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NYSE announced a "community" cloud infrastructure based on Intel blade servers, VMware vShield and EMC's VNX unified storage for capital markets.
NEW YORK-The technology services arm of the New York Stock Exchange Euronext has launched a cloud computing platform that will allow trading firms and banks to outsource their operations. This is the first public "financial services-specific" cloud platform, NYSE Technologies said. The cloud, officially known as the Capital Markets Community Platform, will host customer applications and trading services, Dominique Cerutti, NYSE Euronext president and CEO, said at the launch event here on June 1. The platform will offer electronic trading, market data analysis, algorithm testing and regulatory reporting. Customers will also be able to access cloud-based versions of NYSE services such as Superfeed, Risk Management Gateway and the Managed Services Hub.
NYSE Technologies teamed up with virtualization software vendor VMware and data storage giant EMC to create the Community Platform. CMPC, expected to go live July 1, is running on Intel Xeon-powered blade servers from Hewlett-Packard, EMC's VNX unified storage platform and VMware's vShield.
"We said, 'Let us do the plumbing,'" Stanley Young, NYSE Technologies CEO, said at the launch event. NYSE Technologies will take care of the platform and the infrastructure and let the clients focus on the services, according to Young. NYSE Technologies will be creating a virtual trading hub that will connect large and small trading firms. The Community Platform differs from private hubs from groups such as Equinix because it will be a more open and public platform, Young said. "We're market-neutral in the sense that we run markets, but we also enable transactions to flow through other markets," said Young.
NYSE Technologies will be using its two "massive" state-of-the-art data centers in Mahwah, N.J., and Basildon, England, according to Young. NYSE plans to partner with other liquidity centers in Sao Paolo, Toronto and Tokyo to create "satellite hubs," Young said. "Order management systems, execution management systems, back testing-so much of the flow can be contained within the physical walls of our data center, reducing the time to trade," said Young. The "community cloud" will not be connected to the rest of the Internet, but users will be able to interact with each other, according to Carl Eschenbach, head of cloud systems at VMware. Trading firms and banks are interested in outsourcing more aspects of their business to cut costs while still investing in cutting-edge technology and taking advantage of new platforms. While the financial services industry as a whole tends to be early adopters of new technology, financial markets have been relatively slow to embrace cloud services, primarily because of lingering concerns over
security and compliance in the cloud
. "The goal is an open platform to enable frictionless trading," said Young. NYSE's cloud will provide trading data that can be used to test algorithms with NYSE market data, saving time and expense of downloading the data to a separate center. It can also host proprietary trading software, although firms can also choose to use dedicated hardware in a private cloud scenario. Cerutti noted that the cloud will be most useful for historical market data analysis. Instead of having to download the data late at night, a process that may take several hours, and then uploading it to the customer servers before running any kind of analysis, customers can just point their analytics tools to the cloud for immediate data processing, Cerutti said. "These are not set-the-world-alight applications ... but they take massive costs out of the industry," Young said. "We're seeing the first of a wave of these special-purpose clouds," said EMC President and COO Howard Elias at the event. Although NYSE is opening up its data centers to customers, it will not provide the actual infrastructure. Customers will log in through vCloud Director and provision an operating system, either Red Hat Linux or Windows, and then install their own software, according to Young. NYSE will also offer only dedicated hardware for real-time trading systems, not virtual servers, according to Cerutti. Pico Quantitative Trading, a division of Goldman Sachs, and Millennium Management, a hedge fund, have already signed up as customers and began the beta program over the weekend, Young said. NYSE Technologies has a roster of more than 1,200 buy- and sell-side companies, and Young said he hopes all of them will eventually take advantage of the service. Startup companies will find it cheaper to launch with NYSE's cloud computing platform because they won't need to make "significant capital expenditures," said Jarrod Yuster, Pico's CEO. NYSE Technologies reported annual revenues of $460 million at the end of 2010, but plans to hit $1 billion in sales by 2015. Cerutti said this cloud platform will go a long way toward enabling the company to reach this goal. "People cannot go back to the business model of three years ago. Clients are asking for more services at less cost," Young said.
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Preview: Ohio State
Michigan (13-13, 6-8 B1G) vs Ohio State (19-7, 8-5) |
Crisler Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
WHEN | 1 pm ET, Sunday |
LINE | Ohio State -6 (KenPom) |
CBS PBP: Kevin Harlan Analyst: Bill Raftery |
Before diving into the preview, let's take a look at next year's Big Ten schedule breakdown, which was released by the conference today:
Michigan Men's Basketball 2016 Big Ten Opponents
Home/Away: Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, Penn State, Purdue
Home: Indiana, Michigan State, Northwestern, Rutgers
Away: Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio State, Wisconsin
On the plus side, it's a relatively favorable schedule. Michigan's toughest home-and-home is, uh, Iowa? Maryland? While the road-only slate is rough, that's a schedule set up for making a run.
From a fan's perspective, however, it sucks that we won't see Ohio State or Nebraska in Crisler next year; ditto trips to the Breslin Center or Assembly Hall.
At this point, it's NIT bubble watch time. DRatings dropped Michigan from a two-seed to a four-seed in their latest update. The Bracket Matrix had the Wolverines as a six-seed before the loss to MSU. A loss to the Buckeyes won't bump Michigan from NIT contention, but a victory would make the stretch run a lot less daunting.
Ohio State wallopped Michigan, 71-52, in Columbus. The Wolverines couldn't slow down freshman phenom D'Angelo Russell, who tallied 21 points and six assists, and they only managed 0.83 PPP even with LeVert and Walton in the lineup.
Projected starters are in bold. Hover over headers for stat explanations. The "Should I Be Mad If He Hits A Three" methodology: we're mad if a guy who's not good at shooting somehow hits one. Yes, you're still allowed to be unhappy if a proven shooter is left open. It's a free country.
Pos. | # | Name | Yr. | Ht./Wt. | %Min | %Poss | SIBMIHHAT | ||||||||||||
G | 3 | Shannon Scott | Sr. | 6'1, 185 | 79 | 20 | Yes | ||||||||||||
Great defender, facilitates offense well, still not much of a shooter. | |||||||||||||||||||
G | 0 | D'Angelo Russell | Fr. | 6'5, 180 | 90 | 29 | No | ||||||||||||
Volume scorer. Great outside shooter, even off dribble. Solid passer, too. | |||||||||||||||||||
F | 12 | Sam Thompson | Sr. | 6'7, 200 | 88 | 18 | Yes | ||||||||||||
Ridiculous hops. Very good finisher. Not a good shooter. | |||||||||||||||||||
F | 1 | Jae'Sean Tate | Fr. | 6'4, 190 | 59 | 21 | Yes | ||||||||||||
Excellent on the boards, good finisher, active defender. Turnover-prone. | |||||||||||||||||||
C | 23 | Amir Williams | Sr. | 6'11, 250 | 43 | 15 | Very | ||||||||||||
Effective finisher, good rebounder, blocks lots of shots. Turnover-prone. | |||||||||||||||||||
F | 2 | Marc Loving | So. | 6'7, 215 | 51 | 19 | No | ||||||||||||
Losing role/PT to Tate, but still shooting above 50% from three. | |||||||||||||||||||
G | 15 | Kam Williams | Fr. | 6'2, 175 | 32 | 13 | No | ||||||||||||
Efficient scorer sticks mostly to spot-up threes. | |||||||||||||||||||
C | 55 | Trey McDonald | Sr. | 6'8, 240 | 23 | 15 | Very | ||||||||||||
Very good rebounder, especially on offense. Decent rim protector. |
While the Buckeyes have only won twice on the road—against Northwestern and Rutgers—since they last faced Michigan, they haven't been an easy out away from home; losses at Purdue and MSU came by a combined five points. They've easily handled all challengers at home since their Big Ten opener against Iowa. At 8-5, they're at the back of the group pushing for second place behind Wisconsin.
