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Dr Andreas Bollhöfer – BSc, PhD
Supervising Scientist research profiles
Research interests
Radiation Protection; Radioecology; Isotope Science.
General research interests and background
Dr Andreas Bollhöfer leads the ERISS Environmental Radioactivity program. His background is in Environmental Physics and Isotope Science, and he has spent most of his research career investigating isotopes of the natural uranium and thorium decay series and anthropogenic radionuclides from nuclear weapons testing, energy production and re-procesing to study environmental transport processes. He has used radioactive and radiogenic isotopes to characterise sources of pollution worldwide, and more specifically to assess the potential impacts of mining in the Alligator Rivers Region upon humans and the environment. Remotely sensed data such as airborne gamma surveys play an important role in those assessments. Andreas has represented the department on a number of national and international scientific committees associated with environmental radioactivity and radioecology programs. A focus of his recent research is the determination of pre-mining radiological conditions at Ranger mine with the view of developing post remediation radiological closure criteria.
Current key projects
- Estimating radon activity flux densities and diffusion coefficients for Ranger waste rock to predict radon fluxes from the rehabilitated landform.
- Investigation of radionuclide uptake in plants and animals, both from the terrestrial and aquatic environments.
- Assessment of radiation doses to humans and non human biota from radionuclides in the environment, during the operational phase and after rehabilitation of the mine site.
- Development of a model to predict 226Ra uptake in the freshwater mussel, Velesunio Angasi, from measured Ca, Mg and 226Ra activity concentrations in water bodies of Northern Australia.
- Monitoring of airborne radon and dust concentrations in the vicinity of the Ranger mine.
- Monitoring of radionuclides in surface water and groundwater, and in mussels from the Magela Creek catchment.
- Assessment of the success of remediation of the historic uranium mine sites in the South Alligator River valley.
Key publications
Bollhöfer A & Doering C 2015. Long-term temporal variability of the radon-222 exhalation flux from a landform covered by low uranium grade waste rock. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 127, 88–94. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2015.06.005
Medley P & Bollhöfer A 2015. Influence of group II metals on Radium-226 concentration ratios in the native Green Plum (Buchanania obovata) from the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity (in press).
Anderson P, Barnett CL, Beresford NA, Bollhöfer A, Bradshaw C, Brittain J, Brown JE, Choi Y-H, Copplestone D, Dagher E, Doering C, [......], Twining J, Uchida S, Vandenhove H, Vlaschenko A, Wannijn J, Wells C, Willey N, Wilson R, Wood MD, Yankovich T 2014. Handbook of Parameter Values for the Prediction of Radionuclide Transfer to Wildlife. IAEA Technical Reports Series (TRS) Publication 479. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, pp 211.
Stark, K., Andersson, P, Beresford NA, Yankovich TL, Wood MD, Johansen MP, Vives i Batlle J, Twining J, Keum DK, Bollhöfer A, Doering C, Ryan B, Grzechnik M, Vandenhove H 2014. Predicting Exposure of Wildlife in Radionuclide Contaminated Wetland Systems. Environmental Pollution 196, 201-213.
Medley P, Martin P, Bollhöfer A & Parry D 2014. 228Ra and 226Ra measurement on a BaSO4 co-precipitation source. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2014.09.015
Bollhöfer A, Beraldo A, Pfitzner K, Esparon A & Doering C 2014. Determining a pre-mining radiological baseline from historic airborne gamma surveys: A case study. Science of the Total Environment 468-469, 764-773
Bollhöfer A, Schlosser C, Ross JO, Sartorius H & Schmid S 2014. Variability of atmospheric Kr-85 activity concentrations observed close to the ITCZ in the Southern Hemisphere. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 127, 111-118
Medley P, Bollhöfer A, Parry D & Martin P 2013. Radium concentration factors in passionfruit (Passiflora foetida) from the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 126, 137-146.
Yankovich T, Beresford NA, Fesenko S, FesenkovJ, Phaneuf M, Dagher E, Outolav I, Andersson P, Thiessen K, Ryan J, Wood MD, Bollhöfer A, Barnett CL & Copplestone D 2013. Establishing a database of radionuclide transfer parameters for freshwater wildlife. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 126, 299-313.
Howard BJ, Beresford NA, Copplestone D, Telleria D, Proehl G, Fesenko S, Jeffree RA, Yankovich TL, Brown JE, Higley K, Johansen MP, Mulye H, Vandenhove H, Gashchak S, Wood MD, Takata H, Andersson P, Dale P, Ryan J, Bollhöfer A, Doering C, Barnett CL, Wells C 2013. The IAEA handbook on radionuclide transfer to wildlife. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 121, 55-74.
Medley P, Bollhöfer A & Martin P 2013. Variability of procedural blanks leads to greater uncertainty in assessing detection limits for the measurement of polonium-210. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 296, 2, 1155-1162.
Bollhöfer A 2012. Stable lead isotope ratios and metals in freshwater mussels from a uranium mining environment in Australia's wet-dry tropics. Applied Geochemistry 27, 171-185.
