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MGoPodcast 1.4: Giggling, Notre Dame, More Giggling
We decided everyone wanted to talk about last weekend instead of next weekend so the podcast comes early this week. Our special guest is frequent diarist and Gamblor acolyte Jamiemac, who's got his own digs at Just Cover now. Over the course of a half hour, we talk about Notre Dame, Ohio State, Michigan's new ceiling, Jamie's crazy theories about Phil Steele, and reveal the last time Michigan hit a quadruple (win plus losses from the three main rivals) like they did over the weekend.
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MGoPodcast 1.4: Notre Dame recap
Unverified Voracity On The Ceiling
via reader Brian Hale
Take his and graduate 'em, take yours and graduate 'em. It's not noble to take guys with two good parents and a Catholic-school education and not screw them up. That's one of the things that's always bothered me about Notre Dame's smugness. They've positioned themselves as the nationwide destination for kids who end up at places like Oaks Christian, and when these kids fail to screw up they take pride in it. Michigan, meanwhile, has been more willing to take on potentially troubled kids. Not as willing as some other schools, but willing.
This is always spun as a negative when you get a Feagin situation. When you take kids out of Pahokee or Detroit or Delray Beach who did not go to a good high school and didn't have a stable home life and are just looking for a way out, some of them are not going to overcome their backgrounds. It's tough to do that. It's no accomplishment to graduate Craig Roh. That kid grew up like an enormous, athletic, magnificently-eyebrowed version of me; he's going to graduate no matter where he is. It's a risk to stick out your neck for a talented kid who went to a school with textbooks from 1978 where dropouts are more common than graduates.
The reason I bring it up is an epic article on Pahokee, the home of three current Wolverines, in the Daily. I've been reading the Daily for twelve years now and it's without question the best article to appear in it in that time frame. It wouldn't seem out of place if you threw it up on ESPN.com in one of those fancy presentations they give Wright Thompson. It highlights the environment these guys come from:
He pops in one of the myriad discs. It's a guerrilla-style video called "Palm Beach County: Gangstas and Thugs." Local gun-toting gang members flash across the screen, beating each other senseless and shooting AK-47s into the air.
"That's my cousin; he's in jail," he says pointing, to the screen. "Oh, and that kid's dead. He was 17."
Trouble in such places is easier to get into than avoid, and honestly working with these kids so that they get out of college and go somewhere else is a calling beyond giving kids who went to Catholic school calculus exams. Michigan has to live up to that charge, of course. In four to six years we'll have Rodriguez's graduation numbers, and in five more we'll have some sense of how the institution has served them. I'll be watching it carefully. I hope—and think—Michigan will do right by them. They are owed that.
No, you can't do that. Apparently ABC never showed the Armando Allen taunting penalty, but the News got a shot of it:
NCAA rulebook on unsportsmanlike conduct:
a. Specifically prohibited acts and conduct include:
1. No player, substitute, coach or other person subject to the rules shall use abusive, threatening or obscene language or gestures, or engage in such acts that provoke ill will or are demeaning to an opponent, to game officials or to the image of the game, including but not limited to:
(b) Taunting, baiting or ridiculing an opponent verbally.
(c) Inciting an opponent or spectators in any other way, such as simulating the firing of a weapon or placing a hand by the ear to request recognition.
Ssssh-ing the student section is an obvious flag that will get called 1000 of 1000 times. It doesn't matter if he said anything or not. Weis being an ass in the postgame (no, seriously, watch his bitchy press conference… what a horror it would be to have such a thoroughly unlikeable person* in charge of your football team):
"Armando was really distraught at the end of the game, because he felt that he got called for a 15-yard penalty for going 'shhhh' when he got to the end zone," Weis said. "Now I guess, technically, that's taunting, but he felt really bad about that and I told him we're all part of this loss and don't put it all on your shoulders."
Indeed, it is "technically" taunting in the way Michigan's pass to Mathews was "technically" a touchdown. Meanwhile on that same play, Clausen was doing a fey little dance that could have drawn another flag. Why must Weis recruit these thugs? Why can't he have nice boys like Greg Mathews, who politely handed the ball to the referee after his gamewinning touchdown?
A note on one of the other ND refereeing complaints: Theo Riddick did touch that kickoff, as was extensively discussed on Sportscenter, so running two seconds off the clock was appropriate. And when Tate caught the ball on the last play of the game and got tackled with one second left, the key distinction to note is that the official timekeeper doesn't stop when he thinks the play is over—not his job—but when the referee signals him to. You can clearly see that the referee signals to stop the clock well after :00 is hit. (Yes, maybe that's a conspiracy too.)
*(dollars to donuts that caused any West Virginia, Michigan State, or Ohio State fan reading it to have a head asplode moment, but… seriously. Watch the video. There is no comparison between that and corny jokes and twang.)
Tempting fate. If Michigan loses the next two weeks you can stick my head in a blender for what I'm about to do.
Let's talk about Michigan State, Michigan's first road game of the season and next opponent against whom the spread will be in the single digits. State lost to Central Michigan in quintessential "Sparty, No!" fashion, but don't let the flukes at the end of the game overshadow the overall theme of the day. A worried The Only Colors explains:
While hanging our heads obviously doesn't do any good, I really have a hard time seeing Saturday's outcome as a fluke. Sure, the events of the final 30 seconds all broke in the Chippewas' favor. But we'd been outplayed by a significant margin for the 59 minutes and 30 seconds that preceded those 30 seconds--outgained by 74 yards and outconverted by 8 first downs. And when it mattered most, we couldn't stop them. Central gained a total of 147 yards to reach the endzone on both of its final two non-onside-kick-commenced drives. We were lucky to be in position to win the game with 30 seconds to go.
Maybe CMU's a top-40 team and this loss isn't quite as bad as it looks right now. But they certainly didn't look like a top-40 team against Arizona a week ago. And you have to beat top 40 teams at home to get to a New Years Day bowl.
That is a strong indication that internet skepticism over a team that was outgained in conference play last year was better founded than the assembled Big Ten Media's assertion that Michigan State was the third-best team in the conference. Not that we needed anyone to tell us that the internet tends to do better research than newspapers. State should get better as Kirk Cousins solidifies his hold on the starting quarterback spot, but after some initial optimism in the comments that post bogs down into pessimism about a ton of things, most prominently the pass rush.
Compounding things for State in their matchup against Michigan: Central Michigan is headed by the Rich Rodriguez coaching tree, also known as Butch Jones, and quarterbacked by Dan LeFevour, a mobile, accurate quarterback that's a more veteran but less hyped version of Tate Forcier. LeFevour was 33 of 46 for 328 yards, three touchdowns, and an interception. The State game now looks very winnable.
