.
Their hopes lie on the shoulders of their middle infielders Eric Charles and David Blount. Charles hit .369 last year with a on base percentage of .461. He'll be looking to lead the team in run scored again this year (45 last year). Blount is a transfer from Miami (FL), which shows he has talent, and he was a part time contributor to last year's offense. Rumor has it, he will hit clean up this season.
If Purdue can manage to get better pitching this season, they could make there way into dark horse status, but they've got a lot left to prove before they can reach that point.
The Not so Good
Penn State may have one of the best parks in the BigTen (shared with Pirates short season team the State College Spikes… FEAR THE SPKIKES!), but they struggle at baseball. Losing their ace in Macy, as well as both their Saturday and Sunday starters to graduation, really leaves Penn State with question on the pitching staff. I don't know what to expect from Mike Wanamaker, a red shirt senior who missed all of last year to injury. He was a very important part of Penn State's team in 2008,but who knows if he'll be back to full strength.
Offensively, Penn State loses most of their power, but they do retain Jordan Steranka, a Third Team All-BigTen third baseman last season. He lead the Nittany Lions in average (.365), RBI (42), and home runs (6) last season. While the average is high, his slugging percentage was only .536, which may make a large jump as a sophomore.
The biggest loss this season, though, was an unplanned one. Second leading hitter for the Nittany Lions, Blake Lynd, will red shirt this year as he recovers from surgery. In his place, several freshman and JUCO players are in the mix.
As much as Penn State struggles, Iowa is worse. For a state home to the movie Field of Dreams, they are more a nightmare for alumni and fans than a pleasant dream. The Hawkeyes lost their entire infield this last season. What keeps the Hawkeyes afloat are a pair of solid starting pitchers in lefty Jarred Hippen and righty Phil Schreiber. Those two will give the Hawkeyes a chance to steal a few games this season, particularly Hippen. He just about blanked Michigan in his start against the Wolverines, striking out 9 in 6.2 innings.
Northwestern, unlike the other two bottom dwellers have had some buzz around them. They do return all three starting pitchers from last season, all lefties, but none of them were overly dominating when not playing Michigan to end the season. Their offense doesn't return anyone of particular note as they lost their only good player to the draft. I can't see them succeeding this season.
What It Means for Michigan
Looking over the conference, I think Michigan should be set up for a good run. The conference schedule works out favorably for a BigTen regular season championship. Michigan will play at Indiana, vs Purdue, at Illinois, and vs Iowa in the first half of the season. Michigan should be able to take two in Bloomington, sweep Purdue, win at least one at Illinois, and sweep Iowa, positioning Michigan with a 9-3 at least.
The next two series will be tough. We host Ohio State and travel to Minneapolis. If we can manage to take both series, I have to imagine that we win the BigTen outright. We just can't afford to lose both like we did last season.
Luckily, we close out the season with Northwestern and at Penn State, which should both be sweeps as well. That should leave Michigan around 18-6, which is what Ohio State won the conference with last year.


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Recently I have noticed the popularity of the plunging neckline. It is a brave fashion statement but very chic and easy for everyone to accomplish no matter what the occasion. It doesn't have to be an overdramatic plunging neckline as there are a few cheat ways to wear this very stylish look. This style looks very sophisticated in a two/three piece suit or with a tuxedo suit … [Read more...]
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The MIT Press today announced the publication of a new series on digital media and learning supported by MacArthur. Read More
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This resume isn't static. It is an application which I wrote. It is open source. Feel free to use it and expand on it.
This is the fully-styled version of my home page. If you'd like you can view it in other formats:
Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, Front End Development (HTML5, jQuery, AJAX, Bootstrap), Internal Tools
Responsive Web Design, jQuery Mobile, REST communication (creation and consumption)
Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS), other Unix variants, OSX, Microsoft Windows
Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, Microsoft .NET, C#, SQL
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Generates random text using real English - taken from random samplings of the entire catalog of dialog spoken by Commander William Riker in every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Useful for provisioning sample data to test a DB, or creating filler text for a design.