Shakhashiro A, Sansone U, Wershofen H, Bollhöfer A, Kim CK, Kim CS, Kis-Benedek G, Korun M, Moune M, Lee SH, Tarjan S & Al-Masri MS, 2011. The new IAEA reference material: IAEA-434 technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) in phosphogypsum. Applied Radiation and Isotopes 69, 231–236.
Bollhöfer, A., Brazier, J., Ryan, B., Humphrey, C., Esparon A., 2011. A study of radium bioaccumulation in freshwater mussels, Velesunio angasi, in the Magela Creek catchment, Northern Territory, Australia. Journal of Environmental. Radioactivity. 102, 964-974.
Frostick A, Bollhöfer A, Parry D (2011) A study of radionuclides, metals and stable lead isotope ratios in sediments and soils in the vicinity of natural U-mineralisation areas in the Northern Territory. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 102, 911-918.
Lawrence CE, Akber RA, Bollhöfer A and Martin P (2009). Radon-222 exhalation from open ground on and around a uranium mine in the wet-dry tropics. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 100, 1–8.
Bollhöfer A, Pfitzner K., Ryan B., Martin P., Fawcett M. and Jones D.R. (2008). Airborne gamma survey of the historic Sleisbeck mine area in the Northern Territory, Australia, and its use for site rehabilitation planning.. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 99, 1770-1774.
Ryan B, Bollhöfer A, Martin P (2008) Radionuclides and metals in freshwater mussels of the upper South Alligator River, Australia. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 99, 509-526.
Frostick A, Bollhöfer A, Parry D, Munksgaard N, Evans K (2008) Radioactive and radiogenic isotopes in sediments from Cooper Creek, Western Arnhem Land. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 99, 468-482.
Pfitzner K, Bollhöfer A & Carr G 2006. A standard design for collecting vegetation reference spectra: Implementation and implications for data sharing. Journal of Spatial Sciences. 52 (2), 79-92.
Bollhöfer A., Honeybun R., Rosman K.J.R. and Martin P. (2006) The lead isotopic composition of dust in the vicinity of a uranium mine in northern Australia and its use for radiation dose assessment. Science of the Total Environment 366, 579-589.
Hancock G.R, Grabham M.K, Martin P., Evans K.G. and Bollhöfer A. (2006). A methodology for the assessment of rehabilitation success of post mining landscapes—sediment and radionuclide transport at the former Nabarlek uranium mine, Northern Territory, Australia. Science of the Total Environment 354, 103-119.
Bollhöfer A., Rosman K.J.R., Dick A.L, Chisholm W., Burton G.R., Loss R.D. and Zahorowski W (2005) Concentration, isotopic composition and sources of lead in Southern Ocean air during 1999/2000, measured at the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, Tasmania. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 69, 20, 4747-4757.
Bollhöfer A, Storm J, Martin P and Tims S (2005). Geographic variability in radon exhalation at a rehabilitated uranium mine in the Northern Territory, Australia. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 114. 313-330.
Martin P, Tims S, Ryan B & Bollhöfer A (2004). A radon and meteorological measurement network for the Alligator Rivers Region, Australia. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 76, 35-49.
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CSIL has been studying the kitchen furniture market in Russia and Central Eastern Europe for almost 10 years and for the second time published a special report on the Russian kitchen furniture market. This edition of the Report analyses production, distribution, consumption, trade, competition for one or the most challenging markets for this sector, providing kitchen furniture production and consumption statistics and trends, as well as import and export data. The survey involved collecting information from approximately 100 sector companies either through active participation (direct replies to an interview or completion of a questionnaire) or from company balance sheets, figures and estimates. Information on the competitive system include sales data and market shares of 70 among the top manufacturers in this area (Russian, German, Italian kitchen furniture players). Highlights on distribution channels are given. The Report shows also a wide range of data on macro-economic indicators (new houses, weddings...) and appliance data. The report covers both kitchen furniture and the built-in appliances sold through this channel. A list of 200 among the most important retailers selling kitchen furniture in Russia, (from middle to luxury end) and an address list of the major players in the kitchen furniture industry in Russia are included.
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When Pocket-lint reviewed the Technika SmartBox 8320HD - the set-top-box laden with IP Vision's FetchTV service - last October, our biggest quibble was that "it won't win any prizes for design and the user interface isn't the best around". But fair play to the company, it's listened and addressed the latter. With gusto.
To be honest, there's not much you can do about the design of a black plastic box, and as it's most often hidden out of way in a AV rack or cupboard, do aesthetics really matter? At least it's small. The remote control has been improved for future roll-outs of the box, but that's also by-the-by in the grand scheme of things.
And that's because the biggest improvement that's been made to the FetchTV HD service is the one we cried out for most...
The user interface has not just been given a lick of paint, it's had a dividing wall knocked through, an extension built and the garden now sports decking and a water feature. In short, it has had a complete make-over, to the extent that it is barely recognisable in comparison to its former presentation. And that's a good thing. A mighty good thing.
There has been a unification in style for all functionality, which is harder to say that the new UI is to use. Content, whether it be catch-up TV, on-demand movies, recordings or YouTube, is presented in the same way; on a screen with a horizontally scrolling thumbnail wheel at the bottom and PIP of the current channel in the top right.
