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Brad Underwood Open Practice: Offense

Brad Underwood Open Practice: Offense
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Run an explosive, positionless offensive system that's hard to guard!

  • Learn how to utilize the spread offense and score in less than seven seconds
  • Get breakdown drills for post players and guards that focus on movement, passing, dribbling, and reads needed to beat the press
  • Includes four end-of-game plays that focus on inbounding the ball against pressure and inbounding from full court and half court

with Brad Underwood,
University of Illinois Head Coach;
former Oklahoma State & Stephen F. Austin University Head Coach;
3x ('14-'16) Southland Conference Regular Season & Tournament Champions;
2x (2015 & 2014) Southland Conference Coach of the Year;
2014 Joe B. Hall Award Recipient (Nation's top first-year coach), 2014 Jim Phelan Award Finalist (top Division I coach), 2x (2015 & 2014) Hugh Durham Award Finalist (top mid-major coach)

Brad Underwood's spread offense has been one of the most efficient passing and scoring systems seen in the NCAA - the same offense he used during successful seasons at Stephen F. Austin and Oklahoma State.

On the court, you get a front row seat to see how Coach Underwood builds his offense from the ground up with skill drills, offensive breakdowns and controlled scrimmages. You'll learn in-depth nuances of the offense from Underwood and his assistants working with the team, breaking down the offense to develop bigs and guards.

Open Practice - Video/Disc 1

Coach Underwood shows the importance of teaching immediate flow from transition into your spread offense, individual development drills that prepare players for success within the spread, and how to prepare for an opponent that uses full-court pressure.

Underwood puts his players into intense, game-like practice situations; you'll see:

  • Drills to teach the spread offense
  • Multiple entries into the spread offense
  • An individual development drill designed for the spread
  • Instruction on how to defeat full and half court trapping situations

Learn the basics of Underwood's version of the spread offense and the entry flow options that will have transition defenses wondering what hit them.

At the beginning, Underwood goes over the X's and O's of his practice and his philosophies of player development. He emphasizes this individual development section of practice by training his players to complete passes, shots and footwork that the spread offense requires. In these sessions, Underwood teaches:

  • Fighting for position on the perimeter
  • How to use the high post 2-man game
  • Footwork and passing to the post
  • Dribbling attacks and techniques for the spread
  • How guards and bigs can defeat traps with footwork and sharp passes

Coach Underwood and his unique spread offense create post-up opportunities for every player on the court, while also allowing freedom for players to take advantage of mismatches on the perimeter by creating plenty of space for dribble attacks.

Open Practice - Video/Disc 2

This video stresses player development as Underwood offers plenty of ways to develop a fast-paced offense and a press break that is precise, and, fundamentally sound.

Watch as the players warm up using Star Passing. This drill requires concentration, precision and communication. Your team will progress from intense individual skill builders, to game-speed drills where players work on their offensive flow options in 5-on-5 and even 5-on-7 scrimmages. Everything focuses on trying to score in seven seconds or less.

Coach Underwood's players break out into position groups. The posts are taught the fundamentals necessary in the team's press break. This progression teaches players the importance of:

  • Moving towards the ball to receive a pass
  • Catching the ball on balance in a triple threat position
  • Aggressively pivoting with purpose to see the floor
  • Stepping through the trap to make a pass to the middle or down the sideline

Simultaneously, the guards are drilled on their duties in the press break. The skills taught to guards are:

  • Proper cuts to get open for the inbound pass
  • Positioning themselves off of the sideline to allow for better passing angels
  • Making a middle cut with precision

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Saturday, 27 February 2010

If it's measurable it's not worth knowing.

The title is meant to be provocative and counter intuitive though it's more important than business aesthetics blather.

It stems from something a senior market researcher said to me a while back. He said "if it's not measurable, it's not worth knowing". I was his house guest at the time, so it seemed  churlish to respond that love can't be quantified, that the feelings of pain, elation, euphoria, crying, singing, dancing, winning, losing, worrying and so forth and so on are all deeply integral to our lives and that there's beauty in the unquantifiable. It would be like putting a cost benefit analysis on a spouse to see if we've secured a better deal than our neighbour or colleague. It would be offensive to measure up our respective life partners to see who manages the household better, breeds superior children, has better taste in furnishings or provides a superior quality of sex.

Pathological quantitative analysis of pretty much everything within the corporate environment has led to the dominance of the spreadsheet as a killer predator drone for the decision making process.

Numbers are safe, numbers are transnational. Numbers are unambiguously intentional, and the numbers add up.

That's why it's really important to know when to count yourself out.

The ability to make decisions based on intelligence and intuition is an important part of what makes a kick ass business, kick ass.

Sure the universe is mathematically coded at a particle physics level and more, but here's my argument. Putting the numbers before the love, is the surest way to to a diminished life. An inferior attempt at living what feels like a bespoke chance to manifest our true identities. One that by another definition, by its slavish devotion to numerical advantage is restricted to making decisions based on what the numbers say and not how they make us feel.

Feelings are more important than facts is something I've lifted off more formidable minds than mine to support how great advertising works more effectively on an emotional level. But here's the irony. You need to crunch the numbers to figure out if it's the numbers or the feelings that work better. Which is my way of saying Im not a numeric luddite. Unlike the Unabomber's target, numbers can't be bombed and are most definitely here to stay.

Nevertheless, the irony of using numbers to verify the supremacy of feelings is a mirror reflection of yet one more of the many enigmas of life that only a fool can fail to encounter. We know so little of where we come from, probably less about where we're going, and all the while we're saddled with a biased processor for decision making.