The move? Freshman Cameron Gordon's seemingly inevitable move to linebacker may be a fait accompli according to MGoPoster Jaggs:
Was at the ND game this weekend and my dad ran into a guy purporting to be Cam Gordon's dad (I have no reason to doubt it was him). The guy told my dad he was a father of a player on the team etc, and my dad asked him who he said his name which my dad forgot but remembered the guy said #84 a linebacker. A quick search of the program and mgoblue.com shows Gordon as the only #84 so sounds like Gordon.
Quick check shows 86 points, which isn't much, but also that this guy's been registered for eight months. Credibility rating: at least moderate. We're still looking for confirmation and will provide it if/when it comes.
Yeesh. I think this was just an mgolicious link. The numbers say, I don't know, something:
3. Inbound links checked daily. The day before I visited, logs for the Chronicle's WordPress site reported that it had drawn 277 visitors from a local sports blog, 28 from a local school blog and 23 from annarbor.com, the reincarnated Ann Arbor News.
Probably what it says is that AA.com's traffic is far more dispersed, where this site is basically a single framework with varying content presented.
Etc.: Been struck with a burning desire to have Zoltan's biff immortalized for all time on your wall? Michigan obliges. Bleed Scarlet notes the one-year anniversary of David Foster Wallace's suicide.
Monday Presser Notes 9-14-09
Rich Rodriguez
- Injuries: David Moosman popped his shoulder out, might sit for 1-2 weeks. Some combination of Ricky Barnum, Elliott Mealer, John Ferrara, and Patrick Omameh will fill that in. Boubacar Cissoko was still banged up against ND, but he'll continue to play. Mike Williams sat because of cramps, and he should be healthy. Junior Hemingway should be back soon, but Rodriguez won't know until later today. The full injury report will come out Thursday.
- The secondary didn't play its best on Saturday, but a lot of the stuff can be corrected. They want to be able to play JT Floyd, Teric Jones, and Justin Turner to build a little more depth there.
- The QBs are still listed with an "OR" on the depth chart. Tate has earned the right to take the first snap each week so far, but the competition in practice has been pretty close. Denard is a QB now, and will continue to be in the future. They aren't looking at moving him to another position.
- Rodriguez gave some veiled criticism to Charlie Weis's excuses about the refs. "I didn't see anything." He typically will send a couple plays into the conference office, though he didn't after the Western game. The refs do a god job, and they'll call things if they see them. When the Armando Allen touchdown was overturned, Rodriguez called a timeout instead of a challenge because he wanted to save his challenge for later in the game in case they needed it.
- Rodriguez talks to CMU coach Butch Jones twice a week. He's a good coach and a good person. Rich knows he'll have
- Rodriguez interviewed the entire football staff (not just coaches) when he came to Ann Arbor. He didn't re-hire Coach English, though he was an outstanding defensive coordinator. Rodriguez had something else in mind defensively, and now he's happy where they are. He talked to Coach E to congratulate him for landing the EMU job. "I know he's got a lot of friends here, and as you'd expect, when you spend a couple years at a neat place you're going to make some friends."
- Rodriguez wants fans to not only be at the game, but also to be active participants. The piped in music is art of that, along with exciting things like the Circle of Death, aka the "Team Unity Circle."
Troy Woolfolk
- The defense was playing off receivers for most of the game, but they got a little more aggressive because they got sick of giving up the underneath stuff.
- English was Troy's primary recruiter at Michigan. The two don't talk anymore, because Troy has lost Coach E's number, but he wants to play well this Saturday to show that he was worthy of being recruited.
- "I'm just glad that we got a chance to show the nation that Michigan is back."
- Some day in the future, Troy and Denard are going to race to settle once and for all who the fastest player is.
Stevie Brown
- Brown wasn't surprised to see ND go deep on second down with a chance to ice the win late in the fourth quarter. "That's what they'd been doing all game, and that's what was working for them."
- Stevie doesn't keep in contact with Coach English. They talked when Ron was hired at Eastern, but not really since.
Tate Forcier
- Although the team is ranked, they're only at the very last spot (35). The team needs to continue working hard if they want to move up. The team made lots of mistakes (Tate's fumble on the 2 yard line, a missed field goal), so there's definite room for improvement.
- Tate had 400+ text message following the game yesterday. He doesn't have a big lecture until tomorrow, but he's sure lots of people will talk to him about the game.
- He caught the big nighttime tilt and saw Matt Barkley (the nation's other golden boy frosh) perform pretty well. "It was kinda hard; I didn't know who I wanted to win because I don't like USC or Ohio State."
- The rushing touchdown was a pass/run option, and the defensive end forced him to head back inside "Right when I cut it up, I didn't see anybody. Right away I knew it should be pretty good." He was confident on the final touchdown to Mathews as well. "I thought it was a perfect play call." The corner was playing with inside leverage, giving Greg room to the outside.
- Tate said he wasn't really going to look at Michigan until the new staff came in.
- There's no animosity between Tate and Denard, and Tate expects a big play every time Denard hits the field. He hopes Denard will get more chances to shine in the next couple weeks.
- "Just beating Notre Dame is great, but beating them the way we beat them made it even better." Tate's family was in the crowd,and he heard they were all so happy they cried. "I wish [Jason] could have been out there playing with me."
Phil Brabbs Has Cancer
For Brabbs, a former kicker for the University of Michigan who kicked one of the most famous field goals in Wolverines' history, his next battle is on the horizon.
Diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma (a cancer of the plasma cell), Brabbs, a 1999 Dow High graduate who turned 29 on Aug. 7, is preparing for his treatment to start next month at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Treatment Center.
The cancer, specialists told Brabbs, has been growing. In a year's time, it's gone from being in 10 percent of his bones to 30 percent.
Vada Murray is horrible enough. Brabbs is younger than I am:
"This has been a long, drawn-out process. It started when I was 25 and living in North Carolina," he said. "I would have a panic attack and this stabbing pain, and have no clue what was going on.
"Age is on our side," Brabbs added. "The average age for a person getting this is 68. That's why we want to be aggressive (with treatment)."
It sounds like he's going to have a difficult few months with chemo and radiation and a stem-cell transplant, but Brabbs is upbeat. He's even got a blog.
