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January 11, 2013 12:00am
These tax credits, in addition to encouraging work, also do a great deal to reduce poverty. We know this thanks to the Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which provides a more nuanced measure of poverty across the country, accounting for things the official poverty measure does not—like after-tax income, regional differences in housing costs, and the impact of government policies like the EITC and CTC. Based on the SPM, the EITC and refundable portion of the CTC (including the 2009 expansions) together lowered the poverty rate by 2.8 percentage points in 2011. The impact on child poverty was even greater: under the SPM definition the credits lowered the child poverty rate by fully 6.3 percentage points.
Until recently, estimates of how particular anti-poverty programs affected the SPM were only available at the national level. Thanks to public-use files recently released by the Census Bureau, we can now estimate the extent to which the EITC and CTC have alleviated poverty in individual states throughout the country.
The map below illustrates the average number of people kept out of poverty by the combined impact of the federal EITC and CTC using the most recent data available. (Due to sample size issues, the map presents an average of three years of Current Population Survey data, from 2009 to 2011.) The EITC and CTC boosted working families' earnings above poverty in every state; large states like Texas and California saw more than 1 million people lifted out of poverty, while at the other end of the spectrum, these credits kept over 9,000 residents of North Dakota from falling below the poverty line.
Though currently the SPM only measures the effects of the federal tax code, many states also have local versions of the EITC that further strengthen the anti-poverty impact of the federal credit. And a number of these states and others are poised to make important decisions about state-level EITCs in the next legislative session. In North Carolina and Oregon, legislators will vote whether to extend their state EITCs, set to expire this year, while Utah legislators will decide whether to establish a state EITC for the first time. While Oklahoma and Kansas are likely to see proposals for a reduction in the size and impact of their state EITCs, Oregon and New Mexico could potentially expand their credits.
As the new SPM data document reveals, tens of thousands of individuals in each of these states are kept out of poverty each year by the federal EITC, about half of whom are children. (See this table for detailed data.) As working families continue to struggle with the aftereffects of the worst recession since the Great Depression, these states have the opportunity to make sure their tax codes are working for those families by enacting, preserving, or expanding state credits that boost the impact of the federal EITC.
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Recruits In Retrospect: 2009 Defense
oh boy
A couple summers ago, I delved back into the blogspot days to look at Brian's 2008 recruiting posts and how well players lived up to expectations. There were high points, like Mike Martin wrestling Not Mike Martin. These were accompanied by lows such as "Dann O'Neill might be Michigan's most critical recruit." The McGuffie mixtape was rewatched, wistfully.
I forgot to continue the series last summer, so I'm picking it back up with the 2009 class; conveniently, all the players from that class have completed their time in the program, so it's easier to give a fair retrospective on their careers. If you want to go back and look though the old posts yourself, the Tate Forcier profile features links to every player.
While that last link is a nice teaser for the offense portion of this exercise, today I'll be looking at the 2009 defensive recruits. Brace yourselves.
Never Forget
I'm gonna go ahead and get the defensive back portion of this post over with, as the four commits in the secondary were Vlad Emilien, Thomas Gordon, Justin Turner, and Adrian Witty. Emilien's projection was a harbinger of doom for U-M's future situation at safety:
Projection: Either sparing special teams time as a freshman or (hopefully) a redshirt. In 2010 will be a major threat to start at strong safety, though he might have to fight Brandon Smith to get a job.
Brian, today, on this quote: "I was so innocent then."
Smith moved to outside linebacker, then announced his intention to transfer near the end of the 2009 season, ending up at Temple and never doing anything of consequence there. Emilien followed a similar path, playing a little special teams as a true freshman, then transferring after the first game in 2010 when Jordan Kovacs put a death grip on the strong safety spot. He ended up as, yup, an outside linebacker at Toledo, where he made 15 tackles as a senior last year.
|omg shirtless heroin-laced carrot
Witty never actually made it onto the team due to academic issues, eventually landing at Cincinnati, where he's the top returner in the secondary this year. Not getting him through admissions may be viewed as a recruiting failure, but in context, it was totally worth it:
Adrian Witty, a teammate of Denard Robinson, is Denard Robinson's teammate. On this team, which they share, they play together. Also, Witty and Denard Robinson attended the same high school. At this high school, they played on a team which they shared and played together on: they were teammates.
That should be clear. Many, many folks regard Witty's offer as the heroin-laced carrot used to lure critical QB recruit Denard Robinson away from Urban Meyer's clutches and to Michigan's post-apocalyptic frozen wastes.
Even though Witty would've been, at worst, the second-best defensive back in this class for U-M, there are no hard feelings here. We salute you, heroin-laced carrot.
The most hyped recruit in the class was Massillon, Ohio's Justin Turner, a top-35 overall player to both Rivals and Scout.* It wasn't hard to see what all the excitement was about:
That excitement only grew after Turner tore it up at Army All-American Game, to the point that his recruitment post led off with a discussion of one of those B/R "[touted recruit] is [football titan]" posts:
If you're measuring by delusional expectations of internet denizens, Justin Turner may be the #1 recruit in the universe. You've got to have an avalanche of hype for some guy to write an article saying you're Charles Woodson and get this response:
"Good article, but i see justin turner being faster then charles woodson. I also see turner being a better saftey the woodson was but woodson will be a better return man."
IE: "Good article about some high school senior being the reincarnation of the only defensive player to ever win the Heisman, but don't you think you're selling him a little short? Also I have no recollection of Charles Woodson's return abilities, which were pretty much crap aside from one white hot moment." (Yes, this exchange happened on Bleacher Report. Where else could it?)
Brian took the conservative tack, comparing Turner to... Marlin Jackson. Let's just move along.
The one defensive back to actually make a positive impact on the field at U-M, Cass Tech's Thomas Gordon, came in as a relatively anonymous recruit. He got Brandent Englemon for his "YMRMFSPA" and this projection:
General Excitement Level: Well… he is the lowest-ranked non-kicker in the class, and that's probably for a reason.
Projection: Obvious redshirt and will likely require at least two years before he's ready to see the field on defense. The most likely (but by no means assured) outcome is that he doesn't contribute much.
Yes, it's possible for a Cass Tech recruit to exceed expectations.
[*ESPN was a skeptical outlier, listing him as their #21 athlete. Point, ESPN.]
|At least Mike Jones provided us this picture.
On to the linebackers: Isaiah Bell, Mike Jones, and Brandin Hawthorne. Brian's assessment of Jones' potential almost nailed it:
General Excitement Level: Eh; I'm expecting one of the OLB recruts to pan out in a big way, one to be okay, and one to wash out.
Instead, nobody panned out big. Bell washed out before annarbor.com died, Jones saw the field sparingly before playing his fifth year at Western, and Hawthorne topped out as a nickel linebacker.
