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[August 11, 2014]
Orbit International Corp. reports 2014 second quarter results
(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 11 August 2014 Release date- 08082014 - Orbit International Corp. (NASDAQ:ORBT) announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2014.
Second Quarter 2014 vs. Second Quarter 2013 Net sales were $5,396,000, as compared to $6,475,000.
Gross margin was 41.5%, as compared to 38.6%.
Net loss was $171,000 ($0.04 loss per share), as compared to net income of $109,000 ($0.02 per diluted share).
Net loss for the second quarter of 2014 includes $351,000 of costs associated with the completion of our consolidation of our Quakertown, PA facility into our Hauppauge, NY facility. Exclusive of these costs, net income for the second quarter was $180,000 ($0.04 per diluted share). As of June 30, 2014, substantially all consolidation related costs have been incurred.
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and stock based compensation (EBITDA, as adjusted) was a loss of $62,000 ($0.01 loss per share), as compared to earnings of $244,000 ($0.05 per diluted share).
First Half 2014 vs. First Half 2013 Net sales were $10,403,000, as compared to $12,922,000.
Gross margin was 35.9%, as compared to 38.6%.
Net loss was $1,233,000 ($0.28 loss per share), as compared to net income of $29,000 ($0.01 per diluted share).
Net loss for the first half of 2014 includes $1,079,000 of costs associated with the consolidation of our Quakertown, PA facility into our Hauppauge, NY facility. Exclusive of these costs, net loss for the first half of 2014 was $154,000 ($0.04 loss per share).
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and stock based compensation (EBITDA, as adjusted) was a loss of $823,000 ($0.19 loss per share), as compared to earnings of $303,000 ($0.07 per diluted share).
Mitchell Binder, President & Chief Executive Officer, stated, 'Our second quarter was a continuation of our efforts to restructure our business to significantly reduce our costs in order to offset difficult industry conditions. For the second quarter, our net income and EBITDA, as adjusted, improved year-over-year, exclusive of the costs associated with the completion of our consolidation of our Quakertown operations into our Hauppauge facility.' Mr. Binder added, 'Despite a reduction in sales for the quarter, we recorded gross margin improvement resulting from these cost cutting initiatives and product mix. With the completion of the consolidation of Quakertown into Hauppauge, we should further benefit from the cost savings in the second half of 2014. However, these cost savings will be partially offset by lower revenues due to challenging industry conditions and more specifically, the delay in the award of certain legacy contracts, particularly for our Electronics Group that will not have delivery schedules until 2015.' Mr. Binder continued, 'Our operating performance for the second quarter of 2014 benefitted from the improved performance of our Power Group, which was insufficient to offset the results from our Electronics Group which included the costs associated with the completion of the consolidation of our Quakertown, PA facility into our Hauppauge, NY facility. For each of the third and the fourth quarters of 2014, we expect the results from our Power Group to be comparable to the second quarter but as mentioned earlier, we expect continued weakness from our Electronics Group.' Mr. Binder added, 'Our backlog at June 30, 2014 was $8.2 million as compared to $9.6 million at March 31, 2014 due principally to a lower backlog at our Electronics Group. Our June 30, 2014 backlog for our Power Group was comparable to the backlog at March 31, 2014. However, the Company has received some significant contracts during the current third quarter and our bid and proposal pipeline continues to grow, particularly for our legacy business.' David Goldman, Chief Financial Officer, noted, 'Our financial condition remains strong. At June 30, 2014, total current assets were approximately $16.7 million versus total current liabilities of approximately $1.8 million for a 9.3 to 1 current ratio. Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities as of June 30, 2014, aggregated approximately $2.9 million.
To offset future federal and state taxes resulting from profits, we have approximately $8 million and $7 million in available federal and state net operating loss carry forwards, respectively, which should enhance future cash flow. We were in compliance with our financial covenants at June 30, 2014.' Mr. Goldman added, 'During the quarter, we continued to pay down our debt. In addition, since January 1, 2012, we have repurchased in excess of 368,000 shares of our stock in the marketplace at an average price of $3.55 per share. Our tangible book value at June 30, 2014 was $3.07 as compared to $3.09 at March 31, 2014 and $3.32 per share at December 31, 2013.' Mr. Binder concluded, 'We remain encouraged that our new VPX technologies will layer onto our existing business in our marketplace. Our industry-leading VPXtra power supplies, GUI driven health monitors as well as backplanes and related items can be found on our recently launched web portal - vmevpx.com. However, the timing of awards, particularly in this environment, remains uncertain. We remain very cautious of challenging business conditions and continue to reduce costs wherever possible in order to improve our operating margins.' Orbit International Corp., through its Electronics Group, is involved in the manufacture of customized electronic components and subsystems for military and nonmilitary government applications through its production facility in Hauppauge, New York and designs and manufactures combat systems and gun weapons systems, provides system integration and integrated logistics support and documentation control at its facility in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Power Group, through its Behlman Electronics, Inc. subsidiary, manufactures and sells high quality commercial power units, AC power sources, frequency converters, uninterruptible power supplies and inverters. The Behlman COTS division designs, manufactures and sells highly reliable power units for industrial and military applications.
Certain matters discussed in this news release and oral statements made from time to time by representatives of the Company including, statements regarding our expectations of Orbit's operating plans, deliveries under contracts and strategies generally; statements regarding our expectations of the performance of our business; expectations regarding costs and revenues, future operating results, additional orders, future business opportunities and continued growth, may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and the Federal securities laws.
Although Orbit believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that its expectations will be achieved.
Forward-looking information is subject to certain risks, trends and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Many of these factors are beyond Orbit International's ability to control or predict.
Important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially and that could impact Orbit International and the statements contained in this news release can be found in Orbit's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, annual reports on Form 10-K and its other periodic reports.
For forward-looking statements in this news release, Orbit claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Orbit assumes no obligation to update or supplement any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Contact: Orbit International Corp.
80 Cabot Court Hauppauge, NY 11788 Tel: (631) 435-8300 Fax: (631) 435-8458 (c) 2014 Electronic News Publishing -
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This first chapter is kind of slow and boring... but it is necessary so you can get somewhat of a concept of whats going on. trust me it'll be better soon. endure until then n.n
The full moon out tonight was gorgeous and bright. It was a bleach white color and was surrounded by clouds of different colors. The stars matched the radiance of the moon. They glistened so that their constellations were showing perfectly in the darkness of the sky. A few dark clouds were not far off in the distance. I was hoping they would be joining me. There was a slight cool breeze that blew bringing with it the smell of rain from far off. It was very peaceful, the wind continued to blow lightly. I let it play with my long black hair as it passed me to dance with the few leaves that were on the ground behind me. Tonight was a good night to be outside. Usually I am outside right here under this tree at night. But tonight was especially a nice night to be here. I enjoy coming out to this field because it brings back memories of my childhood and of the good times I used to have. Back when I and my brother Jason were close. You would think that identical twins would be much closer than we are.
