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Hoke was top notch at this aspect of his job.
Tuesday Recruitin' Reasons With Mob
Return Of The Three-Star Mafia
So, about the reaction to Carter Dunaway's commitment. I realize Michigan is trying to pull its way out of a nearly decade-long stretch in which "trust the coaches" went from sage advice to, well, a reason to run away screaming in terror. I realize expectations for Jim Harbaugh are ample. I realize adding a sophomore tight end with one catch and no film may not align with some of those expectations.
All of that said, the zeal with which some commenters here questioned the choice to offer and accept the commitment of Dunaway caught me off guard.* There's obvious potential—he's got the frame to come to campus in the 6'6", 260-pound range. He's got two full years of high school left, and he won't be playing behind a pair of seniors—one a D-I recruit himself—any longer. The legacy angle shouldn't be the first reason to offer him, but it also shouldn't be discounted; as an early 2017 commit, Dunaway can now start recruiting other prospects with a perspective few other recruits have on the program. There's also the whole human decency thing, but this is the internet, which requires a detailed argument in favor of acting human before that'll be taken under consideration.
I'll go ahead and post the thoughts of one specific commenter who jumped into the discussion last night: Craig Dunaway, Carter's father and a former tight end under Bo Schembechler, who handled it all with more grace than anyone could reasonably expect.
As the least objective person on the board...
It's been quite an experience reading these comments.
I thank those who've shared kind and welcoming words (YoOoBoLloBaugh, True Blue Grit, The Mad Hatter, et al.). And I appreciate those who acknowledge he still has two more years of high school to show more tangible merits (True Blue Grit, bronxblue).
I also like the comments from HateSparty. (Or maybe I just like typing HateSparty. HateSparty.)
I understand those who doubt and question an offer to unproven talent (Danwillhor, The J Davis 1, pescadero). I realize you only have the best interests of the program in mind.
To those who attribute Carter's offer to his legacy status (HarBooYa, Big Mike), I hope you realize that's just not the case. If that's all it took, brother Jack wouldn't be dipping into his 529 plan, as WolvinLA2 also points out.
And to those concerned about the dearth of offers, please understand if Carter didn't love Michigan so much, he would've looked around and collected who knows how many others. Instead, he's avoiding the strain of the recruiting process, staying close to home and going to school with his brother.The truth is there aren't a whole lot of 6'6-1/2" 233# 16-year-old kids who can run and catch out there. And that happens to be exactly the type of kid Jim and Jay Harbaugh want playing TE.Sure, Carter's lucky he's so big. He knows that. One of the first things he said after getting the offer is that it didn't seem fair he would be offered and his brother wouldn't, even after all Jack has accomplished.He's lucky to have camped at Michigan, and had so much exposure to the program while his brother was being recruited. But he also knows that means he's got to work harder now than ever before. He's got a target on his back that opponents and even Michigan fans will see every time he takes the field. It will only make him better.If you haven't met Carter or seen him play, I hope you get that chance soon. If not in the next 2 years, then in 2017 or 18, or whenever he gets to enjoy the privilege of playing for the greatest team in college football.Go Blue Forever
I'm not here to say the coaches are infallible, or that Carter Dunaway is a sure-fire All-American, or that there isn't a proper way to express dissenting opinions around here. There is, however, a time and a place, not to mention a certain amount of tact involved, and many of yesterday's comments—some of which have been cleared out by now—were disappointing in that light.
Anyway, Dunaway is in the class, and I expect this commitment will be questioned a whole lot less once he's showcased his ability on film. (People got really angry about this commitment without ever actually seeing the kid play. Which... yeah.) Brother Rice head coach David Sofran told The Wolverine's Brandon Brown that in addition to being a "coach's dream," Dunaway has plenty of potential and will be a critical part of their offense this fall ($):
"He's the type of talent that you can center your offense around. He's very athletic. He has really soft hands and catches the ball well. He can really accelerate after he catches it. I think that will separate him from a lot of tight ends. Once he catches it he can really run. Paul Jokisch (former Michigan wide receiver and Brother Rice standout) was like that. He was a huge guy (6-8, 239 pounds) that could catch and run and I think Carter will be in that conversation." ...
"I think he's probably still growing," he said. "I think once he stops growing taller he'll really start to fill out in his upper body and I think he'll keep his athleticism and be fast at about 255-260 in college down the line. He's still got some growing to do and I think he will get bigger and be even more of a problem."
Welcome to the program, Carter, and thanks for your understanding, Craig.
*Yes, I realize I should know better by now.
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Bielfeldt Released, Michigan Still Has A Spot
[Bryan Fuller]
Max Bielfeldt was re-listed as a senior a couple years back and walked on senior day, so his departure was expected. It's now official, per Jeff Goodman. Bielfeldt himself:
"With (LeVert) taking that scholarship, any little option of something else happening -- me coming back -- got a little bit smaller," Bielfeldt said. "The odds aren't very high that I come back here next year."
As a grad transfer Bielfeldt can be immediately eligible next year; Bradley, near his home, has been mentioned as a possibility. Dan Dakich will still talk about his calves during Michigan games for nostalgia's sake.
Meanwhile, despite Caris's decision to stay Michigan is still under the impression they have room for another player next year.
