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landing spot. will be interesting to see how he does.
Ex Rivals Founder Shannon Terry Looking to Challenge Rivals, Scout, and ESPN with College Recruiting Network 2.0
interesting doings afoot. i am not involved, for the questioner or two who's asked.
Unverified Voracity Runs On Sunlight
More yes, please. Given the current state of college football scheduling, where you have to have one real nonconference game and then you can schedule anything that will show up at your stadium down to the Albanian cricket circus, I've been in favor of expanding the conference schedule for years. So Adam Rittenberg's post on the possibility comes with some welcome quotes:
There are certainly pros and cons to increasing the number of league games, and Big Ten athletic directors expect to debate them in August during their next scheduled meeting in Chicago.
"Unless you're really hot, fans are finding that some of the preseason games, they just don't appreciate," Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke said. "They'd rather see you play every Big Ten opponent. If you went to nine games, you'd be bringing in one more Big Ten opponent, which would make your season-ticket package more attractive."
By radically increasing the amount of money people are expected to play with PSLs and mandatory donations and whatnot, schools have increased the pressure to have home schedules actually worth buying. Burke's actually in favor of ten(!) conference games, which will never happen.
The article also quotes Barry Alvarez in support and we know that Michigan has been pushing for more conference games for a few years now, so there's at least some chance the league will add another game. Another bonus of the extra conference game: if the Big Ten does go away from pure geography and creates a division that's Michigan-OSU-Alamo Party*, additional conference games will reduce the impact of any disparity. It also makes cross-division protected games (which I don't like) less necessary since you'll be playing two-thirds of the opposite division instead of half.
*(Which seems to have something of a consensus building around it. TOC threw in the towel, and once the blogs are united nothing can stand against them. If Penn State had a vote that might be a problem, but lol Penn State suffrage.)
If NASCAR counts as a sport… then solar car competitions, where you actually build the thing yourself, is like a double sport. Also Michigan's solar car team is consistently awesome. They're running the American Solar Challenge right now and, though it's fuzzy if they're actually winning, they think they're doing well:
After being tight with Minnesota this morning and afternoon, they had to pull off the road for what is rumored to be battery problems. We don't know the current location of any other teams, but we believe we are at least 15 minutes ahead of everyone but Stanford.
That was yesterday. They learned last night that Minnesota is now 40 minutes back and Missouri S&T, which is apparently big in solar cars, is 10 minutes back. The previous stage saw Infinium finish almost an hour in front of their nearest challenger. We should totally try to get this thing in the Director's Cup.
Goodbye, almost everyone. One of the tangential discussions that's entered the public consciousness after the QC/stretching violations at Michigan is "dang, there are a lot of dudes getting paid to not coach football." The NCAA is within its rights to reel these guys in somewhat, but this seems drastic:
Back in April when the Athletics Personnel and Recruiting Cabinet began seriously discussing legislation to curb the growing football and basketball staffs, there were two big questions: exactly how many noncoaching staff members would the teams be allowed and how would the legislation deal with attempts to build new offices in the athletic department?
The cabinet gave an emphatic answer to the former question, with a somewhat weaker answer to the latter. Bowl Subdivision Football would be limited to just four noncoaching staff members, while men's and women's basketball would be reduced to just one. In the Football Championship Subdivision, the limit would be two.
That's not four grad assistants, it's four staff members, period. The Bylaw Blog suggests this would see athletic departments devolve the many other roles undertaken by specific sport-specific staff into department-wide organizations that avoid this new regulation. The money is always going to flow somewhere. At some point the NCAA should get serious about booting I-A teams that can't manage 20,000 paid attendance per game into I-AA. The real problem here is that teams like Michigan and Eastern Michigan are being addressed by the same sets of laws when they have zero resemblance to each other.
The elusive and wonderful. Six Zero's regular series profiling some of the characters who hang out around here has an exclusive look at youtube hero Wolverine Historian. Most surprising to me was WH's age:
Wangler to Carter. Hello Heisman. Bo singing the Victors. In your expert opinion, what is the single most iconic video clip of Michigan football?
There have been many, many memorable moments over the years. But I think Wangler to Carter from Homecoming 1979 is probably the most iconic video clip of Michigan football. I was born 4 months after that game was played so I obviously have no personal memories of it. But the video speaks for itself. One last play, Carter dancing into the end zone, the crowd going insane, Bo jumping up and down, Bob Ufer screaming, "Oh my GOD!!! Carter scored!!!" and Lee Corso having a stroke on the Indiana sideline.
Given the vast breadth of WH's tape collection, I would have ballparked his date of birth sometime around 1817. Instead he is younger than me.
Merrill watch. Not in the scary way. The first round of the NHL draft is tonight and should see defenseman Jon Merrill taken. There will also be a goalie taken, and this will be lame. But back to Merrill:
"I honestly want to get drafted, but it's not that big of a deal," Merrill said in a phone interview Tuesday. "It's tough not to hear about (mock drafts) or see things, but I really don't care that much about it.
"First pick or the last pick, you have the same opportunity to play in the NHL."
For the paranoid, there's no hint in of a Merrill defection anywhere in the article. The remainder of the draft will be more interesting as far as the composition of the team goes: CCHL forward Alex Guptill is eligible and has made some comments about deciding what he wants to do after he talks with the team who drafts him. He could spend a year in the USHL, possibly with fellow 2011 commit Lucas Lessio, or defect if the Kings or some other team run by paleolithic folk grabs him. He should go somewhere in the middle rounds.
The final word on SEC vs Big Ten. Sure, they may have won a zillion national titles but this is the Big Ten's position on vuvuzelas:
The Big Ten has specific policies that do not allow irritants or noisemakers, so vuvuzelas would not be allowed. Below is the specific language from our football game management manual.
This is the SEC's:
This instrument, no matter how irritating to some, will not be banned from SEC games this upcoming season, according to the SEC. The instrument of choice in South Africa, which may or may not catch on here in the states, can be brought into stadiums across the league.
Big Ten wins forever. Not that I imagine there will be a ton of vuvuzelas at SEC games. There will be three incidents where vuvuzelas are brought into the stadium, then gingerly extracted from parts of the anatomy plastic horns were not meant to tread, before everyone gets the idea.
Not technically World Cup content. This is about soccer but the larger point is excellent:
One of the hard things about forming an outlook on the World Cup is that when an event gets this much attention, the flow of commentary is so fast and broad that every possible angle is exhausted and trivial positions develop a kind of insubstantial politics. Conventional wisdom starts to seem like an ideology, and if you're not careful, your own feelings about what happens will be dictated by where you want to stand in relation to that ideology rather than by what you actually think. There's a pundit position, a cognoscenti backlash, an uber-cognoscenti counter-backlash, and so on till after midnight. Your heart and the stadium get farther and farther apart.
