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More than 400 people attended a public hearing that the state's Division of Air Quality, or DAQ, held at UNCW last night. About 70 spoke out about an air permit extension application from cement manufacturer Titan America. If granted, the permit would loosen emission standards for the company's proposed Castle Hayne cement plant. While about 55 publicly urged the DAQ to deny the permit and 16 others spoke up in support of Titan, the one sentiment both camps share is dismay that zero elected officials attended the hearing.
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Alex Deucher publisher on Friday his feature Git tree for merging into the Linux 3.12 kernel. The key changes that will land in the kernel for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver includes:
- Support for Dynamic Power Management on Radeon HD 8000 (Sea Islands / CIK) GPUs (the Linux 3.11 kernel brought Radeon DPM support for pre-8000 series hardware).
- Support for Active-State Power Management (ASPM) on Radeon HD 8000 series hardware (like the DPM support, pre-CIK hardware has ASPM handling as of Linux 3.11).
- Support for Berlin GPUs. Berlin is AMD's codename for their first server APU built on their much talked about Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA). Berlin is an x86 APU and its graphics are derived from the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture (effectively the HD 7000 series). AMD Berlin APUs aren't expected to ship until H1'2014 so it's nice to see the graphics support land very early.
- Major ring handling clean-up.
- Removal of old 3D blit code for buffer object moves. Buffer object moves are now handled by the faster CP DMA or sDMA engines.
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Many of the WGC's current policy priorities ultimately relate to the impacts of the Internet and the digital revolution. Digital technologies have introduced new tools and platforms for creators, distributors, broadcasters, and consumers. These represent both opportunities for Canadian content creation as well as challenges to established business models. While the digital revolution has changed — and is changing — much in the media landscape, other things remain unaffected. Canada is still a small national market, and a linguistic and geographical neighbour to the largest media producer in the world. High-quality film and television production, particularly drama, is still an expensive and risky enterprise. Talent still requires opportunities to flourish, and talented people still need a way to earn a living if they are to continue to create. For all these reasons, Canadian cultural policies like CRTC broadcast regulation, copyright law, production funding, tax credits, and stable support for the CBC remain as relevant today as ever.
The WGC feels that many of these issues would be best dealt with in a national digital strategy emanating from the federal government. The WGC has advocated for just such a strategy for years. While the federal government has released various policies that purport to be part of a digital strategy, the WGC feels that a true, robust national digital strategy that fully responds to the challenges of the digital revolution, particularly as it relates Canadian content and culture, has yet to materialize. In the absence of such a strategy, we and other stakeholders will continue to deal with these impacts on a more-or-less piecemeal basis.
The following policy issues are of particular concern for the WGC at this time.
Following "Let's Talk TV" outcomes
The major CRTC policy process which finished in Sept. 2014, dubbed "Let's Talk TV," purported to deal with many of the issues wrought by the digital revolution. With an increased focus on Canadian consumers, the CRTC examined issues such as unbundling of cable packages, simultaneous substitution, Canadian programming requirements, and genre exclusivity. The WGC participated actively in this process, making detailed written submissions and appearing in person at the public hearing in September. Our submissions can be found on our website under policy issues, CRTC interventions.
With the formal process now over, we expect the CRTC to release related policies in the spring of 2015. The WGC will follow these developments, seek to understand their impact on members and the Canadian broadcasting sector as they emerge, and will take action where necessary.
Monitoring the success of the group-based licencing framework ahead of the 2016 group licence renewals
In 2010 the CRTC announced "A group-based approach to the licensing of private television services," a new television policy that was intended to respond to the advent of digital technologies and the consolidation of broadcasting companies, among other things. This policy included spending requirements on Canadian programming as a key method of ensuring that such programming is available to Canadians, in furtherance of the objectives of the Broadcasting Act. The policy was implemented in 2011, with most large broadcast groups given a five-year licence term. Those broadcasting licence terms expire in 2016, at which time the Bell Media, Shaw Media, Rogers Media, and Corus Entertainment licences will be up for renewal.
The WGC will participate in the licence renewal proceeding, but to contribute effectively we must have complete and accurate data on how the corporate broadcast groups, and the individual services they are comprised of, are meeting or not meeting the objectives of the group-based policy. Some of this data is currently publicly available, but is not at a granularity that we would prefer, and some data may not be complete. The WGC is working closely with other industry stakeholders to ensure that relevant data is made publicly available by the CRTC, to ensure that broadcasters are meeting the goals of CRTC policy.
Support for the CBC
It is no secret that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is facing significant challenges. Its Parliamentary appropriation has declined by close to 40% in inflation-adjusted dollars since 1990-1991, in an era when production costs have increased significantly. Its per-capita funding is amongst the lowest in the developed world, yet it must provide services in two official languages and across the second largest country by landmass on the planet. More recently, a softening advertising market has also hurt the CBC. This has affected all over-the-air broadcasters, but large, private broadcast groups like Bell Media and Shaw Media can better weather the storm by relying on their specialty channels which also receive subscription revenues. The CBC does not have that option. Clearly, we are not treating our national public broadcaster well, and this is showing in successive lay-offs and shifting programming strategies. The WGC seeks at every opportunity to raise these issues with government decision-makers. At a time when the digital revolution is threatening to undermine some sources of funding for Canadian content, a public broadcaster should be even more relevant, not less.
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Hey mommas out there, you remember your life before kids? You know, that time long ago when you didn't have to worry about getting someone else ready, but instead could rock that mid-section baring top and those short shorts!
When you go shopping, how many different pieces of clothing do you try on?
You probably don't know the answer to that exactly, but let's just say if you're a woman, it's a lot more than a man.
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Getting to the point where I need wheelchair and potty-chair for mom (98 1/2).
Have been using loaners from local charity but they have time limits. Has become apparent we will need to own these items for the duration if she is to stay at home.
