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(KING) A pilot and photographer were killed when a KOMO news helicopter crashed on top of three vehicles outside Seattle Center Tuesday morning and caught fire.
A third person was taken to the hospital with serious burns.
Today, investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are on the scene looking for the cause of the accident.
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A Seattle TV station has identified the two people killed in a news helicopter crash near the Space Needle.
The fiery wreck happened Tuesday morning as the KOMO-TV helicopter took off from the station. The chopper went down on Broad Street and hit three vehicles, starting them on fire and spewing burning fuel down the street.
The fire department says a 38-year-old man in one of the vehicles was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition.
Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg says the man suffered burns on up to 20 percent of his body and likely will require surgery.
KOMO said on the air that the pilot of the helicopter was Gary Pfitzner. The other man killed was Bill Strothman, a former longtime KOMO photographer who was working for the helicopter leasing company.
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Two people were killed when a news helicopter for KOMO-TV crashed outside its station near the Seattle Space Needle, sending clouds of black smoke over the city during the morning rush hour.
The Seattle Fire Department said in addition to the fatalities, a 37-year-old man who managed to free himself from a car at the accident scene was taken to Harborview Medical Center in critical condition. No other details were immediately available.
The station says the copter was apparently lifting off from its rooftop Tuesday morning when it possibly hit the side of the building and went down, hitting several vehicles on Broad Street.
The copter and cars exploded in flames.
Plumes of black smoke rose from the crash scene as rescue vehicles converged on the area.
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Washington Prowler
A Gore-Mondale Ticket
Al's new negatives. Walter's lethargy.
If nothing else comes out of the election of 2002 it is the knowledge that Al Gore is completely obsessed with his defeat in 2000, and that he is dragging his Democratic Party into whatever dark hole his mind resides in.
Take what happened this past week in Maryland, when Gore stumped with that state's gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Understand that Townsend is perhaps, next to California's Bill Simon, the worst campaigner this year. By all rights, she should be down ten, no 15 points in the polls. But in a Democratically controlled state, she was lucky on Wednesday to be up by one or two points against Republican Bob Ehrlich.
Then Al hit the road with her. His campaign speeches focused almost exclusively on his loss in 2000, with barely a mention of Townsend. Gore's speech received major play across the state. And a day later, Democratic tracking polls showed Townsend had lost three points in the polls and trailed Ehrlich going into today.
"Someone is going to have to look at how many candidates Gore campaigned for in the last week of the election and how many of them lost," says a Democratic National Committee staffer. "He was just a disaster. Whoever was supposed to prep him did an awful job. All he talked about was himself. No upbeat message, no rallying cry for the candidates. Just him."
In fact Gore's performance was so bad that Democrats immediately sent out an SOS and brought Bill Clinton into Maryland to campaign for Townsend in one last attempt to save her political career.
"That just has to burn Gore up," says the DNCer. "And if it doesn't it just shows how detached Gore is about the mess he's in."
Last Friday night, Democratic National Committee advisers working with remnants of the Paul Wellstone campaign and with Walter Mondale's advisers were debating among themselves whether to go ahead with a public debate between their last minute candidate and Republican Norm Coleman. Tracking polls were indicating that if Mondale did not debate his opponent, he would lose.
"It was pretty clear we couldn't keep Mondale in a secure undisclosed location," says a Mondale campaign adviser in Minnesota. "We had to put him out there."
Mondale debates Coleman today, and both Democrats and Republicans say the former vice president's victory depends on his performance. "He's been cramming, and studying up. We're surprised by how detached he appears to have been from issues. Everyone's a bit nervous."
The nervousness arises due to Mondale's less than steady performance late last week and over the weekend in front of the cameras. On several occasions, the 74 year old appeared unsteady, speaking more slowly and deliberately than in his early 1980s heyday.
"Look, he's an old man," says the adviser. "We knew that going in, and we expect that this old man is going to kick Norm Coleman's [rear] on election day."
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Consciousness-Based℠ education produces many dramatic and long-lasting benefits, regardless of how students' career paths may change.
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recruiting is legit yo
Unverified Voracity Isn't Perfectly Accurate, Surprise
Penn State on the docket. Michigan goes to Happy Valley for their first-ever games against the nascent Nittany Lion program. As you might expect, Penn State is not particularly good. They're 4-17-1 on the season, 0-8 in the league, and have been outscored 35-13 in those eight games.
They've had some close outings, including one-goal losses to Minnesota and Boston College in January; they're still real bad. Not a huge surprise when they have zero seniors. Goaltending is a major issue, with both platoon-mates under .900; leading scorer Eric Scheid has a 10-5-15 line.
Michigan needs to sweep this series if they're going to maintain any hopes of winning the league. That door opened up a bit yesterday when Wisconsin beat Minnesota 2-1. Michigan can draw within six, or even three, points if they keep the Nittany Lions on the mat.
Hyman making a move. I'd pumped him up a bit earlier this year, but the points did not follow. Nowadays, though, Zach Hyman's centering a line that can be reasonably described as "his" and they are performing:
With Hyman centering the third line between freshman Tyler Motte and senior Luke Moffatt, the performance of all three players has quickly escalated. Hyman and his linemates combined for four goals in two games against Wisconsin last weekend and supplied high energy in the offensive zone.