Case in point: two opinions that put you on roughly the same line of anti-pundit knowingness would be "the first round of games was actually great" and "Switzerland weren't that exciting yesterday; Spain were just terrible." Maybe you really feel those things, or have numbers to back them up. But in most cases, I'd guess that the attraction of these stances has a lot to do with the fact that they put some space between you and the thousand-mile pandemonium of cliches blasting out of the TV studios and the pages of your favorite newspaper. It's not only that they make you sound like you know what you're talking about, although there's no discounting the lure of savvy disaffectedness. They also just turn down the volume.
That sort of contrarianism for the sake of saying something new is a constant temptation for anyone tasked with writing something people will find interesting. Sometimes it's right. Sometimes it's David Berri running a regression and declaring Dennis Rodman more valuable than Michael Jordan or that NBA coaches don't understand who their best players are. If you're trying to combat the conventional wisdom, you should regard it a tricky, wily foe that requires something more than a blunt-force blow.
Etc.: Citi dumps its Rose Bowl sponsorship.
Blogs With Balls 3: Big Lead/EDSBS Throwdown Transcript
Apologies to the locals: this is pure meta.
I attended the third(!) Blogs With Balls this weekend in Chicago, where I talked to a great number of people, had a great number of drinks, and was on a panel. The five minutes which seemed the most relevant to people I talked to and were the most-discussed on the twitters afterward consisted of an interrogation of the ethics panel launched by Orson Swindle that I, like a member of Flipmode Squizzod,—which is the squad—popped up in the midst of to deliver a verse. This post is just a document of what everyone said and will avoid any opining, though my opinion is kind of obvious because it's part of the transcript.
Video here, with the relevant section at about the 21 minute mark.
We fade in as the ethics panel opens it up to questions:
JASON MCINTYRE (The Big Lead): Let's start with everyone's favorite blog… let's go with Spencer Hall first.
SPENCER HALL (Every Day Should Be Saturday): I just want to be clear—I'm taking notes for future reference—it's okay to use whatever you want as long as you get pageviews, right, regardless of ethics? [Aside: this sounds like a ridiculous strawman, but it was essentially what Josh Zerkle, Alana G, and McIntyre had argued throughout the panel, with the academic from Minnesota mostly concerned with how funny rape was or was not (her vote: not) and Jonah Keri being way too nice.] We're all clear on that? Right, okay. Anyone horrified?
The other thing I wanted to do is I wanted to ask about sourcing. That wasn't really a question, that was just a statement. I just wanted to have it and I have the microphone.
What do you do to source a rumor? What is a source for you? Do you advance faster than the standard three source or trusted source [garbled] in the media. What do you do, and what have you done in the past? This is two part question so you have to come back to me, and then I'll give the mic to someone else.
JOSH ZERKLE (With Leather): I personally don't like breaking stories. It's not something that's part of our format; it's not something I'm really interested in doing. It sounds like work. I'm not big on doing the research and following up and calling people on the phone… I'm not a phone guy.
To answer your question, it's something I try to stay away from. It's not really my bag; so many people do it better than me that I just try to stay away from it.
MCINTYRE: Alana?
ALANA G (Yardbarker): Yardbarker really isn't in the business of making much original content except sponsored blog content and our athlete blogs. On behalf of bloggers in general, I think the three sources thing was a rule that came out of old journalism—they probably teach it in journalism school right?
JONAH KERI (Bloomberg, WSJ, many things): …And it might not be wrong.
ALANA: It's an arbitrary rule for what it is and if you want to have the kind of blog that just runs off one rumor that your cousin's person who works at the Q told you about Delonte [bangin' Lebron's mom] and you want to print that and you continually do stuff like that and you're able to make a successful blog out of that, then hey that works for you. And half your rumors are going to end up being false because you only rely on one source and in that case your credibility will be duly affected. Maybe if you're only half-credible you'll still get a lot of traffic because it's an interesting site. So I think it depends on… I think it will bear out in your credibility at the end of the day from your readers.
ZERKLE: Spencer, let me give you an example. This is something I found out about but never ran; I guess I can share it with everybody. [Laughter.] Not exactly breaking news here, but I was at a wedding in Cincinnati a couple years ago and I ran into a woman who had dated Shayne Graham, and she told me that every time Shayne Graham meets a woman he asks her if she's willing to sign a prenup.
KERI: The vast fortune of Shayne Graham! [Laughter]
ZERKLE: 970,000 dollars a year really goes quick. That by itself is really thin for a story, and I'm not going to be on the phone asking "did Shayne Graham ask you to sign a prenup?" It's more legwork and it's tough to put together a body of work, and then if you don't have enough to get a story… it's not a great use of my time, especially when I'm trying to do nine, ten posts a day.
ALANA: That would have been a funny nugget though, if you had just posted "hey, I have no idea if this is true, but my friend told me this story… could be totally false but I thought it was pretty funny, they might have made it up, but I thought it was funny." And then people have the comments, the jokes… that might not be your bag but…
ZERKLE: Yeah, but as I said I couldn't confirm it so I try to shy away from that stuff.
HALL: Yeah, but what would you [McIntyre] do? I mean, you break stuff. How do you verify a source?
MCINTYRE: Uh… it depends on the story.
HALL: Take the Mark Sanchez model story. [Laughter, including from McIntyre. Note: at this point Hall and McIntyre start talking over each other, so it gets a little confusing.] What did you do—
MCINTYRE: I did absolutely nothing. There are plenty of cases where I will do nothing and run with something and I'm wrong.
HALL: So you did nothing because…
MCINTYRE: I have made plenty of mistakes.
HALL: …I planted that rumor…
MCINTYRE: I wouldn't be shocked. I wouldn't be shocked.
HALL: …and you just ran it…
MCINTYRE: That's not… a few weeks earlier Deadspin had a story where—
HALL: That's true. On April First. On April Fool's Day. We just slipped that by the gate! We were like "maybe we can do this"!
MCINTYRE: Right. A few weeks earlier Deadspin ran a story about the Arizona State coach getting in a fight with Mohammed Ali and they basically got—
HALL: Right right right, but this is what you did. We're not talking about what Deadspin did.
MCINTYRE: But everybody makes mistakes on their blogs. Yes, that was a bad mistake. That's not even—
HALL: But it got you pageviews, right?
MCINTYRE: No it didn't. It didn't generate any pageviews.
HALL: It didn't? Then why did you post it?
MCINTYRE: It was the middle of a Tuesday. That's why I ran it.
HALL: That's why you ran it? Okay.
ALANA: But Spencer, people are still reading The Big Lead because they like the site and they think that it's worthwhile, and they know that Jason makes mistakes every once in a while.
BRIAN COOK (MGoBlog): I think the thing that Spencer seems irritated about and I'm honestly irritated about is that the ethics that are being presented by this panel are like "just do it." And that sucks for somebody like me who does break real news about Michigan sports and I have to contend with the idea that I'm a blog. And that's because of you. [McIntyre]
ADAM JACOBI (Black Heart Gold Pants): [claps feverishly]
EVERYONE ELSE: [crickets]
ALANA: Why do you have to be lumping yourself in with everybody else when you are doing stuff that's of a different quality or of a different…
HALL: [paraphrase, I was there but this is too quiet to make out.] But we're talking about advertisers here [referring to earlier panel] who don't see individual blogs.