My name is Lea Michelle Vecito. I just turned 17 on February, 21 which was about a month ago. Well my brother and I did. See I have a twin. We're twins born only 2 minutes apart. My brother Jason Michael Vecito is older by those 120 seconds. We used to be identical. Except a few years ago when we were 13 my brother's vampire blood awakened, yea he's a vampire, in fact my whole family are vampires. I apparently am the failure because I don't have vampire blood like my brother and mother and father. My brother changed drastically when his blood awakened. His appearance changed especially. His dark brown hair turned jet black and his dark blue eyes turned a dark red color. His body changed as well. Instead of the small pre-teen body I was used to he had become more masculine and had a change in attitude as well. He was colder to me. He treated me differently. We used to have this telepathy type thing were we could sense each other's emotions and know what the other was thinking. He began to block me out. I was no longer linked with him unless he allowed it. He had pushed me away and had become a completely different person.
I on the other hand stayed some what the same. Blood of mine also awakened only instead of powerful vampire blood awakening my fairy blood awakened. I went through some minor changes. My hair that was once short to my chin became long. So long that it reached my thighs. My body became more feminine (Which was both a good and a bad thing). And I changed in another way. My sense of touch changed. I felt emotions somehow when I touched certain objects. I usually try to block that out. But, sometimes it's overwhelming. I also discovered I had some sort of powers. I learned I could do some neat stuff with water, wind, plants, and also fire. I also had a change in the way I saw people. I noticed their eyes and hair first and imagined things in a unique way. Sometimes even saw visions when I shook their hands or had skin contact. It was pretty weird getting used to that sort of stuff. Makes me feel uncomfortable seeing and imagining the types of things I do. When you think fairy you think dress, slippers, wings, wand, flowers and all that stuff but I really just looked like a normal human. This in my family is considered a major disgrace.
The Vecitos come from a large line of great vampires. Strong and were feared by the others below us. My family is currently part of 5 family lines of vampires that are known sort of as royals of the vampire world. The families are powerful than the average vampire and they also had the ability to walk in the sun light during the day. Basically as Day walkers is what some call us. The families blend in more in the human world. The 5 family's role is to maintain peace between our world and the human world. Also against the werewolves and Lykens. The top of the chain is the Bencarti family, the head of their family was a vampire named Daniel and his mate Rosalind. Then was Montayez family with their head Christopher and his mate Annabella. Then it was our family the Vecito family with my father Leo and my mother Isabella. Below us are the Stephens with Dylan and Fiona being the heads. The lowest of the five are the Maldinatos with Stephan and his mate Esther. They're divided amongst North (Montayez), South (Vecito), East (Stephans) and West (Maldinatos). The top family the Bencarti to my understanding, sort of keep peace and make sure everything that needs to be done actually gets done and the human race remain clueless about the Vampire's existence and our world. Being a vampire was really important amongst these families especially mine. That's why when my brothers change occurred and mine didn't my father was furious. My 'vampire blood not awakening' ordeal became a family secret that wasn't shared with the rest of the royals. After all It would be even more a disgrace for them to know that the only daughter whom was named after the 'oh so mighty' Leo was a weakling. So the royal remained clueless that my blood didn't awaken. As far as they knew I was a vampire like the rest.
I overheard my father talking with my mother once soon after my brother's change. I was on the roof that one of my bedroom windows has access to. It was right above the kitchen and they were talking. Basically they didn't expect me to be fairy. I guess they hoped it would skip me like it did my mother and grandmothers. You see my great, great grandmother on my mother's side was a fairy too. She fell in love with a vampire [I don't know the details], as did her daughter being my grandmother and did her daughter being my mother. But then again who wouldn't fall for my dad. He was really handsome and looked 25 instead of 35. He had black hair that went to the middle of his back that he often wore in a low ponytail. Grey eyes that turned red when angry. He definitely was a vampire he was safe from mixed blood because his side were all pure. All the children born after my great, great grandmother were born with vampire blood no sign of fairy including my mother. [Just my luck that I would be the only one] My mother was surely a vampire she showed not a single sign of fairy. She had wavy black hair with big dark red eyes. She looked like she was 23 instead of 34 but she still looked like a vampire. That's why my parents were confused when instead of sprouting fangs I remained the same to them. But my mother said to my father that my vampire blood could just be dormant and, or could be awakened. It gave me some hope.
My father tried a series of tests to awaken my vampire blood but nothing worked. The last test tried giving blood to me from a lost traveler that came from the woods out back looking for directions. But I couldn't drink. I got queasy and thought I was going to throw up. My brother on the other hand had no problem going at the man's throat. Instead of having the emotionless reaction to killing like my brother I cried. That only caused my father to want to disown me even more.
Finally he just gave up. And suddenly I didn't matter anymore. Why would he need a weak fairy daughter when he had a strong vampire son? Since then I've just been living at our house basically. My parents don't really talk to me usually it's just my brother. Every so often at the table my father asks "how's school?" I always say fine and leave it at that cause I know he really doesn't give a damn what I have to say. As for my mother, she follows my father's lead. She only talks to me when she absolutely has to, and when that is it's usually simple short questions or one worded answers. I haven't completely given up hope though. I embraced my 'fairy-ness' as much as I hate to say much less comprehend that. Since no one pays attention to me really I usually go out and sit under a tree by a field close to my house and just sit by myself. Sometimes I draw or read. And sometimes I try to train myself to perfect my bizarre fairy abilities that only I know about. And other times I just relax and listen to my surroundings. Sort of a meditation especially when I'm upset or angry. I have to maintain my emotions or I'll make strange things happen. It's not really fun to be at home when no one notices you. The only one who really notices me now is my brother. Even if it's with his cold attitude or his twisted sense of humor, he still notices.
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Sprinting Past the NIMBY-Climate Impasse
Elite portions of the Bay Area (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Pleasanton, and Marin County) adopt many leading-edge green policies but stumble when it comes to accommodating regional population growth. These areas fear the impacts of growth within their own boundaries and have difficulty empathizing with regional objectives. Their plodding multi-year comprehensive plan processes yield unimaginative results hampered by small and skewed public input.
"Design sprints" (week-long intensive problem-solving and brainstorming) and high-tech participatory democracy (a la California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsome's book Citizenville) can shrink 48-month public processes down to one week, with more innovative outcomes, higher impact mitigation, richer quantitative analyses, and increased public participation, all at much lower cost.
Regional planning to protect the climate
In the past, states, regions, and cities passively experienced population growth without proactively shaping that growth. One-half of US states now have modest laws to reduce sprawl or promote infill development. The early outlier was Oregon's 1973 law, that spurred impressive results in the Portland metro area. Maryland's 1997 Smart Growth Areas Act (SGAA) spurred a wave of states to adopt regional smart growth policies, but these laws lacked an enforcement mechanism for cities. In 2011, Florida repealed their law. California may be starting another SGAA-sized wave, only this time with modest enforcement mechanisms.
In the past 20 years, California has gradually adopted commendable, if sometimes unpopular, planning policies to minimize GHG and traffic congestion. The two main planks are: 1) maximize mixed-use transit village apartments/condos (to produce one-fourth the carbon footprint and driving of single family homes), and 2) add housing where there is a jobs imbalance. Taken together, these two planks reconfigure the geometry of human settlement patterns, minimizing the distance/energy between home, work, and activities. Compared to single family homes, apartments and condos reduce "housing square footage per person," reducing household energy consumption. UC Berkeley research finds adding housing next to jobs is a very effective strategy to reduce driving.