Hyman scored one of those goals, a Kaleniecki special where he blasted in a rebound from the edge of the crease. He's been near-impossible to bump off the puck on the cycle all year and hopefully now he can maintain some scoring production over the rest of the season.
Firing, firing, firing. Via Five Key Plays, Zak Irvin making it rain:
Scouting Stauskas. NBA scouts, this video starts at 8:35. Before that it's just Golden Girls reruns.
It's time to eat (a low-carb diet high in protein). Derrick Green seems to have acquired the message about being smaller and nimbler, and is tweeting out pictures of how much he weighs.
my grind is never gone stop!! 220 by spring ball! Its time to eat 〽 pic.twitter.com/qIghb24Ya6
— BaN€™〽 (@DG2seven) February 5, 2014
May he reach 220 by spring and leave corpses in his wake in fall. But fun corpses!
Obligatory signing day articles. Did you know that not every highly-ranked recruit works out? Well, they don't. Also, sometimes low-ranked guys do. Now prepare for the parade of quotes from players and coaches saying they don't care about rankings. Are you prepared?
"I don't put much stock in (the star-rating system)," Hoke said.
"I think it's a joke," Mueller said. "I believe there's some talented guys, and it's obvious to point out who the elite college football players are coming out of high school, but there are a lot of guys who get overlooked.
"I do not think it really does anything for any of the college coaches — the star system at least. The kids themselves and parents, it's more of a headache."
Sorry. You cannot be prepared for that much quote. Anyway, annual article from newspaper about how recruiting rankings are not right every single time is matched by Matt Hinton's annual article in which he comes up with a new way to show that, yes, recruiting rankings are generally predictive.
It's a landslide. On the final count, the higher-ranked team according to the recruiting rankings won roughly two-thirds of the time, and every "class" as a whole had a winning record against every class ranked below it every single year. (The only exception came last year, when "three-star" teams came up short in head-to-head meetings with "one-star" teams. Otherwise, the hierarchy held across every line.) The gap on the field also widened with the gap in the recruiting scores: While "one-star" recruiting teams fared slightly better against blue-chip opponents than "two-star" teams, both groups combined managed a grand total of 19 wins over "five-star" opponents in 112 tries. Broadly speaking, the final results on the field broke along a straight line demarcated on signing day.
There are outliers, of course. Michigan is likely one in a bad direction, but Hinton only picked out those who are outperforming. They include most recent opponent Kansas State, which takes so many JUCOs they are near-impossible to rank reasonably, and Michigan State. Which sigh.
If you were really in charge you wouldn't have to keep saying you're in charge. This is, in fact, an article from this week:
Brady Hoke: I'm running Michigan football program, not Dave Brandon
This is from the press-conference-type substance. Speaking of that…
Usual PR debacles. The odd "press conference" that blew up into a bunch of finger-wagging once the Daily complained about not being there was less a press conference and more five requested one-on-one interviews crammed into a brief, mutual window:
"We did not hold a press conference (Monday)," Ablauf said Tuesday. "Five reporters requested to meet with Brady to discuss football topics, so we arranged this meeting about three weeks ago and set the meeting day and time over a week ago (prior to publication of the Daily story about Gibbons)."
But when five different reporters start tweeting out things Brady Hoke is saying, it looks like a press conference. And when you release the statement about the Gibbons thing that stands as the only thing you're going to say about that topic to five hand-picked reporters, that looks horrible.
Michigan actually did something about a sexual assault on campus that they didn't have to do—unlike, say, Florida State. That they managed to come out of that looking like they do is miraculously bad PR.
Unfortunately, it's not a surprise. This space has been sarcastically declaring "it's almost like the athletic department didn't think things through" jabs for the past year as one bad idea after another was rolled out and quickly rolled back. This is the culmination of the tiny debacles with noodles and seat cushions and the band going to Dallas and not preparing Mary Sue Coleman to speak in a situation with feedback. The same shitty attitude towards everyone outside of the Circle Of Trust from the past few years finally got applied to something important, and now Dave and company are receiving their just desserts.
Hopefully they'll learn something this time.
Uh-huh. The annual Detroit News Blue Chip list generally comes with at least one salty remark about Michigan or MSU, and this year's winner is MSU commit Nick Padla on Michigan:
They talked about tradition (but) I was thinking about the future.
The previous sentence also might have something to do with it:
They were recruiting me my 10th grade then kind of stopped.
Etc.: Enormous piles of NBA data could lead to a holy grail stat to end all stats, but it'll take supercomputers to produce it. Stat updates on Michigan's hockey recruits. Everything you ever wanted to know about Derrick Walton's efficiency leap.
How Dear Diary Got Into College
A reader asked for a screenshot from that movie where a bunch of kids are going through the process of applying to and selecting their college destination and the dad of one decides to don the only appropriate attire for accompanying said decision-makers. And the MGoBoard came through. Color this gunter embarrassed to have totally forgotten about this cheesy '80s flick. You know who didn't forget about it? Craig Barker of Hoover Street Rag (and HTTV Hoops/Hockey), who wrote the IMDB synopsis (nice job MGoShoe in spotting it).