ALANA: Right, but if you guys don't like what's happening with other blogs there's not much you can do to stop what I'm going to do on my blog. But you can promote what you're doing on your blog and better market to people what you're doing.
HALL: [inaudible, but given the response to this probably about the Sanchez thing again.]
ZERKLE: Was there any kind of follow-up to that? I mean, you're calling him out now but did you personally write anything after the fact saying "yeah I totally fooled the shit out of McIntyre." I mean, did you call that at all.
HALL: No.
ZERKLE: Well, that might have been something to do, if you were concerned about the credibility.
NICOLE LAVOI (U of Minnesota): That's not ethical either.
HALL: What do you think I'm doing now?
ZERKLE: Well, it's two and a half months after the fact. So… good job, I guess.
HALL: This is in front of an audience.
SARAH SPAIN (ESPN 1000 Chicago, WGN, various other things): So is the answer basically that if your decision is to be a blog that isn't as ethical and does the funny stuff and that misses every once in a while, that's you're decision? That if your decision is to be a reputable blog that stands behind its sources and writes from a perspective that is all fact, then that is your decision? And the better man wins?
ALANA: Well, yeah. There's newspapers like the New York Times that are very reputable and very rarely make mistakes, and there are newspapers like the National Enquirer that tell you people are getting abducted by UFOs. And so those are two different markets I think by now, and the market has borne out that these have different levels of reputation, of credibility, and readers and advertisers know that.
KERI: I'm going to disagree with you on that. The New York Times is notorious for running stories with anonymous sources. And they're interviewing "high level government operatives" about whatever, the War In Iraq and they're saying "oh yeah, well, you know, there are Al Qaeda and so we're going to go to war and blah blah blah." We were basically led into something that was not justified because of anonymous sources. There are all kinds of mainstream media outlets—the biggest of the big, Washington Post, New York Times—I mean, I've written for a bunch of them and they make the same mistakes that bloggers do. Everybody lacks credibility.
ALANA: What I'm saying is that with blogs—I understand you guys' [Spencer/yrs truly] frustration because right now we are all blocked in together and people at Proctor and Gamble don't necessarily know who Deadspin is versus the Big Lead versus whatever, MGoBlog, so you know right now it seems like we're all being lumped together and you guys are feeling hurt by things that other blogs are doing. But if we do our jobs right it will all eventually bear out so that everyone has their own reputation, just like the National Enquirer has a different reputation from the Washington Post.
At this point the mic has worked its way across the room to yet another of the infuriatingly-thick-on-the-ground Ohio State fans, this one from Cleveland Frowns, and the throwdown ends.
I Guess This Is Goodbye
MSC shuts down, but only so Sean can run the Detroit SB Nation site.
I Have A Very Professional Reason This Time
I am out today, though Tim will drop a post or two in my absence and that Mathlete Diary will hit the front page if you're too lazy to click through. I have a Very Serious Professional Reason for this: I will be at Blogs With Balls in Chicago this weekend. There are tickets; if you are interested in getting a beer your best bet is crashing one of the official parties, which I do not endorse at all and shame you for even thinking of.
Via the miracle of technology, this is going to be streamed live(!) by Justin TV, including my panel, which is the first after lunch and will probably go on at like 1 or 1:30 or something. Orson is moderating, so it will be alcoholically entertaining. I cannot vouch for the other panels' sheer quantity of drunken magnificence, but Orson brings the wood.
Our panel is entitled "Democratizing Sports Media: How Blogging Players, Fans & Leagues Are Changing the Game," but these things tend to wander a bit from the chosen topic and various other things will probably pop up. I plan on pimping the Mathlete, Misopogon, MCalibur, Jamiemac, Six Zero, Tom, FA, Tim, and others as an example of how a popular blog sits on top of this vast community that can do amazing things if given space in which their effort can be appreciated.
As long as we're meta-ing it up in here, here's my Ignite talk from earlier in the year (click the first bookmark to go directly to my five minutes):
And here's this article by the Stack Overflow guy about what motivates people, how money isn't always helpful, and what makes communities go. If your model is hoping people do things for small amounts of money you're probably not going to be very successful and if you are it will be depressing. If your model is organizing it such that people will do things for free, you could be very successful and it will probably be pretty nice. The whole reason this site moved to Drupal is that I would get emails on a regular basis saying "hey here's my new blog!" and they'd post a couple times and then they'd go dead because it's hard out there for a blog. So: put 'em around here and you'll probably get a couple thousand views and a couple dozen comments and you'll be motivated to continue. Along the way we might get a definitive accounting of how much attrition Michigan has suffered relative to its peers or a post on fourth downs that gets linked a dozen places.
My plan for the site has been focused on making it as convenient, attractive, and easy to use as possible*—so no pagination, full feeds, content in and pipe that will take it, jumps only when they're warranted by a desire to cut down on clutter, increasingly high hurdles to clear for user-generated content, post-Illinois caterwauling lockdown. Doing so has increased the audience to the point where "Democratizing" sports media means that this place sits on top of grass roots instead of being a single shoot.
/end harangue
I'm back Monday.
*(With the single exception of the ads that provide enough revenue for the thing to be a job, which is kind of a requirement.)
User-Curated MGoHallOfFame
Upon Further Review:
UFR FAQ. Click the opponent's name for Brian's game column.
|Michigan State
|Penn State
Kick Returns
|Notre Dame
|Central Michigan
|Bloody Murder
|Penn State
|Michigan State
|Bowling Green
|Notre Dame
Ohio State
Offense by stubob
Penn State
Delaware St.
Michigan State
Eastern Mich.
Notre Dame
Western Mich.
Ohio State
WLA's UFR parody
Michigan State
Penn State
Notre Dame
Miami (NTM)
Florida (Citrus)
Ohio State
Michigan State
Eastern Mich.
Penn State
Notre Dame
The Horror
2005-06 is a Work in Progress. For the time being: http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/upon-further-review-archive.html
Ball State
Damn Comcast
Central Mich.
Nebraska (Alamo)
Ohio State
Not charted, because somewhere out there is somebody who desperately wants to root for Indiana so this would be cruel.
Penn State
Michigan State
Eastern Mich.
Notre Dame
Northern Illinois
The 2000s: Of The Decade
MGoProfiles by Six Zero (and of Six Zero )
Front Page Gems Not Penned by Brian (FPGNPBB)
Reason and the Statue of Liberty -- BiSB man crushes hard for Trey Burke... and who can blame him?
Heiko's Epic One-on-One Interview with Al Borges
Followed by the first user-submitted link. [citation needed]
Six Zero's Wife Day opus
Meet the (Korean) Parents...and Grandparents...and Sister (aka, the CRex saga)
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-awkwardly-met-future-laws
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-korean-facebook-stalking
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-crex-part-3
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-crex-part-4
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-crex-part-5
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-crex-theyre-gone
The greatest video posted, ever.
