Mrs. Frances Woodruff, (pictured, right) presented a book to the Winston County Library recently, on behalf of the Winston Guards, United Daughters of the Confederacy. The book is The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi by Timothy B. Smith. Louisville and Winston County are mentioned quite a bit in the book. Also in the photo is Senior Library Clerk Denise Dickerson, who is mentioned in the acknowledgements of the book for all the help she gave the author during his research for the book.


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Elevating geosciences in the southeastern US: New ideas about old terranes
2014 GSA Southeastern Section Meeting
Geological Society of America
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Geoscientists from across the southeastern U.S. and beyond will convene at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, on 10-11 April 2014 to discuss new science, expand on existing science, and explore the geologic wonders of the region. Organizers have developed a technical program and field trips that cover a diverse set of geologic topics and processes, including seismology; Cenozoic volcanism; Paleozoic sedimentation, magmatism, and metamorphism; surface and groundwater processes; and Paleozoic and Mesozoic geobiology.
Topics of interest on Thursday include the 2011 Virginia earthquake, the effects of coal mining activities on human health and community well-being, and hydrocarbon recovery via fracking. Friday sessions include a look at the hidden gems of geological collections and museums in the southeastern U.S. and an examination of water quality issues in the region.
In celebration of the geologic diversity of the region, organizers of this meeting have published a field guide, Elevating Geoscience in the Southeastern United States. Edited by Christopher M. (Chuck) Bailey of the College of William and Mary and Lorrie V. Coiner of the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals & Energy, this volume includes 10 field trips that explore the southern and central Appalachians. Three chapters focus on the geology of the Appalachian Plateau and Valley and Ridge, considering such topics as the enigmatic Eocene igneous rocks, the gas-rich Marcellus and Millboro shales, and new models for karst formation. The 2011 magnitude 5.8 Virginia earthquake, which literally shook up geologists' understanding of the Piedmont, is covered in two field-trip guides that focus on new research in the epicentral region. Other guides take in the Paleozoic to Proterozoic geology of the Blue Ridge province and focus on Mesozoic geology, including the world-class Lagerstätte fauna in the Dan River basin, a unique uranium deposit at Coles Hill, Virginia, and the tectonics of the Scottsville Basin.
Selected Highlights of the Scientific Program
The scientific program is composed of oral and poster presentations organized into 17 themed sessions plus an array of research in general discipline areas. Go to http://www.geosociety.org/Sections/se/2014mtg/techprog.htm to learn more.
Lessons Learned from the 2011 Virginia Earthquake
J. Wright Horton Jr. of the U.S. Geological Survey, Martin Chapman of Virginia Tech, and Russell Green of Virginia Tech., presiding, 8 a.m. to noon (session 3).
Abstracts: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Session34558.html
Paper 3-1 (8 a.m.): Geologic, seismologic, and engineering lessons learned from the 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake.
Lead author J. Wright Horton Jr. of the U.S. Geological Survey: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper237012.html.
Evaluating Dust Contaminant Exposure and Impact on Human Health and Community Well-Being Associated with Coal Mining Activities
Nicholas Basta of Ohio State University, John R. Craynon of Virginia Tech, Nancy E. Johnson of Kentucky College of Public Health, J. Buchanich of the University of Pittsburgh, E. Talbott of the University of Pittsburgh, Vladislav Kecojevic, of West Virginia University, Braden Lusk, of the University of Kentucky, Susan L. Meacham of Virginia Tech, and Michael E. Karmis of Virginia Tech, presiding, 8 a.m. to noon (session 5).
Paper 5-5 (9:20 a.m.): Use of national air toxics assessment data to evaluate dust and volatile organic exposures in coal and non-coal mining communities of West Virginia: A preliminary study.
Lead author: Evelyn O. Talbott of the University of Pittsburg: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper237492.html.
Hydrocarbon Recovery using Fracking Technologies
John Chermak, Virginia Tech, presiding, 1 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. (session 14).
Paper 14-4 (2 p.m.): The critical role of local and regional water supply planning for enhanced unconventional shale gas recovery.
Lead author: Carrie N. Blankenship of Draper Aden Associates: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper236877.html.
FRIDAY, 11 APRIL
Hidden Gems: Geological Collections and Museums in the Southeastern U.S.
Jim Beard of the Virginia Museum of Natural History, Llyn Sharp of the Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences, and Sarah Timm of the Virginia Museum of Natural History, presiding, 8 a.m. to noon (session 27).
Paper 27-5: Paleontology in the digital age: Digitizing Triassic insects from Solite Quarry, VA.
Lead author: Christina J. Byrd of the Virginia Museum of Natural History: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper236869.html.
Water Quality Issues in the Southeast U.S.
Vijay Vulava of the College of Charleston and Madeline Schreiber of Virginia Tech, presiding, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (session 39).
Paper 39-5: Occurrence of ethylene dibromide (EDB), dibromochloropropane (DBCP), other volatile organic compounds, and radium in groundwater from the upper coastal plain aquifers near McBee, South Carolina.
Lead author: James E. Landmeyer of the U.S. Geological Survey: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/Paper237143.html.
View the complete session schedule by day or search the program by keywords at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2014SE/webprogram/start.html. Click on session titles for a list of presentations, and click on presentations for the individual abstracts.
Find complete meeting information at http://www.geosociety.org/Sections/se/2014mtg/index.htm.
Find local contact information at http://www.geosociety.org/Sections/se/2014mtg/contact.htm.
Eligibility for media registration is as follows:
Working press representing bona fide, recognized news media with a press card, letter or business card from the publication.
Freelance science writers, presenting a current membership card from NASW, ISWA, regional affiliates of NASW, ISWA, CSWA, ACS, ABSW, EUSJA, or evidence of work pertaining to science published in 2013 or 2014.
PIOs of scientific societies, educational institutions, and government agencies.
Present media credentials to William Cox onsite at the GSA registration desk to obtain a badge for media access. Complimentary meeting registration covers attendance at all technical sessions and access to the exhibit hall. Journalists and PIOs must pay regular fees for paid luncheons and any short courses or field trips in which they participate. Representatives of the business side of news media, publishing houses, and for-profit corporations must register at the main registration desk and pay the appropriate fees.
For additional information and assistance, contact Christa Stratton, GSA Director of Communications, at the address above.
http://www.geosociety.org
The Geological Society of America, founded in 1888, is a scientific society with more than 26,000 members from academia, government, and industry in more than 100 countries. Through its meetings, publications, and programs, GSA enhances the professional growth of its members and promotes the geosciences in the service of humankind. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, GSA encourages cooperative research among earth, life, planetary, and social scientists, fosters public dialogue on geoscience issues, and supports all levels of earth science education.
Christa Stratton
cstratton@geosociety.org
@geosociety
2014 Geological Society of America Southeastern Section Meeting
GEOPHYSICS/GRAVITY
HYDROLOGY/WATER RESOURCES
The physiology of survival TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH (TUM)
A new level of smart industrial robots control and management reached at FEFU FAR EASTERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Harvesting energy from the human knee AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS

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Will a Windows client be available on release?
Hello chaps! I'm really keen to get me some ethereum client so I can play around with how it works, and after release, to get mining. The problem is that I am not a member of the 'advanced technical audience' and so compiling builds etc is outside of my ability. I also don't have OSX or Ubuntu. Will the Windows client be available for me to use by the time of release?
It's because OS X is in the large group of Unix-like OSes (which also includes Linux, the BSD's, and a host of others).