Another Shot at Recruiting/Performance Charts. Trying to figure out how to rate the value of four recruiting classes ago versus the latest one etc. and come up with an expectation for that year's performance was all the rage in the diaries last year. We've got a new entry, and his methodology is seniors x4, juniors x3, sophomores x2, freshmen x1. He then took the conference and BCS championship games and ran down them all so we could see what level of recruiting (by 247 composite) was producing these victors. It's got a lolTyWillingham chart:
Lol Willingham, and lolWeiss for underperforming that graph so much. His conclusions are a bit wonky because he doesn't acknowledge the limits of recruiting to explain things like transfers and coaching changes and hiring GERG.
Wallpaper from FabFiver5 (we're from Five!):
Please make "Win the Game."
Etc. You read Goal by Goal analysis already right? Trying to guess 2015 available schollies2015 available schollies.
Best of the Board
The board has been doing a great job of collating and contextualizing the available information. That's Erik_in_Dayton's timeline of events which he has kept updating as info streams in. There has been an epic amount of helpful comments from people with relevant experiences that helps put these events into context. I'm still collecting them and will break that off into a separate post.
Best of the Board (not the Kicker)
Count the Wolverines on the wall. [Max Ortix/DetNews]
I grew up a long time ago in a house not far away from Brother Rice, one of the bigger D-II programs in-state. When I was in high school Rice had this legendary head coach who was celebrating his 30th season there. Understand, the guy was a massive Spartan, and I went to Groves and rooted for Seaholm (long story), so I'm supposed to despise Brother Rice. But Al Fracassa is just a guy anybody who cares about football in this state should know and respect.
He sent 20 kids to scholarships at BCS schools since 2002, including a parade of 4-stars to East Lansing, but nothing but walk-on's to Michigan for a long while now. When they named the field after Fracassa in Sept 2006, Bo came and spoke (one of his last engagements). He just retired THIS year, so I thought I'd use the announcement of his successor to pay him tribute.
Michigan's last Jack Weisenburger came for its baseball program and wound up one of the key members of its greatest football teams ever. UM recently inked another Jack Weisenburger (his grandson) to play baseball here. Grandpa says he's a fantastic kid, but would not guarantee this means football will go two years without a loss.
ETC. Help these kids get their wings. Dated, but MBB's remaining schedule side-by-side with the competition. Eighty-five percent of NFL players would risk higher brain functioning to play in Superbowl—not surprised; underlines the need for better controls. LolOSUlostlol. Sports myths. Happy Bend Over to Dave Brandon Day.
[Jump for the zen part cause it's really giffy.]
Monday Recruitin' Transcends Fred Jacksoning
I Have To Praise You Like I Should
High School All-American week is officially over. Jabrill Peppers unofficially won the week. Just ask ESPN's Tom Luginbill, who wrote this in response to a question about the most impressive Under Armour practice performer [emphasis mine]:
[Peppers] is more than capable of playing both ways if needed, but as far as cover corners go, he is a more explosive version of Dee Milliner, and we love that he welcomes contact too. He is mature and knows that there are high expectations for him to perform.
Or ask his Team Nitro coach, former NFL head coach and defensive back Herm Edwards—and his friend, some guy named Deion:
"It's not even close. He's the best [UA All-American defensive back] I've coached. I called Deion [Sanders] over and said look at that guy, and Deion saw the same thing," Edwards said. "[Robert] Nkemdiche was really good last year, he was a big guy who could run and [Peppers] is comparable to that as far as skill level at the position he's playing. I played that position and coached that position for a long time and he's a special talent."
Or ask Scout, which named Peppers the top practice performer of the week on either team while noting that this year's crop of defensive backs was particularly strong.
Rivals stands as the least bullish outlet on Peppers after the UA game, and all they did was name him Sunday's #3 performer, Monday's #1 performer, and Tuesday's #5 performer, and the actual game's #9 performer for Team Nitro before giving him the third spot overall for Team Nitro on the week behind Da'Shawn Hand and Ermon Lane ($):
Playing in his first national-level event, Peppers was surrounded by intrigue from the moment he arrived in Florida. As it turned out, it didn't take him long to live up to his billing. Peppers, the No. 2 overall prospect in his class, was dominant in every practice and was as aggressive and spirited as any player on the field. He struggled a bit in Thursday's game but didn't allow a big play all week. Peppers also blocked a field goal that was ultimately negated because of an all-star-game specific rule.
In addition to the negated blocked field goal (above)—illegal because rushers on kicks weren't allowed to go inside their man in the UA Game, which... okay—Peppers had a couple passes defended, returned two kickoffs for 65 yards (one a 41-yard burst to midfield), and took a few snaps as a wildcat quarterback, though he couldn't break anything big offensively in a pretty ugly game overall, as high school all-star games tend to be.
Interestingly, Scout omitted both Hand and Lane from their top ten overall list, with neither cracking the top two of their respective position groups. It's safe to say Peppers made a strong argument that he deserves consideration for the top overall spot in the 2014 class.