Irrespective of the numbers the evolutionary biologists know how well our primate brains are embarrassingly backward at dealing with slow moving catastrophes. We all panicked over say the Y2K bug, because it wasn't inconceivable that we might be on a flight the night the millenium rolled over. But the slow moving catastrophe we face from the way we exploit the planet and it's displacement on say the climate or the maths on never ending diapers and finite landfill space feels less tangible.

Like having a spoon less of sugar in the next cuppa or reusing a polymer bag.

Put another way. It's not the numbers that point the way to figuring out our medium term survival chances. The scientists, those high priests of the quantifiable, the repeatable and the observable-on-demand can't agree on what constants are. Speed of light, boiling points and much more from the contextual variables that can't be repeated and thus we've backed a horse with magically erratic form.

Maybe we need to lift from the mystical language that the quantum physicists are using? They talk with stroked beards of matter coming into and out of existence, of particles being everywhere at the same time but in other dimensions, of parallel universes, dark matter, time as surface and maybe exceptional linear narrative (in this dimension). Ladies and Gentleman the slide rule slides incoherently in space time theory. It's beyond the unifying theory powers of the mathematical geniuses of our day.

But Oh how they would kill for a concise unifying equation that fits on a T Shirt.

If they, our scientists, are struggling with linear and coherent logic to explain how something as simple as the existence of matter actually matters, then why would we sacrifice any potential to embrace chance and circumstance as unpredictable friends of the business environment? Why would we replace them with the dead and sterile certainty of spreadsheet fetishism and the uber conclusiveness of knowing every decision until the grave will be a quantitative and numerate assessment of likely risk over potential gain?

I yawn melodramatically.

There's a call centre consultancy business I know that I use as a stage setting over determining the right level of quantitative rigour that is required to ensure that work efficacy is given the remit it deserves because the call centre business is one of the most measured and controlled problem resolution environments we know.

And the most reviled.

I'm not binary about this though. I had a sensational call centre experience in Hong Kong booking my flight back to Bangkok (Thank's Emirates). Yet we've all been caught in 'put on hold' hell or endless detours to return to our original call destination through obtuse call management and it's this unfuzzy logic style of problem assessment and solution, that human operators need to be able to pull the rip chord on. To descend away from a higher systems blindness, and on towards an intelligent and intuitive approach that embraces human intuition over standard operational procedure. Whatever that is.

So to round up. While quantitative description of business scenarios and operational decisions will always be the hygiene of grown up business, it's really important to file all those numbers and the spreadsheets they are crunched from, in the proper place. It's the one that knows everyone else is using the same systematic approach to achieve the same unremarkable consistency and mechanistic results. It's a depressing reason for dragging one's sorry ass into work and taking a salary for as it diminishes our purpose as a species and prevents us performing in a manner where the remarkable takes place.

That's why if it's measurable it's not worth knowing.

Or more accurately.

If it's unmeasurable. There's something interesting going on.

What else is there to meaningfully achieve during our enigmatic but historically brief stay on this planet?

Friday, 26 February 2010

Just A Game

It's a must watch video on gaming and why gaming matters in pretty much everything we do. However, I'm an anomaly in this respect but I appreciate much of what is said. If you're limited on time skip to the 20th minute. I'd say at least 80% of this presentation is on the money.

I did mention back here that the Scandinavians are producing some of the smartest and most creative work on the planet and I stand by it. Particularly digital.

Via Leon

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Klong Toey Market

It took me a day or so to wait for this to happen when I saw it for the first time and decided to film it. Not many people can relate to what it means to be acquainted with a living deity from another culture, but if you can afford to sit out the first minute or so, I think this clip I took in Klong Toey Market of Bangkok makes the point clear.

This may also be among the last authentic shows of respect of its kind unless anyone else knows of an example I haven't thought of (Bhutan maybe?)

Thursday, 18 February 2010

Shirt By Givenchy

Seems a few of you quite like my Givenchy Shirt that some girl snapped me in last week so I thought I'd put it up here for your amusement. I bought it second hand on Melrose, Hollywood in 1995 along with some awesome boot cut 70's Calvin Klein Jeans, a real L.A. County Jail Shirt made by the inmates, a bunch of Skateboard wear that I got into during that time (Including my first Vans) and other bits I'd rather not remember from last year when I was robbed in Hong Kong.

 I wish the girl who took this let me take a photo of her. She had incredible skin colour and the type of immaculate teeth that have never seen a dentist. There's just something quite awesome about unadulterated preternatural teeth.

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Post War Britain - A Political History

I mentioned a while back that I read so few books now compared to a few decades of stuffing a lot of print down my visual oseophagus that I feel compelled to blog each completed book. The good news is that I'm no longer plodding through publications that I feel obliged to read or just don't really enjoy. So while that copy of Moby Dick is waiting to be read as a gift from Christmas, it doesn't feel right quite now.

I guess it's the sort of book I'd really dig on a long bus ride to nowhere like my own Burmese Days where if it were not for time available, I'd  could not have completed The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Something I'd have to say is impossible now given competing distractions but it served well on the way from Rangoon to Ngapali Beach on the Bay of Bengal in Burma and back again to the creaking, decaying capital in buses that I'll never forget.

I picked the book above from a charity book store in Hong Kong for 10 Bucks. I used to cream through this sort of stuff and the book reminded me why. While I'm  no longer as fanatical about politics (don't the Corporations call the shots these days?) this book was a fresh digging of a field left fallow for some time. I'd forgotten the names of the the real political left from the  60's and 70's in the UK. Mick McGahey, Bill Morris, Frank Cousins, Jimmy Knapp and so on and so forth. They don't exist now. I don't know any characters in Parliament. Even Dave looks like the kind of PM who if he does well is a chancer who lucked out.