I think PoC 6 has a windows installer if I'm not mistaken. I haven't tried the client yet.
Yes, we are aiming to release Windows client binaries for v1, assuming we don't face show stopping bugs.
Thanks for your response Stephen! Still on track for release next month!?
(3) Unzip the 7zip file into a new directory, and run alethzero.exe !!
@Atomrigs much appreciated. Works like a charm.
We're targeting to release binaries for all major desktop OSs. Because of the similarity between Unix/Linux and Mac, this is relatively simple to achieve on these two. The biggest difficulty comes in when producing a build for Windows clients because of inherent differences between the platforms.
That being said, our automated build servers are continually being updated to ensure that can build for all major platforms in as many implementations as possible (primarily C++ and Go).
As a contributor to the Go codebase (which includes the Mist browser), I can tell you that our biggest issue on Windows is with code we don't control--the underlying graphics libraries provided by Qt. We're very close to ironing out all the problems and actually can produce Windows builds, but there's a nasty bug causing it to crash when run. Once this is overcome, you should see more consistent Windows builds of the Mist browser.
@tgerring windows QT is such a mess. I found it hard to work with.
When attempting to run alethzero.exe , it is complaining about a missing "libmicrohttpd-dll.dll is missing..."
I faced the same problem as above + another one missing dll : libiconv-2.dll. Here how I fixed these : 1) download windows library from http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/, 2) rename the dll called "libmicrohttpd-10.dll" in "libmicrohttpd-dll.dll" 3) copy the dll to the AlethZero directory. 4) download windows bin from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/ , 5) rename libiconv2.dll to libiconv-2.dll 6) copy-paste the dll to AlethZero. And run AlethZero Hope these helps.
EDIT : It seems AlethZero doesn't work properly using the aforementioned method, i have noticed that we can find also the libiconv-2 dll directly here (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libmicrohttpd/libmicrohttpd-0.9.35-w32.zip -not in the download link of the front page) but still it doesnt succeed to connect to internet. Finally i have decided to download and install a Linux Virtual Machine as explained here (http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1634/tutorial-1-your-first-contract#latest) , it'll be safer (but longer^^).
@mtbx I am also having the problem with missing libmicrohttpd-dll.dll. Where should I place the downloaded library?


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Imagine how much easier it would be to raise kids if you didn't have to feed them? You could blissfully go about your day without having to purée anything or push green beans on anyone. You wouldn't have to water down juice, cool off oatmeal, or pick the raisins out of raisin bread. And you wouldn't have to wipe down a highchair, your kitchen floor, and possibly the walls 3-5 times a day!
Feeding your baby is hard enough without adding more work by making your own baby food, right? I mean, isn't that what prepackaged meals are for? Well, just like every other aspect of parenting, I changed my tune on this once I had a baby of my own. And just like every other aspect of parenting, there are pros and cons to making your own baby food.
It's simple. We're talking about pureeing a sweet potato, not making Coq au Vin. Steaming, mashing, blending — that's as complicated as baby food needs to be. No spices, complicated ingredients or garnishes necessary.
It's time-consuming. Yes, it does take more time to wash, peel, steam, and mash some carrots than to pop open a jar. But I know some parents who make a whole bunch of pureed carrots at once, then froze them in ice cube trays for individual servings they can thaw in a jiffy. I was never that organized.
It's cheaper. I decided to buy only organic baby food with my second child and let me tell you, that stuff does not come cheap. Plus, it would irk me to look at the ingredients and see that half the jar was water.
It's not as convenient. Popping a few sealed, no-refrigeration-required jars or pouches of baby food into your diaper bag is way easier, not to mention neater, than packaging and toting your own.
It's healthier. Store-bought baby food has additives and preservatives and sometimes food coloring to make it appealing and shelf-stable, unlike food you prepare yourself. When you go straight from the farmer's market to your kitchen, you know what your baby's eating.
Of course, there's no law saying it's got to be all or nothing. I ended up making most of my baby food and using the store-bought stuff when we were on the go. Or when I was too busy cleaning steamed carrots off the ceiling.
Do you make your own baby food? Why or why not?


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Time to identify domestic enemies
Pulwama terror attack is one of the deadliest assaults on Indian soldiers in Kashmir since 1989, writes Mithun Dey
Mithun Dey
The Pulwama terror incident plunges the nation into grief. Tears rolled down and emotions flooded the air as 'Bharat Mata' bid valediction to those brave sons who left their motherland abruptly. On the other, it was an incredibly proud moment that no Indian will forget. Disgracefully, it was just like a cowardly sucker punch attack on Indian paramilitary personnel and consequently, 40 CRPF jawans were martyred and around 20 others badly injured on February 14.
On the other, the world was busy with Valentine's Day celebration. The Pulwama terror attack is one of the deadliest assaults on Indian soldiers in Kashmir since the Kashmiri insurgency has been conflicted between Kashmiri separatists and Indian Government in 1989.
Enough is enough. Over the past three decades, J&K, Indian jawans, Kashmiri Pandits and every common people belongs to Kashmir have witnessed various journeys through conflict such as exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, Amarnath land issue in 2008, 2010 Kashmir unrest, 2014 Kashmir Valley attacks, 2016 Uri attack and now the Pulwama terror attack.
Firstly, our NDA government needs to identify the domestic enemies and must give barbaric form of punishment that they couldn't forget. Such people are mainly convicted of treason, I do believe. The terror strike in Pulwama on National Highway 44 that earlier passed through residential areas that invited militants an advantage.
However, a new highway has come out but extremists preferred such a stretch which is very close to a residential area. Domestic enemies should learn about patriotism and they need to go through the lives of our great Heroes who sacrificed their lives for our motherland. Let think of it that our armed forces defend solely the nation's peace and security with their might but no one protects our guardian.
The Governor rule is apparently not applicable for the state of J&K. As per a survey report, nearly 50 militant attacks have been taken place in J&K in just one month. During Governor's rule, several cases of "Kanni Jung" incidents that means fighting with stones by mobs has been appeared and have killed a number of tourists and Indian soldiers. The government of India must think of the President's Rule under Article 356 that should be imposed right away.
Today, Indian political instability has been bad for common people, India's economy and the future of the nation. Indeed, politics and religion should not be reconciled in single window. India ranked fourth in the world for religious intolerance that makes God little and intolerant. It appears to be getting dirtier and unfair day after day. Public consciousness is must in all respects. One vote that we make can either break the nation or make it. Let's forget the politics and its vote in the name of caste, creed and religion.
Modi has made over the state J&K into a conflict resolution that might have more lasting impact on the future of the country. The government should not form a fault line by grouping the state on the basis of religion. I do think that the NDA government is so weak that it has absolutely failed in defending India's soldiers, borders and in checking terrorism dominated in J&K and evidently coming from Pakistan during its five year tenure. Pakistan premier Imran Khan wanted to peace talk with the PM Narendra Modi. But later in January this year, Imran Khan blamed PM Modi for violence in Kashmir.
It was believed that the project to regulate the relationship between the two nations. But all these are just a political dialogue and nothing else. Modi is the first Prime Minister to visit Pakistan for bilateral dialogue in 2015 but it was stalled since Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Pakistan based terrorist group attack on Indian air base in 2016. Both India and Pak have agreed to build a corridor that joins Sikh shrines from the Indian city of Dera Baba Nanak to the Pakistani town of Kartarpur, allowing Sikhs to travel to places of worship across the border without a visa. As a result, India received the tragic terror attack in Pulwama.