[Hit THE JUMP for a whole lot of content from the All-American games, Michigan's latest 2014 offer, an update on George Campbell, a potential second quarterback in the '14 class, and more.]
Hokepoints is Legit, Maybe Not Legit. Yo.
Moe (1) and Jabrill (2), via.
In last week's roundtable on the state of the conference I pulled out this table grading the new Big Ten's teams on their 2013 seasons (by Fremeau Efficiency Index) and their futures (by composite 247 score for the 2012-'14 classes):
West | East School FEI Grade Rcrt | School FEI 2013 Rcrt Wisconsin 13th A C+ | OSU 8th A A+ Iowa 30th B C | MSU 9th A B Minnesota 49th C D+ | Michigan 29th B A+ Nebraska 51st C B | Indiana 62nd D+ C NW'ern 60th C- C | PSU 65th D+ B Illinois 75th D C- | Maryland 74th D C+ Purdue 114th F C- | Rutgers 98th E- B- AVG 56th 2.0 2.0 | AVG 49th 2.1 3.0
That's about how I feel: A conference baseline of "C" (ie ranked around 50th) teams with one division recruiting at a "B" level and the other "getting the most out of" C level recruiting.
This I pulled from a spreadsheet of FEI and recruiting data that I'd like to mine further, because if you're looking at a chart it still counts as doing work.
Recruiting = legit, yo/maybe not so legit. So here's a new look at the old stand-by: recruiting on the Y-axis, performance on the X-axis, and a nice, heavy trend line with an R-squared of 0.46 to show an inconvenient-for-narratives correlation. Performance is FEI expressed as a percentile. The composite ranking is a bit more complex: the 2009 (5th year seniors) is weighted at 0.5 the 2010 and 2011 classes at full, the 2012 class at 0.40 and the 2013 at 0.10, which are arbitrary values I assigned based on expectations of how much a class contributes to a given team.
Blicking on it makes it cig.
It says they're correlated, but doesn't necessarily mean one is causing the other. FWIW the r-squared of the Rivals composite determined the same way was .4135; I haven't done Scout or ESPN yet. Look at how the correlation of recruiting %-ile of each class and 2013 performance %-ile changes by year:
|247 R-Squared
|Rivals R-Squared
|2009 (5th yrs)
|2010 (Jr/Sr)
|2011 (So/Jr)
|2012 (Fr/So)
|2013 (RS/Fr)
|2014 (recruits)
The highest correlation is to the freshman class, and the 3rd-highest is to the class that's not even on campus yet. There's a strong echo effect going on here, wherein the teams that are good today are getting the highest-ranked recruits. The diminishing returns from seniors, I would posit, are because they're the classes hit hardest by attrition, and most likely to have been recruited by a different coach or to a program in very different circumstances.
The other thing that immediately jumped out at me about that chart is look at all the color on top of the black trend line. Those gray dots are mid-major programs, who are largely outperforming expectations from recruiting, versus only one SEC team managing to do so. I bet that's a system bias in the recruiting rankings: there's little to parse between an under-the-radar guy who commits to Purdue versus one going to NIU except one of those is a Big Ten school.
[Jump for MEETING EXPECTATIONS and THE FUTURE]
Dear Diary Mails It In
I'm gonna Akron this column today since we're sending the final PDFs of Hail to Hoops and Hockey to the printer. The contents (click to make it readable):
Actually we had to cut the 2nd Bartelstein article today
If you don't know what Henri* is doing in the upper-right corner you didn't follow hockey so much last year. If you did follow hockey last year you probably have strong opinions on goaltending. HTTV contributor MGoBlueline put together a neat diary this week trying out the "quality start" metric they use in baseball for hockey goalies. He gives them out for having a save% better than the DI average, i.e. a start that gave your team a chance to win. My quibble: it's justification of feelings-ball (-puck whatever).
|Racine's year to MGBL: 12 quality starts, 10 non-quality, 5 cheap wins, 2 wasted quality starts. [Paul Sherman, Michigan Daily]
The problem with any gamesmanship stat is this: have you ever met a goalie who ever liked any goal going by him in any situation ever? It makes sense for pitching because it's possible to surrender a run to get an out, a pitcher's most important currency; for goalies the currency is time. What you're measuring is consistency, which is useful so long as you remember that's what you're measuring (and that we wouldn't be having this conversation if Racine posted any shutouts last year).
While we're being realistic, alum96 wrote a board post that got diary-bumped that compared the recruiting profiles of Michigan's defensive line to those of Ohio State. His metric for guys is the quality of offers—Michigan's were mostly regional while OSU's guys mostly had Alabama offers and plenty more power programs after them.
True, and that's a big part of why Michigan is hard after the top DL recruits in the country right now. If you take away the Heininger Certainty Principle Michigan's DL looks really thin; since pass rush is more of a talent thing it should be no surprise that the deficiency in recruiting stars is most apparent there. But then Ohio State's line is just ludicrously stacked right now—Michigan doesn't need to get 8 guys Saban wanted badly to get to good.
[Jump for the Weeklies, Best of the Board and some badly needed zen]
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm Once They've Seen SEC Hungus?