Mechanized Recruiting:
Football Analysis
Hello Again, Old 4-3:
- http://mgoblog.com/content/hello-again-old-4-3-defensive-line
- http://mgoblog.com/content/hello-again-old-4-3-linebacker-sorts
Space Coyote's Intro to the 3-3-5 Defense:
Misopogon's Decimated Defense series:
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/decimated-defense
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/decimated-defense-part-ii-statisticating
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/decimated-defense-part-iii-resuscitating
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/visualizing-mgoblog-hennechart
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/hennegraphs-take-2
The Mathlete:
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/how-valuable-are-returning-starters-and-what-positions-are-they-most-valuable
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/deeper-look-special-teams
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/fourth-down-decisions-never-punt-tebow
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/mathlete%E2%80%99s-michigan-season-preview
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/can-michigan-expect-another-major-improvement-offense-2010
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/offensive-balance
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/luckiest-teams-2009-updated-michigan-2008
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/what-does-great-offense-look-and-how-close-michigan
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/impact-sacks-and-picks-overall-performance
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/blue-moon-redux
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/blue-moon-my-eye
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/qb-fragility-update
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/splitting-white-rainbow
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/judging-play-success-panthro-style
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/qb-metamorphosis
- http://mgoblog.com/diaries/2015-big-ten-qb-notes
Space Coyote's Fundamentals of Football:
FF 101 - Day 1: Syllabus, Overview: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff101-syllabus-day-1
FF 101 - Day 2: Offense: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff101-day-2
FF 101 - Day 3: Defense: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff101-day-3
FF 101 - Day 4: Offensive Line: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff101-day-4
FF 101 - Day 5: Wide Receivers: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff-210-screen-package
FF 201 - Day 1: 3-3-5 Defense - Advantage/Disadvantage: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/3-3-5-fundamentals
FF 201 - Day 2: 3-3-5 Defense - Against tight formations: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff201-day-2-3-3-5-vs-tight-formations
FF 210 - Screen Packages - http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff-210-screen-package
MGoBlog Introspection
Coach Schiano:
An Ode to Michigan
The Most
- Replies in a thread. The classic hockey thread stood for awhile but has been passed a couple times since. The growth of the board means even with a Liveblog, it can get crazy (1588 posts): http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/outback-bowl-open-thread-0
- Repeat posts in a thread (multiple posters). Also read as: The best way to respond to a sextuple post: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/night-jerseys-selling-hotcakes-ohio
- Repeat posts in a thread (single poster). This is what happens when you spill coffee on your keyboard and then post: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/paging-mr-jones
- Epic laugh in MGoBlog history. HT: Brian from Podcast 4.4: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/big-tehnn-warning-autoplaying-audio
The Great Posbang of Aug 18, 2010
- http://mgoblog.com/content/which-rodriguez-gets-sword-size-his-torso-and-spiky-hair
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/posbang-overflow-thread
Alter Egos EXPOSED!!!
The biggest assclown in the history of MGoBlog deserves his own section. If your thread is listed here and you're not McFarlin, only you know it for sure, because holy cow, you sure do a great McFarlin impression.
- http://mgoblog.com/content/michigan-could-go-12-0-year
- http://mgoblog.com/content/rr-recruiting-question
- http://mgoblog.com/content/long-mcfarlin-thread
- http://mgoblog.com/content/mcfarlin#comments
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-who-mcfarlin
- http://mgoblog.com/content/i-thenk-my-iq-drooping-much-stupid-here-lately
The Annals of MGoBlog
Tacopants earns a spot here. Jonesing for a recent version.
Photoshop/MS Paint
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/big-house-year-2025ms-paint
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/michigan-drops-adidasms-paint
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/back-spartan-stadiummidnight-maize-ms-paint
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/osubusterswednesday-ms-paint
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/what-ever-happened-captain-ss-troy-ms-paint?quicktabs_2=3&quicktabs_1=2
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/charlie-weiss-punch-outmidnight-maize-paint
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-lloyd-brady-photoshop-thread
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/photobombed-brian-cook
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/taylors-twosie-photoshop-thread
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/mgophotoshop-flying-denard
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/shane-morris-photoshop-thread-0
Epic GIFs
- http://mgoblog.com/content/more-danny-hopedoken#comment-1745715
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/taylors-twosie-photoshop-thread#comment-1560517
MGoBlogerati Demographics
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/your-mgoname
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/who-are-we-question-ive-always-wondered
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-what-high-school-did-you-go-and-how-were-they-sports
- http://mgoblog.com/content/ot-your-hometown-and-fandom-origins
100+ +1's
- http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-question-you-guys-here
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Author's Response Universal Lipid Screening: In Response to Ongoing Debate
The 3 eLetters highlight concerns regarding the Expert Panel's recommendation for universal screening of lipids in children.1 These concerns continue to be debated as noted in the commentary by Gillman and Daniels, both panel members with opposing viewpoints on this issue.2 The evidence for an important role of elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in accelerated atherosclerosis beginning in childhood is extensive, and for adults, the benefits of lipid-lowering therapy are definitive. However, for children, the evidence for benefit is inferential, the long-term risks are unknown, and costs over a lifetime have not been projected. The number of assumptions that would have to be made to provide an estimate quantifying net benefit versus risks/costs would render conclusions suspect. Nonetheless, as stated in the guidelines, the panel agrees wholeheartedly that this screening should be pursued and informed by more definitive evidence.
Our management of potential conflicts of interest did not conform to the recommendations of the 2009 Institute of Medicine report, which postdated formation of our panel by 3 years. The panel was formed by inclusion of members with the greatest expertise, and it did include family medicine practitioners, nurse practitioners, and pediatricians, as well as specialists in preventive cardiology. In pediatrics, expertise in lipid management in childhood is limited, and elimination of all those with potential conflicts of interest would have precluded formation of an "expert" panel. No panel member had a fiduciary or promotional relationship with industry. Some panel members had potential financial conflicts of interest that were declared but did not preclude participation in deliberations or drafting recommendations. Uy and Agawu bring up the potential of intellectual conflicts of interest, which are much harder to recognize and to avoid. Should guidelines be developed by content experts or strictly by methodologists? We recognize that some of our recommendations would have been given lower evidence grades, and some areas would have no recommendation in the absence of sufficient evidence, had the panel been composed exclusively of methodologists. Indeed, the US Preventive Services Task Force in 2007 made no recommendation for lipid screening during childhood, concluding that there was insufficient evidence.3 The differences in approach to that of our panel are discussed in the commentary by Gillman and Daniels.2 By the time the next set of guidelines in this area are developed, we anticipate that the process will be more informed and may use the Institute of Medicine's conflicts of interest recommendations.
We agree that the production of a guideline alone is insufficient. It is best if accompanied by strategies for knowledge translation and implementation, driven by a research program aimed at resolving evidence gaps and assessing impact, and entailing a feedback loop for revision; all of these actions have been explicitly advocated by the panel.4 The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute is conducting a randomized trial of guideline implementation in pediatric practice, to be completed in January 2013, and will use the findings in developing forthcoming implementation materials. We feel that our guideline was not paternalistic but concede that it would have been preferable for knowledge translation and implementation materials to be released coincident with the guidelines.