U-M coaches have made it clear that even with LeVert's return, the roster will have room for at least one addition.
Following Tuesday's announcement by LeVert, Troy Manns, [Kenny] Williams' coach at LC Bird High School coach in Richmond, told MLive that LeVert's return does not impact Williams' interest in Michigan.
"No, not at all," he said.
Asked if Michigan told Williams it still would have space for him if LeVert remaining a Wolverine, Manns answered, simply, "Yes."
With seemingly everyone else content to fight out the playing time crunch next year that would likely be Austin Hatch either going on medical hardship or, if his family is so inclined, becoming a walk-on next year. That would cost money but would keep the door open to Hatch getting on the court some.
Athletic Director Time: Stakes
Previously: overview.
feeling that a ticket you have is a precious thing is good
More games should mean things
This is something that Brandon was moving towards getting right, save for the horrible contract that saw him eat an extra Notre Dame home game at the (hopefully temporary) end of that series. And that contract might not have been his doing.
This year's football schedule has one tomato can on it, UNLV, and three actual teams: BYU, Oregon State, and Utah. BYU and Oregon State are one-off home games. They're more expensive, but we've finally reached the point where spending an extra few hundred thousand dollars on an opponent like that has a clear ROI in ticket sales. (That is the reason Brandon was getting that right.) One of the smartest things he said during his tenure was about this.
Unfortunately, I have been able to google it to get the exact quote, but it was along the lines of "we have to get out of the business of scheduling games that feel like exhibitions to fans." He largely put his money where his mouth was in that department. Or tried to, anyway. It still galls that Michigan State landed a home and home with Alabama and Michigan was forced to play a "neutral" site matchup in Dallas against them.
But Brandon was right: repeated tomato can poundings make the fan look at his ticket and feel like a sap. The Product™ boils down to that: you look at the ticket that has a section and seat and opponent on it and you feel a certain way. For years many of these tickets have made you feel like it's another way to pay for the Ohio State game. That is going to remain true, but being less explicit about it is a first step on the road towards making fans feel like part of the enterprise instead of marks.
There's not much flexibility when it comes to college football. Michigan's going to play in their division and they've got three games a year (Indiana, Rutgers, Maryland) that aren't going to feel like much no matter what happens. They've been filling out the nonconference schedule with more respectable opponents; further additions have to happen a decade or more out. The wider landscape of college football will help here: double the number of teams in the playoff means double the number of late-season games that can impact the championship picture.
Michigan's other two revenue sports could use some help. This year's hockey schedule was a textbook example of what not to do: a weird one-off at Ferris State before even the exhibition games, home games piled into the fall when most fans are busy with football, an almost two-month absence from Yost in January and February punctuated by a fiasco of an outdoor game taken in by fewer fans than would have been at a home game.
Meanwhile, basketball plays a lot of nonconference games against the Coppin States of the world. It was seven last year (they just happened to lose two): Hillsdale, Bucknell, Detroit, Nicholls State, NJIT, EMU, and Coppin State. I don't see a great solution there given the way college basketball works: you're going to have a preseason tournament, you're going to have a game just before Christmas no one wants to play, there's not enough room to do anything interesting.
The conference, though… the conference could use some tweaking. Here are a couple of concrete plans to make basketball and hockey games have more wow factor on the ticket.
Basketball: making 14 an asset
Wisconsin ran away with the Big Ten title this year. Their last seven games included matchups against 9-9 Illinois, 4-14 Penn State, and two against 6-12 Minnesota. What if their stretch run was nothing but the other three games—Maryland, Michigan State, Ohio State—and so was everyone else's? And what if you could never point to anyone's schedule and say that's why team X won?
This is possible, even in a 14-team conference if you're willing to rethink a conference schedule. You can have a true, fair, thrilling championship in 19 conference games:
- FIRST 13: round-robin amongst all teams
- LAST 6: split the league into top and bottom halves, have second round-robin within.
Everyone in each half plays the same schedule. The last three weeks of the regular season are an all-out brawl for a banner that means something it might not in a world where getting the wrong teams twice could knock you down a peg.
The downsides are real but not insurmountable. You would not know the last six games of your schedule until a few days before. With home sites that's not a huge problem. There will be demand for those games. And teams right around the cutoff could find their path to a bid get harder as teams just above it draw a bunch of tough games and teams below it lose the opportunity to knock off a Wisconsin. That effect is probably marginal (on average it's turning three games into somewhat harder or easier ones).
If they tried this I bet they would never even think about going back once they saw, say, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Wisconsin, OSU, Indiana, and Illinois have a three-week war for a Big Ten title.
Hockey: a state championship
The FA Cup: the only time anyone has ever believed in Wigan
There's not a whole lot Hypothetical Michigan AD can do about the Big Ten or NCAA's playoff format. (It does sound like the national tournament is in line for some long-overdue changes.) But he can probably get the Michigan schools together to provide early-season matchups some additional oomph.
The formation of the Big Ten is something college hockey needed if they were ever going to expand past two western conferences, but it broke up a bunch of 40-year-old rivalries that mean something to college hockey fans. Instead of having every Michigan team save Tech in a single conference, now they're spread across three. The GLI has tried to compensate by inviting a Michigan team for the foreseeable future, but that doesn't do much for the three teams that aren't invited in any particular year.