You may be aware that the Big Ten has not been too good at football of late. You are probably also aware that Ohio State and Michigan are locked in a titanic struggle for the sexiest recruiting class, one featuring players like Jabrill Peppers, Vonn Bell, Derrick Green, and Jalin Marshall. The opposing sides in The Game had top five recruiting classes last year according to the 247 composite rankings, with OSU second and Michigan fifth. So far this year Michigan is first and Ohio State ninth.
Meanwhile, the rest of the league is flailing. The next Big Ten team on the list was #22 Nebraska; #30 Penn State—NCAA-crippled Penn State—followed. That concludes our list of Big Ten teams with better-than average recruiting classes amongst the 60 or so BCS teams.
Here is a team that finished higher than all but the mentioned Big Ten teams.
Kentucky. A team that stopped releasing attendance numbers. Mississippi State, Vandy, Baylor, and Virginia beat all these teams plus Penn State out. It was not so good out there last year.
Surely that's a flu…
Kentucky has six OH commits. Non-MI/OSU B10 combined: 7.
…mother of God. Everyone on that list has a Big Ten offer from a school that has been something other than a depressing blight on the idea of sport during the last ten years. (Ok, it depends on how you classify Illinois. They went to a Rose Bowl, but also: Illinois.) What's more, Tennessee has gotten in on the raiding, snatching three kids out of the Midwest.
What follows is a brief survey of the Big Ten's footprint recruiting areas. Prepare for carnage. Before we start, I should mention that despite being under extraordinarily punitive NCAA sanctions, Penn State has four-star recruits from Delaware and North Carolina and is currently holding on to a top 20 spot in the rankings. They'll slide back down to where they were last year before things are said and done because they will have a tiny class, but Penn State is retaining its recruiting cachet as well as—probably better than—they could have hoped. Once they're out from under the yoke they should quickly excise themselves from Little X talk.
Nebraska, too, consistently recruits at a level above most of the rest of the league even if they're off to a poor start this year. This is more about the conference's traditional middle class.
DeShone Kizer's top three is Alabama, LSU, and Tennessee. He has an offer from only the latter.
Ohio State is going for half of the 16 consensus four-stars, with six already in the boat and the probable acquisition of the two main Glenville kids this year. Michigan has one, Michael Ferns. Northwestern has one, Dariean Watkins. The four other guys are probably headed to Alabama or OSU (Derek Kief), ND or Kentucky (Darius West), Louisville (Daniel Cage), and somewhere in the SEC (DeShone Kizer).
Yes. There is one four-star in Ohio who will head to a Big Ten program not named Michigan or Ohio State.
It gets worse. One of the next nine guys (QB Chris Durkin, MSU) is committed to a Big Ten school. Three are headed to Kentucky or Tennessee. None of the other five have publicly stated a leader but Kentucky and Louisville are involved with three and two more are up in the air.
It is likely that only two or three of the top 25 guys in Ohio end up in the rest of the league.
top 100 linebacker Nyles Morgan favors… Vanderbilt
Illinois is going to be chaos and depression for the middle class of the Big Ten. The top ten kids are either headed to the Big Two (Bunting, Westphal, and Jamarco Jones), committed to another conference (Watson, Helm, Wilbon), or headed that direction (Clifton Garrett, Nyles Morgan, and Dewayne Hendrix are all headed south). Northwestern is the only L12 team to pick off a four-star kid from Illinois.
It's a little less grim as you head down to 25. Northwestern and MSU have five of those guys, OSU has one, and it looks like a few more will end up in the league. The top is just a disaster, though.
- L12: 10, 1 of them in the top ten
Three of the four consensus four stars are off the board to M/OSU with Malik McDowell strongly expected to join the club. Michigan also has #10 Moe Ways. The Big Ten held on to most of the other guys in State except Chance Stewart, who bizarrely decommitted from Wisconsin and chose WMU shortly thereafter.
Michigan remains loyal, if a little talent-sparse.
Dominique Booth's top four: Tennessee, FSU, Vandy, Alabama.
The top player in the state has no Big Ten teams in his top four; OSU is the only one on the list of #2. ND and OSU have 3 and 5 committed, respectively. Louisville and Kentucky are heavily involved with #4. The next five guys are still fuzzy, with Purdue favored for a couple, if only because they seem interested while others are not.
if Dravon Henry stays in the B10 it will be at OSU or PSU
Pennsylvania has always been more up for grabs because anyone from the Eastern part of the state doesn't think of the Big Ten as local, so it's less of a surprise when things have a more national feel. Even so, only Penn State has made any headway in PA. They have 3 of the top 20. Michigan has one, and then Temple, BC, WVU and FSU also have one. The rest of the Big Ten? Zero. 247 projects that number will stay at zero, with Pitt, OSU, and Michigan cleaning up.
- L12: 8, almost all of them to Penn State
The top five players in Wisconsin are committed to the Badgers. Good job, Wisconsin. Here are some cheese curds for you.
Iowa is doing similarly well in Iowa, with three of the six guys 247 rates committed, and a fourth probably on the way.
Nebraska has a commit from one of the two guys they've offered in-state and should get the second.
