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2016-17 B1G Basketball Preview: Indiana
[Ed-Seth: Yes, basketball season is approaching. We'll jump early though]
Jim Harbaugh's brother-in-law [SBNation]
PREVIOUSLY: Illinois.
After Indiana dropped two of three games (all against mediocre competition) in the Maui Invitational and were blown out in the ACC – Big Ten challenge by Duke, there was understandable unease among the Hoosier faithful; things took an even worse turn when their second-leading scorer, James Blackmon, Jr., was lost to a season-ending injury right before conference play. Because Tom Crean's still at the helm of that particular ship, people started complaining about him again.
[More on the Hoosiers after the JUMP]
Unverified Voracity Hears The Lamentation Of Their Softballists
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there was a lot of this last weekend [Bryan Fuller]
CROOOSH. Softball annihilated its regional over the weekend, coming up a single run short of mercy-ruling all three of its opponents. They draw #14 Georgia in the super regionals at Alumni Field in a Thursday/Friday series. Thursday's game is 9PM on ESPN2; Friday's is at 6 on ESPNU. South Bend Wolverine, who graciously previewed the regional for us, is planning on profiling Georgia on Wednesday.
Hiring the team mom. Andy Staples interviews Harbaugh about the Gwendolyn Bush hire:
Bush peppered the coach with the same kinds of questions she did when Harbaugh was recruiting Lyons to Stanford out of Fort Lauderdale's Dillard High. The banter gave Harbaugh flashbacks to the lengthy questionnaire Bush asked all the coaches recruiting her son to complete in 2010. It also gave him an idea. No parent he'd dealt with had studied the recruiting process as thoroughly as Bush. "Some people don't take the time to really learn the process," Bush said. "They just let it happen." Bush wouldn't allow that for her son. Inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas (Fla.) High tailback James White, who sent coaches brief surveys before committing to Wisconsin, Bush and Lyons designed a 50-question exam for coaches to complete before they could recruit Lyons.
Plus, Bush now also had the experience of a parent whose child had played high-level college football while completing a demanding degree program. As a bonus, she had worked in the Broward County school system in a variety of positions for 27 years. She had administrative experience. She would be perfect for Harbaugh's version of the director of player development position. "With her credentials in the educational system, I thought she'd be a tremendous liaison to academics and also a voice for the moms," Harbaugh said. "In the recruiting process, the mothers get very little airtime—even throughout the entire college experience."
Wayne Lyons was headed to Michigan either way, and Harbaugh just took the opportunity provided by Bush getting back in touch to hire a person with that level of detail.
Seeya. The number of Indiana basketball players hitting the highways and byways of America, bindle over shoulder, swelled to five over the weekend with the dismissals of Devin Davis and Hanner Mosquera-Perea. The reason for their departure: Davis was cited for pot possession. Perea's offense was being in the room.
Kevin Trahan notes that the departure of these gentlemen on such a flimsy pretext likely means they were out the door no matter what:
…two Indiana players—Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson—failed multiple drug tests last fall, yet only received four-game suspensions that were more like two-game suspensions, given that two of the games were exhibition contests.
Why the Roger Goodell-like disciplinary inconsistency? It's hard not to wonder if Mosquera-Perea and Davis are less incorrigible embarrassments to Crean's team than a pair of inconvenient bench bodies, victims of scholarship oversigning. After all, Williams was a star for the Hoosiers and integral to their future success. Mosquera-Perea and Davis are not. Meanwhile, Crean needs an open scholarship as he looks to sign star high school big man Thon Maker—and surprise, two spots just become available.
Robinson got the ziggy earlier this offseason after demonstrating he can't shoot at all; Williams is still around, mean-mugging after he successfully makes tea.
Here's some perspective on this offseason's vigorous Creaning: for a football team to go through this much premature attrition they would have to lose 33 players. Tom Crean is the Houston Nutt of basketball. Giggity.
What about the other slot? A familiar name might fill it:
Michigan graduate transfer Max Bielfeldt, who won an appeal that will allow him to transfer within the Big Ten, will visit Indiana on Sunday according to a report from Jon Rothstein.
Bielfeldt confirmed his plans to visit in a text message to Inside the Hall on Saturday afternoon.
Inside the Hall optimistically lists Bielfeldt at 6'8" and most of the comments are along the lines of "he can't be worse than Perea." Which… okay, maybe.
Dave Brandon 2.0 has not been stopped yet. I feel for Texas fans with no light at the end of their terrible AD tunnel yet. Steve Patterson, the new Worst Athletic Director In America, on playing Texas A&M:
On playing the Aggies, Patterson said, "We're booked through '27. My phone's not ringing every day."
— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) May 17, 2015
On playing in Mexico City:
Texas AD Steve Patterson says UT could play a football game in Mexico City before 2020.
— Kirk Bohls (@kbohls) May 17, 2015
Patterson is obsessed with the possibility people in Dubai or Mexico might buy a UT t-shirt because he is the kind of executive sociopath that is more concerned with putting a bullet point on a resume than actually figuring out what is a good idea.
Jerry Hinnen points out that playing at Azteca has historically been a nightmare for the USMNT due to the altitude, smog, and heat. Mexico plays all their games there specifically to discomfit visitors; Patterson wants to play a football game there in the vague hope it gives Texas recognition in a country that doesn't care even a little tiny bit about American football.
Etc.: Doug Skene and Mike Spath break down Rudock's game against Wisconsin. That is the next passing UFR on my list, and it projects to be an encouraging one. Get The Picture on the coming attendance dip. Angelique talks to Adidas. NoDak hockey coach Dave Hakstol hired by the Flyers in the same position.
AFC Ann Arbor beat Oakland United Sporting Real Dinamo Forest FC SC 4-0 to win their first-ever league game. Points to the rowdies for chanting "dos a cero" for the period of time that was a thing.
Unverified Voracity Is Tested Regularly
Not literally a comic book. 28 minutes of Charles Woodson highlights from high school do not quite feature him bounding over a tall building:
Full go minus one decision. John Beilein doesn't see anyone transferring this offseason:
"Everybody seems to be all onboard 100 percent," Beilein said Monday after attending a USBWA Final Four luncheon honoring freshman Austin Hatch. "Obviously, we're not with them 24 hours a day, but I love their attitude right now."
That does not include Caris LeVert, who is deciding on the NBA draft. It seems that people around the program are cautiously optimistic he will stay for his senior year, but we won't have certainty until the early entry deadline, April 26th.
That would leave Michigan with zero scholarships this year and two plus any attrition after next season in 2016. Unless Hatch goes on a medical scholarship that would cut out Mike Edwards, the various transfers looking at Michigan, and Jaylen Brown.
In related news, it looks like Max Bielfeldt will spend his grad transfer year at Bradley.
Meanwhile, another one bites the dust at Indiana. The Hoosiers get a commitment from prep post Thomas Bryant, bringing the number of Indiana players guaranteed to get run off this offseason to three. Someone please fire Tom Crean.