Finally, the Expert Panel guidelines provide an integrated approach to detection, assessment, and management of all cardiovascular risk factors, aimed at both primordial and primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. We remain seriously concerned that an epidemic of unhealthy behaviors and risk factors now exists in youth; the future in terms of health and costs can be predicted and must be addressed by evolving effective population-based and targeted solutions aimed at prevention in youth. The controversy over universal lipid screening does not invalidate the guideline, and it should not preclude practitioners from scrutiny and implementation of the larger strategy encompassed in the Expert Panel guidelines. Accumulating evidence supports the yield of universal screening.5 It would be imprudent to "throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Conflict of Interest:
Dr McCrindle reports the following: consultant or advisory board member for Genzyme (Sanofi), Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Eli Lilly; Data and Safety Monitoring Board Member for Medpace; research funding from Schering-Plough, AstraZeneca, National Institutes of Health, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research; and stock ownership in CellAegis Devices. Dr Kwiterovich reports the following: consultant or advisory board member to Merck. Dr Daniels reports the following: consultant or advisory board member to Merck and QLT. Dr McBride and Dr Kavey report no disclosures.
Expert Panel Members for Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk Reduction in Child
- 1.↵National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Expert panel on integrated guidelines for cardiovascular health and risk reduction in children and adolescents: full report, 2011 [updated January 5, 2011, and January 5, 2012]. Available at: www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/cvd_ped/index.htm
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- Gillman MW,
- Daniels SR
- 3.↵US Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for lipid disorders in children: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement. Pediatrics. 2007;120(1). Available at: www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/120/1/e215
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- Gidding SS,
- Daniels SR,
- Kavey RE
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- Ritchie SK,
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|8:59pm on Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
|I have had very good luck with most Panasonic products (vs SONY, which for me. Great quality ; low price ; comfortable ; Clear sound ; Loud for the person on the other end :D Maybe too loud.. :P Great quality and price. Works with all my wireless and wired phones that have a 2.5 mm jack Shipping cost
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|Don't take the risk of brain tumors - use a corded headset. 4 ft cord","Clear Reception","Durable","Excellent sound quality". Unfortunately, I have 4 slipped disks in my neck for which the pain radiates down my arm and into my hand. Works like a charm. Clear Reception None
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|I would not buy a Panasonic KX-TCA60 Headset again. I expect phone headsets to last longer than five months before failing like this one did.
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|Love this headset! It is super comfortable and makes it so easy to be on the phone while getting other things done... Just bought 2 more of these. The first broke after 4 years but I like them so much I keep buying. Very clear on both ends. Keeps one ear free.
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|Excellent headset Great sound quality with my Panasonic cordless phone. I had one before but broke it putting it on over my baseball cap.
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|This is not a PC headset, it works great with my AT&T 2-line desk phone. Slips on easily, ear piece is comfortable.
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The Best Solution For Your Communication Needs
The telephone is your main source of communication your link to business partners, customers, friends, and even your family members both inside and outside the office. The KX-TA308 and KX-TA616 Advanced Hybrid Systems are phone systems which can support your business and personal needs. The KX-TA308 supports 3 outside (CO) lines and 8 extensions. The KX-TA616 supports 6 outside (CO) lines and 16 extensions. With optional cards, you can easily expand your system capacity up to 6 outside (CO) lines and 24 extensions* as your needs grow. Both systems provide the features that satisfy the demands of the most sophisticated and cost conscious users. You can connect a variety of communication devices, such as cordless phones, answering machines, computer modems, credit card verifiers, fax machines, and any other device that works with conventional telephone lines. The Panasonic KX-TA308 and KX-TA616 are ideal for a small business or home office requiring a flexible system with a high degree of sophistication.
*8 of the extensions are ports used for Single Line Telephones.
qFlexible and Simple Expansion
Panasonic offers you unprecedented flexibility and simple expansion with optional cards. By adding optional cards, you can expand the system from 3 COs / 8 extensions to 6 COs / 24 extensions to meet your changing needs. Neither additional programming nor costly rewiring is required.
Number of Outside Lines 6
6COs/16Ext. KX-TA616
qIntelligent Call Management
DISA (Direct Inward System Access) with message*
s More efficient handling of incoming calls. s Callers can call after-hours and still access desired extensions. s Shares the operator load. This feature allows outside callers to access any extension without going through an operator. Callers can dial the desired destination such as an extension or Ring Group+, or even outside lines. With an optional OGM (Automatic Greeting Message) card installed, a caller will hear a greeting message. Two different DISA messages can be recorded by the operator or manager. One message may be used in day mode and the other in night mode, or they may be used for different outside (CO) lines. When the system receives a fax transmission signal by DISA*, it automatically connects the specified fax extension. Fax calls can be received day or night without an operator and there is no need for a special fax phone line.
* An optional card is required. +All phones in the group will ring simultaneously, allowing any member of the group to answer the call.
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The voice mail interface between a Panasonic Advanced Hybrid Systems and the VPS (Voice Processing System) offers quick and user-friendly operation to improve communication with your customers and colleagues. Customisable service settings allow you to assign major functions to telephone keypad buttons. For example, after hearing an opening greeting, a caller can navigate through various menus in one of several languages. He can be routed to the appropriate department, suitable mailbox, or a fax machine, or he can listen to up-todate information. When the system is digitally integrated with APT (Analogue Proprietary Telephone), there are a number of enhanced facilities available, such as Live Call Screening (LCS), Two-Way Recording, and Two-Way Transfer.
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Extensions Service Dept.
Ring Group Touch-Tone Telephone
Cellular Phone
Facsimile Machine
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Music on Hold
Paging System
UCD (Uniform Call Distribution) with message*
s Improves the company image. s Important business calls will not be missed. s Shares the operator load. For handling many incoming calls quickly and efficiently, this feature allows incoming calls to be distributed uniformly to a group of extensions. If all stations in the UCD group are busy, the system will play a message* to the caller - acting like a receptionist. If still the UCD group remains busy, the call can be sent to a secondary DISA (OGM2). This is especially useful for an office where many calls arrive at a group and there is only one person to take calls (queuing feature).
*An optional card is required.
OGM 1 Hello! This is Panasonic. All extensions are busy. Please wait.
to remotely set Call Forwarding from another phone at your office (eg. meeting room), so calls to your extension will reach you while you are away from your desk.
Office "Follow Me"
Panas onic
Meeting Room
Your Voice Mail Outside
Caller ID*
Busy OGM 2 For the Sales Dept., press 1. For the Service Dept., press 2. DISA
[UCD Hunting routes the call systematically until it finds an idle extension.]
s Caller Recognition s Better Call Management The system is compatible with Caller ID, which allows a user to see the callers information on Analogue Proprietary Telephones (APTs). Proprietary display telephones can be used to access the Caller ID log for the 20 most recent calls (Call Log). The logged incoming calls can be called back easily.