I won't spend much time on these guys simply because there isn't a whole lot to talk about, but I will note that when a search for a player comparison goes like this, there's a pretty good chance you've got a serious tweener on your hands:
So he's just like Shawn Crable, if Crable was six to eight inches shorter. So he's just like Chris Graham, if Hawthorne was a stiff, clunky guy incapable of shedding blockers and not much for changing direction. He's not like either, actually. I mean, just look at the guy. Linebacker? In college? Er. There's a reason Hawthorne is well down in the rankings.
Brian suggested Hawthorne "may be better suited for a 3-3-5 than a more traditional D," and hoo boy did some bad memories just come flooding back. Quick, to the defensive line!
THORQWASH & The Crab Person
Between this and the legendary hood slide, we're all good, Big Will.
Justin Turner wasn't the only five-star recruit to the established recruiting sites to get some major skepticism from ESPN. Will Campbell's rankings went #35 overall (Scout), #26 overall (Rivals), and... #21 offensive tackle (ESPN). Another point for the Worldwide Leader. Like Turner, an outstanding Army game performance added to the hype, as did pictures like this...
...and, for entirely different reasons, this:
In retrospect, however, maybe we should've seen Campbell's future weight issues coming:
Campbell is one of the biggest players in the Army game, but he's apparently not ready for the roller coasters when the teams visit Six Flags on Tuesday night.
"There's a weight limit on those things," he said. "I might be on the tea cups."
Even though he didn't have the desired impact until a solid, though not five-star-caliber, senior season, Campbell always gave a hell of a quote. Brian's Gabe Watson comparison was pretty on point; though Big Will didn't come close to Watson's production, they were similar players—jovial, wildly talented, bull-strong, big fans of food—with similar hype coming to Ann Arbor.
|craaaaaaab people craaaaaab people
Michigan landed two defensive ends in the top-100 range in the class: Craig Roh (right) and Anthony LaLota. While Roh never became an edge-rushing terror, he managed to consitently produce and improve despite boucing between positions—not to mention different defensive schemes that didn't necessarily fit his skill set—for his entire career due to factors outside his control. This comparison both worked and, well, didn't work:
Why Shawn Crable? Crable was a 6'6" athletic terror with chicken legs who spent his Michigan career bouncing from DE to OLB and would have been the perfect player to slot in this spinner spot. Crable was also rated right around where Roh is. The comparison here is very tight.
The tweener aspect of the comparison was spot-on, but Roh ended up being a very different player from Crable, more disciplined and able to hold the point of attack but far less explosive off the edge.
As for LaLota, he received one of the most random YMRMFSPA comps in this blog's history:
Alain Kashama… except good!
Kashama was a total project at Michigan, coming in with little football experience—as did LaLota, who played just 12 games of organized football before hitting campus—before settling in as a reserve pass-rushing specialist, eventually totaling six career sacks.
That ended up being six more career sacks than LaLota recorded, as he transferred back to home-state Rutgers two weeks into his sophomore season, where he quit football to focus on his education after a move to tight end saw him buried on the depth chart.
We end with the class curveball, Quinton Washington, whom everybody evaluated as an interior offensive lineman—with most saying he had a ton of potential there, this blog included:
General Excitement Level: High. It's clear the coaches were nuts about this guy and he's got the offers and recruiting mojo to back it up.
Projection: Though the coaches have suggested Washington might see the field this year—they think he's that ready—a redshirt makes more sense with Schilling's move inside solidifying the interior line. He'll have to fight Ricky Barnum to replace Moosman next year; if he loses that battle he'll be the odds on favorite to replace Schilling in 2011.
Steve Schilling, in fact, was his player comparison. Washington instead moved to nose tackle early in the 2010 season, worked his way into a starting role as a junior, earned the nickname QWASH, and gave the defense a proficient space-eater until his role mysteriously diminished last season.
The real answer is Roh, but one could make a reasonable argument that Michigan's most critical 2009 defensive recruit was a guy who never played a down for the Wolverines: heroin-laced carrot (seriously, Brian, how the hell do you come up with these things?) Adrian Witty.
Unverified Voracity Dances Way Off Team
Goodbye beard. Also the rest of Elliott Mealer at winter graduation:
Goodbye to you sir. Michigan suspends Hawthorne, Floyd, and Will Hagerup for the bowl game. A couple people told me this a couple days ago, and they both seemed to think Hagerup would not return. After a dramatically-timed suspension against Ohio State and another for the first four games of 2011, it would be surprising to find out Hagerup had a fourth strike.
But the AD didn't announce Hagerup was gone, so there's probably a last-ditch straight-and-narrow chance he can get back a la Stonum, except hopefully not a la Stonum. Michigan will be fine with Matt Wile for the bowl anyway.
Cornerback, on the other hand… yeah, Floyd spent the year tempting fate but the alternatives there are… uh. Moving Courtney Avery to the outside—probably to field corner since he's a lot smaller than Raymon Taylor—is probably your best one, and then your nickel guy is either Delonte Holowell or Terry Richardson. I'm still not sure that corner environment is any worse than Michigan's options at tailback, but at least the Norfleet-to-corner move makes some sense now. Hopefully it's temporary.
Hawthorne had been limited to special teams this year; his loss isn't impactful.
Now has more time for dancing. MGoVideo caught this oddly-timed dance festival just posted on youtube featuring Floyd:
I rate it an 0.8 Mike Cox.
And so it does not begin. Presenting Michigan's secret weapon in their recruitment of Derrick Green:
Dead period for football begins today and runs through January 3. No on- or off-campus contacts/evals permitted. Calls/email permissible.
Green plans on enrolling early; if he sticks to that plan he should be announcing at the Army game on January 5th, leaving virtually no time for anyone to catch up with announced leader Michigan. Does yoga, is huge.
This trend will probably stop soon. Will Leitch on the way the cable bundling model is going:
Not that many people are going through all the trouble to do this yet, but as cable fees keep going up, and more workarounds can be found (and we haven't even gotten into pirated feeds), more people will cut the cord. We live in an information-wants-to-be-free age, and we're still being held down by these media-company gatekeepers. In the real world it's 2012; in the cable universe, it might as well be 1988. Eventually, this will have to change. It's too insane and rigged-against-the-consumer for it not to. The problem, of course, is that, like so many capitalists before them, leagues and teams and sports networks are all assuming that it'll always be like this, that these revenue will keep growing forever and ever, that this golden goose will always keep laying eggs. There are decades upon decades of Darwinian consumer trends that contradict that. In 30 years, we may have all unplugged our cable bundles and be paying a la carte. This is the nightmare situation, but I'm not the first person to suggest we're living in a cable sports television bubble. Someday it'll pop. Then, suddenly, we'll look and think: Why in the world is Maryland in the Big Ten?
Rutgers is even more of an outlier but the point is a good one. At some point the rickety dam keeping all of these channels unnecessarily bundled is going to break, and then having teams that can't fill not-very-big stadiums is not going to be an asset.
Bacon. He considers the PSL increase:
Former Michigan Athletic Director Don Canham sold the experience – and we bought it. Canham was a great marketer, but what impressed me most was what he would not do for money: solicit donors, put advertising on the uniforms or in the stadium, host night games, charge for tours – or ask for a raise. He had already made millions in business, and didn't feel the need to squeeze more from his alma mater.