Spike surgery. Spike Albrecht will have surgery on both hips to eliminate the pain he played through this season. His projected return is in four or five months, which cuts him out of all the summer stuff but should have him back on the court a couple months before the season. That should be enough time to knock off the rust.
Soon, a fully healthy Spike will also be dunking on fools.
Out go the successories posters. Harbaugh on the weight room:
"It was shiny, like somebody from Chicago came in [from a ] P.R. firm," Harbaugh said. ""This isn't a slide show.
"This is work."
Don't get a DUI and then fail your probation. Harbaugh on Glasgow:
"The legal system has got as much hanging over his head as anybody else could possibly put on him," Harbaugh said. "There's nothing more that I, or the football program or the university could have on Graham right now than what (the courts) have.
"This is somebody who is taking a breathalyzer every morning and every night. He's got to be clean, 100 percent clean, not a drop of alcohol. And he'll either do it, or he won't. I believe in him, I believe he will. But we'll all know, there will be no secrets on that. Whether he does it or he doesn't, it'll be for public consumption."
He will have to do this through January, so he will either be clean as a whistle or you'll know he wasn't.
This is a lovely shot chart. Aubrey Dawkins did two things last year:
Threes and throwdowns. He was excellent at the threes, average at the throwdowns, which still means he was extremely efficient. Next year's project is getting some of those hexagons to be larger without changing their distribution. Oh, and doing the defense and rebounding stuff.
Okay, let's do it. Kenpom looks at the effect the 30-second shot clock (and expanded no-charge circle) had on the tournaments that used it:
Adjusting for the matchups and expected points in each game, scoring in the smaller tournaments has been about 5.6 ppg more than the NCAA tournament. This is 2.4 ppg higher than the typical difference in these events. That's not something that will transform the game, but if you assume that boost applies to the entire 2015-16 season, it would take the sport to scoring levels not seen since 2003. (That statement excludes last season, when scoring increased dramatically, partly because a bunch of fouls were called.)
Not surprisingly, most of the scoring increase can be attributed to an increase in pace. Accounting for the teams involved and the increase in tempo normally seen in lower-level events, there have been two additional possessions per 40 minutes than we'd expect under normal rules. This is a more modest change compared to scoring and only turns the clock back to 2011 in terms of pace. This suggests simply reducing the shot clock to 30 won't produce significantly more up-and-down basketball. A surprising finding here is that slow-paced teams were affected as much as fast-paced teams were.
One of the concerns of the 30-second clock is that it may make offenses less efficient, but the postseason experiment isn't providing much evidence of that. Accounting for the quality of the teams and the usual increase in efficiency seen in the lower-level events, efficiency was actually up, though by a miniscule 0.6 points per 100 possessions.
The efficiency thing is almost certainly noise, but it looks like any effects are going to be minimal in that department. I don't think there's much wrong with college basketball other than the fact that block/charge is impossible to call and the refs are hilariously bad in general—but that's not something you can wave a wand and fix.
Final CSS rankings out. Minor movement for most players. Zach Werenski is 9th, down from 6th. Kyle Connor moves up a spot to 13th. 2016 recruit Cooper Marody moves up ten spots to 53rd. There were some more significant moves:
NTDP forward Brendan Warren dropped from 34th to 66th, which is an early third round pick to the fifth or sixth. He had an okay year only with the U18s.
Incoming defenders Joe Cecconi and Nick Boka went in opposite directions; Cecconi dropped from 70 to 88 and Boka shot up from 176 to 117.
Given Michigan's needs next year I'm happy that Boka's stock has apparently surged, even if Warren is less of a prospect than you think he might be. I wonder if Michigan will try to bring Marody or another 2016 recruit in now given Copp's departure.
The Hockey Writers have an extensive breakdown of Werenski that compares him to Trouba. I know I'm seeing Werenski a year younger, but he is not Trouba. Trouba was a commanding defenseman at both ends of the ice. Werenski really came on in the offensive zone late in the year but was a significant source of defensive problems.
Etc.: 1914 All-American ring for "Maully," which is either John Maulbetsch's nickname or a cartoon hammer. Bacari Alexander is up for the UW-Green Bay job, which is a pretty good mid-major posting. Various OMG Harbaugh stories on spring from ESPN, MLive, MVictors, etc.
Sports "donations" are still tax-deductible. Alabama assistant salaries have gone up 60% in four years(!). Michigan's are probably in the same range.
Unverified Voracity Opens Wide For Some Soccer
Hello: AFC Ann Arbor. We are getting a minor league soccer team that I am inordinately excited about, and tickets have just gone on sale. I already hate Oakland United FC for having both "United" and "FC" in their name. I bet their crest doesn't even have a tree. Or stripes. I do not know how these tossers deign to call themselves any sort of organization. Down with United Sporting Real FC Oakland Dinamo.
AFCAA has an eight game home schedule over the summer; in year one they're playing at Pioneer. Plenty of current and former Wolverines are on the team, and it sounds like they're importing some food carts (Mark's carts?) for games. I'll be at the home opener May 1st, stop by and say hi.
Jim Harbaugh has the best twitter feed. Tips for identifying good coaching twitter feeds:
GOOD: odd capitalization and grammar, random shoutouts to Cracker Barrel and Judge Judy
BAD: hashtags, motivational sayings, motivational sayings embedded in hashtags
Harbaugh is on the good side of the equation:
Michigan Nicknames Snake-Bubba-Jumbo-Flame-Soup-EasyEd-BigEd-BigHoss-Chunky-SirCharles-Bump & the ultimate nickname that became legendary Bo
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) March 27, 2015
Amongst many people saying "don't forget X" I declare Derek Moore the winner for reminding Harbaugh that he should not forget the legend of Tony Pape, AKA "Fat Elvis."
Spring Creaning time. A couple days after Stanford Robinson said "I'm not going anywhere" to media in the IU locker room, the university announced his transfer. Today he was followed by freshman wing Max Hoetzel.
This annual exodus has the same impetus all of Tom Crean's other annual exoduses have: someone must leave (or not show up) because Crean drastically oversigned. This year Indiana has zero seniors, a full roster, and two recruits. And they are still recruiting various players for the late period. To their credit, a lot of Indiana fans hate this.
Every coach is going to have some attrition from guys who don't work out. Few sign multiple guys in November knowing that this means someone on the current team is going to be forcibly ejected from the program as a result. And for what? For a ten seed because your incompetent self can't count or recruit a post player.
We poke at Tom Izzo around here because he's easy to poke at, but he is a legitimate coach and seemingly good dude; Crean is another level of detestable. For everybody's sake let's hope that buyout comes down enough to get rid of him soon. The Big Ten is ill-served by his presence at a basketball mecca.