Don't know if medicare has provision for payment or partial payment for such items. We have medicare part A,B, and D. We have money, but things are certainly tighter than they used to be.
Have good local sources for purchase but they seem to know next to nothing about how medicare does or doesn't fit in.
Would welcome advice about how to proceed.
Asolo, when I bought a walker for my mother, I found prices at local stores to be about twice as much online stores. The supplier in Southern CA that we used even had free shipping. And try Costco online, as well. Their prices on the walkers are good, don't know if they have wheel chairs.
We got a free, Medicare-issue walker, but it's only the bare bones aluminum zimmer. The models with larger wheels, baskets/seats were not available. And for those looking at buying walkers, the bare bones models with two small wheels are not safe outdoors and anywhere the surfaces are uneven; they tend to be less stable in those circumstances.
So, you might get a free wheelchair from Medicare, but don't expect anything but the barest models.
From Medicare.com. (would have linked rather than copied and pasted, but my links generally go somewhere in cyberspace)
"Medicare will cover manual wheelchairs. However, you must be able to show that it is deemed medically necessary by your physician and the primary use of the manual wheelchair must be for moving around your home. In other words, it just can't be something that would be convenient to have or primarily for use outside the home. However, you must follow the steps below to ensure that Medicare pays for the equipment:
You cannot walk, even with the support of other mobility equipment (canes, walkers, etc.).
You would spend most of your time in bed or in a chair without the use of a wheelchair.
You can transfer safely in and out of the wheelchair.
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The doctor must document the need in your medical records and give you a signed and dated order (prescription) for the equipment.
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You must have Medicare Part B coverage and you must have been assessed by your doctor. The doctor must have documented your need in your medical records, and must have written an order (prescription) for the equipment. The supplier must have the order on file before billing Medicare for the chair. In addition, the need for the wheelchair must meet the criteria in italics above.
Wheelchairs require a Certificate of Medical Necessity. Your doctor and Medicare supplier will know when that documentation is required.
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After you have paid your annual deductible, you will pay 20% of Medicare-approved amounts for the wheelchair rental. Those costs may be higher if the supplier doesn't accept assignment. Any cost for repairs or replacement parts for the equipment are the supplier?s responsibility.
Where Do I Rent Wheelchairs?
You will save money if you order your items from a Medicare- approved provider. Suppliers must meet strict standards to qualify as a Medicare supplier and will have a Medicare supplier number.
You can find a supplier that is enrolled in the Medicare program by visiting www.Medicare.gov and selecting "Find Suppliers of Medical Equipment in Your Area." You can also call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227) 24 hours, 7 days a week, including some federal holidays. If the supplier from which you order your chair is not enrolled in Medicare, Medicare will not pay for the equipment.
Things you should think about before you choose a supplier:
There are two types of Medicare suppliers: participating suppliers, and those who are enrolled but have chosen not to participate.
Participating suppliers must accept assignment, which means they agree not to charge more than the Medicare allowed amount.
A Medicare-approved provider who does not want to participate can charge more than the Medicare-approved amount. However, they cannot charge more than 15% above the Medicare-approved amount.
If you receive your Medicare coverage through a Medicare Advantage Plan (like an HMO or PPO), it is likely that the plan will have its own steps for getting the equipment. In addition, the plan may have restrictions on the supplier from which you can buy. It is important to know that your health plan must supply at least what Medicare covers -- they cannot supply less. Depending on your plan, you may actually receive more coverage than you would get with Medicare alone. It is wise to call your Medicare Advantage Plan's customer service and ask if your chair is covered and how much you would have to pay before you order it."
Many larger cities have medical supply stores and even some medical centers have departments handling those supplies, not just for seniors. Do you have a senior center? council on aging? senior apts? etc. Watch for ads or contact those I listed and ask for help, both on getting what you want and buying/renting.
Jonna, you have a great resource at the rehab nursing home, the social worker. Start a dialogue there, and you should get pointed in the right direction. The social worker and the head of rehab and the nursing director won't let a patient go home until there is a proper environment, and they will help you.
As for home modification, like ramps, I'm pretty sure that Medicare won't cover that. If you are low income, you can contact a group like Christmas in April, which is also called Rebuilding Together.
Here is a link that might be useful: Christmas in April/Rebuilding Together
I was told in a medical supply facility that if you can not get around your home by yourself, you qualify for a scooter, so why can't you get a wheel chair????? I think you need to call medicare and talk to them.
My dad had a stroke & needed a wheelchair. We borrowed 1 for a short time from friends.Didn't work out well! Dr. gave us prescription for it since he could not walk without walker & safety belt & someone holding belt & 1 side of walker. They are very unstable if you want to fall off to 1 side,could easily flip it over. So wheelchair was best way to get dad to table & to his easy chair ,bathroom & bed. Not so easy. The wheelchair people came & measured couple of doors & brought a wheelchair, well, couldn't get it through area where bathroom is, too wide of wheelbase. Also when I tried to fold it & lift it so we could get him to dr. when required,they had sent out a heavy 1. So we measured doors & came up with narrower size,dad was only about 140 lbs so could have smaller area in seat without a problem. They got us a Karma Aircraft-Grade Aluminum Alloy frame chair with silver & black & very attractive & I could actually pick it up & get it in trunk of car(very important),easy to get through the house & he could even move it himself down the hall or out of kitchen so "not stuck somewhere", so lot of things to consider.We haven't had any problems with it, just added a thick cushion as he sat in it a lot with a soft light blue baby blanket(type that doesn't bunch up) so if he spilled food or drink could easily change it for another little blanket.(folded twice so about size of seat.) So anyone needing a chair these are the things you need to be aware of. My neighbor had a wheelchair & said I could use it- It wouldn't fit in the trunk of car even with 2 of us trying to get it in there. That's when I knew it was not going to be easy! Good Luck folks & be persistent!