*An optional card is required. Please contact your dealer or phone company to confirm if the Caller ID service is available in your area.
Call Forwarding (Busy / No Answer / Follow-Me / to Outside)
s Important business calls will not be missed. Incoming, intercom and transferred calls to your extension can be forwarded to another destination when you are on the phone or away from your desk. Calls can be directed to a preprogrammed number, such as your mailbox, another phone, or even outside your office building, improving efficiency and overall customer service. "Follow me" programming allows you
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Extension Group
The system supports 8 extension groups. In an extension group, the following features can be activated. Group Call Pickup : Any member of an extension group can pick up a call directed to another group number. Paging - Group : Any member of an extension group can make a voice announcement to another group member. A hunting group, DISA ring group or UCD group is a specific extension group.
Wireless Solution
Proprietary Telephone
Ringing Pattern Selection
A ringing pattern can be selected depending on the type of call such as an outside call, intercom call and doorphone call. You can distinguish private calls from business calls.
Standard Telephone Fax Connection
Message Waiting*
Allows an extension user to notify the called extension of a message waiting when the called extension is busy or does not answer the call. Pressing the lit MESSAGE button of proprietary telephone can call back the called party automatically.
*Analogue Proprietary Telephone only.
Voice Mail System n Hold
qEconomical Cost Management
Calling Activity Reports (SMDR: Station Message Detail Recording)
Access to PC
Doorphone Door Opener
The system can record or print out call information such as the date, time, extension number, dialled number, duration, etc. SMDR information can help you manage long distance call costs, staff productivity and phone system usage.
Account Code Entry (Option/Forced/Verified)
qEfficient Call Handling
Day / Night / Lunch Mode
The system provides "Day/Night" and "Lunch" mode features which can be used to change system functions according to the time of day. For example, you can designate which phones will ring for incoming calls after hours, or prevent outgoing calls at night.
Account codes can be used to identify outgoing external calls for accounting and billing purposes. The calling activities made with ID codes can be printed out (SMDR). A "Verified Account Code" is very useful control toll costs, because a user dialling a long distance number must enter a valid account code to temporarily override toll restriction. Account codes can be used to manage your telephone expenses more effectively.
Toll Restriction
The system can be programmed to prohibit unauthorized outgoing long distance calls by restricting certain extensions from accessing specific area codes / exchange codes.
Doorphone Call / Door Opener
Up to 4 doorphones can be installed. If a visitor presses the doorphone button, a pre-assigned extension user can answer the call and talk to the visitor. Any extension user can call a doorphone. The doorphones are also used for the Room Monitor feature. Up to 4 Door Openers can be connected to the system.
Electronic Station Lock
Prevents unauthorized personnel from making calls with your phone by "locking " your outside lines and requiring a 4-digit security code before making calls. The operator and manager are given the privilege of controlling Electronic Station Lock at any station by using the DSS console. For example, this feature is useful for a small hotel when guests have checked out.
Emergency Call
You can assign 5 numbers which can override toll restriction as an emergency call to the police, fire department, ambulance, etc.
Limited Call Duration
The system disconnects outside outgoing calls when a preprogrammed time expires. An alarm tone will be sent to both parties 15 seconds before the assigned time limit.
5-party Conference
e This feature allows 5 parties to have a telephone conversation at one time. Up to 2 outside lines can join a conference call.
qEase of Maintenance
Battery Backup Interface (Built - In)*
The system is equipped with a built-in battery interface which provides full system operation in the event of a power failure.
*An optional connecting cable is required.
Room Monitor
An Analogue Proprietary Telephone or Doorphone can be used as a Room Monitor. This feature is useful for monitoring a child room or for security purposes.
Battery Backup Interface (Built-In)
Backup Battery Cable (Option)
Analogue Proprietary Telephones (APT)
Auto Answer
Offers handsfree answering for intercom calls.
Alphanumeric LCD
1 line with a 16 character display provides useful information such as Absent Messages, call status, date and time, call duration, and Caller ID*.
Flexible CO Keys with Two-Coloured LED (Red / Green)
User-programmable function keys. Gives visual indication of lines or extensions, i.e., held, busy, free, etc.
Used to make or receive an intercom call.
Enables extensions to receive paging messages through the built-in speaker.
Speed Dialling (Auto Dial)
A maximum of 100 preprogrammed system speed dialling numbers can be stored.
Used to insert a pause in a speed dial.
Message Lamp
The message lamp indicates that someone is waiting for you to return their call.
Used to transfer an outside or intercom call to another extension.
Used to send a hooking signal to a Central Office.
Volume Control Automatic Redial
Without lifting the handset, redialling can be activated automatically and repeated the assigned number of times until the called party answers. Adjusts the volumes of the handset and speaker.
Display, Speakerphone Set
Speakerphone Hold
Places a call on hold. Used for handsfree conversations and on-hook dialling.
Speakerphone Set
Monitor Set
TYes 1 x 16 Yes Yes
TYes Yes TYes Monitor T12 Yes 1 x 16 Yes Yes
T4 Yes 1 x 16 Yes Yes T4 Yes Yes T4 Yes Monitor
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia examines the universe's influence in our lives; it blurs edges between past and present, science and art, order and disorder, and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in both 1809-1812 and present day, the play concerns the discoveries of two modern scholars — and the fates of those who lived in the estate and its gardens over 200 years earlier.
Innovative theatre-in-the-round staging, in which the audience surrounds the actors on the Wimberly stage, brings the spectator very close to the action of the play and makes for an exciting and thought-provoking experience of this contemporary masterpiece. _ Arcadia_ is the first offering in Bad Habit Productions' Fifth Anniversary Season and is directed by Artistic Director Daniel Morris.
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free sewing patterns for spring
Now that May has arrived, we're all hoping that spring will finally start to show its face here in New York. And with our thoughts turning toward spring, I thought it might be a good time to remind you about some of our free sewing patterns that are perfect for the upcoming warmer weather.
One of our all-time most popular free patterns is the Popover Sundress sewing pattern. Believe it or not, this free pattern gets downloaded almost 4,000 times a month, each and every month! (I'm sure it doesn't hurt that the free pattern comes with a matching dress pattern for 18-inch dolls….)
The Popover Sundress is the perfect quick and easy project, and it's one that is guaranteed to make girls and their dolls happy.
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One of our oft-overlooked free patterns, the Ruffled Halter, is also a great summer style. This free pattern was written for Stitch Magazine back in 2010.
Featuring an really innovative construction method, this free pattern is as fun to sew as it is easy.
And last, but definitely not least, is our most popular free pattern: the Reversible Bucket Hat. Originally written for and included in Little Things to Sew, this free pattern is downloaded well over 4,000 times each month–which makes me wonder just how many kids there are around the world wearing this bucket hat to the park and to the beach.
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I've sewn the popover dress once and the lazy days skirt twice. I have plans to do another popover dress and matching one for my daughter's doll. And also am thinking of tackling the hat.
Your updated photos of the skirt and the halter top are very inspiring though! I printed that halter top and after seeing it in a bigger size I am inspired to make it for my 5 year old!