Minnesota has a soft verbal from the top kid in the state and may lose the second; everyone else is not the kind of recruit that would make Minnesota anything other than Minnesota.
Big Ten schools not named Michigan and Rutgers have zero of the top 20 in NJ. Penn State has the #5 kid in Maryland, and that's the only B10 commit in that State. Maryland is supposed to get a couple, and PSU may get a couple more.
This is where I mention that recruiting is not destiny. Wisconsin has never been particularly good at it in the eyes of the gurus but has turned themselves into a major program by keeping everyone they have for five years—Bielema just had a class of 13 guys, because Wisconsin only had room for 13 guys—and hewing to a system that works for the kind of players they can access. It remains to be seen whether they can keep that going without a hand-picked transition like Alvarez-to-Bielema. Similarly, Michigan State's classes have been almost devoid of attrition and they have locked into a stable defensive style that has produced.
Recruiting is kind of destiny, though: Wisconsin has reached the last three Rose Bowls. It has lost all of them. Witness any Big Ten program against Alabama. Football is random and rankings are not perfect, but if you're at the bottom any success you have is pushing uphill.
The slope of that hill is about to become alarming. It bodes unwell for the Big Ten's middle class that the gap between themselves and the heavyweights is growing, especially when it comes not only from the two at the top improving on historically good classes but from the meat-and-potatoes kids they've relied on for so long opting to leave the conference. Every kid in Ohio who opts for Kentucky or Tennessee or Louisville is virtually irreplaceable for programs whose recruiting reach outside the Midwest is limited to scrabbling for guys without Vandy offers.
Northwestern is the exception. With their committed niche offense and recent success they'll be a thorn in the side of anyone whose defense can't handle the spread. If they can just get their defense to middling, it's on in the West.


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Up about 4- 5% I believe. I expect that will continue to go up with upcoming news:http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/cris/institutional-holdings
Nice find, Earl. Good to see CRIS clear that 50% mark.It's about time some of the big boys other than Eagle start to discover what we've known for quite a while about this small gem of a company. Of course, a $1M+ revenue number next quarter from Erivedge might get their attention a bit too.good luck -ace
Earl, even though the boiler room workers will come to argue that the information is more than 45 days old, let's dissect it a bit more. First, the top 12 holders, 9 increased, some significantly with Vanguard most notable as was mentioned in an earlier post, other 3 decreased by token amounts. If you combine Blackrock & Barclays, you now have 4 very conservative outfits at the top of your institution list with 3 of them increasing their stake. All this of course while retail was selling. May be Tarheel can tell us if this is not the highest level since the WYE/P&G fiasco? I am actually going to sign up for one of those real time paid services so we no longer have to wait the 45 days. I have to make sure they are legit first.


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Yep, a lot of people do. Also squatting is a good one. You can get on all fours, or lay on your side. Pretty much do whatever you feel is 'right' during labor, its different for everyone :)
Yes, please look up birthing positions! Watch some natural deliveries...you'll see all sorts of positions. It is possible to deliver baby in tons of ways...the lithotomy position (which is used in most hospitals) is actually the one that makes our pelvis most narrow, and pulling back our legs actually makes our perineum tightest and most likely to tear.
Also, if you're delivering in a hospital, make sure to ask your doctor what they will "allow" you to do. Some hospitals have "no standing if your water is broken" policies or will pretty much try to force you onto your back to push. Know ahead of time what's in store...and give your doctor/nurses a heads up that you want to try other positions because they may not be used to it. Be aware that the anesthesia you use may limit you ability to choose your position as well.
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You can have people help you up if your squatting, you can use the bed to lean on and pull yourself back up too :)
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Donation by Anonymous on 23/05/14
Matt I hope you cycled as fast as you run on Monday!!
Donation by Stephen Atkins on 15/05/14
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Good luck Ben and friends
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Good luck boys - we're behind you all the way!
Donation by Wesley/Collins/Leathers/Farrant families on 13/04/14
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Fantastic cause! Good luck!
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Good Luck!
Donation by Anonymous on 12/04/14
Good Luck to you all, Enjoy it! Lindsay, Tom and Josh xxx
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Well done everyone!
Donation by Lily's Mum & Dad on 10/04/14
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Lily you're bloody amazing. So much love for you girl xxxx
Donation by Zeena on 10/04/14
Don't forget your gel seat or you'll get a sore bum, mum says she hopes you're getting on well with your guitar! This bike ride is a great challenge, you guys and Lily are inspiring, good luck! xx
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Enjoy the ride, boys! And, Ben, take great care of that bike... A really good cause, well done.
Donation by Mum and Dad (Ben's)! on 08/04/14
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Good luck Boo! proud of you xxx
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Well done lads , hope it goes well !
Donation by S Bolt on 08/04/14
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Wow! Impressive challenge. It should be a lovely ride. Enjoy!
Donation by Jackie Paul and Harry Wareham-Kirk on 03/04/14
Good luck...all of you. x
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Good Cause. Good luck!
Donation by Brian Hazleman on 27/03/14
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Good luck and best to Lily
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Good luck - a great cause to support.
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Don't forget the Deep Heat Rub, George! Well done all of you.