Those old Labour characters seem so much more authentic now then how I used to perceive them. Nobody could argue that they were in it for the money or the glory. They dressed like shit, looked like shit and paid themselves less than shit. But somehow, they had a vision of working class Britain that never really materialised given the sloth of British industry prior to Thatcher but that doesn't mean that if the UK had inexplicably lurched to the left and say Militant had gotten a stranglehold on British politics, I'm quite sure that the Brits would have made the best hardcore communists in Europe.

Commies to be reckoned with. Don't ask me why and even more importantly don't ask me if that's a good thing.

The best and most gripping part of the book was the narrative leading up to, through and just after the Falklands war. There are so many details I had no idea of at the time that reading it was a joyous and pure lesson in history that I can never quite pay the proper tribute to.

However let's try; apart from Socialist Red Blood pumping through secondary picketing, and war torn limbs pumping arterial blood from HMS Sir Galahad or the Battle for Goose Green the book is a bit shit and pedestrian in parts. Mainly because of its obsession with the electoral numbers which leads me nicely on to my next post....

But in case anybody can spark me into devouring Moby Dick, I'd be interested to hear why. Go on.

Taunt me into reading it.

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

What's not to like about this campaign for the conservative party leader, David Cameron, in the run up to the United Kingdom's general election? There's a bunch of stuff in politics which I find disheartening, as there's so little between the parties in terms of ideology that arguably there's little to take seriously. That's both Stateside and in the UK.

However, these posters hit the spot for electorate participation. They draw the poison on the usual political invective don't you think? There's a more interesting write up on the topic over at Russell's and for an instantaneous slice of sentiment you should go to the #mytorytombstone search hashtag on Twitter.

Augment Your Amygdala

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop from Keiichi Matsuda on Vimeo.

Well not unless you really have to. I can see some clever uses for augmented reality with some simple caveats. As little as possible and with the least amount of distraction. Unless you're one of those people who really needs another screen between you and reality.

Oh you can't hear me?

Well why not take that bluetooth earpiece out and I'll repeat it for you.

Via Ed.

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Visible & Invisible Lines

I've been unpacking some stuff that hasn't seen the light of day for quite a while and I came across this classic email I received from Andreas after a meeting I think about a pitch for the German Railways (Deutsche Bahn) when I worked for BBDO in Dusseldorf. I hope Andreas doesn't mind (he's actually one of the more polished creatives I've worked with and was ahead of the curve on social media circa 2003) but I'm using it because it also highlights one of the pressures of what I've called parachute planning.

That is, turning up in a new country in a new agency with a bundle of business issues that need to be resolved such as new pitches, saving existing accounts and raising the standard of work in progress, all with a bunch of people who are quite rightly suspicious of what you can do until you deliver. And yeah, in a different language sometimes. It's not for the faint hearted.

I've also got some sweet stuff from Hakuhodo in Hong Kong that will make your hair curl. Expect a few retro posts while I'm unpacking stuff I'd long forgotten about or otherwise.


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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Larouchepac - Jeff Steinberg On Benghazi

Larouchepac maintain that the British Empire never dissolved. It's an interesting and at times (look at MI6 involvement in the drug trade) persuasive argument. I neither dismiss it or proselytize it. I have my own variant of Laourchepac thinking and that involves the other city state than D.C and the corporation City of London. The Vatican.

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Wednesday, 17 June 2015

The Northumbrian Flag

One encouraging development in recent years, in my corner of the planet, has been the spontaneous emergence of the Northumbrian flag from utter obscurity to widespread usage.

Our family car, for instance, sports a sticker of this flag which we purchased for a modest price when visiting a local stately home- and plenty of other vehicles do the same. I even bought a big actual flag of this - on impulse - then didn't know what to do with it, so ended-up by draping it on the wall of my office.

Since this is not any kind of campaign or political movement, I can only suppose it expresses a general but seldom-articulated love of the county of Northumberland - which is indeed a county that is easy to love.

The effect of seeing this flag unexpectedly, as I go about business in the city, is to give a lift of the heart and a breath of cleaner air - it is a small and secretive ray of hope.

Yeoman said...

Just a thought but maybe it is another level of identity now that Britain seems lost and the cross of St George is mostly associated with tattoos and football. Here in Lewes we have our own flag flying from the castle along with the sussex martlets. Maybe this will be where we hold out longest , the last bastion of anglo saxon against the new britons. There certainly seems to be a process underway where more and more money from London is spent on modest houses that are seen as remote from the vibrancy and excitement that mass media see as the pinnacle of civilisation.

Bruce Charlton said...

@Y - The phenomenon of spontaneous (grass roots) local/ county patriotism is not universal - for example, it is more evident in Northumberland than in Durham, in Yorkshire (the White Rose) than in Nottinghamshire.


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Thursday, August 19, 2010

My wonderful little girl

So, I've stopped doing monthly updates on Chaselyn. And the reason is that I'm just trying to keep up with her in the real world, I don't seem to have the time to keep up with her in blogland. But, I hope you all have been able to see the wonderful little tot that she is becoming. She's really hit the point where her vocabulary is growing on an hourly basis. Which means we have to be careful about everything that goes into her little ears. For example, we spent this week at home with my parents. My parents have 4 dogs who bark... a lot. So my dad (aka Papa) says "HUSH!!" to which Chaselyn immediately copies "Hush Puppies!!" Now this in itself is hilarious, so we laugh, which only encourages her to now yell "Hush!" at random points throughout the day. She only told Mommy to hush one time. It's usually "Hush Puppies!" even if there are no puppies around.