Nor does it have that much selling power. The GLI is a nice event, but it's always been a little silly that Michigan has a banner for years they won it. It's two games. The trophy doesn't have a name. It's not, say, a 40-pound bronzed cast of Red Berenson's head.
What if the first half of the season had a different competition in it? Soccer does this to excellent effect. A state championship competition that features World Cup/Champions League style groups would be a reasonable time commitment and a way to inject stakes into otherwise fuzzy early-season matchups.
A problem: there are seven Michigan teams, not eight. We will fill in the eighth spot with a guest program. This could either rotate between reasonably local programs (ND, OSU, BGSU, Miami, even PSU) or be permanent.
Hypothetical groups:
|Michigan State
|Notre Dame
|Western Michigan
|Michigan Tech
|Northern Michigan
|Ferris State
Each team plays the others twice, whether that's home and home or not. The next year invert home/road and do it again; then switch the groups up. The only hard and fast rule is that Michigan and Michigan State are separate. The four teams in the bottom two rows are all WCHA members. They can either book an early-season conference series to count for the state championship or schedule bonus nonconference series, their choice.
After that's done, the top two in each group play for the Michigan Themed Hockey Trophy* at the Joe. (The other two also go to the Joe and play because everyone wants to know they've got X number of games booked.)
This is a commitment of eight games—six for teams currently in the WCHA. For teams in the Big Ten (20 conference games), Hockey East (22), or NCHC (24) that is doable. It does seriously restrict the flexibility of WCHA teams (28 games), but a lot of these games are the ones these schools would want to schedule anyway. For example, Ferris's nonconference schedule included two games against State, one against Michigan, and the GLI. Tech played Michigan and in the GLI. They would be signing up for another two or three games only. And the lack of flexibility is offset by the fact that they're locking in a Michigan or Michigan State series annually.
If you can pull this off then your early season, normally something without stakes other than the hope down the road your Pairwise ranking will be good, becomes three weekends in which you hope to qualify for a GLI that means you can print out shirts that say State Champs and kiss let's just say a 40-pound bronze cast of Red Berenson's head.
like this except with Red Berenson's head
Play for things. Give us stakes. A ticket that reads "Red Berenson's 40 Pound Head Tournament" is better than one that just says "Western Michigan."
*[Options: unearth the Ron Mason trophy that went kaput when the CCHA did, inaugurate a Red Berenson trophy for the former Michigan player and Detroit Red Wing, or go studiously neutral but somewhat silly by naming it after a guy who didn't play college hockey.
Gordie Howe played in the defunct minor-pro version of the USHL for a year, not the CHL, and he's Gordie Howe. So he's a good idea if you're going that route.]
Caris LeVert Returning
[Bryan Fuller]
High five. Let the playing time knife fight begin.
LeVert will obviously be largely exempt from it, as he's a lock to get 30 minutes. Normally you'd say he's a lock to get 35-38, but with the depth on this roster they can keep their main guys fresher until true crunch time.
With LeVert in tow Michigan looks set to be a serious contender in the Big Ten once again.
Hello: Carter Dunaway
Carter Dunaway (R) with his brother, 2015 walk-on Jack Dunaway.
Michigan picked up its first commitment of the 2017 class last week in Birmingham (MI) Brother Rice tight end Carter Dunaway, who was offered while visiting for the spring game and didn't wait long to make his decision.
It's not surprising Dunaway jumped at the chance to play for Michigan. His father, Craig, played tight end under Bo Schembechler. His brother, Jack, is a preferred walk-on defensive end in the 2015 class. With former high school teammates Alex Malzone and Grant Perry also joining the program, Dunaway had plenty of motivation to make a commitment, and he told The Wolverine's Brandon Brown he didn't see any reason to wait ($):
"Obviously when I got the offer it was a big shock," Dunaway said. "I wanted to talk about it with my family and go over everything with them. After I was able to do that, I realized that I'm going to end up at Michigan anyway. Why prolong the whole recruiting process? I wanted to get it over with right now and focus on my high school season and get my goals straight. It was just a good time for me to get that done and go down there and talk to Coach [Jim] Harbaugh.
"I actually went to his office to tell him in person. He was actually at the Tigers game before I got there but he was just hanging out, talking with a couple of coaches. I went into his office and talked to him and that's when I committed."
Dunaway plans to do some recruiting of his own, especially in-state, now that he's made his decision.
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Dunaway isn't ranked by any of the four sites, and there are very apparent reasons for this: he played a backup role on a senior-laden Brother Rice squad last season, to the point that there isn't any sophomore film freely available on him—it'd be short, anyway, as Dunaway had one reception in 2014. It's safe to say there's a lot of projection in this offer from Jim Harbaugh's end, with Dunaway's 6'6", 230-pound frame playing a significant role.
As mentioned above, Dunaway wasn't a significant part of the Brother Rice offense last season, as he was stuck behind a pair of productive senior tight ends; Michael Roney and Dylan Fortin combined for 40 catches from that spot, and with Alex Malzone's favorite wide receiver, Grant Perry, accounting for another 105 receptions, there were only so many targets to go around.
