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Yesterday, the National Broadcasting Company buried the memory of Tim Russert by turning Meet the Press into a campaign event for Barack Obama.
People connected with the Sunday talk shows - producers, bookers, hosts, etc. - understand that they get measured, not on whether they shed light on the shadows within the folds of complex issues, but whether they make news.
That is, does something said on Sunday show up on the front pages of the New York Times and the Washington Post on Monday.
To do that, the Sunday shows spend a great deal of time and effort getting the guest or guests most likely to make news. It even has a name: "The Get." As in, "Meet the Press" had The Get when they booked Colin Powell to be on yesterday's program.
As soon as word leaked out that Powell was going to be on "Meet" it was assumed that he would be endorsing Obama. Why else would he be on? To discuss bilateral relations between the U.S. and Chad?
Dear Mr. Mullings:
Am I mistaken, or did Chris Wallace have John McCain as his guest on Fox News Sunday? Isn't that a campaign event on behalf of McCain by Fox?
There is a difference between having an actual candidate on to defend his or her record and positions and having Colin Powell spending the first half of the show endorsing Obama - without a countervailing supporter of John McCain on at the same time.
I'm still not so sure.
I am. If NBC wanted to demonstrate "fairness" (keep that word in mind as we head into the era of an all-Democrat Washington) they would have had Joe Lieberman on with Powell - a Democrat who is voting for McCain.
Powell claimed that race had nothing to do with his announcement; saying if that were the basis of his decision to endorse Obama he could have done it months ago. He said he was disturbed by the continued Conservative bent of the Republican Party.
Yeah, right. Do you think that NBC would have booked Warren Christopher to announce he was voting for McCain if Christopher thought the Democrats were veering too far to the left?
If the Republican Party were lurching to the right, Mike Huckabee would be the nominee, not "centrist" John McCain.
And, by the way, when he was climbing his way up through the Washington, DC power vines:
Powell was appointed National Security Advisor by Ronald Reagan. Pretty conservative, by most accounts.
He was nominated to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by George H.W. Bush. Moderate, in most people's thinking.
He was nominated to be Secretary of State by President George W. Bush. Certainly to 41's right.


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With administration officials celebrating the "successful" withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, thanking antiwar groups for making that withdrawal possible, and proffering outrageous claims about Iraq's "stability," "sovereignty," and the "demilitarization" of American foreign policy even as Iraq collapses, it is hard to stay focused on America's interests and security requirements. Especially in an election year, the temptation will only grow to argue about who lost Iraq, whether it was doomed from the outset, whether the current disaster "proves" either that the success of the surge was inherently ephemeral or that the withdrawal of U.S. troops caused the collapse. The time will come for such an audit of Iraq policy over the last five years, but not yet. For the crisis in Iraq is still unfolding, and the United States continues to have a huge stake in the outcome. The question of the moment is not "Who lost Iraq?" but rather "Is Iraq definitely lost?"
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A Rat Rod that I saw at the AutoZone Car Show on Saturday September 28, 2013.
wheres this?
Rat rods are ratty this is a hot rod and a nice one at that
Simple yet totally badass!
You were at a car show Saturday too, huh?
Don't worry- I'll post photos soon. I took something like 82 photos so I just need time to pick the best two dozen or so!
My dad would love to have that car!
Dat ground clearance
or lack thereof
or lack thereof
nice n low.
Rat! Cool pic.
Wow this is good, thanks for sharing.
Now that's how it's done!!!


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Paul Noordhof
It is a great pleasure to contribute to a festschrift for Hugh Mellor. In his articles, books and conversation, he has been one of the most significant influences on my thought.
In a rather too frequently discussed paper - as Mellor would be the first to hold - Crane and Mellor inveigh against physicalism. The common argument offered in favour of physicalism is based on the claim that the physical world is causally closed or, more specifically, that nothing non-physical causes something physical. In response, Crane and Mellor write:
Our mental states, intentional and otherwise, could - and would - affect our brain states and bodily movements even if the laws of physics made them all determined also by earlier brain states. The claim that a system thus constrained by non-mental laws must be closed, in the sense of being unaffectable by its mental states, simply does not follow - and it is not true.
(Crane and Mellor 1990:100)
In his later work, Mellor is even more explicit about what he has in mind. He writes:
overdetermination exists … the fact, if it is a fact, that a mental cause C which neither is nor supervenes upon a physical cause C′ of the same effect E would overdetermine E is no reason to deny that C is as effective a cause of E as C′ is.
(Mellor 1995:104).
Nevertheless, although Crane and Mellor are willing to countenance over-determination - even systematic overdetermination - in discussing the causal history of mental events and behaviour, many are not. That is the major reason why most philosophers of mind have become physicalists. A doughty few have tried to square their commitment to the causal closure of the physical world with their conviction that some mental properties are non-physical. These are the 'epiphenomenalists' (Campbell 1970:124-6; Jackson 1998:58; and, in some moods, Chalmers 1996:150-1, 191-203).


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Total Reviews: 738
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Cons: None
Bottom Line: I would recommend to a friend.
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Cons: Way to tight
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good lets you feel most every thing but is still a condom.
Closest I have tried so far to nothing at all!
Feels GREAT! Well worth the money
Almost like nothing there!, ,
the best condom i have ever used! the next best thing to real skin.
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almost like wearing nothing at all!
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These are the best thing I've ever tried. I even lent my unopened box to a friend from France and he gave me back an empty box. He loved them and says American woman are great!!!
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these are by far the best condoms I have tried.
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feels like theres nothing on. She feels all of my penis in a similar fashion.
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best pleasure out of a condom and still strong
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Crowns and other Okamoto condoms are a great fit for me. Bought Crowns instead of Beyond 7's because of the overwhelming positive response I found on your site. Not very lubed, but means less slippage; I use lots on the outside! GF loves 'em too. Many condom retailers, including this one, don't ship in original retail packaging, but UC plastic-sealed my bundle of 100 nicely instead of sending them all loose. Nice professional touch. Thanks UC!
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There pretty tight but very thin and strong. They have no smell and are the best I have ever bought.
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good fit and really thin. my favorite condom
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Didn't even realize that I had a condom on, and neither did she. I had to check again just because I was in disbelief!!!
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The best condom I have ever used. I felt like I was not wearing one.
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Best condoms I've ever used.
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Love it
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Classic condom for great sex.
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best i have used
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You cant beat it!!!!! Try it!!! You'll love it!!!
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Extremely pleasureable with great natural feeling.
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Best condom I have ever used I could barley tell I was even wearing one. My girlfriend asked if it was still on and I pulled it out and showed it to her, she was shocked that it wasn't broken. A few times I even had to pull out because it felt like it broke but it was still intact, awesome!
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best condoms ever period!
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Regular condoms were too small and larger ones were too thick to be enjoyable.Finally one that is wider and still very thin. The texture feels more like your own skin, than with any other condom, I keep having to check to see if it is still on!
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These feel as close to nothing as you can get, and they seem very reliable as well. If you want to feel as close to your partner as possible while still being safe, these are for you!
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This is the first time I have used this brand. The slogan is right:it is like wearing nothing at all! Very good fit!I will buy again.
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they feel really good. my bf & i noticed the difference right away!
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Wow! Wow! WOW!!!!!!!!!
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Both of US like the thin and smaller condoms, and the price is so cheap.
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Feels great, the length is a little short though. I used Lifestyles Large and Trojan Large before. The diameter is good on these, but the length could be a bit longer.
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even though I had a Crown condom on it still felt like I was going rawdawg
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thin, strong, sensitive. good for average sized guys.
Was this helpful? 61 36
Very thin, reliable. Packaging isn't very appealing and condoms are pink in color, if that bothers people. The condom is great though and we like it anyway!
Was this helpful? 134 83
Very thin. Closest thing to wearing nothing at all.
Was this helpful? 87 53
This condom is undercover's best value. I prefer it over any other condom. I have ordered over 200+.
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I really enjoyed using this condom. There is almost no smell and no residue. These condoms were so thin that my girl and I didn't feel a thing. These are excellent condoms.
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My SO and I loved the condoms, several times we thought it slipped off, but it didn't. It felt good and it was strong. It also did not irritate me. These are a keeper
Was this helpful? 20 13
their motto says it all "skinless skin"
Was this helpful? 398 264
Great feel, almost like you are wearing nothing
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YES!!!! Is all I have to say about this condom. I am a female and thought this was the best feeling ever! Almost even better than him wearing nothing. Really those of you who havn't had the plessure of trying this condom do it...just do it!
Was this helpful? 184 122
Definitely the thinnest condom I've ever used. I've never had a problem with them breaking. Nice and stretchy so they still fit larger sizes. Highly recommended, you won't want to use anything else ever again.