The current athletic department now aggressively seeks donors and corporate sponsors. It has brought advertising back to Crisler, in a big way, and has started sneaking advertising into the once-pristine Big House, too. They now charge to host corporate events, wedding receptions, and even school tours, which had been free since the Big House opened in 1927. Heck, until a few years ago, they didn't even lock the gates during the week.
Michigan's not alone, of course, and they will tell you it's the cost of doing business – but what business, exactly? When current Athletic Director Dave Brandon said on "60 Minutes" that the "business model is broken" – what he failed to grasp was that it's "broken" because it was never intended to be a business in the first place. After all, what business doesn't have to pay shareholders, partners, owners, taxes, or the star attractions, the players and the band?
Raise your hand if you're sick of being told you can rent out the Big House for a wedding. That is everyone except the guy who emailed me pictures of his Michigan Stadium wedding over the summer in case I wanted to post them, which seemed like an awfully mean thing to do to a guy.
Brandon clearly sees the lack of advertising in the stadium as an annoyance, and has put it in anyway: just because the blaring thing trying to market something is a wedding or Michigan's facebook page doesn't mean it's not advertising. By pushing the boundaries wherever he can, Brandon indicates where he'd like to take the Big House experience if not faced with a potential fan revolt.
Bacon makes a great point: it's to the point that whenever you're putting down your money you feel like kind of an idiot for spending it. Thus the multiple "I bet I can scalp for cheap" projects on the internet and the regular stories about how you can get into most Michigan State games for two dollars or the Big Ten Championship for ten.
Speaking of: College Football Is This Other Thing post using Wall Street as the other thing is creepily accurate.
The Guys Running The Big Ten are Bain Capital
Step 1: Take over asset. Step 2: Exploit that asset with no regard for long-term consequences. Step 3: Laugh, buy a bigger summer house or a dressage horse or something.
In the Big Ten's case the dressage horse is a fancy building for a sport that brings in no revenue.
Yes please return. This will help the floundering hockey team:
Michigan coach Billy Powers on WTKA: "There's a good chance we could see (Merrill) immediately following the holidays."
I'm not holding out much hope for the GLI with Trouba at the World Juniors, and by the time Merrill makes it back Michigan's fate may already be sealed. Michigan is currently 36th in the RPI and would have to win 75% of their remaining games to get into the top 20, where a bid is vaguely possible. Either they rip off a streak for the ages starting right now or it's conference tourney or bust.
Etc.: can Rob Parker please stop existing now? On TV, I mean. He can remain in existence as long as he is not given a platform to express his thought-type-substances to the masses.
Derrick Walton profiled. Brandon gets dollars. Michigan was not fortunate this year. One way in which linear regressions are frequently misapplied. Key plays against West Virginia.
OFAAT: Seniors, Iowa Past
Brian has already waxed poetic about the seniors, so I'll stick to moving pictures and keep the words to a minimum. I've done my best to cover each member of the outgoing class. Let's just say it was hard to pick one moment for this guy:
He may make some cameo appearances later.
[For the rest of the gifs, hit THE JUMP.]
Senior Day Haiku 2012
Craig Roh
A leaf blows in fall
Tasting each position once
Time to duck, Martinez
Will Campbell
These days people who
are not Thomas Gordon say
"Get off of me, please"
Jordan Kovacs
A man from nowhere
is the safety blanket for
a hundred thousand
Kenny Demens
As Northwestern died
they must have thought "ouch" and
"my god, sweet mustache"
JT Floyd
Sorry about things said
two years ago, low and mean
Mattison saves all
Brandin Hawthorne
We'll always have that
Purdue hash to hash zone drop
and a kickoff hold
Brandon Moore
Must be a good guy
to get Kramer's eighty-seven
time to make stories
Vincent Smith
Meet mini-Gandalf:
finger-gun Balrog LB,
state YOU SHALL NOT PASS
Elliott Mealer
The measure of man:
how many squirrels can live
in your face, repos'd
Ricky Barnum
Stayed through some things
that would have made most depart
and we needed him to
Patrick Omameh
This dance goes one way
two hearts meet at Notre Dame
Te'o's goes backwards
Mike Kwiatkowski
Not a walk-on, no
A scientist of brains, yes
And blocker of sweeps
[UPDATE: so I forgot Roy Roundtree.
Roy Roundtree
Joe Tiller quivers
in walrus rage as Roundtree
waves an arm, alone
Denard Robinson
I had been in the desert for some time, lost and directionless. The sun was relentless. A deadly thirst stalked me. I had not accepted the grisly fate which awaited me but was powerless to change it.
On the fifth night—possibly the sixth—a breeze arose. It was cool and dewy. I savored it for a time, then step by step it led me home.
Preview 2012: Linebackers
Previously: Podcast 4.0, the story, quarterback, running back, wide receivers, offensive line, defensive line.
|Jake Ryan
|Kenny Demens
|Desmond Morgan
|Cam Gordon
|Joe Bolden
|Brandin Hawthorne
|Royce Jenkins-Stone
|Mike Jones
|James Ross
It's step-up time for the linebacking corps. They return every contributor from a year ago and get freshman-to-sophomore transitions from Jake Ryan and Desmond Morgan. Kenny Demens, Cam Gordon, and Brandin Hawthorne are entering their second consecutive years in a sane defense for the first time in their careers and could/should see larger than average leaps in performance.
They will need to be much better. Mike Martin isn't going to bail them out on six plays a game anymore. Ryan Van Bergen isn't walking through that door. Ryan has to become an elite pass rush threat; Demens and Morgan need to take on blockers and funnel to help far more consistently than they did a year ago.
This is well within reach. Now about getting there.
Middle Linebacker
Rating: 3.5
|eats MSU cut
|eats OSU TE
|eats him again
|Minnesota, granted
|flow hard son
|Iowa FB denied
|No Coker part 1
|line to seam PBU
In 2010, Kenny Demens was not Obi Ezeh, and this was enough. Expectations were sky-high for Demens in 2011 if only because he seemed so much better than Michigan's incumbent that he had to be pretty good. In retrospect, his somewhat disappointing output was always the likely outcome. Like almost everyone else on the defense, Demens had experienced position-coaching chaos and shifted from system to system on a semiannual basis.
Stepping into an entirely different coaching regime naturally meant hesitation, and hesitation was what we got. I put up this extremely scientific pie chart after Eastern Michigan put up 4.5 YPC despite throwing six times:
We'll talk about the Jake Ryan edge allowance below; here we're fixated on the big red thing labeled "hesitant linebacker play." This was the week after I'd watched Notre Dame's linebackers tear ass after anything that moved, so I may have had a view of proper linebacker play improperly biased towards running your balls off as soon as a guard gives you a direction.