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Dear Diary for a Better Diag
Tremendous Lloyd quote!
That's a young-looking Lloyd Carr from the 1990 recruiting pamphlet that Bauglieve found on Ebay. In case the photos come down from there eventually I put them on the MGoServer for posterity (click for each):
The comments have mined all sorts of nuggets from these. Count my vote with those who want to see Harbaugh bring back one-handed, shirtless pushups on the Diag. The football fans would feel more connected to the players, and I'm sure the student body would appreciate the peck show way more than the usual entertainment in that space.
Team 138 offers its sarcastic gratitude. Originally posted in the forums, I moved Qmatic's walk through the wasted redshirts on Michigan's roster to the diaries because this is something we're going to be referencing all too often for the next few years. Morris is on there although he had to play once Bellomy tore his ACL because Gardner's ribs were becoming…you know what, let's not get into what Hoke did with Gardner.
I can show you how Hoke's redshirting practices compared to his predecessors because it's tracked on my spreadsheet:
Circumstances played a role in this certainly, but by Hoke's third year the rate of redshirting should have shown a climb into the 70s that a healthy program has. I'll probably address this in a Jimmystats sometime this offseason.
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Just a glance at his formations screams old-school, smash-mouth, 3-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust SPARTAAAA:
Thing is, these offenses are notorious for being predictable in an era of S&C parity. So why does it work?
Tell us, dragonchild.
Deep head trauma is bad. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a horrible, progressive, degenerative disease of the brain long known to the sports world as "punch drunk." The provable link between it and repetitive brain trauma (specifically deep trauma, i.e. not all concussions) is meaningful to football especially because there is a clear moral dilemma in rooting for people to do a thing that can do that to them.
Neurologists released a study awhile ago that linked the age of first exposure to football and cognitive impairment. As happens with released studies, a few people who read the peer reviewed journals pour over it, and media folk read the title, decided if it fit their favorite narrative, and either canonized it or ripped it.
TSS wrote a diary this week to walk you through the study and what it actually says, which is that the progression of CTE is suggestively linear from the point you started playing football.
Diary etc. Canadian's weekly college hockey update. Introducing grad transfer Wayne Lyons.
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Over the last couple of weeks it came out that the extremity of the student body's distribution of doucheiness is trying to Create the Future™ of Michigan-themed game day music. What I mean by that:
My best friend was not being hyperbolic about his freshman roommate.
Wolverine Devotee decided to use this as a reminder that we have traditional songs beyond The Victors. Hot Time might have been relegated to history, but we still sing Varsity during the pre-game, and Let's Go Blue!, and the cowbell cheer, as well as several covers the band has adopted (Blues Brothers, Temptation, Hawaiian War Chant), and the alma mater. If, like me, you've been singing "Denard Robinson, Robinson oh Robinson" to Varsity since Brian suggested it, maybe it's time we all learn the lyrics. They are (music):
Men of Michigan onto victory, Ev'ry man in ev'ry play.
Michigan expects her Varsity to win today!
Rah! Rah! Rah-rah-rah! Win for Michigan!
Varsity, Down the field.
Never yield, Raise high our shield.
March on to victory for Michigan,
(And the Maize and Blue)
Oh Varsity, We're for you,
Here for you to cheer for you.
We have no fear for you. Oh Varsity! (repeat)
At the risk of moving myself incrementally rightward in the douchechart, I posit that Michigan's second fight song is a better composition than 90% of fight songs.
Michigan House '75 has a brother in law who played from '69 to '73 with, among other legends, 1972 captain and right guard Tom Coyle, who passed away in 2012. This was how Coyle was recruited to Michigan:
He and Tommy had just gotten back from a job and were covered in paint. This and twelve other kids running around when Bo and Malony arrive. Old Man Coyle proceeds to pass beers around to everyone including Tommy. Bo is shocked, turns to Mrs. Coyle and says, "Excuse me Mrs. Coyle," and then turns to Tommy - "If you drink that beer, I'm going to kick your ass!"
Bo was no teetotaler, but he did refuse to do Michigan Replay if Budweiser was sponsoring it. So guess what happens then, or read on.
Your Moment of Zen:
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"I think we'll always run the option because what it can do to defenses." –Jim Harbaugh
Puck Preview: Ohio State Part 2
WHAT | Michigan (16-10, 8-4 B10) vs OSU (8-16-2, 3-9 B10) |
WHERE | Friday: Value Hut, Columbus Sunday: Yost Ice Arena |
WHEN | 7 PM Friday 5 PM Sunday |
LINE | nope |
TV | Friday: BTN Plus (which is no) Sunday: FSD Plus (which is yes) |
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This has been a miserable year for Ohio State even by their low standards. A big chunk of this misery is because they're having the same sort of year Michigan basketball is: injury-devastated. When Michigan played the Buckeyes in the 10-6 WTF game in January OSU could not even field a full 18 skaters, instead rolling out 7 D and 10 F. At points this season OSU has been wildly undermanned. This was the damage report as of mid-January:
There has been one injury after another for the Buckeyes, with two forwards — junior Tyler Lundey and senior Darik Angeli — being placed on the injury list on Jan. 2. Senior forward Chad Niddery came next on the injury list when he was added during the Penn State series last weekend. The bad news continued for the Buckeyes as freshman forward Luke Stork and freshman defenseman Janik Möser have been labeled as "day-to-day" and are not skating.
But that's not the whole of OSU's problems. They got a number of players back over the last couple weeks; this did not prevent them from handing a dire Wisconsin team their first Big Ten win (and just their third of the year). More alarmingly, the Corsi-deficient Badgers were nearly on par in shots, 28-30. Meanwhile, the previous night's game is OSU's only win since a 5-4 OT game at Penn State on January 9th.
This is not a talented team, and it's not a particularly young one. There a ton of seniors on the top lines, they're just not any good. It'll be interesting to watch OSU over the next few years as the autonomy process gives them an advantage over teams that have historically gotten better recruits because they care about hockey—they are poised to be one of the prime beneficiaries. If they're not, they'll be looking for yet another new head coach.
Anyway. With Michigan hanging on the wrong side of the tournament bubble, a sweep is imperative.
F Anthony Greco and F Tanner Fritz. These guys are pretty much the same player: little quick puck wizards with a lot of skill. Greco is by far the team's leading scorer with 14 goals, but he's got just three assists. Fritz has a 6-9-15 line, which counts as good on the goal-starved Buckeyes… but he is also –17 on the year.
D Sam Jardine. OSU's lone drafted skater, Jardine is in the slick puck-moving mold.