I'm very disappointed in 61 of you. You guys are jerks.
should I quit blogging about Michigan and dedicate myself to UFRing episodes of "Coach"? RT for YES FAV for NO
— mgoblog (@mgoblog) March 27, 2015
Upon further review, there is not enough football in episodes of "Coach" to do this.
I guess this is official now? Or at least official-ish:
Michigan football: Legends jerseys are gone, helmet stickers are back. Imagine Bo and Canham would be pleased by both.
— John U. Bacon (@Johnubacon) March 27, 2015
247 and Rivals are confirming and I'm not sure this is a thing that gets a press release, so… done? Let's call it done.
I'd rather have the inverse but I'm not too bent out of shape about it. I like the clean look the decal-less helmets have and thought the legends jerseys were a good way to remind people that the Wisterts were great and Gerald Ford was an All-American. Hopefully they can do something for the retired numbers other than just put them back in mothballs.
Also semi-official? I can't remember if Wayne Lyons's transfer was already semi-official or has just become slightly more so, but the big news from Mike Zordich's press conference was Zordich accidentally letting the cat out of the bag about Lyons's imminent arrival. Except that Lyons himself said it in February and we already have a Hello post for him.
Nevermind then?
Spike was hurting. Spike Albrecht was not fully right last year:
Albrecht is wrestling with the decision whether to undergo off-season surgery on both of his ailing hips, procedures that would leave him rehabilitating for "probably four to five months, at least."
"That's a tough situation," Albrecht said. "I don't want to sit out, but I also don't want to go through another season like I went through this year, but if that's the only option and that's the best option, then I'll do it."
Apparently those surgeries have to be scheduled consecutively and involve—bleah—"shaving down an area of hip bone." A 4-5 month recovery period is likely, which would make him whole in August or September. Tough decision to weigh a lack of pain against whatever rustiness getting laid up like that would induce.
Meanwhile, Alejandro Zuniga evaluated Albrecht.
Gordon Bell, 1975. Via Dr. Sap:
Also Ufer calling a pretty spectacular Bell touchdown run against Purdue.
Etc.: Sauce Castillo. Sauce Castillo. Neeeerd baseball hits the Daily. On John Calipari. Tattoos ranked by how bad of an idea they are. Jack Miller's decision to quit football was about concussions a bit, unless it wasn't.
SHON AND TOM: a short play in one act
A short play in one act
Tom, a basketball coach
Shon, a television color commentator
TOM: "Shon."
SHON: "Yes. Yes, Tom. What is it Tom."
T: "I just had a thought Shon."
S: "What is that thought Tom."
T: "There are millions of planets and some of them have life, Shon. Inevitably some of these societies are millions of years more advanced than ours. They have not visited. There is no evidence of their existence. We dream of traveling the stars, but we cannot. Otherwise someone would have visited us.
"The reason we have not been visited by any of these societies is that it is simply not possible. Physics is a dead end, Shon."
S: "But what about when the sun…"
T: "All of this dies, Shon. We have an expiration date. Physics is a dead end."
S: "Physics is a dead end."
T: "I have a great sadness all about me, Shon. It overwhelms my being. It is as if we already do not exist."
My Floor Is The Ceiling
3/6/2014 – Michigan 84, Indiana 80 – 23-7, 15-3 Big Ten
Hello. I shoot 69%. They gave me a hat. [Fuller]
Arizona's lost, Virginia's lost, Wisconsin's lost, Duke's lost, Michigan State's lost, everyone's lost. They've all done so against teams ranging from mediocre to horrible. Losing is not hard; not losing is super hard. Michigan hasn't lost but three times in an 18 game Big Ten schedule and won the league by a staggering three-game margin. That's hard.
Michigan's done this despite being "soft" by any reasonable definition. Poke an opposing fan in a bad mood and they will hurl this charge. It's hard to dispute. Michigan's defense hovers around 100th in Kenpom. Their rebounding is middling at best. They do not steal the ball or block shots; they're dead last in the league at preventing two pointers from going in. Tom Izzo looks ready to die and is throwing most of his team under the bus for being softbatch, and his outfit is second in the league.
Meanwhile, here are the conference records of teams that finished last in two-point defense in the past ten years: 4-14, 4-14, 7-11, 4-14, 9-9, 1-17, 2-14, 6-10, 1-15, 3-13, 2-14.
This is a parade of Carmody-era Northwestern teams and anybody-era Penn State with the occasional outlier thrown in. You may be familiar with one of those outliers. That 9-9 record was John Beilein's first tourney team at Michigan, Stu and Zack and Manny and a Crisler eruption. Michigan broke through with a statistical indicator that usually means you're Penn State. A bad version of Penn State. Michigan got to the second round of the tourney.
This year's league-worst two point defense annihilated what's statistically the best conference in the country. Last year Michigan took a defense that entered the NCAA tourney in the 70s and charged into the national title game.
This is not a normal thing. Every year, people pull profiles of past NCAA champions out and dismiss Michigan because they don't have enough defense. Michigan does not seem to notice. They are too busy playing NBA Jam.
Michigan must be approaching the practical limit of offensive efficiency. Sometimes, like first halves against Nebraska and Illinois, they approach the theoretical limit.
Over the past decade only a half-dozen teams exceeded Michigan's current output, and they are generally 30 win teams: Chris Paul at Wake Forest, the uber-loaded 2009 Carolina squad that dismantled MSU in the title game, that one year Jon Diebler hit 50% from three off of Jared Sullinger kickouts. These teams are juggernauts, charging through major-conference regular seasons with two or three losses.
This year, the teams scraping the ceiling are not juggernauts. Creighton, Duke, and Michigan are probing these heights with the aid of the sometimes-goofy new rules, but they've all lost at least six games already. None will be top seeds. All have defenses ranging from 80th to 100th on Kenpom. All have offenses that are otherworldly.
Together they comprise a new version of contender, a major-conference version of three-point sniping underdogs. Each takes 40% of their shots from behind the line and connects on 40% of their attempts. The other teams at the top of the the three-point-make charts are more often Utah State and Drake than they are major conference teams.
This year, the feisty 12 shooting down a five-seed has migrated into the protected seeds, with all the rights and privileges therein. Chaos beckons. I've got no idea what's going to happen, but I know that it is going to be crazy. Stock up on subs.
Hall of fame. If you get three encomiums in one career you're a MGoHall of Fame lock. Jordan Morgan has cleared the bar. He has been here for the entire building process and now stands at the top of the Big Ten, net in teeth. Those who stay will be champions. (And most of those who don't.) Hiring John Beilein was a good idea.
Anyway: Indiana came out with a gameplan that was essentially a Jordan Morgan diss track, starting 6'7" freshman Devin Davis and switching every screen. Morgan was not about to take that slap in the face on senior day. He posted, he rebounded, he kept Michigan in the game during the period where Indiana literally could not miss. He ended 7/8 from the floor with five offensive rebounds and a couple steals.