She asks to wear dresses and will comment on whether they are cute or pretty. She still wears any shoes that she can find. But shows a definite preference for sparkly ones. This week she has been Papa's little farmer. Feeding the fish, dogs and horses is such a treat. And she'll even ask to "ish food" and "Nay Nay food" which can easily be interpreted as feed the fish and feed the horses.

On occasion we can catch her rambling in her crib or talking with her toys. And right now these seemingly non-sensical babbling sessions are our favorites. She's saying things with such intent, we know she thinks she's saying something, but we're not in on the translations. And that's ok. This week she has really developed her ability to convey things to us. She'll say a word, I'll say back what I think she's trying to say and then with the sweetest voice, she'll say "no" as if I'm silly for even thinking that's what she was trying to say. Usually we can both stick with this game long enough until Mommy figures out what Chaselyn is trying to say.

Funnest new words:
Crazy - sounds like "Say-zy" sometimes followed by her head swinging wildly about and making silly noises
Family names - Has attempted everyone except CrawDad (she just giggles). Some other fun ones
Granny - "Gwenny"
Kimberly -"Mimerly" (only heard this one a couple times)
Heather - "He-er"
Football - "Feetball"
I love you - "I ldl you" can also be followed by a persons name :)
I got you - "Idotchu"
Silly -"Si-ey"
Time Out - "Mime out" If she is in trouble at all she suggests that she asks "mime out?" I only really send her to time out for hitting and not listening.
Big - "Beeeeeeeeg!"
Pig - "Peeeeeeeeg!"
Read -"Read"
Horses - Nay Nays

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diy lavender & chamomile sachets | via: bekuh b.

Who doesn't love the smell of laundry fresh-off-the-line? Its delicate floral scent is like aromatherapy for the soul. Unfortunately air drying is not always an option and until recently I thought capturing that illusive summer scent near impossible. That is until I took matters into my own hands and decided to recreate that line-dried scent using a handful of dried herbs and a household staple- rice.

Fresh herbs and spices have been used to ward off bugs and freshen linens for centuries. Though we have lots of sprays and soaps to use nowadays, I still enjoy combining a few natural ingredients to organically remove unwelcome smells in dusty drawers or open baskets. Not to mention they're incredibly easy to make, I'll show you...

diy lavender & chamomile sachets | via: bekuh b.

Supply List (makes 4 sachets)

1 | Dried Lavender- The natural home's workhorse. This dried herb finds its way into almost everything and naturally wards off unwanted pests. Home grown would be even more incredible, maybe next year! 1/4 cup

2 | Dried Chamomile- An herb that smells like sunshine. Its warm floral scent and natural soothing qualities are a personal fav. 1/4 cup

3 | Dried Rosemary- I snuck an extra herb in the mix! I love the earthy quality that rosemary adds and it's also a pest preventer (no moths please). I snipped some from our garden, but you can use some from your spice cupboard. 1/8 cup

4 | Rice- An type will do, but since we're going all natural perhaps look for an organic bag the next time you're shopping? 1/4 cup

5 | Scrap fabric, Needle & Thread - I quickly whipped up a few sachet bags, but you can buy them too!

diy lavender & chamomile sachets | via: bekuh b.

The next steps are so easy I almost feel bad calling this a DIY! Simply mix together your dry ingredients and assemble. I found the easiest way to get the mix into the pouch was to do it by hand. Once you've filled the sachet, close the pouch and getting ready for heavenly smelling dresser drawers. It's that easy.

You may notice the scent fading after a couple of weeks- grab the sachet and rub it in your hand for 30 seconds to release more scent, you can do this 2-3 times before you need to remake. The reusable bags make it easy to create a new batch. big kiss, bekuh

I find this method just as effective as using Febreeze, or other sprays to freshen clothes. It's also a much milder scent, and environmentally friendly!


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Monday, 24 September 2012

realistic animal face t shirts

These hyper realistic dog, cat and pig t-shirts are amazingly life like and look kind of spooky.  There are plenty of them for sale on Amazon, such as this one, and l may have to invest in the pig one for Dazzer, my member of the filth in law (it's an ongoing joke).  I've got my eye on a possible rabbit one, which will freak out the FPO, and probably scare the shit out of Tubbs, our real idiot rabbit (not that he has any problem producing shit).

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24 November 2012

Waving a Yellow Flag

A few years back, in a post titled Advantage in Chess960 Start Positions Revisited, I created a table from CCRL data showing which start positions appeared to be best for White and and which best for Black. The CCRL site, linked to the right of this page under 'Resources', explains,
CCRL means "Computer Chess Rating Lists". We are a club of people inspired by watching computers play chess.

While I'm not at all 'inspired by watching computers play chess', I do accept that the CCRL findings are the single most important collection of chess960 games in existence today. I ended the 'Revisited' post by concluding that the CCRL sample at that time was probably too small to make generalizations. The club now boasts of having played 115.900 games of chess960, or an average of more than 115 games per start position, or 3-4 times more games than at the time of my first post.

How do the current CCRL statistics compare with that first analysis? Here is a table similar to my earlier table. As before, it shows the number of games played (#); the percentage of games won by White, won by Black, and drawn (%W, %B, %D); and the overall score for White (%S).