Moxie And MacGyver
9/12/2009 – Michigan 38, Notre Dame 34 – 2-0
When Michigan headed in at the half down only three because of a confluence of events I saw splattered across "Life on the Margins" in the near future, I wrote the game off. When Michigan turned first and goal from the one into a missed field goal, I wrote the game off. When Armando Allen ran the ball into the endzone and Clausen did his fey little "butt dance," to steal a term from MVictors, I wrote the game off. When LaTerryal Savoy dropped the touchdown pass* that would have given Michigan the win, I was annoyed.
Some things, among them faith and love, reveal themselves only after they form, when some other event makes it clear you have had powerful emotion X about object Y for an indeterminate amount of time. Love tends to brew a long time and reveal itself in spectacularly inopportune fashion. Faith… well, if you let X equal faith and Y equal Tate Forcier, the process is considerably expedited. For the author it came to its enzyme-aided conclusion sometime between Junior Hemingway's second touchdown against Western Michigan and the wild bumper-car rollout that ended in a dart to Savoy and first and goal.
When, exactly, is impossible to tell. Like Denard Robinson, attempting to observe it changes it. But here it is rewarding us with all sorts of dopamine and serotonin and other whatnot on this finest Monday of all Mondays in a fairly long time.
What is up, faith. I am feeling goooooooood.
Rich Rodriguez had spent twenty years earning a little faith as his teams performed, time and again, above their talent level. But the instant he decided to extract himself from what seemed like a poisonous relationship with the rest of the West Virginia athletic department, all of it evaporated.
Almost from the instant Rodriguez arrived on campus the media—first from West Virginia and then locally—painted him as a mercenary, a swearing robot, a rube. It's been covered here a thousand times before so let's just focus on the giant flashing insanity: Rodriguez took a metric ton of crap for breaking his contract, something literally any coach who's ever moved jobs has done. Something that the contract has explicit buyout provisions for. Something that universally-loved John Beilein did one year earlier.
When 3-9 followed the amplitude went up by an order of magnitude, culminating in the Free Press hit job the nation knows and loves. Faith did not exist except in battered, weary pockets. This pocket wavered. It would be impossible not to.
In this space I've alternately mocked and panicked at the idea that external forces or internal dissent could strangle the Rodriguez era in the crib and set Michigan on much the same path Notre Dame has traveled these last 15 years. The parade of inept coaches, inept coaching searches in the frequent interregnums, and mostly unrelenting failure during the brief periods in which the school is not searching for a new inept coach could easily have happened here. Michigan was in the process of chaotic, inept coaching search number one when WVU athletic director Ed Pastilong and Pat White's thumb dumped one of the premiere coaches in college football in Bill Martin's lap and Martin jumped at it without thinking it over.
The public reaction since threatened to undo that stroke of fortune and set Michigan into the spiral that consumed South Bend. The danger was that all those sneering generalists who glanced over from their NBA game to snort "lol" and moved on would actually impact Michigan's ability to reason.
Did it? Will it? It's impossible to tell. Rich Rodriguez and Tate Forcier plan on making the question moot, and have already gone a long way towards doing so.
This is Michigan now, a strange collection of 3.8 GPA kids from New Jersey and Arizona and locals who grew up loving Michigan and kids with dreads from poor, broken places mostly in the south who have one way to get out. Receivers who score game-winning touchdowns and almost lose their cool before apologetically handing the ball to the referee, sir. Woop-gone cuts when the defensive end beats you to the corner in cover zero. The fetishization of work to the point where the S&C coach is the target of adulation so intense that you can call something "Barwis Porn" and not be 100% joking. Hype videos and piped in music. Shotgun hurry-up and quarterbacks slipping by linebacker kill shots. The circle of terror, chest bumps, awkward press conferences, a tear here and there. This is it. This is block-M Michigan.
It's not all great. But take it from a guy who remains a programmer in spirit: life is tradeoffs. Give Rich Rodriguez six dwarves, some baling wire, a walk-on safety from Curtice, Ohio, and someone to spatter paint all over everything and we're good. This is a program of moxie and MacGuyver.
While Terrelle Pryor labors in an offense that has him throw 25 times and run nine against USC, previously run-manic Rich Rodriguez has taken his collection of half-man-half-velcro tight ends and pounding fullbacks and moosebeast tailbacks and forged them into a machine that, for two games at least, is the explosive equivalent of his White-Slaton heyday. He has integrated this crazy wheeling Jackson Pollock of a quarterback to the tune of 70% completions, five touchdowns, and one interception in his first two games in college. In the process he's made the men who looked at twenty years of wildly successful offenses, wildly successful programs at every level of college football and saw nothing but an inflexible, lucky hick look like fools.
He's repaid the faith shown him by his team, by the guys who stayed and waved their arms madly and jumped up and down last week when the students took up a "Rich Rodriguez" chant and did not stop until most of the stadium was doing it. They stayed, and they're on their way, and it doesn't take much faith to say: this is Michigan now.
via reader Nick Stratton
*(It would turn out to be tipped but from the stands all I saw was a ball hit Savoy between the eight and the two and ricochet away; the crowd's reaction was such that I thought Notre Dame had somehow intercepted it for a split second.)
- 10,000 cocktails to the guy working the replay board who got the Armando Allen screen touchdown on the board almost before the play was over, thus causing the stadium to explode and Rodriguez to take a timeout that would eventually save Michigan four points. Those four points were the final margin of victory and while there's a chance the replay would have come down on its own, the quick thinking of that guy made it inevitable. Someone ferret out this guy's name so he never has to buy a drink in town again.
To really discuss what's wrong with Weis I have to dig into the poker metaphors. If Carr was a weak-tight calling station—a guy who doesn't take many risks and can be easily dissuaded from taking them—Weis is a loose-aggressive donkey—a guy who just bets and bets and bets and rides it. The LAG (loose-aggressive) is a better player, much tougher to win against, but is prone to huge, fatal mistakes. So the problem with that second-and-ten bomb was not that Weis threw, it's the sort of throw he called for. Running or whatever strips Michigan of its timeouts and has relatively little value compared to a first down. A first down just about ends the game. I had a perpetual frustration with Carr's playcalling in similar situations because it was run run run punt almost without fail, or possibly run run third and ten pass punt. So a slant or a hitch or some sort of high-percentage pass that can break for a first down is a great call.
The bomb is going all in with a middle pair after you get a couple overs on the flop. (I was in the World Series of Poker once!!!) It might work. But if it does, it's not because you're a good poker player.
Weis is a guy who thinks "they'll never see my 4-6 unsuited coming." And he thinks it all the time. I know, I know: Gus Hansen exists. The thing about poker on TV is that it throws out all the "boring" hands and therefore disguises Hanson's insidious brilliance. I've seen all of Weis's hands. He's not Gus Hansen. I mean, even if you're going to throw that, why throw it against Warren instead of the guy you've been torching all game?