Check with your state home builders association, there are programs for "governors houses" these are for low income families and are prefab houses build by prisoners in state penitentiaries.Then delivered to your site. But guess what??? they also build wheelchair ramps for people with need, there is programs available for accessibility, check on line for "free wheelchair ramps" there will be a world of information.


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The future's filmmakers
The Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) just hosted a trade fair inviting students to meet institutes in the region that offer courses on filmmaking. We spoke to some of the students and faculty.
December 17, 2008 4:59 by Aarti Nagraj
19-year-old Vicky wants to make thrillers and drama movies in Hollywood when he grows up. He also plans on having a production house in Dubai. "Let's see what happens," says the aspiring filmmaker.
Vicky represents Dubai's next generation of filmmakers. He and his friends hope that they will make it big in the future. "The film industry does have a market here, but it is going to take a while for it to begin because there are a lot of changes and stuff happening here in Dubai. I think we are like the pioneers to start of at this age and at this time," he says.
Authorities from the filmmaking institutes in the region agree. "The support of DIFF and a number of smaller regional film festivals, and certainly with the growth of Dubai Studio City and others like that, its inevitable that it will be a very successful medium in this part of the world," says Anthony Frantzis, the head of marketing and strategic alliances of SAE institute.
He says that the institute's film faculty is currently full, and that they stopped advertising a year ago because of the growing number of students interested in the industry.
Simon Hunter, the president of the New York Film Academy in Abu Dhabi says that they have been marketing vigorously in the country. Once people hear about them, then there is a lot of interest from students across the region.
One such student is Suzan Iravanian. The short story writer came to the academy from Iran, and says she is planning to make her stories come to life. So does she think Dubai or Abu Dhabi will give her the support she needs?
"I think the problem here is that they don't have good ideas, but they have the money.," she says. "So, you can do anything and they will accept you. There are lots of good opportunities here. But I don't know maybe they love to give their own native talents a better chance."
But films by the Gulf nationals are few. So will the film industry be able to persuade youngsters to make Dubai and Abu Dhabi as their base?
"I think it's the early days of the industry, and you are going to need a couple of frontiersmen," says Hunter. "People who do it for the first time inspire others to do it as well […] There is certainly an enormous amount of support in the Middle East for filmmaking. And its not just budgets, there is also a lot of infrastructure that is being built here. And so I think it will become over the next few years more and more apparent that this is the place to shoot."
With bases like Dubai Studio City and Twofour54 coming up in UAE, there is a lot of scope for growth. But with the country's strong censorship policies, is creativity taking a hit?
"I think certainly think that students here are more mindful of the cultural and other sensitivities, perhaps more so in than many other places in the world," says Frantzis. "But it doesn't curb creativity."
Hunter also agrees. "I think it can be seen as a hindrance, or it can be seen as this is our culture, lets celebrate it," he says.
Vicky feels differently. "There are quite a lot of restrictions here," he says. "So there's a lot of stuff that you can't show in films and you can't even make movies relating to your country like India or America can, because it may be bad and you may get caught here."
"You know sometimes censorship really can help the filmmakers to make their movies. People will like it more," says Iravanian. "Like in my country (Iran), you can't show sex relations. So, you will find another way to show it. These ways will attract people. You are forced to search for other ways to portray the same thing."
So will Dubai become the next Hollywood in ten years time? "Make it 15," says Vicky.
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Humorist's Ohio Home On National Register Of Historic Places
The suburban ranch-style home in Ohio where humor writer Erma Bombeck launched her nationally syndicated column has been added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Several state audits show a private vendor in line to begin feeding nearly 100,000 inmates in Ohio and Michigan has a track record of questionable billing, using substandard ingredients and riling prisoners with meal offerings.
Elsewhere, Philadelphia-based Aramark Correctional Services has experienced few problems.
The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association representing roughly 8,600 adult and youth corrections workers questions whether Aramark can deliver $14 million in annual savings without cutting corners.
Audits in Kentucky, Florida and Ohio found Aramark charged states for meals not served, substituted cheaper ingredients into recipes or served inadequate portions.
Requests for comment left with the company weren't immediately returned.
A Kansas prisons department spokesman says strong state oversight has led to a positive overall experience with Aramark in that state for at least a decade.


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Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company fonds, 1875-1876, 1878, 1884 (2012-02-02)Consists of five paid invoices from various businesses and individuals. The invoices were issued by Swan & Low, dealers in coal and wood, the Town of Clifton, the Goat Island Hotel, Albion Medina Stone Co., and A.L. ...
Niagara Falls Taxi Service, N.Y., Scenic motor trips [printed advertisement], ca. 1917. (2012-02-08)One pamphlet advertising scenic motor trips conducted by the Niagara Falls Taxi Service, Inc., ca. 1917.
Niagara Historical Society and Museum papers, 1898, 1914, 1969, n.d. (2010-09-15)1 printed publication, one poem, correspondence and one scrapbook on microfilm ; 26 x 15 cm.
Niagara Lodges of the Loyal Orange Association of British America (2010-09-23)The collection consists of records accumulated by various lodges of the Loyal Orange Association of British America in the Niagara Region. The collection includes minute books, financial records, related publications and ...
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Niagara Region Municipality Records 1962-1963, 1969-1976, 1980 (2009-08-14)Fonds contains materials related to the Niagara Region Municipality, its formation and growth from the early 1960s to the 1980s. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence and media releases. Most ...
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Niagara Symphony Orchestra fonds, 1926, 1948-1998, n.d. (2012-04-18)The textual materials of the Niagara Symphony fonds includes minutes,clerical records, clippings, correspondence, programs, photographs and various other materials that document the activities of this institution.


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I did not make this headline up
The Golden Age Of Tin
UFR coming tomorrow; I tried downloading a big file that didn't get down in timely fashion.
It's grim. You know it's grim. The "Michigan 2008 = Notre Dame 2007" equation that Michigan fans—and this blog—scoffed at in the offseason appears to be nearing QED MFer status. A smart person just emailed me something that suggests death would be a more pleasurable alternative than the six games that loom over the next month and a half. The sky hangs low and ominous, all slate-gray clouds and distant rumbles and the sweaty prickle of unnatural humidity.