Highest Overall Score White
Highest Overall Score Black
Traditional Start
Traditional Start (K&Q switched)
534RNBKQBNR 8434.535.729.849.4

The first observation is that the 'the overall score for White (%S)' lies in a narrower range than before: 64%-42% now vs. 76%-32% earlier. The second observation is that of the top five percentages for White, only one start position is on both lists (SP868 QBBRKRNN); of the bottom five percentages for White (i.e. top five for Black), the list is completely different. The third observation is that the traditional start position (SP518 RNBQKBNR) is now in line with experience.

On the earlier list, I examined the top position for White (SP024 NBQNBRKR) in A Followup, an Error, and an Insight, and surmised (with the help of another chess960 enthusiast) that 'the dangerous start positions share the common feature of several Pawns unprotected and these can be easily attacked by the Queen and Bishop'. That is clearly the case for SP868, where the 'QBB' on the a/b/c-files rake the 'RNN' f/g/h-files. For the record, SP024 is now no.12 on the list, with a 60.9% success rate for White rather than the 76.2% in the earlier table. It's worth remembering that the CCRL requires both 'Book learning' and 'Position learning' to be 'Off for all engines'. This means that the engines don't improve by playing more games.

Now here's a big, yellow WARNING FLAG: the no.1 and the no.3 entries in the current table (SP408 RBQNBNKR & SP749 RKNBNQBR) are twins -- they have the same sequence of pieces, but in reverse order -- only the castling considerations are different. These two positions, plus the repeat position SP868, need to be examined more closely. I would also like to identify the other top (and bottom) twins to determine how random their CCRL results are. I'll follow-up these actions in future posts.

GeneM said...

The best two start setups I see in the latest CCRL data might be:

S#937 RKRBBNQN Draw=12.5% , WhiteWin=48.6%

S#494 QRNKNBBR Draw=12.8% , WhiteWin=50.3%

They both have low draw rates, and low rates for White wins.

They both avoid the undesirable bishop start on a corner square.
And they both have White's two knights start on squares of the SAME shade.

In 2012/February I posted on the CCRL blog to inquire about castling rates in chess960-FRC.
Some excellent work on data mining by CCRL enthusiasts has generated the following data about castlings in chess960-FRC:

"Chess960-FRC Setup Data is Excellent"

_________________________ START DATA POST. ______
Re: Chess960-FRC Setup Data is Excellent
by Adam Hair » Fri Mar 30, 2012 7:15 am

Here are the correct statistics (thanks to Ed Collins):

Castling Statistics:
White castled Kingside and Black castled Kingside: 26,787 (25.0%)
White castled Kingside and Black castled Queenside: 6,088 (5.7%)
White castled Kingside and Black did not castle: 12,679 (11.8%)

White castled Queenside and Black castled Kingside: 5,577 (5.2%)
White castled Queenside and Black castled Queenside: 11,422 (10.7%)
White castled Queenside and Black did not castle: 10,142 (9.5%)

White did not castle and Black castled Kingside: 10,735 (10.0%)
White did not castle and Black castled Queenside: 9,030 (8.4%)
Neither player castled: 14,640 (13.7%)

Adam's Computer Chess Pages ( http://adamsccpages.blogspot.com/ )
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I am disappointed that the percentage of chess960 games that include the two colors castling to OPPOSITE wings (a- and h-wings) is a lowly 10.7%. I believe the rate is about 10% in traditional chess1. Thus the increase I was hoping for in chess960 is not happening.

A higher percentage of opposite wing castlings would be desirable because such games have a lower draw rate, and there simply should be more of them for more variety.

CastleLong.com, for chess960-FRC

HarryO said...

Hi Mark
For SP408 check out this beautiful defensive setup I found in 5 minutes of study, that black adopts via the nice first move 1...c5!:

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.11.27"]
[Round "?"]
[White "New game"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[Variant "chess 960"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rbqnbnkr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBQNBNKR w HAha - 0 0"]
[PlyCount "12"]

{Chess 960-Position 408} 1. d4 c5! {the variations where black's queen comes out early are a wonderful study in themselves} 2. d5 e6 3. c4 f5 4. Bc3 Nf7 5. b3 Ng6 6. h4
h5 *

The thing I love about 960 is that it's ok to develop the queen early when there is no way to attack her or she immediately can go to a safe square there after without trouble.

HarryO said...

Gene, respectfully you cannot be disappointing with the lack of opposite wing castling because almost all the engines do not understand the subtleties of castling in Chess960 yet.

It's not just about whether it actually happened in fact, but also the potential for it to happen even if it didn't. There are many creative ways to protect the king and the engines do not have that type of creativity because they cannot see patterns right at the start of the game.

As well as that, both your suggested start examples SP937 and SP494 are probably polluted by the fact that almost all the engines have trouble developing the queen if they are playing black. I note that one of these contains a queen in the corner, and the other a queen hemmed in between two knights.

Cheers, Harry


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As CBS 2’s Susanna Song reports, Illinois has more nuclear sites than any other state. In fact, half of the electricity in the state is generated by nuclear power.

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Glencoe Deputy Police Chief Al Kebby said the white male, believed to be in his late 40s was found about 6 a.m. on the east side of the Metra tracks, near the inbound line, just south of the Hazel viaduct.