Now what India urgently needs is that Jaise-e-Mohammad (JeM) terrorist group that claims responsible for the attack should be banned at once. This time no surgical strike but open attack is to be required for and India needs to isolate Pakistan completely. The government of India should stop water supply from Punjab to Pakistan since Punjab is one of the most fertile lands of Pakistan's all provinces. Consequently, Pakistan might face a significant civil war in near future if our government taps the water of the three eastern rivers. The government of India should withdraw the most favored nation trade status, all sorts of business partnerships, and communications with Pakistan to ensure the complete severance from International community of Pakistan.
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Gift Jokes
Three sons left home, went out into the business world and all prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother.
The first said, "I built a big house for our mother." The second said, "I sent her a Lexus with a driver." The third smiled and said, "I've got you both beat. You know how much Mom enjoys reading the Bible? And you know she can't see very well. So I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the enti...
An angel appears in a puff of smoke to a man and says to him, "Because you have lived a good and virtuous life, I can offer you a gift: you can be the most handsome man in the world, or you can have infinite wisdom, or you can have limitless wealth." Reflecting, the man says, "I'll take the wisdom"
"Wisdom is yours," says the angel, disappearing in another puff.
The smoke is barely clear before the man thinks, "I should have taken the money."
A sales representative stops at a small manufacturing plant. He presents a box of cigars to the manager as a gift.
"No, thanks" says the plant manager. "I tried smoking a cigar once, but I didn't like it".
The sales rep shows his display case and then, hoping to clinch a sale, offers to take the manager out for a round of drinks.
"No, thanks" the plant manager replies. "You know, I tried alcohol on...
My sister got a fucking Cadillac on her birthday and all I got was an Amazon gift card.
It's fucking unfair, now I have to wait until my own birthday to get a good present.
My parents' Christmas gift for me.
When Christmas day arrived, I was so excited to open my gifts that I woke up before my alarm. I went down stairs and opened a thin, rectangular box. It was a book! The title read, Anti-gravity. I read that book the whole day as I couldn't put it down.
What's the best gift a parent can give their child?
I sent my ex-girlfriend a gift basket of food
Via FedEx.
Rich people start their meals by saying "Bless us oh Lord for these thine gifts..."
Poor people say "Ramen."
I dressed up as a gifted kid for Halloween.
When my neighbors asked what I was supposed to be, I sadly replied, "I was supposed to be a lot of things..."
Here's a classic jewish joke.
A mother brings her son two new ties as a birthday gift for her adult son. Later, in the evening the two meet for dinner and the son is wearing one of the ties. His mother takes one look at him and says, "You didn't like the other tie?"
I want a chicken as my cake day gift
but a cock will do will do
In a city park stood two naked statues, a male and a female. They faced each other for many years. One morning an angel appeared and said, "Since you have brought joy to so many people, I am giving you your greatest wish. I hereby give you the gift of life. You have 30 minutes to do as you desire."
And with that command the statues came to life, smiled at each other, ran toward some nearby woods and dove behind a couple of bushes.
The angel smiled to himself as he listened to the two statues giggling, bushes rustling and twigs snapping. After 15 minutes, the two statues emerged from the...
A man asks a farmer if he can work for a night's lodging and a meal.
Farmer gets a knock on his door, it's a man in his mid-thirties who looks like he's been traveling a while. The man asks if he could earn a meal and a place to stay for the night.
"Do you have any skills?" The farmer asks.
"Well, I do have a rare gift -- I can communicate with animals....
*trust me its too long to be worth reading.*
A young man wanted to purchase a gift for his new sweetheart's birthday, and as they had not been dating very long, after careful consideration, he decided a pair of gloves would strike the right note romantic, but not too personal. Accompanied by...
Alcohol is a gift
That's why it's called depressant
Why do Chinese people love IPhones and Apple products?
Because the greatest gifts are the ones your children made.
(inspired by u/lorenzomofo 's comment on a
r/nextfuckinglevel post)
Women always say they want a gift that comes from the heart...
But if you give them blood they freak out.
What did the disappointed mozart-fan infant say when he opened his gift?
Baby got Bach
My best friend Emily and her girlfriend Sarah gifted me a Rolex.
Really appreciate the present but not what I meant when I said I wanna watch
The poor man asks the rich man, "What are you getting your wife this Christmas?" The rich man replies, "Diamond earrings and a Mercedes." The poor man asks, "Why are you getting her two gifts?" The rich man says, "Well, if she doesn't like the earrings then she can drive to the store and exchange th...
A father in Iraq gifted his daughter a new bag.
The girl replied: Thanks for the Baghdad
I made a virtual bubble wrap to keep you all busy during quarantine. There might be some irregular bubbles, but that is normal.
>!pop!< >!pop!< >!pop!< >!pop!< >!pop!< >!pop!< >!pop!< >!Nev!< >!er !< >!Gon!< >!na !< >!Giv!< >!ve !< >!You!< >!Up,!< >!Nev!< >!er !< >!Gon!< >!na !< >!Let!< >!You!< >...
Father's Day gift joke!!
What do you call a dog that can do magic tricks?
A labracadabrador!!
I wanted to give my brother a gift for his 40th birthday that says "It's all downhill from here."
He told me not to, he already has a picture of me.
The perfect gift for her? Let her come home to candles leading up to the bedroom, let her open the door to find you lying completely naked on a rose-petal covered bed, and let her hear those three magic words...
'welcome home grandma'
A young woman visits a florist to buy some flowers for her mother.
As she's perusing, she notices the most gorgeous rose she's ever seen sitting next to the cashier, and asks for its price.
"Oh, sorry," the cashier replies. "That one's not for sale. I got that as a gift from a fellow florist for hooking him up with a woman I met yesterday."
"Yesterday...
Little Johnny and the teacher's gift
On the last day of kindergarten, all the children brought presents for their teacher.
The florist's son handed the teacher a gift. She shook it, held it up and said, "I bet I know what it is - it's some flowers!"
"That's right!" shouted the little boy.
Then the candy store ow...
For her birthday, the only gift I got my wife is an alarm clock that swears at her instead of beeping.
She's in for a rude awakening.
My girlfriend and I just had an argument about posting our sextape, from start to finish online.
Is it pronounced Jif (like peanutbutter) or Gif (like gift)?
My AA sponsor said coke & hookers are not an appropriate Birthday gift..
So i took my business elsewhere!
Star Trek fans always expect a gift when going to a convention
They call it the enter prize.
It was George the Mailman's last day on the job after 35 years of carrying the mail through all kinds of weather to the same neighborhood. When he arrived at the first house on his route, he was greeted by the whole family who congratulated him and sent him on his way with a tidy gift envelope.
At the second house, they presented him with a box of fine cigars. The folks at the third house handed him a selection of terrific fishing lures.
At the fourth house, he was met at the door by a strikingly beautiful blonde woman in a revealing negligee. She took him by the hand, gent...
Once upon a time, in the magical fantasy kingdom, there lived a young monk named Sam.
His order was renowned for their beautiful choral singing. They trained, hours every day, refining their voices and their art. Their song floated down the mountainside, enriching the lives and souls of the townspeople below.
Sam was particularly gifted, and on his 19th birthday, in mid-song, ...
A man going on a business trip visits a witch doctor for his wife
He explains to the witch doctor that his wife has a very high sex drive and he wants to make sure she can satisfy herself while hes gone. No ordinary item will do.