California State Housing and Community Development Department created a process for regions to forecast population growth and allocate growth to cities. Every seven years, cities are required by law to update their Comprehensive Plans and Housing Elements to plan for that growth. Some cities view this process, the Regional Housing Needs Allocation, as a profane four-letter word: RHNA (pronounced "reena"). Local slow-growth advocates anonymously comment "RHNA is central planning authoritarianism run amok cloaked in the language of compassion" and "The next time someone calls you a NIMBY, you can call him a DUMBTWIG — Developer Undermining My Beautiful Town With Insatiable Greed."
State Senate Bill SB375 strengthened RHNA by further linking land use to climate protection. "Californians need to rethink how we design our communities." Regions must "prepare a Sustainable Communities Strategy to reduce the amount of vehicle miles traveled and to demonstrate the region's ability to attain its GHG reduction targets. Spending less time on the road is the single-most powerful way for California to reduce its carbon footprint."
Specifically for Palo Alto, Palo Alto Weekly Editor Emeritus Jay Thorwaldson wrote a 1968 article on Palo Alto's jobs/housing imbalance, with 2.4 jobs for every household in those days. Jay's comment on Palo Alto's current jobs/housing imbalance: "Well-intentioned and environmentally conscious Palo Alto has restricted housing to create a terrible environmental situation with long commutes wasting fuel. It's an insoluble situation. Long commutes damage the social fabric and create lower quality of life. Workers are forced to commute (77 miles) from Manteca, etc. Palo Alto has a drawbridge mentality. Compounding the insolubility, objections raised by neighborhood associations are legitimate."
The impasse is passionate and somewhat "religious" in nature. Both the pro regional climate protection and pro slow-growth sides perceive themselves as virtuous saviors battling the other side.
A comprehensive plan design sprint
City Comprehensive Plan updates to accommodate significant new residential growth are similar in complexity to algebraic systems of N equations (planning constraints) with N unknowns, requiring iterative calculations to generate optimized outcomes. Old-fashioned planning processes incorrectly compartmentalize analyses whereas modern processes treat planning scenarios holistically, allowing tradeoffs to be made between different planning variables. Modern processes can be characterized as "a massively parallel problem-solving supercomputer networking hundreds of human brains."
In Citizenville, Gavin Newsome draws on his frustrations from his term as San Francisco's Mayor. Within public processes, loud citizen voices drown out others. Feedback is monopolized by a small, passionate group of people with hours of free weeknight time to spend sitting through plodding public meetings. At these meetings, staff/electeds spend four times longer than normal to say half as much, in order to not to offend anyone. The views of the too-busy-to-attend silent majority are ignored in favor of more extreme views. Old-fashioned processes enable defensive, obstacle-seeking strategies, dampening problem-solving creativity.
According to Newsome, "new digital tools can dissolve political gridlock and transform democracy." These tools address complex, messy, seemingly-intractable issues and augment citizen capacity to find ways through messy situations. Rapid-fire processes break down creative barriers.
According to Google Ventures Design Staff, "design sprints" produce predictably good results for startups and new products in only one week. Such sprints also promise to revolutionize city planning processes. Envision an elite city such as Palo Alto holding an intensive sprint week with objectives: 1) Create one or more "maximally mitigated" scenarios to add 12,000 new housing units to Palo Alto's existing 27,000 by 2030. 2) Quantify impacts on city budget, school district budget, traffic, spillover parking, real-estate market segments, affordable housing, public facilities needs, infrastructure needs, quality of life, and regional GHG/VMT. 3) After exhausting all potential innovations, analyze whether the resultant numbers add up to a feasible or infeasible scenario. Determine if the region's request can be accommodated or quantify the shortfalls.
Given such objectives, a planning sprint flow is provided below:
Before the sprint: Prepare
Prime your citizenry for innovation-seeking creativity by showcasing best practices and radical new ideas from other cities. Partner with local media to spread the word. Generate buzz in advance of the sprint week.
Get the people and things you need. Assemble a sprint team composed of multiple disciplines and perspectives: City/school/regional staff, planning commissioners, academics, neighborhood association members, local architects, large real-estate interests, design professionals, etc. By far the key person is a strong facilitator who can guide the Loud Voices into productive contributions, converting their "show stopper objections" into "constraints for creative problem solving." Innovation-dampening voices (such as some City Attorneys) should not be allowed onto the team.
Develop cloud spreadsheets for sketch plan "what if" impact analysis. Share these spreadsheets with the public Newsome urges greater transparency combined with pushing data to hackers.
Develop 3D SketchUp models for quick visualization of new apartments/condos of different heights in different locations.
Mass participation
At 7PM each day of the sprint, the team should quickly "report out" results to a live video stream, soliciting mass smartphone vote-back on key issues. The daily report out shall also be packaged for 8PM to 9AM interaction featuring a youtube of the report out, a web survey for additional vote-back, and social network discussion. The discussion should require registered, real-name users and should be moderated to ensure respectful, facts-seeking discourse. A staffer shall prepare a next-day 9AM team briefing on the overnight feedback, ensuring 24 productive hours in each sprint day.
Package up the most unsolvable problems and submit to worldwide "community of practice" forums, to maximize creative solution input.
Day 1: Understand
Dig into the planning problem through staff reports, review of best practices from other cities, and team input. The first step is to get all of this latent knowledge out of people's heads and into a visual representation so everyone can understand the extent of the problem. Next, dive in and get to work. Day 1 success can be characterized as "citizens favoring slow growth agree that their concerns have been integrated as constraints-to-be-solved within the process."
Day 2: Diverge
Rapidly develop as many solutions/scenarios as possible.
Day 3: Select and Prototype
Choose the best scenarios and hammer out a "2030 resident experience" story. Build something quick and dirty that can be shown to citizens/users: A) Translate scenarios into quantified impacts that are shared via cloud spreadsheets. B) Render scenarios into 3D model birds eye views.
Day 4: Validate
Show the scenarios to folks outside of the sprint team and probe about what works and what doesn't work.
Day 5: Refine and re-validate
Week 2: Report to Planning Commission and Council
The next step
Problem-solving to address the constraints from the Loud Voices will produce transformative innovations. Such breakthroughs can only occur if an elite area agrees to undertake an innovation-seeking design sprint. Success of this planning sprint with motivate future sprints in other locations.
Crowd-sourced city planning examples
San Francisco Gray Area for the Arts' (GAFFTA) September 2012 Urban Prototyping Festival ('teams create replicable digital and physical urban interventions that explore new possibilities in public space. Every project produced is open source, publicly documented, and replicable in any city in the world.') applied the 'maker ethos' to city planning."
Using Futurescaper, a Swedish project examines important trends and issues facing the future of mobility in cities, combining social gaming with crowdsourcing to create collaborative futures scenarios.