Dunaway hasn't made a significant mark on the camp circuit, either. There's only a short video of him going through drills at last May's Midwest Elite Camp...
I have no idea what to make of this.
...and him giving a self-evaluation to GBW's Josh Newkirk afterwards ($):
Only a freshman, Dunaway put his talents on display this past Saturday in the Midwest Elite Camp. The 6-foot-6, 225-pounder was impressive, as he showcased good coordination and catching ability throughout the camp.
"I think I am doing okay," Dunaway said. "I have made a couple good catches. I'm working hard out here. I am going as fast as I can in every drill. So I think I am doing pretty well."
Right now, we have a frame and a legacy. We'll know a lot more this fall, when Dunaway projects to be a major part of a Brother Rice offense replacing six of its top seven receivers.
Michigan was the only school to offer Dunaway before his commitment. The Wolverine reported he had interest from Boston College, Michigan State, Northwestern, Notre Dame, and some Ivy League schools. Dunaway expressed interest in exploring the Ivy League; he should be just fine academically.
I probably don't need to tell you much about Brother Rice, which won three straight state titles from 2011-2013 and has a long history of success, mostly under legendary former coach Al Fracassa. A trio of 2015 freshmen—Malzone, Perry, and Jack Dunaway—all come from the program.
Dunaway had one reception for nine yards in 2014.
None listed.
I mean, your guess is as good as mine here. Dunaway has the frame to be a solid in-line tight end who can handle the physical aspect of the position from an early juncture—he's already at 230 pounds with two full years of high school remaining. There's nothing to glean from his very limited on-field resumé except he wasn't such a precocious talent that he could jump a pair of trusty seniors, one of whom (Michael Fortin) landed a scholarship from Eastern Michigan.
It's still too early to even project the depth chart at tight end for 2017. Michigan will have a redshirt senior Khalid Hill, a redshirt junior Ian Bunting, and either a true junior or redshirt sophomore Tyrone Wheatley Jr. at the position, plus any 2016 tight end recruits that they bring in—Michigan will add at least one in this cycle. Here's an early guess at a redshirt for Dunaway, with any other projection not worth making based on the lack of available evidence.
Michigan will have a 2017 class, and Carter Dunaway will be in it.
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Harbaugh on Real Sports. Sounds like it's going to be interesting:
In HBO's upcoming episode of "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel," reporter Andrea Kremer asks Harbaugh if it's true that he has a problem working with others at various jobs.
"It must be true," Harbaugh says. "Because I'd wear out my welcome.
"People just don't want to be around you after a while."
Harbaugh may be polarizing personally, but people one or more steps removed from him get to observe the chaos from safe distance. This would never have happened during the previous regime for a thousand reasons:
The program also shows glimpses of a mic'd up Harbaugh at practice, at one point taking a player (whose number is blurred out) aside and delivering him a stern and somewhat profane message: "I'm just telling you the right way to do it. If you want to look at me like with that look, then go (expletive) somewhere else."
I hope Michael Rosenberg hasn't suddenly come down with the vapors. Ten PM tomorrow if you've got the HBOs.
How do you give M0.0N dollars though? The annual EDSBS charity bash is on. It's been won by Michigan every year since its inception and has resulted in things like Spencer comes to the Penn State game and writes about it. This is your prize in 2015:
We will outfit the site in the colors of the school. We will devote an entire Hatin' Ass Spurrier to ripping on the rivals of the winner. We have random celebrity guest calls to big donors. For instance, last year we might have had a Heisman Trophy winner call a particularly generous donor. That might could be you! You'll never know until you give, and then give again, and then wisely take out a second mortgage all in the name of getting a sports parody site's highest honor. (Oh, and you'll be giving to a great, great charity, too.)
Also 30k overall equals tattoo. You can give here. Money goes to support refugee resettlement.
Figuring out what we've got in Moritz Wagner. Nobody really knows how big of a deal Wagner is because he's spent his career on the U18 Alba Berlin team with only occasional forays onto the big squad.
The occasional NBA scout has weighed in. Rivals's Eric Bossi flagged one down who said he was in the 20-40 range, which would be terrific. Scout talked to another gentleman who was more conservative, saying top 100—still not bad.
The Daily adds to our currently thin pile of Wagner material by talking to Alba Berlin's coach:
"I predict two years for him, to achieve even a good position in the NBA draft," said Alba Berlin coach Saša Obradović following his team's 78-74 win over the Phoenix Hagen on April 15. …"
He thinks he's not ready for the professional life," Obradović said. "He (could have) played here. I expect that he could be a good prospect and good player for our future. So I think (Michigan has acquired) a very good talent, and you will see this very, very fast." …
"He is a versatile player. Just don't put him on the '5,' " Obradović said. "He has good, soft hands, good first step. He still (has) to learn a lot, but (he's) already on a certain level of skill."
Mission accomplished as far as not putting him at center goes. It'll be interesting how quickly Wagner proves himself. A lot of people are speculating that he might redshirt given the roster's current state—packed—and his current physique—skinny. A two-and-done doesn't redshirt, though.