The witch doctor nods and says "I have just the right thing." And he pulls out a box. "This is a voodoo dick. It is quite easy to...
I'm selling Amazon gift codes on eBay.
If anyone's interested, they are in a mint condition and only used once.
Wedding anniversary gifts can be pricey: 5 year celebration gift is Silverware, 15 years are Rubies and Pearls are 30. Now, at 31 years there is finally one I can get behind,
we're going to Baskin-Robbins.
The Queen of England had a gift for a man who would soon be knighted. She insisted that he be given the gift at the ceremony but told her staff to keep it a secret.
She wanted it to be a Sir Prize.
Bob was in big trouble......
He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was really angry. She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE!"
The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife woke up, she looked out the ...
God has two last gifts to hand out to Adam and Eve.
"The first gift I have is the ability to pee while standing up." God says
"Please Lord, let me have this gift. It will be so much easier for me to take care of the animals, and tend the fields, without having to sit down to pee. My darling Eve, please let me have this amazing gift." Adam begg...
What did the man with no hands get for his christmas gift?
Gloves. Just Joking.
He still hasn't opened the gift.
Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife
Very Long Read:
Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.
A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this:
Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversa...
Japanese ninjas were historically required to wrap any gifts in the same cloth they used to cover their faces
They had to mask their presents
I Recently I received a parrot as a gift.
The parrot had a bad attitude and an even worse vocabulary. Every word out of the bird's mouth was rude, obnoxious and laced with profanity.
I tried and tried to change the bird's attitude by consistently saying only polite words, playing soft music and anything else I could think of to "clea...
Hillary Clinton goes to a gifted-student primary school in New York to talk about the world.
After her talk she offers to answer questions from the kids.
One little boy puts up his hand. Hillary asks him what his name is.
"Kenny," he says.
"And what is your question, Kenny?" she asks.
"I have four questions," he says.
"First -- what happened in Benghazi? Seco...
A priest and nun are traveling through the desert when their camel suddenly dies
They are stranded there distraught and sure to die. Finally the priest looks at the nun and says,
"Sister, I have to be honest with you, being a man of God I have never looked upon the body of a naked woman and, as we are sure to die, I would like to see one before I go."
The nun looks...
Billy's birthday gift
Little Billy just turned 8. His parents went all out for the party. They rented a bounce house. The cake was three layers. They even hired the best clown in the state. All of Billy's friends from school were there, even some of the older cool kids made it. At the end of the party, when everyone left...
A rabbi is planning on retiring.
A rabbi is planning on retiring. Over the years he's saved up all the foreskins from all the circumcisions he's taken part in and he decides to take them to the local leatherworker. The rabbi explains that he'd like to have a retirement gift made out of the foreskins and the leatherworker agrees a...
I once opened a gift shop on an ice-burg..
It went into liquidation
A man had 3 girlfriends but did not know which one to marry.
As a test, he decided to give each one 5000$ to see how they would spend it.
The first one went and got herself a complete makover and told him, i made myself pretty with the money for you because i love you so much
The second one went and bought him new golf him new golf clubs, clothe...
The only two white actors in Black Panther are Martin Freeman, who played Bilbo Baggins, and Andy Serkis who played Gollum.
They're the Tolkien white guys.
Edit: Swigity Swoo, I got a silver from you?
Edit: Golly Gee, a gold for me?
Edit: Boo hoo, a baby snoo too?
Edit: Cowabunga Grift, I got a coin gift!
Edit: Beagle pup, here comes a bless up!
A former student of a Geology professor at a major University returned one day to give the professor a gift of a unique soil sample he had collected from a river while on a trip....
To which the professor replied, "I appreciate the sediment"
A young man is finally about to leave for college
His things are all packed up and he is at the door.
"Father, i'm about to leave." He said.
"Son, im so proud of you. I wanted to give you a little gift before you go." His father said emotionally.
He reached out and hands him car keys.
"I want you to take the family car a...
Why is a broken drum the best gift?
It can't be beat
My girlfriend said that if I bought her one more stupid gift she would burn it,
So I bought her a Candle
The Mind Reader
The weather was very hot and a man wanted desperately to take a dive in a nearby lake. He didn't bring his swimming trunks, but who cared? He was all alone. So he undressed and got into the water.
After some delightful minutes of cool swimming, he got out of the water and noticed two old ladi...
What part of a contract entitles you to free gifts?
The Santa Clause.
A man needs to leave for lengthy a business trip, but his wife is saddened by this
She explains to him that if he isn't home every night, there will be no way to satisfy herself if she feels horny. The man claims that she doesn't need sex, because a dildo should work just fine. He quickly runs to the local gift shop and asks the cashier if the store carries anything really special...
The Lord said to John "Come forth and recieve eternal life"
But John came in fifth and won a Best Buy gift card.
Late katherine Johnson was such a gifted Mathematician
That when she died at age 101 she was in her prime.
A rich man and a poor man are talking when the poor man says to the rich man, "My wife's birthday is this week and I don't know what to get her. What did you get your wife for her birthday?"
The rich man says, "I got her a diamond necklace and a Mercedes"
When the poor man asks why he ...
Why so many gifts on the Ellen show?
For the name of the host is Ellen the Generous
Why does Santa Claus always carry that big bag of gifts?
That's just how he presents himself.
Today was my birthday and my parents gave me a whistle as a gift...
Oh man!!! this thing blows
P.s. : excuse my English, not my first language
Another Parrot
A society woman is given a parrot as a gift. She quickly teaches the parrot to announce the various guests who arrive at her many parties. As Mr. and Mrs. Smith arrive, the parrot would say, "Introducing Mr. and Mrs. Smith." As Mr. and Mrs. Jones arrived, the parrot would say, "Introducing Mr. and M...
People tend to give teddy bears as gifts for Valentine's Day.
The standard teddy or panda bears seem popular this year. I've got my girlfriend a koala bear because she loves them.
Plus, I don't know a better way to tell her that I've got chlymidia.
This Valentine's Day, I'm sending telepathic gifts.
Because it's the thought that counts.
Wife: are you serious? This is your wedding gift for our 30 year marrige?
Me over walkie tolkie: you didnt say over.over.
Dad, what was the best birthday gift mom ever gave you?
\- It was you, my son.
\- But dad I wasn't born on your birthday, my birthday is exactly 3 months before yours.
\- Exactly
One night as santa was doing his usual job of putting gifts under the Christmas tree a kid woke up and asked Santa
"Santa? Why are your sacks so big?"
"Because i come once a year"
Four dads are arguing, each dad claims to have the best son in the world.
The first dad says, "My son is the best because he is so rich, I only gave him a small loan of a million dollars and he ended up making four billion dollars from his multi-billion dollar hotel business. He has even appeared on many TV shows. He is so successful that he was elected to lead a country....
I have a friend who is gifted at building enclosures for horses...
He's known as the "stable genius".
Heard this one on the sopranos today.
A rich guy and a poor guy have their wedding anniversary on the same day. They meet each other at the shopping complex.
The poor guy asks the rich guy "what'd you get for your wife today?"
The rich guy replies " I got her a diamond ring and a mercedes"
The poor guy asks "Why did you get tw...
Brooks Brothers just filed for bankruptcy
so now I might never be able to use this $50 gift card on one sock.
Tom absolutely loves tractors
A little boy named Tom was approaching his 3rd birthday, and absolutely adored the show "Tractor Tom", partially because of his name being spoken, and partially because he loved tractors.