The picture-in-picture is also utilised for other interesting features, including the ability to preview a recorded programme before expanding it to fill the whole screen. It's small things like this that make a massive difference, and put many more famous TV services to shame.
The onscreen channel listing has changed massively too. A new vertical programme guide appears on the left-hand side of the screen, accessible on command. And as you scroll up or down it displays the show that's currently on (and how long it is into its broadcast), all with vastly tarted-up graphics.
But that's not the end of its usefulness. The guide also can be scrolled right or left showing both shows that are coming up in the future, and shows that appeared in the past. And, like with Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo service, you can access catch-up TV content and recordings this way, should they be available.
The guide also offers up one other major feature. As well as the conventional channels, catch-up services and major applications will appear at in the higher numbers. YouTube is there, as are Betfair, Sky Player and IP Vision's own movie on-demand service (which has HD films for rental). In future, you'll also find that bigger games titles and social networking services will appear in the bar too.
There are also plans to populate the FetchTV ecosystem with plenty of other apps, although they might appear in their own section, as you won't want to scroll through a thousand different blocks on the guide just to watch the latest episode of Benidorm. As it uses HTML5 as it's base, IP Vision is encouraging third-party developers to come up with content.
That's all in the future though. For now, we are extremely impressed that IP Vision has been listening to criticism and suggestion, from us and its own customers, and has made massive strides in improving the service - at least in its ease of use. We certainly can't wait to test it a little further.
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John Beilein
One Frame At A Time: Big Ten Tournament
Thank you, Dustin Johnston, for lobbing this softball over the heart of the plate. It's remarkable, not to mention hilarious and captivating, that Jon Horford coexists peacefully on a team with these two hooligans:
Note John Beilein's futile effort to wave Andrew Dakich and Mitch McGary back to the bench. You cannot stop their enthusiasm. You can only hope to contain-- no, that seems impossible, too.
[Hit THE JUMP for Aaron Craft's greatest contribution to the Aaron Craft debate, Nik Stauskas making absurd layups, various moments of Illinois failure, the bench mob takeover, and more.]
Unverified Voracity Suggests Games Should Be Won
More Aerris Smith. Starts boilerplate, and then gets COLLEGE, like Junior Hemingway after the Sugar Bowl COLLEGE:
Uh. Here's a first hand look at Wofford from a gentleman who saw them take on Davidson. Expect a lot of Cochran trying to get a shot for someone, usually himself.
WIN THE (hockey) GAME. A gentleman has run through all three million or so possibilities remaining in the college hockey season and presents us with everyone's chances of finishing at position X. The Penn State game turns out to be kind of a big deal:
PWR Win 0 Win 1 Win 2 Win 3 #6 0.7% #7 0.0% #8 20.5% #9 0.1% 56.5% #10 2.5% 22.3% #11 0.0% 21.9% 38.9% #12 2.0% 43.4% 39.6% #13 12.9% 25.6% 16.8% #14 30.5% 7.5% 2.0% #15 33.2% 1.5% #16 17.4% 0.1% #17 3.4% #18 0.5% In: 20.6% 95.9% 96.6% 100.0%
That is a hell of a swing.
The breakdown is off, as it assumes all remaining games are coinflips. This paints a more pessimistic picture than is realistic since it gives bid thieves a higher shot at theft than they actually have. So the picture with a Penn State loss isn't quite that grim. Michigan's chances in the event of a loss are probably in the 40-50 range if you live in a world where MSU's shot at a bid is less than 12.5%.
But it's pretty easy: win on Thursday and you're in barring worst-case scenarios where everyone else on the bubble does spectacularly well and bids get stolen. If only I could claim a game against Penn State is not a coin flip given the fact that Penn State is very bad at hockey.
The imperative is clear. #winthegame.
WIN THE (basketball) GAME. Sports On Earth profiles John Beilein, the "maestro of March":
On the eve of the Final Four, John Beilein's most important player was a mess. Practicing against teammates imitating Syracuse's famed zone defense, Mitch McGary's footwork was awful. If Beilein couldn't correct the problem, Michigan had no chance of playing for a national title.
Beilein wanted his 6-foot-10 freshman center to operate around the foul line and distribute the ball. The coaching staff spent all week trying to get him to pivot a certain way. Most of the time, he traveled or threw the ball away. "He couldn't read the zone because he couldn't see it, and he couldn't see it because he didn't have the right balance and leverage," Beilein said. Frustrated, he brought McGary, along with a few managers and players, back to the court after Friday's practice and said, "OK, Mitch, one more time: This is how we're going to do it." He told McGary to slow down and trust his instincts. He finally executed.
The next night in the Georgia Dome, McGary, who had a total of 18 assists all season unitl then, sliced up the 2-3 zone, recording a team-high six assists, while also scoring 10 points and grabbing five offensive rebounds in a 61-56 win. "It was a week of work getting him to figure it out," Beilein said. "His assists won us the game."
Read the whole thing. Also in Beilein hagiography: Frank Martin talks him up. Yes, that Frank Martin, the demon-screamer late of Kansas State who inexplicably took the South Carolina job.