- On the other hand: I haven't seen anything from Rodriguez yet that makes me think similar thoughts. I have instant go-punt reactions on all fourth downs and get very upset when the coach in question defies an obvious one and haven't been very upset with Rodriguez yet. He may call a hotel a "ho-tel" but he's a better poker player than Carr or Weis. Even when Michigan was up eleven, it seemed like they needed one more touchdown to win, and it appeared Rodriguez thought the exact same thing.
- Speaking of Beilein: there have been persistent rumors that Beilein and Rodriguez have a frosty relationship, but one of the things I caught as I watched the team leave the field was the two coaches meeting around the forty yard line and sharing a deep, lingering man-hug. I don't think that rumor holds much water anymore.
- I'd been bitching about Forcier thinking he's in high school on many of his runs. Often he had an opportunity to cut upfield for solid yardage but instead tried to pop outside a corner or safety and turned it into a three-yard gain because he can't just outrun members of the opposition secondary anymore. (There's a play in UFR last week where I question whether a similar incident was a good idea.) So, yeah, a little smug on that touchdown run after I went WOOOOO a lot.
- Cissoko… man. I've seen a fair number of people defending him but he was bad. Maybe I'll think different after the UFR but the guy got torched. Hopefully that's an effect of going up against two crazy good receivers and a quarterback who wasn't so terrible himself. I don't think so, though. He was lost.
- I really hope I see even more holding than they called on UFR because Clausen had all day basically all day. I vastly underestimated the pressure he'd face; when he did get pressure he just chucked it OOB. So I was kind of right about that.
- Brandon Minor is way better than any other back on the roster. Q: why did Michigan go away from the up-the-middle gashing that worked so well in the third quarter? Notre Dame was clearly vulnerable to runs that went directly at them but did well against the stretches.
- Warren, on the other hand, basically lived up to the hype this blog perpetuated.
- It's amazing how vastly different real live Notre Dame fans are from their internet fanbase. The worst thing you can say about them is that a disproportionate number look like they're huge Steve Miller Band fans. The worst things you can say about Notre Dame fans on the internet would take thousands of words to describe.
Charlie Weis caused the potato famine, says one Irish fan. Also check the Chips shirt.
MVictors wasn't in the press box for this one and thanks God for that stroke of luck. Also check the spectacular Brandon Graham mugging picture and the guy in the comments who claims Armando Allen called the student section "faggots" to draw his flag. Can anyone in the front of the student section confirm that?
While we're on MVictors, nice catch from the NYT:
Central Michigan beat Michigan State on a 42-yard field goal with 3 seconds left. As the game's final minute ticked away before the start of the game here, news media in the press box gathered around televisions to watch.
Central Michigan initially missed a potential game-winning 47-yard field goal, but got to try the kick again after Michigan State was penalized for being offside. The announcement of the penalty that set up the game-winner prompted clapping and an announcement in the press box.
"Cheering is not allowed in the press box," the announcer said, "but it is right now."
Something something pride something fall.
Doctor Saturday's takes on Michigan State, Michigan, and Ohio State are fantastic.
I grabbed a bunch of complaining from ND Nation in anticipation of a flush, which did happen.
Blogpoll Draft Ballot: Week 2
I put a little more thought into this week's ballot than last week's holiday edition. There are still some things I'm not comfortable with, so comments are obviously very welcome.
- Florida didn't really do anything to move down, but USC and Alabama have definitely had more chances to prove themselves on the big stage so far.
- For some reason, I ended up with Notre Dame several spots ahead of Michigan, which will be fixed by the final ballot (though I do think the Irish are a pretty legit team this year).
- I don't really like Iowa and Northwestern towards the end of my ballot, but I didn't really have anybody else off the top of my head that seemed to belong.
- I don't like Tennessee where they are, especially considering their resume-building win was against a functional bye team.
- Some of the deltas appear to no be quite right, so don't worry about those too much (especially considering I don't even really look at last week's ballot to formulate the new one).
Help me out in the comments.
|Southern Cal
|Penn State
|Brigham Young
|Boise State
|Miami (Florida)
|Georgia Tech
|Ohio State
|Notre Dame
|Florida State
|Last week's ballot
|Dropped Out: Oklahoma State (#7), North Carolina (#13), Virginia Tech (#17), Utah (#18), Oklahoma (#20), Georgia (#22), Kansas (#24), Oregon (#25).


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New York Times: "A New Clue to Explain Existence" "[W]e exist, and [secular] physicists (among others) would dearly like to know why." Of course, all they have to do is open to Genesis!
The big-bang–based "mystery" is why the universe consists almost exclusively of matter.
That line frames part of the discussion in a recent New York Times article on research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Although we mentioned the research two weeks back, the Times article has a more blatant evolutionary spin we wanted to analyze.
The big-bang–based "mystery" is why the universe consists almost exclusively of matter. Astrophysics models predict the big bang should have produced an equal amount of matter and antimatter, which would have immediately detonated one another and thereby destroyed the universe immediately after it began. To a scientist who believes all existence traces back to the big bang, that's one big puzzle.
The research in the news concerns particle accelerator collisions of protons and antiprotons that produced matter slightly more often than antimatter—about a one percent difference. While that doesn't solve physicists' problem, it gives them a lead to follow.
What we find puzzling is these physicists' tacit faith. Until now, the big bang model has predicted that we—life, earth, the universe—shouldn't exist at all. Yet physicists embraced and continue to embrace the big bang model, seemingly obviating the scientific demand for theories to survive falsification. Further (and something we've noted before), it's interesting how these "difficulties" in evolutionary and big bang models usually come to light in the news only after some breakthrough has been made that provides a modicum of hope in the model.
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Frankenstein and His Bride by PatrickFinchWatch
©2007-2016 PatrickFinch
One the coolest couples to grace the big screen. I guess I was just feelin' festive. I hope you dig.
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
I don't see anything wrong with calling him "Frankenstein". Victor is his father, so it makes sense for him to have his last name.
You gotta admit, Elsa Lanchester was Hot....
I understand the Hayes Commission actually had her cleavage censored in the film...
I understand the Hayes Commission actually had her cleavage censored in the film...
Frankie's so funny!!! Looks like a guy I dated... oy. Nice work!
I dig
That's not Frankenstein it's his monster however it is a very common mistake
LOVE!!! You are an amazing artist!
"Say it again, Frank baby!"
"Say it again, Frank baby!"
The happy ending that should have been FAVE
Oooh how i loveeeeeeee this
Ha haaa, his expression is great. So funny!