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We called it "The Paladin's Path." Its a race for kids to follow the path taken by Rikert the day the giants attacked Sandpoint. The first to follow the long route from The Rusty Dragon Inn up to the north gate and back down through and crossing the bridge wins. The prize is a small stuffed animal of a warhorse.
The idea came about as we gave the player that played Rikert in the RotRL game a hard time about getting back to his horse Hickory who had been stabled in Sandpoint for multiple weeks in our new campaign.
Ah, yes. Poor Rikert and his long run (in plate armor no less) to the far gate of Sandpoint and back trying to keep up with the attacking dragon and giants. I think his blisters had blisters!
I found the naming of the new event very funny when Lint and Useplanb told me last week.
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(DELL), for example, which today trades for under $10 a share. The balance sheet reveals that the company has $7.80 in cash per share. Annual free cash flow per share, while currently in decline, is around $2 per share. Dell actually started paying its first-ever regular dividend of $0.08 a share in the third quarter. Still, the company generates more cash than it needs. Founder and CEO Michael Dell has personally bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stock for himself since he reassumed his role as CEO. Shares have been trickling lower all year, and today they sit near a 52-week low of $9.80. CEO Dell would personally reap millions of dollars in tax savings from any additional dividend income. So what better way to reward shareholders, including himself, than by paying a special dividend this year? Other cash-stuffed companies, such as Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG - Get Report), are also ripe for a one-time special dividend. Google remains the last tech giant without any form of dividend payout, and this company certainly pulls in more cash than it needs to run and grow its business. Google insiders also own a sizeable chunk of stock, putting them first in line to benefit not only from a dividend, but from the tax savings as well.When it comes to the cash payout of special dividends, prolonged shareholder activism is usually what gets the job done -- and over the coming weeks and months, investors may be treated to cash payouts thanks to the activist hand of none other than Uncle Sam. The catalyst, of course, will be the expectation of higher taxes. Any business that is sitting on a pile of cash and has even the slightest inkling of paying out a dividend has every incentive to do so now rather than later. As things now stand, the tax rate on dividends is set to increase dramatically on Jan. 1, 2013. If a company is harboring a payout, it has every incentive to announce and make that payout by year-end. As a result, in the next two months the market could perhaps see a flurry of special-dividend announcements. If the dividend tax rate does increase, a dividend-paying company could hike the year-end dividend in lieu of gradual increases next year. My assumptions are purely speculative, but no one can deny that both corporations and their investors would be better served by paying dividends today rather than waiting until 2013. Take Dell
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In an era when millions "keep up" with the Kardashians, it's easy to see tabloid culture as a modern phenomenon, an ill effect of our 24-hour news cycle and social media that puts every tweet and Facebook update at our fingertips. But one need only look to the Lindbergh baby, Bonnie and Clyde, and countless others to see the nation's fascination with celebrity and scandal is nothing new. I was recently reminded of this truism while digitizing some materials from the Bergdoll family papers [MSS021], a collection that perfectly captures how the salacious story of one individual can take hold in the popular imagination and dominate the national psyche.
When I first started corresponding with a Bergdoll descendant about digitizing her family's papers, the name "Bergdoll" wasn't familiar to me. But as I soon realized, had I lived in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century, the Bergdolls were inescapable. In the heady days before World War I, the sons and daughter of the prominent Philadelphia German family who operated Bergdoll and Sons Brewing Company dominated headlines in and around Philadelphia. From racing cars around Fairmount Park to building a roller coaster at their Brewerytown estate, the five children of Louis Bergdoll, Jr. and Emma Barth Bergdoll were constant fodder for the press and provided a rapt public with snapshots of the alluring lives of Philadelphia's privileged class.
Of all the Bergdoll family's adventures and exploits, none attracted public fascination quite like those of the youngest son, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. Known as "the playboy of the Eastern Seaboard," Grover was both an aviation and racing enthusiast whose numerous traffic violations raised a public outcry against issuing him a driver's license in 1912. But it wasn't until World War I that Grover's exploits attracted national attention and infamy when, after registering for military service, Grover and his brother Erwin failed to show up for physical examinations when they were drafted in 1917. Grover fled across the United States and, for the next two years, taunted authorities with postcards sent from each new hideout.
The case of the errant Grover Clevand Bergdoll captured the public imagination and inspired rumors about his German sympathies and offers to serve as an aviator for the Fatherland. The so-called "Philadelphia slacker" was finally apprehended in 1920 and sentenced to five years at Governors Island, but escaped imprisonment a short time later and fled to Germany. For the next two decades, Grover's exploits continued to provoke national ire and captivate the public consciousness to the extent that even President Warren Harding commented on the case and personally ordered the seizure of the Bergdoll family's assets. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, details of Grover's life in Germany dominated the headlines, as did the ongoing efforts of kidnapping vigilantes determined to return him to the U.S. In 1939, on the eve of World War II, Grover finally came home to face trial and was eventually imprisoned at Leavenworth federal penitentiary until 1944.