A day as king of media. Richard Detsch asked a bunch of sports media people what they'd change if they could wave a magic wand. Some of the responses are inane—"pay more attention to baseball"—says one guy. Others are interesting, although not necessarily on purpose. Amy Trask:
Amy Trask, CBS Sports NFL analyst
I would abolish coverage of and commentary on ephemeral matters. Coverage of and commentary on matters that are transitory, fleeting and momentary is wasteful at best, and may be harmful, as it emphasizes the trivial instead of the important.
Amy Trask would ban sports media entirely.
Fran Frascilla wins:
In NBA and college basketball games, nothing slows a game down more than the incessant number of timeouts, TV And otherwise. Well-coached teams don't need to rely on all the in-games stoppages. That's what practices are supposed to be for.
I got a dollar for Fran.
Blake O'Neill pensively considering the third and long his team faces
Attention, ladies. If you would like more information on our new punter's modeling career, his profile can be found here. I foresee trouble if he keeps taking his shirt off during games.
HARBAUGH: O'Neill! In this country we play football without our shimmering torsos catching the afternoon sun in just that particular way that makes women weep.
O'NEILL: Sorry. It is the way of my people to frolic in the sun when the whim catches us.
HARBAUGH: Weber State sounds like damned weird place.
NHL on Werenski. He won't last past the first ten picks in all likelihood:
"He's such a cool, calm and collected player," NHL Central Scouting's Greg Rajanen said of Werenski. "He's the type of player you have to watch a little closely to realize how good he is. He's smart, always in the right spot, moves the puck and makes all the plays. But not in a 'wow' sort of way like Hanifin does. At the next level Werenski will be a really a good player who will produce points and be solid defensively."
Werenski started coming into his own with the puck on his stick about halfway through the year but still struggled with the physicality of the college game. That's not much of a surprise since a lot of the guys he was going up against were five, six, or even seven years older than him. He should take a major leap forward. If they got a Trouba-level year out of him that would paper over a lot of problems.
Another horse for the goalie mill. Michigan goes back to the NAHL well for a goalie:
Soo(NAHL) '94 G Chad Catt committed to Michigan.
— Chris Dilks (@ChrisDilks) April 18, 2015
Catt put up a flashy .937 in 2013-14 and had a .918 this year, splitting time between Aberdeen and the Soo. He's old: already 21. He is also an in-state player who was headed to D-III, so I'm guessing he's not getting a lot of scholarship money. (Hockey can split scholarships.) He'll give Michigan another option next year.
Etc.: I think I've figured out what Kentucky promised Devin Booker to get his commitment. Via user Karpodiem, the latest shot in the unbundling wars.


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Aaaaand this is the most exciting component of all. Basically, at this point in time, ATI seems to be ahead of NVIDIA, from what I can gather. And not only that, but their 5xxx-range cards are the only ones that currently support DirectX 11.
Out of these, the top model is the HD5970, which in various tests I've seen outperforms every other single card, and even various inferior SLI and CrossFire configurations. And two of these cards hooked up together are untouchable.
So that's what I am going with. I'll get one of these cards to start with, and in a few months, when the price goes down a bit, I'll grab a second one. However, getting the first one will probably be a bit of a chore, since I haven't actually seen it in stock anywhere -- neither in Europe nor in the US. So I'll be looking out for it in the next few weeks. They go for about $600 in the US and 550 euros in Europe.

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I first saw him in Chasing Liberty and thought that he was a promising actor- a little on the sweet, flirty side but I guess that was how he endeared himself to a lot of fans including this one. I bought the DVD in 2004 and watched it hmmmmm 12 times? Then I saw him in other movies like Match Point, Watchmen but recently, I saw Leap Year and he looks a little scruffier but I guess that's what the role called for. He was supposed to be Irish in this movie but could still detect the British accent. Nonetheless, he is still as cute and as charming as ever. I went back home and watched Chasing Liberty again as I thought he had more chemistry with Mandy than with Amy. I watched the film again, then the commentary which meant the whole film again and kept rewinding their love scenes (I believe scenes 19-24). I wish they had made more movies. They looked good together. Matthew, if you are reading this, you know you have a great fan here in San Diego. I wish you can stop by and look us up when you come this way. BTW, who's Molly? You mentioned her in the commentary for Chasing Liberty about the ipod she gave you. Was she your girlfriend at the time? Do you have one now? I know you have a daughter now who is one year old. Wish you can have your own website and showcase all your pictures including your family. Hope to see more films from you- and yes, keep those flirty eyes coming. You sure have my vote!


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A course at SITCA doesn't just show you how to make a few dishes but rather teaches all the details about those dishes, including the geographical origins of each dish, why the specific ingredients are used in each dish, and everything you can imagine about each of those specific ingredients. Students prepare a curry paste from scratch in every class, which is a feast for the senses that entails pounding a heady blend of herbs and spices by hand while providing insights into the foundational flavours of Thailand. If you don't know the difference between green, red, yellow, panang and massaman curries, you will by the end of a class at SITCA. During our visit to the school, well-known master Australian chef, Jimmy Shu, happened to be taking a course, and he he enthusiastically told us that"this is the best cooking course I have ever attended".
Two cooking classes are offered daily from Monday to Saturday – one starting at 11:00 and the other at 16:00. The menu changes each day but students have the option of choosing dishes beforehand from the school's website. One or two-week intensive programmes that teach Thai cooking from the inside out are also offered. Students of all classes are provided with a booklet of the recipes and a DVD to take home with recipes and demonstrations. The cost for the regular class is 1,950 baht per person.