As the day drew nearer, his parents decided to buy him a toy tractor as a gift. The rest of his toys wer...
What does getting a Christmas gift and having a kid have in common?
It's usually way more fun to play with the box it came in.
I just recieved the worst gift of all time...
.. A Bonnie Tyler sat nav. Keeps on telling me to "turn around"
And every now and then it falls apart.
Still, not as bad as the U2 one, where the streets have no names, and I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
What do you call it when Santa doesn't bring you any gifts?
On his 74th birthday, a man got a gift certificate from his wife.
The certificate paid for a visit to a herbalist living nearby, who was rumoured to have a wonderful cure for erectile dysfunction.
After some discussion with his wife, the man made a visit to the herbalist and handed his voucher over wondering what he was in for. The elderly herbalist handed ...
My mom told me about how Santa's job is to give me a gift once a year and then not come back again for another year
I was just wondering why my dad changed his name to Santa
My dad gave me a Walmart gift card for my birthday
Then he said "Don't spend it in one place."
That's how the fight got started...
My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed.
I turned to her and said, 'Do you want to have Sex?'
'No,' she answered.
I then said, 'Is that your final answer?'
... She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying, 'Yes..'
So I ...
A dad brings his son to the top of a mountain
- Son. Here are my gifts for you.
Shall this hound protect you from any danger...
And just the sound that this staff makes against the ground will make anyone standing on you path step aside...
Also... when I die, everything you can see from here... will be yours.
- I'm b...
People say to me Jesus was not Jewish
## I say of-course he was Jewish
* 30 years old, Single, Living at home with his parents
* Working in his father's business
* His mother thought he was God's gift
## He's Jewish. Give it up
*by Robin Williams*
Happy Birthday Robin!
My friend moved to a new house recently, so I bought him a housewarming gift.
It was a radiator.
A woman walks into a local book shop
She wants to read a classic, and is excited to find a copy of Jane Eyre. When she goes to pay, the owner tells her, "I'm so sorry, that wasn't supposed to be for sale. I mean to gift it to my daughter."
She goes to find another book and come across a collection of Shakespeare plays. She goes ...
Why does santa give bad gifts to naughty kids?
Because he's not coal with them.
A man decides he's going to travel the world and preach the word of God...
In his travels he comes across a tribe. The chief can speak English and so they take him in, give him food, water and shelter and in the morning he asks that they gather to hear what he has to say.
"So", says the man "let me tell you the story of Jesus Christ." And he tells the story of Jesus...
My Kids are buying me gifts for Father's day,
Hope I can afford it.
Pet birds are the hot Christmas gift this year
They are flying off the shelves
Santa.
I'm a judge. I strive to bring justice and make things fair.
I realised recently that Santa always gives others gifts but he gets nothing in return.
So next Christmas I gave him a couple years in jail for mutliple cases of breaking and entering.
Matt's wife has been dropping hints about her birthday gift for weeks.
Now, on the day before, Matt asks, "So what do you think you're getting for your birthday?"
His wife responds, "All I know is that it better be in the driveway and it better go from zero to 200 in under six seconds."
"Oh, it will," Matt responds, "and it does."
So, John received a parrot, as a gift.
Now this parrot was the rudest, noisiest, most foul mouthed parrot you can imagine. Every other word out of this parrot's beak was profanity, and strings of filthy insults - absolutely appalling behaviour!
Well, over the course of the next week, John tried speaking to it softy and calmly, pl...
"Don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
- Trojan wall guards, probably.
I am gifting you a Microsoft office license for your birthday
I give you my word.
By the way, did you keep the receipt for this one? I'd like an exchange.
Jesus writes a letter to the three wise men years later, and thanks them for the gifts they gave him.
"Hello Wise Men,
Thanks for the Frankincense, first wise man, I will make great use of it, perhaps not now, but far later in life. As for you, second wise man, I am very pleased with the Myrrh, it smells lovely and I have been scenting my house with it. However, third wise man, I am travel weary ...
So, two ladies ditch their husbands for a ladies night out on a Friday night and they go do whatever middle-aged women think is cool to do on a Friday night. One thing leads to another and these two ladies have drunk a little bit too much and decide to head home and sleep it off. So they're driving ...
Did you hear about George Clooney?
George Clooney called 14 of his closest friends and said "Hey, mark Sept 27th, 2013, on your calendar. Everyone's going to come to my house for dinner."
The 14 friends belonged to varying economic backgrounds. One of them was married to Cindy Crawford while another was riding his bicycle on h...
A man was invited to a wedding...
A man was invited to a wedding. When he reached the hotel, he found two doors written on them:
1. Bride's relatives
2. Groom's relatives
He entered the groom's door and found two doors again:
1. Ladies
2. Men
He entered the men's door and found two doors again:<...
Birthday gift mother in law
My mother in law asked for her birthday ' something for in bath'. Too bad she didn't like my toaster...
My friend and his girlfriend loved sexting, so I bought him a gift so they could always stay in contact.
In hindsight her funeral probably wasn't the best time to give him the Ouija Board.
Him: Dude, what gift should i give to a girl that has a meaning?
Me: A dictionary.
Two Statues
For decades, two heroic statues, one male and one female, faced each other in a city park until one day, an angel came down from heaven. "You've been such exemplary statues," the angel said, "that I'm going to give you a special gift. I'm going to bring you both to life for thirty minutes, during wh...
My mom told me this joke
Donald and Tommy walk into a wedding.
Everyone brings amazing gifts for the couple.
Donald brings a peanut as his gift.
The couple finds this offensive and decides to shove the peanut up Donald's ass.
But then Donald starts laughing.
The couple asks him why he is d...
Three Gifts from God
God is so kind, and he gives Americans three gifts honesty, intelligence, and Donald Trump.
He doesn't want to see Americans become too greedy, so each person can only choose two gifts.
If a person chooses honesty and Trump, then he will not be an intelligent person.
If a person...
Two nuns were walking home one night down a very dark street.
One nun was called Sister Mathematical because of her gift for numbers and the other nun was called Sister Logical because of her gift for reasoning. They soon noticed that a man was following them. They would speed up, and he would speed up. They would stop, and he would stop. Sister Mathematical s...
Wife: I am going to London, what gift do you want?
Husband: One British girl.
*wife returns from London*
Husband: Where is my gift?
Wife: Wait for 9 months.
What do you call gift-wrapped marijuana?
Pretty dope.
A married couple was in a terrible accident where the woman's face was severely burned. The doctor told the husband that they couldn't graft any skin from her body because she was too skinny, so the husband offered to donate some of his own skin. However, the only skin on his body that the doctor fe...
An elderly religious woman receives an 80 year old parrot as a gift but it has the worst language.
It goes through every possible cuss word every day and night. She talks to a friend that tells her about a bird whisperer. She meets with him and he tells her to leave the parrot with him for one week.
When he brings the bird back she notices a string tied to each leg and asks about them. The ma...
What do you say when someone who's Double Jointed uses their gift to win a boxing match?
Weird flex but K.O.
I was devastated when my wife left me, but she gave me a gift that I'll always carry with me...
Herpes.
A zoo just had several break-ins and many animals are now running around loose in the park. In today's meeting however, management was only concerned about discussing changes to the gift shop.
I'm not sure why we're not addressing the elephant in the room.
My friend handed me a gift right before he passed away.
What the hell am I supposed to do with an EpiPen?
The lion decided to invite everyone to his birthday party. But, him being the king, he ordered everybody to bring him meat as a present, or else he will hit them with his massive dong. And soon, the day came and all the animals lined up infront of the lion's cave with their presents.