So, obviously, blame must be assigned! Assign blame, media! ASSIGN BLAME
Think West Virginia would return the buyout and take back Rich Rodriguez?
No. Of course, this guy's big idea…
Clearly, before this debacle reached a 2-4 boiling point, with the rugged part of the schedule yet unplayed, Rodriguez and his staff should have installed a second offense.
…worked out great last year when Charlie Weis installed the spread option for a single game against Georgia Tech instead of indicating that his offensive linemen might want to block someone. He says "Saturday's game almost isn't worth reviewing," and it's clear he didn't: Michigan did sort of install a second offense, deploying a Moundros-fronted I on several occasions and running isos up the gut. Unless he thinks a new offense is magically going to make Steven Threet a junior or Nick Sheridan physically capable of running a Division I offense, this is complaining just to complain.
Meanwhile, Mike Rosenberg continues proving that he's lost his mind over Rich Rodriguez. After doing the usual disclaimer bit ("Rich Rodriguez may yet restore Michigan to Big Ten supremacy") in an attempt to ward off the obvious riposte—SIX GAMES—he goes into the usual array of misrepresentations designed to cast Rodriguez in as unflattering a light as possible.
Here's one of many:
"We'll adapt. I like winning too much not to adapt a little bit to our personnel."
Has there been any sign that he will adapt?
Rodriguez says that every spread offense is different, but his scheme looks exactly like the one he ran at West Virginia, even though his players don't fit the scheme.
Yes, exactly like the West Virginia spread:
- WVU, 2007: 26% pass, 74% run.
- Michigan, 2008: 46% pass, 54% run.
This only looks "exactly like the West Virginia" spread if you have literally no memory for play proportions and sequencing.
I won't belabor you further with the column; it's a pastiche of the usual unrealistic complaints like "Rodriguez ran off Mallett!" that remain as wrong as they were when Rosenberg brought them up earlier this year and I fisked it. I only bring it up to highlight the weirdest criticism leveled at Rodriguez this season: leaving a semblance of Lloyd Carr and Mike Debord's pro-style offense would have been an improvement.
This is preposterous in the following ways:
Last year the Michigan offense was bad. Injuries had something to do with it, sure, but Mallett played less than half the year, and the other half of the year they had a senior Chad Henne. Mike Hart played about nine games. The #1 pick in the NFL draft was the left tackle, and Mario Manningham and Adrian Arrington were standout wide receivers.
With all these advantages, Michigan finished 68th in total offense, 10th in the Big Ten. Can you imagine what the offense would look like with freshmen everywhere and nothing resembling a competent quarterback? Yes, you can, it looks like last year's Wisconsin game minus the 97-yard Manningham touchdown. Or last year's Ohio State game. This isn't exactly the Greatest Show On Turf we're ditching.
You cannot make a good offense out of these parts. The best quarterback was a freshman so shaky in camp that a guy who would look out of place on most I-AA teams got the starting nod; he has been wildly inaccurate downfield and is charting horribly in UFR. This would not improve in a different offense. Different offenses do not make it easier to throw accurate passes, especially when the screens have been problematic.
There is one returning OL starter and six plausible starters, one of whom (Schilling) seemed destined for a career as anything other than a backup before massive attrition forced them into the starting lineup. The tailbacks are freshmen, injured, or fumblers. The wideouts are probably the worst crop since… uh… Michigan started throwing?
Meanwhile, Cory Zirbel, Carlos Brown, Mark Huyge, Mark Ortmann, Carson Butler, Martavious Odoms, Junior Hemingway, Steven Threet and Greg Mathews have all missed time with injury or stupidity (Butler's punch; whoever decided Sheridan was a plausible starter). A walk-on saw time at left tackle.
Nobody on the team even knows the Carr offense. Your skill position starters are five freshmen (Odoms, McGuffie, Threet, Koger, Stonum) and a junior.
…except the linemen, who are pretty much doing the same thing anyway. There are slight differences between Michigan's zone stretch this year and its zone stretch a year ago; their main problem is not being unable to understand the scheme but being unable to execute it because they are bad at football.
To be fair, you wouldn't know this if you watched the game on Saturday and then spat out a 600-word column about it without putting in the time review the tape or learn about football.
Rodriguez hasn't run a pro-style offense in two decades. How is he supposed to teach something he doesn't know very well? How is he supposed to run an offense completely divorced from his own? What is the point of hiring Rich Rodriguez?
So you've got one of two options here:
- Decide to run an offense you have zero experience with that finished just above 70th with an enormous slate of NFL talent in the vague hope you make a crappy December bowl game if it's even an improvement, which it probably won't be, or…
- Get on with the process of building your program.
Here's door #1: Auburn decided to bring in a spread guru, implement half his offense, and force him to call a lot of dumb plays he didn't want to. The result? Fired offensive coordinator with sad box and sad beard:
Meanwhile, Auburn blogs are considering whether or not Tuberville should get a sad box, too. This is the Great Solution proposed by Michigan newspaper columnists.
I pick door #2, as should everyone except evangelicals who think the world is ending before next fall.
With Vandy no longer undefeated, that seems a small risk.
(HT to Ron Cook at the PPG)
Oh, Crap
So a few months ago Chris Stassen, maintainer of the invaluable Stassen.com, emailed me to note that his name was not, in fact, "Harold." I had been calling him Harold for years.
So I don't know if this is revenge or whatever, but yesterday this hit my inbox from Mr. Stassen. It's possibly the most frightening thing I've ever seen. The elderly, children, and pregnant women are advised to stop reading now.