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Like everyone, I loved google Maps, but have to say, the new one really sucks arse compared to Apple's offering.
Here's why
Turn by turn is really bad
"In 300 meters.... *silence* ..."
" In 1 km turn right onto eee-splay-nard"... and theres a no right turn sign...great.
It feels like an android app
- for some reason whenever I turn a corner in my car it asks me if I would like to submit feedback. Clever use of the accelerometer right there.
- The floating menus and thing disappearing all the time are annoying.
Lack of integration
- I find a business on google, and it asks me if I'd like to open it in google maps, i choose yes, it directs me to the app store, i tap on 'open app' and then it doesn't even open, nor can it find the business when i type it in.
In my experience, besides the lack of streetview (a great feature), Apple has pulled off the massive feat pretty well.
Yes there were bugs, but for me now, it gets me to where I want to go... Im yet to come across the scenario of being told to drive into a lake. Which Im sure will happen sometime soon.
Also, I ask siri for directions, it likes my voice, and I don't have to even look at the phone. Great hands free.
|Feb 22, 2013, 08:05 PM
What happened to the obligatory, "competition is good!" remark I see on these boards everytime someone releases an Apple tech clone? Does that statement not apply to Apple? I, for one, think Apple maps with built-in turn-by-turn and Yelp integration is a huge improvement over iOS 5 maps. It's not perfect, but for a 1.0 product, it's been pretty darn good in all the areas I've used it.
|Feb 22, 2013, 08:10 PM
|Feb 22, 2013, 08:18 PM
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|Feb 22, 2013, 08:37 PM
I don't know the answer to your question, about whether this particular issue is specific to Australia. Maybe someone else can answer that?
|Feb 22, 2013, 08:38 PM
Obviously Google is going to change their plans when situations change. They're not stupid.
|Feb 22, 2013, 08:44 PM
They need Ground Truth Data Specialists around the world...not just in Australia. While they're at it, they need to buy a big fleet of cars and outfit them with 360-degree cameras. Then dispatch teams to start driving around like Google has already done.
I love Google Street view, but more and more of the places I look up either have a haze covering the lens that makes the image unusable or the image is completely black or it looks like it was taken inside a long dark tunnel at warp speed. I'm surprised Google still has issues like that since they're not novices at this anymore. I wonder if Apple could eventually do something similar to Street View but better?
|Feb 22, 2013, 08:45 PM
The original deal between Google and Apple did not include turn-by-turn. In the recent negotiations, Google would have included this feature for iPhone users in return for Google Latitide integration and better app branding for Maps. Apple said no. Google said no turn-by-turn. The rest is history.
Get your facts right before spouting nonsense.
|Feb 22, 2013, 09:00 PM
Could it be from the media or the analysts or pundits.
Oh look my glass is half empty.
|Feb 22, 2013, 09:05 PM
They could start by actually paying attention to user feedback.
I've been using the in-app facility to post corrections since Apple Maps (and iOS 6) were in the Beta stage. Some issues are glaring, like airports being marked as being 30km from their actual location.
Other corrections I've posted are to data that is downright dangerous. A private access road through a mine site near my workplace is marked as a public road.
However, not a single correction I have posted to the in-app tool has been acted upon. They haven't really taken mapping in Australia seriously at all up until now.
|Feb 22, 2013, 09:14 PM
It's only a matter of time as people updates their apps to use the google maps API vs the iOS SDK version. In about a year, the only apps that will use Apple maps will be the built in ones.
Apple maps is complete garbage and i live in SAN FRANCISCO, 30 miles from Apple HEADQUARTERS. I tried to go to a restaurant and it told me to PASS MY EXIT, GET OFF AT THE NEXT EXIT, MAKE A UTURN, GET BACK ON THE HIGHWAY AND PARK MY CAR IN THE LEFT LANE. ON A HIGHWAY.
This is NOT Australia nor Asia nor London. This is San Francisco. Silicon Valley. The restaurant has been there in the same spot for 90 years. It's a san francisco institution of a restaurant. Highly acclaimed.
|Feb 22, 2013, 09:17 PM
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|Feb 22, 2013, 09:28 PM
Apple's Maps are not even worth being called competition.
Really? Everyone says the iPhone OS GMaps is on par or even better than the Android version. So I have to ask, what second-rate product? What lack of functionality are you talking about?
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|Feb 22, 2013, 09:36 PM
|Feb 22, 2013, 10:44 PM
Sounds like a cool job!
Also not to pick but Mildura is not where near 'Central Australia' maybe if the Apple Maps were working more people would know that? Alice Springs is the major town in central Australia, over 1700kms away.
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|Feb 22, 2013, 11:08 PM
too late
The Apple maps in Washington and Oregon state have been a MAJOR fail. I used to be pretty much an Apple fanboi, but no longer. And a fanboi for 30 years.
Apple, your maps suck. You are too slow to respond. That's an understatement.
You should have been jumping through your butts when you saw issues. But you are not. You are taking your sweet time. You are becoming MS.
You know, maybe you should eat some crow and at least let me set Google Maps App and CHROME as my default apps for maps and web. Okay?