I don't think so, though, as Michigan linebackers were exploited on the edge for much of the year. Blue Seoul captured a Kain Colter option TD in With Pics(!), and while I suppose Carvin Johnson, who Seoul criticizes, could have been more Kovacs-y on the play, he did follow the golden rule of leverage by keeping Colter well inside of him. It's just that there was no one to clean up afterwards:
Johnson's mistake should have been worth a few yards, but not enough for Northwestern to convert. Earlier he was unable to shut down an outside run that got turned up at the numbers:
He's even with Hawthorne, who was the backside LB, and well behind nose tackle Mike Martin in his attempt to shut the play down. This is because he took an angle upfield of a blocker on a perimeter run, which is one of those "you better make the damn play" decisions. Demens wasn't close.
Demens got a –4 in that game and was negative the next week against MSU as the Spartans pounded the edges and found Michigan LBs a step slow. Too often Demens did not do what Johnson is managing above, like on this Ed Baker run against MSU. Watch him eat a block and let Baker to the edge:
I know this is not an edge play, but it's symptomatic of the main issue.
You want edge biff? Edge biff.
State couldn't get out to the second level on Hawthorne and he is free. This is a quintessential example of what you hear about the WLB in the under: he often ends up the free hitter because of the configuration of the DL whereas the MLB has to take on a block. Demens takes on a block, loses leverage, does not funnel to his partner, and off Baker goes. This was 60-70% of all the complaining I did about the linebackers last year and my A-#1 bitch about Jonas Mouton. Michigan linebackers aren't good about keeping leverage. (Yet.)
Before and after that, Demens was pretty good between the tackles. He pounded ND for twelve tackles and a +8.5 and was consistently above average late in the year, picking up three straight +4s against Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska before falling back towards zero in the OSU game. Late he started playing faster. His third-and-one stick of Marcus Coker was hands down Michigan's tackle of the year:
Yeah, Kovacs collapsed Alex Carder's lung. He did not stop that truck dead in its tracks. Demens was also the second key on that Braxton Miller rollout against OSU, tracking him to the edge and forming up at the right spot to allow Black to come from behind.
For Demens, it's about playing fast and going hard. Last year Mattison literally played him at nose tackle because he'd rather have Mike Martin blitz; Demens needs to go when he goes, and decide to go more quickly. That should be in reach. He'll be a solid run defender and decent down the seam, but a lack of raw athleticism probably sees him top out at a bit above average.
[hit THE JUMP for Bolden as Samson, Jake Ryan(!), and Desmond Morgan]
Michigan Museday If the Dudes Get Dinged: Linebackerites
Previously: Offense, Defensive Line
This goes out to all those young linebackers out there who have given me your letters of intent:
♪ There was Bell, and a Hill, but I never saw them playing
No I never saw depth at all, 'till there was you.
There were safeties who gained weight, and a JUCO straight from Butler
But they were no Obianna Ezeh, 'till there was you.
Oh there were walk-ons, and converted fullbacks, they tell me,
And sweet freshman "Spinners," and Roh at "Quick"…
There was Ken-ny Demens, and a plush-toy Castor face-wash,
But no other linebackers at all, 'till there was you.
Till there was you! ♫
Linebacker depth: EXTANT!
This is Part III of the thing where I go over the depth chart and predict what will happen if the starter at any given position is hurt for an extended period of time in 2012: Who goes in?, What's the dropoff?, How do things shuffle?
And this time, there's goods here. There's depth in the SAMs and the WILLs and the MIKEs and the macks and the rovers. Whatayatalk whatayatalk: Where'd-we-get-it? With a Greg who knows the territory! With the jacks from the buckeyes, and the bucks from the mitten, and ROLBs from the overlooked, redshirted, 3-star, buck- and spart-passed over huckleberry bin. Whatayatalk, whatayatalk. Ya can talk, ya can talk, ya can bicker ya can talk, ya can bicker, bicker, bicker, ya can talk all ya want, but it's different than it was!
Quickly again. Photos are all by Upchurch unless otherwise noted. Ratings are given in Saturn-punting Zoltans. Think of them like stars except more heavenly. Five is an all-conference-type player (Denard to Kovacs); four is a guy you'd call "solid" (RVB to Demens); three is an average B1G player (Morgan to Hawthorne); two is a guy with a big hole in his game (freshman Kovacs); one is trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for Poole.
SAM (Strongside Linebacker):
Backups: Cameron Gordon , Royce Jenkins-Stone ???, various WDEs
In case of emergency: Jake was a revelation last year as a redshirt freshman who as the season progressed kept giving the coaches less and less excuse to yank him. The nature of his position, which rotates often, and the nature of his cavalier game make it hard to quantify the effective difference of an injury here. By design he's the most replaceable guy on the defense; by the magnitude of his effect when he's in the game, there are few, if any, guys on the team who you'd less like to lose. He was far from perfect—his problems holding the edge led to some ugly things in the Northwestern-Michigan State part of the year—however there were also those times when a "running" quarterback would see this crazy freshman coming inside the edge blocker and think to himself "oh I'm so going around that idiot," only to end up flat on his back 20 yards in the backfield. Nothing was more satisfying to a fan base recovering from Passive 3-3-5 syndrome than seeing this crazed high-necked Viking bellowing something unintelligible at fast-retreating Logan Thomas.
Heiko took this
Cam Gordon is the nominal backup, and since the freshman who played ahead of him last year (Beyer) has made the move to WDE, you would imagine the onetime receiver, onetime epitome of ethereal spring optimism at free safety, and onetime 3-3-5 spinner will have finally settled into a useful something. He spent most of last year with a back injury that gives us precious little information on what he might become. So is C.Gordon a junior stunted by position switches, bad fundamental coaching and injury who's now ready to erupt, or a guy with bad fundamentals doomed to be remembered for that one time he was badly cast in the hero role of a box office flop?
What you want are his credentials for a position that rotates like a train of traveling salesmen; what I've got for you is a barbershop quartet of coaches singing songs about him. One thing they don't say is "platoon." Despite his safety pedigree and safety frame versus Jake Ryan's oft hand-down deployment, the coaches haven't indicated Gordon is a situational backup. The SLB in this defense is supposed to be more like a WDE than the other two linebacker spots, and Cam is not that. On the other hand he seems tailor-made for the side-job of the SLB: covering the guy in the slot.
So I'm saying if Ryan goes down, Michigan probably goes with Gordon and eases off the gas a bit, leaning less on pressure and more on coverage from the position. The real drop-off won't be too severe, as there are other guys who can blitz if the SLB becomes more coverage-oriented, and there are rush options extant. The apparent drop-off will feel like when we lost Marcus Ray—the defense is still the defense but that sense that somebody's about to lose an important body organ will be appreciably depreciated. You'll see Gordon plenty either way.