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I have made the popover dress and a bunch of the doll dresses. They are great to make out of fabric scraps. I made the halter top for my granddaughter , too. I plan on sewing up some of the simple skirts for her for the summer. I love your patterns.
My favorite is the Popover. I have lost count as to how many I have made but it's at least a dozen. 🙂
The lazy days skirt was my very first sewing project! I've made several bucket hats too. 🙂
I have made the bucket hat and the doll-sized popover dress. Love them both! Thanks so much for making such nice, quality, free patterns.
Popover and the bucket hat. Trying the Popover was what convinced me that LTTS would be great patterns and instructions 🙂
Last year for my daughter's "bring your doll" birthday party I made matching lazy days skirts for all the girls and their dolls!


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Greenwood battled back from an early double-digit deficit Friday night at Decatur Central but couldn't quite complete the come-back.
The result was a 43-35 loss against the Mid-State Conference rival Hawks.
The Woodmen started slowly, as turnovers and a streak of uncontested 3-point shots by the Hawks (2-10, 1-3 Mid-State) combined to put Decatur Central up 11-2 after the first quarter.
Greenwood Coach Bruce Hensley said the struggling Woodmen (3-8, 0-4) do not have the luxury of spotting opponents wide leads.
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Greenwood's defense improved over the next two quarters, allowing it to get back in contention. Slowly but steadily, the Woodmen drew within striking distance, with 16 points from senior Jaren Hornbeak leading the way.
Down the stretch, the Woodmen produced a couple of key defensive stops and twice had the ball with the chance to tie the game, but the crucial possessions ended with a turnover and a missed 3-point shot, respectively.
The Hawks, who had no scorers in double figures, made some vital foul shots to pull away at the end.
Hensley credited the Woodmen for not folding but lamented the poor start.
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The Woodmen made only 11 of 51 shots from the field.
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A mother cheetah teachers her cubs to hunt. A macaque monkey enjoys a hot bath. The London Natural History Museum has named the winners of its "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" competition. Here are some of the best photos.
The title "Wildlife Photographer of the Year" is among the most prestigious distinctions for nature photographers. The competition, which has been organized by the London Natural History Museum and the BBC for 48 years, always attracts spectacular submissions.
A little bit of luck goes a long way, too. One photographer stumbled upon a polar bear at 4 a.m. between Norway and the North Pole to snap it finding its way from one ice floe to the next.
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1 Volcano Museum
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N 3 - Bourg-Murat F - 97418 Plaine-des-Cafres
The museum, whose architecture was designed to echo the shape of a volcano, takes a playful yet scientific approach to volcanism and the Earth's origins. The Piton de la Fournaise is the star of the show here and reveals all its secrets. The new muse..
2 Bébour-Bélouve Forest
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F - Les Remparts
Numerous marked trails run through Bébour-Bélouve Forest, and are highly recommended for exploring the vegetation in Les Hauts. The Petite-Plaine botanical trail leads past Japanese cedars, then several paths crisscross the primary forest, great for ..
3 Biberon Falls
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F - 97431 Plaine des Palmistes
A trail leads to the foot of Cascade Biberon and its magnificent untamed setting. You can have a picnic and a swim while admiring the falls, over 200m high. In winter, enjoy the guava trees lining the trail.
4 Commerson Crater
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F - 97418 La Grande Ferme
Coming from Bourg-Murat, 8km after the Nez de Boeuf on the right side of the road, there is a viewpoint where you can stare down into the gaping maw of Commerson's Crater. This 200m in diameter by 120m deep explosion crater, one of the island's most ..
5 Cirque de Salazie
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F - 97433 Salazie
The Cirque de Salazie, accessible via Saint-André, is sure to enchant you. Its great hilly spaces are covered in luxuriant vegetation and streaked with multiple waterfalls. The reason? An exceptional amount of precipitation combined with sunlight, al..
6 Maison Folio
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20 rue de l'Am.-Lacaze F - 97433 Hell-Bourg
The Maison Folio, or Villa des Châtaigniers, stands in a luxuriant and chaotic garden. Built in the 19C, it is a fine example of the charming houses erected in the colonial era by the great Creole families who came here on holiday. The owner takes yo..
7 Route du Bélier
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F - 97433 Grand-Îlet
Drive through the villages of Casabois and Le Bélier, then along the ramparts at Bord Martinto to get to Piton Marmite, the summit of the ridge separating Salazie and Mafate. The road has some extraordinary panoramas - often simultaneously - of the t..
8 Cirque de Cilaos
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F - 97413 Cilaos
With its sharp relief, vertiginous ramparts and subtle light, Cilaos was made to inspire painters and poets. Its courteous and hospitable inhabitants, ancestral specialities - lentils, wine and embroidery - and salutary hot springs contribute to the ..
9 Taïbit Pass
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F - 97413 Cilaos
To enjoy an extraordinary view of Cilaos, the three rocky peaks of the Trois Salazes and Mafate you'll need to climb 800m to the Taïbit Pass (col). Heading off from the D 242, between Cilaos and Îlet-à-Cordes, you'll mainly pass through shaded forest..
10 Mascarin National Botanical Conservatory
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Route des Colimaçons (10 km au nord de St-Leu par D 12) F - 97436 St-Leu
This garden-museum is spread out around the beautiful residence of the Châteauvieux family, the former owners of the estate. It is dedicated to the protection of rare and endangered botanical species, in particular the native and endemic plant herita..
11 Saint-Denis de La Réunion Art Library
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26 rue de Paris F - 97400 St-Denis
The Artothèque is housed in a lovely 19C Creole home made of wood. Its contemporary art exhibitions highlight the work of well-known artists and young talents from all over the Indian Ocean. One of its distinctive features: for a modest sum it will l..
12 Léon Dierx Museum
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28 rue de Paris F - 97400 St-Denis
Housed in the former bishop's palace, this museum is named after a famous local man, who was a painter and Parnassian poet. Created in 1911 by the authors Ary et Marius Leblond, it was gifted the collection of Lucien Vollard - brother of the art deal..
13 Saint-Denis de La Réunion Natural History Museum
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1 rue Poivre F - 97400 St-Denis
The Natural History Museum is housed in the former colonial palace located in the Jardin de l'État. Take time to peruse the museum's permanent collection presenting the island's land and sea animals in a charmingly old-fashioned way. Find out everyth..
14 Rue du Maréchal-Leclerc
Architecture, castles and historic districts
F - 97400 St-Denis
A patchwork of Reunion Island's people and religions is concentrated along the long and very lively shopping street Rue du Maréchal Leclerc, which cuts through the middle ofRue de Paris. There is the grand mosque, the Tamil templeShri Kali Kampal Kôv..
15 Saint-Paul Maritime Cemetery
Religious buildings
F - 97460 Saint-Paul
This cemetery takes you on a poetic tour of the island's past. The sea, scent of frangipani trees and pirate stories conspire to make it even more romantic. The names of the island's oldest inhabitants can be read on its tombstones, including founder..