Calculations and references
Google Ventures Design Sprint: http://www.designstaff.org/articles/product-design-sprint-2012-10-02.html
Gavin Newsome's Citizenville: http://citizenville.com/
A Guide to California's SB 375, NRDC, June 2009, 32 pages. Includes chapters on Sustainable Communities Strategy and Regional Housing Needs Allocation. http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/sb375/files/sb375.pdf
Smart growth: 1/4 the per capita energy consumption of single family homes:
A 2006 study by Robert Cervero and Michael Duncan of the University of California, Berkeley, concludes that locating housing next to jobs is the most effective strategy in reducing vehicle mileage (and generation of carbon dioxide). Their conclusions are detailed in an article, "Which Reduces Vehicle Travel More: Jobs-Housing Balance or Retail-Housing Mixing?" in the Autumn 2006 Journal of the American Planning Association.
Jerry Brown to Pleasanton: Housing and Climate Change Are Connected
Menlo Park settles housing lawsuit: City commits to updating plan, finding affordable housing sites. http://almanacnews.com/news/show_story.php?id=11251
Palo Alto Planning Commission Slams ABAG's Initial Vision Scenario of adding 12,000 new households by 2035, without empathy for regional objectives. http://paloalto.patch.com/articles/planning-commission-slams-abags-initial-vision-scenario
ClimateOne Slams Palo Alto on Housing: http://www.cities21.org/cms/index.php?page=climateone-zings-palo-alto-on-housing. Palo Alto is characterized as "murderous to future populations."
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Data Structures
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Lecture | COVL 216 T-TR 4:00-5:20 (1/4/11 - 3/10/11) | |
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Prof. Timothy A. Budd (contact info) | |
Office Hours | MWF 1:30-3:00, KEC 3049 |
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Prerequisites | CS 162, Math 231 | |
Textbook | C pocket reference course notes - you should print out the chapters portion. You can print (and do) worksheets ahead of class if you wish. |
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2. read an algorithm or program code segment that contains iterative constructs and analyze the asymptotic time complexity of the algorithm or code segment 3. state the asymptotic time complexity of the fundamental operations associated with a variety of data structures, such as vector, linked list, tree, and heap 4. recall the space utilization of common data structures in terms of the long-term storage needed to maintain the structure, as well as the short-term memory requirements of fundamental operations, such as sorting 5. design and implement general-purpose, reusable data structures that implement one or more abstractions 6. compare and contrast the operation of common data structures (such as linear structures, priority queues, tree structures, hash tables, maps, and graphs) in terms of time complexity, space utilization, and the abstract data types they implement |
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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:16 PM GMT on August 31, 2010
Powerful Category 4 Hurricane Earl is pulling away from Puerto Rico and the northern Lesser Antilles Islands, and is eyeing its next potential landfall--North Carolina's Outer Banks. Earl brought heavy rain and high winds to Puerto Rico and much of the northern Lesser Antilles yesterday, though it appears that the islands were spared major damage. One exception may be Anegada in the British Virgin Islands, population 200. The eye of Earl passed just north of Anegada at noon yesterday, and Earl's south eyewall probably brought sustained winds of 100 mph to the island. Second hardest hit was probably Anguilla. Amateur weather observer Steve Donahue at anguilla-weather.com estimated gusts of 100 mph on Anguilla; his anemometer broke at 88 mph. Winds in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands remained above tropical storm force (39 mph) for five hours yesterday afternoon, peaking at 52 mph, gusting to 62 mph, at 4:49 pm. Heavy rains hit Puerto Rico, where radar-estimated rainfall amounts of up to 5 - 7" occurred. Earl brought waves of sixteen feet to San Juan, and waves at buoy 41043 offshore of Puerto Rico reached 31 feet early this morning.
Figure 1. Morning satellite image of Earl, taken at 10:30am EDT 8/31/10. Image credit: NASA/GSFC.
Figure 2. Radar estimated rainfall for Earl from the San Juan, Puerto Rico radar. Isolated regions of 5 - 7 " of rain occurred in three locations on Puerto Rico. The rays fanning out to east from the radar location marked with a "+" are due to mountains blocking the view of the radar.
Intensity forecast for Earl
Wind shear as diagnosed by the latest SHIPS model forecast shows a moderate 10 - 20 knots of wind shear over Earl, due to upper level winds out of the southwest from a trough of low pressure to Earl's west. This moderate shear is predicted to continue through Friday, but should not appreciably affect Earl, since the hurricane is so large and strong. Ocean temperatures are a near-record 29.5 - 30°C, and very warm waters extend to great depth, resulting in a total ocean heat content favorable for intensification. Earl is undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle, which may diminish its winds by 10 -20 mph for a day or so. However, the storm will probably regain strength after completing this cycle, and it is likely Earl will be a major Category 3 or 4 hurricane at its closest approach to North Carolina Thursday night and Friday morning. By Friday night, when Earl will be making its closest approach to New England, wind shear will rise to a high 20 - 30 knots and ocean temperatures will plunge to 20°C, resulting in considerable weakening. Earl will still probably be a Category 2 hurricane on Friday night, when it could potentially make landfall in Massachusetts. Earl is more likely to be a Category 1 hurricane on Saturday morning, when it could potentially make landfall in Maine or Nova Scotia, Canada.
Figure 3. Swath of surface winds from Earl predicted by the 2am EDT Tuesday, August 31, 2010 runs of NOAA's GFDL model (left) and HWRF model (right). Hurricane force winds (yellow colors, above 64 knots) are predicted to stay off the coast. Tropical storm force winds (light green colors, above 34 knots) are predicted to affect coastal North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Eastern Maine. Winds between 58 mph - 73 mph (dark green colors) are predicted to small portions of the coast. Image credit: Morris Bender, NOAA/GFDL.
Track forecast for Earl
The latest set of computer models runs from 2am EDT (6Z) this morning push Earl's projected track a little closer to the U.S. East Coast, and we now have two of our six reliable models predicting a U.S. landfall. The latest NOGAPS run shows Earl hitting the Outer Banks of North Carolina late Thursday night, then striking Southeast Massachusetts late Friday night, and Eastern Maine on Saturday morning. The HWRF model predicts a strike on Eastern Maine Saturday morning, but keeps Earl offshore from North Carolina and Massachusetts. None of the other computer models show Earl hitting the U.S., but several models bring Earl within 100 - 200 miles of North Carolina's Outer Banks and Southeast Massachusetts. It is likely that Earl will being a 12-hour period of heavy rain and tropical storm force winds of 39+ mph to North Carolina's Outer Banks, beginning on Thursday evening. NHC is giving Cape Hatteras a 12% chance of receiving hurricane force winds. By Friday evening, western Long Island, Rhode Island, and Southeast Massachusetts can expect a 6 - 8 hour period of heavy rain and tropical storm force winds of 39+ mph. NHC is giving Nantucket a 11% chance of receiving hurricane force winds. These odds are 4% for Boston, 6% for Providence, 5% for Eastport, Maine, and 11% for Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The main determinant of whether Earl hits the U.S. or not is a strong trough of low pressure predicted to move off the U.S. East Coast Friday. This trough, if it develops as predicted, should be strong enough to recurve Earl out to sea. Keep in mind that the average error in position for a 3-day NHC forecast is 185 miles, which is about how far offshore Earl is predicted to be from Cape Hatteras three days from now. The average error in a 4-day forecast is 255 miles, which is about the distance Earl is expected to be from the coast of New England four days from now.