Perfect job!!
Perfect job!!
this so fun to look at! ive always loved frankenstein! thanks for the awesome pic!
His bride looks really good^^
um, actually Frankenstein is the name of the creator...
um, actually Frankenstein is the name of the creator...
Thank you. When I typed Frankenstein's Monster and His Bride, the title was too long for Deviant art to accept.
they are a lovely couple..
Fantastic ! LOVE IT !
Nothing less than a masterpiece!!!
frankie gonna get som, freakie gonna get som, the best couple i ever seen i love zombies their awsome specialy the pin up women
I SO love this piece.
I love the Bride of Frankenstein. Even as a cartoon you've still managed to make her beautiful. Great work.
All your work is Great!
But I love Horror!
But I love Horror!
This cartoon is really cool. Great work!
this is just so freakin rad!
Haha, basically ditto. I'll save you some reading.
I love almost anything to do with Frankie there..but, i really LOVE your work!!! SO, it's nice to see a mix of the two! xo. Diana


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I am an American Christian Missionary and have been waiting for a long time for a Portuguese Bible module to use in the GnomeSword. I want to use Linux for everything but things like this make me go back to Windows.
I prefer the Fiel or the Corrigida text myself. If there is something that I can do please let me know. For now I have the Portuguese Bible in HTML format and have to use two programs when building sermons. I study in English and then have to search the html for the corresponding Portuguese Bible verses.
As I understand, e-sword and several others are using what seems to be public domain files of the Port. Bible. Is there someone that is requesting to not use these files? Who are they? I will give them a phone call and ask for written permission.
Here is one that says that it is free
Proibido todo e qualquer uso comercial. (prohibited any kind of use commercially)
Se você pagou por esse livro (If you paid for this book)
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Você tem este e muitos outros títulos (You have this book and many others)
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Edições em pdf e eBookLibris
I don't think João Ferreira de Almeida would mind if we used his translation.
Here is another one from 1850 http://books.google.com/books?id=2EwMAAAAYAAJ
A Biblia Sagrada contendo o Velho e o Novo Testamento, traduzida em portuguez
By João Ferreira d' Almeida
Published by Sociedade Americana da Biblia, 1850
Original from the New York Public Library
Digitized Aug 28, 2007
1139 pages
Copy writes usually end after 70 yrs. if they could claim copy write at all
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William O. Hall (1914–1977) was the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1967 to 1971, during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie I.
William O. Hall was born May 22, 1914, in Roswell, New Mexico. He moved with his family to Prineville, Oregon when he was seven years old. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon in 1936, pursued graduate studies at the University of Minnesota, served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and served in the U.S. Foreign Service thereafter. He worked in the consular service, the United Nations, and the Agency for International Development.
After serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia from 1967 to 1971, he retired from the United States Foreign Service. He then taught international affairs at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He died on November 8, 1977. Ambassador Hall is survived by his wife, Jayne Bowerman Hall, three children (Sarah Sternglanz, William Hall, and Robert Hall), and two grandchildren.
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6303 Views 11 Replies Latest reply: Oct 13, 2009 2:57 PM by swordswinger710
babowa Feb 2, 2009 10:32 AM
in response to swordswinger710 HelpfulI've encountered the same problem with both my iMac and the MBP and spoke with Apple about it some time ago; however, there was no clear answer as to why any selected slower option would be negated (he agreed that slower speeds are better, but could not offer a solution except to possibly replace the drive and suggested I wait until Apple uses a different brand as stock). My external burner, which I've had for years, does not exhibit this behavior and burns at whatever speed I set it to, so I usually just use it. I also use Toast (8) because I've found that Disk Utility doesn't even offer 2x most of the time (which is what I usually use). I'm wondering if, in their quest to produce ever faster burning drives, they've simply eliminated the slow speed burning option?
swordswinger710 Feb 2, 2009 11:20 AM
in response to babowaThank you for your input - I am considering an external burner as well. Is there one that will give me slow burn speeds, burn Blu-Ray DL, and has LightScribe? I came across one called the LG BE08 here:
...but I'm not sure if it is Mac compatible. Or is replacing the internal drive an option?
babowa Feb 2, 2009 1:02 PM
in response to swordswinger710 HelpfulHere is a link to the models available from LaCie (I have a previous version):
At this time, there is no Blu-Ray listed.
I've checked your link and can't find any mention of Mac compatibility on the model BE08; however, I did find another model that specifically mentions Mac:
I have no experience with LGE or blu-ray drives.
As for replacing the internal - if you are under warranty, you'll need to have it done at an authorized service provider (I have no idea as to the cost, but I'd guess $$$); if you purchase an external, you can use it with other computers and it should outlast your current Mac (mine has served me well with 3 iMacs, a Mini, and currently the iMac and MBP).
swordswinger710 Feb 2, 2009 1:56 PM
in response to babowaThank you so much for all your help. So if the built-in burner speed is unslowable, then I believe I will go with an external; but while I'm at it, I would really like to be able to burn and play blu-ray as well. How does LaCie compare with other brands? They do offer some external blu-ray drives without the LightScribe option, but I've never heard of them before.
babowa Feb 2, 2009 2:42 PM
in response to swordswinger710I have not only the external burner, but 2 external LaCie hard drives as well; I've not had a problem with any of them and they generally "play" well with Macs. If I find a brand that works well with Macs and doesn't exhibit a lot of problems, I generally tend to stick with it, so I've had LaCie products ever since I bought the first external hard drive. Most Apple accessories stores carry the brand. LaCie is located in a suburb of Portland, OR - here is a link to an interesting article/background info on the company:
Again, I'm not very knowledgeable about blu-ray; as far as I know, blu-ray is not supported on the Mac as of now, so if you burn a blu-ray disk and play it in your external, I don't know about being able to see an increase in quality on your Mac?
swordswinger710 Feb 3, 2009 11:18 AM
in response to babowaThanks, LaCie sounds good. Apparently Leopard doesn't play blu-ray yet - hopefully Snow Leopard will. By that time, maybe LaCie will include LightScribe with their blu-ray burner.
babowa Feb 3, 2009 1:31 PM
in response to swordswinger710Thanks for the stars and good luck - of course, no one knows anything about what Snow Leopard may or may not include (and speculations aren't allowed here)...
swordswinger710 Feb 9, 2009 8:46 AM
in response to babowaHow slow can you burn with your burner? Do you think this one will burn as slow as the one you have?
Thanks so much, Juda:)
babowa Feb 9, 2009 9:21 AM
in response to swordswinger710I just checked my burner and the burn options for a CD start at 1x, for a DVD they start at 2x. I usually use 2x for both.