Was this helpful? 79 52
it had the best feeling of any condom i have ever used but it was still a condom with a lot less feeling. and it was a skin like pink color which was a bit weird because my boyfriend is dark.
Was this helpful? 157 110
My husband's always ready to go, but condoms took the fun out of it for me. This feels like there's nothing there and with a little extra lubrication it's perfect.
Was this helpful? 45 31
I took one and stretched it in all sorts of directions. Even though the condoms are VERY thin, they're rather strong. Just like with most of the reviews, my boyfriend said it felt like he wasn't really wearing one. :)
Was this helpful? 34 24
Let's the most amount heat come through out of any condom I've ever used!
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They feel pretty good. But they're kinda on the small side. My boy said it felt like he was choking. Had a weird semi-allergic reaction too. But that could have been because we switched soaps too. Sensitive skin, you know? Maybe it was just too tight. Length is good, but if you got girth, maybe just buy 3 to test out before you get the whole box. Make sure they fit.
Was this helpful? 18 13
These are truly ultra thin, but could use a ittle more lube.
Was this helpful? 145 109
This condom is the best i've ever used! It's so thin it's almost like it's not there. They don't have a strong odor or taste like some condoms i've used and the color makes it less noticable too. I'll never use another condom after using this one!
Was this helpful? 143 106
Feels like I'm wearing nothing!!! And I'm not kidding! Don't stop making these!
Was this helpful? 76 58
These condoms feel like I'm going bareback. I can just barely tell I'm not wearing one. These are me and my girlfriend's favorite condom.
Was this helpful? 25 19
I have been using these condoms for about 10 years. Never a problem. Fabulous product.
Was this helpful? 372 288
good snug fit..and they are thin so you almost forget it's there
Was this helpful? 18 15
WOW - these are the BEST - if you have to use um, use THESE!
Loved the condoms, they fit great on a ~5.5 in penis and they feel like nothing else!
Pros: Great fit
Feels great
Super thing
Cons: It's still a condom
Was this helpful? 95 82
If you gotta use 'em, this is the one. Strongest condom I've ever used, and thin.
Was this helpful? 21 18
no exaggeration -- very nearly feels like nothing is on! no contest -- this is the best condom!
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love these condoms.
Was this helpful? 53 47
i bought 50 of these a while back there great ive used bout 40 wit hmy gf never had a break wayy better than trojan extsays those feel like plastic bags compaired to these i always feel safe whn usn these
Pros: strong
Cons: none
Was this helpful? 23 20
Great condoms, I will be purchasing them again in the future.
Was this helpful? 20 18
great fitting and ultra thin made it my favorite so far.
Was this helpful? 8 7
Nothing feels better than this condom. Really is the closest to not wearing a condom at all!!!
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Amazing... girlfriend forgot I was wearing one.
Was this helpful? 56 52
I'm sorry, but they are just another condom! I was *so* excited to try them after reading all the reviews - but they are vastly overhyped.Sex doesn't feel bareback, it feels like you're doing it with a condom ... the differences between this and the other brands I've tried don't seem significant.Those of you who claim they're as good as bareback - have you ever tried bareback??!?
Pros: No odour or greasy feel.
Cons: Very, very tight!
Was this helpful? 48 44
excellent feel, one of the best I've used, if not the best!
Was this helpful? 15 14
Most amazing condom ever! Really feels like you're not even wearing a rubber, and nice tight, snug feel. Used to wear Kimono's, but these are 10X better! Seriously, incredibly close to going completely bareback!
Was this helpful? 13 12
After leaving a VERY long monogamous relationship and not having to use a condom for YEARS, my early forays back into the dating/condom world were disappointing and sometimes frustrating. Crown is the greatest - VERY close to "nothing at all"
Was this helpful? 50 48
I've used over three hundred and not a one has ever broken. I've had other brands break constantly on different occasions, but crowns never let me down.
Was this helpful? 39 38
Like no other condom we've tried. Yes i'm the chick and I love this condom. Go get yours today.
Was this helpful? 21 20
This condom feels great and allows a lot of sensitivity. I often wonder if it's still on, only to find that it is. My girlfriend appreciates its very minimal "condom-taste" and smell.
Was this helpful? 19 18
Beyond Seven and Crown were the best of the five condom types I ordered.
Awesome! The closest thing I have found to no condom at all thus far!
Was this helpful? 18 17
Nothing more to add, except they are the only condoms I really notice when I don't use them.
Pros: You can feel how thin they comparing to any other condoms. You get much more sensations, closest condoms to the "no condom" sensation.
Cons: They are tight, if they feel too tight you shouldnt were them. I prefer thighter condoms as it allows more and better feeling.
Was this helpful? 69 70
I usually buy Durex ultrathins, and with a comparison with my companion, while she says they are the same, the Crowns feel much better for me. I highly recommend.
Was this helpful? 19 19
I've used them before. This is just a great condom. A pleasant surprise to the girlfriend and me when we first tried them out. Please keep selling them.
It has not broken after using 24 condoms and it's really thin - I love them. It really is the closest to the real thing and I've felt the real thing.
Was this helpful? 18 18
Like wearing nothing at all!
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as good as everyone says they are
Was this helpful? 8 8
just as good as beyond seven.
Was this helpful? 5 5
Great feeling, inexpensive; a staple in my condom drawer.
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It really does feel like you are wearing nothing...
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Really close to nothing at all! Hands down the best condom I have ever used!! My girlfriend loves then too!! A+++
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Very thin, yet strong.
Wow. Really awesome product. Tried a lot of brand and this one is the nec-plus-ultra of thin condoms.
Was this helpful? 17 18
The best condoms i have ever used! They don't have sticky lube either, they great.
Incredibly thin condoms... love 'em!
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The best i've tried!
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Our favorite!
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They've never broken on me, comfortable snug fit, and very thin. Great!
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Best fitting condom I've ever used. Nice to have a product for us modest sized guys.
Was this helpful? 17 19
Great sensation for me but not as good for my girlfriend.I was surprised how thin it is and at the same time how strong.
Was this helpful? 33 39
Since my wife is nursing our first child, she can't take birth control. We have tried several other condoms and finally ordered the Crown Skinless Skin condoms. We love them and we WILL be buying more in the future. Like it has been said time and time again, it is the closest thing to nothing at all.
Was this helpful? 18 21
it fit good and fealt great
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This is great it feels like you are wearing nothing, and my girl like it too!!
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Feels like skin and no breaks so far! Had 3 Trojan condoms tear on us in a time span of about 3 months. No more trusting "America's Number 1 Trusted Condom"! I highly recommend Crown., ,
Was this helpful? 30 36
Condoms fit small! I'm 8 inches! Condom was very tight. Lost hard on after trying to put the condom on.
Was this helpful? 18 22
These condoms are better than great. I have thrown away all my other condoms in the stash pile.
I was an idiot and only ordered a 12-pack to see if these lived up to the hype. They do. Now I'm ordering a 36 pack.
Was this helpful? 18 23
Probably the best condom we've ever used. Very thin, and felt like nothing at all!
Was this helpful? 14 18
By far the best condoms I have ever used. They diffently live up to their name!
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We had tried several "thin" and "sensitive" ones, and my husband did say he noticed a difference in them... but after trying these he will never try anything else! And he actually doesn't complain about having to use these!
Was this helpful? 16 22
Thinness allows you to feel more but lacks the warmth of lifestyles skyn.
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okay. still think ill stick with lambskin though
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great fit, right amount of lube.
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These condoms are great. My girlfriend loves them.
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Best condom I have ever used. It doesnt irritate me or dry me out. Faithful user for life!!!
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Simply the best. Strong and thin. Use with Eros lubricant for the best experience.
Was this helpful? 138 254
Man, this condom fits like a dream. If you're not thinking about it, you'll definitely forget that it's on. It seems to transmit heat pretty well for latex, it fits well, it has a very low smell, and is the thinnest condom on the market. It is lightly lubed, but that's nothing that can't be easily fixed. The condom to beat all condoms
Pros: Thinnest, most natural feeling condom ever
Cons: Lightly lubed, but no biggie
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These are the best condoms we have ever used. We will definitely be ordering more!
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thinnest most sensation condom plus great price. I notice they have new wrappers now which confused me at first.
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Closest feeling to nothing....used over 500 so far and have yet to have one break.
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GREAT condom. I have tried a few other thin condoms and this is the best BY FAR. My wife says it feels just like im not wearing one to her and i have to say I feel the same way.