Since the entire catalog of dialog from every episode is included, endless possibilites of gibberish can be expected.
Parses your voice and executes commands based on input. Some commands it understands: 'Turn office lights on' 'Turn the house red.' 'Turn upstairs lights blue.' 'Set temperature to 68' 'Turn living room into a rainbow.' 'Set staircase brightness to 5.' (1-10 scale)
A web application which allows users to sign up and receive a daily bit of inspiration from Reddit's ShowerThoughts subreddit. Pulls the top post of the day and sends it to all subscribers. Featured in Wired Magazine's Gear section: http://www.wired.com/2015/08/4-new-apps-use-shower-texts-bar-roulette/
A console application written in Python to help teach me to type in Dvorak - which is an alternative to the Qwerty keymap.
This library was designed to be an easy way to check text for inappropriate content. It includes a basic word list and can be used with custom word lists. This package has been submitted to PyPI and can be installed with a simple: pip install profanity
Listeners of the popular radio show "The Armstrong and Getty Show" were constantly having trouble finding episodes of the podcast available online. There was no clean and easy way to find episodes. I made this site as an attempt to simplify navigation and make episodes easily searchable.
My resume itself was a project of its own. Written in Python/Django - it makes it way easier to maintain my profile. And since all the data is stored in a database - it is easy to export my resume in any format.
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Chronology - Coming of Age, 1866-1919
|On March 30, the United States acquires Alaska in a secret treaty for a total cost of $7,200,000. The territory is put under the control of the Treasury Department.
|Riots against the Chinese occur in San Francisco. Chinese laborers have come into the United States in increasing numbers.
|The Union Pacific Railroad links up with the Central Pacific Railroad. This connects the United States from coast to coast.
|The population, now at 38,358,371, has increased at a rate of 35.6 percent in the decade before the Civil War, slowing down to 22.5 percent in the postwar decade. The black population has declined to 12.7 percent of the total, numbering about 4,000,000. The foreign-born component is about the same size. The nation remains four-fifths rural in 1870. Only 13 cities have populations exceeding 100,000.
|The Timber Culture Act, which will remain in effect for 15 years, authorizes grants of an additional quarter of a section (160 acres) to a homesteader who will agree to plant trees on a quarter of his land. The Coal Lands Act opens public lands for purchase by private individuals and groups at prices ranging from $10 to $20 per acre.
| 1873
|Financial panic occurs in the United States due to speculation, inflation, and unlimited credit.
|At the Battle of Little Big Horn, Gen. George A. Custer's entire command is killed by the Indians.
|The Desert Land Act is enacted by Congress to encourage development of arid lands in the Great Plains and Southwest.
|The Nez Perce battle the Army in Idaho with Chief Joseph defeated as he tries to reach the safety of Canada.
|Thousands of terrified blacks, fearing both white rule and tales of Indian attack, sell their small holdings and cross the Mississippi in June. By August, they number 7,000 and find relief in camps in hot, dusty Kansas where they are provided food and shelter. The exodus climaxes and dies down by the end of the year.
|Stimulated by a flood of immigrants, America's population has grown by more than 11.5 million in the last decade to a total of 50 million. Until now, the country has been predominantly rural, populated by Northern and Western Europeans. The United States is becoming increasingly heterogeneous and urban. Americans are still moving West, with much growth in California, Oregon, and Washington.
|Both the Northern Pacific and the Southern Pacific Railroads are completed.
|The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad is completed.
|The Dawes Severalty Act provides for 160 acres to be given individually to each Indian family.
|Great tracts of Oklahoma Territory, land formally ceded to the Indians, are opened by government decree to white settlement.
|Population has swelled to 63 million, a 25 percent increase in just a decade. The United States no longer has a settlement frontier; the settled areas extend throughout the entire nation. More than a third of the population live in urban areas.
|Another 900,000 acres of Indian land in Oklahoma are opened for settlers.