Regardless of Earl's exact track, the U.S. East Coast can expect a long period of high waves beginning on Thursday. Significant beach erosion and dangerous rip currents will be the rule, due to waves that will reach 10 - 15 feet in offshore waters. Waves from Hurricane Danielle killed two swimmers in the U.S. over the weekend and forced hundreds of water rescues along the U.S. East Coast. Earl's waves will be worse, and will likely cause millions of dollars in beach erosion damage.
Tropical Storm Fiona is speeding west-northwest towards Hurricane Earl, but is unlikely to bring tropical storm force winds to the Lesser Antilles. Satellite loops show that heavy thunderstorm activity has increased in some of the outer bands this morning, but remains limited near the center. Wind shear is currently moderate, 10 - 15 knots, and the main impediment to development continues to be dry air associated with the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) surrounding the storm.
Forecast for Fiona
Fiona is moving quickly to the west-northwest, at about 24 mph. This means it is catching up to Earl, which is moving at 15 mph. By tonight, Fiona will be beneath Earl's upper-level outflow channel. Strong upper-level winds from Earl's upper-level outflow and a ridge of high pressure to the northwest of Fiona will bring high levels of wind shear, 20 - 30 knots, to Fiona tonight through Friday, and probably arrest the storm's development. The scenario now called for by all the models is for Fiona to be drawn into the low pressure wake of Earl and turn to the northwest. Fiona will pass to the northeast of the Lesser Antilles, and will probably not bring tropical storm force winds to the islands. Fiona should then continue to the northwest and then turn north, passing very close to Bermuda on Saturday morning. It is possible Earl could destroy Fiona through high wind shear before Saturday.
Figure 4. Morning satellite image of Fiona. High level cirrus clouds flowing out from the center of Earl as part of its upper level outflow can be seen starting to impinge upon the western side of Fiona's circulation.
Danielle is dead
Tropical Storm Danielle has succumbed to the cold North Atlantic waters, and is no longer a tropical storm.
A new tropical wave (Invest 98L) moved off the coast of Africa yesterday, and is centered a few hundred miles south of the Cape Verdes Islands. Strong easterly winds from the African Monsoon are creating a moderate 10 - 20 knots of shear, and the disturbance is currently disorganized. A large area of dry air lies to the north and west of 98L, and this will interfere with development. The latest SHIPS model forecast predicts shear will remain moderate, 10 - 20 knots, for the next five days, and some slow development of 98L is possible as it moves westward at 15 mph. NHC is giving a 10% chance of this system developing into a tropical depression by Thursday, and none of the computer models develop it.
Figure 5. Morning satellite image of 98L.
A rare triple threat in the Western Pacific
Over in the Western Pacific, we have an unusual triple feature--three named storms all within 700 miles of each other. A 3-way interaction between these storms is occurring, making for a very tough forecast situation. The storm of most concern is Typhoon Kompasu, which hit Okinawa today as a Category 2 typhoon. Kompasu is expected to recurve northeastward and hit North Korea on Thursday as a Category 2 typhoon. It is unusual for a powerful typhoon to thread the tight Yellow Sea and hit North Korea, and I don't know how prepared they are for strong typhoons. Kompasu is expected to hit the most populous region of North Korea, but the country is pretty mountainous, and a significant storm surge disaster is probably unlikely. In the South China Sea, Tropical Storm Lionrock and Tropical Storm Namtheun are moving through the straights between Taiwan and China towards each other. Neither are predicted to develop into typhoons, but heavy rains are occurring in Guangdong and Fujian Provinces, further exacerbating the flood conditions China has suffered this summer.
Figure 6. An unusual triple feature over the Western Pacific--three simultaneous named storms all within 700 miles of each other. Image credit: NOAA/SSD.
"Hurricane Haven" airing again this afternoon
Tune into another airing of my live Internet radio show, "Hurricane Haven", at 4pm EDT today. Listeners will be able to call in and ask questions. The call in number is 415-983-2634, or you can post a question to firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include "Hurricane Haven question" in the subject line.
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Quoting StormW: That looks like a "OUCH" am I correct? |
Quoting mfaria101: Thank you.. it will. it was quite the celebration for my father.. over 700 people came to the funeral. there was a line from the church to the burial site over 2 miles long.. My daddy did everything big1 He was a singer that sang like Frank Sinatra and at the end of the ceremony we gave my father a standing ovation. it was such a cool send off! |
Just heard on one of the tv stations that earl is still moving to wnw and if it does not start moving nw bu 11:00 pm tonight that south florida could be under the gun. there is a big meeting for all counties at 11:00 pm to evalute the situation. and coming from the governors office there is a meeting tonight in regarding earl and the situation ***VOICE YOUR OPINIONS************** |
Quoting earthlydragonfly: well then you will get extra prayers ;) |
Storm i am a bit lost as to how there is no model support for 98L while with eaching passing frame the system seems to be getting better organised |
Quoting btwntx08: I am expecting them to do the same thing they did they did with Fiona ...from an invest to TS. All of them are looking at Earl now. |
Quoting reedzone: It looks better organized than Fiona. |
Dry air to hw of Earl almost looking like a weak uul feeding a lot of dry air into western side of Earl, ull seems to be drifting sw.This my be fly in the forecast ointment. Noticed ull in North Alabama moving sw doesn't appear to be to much of a trough to it's west. |
do i need to start boarding up and getting supplies ready? its looking like florida is adding to the mix now. big storm! |
Earl is still Port of track and NOT turning Fiona is PORT of track also |
Quoting earthlydragonfly: Very sorry to hear of your loss edf, Lost my dad two years ago, its takes time to recover. |
Quoting StormW: Based in your knowledge you think she can become a Hurricane by the time she get closer to us? |
Quoting ho77yw00d: LOL I responded to it and my response was eaten.. LOL. Thank you for your thoughts we are doing well and always appreciate any prayers the D'fly can get. My dad was a great man, father and inventor. |
Quoting earthlydragonfly: I am sure he will now help bring some awsome lighting for you to capture! I know I said it in my post # 550 but I will pray for you and your family! |
Quoting WarEagle8:Yah, we did that yesterday.... lol ... Currently breezing and overcast from the east here in Nassau... |
Quoting alfabob: Great Image! Awesome Power there in that loop. |
12z ECMWF is once again farther SW through 48. |
Quoting FLWeatherFreak91: It happens everytime there's a storm threatening landfall somewhere...there are those that have to second guess the data and the models...the there are those that have to jump in here and say wildly inaccurate things to be as disruptive as they can (and I think you all know who I'm talking about). In the case of Earl, he is somewhat off the forecast points from yesterday, but not enough to cause windspread panic; if you live on the coasts of North or South Carolina, the Delmarva and the rest of Virginia, the coasts of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island or Massachusetts you should be prepared to deal with whatever Earl brings you (I didn't forget Delaware ot Maryland but you guys know who you are and where you are) |
Quoting StormW: Thanks |
Quoting btwntx08: they have there hands full with Earl and Fiona is i think why. Gaston will have his turn though later. LOL |
Quoting medicroc: We had great closure!! Thanks |
Quoting TallyMike: cuz it fits with them wanting the storm to hit them |
Quoting StormW: Dads are tough losses for men... our mentors and leaders.. at least my father sure was.. thanks for the sentiments Senior Chief Caster |