I warned you…
Last year I stumbled across a research paper on the odds of a Vegas favorite winning a game (e.g., a 1-point favorite wins 53% of the time, a 7-point favorite wins 69% of the time). The research was based on Vegas lines and NFL games, so one can argue against applying it to the college game. I think college teams perform less consistently than pro teams (meaning that a big NCAA favorite is less guaranteed to win than an equivalently big NFL favorite)... but probably it gives a decent rough measure.
The other problem I've had is how to get "lines" for games which are purely only hypothetical (e.g., Texas Tech vs Kansas in the Big XII title game), or games which are weeks away and not big enough for Vegas to publish an early line (e.g., Michigan at Purdue). I've finessed this issue by using Sagarin's PREDICTOR ratings (his best estimate of team strength) to compute spreads. Again, this sort of abuses the research paper's results, in that his spreads aren't the same as Vegas lines (though they tend to be pretty similar). Anyway, if we're only looking for ballpark figures, we don't have a lot of other options if we want to do this sort of computation.
There are lots of various ways to throw rocks at this analysis. I did a similar one for Ohio State fans at the start of the season, and computed that Ohio State was twice as likely to lose 3+ games, as they were to go undefeated. That was not too popular with the OSU fanbase, but I think I will be somewhat vindicated by the end of the season.
Anyway, even though there are weaknesses, I think the analysis' results are useful for looking at how a season "should" play out. More important than the spreads and exact per-game probabilities going in, are the ways in which the probabilities of individual games combine into the probability for this or that overall record.
Without further ado, here's the result for the remainder of Michigan's season:
By Sagarin-predictor pointspreads, Michigan is an underdog of more than a touchdown in every remaining game:
+8 at Purdue,
+9 against Northwestern,
+15 against Michigan State,
+16 at Minnesota,
+21 at Ohio State, and
+34 at Penn State
Using these numbers, the composite odds for Michigan's final six games of the regular season are:
6 wins = 0.0% (8-4)
5 wins = 0.0% (7-5)
4 wins = 0.4% (6-6)
3 wins = 3.9% (5-7)
2 wins = 18.7% (4-8)
1 wins = 41.8% (3-9)
0 wins = 35.2% (2-10)
By that calculation, Michigan is more than 75% likely to finish either 3-9 (one win in their remaining games) or 2-10 (no wins), with 3-9 being a bit more likely than 2-10.
They're a 22-to-1 longshot to exceed 4-8, and about a 250-to-1 longshot to be marginally bowl eligible at 6-6.
Individual results [excised for space and horror considerations; it's just the numbers in detail]
The most likely single outcomes are:
(1) Lose all remaining games (35%)
(2) Beat only Purdue (14%)
(3) Beat only Northwestern (12%)
(4) Beat only Michigan State (6%)
(5) Beat only Minnesota (6%)
(6) Beat Purdue and Northwestern (5%)
Anyone still alive after all that? If so: computer ranking are pretty crappy measures of team strength even at the end of the year, and they can be wildly inaccurate with only six games of data. The thing that jumps out at me is the Penn State spread, which is a full ten points higher than the Vegas line. FWIW, the Vegas line is always a more accurate predictor than computer rankings. This is considerably more grim than the facts on the ground. Probably.
But… yeah. I'm building a bomb shelter.
Blogpoll Ballot Week 7 (Final)
|Penn State
|Southern Cal
|Oklahoma State
|Virginia Tech
|Texas Tech
|Brigham Young
|Ohio State
|North Carolina
|Michigan State
|South Florida
|Boise State
|Wake Forest
Some significant changes from the draft to the final:
- Commenters pointed out that LSU's schedule is extraordinarily flimsy at the moment, with the win over sudden doormat Auburn their best.
- Also bumped up was Oklahoma State, as the JCCW's plea have the Pokes above the Sooners makes sense.
- I replaced Northwestern with Vandy. WOO!
Don't Try This At Home
You know, when someone left a comment to this effect on the blog earlier today I thought to myself "not freakin' likely" but it turns out that the reason defenseman Steve Kampfer is going to miss a lot of time is because a football walk-on suplexed him into the sidewalk:
Lieutenant Robert Neumann said the victim was picked up and "body-slammed" to the ground by a man, who was accompanied by two other men. … Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation said the attacker is suspected to be LSA senior Mike Milano, a redshirt junior on the Michigan football team.
Milano was a wrestler for his first couple years on campus, if you're wondering about the Macho Man antics.
Michigan Hockey Net spoke to a source close to the situation and has a sobering update on Kampfer's condition:
He said Kampfer ended up with a cracked skull and T1 vertebra and is in a head and neck brace. …
The source said he talked with Kampfer's parents today and it will be six weeks minimum before his next review (NOT until he returns to the ice) and he could end up taking a redshirt and sitting out the season.
The fight was, reportedly, over a girl. Of course. Good luck to Kampfer in rehab and Milano in court. Except not really the latter.
Fire Unverified Voracity Dot Com
The tenets of national socialism. Newspaper are dumb and failing and articles like this are pretty much why:
As you might imagine, Michigan football fans aren't taking Saturday's loss to Toledo too well.
Some are wondering if it is more embarrassing than last season's loss to Appalachian State. Others have come to the realization they can never again ridicule arch-rival Michigan State about its back-to-back losses to Central Michigan.
One fan has established a website dedicated to getting coach Rich Rodriguez fired.
Ever since the Fire Ron Zook thing, goofballs have set up shop on "Fire X" domains. They know the media will give them free publicity because they are desperate little hit machines and "Fire X" stories get attention.
Want proof?
- lesfiremiles.com
- firecoachmeyer.com
- nomorebrown.wordpress.com (notably silent since Saturday)
- and, the kicker: firepetecarroll.org
What do these sites have in common? 1) They're run by internet speculators trying to create money from outrage, 2) they attack the coaches that won the last four BCS national championship games, and 3) at some point newspapers gave them free publicity as evidence that lol internet.
A few more: Fire Bret Bielema, Fire Jim Tressel, Fire Joe Paterno, Fire Kirk Ferentz.