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  • Azerbaijan is one of the most convenient routes from Northeast Europe to Central Asia and the Middle East. Situated on the shores of the Caspian Sea in Southwestern Asia, it shares borders with Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Iran. With one of the best transport infrastructures in the South Caucasus, including six international airports and the biggest port on the Caspian Sea (Baku International Sea Trade Port), Azerbaijan is a logistics hub for the Caspian region.
  • After regaining independence in 1991, the country underwent a lengthy period of transition from a Soviet-style command economy towards a modern, market-driven economy, concentrated on the production and export of its hydrocarbon resources. Meanwhile, the Azerbaijani government is aware the country needs to diversify its economic profile and energy mix by developing renewable energy.
  • Hydropower is currently the most developed renewable energy source, alongside biomass and thermal energy. However, the wind, which blows more than 250 days per year, and the sun, which offers 2,400-3,200 hours of sunshine per year, are the country’s preferred options given the lower cost, environmental soundness and unlimited availability.
  • Known as one of the earliest sites for farming, agriculture remains an important sector of the economy in Azerbaijan. However, industries such as textiles (spinning and weaving of cotton and silk), leather processing, oil machinery, electronic equipment, automotive and ship building, agricultural machinery and several chemical products such as synthetic rubber, fertilizers and medicines are among the most developed sectors and major recipients of foreign investment in Azerbaijan. Meanwhile, the country’s strengthening presence on the international scene (host of the World Economic Forum and Annual Meeting of the Islamic Development Bank) contributes to the dynamic development of its tourism sector.
  • The Azerbaijani government is keen to attract foreign investment in ICT, agriculture, renewable energy, food processing and packaging, logistics, tourism and recycling sectors as a step to attain the stated goal of economic diversification. While the Azerbaijani Parliament passed tax laws amendments to allow tax exemption and customs relief for certain investments, no special incentives have so far been developed to stimulate foreign investment. More information can be found at the Azerbaijan Investment Company (AIC).
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Tasteful, or tasteless? Or something else?

Peter Payne has posted the cover of something that's probably a porn title of some kind, whether manga or animated.

I find myself bemused by it. I can see where some might find it offensive, even sacrilegious, but it doesn't affect me that way. My first reaction to it was "Yoshika's panties are the wrong color." (Which tells you where my mind is.)

I am curious as to what it is. Anyone know? (For instance, someone who can read the title?)

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1 It's the cover of the doujin manga "魔女たちのノパンツ" (Witch-tachi no no-pantsu); a google search returned scans.

Posted by: J Greely at November 01, 2012 04:41 PM (fpXGN)

2 Well, it didn't when I tried, but I used American google. Anyway, I'm sure it's major trashy.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 01, 2012 04:47 PM (+rSRq)

3 I had safesearch turned off, expecting it to be exactly what it turned out to be.

They had a number of titles featuring hot witch-on-witch action.

Posted by: J Greely at November 01, 2012 05:06 PM (fpXGN)

4 It's an H-doujin, my thinking is that is the list of the concerning content, haha.

More seriously, I'd think a Japanese viewer might have more of an issue, given what the flag raising means in a historical context.  For me, it's "eh?".

Posted by: sqa at November 01, 2012 09:38 PM (iWwXY)

I was thinking that, too. It's a rather strange and iconic image for a Japanese artist to imitate, or parody.

But then, the spirit of a B-29 shows up in Kamichu at one point, so I suppose anything's possible.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 01, 2012 09:57 PM (+rSRq)

6 Here's the translated version (NSFW obviously). It explains why Yoshika is wearing a fundoshi.

Posted by: muon at November 01, 2012 10:13 PM (JXm2R)

Man, that's really gross. I couldn't finish it.

But those kinds of doujinshi usually are unfinishably gross. Hardly a surprise.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 02, 2012 06:01 AM (+rSRq)

8 I am deeply and profoundly offended by this travesty.

In order to better combat this sacrilege I'll have to do a considerable amount of further research on it.

Posted by: The Brickmuppet at November 02, 2012 07:35 AM (e9h6K)

9 The first story was actually a parody of Full Metal Jacket. The last story isn't hentai and not gross.

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Life Boat – Part 1

September 24, 2014   | Download the PDF here

Eco-Justice EPA Style

Privileged Planet; Plundered People, Part 1

Debra Rae

In the early 1970s, a trendy role-playing exercise, the “Lifeboat Game,”[1] presumed to clarify students’ values in public school classrooms. It works like this: As a group of survivors, lost in rough seas, cling to a dangerously overcrowded rescue boat, they reason that some of them must be sacrificed for others to live. Based on its self-acclaimed moral authority, derived from decades of ecological restoration, who better than the EPA to make the cut?

To this end, each survivor is rated by his or her value to society. In a reenactment of this provocative game, let’s imagine the Environmental Protection Agency is charged with the following life-death decisions.

Women and Children: Ann Bressington and Neonate Non-Person

Designated decision-makers ponder the golden standard of conduct for shipwrecks—namely, “women and children first.” Though arguably chivalrous, the code is determined to be myth that “went down with the Titanic a century ago.”[2]

Since all agree that saving “ladies first” is archaic, Australian politician Ann Bressington is fast fingered for ejection. In her view, Agenda 21 effectively (and inappropriately) controls every aspect of life.[3] She objects to big-project spending that ignores lack of funds and horrific debt while, at the same time, requiring ordinary citizens to tighten their belts.[4] Finally, Bressington rejects belief that private land ownership unfairly concentrates wealth and thereby contributes to social injustice[5] Because social equity and “environmental justice” justify the EPA’s very existence, Bressington is first to go.[6]

The next easy nix is a nameless, neonate non-person, inflicted with a visible birth defect. All concur, the surviving child, attended by its elderly grandmother, is an unsustainable, useless eater, hardly qualified as one of the 250-300 million populace judged ideal for sustaining the planet. Hence, bye-bye, baby.[7] Referencing the “I Have Lived a Good Life” campaign, whereupon smiling seniors admit to having used up their share of earth’s resources, the EPA nixesGrandma, too.[8]

PC Sensitive Ejections of Dr. Ben Carson and Tiger Woods

Next under consideration, a distinguished African-American, Dr. Ben Carson[9] gained international notoriety for his innovative technique in separating even adult conjoined twins. Technocracy is rule by scientific experts over an economic system designed to replace capitalism and free enterprise, as we know it today;[10] but Carson will have no part in it. If for no other reason than his conservative politics, the good doctor-scientist is targeted for ejection; however, in moving forward, it’s agreed, extreme care must be taken not to appear racist.[11]

Under similar consideration, the “World’s Greatest Golfer” Tiger Woods[12] is yet another famous person of color; however, the Global Biodiversity Assessment directed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) calls for urgent action to reverse the effects of unsustainable human activities on global biodiversity, including but not limited to golf courses.[13]

Therefore, along with Carson, Tiger goes down.