I also checked the specs on that blu-ray burner you linked to; it is not only very recent technology (blu-ray), but my burner is at least 6 years old, so I really don't know because you can't compare the two. Their specs state BD-R 4x to 8x - I have no idea if that means that 4x is the slowest speed in blu-ray. Why don't you use the contact us link on LaCie's site to ask them a pre-sales question (make sure you include your Mac's specs, OS version, etc):
gullapple Mar 13, 2009 6:56 AM
in response to swordswinger710I'm intrested in being able to burn at real time as well. It should be possible to use the 1x speed but the slowest I can get is 6x/7x which is unacceptable to me. There's no way to predict which external burners will allow burning at 1x so I'm not keen on taking that gamble. Besides, if you ask for this in a computer store they don't even know what you're talking about, as if you've been cryogenically frozen for the last ten years. I'm using MFSL ultradisc 24k Gold CDs and usually burn them on my mac mini intel/Leopard (my MBP isn't resonance free enough and won't go slower either). Tests show I do get C1 and C2 errors at high speeds and I have burned CDs that won't play on my CEC TL51x. I use Toast 8 to burn. Any suggestions? Will the drive Apple sells for the MBA burn at 1x?
swordswinger710 Oct 13, 2009 2:57 PM
in response to swordswinger710I ended up going with the LG BE06, which, at it's slowest speed, burns CDs at 4X. I also switched from Verbatim CD-Rs to Taiyo Yuden CD-Rs, which are fantastic. The only issue I've had with the LG BE06 is that I'm unable to burn Disc-At-Once with it. For those disks I use the built-in SuperDrive on my iMac with no problems whatsoever.


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Multimedia quality models aim at evaluating the quality of multimedia (image, audio, and video) items in various applications, including multimedia search and recommendation and multimedia transmission. The quality criteria deployed in such models are typically related to human perception (audio or visual distortions, for example) or to aesthetic appeal related to a given multimedia item. For example, a photo management system that can rank photos based on perceptual quality criteria (such as the resolution or presence of visible distortions), or the criteria related to aesthetics could help users select not only topically relevant photos but also those most appealing and representative for their albums. Furthermore, being able to assess the acceptable quality of an audiovisual signal can guide cost-effective optimization of signal processing (compression, cropping, retargeting) and transmission.
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Article: Factors Involved in the Development of Osteoarthritis After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The incidence of osteoarthritis after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction is disturbingly high, with reports of nearly 50% of patients developing mild to moderate osteoarthritis 6 years after surgery. Few studies have assessed the factors involved in the development of osteoarthritis. The following 10 factors will be found to be predictive of osteoarthritis: meniscectomy, chondral damage, patellar tendon grafting, age at surgery, time delay between injury and surgery, type and intensity of postsurgery sport, quadriceps strength, hamstring strength, quadriceps-to-hamstring strength ratio, and residual joint laxity. Cohort study (prognosis); Level of evidence, 1. Fifty-six subjects with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were followed for 6 years after surgery. Assessment included KT-1000 arthrometer testing, isokinetic strength testing, a return-to-sport questionnaire, and a radiograph assessment. A discriminant analysis was performed to assess which of the 10 factors could discriminate between those patients who developed tibiofemoral and patellofemoral osteoarthritis and those who did not. Five factors were found to be predictive of tibiofemoral osteoarthritis. Meniscectomy (r = .72) and chondral damage (r = .41) were the strongest discriminators, followed by patellar tendon grafting (r = .37) (chi(2) [7, n = 56] = 25.48; P = .001). Weak quadriceps (r = .39) and low quadriceps-to-hamstring strength ratios (r = .6) were very close discriminators (chi(2) [8, n = 42] = 15.02; P = .059). For patellofemoral osteoarthritis, meniscectomy (r = .45), chondral damage (r = .75), and age at surgery (r = .65) were predictors or close predictors (chi(2) [7, n = 54] = 13.30; P = .065). As not all 10 factors studied were predictive of osteoarthritis, the hypothesis was only partially proven. Preventing further meniscal and chondral damage in patients with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency is critical. Grafting using the hamstring tendons and restoration of quadriceps-to-hamstring strength balance are associated with less osteoarthritis.
Article: A 6-Year Follow-up of the Effect of Graft Site on Strength, Stability, Range of Motion, Function, and Joint Degeneration After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Patellar Tendon Versus Semitendinosus and Gracilis Tendon Graft[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The choice of graft material for anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction remains controversial. Despite the need for well-controlled, long-term outcome studies comparing patellar tendon with hamstring grafting, few studies have followed results for more than 5 years. Graft source will not affect outcome 6 years after reconstruction. Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. Sixty-two patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and 18 uninjured control subjects were studied over 6 years. Thirty-one patients received patellar tendon grafts, and 31 received hamstring tendon grafts. Assessment included knee joint stability, range of motion, muscle strength, subjective function, objective function (running, sidestepping, carioca, and hop tests), and joint degeneration. Clinical stability was restored to all patients other than to the 2 hamstring graft recipients who suffered reinjuries. The KT-1000 arthrometer side-to-side differences were similar in the patellar tendon (1.9 mm) and hamstring tendon (2.0 mm) groups but were significantly greater than that of uninjured control subjects (P < .001). There were no significant strength differences between surgical and control groups, although a 6% quadriceps deficit existed after patellar tendon grafting. In the more demanding functional tests (hop and triple-hop indices and carioca), the hamstring graft recipients performed similarly to the control group, whereas a significant difference (P < .05) existed between the patellar tendon graft and the control group. The incidence of early tibiofemoral osteoarthritis was significantly greater after reconstruction using patellar tendon (62%) than after hamstring tendon grafting (33%; P = .002). Six-year outcomes were very satisfactory irrespective of graft source. However, reconstruction using the hamstring tendons resulted in improved functional performance and a lower incidence of osteoarthritis.