His makes showed an advanced knowledge of how to finish without the ability to play above the rim, especially the bucket on which one dribble led to a tight-angle layup around Vonleh. He just finished a season shooting 69% as a 6'8" non-leaper. Sure sure sure a lot of those were put on a platter for him, but there are a lot of guys who get things put on a platter for them who don't shoot anywhere near 69%. I mean, his ORtg is higher than anyone on the team other than Albrecht.
BONKERS. Speaking of ORTG, the worst on the team still belongs to Derrick Walton, and his number is 110, up 11 points from midseason. Indiana has one guy above that—Ferrell, obvs. Vonleh is just about tied with Walton.
Michigan's offense is just bonkers this year.
Obligatory photo of everyone else smiling because they did something spectacular and difficult as Jon Horford mediates or something. We would not let you down in a matter this important.
you may be on the court at Crisler after winning the Big Ten by three games
I am on the court as well
but I am also under the Banyan tree
inventing the world anew every moment [Fuller]
Will Sheehey can't check this no mo [Fuller]
Point guard on Stauskas: dead. Hail the Beilein adjustment matrix. Michigan started out against Michigan State by obliterating MSU's previous defensive strategy. A collection of back cuts and down screens got Michigan a bunch of looks at the basket and forced MSU to stop denying the perimeter. At that point Michigan could just run their offense, which was their offense and therefore ridiculous.
Michigan's Borg-like ability to adapt to phaser frequencies was also on display in this one. We spent the better part of a month fretting about opponents shutting down Nik Stauskas by sticking their point guards on him. This strategy was initiated in Michigan's loss at Assembly Hall (Yes That Assembly Hall). Stauskas again drew Ferrell. Results: 21 points on 17 shot equivalents, two assists, one turnover. Stauskas got quick post ups for buckets, drove past Ferrell, shot over Ferrell. Etc.
Stauskas has put up 25, 15, 21, 24, and 21 in his last five games. He's adapted to little guys in his grill, mostly by raining it in from three, but here the drives were also effective.
Zone. The 1-3-1 was the difference in the game. It shot Indiana's uncharacteristically low turnover rate into the stratosphere and didn't give up any worse shots than the man to man was. The 1-3-1 is inherently a high risk, high reward defense that does give up a lot of GRAHHHHH dunks, offensive rebounds, and open threes. It compensates by turning the opponent over. So when you're giving up a lot of GRAHHHHH dunks and open threes anyway, you might as well get some turnovers.
It is frustrating that Michigan did not try out a packed-in 2-3 and dare anyone not named Ferrell to raise up over it. They only have so much time to work on things, I guess, but given Indiana's struggles against a 2-3 it seems like it would have been something to try once it became apparent that dribble penetration was there for anyone who wanted it.
Instead, the 1-3-1 worked just fine. Indiana had 12 second half turnovers, many of them forced by the zone and specifically Caris LeVert's ever-extending hands. He's only credited with two steals in the box score but his impact was much larger than that as the flypaper dude at the top.
Entering the tourney, having the 1-3-1 in Michigan's back pocket is a major asset, especially given that they're down to 93rd in defense on Kenpom. They may have to change what they're doing at some point when the man to man just isn't working.
coachin' in a van down by the river [Bryan Fuller]
Clap on, Clappy. Michigan got the ball back up three with 39 seconds left. Indiana did not trap or press; they eventually fouled Spike Albrecht with 17 seconds left on the shot clock. Crean was apparently screaming at his team to foul for a good 10 seconds of that delay, even so that's just… wow. Let's just say I can't see a Beilein team not knowing that you should try to steal the ball and foul quickly in that situation.
GET OFF THE COURT, SCHRUTE. Crean actually shoved one of his players then forced the referee to box him out on one Indiana possession. Beilein had already been hit with a technical for saying something along the lines of "dagnabit," and Crean's on the court affecting the play. Nothing.
They've got to do something about this in the offseason. Dump your horrible charge changes* and actually enforce technicals against coaches who show up on the court. For the love of pants.
*[Semi-weekly charge bitching goes here. Adriean Payne had been set for a good two seconds on this "block":
Worst block/charge call of the year? pic.twitter.com/6OMl5bILXY
— World of Isaac (@WorldofIsaac) March 9, 2014
Meanwhile, Spike Albrecht can't get a call because he's tiny and flies halfway across the arena when a 6'8" guy puts his shoulder into him. It looks like a flop because Spike Albrecht is tiny. And then Morgan gets a call on the 1-3-1 as he slides under Troy Williams after Williams is already in the air. They need to simplify the call, because the refs simply cannot make it.]
"DAGNABIT" works. Indiana got called for a bunch of travels in the second half after Beilein's tech. I hate coach ref histrionics, but they apparently work.
Brackets. Palm hasn't budged on Michigan as the #2 in the West with Arizona despite the carnage around them. Brad Evans of Yahoo has Michigan fifth overall, presumably matched with Villanova in the East. Lunardi has Michigan the #2 in the South opposite Florida. Crashing the Dance's algorithm has Michigan, Kansas, Syracuse, and Wichita State in a veritable dead heat for spots 4-7.
While it's unlikely Wichita is in any danger of dropping off the one line—algorithms are having slight issues with a 33-0 MVC team—it's anyone's guess how the twos get ordered. At this point it looks like Michigan is a lock to get one; hopefully they can play themselves out of the West. Indianapolis is obviously ideal for the regionals, and it does seem like Michigan can play themselves there by winning the BTT. Kansas and Virginia losses in their tournaments would help.
One thing that seems assured: Michigan will be in Milwaukee for the first weekend. Save Wisconsin, their competitors for that spot (Creighton, Iowa State, Cincinnati, MSU) are probably incapable of passing M on the S-curve.
Meanwhile, the Big Ten tournament sets up nicely for Michigan with Iowa, Michigan State, and Wisconsin on the other side of the bracket:
Indiana is clearly a bad matchup for M; everyone else they could meet before the final is manageable.
The most interesting bracketology debate, by the way, is Duke. Palm had them a 5 seed before their win over UNC, citing a near-total lack of accomplishments on the road. They're now a weak 4 on his bracket. Lunardi still has them a 2. Lunardi's got a rep for not being particularly good until late, when he talks to people close to the committee. If Duke does end up a fringe Sweet 16 seed, that is point Palm.
Congratsketball. Well done, Nebrasketball. By beating Wisconsin you've moved yourselves definitively off the bubble and finished a near-undefeated home season. And the only thing you lose this offseason is Ray Gallegos.


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Easy Christmas Decoration Ideas - Christmas Decorations on A Budget
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All these are simple, cheap and traditionally used varieties. People can use certain extraordinary articles also together with these traditional items. In this way they can cope up with the changing style of Christmas seasonal decorations. This mainly depends up on the creative idea and imaginative power of individuals.
In this way people can compete with the stylish expensive Christmas decorations by improving the quality of their cheap simple decorations.