interesting how the trough that is supposed to turn Earl is not looking all that strong today. |
I would give 98L a little more then just 10% lol.. it looks more like 20-30%, nice structure, and some convection deepening. |
Quoting StormW: hello Dr,Storm what about Fiona track related to us here in PR? |
Earl is looking a bit more ragged. According to the water vapor loop, much of the convection is now to the south and west of the eye. I suspect drier air. Any other thoughts as to why? |
Why do so many of the folks here say Earl is where (insert favorite storm name here) was in( insert year here) and therefore I need to panic? Although many of the models are based on historical paths, to assume it will do what another storm did just because it is in the same location ignores all the current weather patterns exerting influence on the storm...... |
Quoting TropicalNonsense: that photo almost looks like SC is saying, Hey earl we forgot to close the front door. |
yes conditions for a CAT 5 storm to develop have to be almost perfection. However Earl is already well fueled and after EWRC is complete Earl will ramp up its intensity once again as pressure drops in the eye. Be interesting to see what happens. The westerly track continues and now we begin to see the first Models showing a hit on the East Coast or a very near miss. Every hour that Earl meanders West increases the probability of a US landfall.If Earl remains SOUTH of the projected turn then the intensity increases at landfall.Time to watch cross your fingers and hope for that turn to the NORTH to happen VERY soon. |
Thanks for the concern and well wishes. Looks like I will be able to keep some windows open and turn off the fan. ;) CRS |
Quoting CaneWarning:As I happen to live in FL, I have to take issue with that last bit. Can't really see it happening though. |
watch and wait game is on for east coast. |
Quoting earthlydragonfly: Sorry to hear. My dad passed about a year ago, I thank God I had him so long. |


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It was a hot mess.
GRIII got Kaminsky'd, transition D was bad again, 3-pointers are raining on us...what was the most terrifying part about thing that was'ed at Crisler on Sunday?
Secondary question (optional): diaper bags. Is it true you need to buy a bag specifically for diapers? Is it important that it have a cooler? Why not a backpack? Why not my Jansport backpack from college? What's so damn important about Diaper bags that you need to shell out $150 at Buy Buy Baby for a satchel with lots of compartments?
Mathlete: I have so many answers for you about diaper bags and so few as to what happened at Crisler Sunday.
We've run the gamut. Started with a giant piece of luggage. Ditched that for a second piece of luggage and since have gradually gone smaller and smaller. We finally settled on the smallest possible container that can hold about 3 diapers, a package of wipes and a thing or two of baby food/snacks/apple sauce. I don't know if you could go straight to this, you have to go through The Process of using a big bag to truly appreciate how little you need.
The Skip Hop Versa transition bag clings to your stroller and prevents the little one from escaping when your back is turned. |
As to basketball, this is a young finesse team. A game like Sunday was bound to happen. They can't consistently lock down on defense enough to stop the big runs. They are 89th in kenpom defense, the worst of the top 25. Only Duke and Creighton are above 45 and both of those teams are head and shoulders the best two offensive teams in the country. When you get in a hole and don't have a high likelihood of getting consistent stops in the future, that puts a lot of pressure on a team without a Trey Burke. Last year Burke was the singular talent who could impose his will regardless of setting. Michigan doesn't have that this year. Stauskas had his run but has been brought down to earth (nothing another year or two in college won't help!).
With all that said, this team hasn't rolled over. They cut the lead on Sunday to 3, won at Breslin in a game that never felt like theirs until the very end. The team is definitely incomplete and the Iowa and the Wisconsin games were as bad as they've looked in Big Ten play. With that said, better to have the vulnerabilities identified now as opposed to a month from now. With the make-up of this team, anything will be possible come March. Their offensive prowess and the Beilein touch could push them into another Final Four or their youth and lax defense could be a formula for an early exit. As frustrating as the recent losses have been, the Big Ten title can be all but clinched a week from today.
[a Wisconsin player is now standing beneath you.]
This Week's Obsession: Free Stauskas
I pose the questions for these things on Monday nights or Tuesday mornings, so I was taking a guess that Ohio State would sic Craft on Michigan's alpha dog. He was surprisingly efficient but the question remains relevant:
We are now alarmed. What are teams doing to shut down Stauskas, and what can Michigan do to counter it?
BiSB: Like Seth, I was assuming Craft would be able to lock up Stauskas. Boy, are my cheeks red.
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The Stauskas shackles are complicated but revolve around the same principle: put a little guy in his face who can shadow him. Stauskas isn't extraordinarily quick, so if you get a Ferrell/Craft type who can get over every screen and stick with him through curls and such, you can deny him good looks. Moreover, if they do that, bigs can sag off a bit, and as a result the pick-and-roll game has sputtered.
There are a number of theoretical options to Liberate the Stauskas, but I'm not the Xs and Os expert. Ideally you'd see more back-cuts to take advantage of the overplays, but for one reason or another those haven't been there. They can also try to find ways to take advantage of the size mismatch, but Stauskas hasn't really demonstrated much of a post game.
This nearly got the cat called for a moving pick. |
So that leaves stuff like off-the-ball down-screens that see Stauskas take a Family Circus-like route to a catch-and-shoot. Stauskas can also generate his own pull-up 3s on occasion, which are both fun and profitable. Basically, we might need to add a "Nik Stauskas is probably Rip Hamilton" tag to the site. That might breathe new life into the Not Just A Shooter debate, but even if he is Just A Shooter sometimes, that's okay because he's still a really really good shooter. Also, Ferrell notwithstanding, chasing Nik in circles all game will take a toll on a guy on the offensive end; Craft had to rotate off of Stauskas a couple of times, and by the end of the game he wasn't even strong enough to shoot a basketball all the way to the hoop from 22 feet.
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Nebraska Bullets
2/5/2014 – Michigan 79, Nebraska 50 – 17-5, 9-1 Big Ten
A demolition that was into Kenpom time as fast as any game I've ever seen, so straight to various things about various things. Highlights:
So that's what it's like when the other team is like "take my threes, please." Generally, basketball teams playing Michigan make it a huge priority to limit open three point attempts. This is because Michigan shoots a lot of them (almost 40% of their FGAs) and is quite good at knocking them down—25th nationally. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't, but everyone really tries to limit Michigan from long range.
For whatever reason, Increasingly Dangerous (At Least At Home) Nebraska™ decided against that. Michigan launched a whopping 31 threes—60% of their shots—and until things got sloppy late just about every one was a great look. Some of this was transition hurting Nebraska's ability to contest, and some of it was what looked like an ill-advised reaction to Michigan's pick and roll game where Nebraska bigs would hedge super-aggressively, forcing wing defenders to dip their toes into the paint to compensate. The ensuing passes beat Nebraska's rotation on almost every possession, and the threes rained in. Serendipitously, Luke Winn's latest power rankings address the adjustment Nebraska made to neutralize Stauskas at the expense of a billion wide open threes:
Thus assists. Michigan assisted on 21 of their 26 makes.