Pros: Feels almost like nothing for guy and for girl
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These are the best condoms hands down. I like how it doesnt smell bad like all the other latex condoms
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very strong and very thin) my favorite
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It was discreet, and the post came quickly for an international shipment. The good reviews about it fitting a "larger" member threw me off, too tight and uncomfortable. It was hard to put on, wouldn#39;t recommend these to anyone. Also the praise for it being "skinless" is crap, it just felt like a condom. :/ I#39;m definitely disappointed., It was discreet, and the post came quickly for an international shipment., The good reviews about it fitting a "larger" member threw me off, too tight and uncomfortable. Was hard to put on.
Pros: It was discreet, and the post came quickly for an international shipment.
Cons: The good reviews about it fitting a "larger" member threw me off, too tight and uncomfortable. Was hard to put on.
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This is the best form of birth control ever! My husband and I love this condom! After having a baby, we decided to use condoms instead of me going on the pill again since we might want another baby in a couple years. This is the way to go because it doesn't even feel like there is anything on. Pair it with the perfect glideable lubricant and you will be in heaven!
Pros: Perfect!
I love to try new and different condoms, but I think my boyfriend and I have found our favorite! He is of average length and width and these fit him just right. I always add my own lubricant to any condom so I cannot say whether or not the lube on this condom is good or not. Overall, it's super thin for him, super smooth for me, and doesn't smell at all!, ,
Tried these out recently. They had a pretty snug fit, I just took it as a sign that it wasn't going anywhere. During the beginning it was great, but without lube on hand it started to become less awesome. Use with extra lubricant on the outside and I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself.
Pros: Good fit, feels great for her
Cons: Not as lubricated as other brands
the thialand versions feel like a knock off and have a very strong order to them that makes you wanna just never open them up again. also more lubercated than the japan ones. i for one love the japan ones. test it out for yourself and tell me what you think
Pros: excellent condoms. when they say "made in japan"
Cons: this last order i got says "made in thialand" they were cheaper for a reason
I've been using these for a while now and all i can say is that they're great! After trying other "thin" brands I have found that these feel the closest to not wearing one. Price is great, and they are VERY durable.
Pros: Very thin, Little to no smell, very durable, great price!
This is lightly lubed, but it is unscented so it doesn't smell bad like some condoms. Bad thing is if she isn't super wet it will hurt her. Also these fit tighter than Trojans but it gives me a better fit.
these condoms are great! girlfriend and I have tried different brands back to back before orgasms and this is super close to the same as nothing. and they seem super tough too.
Pros: thin, durable
These are the best condoms we've ever used. Never experienced breakages, and they are thin enough that they feel great during sex, especially in comparison with other condoms.
Pros: Super thin, comfortable, affordable, strong
Best condoms I have ever used, by far. No latex smell/taste, the thinnest condom to give the closest feeling to raw, but very durable I've never had one break on me., ,
for the price they are the best, no rubber smell, thin, install well, very reliable gone througt 300 without a defect, thin and very cheap, could be a bit thinner
Pros: thin and very cheap
Cons: could be a bit thinner
Awesome. They feel great. Would recommend to anyone. No lube smell. Best condoms I've tried., Awesome. They feel great. Would recommend to anyone.,
Pros: Awesome. They feel great. Would recommend to anyone.
Have been using Crown for decades and they are truly the best available, but hard to locally find. This is where your company is the best., ,
Very high quality. Extremely thin yet strong at the same time, my girlfriend loved them and so do I! Will most likely buy again!, ,
Extremely thin though it was a little too tight for me. Tons of sensation but a little to tight at the base., ,
they are amazing. they are too cheap - feels like robbery, they are amazing., too cheap - feels like robbery
Pros: they are amazing.
Cons: too cheap - feels like robbery
My boyfriend and I have used over 100 of these and will never use anything else!, thin, smooth, no smell,
Pros: thin, smooth, no smell
Closest feeling to real skin on skin. We could each feel eachother's warmth and the sensation was great.
Comfortable, but is short and thin at 7" long 5 1/2" wide. Very difficult to put on when fully erect.
Quick delivery and a great product. Will definitely be a return customer.
Break easily if not lubed enough! But A+ on the packaging undercover!
Thin and durable. Its great! No problems and feels great.
Stopped once because it really felt like nothing was on!
This also gives great feeling of wearing nothing at all.
The absolute most sensitive condom I have ever used !, ,
Ultra thin and strong condom, low odor and great feel.
Just letting you all know that these are latex condoms.


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counting the ways she smiles by MegsonWatch
©2011-2016 Megson
any ideas for the title?
"not a girl, not yet a woman"... title eh? shes so pretty.
This is so beautiful!! How old is the model??
She's 11, I guess.
Oh she's cute, and actually looks natural in this photo!!! fantastic photographer and model!!!
OMG! great, fantastoc, SOO BEAUTY, LOVEEEEEE IT!
I love this photo! Aww
beautiful picture
smile and hair on the air!
IM AMAZED I LUVV LUVVV LUVV IT! Her hair flowing is beautiful and then the colors of her eyes and how you got every strand of hair in the picture! <3
"Catch me!"
her eyes look like the colors of a mermaids tail it is so cool!
Wind Dancer *gg
lovely portrait !
How about, cutie alert ; )
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and pretend that we still get along,
half-hearted quips and idle chats,
eyes that brush but never gaze.
While sometimes, for a brief suspense,
there was this moment when we spoke
where I looked at you and you at me
and for that moment, we were friends.
But no matter now, we're moving on,
This is about to lose its rhyme
and cover all the darker places,
And anyways, I'll soon be gone.
This one reads the gospel to me -
in the face of every question.
His book of reason, of why's,
but mostly, of why not's.
He's been writing it since he was a child,
you see, and it's a long book -
I think he'll die before he finishes,
before he runs out of excuses and explanations.
And you. I still think of you sometimes, you know?
When we're alone with thoughts of wide spaces
and copper cages of scrollwork.
But I promised that I'd save your tears.
So I do - I won't let them flow.
As long as you get out of that damn grey river
and up the stairs to the great big door.
And please smile at me like that, just once more.
I want a sippy-cup of happiness,
sprinkled with a hinted storm,
A blackened marble stallion
to rear frozen in a dead finesse.
There is something about this other one that waits,
lurking beneath the social ruse,
I've seen the Jaguar's tail
in the broken branches.
A flicker of silky plushed death
padding along softly,
glimmering beneath half-shuttered lids.
Something about him that waits.
It snowed at work today.
105 degrees and it snowed the finest white powder.
They became as fools, caught the flakes on their tongues,
flushed cheeks and white noses -
and long after the snow had fallen they collapsed
like wounded beasts as the poison took its toll.
I just watched, and pitied them.
They called it fun in their madness.
She is screaming again.
Always in the back of my mind, screaming.
But there are no words,
just garbled noises that fade in and out,
as if in a fever, where your hands seem to swell
as you shrink and shrink into the spinning bed and the walls tilt!
just around a corner in my mind.
Never, ever, ever enough.... ...hey....
I'll whisper it again. "hey you..."
I wish you could hear me,
so small at your feet -
her arms wave like crazed tentacles
as her eyes bulge cartoonishly, spinning in their sockets.
What a horrid beast your rage has become in my memory cage.
Should I kill it? Would that be kind?
Sometimes, I sit in front of that torrential, murderous howling
and I think it is terrified. And hurt.
We share some tears, for this I have found we have in common,
and then my communion with the beast is over.
I leave it on with its rantings.
Why won't it just die? Poor beast.
Poor memory cage, to have to contain such a thing.
Then there was one, who must never ever be believed,
was stable chaos, my servant and ruler,
She/He/It/They was everything.
Murdered. M.u.r.d.e.r.e.d.
The morbid ball of a word lolls about my mouth and chokes.
The emotions are long gone -
burningly spent and buried in a diamond tomb.
But the one was the one, was the hope and understanding,
before I understood.
I gave up my pain, literally passed it on,
and then we hunted. And there was a cold peace.
Nothing would touch me because
he/she/it/they would kill anything on sight.
Did, actually, but no one knows about that.
Perfect lunatics, roaming and running,
and we laughed into the night
like hyenas would sing to a kill.
I was just a child when I saw how to kill
and more importantly, how to let live.
Two wolves and a sheep sat around a table
and voted on what to have for dinner.
Someone said something somewhat like that about Democracy once.
That it must be more than the above.
I think it was Reagan, but no one remembers him now.
I certainly don't, but this guy here does.
He is old and before he can say more, he has passed on.
"What did he just say?"
"I don't know. Who cares?"
Generation gap. Gap? Hah! Trench!
Trenches! That leads me to another thought!
When has art saved a life? Literally, I mean?
I know when. And I knew this artist once whose life was spared
by some charcoal and oil pastels.
But art cursed him as well,
for his life it demanded theirs,
and every brush stroke killed a man.
Or woman. Or child.
Thousands fell in seven years.
He was blessed with the brain rot much later on
and died thinking himself alone.
I share his blood.
But the filthy red pigs made him do it.