NMSU's announcer has to thank God every day that he gets to exclaim SIMMMMMMMMM BHULLLLLAAAAAAAAAR at maximum volume.
The other random obsession with a basketball player. Remember SIM BHULLAR? 7'5", 360 pound Indo-Canadian Michigan was poking around who ended up at New Mexico State? Guy with an all-time combination of game and announcer-friendly name?
SIM BHULLAR plays about 20 minutes a game for the Aggies, has excellent rebound and block rates, shoots 64% from the floor with decent usage, and gets fouled a lot, whereupon he hits only 54%.
He and New Mexico State will take on Steve Fisher and San Diego State in the first round in a Michigan Old versus Michigan What Might Have Been matchup.
Seriously though, given the way Michigan plays offense they could really use an offensively challenged guy who looks like he's been in contact with a radioactive spider. Radioactive spider guy challenges shots and flushes putbacks and dumpoffs. We need to get in contact with whoever's importing the Joel Embiids of the world and see if there's a guy who's maybe not Joel Embiid but good enough for Michigan's purposes.
Dogpile. Yet another lawsuit has been dropped on the NCAA. This one is from a Jeffery Kessler, noted sports anti-trust lawyer, and it's a doozy:
"The main objective is to strike down permanently the restrictions that prevent athletes in Division I basketball and the top tier of college football from being fairly compensated for the billions of dollars in revenues that they help generate," Kessler told ESPN. "In no other business -- and college sports is big business -- would it ever be suggested that the people who are providing the essential services work for free. Only in big-time college sports is that line drawn."
Maybe it was not the best move to include a Rutgers basketball player in your suit when you're claiming college athletes should be given something more than a stern talking-to and return to the American conference, but this Kessler guy is bad news for sports leagues trying to keep the man up:
Kessler helped bring free agency to the NFL, winning a key jury verdict for the NFL Players Association in 1992. He remains outside counsel to the NFLPA and the NBA's player union, has taken on Major League Baseball and represented star athletes including Michael Jordan and Tom Brady. For municipal authorities, he forced the Raiders to honor their stadium lease and stay in Oakland.
Given the skepticism of the judge in the O'Bannon case and Kessler's history of wins here it seems hard to believe the NCAA will look much like it does now in a decade. And that's a good thing, both in terms of fairness and for Michigan specifically. Michigan has a lot of money. Alums have a lot of money. We are currently using that in indirect ways while others are using their money to get to the point.
Meanwhile. An article on Michigan's surging revenues highlights the absurdity of the claim that most athletic departments lose money:
Department revenues rose $41.5 million from 2009-10 to 2012-13. During that same four-year period, expenses increased at a similar level, rising from $87 million to $132 million.
Funny how that works. It's almost like athletic departments spend all the money they have.
I mean:
In 2009-10, Michigan paid $33 million in wages to about 275 people. By 2012-13, the athletic department had 321 employees (it has grown even more this year to 336 workers) and projected $44 million in pay, including $19 million on coaches' salaries.
It's long past time to redirect some of that to the players.
Oh man. IU's Fred Glass making me feel slightly better about the AD gap:
"Finances wouldn't be an issue if we thought it made sense," Glass told The Star. "But we're Indiana. We don't play in the CBI."
A sentiment better left unexpressed after the last decade.
Right, that. Gregg Doyel makes a good point about Wichita State getting the stink eye from the committee:
We can debate whether Louisville deserved to be seeded so poorly, but what we cannot debate is what is being asked of Wichita State. The top seeds are supposed to be geographically protected, helped out if possible but not completely screwed at a minimum. And Wichita State was completely screwed.
Any idea how far Louisville is from Indianapolis? About 90 minutes by car. It's nothing. And southern Indiana is a hotbed of Louisville fans. Louisville is more than comfortable at Indy.
If Louisville was going to be a 4 they should have shipped them anywhere else. Does the NCAA really care that much about attendance?
Spring whatball? There is some thing with a oblong ball that isn't quite rugby that Michigan appears to be doing.
Oh good, more tackles for loss.
Departures. Matt Painter grumbled publicly about having selfish players, so a transfer does not come as a shock. Ronnie Johnson is gone from the Boilers. This is not a harsh blow statistically—Johnson's ORTG was under 100—but it is not a good look for Purdue, which loses seven contributors after going 15-17 and doesn't have the recruiting class to make up for that. Painter's apparently going to get another season, but it looks like his last unless he performs a miracle.
Also in bad teams from Indiana, Noah Vonleh is "strongly leaning" towards entering the draft. Losing Vonleh would leave Indiana hoping that Hanner Mosquera-Perea or Jeremy Hollowell can become basketball-type objects. Possible… but not looking good after this year.
Etc.: Guptill's September suspension turns out to be for assault; judge determines that Guptill made a guy "in fear of being pushed or shoved." Mark Richt has lost control of Alex Guptill. That is some straight-up UGA petty misdemeanory.
Tommy Amaker: "we're not trying to win a championship, we're trying to be a championship team." Peak coach-speak has been achieved.
Unverified Voracity Forebodes
Post game celebration. Confetti ho.
Morgan's singing voice is not the strong point of his game, but we'll forgive him.