It would be news if there was no Fire X site for a team as widely followed as Michigan, but, you know, whatever as long as we get a bunch of hits for this article. Please continue to poison your brand name with inane content; the last one out of the building should turn off the light.
As long as I'm angry. The NCAA hockey committee is considering a proposal to wildly revamp the tournament seeding process: only teams 1-4 would actually get seeds and the rest of them would be placed as close to home as possible so they can cut down on travel costs. This would force first-round matchups between schools in the same conference.
This, of course, comes a month after the NCAA announced St. Louis as a regional site in 2011, rejecting proposals from Toledo's new arena and Yost to do so. WCH slams the idea:
It's not surprising to see this come from the NCAA. They've never really cared about the integrity of their events, so long as they can maximize their profit. Of course, other ways to cut costs would be not adhering to the stupid "No home venues, unless it's a WCHA team, in which case it's totally cool" policy, and not scheduling a regional in freaking St. Louis. And if the number one concern is keeping teams from the same conference together in the NCAA tournament, it makes it look even more ridiculous that the WCHA gets to host the Midwest regional in Wisconsin 50% of the time.
Co-sign. NCAA regionals take place in half-empty buildings with no atmosphere because of a moratorium on home-ice sites put in place after Yost hosted earlier this decade and people complained. This hasn't stopped home-ice regionals all over the WCHA, but it has stripped the CCHA of one of its few reasonable options.
The obvious solution: let top seeds benefit from their excellent seasons by hosting regionals. You'll get sellout crowds most of the time at boutique prices, and #1 seeds will get whatever small advantage playing at home provides to reward them for their performance.
Or we could just throw out the idea of seeding entirely and have all-WCHA regionals.
Yikes. Penn State is favored by 24 on Saturday, which is the largest spread like ever against Michigan. It is literally the largest spread since Bo arrived.
Got beef. I'm not sure what Jim Leavitt's problem is with Rich Rodriguez, but it's real, yo:
"Who would have thought Toledo would go in and beat Michigan, with Rich Rodriguez and all his infamous wisdom, whatever it is there," Leavitt said. "Who really would have thought that? My point is that you've got to be ready at any time to play. It doesn't matter if Michigan is putting in a new offense or not, you would think the talent level would be a little bit different."
Actually, I might know: Rodriguez pirated OL coach Greg Frey and QB coach Rod Smith away from USF a year before he left West Virginia, and given his constant focus on recruiting Florida the two have undoubtedly crossed swords on the trail.
This, I believe, is the third time Leavitt has taken a shot at Rodriguez in the past year or so, and this one was totally unprompted.
LOL, no. When not Demanding Excellence, West Virginia boards have been aflame with delicious rumors to the effect that Rodriguez is planning a departure to Clemson. Here's our old friend EERHole declaring it's "more likely to happen than not." This is wack internet speculation clearly derived from West Virginia fans' paranoid revenge fantasies—the Scout board that is EERHole's home now has guys openly questioning the validity of their information—and will be enormously unlikely until such time as it's actually announced.
So that's not that interesting, but what is interesting to me is that Angelique picked up on the internets scuttlebutt and called Rodriguez's agent:
Mike Brown, Rodriguez's agent, dismissed such a scenario.
"Coach Rodriguez has the best job in college football," Brown said Monday afternoon. "He is a very focused 'Michigan Man.' I know 100 percent Clemson University has no intention of contacting coach Rodriguez."
Brown emphasized he is a Clemson graduate and said he has some insight into what is going on with that program, however he declined to be specific.
This all hinges on the idea that Rodriguez hasn't signed his contract yet and could escape without paying another buyout—preposterous, especially given the check M wrote to WVU—and that a Clemson athletic department that just got socked with a major buyout of its own (they just extended Bowden last year(!)) would have the scratch laying around to pick off a coach who would then be marked as a Petrino-level job hopper with all the scorn and recruiting issues that would imply.
Uh… count me in as a doubter.
Etc.: Maybe this Adidas thing was not a good idea? Curses.
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Update 10/14: Linked to articles on FL S DeAngelo Hadley, CA WR Shaquelle Evans, MD LB Jelani Jenkins, MD DE Jason Ankrah and CB Travis Hawkins, SC OL Quinton Washington, FL RB Vincent Smith, another on MD CB Travis Hawkins,
Removed NJ WR Nyshier Olivier (ND), TX S Rex Burkhead (M not involved), VA DE Will Hill (dropped us), TX S Craig Loston (not listing us anymore).
Added GA S Donovan Tate.
I should talk about MN WR Bryce McNeal. Ah, well, it happened: decommit. Removed McNeal from committed.
Some links from Varsity Blue as per usual. Farrell's weekly whispers. Walk-on punter?
Editorial Opinion: Recruiting board lives here.
I was going to talk about how serious the Bryce McNeal situation was and how leery I was of that particular situation, but McNeal beat me to the punch by decommitting. His top five is now M, Minnesota, Cal, Colorado, and Florida. McNeal on M:
GH: Has your relationship with Coach Rodriguez changed at all?
BM: No, my relationships with Coach Rodriguez and Coach Dews are the same as when they started to recruit me, I don't have any different views of them, and I hope they don't have any different views of me.
GH: So they didn't recruit over you or anything like that?
BM: No, not at all.
GH: Is Michigan still going to be one of the schools you are considering?
BM: I am still interested in Michigan and am keeping them in the mix, I just am not committed to them anymore. They are still in my top 5 schools.
This one is somewhere between the Newsome situation (he was gone-gone) and the Campbell situation (where he is expected to recommit). McNeal could end up back in the fold.
…but if you made me bet, I'd bet against it. The way this played out is bad according to heuristics: McNeal committed, and said he was solid, then said he would take some visits, then backed off that after a conversation with the Michigan coaches. The contents of that conversation were part reassurance and part "if you take visits we have to start recruiting other wide receivers."