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Christmas Decorations On A Budget
Christmas is a season of joy and excitement for people all over the world. The volume of excitement and joy reaches to its maximum while doing Christmas decorations. Outside as well as inside of the house is to be decorated properly during Christmas.
Since Christmas decorations are the important part of Christmas people cannot avoid these decorations in any way. Nowadays the process of Christmas decorations is highly expensive. How to perform Christmas decorations with respect to income is really challenge of people.
Since these decorations are for the time being purpose spending too much for this purpose is totally a waste. By reducing the cost of decorations, unnecessary expenses can be cut short considerably. For achieving this they must have a very good planning regarding these expenses.
Members of a family can sit together and design a budget plan for Christmas decorations with respect to their savings. In addition to this they can also adopt various economic decorative methods which will enable them to reduce the cost of Christmas decorations.
How to Plan Decoration Budget
How to decorate the inner side of home economically is the other question. Prior to decorations all houses are cleaned and painted properly.
This cleaning and painting process can be performed by the family members' altogether. They can use colored and glazing papers for decorating their indoors.
Snow flakes are the suitable decorative material which can develop total Christmas delight.
Snow flakes can be prepared by tearing white paper in to numerous pieces. This can be pasted on doors, windows or colored walls.
Mistletoes are added to doors to develop stolen kisses as a specialty of Christmas decorations.
Regarding outside decorations people must decide where it is to be performed. It is better to decorate the outside region of the houses with homely available materials. Thus by doing decorations with respect budget people can save too much from their decoration expenses.
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Individuals can go to woods and collect pine cones. Spray the same with golden paint and add some snow flakes. This can be used as a very good center piece for the table. This beautiful table piece is suitable not only for Christmas but also for every time. Tinsel, holy leaves and mistletoe are the other decorations which are suitable to the limited budget.
With out Christmas tree the decorations cannot be completed. Since it is a traditional symbol of Christmas in every Christmas celebrating houses there will be Christmas tree. Decorating this with respect to the budget is really a tough subject.
Artificial Christmas tree is one of the alternatives to this difficulty. Artificial Christmas trees are cheaper comparing to real varieties. The main expense regarding Christmas tree stands on the decoration process of the same. It is highly expensive nowadays.
During olden times this Christmas tree was decorated with small colored candles. Now the places of the candles are taken by colored electric led lights. If interested people can go back to olden days and use colored candles as unique and purely traditional decoration. In places of colored ribbons and colored string balls people can opt for colored papers for decorating Christmas tree.
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Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
July 3, 2013
Ashley Funk, Petitionerv.Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection, Respondent
Argued: May 16, 2013
BEFORE: HONORABLE BERNARD L. McGINLEY, Judge HONORABLE BONNIE BRIGANCE LEADBETTER, Judge HONORABLE JAMES GARDNER COLINS, Senior Judge
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This matter is an action filed by Ashley Funk (Funk) in this Court's original jurisdiction seeking to require the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to submit her petition for rulemaking with respect to fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions to the Environmental Quality Board (EQB). Before the Court are DEP's preliminary objections asserting that Funk's Petition for Review is barred by the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies. For the reasons set forth below, we sustain DEP's preliminary objections.
The EQB is the administrative agency responsible for formulating and promulgating Pennsylvania's environmental regulations. Act of December 3, 1970, P.L. 834, No. 275, § 20, as amended, 71 P.S. 510-20; Tire Jockey Service, § [1] Inc. v. Department of Environmental Protection, 591 Pa. 73, 106, 915 A.2d 1165, 1185 (2007). Private citizens may request that the EQB issue regulations by filing a petition for rulemaking with DEP. Section 20(h) of the Act of December 3, 1970, 71 P.S. § 510-20(h); 25 Pa. Code §§ 23.1-23.8. Such petitions must contain all of the following:
(1) The petitioner's name, address and telephone number.
(2) A description of the action requested in the petition and one of the following:
(i) Suggested regulatory language if the petition requests that the EQB adopt or amend regulations.
(ii) A specific citation to the regulations to be repealed if the petition requests that the EQB repeal existing regulations.
(3) The reason the petitioner is requesting this action from the EQB, including factual and legal contentions as well as supporting documentation which establish the petitioner's justification for the requested action by the EQB.
(4) The types of persons, businesses and organizations likely to be impacted by this proposal.
25 Pa. Code § 23.1(a). DEP examines the petition for rulemaking before it is submitted to the EQB to determine whether it satisfies three requirements: 1) that it contains the information required by 25 Pa. Code §23.1(a); 2) that it requests an action that can be taken by the EQB; and 3) that the requested action does not conflict with federal law. 25 Pa. Code § 23.2. If the petition for rulemaking fails to satisfy any of these requirements, DEP is to notify the petitioner that the petition is not appropriate for submission to the EQB, stating the reasons for that determination. 25 Pa. Code § 23.3.
On October 2, 2012, Funk filed a petition for rulemaking with DEP requesting that the EQB promulgate regulations requiring reduction of fossil fuel carbon dioxide emissions by 6% per year to achieve an atmospheric concentration of 350 parts per million or less of carbon dioxide by 2100. (Petition for Review ¶¶11, 18; Petition for Rulemaking at 1, 3-4 & App.1.) Funk's petition for rulemaking also requested that this regulation require annual progress reports on statewide greenhouse gas emissions, including an inventory and accounting of those emissions. (Petition for Review ¶18; Petition for Rulemaking at 3-4 & App.1.)
On November 20, 2012, DEP mailed Funk a letter, dated November 16, 2012, notifying her that it examined her petition for rulemaking and determined that it failed to meet the requirements for submission to the EQB. (Petition for Review ¶22; November 16, 2012 DEP Letter.) DEP stated three grounds for this determination. First, DEP asserted that the petition requests an action that cannot be taken by the EQB because Section 4.2(c) of the Air Pollution Control Act[2]prohibits the EQB from adopting any "ambient air quality standard for a specific pollutant that is more stringent than an air quality standard adopted by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), " and EPA has not established an ambient air quality standard for carbon dioxide. (Petition for Review ¶¶22, 23; November 16, 2012 DEP Letter at 2.) Second, DEP asserted that the petition requests an action that cannot be taken by the EQB because its greenhouse gas emission inventory and reporting provisions are contrary to the inventory and reporting requirements of the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act.[3] (Petition for Review ¶¶22, 24; November 16, 2012 DEP Letter at 2-3.) Third, DEP concluded that the petition did not comply with the requirement of 25 Pa. Code § 23.1(a)(4) that it identify the "types of persons, businesses and organizations likely to be impacted." (Petition for Review ¶¶22, 25; November 16, 2012 DEP Letter at 3.)