OSU has split time almost down the middle with sophomores Christian Frey and Matt Tomkins, both of whom Michigan has chased. In fact, OSU's third goalie has seen time in just two games, both of them Michigan goal romps.
No matter who's in net, the numbers are grim. Frey is at .909 save percentage, Tomkins .870.
OSU is horrible in both departments, converting at just a 14% rate and allowing opponents to score twice as often.
As mentioned, the last time these teams met Michigan blazed to a ten-goal game whilst allowing a whopping six to an OSU team that can't score in a warehouse full of exacto knives. In the long-long ago, these two teams played a similar but slightly less bonkers version of that a game, an 8-3 facecrushing at Yost.
Michigan needs a sweep here after having lost three of their last four. That skid saw them dumped out of the at-large spots in the pairwise, and with the Big Ten's two worst teams coming up the next two weekends, 4-0 is probably just enough to put them back in, shakily. These are must win games.
OSU just wants this season over with a minimal amount of NOT IN THE FACE.
Sweep or die.
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When I write a thing of that length that I figure will stand as one of the things people think about when they think about MGoBlog, I like to talk about the aftermath.
WHY. A number of protests were lodged about why I wouldn't just leave the past in the past and move on. There are multiple reasons that post needed to happen.
- I needed an elucidation of the argument I couldn't quite make when I was on with Dan Dakich in the aftermath of the email article. The way in which Brandon screwed up so hard with Morris was a natural result of the way he approached every petty problem he met previously, an indication that he was a terrible leader for reasons both private and public.
- This is a space that tries to document what happens to Michigan. I got the same complaints about my Rich Rodriguez obit. We mostly look backwards here, talking about what has happened. Not having a summary of the Brandon era would have been a glaring omission. I do these for players annually, usually in the magazine. Hoke will get a (much less incendiary) recap as well.
- Never forget. For this to not happen again we must identify the problem and remain vigilant against its recurrence. Those who forget history, etc.
Now that I've said my piece we can move on. Harbaugh excelsior.
WHY NOW. A variant on the previous bullet:
Brian's post has no new information or even new feelings or analysis of information he compiled. It doesn't even have information or ideas new to his own previous posts on this blog. Why did he do this? I'm genuinely curious. It's like a political post mortem in The New Republic or Investor's Business Daily against a vanquished foe, but an untimely one. Has the piece been on his desktop for the last several months awaiting completion? Was he waiting for additional DB shoes to drop that would need inclusion? Was it an incredible stream-of-consciouness thing that just kinda poured out of him over a few very intense hours? I don't know, but I'd like to. Brian?
I will say that it is very clearly grave dancing, but it's Baryshnikov or Shakira cutting the rug, or dirt or whatever (apologies to dance fans if these examples are crap, but you get the picture).
Brandon was canned during football season, when time for a 5k word piece was not available. Then we had the coaching search, which sucked up all available oxygen—I barely thought about this piece until Harbaugh was in the boat. After that was the recruiting sprint to Signing Day. All of these things took precedence; now that we're past all that it was time.
FWIW, the piece was assembled in bursts, with a slim majority of it coming together in the last couple days.
On calling someone a piece of shit human being. Some protests about that phrasing. This seems like different borders for a term. Complaints about it tended to invoke physical violence against innocents, ISIS, Boko Haram, assertions verging on Godwin and occasionally directly invoking it. I would file such things under "evil," "monstrous," etc. Being a shitty person doesn't rise to that level.
I did get a very long, well-argued email from a walk-on who had been around for a portion of the Brandon era asking me to separate out my critiques of the man from critiques of the athletic director. It cited a number of positive personal interactions with Brandon, and it's true that the one group of people universally in his corner are student-athletes. John U Bacon invited me to present a guest lecture to one of his classes this fall; as fate would have it that date landed about ten days after the Morris incident. Bacon's class was split about down the middle between athletes and regular students, and when I expressed my opinion about Brandon bluntly I got equally blunt pushback from a couple of the athletes.
I appreciate that point of view. I reject it all the same. Brandon was clearly not an asshole to all people. That does not excuse the careers he shattered for little or no reason or the condescension to people trying to talk to him politely. I still can't get over the guy taking shots at some emailer's marriage when he was being painfully polite whilst trying to explain why Brandon had caused him an issue by telling his wife to find a new team. It doesn't excuse the relentless strip-mining of Michigan's primary asset, fan goodwill, in order to make the spreadsheet numbers go in the right direction. It doesn't excuse the constant litany of untruths culminating in a five-day firestorm based on the fact that Brandon's first reaction to any crisis was to lie.
I believe his interactions with the student-athletes were genuine and positive. I don't judge people based on how they treat their most favored class of person. Nixon had a dog, after all.
On giving money to Mott. There's a parable about this.
On cancer kid. It's easy to be nice to kids with cancer, especially when you trumpet it from the mountain. It's standard practice to be open to Make-a-Wish; not doing so results in major backlash and Brandon's not a literal psychopath. When these arguments are made I always think of the Chris Rock bit about how you're not SUPPOSED to go to jail, you low-expectations-havin' mofo.
On the civility of the previous bullet point. Not very civil, I agree. I did weigh that, but I felt that pulling punches in any way here was 1) not going to be credible and 2) did a disservice to the lesson learned. I often write swears in first drafts that get edited out later, sometimes to my regret. There is something about the well-placed expletive that gets a point across in a way I cannot seem to replicate with less naughty language, and this was a full-auto post.
On the shittiness of those emails. From user Evenyoubrutus:
What convinced me of how clueless he really was was his email that said "I suggest you find a new team to support." This was clear proof that he was still trying to sell pizzas instead of honoring the tradition of Michigan Football. Yes, if you don't like Domino's, try Pizza Hut. But I don't have over two decades of memories of sitting down at Domino's with my dad since I was a fucking CHILD eating the pizza, and memorobilia of Domino's items and memories in my house, and I don't dream of sharing the same experiences eating Domino's with my young boys, or memories of watching Domino's win championships and feeling some of the happiest moments of my life because Domino's! "Find a new team to support" Okay. Ass.
On things I missed. Inevitably there were going to be issues and problems with the Brandon era I missed, even in a post pushing 5k words. A selection:
- BursleyHall82 reminds us that it was only a sustained campaign from MVictors that finally got Brandon to relent and allow Willis Ward to be honored and his story told.
- I did not mention "The Process" via which Rodriguez was fired. That two-day dog and pony show was a quintessential example of doing something ostentatious to look impressive instead of just getting it over with quickly. Hackett fired Hoke and announced it in about 10 minutes, because he is not concerned with looking impressive. (Hackett occasionally dresses like Seinfeld's dad because he gets things done instead of picking out clothes.)
- JeepinBen points out I didn't mention the press blitz after the Morris incident or the infamous "my personality is to the best of my ability and I have to fix that" statement. That was triply odious: Brandon hired a PR firm only after he'd burned the house down and then spent Michigan's money trying to prop himself up instead of repairing the damage he'd done. Add in the content of said blitz and you've got a triple. Oh, and he invoked his family as a shield. Home run.
- I missed the giant Brandontron next to the stadium.
- And of course whenever I bring it up more people add their stories to the list, including this gentleman who was dismayed because the athletic department tried to charge the hospital a licensing fee for sick babies in winged helmets.