This latter part was evidently enough to get him off the idea of visiting. This is no longer the case. I have some scuttlebutt on this that's vague but not encouraging; I think Colorado and Minnesota are more likely than M at this point.
Number one, set a course for wailing and gnashing, warp nine. Engage.
The upshot if McNeal is gone-gone.
Well… it's not good, obviously. At the moment McNeal is Michigan's second highest rated recruit and the only outside wide receiver in the class aside from camp commit Dewayne Peace, who may end up a defensive back. Losing McNeal would be (is?) a significant blow.
That blow is lessened because Michigan already has two high-quality outside receivers committed to the 2010 class, though, and should be okay to bridge the gap between the current players and the 2010 kids. If Junior Hemingway gets a medical redshirt, he and Stonum will both be around in 2010 on the outside.
Still: lame.
Could Michigan get in on another wide receiver? They probably would; they might look at MI WR Cameron Gordon in a different light now. They're still chasing LA WR Rueben Randle but that looks doubtful; Michigan might go after someone committed to another school.
MD DE Jason Ankrah and MD CB Travis Hawkins visited for the Illinois game and had nice things to say:
"I think that they are going to be a powerhouse in the next few years," said Hawkins, a 5-foot-10, 181-pound, four-star cornerback prospect. "Most of the players said when you have a new coach coming in, you have to get used to him, and that's what they did. Overall, they said they liked the school, and even though they are young this year, they are going to get after it next year, and they are going to be dangerous."
But, yeah, I don't think we get either. Ankrah tried to commit to Penn State earlier and was rebuffed but PSU has picked up the interest again and Hawkins just visited Oregon. Upon his return, a quote:
When asked which visit he liked best, Michigan or Oregon, Hawkins said, "I liked the Michigan academics better. But other than that, Oregon was better."
Probably not someone who ends up at M.
Something good?
We can take a break from the doom and gloom to note that SC OL Quinton Washington had very positive things to say about his visit:
"People in the stands were chanting Quinton's name," coach Art Craig said. "Q, wear the blue, wear the blue. And it wasn't rehearsed. I've got to give coach Rodriguez and his staff a hand. They did a job. They were genuine with what they wanted. To my understanding, he's their number one lineman they are going after in the nation. That's point blank what coach Rodriguez told me Friday night."
Craig said Washington took everything in and was very impressed. "He felt very at ease with them," he said. "He was very impressed with the facilities. They are building a second indoor facility. They are adding 100 skyboxes. They just opened a new academic learning center. He's a man of few words. When I asked him if they are in there with him, he said, coach, how can they not be?"
Washington is a guard recruit; he hasn't scheduled any official visits other than M yet but intends to. The instate schools were supposed to get a couple; that was before Tommy Bowden got axed.
Teammate acquisition.
FL CB Mywan Jackson has been all over the map of late, first almost committing to Michigan, then being very high on Auburn, then declaring UNC his leader and basically dropping Auburn. So, like… weird. He's got a teammate, FL S Angelo Hadley, who's also scouting around for schools and he's got Jackson's favorites on his final list:
Armwood safety Angelo Hadley, whom rivals.com rates as the state's 90th best senior prospect, has narrowed his list of potential colleges to four: Florida, Georgia, Michigan and North Carolina.
"It's going to be one of those four," Hadley told the Times on Tuesday.
Florida hasn't offered yet; if they do I assume they're the choice. When a kid lists a school that hasn't offered amongst a small set of favorites who have, that's usually the preferred destination. If they don't, well, Michigan's got a shot.
Etc.: Fluff on FL RB commit Vincent Smith; GA QB/S/WR Donovan Tate has M as one of three officials lined up but is a big-time baseball prospect. I can't see him coming to a northern school, and the chances he goes to any school are slim since he's supposed to be a top-ten pick in the MLB draft.


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The truck, a 2009 Dodge Dakota, was purchased and given to the department to transport a personalized watercraft and trailer that the bureau, along with the offices of the governor and lieutenant governor, donated in April of last year, said Josh Tyquiengco, GVB public information officer.
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Before the watercraft was donated by GVB, the department had only one in its inventory but it was damaged or wasn't functioning, Tyquiengco said.
The truck was donated as well because Parks and Rec didn't have an official vehicle to bring the watercraft to and from the beachside, Tyquiengco said.
When asked whether GVB had specified that the truck was to be used in connection with the watercraft, Blas said it wasn't an issue because G4S visitor safety officers were assisting the department with the task of moving the watercraft.
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I just installed the NXR Gas Range Model #drgb3001 from Costco Canada. Overall it looks like a solid Range so far but there are some issues. First off my Convection fan seems to be really loud. I've taken off the cover to see if it was touching anything and it doesn't seem to be. Anyone else have this issue?
Here is a video of the sound it is making:
Also, there is some rust on my cooktop grate. Who should I contact to get is replaced?
Guy at Costco told me to just return the oven to the store which isn't a great option as that sucker is heavy.
Here is a link that might be useful: Noisy fan
Hard to tell if the fan noise is normal.or not. Consumer video cams use automatic gain control (AGC) which can boost the sound levels in recording. That can make it hard to judge the actual noise level from an online video.
On my NXR, I can definitely hear the fan running when the oven door is closed just as I could with my former stove, a GE dual fuel range. The closed door noise level on my NXR does not seem (to me) to be any louder than the convection fan noise on the GE.
The NXR's fan is louder when the door is open. To me, when the door is open, it sounds like floor fan in a confined space (which is what it is.) So, as laat said, the noise may not be abnormal for a small, high speed fan in a confined space. I can't compare it with my previous experience with convection fans because all my prior convection ovens automatically shut down the fan when the door was opened. Thus, I never found out what the GE's fan would have sounded like with the oven door open. The NXR is my first stove with a purely manual convection fan.