|Ellis Island replaces Castle Garden as a reception center for immigrants.
|Another 3,000,000 acres of Oklahoma is opened to white settlers as well as 1,8000,000 acres of Indian reservation in Montana.
|On September 16, more than 50,000 people rush to settle the Cherokee Strip between Kansas and Oklahoma.
|The Great Northern Railroad is completed.
|In April, Spain declares war on the United States. The Treaty of Paris, signed December 10 by the U.S. and Spain, ends the Spanish-American War.
|The population has jumped to 75.9 million, with New York and Chicago the largest cities. Some 3.5 million immigrants have arrived in the last decade. Foreign-born residents amount to 10 million; second-generation Americans number 26 million. The foreign-born population still consists mostly of Germans, Irish, Canadians, Britons and Swedes (in that order). But the new immigration trend is for Southeastern Europeans, with Slavs, Poles, and Italians settling in New York, Pennsylvania, and Illinois.
|Status of the former Spanish possessions of Puerto Rico and the Philippines is determined by the Supreme Court. Their inhabitants are American nationals but not American citizens.
|Congress votes to grant full American citizenship to all Indians living in the Oklahoma Territory.
|For the first time since its invention, a motor car crosses the continent. The journey takes two months. Also during this year, the Wright brothers' machine takes to the air.
|The St. Louis World's Fair marks the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase.
|Portland, Oregon, commemorates the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the Lewis and Clark Expedition on the Pacific Coast.
|The city of San Francisco experiences the most disastrous earthquake in the history of America's West Coast.
|Mail-order firms such as Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck have introduced farmers to the appliances, clothes and luxuries of city people at reasonable prices.
|This year's census of 105,710,620 involves a general urbanization of the nation. Only 30 percent of the overall population live on farms. In the last decade, 8.7 percent of the total population immigrated to this country. Over 2/3 of the immigrants made the journey using tickets prepaid by friends, family, or businesses in the United States. Over 35 percent of New Yorkers are foreign-born.
|The Panama Canal opens to commerce. The 40-mile journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific is a shortcut that will lessen the voyage between the west and east coasts of North America by some 7,000 miles. Construction began in 1904.
| 1917
|Americans participate in World War I. This ends an era as people become truly "modern."
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Britannia feels a bit dated. It's not the most beautiful leisure centre and parts of it are a little run down. However, things have improved over recent years.
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Went here for a badminton match. Good overall facilities especially for inner city sports centre with friendly staff. Would be 4* but the badminton courts were just ok (I've played in a lot worse) lighting was quite bright and the floor was standard multi purpose flooring which is hard on my old knees!more
This is our local swimming pool - we have used it on and off (mainly off) for the last 15 years. Beach style fun pool without much fun. Despite the recent £400k investment in the Leisure Centre the pool is disappointing. Wave machine is currently out of action (again), the fountain sprays do not work and the slide often does not open because of staff shortages. The changing rooms have had a...more
Located innocuously off a roundabout, behind Hoxton Market and beside Shoreditch Park, this is one of the venues I regularly use my GLL membership card in. There are a wealth of activities available, including swimming, sauna, five-a-side football, gym and fitness classes (Tuesday night Bump & Grind, anyone?). Perhaps one criticism I can make is that the swimming pool (the main reason I...more


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One momentous event begins this book, and another closes it. In April 1961 a human being rocketed into space for the first time, and in March 1965 another human floated out of a spacecraft on the first-ever spacewalk. The technological, political, and cultural momentum behind these two historic events, and the steps taken in between them, have already been well chronicled. This book certainly makes reference to these broader stories; it does not attempt to explain them.
Many books about this period of rapid spaceflight advances have described the space programs of the world in grandiose, lofty terms. Without doubt, enabling a human to leave the confines of Earth's atmosphere for the first time was a defining moment in human evolution, a bold step into a wider universe and understanding of our place within it. Space exploration has added to the general body of human knowledge, allowing us a new and remarkable view of who we are as a species and where we live. Today, it is almost impossible to imagine a time when we saw the Earth as the limit of our reach or when we had not seen photographs of our planet from above the atmosphere.