In case of dire emergency: Well like I said this position rotates. Don't know what will happen with Clark, but if he's in at WDE that means Brennan Beyer can easily reprise his 2011 role over here. Mario Ojemudia could be pressed into service. And any of the freshmen linebackers could end up here. Of the four, I picked Royce Jenkins-Stone as the SAM since Bolden already seems to be the two-deep man at Mike, and Ringer was here for spring practice at Mike, and scouting reports say Ross is a coverage-y WLB-type, while RJS has been described as a raw, blitz-loving knife. That's an SLB. It'd be best if he redshirts to learn how to be the second-most aggressive guy on the defense (WDE is the first) while holding the edge.
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Backups: Joe Bolden , Who? Mike Jones , Kaleb Ringer , WLBs
In case of emergency: Responding to my size chart in last week's article, TSS started a thread about how Demens, who's listed at 248 on the spring roster (which is a copy of last fall's), has significantly more beef than the rest of the linebacking crew. The image above seems to reject the notion that he's the Carl Diggs among the Brackinses; the variability charts for the 2012 linebackers say he's huge (right, via TSS). So I checked the average listed size for a Michigan contributing linebacker since 1993, and it says he made big:
|M Avg
|1st (Freshman-true)
|2nd (Sophomore or RS Fr)
|3rd (Junior or RS Soph)
|4th (Senior or RS Junior)
|5th year Senior
Most of our starters played over 240 in their 4th or 5th years. Over 230 is where it seems the contributors need to be. And when you look at the depth chart for 2012 there are exactly three dudes who seem likely to fit that description:
|Kenny Demens
|Jake Ryan
|Desmond Morgan
|Joe Bolden
|Cam Gordon
|Brandin Hawthorne
|Mike Jones
|Royce Jenkins-Stone
|Antonio Poole
|Kaleb Ringer
|James Ross
Knock-knock … Orange … yada yada … you have Joe Bolden, the 2012 recruit I am most giggity about, and for good reason. He had the kind of performance as the starter (Demens was wearing that club you see above) in the spring game that makes even the cautious prognosticators say "I think we have something here." Then they pull out the David Harris comparisons.
There's nothing I can really add to the recruiting profile or the lofty expectations except to focus on what he brings to the table right now. That is a guy with freshman-grade Kovacsian play-diagnosis skills that must be tempered by "is a true freshman," plus a lot of range and athleticism that must be tempered by "is probably not strong enough yet to get off blocks." I don't think Demens should be worried about losing his job this year unless he's banged up, however in that eventuality Michigan has something between what Desmond Morgan was last year and a freshman Manti Te'o on hand, and should be just fine. Orange you glad!
In case of dire emergency: The phrase "Who? MIKE JONES!" had a very short meme life on the MGoBoards, and it is the considered hope of every Michigan fan that it should never become the headline of an MGoInjury Roundup or uttered without irony inside Michigan Stadium ever. Before the injury that ruined his 2009 coaches were suggesting he might displace Mouton; alas that seems to have been motivational spring hokum. More hype/hokum was Mattison saying he's an unstoppable speed rusher. We saw Jones a bit while Michigan was killing clock against Minnesota and he looked, um, safety-ish. There is a job for a safety-ish linebacker in this defense—the Will—but there are so many other slight LBs on this roster that tripping the 220-something wire puts you into the mix at middle. I would think before we see Jones start, Morgan would slide down to MLB and Hawthorne become the full-time WLB. While time is running out for Jones, he's not ignorable.
WILL (Weakside Linebacker):
Backups: Brandin Hawthorne , Antonio Poole , James Ross ???, MLBs
In case of emergency: You can argue about the stars being low for a sophomore whom I already said was at 3 stars when starting as a true freshman—that was at the end of last year and I expect Des should still be improving exponentially as this season goes on. I also predict this year you'll start seeing more Jake Ryan in him, since everyone from recruiting analysts to coaches have raved about grittiness, something we haven't had the opportunity to see much of just yet. If our next Eckstein McGritsalot loses that opportunity, the safety net is the the safety-like Brandin Hawthorne.
If you have the opportunity to give the coaches one suggestion for 2012, please join the MGoCrusade to have Hawthorne deployed as the WLB when Michigan goes to nickel. Until Morgan emerged in the second half of last year, Hawthorne had lain tenuous claim to defense's most open position. Brandon Herron, the beefy Yang to Brandin's Yin, dropped out of the race after the double-fumble touchdown rally and has graduated. Hawthorne was excellent in coverage, knifed into the backfield for a key stop against Notre Dame, and displayed Pahokeeian speed to all parts of the field … except when a blocker came near.
For you Tiger fans, Hawthorne is the Ramon Santiago of this defense. He is great at what he does, but playing him every down is going to expose his weakness against the run. So what does happen if Des goes down? It's probably Joe Bolden, but with more Hawthorne appearances.
In case of dire emergency: Trouble with capital T, rhymes with P, stands for…oh actually we don't know what we have in Antonio Poole except his name lends itself well to the Music Man theme. Really he's a redshirt freshman who was ignored by Rodriguez but picked up quickly by Hoke. His recruiting profile lists abilities of play diagnosis, tackling, and translating of the Facebook pages of CRex's in-laws. Third on the depth chart is where you'd want a redshirt freshman to be. Anyway if you see Poole that means he's better than expected, or that "dire emergency" includes the MLB depth chart too. Same goes for James Ross, who was at one point the highest rated linebacker of the 2012 uber-haul, and may yet have a long career beside Bolden (Orange!), however he's listed in the vicinity of 200 lbs. and would probably benefit from a redshirt more than Ringer, who was here for Spring ball. Since redshirting a consensus high 4-star is a luxury we haven't had around the linebacking parts in some time, I suggest we take advantage of it.

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Shutting Down the Headquarters: The Paddling Cold War is Over Friday, 27 May 2016
After writing and maintaining this site for 10 years I've decided to call it day and put it to rest. I'm too busy doing other stuff these days like teaching people how to sea kayak and volunteering for Paddle Canada that I've neglected this site for too long. There are still plans to continue the Kayak Mainline Podcast with my good buddy Kelly Blades so keep an eye out for a dedicated website for kayakmainline.com. It's been a lot of fun indeed. Keep your paddle wet! David Johnston Photo credit: Wilbur Wong
Why do Rivers Curve? Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Looking at curvy rivers on topographic maps or Google Earth has always been really interesting to me and for the longest time I've wondered how that snake like shape came to be. You would think that since a straight line is technically the shortest and easiest route to the ocean that nature would like straight lines. Nope. After stumbling upon the video below about why rivers curve, I discovered that all it takes is a little bit of disturbance and a lot of time. Take for example a tree falls over and into the water. The current is diverted slightly allowing the riverbank to slowly erode on the opposite side. The slight change in current direction then bounces off that bank and gets diverted back over to the other side causing more erosion and eventually a curve in the river. Of course this doesn't happen overnight and that is where time is the key factor. Check out this time lapse of a river Peru to how much the river chances even over that short number of years. Here is a final fun-fact for your next boring office party. It doesn't matter how wide or big the river is, if it is flowing over soft ground, the length of an s-bend curve will be roughly six times the width of a river. So that means while a narrow river will look wigglier when comparing to a large wide river the ratio of length/width of the wiggles will always be the same no matter which river it is. Hydrodynamics are amazing.