All of the (most of the) awards. John Beilein is coach of the year to the media while Tim Miles wins the coaches' vote. This is justice. Meanwhile, John Beilein remains John Beilein:
Beilein said he will give away the coach of the year award as a trivia door prize at the radio show.
The first words out his mouth when asked about the award were about Tim Miles; he seemed almost annoyed he'd been handed a plague.
Meanwhile, Nik Stauskas is your Big Ten player of the year, Caris LeVert is second-team All Big Ten, and Derrick Walton is on your all-freshman team. On the snub side of things, Jordan Morgan is passed over for all-defense and Irvin for all-freshman.
It was probably tough for anyone to look at Michigan's defense and provide an all-D nod to them, even if most of the things going on weren't Morgan's deal. Irvin losing out to Purdue's Kendall Stephens is hard to defend since they were the exact same player and Stephens hit 37% of his threes to Irvin's 41%. But whatever, man.
Mmm, foreboding. John Gasaway puts together a list of the top players in college basketball($) that includes one Nik Stauskas, and sums him up from the opponent's point of view well:
At the moment, I'm not sure there's anything else in Division I ball quite like the deep foreboding experienced by opposing fans when the first 3 falls for Stauskas.
He's an Illinois fan, so he may be extrapolating from his most recent Stauskas experience.
Major blow to a contender. Kansas's Joel Embiid has a stress fracture in his back and is a "longshot" for the first weekend of the NCAA tourney. He's just plain out for the Big 12 tourney. If Kansas maintains their spot on the two line the toughest seed they can face before the Sweet 16 is a 7, but they just got beat by WVU in a game that would have been a blowout if WVU could handle a press.
For Michigan, a Kansas loss in the Big 12 tourney helps them in their quest to scoot into a Nova/Wichita region, and possibly Indianapolis. It would at least take a Villanova loss before anyone starts talking about a potential one seed for Michigan.
It's desperation time for hockey. [Bill Rapai]
The other bracket. Michigan is just about hanging on to a spot in the hockey tournament despite their inability to beat some of the worst teams in the country. They are 14th in the Pairwise at this moment; current hockey bracketology has them matched up against Union in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
At 14th, Michigan could withstand one bid thief but not two. There is an extra conference this year, and thus an extra tournament to worry about. At 14th, there's probably a 50-50 shot at a bid. Ferris State is the only WCHA team in the top 16; St. Cloud and North Dakota are the only NCHC teams in the top 16. The ECAC has three teams slated for the tournament, as does the Big Ten. Bid thieves are everywhere.
That's if Michigan maintains its current position. The bad news: this weekend's opponent is an excellent Minnesota team. The good news: a split will be massively helpful thanks to the new quality win bonus. Get swept, though, and Michigan will be either right on the bubble or right outside it.
These are the wages of going 5-4 against Penn State and Michigan State. If Michigan ends up on the outside looking in again, that is 85% of the reason why.
Worst best mascot ever. I see shots of old mascots that seem designed to engender years of nightmares and pine for their return. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has my back.
His name is Grubby. Seriously. If Dave Brandon could guarantee that hypothetical Michigan mascot would be a homeless Wolverine named "Diseasy" I would support a mascot for M. Alas, it will just be a wolverine in a bread bowl.
Well that's (partially) random then. If you were wondering if student sections could affect free throw shooting, the answer is probably no since Northwestern crushed all comers in this department while MSU finished last.
While most of this looks like random variation, those gaps down to Nebraska and Northwestern are pretty wild. I wonder if that's repeatable. 148 attempts is kind of a lot for that to be totally random.
Next year's schedule. Michigan's preseason tourney next year will take them back to Brooklyn. They'll play a couple of warmup tomato cans at Crisler before taking on one of Villanova, VCU, or Oregon at the Jay Z Center in the "Legends Classic"*. I'd imagine they'll split Michigan and Villanova with the hope the two meet in the final.
*[Which sounds like a fictional tournament hosting Generic State, East University, Ivy Tech, and COLLEGE COLLEGE.]
Well, yeah. By FOIAing the Ann Arbor Police Department, MLive discovers that Michigan's Office Of Institutional Equity asked them for the Gibbons police report in October, which doesn't clarify anything as to when the athletic department knew about what was going down. The most interesting bit of the story is actually a comment from an MLive person:
For context, the Ann Arbor News has been requesting several documents and communications via FOIA from U-M, but they have declined all of our requests citing sections of the Freedom of Information Act that allows U-M "to refrain from disclosing information that would constitute an unwarranted invasion of an individual's privacy." We continue to file FOIAs with U-M, but it appears in this case our best bet for information is requesting it from other sources that U-M has communicated with in regards to this case, including the AAPD.
Other FOIA-covered organizations offer up their data. Michigan has a culture of secrecy that has nothing to do with the privacy of individuals, but rather seems to be focused on covering for people who may or may not have screwed up, whether that's in taking four years to act on the Gibbons information or as part of the massive PR debacle that ensued after actually acting.