Article: The relationship between knee strength and functional stability before and after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Functional stability of the knee is dependent on an intact ligamentous system and the timely and efficient contraction of supporting musculature. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between muscle strength and functional stability in 31 patients pre- and post-operatively, following a unilateral anterior cruciate ligament rupture. All subjects underwent reconstructive surgery using semitendonosis and gracilis tendons. Isokinetic strength assessment of quadriceps and hamstring muscles was performed at a rate of movement of 60 degrees /s and 120 degrees /s. Functional stability was determined by performance during five functional stability tests that included the shuttle run, side step, carioca, single and triple hop tests. Pearson's correlation coefficient statistics were applied to pre-operative and post-operative data respectively. These analyses demonstrated a significant positive correlation between quadriceps strength indices at both testing speeds and the two hop tests pre-operatively (p's<0.007) and between quadriceps strength indices at both speeds and all five functional tests post-operatively (p's<0.01). Assessed using Steiger's formula, there was a significant increase in the correlation between quadriceps strength indices and three functional tests post-operatively compared to pre-operatively (p<0.05). No significant correlation between hamstring strength indices and functional scores existed pre- or post-operatively. This study has shown a significant correlation exists between quadriceps strength indices and functional stability both before and after surgery, this relationship does not reach significance between hamstring strength indices and functional stability.
Article: The effect of anticoagulation on the restoration of range of motion after total knee arthroplasty - Enoxaparin versus aspirin[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Anticoagulation used for thromboembolic prophylaxis following total knee arthroplasty (TKA) could interfere with movement. This study compares the effect of 2 anticoagulants, enoxaparin and aspirin, on restoration of range of motion (ROM) after TKA. Two groups of 75 consecutive patients, matched for age, arthritic severity, and preoperative ROM, underwent TKA. Flexion and extension milestone measures were recorded daily. Results show a highly statistically significant difference (P<.001) between the 2 groups when comparing the days on which these milestones were achieved. Group 1 (enoxaparin) reached 90 degrees, 100 degrees and 110 degrees of flexion in 8.4, 10.4, and 12.4 days, respectively. Group 2 (aspirin) reached the same goals in 6.8, 8.5, and 10.6 days, respectively. At 15 months after surgery, no statistically significant difference in flexion was seen between the groups (122 degrees vs 121 degrees ). Enoxaparin delayed the return of early but not long-term flexion after TKA.
Article: Muscle strength and function before and after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using semitendonosus and gracilis. Knee[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This study assessed the quadriceps and hamstring strength before and 6 months after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery using the hamstrings and related the findings to functional performance. Six months after surgery is a critical time for assessment as this is when players are returning to sport. Maximum isokinetic strength of 31 patients with complete unilateral ACL ruptures was measured at speeds of 60 degrees and 120 degrees per second. Functional assessment included the single hop, the triple hop, the shuttle run, side-step and carioca tests. All patients underwent a controlled quadriceps emphasized home-based physiotherapy program both before and after surgery. Results show that before surgery there was a 7.3% quadriceps strength deficit at 60 degrees per second compared to the uninjured leg but no hamstring strength deficit. After surgery there was a statistically significant but relatively small loss of muscle strength. The quadriceps strength deficit had increased to 12% and there was a 10% hamstring deficit. Post-operatively there was an 11% and 6.3% improvement in the hop tests, a 9% (P < 0.01) improvement in the shuttle run, a 15% (P < 0.001) improvement in the side step and a 24% (P < 0.001) improvement in the carioca tests (P < 0.001) despite the loss of muscle strength.
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ABSTRACT: Rehabilitation of patients with anterior cruciate ligament injury is a topic of interest among clinicians. Although numerous studies report the deficits after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, there are no data available on the changes in strength and functional performance before and 6 months after reconstruction surgery. This is when most patients are returning to sports activities. In the current study 31 patients with complete unilateral anterior cruciate ligament ruptures followed a controlled rehabilitation program emphasizing early range of motion after surgery and quadriceps strengthening before and after undergoing bone-patellar tendon-bone reconstruction. Strength of the hamstrings and quadriceps and five functional activities were assessed at 1 week before and 6 months after surgery. Preoperative strength assessments using a Cybex II dynamometer showed a 12% quadriceps deficit at 60 degrees per second and 9% deficit at 120 degrees per second with no hamstring deficit in the injured leg compared with the uninjured leg. Despite intensive quadriceps training, the postoperative quadriceps deficit increased to 28% at 60 degrees per second and 22% at 120 degrees per second in comparison with the uninjured leg. There was no change in hamstring strength in the injured leg. Most functional measures improved after surgery. The shuttle run improved by 10%, the side step test results improved by 17%, and the carioca test results improved by 23%. No significant difference was found in the results of the hop test. This study highlights the extent of the quadriceps deficits despite functional improvement and the difficulty in restoring quadriceps strength after bone-patellar tendon-bone reconstruction. It also questions the relationship of current functional tests to quadriceps strength and the role of maximum strength testing as a predictor of function and of safe sporting performance.
Article: Deficits five years after bone-patellar-tendon-bone anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction
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Why ParosKite: Paroskite because i heard so many good things about this place with this amazing spot a lifestyle.
Years in Windsurf: I am 7 years windsurfer
Teaching experience: I don't have
Why Paroskite: because it is a secure place for windsurfing and kitesurfing
Seasons in Paroskite: since day one as rider
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Teaching experience: 2 years
Why ParosKite: BEST SPOT IN EUROPE!!!!!!
IKO level: 1
Years in kite / Windsurf: 3 / 6
Teaching experience: 1 season kitesurfing, 10 years snowboarding
Why ParosKite: It seams to be a friendly and professional team, and a great spot with good conditions for all levels.
Years in Kite: 8 years Teaching Experience: 5 years Why Paroskite: If every kiters arround the world speak about ParosKite spot is for something…….I have to come!!!!!!!! Seasons in Paroskite: Since 2014 Students until now: Arround 200 Kites you ride: Cabrinha, ADI Style:
IKO level: 1
Years in kite: 3
Teaching experience: 2 seasons on kite, 10 of snowboard and 8 on skis
Why ParosKite: windy place
IKO level: Instructor Level 1
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Teaching experience: since 2014
Why ParosKite: Great organization and good vibes
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Years in kite / Windsurf: 10 years kite experience and 20 years windsurf experience
Teaching experience: 1 year teaching experience
Why Paroskite: because I love the spot and the people
IKO level: Level 2 Senior Trainer
Years in kite / Windsurf: 8 years
Teaching experience: 3 years
Why ParosKite: Ideal conditions.Big and well organized school.Beautiful island.
One of the introducers of kitesurfing in Greece and the first Kite instructor in Greece. Ian is originally from Ireland, and now lives on Antiparos. Likes all styles of kitesurfing, often seen riding a surfboard in light winds.
Years in Kite/Windsurf: 10
Teaching Experience: 5
Students until now: 300 more or less
Why Paroskite: Because here you can enjoy kitesurfing like a lifestyle. I love this crazy crew.
It's difficult to believe that our Cabrinha sponsored IKO instructor from the Philippines only started kiting in 2009. However, bubbly Paula is a very accomplished surfer and wakeboarder. By combining her experience and skills into her kiteboarding she has become one of the world's best female riders.