You should read the book sometime.
From pigs to swine and pearls and songs...
(And this one is still SCREAMING at me, god!
For years now! Don't you get tired, thing?!)
Things are so empty. Stardust, they say,
are you and I. But what is Stardust made of?
Entropy? But that's just an equation
so that didn't even make sense.
It just rhymed with what would have followed.
(If the dog would not lick so noisily?!
Because I just forgot! Forgot to go to sleep again as well
and I hate that.)
I heard a cicada scream in fear the other night.
Never before would I have thought to hear that tone
in an insect's voice. Yet, incredibly,
when I heard the buzzing outside,
it ripped me out of my book as would the cry of a hurt child.
The experience was stunningly impossible; I had to save it.
I couldn't even control the impulse.
I was possessed, as if someone were beating an infant on my doorstep.
An insect! I hear them every night! Why this one?!
There was something in its tone...
By the time I got outside it was dead.
The black kitten happily munched on the last wing
and I patted him on his stupid little head.
Back to War and Remembrance.
So where do we end this thing,
because by now you must be lost and spinning,
Yet my mind is still hopping, and snapping into place
these random things at such breath-taking pace.
Rhyme and structure, don't even ask.
You're welcome to try and piece it together,
but to me, the chaos is fantastically clever!
Do the rules even matter if the message is clear?
Would you ignore "FIRE!" without "Madam" or "Sir"?
But wait, I forget, this reads more like "scramble"
to anyone not privy to the rubber-ball jumble
upstairs in my attic of skeleton dancers
and bones neither speak, nor divvy out answers.
My apologies.
Your guess is as good as mine, but at least I know what I'm talking about!
Nov-29-2012 -- FOR COHERENCY, SEE TEXT BELOW. --
But really I just threw this up for fun because I really liked it. This is how most of my work starts out before I reign it in a bit and force it to abide by something like coherency. It probably won't make any sense because every couple of stanzas are about a totally different topic, so maybe it would help if I explained a bit.
The first two stanzas are fairly obvious, I think, and revolve around a broken friendship.
The third stanza transitions into the fourth and fifth. "This one reads the gospel to me..." regard a frustrated male person in my life who always seems to carry a book of excuses and denials with him, and throws it in my face every chance he gets. It's basically his "gospel". I don't think he'll ever really change, hence "I think he'll die before he finishes it."
"And you. I still think of you..." The next two stanzas are about my brother who died two years ago, and a dream I had about him a few months ago, where he couldn't get to heaven because he was trapped in a river of our tears. He was in a copper scroll cage in my dream.
"I want a sippy-cup of happiness..." Is partially a quick spit of personal frustration and the want for a challenge with an earned reward in my life.
"There is something.." It then moves on to my work where (this is all in the past now, since it applied when I first wrote this poem) my boss kept hiring drug-users and felons, and one in particular made me uneasy. He was one of those people that, despite their friendly approach and apparent normalcy, you just automatically don't like from day one. I don't know how else to describe it, he literally always felt like a cat hiding in the bushes.
At this point, though the piece has already begun to fall apart, I threw out rhyme and rhythm and just wrote.
"It snowed at work today..." refers to the cocaine that one of the afore-mentioned felons brought in to work and the fact that many of the guys immediately jumped on the opportunity. It was 105 degrees that day, Texas summer, and so of course it amplified the cocaine crash a bit later quite severely. This is a welding shop where I worked, so not the safest place to be around a bunch of coked-up morons. Part of the reason I don't work there anymore.
"She is screaming again." The next three stanzas (not counting the "hey..hey" snippets in the middle as a stanza) jump back into my past to refer to a female figure in my life whose anger has left quite an impression on me, and sometimes haunts me to this day, more from a frustration than fear standpoint.
...ok, continuing with "Two wolves and a sheep.." is a Reagan quote, and the stanza expresses my frustration with the current state of our country, and the ideals it used to represent. Again, WAY off-topic.
This "stanza" (lol, yeah right) talks about my grandfather who was an art teacher, drafted into the military back in WWII, in Europe. He was captured by the Russians and spent seven years as a POW in one of their death camps. They spared his life because he was an artist and, among other things, forced him to paint the symbols on his fellow prisoners' uniforms, whether they would live or die. Many were his friends. He wrote two books about his experiences, but came down with severe Alzheimer's in his later years. Charcoal and oil pastels were his main mediums.
Referring to the Russians by the old term of "red pigs", as he would have called them, made me think of swine, which carried me into the song "I Am The Highway" by Audioslave, which of course begins with "Pearls and Swine, bereft of me.."
From there I babble and what I say is very literal in meaning. My dog woke up at this point and began to lick himself quite noisily, which badly broke my fragile 2AM concentration. I jumped back in with the first thing that popped into my mind, which was the very strange cicada experience the other night. I was reading a WWII series entitled "War and Remembrance" at the time. Kinda' boring by the way, if you're curious.
"So where do we end..." was the point where I had lost enough concentration to give in and conclude this thing. Following with that theme, I reigned the piece back in a bit, though now in a different format than the one it had started in, and even managed to rhyme once or twice. I purposely mentioned the chaotic nature of the entire - what do I even call it, because I don't want to sully the word "poetry" - thing, acknowledging its deep faults, but also pointing out that this was simply the way things were "upstairs" in my mind.
It went from the beginning of an ordered piece into a tumbling explosion of brainstorms and then finally drifted back into some semblance of order.
This is not really up for a technical analysis, unless you're feeling very brave and ambitious. I think it is a bit too far gone for that. I am more curious about general impact and impression, since again,this was mostly just cutting loose on my part.


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Crowds come out for Iowa caucuses
As many as 675 people filled the room of a local church on Monday in Iowa City to caucus for their candidates.
As many as 675 people filled the room of a local church on Monday in Iowa City to caucus for their candidates.
With the addition of River Valley Health Partners, Prime Healthcare includes 42 hospitals in 14 states with nearly 42,000 employees.
Google revealed that the company gave Ved $6,006.13 – "Google" spelled numerically. Google doubled it after learning Ved had donated his rew…
The train was carrying hazardous materials.
The Nielsen company said Fox's audience was more than three times what the network typically gets for a Sunday night.
The Broncos and Carolina Panthers, who meet in Super Bowl 50, make their first public appearances at media day on Monday night.
The Democrats have 44 delegates at stake and the Republicans have 30.
McNeil kicked off the campaign on Saturday night "not to tweet, retweet, or mention Johnny Manziel on Twitter in February or until he is no …
McCurdy is being held on a $25,000 secured bond. Dowdy is being held on a $10,000 secured bond.
Ernst was charged with shoplifting and booked into the Hernando County Jail.
Police said there is no evidence of foul play.
On Jan. 29, Clark got to hear her son's heartbeat inside Jordan.
Lisbon travels to Leetonia tomorrow for an ITCL clash.
The 15-1 Panthers will host Grand Valley tomorrow.
Springfield (13-3) will travel to Hanoverton on Tuesday to take on the Golden Eagles.
The Raiders are seeking their 14th win of the season when they meet East Palestine tomorrow.
WHO estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year.
Jones has a lengthy criminal history and in one case tried to claim he was legally insane, according to court records.
The requirement is included in the first-year plan for a consent decree.
Miranda May and Paul Wick, Jr. say they're lucky that they got out of the car with their one-year-old son before it went up in flames.


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Bypass Beats Stents for Diabetic Heart Patients: Study
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Latest Heart News
MONDAY, Nov. 5 (HealthDay News) -- For a subset of heart patients who are both diabetic and have more than one clogged artery, bypass surgery appears to outperform the use of artery-widening stents, a major new trial finds.
The study adds more evidence that bypass is the preferred approach for this type of patient, according to experts discussing the findings Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Los Angeles.
"This has the potential to change clinical practice," said Dr. Alice Jacobs, director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and interventional cardiology at Boston Medical Center. In her commentary, she said the results of the new trial "add to the consistent evidence base supporting coronary artery bypass grafting as the preferred strategy for patients with diabetes and multi-vessel coronary heart disease."
The findings were also published online Nov. 4 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In bypass surgeries, doctors reroute blood flow around a blocked artery using a grafted vessel taken from another part of the body. In stenting, doctors use a catheter to insert a thin metal mesh tube called a stent into the artery, to prop it open.
Bypass has typically outperformed stenting in trials done in the past, but some experts thought that was only because older stents tended to re-close too often. Over the past decade, new drug-eluting stents have been developed that work better at preventing vessel reclosure.
According to Jacobs, the new trial's launch "was fueled by the contention that drug-eluting stents would negate the advances of [bypass]."
But the trial, funded by the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, found that even with the use of drug-eluting stents, bypass still came out on top -- at least for very sick, diabetic heart patients.