Etc.: Scouting Jeremy Gallon. McGary and Robinson on list of folks whose draft stock has slipped. Kam Chatman named to one of those basketball all star type things. Lax getting competitive this year. Sloan Sports Analytics conference suffers fate of all things. Jordan Morgan's top moments.
Some detail on the ongoing title IX investigations at M and MSU. Iowa's defensive collapse under the microscope. Yogi and Troy Williams dissecting M.
Death From Above!
3/4/2014 – Michigan 84, Illinois 53 – 22-7, 14-3 Big Ten – Outright champs
Good. In your face, Nanna Egwu. Good. [Bryan Fuller]
Before Ace took over full-time basketball preview duties, I wrote many of them. I eschewed "preview" to call these posts "Death From Above," because I thought it sounded cool. I fielded regular questions as to what the hell that meant.
If you want the deep background, "death from above" was a maneuver you could execute in walking-robot-wargame Battletech wherein your giant man-shaped robot would take off and attempt to land on the head of an opposing giant man-shaped robot. The goal was to crush the cockpit and pilot, rendering the exoskeleton inert, dripping ominous fluids.
I can only assume that all has been made clear after Michigan's high-arcing deep shots proved laser-guided at Illinois. John Beilein basketball is death from above.
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GRIII starts with layup
— Ace Anbender (@AceAnbender) March 5, 2014
Assembly Hall (not that Assembly Hall) drips today.
The three pointer has always been the great leveler in college basketball. Poke a random NCAA tourney upset and you're likely to find a bunch of short guys firing in threes as the favorite struggles outside the arc.
John Beilein came of age as a coach in a milieu of random players barely recruited. He found success by taking spare parts and arranging them into a machine that rained in threes. This was generally effective but not as much as legend would have it. Beilein won regular season conference championships twice in ten years at Richmond and Canisius, and finished third in the gargantuan Big East in 2005-2006. His reputation rested on an upset of South Carolina as a 14-seed with Richmond and the Pittsnogle-era WVU team's runs into the Elite Eight and Sweet 16.
But he'd lifted teams without structural advantage. He made every team he'd had competitive after a one-year adjustment period, though, and that seemed like gold to a Michigan fan. At the time the prospect of a consistently .500 Big Ten team with the occasional third-place finish followed by tourney upsets seemed like heaven. I was stridently in favor of Beilein's hire because I thought he'd turn Michigan into the kind of program that pushes Duke to the brink in the second round.
In that post I asserted that 21-14, 9-9 Michigan would be a one seed in an "exceeded expectations" tournament. I also asserted this:
I've been searching for a Michigan equivalent and in my memory can only come up with the '97 national title team. Unless there was a basketball team that outdid this year's—unlikely—I think you have to go back to 1969 to pull another team that so wildly exceeded what was expected of them.
To find a team with as good a claim to exceeding expectations as this 14-3 outright-Big-Ten-champs outfit that lost Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway Jr, and Mitch McGary you have to go back… uh… one year, when Trey Burke blew up into a Naismith winner and Michigan reached the national title game. The next potential candidate makes you reach back all the way to a team that shared a Big Ten title with Zack Novak at power forward… two years ago.
This is all very strange, not only to us, but to the guy who assembled this unlikely powerhouse.
"I don't know what to think. I have this funny, quiet feeling where you set out to accomplish a goal and you accomplish it. It's strange." [ed: –John Beilein]
— Joe Stapleton (@joe_stapes) March 5, 2014
The warmness inside you right now is thanks to the arc on the court that separates two from three.
The great leveler levels because threes are great shots, amongst the best shots. Beilein structured his entire basketball career around that intuition, constructing small-ball outfits everywhere he's gone. Sometimes he had four shooters; sometimes he had five. One guy probed inside as the other four created space around the arc, giving everyone space and time to find shots at the rim.
While the mechanism has shifted as Michigan acquires ball-screen maestro after ball-screen maestro, the overall pattern remains the same. The bigs shoot 70% because the opponent can't let Michigan get threes off. The threes come when they come and go in at a high clip, and something Beilein is in charge of floats higher than they have been in a long time.
It's only right that at the pinnacle of Beilein's regular season career the threes would rain in at will. Dan Dakich keeps saying "the ball knows." While this is normally irritating to your engineering-oriented author, as Michigan rained in death from above yesterday it did feel a little like the three point line sought to repay him for the long years of faith and devotion.
Well, then. There is very little to say about that game except "please Stauskas don't hurt 'em (except do)." Michigan shot 70% from three, goodnight, analysis over.
Other than the swelling three-point percentages from Michigan's shooters the main takeaway here was that Spike needs to take care of the ball better in the late stages of laughers when he is pursuing a double-digit A:TO ratio across the Big Ten season.
[Speaking of Spike, and since there's not really much to talk about game-wise, remember this site's obsession with NC State hobbit PG Tyler Lewis last year? Lewis was a McDonalds All-American despite being the same stature as Albrecht, and then he proceeded to do very little.
Lewis vs Spike, year two:
Lewis is stuck on a team that doesn't assist on many shots, stats are not the be all and end all, etc., but there's not much question who you'd rather have on your team. Hail this staff's talent identification. This has been Brian's Ongoing Obsession With Random College Basketball Players theater.