IKO Level: IKO Level 1
Years in Kite/Windsurf: 8 kiting years
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Why Paroskite: Because they give me a chance to work in one of the most beautiful places with a fantastic crew
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Kite-3 years
Windsurf-6 years
Why parosike- Great spot, great school, Awesome wind
23 year old Zuza was a very keen volleyball player until she discovered kitesurfing 3 years ago. Now she has her sights firmly set on becoming the first female IKO Training Master. When Zuza can put her books down, she loves learning new school tricks in strong flat water conditions. Zuza also likes snowboaring, horse riding and snowkiting close to her home in Warsaw, Poland.
Years in Kite/Windsurf: windsurf 10 years, kiteboard 3 years
IKO Level: no idea..
Teaching Experience: 1
Why Paroskite: very nice for both: windsurfing & kiteboarding
IKO Level: Level 2 Senior
Years in Kite/Windsurf: 4
Teaching Experience: 4 years: New Zealand/ Netherlands/ Great Britain/ Greece.
Why Paroskite: Great wind, great beach, great atmosphere & the best Island in all Greece
Years in Kite/Windsurf: 4
Teaching Experience: 1
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Seventeen years after a law mandated a biometric exit system, the work remains undone and contentious.
While lawmakers from both parties complained at a recent hearing about the almost two-decade delay, some questioned whether the effort would be worth the cost.
"After 17 years, we still have no exit system in place," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, (R-Va.) said during the Nov. 13 hearing.
A 1996 law called for the system, to allow immigration authorities to keep track of visa holders. Several deadlines have passed with no action being taken.
"The exit system needs to be completed. Forty percent of undocumented aliens are on visa overstays," said South Carolina Republican Trey Gowdy.
Gowdy and Goodlatte were joined by committee members on the Democratic side who agreed that it is past time for a biometric system, but who predictably differed on how one might be implemented.
Technology experts at the hearing said costs for such systems have come down substantially since the Homeland Security Department last took a formal look at the technology in a 2008 study, which pegged the cost of a national system at about $3 billion.
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However, falling costs in recent years might have made the system more affordable, testified Janice Kephart, former special counsel at the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and former counsel to the 9/11 Commission.
"The first-year implementation costs for all air and sea ports would range from $400 million to $600 million, even assuming significant cost overruns," she told the panel.
James Albers, senior vice president of MorphoTrust USA's Washington operations, told members that seven years ago, an iris recognition system cost more than $250,000. Now, systems are more compact and include facial recognition technology along with iris scans would cost only $10,000 to $15,000.
But costs are not the only concern.
"If it were easy to do, we would have done it in the 1990s," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who was an immigration attorney before coming to Congress. Lofgren acknowledged that the technology has improved, but said it must be implemented efficiently to make a difference. A closer analysis of how biometric systems could be implemented at air, sea and land ports was needed, Lofgren said, as well as a better understanding of what a biometric system would provide beyond what is being obtained with existing systems.
The liberal Lofgren at times seemed to echo the conservative Heritage Foundation, which has suggested that a biographic system would be equally effective at a much lower cost.
Another witness pointed out that all the technology in the world does little good without the will to investigate and prosecute violators.
While the ability to track millions of foreign visitors from entry and exit is a big piece of the immigration puzzle, the impact of a comprehensive biometric entry/exit system could lose its punch if enforcement efforts are lax, said Julie Myers Wood, president of compliance, federal practice and software solutions at Guidepost Solutions LLC and a former assistant secretary/director at Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Homeland Security Investigations arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said Wood, spends only 1.8 percent of its enforcement hours on visa overstays.
For its part, DHS is moving aggressively on biometric technology, as well as optimizing its use of biographic systems, said David Heyman, assistant secretary for policy at the agency. When Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) asked whether Heyman could identify the estimated 5 million visa overstays currently in the United States, Heyman said DHS could identify them on a daily basis using existing systems.
He added that along with several ongoing trials of biometric systems and a joint entry/exit data exchange project with Canada, in 2014 DHS plans to deploy enhancements, including a Unified Overstay Case Management process, an enhanced Alien Flight Student data exchange, and an Enhanced Overstay Hot List that will consolidate immigration data from multiple systems to enable ICE employees to more quickly and easily identify relevant information on overstays.
The implementation of upgrades and new biometric systems could depend on the fate of immigration legislation. The Senate passed a comprehensive bill in the summer. House Republicans have said they are likely to take a piecemeal approach beginning sometime next year.
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Mary D. Nettleman, MD, MS, MACP is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Michigan State University. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt Medical School, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Indiana University.
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Tularemia and bioterrorism
F. tularensis can be freeze-dried and made into a powder which can be aerosolized. This makes it a potential source of bioterrorism similar to anthrax, botulism, or brucellosis because it could be delivered to large numbers of people. Once inhaled, it is estimated that more than 80% of people would become infected and 6% would die. Inhalation of only about 10-50 bacteria can cause disease. If the number of people exposed was large enough, infected people would overwhelm the health-care system and infected soldiers would be unable to fight. Tularemia is difficult to diagnosis, and few people are immune to the disease.
Is there a vaccine for tularemia?
There is no vaccine for tularemia currently licensed in the United States. An older vaccine made from a weakened strain of F. tularensis had many other problems and was withdrawn. There is great interest in developing a new vaccine, not only to protect those at high risk for disease (lab workers or researchers who routinely handle the bacteria), but also for counterterrorism to reduce the threat of biological warfare. The National Institutes of Health is funding several research projects to develop an effective vaccine against F. tularensis.
If a person is exposed to tularemia in a high-risk situation, such as in a laboratory accident, a two-week course of doxycycline or ciprofloxacin pills is recommended. Exposures from tick bites or other low-risk settings do not require preventive antibiotics.
To reduce the risk of tularemia, hunters should not handle wild animals with their bare hands. If a pet brings a killed rodent inside, the rodent should not be touched by the person who disposes of it. Tick bites can be avoided by wearing long pants and sleeves. Hikers should check themselves for ticks every day. If a tick is found on the body, it should not be removed with bare hands. Insect bites may be minimized by using insect repellents.
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The Super Bowl's been over for three days now but we're still picking out some sweet nuggets from Sunday's proceedings. The most recent example came in the form of a previously overlooked attempt at blocking Denver Broncos defensive end DeMarcus Ware. Carolina Panthers tackle Michael Oher tried to hold his ground against Ware's rush but the ground is exactly what betrayed Oher and gave way. The result? A mid-game moonwalk.
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