Since Steve died, the company has deflated like a balloon.
And, I'm tired of Cook talking about how "INCREDIBLE" and "AWESOME" everything is. How about under promising and over-delivering?
And if you don't come out with a bigger phone, I may jump ship. I will keep my MacBook Pro. Best computer ever.
And stop jacking customers on iPad? What a ripoff. Double the memory and add $100? Add LTE and it's $129 more? Even the most reasonable iPad mini is $549 with 32 GB RAM and LTE. NO THANKS! Especially with the ****** resolution.
My brother uses a janky, old Android phone that's barely a "smartphone" (smaller and old) and he can talk any request for anything and it gives him great directions. It's spot on.
ANd he does't need an iPhone 4S. It's the old, janky Android. I turned off Siri since it sucked so much. And I use Google Maps app.
After using Apple products since 1979, Apple maps is a massive embarrassment and I refuse to use it. Worse, I can't make Google maps the default.
Apple, let the pros (Google) do what they do best.
|Feb 23, 2013, 12:40 AM
more hiring ... in Aus....
umm.. ya... that may be a good idea :P WHy didn't you think of that *before* you decided to go into a Map service.
If Apple can't meet demand for their users, then don't do a Map service, until they are sure they can cope..
This is like watch dominoes falling over after you've knocked them..
Fun to watch this go down-hill.
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|Feb 23, 2013, 02:04 AM
There are four kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, statistics, and analyst projections.
|Feb 23, 2013, 02:04 AM
Lets be honest, Apple maps are c***.I have always though whatever Apple touch it will turn into gold. Certainly it is not the case with that product. 3D maps are cool but totally useless in compare to street view. Also quality of satellites images are very poor. Not mention about wrong data. As a matter of fact I would like to help them with that by sending some sort of notifications but interface build by apple to "report the problem" is so unfriendly in order to make me to use it. They completely lost sens of direction with this core app....you get it...lost of direction...nevermind.
They got to come up with something groundbreaking to get attention. All what I can think of is 3D but with real pictures instead some animations.
Failure is not an option - it comes bundled with Windows.
|Feb 23, 2013, 02:05 AM
|Feb 23, 2013, 05:12 AM
Yeah because fixing Australia is going to make everything OK!
Apple Maps sucks in my country as well. Totally useless.
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|Feb 23, 2013, 05:45 AM
I for one prefer Apple Maps. The GUI is much nicer and destraction free. I use it in Belgium and the maps are very complete and even include roads that are not finished yet. I did not see that with google maps or payed services like Navigon (which is horribly outdated).
Traffic is also very accurate. Too bad it's not showing during turn by turn.
And ios6.1 did introduce new features. before, you had to type any address correctly. Now it shows a "Did you mean?" dialog like in the google map days. Didn't see that before in iOS 6.
so, it all depends on your region.
|Feb 23, 2013, 07:02 AM
They could do with hiring a "truther" for every country because the "report a problem" feature is useless and being ignored at Apple maps HQ.
In Ireland Apple maps are completely useless.
Eg. I've tried to add my business - a Chemist - to the maps several times over the past few months. Nothing has changed. Apple maps lists several chemists that have closed over 10 years ago in my area and misplaces existing ones. And this is despite my business being listed correctly on Yelp, Google Maps, Foursquare and Tomtom places. What the hell are they doing to fix maps? The data is all out there on these sites - they're ignoring error reports and not pulling data from other sources.
Another example is the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin on St. Stephens green - the flagship hotel for Dublin City centre. Apple maps has placed it about 5 miles away. The reason? It has it listed as 27 St. Stephens ROAD instead of 27 St. Stephens GREEN. I submitted a correction about 4 months ago (I was going there and looked it up) and it's still sitting 5 miles away off the South Circular Road as of today.
Apple maps could get a lot better a lot more quickly if they actually took the feedback they were getting and crowdsourced corrections from people in the area and other business listing sites. What is the use reporting errors if they're never acted upon? One hiring per country physically can't do this. Their system appears broken and they don't seem to care about fixing it in a hurry.
It's a shame as the UI is really nice.
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Speaking in his office in the capital, Kabul, Dunford would not say when the detention center would be handed over.
Dunford is trying to address a series of increasingly strident decrees that Karzai has laid down since the commander took charge five weeks ago. It started just days after he arrived, when Karzai insisted that the coalition cease all airstrikes after another NATO airstrike caused civilian casualties. More recently, Karzai has demanded that U.S. special operations forces leave Wardak province, after allegations that U.S. commandos and their Afghan partners abused local citizens - a charge Dunford denies.
Dunford would not set a date for the withdrawal of U.S. commandos from Wardak province, just outside the capital, saying he's working with the Afghan defense and interior ministers to come up with a plan.
Throughout, Karzai has kept up a steady stream of invective in public remarks, even accusing the U.S. of complicity with the Taliban in keeping the country unstable, as an excuse to stay longer. That has spurred anger on Capitol Hill.
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Last week, Dunford warned his commanders to raise their security levels, saying Karzai's comments could stir more anti-American sentiment and spur more insider attacks.
But he has remained circumspect and studiously polite in public, seeking to use face-to-face meetings with Karzai to ease tension and temper Karzai's angry demands for immediate change. Dunford, a Marine Corps general with a master's degree in government from Georgetown University and another in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, said it's simply a matter of "working the issues."