- There are many, many stories of people in the department being treated shabbily from Jon Falk on down. I didn't mention most of them because I hear most of them indirectly. Bacon's upcoming book on all this should shed a lot of light in this department; he reports that he has never seen people more eager to talk to him.
On revenues as a measuring stick. A common defense of Brandon is to point at the budget. I've repeatedly stated why I don't buy that argument but I've never stated it as eloquently as Blue Durham did in a comment on the post:
Increased revenues from sources like the Big Ten Channel can't be attributed to anything that he had done, and others, like Brian refers to, like the sale of water or the hoped-for rental of seat cushions(!), bring in little but have a great, negative impact in PR. So where is Brandon's biggest contribution in increasing revenues?
As far as I can tell, it was by increasing ticket prices. But all that did was to sell off an asset built up by preceding ADs, the waiting list and goodwill of fans, alumni, and students. When I was an undergraduate and graduate student at UM in the 1980's, everyone knew that the AD could have easily charged more for tickets.
But I think this was part of a policy to try to treat current students as future donors, and for the alumni, as a way to stay connected to the University in order to have more generous donors. Obviously this worked given all of the alumni events that occur every fall that revolve around a home football game.
All Brandon did was sell this asset off, to the University's detriment. This is akin to a kid selling is father's car and taking credit for all of the money he made doing it without taking into account the value of the car.
The damage he wrought in that department will be felt for years, or at least until HARBAUGH
On solutions. User Njia protests that the post was an unconstructive bombing. Guilty as charged. I'll put together something about the direction to go in an effort to rebuild ground zero.
The unedited post is available as an e-book for 50 bucks. To buy one, just go to this video of Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up."
And now let's never talk about… that again.
Thursday Recruitin' Is Rendered Speechless
The Best Players In Michigan...
...well, at the very least, they're getting offers from Michigan.
Tuesday's MSU game gave Michigan the opportunity to host several in-state prospects and dole out some offers. 2016 four-star Southfield RB Matt Falcon received one, though with Tennessee as his stated leader it'll be an uphill climb to gain his commitment, per MichiganPreps.com's Branden Hunter ($):
"It was pretty sweet seeing two quarterbacks on their way to the league. Something special," said Falcon. "I really enjoyed spending time with the coaching staff, and getting to know everyone and how they operate. I think Coach Harbaugh has his team headed in the right direction. He will do big things with the Wolverines. I could see myself playing there, but I don't know if that will happen. I still have to enjoy the process."
While there's plenty of time to catch up to Tennessee, the Vols are in strong position right now. Michigan should get more traction with a couple more offers from the evening. Three-star Farmington WR Desmond Fitzpatrick, a Louisville commit, grew up a Michigan fan, and his father told Allen Trieu that the offer meant a lot to him ($):
"As he got older," Fitzpatrick continued, "and watched the program struggle, it appeared those childhood feelings faded. When he received the offer last night, his reaction surprised me. He was a little emotional."
Fitzpatrick remains committed to Louisville, but it sounds like he's quite open to the possibility of playing closer to home. So is four-star Cass Tech DB Demetric Vance, who also added an offer Tuesday night, per GBW's Josh Newkirk ($):
"I was real excited," Vance said of Michigan offer. "I really liked the coaching staff. They made really think I want to go there. It was just a good experience. For me to meet the new coaching staff, it seem liked I already knew them for so long. It feels good."
Vance plans to decide after the summer. Michigan's main competition should be MSU, though Pitt and Tennessee are also involved. Vance's teammate, elite 2017 WR Donovan Peoples-Jones, could hardly talk when Harbaugh offered him, per The Wolverine's Brandon Brown ($):
"It happened at halftime of the basketball game," Peoples-Jones explained. "Coach [Jim] Harbaugh came and talked to me one on one and told me that I had a scholarship offer from the University of Michigan.
"I was honestly at a loss for words. I managed to say, 'Thank you coach, I really appreciate it.' It felt great to know that I could possibly be coached under a man with so much success."
Peoples-Jones is a national-level prospect and his recruitment could very well come down to a Michigan-OSU battle.
M also hosted a couple prospects already holding offers. 2016 Farmington Hills Harrison four-star DE Khalid Kareem is now seriously considering the Wolverines, his father told 247's Steve Wiltfong ($):
"It was amazing. It was a good atmosphere. It was my first time going up there with the new staff, and to be honest with you it was probably one of our best visits. We had the opportunity to get a lot of 1-on-1 time with Coach (Greg) Mattison and Coach (D.J.) Durkin. When we got there they kind of immediately gravitated towards us, ate with us, took us in the meeting room, watched film, saw how Khalid fit in their defense, different body types, things like that.
"It opened up his mind to the idea of playing for Michigan."
Kareem previously committed to MSU for all of two days before his parents helped convince him it was too early to make a commitment. Let's hope this goes the way of Lawrence Marshall.
Rounding out the Cass Tech contingent was 2016 four-star OG/DT Michael Onwenu, who told 247's Steve Lorenz that the coaches were jokingly fighting over which side of the ball he'd play in Ann Arbor ($).
2016 Southfield LB Will Small self-reported an offer, but that's been refuted by multiple outlets.
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Do you think we should take both? So Bryce Petty and Jameis Winston stopped by Schembechler yesterday to hang with Mr. Harbaugh.
QBs Jameis Winston (FSU) & Bryce Petty (Baylor) are preparing for the NFL Combine at Schembechler Hall. pic.twitter.com/2ICM9XMVrc
— Michigan Football (@umichfootball) February 17, 2015
This is good publicity, and then they brainwash both of 'em to say things that went beyond kind boilerplate into angry-phone-call-from-Jimbo territory. Winston:
"These guys don't know how blessed they are to have this kind of facility. I mean, Florida State, we're a very prestigious school, we have nice stuff, but we don't have this. I'm sorry, I love Florida State. Go 'Noles till the day I die, but they're so much [more] advanced than us."
"This is bar none the best one that I've seen. We've got great ones in Waco, you know I love what we had at Baylor, and so it's cool to kind of see other places, and this is definitely by far one of the best I've seen."
Winston again:
"It was a blessing to meet a guy like that. It was an honor to meet him. All of his accomplishments, and the type of coach that he is, I wish I could have played for him."
Petty again:
"If there's anybody that you want to play for as a player, it's a coach like him. Just a fan, energetic guy, passionate about football. From the second he came over here he was sizing up Jameis and wanted to see his grip. He's just a quarterback. And that's the coolest part about playing the position and being coached by somebody that's been there and done that."
Ndamukong Suh showed up today, because why not.
#fans "@umichfootball: Great having @NdamukongSuh visit Schembechler Hall this morning! pic.twitter.com/IeA2wvATkd"
— MGoJen (@MGoJen) February 19, 2015
Can't hurt recruiting, that. Unless people think those pants are mandatory.
Doing what needs to be done. Note that this kind of thing did not happen under Hoke, who didn't have twitter at all. Harbaugh's firing off shade tweets at OSU and putting his mug on the internet with NFL stars, to wide publicity.