Interesting that you mention rust on a cooktop grate. Somebody asked last week if there were any reports of this. (I think it was the poster with questions about the 48" NXR model.) I had not heard of this problem before. But, I second jolb57's advice to treat the grates like the cast iron they are: wire brush the rust and re-season just as you would do if you found rust on a cast iron skillet.
In the meantime, Duro is who you call for warranty service, as explained on page 19 of the owner's manual. That page lists the number to call as 1-877-639-7264. I don't know if they have a different number for Canadian purchasers, but it can't hurt to try that number on Monday.
This post was edited by JWVideo on Sat, Jun 1, 13 at 20:43
If this was my range, I would tend to wait at least several months before contacting any company for a service call to see if something much more serious and solid in the way of a problem you can bring to them turns up. Don't shred your credibility on minor stuff right off the bat and thus provide them with lame excuses to keep ignoring you in the future.
I agree that the fan noise in the video seems way too loud and way louder than the level on my own NXR. But I am not asserting that the stove is fine or not fine. I am simply saying I cannot tell from the video whether it is or is not. As I said, I can't tell from an on-line video whether it is really too loud or whether, instead, the apparent noise level is an artifact of being recorded by a consumer video cam which "enhances" the sound level.
To me, the main question is how loud it sounds with the oven door closed (i.e., normal operating conditions.)
But, I'll offer a counterpoint to the suggestion by laat2. Seems to me that you paid $2000 for the stove. For that kind of price, they can send somebody out to verify that the fan is not defective/broken. They can't ignore you in the future because, as jolb57 says, you can just take the stove back to Costco. To return it to Costco you don't need any more reason than you don't like the stove.
This post was edited by JWVideo on Sun, Jun 2, 13 at 15:11
My fan is much quieter than the one in the GE profile it replaced. I'd call cause of the noise - it sounds like two pieces hitting each other.
I've used convection a lot - including the time I blinkin' forgot to turn the fan off and it ran all night and it doesn't sound like that. It's been splashed, smoked and chicken fat greased and it doesn't sound like that.
Still haven't got a call from the service company plus I noticed my cast iron grates are chipping. As I see black paint chips under them. The chips aren't coming from the top of the grates where there is contact, it's from the bottom. Anyone else getting this?
This is just my suggestion, but I'd ignore it. If you wipe off the burner head, it will eventually burn off (in less time than you'd think).
If you do anything strenuous about it, it's likely to wear the coating off the burner heads completely after a while.
The knob is sticking on the bezel (ring). Very easy fix. First, try to see where the knob is rubbing on the bezel so you know which way to move it. (If you are anal, you can mark it with chalk or a soft pencil.) Pull the knob off the shaft. The bezel is held in place with two screws. Photo below. (Thanks to GWbasic who posted the photo last July in an NXR thread). Use a #2 phillips screw driver to loosen the screws and reposition the bezel. Retighten the screws. Push the knob back in place.
This post was edited by JWVideo on Sat, Jul 6, 13 at 14:47
Ah right sorry. Guys came for service and of course my fan failed to get loud when he was here. It seems to have gotten better now. Service guy said maybe it was in storage for to long and needed to be broken in. In regards to the rusty grate he took pictures and sent it in to duro. I was going to follow up this week to see if they are sending a New one.
Also in regards to the ignitor the knobs we fine it was just a wet ignitor which my wife failed to tell me.


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New to Garlic
I use garlic in cooking most everyday and I want to try my hand at planting some this fall. could someone please tell me what scaping means, I saw it mentioned on some post here.
Garlic is so expensive in the seed catalogs, does anyone know where I can get some at a reasonable price.
When a garlic scapes, it means it grows a flower stalk. The flower stalk is the scape. Hardnecks always scape while softnecks rarely do. The scapes are edible too. In fact, they are like a delicacy. If left on the plant bulbils will grow at the top of the scape.
If you just want to experiment with growing garlic then you could plant the garlic you find in the grocery store (which is a softneck variety). This way you can try it out to see if you like it (which you will since it's easy to grow) and it will also keep the cost very low. If you find that you want to get more serious then you can spend the extra money on a named variety that you find in seed catalogs and online. Or you could check the local farmer's markets near where you live to see if you can find some named varieties. The first couple of times I planted garlic I used the grocery store kind (I learned quite a bit too).
This post was edited by theforgottenone1013 on Thu, Jul 18, 13 at 20:03
Supermarket garlic may work, but many times the bulbs are treated to prevent sprouting and they won't grow. About 75% of supermarket garlic comes from China.
I agree local farmer's markets are a good place to buy garlic for planting, as are garlic festivals and gatherings. Prices are much lower than online, and you can select your bulbs. Plant the larger cloves from larger bulbs for best results. What state do you live in?
I live just east of Atlanta, GA and have planted supermarket garlic before without much success. Its interesting to learn what scapes are and I need to plant the larger cloves, I alway wondered about that. We don't have much of a farmers market around here to buy garlic. Thanks for the replies..
When you buy garlic in the supermarket, if you want to know whether it is American garlic or Chinese garlic, all you got to do is check the roots. American garlic has it's roots still attached to the bulb. Chinese garlic, by law, MUST have it's roots removed. Which leaves a scooped out depression where the roots would be. (At least this was true a few years ago.)
aprilfool- Sorry to hear about your bad luck with supermarket garlic. Hopefully you have more success in the future. Below is a link on how to grow garlic from wegrowgarlic.com. I'm not promoting them or their garlic, just their guide on how to grow it.
Here is a link that might be useful: Growing Garlic
I HAVE GROWN GARLIC FOR 3 SEASONS. and never bought any seed from anywhere other than Asian markets , and later on my own garlics. And I did pretty good.
They also sell Hardnecks, sometimes in the grocery stores.
But for the new comer: '1- only plant the biggest outer cloves, NEVER the small cloves. 2- plant in fall, before or around your last frost date.. you can always come to this forum, read, research and ask questions.
I have found out that growing garlics is much easier than growing onions.


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