Look who is (Almost) Kayaking Now: President Julia Louis Dreyfus Monday, 21 March 2016
HBO released a new trailer for the fifth season of their amazing comedy show, Veep. I'm a big fan of that show and I've always thought that Julia Louis Dreyfus is one of the funniest women in Hollywood. She plays the role of a dumb President very well. Watch the trailer below but keep an eye out for when she holds a press conference to congratulate the US kayaking team for bringing honour to America with their gold medal win only to be corrected by her aid (played by the amazing Tony Hale) that it was just a bronze. What's that paddle she is holding? It's a Shuna sea kayak paddle manufactured by Werner Paddles.
Kayak Mainline Podcast Episode 17: Technology, whales, mosquito repellent and swearing (but in a good way) Monday, 29 February 2016
Kelly Blades and I are super excited to let you know that the latest episode of the Kayak Mainline podcast is live and waiting for your beautiful ears to listen along. For those who follow along on the Mainline Facebook page will remember about 2 weeks ago we recorded as well. Sadly when I went to go edit I discovered that a technical gremlin for into the works causing the recording to come out sounding terrible. The sound quality was amazingly bad. So we scrapped the whole thing. Luckily the latest episode turned out pretty good. This was a podcast of discovery including: a new piece of technology gear for communicating in the outdoors, why whales blow bubbles (it's not why you think), a fantastic new Mosquito Repellent that smells as good as it looks. Finally, we get excited to discover that swearing in front of children no longer a crime in Michigan. That's FREEDOM baby! I hope you enjoy this one as much as we did putting it together. There are several different ways to get our sweet voices directly into your ears: You can stream it live in your browser here: You can directly download the mp3 (Right click and select, "Save target as..." or "Save link as...". Subscribe via iTunes Subscribe via Stitcher iTunes user? Subscribe and get each new episode downloaded directly to your iPhone/iPod as soon as it's uploaded. Not an iTunes user? We distribute Kayak Mainline also via Stitcher. They offer a free fantastic podcast app for both iPhones and Android making it easy listen while on the go (or sitting traffic).
Playing in the Waves with the Marine Police Saturday, 05 December 2015
My buddy Erik and I were out for a short paddle in Toronto this morning and had a funny experience. The plan was to go out the Toronto Harbour via the Western Gap then out and around Ontario Place (8.6km). Paddling just south of Ontario Place one of the marine police boats went by us on a regular patrol. After it went by we did a bit of surfing from catching the waves from the boats wake. Just then the boat did a 180 and came back our way. The cop sticks his head out of the boats cab, "hey, you guys want us to make some waves?" So we spent the next 15 minutes playing around while the police boat drove around us. Pretty sure they loved it as much as we did.


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Well I am having problem I installed UBUNTU 5.10 Breezy over my laptop and at login screen either i login or not after just few seconds i think around 20 seconds screen went blank and another blue screen appears which shows that INSTALLIN PACKAgES while configuration and installation of packages is readily done...this screen went directly to 5% and then 100% in few seconds and after that again login screen appears and then same process keeps repeating. Can anyone here please help me in this matter? I'll really be thankful
I have got a server with RH9, apache2, samba, php and mysql 3.23... Actually it was installed as a work station 2 years ago. I would like to upgrade it. At first I thought that I could install a Debian Sarge as server. But after reading what's on the Ubuntu site, I saw that Ubuntu proposes a server version too. Debian is well know for its stability. I am now wondering what I can install: Ubuntu server or Debian server. Has anybody already tried the Ubuntu server?
Hi:Can any one give me an URL with the boot options (cheat codes) for Ubuntu Live 5.1? I did a search with Google but found nothing.I need to load the vesa driver at boot. I have a system freeze after X starts and I believe this is due to my graphics card, an ATI Radeon X600 pci express.I tried already "xmodule=vesa", "vga=normal" but it didn´t work. I also tried to boot in text mode and change the xorg.conf. I did "init 3" and it didn't work also.Is it possible that the "live" option doesn't accept any cheat codes?Thanks.Joao
Hello! I need to install macromedia shockwave... Do you know something similar? I am an inexpert one! Sorry, but my english is very bad. Thanks Romina
Hi, I am new to the group and linux, have been playing around for a while but now am spending more time trying to get to grips with the system. I currently am trying to set up a server at home and run dhcp to enable me to plug my laptop in with no hassels. (Using ubuntu 5.10 on both machines) All is going well except that I am unable to set up different network locations on the laptop? I use a fixed IP at work so need to re-enter all network settings every time I plug in at the office. Does anyone have any suggestions for me.
Here is a nice way to integrate a former windows user into the Linux environment. It's called Versora. They just partnered with Linspire (probably to gain more exposure) but they also sell to all other linux users.
Basically, it allows you to migrate settings, files, folders, email, wallpaper, network shares, and much more over to your linux desktop easily. The best part is that they don't charge an arm and a leg for it. It's $30, for either the download, or the boxed version, and is incredibly simple to use. Check out the website for a virtual demo.
I thought I would download this, and install it in VMWare on my home computer, just to see what it offers. It looks like it has a wide range of tools available for it, and since it uses fluxbox as the window manager, I'd like to check that out as well.
This will most likely end up being my "Security Aversion" desktop. Before, I was using a heavily modified version of windows 98se, but that was buggy at best, once everything was loaded on. This, I think, should do much better. Right now I have a small amount of security on my linux box, though I haven't disabled anything, and I'm running Firestarter.
Since this comes with quite a few wireless cracking tools, I may pick up a wireless card, and see what I can break into with it. ^_^ My neighbors have all told me that thier networks are so secure now that they put WEP encrytion on them, and I am just itching for a chance to prove them wrong. Besides, I've gotten permission from one of them already.
This will be my first ever blog, on any site. I figured I would host it here for the specific reason that I am using ubuntu for my main distrobution, and I need an area to organize my thoughts.
Okay for my computer tech class final exam, part of it we were supposed to write about Windows Vista. I suggested to the teacher we write about something else because there isn't too much we can do about it so he said well since some of you will take the course next year and it touches on Linux, you can write an overview about that. I said, freakin' sweet. So I turned around and wrote a few paragraphs of what I knew off the top of my head while the rest of my class struggled because they all new zilch. So here, I present to you my writeup;
Linux is an operating system similar to Windows. It was created by a Finnish software engineer by the name of Linus Torvalds during his college years in the early 1990s. It is an open source operating system that is free to be modified and improved by any programmer who wishes to make changes to the code. Linux was derived from a kernel and opearting system called Minix. It was developed to be a Unix based operating system, that ran on the PC. Linus now coordinates the kernel in Linux. He organizes what goes into each release, when it will be released and more. Similar to a kernel in Windows, the Linux kernel contains all the instructions for the computer to function. It also contains drivers for any hardware to be used by the computer. Linux is well known among computer geeks as a stable operating system and has been widely accepted as such.