Michigan is—ugh no way around it—Leveraging Social Media much better than they did under the previous regime, during which they rarely did anything anyone would pay attention. Brandon (or rather his ghost-tweeter) tended to send out the kind of #hashtag tweets that make you sound like a broken robot. Hoke was invisible, and nothing that was interesting enough to pass around was constructed. The Winston/Petty stuff had some viral quality to it. That serves the program well.
Good to see goals other than incremental revenue being advanced these days.
Iggy Pop's biggest musical influence. Via MVictors comes this amazing story about Iggy Pop confusing some guy who met him in a bar:
"You're Iggy Pop, man. I love your stuff. I'm from Michigan too," I rambled on, sounding as moronic as the Pop is accused of being by some of his critics.
Iggy pointed to my t-shirt with the word Michigan splayed across my chest. "Meeschigan," he said, holding his right arm in front of his slight chest in a 90-degree angle. "Meeschigan."
After a minute or so of gushing and trying to open up a conversation with the man who's music, with the Stooges anyway, was the soundtrack to much of my late adolescence and early adulthood, all I could get out of the guy was "Meeschigan." As I turned to go back to the boys, I decided Iggy was either too burned out by the adulation of the years and hero worshiping kids like me or the critics were right. He was so sort of junkie savant. Either way, I was utterly confused by our meeting. …
Half an hour later, AMC had gone through a series of ballads that failed to alter the weird, contained rage from the mosh pit. I felt a tug at my shirt and turned around. I looked down right at Iggy Pop.
"Meeschigan," he said, his arm cocked at that 90-degree angle.
"Meeschigan," I answered him, my arm at the same angle. He turned and walked out with his Ginger look alike on his arm.
Iggy Pop, spreading the Ufer gospel wherever he goes. Confusingly. Demanding that people imbibe the spirit of Ufer before departing with his girlfriend. Following them around.
Adding to the weird. According to a podcast interview with licensed twitter troll Tim Kawakami, Jim Harbaugh's favorite restaurant ever is…
The best restaurant he's ever been to: "Cracker Barrel ... you can't beat the bacon."
Harbaugh then put his twitter where his mouth is.
Enjoying dinner with Addie at the Cracker Barrel: Life is Good! pic.twitter.com/pCV6pYHhGA
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) February 17, 2015
FWIW, my wife used to work at Cracker Barrel in high school. When I told her this, she expelled a sad, hurt sigh. The kind of sigh you expel when someone has told you something horrible. "Cracker Barrel isn't supposed to be anyone's favorite restaurant," she relates, "but if your main priority is getting out of the restaurant as fast as possible, Cracker Barrel is great at that."
I think we have found a reason.
(Also they make all their stuff from scratch instead of taking it off the SYSCO truck, so there's that.)
Miss you big guy XOXO. Charlie Weis is taking the slow boat to Shoney's:
For the first time since 1978, Weis will spend a football offseason as a bystander and not a coach. And it might very well be for good.
"I think it's highly doubtful that I will ever coach again," said the 58-year-old former Notre Dame head coach whose five-year regime in South Bend, punctuated by extremes, launched 10 seasons ago.
"…because I will still be paid to coach until the sun engulfs the earth and would rather follow Bon Jovi around than deal with people who don't understand my schematic genius."
Weis was a bad football coach and a good enemy, and for that I thank him.
(By the way, never go to Shoney's. Never ever.)
The ineligibility gambit. This will never happen but hopefully the NCAA folk pushing it know that and are trying to leverage the NBA:
7. Address the "one and done" phenomenon in men's basketball. If the National Basketball Association and its Players Association are unable to agree on raising the age limit for players, consider restoring the freshman ineligibility rule in men's basketball.
In today's lawsuit-rich environment that would be the equivalent of slapping a "SUE ME" sign on your own back, but anything that fixes one and done is a good idea. Increasing the age limit is the wrong direction, but anything is better than the current system.
Normally I would believe that this is just a leverage play but you never know with the NCAA. Bob Bowlsby, the Big 12 commisioner, makes a somewhat self-contradictory case for it:
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said there is "almost a uniform acknowledgment that there's kids in college that don't have any interest in an education and don't have the proper education to take advantage of an education." Bowlsby said freshman ineligibility would have a "profoundly positive effect" on football and men's basketball by easing the transition from high school without the distractions of competition.
"I think there's a growing interest in a robust debate, and I think we ought to drag it to the ground and consider it any way we can," Bowlsby said. "I think it is the one change that could make an absolutely dramatic difference in college athletics."
Kids who don't have interest in education aren't going to find it because they can't play. I don't think that helps much of anything. Maybe it sends more Mudiay types overseas as they cool their heels. It may help the guys who are behind educationally, but how much when they're participating in all the team activities anyway? They don't have more time. They will be prepped to play just as much as any freshman.
It's impractical for a ton of reasons and won't happen, but go ahead rattle that sword just in case you knock a concession loose. The NBA draft is the worst system out there. The NHL or MLB models would be much preferable.
Des updated. Wolverine Historian has released a revised Desmond Howard tribute video. Up to 20 minutes(!).
Etc.: Lax getting good? Well done, gymnastics. Petty-Winston IM building faceoff! Don't expect Derrick Walton back soon. Maize and Blue Nation advocates blue versus red in The Game. I'm on board.


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Maajid Nawaz offers a riveting look at how his time in jail changed his views of Islam and its place in the world.
So why did "a Western-born Muslim who first found his voice of rebellion through a heady diet of American hip-hop, graffiti, and dance" join Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), a worldwide Islamist organization, and end up languishing in an Egyptian jail for four years?
Answer: Because Islamism gave his hip-hop identity a badass, exotically foreign sheen – and scared the white racists hounding him more than any rap song ever could. But this very Islamism, which Maajid Nawaz, author (with Tom Bromley) of the riveting Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism succinctly defines as "the desire to impose any given interpretation of Islam over society as law," had much more in store for him. It plunged an earnest but frightfully ignorant and impressionable young man into conflicts far greater and more dangerous than the neighborhood scuffles he was getting into in Southend, his hometown in the southeastern part of England.
Nawaz, born into a Pakistani-British family in 1978, is today best known as co-founder and chairman of Quilliam, a think tank dedicated to countering the Islamist narrative of Muslim victimhood and revenge. (He may soon make a name for himself in politics; the Liberal Democrats have chosen him to run for a seat in the House of Commons in 2015.) Earlier, he gained renown of a more infamous variety as a rabble-rouser at London's Newham College and then as an international recruiter for Hizb ut-Tahrir, a group which aims to re-establish the Islamic caliphate not through violence but by convincing high-ranking military figures in any Muslim-majority country to topple the government and proceeding from there.
Another co-founder of Quilliam, Ed Husain (who also attended Newham), wrote an arresting account of his own history as an HT member, "The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left." The main difference between the two men's trajectories is shocking, and shows just how firmly fanaticism took hold of Nawaz. When a tough-talking Christian student at Newham was murdered by a non-HT Muslim acquaintance of Nawaz and Husain's during a knife-fight, a horrified Husain began his slow drift toward moderation. Nawaz, on the other hand, did not suffer any pangs of remorse for helping to foster a climate of Muslim supremacism and hatred of others. Indeed, he went on to recruit for HT in Pakistan and Denmark, was unfazed by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and made his way to Hosni Mubarak's Egypt. This proved to be his undoing. In 2002, 24-year-old Nawaz and several others were arrested for HT-related activities under Egypt's Emergency Laws.