The study included 1,900 such patients, 83 percent of whom had at least three clogged vessels. Patients averaged about 64 years of age and 71 percent were men.
The research was led by Dr. Valentin Fuster, director of Mount Sinai Heart at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City. He and his colleagues randomly assigned the patients to receive either bypass surgery or the placement of a drug-eluting stent. The researchers then tracked patient outcomes for about five years.
Bypass remains "the preferred method" of keeping arteries flowing for diabetic heart patients, Fuster said at an AHA press briefing Sunday. For example, at five years, the rate of a combination of events such as death from any cause, nonfatal heart attack or nonfatal stroke was 26.6 percent among those receiving stents versus 18.7 percent for those who got bypass, Fuster said.
The five-year rate of heart attack was about 14 percent for patients receiving stents, but just 6 percent for those who had undergone bypass.
There was only one downside to getting bypass: a slight bump up in the odds for a stroke, from 2.4 percent over five years for those who got a stent to 5.2 percent for patients who underwent bypass.
Jacobs said the impact of a study like this could be important.
"In the United States alone, we know that nearly 1 million coronary revascularization procedures are performed yearly, and 35 percent of these are performed in patients with diabetes," she said at the press briefing. "We also know that there's a higher incidence of adverse outcomes in patients with diabetes undergoing revascularization."
But what about the relative costs of the two procedures? A second study, also presented at the AHA meeting, found that over the long term, bypass beat stenting in that regard as well.
In a sub-analysis of data from of the Fuster-led trial, Elizabeth Magnuson and colleagues found that even though upfront costs for bypass were higher, over the long term health-care dollars were saved, because fewer patients suffered new heart attacks or needed new operations to re-open arteries.
"Our results demonstrate that bypass surgery is not only beneficial from a clinical standpoint, but also economically attractive from the perspective of the U.S. health care system," Magnusson, director of health economics and technology assessment at Saint Luke's Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City, said in an AHA news release.
But one other expert stressed that heart disease care is never a one-size-fits-all affair.
The new trial "was limited to patients with diabetes and multi-vessel disease, which likely is a different type of patient from those with multi-vessel disease who don't have diabetes," Dr. David Williams of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, said at the press briefing.
He believes there may be many patients without diabetes, but with multi-vessel disease, "for whom bypass surgery offers no apparent benefit over [stenting]."
Dr. David Friedman is chief of heart failure services at Plainview Hospital in Plainview, N.Y. He said that a patient's input is also key to decisions about cardiovascular care.
"I do factor in patient preference, which tends to be for the up-front, less invasive stenting approach," he said. But Friedman also agreed that opting for bypass may mean fewer repeat surgeries down the line.
Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.
SOURCES: Nov. 4, 2012, press briefing, annual meeting of the American Heart Association, Los Angeles, with: Valentin Fuster, M.D., director, Mount Sinai Heart, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City; Alice Jacobs, M.D., director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Interventional Cardiology, Boston Medical Center; David Williams, M.D., cardiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; David Friedman, M.D., chief of heart failure services, Plainview Hospital, Plainview, N.Y.; Nov. 4, 2012, online, New England Journal of Medicine; Nov 4. 2012, news release, American Heart Association
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Southern guys, Bermuda discussion thread
Seems like we are a minority on this forum so I thought I would start a discussion specific to Bermuda grass varieties.
Personally, All of my customer's are hybrid Bermuda (419). My personal lawn is also the same.
What are your best practices? App timings? what products do you use depending on the time of year? Preferred mowing heights for customers? What things have you done that you regret or products that have failed? Do you apply preventative pesticides for insects or only on an as needed basis? When do you prefer to Aerate?
I started reeling my personal lawn this year and I'm really impressed with the turf density so far and we're not even at the peak of Bermuda due to the cooler temps we've had this spring. I can't wait to see how it looks in another month when we're getting into peak growth.
Obviously reeling is the best way to mow Bermuda but then there's reality that many customers aren't willing to pay for it since it's a common turf around here and installed in houses of many price ranges so we have to mow it a little less frequent and a little higher than preferred. I personally start the season at 1.5" on weekly customers and raise it up to 2" towards the heat of the summer.
Let's get something going here to create a reference point for others.
How low are you mowing on your own lawn? Low mowing heights serve as a natural growth suppressant. I also take a look at N source and frequency of application. Keeping bermuda at a low height of cut is a bit more expensive than rough cutting it, but the appearance is there.
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I have a hard time getting my customers to mow every week, and then they wonder why the lawn looks like poo. Its gonna be a long summer. On my own lawn, its every 3 to 5 days or it just doesn't look as good. But as i probably won't have time to mow my own that frequently i will go atleast every week. People are either to cheap or lazy to have the lawn mowed each week it seems. Plenty of customers want the golf course look without the effort or cost of proper maintenance. I'd like to someday reel mow my own bermuda as well, i am gonna have to get my lawn leveled first because its so bumpy. For now, i mow it on the high side with my honda 21" and it looks alright. I get it just low enough to where i don't scalp a bunch of areas. can't wait for this warm weather, bermudas really looking bad here now. I see a few looking good here and there though.. I have seen alot of people burning the bermuda this year in my area, and that has seemed to turn out well for those folks.
On my personal lawn I'm experimenting with doing N apps every 30 days as opposed to the every 6 week apps I do on customer lawns to see how it does. We're still kinda cool here and haven't broken into the 80's much other than a few days and night time temps still aren't ideal yet for the Bermuda to do its best. We're suppose to see night time temps in the upper 60's early next week so that'll help. Tonight was kinda warm and I could feel more humidity in the air.
I agree on the appearance piece, I love the look so far and we're not even near peak growing season yet. I've already gotten a few "wow it looks like a golf course fairway" from neighbors.
I also do the mowing on 90% of my customers so I can keep that piece done properly. I won't accept a customer who wants bi-weekly mowing.
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I do provide a leaflet with each round with all that info. some of my customers are to busy to mow regularly. theres always gonna be those people though.
If i only accepted weekly mowing accounts i would have 0 customers. I'm hoping some switch to weekly once things get growing good. bi-weekly is fine for right now.. but it won't be long.
hell of a storm here now in dallas, ga. and its gonna be hot next week.
What is everyone's opinion on the 30 day apps? I am thinking of going to every 30days also.
Got my roller from Reelworks the other day and put it on the tru cut. I like it! It helps when cutting along the edge of my beds so I don't drop a wheel in the bed and scalp it. It also adds some weight to the front end so it doesn't pop a wheelie as badly when I engage the drive.
For your lawn, it might be worth it to consider a golf course style liquid program. Low rates of soluble fertilizers and Primo applied every 30 days. I do break out the Primo on any lawn that grows too much between mowings. BTW, the convention in Hawaii is for lawns to be mowed every 2 weeks. Some lawns, due to generous watering, better than normal soil and/or full sun all day cannot stay within those boundaries. 0.25 oz Primo added to the liquid fertilizer fixes that. A lawn hit with 1+ lb of N from slow release will always overgrow. Hence my preference for low rates of nitrate and ammonium nitrogen applied at 30 day intervals. I remember one zoysia lawn a "landsaper" threw 24-2-10 on. That lawn grew 6" per week every week for the next 2 months. What you apply as fertilizer and how much has a large part in determining whether the lawn will need daily or every other day mowing. The last time I ever sprayed 0.5 lb of N from urea, that lawn overgrew between mowings. Other people have done the same thing applying 1 lb of N from 21-0-0.
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The Zeiglering. According to Trey Zeigler, Trey Zeigler will announce his college destination on ESPNU tomorrow. A guy named Drew Ellis said he was delaying his decision, but on matters related to Trey Zeigler my number one source is Trey Zeigler. His destination is unknown but Michigan and Central Michigan, where his dad just picked up a four-year extension, are usually the teams mentioned as having the best shot. UCLA doesn't think it's part of the festival and Arizona State didn't get a visit and is almost definitely out of the picture. Michigan State is the other team in Ziegler's top five. They have a logjam at the three with Keith Appling and others, though.
ESPNU's signing day special kicks off at 4 PM, which means we'll be waiting anxiously for an hour before Zeigler shows up. No one has anything approaching solid information. I think it's Central but I am biased to believe nothing good will happen with Michigan basketball recruiting.
Fun. I don't know if this means anything other than the NCAA doing its due diligence:
"The NCAA has met with individuals involved with the West Virginia football program to identify any potential rules violations," school officials said in a statement, released on Tuesday. "The university has fully cooperated with the NCAA during this process. West Virginia University and its department of intercollegiate athletics is committed to operating its athletics department in conformance with the legislation and policies of the NCAA and the Big East Conference."
We'll see if anything comes of it. Right now it's just a phone call and another opportunity for people to restate their opinions about how Rodriguez should or should not be fired.