Alright I just joined this site and it seems pretty cool. I shall post as often as I can think of something Linux related to write about. Not that anyone will care or even read it but I will anyway, just because I can. Go me!
I'm completely new to linux but reasonably expereinced on windows.
I've just installed ubuntu on an old PC. Despite taking 5hrs to instal (!!!) the system works reasonably well and I'm impressed with the general working and feel.
The problem is no sound.
The card is AZTECH sound galaxy 16.
Trying to play any sound gives an error unable to open file or resource, or words to that effect.
I've looked at hardware manager and there is a pnp card listed as "unknown", with several associated entries listed as AZ0001, AZ0002 etc... so I assume this is the card, but I assume there is no driver installed.
Any suggestions??
Hi! I heard so many positive things about Ubuntu, so that I want to try it out now. I'm just not sure whether to start with Gnome-based Ubuntu or KDE-based Kubuntu. Are there any other differences besides the desktop? I don't care how it looks, it should just work and most of all be simply to use. I have no linux experience so far, just Windows. What do you recommend for a newbie like me? Which distro is more matured?
This is my first attempt at installing Ubuntu (or any Linus distro for that matter). I dloaded both the "live" and the "install" iso files from Ubuntu.com. I have reset my BIOS to boot from the DVD drive. When I restart my computer nothing happens...the system proceeds directly to Windows (XP Pro BTW). I ran md5sum on the "live" version and was given a long string of characters but no error messages of any sort. Is there something that needs to be done to the iso file prior to burning it to CD? Someday I hope to be a Linux newbie, right now I'm still a zygote dreaming of the day I can excise the cancer from my hard drive that is Microsoft Windows.
I have been struggling with a Gateway 3550GZ Centrino laptop after installing Ununtu Badger. Everything that I have checked seems to work OK with the exception that I cannot get sound from either the speakers or the headphones.
So I installed Dapper Drake RC3 to see if the problem had been successfully addressed. Nope, still no sound.
Ubuntu has a history of semi-weird codenames for their releases (Warty Warthog, Hoary Hedgehog, Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake). The people in #ubuntu-offtopic on IRC regularly make parodies on these names. Their brainfarts are collected at http://wiki.kaarsemaker.net/UbuntuNames.
There are some really funny ones, like Horrible Hippopotamus, Nutritious Nightingale, or Spastic Swan.
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After his estranged wife disappears, a husband returns to the remote lake house where their young daughter died, and he soon loses his grip on reality.
Paul Luden has been haunted by a memory he can't recall. Whatever happened to his marriage, to his two-year-old daughter, is too traumatic to remember, so his unconscious has chosen to block out key details. But when he receives a phone call from the small lake town where they'd lived, telling him that no one had seen or heard from his wife in ten days, he knows what he has to do.
He and his nineteen-year-old girlfriend drive from L.A. to Washington State where he's forced to confront his past. And as he pieces together his buried memories, Paul unravels mentally, falls into self-destructive trances and ultimately discovers the truth about his wife.
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Tod Goldberg is the author of the crime-tinged novels "Living Dead Gir""l, "a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, "Fake Liar Cheat, " and the popular Burn Notice series. His essay When They Let Them Bleed was selected by Cheryl Strayed for inclusion in Best American Essays 2013. He is also the author of the story collections "Simplify " a 2006 finalist for the SCIBA Award for Fiction and winner of the Other Voices Short Story Collection Prize, and "Other Resort Cities." His short fiction has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, twice receiving special mention for the Pushcart Prize as well as being named a distinguished story of the year in "The Best American Mystery Stories 2009." His essays, journalism, and criticism appear regularly in many publications, including the "Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, " and "Las Vegas CityLife, " and have been featured in "E!", "Salon, ""Jewcy", and the "Wall Street Journal", among many others.
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I feel cheated.
I grew up Nazarene (ternt Babdist [Xtians LOVE an-/pro- nunciation!]) in North Central TexasTexoma, if you will (I had to). Never ONCE did I get a ball or balls from my daddy or anyone else's daddy. Are you there, God? It's My Sense of Entitlement. In fact no dude I knew ever had any purity ball. No one ever takes groups of boys aside, making them vow to hold their load for marriage (or consent???). And that pisses me off.
Let me tell you what does happen. There are extra-curricular Sunday school classes and fellowships/pancake breakfasts for men young and old where they teach you how to own the fuck out of your household, own your women (sorry…Honor them!), and own all the riches you deserve because you prayed for them.
Now all of this (minus the pancakes) was totally useless to me because I was/am a homosexual, but you'd think someone would organize balls for us boys who "struggled" with our sexuality. Make us dress up in tails and patent leather slip-ons. Make us vow not to have our first sexual experience at a glory hole in a porn arcade (that experience was a total surprise; I never even knew about glory holes before!). Nope. Instead there were secret (even to the church body) bible studies for combatting, well… the innate (but sinful) desire to have dicks in our faces.
Until then, I'll have to settle for this (And true storyI once kissed the fellow you see on the far right at 2:25; take that, GOD!):
EDIT: Oooooh, MARY. I totally forgot I had this photo. Here's one of those MENZ FUNCTIONS at my old mini-mega-church, First Baptist Church of Wichita Falls. In this image you see a laying-on-of-hands for the former pastorwho once started a campaign to get Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate banned from the public library and who, in a lot of people's opinion, is a BIG OLE QUEEN. The name of this event, mind you, is STEAK AND PRAISE.


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Hi there! Ryan here. I am a professional musician and teacher who lives in Chicago, Illinois. My wife, Julie, is a teacher, too. We enjoy incorporating great local food, art, music, and culture into our travel. We have traveled all over the United States, but we're excited to start expanding our horizons with international travel! We pride ourselves on caring for every place we stay as our own and leaving it cleaner than when we arrived. Most of all, we love meeting new people in every city we visit.


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Hello good people of Cosplay Island.
I am looking for any cosplayers who would be available to model for me over the next two weeks and can travel to Liverpool.
I don't have the funds to pay but I will give a copy of the photos I take.
If anyone is interested please PM me ASAP to make the suitable arrangements.
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What's this for?
Do you mind what cosplays people use?
Where will it be?
I'm in the general Liverpool area, but getting their ain't the cheapest...
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I'm doing this for college work and to build up my portfolio in general.
I haven't exactly chosen a spot to do the photoshoot yet but once I do I will post it here as soon as I can.
As for what type of cosplay I don't really mind, in fact anyone who is interested should let me know what sort of stuff you do.
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With the Dark Reign of Norman Osborn in full effect, the Marvel Universe has become a pretty, well, dark place. But hope is not lost. The United Statesâ most revered hero, Steve Rogers -- Captain America -- is not dead, contrary to what everyone believes. He's become unstuck in time, and in the in-progress âCaptain America: Rebornâ miniseries by writer Ed Brubaker and artists Bryan Hitch and Butch Guice, Rogers' friends and foes are trying to rescue him from his temporal trap.