On December 20, 2012, Funk filed the instant Petition for Review, seeking injunctive and declaratory relief to require DEP to submit her October 2, 2012 petition for rulemaking to the EQB. In the Petition for Review, Funk asserts that DEP erred in holding that the EQB lacks statutory authority to promulgate the regulations sought in the petition for rulemaking. (Petition for Review at 2 & ¶27(B)-(E).) Funk also asserts that, to the extent that the EQB is prohibited from promulgating the requested regulations by the Air Pollution Control Act or the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act, those statutes are unconstitutional under Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution, which provides that "[t]he people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment" and that "[a]s trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people." (Petition for Review at 2 & ¶27(A), (F)-(H).) The Petition for Review seeks reversal of DEP's third ground for rejection, failure to identify the types of persons affected, as arbitrary and capricious. (Petition for Review ¶28.) The Petition for Review requests "that this Court: 1) reverse DEP's November 20, 2012 decision, [and] 2) Order DEP to send the Petition [for Rulemaking] to the EQB for consideration." (Petition for Review at 11.)
Funk has also filed an appeal with the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB) challenging DEP's refusal to submit her October 2, 2012 petition for rulemaking to the EQB. (Petition for Review ¶4; Petitioner's Brief in Opposition to Preliminary Objections at 11.) That appeal is pending before the EHB, and the parties have not advised this Court that any decision has been issued by the EHB in that appeal.
On January 18, 2013, DEP filed the instant Preliminary Objections to Funk's Petition for Review. The only issue raised by DEP's Preliminary Objections is whether Funk's Petition for Review is barred by failure to exhaust administrative remedies.[4] The merits of DEP's determination, whether the EQB is statutorily barred from promulgating the requested regulations, whether such a statutory bar is unconstitutional and whether Funk's petition for rulemaking complied with 25 Pa. Code § 23.1(a)(4), are not before the Court on DEP's Preliminary Objections.
The doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies requires that a person challenging an administrative decision must first exhaust all adequate and available administrative remedies before seeking relief from the courts. Empire Sanitary Landfill, Inc. v. Department of Environmental Resources, 546 Pa. 315, 329, 684 A.2d 1047, 1053 (1996); Heffner Funeral Chapel & Crematory, Inc. v. Department of State, Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, 824 A.2d 397, 400 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2003), aff'd without op., 578 Pa. 41, 849 A.2d 1135 (2004). The purposes of this exhaustion requirement are to prevent premature judicial intervention in the administrative process and ensure that claims will be addressed by the body with expertise in the area. Lehman v. Pennsylvania State Police, 576 Pa. 365, 380, 839 A.2d 265, 275 (2003); Empire Sanitary Landfill, 546 Pa. at 329, 684 A.2d at 1053. Thus, where the legislature has provided an administrative procedure to challenge and obtain relief from an agency's action, failure to exhaust that remedy bars this Court from hearing claims for declaratory or injunctive relief with respect to that agency action. Heffner Funeral Chapel & Crematory, 824 A.2d at 402; Faldowski v. Eighty Four Mining Co., 725 A.2d 843, 846 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1998); Chambers Development Co. v. Department of Environmental Resources, 532 A.2d 928, 930-31 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1987).
The legislature has provided an administrative remedy for challenging decisions of DEP: appeal to the EHB. Section 4 of the Environmental Hearing Board Act, Act of July 13, 1988, P.L. 530, §4, as amended, 35 P.S. § 7514; Tire Jockey Service, 591 Pa. at 107, 915 A.2d at 1185; Empire Sanitary Landfill, 546 Pa. at 329, 684 A.2d at 1053. Funk does not dispute that she can challenge DEP's refusal to submit her petition for rulemaking to the EQB by appeal to the EHB and that the EHB can grant the relief she seeks, reversal of DEP's decision. Indeed, Funk has filed an appeal with the EHB. (Petition for Review ¶4; Petitioner's Brief in Opposition to Preliminary Objections at 11.)
Funk's sole justification for not exhausting her remedies before the EHB prior to seeking relief in this Court is that she has asserted constitutional challenges to DEP's decision. (Petitioner's Brief in Opposition to Preliminary Objections at 6-11.) Funk is correct that there is an exception to the doctrine of exhaustion of administrative remedies "where the constitutionality of a statutory scheme or its validity is challenged." Lehman, 576 Pa. at 380, 839 A.2d at 275; Empire Sanitary Landfill, 546 Pa. at 331, 684 A.2d at 1054. This exception, however, applies only to facial challenges to the constitutionality of the statute as a whole; arguments that a statute is unconstitutional as applied to a particular case are not exempt from the requirement that the party exhaust adequate administrative remedies. Lehman, 576 Pa. at 380-81, 839 A.2d at 275. "To qualify for the exception to the exhaustion doctrine, 'the attack must be made to the constitutionality of the statute or regulation as a whole, and not merely to the application of the statute or regulation in a particular case.'" Id. at 380, 839 A.2d at 275 (quoting Giffin v. Chronister, 616 A.2d 1070 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1992)).
As our Supreme Court explained in Lehman, "[i]n a facial challenge, a party is not required to exhaust administrative remedies because 'the determination of the constitutionality of enabling legislation is not a function of the administrative agencies thus enabled.'" 576 Pa. at 381, 839 A.2d at 275 (quoting Borough of Green Tree v. Board of Property Assessments, 459 Pa. 268, 328 A.2d 819 (1974)). In contrast, substantial policy reasons require exhaustion of administrative remedies where the constitutional claims challenge only the application of the statute.
It is both sensible and efficient to permit administrative agencies to address constitutional challenges to a statute's application. First, the agency is given an opportunity to interpret the statute it is charged with administering to avoid an unconstitutional application. Second, agencies currently decide challenges to the constitutionality of regulations; administrative competency is not an issue. Third, agencies are better situated than the courts to develop agency-specific issues, and to find facts. Fourth, refusing to consider constitutional challenges to a statute's application allows litigants to circumvent the exhaustion of administrative remedies doctrine before seeking judicial review.
Lehman, 576 Pa. at 382, 839 A.2d at 276.
The constitutional issues here are not facial challenges to the validity of any statute as a whole. Funk does not assert that the Air Pollution Control Act and Pennsylvania Climate Change Act are necessarily unconstitutional. Rather, her Petition for Review challenges as unconstitutional only DEP's application of those statutes to bar her petition for rulemaking. Funk disputes that DEP's interpretation of the Air Pollution Control Act and Pennsylvania Climate Change Act is correct, but alleges that "[t]o the extent" that those statutes are held to bar her proposed regulations, they are unconstitutional under Article I, Section 27 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. (Petition for Review at 2 & ¶27(G)-(H); see also Petitioner's Brief in Opposition to Preliminary Objections at 8-10.) Thus, no challenge to the constitutionality of any statute will even need to be resolved unless the EHB upholds DEP's interpretation of the statutes. Because Funk's constitutional arguments are challenges to DEP's application of the statutes to her case, not facial challenges to the statutes as a whole, they are not exempt from the requirement that she exhaust her remedy of raising these issues in her EHB appeal before seeking judicial review. Lehman, 576 Pa. at 380-82, 839 A.2d at 275-76.