Epic Red. The Daily continues its series of articles that have no-foolies established it as probably the best newspaper of any variety covering Michigan sports. Seriously. the sort of long-form profile/investigative pieces that are the main thing people point to when they lament the coming end of newspapers have been almost exclusively the province of the Daily this year. There was the Pahokee article, the Antonio Bass profile, and now a look at Red Berenson 26 years into his career as Michigan's head coach. Here's Red recruiting Chris Fox:
"If you want to be a Michigan Man, you should know in the next week," the coach said to the recruit, who looked and felt much more like a kid than he did when he walked into the office just minutes before. "It will just become clear."
It became clear.
(HT: MGoJen.)
Quarterback. Rapper. Auteur. David Cone has a short film in the Statesboro Film Festival. Seriously.
/in before lame freep joke based on ending.
A "these are my readers" moment. So a junior clarinet major at Michigan sends me this Microsoft paint reimagining of Tom Harmon:
It's a revamp of a Terran Marine:
By his account, this took Andrew Kobalka seven hours. He asked I not retouch it before posting.
Yeah… these are my readers. I am a privileged man.
Vada update. It kind of sucks that I'm tracking the progress of three separate former Michigan players battling cancer, but at least the news on all three has been encouraging of late. Vada Murray's wife has just updated their caringbridge site and the news in it seems positive:
We needed more tissue in order for the tissue to be tested to get Vada into a very promising clinical trial. In order to get into this trial, Vada's cancer needed to carry a particular mutation. After lots of waiting for the trial to be approved, a screw up at the lab, and many sleepless nights, we learned recently that Vada's cancer does carry this mutation. The presence of the mutation is significant. Only 7% of non-smoking adenocarcinoma patients carry this mutation. We haven't felt recently like the odds have been in our favor, but now they are. We plan to head to Karmanos shortly for some tests & his official "start" of the trial.
Vada has felt great physically but emotionally has been out of gas, especially for the last two months.
So there's that. Phil Brabbs just underwent a bone marrow transpant and seems in good spirits.
We cheer and cheer again. Touch The Banner brings a reveal and a story. The reveal: epic MGoCommenter Magnus was in the glee club. The story comes from the GC's 150th anniversary celebration, which featured one Lloyd Carr:
Coach Carr told a story about former UMMGC director Willis Patterson, who directed the group from 1969 to 1975. When Carr was head coach, he invited Patterson to teach his players how to sing "The Victors," Michigan's fight song. After ten years of teaching the team the song, Patterson once said to Carr, "You know, those players just aren't very good at singing that song."
Carr responded, "Well, who's teaching them?"
Etc.: BHGP's latest linkdump post notes that Angry Iowa Running Back Hating God has stricken all three of Iowa's potential starters for their upcoming spring game, documents the annual refugee camp forming outside Carver-Hawkeye, and embeds a truly epic redneck video. WLA propaganda posters ho.
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Give money to cancer. No, cancer research. Michigan's Relay for Life is approaching and the football team has various items on auction including "Coffee with Coach Carr," spring game field passes, an autographed football, and track suits. You can also donate directly. There appears to be a competition going on between various members of the team to raise the most money. Your dominating leader thus far:
What's with everyone else? Are they spending all their time talking to babies?
Spending all your time talking to babies. Here's Devin Gardner having a nonsense conversation with a baby. The baby enjoys it more than actual words from Gardner. Geoffrey Canada is alarmed.
I've got nothing here. It's Devin Gardner talking to a baby. It requires nothing else.
Also, Gardner and Martell Webb are transferring to Arizona State.
Who is important, who is marginally important, who is a running back. The Mathlete returns with another diary that tackles one of the great unasked questions of our time: are all returning starters created equal? Or, since everyone thinks quarterbacks are way more important than anyone else, how unequal are they?
Some interesting findings:
- Running back experience means zero. Running back is the position at which instant freshman starters aren't that terrifying, but this is quite a statement: "No position on the field came close to running backs in terms of lack of value for returning starts. There was literally no correlation from returning starts from running backs to on field success."
- Quarterbacks do matter but the most important thing is to have some experience: the bottom 20% got hammered out of proportion to the rest of the country.
- Despite running backs having almost no impact, the run game as a whole is heavily dependent on returning starts.
There wasn't a defensive breakout but as a whole it was a lot like quarterback: having severe experience deficiencies is very bad, but milder ones are not a huge deal.
This is not going to do anything but it makes me feel slightly better. Count Red Berenson amongst the folk who are totally pissed off you guys about the waved-off goal against Miami:
"It's really frustrating," said Berenson, who said he didn't see a decent television replay of the controversial no-goal until the Wolverines returned from Fort Wayne, Ind., at 3 a.m. Monday morning. "I never got a clear answer about why the goal didn't count or if there was any room being made for human error ... and that's what we're trying to find out." …
"I saw what I saw and I know what I know," Berenson said. "I think it's pretty obvious."
The lack of accountability here is frustrating. No one has stepped forward to provide any explanation, likely because there isn't one other than "we screwed it up."
Question: shouldn't hockey move to a system sort of like the way the NFL handles fumbles? These days you can fumble, be ruled down, and still lose the ball if the referee decides that the whistle did not have an impact on the play. As the refs headed to the box Sunday I knew two things. One: it was obviously a goal. Two: because the whistle went before the puck was in the net, it would not be called a goal. But the whistle had nothing to do with anything. There was no way anyone on Miami could have stopped Lynch from scoring since the puck crossed the line an instant after the whistle went. It had no impact on the play. So why create a fiasco? Why not just go to the box, figure out that it was a good goal and the quick whistle didn't impact the play, and award it?
Also, Mike Spath reports that Berenson plans on returning next year but it will likely be his last.
Co-sign. Hunwick on the Frozen Four:
Now, Hunwick cannot imagine going.
"No, I won't be down there," Hunwick said. "Maybe I'll watch it on TV. But probably not."
Ballin'. If you're interested in club seats, an MGoUser has penned a spectacularly long account of his purchase. There is a man named Ted. He is apparently spectacular, as is the club seating:
The club area was AMAZING ... it was really top tier county-club grade workmanship. Very high ceilings, wood paneling, surprisingly spacious, windows everywhere, and cool "maize" mood lights shining through the wood panels on the ceiling. There were speaker grills on the ceiling where the live sounds of the stadium are going to be piped in. The food stations were not in yet, and none of the tables, chairs, etc. are ready to be moved in. Ted said that it should all be done well before game day ... everything is on track.
If you're considering signing up, check it out.
Etc.: This place got shot down by google news when I applied because it didn't produce news or have multiple contributors, both of which the site actually does now. But Bleacher Report is good to go. Guh?
Meanwhile, Kevin Clare did not make the US U18 World Championships team. He's been playing with the U17s of late. Bad sign? OTOH, Merrill just went 11th in ESPN's most recent NHL mock draft.
If you've missed CRex's epic life, now is as good a time to catch up. The latest installment features CRex watching the Miami game in the same room as his live-in Korean girlfriend's parents.
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Red versus the fly. Oilers blogger Lowetide usually kicks off his posts with some old-timey pictures and a comparison between then and now. The latest one is a shot, of all possible things, of Red Berenson taking on the LA Kings:
Appparently their goalie at the time was The Fly. Somehow Red managed to not score here, by the way.
Iowa takes the lead. I'm claiming Demon Bear II for Michigan since he blows up Michigan's three primary rivals. Even so, Iowa has surged back into the lead when it comes to absurd, awesome internet memeage:
(Stanzi the Americanzi was Iowa's first point in this battle.)
Biographical note: when I was in college one of the things we carved out unassailable TV time for was a K-pop video show called "MVH"—for reasons unknown we called it "Mein Video Hitten"—that was a combination of this, ridiculous Korean hip-hop by groups like "Highfive of Teenagers" (or "HOT"), and terrible six-minute ballads in which someone was definitely going to die of a wasting disease. The tension was palpable whenever a new video would come on and we didn't know if it was going to be smokin' chicks in bathtubs or something painfully earnest. I am intensely jealous of Iowa for this. I have definitely not been watching the video most of today.
The sudden relevance of tricorn hats. I wasn't going into Signing Day thinking that musketeers would have any relevance but two separate incidents are taking us back to 1776. One is Bucknell—of the Patriot League—raiding Rutgers for a head coach:
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell hired Joe Susan to take over as head football coach Wednesday, luring back a former Bison assistant to lead a program coming off three straight losing seasons.
Why do you care? Susan is also the recruiting coordinator for Rutgers and his departure might have an impact on FL S Rashad Knight's final decision. Schiano says it won't impact recruiting but it can't help. Bleed Scarlet thinks he was an important guy, FWIW.