Pro-life David Green

Fundamental Christianity is no friend to bio-centricity. Nor is David Green. Founding CEO of Hobby Lobby, David Green is an obvious cut. A Christian of unwavering conviction, Green defied the Obama Care mandate supporting “women’s reproductive health.” Though constitutionally correct, Green is by no means an advocate of zero population growth.[14] Don’t let his PC name fool you: Down he goes, along with the others!

EPA’s Own: Alan Carlin

A midlevel EPA employee might expect favor, but not Alan Carlin. In March 2009, Carlin wrote a critical, 98-page report backed by peer-reviewed science, which concluded, “We believe our concerns and reservations are sufficiently important to warrant a serious review of the science by the EPA.” Carlin’s supervisor, an Obama appointee, quelled the report and warned Carlin via email not to spend additional EPA time on climate change. Be sure the EPA condones no dissent to its contrived mantra of man-caused global warming, and apparently Carlin’s no exception. He goes down with Green.[15]

NASA’s Dr. Roy Spencer

Former head of NASA’s Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer Unit, Dr. Roy Spencer[16] has shown clearly that the theory of man-made global warming rests on incorrect assumptions. Furthermore, the EPA “did not fully meet the independence requirements for reviews of highly influential scientific assessments”; and an Inspector General’s report was based on procedural, not scientific matters. Despite his being principal research scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Spencer is no “yes man.” Hence, he’s history.

Tom Harris

Tom Harris is likewise a marked man. An articulate spokesman for the growing camp of scientist skeptics—i.e., “realists”—Harris challenges the increasingly discredited dogma attending climate alarmism.Executive Director of the International Climate Science Coalition based in Ottawa, Canada, [17] Harris wrote an opinion piece on the EPA’s new power plant regulations that recently appeared in the New York Post.The title alone (“How the EPA Ignores the Public and Science”) cinches Harris’ fate.

By now, EPA decision-makers feel quite smug about ridding the planet of undesirables. Their attention turns to “winners of the draw,” survivors handpicked to remain safe on the proverbial lifeboat.

Who, then, can (and will) be saved?

More to come in Part 2.

[1] Sid Simon et. al. Values Clarification: A Handbook of Practical Strategies for Teachers and Students, 1972.

[2] Accessed 19 August 2014.

3One of five major documents negotiated at the United Nations Rio Earth Summit (1992), Agenda 21 serves as the blueprint for forthcoming global eco-socialism. It was elaborated in Turkey at the 1996 United Nations conference Habitat.

4By one estimate the world is spending $1 billion a DAY on projects that wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for global warming alarmism.

5The UN Sustainable Development (Agenda 21) Initiative specifically targets the American dream of private property ownership that can no longer “be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals” (Agenda Item #10, UN Conference Report), but rather must bow to interests of society as a whole.

6According to the EPA, environmental justice is “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

7It is held that a neonate nonperson (or newborn baby) has yet to achieve personhood; therefore, he or she is a viable candidate for extermination. Death agenda proponent Dr. Edward Alfred warns that population control is simply too important to be stopped by some “right wing pro-life types.”

8Sustainable medicine is clear about cutting out health care for those no longer useful—i.e., retirees, the infirmed, and the elderly.

9It appears that non-issue racism is fast running its course. At the National Prayer Breakfast, pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson exposed oversensitivity of the politically correct crowd.

10Technocracy is analogous to the United Nation’s so-called “green economy,” which is the dominant philosophy within Agenda 21.

11Afro-centrism is a politically correct theme, which applauds indiscriminately all that comes out of Africa while at the same time condemning the Euro-American culture.

12Audubon lifestyles principles to ensure sustainable golf courses address environmental conditions such as wetlands, endangered species, degraded sites, landfills, reclamation, and cultural/historic areas.

13 The United Nations Environment Programme embraces the Wildlands Project.

14The Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in the Hobby Lobby case affirmed First Amendment rights by empowering faith-based companies to deny coverage of abortifacients in their health insurance plans.

15To question man-caused global warming disrupts the global agenda as capsulated by the Club of Rome in The First Global Revolution.

16Dr. Roy Spencer fell out of favor for challenging validity of the Congress requested Inspector General’s EPA report. Accessed 13 September 2014.

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

“Follow me...”  - Jesus

It’s simple.  Jesus is looking for disciples.  People who are willing to follow, listen, and obey.  Making disciples is the heartbeat of the church.  Christ was crystal clear about His Great Commission for us in Matthew 28:18-20, “And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

As a church, we have a big job that we need to take seriously.  According to the Great Commission we must be about the business of making disciples and teaching people to keep all the commands of Christ.  A couple of years ago as a church we set out to see what it meant to be a modern day disciple of Jesus.  I dug in the Word and met with the pastors, staff, and leadership team as well as a wide variety of individuals from our church family to get to the heart of what it meant to follow Jesus.