Moreover, Funk does not assert constitutional challenges to all of the grounds on which DEP based its decision. Funk does not contend that there is any constitutional issue in DEP's determination that her petition for ruling making could not be submitted to the EQB because it failed to sufficiently identify the types of persons, businesses and organizations impacted, as required by 25 Pa. Code § 23.1(a)(4). Her only challenge to that portion of DEP's decision is the contention that her identification of affected parties was adequate and that DEP's refusal to submit her petition for rulemaking on this basis "is arbitrary and capricious." (Petition for Review ¶28.) Funk does not contend that the EHB lacks authority to resolve this issue.
Because Funk has not exhausted her administrative remedy of appeal to the EHB, her Petition for Review must be dismissed. Faldowski, 725 A.2d at 846; Chambers Development Co., 532 A.2d at 930-31. This dismissal, however, does not prevent Funk from pursuing her constitutional arguments before the EHB and in this Court on petition for review of the EHB's decision, even if the EHB were to rule that it cannot address her constitutional challenges. 2 Pa. C.S. § 703(a) ("A party who proceeded before a Commonwealth agency under the terms of a particular statute shall not be precluded from questioning the validity of the statute in the appeal, but such party may not raise upon appeal any other question not raised before the agency (notwithstanding the fact that the agency may not be competent to resolve such question) unless allowed by the court upon due cause shown"); Chambers Development Co., 532 A.2d at 930.
For the foregoing reasons, we sustain DEP's Preliminary Objections and dismiss Funk's Petition for Review.
AND NOW, this 3rd day of July, 2013, upon consideration of Respondent's Preliminary Objections, the briefs of the parties with respect thereto, and oral argument held on May 16, 2013, it is hereby ORDERED that said Preliminary Objections are SUSTAINED. The Petition for Review is DISMISSED without prejudice to Petitioner's right to raise the issues asserted therein, including constitutional challenges, in Petitioner's pending appeal before the Environmental Hearing Board and on petition for review of any decision of the Environmental Hearing Board in that appeal.
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Love how the Tea Partiers are racist because they know a fraud when they see one. The man is half white…………..HELLO……………he is half white…………………….HELLO BLACK America. You are the ones that are racist as you have to define yourselves as "Black" Americans. I say go over the cliff. By the time the dust settles, the ones that don't work will now have to buck up to pay for themselves or find a "rich white" man/woman to continue giving them private handouts…NOT. The handouts are about to end. That is really what this fiscal cliff means. Hurray.
so we shouldnt have food stamp programs, medicare, medicaid, social security, va benefits, etc, is what your saying?
Why is okay to quote that people want free stuff and welfare? Yet when the same issue is brought up that these things are happening because of race it's being racist or a whole lot of hate? Noone in this country can accept the truth for what it is,and it is what it is. You have people who abuse the system but not everyone who needs help from the government does this. On the other hand you have persons on here cheering on the rich, who for years have paid little taxes towards the growth and revenue of this country, they have been living off the government but thats alright,they are entitled. What rich person are you going to go to (and it can happen), when you might need some assistance like your medicare or your social security these are the main entitlements they want to get rid of. Oh and the school system that all of us that are posting here are too familiar with. Are you going to be able to send your children to a private school, they may not be any better than a public school with the use of vouchers. Using the same teachers and principals that are already in the system, well this be better for your children. Not raising the minimum wage after 15 years or more. With this tactic the rich get richer, the middle class and the poor gets just that poorer.
Standard procedure. "You don't negoiate with the enemy". The President is the enemy of the Tea Party. This was their plan all along.
If President Obama offers them a deal they can't refuse then why did we vote for him and not the other candidate?
It is class warfare.It is abattle between thows who want to cut sosiol security an medicare from the people who worked for fifty years.An thows who want to support seven generations of illegitimate mothers an illegitmate kids an there baby daddys who get snap ,food stamps,medicaid an section eight housing.Now a days these illegitimate mothers are also getting all the habitat for humanity homes to.
D'Carlo…he did offer a good deal, and they don't want it…Lawrence Johnson, that is the most gross spelling and use of the English language…Did you finish school…talk about ignorant…jeezzz
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MP that was a whole lot of hate. I asked a serious question. And all you got for me was a racist rant with no solution. Thanks for nothin.
Why don't the gop offer a deal they can't refuse they won't because they are not worried about the little they are just worried about their pockets Ronald Reagan raise the ceiling 18 times and George Bush 7 times where was the tea party then they did not care we know why they are so mad now because they can't take it that a Black Man is running the USA and not one of their good ol boys pal well get over yourself and President Obama give them Hell and House speaker stay out of the bar because everytime he is on tv it look like he just came out of the bathroom drinkin and he look like he hate the president which we know deep down they do but too bad he is running your house the White House 4 more years. Go President Obama
Why doesn't President Obama just offer them a deal that they can't refuse. This way we don't go over the cliff and we can work out our differences later.


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Lead author Dr Amy Cheah says there is a growing body of evidence about the antioxidant health benefits of grape seed tannins or polyphenols as anti-inflammatory agents and, more recently, for their anti-cancer properties.
"This is the first study showing that grape seed can enhance the potency of one of the major chemotherapy drugs in its action against colon cancer cells," says Dr Cheah, researcher in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine.
"Our research also showed that in laboratory studies grape seed taken orally significantly reduced inflammation and tissue damage caused by chemotherapy in the small intestine, and had no harmful effects on non-cancerous cells. Unlike chemotherapy, grape seed appears to selectively act on cancer cells and leave healthy cells almost unaffected."
The researchers used commercially available grape seed extract, a by-product of winemaking. Tannins extracted from the grape seed were freeze-dried and powdered. The extract was tested in laboratory studies using colon cancer cells grown in culture.
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"Our experimental studies have shown that grape seed extract reduced chemotherapy-induced inflammation and damage and helped protect healthy cells in the gastrointestinal tract," says Dr Cheah. "While this effect is very promising, we were initially concerned that grape seed could reduce the effectiveness of the chemotherapy."
"In contrast, we found that grape seed extract not only aided the ability of chemotherapy to kill cancer cells, but was also more potent than the chemotherapy we tested at one concentration."
Co-author and project leader Professor Gordon Howarth says: "Grape seed is showing great potential as an anti-inflammatory treatment for a range of bowel diseases and now as a possible anti-cancer treatment. These first anti-cancer results are from cell culture and the next step will be to investigate more widely."
Fellow co-author and joint lead researcher Dr Sue Bastian, Senior Lecturer in Oenology, says: "These findings could be a boost to the wine grape industry as it value adds to what is essentially a by-product of the winemaking process."