There will be no Nnanna Egwu section this time since he's pulled his DREB rate into the solid double-digits.]
But seriously. Strugging to say much of anything… oh, okay.
Jon Horford is really into Camus. There is just a shower of post-title photos featuring members of the team smiling an Jon Horford being Jon Horford, and thinking about things and stuff, deep things and hard stuff.
[Bryan Fuller]
Not even a locker room shot can rouse the corners of Horford's mouth from their slumber:
That's not his postgame photo role, and that's why having Andrew Dakich around is crucial.
Like father, like son.
If I make a joke here I will get a nasty tweet from the man himself [Bryan Fuller]
Non-trivial Horford business. One game ago, Horford got a quick hook in the second half after Mo Walker went to work on him. In this outing, Morgan hurt his back trying to take a charge and was limited to seven minutes. Horford stepped in and picked up ten rebounds; Illinois was limited to five offensive rebounds. On the year, Horford's DREB rate is a McGary-like 26.1.
It's nice to see him bounce back. There have been a number of games this year when one center or the other was having a rough day until the other guy stepped in. Having that flexibility is a big help; hopefully the Morgan withdrawal was a precautionary measure only.
If push comes to shove the obvious move is to try to get through the last few games without him. The only thing at stake now is a two or three seed line.
Speaking of. Expect Michigan to PLAY SOME WEIRD GUYS in the Big Ten tourney. Beilein has always run out some WTF lineups when faced with the possibility of three games in three days, and with Morgan questionable, Max Bielfeldt may be called on for double-digit minutes. Having a 6'6" center is not conducive to winning the Big Ten tourney title, but I don't think Beilein cares one whit about that.
Nobody seems to. A lot of fanbases openly pine for a second-game exit so as to not have three consecutive games before a potential Thursday/Saturday NCAA tournament weekend. They should really just dump the thing and play a couple more conference games, but I don't think the NCAA would let that fly.
Defense? Illinois is a very bad offensive team (206th on Kenpom) but they got worse after Michigan dealt with them. After 1 PPP in the first half, Illinois couldn't do much of anything in the second. That marks consecutive opponents held under a point per possession. This is not exactly the Goin' To Work Pistons yet, but Michigan doesn't have to make a ton of progress in the D department to look like an (even more) dangerous tournament opponent.
No idea exactly why this improvement is going on. If they can maintain that through the next few games that would be encouraging.
Seed lines. Michigan is still stuck on the three-line with little upward mobility unless they can leapfrog the top ACC teams (Syracuse, Duke, Virginia) or pass Wisconsin by winning the Big Ten Title. Jerry Palm did pump Michigan over Duke given Duke's extremely weak road accomplishments and Syracuse is in a full-on tailspin after losing to Georgia Tech at home. (I told you about Syracuse.) If the Orange lose their season-ender against Florida State, a game that Kenpom predicts will be a nailbiter, they could drop to the three line and open up a slot for Michigan as a two. Virginia will provide competition there.
Not that it matters much this year, as one of the most wide-open tournaments in memory beckons.
Glennwatch. Did some good things—couple steals, good work from within the arc, a three. Drove to the bucket for a basket, too. His steal lead to a fast break on which Tracy Abrams got a contest in that by all rights should have forced a layup attempt. NOPE. Dunk metropolis.
Afterwards Abrams looked like he'd seen the Ark of the Covenant.
ENHANCE [Bryan Fuller]
One negative thing: he's got to stop bringing the ball up when he gets a rebound. His handle is very vulnerable to open-court steals and he doesn't initiate much transition offense.
Also, he took a contested three-point jack. That is vaguely acceptable if you are Nik Stauskas who rains death from above. When you're at 27% on the year, don't take that shot. Taking open ones, okay. Those are still decent to good shots even for a guy locked in a sophomore slump as bad as Tim Hardaway Jr's. That hand-in-the-face stuff not so much.
Still, we can add this to the recent string of encouraging GRIII performances after 13 points on 10 shot equivalents.
Just when you thought he was bottled up. Stauskas is 12 of 17 from three in his last two games, pushing his season average to 46%. One of them was a contested jack in front of 6'11" Nnanna Egwu. Another was from the parking lot right before the half. Good lord.
This is why Michigan should not settle for long twos early in the shot clock, because at any time they can get a switch and have a guy take a pretty decent three point look.
The climb. Remember early in the year when people were projecting Wisconsin would walk away with the title because of schedule imbalance? Well, Michigan's single plays were Northwestern, Penn State, Illinois, and Ohio State. The only team not in the vicinity of the bottom of the Big Ten standings is OSU, and Michigan only got a road game against them. This is the opposite of a fluke.
Just following coach's orders.
While I'm still posting, click here for the broadcast view of the shot and celebration, both of which are magnificent.
[HT: @robphillips1979, hero]
One Frame At A Time: Michigan State
I believe Jen Bielema has a term for this.
She calls it "terrible help defense."
[The rest of the MSU game in GIFs after THE JUMP.]


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The rendering on this.... Brilliant!
How did you apply the background?
How did you apply the background?
Stunning light..so sculptural. Also looks, um..kind of edible? Like icing or something. (think i must be hungry). Its good anyway, like it a lot.