Into That Silent Sea describes in vivid detail the key moments when such visions of humankind's future and place were first realized, but it does not seek to give an overall view of what we have learned from flying into space. That is left to the large body of authoritative works on the subject. There are also histories that examine our push into space in the 1960s from a far more down-to-earth perspective. Undeniably, the pursuit of technological advances and achievement in that decade was due primarily to Cold War politics and national prestige. Both played an integral role in explaining the rapid advance of the so-called space race and why it stagnated when the decade was out.
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How Does the Benefit Value of Medicare Compare to the Benefit Value of Typical Large Employer Plans?: A 2012 Update
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This fact sheet, Preventive Services Covered by Private Health Plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), examines the types of preventive services or benefits that must be covered without cost sharing for adults and children. The fact sheet explores the rules and challenges of implementing coverage, as well as the application of reasonable medical management, and it outlines steps the government has taken to address these issues.Fact Sheet Read More
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Abstract: Given , the algebra of bounded operators on a separable Hilbert space , and , the ideal of compact operators, it is a well-known fact that in is a Fredholm operator if and only if is invertible in where is the canonical quotient map. A natural question arises: When can a Fredholm operator be perturbed by a compact operator to obtain an invertible operator? Equivalently, when does the invertible element lift to an invertible operator? The answer is well known: may be perturbed by a compact operator to obtain an invertible operator if and only if the Fredholm Index of is 0. In this case, the perturbation may be made as small in norm as we wish. Using the generalized Fredholm index for a von Neumann algebra developed by C. L. Olsen [3], the following generalization is obtained: let be a von Neumann algebra with norm closed ideal and canonical quotient map . Let be such that is invertible. Then there exists such that is invertible if and only if .
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Michael Wilbon, PTI luminary and semi-confused derider of blogs, was also something else entirely: a newspaperman. Before ESPN made him a star, Wilbon had graduated to columns, sure, but he was still hacking it around like so many other print journalists, upholding rituals as old as the newspaper itself.
Among those? No cheering in the press box. There's even a book with that as its title. But what about singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game?" That's what Wilbon did at Wrigley Sunday night, and he feels weird about it.
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And bizarre because of the ethical line he seemingly had crossed. No, this wasn't cheering in the press box. It was wearing a team's uniform on its home field before 40,000 fans. "When they asked me to do it," Wilbon said, "I thought: No. Sportswriters, journalists don't do that."
Then Wilbon remembered: He's not just a sportswriter. He estimates that no more than 20 percent of his "PTI" audience would even realize he writes a sports column for the Washington Post. "I have to realize what it is I do now," he said. "I'm not a writer covering the NFL. It's a painful truth, but I am lucky. When ESPN asks me to do something promotional, well, they're my employer, too."
This, in a nutshell, is why ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber's work is still unfinished. At the same time as it has decried new, independent media outlets, ESPN has also pushed formerly credentialed sports journalists into entertainment roles. The lines are getting blurry.
Is Wilbon singing at Wrigley that big of a deal? No. But then, neither is some guy "in his basement" sharing his opinion on sports. And for all his criticism of sports blogs (and for all of ESPN's gradual adoption of the medium), Wilbon would do well to realize that fairness without objectivity is what bloggers do. You can't hate blogging one day and act like a blogger the next.


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(4th of July is Saturday)…There are several places to celebrate Independence Day.
Patriotic residents could even attend more than one of the events. The 2nd Annual 4th of July Redneck Party starts at 11:00 am at the American Legion Hall on Broadway in El Centro. Holtville will be hosting a Free Swim and Hot Dog Party at the City Pool. The swimming starts at 11:00 am Saturday. The Hot Dog Party will run from 1:00 to 3:00 pm. Calexico's 4th of July celebration will be at 121 Hacienda Drive starting at 12:00 noon. The Calipatria Celebration starts at 6:00 pm on South International Boulevard. The fireworks start at 9:00 pm. And the 25th Annual Freedom Fest will be held on the Imperial Valley College Campus. The booths open at 6:00 pm, along with static displays, games for the kids and other entertainment. The Freedom Fest fireworks begin at 9:30 Saturday night.