16 Hermitage-les-Bains and La Saline-les-Bains Beaches
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F - 97434 L'Hermitage-les-Bains
The long white sand beaches shaded by filao trees at L'Hermitage and La Salin attract many families, especially on weekends when the atmosphere is at its peak. The barrier reef here protects the shore, forming a peaceful, shallow lagoon. Bring plasti..
17 Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette Church
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F - 97436 Saint-Leu
Turn left onto Rue Haute at the roundabout in Saint-Leu. A few metres beyond that stands the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette, built in haste on the cliffside in 1859 when a cholera epidemic was spreading over the island. The disease is said to hav..
18 Pointe au Sel
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F - 97436 La Pointe au Sel
Designated a "protected natural site", Pointe au Sel is worth a visit for the austere landscape of its black coast battered by the waves (swimming prohibited). Created in 1942 and since restored, the salt works are composed of drainage and ..
19 Réunion Astronomical Observatory
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18 rue Georges-Bizet F - 97421 Les Makes
Sky-watching sessions are held here at Réunion's astronomical observatory, considered one of the best sites in the southern hemisphere. A unique spectacle of constellations, stars, planets and galactic trails is on view every evening through the astr..
20 Hiking up Dimitile
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F - 97414 Entre-Deux
Three magnificent trails starting from Entre-Deux take you up Dimitile. Each one follows a different ridge and offers striking views over the Plaine des Cafres all the way to the coast. At the summit (1,837 m) the panorama looks out at Cilaos, whose ..


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Five Romantic Beach Sunsets for This Weekend
You know what some people think is a bit of a cliché? Watching the sunset. You know what's also a beautiful and inexpensive way to spend time with someone you love? You guessed it — watching the sunset. Here are five of the most beautiful beaches to catch the day's last rays around the Bay.
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One of the best things about going to Monterey County is all the great getaway choices waiting for you when you arrive. There are vineyards for wine lovers, tasty and healthy food options, miles of coastline for beach lovers and probably the world's best known aquarium. If you're a parent there's even more reason to smile – because all of the above are family friendly.
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When most people think of California beaches, they typically think Southern California beaches. This is for good reason when you consider the beauty and history of the beaches in and around San Diego, Orange County, and Los Angeles. While the conditions and weather of Northern California's beaches don't always call for bikini-clad vacationers, they are not to be overlooked. Here are a few to consider for your next escape from San Francisco.
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Management Challenges Facing FHA's Single-Family Housing Operations
T-RCED-98-121: Published: Apr 1, 1998. Publicly Released: Apr 1, 1998.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the management problems facing the single-family mortgage insurance programs of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), focusing on: (1) FHA's role in providing mortgage credit to home buyers; (2) management problems affecting the operations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) single-family program, including weaknesses in HUD's oversight of the contractors responsible for safeguarding and maintaining foreclosed FHA properties, indications that weaknesses may exist in HUD's oversight of FHA appraisers, and internal control problems identified in FHA's financial statements audits; and (3) GAO's observations on HUD's plans for addressing these and other single-family management problems as part of its agencywide HUD 2020 Management Reform Plan.
GAO noted that: (1) FHA is a major player in the single-family housing finance market; (2) during the first half of 1997, 3 out of 10 borrowers that received insured mortgages selected FHA mortgage insurance; (3) without FHA mortgage insurance, some of these borrowers might have had to delay or forgo purchasing a home; (4) over time, FHA's insurance premiums and other income have more than covered the costs that FHA has sustained as a result of defaults and foreclosures on the single-family loans it insures; (5) in fact, the present value of estimated cash inflows to FHA's single-family mortgage program exceeds the present value of cash outflows by $1.8 billion for fiscal year 1997; (6) notwithstanding this strong financial performance, both GAO and the HUD Inspector General have identified the following areas in which FHA's management of its single-family program could be improved: (a) GAO's work on HUD's oversight of real estate asset management contractors, who are responsible for safeguarding foreclosed FHA properties, indicates that HUD does not have an adequate system in place to assess its field offices' oversight of these contractors; (b) GAO's recent work on appraisals for FHA-insured single-family loans has identified concerns about HUD's oversight of the appraisal process; and (c) in addition, annual audits of FHA's financial statements by KPMG Peat Marwick LLP continue to identify material internal control weaknesses in FHA's operations; (7) under the HUD 2020 Management Reform Plan and related efforts, HUD is in the process of making significant changes in all of its single-family operations, from the initial step of making insurance endorsements to disposing of properties; (8) these changes are motivated in part by HUD's goals of downsizing the agency and addressing long-standing agencywide management weaknesses; (9) while the reforms being implemented appear to address long-standing problems, it is uncertain how effective they will be in eliminating the problems in the single-family programs because the changes are not yet complete and some of the approaches are untested; and (10) in addition, because FHA's planned staffing levels are not based upon systematic workload analysis to determine needs, it is uncertain whether HUD's single-family program operations will have the capacity to carry out its responsibilities once the changes are in place.
Jan 8, 2016
Troubled Asset Relief Program:Status of Housing ProgramsGAO-16-279R: Published: Jan 8, 2016. Publicly Released: Jan 8, 2016.
Sep 15, 2015
Affordable Rental Housing:Assistance Is Provided by Federal, State, and Local Programs, but There Is Incomplete Information on Collective PerformanceGAO-15-645: Published: Sep 15, 2015. Publicly Released: Sep 15, 2015.
Jul 23, 2015
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit:Joint IRS-HUD Administration Could Help Address Weaknesses in OversightGAO-15-330: Published: Jul 15, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 23, 2015.
Jul 10, 2015
HUD Public and Indian Housing Programs:Progress on Prior GAO Recommendations to Enhance Accountability and EfficiencyGAO-15-747T: Published: Jul 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 10, 2015.
Jul 6, 2015
Troubled Asset Relief Program:Treasury Could More Consistently Analyze Potential Benefits and Costs of Housing Program ChangesGAO-15-670: Published: Jul 6, 2015. Publicly Released: Jul 6, 2015.
May 19, 2015
Rural Housing Service:Progress on GAO Recommendations and Preliminary Observations on Loan Guarantee Risk ManagementGAO-15-625T: Published: May 19, 2015. Publicly Released: May 19, 2015.
Apr 16, 2015
Persons with HIV:Funding Formula for Housing Assistance Could Be Better Targeted, and Performance Data Could Be ImprovedGAO-15-298: Published: Apr 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 16, 2015.
Apr 9, 2015
- Data Use and Regulatory Status of the Indian Housing Block Grant ProgramGAO-15-353R: Published: Mar 10, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 9, 2015.
Mar 16, 2015
Military Base Realignments and Closures:Process for Reusing Property for Homeless Assistance Needs ImprovementsGAO-15-274: Published: Mar 16, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 16, 2015.
Feb 4, 2015
Department of Housing and Urban Development:Violation of Anti-Lobbying Provision and the Antideficiency ActGAO-15-360T: Published: Feb 4, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 4, 2015.
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