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here is my 3rd tutorial... i hope you guys like it.
I dont know if it work on all planets... but i think it will ( i only tried this on one planet )
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greetz Kamjar Fadai
here is my 3rd tutorial... i hope you guys like it.
I dont know if it work on all planets... but i think it will ( i only tried this on one planet )
well, enjoy.
Plz comment
+favs are aslo appreciated
greetz Kamjar Fadai
Cool tutorial. I will try it for myself. Thank you.
when I use linear light I just get a lot of white. It does not look like on your pictures
I also just get a lot of white. I tried all blend modes and none of them seemed to make it look like the sample.
Gonna give this s shot. Thanks for sharing!!!
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Awesome tutorial, but btw "choosed" is not a word...in case ya don't know
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i love it it. im just learning to do photominipulation so this should help. thanks a bunch i have always wanted to create space battlegrounds \m/
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ahahah.. I laughed my ass off with the 'circel' thing. But anyway.. good tutorial
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now i just need a tutorial on how to make planets
now i just need a tutorial on how to make planets
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its nice but i dont like 'planets pics'
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Realy nice tut, may come in handy for a meteor hiting a planet scene
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and thanks for sharing your knowledge, highly appreciated!
Great tutorial
I admire you for doing this. You know, most people don't bother
Allready said it, this one is KISS!
Keep It Stupidly Simpel!
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Keep It Stupidly Simpel!
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WOW that looks amazing, I'm for sure trying this.
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Comfortable, sharp looking, excellent for summer because of light coloring but wearable all year.
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As a Boeing retiree, I was drawn to the name of this hat, and the great quality of all my Stetson hats helped me decide to order it. I couldn't be happier with it. The jet liner hat pin is nicely executed and a very nice addition. Like reviewer Thomas A. indicated, it does trace its roots back to a more glamorous time in the history of travel. I would replace this hat immediately should I ever become parted from it.
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Magnificent hat...brings me back to my childhood when all the well dressed gentleman wore one. Hartford York, we will do business again soon.


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Exports and sectoral financial dependence: evidence on French firms during the great global crisis
The unprecedented drop in international trade during the last quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 has mainly been analysed at the macroeconomic or sectoral level. However, exporters who are heterogeneous in terms of productivity, size or external financial dependence should be heterogeneously affected by the crisis. This issue is examined in this paper by using data on monthly exports at the product and destination level for some 100,000 individual French exporters, up to 2009M4. We show that the drop in French exports is mainly due to the intensive margin of large exporters. Small and large exporters are evenly affected when sectoral and geographical specialisations are controlled for. Lastly, exporters (small and large) in sectors structurally more dependent on external finance are the most affected by the crisis. JEL Classification: F02, F10, G01
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"Firms and the global crisis: French exports in the turmoil,"
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- Bricongne, Jean-Charles & Fontagné, Lionel & Gaulier, Guillaume & Taglioni, Daria & Vicard, Vincent, 2012. "Firms and the global crisis: French exports in the turmoil," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 87(1), pages 134-146.
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Eyes: Brown
I thought this was one of the strangest products reviewed here, but being Curious George, I HAD to try it. I busted out my Visine drops, wet my e/s brush with it, dipped into a MAC pigment and applied over my eyelids. Voila! Super duper intense color from the pigment and after day of wear, no crease or fade. The only thing is, the Visine does make the color slightly clumpy, like the past reviewer said... but as far as staying power goes... it WORKS!
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Hair: Red, Other, Other
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I DID A COMPARISON last night comparing Visine & a homemade mixing medium (Mixing Medium is what you need if you turn any powder to liquid or gel form. Like if you want to use powder eyeshadow or pigment as an eyeliner, you use a little mixing medium, and it will turn the e/s to gel or liquid consistency.)...
The Visine completely CLUMPED up my GLITTER EYE shadow & it was VERY blotchy!! (It did however not burn my eyes...Be CAREFUL NOT TO USE too much of the mixing medium!! I accidentally had waaaaaay too much on my brush & it got in my eye & burned!!) I have not tried the visine w/ a regular loose eye shadow (w/out glitter)...
I did the other eye w/ a HOMEMADE MIXING MEDIUM (MAKE SURE NOT TO USE TOO MUCH b/c it burns when it gets in your eyes!!! All you need is a LITTLE BIT, just to dampen your brush...)-- All it is is 1 part Glycerin (you can find it at any local drug store.. a huge bottle is less than $5...) to 2 parts water... The eye w/ this looked so much better & the glitter stayed on ALL NIGHT!!! The line was PERFECTLY straight & EVEN, just as I had applied it & hoped it would look!!!
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Visine! It's a multipurpose product, who knew? Apparently, as the first reviewer mentioned, it can be used to bolden eyeshadows and keep your eyemakeup where it is all day! I personally haven't tried this, but it sounds good to me.
However, I use this product for (obviously) red, itchy, watery eyes due to allergies or due to being baked. But probably my favorite use for this product is taking the redness out of zits. If you just put some Visine on a Q-tip, apply it to your pimples, the red goes away in a matter of seconds.
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