The Wolf wanted to gift the King lamb, the fox had a chicken, the leopard an antilope, and so on...The lion greeted all of his guests and welcomed them to the party. Suddenly, the rabbit stood infront of him with a carrot. All guests went silent. The lion looked him in the eyes and said: " You know...
Why did Mary turn down more gifts from the three wise men, after the first three?
Because it was myrrh, then enough.
Bovine Economics
Basic Economics, brought up to date...
\*\*SOCIALISM\*\*
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbor.
The government charges a gift tax.
\*\*COMMUNISM\*\*
My cousin is a super hairy dude,
We used to nickname him Cousin "It" affectionately.
I remember chatting to him in our freshmen year trying to figure out what our dreams and aspirations were. Cousin It was a weird dude, he didn't really fit in most circles! He was always super quiet and didn't stand out much.
He was hell...
Fresh out of gift ideas, a man buys his mother-in-law a large plot in an expensive cemetery. On her next birthday, he buys her nothing, so she phones him, furious.
"What are you complaining about?" he fires back. "You still haven't used the present I gave you last year."
What do Canadians say when exchanging gifts?
Just giver
gift cardgift exchangegift shop
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Yesterday, I talked about the poor performance this basketball season and put the onus on Jack Swarbrick and Mike Brey to do something about it. Not 24 hours later, we have our first indication of Brey's attitude about next season, and frankly, it doesn't inspire confidence.
In interviews following the first-round ACC Tournament loss to Wake Forest, Brey was quoted as saying, "Nine league wins would be heaven next year". If he's to be taken at his word, he expects a .500 in-conference record next season to be a top-quality result for his team.
Sorry, but that doesn't work for me. And I suspect it's not going to work for (what is turning into a dwindling number of) ND basketball fans either.
Regardless of sport, I expect a Notre Dame coach to push his or her charges to their utmost. As the old saying goes, aim for great and you'll at least get good. I believe in setting high expectations as a rule, and MB's statement here falls well short of that standard. If he thinks his players or the fans will get fired up over a nine-win ACC season, he's got another think coming.
In a response to the BGI season review, Lou Somogyi points out you can make a statement like the one Brey made two times in your career: (1) when you're just starting out and "underpromise and overdeliver" can benefit you, and (2) when you're already a legend and it's written off as gamesmanship. In neither of those cases, though, does the coach making the quote actually believe what he's saying. He's expecting to do better and saying what he's saying for another purpose.
The trouble here is, I think MB actually believes nine ACC wins next year would be an achievement. If that's the case, well, we got trouble in River City, because as I said, I don't believe that and I doubt many of my fellow hoops fans do either.
The Battle of ND Basketball these days is one of expectations. Unlike in football, the people in charge of delivering the results have different criteria of evaluating those results than do their "customers". Based on Brey's comments, it's reasonable to guess that disconnect flows from Fr. Jenkins' and Jack Swarbrick's offices all the way down the food chain to the staff.
Given that calcification, I've been (and remain) reluctant to spend any political capital trying to effect change. When people with juice are interested in the results, as we saw in football, pushing things like the Call for Change — a project that started via real-life connections between people and not message board flotsam — has the potential to move the needle, however small that movement. My efforts a few years ago to do something similar for basketball, however, had a much lower success rate, particularly when people felt their participation might affect their football ticket access. So my desire to burn the time and calories to try again is at rather a low ebb.
But perhaps feelings are different now. Perhaps if people stop bloviating on message boards and start writing letters to the people on the BOT entrusted with this program, the juicy people will start to get involved. Perhaps if alumni and season ticket holders show up at ND Night Q&A's armed with intelligent questions about the lack of quality men's basketball at ND rather than vapid "how does the defensive backfield look this year" queries, the administration will start feeling some pressure. Perhaps if people are willing to hold back their donations and convince their friends to do likewise, ticket lottery be damned, the issues might start getting some attention in wider circles. Perhaps if Jack and Mike walk into Purcell Pavilion during the meat of the conference season and see scores of empty seats, the message might start to get through.
Well-written wakeup call to the Powers.
Coach Brey & Muffet aren't being given a level-playing field with competitors(practice facility).
They were seeing scores of empty seats during the meat of the conference season this past season and no one seemed worried. Also, I am quite sure the place had plenty of empty seats in the 12-13 season during the meat of the conference season. Fans and students are tired of a team that only plays on one of the end of the court and the March results are like the movie Groundhog Day. This season we had a twist that March results were also seen in Jan and Feb (and to be honest it was not looking real promising in Nov and Dec with Grant- the HC losses, the Iowa matador defense game, the OSU choke, and close HC wins versus bad to decent mid-majors).
Most fans understand the limitations with facilities/admission/university support- but they still want to see a team with toughness and an edge to compete hard every game. These comments about stealing wins and 9-9 being heaven is a losers mentality. Most fans are ready for ND to roll the dice with a coaching change. Even with ND's limitations there are plenty of mid-major candidates who would welcome the challenge to coach at ND (and in the ACC versus coaching legends) and many of these have credentials on par with what Brey had pre-ND. I can guarantee you none of them would take the job and talk about 9-9 being heaven, or stealing wins, or we tried everything we could to get them play better defense (winner coaches never say that- they say we as coaches we did not do enough to improve defense- those type of comments border on throwing the players under the bus). Practices should (at times) be a war and make the games seem easy and PT should not be guaranteed to anyone and we all know that is not the case. That is one of the downsides with a "Players Coach". There needs to be a balance of a PC and a taskmaster for College hoop players.
It is interesting in the season where ND lost Abro, everyone was gushing about the job that Brey did. In this season, everyone seemed to be making excuses for him. That's called having it both ways- kind of like Digger who would always pump his chest out on graduation levels, but was quick to say Ellis being academically ineligible was all on him not taking care of business. This just in- it is tough to win any games when your defense is historically bad and near the worst of any team in the 6-7 major conferences.
I really hope you mean this tone, because it would be a welcome change from the scare tactics by several on NDN that if a coaching change was made ND would go back to BB W-L records in the 90's which in fairness is not an apples to apples comparison to now- especially with respect to ND being in an independent wasteland when JMac took the job. Brey was far from a sure thing when he was hired and while he has made ND BB much more relevant than they were in the 90's (which frankly was almost impossible not to do) it seems clear we have seen his ceiling after 14 years. His ceiling is nice regular seasons when there is not a ton of pressure (and you can win some big games with 40% or higher trey shooting or if your home court opppenent is not totally focused) and then looking lost/overwhelmed in the NCAAT with mid-majors or majors who beat ND like a rag doll).
The best talent as far as NBA drafts/career success with ND players in the Brey era were with players he did not recruit. Is the program right now in better shape with respect to what he inherited? I think we all know that answer now with 9-9 next season being Heaven.
One other comment on what Johnny Mac inherited- Digger in his recruiting laziness left JM 9 players in the frosh-soph class that had recruting rankings at or below those of Matt Farrell and Austin Torres. Digger left him 9 mid-major playes, with the best being Billy Taylor and Lamarr Justice.
If ND had a new coach in 14-15 he would not inherit 9 players such as those with 3-4 years eligibility remaining.
It's time Muffet takes over the men's program. Brey has had more than enough time.