With "Captain America: Reborn" #3 on sale next week, CBR News spoke with Brubaker about the time travel elements of the miniseries, as well as what it's like working with his artistic collaborators Hitch and Guice.
CBR: The appearance of the time traveling Two-Gun Kid in âThe Marvels Projectâ #1 and Steve Rogers' fate in âRebornâ suggests that you've become very interested in stories with time travel elements.
ED BRUBAKER: I've always been fascinated by time travel, but with âRebornâ it's less about time travel and more about time skipping. It's much more a nod to the Kurt Vonnegut novel, âSlaughterhouse 5.â I was very literal about it. The first line of âSlaughterhouse 5â is, âListen, Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.â And that's why in the first issue of âReborn,â Arnim Zola says, âListen, Steve Rogers has come unstuck in time.â
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Even though I'm doing a different kind of story where I'm exploring Captain America, I'm clearly making a nod to Vonnegut. I don't think he came up with the idea but I think he might have been the first one to use the phrase âunstuck in time.â So I wanted it to be as literal as possible because I didn't want anybody to think that I didn't know I was riffing on âSlaughterhouse 5.â
Some readers certainly got the reference but it seems like a great number thought you were referencing the TV show âLost,â where the character Desmond bounced around time in a similar way.
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This paper presents a novel method for detecting multiple frontal faces in still images using multi-scale processing. The main characteristic of this algorithm is its stability in detecting faces with seldom false detections and a high correct detection rate. The novelty of this work comes from the utilization of multiscale detection and using two classifiers to reduce false detections. The algorithm generally has two stages: in the first stage, a face is detected in a unique scale and in the second stage, only the faces that are located in the neighbor scales are accepted as real faces. Consequently, a still image is first resized and scanned block wise, and then each enhanced block is tested for being face. One dimensional Harr wavelet is used for feature extraction, which gives appropriate discriminating features between the face and nonface classes. Detection results at each scale are accumulated in an internal database, so the ultimate detection is prepared based on the mutual detection information between consequent scales. To parameterize both the Bayesian and the simple proposed classifier, 2,643 faces were congregated from famous face databases and more than 10,000 non-face samples were selected from nature images. Experimental results using images gathered from known databases like MIT-CMU show great ability of the proposed algorithm in detecting faces.
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Clean out the Fridge Pasta Sauce
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- 1⁄2 cup white wine
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SHORTLY AFTER former Philadelphia public-school teacher Megan Rosenbach bought her house in Point Breeze in June 2011, she began mobilizing around her neighborhood elementary school.
She teamed up with her local church to raise extra money for the school. Then she founded Neighbors Investing in Childs Elementary, or NICE, which seeks to support the extracurricular needs of G.W. Childs Elementary.
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Leslie Spring's live vocal/guitar performances, with covers ranging from from Sinatra to Sabbath and anything in between. Lot's of eclectic sources of music, with the occasional original thrown in. Plus, whatever else I feel like doing.
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I love Scott Snyder's Batman stories. I plan on keeping this one on the list as long as he is writing it.
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Early studies of gene expression in single cells revealed a greater than expected amount of heterogeneity among cells from supposedly homogeneous populations. It is now well accepted that, for example, not every tumor cell, liver cell, or stem cell isolated from a distinct population will be identical in terms of which genes are expressed and at what levels.
Simply averaging the transcription levels measured across multiple individual cells will not accurately convey what is taking place in any one cell. Furthermore, this approach may result in an especially interesting and biologically or clinically relevant characteristic of one or more of the cell subtypes present in a cell population to be missed if their genomic heterogeneity is not analyzed and understood.
The desire to characterize this variability in gene expression across cells and to acquire genomic sequence data on a single-cell level is driving advances in the field of single-cell genomics, which is part of a broader field of single-cell analysis that is benefiting from an emerging trend to develop and apply tools and technologies for robust, high-throughput, and reproducible analysis of biological function at the single-cell level.
Initial focus areas include developmental biology and cancer and stem cell research; early commercial applications relate to embryo screening for in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures, characterization and drug-response testing of circulating tumor cells, and infectious-disease diagnostics. Single-cell genomic analysis was a key area of discussion at Select Biosciences' "Single Cell Analysis Summit" held recently in San Diego.
In reality, "most cells have very few transcripts, and a few cells have a lot of gene expression," explained Mikael Kubista, Ph.D., CEO of Tataa Biocenter. Gene expression is a highly dynamic process, occurring in bursts of active transcription followed by less active periods during which existing mRNA transcripts decay.
"We have found that these bursts generally do not correlate from cell to cell," Dr. Kubista said. This led the company to develop its single-cell transcription correlation platform, in which identification of a cell type is not based on the level of any particular transcript, but rather on correlations of transcription.
Using single-cell expression correlation, it is possible to distinguish between two or more subtypes of cells within a population that express the same transcripts. They differ not in the presence or absence of a particular transcript, but in the pattern of gene-expression levels. One way Tataa is applying this technology is to study circulating tumor cells, with a clinical goal of identifying what clones are present in a patient's blood and to which chemotherapeutic agents they may/may not respond.
Tataa developed a technique for measuring intracellular mRNA gradients using qPCR and applies it to the study of gene-expression heterogeneity at the single-cell and subcellular level. To capture mRNA transcripts from a single cell without significant loss of material, Tataa formulated a set of detergents to facilitate cell lysis and mRNA removal without the need for washing steps. It licensed the detergents to Roche, which incorporated them into its RealTime Ready Cell Lysis Kit.
Dr. Kubista identified three main challenges at present for single-cell gene-expression analysis including the need for robust single-cell isolation techniques, increased throughput, and improved tools for data mining and multivariate data analysis.
Steven Bodovitz, Ph.D., principal at Bioperspectives, defined the opportunity in this field as the ability to "transform cellular heterogeneity from a source of noise into a source of new discoveries."
The reasons to do so are "compelling," he said. For example, if an easy and more reliable method was available to identify the different cell subtypes in a tumor, could a more effective, multitargeted chemotherapeutic approach be developed?
Dr. Bodovitz identified two main drivers of single-cell omics research: the potential biological significance of understanding cell heterogeneity, and the enabling technological advances including miniaturization, microfluidics, and whole-genome amplification (WGA) techniques that yield enough DNA from a single cell to enable genomic analysis using available gene-expression analysis or next-generation sequencing (NGS) methods.
When asked to identify the main challenge the field of single-cell genomics currently faces, Dr. Bodovitz pointed to the need for improved methods of isolating single cells from tissue samples. "One tends to destroy the cell to analyze it."
Whereas perturbations to a cell are unlikely to affect the results of genetic or epigenetic analysis, as these characteristics should remain stable, cellular disruption could affect gene-expression analysis and other types of omics studies. Intentional perturbation of a single cell represents an "elegant system" for studying biological pathways and intracellular networks based on the up- or downregulation of gene expression, added Dr. Bodovitz. This knowledge could be used to guide the design of drugs capable of interfering in a particular pathway.
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