The other is a reminder that recruiting could always be worse:
Now all Bruce Heggie has to do is "seal the deal." Heggie, a 6-foot-6, 240-pound TE/DE at Mount Dora High, was mired in a dilemma since December. He was looking for a place to play college football and kept striking out.
"Last week FAMU backed out of their offer and said there wasn't going to be an official visit this weekend," Heggie said. "There was William & Mary, [ed: of the Colonial Athletic Association!] but other than that there weren't really anymore options."
Heggie's taking a visit to… yes… Notre Dame this weekend. It'll be interesting to see how the recruiting rivalry between Michigan and ND develops now that Weis is gone. Weis flat-out killed Michigan head to head even in the waning days of his administration; about the only folks who had a short list with both schools on it that chose Michigan were Mike Williams and Mike Schofield. Things can only get better for Michigan with Kelly there.
More Graham. AnnArbor.com was in on a Todd McShay conference call in which the torrent of Brandon Graham praise continued:
"There wasn't a guy here this week that hustled more, that had better technique, that picked up schemes and did things as quickly as anyone at the defensive-line position or outside-linebacker position," McShay said. "He's just a Bill Belichick-type of guy. He's going to come in and love playing the game and play it better than his measurables and his skill set would lead you to believe."
I'm hoping he lands somewhere Michigan-heavy so I can have a proxy NFL team. Also, I think we can exclude Bruce Tall from any diagnoses of what ails Michigan's defense.
Historian. This one is seriously obscure: the 1971 Michigan-OSU game, which wasn't even on TV. No audio, of course, just coaches tapes:
There's also a two-parter on the 1988 Michigan-Ohio State game (part 1, part 2)
Etc.: Weird twitter spat between a couple of reporters about Tommy Amaker. BHGP reviews the Iowa-Michigan series in the aughts.
Jack Johnson For The Win
Jack Johnson has responded to his general manager's stunning call-out of both himself and Red Berenson, and the item bringing his quotes uses "irate" in the headline:
"I'm a Michigan man. I'm very proud of it. I wouldn't want to have it any other way," Johnson said after the Kings' 4-3 shootout victory over the Buffalo Sabres at Staples Center.
"Michigan has produced more NHL players than any other school. Even the U.S. development program, people rip that and they just don't know anything about it and don't know what they're talking about."
Berenson, Johnson said, "is one of the finest coaches and men that I've met. For my general manager to rip me as a person and criticize me as a person and as a player and call me an awful hockey player is irresponsible and unprofessional."
Excellent work, Mr. Lombardi.
Dean Lombardi Isn't On Red Berenson's Christmas Card List
This is the most direct attack I think I've ever seen on a college coach by a professional in any sport, and it's directed at Red Berenson of all people. Here's Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi talking about Jack Johnson's somewhat erratic development:
During a recent interview, Kings President/General Manager Dean Lombardi explained that Johnson is learning his craft…belatedly.
"This guy has never had any coaching [at the University of Michigan]," Lombardi said. "Jack just did what he wanted."
"Michigan is the worst." Lombardi added. "For hockey people, if you've got a choice between a kid—all things being equal—one's going to Michigan and one's going to Boston University, you all want your player [going to Boston University]. Michigan's players—[head coach] Red [Berenson] doesn't coach. It's 'do what you want.' He gets the best players in the country."
During his two seasons at the University of Michigan, Johnson played as a rover, rather than as a defenseman, even though that was his official position.
This is somewhat ridiculous since Berenson was an NHL coach of the year and any five year slice of his career on or off the ice has more accomplishment in it than Lombardi's entire life. In this specific case, Jack Johnson improved vastly in his two years at Michigan. In his first year I actually yelled "you're supposed to be the third pick in the draft" at him during one extremely frustrating game; in his second year he was a god. He scored more, slashed his penalty minutes nearly in half, and lead the team in plus-minus. Jack Johnson came to Michigan an incredibly undisciplined hockey genius and left considerably less undisciplined but still Jack Johnson.
(Also, what the hell is a "rover"? Lombardi obviously added an assertion that Johnson didn't play defense when he was out there playing, you know, defense. In doing so he makes himself seem like a crank making stuff up because it serves his argument—he's the David Berri of the NHL. )
Lombardi and Berenson have a long, contentious history. Red is probably still pissed off about the way Mike Cammalleri, then a Kings prospect, left the program. Cammalleri promised he'd return and Lombardi enticed him to break that promise. Later, the Kings drafted Michigan signee Trevor Lewis in the first round, signed him immediately, and shoved him off to the OHL. Lewis is still in the AHL. Recently departed sophomore Robbie Czarnik is also a Kings prospect.
Neither Lombardi and I have actually been coached by Berenson; Brendan Morrison has. I asked him for his take on that quote:
I think this is very harsh and irresponsible on Lombardi's part. I don't understand what he is basing this on. Red has been instrumental in the careers of several players, mine included. I am sure Lombardi is aware of Red's accomplishments as a coach not only at the college level but the NHL level as well.
I believe his opinion of the program would be in the minority. Most people in the hockey world have a lot of respect for the Michigan program.
There's probably some kernel of truth in Red's approach to coaching—Michigan takes a lot of penalties year-in and year-out—but Lombardi goes too far. The huge number of Michigan players is not an accident, and they're not all pre-ordained superstars like Jack Johnson. Kevin Porter, Chad Kolarik, Jed Ortmeyer, John Madden, etc.
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Mike Cox is pretty. A reader who's way more familiar with the facial features of fifth-string running backs than even I am was taken aback by a Bivouac newsletter featuring a fellow who appears to be Mike Cox:
Cox's mgoblue mug shot:
That's the same dude, right?
Extremely important CORRECTION: The "death touch" cartoon referenced in the Monday column was not GI Joe but Batman: The Animated Series. A helpful reader provides details:
I believe this was the animated series of Batman. I very clearly remember an episode of this, but I think there was only one real "death touch", which Batman was able to find by feeling up the bad guy's sparring dummy. He then confronts the guy who hits him there!(!). BUT of course Batman is too smart for that and had armored that spot so he wouldn't die, and then pwns the fool.
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I now remember this clear as day. Fools at the Ohio State game are going to get a swift jab that's a one-way ticket to hell. Or they're just going to get poked in the neck. 50-50.
CYA, chanter of CYA. I noticed this during the portion of the Saturday Miami game I didn't spend crossly drinking at home:
I was at the game for about 10 minutes, when after Miami (Ohio)'s first penalty, I participated in what has come to be known as the 'C-Ya' chant. …
Like usual, I said the same chant tons of times Friday night with thousands of other fans and nothing happened.
Saturday night, I got kicked out. Not cool, dude.
Two or three others in the immediate vicinity of one cranky usher also got the boot over the course of the game. I didn't see the guy the next section over executing similar justice, so I assume that these are the actions of one guy who's mad as hell and isn't going to take it anymore, not a Yost-wide thrust.
The uneven enforcement is annoying and will do nothing to stem the tide of that chant. That said, Michigan's been trying to erase or ease the cheer since I started attending games at Yost 11 years ago. In the long-long ago, Red Berenson even brought his adorable five-year old grandchild onto the ice to personally plead the student section to stop; no one did. They just added a sarcastic-seeming "we love you, Red" at the end of the thing. I thought that was pretty disgraceful: the only reason Yost is what it is today is Berenson, so if he wants you to stop doing something you should do it no questions asked.
Mostly, the chant's not clever. It's just a string of stuff that gets progressively further over the line every time something gets added. The things that used to get tacked on, like "Wildfong" in honor of a particularly annoying opponent or "Boren" for obvious reasons, are lost to history, replaced with generic swearing. I have been known to curse like a sailor from time to time; this is not mounting a high horse about vulgarity. The CYA chant is boring and embarrassing in the format currently served at Yost. It's not something worth fighting for when Red Berenson, who should be your God, wants it dead.
If the university actually wants traction on this, they should provide a carrot and stick to the entire student section in the form of ticket prices: higher if they continue, lower if they stop. Randomly tossing chickens* out of the game is just going to shame the Daily's editors even more than their humiliating defeat at the hands at a bunch of socially maladjusted engineers from the Every Three Weekly last weekend. It's not going to help, it's going to instill the Fight For Your Right To Party mentality that I saw after the Children of Red incident. The only thing that will work is a naked display of aggression on the part of the university. Either drop it or drop the bomb.
I will admit that I stood out from the other Children of Yost. I may or may not have had a megaphone. And I may or may not have been, ahem, dressed up — if you went to the game, you might have seen a six-foot chicken standing against the glass in section 18.