There were eight principles that kept coming up again and again in our talks and study, and it wasn’t good enough just to know about these eight principles of discipleship, we needed to be active in each of these as we followed Christ.  So the name of our discipleship study became Activ8 and I look forward to sharing each of the eight principles with you in the weeks to follow.


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Friday, July 12, 2013

The Palo Verde tree

The desert tree: PALO VERDE (Parkinsonia microphylla and P. florida)

I recently re-discovered the Palo Verde tree, growing where it shouldn’t be growing near the Pasadena area.  It was probably spread there from a seed spread by a bird.

This desert tree is usually very inconspicuous, but when it flowers, it’s very showy and beautiful with its conspicuous flowers divided into five yellow petals.  The bark of the younger branches are green, hence the name.

There are thorns, and long ferny leaves, and pods that hang from the tree.

The tree is not particularly common, but is used more and more for landscaping since it’s drought-tolerant and beautiful when it flowers. In the wild, it’s found in the southeast deserts of California, into Arizona and down into Baja.

For the desert Indians, the seeds were the food from this tree, often eaten green by the  Cahuilla, Yuma, and other people.  Once mature and dried, the seeds were like little rocks, and would need to be ground into a flour, or parched, and then eaten. Sometimes they were sprouted.

Generally, the flour from palo verde would be made into a porridge, or something like cakes or biscuits.
Interestingly, this is often referred to as a “survival food.”  When I hear the word survival food, I think of something that you’d never eat unless you were desperate and starving – things like bark and lichens. It is thought of this way perhaps because the plant is not all that common, and because other tastier seeds – like mesquite -- were usually available to some of the desert people.

I’m curious – does anyone out there have personal experience with this seed?  I’ve eaten some and found  them good, and I don’t think I would classify them as “survival food.”  I’d like to hear from anyone else who has some personal knowledge of this plant.

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The Kid From The Big Apple 2 – Before We Forget

On Saturday, my bestie and I went for a movie date to The Kid From The Big Apple 2 : Before We Forget.  We made a pact to watch a tear-jerker together because we both wanted to have a good cry.  Yes we are that crazy.

I felt a little upset that my favourite actress Jessica Hsuan was no longer playing Sarah’s (the granddaughter who is from New York) mom.  She has been replaced by local actress, Debbie Goh who is a wonderful actress and portrayed her role as Sophia very well.

TKFTBA2 is about Grandpa (Ti Lung) facing dementia and he starts to lose his memory.  The family is preparing their lives to cope with this disease and staying strong.  There are many heartbreaking scenes that made us bawled.  Old songs from the 80’s, made popular by Teresa Teng are also featured in this movie.  Made it

I remember one scene where Grandpa was not himself and kept looking for his dead wife.  He was agitated and locked himself in the room.  Sarah was scared and asked her mom what happened to grandpa and how can he become like this.  Sophia told her that this is not the grandpa talking but the disease.  It just shows how dementia can have a massive effect on a person as well as their families.

We should cherish our loved ones now.

Overall, I would say that I prefer The Kid From The Big Apple 1 compared to this.  TKFTBA2 is heavier with lots of

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

A Piece of Cake

Or rather - the whole cake. It's been several years since I've made a layer cake, but I've made two in the same week - same recipe, too. Deep chocolaty goodness with a fluffy seven minute icing.

Shana's making spaghetti and meatballs with a home made sauce. It'll be a yummy dinner at our house with the Humps. Maybe later I'll be watching the Academy Awards, only to crawl out of my chair afterwards swearing as always NEVER to watch that again. I may set up to wind my skein of Cherry Tree Blueberry Hill lace weight silk while I watch it so I won't just be blowing off a whole evening to alternate boredom and exasperation. Then the yarn will be ready to go. It's definitely next on the queue (I'll alternate with the sock monkey) and I may have decided on the pattern at last. I'm thinking of the lovely Float Stole in this spring's Interweave Knits. It's a lengthwise cast on, which will help to avoid pooling, and a simple enough pattern to use with a richly colored hand paint.

Yesterday we saw Coraline in 3D. Shana and I agreed - it's wonderful, but way too scary for young children even though it's animated. Late this morning we hung out watching Body of Lies. It's a really good movie, but really depressing. In my opinion, Russell Crow is a better actor now than he was when he won the Academy Award, if less of a cutie. I did get the last of the leg repeats and the heel turned on my latest socks. I'm now well into the gusset. I thought I had already taken a picture of the completed yellow eyelet rib socks, but apparently not.

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zippiknits said...

Delicious looking socks, I love that yellow. And, that's a yummy looking cake, too.

Tell Shana that I used to have three dutch ovens but now only two. They are great for camping. There's a book called The Cowboy's Cookbook that has lots of recipes in it.


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Monday, March 26, 2012

Happy Mother's Day

Here are the other 2 cards I made tonight, also for Mother's Day. I used a sketch from Craft's Meow their monthly challenge. And here they are:

I love the color purple and I think it really suits this particular flower. The only difference between the 2 cards is the size of the flower, the brads and the way sentiment is placed. Ialso used the Craft's Meow Digi freebie on this card.

Well I hope you enjoyed my creations, not sure I'll be able to post more tonight but I will definitely go back and try..LOL!!

Good night & Remember to...
love  & create

~amy~ said...

Nice work with the digi!!! Fab cards!! Thanks for joining us at The Craft's Meow!

Vicky said...

very elegant mother's day card!

Karen B. said...

I agree with Amy, nice work with the digi! Thanks for playing at The Craft's Meow!


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