As interesting as Grover's tale is in its own right, the public fascination and anger with his draft evasion adds another intriguing layer to the story. Whether due to his wealth, ancestry, showman's flair (or some combination of all three), Grover Cleveland Bergdoll struck a chord in such way that made him a national celebrity. Looking through the Bergdoll family papers, this phenomenon is most evident in the family scrapbooks and clippings that make up the bulk of the collection and dutifully chronicle a sense of public rapture and outrage with many modern-day parallels. Now available for view in our digital library, these scrapbooks and the mania to which they attest evoke Alger Hiss, O.J. Simpson, and countless others who became notorious by virtue of a love of gossip and scandal that endures, even if the medium has changed.
Grover Bergdoll: America's Most Wanted "Slacker"
I found this quite by accident searching for some other private affair concerning the family name.
I have to say that Hillary Kativa worte a story about my family that doesn't leave me cringing. Not from embarrasment but in slaughtering the facts. After all, as her article's subject, sensationalism sells print.
The inspired rumors of offering to serve as an aviator for the Fatherland as far as I know are just rumors. I do believe he offered his service as an aviator to the U.S. cause and was turned down by being conscripted into infantry. This being what I have heard from family. I guess Grover, having his flair for the dramatic, didn't see himself in the infantry. If there is anything in the family papers that would point to Grover offering his services to Germany I would like to be made aware of it.
Grover Bergdoll
I have been researching the Bergdoll family history for quite some time now in preparation of doing a book and agree with Louise E. Bergdoll that there is no evidence whatever that Grover offered his services to Germany as a pilot or anything else. That story got started sometime during his absence most likely by the press or government agents. It went something like he went to the German embassy in Washington DC and made the offer but it is most unlikely that he would have gone to Washington DC at the time nor does any of the timeline.
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What more to the stories can you add about the residence on West Chester Pike? As a previous long term resident of the area I was always interested in this home, located on property frequently called Bergdoll's Hill.


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I first became interested in Philo in the process of teaching an undergraduate course on Diaspora Judaism. What interested me about Philo was not the individual, the Jewish philosopher par excellence, nor the philosophical tradition of which he was a part - all important areas of inquiry in their own right - but rather what his work might tell us about the formation, maintenance and transformation of the cultural identity of Jews in the Diaspora. In other words, the questions I put to Philo were not necessarily his own, nor were they oriented, in the first instance, to understanding his individual achievement. My questions were and are the questions of a cultural historian for whom the Alexandrian Jewish community provides a striking example of the political and cultural tensions with which the Diaspora communities had to contend.
One of the more interesting dimensions of the cultural interaction between Judaism and Hellenism (broadly understood) is the tradition of allegorical interpretation that emerged in the Hellenistic period and that reached its culmination with Philo. My aim here is to explore the cultural and political dimensions of this interpretative tradition. Specifically, I want to explore the way in which allegorical interpretation as practised by Philo is embedded in the cultural politics of Alexandria on the one side and the imperial politics of Rome on the other.
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In a chapter entitled 'Philo: The Reinscription of Reality', Dawson presents a quite astonishing thesis. 1 In contrast to more conventional understandings, 2 Dawson casts Philo in the role of the cultural revisionist whose
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Happy to serve: Wanjah scooping up a packet of bubur lambuk at her stall at a Ramadan bazaar in Section 14, Petaling Jaya.
PETALING JAYA: For traders at Ramadan bazaars, it's not just a time for brisk business. It's also about serving customers well and gaining spiritual blessings.
Wanjah Abdul Rahman, 54, who with her husband has run a bubur aneka stall for the past 23 years, said the fasting month is "not only to make a living but to serve our customers delicious food with a sincere heart".
Selling various types of broth like the pengat pisang – a mixture of banana and sago in a sweet yellowish broth – and bubur ruamit, a mix of jelly, sago, palm seed, jackfruit, cendol and sugar beet, they continue to draw crowds curious about their dishes.
Wanjah's husband, Saaidon Khaidry bin Mohd Hashim, 55, said they used to sell 20 different types of bubur a few years ago.
"Our stall was located at a corner lot then and we had more space, but now we can only sell this much," he said.
Other sweet delicacies they offer are pisang sira, buah labu sira, ubi kayu sira, red bean soup and green bean soup.
Mohd Amin Harun, 52, who has been selling nasi beriani Johor with chicken, beef or mutton for four years, said he initially opened the stall with his friend for "the fun of it" but then decided to do it every Ramadan.
"The time of Ramadan for me is a time to pray and fast, as well as a time to build lasting relationships with clients and customers and to serve those who like our nasi beriani Johor," said Harun from Batu Pahat.
The nasi beriani is made by cooking the meat with briyani spices from Batu Pahat, garlic, onion and blended ginger until it is half-cooked while the rice is cooked with butter, oil, onion and blended ginger and garlic separately until it is dry. He then mixes the rice and the meat and cooks them together for another two hours.
Zulhelmy Ashashibly, 22, said the fasting month is important as he runs his father's stall selling kuih peneram (a mix of rice flour, coconut and sugar deep-fried in oil) with his friends.
"This is a time to worship and pray. At the same time I have to be independent, be responsible for my family and earn a living," said Zulhelmy, who has been helping his father with the stall since he was 17.
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