Mike, I completely disagree. Every year my roomies and I rent a house in SB and get together for a Football Game. We do not make the effort to come across the country for a weekend of men's bball, women's bball, soccer, hockey, lacrosse, fencing etc etc etc etc even though all of those have done extremely well. Bottom line, don't compare football to the other sports. Mike Brey is a good man and a good coach and he kept us very competitive in a conference that for a few years was arguably the toughest conference in the land. I would go so far as to say that for some years we enhanced the Big East. Let's remember what ND really stands for and maybe put our energies into finding a guy with Brey's spirit and integrity to work the sidelines on football Saturdays.
2 NCAA wins in the last 10 years versus #12 seed George Mason and #15 seed Akron.
I am a bit surprised at how low some of you have set expectations for the basketball program. I understand that ND is a football school first, but NCAA basketball is a completely different dynamic. 68 teams essentially have a shot at the championship, and major conference schools have ample opportunity to qualify. Every year we hear that, "This is the softest bubble ever." Praising Brey for consistently getting a 6/7 seed and flaming out in the first round is an amazingly low bar for a major university's program.
We hear this this all time about the respect Brey has from his peers- well I don't quite understand how Brey "being respected by his peers" has anything to do with anything. I'm sure Fred Hoiberg respects Brey. But he also had no problem curb stomping ND with a #10 seed Iowa St.
Notre Dame got drilled by a lower-seeded Iowa St. Completely outclassed.
They gave away a double digit second half lead with a bad loss to a really, really average and lower-seeded, Xavier and threw away a great opportunity to advance to the S16 since Lehigh upset Duke.
They got punked as a #2 by #10 Florida St. That game was never close.
They had an absolutely brutal loss to #11 Old Dominion.
Washington St. completely outclassed them in a #4/#5 match-up.
ND trailed by twenty points to #11 seed, and powerhouse, Winthrop, before bailing out in the first round.
That's the ceiling? That's the "consistency," as you guys pointed out, that some fans under-appreciate? Notre Dame was able to secure one of the 68 spots in the NCAA tournament, and then flame out quickly? Geez. Are some of you guys missing the Matt LoVecchio Era, too?
Also, this just in: Brey doesn't get to feast on South Florida and DePaul 3-4x a year anymore.
I can appreciate your frustration, I also suffered watching those crushing losses to seemingly inferior programs. Let me just say that at Duke the admissions criteria and support system for the basketball program is significantly different than for athletes in other sports at that school. I know firsthand. Winning is not everything, and I do not see how we will ever get the athletes needed to go deep in the tourney. Go Irish!
Football is king at ND and always will be, I get that. But there is no reason ND men's basketball should not be able to finish above .500 in the ACC, a league not nearly as good as the depleted Big East used to be. And there were times in the 1970's and 80's when men's basketball was nearly on par with the football program. I like Mike Brey, but unless he can convince better student athletes to come to ND, he's right, 9-9 in the ACC is about as good as he's going to produce.
Too many times ND BB has fallen short. Brey is a good guy and competent coach but ND needs more if it wants more.
If anyone wants to understand how far the men's basketball program has fallen, watch the ESPN special "88-1." Not just a wonderful memory of a great game but also of a time when, if only for a week, Notre Dame was No. 1 in both football and basketball. We can do better. And we don't need new facilities – that's just an excuse for settling for mediocrity. Better coaching and recruits can be had with what we have. There are no good excuses for what is happening in men's basketball. The women's team, which is so much fun to watch – especially this season, didn't aim for a .500 record in the ACC. I don't remember in my days at ND any coach or team being content with being average. The passion for winning was best expressed by the comment an upperclassman made to me when I was a freshman – Notre Dame never losses, it only runs out of time every now and then. Arrogant? Of course. But it showed a belief that even in a loss, the teams always stepped away believing they should have won. Would like to see the men's basketball team get back to what Digger put on the floor. Who would have thought that a football school like Notre Dame could break the longest winning streak of all time in men's basketball? The same people who saw their school, with an average team, break Oklahoma's winning streak in football. It takes belief and coaching. Not sure I see that in the men's basketball team.
Really- 40 years ago. Different time and era. Being an independent made sense in the 70's to early 80's and ND was able to be in the rotation of teams that had televised games and back in that era there were about 12 teams- now every major conference team has there games televised because of cable.
Comparing now to that era is apples to oranges, just like comparing ND mens BB to the ND womens team. IMO the mens team can do better than they are with Brey but there is no way (unless some major changes are made with Univ support) that the mens team can every approach the golden era with Digger or what we see now with the womens team.
Wow, all it took was one poor regular season for the boo birds to rear their ugly heads. The assumption–and let's be clear it's just that–one could get in Mike Brey's head and interpret his words after a difficult season and know the intent behind his words is a little arrogant. Instead of interpreting his words, let's look at the results. The guy has earned some credit in my trust bank. Yes, this season was horrible. And yes, there is no denying the poor performance in the NCAA–I don't have a good explanation for the poor record there, other than to say a lot of those games could've gone either way. But Brey has fairly consistently gotten the most out of the talent on his teams and put together solid regular seasons. So this year was bad. So what. Lots of great coaches have a down year or two. Cut the man some slack and don't get hung up on his words. Look at the results. If you want to lead a revolt over one bad regular season and some lean NCAAT results, don't expect me to grab my pitchfork. I'm not with you on this one.
The ACC has 18 conference games per season, ND will play some teams twice.
15 teams, not 14: Maryland out, Louisville in.
Hey … my dad's a great guy, too, but that doesn't mean he's suited to bring the ND basketball program to a respectable, at least top 20 level, commensurate with what's expected from all facets of the University. There's lots of great guys out there who aren't great basketball coaches. MB is obviously one of those. 14 years of mediocrity is enough. Cut our losses and lets start over. I'm sure a new energetic and innovative coach can get us at least 8 ACC wins next year ! I think it's "worth the risk". Ha ha.
The reason ND hoops is mediocre at very best is because that is the commitment the school has made to the sport. forget the facilities –they are fine. The philosophy of the program is to accept average to above average talent and perform in an average way.
Mike Brey's time has come. When all is said and done Digger remains the best coach ND has ever had and Moose Krause the last great AD. You can't extend a coaches contract unless you see improvement on the Horizon,and Swarbick settles for mediocrity, BRING BACK MOOSE!!!
While wins, losses and rankings are certainly factors, there are things far more important to being a coach at my alma mater. Coach Mike Brey is an OUTSTANDING mentor of young men, and, for this, he ought to be feted- not criticized by the presbyopic scrutiny of those who seem to measure a college coach purely with a numerical percentage.
Nevertheless, let us first deal with your measuring stick. How can you ignore what a bizarre season was 2013-2014? First a young man (Biedscheid) transfers AFTER agreeing to red shirt in order to work on his physical strength, another (Grant) fails to make grades for the second semester in a row, a third (Burgett) has to undergo a mid-season cardiac procedure following a scary onset of symptoms, yet another (Jackson) teeters on the brink of academic disaster from which Coach rescues him with a bit of tough love temporary exile and then, finally, the fifth (Sherman) suffers a dislocated finger on his shooting hand. Rather than decry our record, quite frankly, I celebrate it. In the face of these adversities, being damn near .500 is an athletic accomplishment in itself.
Have you forgotten that the Irish had not been to the Dance in 10 years until Mike Brey arrived in 2000?
Now let us move on to more meaningful scales of worthiness. Have you forgotten that Mike Brey is the 2011 AP Coach of the Year and Henry Iba winner, a three time Big East Coach of the Year (2007, 2008 and 2011), the 2008 Skip Prosser Man of the Year and the 2012 winner of the Jim Phelan award?