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MICHAEL C. ANTONELLI, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT,v.THOMAS P. SULLIVAN, ET AL., DEFENDANTS-APPELLEES
Appeal from the United States Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 81 C 3820 -- Prentice H. Marshall, Judge.
Cummings, Chief Judge, and Wood and Posner, Circuit Judges.
Pro-se plaintiff-appellant Michael Antonelli was convicted of bank fraud in 1978. In July of 1980 he filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, defendant Sullivan, seeking:
a copy of all documents, knowledge, court exhibits, 3500 material whatever form it may be or have been in, which includes statements of any and all witnesses interviewed, criminal records of any witnesses used, that your department has or had in their possession in connection with criminal case # 78 CR 114 which resulted in the conviction of my person on September 15, 1978 before the Honorable Frank J. McGarr, Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
Antonelli ultimately obtained some 1750 pages of material, but defendants withheld two documents, claiming that they were exempt from disclosure under the FOIA. Plaintiff thereupon filed this lawsuit in hopes of securing the release of the two items. Shortly thereafter he filed a motion to compel filing of a Vaughn index*fn1 simultaneous with the filing of defendants' answer. That motion was denied, but was also treated as a request for a Vaughn index with no time specified, and the motion so construed was taken under advisement. The court never formally ruled on this motion.
Defendants moved for summary judgment, attaching affidavits which described one document as the internal United States Attorney's Office prosecution memorandum, and the other as a handwritten list of the trial witnesses with their home and business telephone numbers. The former was claimed to be exempt under 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(5) and the latter under 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(C). The district court granted the motion for summary judgment, and this appeal ensued. The questions raised on appeal are 1) whether the district court erred in determining that the two documents were exempt, and 2) whether the court properly ruled on the summary judgment motion without explicitly ruling on the motion to compel production of a Vaughn index.
Section (b)(5) of § 552 exempts from disclosure ". . . intra-agency memorandums or letters which would not be available by law to a party other than an agency in litigation with the agency." That is certainly an apt description of a prosecution memorandum. Section (b)(7) protects investigatory records "to the extent that the production of such records would . . . (C) constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy . . . ." Mr. Antonelli has mentioned no legitimate need for the witnesses' phone numbers, and we can well imagine the invasions of privacy that would result should he obtain them. In short, there was no abuse of discretion in the district court's conclusion that the two documents were properly withheld.
We also find no merit in Mr. Antonelli's contention that the district court improperly failed to rule on the Vaughn index question. A Vaughn index is used as a means to summarize claims of privilege concerning a large bulk of documents; it is a compromise between item-by-item description and a blanket assertion of privilege. When it became obvious to the court that the controversy concerned only two documents, both described in detail sufficient to enable the court to rule on the claimed exemptions, any need for a Vaughn index evaporated. No separate entry on the motion was required given that the decision granting summary judgment determined all issues on the merits.
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David Diggens of Hidden Norfolk gives us his Top 10 great places to see coastal wildlife in Norfolk...
Norfolk has it all when it comes to wildlife habitat. It has a wide variety of land types it has chalk rivers, ancient woodland, fertile farmland, fen, broad, and breck. A coastline that is full of variety, internationally important wetlands, marshes and sandy beaches. The shallow North Sea is a powerhouse of potential feeding for visiting mammals, fish and birds all that are interconnected in the circle of life.
The Norfolk coast is one of the major flyways for migrating birds in the spring, summer, autumn and winter. Change is the constant that provides the visitor with an opportunity to see and photograph something different in every season.
1 Blakeney Point: The gem of the north Norfolk coast, here you can see both types of European seal, the grey and the common. Take a boat ride at high tide out into Blakeney pit and you can see a wide diversity of sea birds and animals. The seals are the stars of the show and there is always something new to see. Blakeney Point is one of the most important locations for nesting Sandwich Terns in the United Kingdom, amongst them you will find Black Headed Gulls, Little and Common Terns Ringed Plover and Oyster catchers.
3 Warham Marsh: In the summer the marsh is alive with nesting waders listen for the calling redshank or look into the sky for the skylark, the brown hare will have its leverets in the long vegetation on the marsh. In the winter flocks of up to 20,000 pink footed geese can be seen at dawn and dusk along with the ever present Brent geese. Marsh and hen harriers are regular visitors to the marsh. Look carefully and you may see the peregrine falcon.
4 Cley Beach and the Reserve: The pebble beach of Cley-next-the-Sea is a great platform to see the migrants arriving, stand on the beach look out to sea and you may see flocks of summer and winter migrants making their way into the reserve or using the coast as the signpost to the breeding grounds or winter home. In Spring listen out for the booming bittern, whilst watching the waders.
5 Nar Valley Way: The Nar valley provides one of the best examples of a Norfolk chalk river - look out for wild trout catching mayflies in May and early June. Drumming snipe can be seen in the spring on the flooded meadows. Water plants and insects abound. It may not be too coastal but you will traverse some fantastic historical sights some hidden in ancient woodland.
6 Burnham Overy Sea Wall: In spring listen for the croaking of the natterjack toad, watch the display of the lapwing and if you are lucky the ritual passing of food between the Marsh harriers.
7 Morston Quay: Catch the boat to see the seals, but more importantly cross over to Blakeney Point and explore the special sand dune habitat. Make sure you take your camera at dawn and dusk.
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Last week hubby and I were watching a funny skit on Saturday Night Live that really made me laugh because I saw myself so in it so plainly. the couple was getting a divorce and they were meeting with their lawyers. They would be going at it hard, at each others' throats, when a song would start playing and they both would immediately start to dance. Nothing could stop them from dancing during that song even though they were in a public place and should have been far from a dancing attitude.
But it got me to thinking how there are certain songs that, when I hear them, I have to move–no matter that I might be in a public place. It's like when I hear them I HAVE to dance.
The one that causes the strongest compulsion is "Love Shack" by the B-52's (hence, my allusion in the title). That song hits every nerve in my system–in a good way. Even buckled into my seat belt in the car, I can manage to get in a fairly decent five-minute workout from the waist up only, of course, if I'm the one driving.
Second would be "It's Raining Men" by The Weather Girls. At the annual Harlequin bash on Friday night during the Romance Writers of America National Conference (which is coming up in San Antonio next week!), it's always one of the first songs the DJ plays and it draws every woman in the place onto the floor–quite an amazing sight! Any time I hear that song, it takes me back to those fun galas, and, no matter where I am, in my mind I'm back on the dance floor with 300 of my author sisters!
Third would have to be "Footloose" (the Kenny Loggins version). For that song alone, we had had the soundtrack to the first movie in vinyl, 8-track, cassette, and CD. It's one of the best dance songs ever, and when it's playing, I'm on the floor with Kevin Bacon with no degrees of separation!
There are others, of course, but none that grab me as hard as these three. So, am I weird? (Well, yes of course, I am. I'm a writer). Or are you like me? C'mon—confession is good for the soul. What is THE song that turns you into Jennifer Beals in Flashdance?