text: Forums The Young and the Restless Good News for Soap Fans…Finally A Silver Lining Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) Author Posts December 7, 2011 at 12:37 am #120254 harlee490 963 Posts Here isn't this a kick, after all the bad news for soap fans the last 3 years this is definitely having a silver lining. BVDM distribuitng which has released ATWT DVD sets and sales have been VERY ROBUST and impressed and is in the season for better sales which means more profit for P&G. Starting early next year here comes GL for all of us LIGHTERS with the same set. They are going to continue to have future DVD sets of ATWT & GL packages and will be for sale at many retailers…IE WalMart, Kmart etc. That's not all starting next year BVDM has TWENTY ONE THOUSAND HOURS of online episodes they will be showing free on their website starting with ATWT & GL to kick it off. AW will probably be the next set I assume in spring to mid-summer and EON, Texas, SOF will be available by the end of next year for sale but only online distribution. We will eventfully see episodes of AW more than likely to be companion soap blocks on their website. The gentleman in charge is Mark Yates is showing some love to soap fans realizing the benefit. Here is a snippnet of what he said, this man knows the value of soap fans. He has secure other advertising for the site. Yates declined to say how many As The World Turns DVD box sets the company has sold since the initial offering in October. He did say SALES were ROBUST enough to attract 'a number of online sales and online partners' and to justify creating an aggressive release calendar for next year. That is no small feat considering nearly everyone else has pronounced the death of soap operas. Merry Christmas Lighters. Nothing like Christmas time in Springfield http://www.youtube.com/user/Spauldingfield#p/search/0/PDg3_MNbLPA "If I were a Wall Street investor," Yates said, "I'd be one of those guys who buys when the market is down." He added that while television networks view soap operas as a declining genre, he sees millions of viewers who want to continue watching these shows "There is a significant market that is feeling overlooked and under-served. I think no one is showing these fans respect for their loyalty to the programs," Yates said. "If we can do that, if we can show them respect, then I think we'll keep these fans as loyal to us as they are to their shows." But the response has been so overwhelming that the company will continue to produce the box sets, at least for World Turns and Guiding Light. While fans will begin seeing DVD sets for GUIDING LIGHT early next year, the other shows, including THE EDGE OF NIGHT and SEARCH FOR TOMORROW, are candidates for online-only distribution because audiences aren't as large, Yates said. Still, he added, something will be available from all of the shows by the end of 2012. And there may be more good news. Yates, who appears to know a little about drama and suspense too, said fans will have to tune in next time to learn what will happen. Soap fans should send a simple "Thank You" to Mark Yates & TeleNext for HEARING the cry(ing) of soap fans. I know I will. You never know, ABC has to be paying attention to this and seeing the success. You know the saying "success breeds success" so ABC could end up doing the same thing next year for their soaps after GH or BVDM could possibly get the distribution rights since it is called Soap Classics….HMMM. Link to full story over at WLS! http://www.welovesoaps.net/2011/12/soapclassics-will-hit-store-shelves.html#more :love: :love: :party: :beer: :beer: I will drink to that, made my Christmas. Might not have any good soaps on TV except DOOL but I still have my soap fix! December 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm #2093703 ABCJunky73 5 Posts I think that's great!!! Even thou OLTL is leaving soon :(, and PP stopped it's quest to air OLTL and AMC online, I think putting old soaps on DVD is a brillent idea! I commend these guys for what they did and it just goes to show that there are still soap fans out there in this country that love their soaps old and current and maybe it will show the networks who cancelled beloved show this past 3 years that maybe they made a mistake. Hopefully this site will pick up AMC and OLTL so I can buy classic shows on DVD. I just might go check out this site and watch some eposodes. December 11, 2011 at 1:03 pm #2093704 ABCJunky73 5 Posts I just hope sales will continue and it will show that talk show and reality shows are just not that popular as the networks thought! December 11, 2011 at 1:05 pm #2093705 ABCJunky73 5 Posts Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone! :santa: Viewing 4 posts - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) You must be logged in to reply to this topic.


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Panting with terror from the dream, he turned the lamp on with shaking hands, seizing the picture beside it so that he could trace over the lines of her features with his fingertips. It was the only thing that drove away the nightmares, as ashamed as he was of it. He had never been one to have night terrors, even as a child, Ludwig had slept soundly with only the occasional dream, and rarely nightmares. Now, he had nightmares every time he closed his eyes so that he slept little and was almost afraid of the dark. And they were always the same, the recurring dream of that night the Allgemeine Schutzstaffel, men he had known and counted as friends, had broken into his apartment to seize her. The twist that made the dream so horrifying was that she would rise and laugh with them, those black phantoms with red armbands, and they would congratulate each other on finding the real traitor: him. And every single one of their faces was a blank, smooth expanse of skin over their skulls with only shadowed indentations where there should have been eyes. Even her. And he was terrified because she had no face, but also because he couldn't remember the face she had had…
He blew out his breath, tracing her face and hair and figure in the picture with his trembling fingers, moisture welling in his eyes before he put the picture down and tried to stem the tears by burying his face in his pillows, nigh to stifling himself. He strangled the sobs, ashamed that even now she had such a hold on him, ashamed that he still dreamed about her, ashamed that his greatest fear was forgetting her face. He calmed, but still the rivulets flowed down his cheeks as he found himself remembering and reliving his last encounter with her. If only he had been softer, kinder, more forgiving! But he had not been any of those things, instead, he had tried to intimidate her, manhandled her, and she had shown not a trace of the deference and respect he had been accustomed to from her. Instead, she had shown him her defiance and her pride, her utter fearlessness, and her last words to him had been so full of assurance. At the time, he had thought her so misguided, but now he could only admire her adamant belief in her cause and now he was lost to his regret.
That was what his anger had faded to with time, to such deep, soul-burning regret that it was only the thought of leaving Gilbert with absolutely no one to lean on that kept Ludwig from attempting suicide. He wished he had been less angry at the time, better able to see what needed to be done, to try to save her and tell her that despite it all, he still loved her. But he had been blinded with his hurt at the betrayal; at the secret she had kept from him so well that he had never suspected her of anything. And hadn't she been right in the end? The war was over, his country had fallen, and he didn't know anymore whether he should take pride in the work he had done or not.
He dried his tears and got out of bed, bone-weary and wishing he could sleep, but afraid to try. Instead, he left his room, checking the clock. It was nearly five in the morning, but there was no point staying in bed. He padded to the kitchen in his bare feet, turning on the lights and reaching for the recipe box. It was the only thing he had kept from his pervious apartment, the only remainder of her besides the picture. He sifted through the cards, looking for the cinnamon coffee cake recipe that had always been his favorite. He deciphered her nearly illegible scrawl, gathering the ingredients slowly before he began measuring the wet and dry ingredients into separate bowls.
"You remembered," her voice said, as if she were standing just behind him. He nodded in agreement; clinging desperately to the voice that he heard, but knew wasn't really there.
"Gently now," she said, "Halve the wet ingredients. You know how much you hate a messy kitchen." He followed her instructions, saying nothing. He had learned that speaking to this specter of his mind dispersed the illusion, drove her voice away. It was his private solace, his most shameful secret: that when he baked using her recipes, he could hear her voice as if she were still with him.