These recognitions are handed out by those who know and understand the true value of a leader and human being rather than by some bombastic nattering nabobs of negativism.
Have you forgotten the work Coach Brey has done with the likes of Carleton Scott, Kyle McAlarney, Luke Harangody and Jack Cooley? Beginning the program as boys and ending as men, each of those who have matriculated through Mike Brey's program will tell you that the most positive extra-family influence on their life has been the thinning haired guy who used to wear turtlenecks.
Maybe you want a coaching carousel, but this true Domer does not. I want Mike Brey to be at the University of Notre Dame until he either says it's time to retire or until he shows he is no longer the man who exemplifies the meaning and spirit of du lac.
I don't know if Matt Doghtery was a nice guy but he seemed to get the most out of his players. Sometimes being a nice guy just doesn't get the job done.
Hey Judge Irish … Maybe if Brey was "mentoring" better, he wouldn't have key players in academic trouble. Alright that was a bit of a cheap shot. But we can get a lot of "integrity guys" to come in and be a "nice face" over a decade, "do things the right way", win 20 regular season games a year, yada, yada, yada. That stuff represents 50% of his pay. He's not earning the other 50% … which is to get to the post-season and perform well. College basketball is all about playing well in the conference and NCAA tournaments! 14 years and never a Big East conference tournament championship game appearance and we can count the total NCAA wins on about one hand. I'm sure other "high character" coaches out there who can do much better than that! Find one of those guys and make a change … NOW!
MB has had his moments but he is consistently applauded for doing well with "the talent he has". That is the problem. In most other schools and even in many other sports coaches recruit kids with great athleticism and make them in soccer, or football or basketball players. Our roster has 1 or maybe 2 athletes. He needs to start recruiting much better right now. Look at what Brad Stevens did at Butler with just a couple of good basketball players and then others who could keep up with the man they were guarding. I don't buy the admission angle. I would think after all of the kids MB has recruited up to this point that if there were a couple of kids he needed to take a chance with the Admissions people would work with him. Time to shorten the lease and get BB headed in a direction that is fitting for 2014 and beyond and not something from the 80's.
Brey has served his purpose for the Irish–now ND should move on and try to eve late the program. Mediocre teams at best should not be the goal.
Brey said they racked their brain trying to get the team to play consistent defense yet nothing worked. Yet we have the same staff for next year. His latest recruit is a guy who we beat out Boston College for, who is not ranked highly by anyone.If he can't get his kids to play, defense, and can't recruit better, how will things ever change? I doubt a summer trip to Italy is the answer.
Don't forget, with Grant they lost to Indiana State and North Dakota State.
I think the ship has sailed on ND Basketball. I'm OK with that. Take a look at the physical appearance of the top teams' best players…we are boys among men…Those guys at the top basketball schools are clearly NOT student athletes. I wouldn't WANT to cheer for some thug at ND. Our guys are student athletes, and if they don't make the grades, that have to leave.
So ND was boys versus men when they played Indiana State and North Dakota State? How about Virginia, where the recruiting rankings for their players mirror ND's and their experience level was also very comparable (they had in their starting line up a frosh PG and soph center). How about Wake Forest and their 3 star recruits- case in point, Vasturia was the higher ranked prospect than his HS team mate Overton at WF. Miami lost 90% of their scoring off last years team and was averaging 60 ppg when they played ND (which put them about 345th in the country at the time), they put up 74 points versus ND's swiss cheese defense. In the NC State game, ND faced 4 freshman who played between 13 and 23 minutes (75 minutes total and a soph PG who played 17 minutes and looked like Ollie from Hoosiers.
In the ACC, I can buy the boys to men comment in games versus Duke, Cuse, UNC, and next season Ville- beyond that you sound like Brey or Noie with that tired cliche.
Mike Brey has certainly had a mixed bag of results at ND. He's had some very good results when you least expect it. Then down years when it's least expected. ND is giving MB a pass due to his prior success and the graduation rate of his players. Too I believe his players seem to really like MB. That said the ND BB program has lost any prestige (in recent years) it had. Just look at the top 150 high school BB players and where they have committed. Study the commitment list and you will see other (lesser) universities moving up the ladder. I don't believe anyone (fans) expect ND BB to be Duke, NC, or, other top 15. However you have to be able to recruit a player or two from the top players in the country (somewhere on that list). MB goes to his own beat and maybe next year will be better. It's seems from watching that the coach has lost his passion for the game. Regardless MB is certainly NOT the long term answer for ND BB. A repeat of this season would most likely find MB resigning and working in some other capacity at ND. The AD certainly must have his eyes on several programs. Just look at UVA and their success the past two years. I like the VCU coach and think he would really turn the program around. The BB job is much more of a plumb job today since joining the ACC. Time will tell!


Zendaya Joins the COVERGIRL Squad!
Kendall Jenner is the New Face of Estee Lauder.
Lupita Nyong'o is Lancôme's New Brand Ambassadress.
Diane Kruger Named the New Face of CHANEL Skincare.
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I think Zendaya is one of the most beautiful, young, freshest faces out there today; I was thrilled to hear that she has partnered with COVERGIRL as the newest face of the brand. Zendaya made the announcement on her Instagram page today.
Her first TV commercial will air during this years GRAMMYs and will feature a new line up of COVERGIRL products including Plumpify Mascara by LashBlast Pro, truNAKED Eyeshadow Palette and Liners, and Oh Sugar Lip Balm.
It's obvious that the brand is taking a bold, new direction with the hire. What once was thought of as a classic beauty brand for esteemed women is looking to cater to a younger demographic with their choice.
Today, global beauty brand Lancôme announced that the stunning actress Lupita Nyong'o is their newest brand ambassadress.I adore the press photo release with the news and think she will make a great addition to the line. I can't wait to see what Lupita brings to the brand.
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Q: Finding the NP test I am really interested on solving the following problem I found in the Casella and Berger.
Suppose we have the following pdf: 2$\theta x + 2(1-\theta)(1-x)$ where $ 0<x<1$ and  $0<\theta<1$. We are looking for the NP test where the hypothesis we look to test is: $H_0 : \theta = \theta_0$ vs $H_1: \theta = \theta_1$ , where $\theta_1 < \theta_0$ Just one observation.
We wish to find the acception region when $\alpha$ is unknown.
WHAT I HAVE DONE:
Using the NP Lemma
$\frac{f_{\theta_0}}{f_{\theta_1}} \leq K$ which implies that $2\theta_0x + 1 - x - \theta_0 -2\theta_1Kx - K + Kx + K\theta_1\leq 0$
By doing the algebra, we then have that $x \leq \frac{(\theta_0 - K\theta_1) + (K-1)}{2(\theta_0 - K\theta_1) + (K-1)}$
I then defined $K^* = \frac{(\theta_0 - K\theta_1) + (K-1)}{2(\theta_0 - K\theta_1) + (K-1)}$
To find the acception region, we seek
$\alpha = P(x\leq K^*$ when $\theta = \theta_0) = \int_{0}^{K^*}2\theta_0x+2(1-\theta_0)(1-x)dx = 2(K^*(1-\theta_0)-\frac{(K^*)^2}{2})$
First question: Is what I have done correct?
Second question: The next step is solving for $\alpha$, how should I approach such problem?

A: First question: Yes.
Second question: You have to express $K^{*}$ in function of $\theta_0$ and $\alpha$.

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