text: Jonathan Brassow wrote (in dm-devel) > Note that once you get #1 done you /should/ be able to get a mirrored > log by: > prompt> lvcreate -m1 --mirrorlog core -l 1 -n mirrored_log vg > prompt> lvcreate -m1 -L 5G -n mirror vg /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/vg/ > mirrored_log I'm now evaluating the layered LV approach, which was suggested by Jon, with the latest LVM command (2.02.45), but some warning messages are displayed after mirrored LV was initialized as PV. # /sbin/dmsetup ls --tree vg--mirror-mirror (253:6) ├─vg--mirror-mirror_mimage_1 (253:5) │ └─ (8:80) ├─vg--mirror-mirror_mimage_0 (253:4) │ └─ (8:64) └─vg--mirror-mirror_mlog (253:3) └─vg--log-mirror--log (253:2) ├─vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_1 (253:1) │ └─ (8:32) └─vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_0 (253:0) └─ (8:48) # vgs Found duplicate PV DoSlX0JCU3qxxN4UVqgtqvzP1crZAwom: using \ /dev/mapper/vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_1 not \ /dev/mapper/vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_0 Found duplicate PV DoSlX0JCU3qxxN4UVqgtqvzP1crZAwom: using \ /dev/vg-log/mirror-log not /dev/mapper/vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_1 VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree vg-log 2 1 0 wz--n- 31.99G 31.97G vg-mirror 3 1 0 wz--n- 32.00G 31.97G This warning message is displayed during scan of PVs because the following three logical volumes have the same UUID. /dev/vg-log/mirror-log /dev/mapper/vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_0 /dev/mapper/vg--log-mirror--log_mimage_1 And this warning can be avoided by setting filter in config file, but I hope that these warnings are not displayed without a config setting. filter = [ ..., "r|.*_mimage_.$|", ... ] Do you think it is reasonable idea to skip device scan of LVs which have a string, "_mimage_", in their name? I think that adding a static filter for "_mimage_" in lvm commands is one of the solutions. I appreciate your kind comments to fix this issue. Thanks, --- Takahiro Yasui Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.


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Tag Archives: 9-11
Actor Steve Buscemi talks about his FDNY roots & the doc 'A Good Job'
Documentary airs Monday night on HBORead More »
September 11, 2001
Looking back.Read More »
Raw video: Fire at Ground Zero. Construction trailers burn at WTC site.
Three construction trailers caught fire at the World Trade Center site this morning.Read More »
Florida politician says firefighters 'have really taken advantage of 9/11′. You can imagine the reaction.
Comments about fire unions came on eve of 9/11 anniversary.Read More »
VP Joe Biden to Shanksville deputy fire chief: 'He's going to call you, no bullshit'. Invitation for a beer in DC.
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September 11, 2001
Looking back eleven years.Read More »
9-11 health fund to cover 50 different types of cancers. NIOSH ruling issued today.
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Video from Indy's 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb & a firefighter explains why you should climb. Sign up for Wednesday's climb in DC (even if you can't be there).
Firefighters & the public will be climbing Wednesday morning at CFSI in DC.Read More »
Why we climb: Brian Brush explains why you should participate in today's 9-11 Memorial Stair Climb at Lucas Oil Stadium.
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Boylston: Allison Bennett and Benjamin Trotter, both in grade 11, were awarded high honors; Jocelin Lee and Gabrielle Trotter, both grade 10, high honors; Rachel Whaley, grade 9, high honors; and Samuel Millette, grade 9, honors.
West Boylston: Alexandra Kennedy, grade 9, honors.
The following local students were named to the yearly honor roll at the Bancroft Middle School:
Boylston: Kelly Goonan, grade 8, high honors; Edmund Brose, Casey Lewis, David Millette and Casey Wagner, all in grade 7, high honors; Emily Johnson, grade 8, honors; Rachel Levy and Justine Murphy, grade 7, honors.
West Boylston: High honors were given to Danielle Cahn, grade 8; Nicholas Vangos, grade 7; and Olivia Pellegrini, grade 6.
Several local students were named to the fourth quarter honor rolls at Holy Name Central Catholic Junior/Senior High School, in Worcester:
Boylston: Jessica Probst and Lilly Stairs, both grade 10
West Boylston: Madeleine Bonneau, grade 12; Courtney Watson, grade 11; Julia Barry, Erica Rayworth, both grade 9; Elizabeth Holland, Sarah Spellane, both grade 9.
Allison Bennett, grade 11, of Boylston was awarded the Brown University Book Prize; and Emily Johnson, grade 8, of Boylston, was awarded the George Alden Scholarship, from Bancroft School in Worcester.
Christina Amaral and Christopher Benson, students at West Boylston Middle School, were honored at the ninth Annual Middle Level Scholar Leader Awards Banquet, held at the DCU Center in Worcester. Each student was presented with an award recognizing his or her achievements. The criteria for being chosen to receive the Middle Level Scholar Leader Award include demonstrating academic initiative and scholarship, providing service to classmates and school, exemplifying positive attitudes, and demonstrating leadership in the classroom and school activities.
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