He had been unable to part with her box of recipes, of all things, when he had sold the apartment and all its contents. His excuse was that her recipes were good, and he needed to feed himself and Gilbert if they were moving in together. When Gilbert had nearly destroyed the kitchen trying to bake one of her cakes, Ludwig had disposed of the ruined attempt and made it himself. Hearing her voice that first time had been terrifying: it was like she were a ghost summoned from his own personal hell. But if she was a ghost, she was benign one, never threatening, never insulting. She only offered him advice and only while he was baking. The conflicting desire at first had been overwhelming. He had wanted desperately to hear the voice that had faded from his memories, but was afraid and ashamed that he was hearing voices, and hers at that. Now, it soothed as much as tracing over her picture.
"Why a spoon, Ludwig? You should really be using a fork," she said, and he could hear the puzzlement knitting her brow, and a smile pulled at the corners of his mouth because he had used a spoon on purpose. He found a dinner fork and began beating the last of the wet ingredients into the batter. After he had poured the batter into a pan, he threw together the topping haphazardly, cinnamon, sugar, and nuts spilling across the counter.
"You're being messy on purpose," she accused, and he held in his amusement while she grumbled, "I should have known." There was no real irritation in the voice; rather, it was a sigh of resignation tinged with the hint of a knowing smile. He ignored it, wondering again if the voice was a hallucination. The way it reacted to him suggested that it might be, but a ghost with its own consciousness would have too.
"I'm fairly certain that this isn't healthy," she pointed out finally, her voice gentle, and he shrugged in response, not certain if it was really her or not, but not much caring either.
"You don't care, do you?" she queried, "I wash my hands of this nonsense." That was too funny to not laugh at because she was the nonsense. The cake went in the oven.
Gilbert dragged himself in, still too sleepy to comment on Ludwig's laughter.


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What are your thoughts? What do you prefer? Also how would you compare the S&W Bodyguard 38 to the other two?
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S&W versus Ruger????? not even a consideration IME. S&W = Cadillac Ruger = Hyundai
The 442 is just a overall outstanding weapon for a CCW- The Ruger is a good handgun--
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Thanks guys for your opinions, keep them comming!
Any opinions on the S&W Bodyguard 38 vs the S&W 442?
I had a chiefs special for over 10 years swapped out the grips and loved it. Rugers seems cheap to me. S&W feels more solid IMO.
Everyone is going to have a different "Expert Opinion" here. Mine is Ruger makes the very best revolver on the market. Well built, tough work horses. If you get a chance shoot a box or two of ammo out of each and decide after experiencing them yourself. We all like and dislike different guns for different reasons. The gun you shoot best is the best gun for you. The gun I shoot best is the best gun for me.
Both ruger and s&w are great choices. Depends on your budget. Buy both, then you always have a backup
I prefer my Ruger LCR to the S&W that I traded off for it.


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We have teamed up with our friends at Villa Geminiani. If you book either La Torre Sotto or La Torre Terra you'll receive a FREE POOL PASS which gives you free use of pool at Villa Geminiani which is just 10 minutes away from Casa La Torre. You really will have the best of both worlds - all the advantages of a property in the historic centre combined with a countryside pool!
Le Marche is a truly beautiful region of Italy located on the Eastern side of the country on the Adriatic Coast. This is the REAL ITALY. Unspoilt by mass international tourism - this is where Italians come to holiday and is where you will find one of Italys best kept secrets.
Your accommodation will be in the historical centre (centro storico) of the picture postcard hill top town of Montalto delle Marche which is strategically positioned between award winning beaches on the coast (which is only 25 minutes away) and the mountains of the Sibillini National Park.
"La Torre Sotto" is a beautiful apartment set on the first floor of this impressive 500 year old townhouse and comfortably sleeps up to 4. It has a shared garden accessed by a staircase from your apartment. The garden has a couple of seating areas, ample sun loungers and a couple of tables so is perfect for dining al fresco. It also has some shaded areas which is great for cooling off in the hot Italian sun.
The oldest part of the townhouse is a 700 year old lookout tower and is one of the oldest buildings in Montalto. This is where youll find your double bedroom with its fantastic views!
The twin bedroom has beamed ceilings which are typical of this region of Italy. The beams are several hundred years old and give a wonderful atmosphere to the room.
There is a very large and airy lounge with dining table, flat panel television and a selection of DVDs. There is also a good selection of novels that you are welcome to take with you to the beach.
WIFI broadband Internet is available free of charge using either your own equipment or the supplied computer.
There is parking just 2 minutes from the property and you will need to hire a car to explore this stunning region of Italy.
Montalto delle Marche
The town has a population of about 2400 so has all the services that you would expect of a town this size including: restaurants, bars, a bank, post office, tobacconist, fresh pasta shop, greengrocer, butcher, cheese and salami store, fishmonger, childrens playground and a cake shop (that we highly recommend)!
Some of the cultural and historical highlights not to miss in Montalto include:
• Wander around the old town which is like entering a picture postcard
• Visit the convent of Saint Augustine
• See the basilica of Santa Maria Assunta built in 1587 by Pope Sisto. while you are there go downstairs and youll see that this is a church build on a church.
• The museums at the town hall include the Archaeology Museum, Civic Picture Gallery, Prison Museum and Ethnographic Museum
• If you are lucky you might even hear "La Cordata" - the famous Montalto male choir practising.
• Don't miss the Wednesday morning market – pick up a bargain and great for foodies!
Out and About the Region
The only problem that you will have while you are here is fitting it all in. This is why many of our guests return year after year!
Some of the highlights to our beautiful region include:
• Visit Loreto - One of the holiest places in Italy.
• Have a day or more lazing on the blue flag beaches on the Adriatic coast.
• Go to the open air opera at Macerata
• Visit the provincial capital - Ascoli Piceno, which is thought to be older than Rome
• Take a walk in the Sibillini National Park with its breathtaking scenery.
• Go for a wine tasting in one of the local cantinas.
• Wonder around the local markets picking up a bargain or two.
• Enjoy a great firework display at one of the many festivals that take place throughout the year.
• Visit the Frasassi caves - thought to be the largest limestone caves in Europe.
This is a beautiful apartment with garden set in 500 year old townhouse attached to a 700 year old tower. Set between the Adriatic Coast and Sibillini National Park set in a picture postcard village.
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Fight Over 'Conan The Barbarian' Still Going Strong After 25 Years
Here's a legal battle that's been raging almost as long as Arnold Schwarzenegger's post-bodybuilding career.
Conan Properties Int'l, the creator and owner of the underlying rights to the "Conan the Barbarian" films, is suing several parties, including Lionsgate, Edward R. Pressman Productions, Modern Times Group, and others, seeking a piece of net profits from the films.
The series was conceived in 1977, and at the time, Conan Properties licensed rights to Edward Pressman Productions in return for five percent of all net profits from the film and its sequel. Five years later, when the film finally came out, EPP sublicensed the film, kicking off a series of handoffs. Conan sued EPP in 1983 and that matter was settled. But according to this complaint, the chain of custody, which assigned rights to the film from EPP to Paradise Films to December Associates to Modern Entertainment and finally to Lionsgate, left Conan Properties forgotten.