And thus Irvin. This was an Irvin game what with all the open looks, and Irvin took advantage with three consecutive threes in the first half, including a heat check that got a friendly roll off the front iron. He even took a couple dribbles(!) and made a couple of twos.
He is very much Just A Shooter right now, as he didn't add anything other than buckets to his stat line until after halftime and even then the only things tacked on were three rebounds and a foul. He is an endpoint for possessions only. His statistical profile is instantly familiar to anyone who's previewed a bunch of basketball teams using Kenpom as a crutch: miniscule assist, TO, and FT rates of 5.6, and 9.8 and 6.2, respectively, bunch of threes, few twos: corner gunner, corner gunner, corner gunner.
And he might stay this way. By this time last year we'd applied "Game, blouses" to Stauskas. He was getting to the bucket with some regularity. Just look at the FTAs: Stauskas had 87 last year; Irvin currently has 8. Even if his role is to be that gunner, previous editions of guys in that role have shown more diversity than Irvin is right now.
This is completely fine. If Irvin just turns into Bruce Bowen, that's a nice thing to have on your team, and Walton and LeVert can drive play even in the worst case NBA pillage scenario.
Michigan is considerably more diverse from three than other teams with noted bombers. Via Luke Winn.
Not just a shoot—wait is he even shooting? Nine points on just three shots for Stauskas looks like a bit of a crisis even if that's really six shot equivalents with Stauskas going 6/6 from the line, but in this one Stauskas effectively found shots for other guys (eight assists) much like Trey Burke did in the first half of the Kansas game last March.
Four TOs is a bit steep, especially since he had another four in Michigan's previous home game against Purdue. Seems like teams are more cognizant of Stauskas's playmaking ability and are trying to jam passing lanes when he drives.They're trying to play him like Wisconsin plays everyone: two point jumpers for you.
LeVert had a similar issue or two on drives where the shot looked like the right move but his assumption was that someone was coming over; he got away with a couple deflections on passes that should have been shots.
With the way they're calling charges now, once either guy turns the corner they should be more aggressive, especially since picking up an offensive foul hardly sentences either to foul trouble 99% of the time.
Almost there. Michigan needs Caris LeVert to hit like 2/3 in Michigan's next game and have their other five guys hold serve, and then they will have six(!) guys hitting 40% from three. Robinson, at 29%, is the only guy on the roster who takes threes that are not obviously a great idea.
Walton has been crazy efficient in Big Ten play. [Fuller]
Quantifying Walton's improvement. At Michigan's 6-4 trough I noted that Michigan wasn't getting much out of either freshman and that turning that around was a major season key. Remember the brief period where people were wondering if Spike should be starting? It was around then.
Since, Irvin has established himself a shooter you have to reckon with; meanwhile, Derrick Walton has become a consistent double-digit scorer. He's doing this with much better efficiency. He went from bad 99 ORTG to 108 in the course of 12 games. While he is still the lowest-rated guy on the team in that stat, that's because Michigan's offense is bonkers. On a lot of teams—good teams, even—that's your #2 or #3 guy.
In Big Ten play, Walton's 18/31 from two and 12/23 from 3, a 66% eFG% that would place him third(!) nationally if that was his whole season. As it is he's now around 200th in both that stat and True Shooting %, which folds in free throws. Only Stauskas and the posts flushing excellent passes are above him in that department. The main thing holding him back is a TO rate that's a bit high for what you'd want, but a high TO rate for in a young guard is generally regarded a good sign as long as the rest of his game is solid.
Walton made a midseason leap; while he's still a complementary piece he's doing things that bode well for the immediate and long-term future.
Petteway could not get to the bucket like he did in the first game [Fuller]
Hey: defense. Michigan finally had a legit good all-around defensive game, holding Nebraska to 0.79 points a possession and 0.63 in the competitive section of the game. Terran Petteway entered the game the leading scorer in the Big Ten, scoring at least 15 in every conference outing and barely removed from a 35-point demolition of Minnesota. He ended up 2/10 from the floor and acquired five points, with four turnovers and one assist. That is locking a guy up.
Oddly, Nebraska did not do much of the pick and roll action that Petteway thrived on in the first matchup. Michigan was highly unlikely to provide the soft hedge they did in that game, but even so you'd think they'd poke around with the same thing that gave Michigan fits a month ago. Nope.
Our walk-ons need to get it together. In a game with some rich trillion possibilities, no one came through. Sean Lonergan and Andrew Dakich both turned the ball over; Brad Anlauf had a third TO and a couple of fouls. Cumong, men.
FWIW, Michigan's 13 TOs seems high for them but three of them came from the walk-on crew in the final four minutes, so ten over 36 isn't bad.
How did Walter Pitchford escape? The Nebraska big man seems like a great fit for Michigan what with his three point shooting (37%) and all-around offensive skill. He is also from Grand Rapids. He was a DePaul commit who opened it up when the coach there got fired and ended up signing with Florida after committing in April. Meanwhile, Michigan was in the process of adding a late signee in 6'6" PF/C Max Bielfeldt, who seemed like a bit of a weird fit then and is getting scant minutes now. A rare recruiting goof from this staff.
Spike Albrecht turnover watch. Albrecht's lone Big Ten turnover remains the held ball against Michigan State where he tried to call timeout for about ten seconds without actually getting one. In conference play his assist to turnover ratio is… 22.
Michigan's offense continues to terrorize, seems to be wearing opponents down one by one
"We did score 75?" Stauskas responded. "Well ... we've been doing a good job on offense. "What can I say?"
Unverified Voracity Sows Chaos, Reaps The Wildcat
Important (not important). This is a frog.
I have been exhorted to call this MGoFrog and make it a thing. I'm afraid that by doing so I will give Adidas an idea for a Michigan uniform, unfortunately.
Important (important). Will Heininger features in an Outside The Lines article on mental health issues for athletes:
"I had emotional pain that was overwhelming; I would wake up, and from morning until I feel asleep -- when I was able sleep -- I had troubling thoughts that were utterly consuming," said the 2011 Michigan honors graduate. "Not a minute would go by in a day, without my depression on my mind … this, this felt impossible."
One of the things CAPA is fighting for is better treatment for these sorts of issues; read the whole thing. Both of the whole things.
"Please enjoy this punch in the nuts." –DJ Newbill
CHAOS! Did you happen to watch the rote blowouts in the Big Ten last night? You did not, because Ohio State and Wisconsin lost to Penn State and Northwestern, respectively. At home. As our own BISB said:
Michigan and Michigan State are like two dudes in a hot air balloon over Pompeii right now.