On a similar topic. I haven't ever heard Berenson tear his team a new orifice like he did in the aftermath of this weekend's pantsing at the hands of Miami. After the Redhawks scored to go up 4-1 on Saturday, the team started gooning at an alarming rate:
"I'm embarrassed," Berenson said. "We played like a bunch of spoiled brats, and we've gotta suck it up. When you're getting beat, you just keep working hard for the team. You don't take it out on the other team and take stupid penalties that are going to hurt your team even further. That's not the way we play hockey, and this team will learn that."
I wonder if this embarrassment extends to Tristin Llewellyn, whose spot on the depth chart opposite Chris Summers on what you assume is the #1 defensive pairing makes no sense to me. Llewellyn has been a dumb penalty factory ever since he arrived and makes a ton of chance-generating defensive mistakes. Putting him on the ice against top lines is asking for it; I don't get Berenson's faith in the guy when Kampfer is available.
On ice, but only metaphorically. Interesting bit from an AnnArbor.com piece on the freshmen getting redshirted:
Michigan has played 10 of 21 true freshmen this year, though linebacker Brandin Hawthorne has not seen the field since September and is in position to get his redshirt back.
…if Michigan has held him out because he is "injured," which I'm betting is the case. Michigan pulled medical redshirts for Adam Patterson, Junior Hemingway, and Kenny Demens last year and only Hemingway had injuries that were known to the public.
Mike Jones and Vlad Emilien continue to play on special teams but not on the defense, frustratingly, though I can understand why Emilien was put on the field given the situation at safety. Anything that can potentially get him ready sooner is more valuable than a hypothetical fifth year given Michigan's situation at the position.
The article also expands upon something Tim touched on in his press conference recap:
Rodriguez singled out cornerback J.T. Turner, safety Thomas Gordon and receivers Jeremy Gallon and Cam Gordon when asked what freshmen currently redshirting have caught his eye. He also said Michigan has "some really talented young offensive lineman" in Taylor Lewan, Quinton Washington and Michael Schofield.
I am terribly pleased that Gordon is one of the guys mentioned, just because of his position and his low recruiting profile. Gallon has a nice two-year gap between himself and Odoms now; if he lives up the recruiting hype Michigan should have a nice one-two punch at slot until Roundtree graduates. And one of the tackles—probably Lewan—stepping forward to claim a starting spot would be… well, probably not great. Next year's line is probably going to be something like Omameh-Schilling-Molk-Barnum-Dorrestein/Huyge, with Barnum potentially replaced by whoever's not the RT if he can't hack it yet. If one of the tackles is breaking through as a redshirt freshman that's probably a negative.
Advertisin' note. The M-Den, which is fantastic in all ways that an entity can be, has a holiday promotion running: orders over $100 come with a ten-dollar gift card.
Vote of confidence. Rote:
"He's not going anyplace," Martin said. "Rich is an outstanding coach. There is no question he's got my total support. I think the world of that guy. Is he perfect in every respect? Nobody is. But he works hard. He'll get it right."
Honey, I'm the AD. In the vein of "Let's FOIA 30-year-old grade records" and "Michigan coaches have loans from a bank the AD founded": Martin's embarrassment that was on all the premium sites yesterday afternoon appears to be shoving past some clueless DPS workers who don't know what the AD looks like. This never happens on sailboats. That's probably why he's retiring.
To me this is more interesting as an information-on-the-internet problem: I got a couple of freaked-out emails because premium sites were dropping dark hints about an "embarrassment" that was about to come out about Bill Martin. That embarrassment is stating "Honey, I'm the AD" and gently pushing someone out of his path. If anyone on the premium sites had just said that, or if the information was not locked behind a paywall and thus subject to wild speculation by people outside of it, the minor panic would not have happened. The perpetual non-information being purveyed on subscriber message boards is annoying both as a recipient and a competitor. My favorite part is when moderators elsewhere say "as we've been telling you for weeks (in one-way ciphered Navajo)" after this site says something newsworthy in explicit detail. You'll note that if this site has information it just tells you what the information is and the context it was received in.
Example! I've received some solid information that suggests Fred Jackson is probably going to move on after the season by his own choice. This should not affect the status of his son's commitment; Jackson's probably going to head to the NFL.
Given my opinion of how important a running backs coach is—not very—I don't think this is a big deal and hope the replacement is one of those young, energetic recruiter types. The first guy who leaps to mind is Ty Wheatley, now on Ron English's staff at EMU. With all the Rodriguez stuff—and the rumors as to where some of it is sourced—that may not be an option.
Etc.: Thanks to BWS I spent 20 minutes yesterday watching some guy play impossible Mario levels. Craig Roh's dad says recruits and their parents have the internet too. Big Ten Tour hits Michigan, runs into a guy who looks like Scott Steiner but says he's Hulk Hogan. Side note: I am 100% sure that I saw Scott Steiner wandering around before a game last year.


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Okay, I'm no developer but listening to Ori Amiga's talk about Live Mesh I feel way more knowledgeable about the Mesh platform. Jeremy Mazner is there in the background chipping in with additional comments and they make a great team. I can imagine these guys are going to be rock stars at PDC08. Interestingly I've come across both these guys before in my career and like them both a lot – Ori was in Windows Mobile (more on that soon) and Jeremy was one of the early SharePoint guys.
Anyway, go check out the video. If you're a developer looking for more info on Live Mesh and how apps can be "meshified" this the place.
I got lost about two thirds of the way in to this post from Steve Gillmor but the first third was a great read. Actually the whole thing was but I just got a bit lost as I think some of the things going on in Steve's fast thinking brain didn't quite make it through to the keyboard so you're left having to assume some things. I'm assuming he likes Mesh though. I think he does. He certainly chaired a good discussion with David Treadwell on last weeks show. Like the Liveside guys, I loved this line
"…..put your head down on the tracks and you'll hear the superliner approaching: Live Mesh"
"…..put your head down on the tracks and you'll hear the superliner approaching: Live Mesh"
Did the game change last week? I think so….it's really just starting to sink in but I now find it unusual to not have Mesh on my devices. I really want to test on my phone and try some "meshified" applications.
I've written a little bit already on this blog about Microsoft's datacenters and it's something I suspect you'll hear a lot more about over the next year. I'll happily predict that Wired, the NY Times and The Financial Times will write on the topic more over the coming year. Why? Partly because it's the new battleground for computing and the mainstream media will enjoy pitting the old (Microsoft) against the new (Google) and some other significant players like HP, EMC and Amazon. It'll also be a hot topic because of the energy consumption of these massive datacenters.
You can relatively easily put the X axis on the charts above but if you need some guidance, check out the Wired Information Factories article from 2006.
The total of electricity consumed by major search engines in 2006 approaches 5 gigawatts. That's an impressive quantity of electricity. Five gigawatts is almost enough to power the Las Vegas metropolitan area – with all its hotels, casinos, restaurants, and convention centers – on the hottest day of the year.
The total of electricity consumed by major search engines in 2006 approaches 5 gigawatts. That's an impressive quantity of electricity. Five gigawatts is almost enough to power the Las Vegas metropolitan area – with all its hotels, casinos, restaurants, and convention centers – on the hottest day of the year.
What I found even more intriguing about that article was that a third of the incoming power is lost to the grid's inefficiencies, and half of what's left lost to power supplies, transformers, and converters. Wow….that's pretty expensive when you're running several large datacenters and you biggest cost (to you and the environment) is power. There, efficient datacenters are worth their weight in kw's. Back in February Microsoft mentioned it was publishing a whitepaper on Best Practices for Energy Efficiency in Microsoft Data Center Operations and I finally tracked down the paper, and a cool video.
The 10 best practices are below and can be found on the Microsoft Environment site too.
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Dennis Howlett pointed me to this weeks GillmorGang and I decided to give it another shot following my disappointment with last weeks edition. I switched that off after about 25 minutes of listening to egosrus. Dennis promised me this one was worth a listen given they talked about Live Mesh instead of themselves. He was right. Note to self – Dennis is good as sorting the wheat from the chaff in this increasingly noisy world on the web.
The chat was good – not just because it was about Mesh but because smart people were asking smart questions. Mike Arrington was kinda rude IMHO but hey-ho, what do I know. The rest of the gang made it a worthwhile listen for over an hour.
The show centred around Live Mesh and David Treadwell, Corporate Vice President of Live Platform Services was dialled in to answer questions. I met David a last month and he demonstrated Live Mesh to an internal audience I'd helped bring together. He impressed me a lot – like many in Ray Ozzie's organisation, he was free from hyperbole and gave straight answers to straight questions. He was also incredibly easy to work with – no airs and graces from David.
He covered a wide range of questions on the GillmorGang and did so whilst maintaining a healthy respect for competitors and other Microsoft product groups.
Anyway, the full transcript is online as is the MP3 should you wish to download.


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We would be very grateful to You for assistance .please answer by e-mail : firstname.lastname@example.com
All the best!
Sincerely ,Olga


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