The defendants have breached the original EPP Agreement and 1983 settlement, the complaint alleges, by "failing to remit to (CPI) 5% of 100% of all net profits derived from the exploitation of the first film...and any sequel...based upon the Property, including but not limited to domostic and international distribution on DVD."
The lawsuit comes as Nu Image plans to begin production on a remake of "Conan the Barbarian."
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Cramer: Looks Like We're Holding Our Own
The housing business is percolating just fine, and lumber shipments keep increasing.
Only agriculture and coal are weak, and both might be hitting some sort of cyclical trough. It is true that plantings are not showing a robust ag year, and the downturn in ethanol is a headwind.
But coal inventories have been worked down big, and they are now in short supply. In fact, I think coal will turn up big if the weather gets warm and air conditioning starts running hard amid a bottom in natural gas. At these prices, those utilities that can shift are shifting. Don't forget that Union Pacific ships cleaner coal, the kind that newer coal plants can handle without running afoul of the Environmental Protection Agency.
All in all, if you sit down with Union Pacific, you get very encouraged that the U.S. is moving again. You know that things are on the right track, so to speak. You know that the energy boom is the single most important spur to growth this country has had in years and years, and that it remains an intense focus for growth.
Just so we're clear, though, this is all private sector. Nothing is being helped by Washington. Yet there's no doubt that if the government had supported this industry the way it supported solar, millions of jobs could be created in a relatively short period of time, perhaps as few as five years. Doesn't matter. It's fossil fuel. Not going to happen.Select the service that is right for you!
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It was Alison Bailey's fearlessness that brought her home. A 2003 graduate of CCA's Photography Program and now an associate producer for the Travel Channel TV show Bizarre Foods, Bailey asks herself every day as part of her job, "Where haven't I been before?"
It's this enthusiasm for exploration that originally brought her from Minneapolis to CCA, then across the country to New York, and finally back to Minneapolis in search of a creative career that felt like home.
She landed this job with Tremendous! Entertainment, the company that produces Bizarre Foods, in 2010. The show, now in its sixth season, introduces audiences to exotic and regional foods of the world, from Alaska to Thailand. As an associate producer, she plans the day-to-day pre-production schedule, researches people and locations for future shows, and coordinates the details of filming.
"It's a position that utilizes the curiosity I acquired at CCA. My favorite part is that I get to talk to crazy dreamers all day, all over the world. I have so much random knowledge now from all the time I spend researching for the show."
The Art School Decision
Bailey's decision to attend CCA came as a surprise to most of her friends in high school. "They told me, 'We had no idea you had any interest in art!'" Bailey spent three weeks of the summer before her senior year at CCA's Pre-College Program, having saved up for living expenses with a job at an ice cream shop.
"I was absolutely floored at my Pre-College experience. It was amazing to be around so many people who talked about art, and thought about things the same way I did. I applied to several California colleges and ultimately was deciding between art school and studying Spanish in a more liberal-arts type school. I made my decision standing in front of the mailbox holding two acceptance letters in my hand, one from CCA and one from another college. I decided it was time to start a new adventure, so off to Oakland I went."
She recalls working with stand-out instructors Franklin Williams, Jim Goldberg, Chris Johnson, and Larry Sultan. "They helped me develop the intellectual side of what I was doing and gave me strong encouragement. They taught me how to make creative decisions and have the confidence to back them up."
Bailey completed her degree in 2003, and was the commencement speaker at graduation. "I couldn't believe how the Bay Area had entered my psyche. There's a vibe to it that's so different from the rest of the world. At CCA I was able to be serious about the work I was producing, but still with that laid-back ability to see things in context."
Onward & Upward: Vehicle SF, dress code
After graduation she transitioned into a position at Vehicle SF, a design agency founded by CCA Graphic Design faculty member Dennis Crowe Then two years later, she and her then-boyfriend (and CCA alum) Andre Andreev (Graphic Design 2005) moved to New York.
While working a series of day jobs that were sometimes rewarding, sometimes maddening, she helped Andreev and his creative partner Dan Covert (Graphic Design 2004) set up their design studio, called dress code.
Watch CCA Graphic Design Alums G. Dan Covert and Andre Andreev discuss life after CCA »
They initially had day jobs at MTV, and were able to build from there a solid client base and eventually go full-time with dress code. "I was there when they named the company, and worked with them while they were setting up the business and transitioning it from a small partnership to a successful studio. They're really talented designers."
Adventures in Television: KMSP
By spring 2007, Bailey was reevaluating her life in New York. She traveled back home to Minneapolis for a break and a new perspective. "There was this big question of 'What do I do now?' And then I realized that Minneapolis is a really nice place."
She landed a position on the local Fox TV affiliate KMSP and over the next four years was promoted to a position in Strategy and Media Planning. "I was given a lot of latitude to try to improve ratings across many programs, from Maury Povich to the late-night news. I never thought I'd be interested in this type of work, but I discovered it was perfect for my personality."
It's been 10 years since Bailey graduated from CCA, and she couldn't be happier. "My mom always said I was getting a degree in creative problem solving. Although I'm not actively making artwork now, it was the many times in school that I stayed up all night trying to get a certain block of wood to work in a certain way in a particular piece -- all that kind of creative thinking, I now use every day. There have been so different parts to my career: times I've tried and failed, and others when I've succeeded. Right now, I feel like I'm on the right path."
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Blessed Claude Colin
Priest in the archdiocese of Paris, France. One of the Martyrs of September.
- 15 February 1728 in Charenton, Val-de-Marne, France
- 2 September 1792 at the Hôtel des Carmes, Paris, France
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Helen Brooks was born and educated in Northampton, England, where she still lives today with her husband and family. Although having enjoyed some wonderful holidays abroad she has never been tempted to live anywhere else, although she rather likes the idea of a holiday home close to the sea one day.
Helen met her husband at the age of 16 and 35 years later the magic is still there.
They have three lovely children, Cara, Faye, and Benjamin, and have always had a menagerie of animals in the house, which at the present is confined to two endearing and very comical dogs who would make a great double act on TV! The children, friends, and pets all keep the house buzzing and the food cupboards empty but Helen wouldn't have it any other way.
Helen began writing in 1990 as she approached that milestone of a birthday—40! She realized her two teenage ambitions (writing a novel and learning to drive) had been lost amid babies and hectic family life, so set about resurrecting then.
Her first novel was for Harlequin Mills and Boon and was accepted after one rewrite, and she passed her driving test (the former was a joy and the latter an unmitigated nightmare!) She has just finished her 38th novel for Harlequin as well as several sagas.
Being a committed Christian and fervent animal lover Helen finds spare time is always at a premium, but long walks in the countryside with her husband and dogs, meals out followed by the cinema or theater, reading, swimming, and having friends over for dinner are all fitted in somehow. She also enjoys sitting in her wonderfully therapeutic, rambling old garden in the sun with a glass of red wine, (under the guise of resting while thinking of course!)
Since becoming a full-time writer Helen has found her occupation one of pure joy and often surprised when her characters develop a mind of their own—but she loves exploring what makes people tick and finds the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction" to be absolutely true. She would love to hear from any readers on both sides of the Atlantic c/o Harlequin.


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