— Bry Mac (@Bry_Mac) January 30, 2014
Yes. They're trying to push each other into the lava, but yes. Or Adam Jacobi:
The Big Ten Is Full of Blood and Spiders
Jacboi has a nice table that indicates the upcoming "no days off in the Big Ten"/"this conference is so deep" announcer memes are in fact on point:
Year | Conf. Rating | Rank | Avg. B1G | Worst Team | Rating |
2003 | .7688 | 5 | No. 56 | Penn State | 210 |
2004 | .7520 | 5 | No. 62 | Penn State | 218 |
2005 | .7862 | 3 | No. 47 | Penn State | 215 |
2006 | .7831 | 4 | No. 54 | Purdue | 152 |
2007 | .8058 | 4 | No. 51 | Minnesota | 170 |
2008 | .7625 | 5 | No. 65 | Northwestern | 192 |
2009 | .8144 | 5 | No. 46 | Indiana | 209 |
2010 | .7851 | 4 | No. 60 | Indiana | 198 |
2011 | .8527 | 1 | No. 31 | Iowa | 92 |
2012 | .8263 | 1 | No. 32 | Nebraska | 150 |
2013 | .8459 | 1 | No. 34 | Penn State | 148 |
2014 | .8310 | 1 | No. 42 | Northwestern | 118 |
The closest thing to an easy out is the Northwestern team that is a half-game out of a first round bye in the Big Ten tourney; there's not even a last year's Penn State to kick around. There's a last year's Penn State plus Tim Frazier. See cliff above.
This is good and bad for Michigan. In the Kenpom world it's good since Michigan's beaten PSU handily and has yet to play OSU, but in the NCAA seeding world you get more credit for beating 6-seed OSU and terrible PSU than you get for beating 10-seed OSU and mediocre PSU. Neither of these effects are huge, so the correct reaction is probably just to point and laugh*. (And fume at how bad Big Ten refs are.)
*[But probably not at Aaron Craft. He got crossed over for the game winner, which was Newbill rushing a wrist-flick shot because Craft was coming. Meanwhile, Tim Frazier's statline: 8 points on 9 shot attempts, 7 assists, 6 TO. No offense to Derrick Walton, but put Craft on this Michigan team and they are a juggernaut. I shouldn't have mentioned this.]
Bill Carmody: gone, but not forgotten
The Wildcat conundrum. Meanwhile, we've been talking about how fascinating Northwestern is on the podcast for the last couple weeks. And boy, aren't they? Last year they were extremely bad, around 140th on both sides of the ball. The Wildcats then:
- fired Bill Carmody
- hired Chris Collins
- graduated two low-usage, mediocre efficiency seniors
- graduated a high usage, low efficiency senior
- got Drew Crawford back
- added a pretty terrible offensive player in freshman Sanjay Lumpkin, who they play starter's minutes
For some reason, the result is a massively unbalanced version of the team they were last year. Northwestern is 11th(!!!) in defensive efficiency on Kenpom for no discernable reason whatsoever. They have plummeted to 320th on offense. Their games are incredibly watchable for unwatchable games, because you're always trying to unravel the mystery of why the Wildcats are elite on defense. It makes no sense. No sense at all. Here's John Gasaway trying to figure it out.
Meanwhile, Northwestern is a half-game out of a first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament and that gets BIG TENNNN, right? I think that's a BIG TENNNN.
By the way. Michigan shot 63% from two against the Wildcats and averaged 1.21 points per possession, and Alex Olah—Gasaway's best guess as to why NW is playing so much better D—was on the court for 30 minutes.
Recruiting battles past. OSU has a couple of guys on their team that Michigan pursued, and it's interesting to see their development. Or lack thereof, as the case may be.
Michigan stopped recruiting Amadeo Della Valle so they could go after Caris LeVert, who was right under OSU's nose. OSU grabs ADV; Michigan gets LeVert. In year two, Della Valle is a very poor man's LeVert: a skinny shooting guard with some ability to drive, but one who's only getting 30% of OSU's minutes as they struggle to generate anything on offense. LeVert generates a lot of assists; ADV is generating few. Hell, LeVert has replaced about 95% of Tim Hardaway's production a year after Michigan was trying to redshirt him.
The context of the team is important, but it seems like that Michigan made the right choice on that one.
The other guy on the OSU roster Michigan was involved with is Amir Williams, OSU's mercurial center. Williams has oven mitts for hands and gets pulled on the regular despite OSU's near total lack of post players to replace him with; he has seemingly not improved one whit from the absentminded freshman I remember from two years ago. Michigan was never really a consideration for Williams, but it's kind of amazing that OSU would probably trade him for Jordan Morgan without blinking.
Either way. In yesterday's post on Northwestern's prospective union I mentioned that the NLRB had flipped back and forth on the issue of student-employees being able to organize based on assertions from a 2006 paper. In that paper the most recent ruling had gone against the students trying to organize. Well, that has again flipped:
"There's case law for the NLRB involving teaching assistants which supports their position," Baum said. "There have been different decisions both ways. What they're saying is that this really is a form of litigation to bring about change because they're asking for something very similar."
In December 2013, the American Arbitration Association announced that graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University had officially unionized. The group is the only graduate assistants' union at a private university in the U.S.
Demonstrating the volatility of the NLRB, graduate assistants at NYU were granted the ability to negotiate a union contract and both improved health benefits and increased stipends in 2000. But in 2005 the ruling was switched following a case involving Brown graduate assistants in which the NLRB ruled that graduate assistants are students, not employees, and therefore cannot unionize.
The recent overturn of the 2005 ruling, though, is an encouraging sign for the newly formed CAPA.
One gets the sense that the NLRB tends to blow whichever way the White House does. In CAPA's case there seems to be no way to put the cat back in the bag if Northwestern does indeed get certified, so now is as good a time to strike as any.
Typical. FERPA means whatever Universities want it to mean, so the university says they will not release any details about Brendan Gibbons. This is in line with the university's general stance on releasing information—don't do it, because we have to cover our ass. Suspicious in most cases, here it verges on appalling given the fact that FERPA specifically states this:
The text of FERPA notes that the law shouldn't "be construed to prohibit an institution of postsecondary education from disclosing the final results of any disciplinary proceeding conducted by such institution against a student who is an alleged perpetrator of any crime of violence … or a nonforcible sex offense, if the institution determines as a result of that disciplinary proceeding that the student committed a violation of the institution's rules or policies with respect to such crime or offense."
With lurid conspiracy theories flying back and forth, everyone would be better off if Michigan came forth and showed everyone exactly what happened to expel a student four years after the incident that got him expelled transpired. This is not an athletic department thing, but rather a larger pattern of CYA secrecy that's beneath the university. Or at least should be.
Etc.: Spilly's quest for balls. Death to the neutral site game. Penn State is discounting season tickets for recent grads. Men's basketball standings. Michigan gets a 2016 D commit.


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Their shedding is [nothing like] the shedding of a German Shepherd Dog or Labrador Retriever, agrees Betty Ginsberg of Sahnsirai Keeshonden in Philadelphia, Penn., who's also an AKC judge. Those smooth-coated breeds shed smaller amounts regularly, while a Keeshond blows coat (sheds its entire undercoat) only twice a year. However, the Keeshond coat does need frequent grooming during the rest of the year.
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