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Well this may not be a real danger but it surprised me. You can see the time on the clock in the picture which is 10:10 AM and about 2 minutes before this there were only about 5 people to be seen. I couldn't figure it out at first but I'm guessing that they are either going to work or going to their mid-morning breaktime. If anybody from Chongqing reads this and knows the answer I would love to know where they are going. LOL I think this is on Minzu Lu.
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For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
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The seaweed farms of Nusa Ceningan
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While it's easy to think of Nusa Lembongan and the nearby islands of Ceningan and Penida as tourist hotspots, seaweed farming rather than tourist farming remains the mainstay here and forms the cornerstone of the economies of all three islands. Seaweed farming? Yup — the locals farm the stuff and you'd probably be surprised at just how often you use products using derivatives of seaweed each day. The patchwork farms can be seen sitting offshore just under the surface at high tide and exposed to the elements at low tide, when local farmers descend upon them to care for and maintain their harvest.
After a period underwater, the seaweed is harvested and laid out on tarpaulins on, well, any flat surface other than the road (having it driven over by cars and motorbikes is far from desirable) and partly dried. Once it has dried sufficiently it is sold on to a middleman, who will bale it and onsell it to international commodities traders who send it abroad for processing.
Processing into what? Well you'd be surprised. The seaweed is a source of carrageenans, which are used as a gelling or thickening agent in a vast range of consumer products — and when we say vast, we mean vast. Think toothpaste, pate, ice cream, processed meats, soy milk, diet soda, personal lubricants, air-fresheners and fire fighting foam. First used by the Chinese around 600 BC, their use turned commercial in the 1930s.
So next time you're planning a romantic date on the cheap — just pack some seaweed as it covers nearly all the bases — including when you kick over those romantic candles and set the bungalow on fire!
You don't have to watch the boats gliding between the stakes used in the farms, nor the farmers carrying loads of the weed in baskets on their heads for long to realise it's darn hard work. The farmer we spoke to said the seaweed is dried and she's paid by the kilogram; she ends up making around 70,000 to 100,000 rupiah per day.
While the processed seaweed you buy in the grocery store can be very pungent, having the beach covered with almost-carrageenans isn't nearly as painful on the nose as you may think, though you'll smell the drying seaweed wafting across the islands occasionally — just blame Colgate.
From a practical perspective, it means that the beaches where farms are located can be treacherous for swimming if there's surf. It's easy to avoid the stakes in calmer waters, such as along the calmer waters of Jungut Batu beach on Nusa Lembongan; we saw one guy risking it in the shallows of the surf near Secrets break on Nusa Ceningan but it looked a bit hairy to us.
The working farms definitely lend a colourful character to the islands and make for photogenic scenes, particularly at sunset. Of course, ask if you're going to take a photo of somebody at near range, it's just good manners to ask; we've found the people here friendly and welcoming to interest in their work.
Like many things, only the cheapest part of the process is undertaken in Indonesia. The seaweed is baled locally, but the expensive processing — we like to imagine a huge gizmo with bales of seaweed falling in one side and toothpaste oozing out the other — is all undertaken offshore, well away from Indonesia, which is a shame as these families here are doing an awful lot of hard work for, in the scheme of things, very little reward.
So next time you're brushing your teeth, about to make a baby, tuck into a bowl of ice cream or fight a bushfire, spare the hardworking seaweed farmers here a thought!Last updated: 28th November, 2014
Stuart McDonald co-founded Travelfish.org with Samantha Brown in 2004. He has lived in Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, where he worked as an under-paid, under-skilled language teacher, an embassy staffer, a newspaper web-site developer, freelancing and various other stuff. His favourite read is The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton.
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